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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking for more on the Vandy-Wash U report? Over at Critical Noise we are kicking off a forum on it with essays over the next few weeks from Roderick Ferguson, Zachary Levenson, Noelle McAfee, John Modern, Christopher Newfield, and Julia Schleck. First up is @grundrza.bsky.social Links below

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Send a message to ASA executive leadership that we demand member democracy. The ASA must allow members a vote on the S4P resolution. Sign the pledge: Tinyurl.com/BoycottASA2026 Read more about how to join the ASA meeting boycott: sociologistsforpalestime.org/faqs

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join me, @prof-deleon.bsky.social, @hebagowayed.bsky.social, and Roi Livne on behalf of @soc4pal.bsky.social tomorrow (𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳) for a discussion of the ASA boycott campaign.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Spectre editor @grundrza.bsky.social writing for American Journal of Sociology. Link in thread 👇🏽

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...

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Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal

Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.

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Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal

Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

On May 27, join us for an interactive session, where attendees will have the opportunity to engage S4P organizers directly on issues including boycott logistics, tactics and strategy, and support of junior scholars. Let’s show ASA what democracy looks like! TINYURL.COM/5RTW5EKX

AGAINST GENOCIDE
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
A Conversation with Sociologists for Palestine

In this interactive session, attendees will have the opportunity to engage S4P organizers directly on issues including boycott logistics, tactics and strategy, and support of junior scholars.

Though the panelists will provide brief preliminary remarks on why they joined S4P and support the boycott, the emphasis will be on a collective give and take. In doing so, we hope to create a space that prefigures the kind of democratic association we want the ASA to be.

Cedric De Leon
Heba Gowayed
Zachary Levenson
Roi Livne

MAY 27
8:30AM1-10AM (PDT) | 10:30AM-12PM (CDT) | 11:30AM-1PM (EDT)
ZOOM RSVP:
TINYURL.COM/5RTW5EKX
Read our #BoycottASA FAQ:
sociologiststorpalestine.org/asa-boycott
S4P

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Are you upset about the actions of the ASA leadership? Do you want a more democratic ASA, but are unsure of what to do? Support S4P's call to boycott the ASA registration fees and hotel block this August!

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Tomorrow (4/14)! @grundrza.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Register 👇🏽 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’ll be moderating this panel for the @asanews.bsky.social’s Global and Transnational Section a week from tomorrow, featuring geographer Yousuf Al-Bulushi, anthropologist Sami Hermez, historians Tithi Bhattacharya and Margaret Power, and sociologist @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social

Flyer for event Academic Associations and the Silencing of BDS

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

An important reminder: The proposed resolution is NOT a boycott of individual Israeli academics. Per our FAQs, it does not target individual academics, nor does it prevent academics working at Israeli institutions from attending the ASA's annual meeting."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”

Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thanks to all our authors from March! (Nazanin Shahrokni, Justin Reed, @lesja.bsky.social , Brandon Webb, Matthew Penney, Manuel Casique Herrera, and Cinzia Arruzza). Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I wonder what these people think reading is

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution. If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting. SIGN ON TO JOIN US: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Response to ASA's Letter to Membership on "ASA Policy, Member-Led Petitions, and ASA's Future"

NAMES WILL NEVER BE SENT TO THE ASA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, DATA WILL BE SUMMARIZED & SHARED PLEASE INDICATE BELOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR NAME INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ASA To memb...

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate. On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wildest to me about FL removing sociology from gen ed is their rationale: citing a Guardian article, Chancellor Rodrigues claims faculty are willfully subverting the law. But no one quoted makes that claim. Did he really only read the headline, which wasn't written by faculty in any case?

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

New open access article (w/ Marcel Paret) in the 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: “𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗼𝘆: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲–𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.” We revisit Burawoy’s 1970s and 80s work on southern Africa to intervene in contemporary debates on racial capitalism and Du Bois.

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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization betwee...

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Spectre's Zachary Levenson ( @grundrza.bsky.social ) quoted extensively in Brianna Holt's piece on anti-censorship resistance in higher ed. @theguardian.com

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

“Levenson pointed to Chile under … Pinochet in the 1970s and ‘80s as one example of where a government … started by banning certain textbooks, then gradually replaced them with state-approved versions and required their use.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’

Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"antisemitism and other forms of discrimination" lol even under these circumstances they can't quite bring themselves to say words like "racism" and "misogyny" out loud. when you're definitely beating the allegations

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/03/2026

INBOX: The Florida Federation of College Republicans has disbanded and requested the deactivation of the University of Florida chapter of College Republicans, after "members engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and value, including a recent antisemitic gesture."

The University of Florida was recently informed by the Florida Federation of College Republicans (FFCR) that it has disbanded the local chapter of College Republicans (the Local CR). This request is based on the FFCR’s findings that some Local CR members engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture. The FFCR also requested that the university deactivate the Local CR as a registered student organization while it looks to reorganize and pursue reinstatement under new student leadership.

The University of Florida has emphatically supported its Jewish community and remains committed to preventing and addressing antisemitism and other forms of discrimination and harassment that are threatening and disruptive to our students and to the teaching, research and expressive activities of the campus community. The university also supports the rights of organizations, such as the FFCR, to take decisive action in addressing conduct that is antithetical to its principles.

In compliance with its policies, the University of Florida is in the process of deactivating the Local CR as a registered student organization. When the FFCR is ready, the university will also assist it with reactivating the Local CR under new student leadership.

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to @asanews.bsky.social. We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership. Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Imagine selecting this as the theme this year and then doing this

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We are appalled at this undemocratic action. More on collective response coming soon. In the meantime, follow us for updates. If you sent ASA a response tag us & we'll amplify. If you prefer to remain anonymous, send it to us on our email (in bio) & we'll share it here. Together we will win 🇵🇸

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping. Well do I have news for you.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.” My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in

2 min ago

Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism
Tal Shalev
By Tal Shalev
The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor.

The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land.

The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Defund the police" only lacks specificity to liberals who chanted it as a slogan in 2020 but didn't really mean it

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

More anticipatory compliance at Florida State. Kudos to @annaposbergh.bsky.social for choosing professional ethics over thinly veiled bigotry

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

FL’s state legislature is currently working to pass SB 1296, which would require a majority of workers in a bargaining unit — not a majority of voters, but majority of workers— to vote yes. Imagine if FL’s state elections proceeded this way. Not a single member of the senate would win a seat!

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New piece in @insidehighered.com on Florida’s attempt to impose a state-created syllabus and state-censored textbook on sociology classes at public colleges and universities

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New piece in @insidehighered.com on Florida’s attempt to impose a state-created syllabus and state-censored textbook on sociology classes at public colleges and universities

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