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Matt Grace

@mattkgrace.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. I study stress/mental health, support networks, and medical education.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My student Aadi Mishra and I have a new paper out looking at the mental health effects of mass shootings in the United States. Using the Household Pulse Survey and a database of public mass shootings from Northwestern University, we show widespread increases in anxiety & depression.
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Frontiers | Silent echoes: understanding and predicting the widespread mental health impact of mass shootings
Half of the 20 deadliest US. mass shootings have occurred in the past decade. We propose and find that the mental health consequences of such shootings are n...
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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited to see this out! We find spiritual states - like spiritual awareness and states during prayer are tied to less depressive symptoms than rel. traits across models onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Wonderful to work with @evanstewart.bsky.social @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Brad Wright.
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Protecting Mental Health Through Spiritual Awareness and Prayer: Insights From Robustness Testing
Prior research finds that different kinds of religious engagement, including beliefs, practices, and affinities, are associated with lower rates of depressive symptoms. As rates of depression in the ...
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Amy L. Johnson, PhD @aljohnson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ever wondered why mental health is discussed everywhere now? or whether mental illness has really been destigmatized? my first book (out spring 2027) answers those questions!
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Our Mental Health, Their Mental Illness
How mental health and illness have transformed from medical concepts into widely shared cultural ideas
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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📣 We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in sociology at Davidson College! Could this be your dream job? I'm open to chatting about teaching at a liberal arts college and this position. Just message or email me : ) careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311603/...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor - Sociology - Davidson, North Carolina job with Davidson College | 1311603
Tenure Track Assistant Professor - Sociology   The Sociology department at Davidson College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Profe...
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Matt Grace @mattkgrace.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New in SSM, we find healthcare workers are less likely than the public to endorse treatment refusal to trans patients, but for an unexpected reason: the overwhelming majority of providers are women (a group more supportive of trans rights) Ungated: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Excuse me. It’s “How the jerks I grew up with ON Long Island took over the country”
GUEST ESSAY How the Jerks I Grew Up With in Long Island
Took Over the Country
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
RELIGION UNBUNDLED Excited that this paper proposing a new paradigm for the sociology of US religion @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, @bsteens.bsky.social and I have been working on has been accepted for publication in the American Sociological Review. osf.io/preprints/so...
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David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Check out my new blog post for the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social “The Hidden Economic Toll of Care Across Europe” social-policy.org.uk/spa-blog/the... Based on my paper with @mmaroto.bsky.social recently published in European Societies . @utm-research.bsky.social
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Blog: The Hidden Economic Toll of Care Across Europe - Social Policy Association
By David Pettinicchio, Associate Professor of Sociology/Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto – Mississauga. Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay. — Across Europe, [....
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Matt Grace @mattkgrace.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We’re hiring a one-year VAP (open specialization) for ‘26-‘27: apply.interfolio.com/183499 For full transparency, salary is $77-80k + benefits. Please share with interested grad students/post-docs. I’m happy to answer any questions about working at Hamilton or living in central NY
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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Our new study is in press @ Epidemiology. We find exposure to industrial air toxicants predicts shorter life expectancy (~1-4 yrs) among a national cohort of US adults, and especially for disadvantaged groups. @landscapeslab.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3x4dydk9
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(PDF) Industrial Air Toxicant Exposure and Individual Mortality: Evidence from the Americans’ Changing Lives Cohort, 1986–2019
PDF | Exposure to industrial air toxicants remains a leading environmental health risk in the United States (US). Our prospective cohort study examines... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In our December issue, learn about the effects of Countervailing Powers of the state, healthcare organizations and patients on physicians during the Covid19 pandemic: bit.ly/457Y9QY By @taniamjenkins.bsky.social Liza Buchbinder & Mara Buchbinder
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In our December issue Matthew Grace finds that personal and vicarious stress exposure predict greater anticipatory stress among marginalized groups. Read here to learn more: bit.ly/3MuAX9f #NewPublication @HamiltonCollege @asamedsoc.bsky.social
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Robyn Lewis Brown @robynlbrown.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Honored to have my research elevated by @jofhsb.bsky.social for #InternationalDayOfPersonswithDisabilities. This recognition means so much. 2025 has been an extraordinary year for impactful research in the sociology of disability. Grateful for this community. @asadisability.bsky.social
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#NewPublication reveals that Black Americans who perceive themselves as dark-skinned experience more stress. Learn more about the biopsychosocial model of colorism-related distress: bit.ly/42FrLnS By Alexis C. Dennis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social Taylor W. Hargrove Jay A. Pearson
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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 New paper 🚨 In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies. In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States
Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles
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Tania M. Jenkins @taniamjenkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Media alert: My research on professional culture and physician burnout was just cited in this Medscape article about how medicine can be unhealthy for doctors: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... @asanews.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social
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Unlearning Medicine’s Unhealthy ‘Hidden Curriculum’
Many doctors adopt damaging lifestyle ‘survival skills’ during residency and keep them for years. Here’s how to spot — and finally break — habits of self-neglect.
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Matt Grace @mattkgrace.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Karen is the best medical sociologist out there. Looking forward to keeping up with this!
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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My new article will be out in the next issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior. I'll be sure to post it here when it's out. In the meantime, here's a short thread and open-access link to a policy brief (tinyurl.com/yc7zxj98) 🧵 (1/8)
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Racial Capitalism and Black-White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis - Reed T. DeAngelis, 2025
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/01/2025
When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's Monday, so over at the blog I wrote about two great new papers that take a swing at what you can and can't do with sibling data. asocial.substack.com/p/two-great-...
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Two Great Reads - Monday - December 2
Siblings!
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