Jaime Lee Kucinskas

Insights from time w/artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards: Dream big. Set your goals & hit them, w/support from friends & mentors. Learn from people of all ages. Know your strengths & rely on them. We need more artists and dreamers: So much is possible when done in community & w/support from loved one.

Excited to have Jamea Richmond-Edwards on campus teaching us all about how to imagine new futures together and through art. For those on campus, come to our lunch conversation in the events barn

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients
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“So What Chance, What Opportunities Do We Have?” Homeowners Associations as Racialized Organizations Meso-level institutions are increasingly being examined as sites of racialization, specifically as racialized organizations that are seemingly neutral upon first look but in reality are racialized fr...

I'm so glad to see @stephdhuman.bsky.social and Hamilton Soc alum Tillie Germain's research on the racialized nature of HOAs coming to light for others to learn from: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Whidbey A Most Anticipated Book by People • Vogue • Esquire • Harper’s Bazaar • USA Today • Seattle Times • Bookpage •Chicago Review of Books • Crimereads • Goodrea...

So thrilled @tkiramadden.bsky.social's new book is coming out!
We are lucky to have her. Hamilton folks can go see her book talk next Thursday!
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Redefining Discrimination: Dismantling Environmental Protections through the Logic of Reactionary Colorblindness - Ian Carrillo, Annabel Ipsen, 2026 The authors examine the unique role that racism plays in guiding and structuring anti-environmental ideas and behaviors. They focus on the influence of reaction...

Thought-provoking new article from @iansociologo.bsky.social & Annabel Ispen on this admin's rollback of environmental & climate policies: "Redefining Discrimination: Dismantling Environmental Protections through the Logic of Reactionary Colorblindness." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.

New explainer from me, on understanding ICE as a paramilitary force, in more than one sense of the term 👇
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American farmers, who once fed the world, face a volatile global market with diminishing federal backing The US government used to have American farmers’ backs, but that support has been dwindling for decades. New subsidies signal big changes for farmers.

From Peter Simons @us.theconversation.com: American farmers' losing privileged global position with diminished federal backing theconversation.com/american-far...

The Global Rise of Populist Nostalgia: Lessons From Collective Memory Propelled by issues of migration, globalization, and postcoloniality, the field of collective memory experienced a transnational and cosmopolitan turn in the first decade of the 21st Century. A broad...

Ah: try this one? compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to read Yagmur Karakaya's new article on how "Populist backlash
movements have hijacked cosmopolitan impulses" file:///C:/Users/jkucinsk/Downloads/Sociology%20Compass%20-%202026%20-%20Karakaya%20-%20The%20Global%20Rise%20of%20Populist%20Nostalgia%20%20Lessons%20From%20Collective%20Memory.pdf

The economics of climate adaptation optimism Matthew G. Burgess*, Patrick T. Brown2,3,4, Matthew E. KahnS,6, and Roger Pielke Jr.7,8 'Department of Economics, College of Business, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States 2 Interactive Brokers, Greenwich, CT, United States 3The Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States 4Energy Policy and Climate Program, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., United States 5 Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, CA, United States University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States *American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., United States *matt.burgess@uwyo.edu ABSTRACT Adaptation is often framed as marginally important to addressing climate change, and as socio-technically difficult and ineffectual. We combine theoretical and empirical analyses to show that adaptation especially via economic development—is actually often the dominant driver of climate-sensitive societal outcomes, especially on smaller space and time scales. This aligns adaptation with markets and governance incentives. For these reasons, widely studied climate-sensitive outcomes such as crop yields, affluence, and damage and death rates from climate-related hazards have broadly and steadily improved over the past several decades, as have indirectly climate-sensitive outcomes such as mortality from violence and self-harm. These improvements provide important context to recent pessimistic studies of adaptation that focus on outcomes' marginal sensitivities to climate. They also underscore the importance of economic development to human well-being, and they suggest that economically costly climate policies could harm climate-sensitive outcomes. Moreover, we show that the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios has narrowed, providing greater clarity to the temperatures and types of impacts society must adapt to...

About this paper: as I show in The Language of Climate Politics—and as @noahqkaufman.bsky.social explained broadly in The Atlantic a few weeks ago—there is NO EVIDENCE that economic growth will continue at past rates (or even at all) if the planet heats up to unprecedented temperatures.

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts, Henry David Thoreau, Walden

So thrilled to start a new course on Creative Community, Movement, and Imagining new Futures at the Wellin Museum of Art inspired by Jamea Richmond-Edward’s incredible Afro-futurist exhibit.

Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."

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The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science. Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it. Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) Education/Training/Experience College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org!
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It makes my day when others take the time to reach out about my research. I’ve also built great relationships upon some of those emails!

The Limits of Diversity Shows that universities' diversity efforts may inadvertently reproduce inequalityAcross universities and colleges, diversity is a purported value, often acco...

New book: The Limits of Diversity (@nyupress.bsky.social) by @estherdchan.bsky.social Comparing secular and evangelical college campuses, the book shows how diversity and inclusion frameworks can reproduce inequality across multiple lines of social difference.

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Sociologists! I am organizing the ASA 2026 session "Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion." This session will present cutting-edge theoretical, epistemological, and international/transnational perspectives on the sociology of religion. Please consider submitting your work!

The cognitive dissonance of watching our country in free fall as I go about my daily life...

The thing about writing is that if you do it long enough, it becomes a refuge— a quiet place to be with your thoughts and process everything happening in the world way too fast

Tomorrow is the last day to submit nominations for the ASA Annual Awards. You can review all the important information for each category here: https://bit.ly/ASA_awards.
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So excited to read it!

Love winter reading hibernation

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

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Hate to support Amazon, but the do have the best sale I've seen on #TheMindfulElite: www.amazon.com/Mindful-Elit...

New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity Cambridge Core - History of Religion - New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity

Check out this new book by Stef Aupers, Galen Watts and Dick Houtman on New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Download free until the end of the month!

When We Target Federal Workers, Whom Are We Targeting? Three Perspectives on U.S. Federal Workers - Deirdre Bloome, 2025 The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has targeted U.S. federal workers through downsizings, funding reductions, and delegitimization efforts. When we ta...

When federal workers are targeted, whom are they?
They resemble most Americans, support millions of children across the country, and, disproportionately, are veterans and members of marginalized ethnoracial groups. See new article by Dierdre Bloom at Harvard journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Another powerful book talk, this time by Mariah Rigg. Highly recommend her new book Extinction Capital of the World: books.google.com/books/about/...

And after the naming commission’s changes, now under Hegseth, the names are back. Congress is debating it— to be continued…