David John Frank 🏳️‍🌈

The University: Exalted Institution and Ruined Organization | Minerva share.google/jqtMfkda1gcRPg… New article co-authored with Daniel Scott Smith and John W. Meyer, on the paradox of the university's exaltation and ruin.

Why is fascist joy fashionable? I was invited by @harpersbazaarus to write about the racist rhetoric and humor at last Sunday’s Trump rally. I co-wrote some thoughts with my good friend J Finley. Thanks @surlybassey for the invite! See full article here: harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…

@igarciavaldivia @uoregon @OregonSociology Congrats, Isabel!!

📣🚨 LIFE UPDATE: Now that it is official, excited for my next chapter as an @uoregon Assistant Professor at @OregonSociology! 💚💛🦆#GoDucks #sociology #phd #research

@pa_homan @ia4phs @MilbankFund Outstanding!

Thank you @ia4phs and @MilbankFund for recognizing my work with the Early Career Award, and thank you @ia4phs for another great conference this year in St. Louis!

✌️💥 HONORED!! Congratulations to @UCIsociology's Dave Snow on winning the 2024 Aldon Morris Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sociology from the ASA's Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements!!💥✌️

👏👏CONGRATS to @UCIsociology PhD @Liz_Chiarello!! "Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice" (ASR) won an Article Award from the Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance & an Article Award Honorable Mention from the Section on Soc of Law!

@CherryJi10 @UCIsociology @UMassSociology @alexa_knierim @BandeljNina Congrats, Dr. Ji!!

New article! "The contemporary anxieties about competition are mainly indicators of the university’s expansion and cultural centrality. A world in which universities were starving would not be one full of struggles for world-class status." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@MinwooJungPhD @SocTheory 👏👏👏👏👏

CONGRATS to @UCIsociology PhD @PengHuangSoc! “Parameter Estimation Procedures for Exponential-Family Random Graph Models on Count-Valued Networks” won an Article Award Honorable Mention from the Section on Methodology and Student Paper Award from the Section on Mathematical Soc!!

@DaveBrady72 @USCPrice Congrats, David!

Some professional news: I've joined @USCPrice as of July 1. It is a terrific opportunity to join one of the world's best public affairs schools. It will be a real pleasure to work with the many great scholars and students at the Price School: priceschool.usc.edu

🌟💯 HONORED!! Congratulations to @UCIsociology's @fwanguci on winning the Distinguished Contribution to the Field Career Award from the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America!! 💯🌟

🏆📕 WINNERS!! Congratulations to @UCIsociology's Professor Emerita Judith Stepan-Norris and PhD Jasmine Kermissey on their Book Award from the ASA Section on Labor & Labor Movements for Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement!! 📕🏆

💯🥇HUGE CONGRATS to @UCIsociology's ASA Student Paper Award Winners!! Weijun Yuan (Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements) and Minyoung Kim (Section on Emotions)!! 🥇💯

🌟🎓 DOUBLE CONGRATS to @UCIsociology's @CherryJi10 and @KaylinBourdon on their ASA dissertation awards -- Cherry's from the Section on Culture and Kaylin's from the Section on Collective Behavior abd Social Movements!! We are proud of our winners!! 🎓🌟

👏👏👏CONGRATULATIONS to @UCIsociology's @Yang_SuYang_Su on the Honorable Mention for his book Deadly Decision in Beijing. Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre from the American Sociological Association! 👏👏👏

@_kvelasco Outstanding, Kris!!!

@svogler17 ugh

In the year of our lord 2024, I just got a paper rejected, in part, bc the editor thought that I didn't seriously consider that lesbians in prison might only be lesbians bc they had been abused by men or were just lonely. NOT that queer women are disproportionately incarcerated😠

💯🌟AWARDED! Congrats to @UCIsociology's @kelley_fong on her triple win!!! Book Award ASA Section on Family; Book Award ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility; and Book Award Honorable Mention ASA Section on Crime, Law, & Deviance for INVESTIGATING FAMILIES!!! 🌟💯

nbcsandiego.com/local/first-st… 👏🎓 Teaching for @UciLifted has been one of the great joys of my teaching career. Congrats to our 23 new @UCIsociology BAs!! You humble and inspire me. 🎓👏