Sharon Erickson Nepstad

I'm honored to have won the ASA Peace, War, & Social Conflict section's Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for distinguished contributions & an outstanding scholarly career in the study of peace, war, genocide, military institutions, or social conflict.

Albuquerque turned a wall of its airport bookshop over to its local university press, and goddamn, now I want this in every airport.

@ashleytrubin Lately, when I attend presentations, I find the same politically-motivated questions posed and comments made, regardless of the topic. It's the same discussions over and over without any interesting new angles or perspectives. Stale. Boring. Uncreative.

My first substack post: "Boring, Biased, and Bad: The State of Academic Research" open.substack.com/pub/ashleytrub…

Sociology friends and @ASAnews, Notre Dame Sociology has a late-breaking postdoc opportunity. Share widely and Apply! alresources.nd.edu/resources/prov…

Economists: We are the first to study this topic. Sociologists:

Call for papers! Gabby Gomez (@Gabgo128), @Jericho_McElroy, @JessicaSchachle, and I are co-editing an upcoming issue of The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly) on student activism. Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2025.

My new paper in @Journal_CompPol with Claire Trilling is out today! "Who Gains from Nonviolent Action? Unpacking the Logics of Civil Resistance" We ask: Are excluded minorities always at a disadvantage in civil resistance? 👇1/2

@1DavidJohnFrank @UCIsociology So well deserved! An influential and prolific movement scholar and a kind-hearted human. Congratulations, Dave!

✌️💥 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!!💥✌️

📰Interview of @mabunimer_nimer by TomWoerner-Powell reflecting on recent decades of scholarship on #Muslim-led nonviolent #resistance, #peacemaking & #peacebuilding initiatives - including methodological, institutional, & intercultural challenges. doi.org/10.1163/277278…

📰1st JPN “forum” out now, on #Malm’s HowtoBlowUpPipeline. Contribs from BrianMartin, @alex_christoy, IsakSvensson,KathleenCunningham, AlexeiAnisin,AntoineDurance,& ManuelCervera-Marzal complicating Malm’s analysis of #climate activism & case for #sabotage doi.org/10.1163/277278…

Insecure leaders ridicule others. Secure leaders laugh at themselves. The ability to make fun of yourself opens the door to candor. It’s a mark of humility and a catalyst for learning. Great leaders take their work seriously, but they don't take themselves too seriously.

Simone Biles taught a valuable lesson at the Olympics: Overcoming adversity takes time. Resilience is not about how quickly you bounce back—it’s about how fully you recover. You can’t judge people’s strength when they fall. Their fortitude is visible when they rise again.

The Department of Sociology at @NotreDame invites applications for an open-rank/open-subdiscipline position. Come work with us--we're pretty great! @profmcdonnell is the search chair. I'm happy to talk with folks! apply.interfolio.com/150575 @ArtsLettersND

Political violence is terrifying. I know. I’m holding former President Trump, and all those affected by today’s indefensible act of violence in my heart. Political violence is un-American and is never acceptable—never.

Article alert! In 'Movement Split', my new piece for @_PublicChoice, I propose that our best bet at predicting the direction of successful revolutions lies in looking not at the revolution's leaders, but at its mobilizers. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excited to be the guest editor for a special issue of The Review of Religious Research that will focus on contemporary U.S. Muslims. Call for papers: journals.sagepub.com/home/RRR#:~:te… @ReligResearch

Activity of the day: Proof reading my forthcoming textbook "Democracy and Dictatorship" , which will be out this summer (already available in Norwegian).

Today is publication day! Our book is officially out. Get yours wherever books are sold! 😃@MichaelOEmerson

@A_RomanAlfaro @UNM Welcome! We're so lucky to have you at UNM Sociology! I'm looking forward to being your colleague.