Shannon Whittaker, PhD

Join us for the launch of the Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) featuring a discussion with @jbrownsaracino on her new book! 🕒 Wednesday, February 4, 3:00 – 5:00 PM 📍 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Colloquium Room, Boston, MA 02215 🔗 bu.edu/ioc/ideas-to-a…

crazy the next mayor of New York City is likely a SEN10R

I AM CRYING! YESSSS!!!

Did you guys know there was a plan for *another* casino near the High Line in Manhattan? Here’s an image of what it would look like. But New Yorkers came out droves to testify against it because they said it would’ve basically ruined the High Line.

Thrilled to share that my article on historical memory in Togo has been published in the American Historical review! @AmHistReview So happy to see my work featured alongside the works of such brilliant scholars in the History Unclassified special issue!!

🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Apply now 👉 sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdoct…

“How can I thrive in an institution that hates me?” Read our open-access paper on the impact of racism and other stressful life experiences on Black postgraduate students’ mental health 👩🏾‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓 So grateful to the students who shared their stories, collaborators and co authors 🖤

Slapping fannies and killing grannies is a wild thing to say. True, but absolutely insane lol. I have been laughing at this for hours.

In 2020, Mahmood Mamdani dedicated a book to his son, Zohran. A good time to read it.

More than 1.5 million doors knocked. 42,000 volunteers recruited. $8 million raised from grassroots donors. @zohrankmamdani's win is the result of an unprecedented movement built by him and his supporters. jacobin.com/2025/06/zohran…

The Critical Urbanism Program, U of Basel, the Urban Institute, U of Sheffield, and Soc-Cultural Anthropology, Leiden will conduct a School of Urban Popular Economy in Nairobi from Feb 2-6, 2026. Fully funded opportunities for 11 early career scholars. If interested contact:

I learned that Cuomo conceded while watching @Hozier preach about the civil rights movement and call for an end to genocide in the middle of his concert (which was FANTASTIC!). Is this...hope???!?!?

YOOOOO fr

The New York establishment is running scared. Despite spending millions against him, Zohran was ahead in the last poll. If New Yorkers come out in good numbers today, @ZohranKMamdani can become New York City’s next mayor. Let’s make it happen. Please vote.

Self-graded R and stats exercises for beginners! Test your understanding of the material in our textbook (bit.ly/dss_textbook): - Intro to R: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch1 - Intro to causal inference: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch2

@DominiqueJL15 Obsessed with them. They are doing such an amazing job.

I got a canvassing call from a Zohran phone banker this morning while literally standing on line to vote, it was so cute. “I’m literally on line to rank him #1 now” “Oh! Thanks! And don’t rank Cuomo!” “That’s the plan! You either!” And then we giggled. This campaign, y’all!

Zohran's father wrote arguably the best book on settler colonialism, Neither Settler Nor Native, which argues that's just where modern nation-states come from (not, like the Americanists claim, that it is some "original sin" afflicting the US and which we are locked into).

Turned in my absentee ballot and ranked @ZohranKMamdani #1. GO VOTE! Do not rank Cuomo!! Do not let current polling stop you from casting your vote. Also please continue to curse out Cuomo campaigners. The amount of calls and texts I've received borders on harassment.