Associate Professor of Sociology at @WilliamPennU | Host @NewBooksSoc
Pella, IA
Joined August 2011
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My book, The #SocialConstruction of a #Cultural #Spectacle: #Floatzilla (@RLPGBooks/ Lexington Books, 2023), was sent to press today. The release date for my book in hardcopy and as an e-book is October 2023. Use the code LXFANDF30 when ordering for a 30% discount.
What a wonderful way to start the morning! Woke up to an email announcing that my latest article, “Making the Grade, Becoming at Home: The Making of Home on a College Campus,” is officially published in Symbolic Interaction!
@sssiorg #SymbolicInteraction
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I’m excited to share that my forthcoming book, Smalltown Urban: Performing the City in Rural America, will be released by Bloomsbury on February 18, 2027!
I also gratefully appreciate all of the scholars who offered such generous endorsements of the book.
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Join the inaugural Editorial Board of #SociologyUnhinged: An #UndergraduateMagazine!
The Iowa Sociological Association welcomes faculty, graduate students, and late-stage undergraduates to help shape this new publication.
Apply by Feb. 26, 2027:
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Call for Chapter Proposals!
SSSP’s Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2028 seeks accessible scholarship addressing pressing U.S. social problems and practicable solutions.
📝 1–2 page proposals
📅 Due Oct. 30, 2026
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Excited to share the newly released cover for Smalltown Urban: Performing the City in Rural America! The book explores how people transform small-town places through public life, performance, and community.
Coming January 2027 from @BloomsburyAcad!
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✅ your calendars for #MSS2027 | Milwaukee, WI | March 18–21 - @MidwestSoc
This year’s theme, “Interdisciplinary Sociology: Subverting Narratives of Scarcity,” asks us to focus not only on the challenges facing sociology, but on its possibilities.
Hope to see you in Milwaukee!
📢📢Call for panelists📢📢
2027 Annual Meeting for @MidwestSoc | March 18–21 in Milwaukee.
Closed Panel: Doing Scarcity and Abundance: The Sociology of People, Performance, and Place.
Interested in submitting a full paper on people, place, identity, or performance? DM me!
Attending #SSSP2026?
The @SSSP1org Membership & Outreach Committee has created Lists of Sessions by Topic Area to help you find sessions that match your research, teaching, and professional interests—and discover new ones along the way!
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New on @NewBooksSoc a 📺 on @NewBooksNetwork!
I 🗣️with Jinwon Kim about Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand (@NYUpress, 2026). We discuss globalization, ethnicity, urban space, and how Koreatown became a transnational destination.
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Thank you to ppl who joined Finding Your Regional #Sociology #Community earlier today! 47 reg. & 27 participants at its peak.
Great 🗣️ about #publishing, #networking, #mentoring, & #leadership!
Thanks to our outstanding panelists!
@MidwestSoc @essnet @PacificSocAssoc & more!
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ICYMI! Who gets remembered in academic life? And who gets forgotten?
New chapter with @ProfessorJohnst "in Global Agenda for Social Justice 3:
The Rules of Remembrance for Public Sociologists"
Core idea: scholarly legacies are made through symbols, institutions, and culture.
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Michael O. Johnston, Ph.D. retweeted
Who gets remembered in academic life? And who gets forgotten?
New chapter with @ProfessorJohnst "in Global Agenda for Social Justice 3:
The Rules of Remembrance for Public Sociologists"
Core idea: scholarly legacies are made through symbols, institutions, and culture.
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Working on a new ethnographic study of live drag racing announcers. Announcers do more than call races. They help transform racetracks into meaningful places through storytelling, recognition, and public communication.
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