This May is exactly a decade since I received my PhD.
This year has wrapped up like no other! 1/
Merchants of the Right with @PrincetonUPress comes out on May 2, a book that only exists because the world got turned upside down and I did what I always do in crisis: go back to my sociology basics. 2/
Then: I found out yesterday that I pass the bar for full professor! 🎉🎉🎉 3/
But there’s more in store for next year:
I am heading to @ASU to join @SanfordSchool as a sociology prof & become the founding director of the BRIDGS (bringing research innovation into the debate on guns in society) Center. 4/
If you know me and you know guns, you have probably heard me mention at some point over way too many years my dreams of starting a center that focuses on social sciences approaches to guns. 5/
While public health, law & crim are all valuable, social science gets at something different: the meanings, practices, culture, identities that make guns what they are in the US today. it’s a key missing piece needed to have a better gun debate! this is where BRIDGS comes in. 6/
I’m beyond thrilled that @ASU is going to be the home for this vision-an innovative & interdisciplinary university that defines its mission “not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes.” 7/
I will always be grateful to University of Arizona for giving me space where I found my voice, figured out who I was as a scholar, and learned to dream big! #BearDown
Now it’s time to stop dreaming, and start building! #BRIDGS#ForksUp
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So, mass shootings. This is a huge topic...and controversial in ways that often lead to non-starters in terms of policy. The conversation MUST move beyond the immediate tragedy—
to what leads to it (often a lot of warning signs that are ignored) and its aftermath (survivors are often quickly forgotten and left to cope on their own while people scream at each other over gun policy.)