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New and Noteworthy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New board member Leo LaBarre <\/a>wrote up research from Dylan Jackson<\/a> and colleagues showing that kids who are expelled or suspended from school experience earlier and more frequent police encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worth a Read (Sociologically Speaking)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of trick-or-treating on Monday, read this Conversation <\/em>piece<\/a> from sociologist Joel Best<\/a> on his research of decades of media stories about hazardous and contaminated halloween candy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backstage with TSP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We’ve got something in the works (shhhhh!) that has us thinking about the books and articles that first got us interested in sociology. It’s fun to see the variation (from Marx to Evicted<\/em>) and exciting to think about how we’d communicate what we love about these works to a public audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It’s Halloween weekend. Before you don the hat and hop on a broomstick, read this piece on how witchcraft as a religious practice empowers marginalized groups<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alumni Spotlight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In honor of The Society Pages’ tenth anniversary in 2022 we’re highlighting the contributions and ongoing work of our superb alumni!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we caught up with TSP alum Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira<\/a>. Here’s what she had to say about her time on the TSP board:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Society Pages<\/em>\u00a0is where I learned that social scientific writing does not need to be bad writing. That might sound a bit extreme, but after reading pages (and pages) of sociological theory written centuries ago, I thought that writing like a sociologist meant writing long paragraphs full of jargon. Thankfully, TSP changed this. As part of TSP, I learned the value of writing for broader audiences, as well as how to speak without academic terms that do not resonate with the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have used this ability to translate my research on genocide into broader settings in several ways, including but not limited to the following:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n