Amber Joy Powell

Graduate Student
University of Minnesota

TSP Tuesdays, September 17th, 2024

by jake on Sept. 17, 2024 at The Editors' Desk
New & Noteworthy This week’s Clippings of sociology in the news includes Julia Sonnevend in Public Seminar on her new book Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics, Eric Klinenberg in the New York Times on the dangerousness of heat waves,  Fraya Frehse in Pesquisa on homelessness in Brazil, Tressie McMillan Cottom in an online discussion on the […]

Campus Protests and Student Activism: Some Sociology Perspectives

by jake on April 30, 2024 at There's Research on That
A college campus with people protesting and holding signs on the entrance steps. Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels under Pexels license. This week, pro-Palestinian protests are occurring in many U.S. colleges and universities in response to the conflict in the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas. Students supporting Palestinians are building encampments, occupying buildings, and marching on […]

TSP Tuesdays, September 26th

by jake on Sept. 26, 2023 at The Editors' Desk
From the Archives António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, didn’t mince his words when addressing representatives from around the world about climate change. Click here to read Erik Kojola’s Discovery on political parties and opinions towards climate change. Have a Fantasy Football team? Click here to learn more about women’s participation in Fantasy Sports […]

Legal Estrangement and Police Reform in Minneapolis

by Michelle Phelps, Amber Joy Powell, and and Christopher Robertson on June 3, 2020 at TSP Specials
This article was originally posted on November 4, 2019 on Scatterplot. Since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, in 2014, the topic of police violence and police reform has been at the forefront of the debate about the future of criminal justice in the U.S. Questions about policing have peppered the recent Democratic […]

Black and White Teachers’ Access to School Resources

by Amber Joy Powell on March 2, 2020 at Discoveries
Jennifer L. Nelson, “How Organizational Minorities Form and Use Social Ties: Evidence from Teachers in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools,” American Journal of Sociology , 2019 Teachers and other workers rely on workplace relationships to get through the day and do their jobs. New research explores how white and Black teachers achieve access to political, social, and […]
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Amber Joy is a fourth-year PhD student in sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her current research interests include punishment, sexual violence and the intersections among race, gender, age, and sexuality. Her work examines how state institutions construct youth victimization. Check out her work in Gender & Society and Sociological Images.