David John Frank 🏳️‍🌈

Justice Beyond the Courts: The Role of Knowledge in Securing the Rights of Families with Neurodivergent Children share.google/spBkQ3s19Zi7...

Trump shared a racist "joke." That humor is an American tradition : Code Switch When President Trump shared a racist video on his Truth Social account last week, the blowback was real. But the video is also part of a tradition that has existed in the U.S. since the early 1800s — ...

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Professor Raúl Perez on Trump's racist jokes... @raulperez.bsky.social

Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New article! Open access. With Daniel Scott Smith & John W. Meyer. "The University: Exalted Institution amd Ruined Organization.." urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

There’s a Shiny New Entry Into the Gender Lexicon. This One Changes the Ballgame. Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

New research from Canton Winer! Gender identity detachment: New term allows people to skip gender entirely. share.google/uoS3hFDjV2UR...

Congratulations to my brilliant UCI colleagues Francesca Polletta and Edwin Amenta on the publication of their new book!! 📚📚📚

🎉📚 CONGRATS to UCI Sociology PhD candidate Yeryeng Choi!! Her paper on "When Is Anger Legitimate for People of Color? Racialized Feeling Rules and Representation in Global Climate Activism" won the Blackwell Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities! 📚🎉

🎆🧨 CONGRATS to UCI Sociology Professors Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, & Evan Schofer! Their paper on "The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom" earned a Best Article Honorable Mention from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Education! 🧨🎆

🏅🏆 CONGRATS to UCI Sociology Professor Wang Feng! His book on China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath won the 2025 Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the ASA Section on Population. This is Wang Feng's second Duncan Award. In 2000, he and James Lee won for One Quarter of Humanity. 🏆🏅

💥👏 CONGRATS to UCI Sociology Professor Mirian Martinez-Aranda!! She just won the 2025 Article Prize from the Law & Society Association for "Precarious Legal Patchworking: Detained Immigrants' Access to Justice." 👏💥

👏👏 CONGRATS to UCI Sociology PhD candidate Jozef Callan Robles!! His article on "Remnants of Illegality: DACA, Legal Status, and Unlearning Illegality" just won the ASA Latina/o Sociology Section's Cristina Maria Student Paper Aeard!👏👏

📚 Congratulations to my brilliant colleague Professor Irene Vega on the publication of her new book! 📚

David S. Meyer Named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow - UC Irvine Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that David S. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, has been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Professor Meyer joins an exclusive cohort of 26 distinguished fel...

👏📚 Congrats to my remarkable UCI colleague David Meyer on his 2025 Carnegie Fellowship!! 📚👏

UCI Sociology Top 20 in new U.S. News ranking!!