Sociology Faculty
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Arthur Scarritt
An expert on white supremacist extremism, this sociology professor exposes ‘manifest destiny frontiersmen’, racist ranchers, and ‘white trash’. Fortunately, his students can see through his BS. One described his class as ‘an exercise in Marxist propaganda’ and points out that he does not seem to understand basic economics. Another describes him as the ‘epitome of the liberalization of our educational system’, adding that he learned nothing in the class.
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Jeffrey McCully
Professor of Sociology at Moraine Valley Community College. This social justice monster “tries to create a welcoming environment for his students and wants his students to feel safe”. He has outfitted his classroom with Palestinian flags, displays a “From the River to the Sea” poster and calls for Israel’s removal.
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Lauren Bickell
This UCSB graduate student’s research “examines the epistemological stakes of claiming gendered categories”. She “introduces a conceptual toolkit that interlaces feminist and social epistemology with social movement theory and implicates a trajectory of canonical 19th century white feminisms while simultaneously exploring contemporaneous alternatives including Black feminisms and precedent(s) for the eventual crystallization of intersectionality.”
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Tamari Kitossa
Professor of Sociology at Brock University argues that Zionism and Nazism are the same, and describes the October 7 Hamas atrocities as ‘miraculous’. This unhinged anti-semite holds “Rothschild Zionists” and “banker-cabalists” responsible for sparking the First World War. He decries Jewish heritage trips as “sex junkets for foreign Jews to Israel funded by rich Jews”.
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Thomas Petee
To preserve athletes' academic eligibility, this Auburn Sociology Professor provided 'directed studies' courses in sociology for more than 250 students in one academic year. The sociology department became a dumping ground for Auburn athletes. One student explained he had to read one book, but could not recall the title. He was required to hand in a ten page paper on the book. The rule was if you turned in something, you got an A. If you turned in nothing, you got a B. Professor Petee was rewarded with an autographed football.
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Jacqueline Battalora
Professor of Sociology at Saint Xavier University. According to her ‘mission-driven speakers agency’, Jacqueline addresses the complexities of what it means to be white. “While she keeps the spotlight on racial constructs, the trade in women’s bodies and the workings of class oppression are retained in this intersectional telling of the invention of white people…For Latinx, Asian, Black, Indigenous and Pacific Islanders, Jacqueline’s work provides a shared framework of domination experienced uniquely by virtue of context and culture. The social construction narrative makes absolutely clear the destructive impact that whiteness has had on all people living in the United States and beyond”. One of her students, concerned how “she teaches peace through attacking white people”, warns to “expect a low grade if you’re a white male”.
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Victor Ray
Lets hear from this Professor of Sociology at University of Iowa, Vice President American Sociological Association and BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School: “In my sociology classes, I use Santa as an example of a cultural ritual that is creepy out of context. An old man obsessed with children sitting on his lap, who laughs strangely, asks if they’ve been naughty, and then breaks into their houses is a cause for legal action, not treats.”
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Sirma Bilge
This University of Montreal sociologist "engages a constellation of concepts (Black fungibility, natal alienation, slavery’s afterlife)", and builds a "defensive front against violent academic extractivism". Her article "Smuggling Intersectionality into the Study of Masculinity" points out that disassembling masculinity alone is insufficient. The key is to "inform the analyses of the processes of doing masculinities with contextualized and historicized accounts of the simultaneity of power structures".
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Aaron Blasyak
Sociology Ph.D. student at Syracuse. His academic interests include queer necropolitics, homonationalism, and homonormativity as imperial and neoliberal technologies of citizenship. Aaron locates his work within the inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the palimpsestic ways state violence(s) are linked to neo/colonial, neo/imperial, and neoliberal modes of belonging and inclusion; to that extent he is invested in an intellectual politics of decolonization.
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Heba Gowayed
When this CUNY sociology professor is not raging against ‘brown-shirt fascists’, white supremacists and cops who ‘are nothing but the goons of capital’, she is an effective expositor of fashionable leftist theories (nested orientalism, fiction of the nation state, etc.) and debunker of neo-liberal fallacies. I met her once, and got the feeling that she skipped the courageous conversations class in high school.
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Jane Guskin
This CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College instructor is part of a collective of activists highlighting “the deeply rooted white supremacy, classist, and ableist surveillance practices that have long been in place in higher education”. Since “grading systems are part of a larger network of surveillance technologies”, she uses an “A for All” grading framework.”
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Ana Maria Candela
This sociology professor at Binghamton University practiced race based participation. She notified her students that she would prioritize 'marginalized groups', women and shy people when calling on students. Students who 'embody forms of power such as whiteness and/or masculinity’ would be called on last. Although her faculty colleagues supported her 'centering underprivileged voices', this blatant discrimination was too much even for superwoke Binghamton. She was pressured to resign after an undergraduate economics major taking her class filed a Title 9 complaint.
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Abby Ferber
Professor of Sociology at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Author of “White Man Falling: Race, Gender and White Supremacy”. Co-founded and edits the journal Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. As Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, Ferber speaks to clients including Avery Dennison Corporation and the USAF for $10K a session live or virtual.
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Leana Mason
Johns Hopkins University sociology graduate student. Her research interest is ‘white male mediocrity’. She is a follower of Iioma Oluo who exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mason investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.
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Veda Hyunjin Kim
Ohio Wesleyan sociology professor “instructs sociology and criminology courses as a means of collective emancipation.” He researches “genocidal formation of the criminal state of ‘South’ Korea as an outcome of post-1945 US imperialism.”. He advocates “a form of subaltern politics that is closer to womanist and is definitely anti-masculinist.” He employs a variety of historical methods including “the subaltern group’s agentic silence” and indicts a criminal empire-state (the US)”
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Emaline Reyes
Sociology Ph.D. student bemoans that “body scholarship has been disproportionately focused on Western corporeality and the ways in which citizen bodies are gendered, racialized, sexualized, criminalized, classed, disabled, medicalized, and technologized.” Too little attention “has been given to citizenship status, migration, mobility, nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, and exoticism”. The remedy is for post-colonialism to center the body.
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Emily Lenning
As a queer criminologist, she seeks to “understand and challenge the ways that the criminal legal system is used to enforce and maintain heteronormativity and gender role conformity.” “One must understand how homophobia and transphobia, white supremacy, and class inequalities have impacted rule making, rule breaking, and rule enforcement the intersections of one’s identities”
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Timothy Malone
University of Pennsylvania Sociology instructor. His book, “The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contagion and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison” argues that extra-juridical punishments have subsumed the carceral interior and co-constitute a thanatopolitical machinery of state-organized violence that is delegated to inmates and is therefore disavowed by the carceral state. He argues that the function of the contemporary prison is to actively abandon a steered machinery of delegated, proto-genocidal death production.
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Rusten Menard
His focus is on how values that are typically assumed as enhancing societal wellbeing – such as equality and tolerance – are actually formulated in exclusionary ways and used ideologically to demarcate boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. His work is inspired by social semiotics, feminist, queer and intersectional theory, critical discourse studies, and critical realist ontologies. His methodological expertise is in critical discourse analysis.
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Rina James
Graduate student at Arizona studying the ‘manosphere’ and male supremacy. They affiliate with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism which understands male supremacy as a pervasive belief system supporting dominance and oppression that is at the historical and contemporary core of society. This understanding is informed by feminism, intersectionality, reproductive justice, gender and race/ethnicity studies, and social movement studies, as well as incorporating far-right, hate, radicalization, and extremism studies.
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Mimi Thi Nguyen
This venerable Gender Studies professor presented to the Boise State Sociology department on “how the racial profile that presumes to arrange predictive knowledge for how to use the body as an index for capacity and pathology also enfolds a sartorial dimension. That is, in some cases fabric might as well be flesh, projecting onto racial, colonial others an interior truth of criminality, deviancy, or lawlessness. From the hoodie to the hijab, clothes not only dramatize the materiality of bodies, but also demonstrate that such materiality is itself animated by racial histories of abstraction.”
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Kristin Schilt
Professor of Sociology at University of Chicago, and ardent opponent of masculine toxicity. Articles include: “Masculinity, Maleness, and the Matrix of Sexual Threat”, “The Punk-White Privilege Scene’: The Construction of Whiteness in Riot Grrrl Zines.” and “Bathroom Battleground and Penis Panics.”
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Darren Sherkat
This Southern Illinois University sociology of religion professor tells us that “in Christian sociology bad data, worse measures, and perfunctory analyses are SCIENCE god damn it”. He concludes that Christian sociologists “blame the poor and the browns and the women and the homosexuals and the commies for all of our social problems.”
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Alison Better
This sociology professor “queers the Introduction to Sociology classroom, pedagogy, and canon”. Tapes of the Oprah Winfrey television show are shown in order to help students “center transexual voices”. One student cautions to “be prepared for a modern day brainwash”, and points out that the professor “calls the work of other sociologists garbage if they aren’t quite on the same page as her views”, adding that the class is based on pure opinion.
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Rai Reece
This Canadian sociologist is an expert in White terrorism and White settler racial capitalism which, she informs us, "doesn't discriminate". Rather, "Its purpose is to annihilate bodies unworthy of humanity". Fortunately, "Revolution is on the horizon". Multiple students report that she "DOES NOT deal with people who disagree with her". One self-described 'shy' student did not speak during her lecture on LGBTQ+. She said he is homophobic. "So condescending its weird" a student concluded.
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Samantha Simon
This Professor of Sociology at University of Arizona shows how police cadets are “socialized into a system of state violence and are are expected to see themselves as warriors and to view Black and Latino/a members of the public as their enemies”. They are “pushed to conceptualize their enemy as a man of color, and to think about violence as a moral necessity”.
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts uses his ‘small bully pulpit’ to combat “state sponsored and protected murder and violence, and state sponsored repression of justifiable popular outrage”. His ‘fundamental cause framework’ identifies ‘exploitation and exclusion as institutional norms traced to the original sin of Native genocide’.
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Gillian Gualtieri-Miller
This Barnard Sociology professor studies ethno-racial and gender inequality in American fine dining, uncovering the mechanisms by which bias is embedded in its practices, values, and norms. She has uncovered the disproportionate consecration of products associated with whiteness, which she terms Classic and Flexible restaurants.
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Carlo(s) Sariego
Yale Ph.D student ‘works across queer/trans studies, medical sociology, feminist STS, race/ethnicity, and nationalism’. Their subtopics include domesticity and genetics as they contribute to the maintenance of a racialized settler-colonial ideal in the U.S. Keywords are state reproductive violence, bodies borders & babies, utopia, desire, potentiality, technology, and American reproductive imaginaries”
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Sara Tyberg
Sara is a UC Santa Barbara sociology graduate and mentee of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Her research “explores the persisting relationship between white masculinity and suicide in the case of mass shootings”. In another project, Sara examines “how male supremacist ideologies permeate everyday romantic expectations and interpersonal interactions related to dating and intimacy through the concept of ‘romantic entitlement.”
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Salvador Vidal Ortiz
This American University sociology professor describes his class as “a sea of whiteness” requiring conscious work to “deploy sexuality studies in order to introduce intersectional omissions”. In an article on how to expand discussions of race and sexuality in class, he reflects on his own identity: “As a cisgender, feminine but male-presenting, queer, light-skinned Latinx faculty member, when I walk into the classroom I wonder whether I am seen as a freak or an anomaly.”
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Scott Myers-Lipton
Professor of sociology at San Jose State. In his Social Action class, he takes to the street to show students how white supremacy is operating in every public and private institution. Students say he will only pass them if they tell him what he wants to hear, and will gaslight anyone who disagrees with him. Their verdict: stick to activism.
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Eric Stewart
This sociology professor was a widely cited scholar at the forefront of criminology - a guru of the claim that “systemic racism” infests America’s police and society. A former graduate student blew the whistle on his research documenting that he faked data, plagiarized and falsified results. After his termination, it was found that 16 (retracted) studies published over 17 years had indicators of “impossible results and erroneous statistics”.
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Alex DiBranco
This Yale socIology Ph.D and founder of the Institute to Study Male Supremacism, contends that male supremacy is core to our society. Her Institute seeks to recognize male supremacy the same way we understand White supremacism and racism “as a structuring mechanism of society”. Those evil cisgender men have a deep-seated sense of entitlement, and are almost always responsible for mass violence. She tweets that people keep telling her “she is an awesome woman who will find a guy who knows she is amazing & isn’t a P.O.S”. She takes comfort that statistically “there are more decent women than decent men”. Pfew.
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Catherine Tan
Professor Tan described on X how a sociologist approached her at the annual meetings, asked if she is Chinese, and proceeded to tell her about a new sociology book about Chinese women who seek out Western men for marriage. Upon hearing what happened, numerous colleagues were sickened and outraged. They urged her to get his name and file a harassment complaint. Tan’s response: “Eh. The average American man lives up to 74. He’s going to be dead soon.”
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David Embrick
This University of Connecticut sociology professor recalls as a first year graduate student embracing sociology "in all its fine glory" and thinking "Man, sociology is the shit". Sixteen years later (in 2017) his assessment is that sociology is "full of shit". The reason: the discipline is incorrigibly "steeped in the normativities of whiteness". "We are taught to think white", "teach and prioritize whiteness", "use white methods", and legitimize "white predatory practices".
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Kelvin Santiago-Valles
Binghamton University sociology professor specializes in "multiple social resistances to hegemonic forms of domination and exploitation". He actively supported a colleague's formal policy of calling on white male students last (in a course graded on participation). Students report humiliation and peer disapproval if they disagree with his viewpoints. One commented: "unless you are black or Spanish, I don't suggest participating in class because he will belittle you and unleash his inner fury."
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Viviane Saleh-Hanna
This UMass Dartmouth sociology professor specializes in “applying black feminist hauntology” and “reversing criminology's white gaze”. One student laments that the class - which is the worst he has taken in college - “should be called why white people are awful”. Numerous students warn against disagreeing with Saleh-Hanna’s totalitarian assertions: “If you disagree, you have no chance at a good grade, so you have to play along.”
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Dashanne Stokes
Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. This intersectional woke activist uses social media to convey such profundities as: “Racism is Bad. Nazis are evil. You need to wake up”. His research includes topics such as “how to compare and contrast the modern LGBT use of the Q-word with the use of the N-word by many people of color”. His courses under development include: “How to Become a Tyrant” and ”LGBT BIPOC Intersectionalities”. Students report that he cancels classes every other week and “randomly emails about his personal life with no lead up. Generally strange dude.”
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Jason Laurendeau
Lethbridge University Professor of Sociology. identifies as a "settler and trespasser on stolen land", and "steeped in privilege as cisnet white able-bodied/minded". His assigned reading makes the “compelling case” that “Canada’s past and present actions merit the label of genocide”. He regards his course "Indigenous Sport and Physical Culture in Settler Canada" as "training for the heart", noting that "students are hungry for this kind of course" (half the students withdrew). When a scholar he disagreed with was scheduled to speak on campus, Jason implored the Dean to cancel this 'platforming of anti-indigenous violence", which "suggests the university is a place of white supremacist violence". "I refuse to debate the merits of so-called open inquiry". The Dean thanked him and praised his "heartfelt email and allyship".
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
University of New Brunswick sociology professor “finds his theoretical inspiration in the intersection between racial capitalism theory and Marxist-Feminist social reproduction theory”. His publications include “Whiteness and the Nation’s Pastime” and “I Signed My Life To Rich White Guys”. “Just tweeting straight”, he posts, “Marx is always a win”. His students, at least those paying attention, comment that “he talks a lot without saying much”. Another protests that “a political class should not be mandatory, especially when you are made to agree with it.”