Joel Mittleman
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn.
Studying gender, education and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanToday I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
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- Grateful to have my @amjpublichealth.bsky.social study on the prevalence of ACEs among America's LGBTQ+ high school students highlighted by the @prbdata.bsky.social. www.prb.org/articles/chi...
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanGrab some cocoa☕ and peruse the PENN POP STUDIES NEWSLETTER! ✏️New pubs by our researchers, including @joeljm.bsky.social & @hthirumurthy.bsky.social 🎉 Congrats Emily Curran, winner of the van de Walle prize! 🎞️ Catch up on past colloquiums with @anacanedog.bsky.social & Margherita Odasso
- Sociologists: Are you aware of any publicly available interview transcript data that I could use for teaching qualitative coding in a graduate methods course? I've found multiple repositories of interview data, but they all (understandably) require students to go through IRB.
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanIn the early 90s this Jewish family kept getting harassed in Montana, so the entire town of Billings put up menorahs in their windows in solidarity Now Ahmed al Ahmed is part of this tradition too, as he figuratively did the most putting up of a menorah in the window that a human being can ever do
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanIn 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanI’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873
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- Sociologists & Demographers: My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT. How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?
- We are so lost.
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanI'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanNice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
- New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYd…
- Reposted by Joel Mittleman🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨 Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanI'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanAre you working in #LGBTQ related research topics?! Come visit us in Melbourne next year!! While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;) Also there are a handful of scholarships available! @jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanWE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanWe're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanIt also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!
- The August issue posted last week--5 notes, 9 articles & a note from the new Editors in Chief. This issue includes research on mobility-based segregation, child migration in Africa, educational inequality in biological aging, and inequalities in dementia risk. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...
- Reposted by Joel Mittleman✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanUC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanI never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world. Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
- Reposted by Joel Mittleman🚨 New paper 🚨 In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies. In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanGreat to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Finalizing my syllabus for the fall and facing a question I often face: How much CJ Pascoe is too much CJ Pascoe?
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanThe Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.” Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data. www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...
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- Excited to head to Chicago today for ASA. I'm really looking forward to being part of this panel on the past and future of Sociology of Education: join us!
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanThis year’s RSSM publication award goes to The long-run causal effects of single-sex schooling on work-related outcomes in South Korea Kim, Ahn, Behrman, Choi, Dimant, Hannum, Lee, Mutz, Park Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89, 100876, 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanJust a month left until the deadline for the BJS special issue that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity! We've heard about some really interesting papers in progress so far--consider submitting!
- Reposted by Joel MittlemanWe're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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- Reposted by Joel Mittleman🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanNew preprint 💥 In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects. I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model. #sociology osf.io/preprints/so...
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- Reposted by Joel Mittleman📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’
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- Reposted by Joel MittlemanForthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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