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Claire Herbert
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Sociology prof at University of Oregon studying housing, law, property, homelessness, colonialisms. Author of A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Views my own.
Please support University of Oregon faculty, staff and students by signing this petition before Friday! Admin are laying off teaching profs, and now tenure track and tenured professors #goducks
Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.

The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.

The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
I usually only post about work/research and #housing problems… but my current conundrum is how to get my #Frenchie - #blueheeler puppy to run with me instead of herd me and bite my shoes 😂😂😂
December 13, 2024 at 8:21 PM
compiling a list of social science monographs on #homelessness 🧵 thinking I might let my students choose which they read next quarter.

listing links below of book's I found mostly via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. appreciate any recs or comments on these for honors-level undergrads!
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I’m teaching honors level Housing and Homelessness next quarter. What monograph on #homelessness is your fav? Looking to end with something I haven’t read before.
December 10, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Best part of reviewing book manuscripts is when the box o’ books arrives!
November 27, 2024 at 10:25 PM
#urban #housing #sociology folks where would you submit an article about #unsheltered #homelessness & #slb governance? We’ve got a qual article on the expansion in homeless governance & how SLBs in numerous depts frame their enforcement practices. Can’t decide if urban or housing journal is best?
November 18, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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📢 Update: Our ASA SFAB panel, "Beyond the Ivory Tower," is now rescheduled for Dec 3, 11:30 AM-1 PM EST (8:30-10 AM PST). Register here: tinyurl.com/nhcjd288 #Sociology #Activism
November 17, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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I'm building a starter pack on folks working on housing and housing policy. Suggestions, please!

go.bsky.app/22qfDBU
November 18, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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Starting this list … please respond if you work on US national #housing policy issues too and I will add you! 🙏💙 go.bsky.app/5Xzj7gr
November 16, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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I didn't see one on Urban + Community Soc. Happy to add (or subtract!) anyone. go.bsky.app/CktkgHg
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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This skeet is for the Sociology folks!
Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!
November 14, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Thanks @sjccorn.bsky.social for helping me find my way here! I’m a sociologist studying and writing about things like #housing, #urban, #law, #homelessness. Lately been writing quite a bit about #squatting and other types of #informal housing in the US academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Resisting and Reclaiming: Squatting as Contentious Urban Politics in the U.S.
Abstract. Squatting as contentious politics has been well studied globally, expanding knowledge of how everyday people resist injustices, strive to remake
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November 14, 2024 at 12:27 AM