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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen
@shaonta.bsky.social
It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨

Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁

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🚨 Excited to share my new article published at Social Problems that rethinks the field’s engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during Black Lives Matter, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives.
In her MLK Jr. keynote address, ASA member Shaonta' E. Allen @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social questioned “Ask yourself, who benefits when we are not able to articulate what we would like to see in the future, but can only describe what we’d like to tear down?”
Dartmouth honors MLK with multifaith event - Valley News
Dr. Shaonta' Allen's keynote address at Dartmouth College's multifaith celebration of MLK inspires attendees to envision a liberated society.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
January 17, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Love to see it.
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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JOB @westernu.ca -Sociology - Assistant Professor (Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy). Please send widely to anyone that might be interested. Happy to answer any Qs about it if you DM or email.

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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY - Department of Sociology, Western University
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October 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Assata Shakur
1947-2025
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My book, “Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook” w/ Simone Durham & @drjonessoc.bsky.social has been out for 3 months today! It offers an overview of the movement’s progress & controversies!

Order your copy today!! 📚

www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-liv...

#BlackLivesMatter #AcademicSky #Sociology
September 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Classes started last week here at Dartmouth and I can already tell it’s going to be a great fall term! 🍁🍂 I’m teaching “Social Movements” again as well as a new “Black Sociology” course!! 🙌🏾✨ Grateful for another opportunity to think and learn with curious students! 💚🌲 #AcademicSky #Sociology
September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack!

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September 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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✨ Looking for innovative ideas in sociology and the social sciences?

JST is a peer-reviewed, open access journal run by graduate students in Sociology at Western University (Canada). We publish works from grad students, post-docs, academics, and independent scholars.
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Fantastic panel on religion & politics at #ASA2025. New findings pushing the field forward:
- how political activism brings some people back to religion
- how people use similar cultural schema to talk about spirituality & politics
- racialized patterns in Christian nationalism & patriotism
August 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Ditto. Great group. Thanks to organizers. Yes, to productive conversations, organizational collaboration, and collective action. "People-ing politics" political acitivities and policy proposals for regular people and not for politicians' dreams and personal aspirations, ambitions, fears and whims.
So much fun at the political soc “People-ing Politics” riverboat reception last night along the Chicago River! Thanks to @blackcapitol.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social & @wendyyli.bsky.social for organizing! #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky @fisherdanar.bsky.social @michaelrosino.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I think it may have been recorded!! Hopefully they will post it online!
August 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So much fun at the political soc “People-ing Politics” riverboat reception last night along the Chicago River! Thanks to @blackcapitol.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social & @wendyyli.bsky.social for organizing! #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky @fisherdanar.bsky.social @michaelrosino.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Happening now at #ASA2025! @asanews.bsky.social has developed a great new toolkit on how departments can include community-engaged research in their tenure and promotion process www.asanet.org/public-engag...
Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit | American Sociological Association
ASA’s Shifting the Academic Ecology to Support Community-Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion in Sociology project establishes a framework that can be
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August 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
😅😅😅 some of us need the reminder!!! lol
August 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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August 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“At the heart of Black Feminist Thought is the belief in Black women’s humanity… It has resonated with various communities because there is something profoundly human at the root of that work”- PHC on 35 years of “Black Feminist Thought” 🐐 #ASA2025
August 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Sociologists tend to be cheap. They tend to belief that talking the talking is enough but don’t commit themselves to walking the walk.” 🙃 #ASA2025 #Sociology
August 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I wasn’t ready!! 😩🤣
August 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
PHC on embodying academic excellence:

-Always be self-critical of your work
-Don’t give up on the questions(s) that motivate you
-Be experimental, engage in “intellectual care work”
-Stay on your own path.. don’t wait around for the topic or the method of the day. Be epistemologically free #ASA2025
August 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc
August 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happening now! First Black woman ASA President, Patricia Hill Collins, in conversation with current ASA President Asia Harvey Wingfield! 🤎✨ #ASA2025 #BlackFeministThought #Sociology
August 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM