Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below!

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

Big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday and provided feedback!

“As a medical humanist, I reject the shallow and brittle terms on which empathy is so often taught in medicine.”

Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.

Spoiler: transnational organizational settings create ambiguous working conditions for healthcare professionals. In their efforts to negotiate order, interacting professionals find ways to reconfigure work roles and role relationships in ways that disrupt professional status hierarchies in medicine.

Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!

It's that time of year again-- submit to the ESS mini-conference on Health Professions Education! This year's theme is "Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education." Deadline to submit is October 15: ess2026.exordo.com/login. See more info below 👇

I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It

Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

New commentary piece in Studies of Comparative International Development with social science colleagues who study global health and international development:

"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@josephharrisbu.bsky.social ‪@aliciay.bsky.social + others

Check us out!

“The bill would ‘make college less affordable,’ said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, adding that schools could become less economically and racially diverse.”

Sharing because I found this to be a useful reference when talking about the current state of higher ed with friends, family, and other people on the outside looking in
www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

A great award for a great article, congrats @profmarycollier.bsky.social!!! 🎉

"Scientists fear that the sweeping cuts could do long-term damage to U.S. scientific research, which has long driven medical and financial progress for the nation. 'The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,' said Dr. Harold Varmus.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’ve been looking forward to this conference for months! Glad to be back at Migration & Organizations, and big thank you to @profzeke.bsky.social @prithwirajc.bsky.social and the other organizers for putting together a great lineup of presentations!

The webinar was recorded and is now viewable on YouTube. The findings I share are preliminary, and the framing is likely to undergo some changes, but please feel free to watch and provide feedback! The main ideas will certainly appear in my forthcoming publications!

youtu.be/Bszbly3Yq9I?...

Checked in and ready to present more dissertation findings this morning at SSS in Charlotte!! 😁

Neat! And thanks for the other examples!! 💯

So cool! What was the learning goal? I’ve taught intro soc at IU, and we have an art museum on campus. I’d like to incorporate more out-of-the-classroom learning opportunities into my teaching if you don’t mind sharing your approach.

Goffman 🤝🏻 global health

Tune into a live webinar that I will be giving with the Center for Khmer Studies this Wednesday at 9:30pm EST to see how physicians from the Global North use impression management strategies to overcome various constraints when treating patients in Cambodian NGOs 👨🏻‍⚕️🏥🇰🇭

Sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, economists and other social scientists interested in global health:

Please sign & share this open letter to admin & Congressional leadership condemning the dismantling of US global health funding and institutions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...