Elena Ayala-Hurtado
@elenaah.bsky.social
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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Sociology, PhD from Harvard Sociology. Precarious employment, economic insecurity, higher education. Cultural sociologist. Current research in the US and Spain.
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Just 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!
The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2 September 2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
elenaah.bsky.social
A reminder that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing a BJS special issue on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socio-economic insecurity. Submission deadline September 2! Check out the call for papers!
The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2 September 2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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In Contexts, I summarize my recent Soc of Ed paper examining how young, struggling college graduates in the U.S. and Spain understand their social positions and sense of worth.

Spoiler: they're deeply unhappy that their expectations haven't panned out, but confident in their worth as graduates.
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New on the blog! In Princeton sociology post-doc fellow @elenaah.bsky.social's research on "expectational liminality," she finds that many young college graduates around the world simply aren't experiencing the benefits promised by the education gospel. contexts.org/blog/after-c...
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I personally am never certain whether to do this when referencing the published paper by name would very clearly signal who the author of the manuscript is--e.g. when the two papers are using exactly the same author-collected data. Any thoughts?
elenaah.bsky.social
LAST CALL! Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on socioeconomic insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful! Submissions deadline SOON: 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04) #sociology
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
elenaah.bsky.social
Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful; this year, we hope, even better! Submissions deadline SOON: 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04)
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
elenaah.bsky.social
Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful and this year we hope will be even better! Submissions deadline 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04)
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
elenaah.bsky.social
This is so wonderful! Congratulations!
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I would like to be added! Thanks!
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I'm thrilled to share that my first paper from my dissertation, "The Expectational Liminality of Insecure College Graduates," has been published in Sociology of Education: doi.org/10.1177/0038...