While you sip your coffee, check out this interview on The Sociological Review Foundation’s Uncommon Sense with Chinese Espresso author Grazia Deng, where she discusses why and how coffee bars in Italy have become increasingly managed by Chinese baristas: hubs.ly/Q02FdBzl0

🚨New article from my series of studies on censorship under digital authoritarianism: "Negotiating censorial power and its legitimacy: a case study of the second face of state censorship", Journal of Political Power tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Honored that "The Funk of White Souls" won both the Association for the Sociology of Religion Distinguished Article Award and the ASA Sociology of Religion Section Distinguished Article Award. Grateful to Cheryl Gilkes for encouraging me to write it & the SociologyofReligion reviewers whose critiques improved it academic.oup.com/socrel/article…

Check out Yucheng’s new article on how two groups of Chinese artists make sense of their autonomy and justify their career choices! 🎉

New paper w/Daniel Silver! We analyze the relationship between theory figures and causal claims in sociology. Several interesting findings, most notably that visualization appears to promote clearer thinking and writing about causal relationships! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Sharing a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece by Peter Hessler on the current era of sideline sinologists, the widening social acceptance of anonymously attacking the motivations of China commentators, and the unknown future for China that awaits. chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

My new paper has just been published in Sociological Theory Sociological Theory. Drawing on transnational and postcolonial sociology, I present a relational sociology of rights in the context of globalization and introduces the new concept of a “rights project.”

‘As well as helping us to understand arts and culture, Buchholz’s book prompts us to reflect on the formation of a new world order and the role of meaning within it.’ Read Christian Morgner’s review of ‘The Global Rules of Art’ below. doi.org/10.1177/174997…

Look forward to discussing the amazing works by two Chinese cultural sociologists! How can a cultural perspective help us better understand inequality in education and healthcare in China? Join us and find out more!

The Department of Sociology at University of Notre Dame invites applications for an open-rank/open-subdiscipline position. Come work with us--we're pretty great! Erin McDonnell is the search chair. I'm happy to talk with folks! apply.interfolio.com/150575 ND Arts & Letters

Amen. Excellent commentary in Nature by Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 on the need for scientists to be more proactive in defending the STA with China: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Dustin Stoltz and Michael Wood's "Drawing Out Definitions" is now published! It argues that certain visualizations can serve as "definition tools." Part of a special issue on Theory Visualization in Sociology, in The American Sociologist. More to come! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

No illusions about China's politics, but a deep personal connection to the country and people–and has led student exchanges there. *Could* be good news for Chinese in the US who've had a rough go under Trump AND Biden to have that voice at the table. x.com/ericfish85/sta…

Great new paper from Taylor Price! He's on the market right now, and would be a fantastic colleague, and a great addition to any department! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The PDF proofs for MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA are here, which means it’s time for a ToC reveal! The collection’s landing page is also live at the Amherst College Press site: doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1… Excited for these chapters to be out in the world in a few months!

Please mark your calendar for Oct. 8, 8:30–10:00 p.m. ET, for Loïc Wacquant’s talk about his book “Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory.” Discussants: Marco Garrido, Eric Klinenberg, and Yue Zhang. Host: Fei Yan. Moderator: Yan Long. Zoom: berkeley.zoom.us/j/97836326646

Honored and excited for this symposium on After Positivism, hosted by New School for Social Research on Friday 9/27. Jack Jin Gary Lee has pulled together a tremendous set of panelists for a robust discussion on the comparative method. Free & open to the public; register here: event.newschool.edu/afterpositivism

Directed improvisation is a great concept! It’s similar in the Chinese film industry. Some filmmakers I interviewed call this practice “reading up” 😅