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Thrilled to be back at NU Sociology today giving a talk about my book Refashioning Race! It's wonderful to have a chance to share the final product with the people who helped shepherd the project from its earliest stages.

I am delighted to be giving a talk at Texas A&M about Refashioning Race! College Station-ites, I would love to see you this Wednesday at 1:50pm CDT. DM me for details or for those farther afield, a zoom link.

Here's another take on Refashioning Race from Liina Mustonen in The Sociological Review !

.Peter Salovey: Nearly 300 Yale University faculty condemn the criminalization of Yale students engaged in acts of peaceful protest. Yale University must drop all charges, take no disciplinary action against those arrested, and respect peaceable speech and assembly on campus. docs.google.com/document/d/13G…

It's book sale season. If you don't have a copy of Refashioning Race and want one, it's discounted through Friday. There's so many great titles that have recently come out--load up!

I am delighted to announce that Refashioning Race received the 2024 Book Award from the ASA Body and Embodiment section, and it was a finalist for the 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Hooray! Body & Embodiment The Society for Social Studies of Science

🎉Body & Embodiment CONGRATULATES the 2024 Outstanding Book Award Recipient Winner: Alka Menon (Alka Menon) - Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards from University of California Press (is on Bluesky).

Looking for postdoc opportunities and interested in feminist intersectional STS? See below for an opportunity at Yale!

Sociologists, if you are still standing at ASA Sociology at 8am on Tuesday 8/13, come to the Book Forum on my book, Refashioning Race! Thanks to Erynn Masi de Casanova for organizing and to panelists Ann Morning, Maxine Craig, Mónica Moreno Figueroa University of California Press (is on Bluesky) #ASA2024

The Mentoring Roundtables are today! All are welcome.

New review of Refashioning Race in Contexts! Thanks for engaging with my work, @akmskarpelis

It was a delight to talk with Dan Morrison about Refashioning Race on The Annex Podcast -- check it out!

Do you do research on health technologies? Submit to the below conference that I'm hosting at Yale on February 28-March 1. Deadline for abstracts is Oct 31. DM or email me with any questions! Yale Sociology YaleRITM

CFP: Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology Focused Approach, conference at Yale Feb 28-Mar 1. If you do research on health technologies, submit an extended abstract by the end of the week! Email me with any questions! Details and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…