Letter of Support from Sociologists for Bernie Sanders SocForBernie Follow Mar 1 · 9 min read

We are a group of academic sociologists writing to express enthusiastic support for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primary. Our discipline is grounded in the work of thinkers such as W.E.B. DuBois, C. Wright Mills, and Jane Addams, who linked the dramas of individual life to their roots in social and structural conditions. Our careers involve research and teaching focused on a diverse array of interlinked topics, including: race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, social change, labor, families, social movements, economies, migration, national identities, disability, science and technology, and the environment.

Based on our varied experiences both inside and outside of the academy, we believe that Bernie Sanders is the candidate best suited to improving the lives of people in the United States and around the world. Bernie’s policies such as Medicare for All, College for All, Housing for All, and the Green New Deal address systematic inequalities in ways that will prove sustainable and contribute to a more equitable society. We also appreciate Bernie’s commitment to reducing the United States’ involvement in wars overseas, as well as his commitment to the rights of immigrants and refugees.

Throughout his 2020 campaign, Bernie’s central message — “Not Me, Us” — has promoted an empowered sociological imagination — challenging everyday people to see themselves as agents of change in their own lives by working with others to change society. We urge people to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries, and to do all they can to make sure he is the nominee.

To add your name to this letter, please go to: tinyurl.com/SocForBernie

Signed,

Eman Abdelhadi, University of Chicago

Edwin Ackerman, Syracuse University

Alison E. Adams, University of Florida

Paul Adler, University of Southern California

Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania

Ahmad Al-Sholi, Stony Brook University

Guillermina Altomonte, The New School for Social Research

Camila Alvarez, University of California, Merced

Malcolm Araos, New York University

Melissa Archer Alvaré

David Arditi

Ronald Aminzade, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Sneha Annavarapu, University of Chicago

Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts Boston

Rishi Arora, University of Chicago

Nicholas Athey, Univerity of La Verne

Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin

Dustin Avent-Holt, Augusta University

Darcy Ayers, University of Tennesee Knoxville

Riad Azar, University of Texas at Austin

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, New York University

Rick Baldoz

Matt Baltz

Carina Bandhauer, Western Connecticut State University

Carolina Bank-Muñoz, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Lori Baralt, California State University, Long Beach

William Barton, Colorado State University

Joshua A. Basseches, Northwestern University

Yael Berda, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University

Marie Berry

Kelly Besecke

Aarushi Bhandari, Stony Brook University

Ankhit Bhardwaj, New York University

Ana Carolina Bichoffe, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Michael Billeaux, Madison Technical College

Jonah Birch, Appalachian State University

Eric Blanc, New York University

Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Johanna Bockman, George Mason University

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University

Carolina Bonomi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Joseph Boselovic, Johns Hopkins University

Jean Boucher

Evan Bowness, University of British Columbia

Benjamin Bradlow, Brown University

Marnie Brady

Naomi Braine, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Neil Brenner, Harvard University

Daniel Breslau, Virginia Tech

Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Dan Brook, San Jose State University

B. Ricardo Brown, Pratt Institute

Eliza Brown, New York University

Joseph Marshall Brown

Jonah Stuart Brundage, Harvard University

Dale Bryan

Cherrie Nicole Bucknor, Harvard University

Tom Buechele, Pratt Institute and Hunter College, CUNY

Daniel T. Buffington, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Michael Buhl

Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

Joseph Cabrera, University of La Verne

Kate Cairns, Rutgers University - Camden

Ryan Calder, Johns Hopkins University

Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University

David Calnitzky, University of Western Ontario

Zoey Carey, The New School of Social Research

Jacqueline Carrigan, Sacramento State University

Jeff Cates, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Michelle Cera, New York University

Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College

Bhumika Chauhan, New York University

Wesley Cheek, Ritsumeikan University

Daniel Cheng, New York University

Elizabeth Cherry, Manhattanville College

Wai Kit Choi, California State University, Los Angeles

Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mary Ann Clawson, Wesleyan University

Jeremy Cohan, School of Visual Arts

Ned Crowley, New York University

Daniel Cueto-Villalobos, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Andrew P. Davis, North Carolina State University

Sharon K. Davis, University of La Verne

Anya Degenshein, Marquette University

Thomas DeGloma, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Charles Derber, Boston College

Manali Desai, University of Cambridge

Mathieu Desan, University of Colorado, Boulder

Katie Dingeman

Samuel Dinger, New York University

Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College

Silvia Dominguez

Sara Duvisac

Eric M. Edwards

Frank Edwards, Rutgers University

Barry Eidlin, McGill University

Josh Eisenstat, New York University

Hester Eisenstein, CUNY

Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California

Howard A. Elterman, Hunter College, CUNY

Jared Eno, University of Michigan

Annelise Erismann, University of Lausanne

Jill Esbenshade, San Diego State University

Gøsta Esping-Andersen

Christopher Shane Elliott, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Daniel Faber, Northeastern University

Nicole Fabricant, Towson University

John-Paul Ferguson, McGill University

Sujatha Fernandes, University of Sydney

Ryan J. Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara

Luis Flores, University of Michigan

John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara

Carlos Forment, The New School for Social Research

Jacob Gates Foster, UCLA

Jordan Fox Besek, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Katy Fox-Hodess, University of Sheffield

Eli Friedman

Maggie Frye, University of Michigan

Ben Frymer, Sonoma State University

Pablo Gaston, University of Michigan

Tiffany Gause, Santiago Canyon College

Heather Gautney, Fordham University

Alan Gilbert, University of Denver

Tim Gill, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Carina Karapetian Giorgi

Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University

Zoltán Glück, Northeastern University

Julian Go, Boston University

Michael Goldman, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Liora O’Donnell Goldensher, Princeton University

Julián Gómez-Delgado, The New School for Social Research

Henry Gomory, Princeton University

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania

Gloria González-López, University of Texas at Austin

Jeff Goodwin, New York University

Deborah Gould, University of California, Santa Cruz

Teresa Gowan, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Heba Gowayed, Boston University

Nikhil Goyal, University of Cambridge

Vikas Gumbhir

Ryan Gunderson, Miami University

Sanjiv Gupta, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Gozde Guran, Princeton University

Cecilia A. Green, Syracuse University

Miriam Greenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz

LaDawn Haglund, Arizona State University

Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ricarda Hammer, Brown University

John L. Hammond, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Timothy Haney, Mount Royal University

Nancy Hanrahan, George Mason University

Diane Harriford, Vassar College

Kevan Harris, UCLA

Shawn Hazboun

Nancy A. Heitzeg

Kasey Hendricks

Claire Herbert, University of Oregon

Maya Herman, The New School for Social Research

Elise Herrala, Maryland Institute College of Art

Gabriel Hetland, University at Albany, SUNY

Terrence D. Hill

Hannah Holleman, Amherst College

Leontina Hormel, University of Idaho

Aaron Horvath, Stanford University

Carolyn Howe, College of the Holy Cross

Justin Huft, California State University, Fullerton

Mikell Hyman

Shannon Ikebe, University of California, Berkeley

Sarah Iverson, New York University

Keri E. Iyall Smith

Conrad Jacober, Johns Hopkins University

Liz Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania

Pantea Javidan, Stanford University

Colin Jerolmack, New York University

Erin Johnston, Stanford University

Hannah Judson

Ali Kadivar, Boston College

Amber Kalb, George Mason University

Sidra Kamran, The New School for Social Research

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Sarah Beth Kaufman, Trinity University

Jacob Kepes

Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mona Khneisser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elsa Talat Khwaja, George Mason University

Joong Won Kim

Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University

Rose M. Kim, CUNY

Howard Kimeldorf, University of Michigan

Sherryl Kleinman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Joshua Klugman, Temple University

Jody Knauss, University of Wisconsin — Madison

Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Preethi Krishnan, Western Carolina University

Barbara Kritt

Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mehmet Barış Kuymulu, Middle East Technical University

Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNY

Taylor Laemmli, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Danya Lagos, University of Texas at Austin

Milli Lake, London School of Economics

Agustin Lao-Montes

Pablo Lapegna

Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Jeremiah Lawson, University of California, Irvine

Darcy K. Leach, Bradley University

Suzy Lee, Binghamton University

Jerry Lembcke

Camilo Leslie, Tulane University

Isaac Leslie, University of Wisconsin — Madison

Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago

R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University

Penny Lewis, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Victoria Lima Dorta, Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo

Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University, Kokomo

Travis Linnemann

Deborah L. Little, Adelphi University

David Lopez

Nancy López

Stephen H. Lopez, The Ohio State University

Lola Loustaunau, University of Oregon

Stephanie Luce, CUNY

Kristin Luker, University of California, Berkeley

Howard Lune, Hunter College, CUNY

Yale Magrass, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Aaron Major, University at Albany, SUNY

Mariana Manriquez, University of Arizona

Joseph Marchia, Stony Brook University

André Marega Pinhel, Universidade de São Paulo

Cid Martinez, University of San Diego

Ryan Masters, University of Colorado, Boulder

Thomas F. Mayer, University of Colorado, Boulder

Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College

Michael McCarthy, Marquette University

John McCollum, Minot State University

Joshua McDermott, University of Pittsburgh

Bernard McGrane, Chapman University

Rachel McKane, Vanderbilt University

Steve McKay, University of California, Santa Cruz

Liz McKenna, Johns Hopkins University

Peter McMahan, McGill University

Brendan McQuade, University of Southern Maine

Michael McQuarrie, Arizona State University

Nicholas Membrez-Weiler

Angela G. Mertig, Middle Tennessee State University

Andrew Messamore, University of Texas at Austin

Rachel Meyer, Harvard University

Erin Michaels

Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate Center

Valentine M. Moghadam, Northeastern University

Omar Montana, Hunter College, CUNY

Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar, Princeton University

Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Ashli Mullen, University of Glasgow

Sulaiman Khalid Murad, California State University, Fullerton

Joshua Murray, Vanderbilt University

Vivekenanda Nemana, Princeton University

Schneur Zalman Newfield, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Bruce Nissen

Davon Norris, The Ohio State University

Kathryn Norton-Smith, University of Oregon

Gilda L. Ochoa

Chuck O’Connell, University of California, Irvine

John O’Connor, Central Connecticut State University

Daniel Olmos, California State University, Northridge

Eileen Otis, University of Oregon

Josh Pacewicz, Brown University

Diana Pan, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Arthur E. Paris, Syracuse University

James Parisot, Drexel University

Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Tianna S. Paschel

Corey Payne, Johns Hopkins University

Corey Pech, The Ohio State University

Amin Perez, University of Quebec at Montreal

Subriena Persaud

Raul Perez, University of La Verne

Carol Petty, George Mason University

Stephen Philion, St. Cloud State University

Kai-Lit Phua

Stephanie Pincetl, UCLA

Diogo L. Pinheiro, University of North Georgia

Brian Pitman, Pacific Lutheran University

Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center

Sonia Prelat, New York University

Chris Puckett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Brandie Pugh

Cresa Pugh, Harvard University

Gretchen Purser, Syracuse University

Michael Ramirez

Umair Rashid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Raphi Rechitzky

Sarah Reibstein, Princeton University

Larry Reynolds, Central Michigan University

Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University

Bob Rice, University of Massachusetts Boston

Zach Richer, University of Toronto

Catherine K. Riessman, Boston University

Dylan Riley, University of California, Berkeley

Georg Rilinger, University of Chicago

Nicole Rios, CUNY Graduate Center

William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Cesar Rodriguez, San Francisco State University

Michalel Rodríguez Muñiz, Northwestern University

Rene Rojas, Binghamton University

Shelly Ronen, Haverford College

Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University

Richard Rubinson, Emory University

Sharmila Rudrappa

Alan P. Rudy, Central Michigan University

Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine

Sadia Saeed

Atef Said

Mónica Salmón Gómez, The New School for Social Research

Leslie Salzinger, University of California, Berkeley

Khaldoun Samman

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University

Elizabeth Scheel-Keita

Juliet Schor, Boston College

Jen Schradie

Michael Schwartz, Stony Brook University

Raka Sen, University of Pennsylvania

Stu Shafer

Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto

Andrew Shapiro, CUNY Graduate Center

Claire Sieffert,New York University

Beverly J. Silver, Johns Hopkins University

Joseph M. Simpson, Texas A&M University, San Antonio

Tad Skotnicki, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Alvin Y. SO

Matthew Soener, Sciences Po

Durgesh Solanki, Johns Hopkins University

David Spener, Trinity University

Nikoleta Sremac, University of Minnesota — Twin Cities

Mary Stricker, Temple University

Amy Stuart, Hunter College, CUNY

Forrest Stuart, Stanford University

John M. Talbot, Tunxis Community College

Lauren Taylor, Harvard University

Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University

Julia Tomassetti, City University of Hong Kong

Mo Torres, Harvard University

Sarah Tosh, Rutgers University

Cihan Tugal, University of California, Berkeley

Joshua Daniel Tuttle

Alia Tyner-Mullings, Guttman Community College, CUNY

Smriti Upadhyah, Johns Hopkins University

Virgilio Urbina Lizardi, New York University

Adaner Usmani, Harvard University

Arya Vaghayenegar, The New School for Social Research

Steven Varnis

Mariana Veras, New York University

Nantina Vgontzas, New York University

Matt Vidal, Loughborough University London

Alex S. Vitale, Brooklyn College

Liam Weikart, University of Lynchburg

Eve Weinbaum, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Liza Weinstein, Northeastern University

Erik Westlund, University of Iowa

Damian White, The Rhode Island School of Design

Josh Whitford, Columbia University

Keenan Wilder

Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tamar Diana Wilson

Jesse Wozniak, West Virginia University

Kristine Wright, Los Angeles Southwest College

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California

Michael P. Young, University of Texas at Austin

Stephen T. Young

José Guillermo Zapata Calderon, Pitzer College

Kasey Zapatka, CUNY Graduate Center

Xinyi Zhang, New York University

Lorna Zukas

Jiping Zuo, St. Cloud State University