Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social An international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, policy analysts, & public service providers.
Leah E. Gose @leahegose.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at USC. I study poverty, civic life, charitable food provision, nonprofits, community orgs, & SNAP/WIC. BIG fan of hobbies and room temperature water.
Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism
umich.edu/~motorres
Noelle Broughton (she/her) @noellebroughton.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Kansas // housing policy and administration // on the academic job market (fall 2025)
Housing Matters @housingmatters.bsky.social The Urban Institute’s Housing Matters initiative provides data, research, and insights to advance solutions for affordable housing. https://housingmatters.urban.org/
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space @societyandspace.bsky.social We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Urban Theory Lab (UTL) @urbantheorylab.bsky.social The Urban Theory Lab (UTL) seeks to develop new ways of conceptualizing capitalist urbanization and its increasingly planetary environmental impacts. Website: urbantheorylab.net
Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com Publishing ground-breaking contributions across the full range of social science disciplines.
Follow us for the latest USJ updates. Visit our website to find out more: urbanstudiesjournal.com
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs @uiccuppa.bsky.social Located in the heart of one of the world's global cities, the University of Illinois Chicago's College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs is a vital part of the educational, technological, and cultural fabric of the region. Learn more - www.cuppa.uic.edu
Institute for Housing Studies @housingstudies.bsky.social The Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) is a research center at DePaul University that provides analysis and data to inform housing policy and practice.
housingstudies.org
American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.
Suzanne Mettler. @smettler.bsky.social Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality. 
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Renter rights & stopping displacement w/ policy & communication action.
Postdoc @curaumn.bsky.social & affiliate at @minnpop.bsky.social & @buoncities.bsky.social
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Cassidy Puckett @cassidycody.bsky.social Sociologist. Prof. Technology & Inequality. #firstgen #upwardbound
Rachel Mulbry @rmulbry.bsky.social taking local governance seriously.
Philly • housing • climate justice • probably biking somewhere
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
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Learn more ⬇️
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Sara McTarnaghan @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social All things climate change, adaptation, and affordable housing. Social policy researcher and co-lead of the Climate and Communities Program at Urban Institute.
📍DC with past lives in SF Bay Area, Santiago and Austin. 
Maria Akchurin @makchur.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago | Environmental and Urban Sociology 
@mnovara.bsky.social @mnovara.bsky.social 
Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org 🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all.
🔗 https://linkin.bio/aforhj
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social Author of THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS, "brilliant and alarming" (Booklist), "deeply researched...eye-opening, urgent" (Kirkus). Now on sale http://bit.ly/3AsDJUw 
Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social ED at the National Housing Law Project 🇺🇸 Housing nerd. @nhlp.bsky.social
Chicago Cityscape @chicagocityscape.com Real estate information platform for development in Chicago, Cook County, and Lake County (Illinois and Indiana). http://chicagocityscape.com
Mollie McFee @molliemcfee.bsky.social Associate Editor at the University of Chicago Press for music and media studies. Occasional singer, frequent runner.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social We welcome everybody working on critical legal geographies. Coordinated by LSA (CRN35).
Website: www.clg.place
Profile image: "All shall be equal before the law: justice graffiti in Cape Town, South Africa" by Ben Sutherland is licensed under CC
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Goldsmiths Sociology @sociology-gold.bsky.social Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London
Kumar Ramanathan @kumar.fyi Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study the politics of law, public policy, and cities in the United States. All views are my own. Timeline may include stray 🎬/🏀 content. More at www.kumar.fyi.
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen @swethaa.bsky.social They / Them | Professor + Assoc. Dean for Research @ UCI Law
Interdisciplinary research on Legal Profession, Alterities, Queers, Souths | See - https://swethaa.com/publications
Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social Sociologist at Loyola University Chicago
Amy Widman @awidman.bsky.social Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law (Rutgers), American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Scholar - access to justice, administrative law, state and local government, legal education
American Bar Foundation @abfresearch.bsky.social The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is a sociolegal research institute. We conduct rigorous, empirical research that explores the intersection of law and society—creating insights that underpin today’s most pressing issues.
Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on housing and community development policy. Vincent Reina is the current Editor in Chief.
Vincent Yung @vincentyung.bsky.social http://vincent-yung.github.io
Wenfei Xu @wenfeixu.bsky.social Assistant professor at UCSB Geography. I also direct the Urban Data Research Lab. I work on urban data science, housing, segregation, and redlining.
http://urbandataresearchlab.org
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Michele Lamont @mlamont.bsky.social Harvard social scientist, author of #SeeingOthers #GettingRespect #DignityofWorkingMen and more.
Curious mind, mother, friend, mentor, professor, sociologist
www.michelelamont.org
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Meaghan Stiman @mstiman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. Author of Privileging Place (Princeton 2024). Scholar of community, democracy, and housing.
Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social Ethnographer. Sociologist. Studies gentrification, sexualities, gender, culture, and place.
Rachel McKane @raymckane.bsky.social 
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org Connecting you with America’s top scholars to improve policy and strengthen democracy. Scholars' views are their own. Learn more at https://scholars.org/. 
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
David M. P. Freund @mpeterf.bsky.social Historian, author of COLORED PROPERTY, and grateful for Richard Scarry books. Money is credit and a creature of law.
TMShapiro.bsky.social @tmshap.bsky.social Douglass, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
Sociologist. Advocate. Race and Wealth
Toxic Inequality;
Hidden Cost of Being African-American;
Black Wealth/White Wealth (w/ Melvin Oliver)
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social Raised on Chicago's South Side. My research has appeared in The Atlantic, 538, The Guardian, KSL, NYT, NPR, Split Ticket, Salt Lake Tribune & Supreme Court cases.
Rashawn Ray @sociologistray.bsky.social VP at AIR • Senior Fellow at Brookings • Sociology Professor at UMD • Articles in WaPo, NYT, Politico, The Hill, Guardian
https://linktr.ee/SociologistRay
Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social Sociologist. Director, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. Michigan forever.
Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. An @asanews.bsky.social journal.
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social sociology prof @Tufts and Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social Urban Affairs Review is a peer-reviewed journal of urban politics and policy. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/
Check out our podcast, UAR Remixed, for interdisciplinary conversations about all things urban. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixe
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Theresa Rocha Beardall 🍓 @trochabeardall.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington
J.D. @UIllinoisLaw and Ph.D. @CornellSoc
Mexican/Native Mamá 💜
Scholar of race, law, inequality, indigeneity, policing, and family policing.
#LandBack
www.TheresaRochaBeardall.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Emma Walters @emmawalters.bsky.social PhD student at UIUC | Housing, shrinkage, urban decline | Champaign by way of Boston by way of Maine | Queer | she/her/hers
Sophia Wedeen @sophiawedeen.bsky.social Researcher at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (rental housing, affordability, home repairs). Personal interests include art, lego, cities, and losing to chess bots
Carlos Martín @carlosonhousing.bsky.social All roads lead to home, inc climate paths.
Mine from Jalostotitlán to El Cerrito to DC.
Now VP for Research & Policy @RFF.org
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
Lauren Heberle @laurenheberle.bsky.social Sociologist and professional question asker. Chair of UofL Sociology. Housing and Environmental Policy and Justice. Mom to two trans young adults. Also known as Carola Carl, member of Angry Carl. I block if you bug me.
AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Charles Miller, PhD @chamiller1989.bsky.social urban studies and sociology professor | #NOLA | co-host of Pelican Briefs podcast 👨🏻💻🌆🎙️📰
https://linktr.ee/lapelicanbriefs?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=689d20ee-c9eb-4e3e-b419-05fa521d5fd5
kasey henricks @kaseyhenricks.bsky.social Tumble out of bed, stumble to the kitchen.
Pour myself a cup of ambition. ~ Aunt Dolly
michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Wilmari Jamil Richardson (She/They) @decolonialblack.com PhD Candidate @ Northwestern studying urban settler colonialism, spatial claims, and Black-Native solidarity. Also writing decolonial sci-fi and fantasy novels. Autistic/Girlie Pop/Disabled/Long Covider
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Edited by David Grazian with managed editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social UBC sociologist, demographer, housing & urban regulation scholar, author, immigrant, blogs at https://homefreesociology.com/
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
Chris Smith @cmsmithsoc.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto | researches gender, crime, cities, violence, and networks | she/her first gen 🏳️🌈
http://chrismsmithsociology.wordpress.com
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social Housing and long-term care researcher at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, urban hiker, fiction and poetry reader, parent to two wild and woolies, cat video watcher
Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
Jesse M. Keenan @jessemkeenan.com Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, Tulane University https://jessemkeenan.com/
North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/north-9780197641613
Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social Attorney. Educator. Activist. (he/him)
Interested in the intersection of space, place, and the law with democratic accountability and economic inequality.
Opinions are at best my own and not my employer.
https://www.justinlamort.com/
Andrea Leverentz @amlevere.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, owl target.
Books:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/intersecting-lives/paper
https://nyupress.org/9781479862726/beyond-recidivism/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-ex-prisoners-dilemma/9780813562278/
Katrin Anacker @katrinanacker.bsky.social Professing U.S. housing policy and suburbs. Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Urban Affairs. Author of "Housing in the United States: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024). Arlington, VA.
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Austin (A.T.) Harrison @at-harrison.bsky.social Scholar. Organizer. Urban Studies Prof. Houser.
https://www.atharrison.com/
Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
David Luberoff @dluberoff.bsky.social Director of Fellowships and Events, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Elizabeth Branch Dyson @ebranchdyson.bsky.social Assistant Editorial Director and Executive Editor for sociology, education, and jazz studies at the University of Chicago Press. BlueSky modus: Leading by Following.
Rebecca Elliott @rfelliott.bsky.social Sociologist at the LSE. Research on climate, insurance, risk, loss, disaster, adaptation. Editor, British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social. Co-organizer, Social Life of Climate Change @slcc-lse.bsky.social.
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social Senior reporter at Injustice Watch. Citizen of Flavortown. Chicago Reader alum. Send your courts tips.
Headshot: Varvara Mikushkina
Cover photo: Brian Cassella
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social Sociologist @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @NorthwesternU alum. Author #CitizenOutsider @ucpress.bsky.social. AE @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Research on race/racism/France & US. Yoga lover & sarcasm expert 
Jennifer Garfield-Abrams @jlgarfieldabrams.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @SuffolkUniversity. PhD @UMassAmherst. @HWSColleges Alum. Baltimorean. Qualitative Researcher & Educator. Cities, Culture, Politics, & Identity.
Website: https://www.jenniferlgarfieldabrams.com
Jared Colston @jaredcolston.bsky.social Lead Data Scientist @SSTARLab. Ph.D. from @UW-Madison in Higher Ed Policy & Eval. Geography of ed. opportunity and impact of colleges on their local economies/communities. Opinions my own.
Jan Üblacker @januebl.bsky.social Sociologist interested in neighborhood change, housing, gentrification & digitalization | Professor for Human-Context Interaction @THWS | Cologne / Würzburg | www.janueblacker.com
Kasey Zapatka @kaseyzapatka.bsky.social Postdoc at @UCBerkeley and @UCBDisplacement. Sociologist, urbanist, quant researcher, and housing affordability enthusiast. PhD from @cunygcsociology.
Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social We advocate for housing abundance and sustainable, inclusive cities in Illinois.
🏙️ https://abundanthousingillinois.org
John Joe Schlichtman @jjschlichtman.bsky.social getting in where I fit in when it comes to just community development | GENTRIFIER ('17) | SHOWROOM CITY ('22) | Grinding on new book (~26-7) | DePaul University prof | http://urbanistchronicle.com/books/
W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com