Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, studying cities and culture.
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/matt-patterson
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Check out our new paper in American Sociological Review: "Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns" The paper is based on research we've done on efforts to preserve and protect historic Chinatowns in Canada and the United States
doi.org/10.1177/0003...
Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community’s shared identity, potentially generating feelings of solidarity ...
My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply:
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The average American has three friends
NGL it’s pretty crazy to hear Al Gore quote Adorno and reference Habermas (though he uses the past tense as if he’s dead)
Our department is hiring!
Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.
While we look back nostalgically at the formal fashion of the 1920s, the people back then were dreaming of the day it would be socially acceptable to wear pajamas to work.
Check out this new tenure-track sociology job in Calgary: mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...
