Baris Cayli Messina

Thrilled and deeply honoured to receive Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award. My sincere thanks to the jury for their generosity and recognition. And congratulations to Peter Katzenstein for the jury award; his speech was powerful, sharp, and truly memorable. #AcademicSky

“New York City, as photographed by Baldwin Lee in the latter half of the 1970s, looks as immemorially still as cities do in photographs made over a century earlier.” —Joel Smit

🖤🏳️‍🌈 Black History Month: #HonouringOurCommunities Ted Brown helped organise the UK’s first official Pride march in 1972. He later co-founded Black Lesbians and Gays Against Media Homophobia A pioneer whose fight against racism & homophobia helped change history #BlackHistoryMonth

Wonderful news! My article, “Caged Citizenship: How States Erase Queer Public Life,” has been accepted by the European Journal of Sociology! Drawing on data from 193 countries, I examine how millions of queer people can retain legal rights while losing the freedom to exercise them. More soon!

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"The puzzle is how populations come to desire the destruction of the common world and experience that destruction as freedom." More food for thought. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A state that can't provide teachers but deploys police reveals where its priorities lie. My new sociological analysis in Social Europe, published as nationwide protests grip France today, examines the crisis of state power and democratic legitimacy. www.socialeurope.eu/frances-stud... #AcademicSky

A state that can't provide teachers but deploys police reveals where its priorities lie. My new sociological analysis in Social Europe, published as nationwide protests grip France today, examines the crisis of state power and democratic legitimacy. www.socialeurope.eu/frances-stud... #AcademicSky

Delighted to see the final cover of Queer Under Siege, out May 2027 with Temple University Press. Its bold colours and protest image evoke queer repression and resistance since the 1950s to struggles for freedom today. Thank you, Temple UP!

It’s very good to see that the hard right, racist backlash against inclusive policies that began in the wake of Macpherson report & became hysterical after BLM, isn’t working. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My latest blog post: "The Cornell Group Chat & the Code of Silence" jeffreyianross.com/the-cornell-... #bystanderapathy #codeofsilence #crime #criminology #criminaljustice #sexualassault

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

This weekend, the University of North Texas removed the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive. We are proud to host the Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project by Nancy Lee Marquis. These oral histories are also housed at UNT. Explore the exhibit on OutHistory: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

The Autocrat’s Playbook is now available for pre-order from University of California Press. Out March 2027. 📚 Use promo code UCPSAVE30 at checkout for 30% discount. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-au...

New article: My new #openaccess article in Cultural Sociology traces how authoritarian power evolves and shows how #democracy can be hollowed out by actors who capture institutions, flood the public sphere, and weaken our capacity to act together. #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A wonderful new endorsement for The Autocrat’s Playbook from David Cunningham: “A counter-playbook for alarmingly autocratic times.” Very grateful for his generous reading of the book. Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in 2027.

My university just published a piece on my LETTERS TO A YOUNG CRIMINOLOGIST. The book answers questions about what criminologists actually do beyond the classroom and why it matters. www.ubalt.edu/about/newsro... #book #criminology #criminologist #criminaljustice

My new article in Sociological Theory has been published now #OpenAccess. I argue that #authoritarian #politics thrives through hegemonic fragmentation by transforming resentment into belonging, enemies into political necessities, and cruelty into common sense. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Quoted in an article recently appearing in the NEW YORK SUN, www.nysun.com/article/for-... about lockup conditions in the Special Housing Unit of the Federal Detention Center at Miami, for Andrew and Tristan Tate, #corrections #incarceration #lockup #prison #prisonconditions

Delighted to have Ruth Ben-Ghiat's blurb for the Autocrat's Playbook. I have long admired her scholarship and writing, so her words mean a great deal to me.

My latest blog post, "Street Culture, Book by Book" jeffreyianross.com/street-cultu... #books #scholarship #streetculture #streetlife #urbanlife

Rage and remembrance: “Remembering is a political act. To forget would be a second murder.” Through conversations with citizens and a tour of public memorials, @bariscaylimessina.com explores how commemorations of Sicily’s mafia victims expose a wound that has never healed. buff.ly/Fm2QZDI

Recently published review of my book, INTRODUCTION TO CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY (2024), by Jim Thomas, Ph.D jeffreyianross.com/wp-content/u... appeared online in CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW #bookreview #convictcriminology #corrections #prisons

UC Press recently shared this generous endorsement from Didier Fassin whose research has long been a major intellectual inspiration for me, so this means a great deal. Out in March 2027 with @ucpress.bsky.social #TheAutocrat'sPlaybook #BookSky #Authoritarianism #NewBook

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Full article: How does political competition persist in dominant party systems? A case study of contained pluralism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to share that I've recently joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology, of the British Sociological Association. I look forward to supporting constructive feedback and reading exciting new work in the field. Please send your best work our way. journals.sagepub.com/home/CUS

Universities are indispensable to reproduce democracy, society and all kinds of other jobs. So if they are showing up as costs on your balance sheet but not as essential capacities, get a different balance sheet approach

My latest blog post, “Eleven Films I use in my Criminology and Criminal Justice Classes” jeffreyianross.com/eleven-films... #criminology #criminaljustice #films #instruction #movies #pedagogy #PhDLife #teaching #universitypedagogy

My editor has just shared the cover of my forthcoming book, The Autocrat's Playbook: How Authoritarians Weaponize Morality to Destroy Societies @ucpress.bsky.social (April 2027) l really liked the cover. The striking typography and crowd imagery capture the book's central argument well! #NewBook

My editor has just shared the cover of my forthcoming book, The Autocrat's Playbook: How Authoritarians Weaponize Morality to Destroy Societies @ucpress.bsky.social (April 2027) l really liked the cover. The striking typography and crowd imagery capture the book's central argument well! #NewBook

The final copy of A Slow Revolution from @cornellupress.bsky.social has arrived. The next 30 days I will be spending on the most meticulous stage of the proces as I will be checking every word and punctuation mark second time. One final push before the book meets its readers hopefully. #AcademicSky

#OnThisDay, 90 years ago, the Popular Front took office in France. Formed after the failed far-right coup attempt of February 1934, the coalition of Socialists, Communists, and the Radical Party emerged from growing demands for left-wing unity against fascism.

Our lives. Our families. Our futures. The LGBTQ community has always fought for our right to exist freely. This Pride Month and every other month of the year, we’re protesting the government’s attacks on our rights and celebrating our queer joy.

As a gay academic, #PrideMonth has a personal meaning for me. I stand with queer scholars worldwide whose honesty can still cost them safety, freedom, or careers. Pride means solidarity, memory, and courage. It exists because #queer people before us rebelled and refused to disappear. #LoveisLove

”It’s a damning reflection of the UK's slide away from being a world leader on LGBTQIA+ rights." From 1st to 22nd in just ten years, the UK drops again in ranking of LGBTQIA+ rights 👇

Rage and remembrance: “Remembering is a political act. To forget would be a second murder.” Through conversations with citizens and a tour of public memorials, @bariscaylimessina.com explores how commemorations of Sicily’s mafia victims expose a wound that has never healed. buff.ly/Fm2QZDI

My latest blog post, “Two Sundays in a Row,” jeffreyianross.com/two-sundays-... #Instruction #JapaneseFood #JapaneseCuisine #Washoku #SkillAcquisition #Instruction

After more than a decade of research, it is moving to see A Slow Revolution read, reviewed, and endorsed by scholars whose work I have long admired. Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 6 months and can't wait to see the book cover. #AcademicSky #BookSky www.waterstones.com/book/a-slow-...

How do colonial histories continue to shape the modern world? Join us next Wednesday 27 May for a free online discussion exploring colonialism, capitalism and sociology today. 📅 27 May ⏰ 6:30–8pm BST 💻 Zoom Free to attend — spaces limited. Register here: buff.ly/7reEMGi

Nearly 700 sociologists have pledged to boycott this year's ASA meeting in a fight for a democratic sociology. Join the boycott, and share (DM or email video) with us why you plan to #BoycottASA Read #BoycottASA FAQ: www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/faqs

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

After more than a decade of research, it is moving to see A Slow Revolution read, reviewed, and endorsed by scholars whose work I have long admired. Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 6 months and can't wait to see the book cover. #AcademicSky #BookSky www.waterstones.com/book/a-slow-...

Net immigration drops to lowest level since 2012. Bad news for Nigel Farage and chums who will soon be in search of another moral panic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Wonderful news to wake up to this morning as my paper “The Consent to Destroy: Imperial Melancholia and the Hegemony of Fragmentation” has been accepted by Sociological Theory. It also reminds me why 15,000-word limit like in #SociologicalTheory still matters for theory-driven work. #AcademicSky

#Sociology is hugely relevant and it is primary discipline to understand a world changing at brutal speed. But the discipline has softened its public voice out of fear of being labelled activist rather than scientific. Meanwhile, philosophers occupy spaces once shaped by sociologists. #AcademicSky

Join us in the May issue of The Sociological Review magazine as we explore the world, revisit the past and walk in each other’s shoes. We meet young people in India, mafia resisters in Italy, Black mothers of autistic children, and explore the work of sociologists in Ukraine. buff.ly/IvAo1Fb

Proof that sociologists occasionally leave the writing, pause the marking, and see daylight while trying to pose.