Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota My blog: https://asocial.substack.com/https://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mmc3gyc5ys2hCool historical inequality work by Alfani. He also wrote a great book, As Gods Among Men. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215730/as-gods-among-men?srsltid=AfmBOop1mTnD3CNHbFNCJquRMnmfs7gFiNlH-WvsDtI4ZbcOzfQTz7GB [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmc3gyc5ys2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mlnmebirqs2iExcited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122426143318612 May 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnmebirqs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mlnmebirqs2iExcited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122426143318612 May 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnmebirqs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mjztbcfnas27Really excited to see this advance article by a great team of life course scholars at @amjsoc.bsky.social. A team from @umnsociology.bsky.social (and alum). Including Jeylan Mortimer and Xiaowen Han. Congrats! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/74146721 Apr 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjztbcfnas27https://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mi2ub5k6yk2hSo St. Paul (Ramsey County) needs to get a little more serious, I think. You'll notice it _ever so slightly_ sitting outside Minnesota's population trends.27 Mar 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2ub5k6yk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhilbyplds2n@startribune.com story - University of Minnesota spent 15 MILLION DOLLARS for a marketing firm to produce a terrible slogan: leave a future https://www.startribune.com/university-of-mn-slogan/601614661 The U's description is some of the lowest effort ChatGPT I've seen. Pretty embarrassing. https://umarcomm.umn.edu/blog/2026/03/09/brand-language-labs-beginning-integration-leave-future20 Mar 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhilbyplds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhe7iqkqyk2sGo to the University of Minnesota to leave your future, I guess. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe7iqkqyk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhdb7qwuck2eSome quick hitters at the blog today: https://asocial.substack.com/p/inequality-quick-hitters Including one heck of a devastating graph showing the consequences of the Great Recession for the bottom half of the American labor market18 Mar 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdb7qwuck2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mh26jmgois2aFYI Karen Luftey, a really great medical sociologist, has a substack, "I'm Not Gaslighting You." spencerk.substack.com https://spencerk.substack.com/14 Mar 2026 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh26jmgois2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mgu5k5bwfc2dOver at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings. * (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws * NAFTA kills * (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship https://open.substack.com/pub/asocial/p/inequality-readers-the-minimum?r=1vy4qo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Hope you find this interesting!12 Mar 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgu5k5bwfc2d