hi, it’s jordan! 🖤⚫️◼️
❄️☃️☀️🍾🏙️ happy december! 🌃🌟☕️⛄️❄️
we have a few announcements 📢:
marginalia science will be at SPSP2024! we will be hosting a community building event at this year’s conference (2.8.24 at 8PM). if you’re going to be in san diego, please stop by. we need a headcount to make sure we have enough room in the space, so please rsvp here if you plan on attending!
marginalia science is now on bluesky. give us a follow! we will no longer be posting on twitter/x
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now, for the main event: i’m excited to introduce our next featured guest editor, and last for this calendar year, Ricky Granderson!
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about me
I’m currently living in Brooklyn, NY as a 4th year Ph.D. student in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Basic and Applied Social Psychology program. Past lives include, but are not limited to:
A pitstop in Bloomington, IN pursuing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Indiana University
A two-year stint in Ann Arbor, MI obtaining an M.P.H. in Health Behavior and Health Education
Coming of age in Boston while working as a Genius at the Cambridgeside Apple Store (don’t know I’ll love another job the way I loved that one)
5 months in Amsterdam - biking, loving, partying, and researching
Hiking up and down the hills of Ithaca, NY trying to balance my lives as a full-time sociology undergraduate student, a full-time Starbucks barista, and a certified party boy.
My current research brings my training in sociology, public health, and psychology to bear on exploring the boundaries of acceptable intimate touch behaviors within men’s homosocial friendships—as well as the cues, rewards, and punishments driving these experiences of platonic physical touch. This work is part of a broader research agenda investigating intimate homosocial friendship as a mechanism by which contemporary men can build community and pro-socially adapt to the rapid changes in status, power, behavioral norms, and understandings of men/masculinity; changes many currently seem to be struggling to adapt to.
In addition to completing my Ph.D. so I can get on with my life, I’m excited about building community between men via projects like Book Brothers, my all-male book club where we read books exploring men and masculinities. I also find myself thinking deeply about ways to use art to make academic scholarship more legible, resonant, and appealing to lay audiences - I have tons of ideas on this front and would love to hear from anyone similarly interested in this intersection.
📺 watching 👀
The Fall of the New England Patriots. a weekly NFL horror series where we watch the elongated death rattle of one of the greatest dynasties in sports history 🥲
Game of Thrones. a decade of resistance ultimately overcome by my love for my partner.
The Killer. an assassin (Michael Fassbender) botches a job and somehow finds his humanity along the way. Tight (< 2 hours), well-done film available to stream on Netflix but worthy of the theater experience if you can find a screening.
📚 reading 🤓
I recently finished Tyranny Inc by Sohrab Ahmari. While I disagree with Sohrab on most things, I found myself nodding all the way through this powerful critique of modern capitalism by the conservative firebrand.
I keep picking up Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman as I think about the importance of institutions, traditions, and community in my life, my work, and our world. I’m hoping to get past the foreword real soon! 😅
Always thinking about The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks. We read it recently in my book club and I’m grabbing a couple of copies as Christmas gifts for a few of the men in my life who need to read more broadly and need this message specifically.
🌸 self-care 🍁
Eating my way through Boston with my partner has been great. We’ve taken two trips to the city over the past couple of months and keep finding new spots to bond over good food. If you’re in the area and need a great bite: Mooncuser, Pammy’s, Oleana, Cicada, Blossom Bar, Sofra Bakery & Cafe, and the Ivory Pearl are worth checking out. Be sure to grab a pack of english muffins from Vinal Bakery as a souvenir.
Soaking in the backyard hot tub that I somehow lucked my way into. Who finds an apartment in NYC with private tub access as a graduate student?! Blessed 🙏🏾
👂 listening 🎧
times by SG Lewis is a modern disco classic and I *will* die on this hill.
Iteration by Com Truise it hits like electronic jazz and I just keep coming back for more and more.
💻 some papers i’m (trying!) to read this month👇
A metasynthesis exploring the role of masculinities in close male friendships.
Vierra, Kristin D. Beltran, Diana R. Robnett, Rachael D. | Psychology of Men & Masculinities (2023)Original and cumulative prospect theory: a discussion of empirical differences
Hein Fennema, Peter Wakker | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (1997)
THIS MONTH’S ROUND-UP 🤩
💎 awesome work by marginalia and affiliated scientists or on relevant topics (also available on our website) 💎
Seeing and understanding epistemic actions
Sholei Croom, Hanbzei Zhou, and Chaz Firestone | PNAS (2023)Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
Nicole Boivin, Susanne Täuber, Ulrike Beisiegel, Ursula Keller & Janet G. Hering | nature reviews materials (2023)
👓 OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU 🚀
rapoport dissertation grants: supporting projects for PhD students doing political research on political behavior
SPSSI's dalmas a. taylor memorial summer minority policy fellowship
🌱 JOB-MARKET RESOURCES 🌱
the department of bioethics and decision sciences at geisinger has open positions for empirical researchers in the decision sciences at all levels: faculty members, postdoctoral fellow, & predoctoral fellow in behavioral science of ethics and decision-making
and, of course, feel free to email us with questions, ideas, etc to add to this list!
in support & science,
📚 MARGINALIA SCIENCE 📚
eliana hadjiandreou
ivy gilbert
jordan wylie
minjae kim