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Brian Donovan's article "Baldness and Civilization: Alopecia and the Social Construction of Race in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" was published in the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities

Taylor Swift is 'in a class of her own right now' as Eras tour gives way to Eras movie

When was the last time you waited 20 minutes to buy a movie ticket? If you're a Taylor Swift fan, that would be today, as the mad dash began to attend her newly announced Eras tour concert film. Let's be frank. It's time to call 2023 what it is: the year Taylor Swift took over the world.

KU chancellor announces promotion and tenure for 163 faculty and researchers

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 64 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 99 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses.

An intrastate study-abroad trip visits the foreign land of Kansas

From the driver’s seat, southwest Kansas may appear foreign to those hailing from points east. A distinct lack of trees and vegetation starting around the Hays area and expanding westward into Colorado is obvious to all who dwell in forested areas. For KU professor Paul Stock, it’s a chance to…

Jarron St. Onge receives funding from the National Science Foundation, 2023-2025

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Taylor Swift and her fans are such a phenomenon, this KU professor is studying them

Earlier this month Brian Donovan, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas, made a TikTok to recruit people for his study of Taylor Swift fans. He couldn’t offer them money but promised “we’ll have a good conversation.”

Can’t ‘Shake It Off’? University of Kansas class will explore Taylor Swift’s popularity

Like many “Swifties,” University of Kansas sociology professor Brian Donovan first became a Taylor Swift fan in 2013, upon the release of her album “1989.”

Andrew Taeho Kim receives Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Andrew Taeho Kim’s research centers on the various fa

SOC 450 "Gender and Society" developed as a Research-Intensive Course

Assistant Teaching Professor Kelly Sharron has developed SOC 450 as a Research-Intensive Course with a mini grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research.

ChangHwan Kim co-authored "Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American Children's Success?"

Asian immigrants' children, even those from lower-backgrounds, t

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