Tony Cheng
@tonykcheng
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University PhD Yale Sociology; JD NYU Law https://t.co/0O6B7JBO0M
Joined August 2018
So grateful to @UChicagoPress/@ebranchdyson for this book cover! The Policing Machine is about how police resist institutional reforms by cultivating political capital from the community constituents they empower Here are 3 reasons why the cover captures the book’s arg so well:
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Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations" https://t.co/nnQ7sorBJQ
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I was pleased to review @tonykcheng's illuminating & excellent book The Policing Machine in the American Journal of Sociology. The book shows how the NYPD marshals particular forms of community input to manufacture support and resist reform. https://t.co/wxAmr48rPh
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Come join our book party! We’ll share behind-the-scenes stories of struggle and triumph, demystify the publishing process, and create a space for mutual support and solidarity. Writing and publishing a first book is never just about research—it’s also about navigating
Working with @YanLong_SOC, @yingyao_wang822 and 10+ Asian American sociologists to celebrate the publication of our first books during 2025 ASA (8/11 at 12pm near ASA). Any ASA attendees are welcome and we provide lunch! Please RSVP: https://t.co/IKDafwBT2r
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🚨New Pub in Theoretical Criminology. Some welcomed news amidst the fire crisis in LA and a reminder to be continuously grateful for the privilege of living and doing what I love. https://t.co/keBLrPc1iQ
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Incredibly generous and insightful review of 3 new policing books by @tonykcheng @MichelleSPhelps and me, out now in @LSI_Journal. Special thanks to Daanika Gordon for taking such care with her read and write-up of our work.
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The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing - Volume 49 Issue 4
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Based on ethnographic research in two Brooklyn precincts, @tonykcheng's The Policing Machine @UChicagoPress shows how neighbourhood policing reinforces existing power structures & impedes meaningful police reform, writes @pascualcortes in his #review. 👉 https://t.co/ODl2fHQ3uK
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NEW✨ The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input by @tonykcheng (@DukeU) @UChicagoPress. #Review by @pascualcortes (@LSELaw) 👇
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I am so excited to announce our new... ➡️Society-Centered AI ⬅️initiative @DukeU -- details in the link below:
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Trinity College of Arts & Sciences has launched an initiative to spur innovative research on the co-evolution of artificial intelligence and human behavior: the Society-Centered AI Initiative at Duke.
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Excited that "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control" is finally out with an *issue number* @The_JOP! 🙂 Access the article here: https://t.co/SzfwrK1WLy + thread on the paper/argument below.
🥳🚨 Excited to share my paper, "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control," cond. accepted at the @The_JOP! (paper: https://t.co/P99lPhkwaA) I ask:❓How does rebel governance affect political development when rebel parties win power? 🧵 1/4
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New working paper using experimental + qualitative methods to understand the demand for police alternatives https://t.co/BOMhwmIzFg
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Applications are due September 15th for Duke's Assistant Professor Position in Sociology. Apply here:
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Be my colleague @DukeSanford! In addition to the search @DeondraRose shared, we're also hiring for an assistant prof in criminal justice policy (open to discipline): https://t.co/todtFZLq0l If you're heading to #APSA2024 and have any questions about either search, come find me!
🗣️📝 Big news! The @DukeSanford School is hiring an asst. or assoc. professor for the Teddie & Tony Brown Chair in Public Policy. Looking for a scholar of political science and public policy w/ a broad focus on democracy and/or leadership. Apply here!:
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Congratulations to Trinity’s 2024 @NSF Early Career Award recipients, @tonykcheng from @Duke_Sociology, and Jean Philippe Gibert @GibertLab and Masayuki Onishi @onishilab from @DukeBiology! @DukeFacultyAdv @DukeU @dukeresearch
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Duke is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology this fall as well as a professor of the practice-- I'd love to see some great young computational social scientists apply! https://t.co/aIxClKzRsC &
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Extremely excited and grateful to have received a @NSF Career award for my next project on "The Pseudo-State Entities of Street-Level Bureaucrats" https://t.co/g8KHA6oh1E
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📢New Paper📢 After the summer of 2020, news outlets widely reported that cops were quitting in droves and that George Floyd-related activism was a main cause. But we don’t know what really happened without national data. [1]
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🚨 Upcoming Event | "The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input" Join @tonykcheng, in discussion with @KoehlerJA (@LSESocialPolicy), at this @mannheimcrim & @LSE_US event ⤵️ https://t.co/VrNy1iOokE 🗓️ Tues 21 May ⏰ 6:30-8:00pm
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