SIMEON J. NEWMAN
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Hello,
 
I’m a political and comparative-historical sociologist with broad interests in social theory, political economy, and the philosophy of the social sciences. 

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My research represents an effort to revise theories of political domination in light of a keen sensitivity to change over time. I address questions of social processes and historical methodologies in my conceptual and epistemic work, and examine specific forms of authority and autonomization in my empirical work.

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In my book project, I show that the unprecedented wave of urban population growth and the proliferation of squatter settlements in 20th century Mexico City shaped politics in a non-linear pattern, initially helping to bolster the Institutional Revolutionary Party (which ruled the country for decades) and then helping to undermine it.
 
I earned my dual B.A. degree in Sociology and History from UC Berkeley (2011) and my M.A. (2014) and Ph.D. (2023) degrees from the University of Michigan. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg (2023-2024). I am now Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
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