Awards and Honors
In academic year 2018-2019, Mabel was a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced study at Princeton.
Publications
Select Publications:
2023 "Does the Fascism Debate Matter for Understanding 2024 American Politics?" The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
2020 “The Absence of the Ordinary in 2020 Presidential Politics: What Politicians Communicate.” Sociological Forum: June 2020, Vol 35, pp. 830-838.
2020 “Culture in Politics and Politics in Culture: Institutions, Practices and Boundaires.” Pp. 102-31 in The New Handbook of Political Sociology, eds. Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac William Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Co-authored with Emily Sandusky and Thomas Davidson].
2019 Fascism and Populism: Are They Useful Categories for Comparative Sociological Analysis? Annual Review of Sociology: July 2019, Vol 45, pp. 345-361.
Media:
2024 Elon Musk Endorses Far-Right Party Amidst German Political Turmoil, the Pinnacle Gazette
2021 Political Ineptitude Tempered Trump’s Fascist Behavior, Article in The Nation, Link to PDF here.
2016 “It’s time to admit it: We’re all afraid of terrorism” Comment on attacks in Nice and political emotion published in Salon.
Select Recent talks:
2024 How French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen used populism to fuel his far-right agenda, NPR Here & Now interview
2023 Global Forum Latin America and the Caribbean. Union League Club, New York, NY. "Perspectives Geopolitics and Global Economics." Comparative apanel: Europe (September 21).
2023 Roundtable. The January 6, 2025 Project. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. (September 1).
2023 Roundtable. Historical Origins of Democratic Crisis. 29th International Conference of Europeanists, Council of European Studies, Reykjavik, Iceland. (June 28).
Panelist. “The 2020 Election: A Cultural Post-Mortem”
Culture and Contemporary Life Series, hosted by the Sociology of Culture Section of American Sociological Association (December 2020). Click here to watch.
Plenary Session. “The Rise of National Populism in the West: Causes and Consequences.”
Invited Session. Missing Voices, Missing Issues in the 2020 Election, “The Absence of the Ordinary.”
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (February 28, 2020)
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