Charles Seguin
  • Charles Seguin
I am an associate professor of sociology at Penn State studying culture, politics, and violence. 

I have a project on the politics of lynching in the US from 1880-1930, as well as lines of research on social movements, cultural change, and international politics.   

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Publications


Seguin, Charles and Sabrina Nardin 2022. “The Lynching of Italians and the Rise of Antilynching Politics in the United States.” Social Science History

Rigby, David and Charles Seguin 2021. “Capital Punishment and the Legacies of Slavery and Lynching in the United States.” The Annals of the American              Academy of Political and Social Science 

Seguin, Charles, Chris Julien, and Yongjun Zhang 2021. “The stability of androgynous names: Dynamics of gendered naming practices in the United States            1880–2016.” Poetics

Gorman, Brandon and Charles Seguin. 2020.  "Who Supports Global Cooperation? Cooperative Internationalism at the Intersection of Social Class and                  Economic Development" Sociological Science

Maher, Thomas V., Charles Seguin, Yongjun Zhang, and Andrew Davis. 2020. "Social scientists’ testimony before Congress in the United States between              1946-2016, trends from a new dataset" PLOS ONE

Seguin, Charles and David Rigby 2019. "National Crimes: A New National Data set of Lynchings in the United States, 1883-1941" Socius: Sociological                Research for a Dynamic World

Gorman, Brandon and 
Charles Seguin. 2018.  "World Citizens on the Periphery: Threat and Identification with Global Society" American Journal of                     Sociology
  •      Outstanding Published Article Award, ASA Section on Alturism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
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Rigby, David and Charles Seguin  2018. "The Racial Position of European Immigrants 1883-1941: Evidence From Lynching in the Midwest" Social Currents

​Seguin, Charles, Annete Nierobisz, and Karen Kozlowski 2017. "Teaching Racial Segregation with the Racial Dot Map" Teaching Sociology
 

Seguin, Charles 2016. "Cascades of Coverage: Positive Feedback in Media Attention to Social Movement Organizations." Social Forces 
  •      Clifford C. Clogg Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, ASA Methodology Section
  •      Best Graduate Student Paper, ASA Political Sociology Section
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Andrews, Kenneth and Charles Seguin 2015. “Group Threat and Policy Change: The Spatial Dynamics of Prohibition Politics, 1890-1919.” American                   Journal of Sociology 121 (2): 475–510

Gorman, Brandon and Charles Seguin. 2015. "Reporting the International System: Attention to Foreign Leaders in the US News Media, 1950-2008" Social           Forces 94 (2): 775-799 ​


Other Writing

Gorman, Brandon and Charles Seguin 2019. "What Conservatives Get Wrong About Cosmopolitans" The Washington Post (Monkey Cage) 
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Seguin, Charles 2018. "When Northern Newspapers Justified Lynching" The New York Times

Seguin, Charles 2017. "A Nail Gun or a Machine Gun? Will Big Data Tools Radically Reshape Historical Sociology?" Trajectories: Newsletter of the ASA
     Comparative Historical Section. 


Seguin, Charles 2015. "Media Bias, Media Endogeniety" Mobilizing Ideas
Data

Social Scientist Testimony Before Congress 

​National Lynching Dataset 1883-1941

Lynching Dot Map: One Dot For Every Lynching Victim in the US 

New York Times Articles on Foreign Leaders 1950-2008 (see Gorman and Seguin 2015 for details)