New on the @g_unpackedpod Substack: “Beyond the Gun Show Loophole: Why the Most Sought-After Good at Gun Shows Isn’t For Sale” This piece features guest contributor Callie Cleckner, a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the BRIDGS Initiative. This ethnographic and interview-based research will be featured in her book, tentatively titled Behind the Booth: Gun Shows and the Politics of Inclusion. Read the new piece on Substack: gunsunpackedpod.substack.com…

Applications are open for the BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Fellowship 2027 cohort! bridgs.asu.edu/bridgs-fellow…

The Call for Papers for our third annual Guns in Society Symposium is now available! We hope you can join us in Phoenix for this one-of-a-kind gathering of interdisciplinary gun studies scholars. Learn more & submit: bridgs.asu.edu/symposium

We can't wait to see everyone today! Paid parking options can be found here: cfo.asu.edu/daily-and-hourly Apache Blvd. is the closest to the Memorial Union.

Congratulations to 2024 BRIDGS Initiative Emergent Scholar Fellows Justin Sola and Mary S. Lee on their new publication, "The disaster of their dreams: sheepdogs and restive U.S. gun ownership". Read the full paper in Socials Problems: academic.oup.com/socpro/adva…

BRIDGS provides a one-of-a-kind experience to connect undergraduate researchers with experts across the nation. The BRIDGS community is vast and a welcoming space for all. #undergraduateresearch #academic #elevatethedebate

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Monte-Angel Richardson on being selected for the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University faculty fellowship program!

✨Kinda chic✨💁‍♀️💅 to keep up with @asubridgs! Give us a follow, catch up on @g_unpackedpod, and check out the link in our bio for info on our upcoming events aiming to elevate the gun debate! #elevatethedebate #research #academic

At BRIDGS, we prioritize harm reductions above political binaries. #ElevateTheDebate #research #academic

Join the BRIDGS Initiative for “Beautifully Broken”: A Film and Conversation about Surviving Suicide Loss 📍Arizona State University, Tempe Campus in the Memorial Union, 085 Union Stage 🗓️ September 23rd, 2026 4:00-6:00pm Free registration required: lnkd.in/gU6BX9nq

You 🫵 have the power to elevate the debate. Listen in👂on how Dr. Carlson hopes BRIDGS will shift the conversation around g_ns in society. #ElevateTheDebate #academic #research

Our BRIDGS Initiative Director Dr. Jennifer Carlson joins the American Bar Foundation Visiting Scholar community!

A BRIDGS State of Mind 🗽🌃

Meet 2026 BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Jared Weissman! 👋 Jared Weissman is a PhD candidate at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is currently writing a dissertation that focuses on the topic of gun culture tourism in the city of Las Vegas and how it is informed by and influences the broader frame of American gun culture. As a BRIDGS fellow Jared workshopped his dissertation proposal that brought together literature on American gun culture, social theory, and proposed a mixed qualitative methods approach to study gun culture tourism in Las Vegas. Jared notes that from the experience, “I received feedback that both pushed me to further flesh out my methods and clarify what populations I sought to study, but also reinforcement that my research is meaningful and encouragement to continue writing.”

BRIDGS welcomes all to join the conversation and contribute to elevating the debate on g_ns. Listen to our director Dr. Jennifer Carlson on ways you can elevate the debate.

Meet 2026 BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Armin Sauermann! 👋 Armin Sauermann is a PhD student in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis whose research focuses on gun culture, political identity, and the citizen-state relationship. His dissertation explores what gun ownership among liberal Americans reveals about how citizens understand their relationship to state power and protection. As a Fellow, Armin workshopped a paper showing that embeddedness in gun-owning social networks is the strongest predictor of gun ownership, while perceived threat plays a surprisingly minor role. "BRIDGS was the first time I was in a room full of people who found this work as exciting as I do, and that kind of validation is an enormous motivational boost."