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Inside Aresults of the 2018 ASA Election Volume 46 • Number 3 2018 ASA Election Results SA is pleased to announce the the 2020 Program Committee elected leaders and their appre- inside Aresults of the 2018 ASA election. that will shape the ASA Annual ciation to all ASA members who Thank you to all the candidates Meeting program in San have served the Association by who generously volunteered their Francisco, August 8-11, 2020. running for office and voting in 2 COSSA 2018 Conference: service, and congratulations to the Members also elected four new this election. Advancing Science for new members of our leadership Council Members-at-Large: Kelly For the full results, see www. Federal Policy team. H. Chong (University of Kansas), asanet.org/election. Christine Williams, University of Wendy Leo Moore (Texas A&M President-Elect A Tribute to Stanley Texas-Austin, has been elected the University), Jennifer Reich 3 Lieberson, 82nd ASA 111th President of the American (University of Colorado Denver), One-year term Sociological Association. Joya and Sara Shostak (Brandeis as President- President Misra, University of Massachusetts- University). Also elected were Elect, one- Amherst, has been elected Vice four members of the Committee year term as 4 Congratulations to ASA’s President and Nancy López, on Committees, five members of President, MFP Cohort 45 University of New Mexico, was the Committee on Nominations, and one-year elected Secretary. and three members of the term as Past Professors Williams and Misra Committee on Publications President: ASA Working Group on Christine Williams 8 Harassment Takes Action will assume their respective In announcing the results of Christine offices in August 2019, following the election, Secretary David Williams, a year of service as President- Takeuchi and Executive Director University of Texas-Austin 8 Sexual Harassment elect and Vice President-elect Nancy Kidd extended their hearti- Training: Promises, (2018-2019). Williams will chair est congratulations to the newly Continued on Page 6 Pitfalls, and Future Directions Howery Teaching A Rip in 11 Enhancement Fund Announcing ASA’s Campaign to Winners Strengthen Inclusion in Sociology Philadelphia’s e are very pleased to announce sincerely hope members support 2018 Annual Meeting of Cosmopolitan 14 Wthat we have just completed these two worthwhile programs the American Council of a silent leadership phase of a new through our combined Campaign Canopy Learned Societies campaign to strengthen inclusion for Inclusion.” in sociology and ASA. Leadership Elijah Anderson, Yale University Minority Fellowship Program contributions have totaled Announcements ................................. 15 and Annual Meeting Travel lack people now inhabit all $365,000! ASA Council now invites Obituaries .............................................. 18 Fund Blevels of the Philadelphia class all sociologists to participate in this and occupational structure. They The Minority Fellowship Campaign for Inclusion which will attend the best schools, pursue the Program has a long and distin- support our longstanding Minority professions of their choosing, and guished history. Founded in 1974, Fellowship Program (MFP) and occupy various positions of power, this program has supported more a newly created Annual Meeting privilege, and prestige. But for than 500 scholars from diverse Travel Fund (AMTF). black people navigating the city’s backgrounds during their PhD President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva public spaces, in the shadows lurks studies, providing a stipend as well says: “The MFP has been instru- the specter of the urban ghetto. as mentoring and a cohort oppor- mental in helping students of color Stereotypes associated with the tunity. Past Fellows are now among complete their PhDs. This program iconic ghetto are always in the back- the leaders of our discipline. has been extremely successful and ground, shaping Philadelphians’ The Annual Meeting Travel Fund has helped diversify sociology. I conception of the anonymous black is new and was created in response fully anticipate that the AMTF will person as well as the circumstances to concerns expressed by members also help to diversify our discipline of blacks in all walks of life. in Town Halls over the past two for a variety of sociologists who That’s even when they’re in Center years. It will be used for the first may otherwise be constrained from City’s “cosmopolitan canopy,” typi- time in 2019. The fund is designed participation for financial reasons. cally an island of interracial civility to help sociologists who, for a The MFP and AMTF help make located in a sea of segregated living. sociology more inclusive, and I Continued on Page 7 Continued on Page 12 footnotes To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org COSSA 2018 Conference: Advancing Science for Federal Policy Julia Milton and Camille Hosman, information and analysis. Scientists COSSA must demonstrate to the public OSSA (Consortium of Social and policymakers why science CScience Associations) held its is deserving of scarce funding 2018 Science Policy Conference and resources and why it is trust- Social Science Advocacy Day on worthy. Current practices—lack April 30-May 1 in Washington, DC. of transparency, unwillingness to The conference and advocacy day share data, and strong incentives to brought together COSSA members publish notable findings but weak and other stakeholders for a day incentives to explain how those of discussion about federal policy discoveries emerged—threaten our Shirley Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Rhonda Davis, impacting social science followed by ability to make these arguments. Lupia argued that science needs to National Science Foundation, Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan, and Felice Levine, the only annual, coordinated advo- American Educational Research Association, at the COSSA plenary, “Me Too, Sexual Harass- incentivize better practices that will cacy day in support of all the social ment in Science and the Academy” and behavioral sciences. result in more transparency in order Plenary panels included “Post to earn or expand public trust. Advancing gender equity in higher sect with numerous other factors, Truth: Communicating Facts, Not Nosek shared survey data education means changing both such as religious ideology, demog- Fiction,” “Me Too, Sexual Harassment illustrating that scientists identify faculty and student culture and the raphy, and other values, all of which in Science and the Academy,” and lack of openness and transpar- standard methods of hiring staff and combine to create a fragmented set “Reestablishing Trust in Social ency as an issue for science, but promoting leadership. Davis provided of public audiences for information Science & Data.” The 2018 meet- they tend to view their colleagues the perspective of this culture change on scientific topics. Those seeking ing also featured topical breakout as “the problem” while seeing no from federal agencies, including an to communicate accurate scientific sessions relating to the theme “Why issues with their own behavior. He overview of the many steps NSF has information should try to tailor their Social Science?” on Enhancing discussed specific tools developed taken to eliminate sexual harassment messages to various subgroups in National Security, Combatting the by the Center for Open Science to in science and engineering over the order to effectively convey the infor- Opioid Epidemic, Responding to incentivize openness and transpar- years, including new award terms mation effectively. Natural Disasters, and Improving the ency, including badges to highlight and conditions and expanding NSF’s Green explained that her research Criminal Justice System. research that adheres to open prac- ability to review institutional Title focuses on how we process informa- tices, data repositories to facilitate IX violations and revoke funding if tion from stories and narratives and Reestablishing Trust in Social sharing, and conducting peer review necessary. Malcom added that frank how people understand the infor- Science and Data prior to data collection. Nosek discussion of what creates hostile mation they hear in fiction—partic- The day began with a session pointed out that the ecosystem of work environments is central to com- ularly popular entertainment. Green on Reestablishing Trust in Social science encompasses many insti- batting sexual harassment in science observed that correcting misinfor- Science and Data, featuring Rush tutions—universities, publishers, and higher education as well as in mation can be difficult—sometimes Holt, American Association for the funders, and societies—and each identifying how hostile work envi- repeating the myth to correct it can Advancement of Science (AAAS); needs to identify ways to improve ronments affect the number of people help spread the incorrect version. Arthur Lupia, University of their practices and foster a more who leave an institution or field, not Because we tend to understand Michigan; and Brian Nosek, Center open atmosphere. just those who stay. The panel agreed information better through stories for Open Science, and moderated Me Too, Sexual Harassment in that more research on the topic of than through detached facts, Green by Nancy Kidd, ASA Executive Science and in the Academy sexual harassment and misconduct is suggested that explaining why Director. Holt, speaking from needed and that symbolic compliance something is incorrect
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