Eastern Sociological Society 2010 ESS Candidate Bios and Statements

Candidates for office were asked to supply biographical information about themselves and a brief statement about their goals and priorities if elected to office. ______(1990); “Recent Explorations in Sociological For President: Metatheorizing” Sociological Perspectives George Ritzer is Distinguished University (1991) and Metatheorizing . (1992). A number of Professor at the University of Maryland. He is his essays on theory and metatheory are to be currently the first Chair of the American found in his Explorations in Social Theory: Sociological Association’s Section-in-Formation From Metatheorizing to Rationalization (2001). on Global and Transnational and has Ritzer has authored several textbooks in theory previously chaired the ASA sections on including Sociological Theory 8th ed. Theoretical Sociology and Organizations and (forthcoming), Classical Sociological Theory 6th Occupations. Among his other awards are an ed. (forthcoming), Contemporary Sociological Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University, Theory and Its Classical Roots 3rd ed. He has Melbourne, Australia; UNESCO Chair in Social also edited a number of works in theory Theory, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fellow- including Frontiers of Social Theory: The New in-Residence, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Syntheses . NY: Columbia University Press Study in the Social Sciences; Fellow-in- (1990), Blackwell Companion to Major Social Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Theorists (2000; 2 nd ed. forthcoming), Study; Honorary Patron, University Handbook of Social Theory (co-edited with Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin; Barry Smart) (2001), and Encyclopedia of Social Honorary Fellow, EuroMed; Lady Davis Theory (2 vols.; 2005). Fellowship, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; a Fulbright to the Netherlands as well as the first A more recent interest is the sociology of Fulbright Chair at York University, . consumption. Ritzer was founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture . He has written a Ritzer has been honored on several occasions for number of articles on consumption and some of his abilities as a teacher. In recognition, in part, the earlier ones are to be found in his for his teaching he has been named both a Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and a Fast Food Restaurants, Cards and Casinos Distinguished University Professor at the (2001). University of Maryland. In 2000 he was awarded the American Sociological Association’s Consumption is also of focal concern in a series Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award of books that are best seen as applications of social theory to the social world. These include Ritzer’s work and publications have evolved and The McDonaldization of Society (6 th ed., changed several times in his career. His earliest forthcoming, 2011) , McDonaldization: The work was in the sociology of occupations and Reader (3 rd ed., 2010), Enchanting a professions and resulted in, among other things, Disenchanted World (3 rd ed. 2010), and The An Occupation in Conflict (Cornell, ILR Press, Globalization of Nothing (2 nd ed., 2007) . He is 1969) and Working: Conflict and Change (1972; currently working on The Outsourcing of 1986). Everything (with Craig Lair).

His longest–running (and continuing) interest is A still more recent interest is globalization and in sociological theory, especially in metatheory. that concern is reflected in some of the titles list Among his publications in the latter area are above. He edited The Blackwell Companion to Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science Globalization (2008) and is currently editing the (1975/1980), Toward an Integrated Sociological 5-volume Encyclopedia of Globalization. In Paradigm (1981), and Metatheorzing in addition, Ritzer has recently published Sociology (1991) . Edited works in this area Globalization: A Basic Text (2010). include “Metatheory: Its Uses and Abuses in Contemporary Sociology” Sociological Forum

1 Ritzer has also written and edited a number of ideas- some successful (“McDonaldization”), other textbooks for basic sociology courses such some less successful (“grobalization”), and some as introduction to sociology and social problems. that are still too new to tell whether or not they In addition, he edited the Encyclopedia of will succeed (“prosumption”). Sociology (11 vols., 2007). If elected President of the ESS, I would like to His most recent interest integrates his earlier focus on innovation in its widest sense. This is interests in production and consumption under particularly important at this time because of the the heading of “prosumption” (simultaneous rapid changes taking place around us in the production and consumption), especially as it is economy, in the university, on the Internet, found on Web 2.0. He has authored several globally, and so on; we need, more than ever, to forthcoming essays on this topic and is editing a be open to, even to embrace, change at many special double issue of the American Behavioral levels. At the broadest level a focus on change Scientist devoted to the digital prosumer. could be the (a) theme at the 2012 meeting with sessions focusing on cutting-edge issues in a George Ritzer’s books have been translated into variety of different domains in sociology. more than twenty languages, with over a dozen Included here would be new substantive areas, translations of The McDonaldization of Society theories, methods, findings, concepts, policy alone. initiatives and opportunities, and so on. I am particularly interested in the changes being Finally, Ritzer has given many keynote and wrought by globalization. Indeed, it would be plenary addresses at a wide range of conferences useful to involve scholars in this area in the in many parts of the world (Europe, Asia, Latin meetings, including several from other parts of America, Australia). For example, since 2000 he the world. The best of the meeting’s papers has spoken at conferences on consumption, would make for a nice special issue(s) of globalization, the media, rural sociology, Sociological Forum. American Studies, business, culture, sport, brands, hospitality management, food, credit A great deal of attention should also be devoted cards, ethics, tourism, higher education, to innovations in teaching. Clearly, we are living information technology, the city, and through dramatic changes in this area that relate prosumption, among others. to web-based teaching and teaching tools; new attitudes toward, and forms of, textbooks, and Statement the like. We need to examine all of these changes First, of course, I want to express my gratitude from the perspectives of teachers (full-time and for being nominated to be President of the adjunct), graduate students and undergraduate Eastern Sociological Society; it is a great honor. students. Over the years I have been involved with ESS meetings many times and in various ways It would also be useful to discuss issues that (presenter, discussant, session chair, etc.) and relate to organizational change, including have published in Sociological Forum on several changes taking place, or that should take place, occasions . in the ESS, our colleges and universities, and the varied other organizations in which ESS As I was writing my biographical sketch, it members are employed or with which they are struck me that in my work what I have always otherwise associated. valued is change and innovation. In fact, the pace of change in my focal interests has increased In terms of my interests in the prosumption and rather than decreased in recent years as I have Web 2.0, ESS could serve as a nexus for moved into new areas such as the sociology of sociologist-bloggers. ESS could act as a link to consumption, globalization, and most recently sociology blogs produced by journals or prosumption. Even in long-standing areas of individual members of the ESS community. interest such as theory my interests continue to More importantly, it could host its own blog change and have evolved over the years from a where members would be able to discuss focus on classical, to modern, and postmodern sociological insights in a public forum that is theories. I am particularly drawn to the era of the much different from that provided by journals. “posts”- post-industrial, post-Fordist, and ESS, like other associations of sociologists, is perhaps now post-consumerist society. I am also particularly well positioned to serve as a hub for drawn to the creation and/or refinement of new these emerging possibilities.

2 the Rose series and Michael Burawoy, he co- The decline of the “old” media and the rise of the edited Public Sociology (University of California “new” media such as those associated with Web Press, 2007), to which he and Joya Misra also 2.0 have implications for “public sociology”. contributed an introduction. Zussman has served While it has not always been easy for on the ASA’s Committee on Employment and its sociologists to attract the attention of the old Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee. media, new media, such as blogging, make it He has also chaired the ASA’s Distinguished much easier for sociologists to address a public Book Award Committee and is currently an audience. There are great new possibilities for elected member of the Publications Committee. public sociology and ESS can play an important As a long time member of the Eastern role for its members by becoming more involved Sociological Society, Zussman has served on the in the new media. Robin Williams Lecture committee and chaired the society’s Publications Committee. He also currently serves on the editorial board of Robert Zussman is Professor of Sociology at Sociological Forum. the University of -Amherst where he was also Graduate Program Director from Zussman is particularly proud of the success of 2000 to 2006. Before joining the faculty at the the graduate students he has worked with at both University of Massachusetts, Zussman taught at the University of Massachusetts and Stony SUNY-Stony Brook (from 1986 through 1996) Brook, many of whom have gone on to publish and before that at the College of Physicians and their dissertations with major presses. These Surgeons at Columbia University. He received students, now teaching across the country and his PhD in Sociology from Columbia in 1982. across the world, have written about a range of topics--therapeutic communities, collective Zussman is the author of Mechanics of the memories of race, the culture of caring in Middle Class: Work and Politics among nursing, beauty myths and gender, high schools American Engineers (University of California reunions, sexuality and youth cultures, race and Press, 1985), which received an Honorable the rhetoric of childhood sexual abuse, the rise of Mention for the C Wright Mills Award, and of vaccination, and the enactment of masculinity in Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical strip clubs, and military honor—as diverse as Profession (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Zussman’s own interests. which won the first Elliot Freidson Award from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Statement Sociological Association. For more years than he I have lived my entire professional life in the cares to admit, Zussman has been working on a Northeast (in a radius of about 75miles from a study of “autobiographical occasions,” the point somewhere in southern Connecticut). The various calls to account (including therapy, Easterns have long been an important part of that reunions, photo albums, job applications, and life. A meeting of the Easterns in New York City statements of the very sort of which this sentence was the first professional conference I attended is a part) in which selves are narrated. Pieces of when I was a first or second year graduate this ongoing research project have appeared in student. I remember attending a few sessions and Contexts , Contemporary Sociology , Qualitative cowering in the book exhibit, desperately Sociology , and occasional talks. In all of his looking for someone, anyone, I knew and could research projects, Zussman has tried to look at talk to. Although the Eastern meetings have “people in places,” to examine behavior, beliefs since come to seem much more welcoming–a and the tensions between them in the place to see old friends and colleagues as well as institutional contexts in which both are to make new ones–I have not forgotten my first produced. timid initiation.

Zussman edited Qualitative Sociology from The Great Recession, which has taken a heavy 1999-2004 and from 2000-2006 was one of the toll on the ASA, may actually represent an co-editors of the American Sociological opportunity for the Easterns. At a moment of Association’s Rose Monograph Series. He was financial austerity and cutbacks in travel budgets the “nano feature”editor of Contexts for three (among much else), regional societies may well years. With Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson, he assume even more significance than they have co-edited Families at Work (Vanderbilt enjoyed in the past. The Easterns, in any case, University Press, 2002). With the other editors of are remarkably healthy. The Robin Williams

3 lectureship, still little more than a decade old, ASA. The Easterns provide the opportunity to has increased the visibility of the society. Recent bring together students, faculty, and practitioners annual meetings have been well attended, at different career stages, to bring together usually drawing more than a thousand scholars and teachers from research universities, participants, with the most recent meeting in liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. Baltimore drawing an all-time record. A still new Past presidents have been aware of this publishing contract for Sociological Forum , the opportunity. I would continue and extend their society’s flagship publication, promises a break efforts by setting up a series of informal from the periodic fiscal crises that have plagued discussion sessions that would bring together the society in the past. And an accomplished and sociologists across academic rank and across energetic editor for the Forum (Karen Cerulo) employment settings to discuss common has increased the prominence of an already concerns about research and teaching. Elusive as strong journal. Because of the extraordinarily thegoal might be, I would like to imagine an good work of recent past officers and staff at the annual meeting where nobody has to cower Easterns, the most important task for a new alone in the book exhibits. president may well be not to mess up a good thing. The ESS should build on its strengths. Looking over a list of past candidates for First, the Easterns are eclectic. It is important to president of the ESS, a list that includes my past maintain an annual meeting that is open to a teachers and, more recently, friends and wide range of substantive, methodological, and colleagues, I am both honored and genuinely political commitments as well as to sociologists humbled to be included among them. The ESS is of diverse backgrounds. Sociologists have a vital organization, with a strong tradition of probably become more specialized than ever enhancing the intellectual life of students and before and the Easterns provide one of the few faculty, of scholars, teachers, public sociologists opportunities to transcend these specializations. and practitioners. I hope to have the opportunity A “general sociology” that is inclusive may be to maintain and extend that tradition." hard to find these days, but it is worth continuing the search. For Vice President : Second, the Easterns draw on the densest Ivy Kennelly is Associate Professor of concentration of sociological talent anyplace in Sociology at George Washington University, the world. Like past presidents, I will work hard where she also serves as Graduate Director. to entice this talent to participate in the annual Professor Kennelly was on the ESS Executive meeting. I think, though, that the point is not so Board from 2005-08 and chaired the Mirra much to extend beyond the Eastern region as to Komarovsky Book Award Committee (2007) intensify our efforts to engage more deeply and the Candace Rogers Student Paper Award within the region, to bring in students, faculty Committee (2008). As chair of the ESS and practitioners from beyond the major Committee on the Status of Women (2002-05) metropolitan centers (, New York, Professor Kennelly organized a number of panels Philadelphia, Baltimore) where the annual for the annual meetings, including, “When to meetings are traditionally held and from schools Have Kids: The Timing of Children in Graduate and other settings that have, in the past, been School and Beyond” (2003). underrepresented. Professor Kennelly proudly represents Third, the Easterns are flexible. The annual academicians who have earned degrees from meeting can experiment with new forms. Not non-elite schools. She received a BA in just thematic sessions or author-meets-critics sociology and business from a small liberal arts sessions, but also mini-conferences held jointly college called Concordia College in Moorhead, with other organizations, panel discussions and Minnesota, and her Graduate Certificate in professional workshops (on publishing, writing Women’s Studies, MA in sociology, and PhD in dissertations, getting tenure, teaching, public sociology from the University of Georgia, all in sociology, and sociological practice) could make the 1990s. She received intensive mentoring the annual meetings even more useful to it from feminist scholars at these schools, and is members. therefore very attentive to the importance of mentors in the academic paths of men of color Finally, the Easterns are, if not exactly intimate, and women. much friendlier than the annual meetings of the

4 The common thread in Professor Kennelly’s Teaching Prize and the Bender Teaching Award) scholarship is inequality. Early in her career she in the last few years. In addition to her focused mainly on labor market inequality, commitment to ESS, Professor Kennelly has including issues such as discriminatory hiring served as an NSF Review Panel member, an processes, occupational gender segregation, and SWS Cheryl Allyn Miller Student Paper Award the status of women in science. Yet while she Committee member and chair, an ASA Racial studies inequality empirically, Professor and Ethnic Minorities Section Feagin Kennelly’s position teaching social theory at Undergraduate Paper Award Committee George Washington University has facilitated member, the SSS Organizations Liaison and her development as a theorist of inequality. In Consortium of Associations analyzing race, class, and gender conceptually in representative, an Institute for Women’s Policy her recent work, she has directly addressed one Research (IWPR) proposal reviewer, an ASA of the foremost questions in the field, namely, Committee on the Status of Women member, the how are these sources of oppression and SSSP Board of Directors student representative, privilege related to each other? That is, what and many other posts. Professor Kennelly also does gender have to do with race and class? To engages in community work in her that end, she has a forthcoming book entitled neighborhood, such as planting trees with urban Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a foresters, supporting tenant-sponsored Metaphor . In it, and a related article in conversions of apartment buildings, and Sociological Theory , Professor Kennelly uses the volunteering at her children’s school. processes of sugar production, sugar consumption, and sugar digestion to illustrate Statement how the relationships among race, class, and I am very honored to be nominated for the Vice gender are formed when these sources of Presidency of the Eastern Sociological Society – oppression and privilege are simultaneously an organization that I have come to know very produced, consumed, and “digested.” well over the last decade. I almost feel as though the ESS adopted me after I moved into the Professor Kennelly’s future directions include region from the South in 2001, and I have more theoretical work in this vein, along with enjoyed serving the membership of ESS in a policy work that builds on a fortuitous link that number of different capacities. Perhaps the most has developed between her conceptual illuminating of these has been a term on the scholarship and the sociology of food. She is in Executive Committee, where I became familiar the beginning stages of a long-term project on with the inner workings of the organization and the quality of food served by the nation’s day came to appreciate the hard work that so many care providers. While increasing attention has people devote to this professional society. been devoted to the food served to students in K- 12, relatively little mind has been paid (at a If elected I will certainly match that hard work policy level) to the food younger children are and strive to support the vision of the eating. Professor Kennelly is specifically organization’s President. I have been struck by interested in the ability of day care centers to how ambitious and comprehensive each participate in any aspects of the recently president’s program for the annual meeting has revitalized progressive food movement. Farm- been, and I look forward to being part of the to-table, farm-to-cafeteria, and farm-to-school excitement of putting a program together. activities abound, but day care centers are low on Above all I believe I have a lot to learn – from the priority list. The importance of getting the way things operate in this organization and young children connected to local food, area from the people who work so dutifully for it – farmers, gardening practices, organic methods, and I hope to use what I learn to inspire another sustainable techniques and related activities is generation of Eastern sociologists, as I have been hard to overestimate, and Professor Kennelly’s inspired. I would appreciate the opportunity to project will document the ability of urban, do this in the capacity of Vice President. suburban, and rural centers to participate in these activities, as well as recommend some “best practices” based on those centers that have Anne R. Roschelle is an Associate Professor of successfully implemented these activities. Sociology at the State University of New York at Excellence in teaching and service are strong New Paltz, where she just completed her second motivators for Professor Kennelly, and she has three year term as Department Chair. Roschelle won two teaching awards (the Robert W. Kenny is also an affiliate in and teaches for the

5 Women’s Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz. Outstanding Book from the Gustavus Myers Roschelle is on the Editorial Board of Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Sociological Forum , the official journal of the Rights in North America at Boston University. ESS and is a Founding Contributing Editor of Black Women, Gender & Families . Anne has The focus of Roschelle’s research over the last served as a manuscript reviewer for a variety of several years has been on extended kinship journals including Journal of Contemporary networks and informal social support networks Ethnography , Symbolic Interaction , Sociological among racial-ethnic families. Her book No More Forum , Social Forces , The American Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Sociological Review , and Gender & Society . Family Networks grew out of her dissertation. Roschelle was recently selected to participate in The research utilized an integrative theoretical a Hays-Fulbright Group Project Abroad to India. perspective that explored the intersection of Anne was chosen as one of ten alternates by the gender, race, and class by examining both Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and cultural and structural determinants of Conference Center in Italy for an Individual participation in informal social support networks Residency in 2002. among a national sample of African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic White Roschelle was on the Publications Committee of families. Of particular interest was the finding the Eastern Sociological Society from 2002-2005 that extended social support networks and served as Chair of that committee from historically found to be prevalent in racial-ethnic 2006-2008. In 2009 Roschelle organized a panel communities no longer persist. Upon the on the films of John Waters for the ESS completion of this research project, Anne conference in Baltimore (with Judith Halasz) conducted a follow-up qualitative study of social which became a highlighted event at the support networks among Puerto Rican women in conference. Anne served on the Russell Sage upstate New York. The ethnographic research Foundation, Visiting Scholars Fellowship Award provided rich detail explicating why kinship Selection Committee (2007) and was a member networks are in decline and the ramifications of of the Jesse Bernard Award Selection Committee this decline for this particular ethnic enclave. (2002-2005) of the American Sociological The resulting articles, “Declining Networks of Association. In addition, Roschelle was the Care: Ethnicity, Migration, and Poverty in a Secretary/Treasurer of the Latino/a Section Puerto Rican Community” was published in (1999-2002), the Race, Class, and Gender Race, Gender, & Class in The World Cultures in Section (2005-2008), and was a Council Member 1997 and "The Tattered Web of Kinship: Black of the Section on Racial Ethnic Minorities White Differences in Social Support in A Puerto (1998-2001) of ASA. In addition, Roschelle was Rican Community” was published in The New on the Nominations Committee of the Race, Politics of Race: From W. E. B. DuBois to the Class, and Gender Section (2006-2007), the Sex 20 th Century (Edited by Marlese Durr, Praeger) and Gender Section (2003-2004) and Chaired the in 2002. Nominations Committee for the Race Class, and Gender Section (1999-2000) of the ASA. My current research on homelessness was prompted by the findings of my previous work Professor Roschelle received her B.A. in 1982, on the loss of extended kinship networks in low- and her M.A. in 1985 from the University at income minority families. I wanted to determine Albany, SUNY, and an M.A. in Secondary whether or not the erosion of traditional kinship Education from the University of Maryland, networks in impoverished communities has College Park in 1987. Anne received her Ph.D. contributed to a rise in homelessness among from the University at Albany in 1993 and has racial-ethnic families. Subsequently, I spent four been teaching at SUNY New Paltz since 1999. years conducting an ethnographic study of Roschelle’s research and teaching interests homeless and formerly homeless families in the include racial ethnic families, poverty and San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, to homelessness, welfare and welfare reform, and examining the loss of support networks this work and family in Havana, Cuba. Roschelle is research has examined a variety of experiences the author of No More Kin: Exploring Race, that homeless kids and their parents face. The Class, and Gender in Family Networks (Sage, most recent publications from this ethnography 1997), which was a recipient of Choice include “Fitting in and Fighting Back: Stigma Magazines 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Management Strategies Among Homeless Kids” Award, and received Honorable Mention as an (With Peter Kaufman, Symbolic Interaction ,

6 2004), “Welfare Indignities: Homeless Women, The Vice Presidency of ESS is an opportunity for me Domestic Violence, and Welfare Reform in San to serve the regional sociological community and to Francisco” ( Gender Studies, 2008), mentor graduate students and new faculty in the same “Motherhood Unbound: Homeless Chicanas in ways that I was mentored. San Francisco” (In Latina/Chicana Mothering , edited by Doría Smith Silva, Demeter Press, 2012). In addition, I am currently writing a book For Secretary: on homeless families in San Francisco using my Katherine K. Chen is assistant professor of ethnographic data. In addition, along with sociology at The City College of New York and colleagues Maura Toro-Morn and Elisa Facio, the Graduate Center, City University of New Roschelle’s article “Towards a Feminist York (CUNY). Her ethnographic study Methodological Approach to the Intersection of examined the growing organization behind the Race, Class, and Gender: Lessons From Cuba annual Burning Man event . Her book, Enabling will be published in Advances in Gender Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Research in 2010. In addition to these Burning Man Event (2009, University of publications, Roschelle has published several Chicago Press), shows how an enabling other book chapters and journal articles organization can support members’ efforts throughout her career. Anne is an avid hiker and without succumbing to either under-organizing’s plays flute in an all professor-rock band called insufficient structure and coordination or over- Questionable Authorities . organizing’s excessive structure and coercive control. Her other publications have appeared in Statement the Research in the Sociology of Organizations I am deeply honored to be nominated for Vice and Contexts , and her papers in progress focus President of the ESS. Since returning to the East on the cultural aspects of Burning Man. Prof. Coast in 1999 I have participated in the Eastern Chen’s current research continues to examine Sociological Society in a variety of ways. I have how new organizations coordinate complex organized panels, participated in roundtables, and activities and advance their legitimacy while still presented research on several panels. The intimacy of representing clients’ interests. the Eastern meetings has been essential in my professional development. Over the years I have met Prof. Chen received her Ph.D. in Sociology from incredible scholars and mentors who have graciously . She was a recipient of the read my work and given me invaluable feedback and National Science Foundation Fellowship and a encouragement. I am most proud of my work on the fellow in the Social Science Research Council’s ESS Publications Committee. During my tenure as a “Corporation as a Social Institution” program. committee member we selected a new editor of In addition, she has worked as a summer Sociological Forum (Karen Cerulo) from a variety of associate at Rand and conducted organizational outstanding applications. When my three year term research via Abt Associates, the John F. was completed, I was asked by the President of ESS, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (Philip Kasnitz), to remain on the committee and Business School, and Stanford Business School. become Chair. During my tenure as Chair we met Prior to joining CUNY, she was a postdoctoral twice yearly, re-wrote the Publications Committee fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and By-Laws, and selected a new publisher (Blackwell) Learning at Harvard University and an assistant for our journal Sociological Forum. After receiving professor at William Paterson University. incorrect information regarding the number of subscriptions from our previous publisher we had to Statement renegotiate our already settled contract with As an academic who has worked in several kinds Blackwell. During the summer of 2007 I went with of institutions, both academic and non-academic, colleagues from the Publications Committee and the I am well-acquainted with the daily challenges Editor of Sociological Forum to Boston for a that scholars face, including securing weekend to work with the staff at Blackwell to employment, getting adequate resources to teach hammer out the subscription problems and develop a and conduct research, disseminating findings to a long-term strategy for the journal. Throughout this broad audience, and forming collegial experience we developed a wonderful relationship connections with colleagues both near and far. with our new publisher and together have re- Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting energized the journal. This experience solidified my and resources provide unique support to the commitment to the ESS and inspired me to more development of scholars who labor in a variety fully participate in the Eastern Sociological Society. of institutions, from universities that serve first

7 generation college-goers to think tanks to founding member of the Eastern chapter of SWS. government agencies. I look forward to As member (from 2002-05) and Chair (from representing a wider range of interests at ESS, 2005-06) of the Professional Issues and and my priorities are to enhance opportunities Standards Committee of the Midwest for members to form a supportive community Sociological Society (MSS), Dr. Copelton and to collectively advance knowledge within coordinated efforts to draft committee policies our discipline and in the public domain. and procedures for breaches of the society’s code of ethics, which were adopted by the Executive Committee in 2006. She was also previously Denise A. Copelton is Assistant Professor of active in the Midwest chapter of SWS (MSWS), Sociology at The College at Brockport, State serving as Program Chair from 2005-07, when University of New York, a position she has held she coordinated the details for over 55 co- since 2005. She regularly teaches courses on sponsored sessions for the MSS annual meetings. health and illness, families, research methods, and the sociology of food. Her areas of expertise Statement within sociology include medical sociology and I am extremely honored to be nominated for the gender, and her research centers on the social position of secretary of ESS, an organization that experience of illness and its intersection with has nurtured my own scholarly development foodways and family systems. She has published since my days as a graduate student at articles on the social process of diagnosis with Binghamton University. The voluntary celiac disease, prenatal nutritional norms, and contributions of its members are the foundation other reproductive health issues. Her articles on which the ESS is built, and I benefitted have appeared in Social Science & Medicine , enormously as a teacher-scholar from my regular Sociology of Health & Illness , Deviant Behavior , participation in ESS and the many fruitful and several edited collections. She is currently exchanges I have had with other teacher-scholars completing a co-authored textbook on Food & as a result. I have presented my work at ESS Society , and a sole-authored monograph on the meetings, gaining crucial and critical feedback social experience of celiac disease. She is the that helped to foster new and important recipient of numerous awards recognizing her intellectual pursuits. In recent years, as an work with undergraduates including the College advanced assistant professor, I have brought at Brockport’s Ronald E. McNair Post- several promising undergraduates (all now baccalaureate Achievement Program’s “Mentor sociology graduate students) to the ESS of the Year Award” for 2007-08, and the meetings, where they too have benefitted from College’s “Outstanding Academic Advising professional socialization opportunities. Having Award” for 2008-09. participated in several regional organizations, the ESS is surely one of the most vibrant and Dr. Copelton is an active participant in regional intellectually stimulating. and national sociology professional organizations. In ESS, she served on the Mirra If elected, I look forward to doing my part both Komarovsky Book Award Committee in 2006- to maintain, as well as enhance, the numerous 07 and 2007-08, and, since 2006, serves on the opportunities for improving teaching, advancing ESS Committee on the Status of Women. Dr. scholarship, and promoting professional Copelton has organized sessions, presented development for teacher-scholars and graduate papers (including student co-authored papers), and undergraduate students alike through the and participated in teaching and career panels at ESS annual meeting. My prior work on the ESS ESS meetings. In addition to her work in ESS, Committee on the Status of Women and the she is also actively engaged in Sociologists for Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, as well as my Women in Society (SWS), chairing the Career participation in ESS annual meetings, provided Development Committee (CDC) from 2005-07. me with useful experiences in the ESS and an As an elected member of the SWS Membership enhanced understanding of the importance of the Committee from 2007-09, Dr. Copelton served secretary within it. However, my work as chair as the SWS liaison to the ASA Minority Fellows of the Career Development Committee in SWS Program, helping to solidify SWS’s annual and chair of the Professional Issues and financial commitment to fund one fellow. She Standards Committee in the MSS has best currently chairs the Beth B. Hess Memorial prepared me to meet the challenges of a Scholarship Committee, an award co-sponsored recording secretary. In those positions I created by ESS, SWS, SSSP, and ASA, and is a meeting agendas, kept accurate minutes of

8 meetings, and submitted reports to the executive the Maine Medical Center, Frannie Peabody committees of the respective organizations, tasks Center, and Maine General Medical Center. that have given me new appreciation for the care and attention to detail necessary to fulfill Statement successfully the role of secretary. I am honored to have been nominated for the ESS Executive Committee. As a member of the ESS Executive Committee I For Executive Committee : would work to foster ties between faculty and Susan E. Bell is Professor of Sociology and A. students of undergraduate colleges with those at Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at graduate institutions as a way of strengthening Bowdoin College. She joined the Bowdoin and expanding sociological networks and of faculty in 1983, after completing her doctorate in producing the next generation of sociologists. In sociology at Brandeis and postdoctoral work in addition, I am particularly interested in the Department of Psychiatry at the extending the visual and performative Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard dimensions of sociology, and of encouraging Medical School. She is former chair of transnational scholarship and pedagogy. Over the Bowdoin’s Department of Sociology and years I have presented early versions of papers at Anthropology. Her scholarly work investigates ESS Annual Meetings that were later published. the experience of illness, women’s health, and In 1994 I was invited by Irving Zola, then narrative ways of knowing and has appeared in a president of the ESS, to organize a plenary wide variety of journals and book chapters. She session. This opportunity was important to my is deeply committed to developing a social career development, and I would like to facilitate science vocabulary for incorporating visual such leadership opportunities for others – methods into analyses of disease regimes and particularly at early stages of their careers – at embodied social movements. Her research in this upcoming ESS meetings. field has interpreted works of art produced during the late 20th century by women who have had breast cancer, exploring the types of “work” Anita Ilta Garey is Associate Professor of these works of art do – for the artists, for Family Studies and of Sociology at the viewers, and for breast cancer activism. She is University of Connecticut. She received her author of DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge doctorate from the University of California, and the Transformation of Women’s Health Berkeley, in 1993. Following postdoctoral Politics , which explores how illness, suffering, fieldwork in Botswana and a postdoctoral and uncertainty can become opportunities for fellowship at Brown University, she began a producing embodied knowledge and making tenure-track position in the Department of social change. She is co-editor with Alan Radley Sociology at the University of New Hampshire (Loughborough University) of a special issue of in 1995. She has been at the University of the journal health , “Another way of knowing: Connecticut since 2000. art, disease, and illness experience” (forthcoming March 2011). She has served on the editorial Starting from concrete experience and the boards of the Journal of Health and Social meaning people give to those experiences, Behavior , Qualitative Sociology , and Women & Garey’s work focuses on (1) the interconnections Health ; currently she is an editorial advisor for of people’s daily lives with larger social and Sociology of Health & Illness and a member of economic structures and (2) the interactions the editorial board for health . She is a long-time between families and other social institutions. member of the ASA and of the medical Her 1999 book, Weaving Work and Motherhood , sociology section (elected to the nominations and received the 2000 William J. Goode Award teaching committees) and science, knowledge Book Award from the Family Section of the and technology section (elected to the council) ASA. Based on interviews with women hospital and she has organized, presented, chaired and/or workers at various occupational levels – nurses, served as discussant for sessions at many Annual nurses’ aides, housekeeping staff, and clerical Meetings. Since 2000 she has been a workers, Garey argues against the standard faculty/scholar for the Literature and Medicine “orientation model” of work and family for program of the Maine Humanities Council, women and posits an alternative framework for where she has developed and taught six-month conceptualizing women’s relationship to the seminars for hospital and health center staffs at intersecting parts of their lives.

9 In other research, Garey looks at the effect of am currently serving on the 2010 ESS Annual policy and its implementation on families and Meeting Program Committee. I would consider it family members. While a research fellow at the a privilege to increase my involvement in the Berkeley Center for Working Families in 1999, ESS by serving on the Executive Committee. she conducted interviews and fieldwork to examine the implications and consequences of The above “bio” focuses on outcomes (degrees, new state legislation that established after-school positions held, research conducted, publications, programs for public-school children. In 2002, etc.), but it does not reveal the process of getting she began a 3-year observational study of to those outcomes. And it is the process that truancy cases in family court, with a particular gives meaning to my research, my writing, and focus on the interactions of judicial, educational, my reasons for wanting to serve on the ESS and family systems. Her most recent research is Executive Committee. For example, it was my a collaborative project with colleagues at the experience of growing up among working-class University of Maryland, Brown University, and employed mothers that prompted me to question the University of the Witwatersrand in South the way that most research on work and family Africa, in which she brings her expertise in was being framed when I was in graduate school qualitative analysis to the study of children’s and to continue to work on ways to decenter and social connections in a rural area of northern reframe the topic more inclusively. Another South Africa. Garey has been sole and co-author example is related to my interest in serving on on a number of journal articles and chapters the Executive Committee. In my determined resulting from these research projects. pursuit of higher education, I began my college career at a community college, transferring to a Garey has two published anthologies: Families four-year state college to finish my BA, and then in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (co- entered graduate school at a major public edited with Karen V. Hansen, 1998), and Who’s university. This experience gave me an Watching: Daily Practices of Surveillance appreciation of the educational contributions of among Contemporary Families (co-edited with each of these institutions. If elected to the Margaret K. Nelson, 2009). Both collections Executive Committee, I would work toward were designed to reframe the approach to the achieving a strong representation in ESS from topics they cover. Families in the U.S. decenters faculty members across institutional type and the dating-marriage-children linear arrangement size, something which would not only be of of previous readers on the family, and Who’s benefit to those who join and participate, but Watching brings together the fields of family would also help to strengthen ESS and support sociology and surveillance studies to raise its ongoing vitality. questions about the mobius strip of “care and control.” A third anthology will soon be in press; At the Heart of Work and Family (with Karen V. Nazli Kibria: I am currently an Associate Hansen) brings together recent research Professor and Chair of Graduate Programs in exploring the emotion management work at the Sociology at the Department of Sociology at center of people’s work/family negotiations. Boston University. Prior to coming to Boston Garey is one of the editors of the new series, University I taught at the University of Southern Families in Focus , for Rutgers University Press. California. I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and my B.A from Statement Wellesley College. I am pleased and honored to have been nominated for the Executive Committee of the My research and teaching interests are in the Eastern Sociological Society. I have been an study of family, migration and globalization with active member of the ESS since coming to the a particular focus on Asian diasporas and East Coast in 1994. In addition to my regular contemporary South Asia. Much of my work has participation in giving papers and serving as emerged from looking across these sub-fields to discussant at the annual meetings, I organized understand the experiences of marginalized the author-meets-critics sessions for the 2004 groups and populations. I am currently at work ESS meetings, co-organized (with Annette on a book about the Bangladesh diaspora, Lareau and Karen V. Hansen) an ESS mini- specifically of Bangladesh-origin communities in conference in 2007 (The Importance of Being the U.S. and Britain as well as of labor migration Conceptual: Exploring the Sociological streams to the Persian Gulf states and to Contributions of Arlie Russell Hochschild), and Malaysia. I explore the question of how migrants

10 negotiate Muslim religious identity as well as an intimate environment for scholars to share Bangladeshi national identity within these their research, engage in scholarly debate, and diverse contexts. I also examine the connect with one another. Moreover, as a consequences of these negotiations for the professor at a small, undergraduate liberal-arts emerging contests of Islam in Bangladesh. college, I particularly value the opportunities that the ESS provides for students to present their Statement research. Our students always return from ESS Were I to become a part of the ESS Council I conferences not only energized but also with a would work to bring more issues related to greater understanding of sociological research. immigration, global diasporas and the study of If elected, I would dedicate myself to Asia to the ESS. I am currently involved with strengthening and promoting the organization, several organizations and initiatives that focus on particularly in the areas of social welfare and these issues, such as the Boston University public policy. I would also welcome the Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA), the opportunity to enhance the Society’s support and South Asia Studies Consortium and the mentorship of its student and pre-tenured faculty Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI). I members. hope to bring the concerns and interests of such forums to the ESS Council. Gregory Smithsimon is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, City Rebecca Joyce Kissane is currently an Assistant University of New York. Prior to coming to Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College. Brooklyn, he was a visiting assistant professor at Prior to coming to Lafayette College, she was a Barnard College. He received his Ph.D. from Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Columbia University and his BA from Brown Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. She University. received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Villanova Greg is the author of Battery Park City as Urban University. Citadel: Rebuilding an Enclave in Lower Manhattan , under contract with NYU Press, and She is a qualitative sociologist with research co-author, with Benjamin Shepard, of The Beach interests in social welfare and housing policy, Beneath the Streets: Exclusion, Control, and urban poverty, and nonprofit community-based Play in Public Space , under contract with SUNY organizations. Her work has appeared in Social Press. Service Review , Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare , Journal of Poverty , Nonprofit and His work explores the reciprocal relationship Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Sociology Compass, between the built environment and social and Humanity & Society. She also has articles inequality. Thus his first book is an ethnography forthcoming in Sociological Perspectives and the examining how residents of an elite community Journal of Marriage and Family . Recent and across the street from the World Trade Center forthcoming publications have explored how rebuilt their neighborhood to maintain its social and geographic space influence poor privilege. His second book examines how urban women’s use of local social services, the parks and plazas have been used to maintain or administrative challenges facing nonprofit challenge segregation, exclusion, and social organizations that employ welfare recipients as inequality in the city. His current research is an welfare-to-work interns, poor women’s and ethnography of a middle-class African American nonprofit directors’ assessments of faith-based suburb outside Baltimore. This project continues versus secular social service providers, and poor his interest in the relationship between space and women’s views of welfare-to-work programs. inequality as it examines the ways in which both She is presently working on several articles the challenges and community activism of an investigating the wellbeing of families who African American community are shaped by its participated in the Moving to Opportunity suburban setting. (MTO) housing mobility demonstration in Chicago and Baltimore. Statement: Coming from a college that has an emphasis on Statement teaching, and that is also part of a university with I am honored to have been nominated for the a strong record of research, I appreciate ESS as a ESS Executive Committee. The ESS provides regional organization whose conferences are the

11 right size to bring together both researchers to discuss the latest developments in each others’ projects, and students and faculty to mentor rising sociologists.

ESS benefits from having a particularly strong collection of sociologists in the region and such engaging cities to host our conferences. I look forward to the opportunity to work with my colleagues to maintain ESS’s strengths. In addition, I hope I can continue the work of previous executive committee members to increase the diversity of conference participants and use online technology to make presentations more accessible to those inside and outside the discipline.

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