Inside and Eran Shor, Mcgill University Substantially Higher Than Those of All and Turning Away from the Church, Uebec Has a Long and Multi- Other Canadian Provinces

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Sex and the Province: A Short History of Quebec

Poulami Roychowdhury, childbirth out of wedlock were to the women’s rights movements inside and Eran Shor, McGill University substantially higher than those of all and turning away from the Church, uebec has a long and multi- other Canadian provinces. Similar which were integral to Quebec’s faceted history of intimate to Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Quiet Revolution (La Révolution Sociology and Policy Q 3 relationships and sexuality. Over Quebec has very low marriage rates Tranquille). A period of immense Meet the past hundred years, the city has and very high levels of cohabita- socio-political and socio-cultural During a Time of Political witnessed massive changes in the tion. In fact, the concentration of change that surrounded the election Change ASA’s Congressional institution of marriage, as well as unwed couples in Quebec today of the pro-sovereignty national Fellow learns that policy in the social acceptability and legal is among the highest in the world. government in 1976, the Quiet work requires some rights of gays and lesbians. Thirty-seven percent of people Revolution broke the power of the transitions. The province was long dominated living together as couples in the Church and instituted a welfare state by the Catholic Church, which exer- province are not officially married. with robust family-friendly policies. Cohabitation is so popular that the In 1981, the provincial government Check Out the ASA cised immense control over social 4 and family life. These days, however, term conjoint/conjointe (mascu- went so far as to adopt a policy Employment Fair line and feminine terms referring preventing women from legally Heading to the ASA Annual Quebec residents are calling the very foundations of marriage under to either a cohabiting or married taking on their husband’s surname. Meeting? All meeting partner) is frequently applied to By making name changes illegal, the attendees are invited to question. A 2006 study by sociologists Don Kerr, Melissa Moyser all partners irrespective of marital government hoped to initiate equality the Employment Fair in status. among spouses. The rule applies even Montreal. and Roderic Beaujot showed that Quebec’s rates of divorce, cohab- The decreasing popularity of to Canadian women who move to itation outside of marriage, and marriage in Quebec can be traced The Attack on Social Continued on Page 4 5 Scientists in Turkey Under Erdoğan’s regime, many academics are the target of a political witch Proposed Change to the Selection A New hunt. Process for Status Committee Membership Get to Know Montreal’s 7 Cultural Diversity Membership Category for The city’s diversity is more his year’s ballot includes a to Council every five years and, as High School than identifying as native Tproposal to change the process appropriate, offering recommen- French-speaking and native for establishing membership for dations for how the association can Teachers English-speaking. the four ASA status committees. better respond to the needs of these hile important to the discipline, Currently members of status groups. high school teachers have been Task Force on First- committees are nominated by the Nancy Lopez, Chair of the ASA W minimally represented in ASA’s 9 Generation and Committee on Committees and Status Committee on Racial and membership. At its March meeting, approved by Council. If the ballot Ethnic Minorities explained, “The Working-Class in ASA Council was asked to recom- initiative passes, membership on ASA status committees… play an Sociology mend a new membership category status committees will be estab- indispensable role in advancing Please consider volunteering designed for this population, which lished through a process similar equity and inclusion in ASA and to serve on this new task it supported. High school teachers to that used for task forces, which beyond (e.g., undergraduate and force. are important to ASA as we seek begins with an open call for volun- graduate admission, tenure and to strengthen the pipeline to the teers, followed by formal appoint- promotion guidelines, public and sociology major. If we can sup- ment by Council. engaged scholarship and praxis).” port robust sociology high school From the Executive Office...... 2 Status committees are charged Status Committee programs, students will become with monitoring the standing in the Science Policy...... 3 Accomplishments familiar with and, hopefully, excited discipline of groups that have been Announcements...... 15 about sociology before arriving at historically underrepresented in Over the years, the research college. An ASA high school teacher Obituaries...... 18 academia including racial and eth- and recommendations of status membership would also benefit nic minorities; women; members of committees have led to scholarly the teachers, many of whom have the LGBTI community; and persons publications. For example, efforts little training in sociology and scant with disabilities. Status commit- of the Committee on the Status access to resources for teaching tees are responsible for reporting Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 6 footnotes To view the online version, visit 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Sociology at the March for Science

n Saturday, April 22, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Washington, DC, and in hundreds of satellite marches around the world in a show Oof unity and support for scientific research funding and evidence-based policymaking. Sociologists were at the March for Science en masse. Many flew into Washington from around the country to participate in Washington’s march. Many others made their voices heard in their own localities, letting ASA know their presence online via social media using the hashtag #march4sociology. Here are some photographs from that day in Washington and beyond.

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Census Bureau Director Federally Funded R&D Center breakdowns of funding by source the role of financial aid in eliminat- Resigns, Complicating Outlook Funding Rebounded in FY 2015 from FY 2010 to FY 2015, read the full ing barriers to paying for college; for 2020 Decennial after Four Years of Declines report at www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/ how students pay for college; and On May 9, John Thompson The nation’s 42 federally funded nsf17314/. how educational attainment rates and early income outcomes vary by announced his plans to research and develop- Report on the Indicators of family characteristics. In addition, step down as Director of ment centers (FFRDCs) Higher Education Equity in the the new Equity Indicators website the Census Bureau effec- reported spending $18.5 United States tive June 30. Thompson billion on research and provides access to data files used to TheIndicators of Higher was confirmed as direc- development (R&D) produce the figures included in the Education Equity in the United tor in 2013 and before in FY2015, their first 2017 Indicators Report. The website States — 2017 Historical Trend that worked in the bureau for 27 rebound after several years of declin- also provides links to earlier reports Report is a collaboration of the years. According to the COSSA ing or flat expenditures, according to a and allows policymakers, educators Pell Institute and the Alliance for newsletter, “Thompson’s resigna- new report from the National Center and the public to explore data on Higher Education and Democracy tion comes at a critical time for the for Science and Engineering Statistics. equality and opportunity in U.S. at the University of Pennsylvania Bureau as it ramps up its activities The FFRDCs are privately operated higher education. In addition to (PennAHEAD). According to ahead of the 2020 Census and con- R&D organizations that are exclusively providing longitudinal indicators the report, equity gaps remain in tinues to face periodic threats to or substantially financed by the federal of equity, the reports are intended American higher education. The the American Community Survey. government. Accounting for inflation, to advance productive conversa- cost of college has continued to So far, no details have emerged expenditures rose 3.1 percent from tion about effective policies and increase, and Pell Grants do not about a potential replacement.” FY2014 to FY2015. In FY 2015, 22 practices for improving equity in cover the same proportion of the The Deputy Director position at percent of FFRDC R&D expenditures higher education opportunity and average cost of college they once the Bureau has been vacant since went toward basic research, 39 percent outcomes. For more information, did. The report includes data on Nancy Potok left to become Chief went toward applied research and 38 visit ahead-penn.org/news/indica- enrollment by race/ethnicity and Statistician of the United States in percent went toward development. For tors-higher-education-equity-unit- socioeconomic status; the types of January. more information, including detailed ed-states-%E2%80%94-2017-histor- institutions in which students enroll; ical-trend-report. Engaging in Policy-Making during a Period of Political Change

Emerald Nguyen, 2016/17 ASA this period of unprecedented social has allowed me to gain insights a particular piece of legislation is Congressional Fellow and political change. into the workings of both chambers oftentimes motivated by the same of Congress, and afforded me the methods that are used by qualitative y first encounter Multiple Transitions with the policy world opportunity to use my sociologi- sociologists. I have observed how M My fellowship journey cal insights and research skills in members of Congress will draw on happened when I moved to first brought me to the U.S. Washington, DC, shortly multiple ways. rich, detailed stories about individ- House of Representatives ual constituents back in their home after graduating from Using Sociology to Understand where I worked in the states and districts. In the same college. I lived in the city Office of Congressman and Inform Policy and worked at a federal way that qualitative sociologists Mike Honda. This fellow- Being trained as a sociologist rely on the narratives of their study agency for two years, ship placement offered me has prepared me in many ways for and experienced up close participants to gain insights, those Emerald Nguyen the opportunity to work working in the environment of a the change in adminis- of us working in Congress also on a range of policy issues congressional office. In my daily rely on this type of data to inform trations from President and engage with constituents from work of evaluating legislation, I Bush to President Obama. I was legislation. the same district where I grew up, draw on a broad base of knowledge More specifically, my training as intrigued by how Washington, making the experience a personal and existing research for under- DC, drew in passionate, motivated a sociologist has allowed me to help one. I was fortunate to work with standing the implications and con- address important questions in the people working on a range of and learn from a group of experi- sequences of potential policies. One policy issues. I hoped to return at current debates on immigration and enced and enthusiastic staffers who of the many strengths of sociology healthcare. One of the underlying some point in my career, and the were not only a strong team but also lies in its training across multiple American Sociological Association’s questions in the discussion about a family. The 2016 election resulted research methodologies. Having U.S. immigration policy has to do Congressional Fellowship offered in an unexpected outcome for the experience as both a quantitative me that opportunity. Coincidentally, with how immigrants are integrat- White House race and also for my and qualitative scholar has allowed ing and contributing to the U.S., the fellowship has brought me back fellowship experience. Congressman me to easily and quickly evaluate to Washington during another which in turn affects policies about Honda was voted out of office after the merits of data being used to entry into the country. Sociologists transition in presidential adminis- eight consecutive terms, and I support particular claims, and also trations. Little did I know that my have produced a robust body of found myself leaving the House of effectively use statistics to inform research on this topic, which I research background in the areas of Representatives and transitioning to and advance a position on an immigration and healthcare would am able to draw on daily in my the Senate to the Office of Senator issue. Furthermore, the work being discussions with office colleagues be applicable and invaluable during Kirsten Gillibrand. The transition done by members of Congress on Continued on Page 9 footnotes 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org New for 2017: An Employment Fair at the Annual Meeting

SA is excited to announce an ested in sharing information about Aupdated model and format for job the employment opportunities they seekers and employers to meet at the offer, are invited to participate in the Annual Meeting. After careful review Employment Fair. A list of employ- of the current service, examination ers who will be at the Fair will be of programs from similar organiza- continuously updated on the ASA tions, and input from past Annual website prior to the meeting and Meeting Employment Service users, listed in the meeting app. we have developed a lower-cost, more Beginning May 1, 2017, employ- inclusive service, while maintaining ers (with a current open or upcom- the option for scheduled one-on- ing position) will be able to register be able to search resume listings by individuals that have been invited to one interviews. By reducing the for a booth at the Employment Fair. individuals attending the Annual interview will be allowed in the hall participation cost for attendees as Once an employer is registered, Meeting. This option will be avail- on these additional days. well as employers, we hope to grow the institution will be added to able on the Job Bank May 1-August We are excited to introduce participation and expand the scope of the Employment Fair website as a 31, 2017. this new service in Montréal the audience we can serve. participating employer. In order to facilitate interviews, and encourage any individual, The Employment Fair will be In order to connect employers employers may use the same booth whether currently on the job open to all registered meeting and job seekers prior to arriving in space on Sunday, August 13 and market or a future candidate, attendees at no additional fee. Montréal, the ASA is updating the Monday, August 14 to conduct to attend the Employment Fair. The Employment Fair will be ASA Job Bank indicate job seekers interviews with potential candi- The new, relaxed environment is held on Saturday, August 12 from who will be in attendance at the dates that they meet during the designed to be low-pressure and 10:00am-4:00pm in the Palais des Annual Meeting. Also beginning Employment Fair or connect with flexible. The Employment Fair also congrès de Montréal, which will May 1, 2017, jobs seekers who are prior to the meeting. Employers are welcomes those scholars who will allow registered attendees to meet ASA members or subscribe to the responsible for scheduling all inter- be future job seekers to explore informally with employers who Job Bank will be able to indicate views and may schedule interviews different employment options for have registered for the Employment in their Job Bank Resume Listing in advance or invite individuals sociologists. Fair. Employers with a current open whether they will be attending the they meet on Saturday to come back For more details on the new position(s), as well as employers Annual Meeting. Employers with a for a longer discussion. There is no Employment Fair, visit www.asanet. without a current opening but inter- current listing in the Job Bank will time limit for these meetings. Only org/employmentfair.

Quebec are not just different, but unequal. acts of sodomy between consenting sex.3 In 1918, Montreal-based From Page 1 The justices ruled that after a split adults of at least 21 years of age. writers Elsa Gidlow and Roswell between unmarried couples, the Still, to this day, gay youths (under George Mills launched Les Quebec after getting married in other provincial government could legally the age of 18) who engage in anal Mouches Fantastiques, a mimeo- provinces. To this day, exceptions continue to exclude one of the part- sex can be prosecuted and punished graphed underground magazine, to the law are made only in cases ners from getting spousal support. with up to 10 years in prison. While the first known LGBT publication where a person can prove that their According to McGill University Ontario recently repealed this law, in North American history. These last name invites ridicule, prejudice, Professor Céline Le Bourdais, a Quebec has yet to follow suit. days, Montreal serves as a gay and psychological suffering or in Canada Research Chair in Social Gays and lesbians have, however, and lesbian tourist destination. It situations where someone has used Statistics and Family Change, the made major advances in both social is known for its social tolerance their partner’s surname in an official ruling signalled that while marriage and legal rights. According to recent and active nightlife which radiates capacity for at least five years. was a formal commitment with estimates, approximately three beyond the Gay Village located Legal Distinctions rights and obligations, common-law percent of marriages in the province around St. Catherine Street East, a relationships did not necessarily are same-sex. Same-sex marriage short walk from the ASA conven- But even as Quebec has surged entail similar commitment.1 was legally recognized in Quebec on tion centre. ahead with progressive marriage While marriage as an institution March 19, 2004, a full year before References laws and a growing rate of domestic thus continues to be an issue of Canada as a whole made a similar unions, important legal distinc- contention at separation between move.2 The official recognition of 1 www.theglobeandmail.com/ tions remain in the treatment of news/national/quebec-is-a-lab- individuals and the state, Quebec same-sex couples emerged out of a oratory-when-it-comes-to-the- marriages and domestic partner- has allowed a growing space for much more established social order. ships. While together, cohabiting transformation-of-domestic-life/ same-sex couples within that Montreal has long been a center of article7890357/ partners have the same rights as landscape. This was not always the gay life. The first recorded gay estab- married couples. But upon separa- 2 On July 20, 2005, Canada became the case. According to the Canadian lishment in North America was in first country outside Europe and the tion, divorced partners are granted confederation of 1867, homosex- Montreal. Moise Tellier established fourth country in the world to legal- substantially higher financial claims. uality was punishable with up to his “apples and cake shop” on ize same-sex marriage nationwide after the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act. In a 5-4 ruling in 2013, Canada’s 14 years in prison. Only in 1969, Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine) Supreme Court upheld the notion did Pierre Trudeau’s government in 1869 as an underground space 3 www.tourisme-montreal.org/blog/ brief-history-of-gay-montreal/ that marriage and domestic unions amend the law by decriminalizing where men could meet and have

4 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Imprisonment of a Sociologist and Many Other Social Scientists in Turkey on Trumped-Up Charges Fatma Müge Göçek, head of the sociology department at only violating University of Michigan the İzmir-based Gediz University, the freedom rofessor İştar Gözaydın, prom- the university was shut down by of expression Pinent Turkish legal scholar and government decree along with thou- and thought as sociologist was taken from her sands of other educational instituti- a fundamen- home in Istanbul December 20, ons in the aftermath of a failed coup tal academic 2016, for questioning and was attempt on July 15, 2017. Gediz right, but also formally arrested a week later. Thus University was one of 15 universities undermining imprisoned, an indictment was closed for having connections with the rule of law only submitted after two months, the faith-based Gülen movement. by basing legal based on Gözaydın’s deposition and All faculty and staff were dismissed; decisions on the public prosecutor’s investiga- students have been reassigned to false truths. tion. After being kept in prison for other universities in Turkey. The Istanbul, Turkey Interestingly, the Gülen move- international approximately three months, she has become unbearable in Turkey. ment, the Justice and Development academic community has not was released on March 30, 2017, In January 2016, I was targeted Party (hereafter JDP) that is in stayed quiet. Protest letters were following the court’s acceptance and denigrated by the Turkish power today and current Turkish written to high-level Turkish of the indictment. In spite of her president for signing a petition President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officials, regional officials, and release, however, she is barred from along with 2,200 academics, which had formerly been allies for decades. European officials to no avail. international travel by the same asked the state to approach the The inescapable power struggle There was a public, international court order. Formal legal proceed- Kurdish issue through diplomacy, to attain state and government petition effort to secure her release, ings in a court trial will probably not state-sponsored massacres. positions and to influence national locating her imprisonment within proceed sometime in September The president denigrated all of us and international policy decisions the larger context of the hundreds 2017. The prosecution will request a as delusional illiterates for signing led the JDP and President Erdoğan of academics that are currently in long prison sentence (10-15 years) if the petition and systematically to stigmatize and systematically jail. The UN special rapporteur Gözaydın is found guilty. started to punish the signatories destroy all that was related to the on the Right to Freedom of Professor Gözaydın received her residing in Turkey. Many aca- Gülen movement. In spite of a lack Expression, U.S. Helsinki law degree (LLD) from Istanbul demics lost their jobs, others were of evidence, JDP alleged that the Commission, and Scholars at Risk University (1981) and her master’s imprisoned, and still others were Gülen movement was behind the are also working on the dire fate of in Comparative Jurisprudence stigmatized by the state, govern- recent coup attempt, confiscating academics in Turkey. (1987) from NYU Law School. A ment, and the party-owned media the $7 billion net worth of the leading expert on issues of religion A Personal Appeal to such a degree that one commit- movement in Turkey that existed and politics in Turkey, she taught at ted suicide. I implore all of you in the form of organizations such I conclude with a personal and retired from the public Istanbul reading this to stand in solidarity as banks, newspapers, journals, note and appeal. I am a sociol- Technical University only to become with the persecuted academics in companies and schools, colleges and ogist who was born, raised, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Turkey and take a stand against universities. Tens of thousands of educated in Turkey, and most of Letters at the newly established such injustice and against the fun- officials, officers, professionals and my work centers empirically on private Doğuş University. She then damental freedom of expression academics were fired from their jobs historical and contemporary issues moved to another private Gediz in Turkey. Professor Gözaydın and thought. University as the chair of the for allegedly supporting the Gülen movement with no immediate legal is a personal friend of mine and For a more extensive analysis of the sociology department. Professor colleague that I hosted on my current predicament of academics in Gözaydın has acquired a sparkling recourse. Some have committed suicide in despair. campus almost a decade ago. Since Turkey, refer to the Huffington Post local and international reputation article from March 17, 2017 (http://huff. Professor Gözaydın was also President Erdoğan’s presidency as an academic specializing in the in 2014, the political oppression to/2pXmAve). sociology of religion and the state charged on three counts: (1) for on the one side and as an activist being a member of the Gülen as a founding member of Helsinki Movement; (2) for being a supporter Citizens Assembly, a Turkish human of the Gülen Movement before the Preliminary Program Now Online rights group on the other. Until coup and not referring to the movement as a ‘terrorist’ organization; recently, she also had a strong public The Annual Meeting preliminary program is now presence on Turkish television and (3) for receiving financial sup- and radio as a public intellectual, port from a terrorist organization posted online. Any changes or updates to session appearing on and putting together - based on her having been paid a listings for the final program received after June programs. salary as a regular faculty member It was at this juncture that at a Gülen-identified university 1 can only be made in the online program and Professor Gözaydın was caught in and receiving a normal fee for the mobile program app. To search the program, the political witch hunt that has appearing on television talk shows. brought Turkey into a nightmare These trumped-up charges reveal go to www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2017/ since the presidency of Recep the manner in which Turkey has program-information Tayyip Erdoğan. When she was the turned into an autocratic state, not

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Selection Process and ethnic minorities on editorial align with the committee’s charge. membership to be recruited in From Page 1 boards for ASA’s journals, other This can create serious problems for the same manner that is used for committees, sections, and gover- the entire group. task forces—with an open call for of Racial and Ethnic Minorities nance structures (Rosich 2005). Defining the issue, Tom volunteers who are later confirmed in Sociology in examining the Thanks in part to status committee Gerschick, Co-Chair of the Status by Council. differences between white and URM recommendations, gender-neutral Committee on Persons with Sara Green, Co-Chair of the graduate students on perceptions of bathrooms are now a standard Disabilities, said “To be effective, Status Committee on Persons peer social climate, faculty mentor- feature at all ASA Annual Meetings, these committees especially need with Disabilities in Sociology ing, and professional socialization, as are a host of accessibility features members who are knowledgeable, believes this will be a more effec- and the Committee on the Status including captions for Annual experienced and committed.” tive approach. “Recruiting status of Women in Sociology’s work Meeting Plenary sessions. For this reason, ASA members committee members in the same in studying time spent in faculty are asked to approve a change to way task force committee members The Proposal rank by race/ethnicity and gender the ASA Bylaws that will relieve are recruited —through an open were both part of the ASA’s official While many members of status the Committee on Committees of call for volunteers—represents a testimony in Seeking Solutions: committees work hard and accom- the responsibility for nominating real improvement. People who care Maximizing American Talent by plish a great deal, it is also true that individuals for these committees. enough about the issue to volun- Advancing Women of Color in over the years status committees The relevant sentence in the Bylaws teer will have made the decision Academia: Summary of a Conference have often struggled to define a currently reads: “The Committee on to dedicate the necessary time to (2013), published by the National specific project and deliver a report Committees shall be responsible for the task.” Academies Press.. at the end of each five-year cycle. making ranked recommendations Changes to the ASA Bylaws must Recommendations from Status Too frequently new members of the to Council for appointments to all be approved through a vote of the Committees have also led to status committees have arrived and Award Selection Committees and full membership. Please vote in the changes in ASA nomination and said they were not sure why they Status Committees.” The proposal upcoming ASA election and let your selection processes that had the were appointed to the committee, is to remove the words “and Status view on this important initiative be express purpose of increasing and sometimes felt their academic Committees” from this sentence. known. representation of women and racial expertise and interests did not fully This will allow Status Committee

High School Teachers association, but also for insuring Members, Student Members, Members, and Associates shall have From Page 1 that more students arrive in college High School Teacher Members, the right to initiate new business having been exposed to sociological and Associates shall have the for the Association, by submitting a sociology. knowledge and ready to enroll in right to attend all meetings of the proposal in writing to the Executive Membership categories are sociology classes. Association and shall be entitled to Officer.” included in our governing docu- The specific ASA bylaws revision one subscription to the Association’s Changes to the ASA Bylaws must ments. As such, Council has now is found in Article 1: Membership newsletter plus a free choice of as be approved through a vote of the passed a recommendation for a and Dues and would read as follows: many other ASA publications as full membership. Please vote in the brand new high school teacher “Section 1. Persons subscribing Council may authorize. Members, upcoming ASA election and let your membership category to go to to the objectives of the Association Emeritus Members, Student view on this important initiative be the full ASA membership on the may become Members. Those Members, High School Teacher known. current ballot, in the form of a subscribing to the objectives of bylaws revision proposal. Should the Association but desiring fewer the membership approve such a cat- membership services may become Sociologist Receives Pulitzer Prize egory, Council would later address Associate Members, pursuant to questions of specific dues and ben- criteria established by the Council. victed: Poverty and Profit in and eviction has become ordinary, efits. The most important resources Persons are eligible for Emeritus Ethe American City received the especially for single mothers. for high school teachers that would membership at retirement, provid- 2017 Pulitzer Prize in the General Desmond is the John L. Loeb be included in the benefits package ing that they have been full voting Nonfiction category. By Harvard Associate Professor of the Social include access to TRAILS and members of the Association for at sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Sciences at Harvard University Contexts, and ASA might develop least ten years. Students enrolled Matthew Desmond, Evicted was and Co-Director of the Justice and new benefits such as a webinar in undergraduate or graduate awarded for being “a deeply Poverty Project. A former member series designed specifically for high institutions may become Student researched exposé that showed how of the Harvard Society of Fellows, school teachers. Members. High school teachers mass evictions after the 2008 eco- he is the author of the award-win- Improving high school sociology may become High School Teacher nomic crash were less a consequence ning book, On the Fireline, coauthor has been one of Michèle Lamont’s Members. than a cause of poverty.” In his of two books on race, and editor main initiatives for her term as ASA The dues for Members, Associate critically acclaimed book, Desmond of a collection of studies on severe president, including both renewing Members, Emeritus Members, details the circumstances in the deprivation in America. His work efforts to establish an advanced Student Members, and High School poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee has been supported by the Ford, placement test for high school Teacher Members shall be deter- to tell the story of eight families on Russell Sage, and National Science sociology and bolstering ASA mined by Council. Increases in dues the edge. Even in the most desolate Foundations, and his writing has support for high school sociology above cost of living adjustments areas of American cities, evictions appeared in the New York Times and teachers. President Lamont, along shall be subject to approval by all used to be rare. But today, most poor Chicago Tribune. In 2015, Desmond with the ASA staff, views these voting Members. renting families are spending more was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” investments as crucial not only Section 2. Members, Emeritus than half of their income on housing, grant. for bolstering the ranks of our

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Victor Armony, is the geography each popula- Greek, and Université du Québec à Montréal tion tends to call home. A rule of Portuguese, y any standard, large Canadian thumb is that the further you go contributing Bcities are very ethnically diverse. If east, the more French-speaking to a phenome- the preferred indicator for diversity is the neighborhoods become; you non common the percentage of foreign-born pop- take the opposite direction and you to port cities ulation, though, Montreal will not will observe the English language during the great make the very top of the list. Toronto, gaining in strength and becoming, at Atlantic migra- Vancouver, and even much smaller the tip of the island, almost the only tion. From Calgary have proportionally more spoken language. Such separation New York to immigrants than the Francophone- was never perfectly delineated, and Buenos Aires, majority metropolis. However, like recent trends in migration, gentrifi- immigrants Montreal at night the city itself, Montreal’s diversity is cation, and residential development, converged in as well as the profound changes a dense urban in Canada, the top country sources extremely distinct, a truly cultural of immigration are the Philippines, universe of its own. within the Anglophone population center, imprinting their cultural itself (whose youth generally speak and institutional mark in the core India, China, Iran, and Pakistan, It all starts with the great lin- while in Quebec the top sources are guistic divide: it is here—and only French and show little interest in neighborhoods. By following social historical grudges), have created a and geographic mobility patterns Algeria, Morocco, France, China, and here—that the heritages of Canada’s Colombia. Meanwhile, the largest two colonial more linguisti- that generated intercultural contact cally inter- and established a multi-layered city minorities in English Canada are peoples still South Asian and Chinese, whereas meet, blend, A rule of thumb is that twined city. life, they opened the path to new The general immigrant groups that moved into in Quebec the largest are Arab and or collide the further you go east, the Latin American. The most spoken in everyday east-west axis those same spaces and sometimes more French-speaking the still stands to replaced the original population. non-official languages in English affairs. Of Canada are Cantonese, Punjabi, and course, the era neighborhoods become; you take some extent, Other long-settled groups, such as though, and Chinese and Black communities, still Mandarin, while in Quebec the most of Anglo dom- the opposite direction and you will spoken non-official languages are inance is far in the border— maintain a presence near Montreal’s observe the English language gain now mostly downtown. Migration trends in Arabic and Spanish. the past, and On the basis of current immigra- the French- ing in strength and becoming, at symbolic but the past three decades have upheld very real in the and even strengthened that type of tion trends, putting aside political speaking the tip of the island, almost the only and institutional differences between majority past—is the dynamic: newcomers tend to live spoken language. Saint Laurent in central neighborhoods (though Quebec and the rest of the country, comfortably the French-majority metropolis’s and self-as- Boulevard, now further from the city’s core) “The Main” as in generally mixed settings, with rapidly transforming social fabric sets suredly drives it apart from other Canadian cities. In Quebec’s public life. But the pres- it used to be called by locals. comparatively little inter-community tension. Indeed, minority residential brief, Montreal’s diversity is unique in ence and influence of both groups Ethnic Diversity segregation is much lower here than North America, surely because of its permeate many social interactions It is along and around that infor- French heritage and Quebec’s history and institutional processes. Certain in most U.S. and European cities. mal boundary in the middle of the Maybe Montreal’s dual character— within (and, in a way, against) the widespread habits point to a de facto city that Jewish immigrants from Canadian nation, but also due to how bilingualism, even if the idea of neither French nor English clearly Eastern Europe first settled at the dominate in all social spheres, a fact old and new communities interact acknowledging an equivalent status th end of the 19 century and during that requires social actors to negotiate and shape the city—physically and to English and French is anath- th the first decades of the 20 century. with, adapt to, and accommodate the socially. Some describe such partic- ema in Quebecois politics: most In a way, they became a “third ular model of coexistence as proper Montreal downtown store employ- “other” on a regular basis. Its internal solitude” in an already divided city. frontier, where communities made “interculturalism,” different from the ees will welcome customers with a After all, language was not the only Canadian-style celebratory multicul- very natural-sounding “Bonjour! frequent contact, has helped normal- (for some not even the main) dif- ize pluralism and diversity. turalism, the U.S.-style approach to Hi!” greeting (uttered almost as a ference that set the two “founding” racial relations, and France’s (suppos- single word). That is the mark of The province of Quebec holds peoples apart: the French were mas- extensive powers regarding the selec- edly) color-blind assimilationism. Let how the cultural mix operates within sively and stalwartly Catholic, while me point out that Quebec’s intercul- the urban center: based on personal tion of immigrants (particularly those the English were largely Protestant. admitted as independent workers, the tural model is far from being com- choice, expediency, and a more Jewish shops along and around the pletely effective. Recent immigrants relaxed view of norms (because major immigrant category). Because Saint Laurent Boulevard (including of the language imperative, one of and some minorities find it increas- a strict understanding of current the still famous Schwartz’s deli and ingly difficult to enter the labour language regulations would not the most important factors in that the Fairmount bagel bakery) defined process is the candidates’ previous market, and intolerance is arguably allow it, given that French must by a somewhat “neutral”, mediating on the rise in some sectors of Quebec law always clearly predominate in knowledge of French. This has meant urban zone where the two main that, for the past two decades, indi- society. But, given the current realities commercial activities). cultural groups met—though, of in the world, Montreal may still be A much stronger indication of viduals from the former French col- course, not always harmoniously. onies of Northern Africa constitute seen—and lived—as a fascinating, the way in which “Francos” and Other European communities came and rather successful, intercultural “Anglos” have coexisted in Montreal the main group of recent immigrants to settle in that area as well: Italians, putting roots in Montreal. Overall experiment.

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he American Sociological Association (ASA) is pleased to announce four awards from the December 2016 round of proposals to the Fund for the TAdvancement of the Discipline (FAD), a small-grants program. The FAD program is jointly funded by ASA and the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Applications are reviewed by an advisory panel composed of ASA Council members. Since 1987, the competitive FAD program has funded nearly 400 research projects and conferences. Proposals are accepted biannually—June and December. All PhD sociologists are eligible to apply. Individuals who are early in their careers, at community colleges, or based at other institutions without extensive support for research, are especially encouraged to submit a proposal. Projects receive funding of up to $8,000 for innovative proposals to advance the discipline of sociology. For more information, see www.asanet.org/career-center/grants-and-fellowships/fund-advancement-discipline-fad. Although NSF provides significant funding, ASA members can help extend the strong FAD tradition of supporting innovation and diversifying the discipline by donating online (Log into the ASA website and click “contribute”), by phone at (202) 383-9005, or by mail to FAD, c/o Business Office, American Sociological Association, 1430 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005. A summary abstract for the most recent projects selected for funding is below:

Colin Campbell, East Carolina women are discriminated against aid workforce. Preliminary analysis practices in relation to notions of University, and S. Michael Gaddis, in pawn shop transactions, and (3) suggests that Ugandan domestic habitus and capital. This study will Pennsylvania State University, for the relationship between pawn shop workers are adversely situated along provide a foundation for future Poverty and Profit: An Audit Study of location and lending decisions. To a global racial care chain hierarchy research on the recruitment and care Discrimination in Pawn Shop ($8,000). the extent that pawn shop loans help and must negotiate racial perceptions practices of healthcare volunteers to According to FDIC data, in 2015, poor and low-income households of work alongside an understanding understand how competing emotions more than two million households avoid hardship, and to the extent that of individual racial consciousness. shape healthcare delivery in high-risk received a loan from a pawnbroker. discriminatory pawn shop loans can This study applies a focus on race environments. In a connected and For many of these households, pawn worsen poverty and impede upward to domestic work global care chains digital world, digital emotion prac- shop lending is an integral part economic mobility, understanding and reproductive labor analyses to tices are increasingly critical to creat- of the safety net. Yet, sociologists these disparities is critical. highlight three themes: (1) What are ing effective global health policies. have largely overlooked how pawn Michelle Christian, University of the economic, political, and social Kevin Escudero, Brown University; shop loans shape the finances and Tennessee-Knoxville, for Racism and practices that organize Ugandan Lisa Martinez, University of Denver; material wellbeing of low-income Race-Making Along the Global Care domestic work and create racial Edelina Burciaga, University households and have the potential Chain in Postcolonial Uganda ($7,039). inequalities? (2) What discourses and of Colorado-Denver; Andrea to exacerbate existing racial and Domestic work is a key avenue logics are used to explain and justify Flores, Brown University; Joanna gender inequalities. This project of income generation for women in racially constituted domestic work? Perez, California State University- will use an in-person audit study to postcolonial Uganda. Increasingly, and (3) How do domestic workers Dominguez Hills; and Carolina empirically assess whether cus- domestic employment opportunities interpret their racial position and Valdivia Ordorica, Harvard tomer characteristics affect pawn are found by emigrating abroad or subjectivity? Thus, past literature is University, for Migrant Illegality shop transactions, examining (1) by working in the households of expanded upon by documenting the Across Uneven Legal Geographies: whether the impoverished are treated foreigners who live in Uganda as part specific structural racial practices that Advancing the Sociology of equally in pawn shop transactions, of the humanitarian, development produce a racialized global care chain Immigration ($8,000). (2) whether African Americans and constituting new forms of racism and While immigrant incorporation race-making in postcolonial Uganda. has been a foundational compo- Marci Cottingham, University of nent of sociological inquiry, only in A Few Reasons to Attend the ASA Annual Amsterdam, for Viral Fear: Digital the last two decades have scholars Meeting in Montreal Emotion Practice in the Ebola examined how illegality affects young Epidemic ($8,000). immigrants’ social and political he People—In addition to Bridging of Group Boundaries, How an epidemic unfolds follows incorporation. This project builds Tcatching up with colleagues, and 3) The Pursuit of Inclusion from how it is framed and felt, as on this emergent work by exam- peers, and mentors, see some great through Law, Policies, Narratives fear of infection tests the limits of ining how local enactments of law speakers such as Ta’Nehisi Coates, and Other Means. compassion and empathy. Effective have differential effects on migrant correspondent for The Atlantic; The Location—Montreal is an care during an epidemic hinges on illegality as a lived experience for Nancy Fraser, Professor of political amazing city, especially during the how these emotions are negotiated. youth. This will extend the study of science and philosophy at The New summer. Come to experience a qua- This project will examine epidemic migration and draw attention to the School; and more. si-European environment in North emotions using the 2014-15 Ebola intersection of the life course, law, The Sessions—With the theme, America. Extend your trip to take outbreak. Fear of the Ebola virus and local context. This work will “Culture, Inequalities and Social advantage of all that is happening in the United States appeared to span multiple geographic contexts Inclusion Across the Globe,” the in Montreal in August. The city is spread faster than the actual virus including the West, Midwest, South, program should be interesting. hosting Canada Pride week (www. itself. Using qualitative and quan- and Northeast United States situated You can check out the plena- fiertemontrealpride.com/en/). Plus, titative analysis of digital data, this within the context of limited rights ries, thematics, Author Meets 2017 marks the 375th anniversary study will trace emotions across the for immigrants at the federal level. As Critics, and other invited sessions of Montreal and Canada marks its epidemic timeline, individual and part of this investigation, two sympo- now at http://bit.ly/2017ple- 150th anniversary this year. organizational actors, and news and siums focused on immigrant youth, naries. Plenaries include: 1) A For more information on the 2017 ASA social media sources. In advancing illegality, and law across local contexts Conversation around the Politics Annual Meeting (#ASA17) , including theory, the project draws on an emo- featuring scholars and immigrant of Distribution and Recognition, on registration and housing, visit www. tion-as-practice framework to extend rights activists will take place. 2) Dignity, Morality and the asanet.org/annual-meeting-2017. our understanding of digital emotion

8 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Council Establishes Task Force on First-Generation and Working-Class People in Sociology n response to a request from a working-class Department Chair and other working class scholars. Igroup of ASA members, Council 2. The representation of administrative positions; • Make recommendations to has voted to establish a Task Force first-generation/work- (c) representation on ASA ASA Council as to how the on First-Generation and Working- ing-class sociologists within Council and on the ASA Association can best address Class People in Sociology. each academic rank, and in Publications Committee; (d) the challenge of integrating The charge to this Task Force is various types of educational representation on editorial this population into our disci- to: institutions (community col- boards of ASA journals; and pline in a way that maximizes • Develop a working defini- leges, 4-year colleges, state (e) FAD grant awardees. equity. tion of “first-generation” and universities, elite private • Solicit feedback from first-gen- “working-class” drawing universities) eration/working-class persons Call for Task Force Volunteers on existing literature, ASA The Task Force will have broad 3. Appointments of first-gener- in sociology (at every level, tradition, and the task force’s representation and will have a term ation/working-class sociol- from graduate student through substantive concerns. of three years, starting in fall 2017 ogists in new positions as a full professor status) regard- and concluding in fall 2020. It will • Examine existing data and, if share of all appointments, by ing issues or concerns related meet on a regular basis through possible, collect additional data rank of appointment to their status within the where gaps exist, to document: profession. conference calls and at the Annual 4. Comparing first-generation Meeting. If you are interested in • Review past and present efforts 1. The pipeline into the pro- working-class sociologists serving on this task force, send a let- of other scholarly associations fession, specifically the pro- to their peers within the ter of interest and curriculum vitae to address issues of underrep- portion of graduate students profession in terms of (a) to [email protected] by Monday, resentation of first-generation/ who are first-generation/ salaries; (b) appointments to June 15, 2017.

Special Call for Proposals: Policy-Making studying social movements. It is for From Page 3 this reason, and many others, that Sociological Research on the Effects of I believe sociologists can play a key and other congressional staffers as role in current and future debates Concealed Carry on College Campuses we analyze actions on immigration about changes and dynamics in Application Deadline: July 15 and the Trump administration’s U.S. social policy. Among my many Executive Orders. In the debate ASA Council has approved edge regarding guns on campuses. responsibilities as a fellow, one of about how to best provide health- funding for a one-time Call for Specific evaluation criteria include: the activities I get to engage in and care to all Americans, a major Proposals of $24,000 to support • Innovativeness and promise of which I especially enjoy is meeting focus in our office has been on small, groundbreaking sociological the research approach. with constituents and stakeholders how the most vulnerable groups research projects examining the • The potential of the study as a who come to Capitol Hill to gain will be adversely affected by policy effects of guns on college cam- building block in the develop- support for their various causes. I changes. In my role as a fellow, I am puses. It is hoped that this fund can ment of future research. am struck by the number of individ- again able to draw on a sociological provide seed money for projects • Feasibility and adequacy of proj- uals who are scientists across a range understanding of how individuals that will advance knowledge on this ect design. of fields, spanning from child wel- engage with the U.S. healthcare understudied topic. • Plans for the analysis of data. fare to biology coming to advocate system, the kinds of everyday chal- Since 2004 nine states have • Plans for dissemination of results for science and research issues. lenges they face to accessing quality passed laws allowing concealed in both scholarly and popular Individuals in our discipline can care, and how structural forces handguns on college campuses in media outlets. and should seek out more opportu- can lead to inequalities in health some form or another, and in 2014 • Appropriateness of requested nities to showcase their research and outcomes. alone 14 states submitted similar budget. expertise to people working across legislation.1 Such legislation can Principal investigators must have The Role of Sociologists in the political spectrum on Capitol potentially have great impact on a PhD or equivalent. Awards shall Policy-Making Going Forward Hill. Sociologists are well, if not best, equipped to engage in the poli- sociologists and their work. As not exceed $8,000. Awardees must be Beyond the particular pol- such, ASA is accepting proposals ASA members at the time of award. cy-making process by offering their icy issues I have worked on as a voices and knowledge to help staff for research to study the possible Proposals must be submitted online Congressional Fellow, I have found effects of guns in classrooms. Is at http://bit.ly/ASAcampuscarry. and members of Congress design that a foundation in sociology has legislation that will benefit the U.S. there an impact, for example, on Questions? Email research@ been useful in helping to explain the free speech or faculty fear? Are asanet.org or call (202) 383-9005. as a whole. As a Congressional recent events and major social and Fellow, I have become attuned to the there disparate effects on faculty References political change we are witness- importance of and potential impact from different demographic groups ing, not only in Washington, DC, or based on course topic? A full 1 National Conference of State Legislatures. from engagement in policy-making, 2017. “Guns on Campus Overview.” but across the country. Sociology range of proposals will be reviewed and know that contributions from Retrieved April 7, 2017 (http://www.ncsl. provides us with a framework for the lens of sociology are and will for scientific merit and the potential org/research/education/guns-on-campus- understanding and explaining social for advancing sociological knowl- overview.aspx). continue to be a valuable part of this change through its rich history of process.

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The following article is taken from ASA’s Promoting Sociological Research Social Media Toolkit. To access the toolkit and other social media resources, visit http://bit.ly/2qxe1uO. The article is shortened for space. Using Twitter R. Tyson Smith, Haverford College, tweet about topics like war, foreign work was picked up via Twitter by of suicide than homicide makes @tyson987654321 policy, mass incarceration, and eco- bloggers and scholars to critically #meansmatter an important public ocial media allows users to nomic opportunities, all of which discuss a controversial anti-pi- health issue. I have learned that gun Sengage in a dialog spanning the are tied to my work on veterans. racy agreement proposed by the enthusiasts hate this social fact. On globe, but, in my opinion, Twitter is Importantly, Twitter can be a European Commission. Kennedy’s different occasions people chal- arguably the best way to reach the great place to do searches for infor- targeted tweets to politi- lenged me with intensity greatest number of people, in the mation so one does not need to be cians about his research and alacrity. I tried to quickest fashion, and in the least tweeting to benefit from the use of on Anti-ACTA (regarding retort politely, but they mediated way. Twitter. I don’t ordinarily track how transforming intellectual practically multiplied with For this article on Twitter, I was many people view my tweets but property rights) helped to each rejoinder I offered. asked to comment on how it can be Twitter provides analytics on “tweet make the case against the Unfortunately, I gave up a valuable tool for sociologists to activity” so for this piece I looked anti-piracy act. He said because I realized that make our research, discipline, and into the past month and learned that Twitter allows him to develop many derive pleasure from the sport everyday insights, more visible and that about 150-200 people view my more refined dialogs about public of the online spat, and it’s futile to accessible. While there is something tweets on average but sometimes issues. argue using 140 characters. to be said for people who tweet over 1,000 people view them. If Hashtags (#topic) are an import- There are some practical con- about one particular issue—because inclined, I could boost this because ant feature because they identify cerns regarding the content of our they can be counted on for report- there are numerous resources to topics and affect trends. When I see tweets. Users must be cautious ing and tracking that concern— assist in this. a newsworthy event or important because tweets immediately become from what I can tell, most people For social movements, Twitter news story, I try to use a hashtag part of the permanent electronic are generalists who tweet about has become a fruitful site of action. to link it to either my own scholar- record and 140-character com- a range of topics that fall under For instance, #BlackLivesMatter ship or the people I know. They are ments can easily be misinterpreted. some general theme (in my case took off on Twitter. The organiza- especially effective in the midst of a One should never lose sight of the the theme is the broad discipline tion of social movements through larger cultural phenomena in which fact that we don’t all tweet or opine of sociology). I sometimes tweet Twitter makes it a great asset to both thousands (or millions) of people with same degree of impunity. about violence, masculinity, class, activists and scholars alike. One can are focused on the same event. Since roughly 75 percent of U.S. and identity—all are related to my be in Pennsylvania yet closely follow “Live tweeting,” during political college and university professors first book,Fighting for Recognition: developments as they unfold on debates, entertainment occurrences, now occupy insecure academic Identity, Masculinity, and the Act the streets of Eastern Europe, Hong [academic conferences], or social positions, Twitter can present cer- of Violence in Pro Wrestling. I also Kong, or San Francisco. People protests can be one of Twitter’s most tain risks. In the high profile case could follow along as activists compelling uses. The hashtags allow of Professor Salaita, for example, it in Palestine, you to enter a larger, sometimes was the interpretation of a handful for example, global, conversation about the event of tweets that derailed his tenured used Twitter to and the discourse surrounding it. career. (I’d suggest never tweeting exchange tips There is an opportunity to contrib- while overly heated or, for that mat- with activists ute (or gain) sociological insights, ter, while driving, intoxicated, or in Ferguson research, and even humor to a at a faculty meeting). Having said about how to discussion. that, if you have even a modicum contend with the of nerve, Hashtags and Controversy military’s use of Twitter is a great opportunity tear gas. Because hashtags connect you to engage larger audiences and One of with conversations that you might highlight our discipline’s contribu- sociology’s more not otherwise participate in, they tions. Most sociologists, I suspect, prolific tweet- are more likely to bring you to would agree that there is urgency ers is Michael contested arenas. I have had a few to the issues that we study and Kennedy. I spats with gun enthusiasts that are Twitter is the most immediate way asked him about illustrative. In these instances, I was to engage and contribute to larger Twitter and he tweeting about research that high- conversations. Waiting until there explained that lights “means matter,” the public is consensus renders sociologists he finds it to be a health concept for how the means almost irrelevant when the world great way to both available to people who consider is burning away, inequalities discover new suicide make a big difference in are rising, and human suffering research prob- suicide rates. A remarkable number abounds. lems and find of people attempt suicide who do Tweeting is easy. Starting an new colleagues not “succeed” in this attempt and account takes only a few minutes to possibly work then go on to lead long lives. If a and most websites now have an with. At one gun is around, however, the attempt easy to find link on the page, which point, for exam- is far more likely to be lethal. Guns lets you tweet about that content as in the U.S. kill more people in acts ple, Kennedy’s Continued on Page 14

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Richard D. Alba Laura J. Enriquez Augustine J. Kposowa Caroline Hodges Persell Hana Shepherd Tinkler Patricia L. Alm Wendy Nelson Espeland Alex Kulick Kathleen Piker-King Angela Marie Simms Joseph G. A. Trumino Paul D. Almeida Elisa Facio Sheri-Lynn S. Kurisu Katy M. Pinto Jennifer S. Singh Amanda Jacqueline Duane F. Alwin Fang Fang Andrew T. Lamas Rebecca F. Plante David Norman Smith Turner John Angle John E. Farley Elizabeth M. Lee Isabelle Reedy Powell Jason A. Smith Michelle VanNatta Sandra P. Arevalo James V. Fenelon Jooyoung Kim Lee Stephanie A. Pullés William L. Gloria S. Vaquera Sarah Louise Babb Gene A. Fisher Betsy Leondar-Wright Gabrielle Raley Smith-Hinds William Velez Chasity Kathleen J. Fitzgerald Roberta G. Lessor Rashawn Ray Margaret R. Somers Lydia Villa-Komaroff Bailey-Fakhoury Gretchen V. Fleming Donald W. Light Meredith M. Redlin Roberta M. Melinda C. Vinicor Elizabeth Helene Baker Glenda M. Flores Deborah Lynn Little Sarah Reibstein Spalter-Roth Margaret Weigers Nina Bandelj René Flores Kathy Livingston Brian L. Rich Yanick St. Jean Vitullo Nidia Isabel Banuelos Tyler Frederick Enid Logan Clara E. Rodriguez Stephen F. Steele Mary E. Vogel Melvin W. Barber Joan H. Fujimura Elizabeth Long Judith Rollins Arlene J. Stein Barbara R. Walters Pauline B. Bart Bruce Fuller Dan C. Lortie Akos Rona-Tas Lois S. Steinberg Murray A. Webster, Jr. Irenee R. Beattie Steve Garner John J. Macisco, Jr Vincent J. Roscigno Marc W. Steinberg Charles V. Willie Danielle Bermudez Deborah L. Garvey Hasan Mahmud Gabriel Rossman Ron Stewart William Julius Wilson Johanna Black Rona Geffen James Mahoney Jack Rothman Mark C. Suchman George L. Wimberly Fred Block Uta Gerhardt Shushanik Makaryan Joseph W. Ruane Heather Michael J.V. Woolcock Ricky N. Bluthenthal Jeff Goodwin Emily Maloney Essie Manuel Rutledge Sullivan-Catlin Devon Alanzo Wright Glenn Edward Bracey Allison Gorga Cora B. Marrett Rebecca Sager Ann Swidler Renxin Yang Anthony A. Braga Brian Gran Jordanna Chris Matlon Russell K. Schutt Howard F. Taylor Gay Young Jenifer L. Bratter Ryken Grattet John D. McCarthy James F. Scott Marylee C. Taylor Sheryline A. Zebroski Clifford L. Broman Lynn H. Green Steve McDonald Maureen A. Scully Brooke D. Thaden-Koch Min Zhou Julia S. Brown A. Lafayette Grisby Daniel S. McNeil Brenda Seals Michael Franklin Mary K. Zimmerman Michael E. Brown Kaaryn S. Gustafson Ashley E. Mears Anezka Cecile Sebek Thompson Gilda Zwerman Tony N. Brown Jaren Randell Haber Joshua S. Meisel Rachelle E. Seger Justine Eatenson Basil Robert Browne Tod G. Hamilton Brennan J. Miller Nnenia Marie Sandra L. Hanson Omar Montana Campbell Daina Cheyenne Adelle Dora Valerie Jean Carter Harvey Monteblanco ASA Welcomes New Director of Margaret M. Chin Anthony Ryan Hatch Marie T. Mora Communications Joyce N. Chinen Darnell F. Hawkins Jerome Ellis Morris Lars D. Christiansen Jay W. Hays Marietta Morrissey armen Russell first heard about in restaurants, and eventually Shirley M. Clark Shirley A. Hill Anna-Lisa Mueller Cthe opening for a Director enrolled in a community college. Sean A. P. Clouston Lilo Hoelzel-Seipp Christin L. Munsch of Communications from his He transferred to Boston University Lynn D. Coburn Thomas C. Hood Yoichi Murase colleague when he was working where he received a scholarship and Trudie Coker Richard O. Hope Alexandra K. Murphy for Congressman Mike Honda of a degree in International Relations. E. Dean Conley Ruth Horowitz Hart M. Nelsen California. ASA Congressional An avid college activist, he regularly Edward S. Cooke Danny R. Hoyt Cam Nguyen Fellow, Emerald Nguyen (see her organized protests and managed Gary Coyne Carolyn L. Hsu Emerald Thai Han article on page 3), insisted he apply. to talk Howard Zinn into being M. Richard Cramer Suzanne S. Hudd Nguyen “Even though my time on the Hill the faculty advisor for his student Amanda K. Damarin Marcus Anthony Raymond W. Olson was coming to an end, I honestly group. Sarah Damaske Hunter Fumiya Onaka wasn’t really looking for a job Upon graduating, he moved Dale Dannefer Ashley Colleen Feely Cecelia Ogechi Oparah although I was open to the right job, back to Japan, where he had studied Vasilikie (Vicky) Hutson Tracy E. Ore something potentially amazing,” abroad, to work as a translator for Demos Jerry A. Jacobs Jacqueline Ortiz Carmen says. “But you don’t say ‘no’ Aomori, a small city in northern John B. Diamond Austin Abernethy Anthony M. Orum to Emerald so I went in to meet the Honshu. After a stint as a SCUBA Pierce Alexander Stimpson Jenkins Mary Johnson Osirim staff and I knew then this was where dive instructor in south Thailand, Dignam Willa Mathis Johnson Thomas M. Painter I needed to be. Getting to know he studied Chinese in Taiwan and Jamie M. Dolan Nikki Jones Robert S. Palacio our members since then has really started working as a reporter for The Patricia Drentea Jiwook Jung Robert Nash Parker solidified that impression.” China Post, an English newspaper Emily M. Drew Miliann Kang Virginia Parks Carmen’s foray into communica- based in Taipei. Mark G. Eckel Barbara R. Keating Carey D. Patterson tions was not a straight line. During After seven years abroad, Hester Eisenstein Harold R. Kerbo Diana M. Pearce and after high school he worked Sean Elias Fred Kniss Robert Perrucci Continued on Page 14 footnotes 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

international perspectives The State of Higher Education in Uganda from a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow Perspective Johnson W. Makoba, University of Nevada-Reno sion of both undergrad- n 2016 I was one of 59 African Diaspora Scholars (i.e., African-born schol- uate and ars based at universities in the United States and Canada) who received I graduate the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowships to travel to Africa. Beginning students. in May 2016, the Scholars traveled to the selected public and private higher education institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and • Extremely Uganda to collaborate on curriculum co-development, research, graduate low remu- teaching, and training and mentoring activities. neration I traveled to Uganda to work with the Uganda Technology and packages for Management University (UTAMU) on graduate student training and men- academic toring within the School of Business and Management. I co-led a 10-week staff; as a graduate training and mentoring project with UTAMU’s Dean of the result most Graduate School. During this period, we covered several important topics academic Professor Makoba ( Front Row Center) with UTAMU Graduate Students including developing a research proposal, an extensive literature review, staff teach research design and methodology, as well as how to successfully complete in multiple a research project. In addition, graduate students were provided tips and institutions (especially in and around the capital city of Kampala) and ideas about effective and timely completion of their reports and how to seek more still, engage in outside consultancies to earn a decent living. This potential outlets for the publication of their research. A list of 31 peer-re- leaves them little time to focus on research or effective teaching and viewed, relevant journals was provided to the participants to enable them to mentoring of students. select potential journals for their publications. This was critical because most • Inadequate to poor infrastructure for teaching/learning, doing research of the doctoral students, including advanced ones, had never had the oppor- and scholarship. In addition to over-crowded lecture rooms and poorly tunity to publish their research in peer-reviewed journals in Uganda or glob- equipped labs, there are insufficient books and journals, e-libraries, or ally. In addition to graduate training and mentoring, I was appointed by the computers to cater for both students and instructors. Vice Chancellor of UTAMU as Editor-in-Chief of a new online open access interdisciplinary journal called the International Journal of Technology and • Administrative problems: most universities employ inexperienced and/ Management (ijotm.utamu.ac.ug) or unqualified individuals in top administrative positions (due to sec- The Fellowship fit well with my personal background, expertise, and tarianism, regionalism, or cronyism). In private universities, decision professional (sociological) experience. These skills were relevant and making is a prerogative of Boards of Trustees (mostly owners) and top transferable to the project activities of graduate training and mentoring. My administration. interactions over the three months with scholars at UTAMU were mutually • Poor leadership and supervision at the national level: the National beneficial; I not only shared my expertise with colleagues at UTAMU, but Council for Higher Education (NCHE) is understaffed and incapable they felt I was useful to both graduate students and colleagues I worked with of providing effective monitoring, evaluation, and supervision of the 41 on a daily basis for the 10-week period. I was able to gain new and valuable public and private institutions of higher education in the country. perspectives on the experiences of both scholars and graduate students in Most of the problems highlighted here can be reversed through adequate the context of institutions of higher education in Uganda. In particular, the funding (diversifying domestic and international sources of income), hiring fellowship gave me a rare opportunity to interact with graduate students and adequately compensating high-caliber administrative and academic while engaging with colleagues at UTAMU. staff, extending scholarships to students from low-income groups, and During my fellowship, I had the opportunity to share research and teach- promoting student and faculty exchanges (including visiting professors) with ing experiences of two contexts of higher education/learning—the U.S. and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Indeed, already the Carnegie African Ugandan contexts—which are very different, but have similar challenges and Diaspora Fellowship Program (http://bit.ly/2pQ7Dev) facilitates engage- aspirations. Both the graduate students and colleagues I worked with were ment between scholars born in Africa who are now based at universities in extremely excited about my project activities. They were all grateful that I the United States or Canada and scholars in Africa on mutually beneficial was able to be at their institution for three months working with them on academic activities. graduate training and mentoring as well as helping to launch a new journal for the institution. For my part, I was very grateful to give back to students in my native country, which I had left in the early 1980s to attend graduate school at the University of California-Berkeley. Over the three-month stay in Uganda, I learned of the enormous challenges facing the 41 public and private universities (31 private and 10 public). Such challenges include: • Inadequate funding as these institutions rely primarily on tuition and fees paid by students to fund their operating budgets. Public universities receive additionakl government funding, but it is insufficient. • Inadequate academic staff (most vacancies go unfilled due to lack of qualified applicants) and an insufficient number of senior academic staff to conduct research as well as provide quality teaching or supervi-

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Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University such metrics facilitate it nonetheless. mulation of 100 points over five same thing. Solo authoring remains Chicago. [email protected] I know from the assistant professors years. These points could come from the most rewarded, but collaboration n recent discussions with socio- in my own department that they find books, edited books, journal articles, is clearly recognized and rewarded. Ilogical colleagues who work in comfort in our system – “I know book chapters, technical reports to The “target journal” list was our universities across the United States, clearly what I have to do,” is a refrain funders, and miscellaneous writings way of dealing with the profusion in both research- and teaching-ori- I have heard more than once. such as book reviews, encyclopedia of specialty journals. I asked each entries, and the like. For example, faculty member to list the top five ented institutions, two related Assessing Research Productivity topics come up. One is the rise of here is the point award template for journals in their area(s), especially At Loyola University Chicago, books: the ones they read and cite. With “performance metrics” that are used departments were charged with • Research-based book in leading some overlap in the resulting lists, to assess faculty performance, and developing metrics that would be scholarly press (e.g., university and with the addition the key gener- the other involves questions about used to assess the research produc- presses such as California, Chicago, alist journals sponsored by regional tenure processes and standards, and tivity of faculty.1 As will not surprise Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, associations, we had a target list – whether those are equitable. These readers of Footnotes, this presents topics have intersected in the recent Oxford, Cambridge) – 65 essentially, the places we want to see some particular issues for sociol- our department represented. past at my university, and I describe • Solo/lead author, research-based ogy faculty. As a discipline, we are I did not favor developing these here how we responded. book in other university presses neither wholly science-oriented (and metrics in the first place. The audit Daniel Kleinman, among other and reputable, refereed scholarly thus grant and article driven) nor culture, and the replacement of scholars, has written about the “audit presses – 50 the humanities (and thus books are assessments of qualitative value culture” that has come to dominate undisputed coin of the realm). Many • Co-author, research book in other higher education. Pushes for greater with standardized quantitative sociology departments lean one university presses and reputable, scores, flattens our decision mak- “efficiency” and “accountability” direction or the other, but most have refereed scholarly presses –45 from colleges and universities, along ing. Disproportionately rewarding a mixture of both approaches among • Solo/lead editor of edited volume publication in the already established, with a trend in administrative circles the faculty. It often varies by subdisci- to talk about “data-driven” deci- in university presses and reputable, leading venues reproduces a hierarchy pline, methodological, and theoreti- refereed scholarly presses – 25 that can push more innovative and sion-making have made performance cal approach. As a result, we needed a • Co-editor of volume in university critical scholarship to the margins. metrics increasingly popular. I have system that could accommodate both presses and reputable, refereed But not responding was not an option, no particular quarrel with the idea approaches by offering more or less that higher education should be scholarly presses – 20 and developing our own metric was equivalent avenues to tenure. Also, better than having one imposed on accountable, and I applaud the notion there are sub-disciplinary distinc- • Textbook, first edition – 25 that administrators want to make us. Importantly, built into our system tions regarding collaboration and • Textbook, following editions – 8 decisions based on data. I suspect, are two safeguards—we review this co-authorship that also needed to be And here is the temple for peer-re- however, that the attraction to scheme (including our target journals) accommodated. Moreover, sociolo- viewed journal articles: quantitative metrics is driven by the every five years to see that it continues gy’s disciplinary diffusion means that • First tier generalist journal (ASR; to reflect our collective idea of what seduction of objectivity that numbers there is only general consensus on the can provide, abetted by the drive for AJS; Social Forces; Social Problems) should be rewarded and the poten- top three or four journals in the field, – 22 tial changes in faculty. In addition, standardization and efficiency that beyond which specialty journals are marks the neoliberal university. • Solo/lead author in “target list” there is provision for the chair to the sites of much academic inno- award ‘discretionary points’, worth At the same time, there is a push vation and influence; thus, ranking journal – 18 for transparency in decision-making up to 10 percent of the total, based journals needed to move beyond • Co-author in “target list” journal on conversations and negotiations around tenure, promotion, and merit the simple “impact factor.” Finally, – 15 raises; clearly understood standards with individual faculty members and our department has a long history of • Solo/lead author in other journals applied to all can be a tool to fight subject to review by the Dean. valuing what we might call “public” – 15 Different departments, of course, discrimination and inequities. sociology, so the standards needed to Sociologists understand that many • Co-author in other journals – 13 must tailor any metric to the partic- be able to include such activities. ular balance of research, teaching, ‘old boys’ networks get reproduced • Author/co-author article in Thus, the challenge was a system and service that they use. And no because the criteria for inclusion and journal issue one edits – 8 (extra that would reward both book and metric solves all problems. But we promotion is obtuse, unarticulated, article researchers, solo authors and beyond editor credit) and often based on such things have generated one response that we collaborators, and scholars in a variety Dealing with a Metric Culture believe is faithful to our disciplinary as perceived ‘collegiality.’ I have a of subfields, while at the same time In our view, the metric rewards diversity and gives faculty a clear colleague who was told that her case balancing the quantity of publications what is the “gold standard” of schol- sense of what is expected. for promotion needed to wait until with notions of quality. The resulting arly contributions in books—the Endnote after the reviews of her second book document was three pages long, with as research monograph in a leading were in—not just the book itself. many contingencies as we could imag- 1 I note that the initial purpose of these academic press, and in journal pub- This criterion was nowhere spelled ine being given point values. The full metrics were to assess the tenured faculty, lishing—the first-tier generalist jour- out in departmental documents. document is available upon request, but in order to determine teaching loads based nal. Generating two articles before on faculty research productivity over Administrators often push for in this space I want to highlight some numerical evaluation metrics by a book appears, which is common, five-year periods. Not coincidently, this is central issues and decisions. the practical period in which junior faculty claiming to favor transparency in would in most cases put a candidate must make their case for tenure, and thus decision making. While I question Using a Point System near the total. Alternatively, an aver- these metrics have been transferred to the motive, there is a good case that We assumed a goal of the accu- age of just over one refereed journal junior faculty as the way to measure the article per year would achieve the research component of the tenure file. footnotes 13 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org ASA Launches 2017 Member-Get-A- Sociologists Awarded Mellon/ACLS Member Campaign Dissertation Completion Fellowship he American Sociological access to the TRAILS online data- he American Council of Learned Revolutionary Guards Corps in TAssociation challenges ASA base of teaching materials; deep TSocieties (ACLS) 2017 Mellon/ the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). members to encourage their col- discounts on ASA books, teaching ACLS Dissertation Completion • Christopher Seeds, New York leagues, students, and others inter- resources, journals, and Annual Fellows includes three sociologists University, Life Without Parole: ested in the discipline of sociology Meeting registration; group rates among the 65 fellows selected from Emergence of a Late-Twentieth- to join ASA for 2017. 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Using Twitter that some people (e.g., Rep. Scott Communications Director to communications when he was From Page 10 Perry) think that Syrian refugees From Page 11 recruited for the role of Public should not leave the chaos of war Relations Director at soon as you have an account. You but rather, stay and fight. I think it’s Carmen returned to Brooklyn Defender Services, will build followers little-by-little. important for sociologists to follow the U.S. to attend the a pro bono criminal defense Often random people start follow- each other and I don’t think having Columbia University law firm and advocacy ing you if you’re doing little more more followers than the number Graduate School of organization. While there, than tweeting and “liking” here and that you follow matters (aside Journalism. As a journal- he helped establish the first there. Even though interactions are from some kind of status grab). ist, Carmen’s reporting National Public Defender not in person, Twitter is undoubt- It is possible people like to keep a has appeared on and in Day. edly a form of impression manage- feed with less content streaming numerous outlets includ- “I’m excited about ment. The content of your tweets through, and you probably wouldn’t ing National Geographic, Carmen Russell the possibilities at ASA,” is the primary way to manage need to follow back folks once NBC News, ABC News, Russell said. “I think of this impressions, but another dimension you have thousands of followers, national Japanese television, the as much as a journalism operation of impression management is who but personally I find it silly when Chicago Tribune, the Orlando as I do a communications job. The and, more importantly, how many someone who is not a celebrity or Sentinel, the BBC, much of it difference is that we’re not selling a people follow you. major public figure—pretty much on-location abroad including product but rather disseminating I follow more people and orga- every sociologist—tries to maintain in Haiti, Kenya, China, and the ideas and information.” nizations than I am followed by. I a minimal number of people whom Middle East. It is with that philosophy in mind follow back almost everyone who they follow. Furthermore, it’s basic In between those assignments, in which Russell lists off ideas to build follows me and suggest you do etiquette to follow back a colleague Carmen took segues from journal- the ASA media brand: explanatory the same. I also try to follow some (while recognizing that sociologists ism to run electoral campaigns in videos, podcasts, and a sociolo- people who see the world differ- are not above such snubs!) and you Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. gy-based news blog. To name a few. ently than me, like the Christian can “mute” someone you follow, That combination of campaign “We have the technology, we have Republican who’s running for office which means you stay connected and journalism experience led him the content, and we have the know- in Texas and tweets invariably about but their tweets do not show up to hosting a political radio show how,” Russell says. “It’s really just a either #liberty or #constitution. on your feed. So, jump in and start through the 2012 election cycle. matter of building the infrastruc- It can be helpful to be reminded tweeting Carmen finally made the jump ture.”

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ularly urgent in analytic philosophy Conferences relationships, how parents raise their Call for Papers because English is undoubtedly the children, and how family members Open Scholarship for the Social lingua franca of contemporary analytic remain connected across long distanc- Publications Sciences 03S, October 26-27, 2017, philosophy. The aim of this special es. The 2017 National Symposium on University of Maryland, College Park, Critical Global Studies, a peer-re- issue of philosophical papers is to Family Issues focuses on how these MD. Sociology papers or presentations viewed book series seeks monographs consider the circumstances of being a dramatic changes are shaping and are invited related to the following and anthologies that systematically non-native speaker and writer of En- changing families and family life in themes: Research on any topic that explore the exploding contradictions glish in analytic philosophy. Deadline: both positive and negative ways. For includes open scholarship compo- in the global order as well as emerging October 2017. Contact: Philosophical. more information and to register, visit nents, research about open scholar- alternatives that mark the transition [email protected]; or Filippo Contesi at 2017 Family Symposium away from neoliberal capitalist devel- ship itself, research about replication [email protected] For more State of (In)Equality: Social Justice opment. Contact: R.A. Dello Buono and transparency. This includes both information, visit www.contesi.word- Under Siege, October 28-29, 2017, at ricardo.dellobuono@manhanttan. replication studies and research about press.com/cfp. Toronto, Canada. An interdisciplinary edu. For more information, visit www. replication and reproducibility issues. Palgrave Communications, the academic conference hosted by Hum- brill.com/publications/critical-glob- Travel stipends of $1,000 will be avail- humanities and social sciences journal ber College’s School of Liberal Arts and al-studies. able to a limited number of presenters. published by Palgrave Macmillan, is Deadline: June 1, 2017. Contact: Philip Sciences of Toronto, Canada in associ- Humanity & Society invites submis- currently inviting article proposals and Cohen at [email protected]. For ation with the International Festival of sions for a peer-reviewed special issue: full papers for the following special is- more information, visit www.socy.umd. Authors (IFOA). The conference aims to “Beyond Representation: Production, sues. Authors who would like to submit edu/centers/socarxiv-o3s-conference. facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion Distribution, and Consumption of a paper should contact the editorial among scholars and researchers who Penn State’s 25th Annual Sympo- Racialized Media.” Guest edited by office with details of their intended study the topics of social justice. The sium on Family Issues, October 23-24, Emma Gonzalez-Lesser, Carol Ann submission. Journals now accepting perceived orthodoxy of progressive 2017. New communication technolo- Jackson, Rhys Hall, and Matthew W. submissions include Countering Racism politics has come under attack in gies, such as smart phones and social Hughey (University of Connecticut), in Counter-terrorism and Surveillance recent years by individuals, groups, and media, are rapidly diffusing across the this special issue will feature original Discourse with a deadline of June institutions that believe their actions globe among both children and adults. scholarship (empirical and theoretical) 1, 2017. Religion and Poverty with a and speech are being policed. Keynote Fifteen percent of U.S. adults have used on racialized media that challenges deadline of September 30, 2017, and speaker is Susan Herman, President of an online dating site. American teens “common-sense” understandings of, Geographies of Emotional Care Labour the ACLU. Deadline: May 30, 2017. Con- spend an average of nine hours a day and goes beyond, racial representa- with a deadline of July 1, 2017. Contact: tact: [email protected]. For engaged in social media. Technologi- tions. Papers will carefully consider the [email protected]. For more in- more information, visit www.humber. cal changes such as these are rapidly uses, gratifications, direct and indirect formation, visit www.palgrave-journals. ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals. changing how couples meet and form effects, framing, and cultivations of com/palcomms/about/openaccess. media at the intersection of race and racism. Submit abstracts, no longer than 500 words. Authors will be notified of the editors’ decisions to Apply Now to Have Your Class be Part of the ASA TRAILS submit full manuscripts no later than September 1, 2017. Deadline: August 1, Teaching Seminar Program! 2017. Contact: Emma Gonzalez-Lesser at [email protected]. Want to integrate TRAILS into your graduate teaching seminar? This program will help you enhance the learning process Journal of Festive Studies, a new peer-reviewed journal published under for your graduate students and advance the scholarship of the auspices of H-Net, invites submis- teaching and learning in Sociology. Applications are now sions for its first issue, scheduled for being accepted for Fall 2017. Students receive free access March 2018. The journal’s stated aim to TRAILS for six months. is to draw together all academics who share an interest in festivities, including Requirements for any participating course: but not limited to holiday celebrations, family rituals, carnivals, religious feasts, • The course is a graduate level teaching seminar. processions and parades, and civic commemorations. For its first issue, the • The course plan/syllabus includes a structured plan for students to familiarize themselves journal will look at festive studies as an with resources in at least one subject area or one pedagogical approach. emerging academic sub-field since the • Students in the course prepare at least one teaching resource for possible submission to late 1960s and seeks submissions that consider some of the methods and TRAILS. theories that scholars have relied on • Course instructors review a first draft of student teaching materials and provide feedback for to apprehend festive practices across revision prior to students’ submitting their materials to TRAILS. the world. Deadline: November 1 2017. Contact: submissions-festive-stud- • Professor participates in on-ramping conversation with TRAILS Editor. [email protected]. For more Preferred elements for participating courses: information, visit www.networks.h-net. org/h-celebration. • The course plan/syllabus for the graduate seminar is well designed and reflects best practices Linguistic Justice and Analytic Philos- in scholarly teaching. ophy invites submissions for a special issue of philosophical papers. The • Students in the courses are given an opportunity to test the effectiveness of the teaching topics of linguistic discrimination and activities they develop. linguistic justice have received little • The courses selected to participate in the ASA TRAILS Teaching Seminar Initiative reflect the attention from contemporary analytic philosophers despite the fact that broad range of graduate institutions and include a diverse student body. there is a growing body of evidence Send applications to [email protected]. 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Trump is Waging War on the Climate,” Deplorable in Albany,” about inade- Teaching. September 1, 2017. The World Weekly, April 7, 2017; “Make quate snow cleanup and safe sidewalk Zakiya Luna, University of Califor- Enrique S. Pumar, Catholic University, Earth Great Again! – Here’s How.” access for disabled older adults. nia-Santa Barbara, received a Woodrow will be a Senior Fulbright Visiting Schol- Scientific American, March 1, 2017; Robb Willer, Stanford University, was Wilson Foundation Career Enhance- ar at the University of Valladolid, Spain “It’s Possible to ‘Vaccinate’ Americans cited for his research in a March 20 Vox ment Fellowship. this summer to lecture and work on Against Fake News, Experiment Shows.” article,” 7 psychological concepts that Jennifer Utrata, University of Puget migration issues. Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2017; explain the Trump era of politics.” and “Trump’s ‘Extreme’ Cabinet Could Sound, was awarded the 2017 Distin- Fuel Warming Crisis.” Climate Central, guished Scholarship Award from the New Books January 10, 2017. In addition, his work Awards Pacific Sociological Association for her Nina Bandelj, University of Califor- with Aaron McCright (Michigan State Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Hebrew book Women Without Men: Single Moth- nia-Irvine, Frederick Wherry, Yale Uni- University) on climate change politics University, is the co-winner of the 2017 ers and Family Change in the New Russia versity, and Viviana Zelizer, Princeton was cited in “Education Won’t Fix Law and Society Association Interna- (Cornell University Press, 2015). University, Eds., Money Talks: Explaining Climate Policy — but Campaign Finance tional Award. How Money Really Works (Princeton Reform Might,” Pacific Standard, April Transitions University Press, 2017). 18, 2017; “Putting Science Into Practice: Bowling Green State University Why We Need to Play Our Part,” Union Department of Sociology, was recog- Amin Ghaziani, University of British Anthony J. Blasi, San Antonio, TX, So- of Concerned Scientists, March 8, 2017, nized for its outstanding contributions Columbia, has been appointed a cial Science and the Christian Scriptures: and “The White Male Effect Is Real and to education with the Faculty Senate Canada Research Chair in Sexuality and Sociological Introductions and New Dangerous to Us All,” Alternet, January Unit Recognition Award Urban Studies. The CRC program is part Translation (Wipf & Stock, 2017). 12, 2017. Chad Broughton, University of Chi- of a national strategy to make Canada Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, Polly cago, received the 2016 WOLA-Duke one of the world’s top countries in Thistlethwaite, CUNY-Graduate Cen- Barry Glassner, Lewis & Clark College, research excellence. was quoted on February 9 in a Times Human Rights Book Award on March ter, Being a Scholar in the Digital Era: magazine article, “No President Has 23 for his book, Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Matthew W. Hughey, University Transforming Scholarly Practice for the Spread Fear Like Donald Trump.” He Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two of Connecticut, has been named a Public Good (Policy Press, 2016). was also recently quoted in an April Cities (Oxford University Press, 2016). Research Associate for the Centre for Amitai Etzioni, George Washington 11 Guardian article, “Confessions of a Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, was Critical Studies in Higher Education University, Avoiding the War with China: Reluctant Gentrifier.” His article, “Advice selected as an Arthur Vining Davis Transformation at Nelson Mandela Two Nations, One World (University of for a New President,” was published Foundation Fellow for the 2017 Aspen Metropolitan University (Port Elizabeth, Virginia Press, 2017). South Africa). He has also received February 26 in the Chronicle of Higher Ideas Festival in June. Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, Education. a International Visiting Fellowship Michele Dillon, University of New (for Spring 2018) for residence at and Kimberley Ducey, University of Karen Guzzo and Wendy Manning, Hampshire, received the University of the Institute of Advanced Study at Winnipeg, Elite White Men Ruling: Who, both of Bowling Green State University, New Hampshire Class of 1944 Profes- Warwick University (Warwick University, What, When, Where, and How (Rout- had their cohabitation research was sorship Award, given to an outstanding Coventry, United Kingdom). ledge, 2107). mentioned in Brookings Report on faculty member. Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Tulane Uni- April 5 in the online article “Cohabiting Kenneth F. Ferraro, Purdue University, People versity, Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: parents differ from married ones in received the Provost’s Award for Out- Power, Privilege, and Inequality, 2nd ed three big ways.” David L. Altheide, Arizona State standing Graduate Mentor at Purdue University, was selected as a Fulbright (Westview Press, 2017). Tom Hochschild, Valdosta State University. Specialist for the spring 2017 semester Karen Gregory, University of Edin- University, was interviewed on the Karen Guzzo, Bowling Green State at the Universidade Católica Portu- burgh, Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, ESPN television show Outside the Lines University, received the 2017 Olscamp guesa in Lisbon, where he will lecture and Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia about the negative aspects of gun Research Award for her robust record and present seminars on Qualitative Commonwealth University, Digital laws that permit concealed carry on of research and publishing. Methodology, Media Logic, and the Sociology (Policy Press, 2016). campus. Politics of Fear. Thomas Hochschild Jr; Valdosta Kandice Grossman, University of Zakiya Luna, University of Califor- State University, was honored with Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, Missouri, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Tu- nia-Santa Barbara, was quoted for the Valdosta State University’s 2016 was named President of the Social lane University, Sociology of Sexualities a piece by St. Louis Public Radio on President’s Award for Excellence in Science Research Council, beginning (Sage, 2017). February 21, 2017. The article, “Study on the Women’s March wants to know what motivated St. Louis participants” discusses Luna and her collaborators’ multi-site study, Mobilizing Millions: Engendering Protest Across the Globe, which examines the Women’s Marches that occurred on January 21, 2017. Doug Meyer, University of Virginia, was quoted in a March 14 article in the New York Times, “Gaymoji: A New Language for That Search.” Enrique S. Pumar, Catholic University, was interviewed on CNN Espanol TV on April 20, 2017, about the number of deportations and gang activity among undocumented immigrants in the United States. Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame, was quoted in a March 26 Atlan- 112th ASA Annual Meeting tic article, “Can Religious Charities Take August 12-15, 2017 the Place of the Welfare State?” Palais des Congrés de Montréal Stacy Torres, University of Alba- ny-SUNY, wrote a March 20 op-ed for Montréal, Quebec, Canada the Times Union, “Snowstorm Cleanup Artwork: Barti Kher. View from 6000 ft. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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Bruce D. Haynes, University of Cockerham. The Encyclopedia provides Harlem, and Queens. He attended Boys’ focused on assessing and addressing California-Davis, Down the Up Stairs: 492 detailed articles analyzing the High, graduated City College of New unmet needs for health care, and Three Generations of a Harlem Family impact of socio-cultural, political and York in 1937, and received his PhD in evaluating the effectiveness of health (Columbia University Press, 2017). economic factors on the health of pop- Social Psychology from George Wash- services. He and his collaborators Richard Helmes-Hayes, University of ulations and communities around the ington University in 1954. He married carried out health surveys in Washing- Waterloo, Marc Santoro, University of world. The seven volumes comprise a the former May Gomberg in 1941. ton Heights and Puerto Rico, opinion Bologna, Eds., The Anthem Companion wide range of fields: history, methods During World War II, he served as a surveys of mental health issues, studies to Everett Hughes (Anthem Press, 2017). and measurement in epidemiology social science analyst in the War De- of multiphasic automated testing for and public health; epidemiology of partment in Washington, DC and in the health, and drug use surveys of teen- Jennifer Y.J. Hsu, University of Alberta, diseases (including cancer, cardiovas- South Pacific, working with leading so- agers. He also directed the innovative State of Exchange: Migrant NGOs and cular diseases, respiratory diseases, ciologists including Sam Stouffer, Leon- Harlem Hospital Center Patient Care the Chinese Government (University of infectious diseases, neurological, ard Cottrell, Shirley Star, Robin Williams, and Program Evaluation department British Columbia Press, 2017). sensory, psychological and psychiatric and Louis Guttman, researching morale from 1966 to 1971. Philip R. Newman, Independent disorders, emerging and re-emerging and attitudes of U.S. GIs. Their work was In the more than half a century that social psychologist, and Barbara M. diseases); sexual and reproductive later compiled in the groundbreaking he served at Columbia as a professor, Newman, University of Rhode Island, health, public health of population volume The American Soldier. Elinson department chair, and mentor, Elinson Development Through Life: A Psycho- subgroups; behavioral factors in public was a passionate advocate for racial was recognized as a leader in the social Approach, 13th ed. (Cengage health; environmental, and occupa- equality and deeply curious about the development of public health as a Learning, 2017). tional epidemiology; health services, impact of social inequities on health. sociomedical science. health systems, health inequalities, These ideas were not well accepted at Deeply committed to improving Arlene Stein, Rutgers University, ethical and professional issues in public his workplace in the Pentagon. In 1950, Jessie Daniels, Hunter College, Going health care delivery in developing health. All articles are peer-reviewed Elinson was targeted by the Army-Mc- countries, particularly Latin America, Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (Uni- and written by domain experts. Avail- Carthy hearings and questioned about versity of Chicago Press, 2017). he helped establish the School of Pub- able at www.sciencedirect.com/sci- his “unduly fraternizing with colored lic Health at the University of Puerto Susan D. Stewart, Iowa State Univer- ence/referenceworks/9780128037089. persons,” and visits to the Washington Rico, and designed and analyzed pub- sity, Co-Sleeping: Parents, Children, and Bookstore where left-wing books lic health programs in the Dominican Musical Beds (Rowman & Littlefield, Caught on the Web were sold. Though many friends and Republic, Argentina, and Cuba. 2017). General Social Survey General colleagues, including military officers, Upon retiring from Columbia in A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton Col- Social Survey 2016 Data available. testified on his behalf, the threatening 1986, Dr. Elinson was granted emer- lege-Massachusetts, The Development The 1972-2016 General Social Survey atmosphere was deemed perilous by itus status. He also was appointed of Sociological Theory: Readings from cumulative file is now available online the couple, who now had four small distinguished visiting professor at the the Enlightenment to the Present (Sage, (gss.norc.org). As of April 5, it will also children under the age of six. Rutgers University Institute of Health 2017). be available on the GSS Data Explorer So when Elinson was offered a Care Policy. He is the author, co-author, (gssdataexplorer.norc.org). Already position at the National Opinion and editor of numerous books and Other available on the GSS Data Explorer, Research Center (NORC) in Chicago, wrote approximately 100 articles, book visitors to the site will find a new GSS they picked up their lives and moved chapters, and government reports. Organizations Key Trends feature. This dynamic visual- to May’s hometown of Chicago. In An engaging and witty speaker, Elin- ization function is designed to provide addition to his work at NORC, Elinson son presented at public health confer- American Public Media announces was an adjunct professor of sociology the formation of APM Research Lab both researchers and the general ences around the world. He served as public with unprecedented capacity to at the University of Chicago from 1954 the president of the American Associa- & Analytics Group, to be led by Craig to 1956. Helmstetter. The Research Lab will be create graphic views of key trends and tion of Public Opinion Research, was a home to a team of data professionals user responses over time. One of the projects he worked on member of the Institute of Medicine of who will use statistics and analysis to at NORC was a landmark study with the National Academy of Sciences, and inform and augment the award-win- Deaths Dr. Ray Trussell, Chronic Illness in a was honored with a Festschrift in Social Rural Area, which demonstrated much ning journalism and trusted public ser- Ai-li S. Chin, Colby-Sawyer College, Science and Medicine in 1989. Each year, vice at Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) higher rates of chronic disease among Columbia University grants the Jack passed away peacefully on April 25, a rural population in New Jersey than and American Public Media (APM). In 2017, in Cambridge, MA at the age of Elinson Award to a graduate student addition to strengthening MPR and were reported in personal interviews. who authors the best published paper 98. While she never considered herself The pioneering study was the first to APM’s news coverage, the APM Re- a “real sociologist”, she earned her PhD in sociomedical sciences. search Lab also will inform the work of include both on-site clinical exam- Elinson spoke Spanish, German, from Harvard/Radcliffe in 1951. Her inations along with questionnaires to partner organizations and the broader dissertation chair was Talcott Parsons. and Yiddish, and enjoyed singing public through many platforms, includ- collect health data. When Dr. Trussell in all three. He traveled widely, and ing conferences, live events, published became Dean of the Columbia School delighted in showing off his home- reports, podcasts, newsletters, and Obituaries of Public Health, he recruited Dr. town of New York City to international social media. American Public Media Elinson to Columbia, and the family visitors They were enthralled with his Jack Elinson relocated to Teaneck, NJ. Group is the largest station-based 1917 –2017 stories about city spots that were off public radio organization in the U.S., When Dr. Elinson joined the faculty of the beaten tracks, from the best pickle combining multi-regional station oper- Dr. Jack Elinson was the founder of the School of Public Health (then part shop on the Lower East Side to the ations, national programming creation Columbia University’s Department of of Columbia’s Medical School), there Apollo Theater in Harlem, where as a and distribution, and innovative digital, Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman was no social scientist on the faculty of teenager he had cut class to listen to social, and mobile services in one School of Public Health, the first such the school. He asked the librarian to or- the likes of Billie Holiday, Count Basie organization. Supported by contribu- department in a public health school der books that reflected social science and Bessie Smith. tions from individual donors, sponsors, in the country. He was a pioneer in the disciplines, including work by Michael field of sociomedical science, especially He was predeceased by his wife philanthropic foundations as well as Harrington, Oscar Lewis, and Thorsten May, a clinical nutritionist, who died the Corporation for Public Broadcast- noted for looking at health through a Veblen. The librarian refused, claiming different lens, measuring the “quality of in 2010. He is survived by his four ing. For more information on American that those works had nothing to do children: Richard, Elaine, Mitchell, and Public Media Group, visit americanpub- life,” by the “5 Ds”—dissatisfaction, dis- with medicine. Elinson recalled that comfort, disability, disease, and death. Robert; seven grandchildren and five licmediagroup.org. he had to get the “downtown” – liberal great-grandchildren. He was an emeritus member of the arts – campus library to stock them for American Sociological Association, his students. Today, all major schools of public New Publications and received its Leo Reeder Award for health in the United States teach so- In 1968, he founded the Department ciomedical sciences. Former students International Encyclopedia of Public Distinguished Contributions to Medical of Sociomedical Sciences (which began nd of Elinson have continued his pioneer- Health, 2 Edition (Academic Press, Sociology in 1985. as a division) and headed the depart- 2017), Editor-in-Chief: Stella R. Quah; ing work on the impact of race and The son of Russian Jewish immi- ment from 1968 to 1978, and again poverty on health at universities and Associate Editor-in-Chief: William C. grants, Elinson grew up in the Bronx, from1982 to 1985. Elinson’s research

18 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements health care agencies around the world. passed away in 2012. But he got to be served as Chair in 1989-93 and after his Ronald M. Pavalko At Columbia, where a medical librarian with his three children, Margaret, Sam, retirement as Emeritus Professor until 1934-2017 first refused to purchase sociology and Ruth in the final days of his life. his death on April 29, 2015. Ronald M. Pavalko, age 82, passed books for graduate students in public Richard Cramer, University of North Dr. Namboodiri’s professional away on January 23, 2017, in Tallahas- health, there is now a collection titled Carolina activities were numerous and broad see, FL. Ron was born in Youngstown, the Jack Elinson Sociomedical Sciences ranging. He had an illustrious career OH. After receiving his PhD in sociolo- Library. Krishnan Namboodiri as a statistician and a formal demogra- gy from the University of California-Los Elaine Elinson Krishnan Namboodiri, Emeritus pher. He developed formal methods of Angeles, Ron spent his professorial Lazarus Professor of Population Studies demography and statistics applied to career between Florida and Wiscon- Henry Landsberger and Sociology at Ohio State University, a wide range of social phenomena. In sin. He was an Assistant Professor of 1926-2017 passed away on April 29, 2015, at the a series of papers, he modified existing Sociology at the University of Wiscon- models of fertility to take into account Born in Dresden, Germany in 1926, age of 85. He was the leading architect sin-Madison and an Associate Professor sequential decision-making. He wrote Henry Landsberger was part of the of life table analysis and contributed of Sociology at Florida State University or edited 12 books, all of which trans- Kindertransport that evaculated to sampling theory, formal models from 1967-1979. lated complex topics into layperson’s nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish children of population, the study of fertility Ron was a Professor of Sociology at language. He also maintained a healthy to England from German-controlled choices, and formal methods to study the University of Wisconsin-Parkside interest in substantive problems, lands just prior to the start of World social structure. (UWP) where he published major text- such as how to measure the effects of War II. For the next 10 years, he lived He was widely loved by his former books in occupations and professions family planning programs and ways to in England—first in a London refugee students, many of whom found his as well as in social problems. Always formalize structural functional theory children’s village, then in the coun- energy and enthusiasm for their work ahead of his time, Ron was one of the into an axiomatic theory. try-side with a Welsh family with whom and his willingness to always go the first co-editors ofTeaching Sociology. In he kept in touch for the rest of his life, extra mile a major source of inspiration. Above all, Krishnan valued his addition, he served as the head of the and finally back to London where he On a personal level, when you met students. He demanded the best. The Division of Behavioral Sciences, chaired earned his undergraduate degree at with Krishnan, you always knew where students admired him. One of his PhD the Sociology/Anthropology Depart- the London School of Economics and his undivided attentions were. With students noted, “I have the outmost ment and was the Dean of the School Political Science in 1948. high expectations for his students as respect of his intellect and the strong of Liberal Arts. His administrative style work ethics he displayed.” He was a In 1949, Henry reunited with his par- for himself, he was always available for was low-key but extremely effective. collaborator and consultant with many ents, who had escaped to Chile. But his extra sessions, offering to meet over His wonderful sense of humor gently organizations such as the World Bank, future was to be in the United States. spring break to train a graduate stu- guided many new faculty members Population Council, Ford Foundation, He met Betty Hatch, whom he married dent on a new statistical method. One through the tenure process. According United Nations, and the National in 1951, while he was enrolled in Cor- recalls his An Abridged Dictionary of to Helen Rosenberg, “Ron made himself Institutes of Health. He also continued nell’s Graduate School of Industrial and Statistical Terms that got them through available during his classes and I got to his collaborations with institutions of Labor Relations, where he received his the class and remains a reference item observe him teach. I bumped into him demographic research in India. He was PhD and then joined its faculty. on the bookshelf 20 years later. Able to and Linda after I came back from Nige- an editor of Demography (1976-79) ria. He hugged me and said he worried Henry moved to the Sociology discuss high level mathematics along- and Associate Editor of Mathematical about me while I was away. He touched Department of the University of North side asking about your family, he was a tremendous source of positive energy. Population Studies (1985-89) and Social me as a mentor and a caring person.” Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1968 as Full Forces. (1977-84). He was elected as a Krishnan received his BS in mathe- Shortly before retirement in 1999 Professor and remained on its faculty Fellow of the American Statistical Asso- matics from the University of Kerala, and as an Emeritus Professor, Ron was until he retired in 1994. ciation in 1978. In 2004, the University India in 1950, an MS in statistics at trailblazing new research on gambling A prolific writer, Henry made special of Kerala honored him with a lifetime the University of Kerala in 1953, and addiction. His research was based contributions in the areas of industrial achievement Award. After his retire- an MA and PhD in sociology from the upon his experience with his father organization (starting with his coining ment, Krishnan took an assignment to University of Michigan in 1962 and who had an addiction to gambling. He the term “the Hawthorne Effect” in an translate Hindu prayers from Sanskrit 1963. In India, he worked in the Indian established the Center for Gambling early major critique of Elton Mayo’s to English and to his mother tongue Statistical Institute, a world renowned Studies at UWP, and was a resource to workplace study); social movements (Malayalam). Several volumes of these institution for research and training in the American Psychiatric Association (especially religious and labor move- translations came out before his death statistics. In 1959, he joined the Survey in medicalizing gambling so that those ments in Latin America); and compar- and his death prevented the comple- Research Center at the University of addicted could get help and benefits ative health-care system policy (with a tion of the remaining volumes. Michigan and held multiple fellowships for insurance. focus on the U.S. and certain European Krishnan was married to Kadambari, countries). while pursuing his doctoral studies. He enjoyed retirement in Tallahassee At Michigan, he became a student his life partner for over 60 years. They with his wife, Linda. Ron is survived by Henry was an active member of the of Leslie Kish, who pioneered survey had two children, Sally and Unni (de- his wife, Linda; sons, Fredrick Pavalko Southern Sociological Society, the sampling theory, and Ron Freedman, ceased) and two grandchildren, Sanjay (Liza) and Peter Pavalko (Helen), and American Sociological Society, and the who organized fertility surveys in the and Samresh. many grandchildren and greatgrand- Latin American Studies Association, of U.S. and abroad. His PhD adviser was J. Craig Jenkins, Joyce Abma, children. which he was vice-president and then Amos Hawley. After completing his president in 1972-73. Once a president Mohammad Siapush, Gopal Singh, and Mary Kay Schleiter, University of PhD in a single year, he returned to Chirayath M. Suchindran of the local AAUP, he was engaged the University of Kerala as a Reader Wisconsin-Parkside in many civic matters outside of in Demography in the Department of academia. This engagement increased Statistics. In 1966, he became Assistant in post-retirement years, as he was Professor in Sociology at the University prominent in establishing in 2001 a of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. For the Send Us Your News new synagogue in Dresden, where next 15 years, he moved through the his grandfather had been chief rabbi ranks to Professor, presiding over one Were you recently promoted? Have a book at Semper Synagogue, destroyed on of the most promising periods in that Krystallnacht in 1938. This was a major great department’s history for demog- published? Or were you quoted in the news? event in his later life. He was also an raphy training and research. In 1984, Did you win an award? Or maybe you know outspoken supporter of the New Israel he moved to Ohio State as the Lazarus Fund and Americans for Peace Now as Professor in Population Studies in the about a funding opportunity or want to promote part of his enduring devotion to justice Department of Sociology. At Ohio and peace both in the United States State, he wrote his books on matrix al- your meeting to other sociologists? Send your and the Middle East. gebra and formal demographic meth- announcements to Footnotes at Henry passed away while visiting his ods, boosted the department’s national son in California in early February. After ranking, and taught students formal [email protected]. a marriage of over 50 years, Betty had demography and statistical theory. He

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