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IN THIS ISSUE From the Chair’s Desk: Kristi Williams, Ohio State University 1-3 It has been an honor and a pleasure serving as From the Chair’s Desk Chair of the section this past year. We have a fantastic program planned for the 2017 Annual Kristi Williams Meeting in Montreal and I hope to have the 3-6 chance to see many of you there before Section on Mental passing the gavel to our incoming chair, Scott Health Sessions Schieman. I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight our upcoming sessions and meetings 6 in Montreal and to recognize all of our Other Conferences in members who have contributed to the important work of the section. Montreal Section Sessions 2017 Election Results Anne Frances Eisenberg has organized an exciting and innovative session on Biosociology, Neurosociology and Mental Health (Monday, 6-8 August 14 at 10:30 am). Papers explore topics such as the neurological foundations of social life, the links between cognitive impairment, Profiles for Graduate mindfulness, and mental health, and macro-cultural and micro-social Students on the Job aspects of addiction and recovery. Our second section session was Market organized by Alex Bierman and focuses on Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Mental Health (Monday, August 14 at 4:30 pm). Papers 8-9 examine racial disparities in mental health, discrimination and all-cause Being a New Faculty mortality, and medical labels, mental health treatment, and stigma. Also Member: The Year be sure to check out the Open Refereed Roundtables (Saturday, August One Assessment 12th at 10:30 am) on Health, Alcohol, and Stress and on Mental Health, Christy L. Erving Religiosity and Nationality and the Medical Sociology Roundtables 9-10 (Saturday, August 12th at 4:30) which include a table on Trends and Announcements Determinants of Mental Health. Section Awards and Pearlin Lecture 11 Our section awards will be presented Monday, August 14th, 8:30 am, Message from followed by the Pearlin Award Lecture and the section Business Meeting. Newsletter Editor We are delighted to honor Professor David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University, as the recipient of the 2017 Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociology of Mental Health. The 2017 Best Publication Award will be presented to Anna S. Mueller (University of Chicago) and Seth Abrutyn (University of Memphis) for their 2016 article, “Adolescents under Pressure: A New Durkheimean Framework for Understanding Adolescent Suicide in a Cohesive Community” (American Sociological Review 81(5): 877-899).

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From the Chair’s Desk (continued) August 12th). Several council members will Finally, Jennifer Caputo (Indiana University) be in attendance and eager to introduce is the recipient of the 2017 Dissertation ourselves to our student members and chat Award for her paper entitled “Parental in a small, informal, low-stress Coresidence Histories and Psychological environment. Please encourage your Well-Being among Contemporary Young students to stop by and say hi so they will Adults.” Congratulations to all of you and a already know some friendly faces when the special thanks to Melissa Milkie for full reception begins at 6:30. organizing the difficult task of selecting Section Council Members – Welcome and these recipients from a large pool of worthy Thanks nominations. Although they begin their terms of service Business Meeting at the conclusion of the annual meeting, I Please plan to stay after the Pearlin Award would like to recognize and welcome our lecture for our annual section Business incoming members of section council, Meeting. The agenda items include: (1) listed below. Thanks to Christina Falci discussion of the section budget and (University of Nebraska) for her important membership numbers, (2) ongoing efforts work as Nominations Chair. to increase student involvement, (3) the 2017 Section Chair: Scott Schieman, process of instituting a new Student Paper (University of ) Award, (4) news about the section journal, Section Chair Elect: Alisa K. Lincoln Society and Mental Health, and (5) a call for (Northeastern University) a section Public Engagement Liaison (PEL) Council Member (2-year term): Jennifer to work with ASA on increasing the public Caputo (Max Planck Institute for visibility of the work of our section Demographic Research) members. As always, we welcome input from members on all of these issues as well Membership Committee Chair (2-year as proposed new initiatives to support and term): Christy Erving (University of North enhance the important role of our section in Carolina - Charlotte) ASA and beyond. So please bring your Publications Committee Chair (2-year ideas! term): Patricia Drentea (UAB) Reception and Student Happy Half-Hour Secretary/Treasurer (3-year term): Brea It is a special honor for me to plan our joint Perry (Indiana University) section reception with Medical Sociology Finally, many thanks to all of our continuing with section chair (and my beloved mentor) and outgoing section officers. One of the Debra Umberson. The reception will be highlights of my term has been working held on site on Saturday, August 12th at with our former section chair, Robin Simon 6:30 pm. The favorable exchange rate (Wake Forest University) whose leadership means that we are able to offer an and continued involvement has been especially delicious spread of appetizers critical to the ongoing health and vitality of and snacks to accompany what is always a our section. Also ending their terms this fun and collegial evening connecting with year are: Eric R. Wright (Georgia State friends and colleagues. University) who served a three-year term as New this year! We invite all student Secretary/Treasurer, Robyn Lewis Brown members of the section to arrive a half hour (University of Kentucky) as Council early to the reception (at 6 pm on Saturday, Member, Christina Falci (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) as Nominations 2 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH HTTP://WWW.KENT.EDU/SOCIOLOGY/ASA-MENTAL-HEALTH-SECTION ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017

Committee Chair, Andre Christie-Mizell (Vanderbilt University) as Publications Committee Chair, and Stephanie W. Hartwell (University of Massachusetts- Boston) as Membership Committee Chair. Melissa Milkie () will continue on next year as Awards Committee Chair as will our Student Council Member, William R. McConnell (Indiana University-Bloomington). Elaine Wethington (Cornell) deserves special appreciation for her leadership as Editor of our section journal, Society and Mental Health. Thanks also to Dick Adams (Kent State) for his important work as section newsletter editor and web site 112th ASA Annual Meeting manager, Struther Van Horn (Kent State) as Palais des Congrès de Montréal in student editor, and to Jake Hays (Ohio Montréal, Québec, State) for coordinating the section listserv. August 12-15, 2017 Note that listserv management will be transferred to Scott Schieman as new chair MENTAL HEALTH SESSIONS after the annual meeting and details about the transition will be forthcoming via the Section Council Meeting, Monday, listserv. August 14 from 12:30 – 1:30 at Modavie One final observation: Since being 338 - Section on Sociology of Mental welcomed so warmly into the section as a Health. Pearlin Award Lecture, Section student (oh so many years ago), it has been Awards, and Business Meeting, Mon, clear to me that the dedication, collegiality, August 14, 8:30 to 9:30am, Palais des and camaraderie of our members is a congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 514C special strength of our section. That Pearlin Award Talk: Professor David R. conviction has only strengthened after Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and working more closely with all of you over Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public the past year. Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of See you in Montreal! Public Health and Professor of African and Kristi Williams African American Studies and Sociology at Professor of Sociology and Vice-Chair Harvard University Editor, Journal of Marriage and Family. Other Award Winners: The Ohio State University The 2017 Best Publication Award will be

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Cohesive Community” (American Postsecondary Education and Mental Health: Sociological Review 81(5): 877-899). Effects of Earned Credits versus Credentials, The 2017 Dissertation Award went to Anna Zajacova, University of Wyoming, and Jennifer Caputo (Indiana University) her Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan work entitled “Parental Coresidence Mindfulness and Mental Health: Survivors of Histories and Psychological Well-Being Homicide and their Providers, Stephanie W. among Contemporary Young Adults.” Hartwell, University of Mass-Boston Section on Sociology of Mental Health Why Do We Need the Frontal Lobes? The Business Meeting, Mon, August 14, 9:30 Neurological Foundations of Complex Human to 10:10am, Palais des congrès de Social Life, Rengin Bahar Firat, Georgia State Montréal, Level 5, 514C University Joint Reception: Section on Medical 448 - Section on Sociology of Mental Sociology; Section on Sociology of Health. Discrimination, Social Exclusion, Mental Health, Saturday, August 12th at and Mental Health, Mon, August 14, 4:30 6:30 pm. to 6:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 512H Section Sessions Organizer: Alex E. Bierman, University of 375 - Section on Sociology of Mental Calgary Health. Biosociology, Neurosociology and Mental Health, Mon, August 14, Presider: Alex E. Bierman, University of 10:30am to 12:10pm, Palais des congrès Calgary de Montréal, Level 5, 513F Description Organizer: Anne Frances Eisenberg, SUNY- Recent research has demonstrated that Geneseo discrimination at different levels of analysis Presider: Anne Frances Eisenberg, SUNY- are associated with a broad spectrum of Geneseo measures of mental health, as well as how experiences of mental illness can engender Discussant: Anne Frances Eisenberg, a diverse set of forms of discrimination and SUNY- Geneseo stigma. Presenters in this session will Description: The four papers being describe new insights and understandings presented represent the wide spectrum of into the ways that discrimination may be work being done by sociologists in this experienced and impact mental health, as rapidly developing area in the discipline. well as the conditions and pathways through We are looking forward to engaging the which mental illness leads to experiences of audience in an interesting discussion of the social exclusion, stigma, and discrimination. implications of these ideas Racial Disparities in Mental Health: The Bi-Chloride of Gold and the Ebullience of Importance of Skin Tone, Racial Classification, Addiction, Austin Abernethy Stimpson and Other Identification, Ryon J. Cobb, Jenkins, Northwestern University University of Southern California, Verna M. Keith, Texas A&M University, Dawne M. Depression and Mortality: Investigating the Mouzon, Rutgers, The State University of Role of Cognitive Impairment and Cause of New Jersey, and Whitney Nicole Laster Depression, Sarah Garcia, University of Pirtle, University of California - Merced Minnesota

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Fear and the Social Consequences of Medical 532 - Regular Session. Mental Health Labels and Devalued Behavior, Bianca Research Outside the United States, Tue, Manago, Indiana University and Trenton D. August 15, 12:30 to 2:10pm, Palais des Mize, Indiana University congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 515A Does Mental Health Treatment Matter For Organizer: Richard E. Adams, Kent State Stigma Reduction? The Impact of Personal University and Network Experiences, Megan Elizabeth Presider: Richard E. Adams, Kent State Bolton, Indiana University Univeristy Everyday Discrimination is Associated with Description: Papers in this session reflect All-cause Mortality: Evidence from the Health research on populations primarily outside and Retirement Study, Heather R. Collins- the United States (e.g., Europe, ,

Farmer, Pennsylvania State University, Linda Asia). A. Wray, Pennsylvania State University, and Jason R. Thomas, Pennsylvania State Do Supportive Family Policies Reduce Marital University Disparities in Happiness? Results from 22 OECD Countries, Robin W. Simon, Wake Regular Sessions Forest University, Matthew Andersson, 466 - Regular Session. Mental Health in Baylor University, and Jennifer L. Glass, Special Populations University of Texas Tue, August 15, 8:30 to 10:10am, Palais Functional Limitations and Depression in the des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 515A Context of Welfare Regimes, Alex E. Bierman, University of Calgary and Sibyl Organizer: Richard E. Adams, Kent State Kleiner, The University of Calgary University Social Status Inequality and Mental Health in Presider: Kristen Marcussen, Kent State Europe, Marii Paskov, University of Oxford University and Lindsay Richards, Nuffield College Description: Papers in this session reflect The Black Sheep Penalty: Delinquent Peers, research on understudied groups or Neighborhood Context, and Adolescent challenges to existing understandings of Suicidality, Harris Hyun-soo Kim, Ewha mental health. Womans University and Paul Yunsik Chang, Chinese Americans' Mental Health: Lost in Harvard University translation?, Kelly Kato, Rutgers University 569 - Regular Session. Stratification and Gender Differences in Work-Family Conflict Mental Health, Tue, August 15, 2:30 to and its Mental Health Consequences in the 4:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Canadian Context, Marisa Christine Young, Level 5, 516A McMaster University and Ruth Repchuck, Organizer: Richard E. Adams, Kent State McMaster University University The Black-White Paradox Revisited: Mental Presider: Kristen Marcussen, Kent State Disorder in Three Cohorts of Black and White University Americans, Patricia Louie, University of Toronto and Blair Wheaton, University of Description: Papers in this session reflect Toronto research on how people's place in the stratification system has implications for their mental health. 5

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Financial Strain, Mastery, and Psychological Secretary/Treasurer: Distress: A Comment on Spuriousness in the Brea Perry, Indiana University (3-yr Stress Process, Jonathan Tomas Koltai, term) University of Toronto and Scott Schieman, University of Toronto Publications Committee Chair: Lasting Mental Health Consequences: Early Patricia Drentea, University of Alabama Pregnancy and Unfulfilled Educational at Birmingham (2-yr term) Expectations Among Black and White Graduate Students on the Job Market Women, Noreen Kohl, University of Hawaii Manoa William R. McConnell, Affiliation: Ph.D. Masculinity Threats and Mental Health among candidate, Department Aging Men, Dena T. Smith, University of of Sociology, Indiana Maryland (UMBC), Dawne M. Mouzon, University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Bloomington. and Marta Elliott, University of Nevada, Reno The Role of Employment Adversity in Inequalities in Mental Health: An Email:[email protected] Intersectional Mixed Methods Analysis, Billy Dissertation Title: Caregivers and Critics: Gazard, King's College Examining Patterns of Social Network Other Conferences in Montreal: Engagement during the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. The Society for the Study of Social Problems 67th Annual Meeting August 11-13, 2017, Research statement: My research Montreal Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, examines the contribution of social networks Quebec Canada to health inequalities. In a recent article in Journal of Health and Social Behavior (in Narratives in the World of Social Problems: press), I propose that mental health patients Power, Resistance, Transformation seek social support based on their network The Society for the Study of Symbolic members’ cultural resources, including Interaction (SSSI) Annual Conference, healthcare-related knowledge and beliefs. I August 11-13, 2017, Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, find that network members who trust doctors Montréal, Quebec, Canada. act as supportive cultural guides for patients SSSI at 40: Reflecting on the Past, Engaging in crisis. In contrast, network members who with the Present, Imagining the Future distrust doctors disproportionately cause problems for patients. In other words, 2017 Election Results patients surrounded by medical skeptics not Chair-Elect: only obtain less support but also encounter more problems. The landscape of medical Alisa K. Lincoln, Northeastern University provision in the U.S. has shifted to Council Member: emphasize a self-managed and outpatient approach to treating chronic illness. As Jennifer Caputo, Max Planck Institute for such, investigating how culture affects Demographic Research (2-yr term) informal network dynamics can provide Membership Committee Chair: insight into who benefits and who falls Christy Erving, University of North behind in the face of these cultural shifts. For Carolina-Charlotte (2-yr term) my research on mental health, I received a 6 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH HTTP://WWW.KENT.EDU/SOCIOLOGY/ASA-MENTAL-HEALTH-SECTION ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017

Kaplan Award from the ASA Medical Brandi Woodell Sociology section. Affiliation: University In my dissertation, Caregivers and Critics: of Nebraska-Lincoln Examining Patterns of Social Network Email Address: Engagement during the Onset of Alzheimer’s [email protected] Disease, I link networks and neurocognitive .edu disorders. Among the 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease, over half live in the Dissertation Title: Health in Rural community among caregivers whose unpaid Communities: Variation in Resource assistance constitutes their primary form of Utilization by Sexual Orientation and Gender care. Informal caregiving takes many forms, Brandi Woodell is a doctoral candidate at the including emotional confiding, treatment University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research advice, and medication management. I use examines how inequality is created and egocentric network data collected through reproduced. Specifically, she studies the interviews with participants at the Indiana disparities between sexual minorities and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (PI: Brea Perry) to heterosexuals within social contexts like investigate the network structure of religion, family, and health. Her work is caregiving in adulthood. First, I examine how guided by an intersectional framework that typical caregiver networks differ across lines considers not only sexual orientation, but also of socioeconomic status, race, and gender. other factors including gender and Second, I leverage over 10 years of clinical geographic location. In recognition of her data to model the effect of caregivers’ work, she received the 2017-2018 University characteristics on the progression of of Nebraska Presidential Fellowship. Alzheimer’s disease. This research Brandi’s dissertation, “Health in Rural contributes to community-based care Communities: Variation in Resource initiatives through identifying when and how Utilization by Sexual Orientation and caregivers can be most effective in Gender,” examines the inequality of health- ameliorating cognitive decline. related resources between heterosexuals and With support from a Duke Network Analysis sexual minorities. Through 60 qualitative in- Center Social Networks and Health depth interviews, this project analyzes Fellowship, I have established a new line of resource access and utilization among sexual research examining how professional minority and heterosexual women and men networks among healthcare providers can within rural areas. Her dissertation makes two influence patients’ treatment experiences. I contributions. First, this study provides analyze the health insurance claims records of insight into social support and health-related a large, commercially-insured population resources available to, utilized by, and receiving medication for cognitive missing from the lives of rural sexual impairment. I construct physicians’ latent minorities. Second, it highlights the rural- professional networks through identifying specific resources that sexual minorities shared patients between pairs of physicians. utilize, which expands current literature that This research in progress leverages network has focused on connection to LGBTQ analysis and Big Data to illustrate how health community events and organizations as inequalities experienced by disadvantaged urban-specific resources. populations may emerge from the hidden Other current projects focus on inequalities architecture of the treatment system itself. connected to religion. One addresses how identifying as a sexual minority impacts 7

ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017 religiosity over time, making comparisons Being a New Faculty Member: The Year between heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and One Assessment bisexual respondents by gender. Another By Christy L. Sigh of relief: I examines differences in how heterosexual Erving successfully and sexual minority individuals use their completed my first religious beliefs to cope with stress. This will year as a tenure-track be presented at the Association for the faculty member at Sociology of Religion annual meeting in University of North Montréal this August. Carolina at Charlotte More information about Brandi’s work can be (UNCC). When I found at her website: wrote about my www.brandiwoodell.com. experience as a new faculty member Bianca Manago last fall, I was feeling overwhelmed by my Affiliation: Indiana new responsibilities. However, the second University, Dept of semester was easier than the first. Going into Sociology the spring semester, I had some experience Email: under my belt, and I felt more confident [email protected] because I was teaching a class I had taught previously.* Teaching one course (as Dissertation Title: "The Role of Mental Health opposed to the typical two course load at my Labels in Stigma and Status Processes." institution) provided the time to develop a balance between my teaching, research, Summary of Work: Bianca Manago is a PhD and service responsibilities. As I reflect on Candidate in the Department of Sociology at my first year as a new faculty member, here Indiana University, where she also received are some small pieces of advice I’d like to an MS in applied statistics. Her research offer. interrogates key theoretical questions at the intersection of medical sociology, inequality, Time management: In my previous post, I and social psychology. Currently, she is mentioned the issue of time management completing her dissertation, which examines being a personal struggle during the first how mental health labels affect perceptions semester on the tenure track. Over the past of deviant behavior. To examine this few months, I’ve learned how to get more question, she uses a series of survey done in a shorter time span. I’m not always experiments conducted on a national sample successful in reaching my research or of adults in the United States. This research is teaching goals, but I’m more strategic about funded by a National Science Foundation my time in an attempt to make every Dissertation Improvement Grant and the moment at work count. Indiana University College of Arts and Get to know your colleagues: I didn’t reach Sciences. Her research has appeared in out to faculty in my department during my Social Science and Medicine, Stigma and first semester, but I was more intentional in Health, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, the spring. Getting to know several faculty Proceedings of the National Academy of members in the department enabled me to Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology, and develop some new professional Advances in Group Processes. relationships, and I am even collaborating with a colleague on a research project. That 8 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH HTTP://WWW.KENT.EDU/SOCIOLOGY/ASA-MENTAL-HEALTH-SECTION ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017 said, scheduling time to get to know your Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Prior to new colleagues is time well spent as they her position at Vanderbilt, Christy was an hold a wealth of information about the assistant professor at UNC Charlotte. She institution, your department culture, received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology at teaching, research, and much more. So, Indiana University, and a B.A. in Sociology once you’re able to get your head above and Hispanic Studies at Rice University. water, stop by another faculty member’s Christy’s research and teaching interests office and ask them to lunch or coffee. are in mental health, medical sociology, Live Your Life: It may be unrealistic to do so health disparities, race/ethnicity, and initially, but I began to enjoy work and my immigration. personal life more when I carved out time to ANNOUNCEMENTS participate in activities outside of work that I Department of Sociology, Rutgers found fulfilling. For example, in January, I University—New Brunswick started attending a cardio dance class that Associate or Full Professor, Sociology of was both entertaining and an excellent Health and Illness workout. I also made a few non-work friends in the process. The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University seeks to hire a nationally or During my first year on the tenure track, I internationally recognized senior scholar in read a few blog posts offering advice to new the sociology of health and illness, to begin faculty members. Here are a few that I’ve Fall 2018. Candidates should have an found particularly useful: outstanding and sustained record of https://conditionallyaccepted.com/2013/08 research, teaching and mentorship, and /27/advice-new-professors/ leadership in the profession. Research and https://theprofessorisin.com/2015/08/21/a teaching interests could include (but are dvice-for-your-first-year-on-the-tenure- not limited to) health inequalities, global track/ health, mental health, aging/life course, disability, comparative health systems, https://sociologicalconfessions.wordpress. healthcare access and professions, and com/2008/02/24/advice-for-new-assistant- health policy. The successful candidate will professors/ contribute to undergraduate and graduate In sum, my first year on the tenure track was teaching on the sociology of health and invigorating, exhausting, frustrating, and healthcare, as well as build bridges with fulfilling. Although I experienced a range of colleagues across the university who are emotions, the positive outweighed the interested in the social dynamics of negative. Thank you to my department and health, medicine, and colleagues at UNCC for making it an overall healthcare. Demonstrated ability to secure pleasurable experience. external funding is highly desirable. Theoretical and methodological *Side note: Advice for those on the market: orientations are open. We will begin after receiving a job offer, if at all possible, reviewing applications on September 30, negotiate for at least one course release in 2017. Applications received after that date your first year on the tenure track. The one cannot be assured full consideration. Please course release was a lifesaver for me, and I upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and am grateful for it. 1-2 writing samples to About the author: Christy L. Erving is an interfolio.sas.rutgers.edu. Three letters of Assistant Professor in the Department of recommendation are required as well, to 9

ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017 be sent directly to 2017. Applications received after that date interfolio.sas.rutgers.edu. Questions cannot be assured full consideration. Please regarding the search may be directed to upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and [email protected]. Rutgers, 1-2 writing samples to the State University of New Jersey, is an interfolio.sas.rutgers.edu. Three letters of Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action recommendation are required as well, to Employer. Qualified applicants will be be sent directly to considered for employment without regard interfolio.sas.rutgers.edu. Questions to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual regarding the search may be directed to orientation, gender identity or expression, [email protected]. Rutgers, national origin, disability status, genetic the State University of New Jersey, is an information, protected veteran status, Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action military service or any other category Employer. Qualified applicants will be protected by law. As an institution, we considered for employment without regard value diversity of background and opinion, to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual and prohibit discrimination or harassment orientation, gender identity or expression, on the basis of any legally protected class national origin, disability status, genetic in the areas of hiring, recruitment, information, protected veteran status, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, military service or any other category compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, protected by law. As an institution, we termination or any other terms and value diversity of background and opinion, conditions of employment. and prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, Department of Sociology, Rutgers promotion, transfer, demotion, training, University—New Brunswick compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, Assistant Professor, Sociology of Health termination or any other terms and and Illness conditions of employment. The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University seeks to hire a tenure track assistant professor, to begin Fall 2018, who Please Encourage Membership specializes in the sociology of health and in our Section! Be Sure to illness. Specific research and teaching Renew YOUR Membership. interests could include (but are not limited to) health inequalities, global health, mental Remember to recommend our health, aging/life course, disability, section to graduate students. comparative health systems, healthcare You can also give a gift access and professions, and health policy. The successful candidate will membership to a graduate contribute to undergraduate and graduate student. teaching on the sociology of health and healthcare, and help to forge ties with colleagues across the university interested in the social dynamics of health and medicine. Theoretical and methodological orientations are open. We will begin reviewing applications on September 30, 10 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH HTTP://WWW.KENT.EDU/SOCIOLOGY/ASA-MENTAL-HEALTH-SECTION ASA MENTAL HEALTH NEWSLETTER SUMMER, 2017

From the Newsletter Editor Please visit the Section’s website for I continue to remind everyone to please resources and links to graduate programs send me information about your activities focusing on mental health and illness. that you would like to share with section The next Newsletter will come out this Fall members. Please put “newsletter” in the about six weeks after the meetings in title of the email. Montreal. It is a perfect place for graduate Here is a partial list of other possible student profiles for those of you on the job contributions for future newsletters: market. -Upcoming conferences, calls for papers, Finally, I want to express my thanks to grant opportunities or special issues of Christy Erving for her insights on being a journals. new faculty member. If anyone else would like to make contributions on other topics, -Newly published books by section please let me know. See everyone in members. Please include publication date Montreal. and publisher information. Thanks, -Graduate or post-doctoral students on the market and would like to be Richard profiled. Please send your picture, title of your dissertation, email address, affiliation, and a brief statement of your work (200-300 words). -Congratulatory information (e.g., promotions, new jobs, awards, honors, grants). -Short articles on topics that cross boundaries with other sections, such as animal-human interactions and mental health. We ask that you keep submissions brief (no more than 500 words). -Descriptions of class activities/books/films for use in undergraduate sociology of mental health and illness classes or general tips and strategies for teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Don’t forget to look at other Associations for conference presentations: Society for the Study of Social Problems American Public Health Association AcademyHealth If there are other venues where sociologists can present their work, please let me know. 11

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AMERICAN SMH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Section on Mental Health NEWSLETTER STAFF The Journal of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Mental Health Editor Richard E. Adams Editor: Elaine Wethington, Cornell University Kent State University Past Editor William R. Avison, University of Western [email protected]

Student Editor Editorial Scope of SMH: Society and Mental Health publishes Struther Van Horn original articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to Kent State University the understanding of the social origins of mental health and illness, [email protected] the social consequences for persons with mental illness, and the organization and financing of mental health services and care. Its SECTION OFFICERS editorial policy favors manuscripts that advance the sociology of Chair mental health and illness, stimulate further research, inform Kristi L. Williams, The Ohio State University, treatments and policy and reflect the diversity of interests of its [email protected] readership. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically at Secretary-Treasurer http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smh Eric Wright, George State University For more information about the Journal go here or contact: [email protected]

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