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The Results of 2012 Election Are In nnette Lareau, Lareau will be a member Members also elected four inside AUniversity of of the ASA Council, which new Council Members-at-Large: Pennsylvania, has governs the association Stephanie A. Bohon (University of been elected the 105th and its policies, and its Tennessee); Kelly A. Joyce (College New MCAT Emphasizes President of the American chair in 2013-2014. She of William and Mary); Dina G. 4 Social Foundations of Sociological Association will also be a member of Okamoto (University of California- Health and Disease (ASA) for 2013-2014. the ASA Committee on Davis); and Jane Sell (Texas A&M Brian Powell, Indiana the Executive Office and University). Also elected were two The new MCAT reflects a University, has been Annette Lareau Budget (2013-2015) and members of the Committee on growing appreciation for the elected Vice President the 2014-15 Publications Publications, six members of the importance of behavioral for 2013-2014. Lareau Committee. Committee on Nominations, and and social science and Powell will assume ASA Members elected four members of the Committee on understanding when their respective offices Mary Romero of Arizona Committees. practicing medicine. in August 2013, follow- State University as the In announcing the results of the ing a year of service as Secretary-Elect. Romero election, Secretary Catherine White 5 Tukufu Talks History President-elect and Vice will take office as Secretary- Berheide and Executive Officer Sally Detectives President-elect. Lareau Elect in August 2012 and T. Hillsman extended their heartiest Tukufu Zuberi offers his will chair the 2014 Brian Powell will overlap with cur- congratulations to the newly elected advice on communicating Program Committee that rent Secretary, Catherine officers and committee members sociology and discusses his will shape the ASA Annual Meeting Berheide, for one year. In August and their appreciation to all ASA popular television show. program in San Francisco, August 2013 she will start a three-year term members who have served the 16-19, 2014. As ASA President, as Secretary. Continued on page 6 An American Sociologist 7 in Armenia Sociologist details her experience as an Wheel Utopias: Denver’s Urban Transitions Interested In an International Scholar in Seen by Bicycle ASA Leadership Armenia. Lucy Dwight and Joshua Goode, nated with the 2008 Democratic Position? University of Colorado-Denver National Convention when Should Every Sociologist Michael R Murphy, Director, Governance 8 ho knew that bicycles were con- volunteers and bike advocates and Information Systems Blog? used bicycles for transportation as Blogging: is it an important Wtroversial? In 2010, Colorado ven though the 2013 election is gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes part of an initiative to “green” the part of a young scholars convention. After the convention, a E11 months away, the nomination development? opposed efforts to and selection process to identify implement a bike- candidates begins now. sharing program in During the upcoming Annual ASA Welcomes Eight Denver, linking his 10 New MFP Fellows Meeting in Denver, the Committee opponent, then- on Nominations will spend one Eight new Fellows comprise mayor of Denver John entire day of the meeting working to MFP Cohort 39. Hickenlooper, with identify candidates for the top posi- Denver’s membership tions in the association leadership: in an international President-Elect, Vice President- environmental initia- Elect, Council Members-at-Large, tive that Maes claimed Committee on Publications, was promoting the and Committee on Committees. From the Executive Officer...... 2 program as part of a Another group will develop a list “greater strategy to Photo Source: www.bcyclemediaroom.com Science Policy...... 3 of candidates for the Committee rein in American cit- on Nominations. If you know of International Perspectives...... 7 ies under a United Nations treaty.” someone that you think would be Nonetheless, Denver’s bicycle-shar- partnership emerged to fund, plan, Public Sociology...... 9 and implement bike-sharing in the good for one of these positions, or ing program was implemented later if you are interested in being con- ASA Forum...... 14 that year (Denver Post 2010). city permanently. The first stations and bicycles in Denver were put in sidered for one of these positions, Announcements...... 16 B-cycle of Denver was the first please send the information to us at large-scale municipal bike sharing place for Earth Day 2010. Currently, program in the country. It origi- Continued on page 12 Continued on page 15 footnotes • July/August 2012 To view the online version, visit
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Sociologist Teresa Sullivan—Extraordinary Scholar, Teacher, Mentor and Higher Education Leader—Faces her Next Challenges as UVA President
n Monday, June 18, 2012, as laboration with Vice Presidents Othousands of students, faculty, and Deans and representatives staff, and alumni saluted of the faculty. This is the her with deafening best, most constructive, cheers of support, Teresa most long lasting, and A. Sullivan, embattled beneficial way to change President of the University a university. Until the of Virginia (UVA), made her way last ten days, the change at across the UVA Lawn at the vener- UVA has not been disruptive able campus designed by Thomas change, and it has not been Jefferson to the Rotunda to address high-risk change. Corporate- the university’s Board of Visitors style, top-down leadership does whose chair, Rector Helen E. Dragas, not work in a great university. had asked for her resignation 10 days Sustained change with buy-in earlier without warning, without a does work. UVA is one of formal vote, and without explanation. the world’s greatest universi- Less than 10 days later, on ties. [See her full statement at Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images Tuesday, June 26, 2012, Sullivan
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SSRC Names Ira Katznelson New Philosophical Society. An influen- Under Craig Calhoun’s leadership, and insights from large and complex President tial and prolific author, he was the the SSRC has initiated major projects collections of digital data, the initia- founding editor of the interdisciplin- on, among others, the public commu- tive promises to help solve some the ra Katznelson will be the next presi- ary journal Politics & Society. His nication of social science knowledge, Nation’s most pressing challenges. Ident of the Social Science Research latest book, Fear Itself: The New Deal the privatization of risk, religion and To launch the initiative, six Council, as announced to and the Origins of Our the public sphere, HIV/AIDS, media Federal departments and agencies senior SSRC staff at the Time, is forthcoming in reform and new communications announced more than $200 million annual Board of Directors March 2013 from Norton’s technologies, transformations in in new commitments that, together, meeting on June 1, 2012, Liveright imprint. knowledge production, Africa’s next promise to greatly improve the tools in New York City. He Professor Katznelson generation of social scientists, African and techniques needed to access, will take up his post on has played a leading role peacebuilding, and questions of how organize, and glean discoveries from September 1, 2012. in many SSRC activities over the to assess and evaluate efforts to shape huge volumes of digital data. Dr. Katznelson, Ruggles Professor years, notably as a member of the social change. The Council during “In the same way that past Federal of Political Science and History at Committee on States and Social his tenure has emphasized innovative investments in information-technol- Columbia University, is an accom- Structures, a major Council initiative public social science through initia- ogy R&D led to dramatic advances plished social scientist, whose connecting new analyses of modern tives such as the digital forum After in supercomputing and the creation distinctive scholarship ranges across states within the social sciences, and September 11 and the social investiga- of the Internet, the initiative we are multiple fields, including American a contributor to that committee’s tion Learning from Katrina. launching today promises to trans- politics, comparative politics, and volume on Bringing the State Back In Calhoun, a world-renowned form our ability to use Big Data for political theory. Prior to his posi- (Cambridge University Press, 1985). social scientist whose work connects scientific discovery, environmental tion at Columbia, he taught at the Current SSRC President Craig sociology and history to culture, and biomedical research, education, University of Chicago, chairing Calhoun recently commented that, communication, politics, philosophy, and national security,” said Dr. John its department of political sci- “Ira Katznelson is one of the fore- and economics, has been appointed P. Holdren, Assistant to the President ence from 1979 to 1982, and at the most social scientists in the world the next director of the London and Director of the White House New School for Social Research, today and a wonderful choice to School of Economics and Political Office of Science and Technology where he was dean of the gradu- lead the SSRC. His work has been Science. He will take up that post on Policy. ate faculty from 1983 to 1989. He influential across many disciplines, September 1, 2012. The initiative responds to rec- was president of the American reshaping research agendas both in ommendations by the President’s Obama Administration Political Science Association for the United States and throughout the Council of Advisors on Science and Announces $200 Million in New 2005–2006, is a vice chair of the world. Ira’s books address themes Technology, which last year con- R&D Investments Academic Advisory Board of the from race and urban politics to class cluded that the Federal Government Institute for Human Sciences in and citizenship and the way war and iming to capitalize on the fast- is under-investing in technologies Vienna, and previously served as trade have shaped political institu- growing volume of digital data, the related to Big Data. In response, president of the Social Science A tions. Through a career of intellec- Obama Administration announced in OSTP launched a Senior Steering History Association. Katznelson has tual productivity and distinction, he late March a “Big Data Research and Group on Big Data to coordinate and been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a has also been an institutional leader, Development Initiative.” By improv- expand the Government’s invest- fellow of the American Academy of not least at the SSRC itself.” ing our ability to extract knowledge ments in this critical area. Arts and Sciences and the American
Vantage Point months before Teresa Sullivan, Mitch our professional organization executive vice president, executive from previous page Daniels was Director of the Office throughout the years, in good vice chancellor, and provost. Terry of Management and Budget under times and bad, through elected is also admired by her disciplin- As much as we who care deeply George W. Bush prior to becoming positions— Secretary, member of ary colleagues for her integrity, about higher education might governor, and he was Senior Vice Council, member of the Committee wisdom, dignity, personal charm, wish to, we ignore this story at our President of Eli Lilly and Company on the Executive Office and Budget, and, of course, her wry and peril. Public universities face ever in charge of business strategy before and member of the Committee wonderful humor. All these quali- diminishing public financial support entering the public sector. He will on Publications—as well as ties, we believe, will make Terry and the need for increasing private soon be president of a major public through appointed roles—member Sullivan one of the University of donations. UVA is not the only university. of the WEB DuBois Career of Virginia’s great presidents. Campus public university facing these and Knowing Terry, I know she is Distinguished Scholarship Award reactions to the recent events in other major challenges, or the only looking forward to meeting the Committee, member of several Charlottesville suggest the UVA one whose members are concerned coming challenges. Knowing higher Program Committees, and member faculty, staff and students believe about corporate models of univer- education in the United States, of the Council’s Task Forces on this too. sity governance and inappropriate I know there are many friends, Advanced Placement in Sociology political pressures. As I write, for colleagues, and admirers eager to and on Diversity in ASA. example, Indiana Governor Mitch support her and ensure her success. Terry is known to the discipline Sally T. Hillsman is Daniels has been identified as the Knowing sociologists, I know that of sociology for all her professional the Executive Officer next president of Purdue University. the members and leaders of the achievements—as an outstanding of ASA. She can be An enlightened choice? A politi- American Sociological Association scholar, researcher, and teacher, reached by email at cal and corporate take over? This are celebrating the many ways in all of which she continued while executive.office@ is yet to be determined. Born three which Terry’s wisdom has guided serving as a university president, asanet.org. footnotes • July/August 2012 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Announcing the Newest Members of the Department Resources Group Margaret Weigers Vitullo, PhD, Director, across the United States. ASA covers Departmental expertise includes A. Javier Academic and Professional Affairs all the costs of training and main- assessment, experiential learning, use Trevino, PhD. Program taining the DRG group. Departments of multi-media in large courses. Wheaton SA is delighted to announce that contract with DRG consultants Mary Scheuer College. Former Asix new members of the ASA cover their travel expenses and pro- Senter, PhD. roles include Department Resources Group vide an honorarium. More informa- Central Michigan Department (DRG). These sociologists bring the tion on the Department Resource University. Chair, Program Group, DRG consultants, and the Former Coordinator, expertise that departments are often A. Javier Trevino seeking, including department and services they can provide can be Department President of campus leadership in departments found at: www.asanet.org/drg. Chair, Interim the Society granting BA, MA and PhDs, curricu- Shirley Vice Provost for the Study of Social Problems, lum development, faculty recruit- A. Jackson, for Academic Mary Scheuer Senter and President of the Justice Studies ment, assessment, civic engagement PhD. Southern Affairs, and Association. Departmental expertise and experiential learning, and Connecticut Assistant to the Dean. Currently includes pedagogy for undergradu- distance education. State University. Assessment Coordinator for the ate writing, criminology and law The Department Resources Group Former College of Humanities and Social and programs. (DRG) was founded in 1995 to Department Behavioral Sciences and President N. Prabha assist departments with a variety of Chair, cur- of the faculty union. Departmental Unnithan, Shirley A.Jackson tasks including conducting external rently Graduate expertise includes multi-disciplinary PhD. Colorado reviews of programs, developing Coordinator. departments, assessment, connecting State University. assessment plans, establishing and Departmental expertise includes the major to careers. Former revising curriculum, negotiating program and curriculum develop- Cynthia roles include with administrators, and provid- ment, writing intensive courses, civic Siemsen, PhD. Graduate ing workshops on topics ranging engagement. California State Director, N. Prabha Unnithan from capstone courses to conflict Timothy University- Interim Chair, management to the scholarship of Pippert, PhD. Chico. Current and Interim teaching and learning. The DRG Augsburg Department Associate Dean for the College of also offers a mentorship program for College. Former Chair. Liberal Arts. Currently Director of new Department Chairs and other Department Departmental the Center for the Study of Crime departmental leaders. Over the past Chair, expertise Cynthia Siemsen and Justice. Departmental expertise 13 years, the DRG has conducted Co-Director of includes distance includes graduate student profes- more than 250 site visits and consul- Instructional education, civic engagement and sional socialization, faculty recruit- tations at colleges and universities Course Design Timothy Pippert community service learning, cur- ment and hiring, sociology and Program. riculum revision. criminology programs.
New MCAT Emphasizes Social Foundations of Health and Disease Shannon N. Davis, Department of and to promote a more nuanced out a background in basic genetic introductory sociology courses, and Sociology and Anthropology, George examination of how personal and principles. 10 percent from introductory biology Mason University (Member of MCAT BSS group identities influence profes- courses. As members of the MCAT Description of the Subcommittee) and Jason M. Satterfield, sional development and behavior. BSS Subcommittee, we worked with Department of Medicine, University of Psychological, Social, and In their 2012 Perspective in the the larger MCAT advisory committee California, San Francisco (Member of Biological Foundations of New England Journal of Medicine, to ensure that a breadth of sociologi- MCAT BSS Subcommittee) Behavior Section Kaplan et al. provided several cal concepts, theoretical foundations, new Medical College Admission compelling examples of the role of The new section will test examinees’ and methodological approaches were ATest (MCAT) will be released in behavioral and socio-cultural factors knowledge of the psychological, social, included in the new test. 2015. The new test reflects a growing in life expectancy, managing illness, and biological factors that influence: Implications for Medical appreciation for the complexities of and disparities in health outcomes (1) our perceptions and reactions to Schools, Students, and modern medical practice and the among racial and ethnic groups. the world; (2) behavior and behav- Sociology Departments requisite knowledge students must They argued that, as with the natural ior change; (3) how we think about acquire in order to effectively func- sciences, students are not likely to ourselves and others; (4) how social Currently, entering medical tion in an evolving and imperfect develop a deep understanding of and cultural differences influence well- students have widely variable levels health care system. The MCAT advi- these important social phenomena being; and (5) how social stratifica- of BSS preparation. This heteroge- sory committee recommended that without prior foundational knowl- tion affects access to resources and neity limits the depth of initial BSS the new exam cover foundational edge. Teaching medical students well-being (MR5 Advisory Committee instruction and consumes limited knowledge of behavioral and social how to counsel patients about 2012). It will emphasize established curricular hours that could be used science (BSS) concepts there by sig- nutrition without any background theory and concepts as well as experi- for more advanced BSS training naling the expectation that entering in understanding variations in the mental and observational science. Sixty in medical school. The addition of medical students should be better access to nutritious food or the percent of the items will draw on con- the Foundations of Behavior section prepared to learn about social and socio-cultural meanings of food is cepts typically taught in introductory should encourage students to arrive behavioral determinants of health like teaching gene therapy with- psychology courses, 30 percent from Continued on page 8
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By Daniel Fowler off its 10th season and celebrates believes social media is the key. “A of something and then make a ASA Department of Public Affairs and its 100th episode in July, is the revolution has happened and it is brief statement about the photo Public Information opportunity it affords him to called social media. And, it is criti- and post it on your webpage, post ukufu Zuberi was a sociology go into the homes of American cally important that sociologists it on your Facebook page, Tweet Tprofessor at the University of people. begin to engage social media. And, about it.” He acknowledged those Pennsylvania who dabbled in tele- “They open their doors to me,” to engage social media, you have to things are limited in the amount of vision on the local Comcast station he said. “They allow begin to transform how communication that they facilitate, where he talked about social issues me into their space and you present sociological but it is an invitation for someone of the day and from America’s past. they share their per- information. Now, one to engage you in a much longer While Zuberi had also made other sonal stories with me. way that you can do this conversation.” television appearances during his … Often, this is at great is by using video and For too long, Zuberi said, career, he had no aspirations of risk to them because we using video creatively. sociologists have not engaged the television grandeur. Then, one day could come back and And, it doesn’t have public directly. “I would invite my in 2002, he received a phone call prove that the thing they to be for the History colleagues, my other sociologists that would thrust him into the have is a fake, which Detectives.” out there … to take a step into the Tukufu Zuberi spotlight. we’ve done a number of But, creating videos world of everyday life and to bring “I got a call from the History times. But, they entrust and posting them on their sociology with them and to Detectives,” said Zuberi, who now you with it. They entrust you with social media sites is not the only offer it to the people,” he said. “It is chairs Penn’s sociology depart- their family’s history. And, so for way to communicate sociol- important that we offer it to each ment. “They asked me if I wanted me, that’s darn important. For me, ogy to the public, according to other, but that is not enough. We to be on a television show as a that is the significance of what we Zuberi. “You might take a photo must offer it to the people.” host. And, I said, ‘Of course not. are doing.” I’m too busy doing very important Perhaps, not surprisingly, Zuberi academic work to have time for said his sociology background has things like television shows. You been particularly valuable to him need to go find somebody else for in his role as a History Detectives Calhoun Appointed as the New that job.’” host. “I use my sociological Despite Zuberi’s initial reluc- imagination to help people better Director of the London School tance to join History Detectives, understand their current social the show’s producers persisted. circumstances,” he said. “What do of Economics Eventually, Zuberi agreed to they want to do in life? What is happening to them in the world? rofessor Craig Calhoun has with Richard Sennett, an interview and subsequently been appointed the new Professor of Sociology at LSE, received a formal offer to appear And, how does that relate to the P past?” Director of the London School the NYLON programme on the show, which was still in of Economics and Political which brings together gradu- development at the time. Today, While appearing on History Detectives is a unique opportu- Science (LSE). ate students from New York History Detectives is a hit PBS Peter Sutherland, Chairman and London for co-operative series. nity that enables Zuberi to bring sociology to the general public in of LSE’s Court of Governors, research programs. “The big thing that drew me to said: “Craig is an outstanding Professor Calhoun, who the History Detectives was this a way that is impossible for most sociologists, he suggested that appointment—an intellectual began his student life as an prospect that I would go on and completely at ease in public life anthropologist, is the author of talk about a sociological issue and all sociologists have the ability to share sociology with the public whose career shows how aca- several books including Nations millions of people would look at demia is not aloof from society Matter, Critical Social Theory it and millions of people would and emphasized the importance of doing so. but embedded in it. and Neither Gods Nor Emperors. hear me … talking about race in “He is also a vastly expe- Describing his own approach America,” said Zuberi who has “If we do not move to that level of engaging the public, rienced leader of academic to academic work, Professor been on the show since its debut. organizations, finding new ways Calhoun says: “We must set “Millions of people would spend we risk becoming more and more irrelevant. So, the way you of drawing out their inherent high standards for ourselves, an hour watching me discuss the strengths and bringing their but in order to inform the pub- sociological significance of various become relevant is by showing how this imagination, if you will, expertise to bear on society. I lic well, not to isolate ourselves issues—the Civil War, World War have no doubt LSE will thrive from it.” II, the Civil Rights Movement.” of sociologists has something to contribute to the intellectual life under his leadership.” Professor Calhoun was According to the History Professor Calhoun is an appointed following an open Detective’s website, each hour-long of the people. And, so by doing the History Detectives, I’m taking American citizen but has deep competition by a selection panel episode “features three inves- connections with the United which included members of tigations that delve into family the sociological imagination and I’m giving it to millions of people Kingdom. He took a D Phil LSE’s faculty, student body and legends, local folklore, and stories in History and Sociology governors. behind potentially extraordinary to empower them as they look at their own family’s history, as they at Oxford University and a For more information about objects in everyday American Master’s in Social Anthropology Professor Calhoun see http:// homes, cities, and small towns.” look at their genealogy.” at Manchester. He co-founded, www.nyu.edu/ipk/calhoun/. Zuberi said his favorite part When it comes to bringing of hosting the show, which kicks sociology to the public, Zuberi footnotes • July/August 2012 5 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org TRAILS Welcomes its New Editor: Diane Pike
Stephen Sweet, Ithaca College She served as President of the both her institution and at regional her a better teacher. Some members Midwest Sociological Society meetings, as well as at nearly will recall the bookmarks handed RAILS (Teaching Resources and in 2009-2010. Her Presidential every meeting of the American out when she was Chair of the ASA Innovation Library for Sociology) T address “The Tyranny of Dead Sociological Association for the past Section on Teaching and Learning is ASA’s subscription-based, online, Ideas in Teaching and Learning” two decades. in Sociology, which offered the fol- interactive, peer-reviewed library was recently published in The In discussing her editorship with lowing quotation: of teaching and learning materials. Sociological Quarterly (2011). As a me, Diane outlined her objectives It includes the entire corpus of the “Pedagogy depends on member of the ASA Task Force on for TRAILS in the forthcom- ASA Teaching Resources Center sociology more than any other Creating an Effective Assessment ing years. Foremost, she believes science.” Syllabi sets, as well as a growing Plan for the Sociology that TRAILS should become an -Emile Durkheim number of newly pub- Major, her substantial exemplar for improving teaching lished teaching resources Understanding that effective contributions facilitated the and learning both within sociol- (see trails.asanet.org). teaching and learning is both an identification and assess- ogy and, where appropriate, in And since June 1, it has a art and a science, Diane is eager to ment of learning objectives higher education more generally. new editor: Diane Pike, continue to contribute to scholarly that are now the standard As such, it should be successful in Professor of Sociology at teaching in Sociology as the Editor for the discipline. both substance and in replicabil- Augsburg College. of TRAILS. She also sees this work Diane Pike is one of the ity. Diane sees three main goals Diane Pike received her as an opportunity to show her most public faces of the in program and content develop- PhD from Yale University Diane Pike gratitude for the career she has teaching movement in soci- ment: sustained and improved in 1981 and subsequently enjoyed thus far by helping to set the ology, in part owing to her intense quality of submissions; increased became one of the key driving stage for future sociologists, most involvement with the ASA Section activity by authors and users; and forces in a movement to center of whom teach in some capacity. In on Teaching and Learning as a past increased visibility and recognition teaching as a primary professional part, her commitment to TRAILS chair, and also as lead organizer of by appropriate audiences. Achieving activity for sociologists. She served is to reciprocate the long support the 2010 and 2011 pre-conferences these goals will require smart ideas as the Director of Augsburg’s Center Diane has received from the ASA, “The Best Teachers We Can Be.” from the many colleagues with for Teaching and Learning, and will from the community originating She is among the most active whom she is eager to collaborate. As be recognized as the co-recipient from—and extending beyond—the members of the Departmental Diane remarked, “As a sociologist I of the Distinguished Contributions Section on Teaching and Learning Resources Group, including its know that success in this endeavor to Teaching and Learning Award at and, in particular, from Carla Advisory Council Board, and has depends upon collective energy, the 2012 meeting of the American Howery. provided program review, mentor- wise organizational decision mak- Sociological Association. In addi- So what should we expect of ship and consultation to nearly 20 ing, and the good will of my peers tion to that honor, she received the the new editor of TRAILS? If I departments and scholars, as well in the scholarship of teaching and 2010 ASA Section on Teaching and know Diane Pike, it will be intense as training to other members of learning community.” Learning Hans O. Mauksch Award cajoling and mobilization of her that group. Throughout her career, Diane also shared that her and the 2009 Steward Bellman extensive network of like-minded Diane organized and presented motivation for leading this project Award for Excellence in Faculty teachers to contribute to TRAILS, well-received teaching paper ses- comes from a deep love of teaching Development Leadership from the further accelerating its existing sions, professional workshops, and learning and from the belief Collaboration for the Advancement momentum. Be prepared, she is panels, keynotes, and roundtables at that being a sociologist has made of College Teaching and Learning. coming for you!
Election there was a 48.4 percent participa- Council Members-at-Large Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount from Page 1 tion rate, compared to 45.1 percent Stephanie A. Bohon, University of University in 2011. In the 51 ASA Sections Tennessee Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago Association elections, 57.3 percent participated Kelly A. Joyce, College of William Zulema Valdez, Texas A&M by running for in 2012. Of the total votes cast, 100 and Mary University office and by percent were cast online. Dina G. Okamoto, University of Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, voting in this The full slate of the newly elected California-Davis Northwestern University election. ASA-wide officers and committee Jane Sell, Texas A&M University Committee on Committees Nearly half members follows: the voting Committee on Publications Mary Blair-Loy, University of President-Elect members of the Erin Kelly, University of Minnesota California-San Diego (Members Mary Romero ASA commu- Annette Lareau, University of Vincent Roscigno, Ohio State at Large) nity took part Pennsylvania University Amy S. Wharton, Washington State in the 2012 election, which was an University (Members at Large) Vice President-Elect Committee on Nominations increase over last year’s turnout. Linda M. Blum, Northeastern ASA is one of the very few scholarly Brian Powell, Indiana University Joshua Gamson, University of San University (PhD Granting School) associations with participation Secretary-Elect Francisco Elisa Jayne Bienenstock, David B. Grusky, Stanford Georgetown University (Non- this high. Of the 9,459 members Mary Romero, Arizona State University Academic Institution) eligible to vote in the 2012 election University
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international perspectives An American Sociologist in Armenia Daina S. Eglitis from Western universities, who part- ing Turkey and Azerbaijan, the sense learning at both YSU and the AFP Associate Professor of Sociology and ner with the selected departments and of threat in society is palpable. The disciplinary meeting that brought International Affairs, GWU their faculty to support curriculum collective memory of the Armenian together the region’s young sociolo- et’s start with a quiz. Can you reform, the expansion of resources for genocide in the late Ottoman Empire gists at a single meeting in Istanbul, Lname the four countries the border teaching and research, and the devel- and the more recent border war with Turkey. With the help of the ASA*, Armenia? While most Americans opment of academic networks. Azerbaijan, together with the fact that the Department of Applied Sociology young men are obligated to serve in at YSU also received a gift of syllabi have some familiarity with this coun- Sociology in Armenia try of about three million people, not the military, creates a situation where compilations and teaching materials In the 2011-2012 academic year, I least because more ethnic Armenians peace and stability may be perceived to add to their faculty resources. was an International Scholar with the live outside of the country than in it as fragile. The effect of this perception As a participant in the program, Department of Applied Sociology (many in the U.S.), the geography, on social, political, and economic I have gained at least as much as I at Yerevan State University (YSU) in politics, and social issues of Armenia behavior is important to understand. have given. The opportunity to be Armenia, one of four departments less familiar. Certainly they were not Second, in the post-Soviet period, part of change and development in in the country that were part of the familiar to me, an American sociolo- Armenia, like the other countries of higher education, which is driven Academic Fellowship Program. gist whose research, while focused on the South Caucasus, has experienced by the regional scholars in the pro- While sociology has been at YSU social processes of post-communism, the growth of a gap in the sex ratio at gram, has been enormously reward- since 1986, the Applied Sociology has been limited to European post- birth, similar to the phenomenon has ing and interesting. I have learned section was created in 2004. As in Soviet states like Latvia, Lithuania, been widely associated with countries about a spectrum of amazing many post-Soviet states, sociology and Estonia. When the opportunity like India and China. The roots of research projects that range from departments encompass an array of arose last summer to become part its appearance in Asia Minor remain the analysis of the role of bazaars programs which, from an American of the Open Society Foundations’ open to fuller sociological study. in the post-Soviet Kirghiz economy perspective, cross into the disciplin- Higher Education Support Program to the study of the complex and ary territory of other fields. Aside Pedagogical Contributions (HESP) as an International Scholar negotiated relationships of prison- from traditional sociological courses My role as an International Scholar partnered with the Department of ers and guards in Ukrainian prisons on theory and methods, applied has been informed by the knowl- Sociology at Yerevan State University to the feminist analysis of post-war sociology at YSU offers specialties in edge and experience I have gained in Armenia, I soon embraced it. But memorials in Kosovo. International conflict studies and public relations. over 13 years in the Department of first I checked the map. Here are Scholars also contribute through My department at YSU is well- Sociology at George Washington Armenia’s neighbors: Georgia in the peer review, offering feedback on staffed by young, progressive scholars, University. One of the concerns that north, Turkey in the west, Azerbaijan course development and syllabi. but the conditions of work are the Academic Fellowship Program in the east, and Iran in the south. The creativity of scholars in the challenging. In a country where the (AFP) seeks to address is the Soviet The Higher Education Support program is reflected in courses they average monthly salary is barely $300, legacy of didactic teaching in which Program (HESP) was born from the are bringing to fruition on diverse pay in the academic sector is also the authority of the teacher is unchal- idea that post-secondary education is topics such as collective memory low. Students are, by and large, bright lenged and a student’s role is passive. a key part of the development of open, and society, poverty and marginal- and engaged, though the economic As in most American universities, tolerant, and democratic societies ity, and modern social movements. situation in the country compels most advanced students who become (www.soros.org/about/programs/ Academic innovation and creativity students to work. This has an effect teachers are rarely trained in peda- international-higher-education- are engines of social change and on attendance and preparation. The gogy, which means that many follow support-program). The Academic these young scholars—through legacy of Soviet bureaucracy translates the models they have experienced in Fellowship Program (part of HESP) their research and teaching—are here, as in many places in the region, the classroom. Young scholars in the which brought me to Yerevan foresees making contributions of substance into irrationalities of rationality that post-Soviet space are eager to break the fruitful linkage of three entities. and significance to the discipline include paperwork more extensive out of this mold. One of the contribu- It seeks to identify ambitious and and their communities. than most American scholars are tions I have sought to make as an innovative humanities and social * I would like to thank the American required to complete. Access to both International Scholar is to bring my sciences departments in Central Asia, Sociological Association for their generous Internet and hard copy resources, teaching experience and research into the South Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, donation of teaching materials to the such as journals with contempo- creative pedagogies to my depart- the Balkans, and Mongolia as well as Department of Applied Sociology at YSU. I rary research, is limited. In spite of ment at YSU and other scholars in to support faculty in those depart- am especially grateful to Margaret Weigers obstacles, the department is endeavor- the program. To this end, I have Vitullo and Valerie Jiggetts, who helped to ments who achieve advanced degrees ing to prepare a new generation of offered seminars and roundtables arrange the gathering and sending of the at universities in the United States, Armenian scholars. in interactive teaching and active materials. Canada, or Western Europe, among The preparation of committed others. Those “Returning Scholars” are and critical scholars who can turn a supported with grants and opportuni- sociological lens on contemporary ties that academic positions in their Submit Ideas for the International Perspectives Column social issues in Armenia is of real home countries cannot otherwise Footnotes invites contributions from knowledgeable non-North American sociologists on the state importance. Consider just a pair of afford them, with the goals of fostering of the discipline and profession of sociology in countries outside North America for publication in issues that sociologists encounter their skills in research and teaching the new occasional column, “International Perspectives.” Sociological analyses of significant national in this region of the world. First, and helping countries and universities events in these countries that would be of interest to North American sociologists are welcome for the militarization of society: with publication. Original contributions must be in English and no more than 1,100 words. To discuss reduce “brain drain.” The third piece in unresolved conflicts with neighbor- possible contributions or send material, contact Johanna Olexy ([email protected]). this scenario is “International Scholars”
footnotes • July/August 2012 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Should Every Sociologist Blog? Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland- try not to let them pass from Objections subfield might be all you need to College Park your mind, but instead to There are reasonable objections motivate your writing habit. No recently heard a fellow sociologist formulate them for your files to the suggestion that all sociolo- need for a massive following to Iadvise first-year sociology gradu- and in so doing draw out their gists blog. achieve your goals. Consider get- ate students that they should all blog implications, show yourself Some people are not intellectual ting together with a few others and and tweet. either how foolish these extroverts. Not everyone wants each posting to a group blog once I blog to read the sound of my feelings or ideas are, or how to shout their every idea into the per week. (Departments or gradu- own sociological voice, to contrib- they might be articulated into Internet tube. That’s fine. But, ate student associations would do ute to the community of social sci- productive shape. The file also although academia may be kinder well to facilitate this.) entists thinking about the questions helps you build up the habit of to introverts than are some other Bad ideas or immature writing that move me, to provide informa- writing. You cannot ‘keep your professions, developing a public today is a job opportunity blown six tion and ideas to the public and hear hand in’ if you do not write voice is an important part of being years from now. If your potential their responses, and to organize my something at least every week. a successful sociologist. Like speak- future department Googles you own thoughts on research and writ- In developing the file, you can ing up in a graduate seminar, the and hates your blog, maybe they ing. This project may have reduced experiment as a writer and only way to grow more comfort- won’t hire you. But that risk has my peer-reviewed scholarly output thus, as they say, develop your able is to do it. In fact, what’s good to be weighed against the benefit in the last several years. But it has powers of expression. advice for seminars works here as of having richer ideas and more enriched my sociological thinking, In Mills’ practice, the file was a well—speak up every time, early mature writing later as a result of all enhanced my intellectual environ- set of topical folders, the organiza- in the discussion, to break your ice that practice. Plus, anticipating the ment, improved my writing, and tion of which was itself an intel- and get it over with. For blogging, possible negative consequences of made my job more fun. lectual exploration (“the topics, of remember there is no need to write your writing is an important skill to But every sociologist blogging course, change, sometimes quite everything. You can selectively develop. might seem like overkill. Who is frequently”), and in my world these post your reading lists, discussion Philip Cohen regularly blogs at going to read all those blogs, and are the blog topic tags. As the file questions, minor observations, and FamilyInequality.com where he keeps how would we have time for any- develops, the list of potential proj- annotated links to the writing of a running account of the connections thing else if we all wrote and read ects and research ideas outruns one’s others. between families and inequality. The original version of this article appeared blogs all day? The wired cacophony ability to pursue them, providing Having few readers will be the impetus to review and prioritize. discouraging. It shouldn’t be. A as a blog post that can be found in its we endure already competes with entirety at
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public sociology Finding the Right Fit Outside of Academia By Henry H. Brownstein bureaus: statistics, research, and NIJ, the research arm of the US ment. About a year ago I noticed policy. Ideally, we used the statistics Department of Justice, was look- that I was rarely doing research but was introduced to sociology in from the administrative data our ing for a Director of its Drugs and rather spending most of my time 1964 as a freshman at Brooklyn I agency collected and maintained to Crime Research Division, in part to doing the business of research. College. Against the backdrop of the support and conduct research and establish a national drugs and crime So while I am still at NORC, I am War in Vietnam, widespread social policy analyses that to information research agenda. The lure of being now a Senior Fellow with reduced and cultural upheaval, the looming and evidence to help the Governor part of a national research program management responsibility and the threat of the draft, drugs, violence, to make the best crime and justice specifically designed to inform opportunity and responsibility to music, idealism, and a great deal policy decisions. There I learned policy and practice was so great, I left devote myself to doing research. My of enthusiasm and optimism about how research could and could not UB and went to NIJ. Over my four job is to work with other people to the future, sociology was the only contribute to policy. years at the agency I got to direct a prepare and submit proposals, do relevant major. I learned from profes- During the time I worked for national program to study the drug research, report what I learn, and sors like Al Lee that sociology is “for the state a drug crisis arose. In the involvement of people arrested be active in my field in ways that people.” So when I graduated in 1968 middle of the 1980s crack cocaine and booked in local jails. And I get allow me to contribute knowledge I set out to save the world. While arrived in New York City. In 1989 to bring together researchers and and information to people who are working on my MA at Brooklyn I in his message to the state legisla- government policymakers to develop responsible for social policy and was a fourth grade teacher in the ture, the Governor declared that the a plan for policy-relevant drugs practice. Arguably that is what I set Bushwick section of Brooklyn, where state had three problems, “drugs, and crime research. But nationwide out to do when I left my first college I learned a lot about people who drugs, and drugs.” Around that crime rates started to decline and teaching job. lived in a world of scarcity, fear, and time I formed a partnership with interest in drugs as a problem waned, Over the years I have had the despair. By the time I started a PhD a researcher at an organization in so funding for the agency was cut. I opportunity to work directly and program at Temple University in the city called Narcotic and Drug continued doing research and writ- indirectly with policymakers and North Philadelphia in 1972 my plan Research, Inc. With funding from ing reports, but the resources and practitioners from both inside and was to become a professor at a small first the National Institute of Justice support we needed to do the work outside of government, changing urban college where I could teach (NIJ) and then the National Institute were diminished. It was time to move settings as opportunities arose. and work with lower and working on Drug Abuse (NIDA), I spent the on. Overall, what I learned is that as a class kids to help them to try to make next 15 years conducting studies of Opportunities came along to sociologist one way to contribute to more of their lives. the relationship between drugs and work at private organizations that do the social good is through research At Temple University a fellow violence. We learned, reported and policy-relevant research for govern- that produces information and evi- graduate student told me that what published lots of interesting find- ment agencies. In 2005 I took a dence that can serve as a foundation I had learned at Brooklyn College ings, and my state agency was happy position as a Senior Vice President at for reasonable, principled, and con- was not sociology. My five years in to have someone working for them NORC at the University of Chicago. structive social policy and practice, Philadelphia did not change my view who could share those findings with But while NORC is a policy research and that there are many ways and of what sociology could or should them. So as a state employee I did organization, my job was manage- places to do that. be, but one new thing I did learn was research with various colleagues that as a sociologist it was research at NDRI and served as a source of rather than teaching through which information on drugs and crime for I could have the greater impact. ASA Community Action Research Initiative state government policymakers. Nonetheless, in 1977 I was offered Then in 1995 I thought I would (CARI) Grant and accepted a teaching job at a try teaching again; a part of me Deadline: February 1, 2013 small college in upstate New York. still wanted to be a professor. I was Teaching sociology at a small The ASA encourages applications for the Community Action Research Initiative (CARI). offered a position at the University of The purpose of this grant is to encourage sociologists to undertake community action college to students more interested Baltimore, and it seemed like a good projects that bring social science knowledge, methods, and expertise to bear in address- in their degree than their education fit. The university was in the middle ing community-identified issues and concerns. Grant applications are encouraged from and having little opportunity to do of the city serving mostly first gen- sociologists seeking to work with community organizations, local public interest groups, or research did not enable me to have eration college students and advanc- community action projects. Funding will run for the duration of the project, whatever the the impact I was hoping to have. ing the slogan “practical applications time span might be. So less than five years after arriving of the liberal arts.” So I resigned from Applications are encouraged from sociologists in academic settings, research institutions, I took leave from my teaching job. my state government job and moved private and non-profit organizations, and government. Advanced graduate students are Despite being awarded tenure during with my family to Maryland, though eligible to apply, but funding cannot be used to support dissertation research. While ASA my leave, I resigned. I was offered I maintained my working relation- membership is not a criterion for applying or being selected for this grant, if and when a and accepted a job working for the ship with NDRI. I only stayed at UB grant award is made, the recipient must be a current ASA member. ASA membership involves New York State Division of Criminal for five years, during which time I acceptance of and adherence to the ASA Code of Ethics, which is critical to the implemen- Justice Services. tation of the grant project. Grantees must also provide documentation of pertinent IRB was awarded tenure and promoted At first I led teams doing evalua- approval for the funded project. to Full Professor. Even with its policy tions of alternative-to-incarceration orientation and connections to state For additional information and complete application materials, visit www.asanet.org programs. A decade later I was Chief agencies, UB was not the right envi- and click on “Funding.” Direct questions or comments to [email protected] or (202) of the agency’s Bureau of Statistical ronment for me to have an impact 383-9005 x322. Services. Our office had three through policy research.
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whom were minority and/or from SA and the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) are pleased to introduce the eight new Fellows who comprise low socioeconomic backgrounds, AMFP Cohort 39. The MFP Advisory Panel met this spring in Washington, DC, to review the large and highly suffered from abuse, neglect, and competitive pool of applications. MFP Cohort 39 consists of PhD candidates with strong and diverse sociological repeated placement failures. With research interests. The new Fellows will officially begin their participation on August 1, 2012. these youth, she became aware of They will attend the 2012 Annual Meeting in Denver, where they will take part in a day-long orientation on negative public attitudes toward Thursday, August 16, that will include a brief history of ASA and a series of research and professional development- mental illness and saw the effect themed presentations by sociologists (including several former Fellows) with expertise in a variety of areas. The new stigma had on their lives. In this Fellows will also participate in a number of required sessions and workshops and have the opportunity to network regard, her applied work experience with sociologists with similar interests. At the Annual Meeting, they will attend a host of MFP-sponsored events, is an integral part of her under- including a breakfast meeting with all current MFP Fellows on August 17. The members of MFP Cohort 39 will also standing of issues surrounding be introduced individually and as a group during the MFP Benefit Reception on August 18. To register for the recep- health. As a scholar, she seeks to tion, see
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MFP Fellows race and partnership for people Graduate Institution: University of with research interests in the sociol- from previous page who identify with more than one California-Santa Barbara. ogy of family, race and ethnicity, race in the United States to examine Rachel is neighborhood disadvantage, and U.S. military empire, specifically how race and racial boundaries are a doctoral quantitative methods. Originally analyzing the legal, physical, and produced and reproduced through candidate in from Mississippi, Deadric received emotional infrastructures of the U.S. partnership and marriage and the sociology at his bachelor’s degree in English and military occupation in southern extent to which multiracials chal- the University master’s degree in sociology from Korea. Focusing on how crimes lenge racial boundaries in the 21st of California- Mississippi State University (MSU). involving U.S. soldiers are debated century. Santa Barbara While at MSU, he received the within the military, she is interested (UCSB). She outstanding master’s student award Victor Ray (Leadership in how these debates change over earned her Rachel R. Sarabia and taught several sociology courses. Campaign MFP) time and in relation to transna- BA from His master’s thesis examined the tional race and gender formations. Undergraduate the University of California-Los predictors of paternal commitment Yaejoon is thankful for the intel- Institutions: Angeles (UCLA) in 2007 and her and paternal involvement among lectual and emotional support of Borough of master’s degree from UCSB in 2009. low-income African-American her home department, mentors, and Manhattan Her participation in the Ronald fathers. While at the University of financial support from the Asian Community E. McNair Scholars Program and Nebraska-Lincoln, Deadric has American Studies Program’s Jeffrey College Sociology Honors Program at been working on a series of research S. Tanaka grant, the Bastian sum- and Vassar UCLA ignited her desire to seek projects using data from the Fragile mer dissertation fellowship, and the College. advanced degrees in sociology and Families and Child Well-being Center for East Asian and Pacific Graduate Victor Ray engage in research that informs Study. His research seeks to under- Studies’ Foreign Language and Area Institution: public policy. Rachel’s research stand within-family interpersonal Studies Fellowship. Duke University. interests are in juvenile and social processes by examining the effects of Victor is a doctoral candidate in justice, race, class, and gender stud- economic hardship on relationship Krystale Littlejohn (SWS MFP sociology at Duke University. He #2) ies, and urban ethnography. Her distress through several mediating began his studies at the Borough of life experiences and family fuel her factors such as depressive symptoms, Undergraduate Manhattan Community College and passion for finding solutions to the inter-parental discord, and parenting Institution: finished his undergraduate degree struggles that poor, urban popula- stress among mothers and fathers. Occidental in Urban Studies at Vassar, where he tions face. Rachel’s dissertation Most of Deadric’s research takes a College. graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2007. research—supported by the Ford dyadic longitudinal structural equa- Graduate At both schools, Victor was heavily Foundation, the Chicana/o Studies tion model approach. His first paper Institution: involved in student politics, espe- Institute, and the Department of is currently under review. Deadric Stanford cially in relation to access to college Sociology at UCSB—examines the is also involved with studies using University. for low-income and minority experiences of Latina women and the Add Health friendship network Krystale Littlejohn Krystale students and campus racial climate. Latina/o youth living in a low- data to understand the longitudinal is a doctoral Since arriving at Duke, Victor has income public housing develop- effects of friendship ties and alcohol candidate at Stanford University collaborated on articles on race and ment in Southern California. use among adolescents. He has studying race and ethnicity, social race theory for a number of jour- She documents how women and received several departmental fel- inequality, and sociology of the fam- nals, such as the Journal of African youths’ abilities to navigate the lowships and research awards. ily. She earned her BA in sociology American Studies and the Journal of streets, negotiate violence, and and Spanish Language and Culture Marriage and Family. Victor’s dis- avoid victimization and criminal- at Occidental College. She currently sertation research, supported by the ization within and outside of the has two lines of research. One proj- Ford Foundation and the National public housing development is tied ect focuses on the social dimensions Science Foundation, among others, to the performance of situational of birth control use as a window focuses on how race and gender masculinities. Additionally, Rachel into understanding subgroup dif- shape the transition to civilian links the conditions and perpetu- ferences in unintended pregnancy life for veterans of the Iraq and ation of poverty to institutional- and fertility. In a forthcoming paper, Afghanistan conflicts. Using qualita- ized economic racism, residential she uses National Survey of Family tive interviews, he explores how the segregation, and disproportionate Growth (2002) data to examine race possible mental health effects of life urban poverty. and education differences in choos- in a combat zone impacts the daily ing to stop birth control because of lives of veterans as they reintegrate Deadric dissatisfaction as a potential expla- into work and family. Victor was Williams (MSS nation for disparities in unintended honored that his peers nominated MFP) pregnancy. In another manuscript him for the Duke Graduate School’s Undergraduate currently under preparation, she highly competitive Dean’s Award for Institution: uses qualitative data to examine Excellence in Mentoring, which he Mississippi women’s experiences with contra- was awarded. State ceptive side effects to understand University. Rachel R. Sarabia (ASA Council the relationship between the social Graduate Deadric Williams MFP) dimensions of side effects, preg- Institution: nancy prevention, and contraceptive Undergraduate Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln. negotiation. In her dissertation, she University of California-Los Deadric is a doctoral student at focuses on the relationship between Angeles. the University of Nebraska-Lincoln footnotes • July/August 2012 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Bicycle In keeping with the theme of this Blake Street the displacement of neighborhood from Page 1 year’s ASA Annual Meeting, Real In 1956, the Rocky Mountain families, but this effort ultimately Utopias, the bicycle tour focuses on News declared the Blake Street failed (DURA 2008). As part of there are more than 50 stations and central Denver locations that reflect neighborhood “Denver’s worst negotiations, displaced residents, more than 500 bikes are available historical efforts to enhance urban slum.” At that time, less than one- their children, and grandchildren throughout the city, and riders living, with varying degrees of suc- third of the homes had indoor toilet are eligible for free tuition at any of have logged over 400,000 miles on cess. Civic Center Park is an exam- facilities and most were wedged the Auraria institutions for up to th the bikes. Ultimately, organizers ple of the early 20 century City between industrial plants and eight semesters. would like to provide 1,500 bikes at Beautiful movement. Beginning in warehouses. Beginning in 1959, Auraria campus construction th 150 stations throughout the metro the mid-20 century, the Denver DURA began acquiring and clear- was completed in 1976. Buildings Denver area (Denver Post 2012a). Urban Renewal Authority (DURA) ing both residential and commercial that were preserved included the B-cycle provides free use of initiated urban redevelopment properties while the City’s Public Tivoli Brewery (now the Auraria bicycles for 30 minutes. Users place of blighted areas in the city core. Works and State Highway depart- campus student union), Immanuel a credit-card deposit online or Three of the five areas on the tour ments worked to improve traffic Episcopal Church, St. Elizabeth’s, at a bike station, select a bicycle, were targeted by DURA between flow, repave streets, and install curbs and St. Cajetan’s churches, as well as and return it to any station in the 1959 and 1973—Blake Street, the and gutters. Urban renewal efforts the Ninth Street Historic District system. If a rider uses the bike for Auraria neighborhood/campus, included expansion of St. Charles Skyline longer than 30 minutes, they are and Skyline. TheHighlands neigh- Park to provide a greater buffer In the mid-1960s, this down- charged until the bike is returned to borhood represents a long-standing between the expanded industrial town area was known as Denver’s a station. Users can check out and ethnic enclave community that has zone and neighborhoods to the skid row, with aging and obsolete dock a bike as many times as they experienced substantial gentrifica- southeast. DURA’s redevelopment like (B-cycle 2012). tion recently. efforts along Blake During the 2012 Annual Civic Center Park were completed Meeting in Denver, the Sociology in 1973 (DURA No one influenced the design of Department at University of 2008). Colorado-Denver (CU) has orga- central Denver more than Robert nized two activities to highlight the W. Speer, mayor from 1904 to Auraria B-Cycle program. 1912 and 1916 until his death Auraria derives First, a regional spotlight session, in 1918. Speer was influenced from the Latin term titled Wheel Utopias: Bringing Bike by the City Beautiful movement aurum, or gold, Sharing to Denver, will describe the promoted during the 1897 World and reflects the vision of the B-Cycle program and Columbian Exposition in Chicago. fascination with its public supporters; the synergy Denver’s neighborhoods are filled gold found near between city government, grass- with an extensive system of urban the junction of the roots organizers, and corporate parks. Civic Center Park, opened South Platte River sponsors to implement the B-Cycle in 1919, incorporates a number and Cherry Creek. program; an analysis of neighbor- of neo-classical elements from This area in central hood patterns of ridership; and its Greek open-air theater and Denver was estab- challenges to the B-Cycle program’s Voorhies Memorial Colonnade, lished in 1858 by efforts to broaden ridership to to its symmetrical gardens sur- the Russell brothers include low-income urban commu- rounded by civic institutions such as a mining town. nities. Panelists will include Denver as the Denver Art Museum and the During the mid-19th century, the infrastructure as well as vacant and B-Cycle’s Executive Director, Denver Central Library. The park neighborhood was home to Central abandoned buildings. In addition to the Denver Director of Strategic is bookended by the gold-domed and Eastern European immigrants more than 700 businesses, the area Marketing, and a local expert in GIS Colorado State Capitol and the (DURA 2008). The oldest synagogue was home to some 1,600 individuals analysis applied to urban popula- Denver City and County Building in the Denver area, now a museum, and 95 families when it was targeted tions. For more information, see the (Civic Center Conservancy 2012). is located in the area. By the 1920s, for redevelopment. Nearly all of the program schedule. Civic Center Park is currently under the population was almost exclu- residents were considered disad- Second, the university’s Students of consideration for National Historic sively Latino. vantaged, often jobless and in poor Sociology Club has coordinated with Landmark status, a first for Denver. In 1965, the South Platte River health. The redevelopment effort B-cycle to offer a guided bike tour of In recent years, Civic Center flooded, putting much of Auraria transformed downtown Denver five central Denver neighborhoods. Park has hosted a number of public underwater. An evaluation of the through construction of commer- The tour will last about 90 minutes, events even as it has battled a repu- damaged neighborhood led city cial, residential and public spaces, th including scheduled stops in each of tation for drug-dealing and home- officials to consider an urban rede- including the 16 Street Mall, the neighborhoods described below. lessness. For example, this summer, velopment project to house three Skyline Park, Writer Square, and the The tour departs from the Colorado food trucks will converge most institutions of higher learning— Denver Center for the Performing Convention Center on Sunday, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Occupy Community College of Denver, Arts. August 19 at 10 am. Participants will Denver has maintained a presence Metropolitan State University, In 1963, Denver resident Dana be provided with a bicycle, helmet, there periodically, though Denver and the University of Colorado Crawford formed Larimer Square and a printed copy of the route, and recently enacted a camping ban Denver. Father Peter Garcia of Associates, which successfully tour highlights. Participants may sign throughout the city that has upset St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church and prevented the demolition of the up at (www.asanet.org/AM2012/ protestors and homeless advocates angry residents formed the Auraria 1400 block of Larimer Street by index.cfm). alike (Simmons 2012). Residents’ Organization to resist Continued on page 15
12 footnotes • July/August 2012 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association ASA Awards Eight Grants for the Advancement of Sociology different industries, genders, and the firm—which Japanese work- he American Sociological Association (ASA) announces 8 awards from immigration statuses. The results ers are known for—is a factor of Tthe December 2011 round of the ASA’s Fund for the Advancement of should be a broader understanding employment in Japanese firms, but the Discipline (FAD). This program, co-funded by ASA and the National about how different sub-populations not of Japanese culture. Thus, it is Science Foundation (NSF) and administered by the ASA, provides seed of workers understand and identify institutional not cultural factors money (up to $7,000) to PhD scholars for innovative research projects and their rights. that drive differences found among for scientific conferences that advance the discipline through theoretical and Amy Lubitow, Portland State workers in foreign vs domestic methodological breakthroughs. Funding decisions are made by an advisory University, received $6,914 for the firms. The co-existence of the panel comprised of members of ASA’s Council and the ASA Director of project “Contesting Sustainability: foreign and the domestic in the Research and Development. Below is a list of the latest FAD Principal Bicycles, Race and Place.” The goal Japanese labor market provides a Investigators (PIs) and a brief description of their projects. of this study is to develop a critical test case for examining how local sociological theory of sustainable firms adapt to global pressures, and development that updates theories how workers navigate the chang- Orit Avishai, Fordham rich collaborations within the field of gentrification. Using interviews, ing institutional environment. The University, received $7,000 for of sexualities studies. The workshop participant observation, and content study will use in-depth interviews “Saving American Marriages: will provide a venue where partici- analysis, the study will research and econometric analysis of finance Marriage Education and the pants can work to overcome the gap how historical legacies of racial professionals in Japan. Politics of Morality.” Since the between qualitative and quantita- and economic inequality within George Steinmetz, University 1980s, scholarship about American tive approaches and bring these Portland, Oregon, influence com- of Michigan, received $7,000 for political culture has focused on camps into closer conversation. munity opposition to a seemingly his project “Social Scientists and contentious battles, referred to as In addition, participants will join benign sustainable development Imperial Politics: Britain, France, “culture wars.” While the term has workgroups in their area of study; project. The central research ques- and Germany, 1930s-1960s.” This fallen out of favor, social scientists participate in dissertation master tion is how and why community project examines the nexus of continue to investigate the conten- classes focused on methodological conflict regarding the proposed science and politics, asking how tious debates about sexual morality, design; and consider critical issues bike safety corridor erupted into imperial conditions shape the pro- gender relations, family forma- within the discipline. Finally, this a divisive issue. Similar conflicts duction of social science and how tion, and personal ethics regarding workshop will seek to bridge the in other parts of the United States and whether researchers maintain abortion and sex education. Yet, not study of sexualities across diverse suggest that urban planning related their objectivity and distance. The all potentially contentious issues sub-disciplines within sociology, to sustainability may not actually middle third of the 20th century produce opposing movements. This and explore how the study of sexu- serve all community members. Race was the period in which sociological project is a case study of the mar- alities can change how sociologists and class tensions and conflicts research became central to French riage education movement, a col- think of other areas of research. such as those currently unfolding and British colonial reform and in laborative movement that includes Shannon M. Gleeson, University in Portland suggest that a generic which Nazi Germany mobilized conservatives and progressives. This of California-Santa Cruz, received a approach to sustainable plan- sociologists to plan its policies and movement endeavors to reduce $6,870 grant for “Mobilizing Rights, ning can become contentious. The strategies in Eastern Europe. The divorce rates through relationship Navigating Bureaucracies: Assessing research results should provide research builds on prior work and education and skills-building. The the Legal Mobilization of Low-Wage insights on conflict regarding the reconstructs the academic sociologi- project aims to discern the mecha- Workers.” Law and society scholars planning and implementation of ini- cal fields in each of these countries nisms and modalities of interaction have extensively documented the tiatives developed under the guise of and in their overseas colonies and among ideologically opposed con- barriers that employees face when sustainability. This project will form zones of influence. Using archival stituents of this marriage education pursuing legal mobilization in the the foundation of a larger, national- research, the project will result in movement and the identification wake of a workplace violation. level comparative study. the construction of a database of of a political middle ground. The Using survey research and follow- Hiroshi Ono, Texas A&M all sociologists who worked on project’s research question is why up interviews, the study examines University, received $5,400 for and in colonies and empires, their marriage education is marked by processes of legal mobilization for “Globalization and Inequality in published and unpublished work, as collaboration rather than conten- low-wage workers, and in particular, the Labor Market: The Study of well as interview with those who are tion. Using fieldwork, interviews, the strategies workers use when Career Mobility in the Japanese still alive. The study will investigate and analysis of print and online making claims about their rights. Financial Sector.” This project stud- the conditions that led some of these sources, the case study will examine While workplace violations may be ies how macro-level global forces sociologists to support colonial- the conditions that diffuse potential commonplace, among the low-wage are shaping the behavior of firms ism and others to reject it, as well polarization and inform political population claims-making is not. In and of individuals in the Japanese as their lasting contributions to the dialogues and compromises. order to understand the ways legal financial sector, with particular analysis of empires. Mary Bernstein, University of rights are pursued among vulner- focus on the increasing influ- Jessica K. Taft, Davidson Connecticut, received $7,000 for the able workers, the study will gather ence of foreign firms. These firms College, received $6,700 for “Social workshop “Crossing Boundaries: information on the claimants’ work- bring employment practices that Movements and the Meaning of Workshopping Sexualities.” This place experience, knowledge about are more market-driven and less Childhood: Intergenerational workshop is designed to advance their rights, and decision-making socially embedded compared to Collaboration in the Peruvian the discipline of sociology by unit- process. The study will also uncover the Japanese status quo. The study Working Children’s Movement.” ing junior and senior scholars in some of the strategies workers use will compare financial workers at Public and scholarly interest in an effort to share theoretical and when making claims on their rights, domestic and international firms. children’s political participation methodological advances, create and identify trends across major The hypothesis is that the loyalty to intellectual networks, and promote categories of workers — including Continued on page 15 footnotes • July/August 2012 13 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
sociologists have long been noted as Blazing Trails in Sociology post-racial environment and have lit- champions of diversity. Our by-laws There is no way to express the tle if any knowledge about the people esteem diversity. Let’s keep it that way. pleasure I felt in reading Craig Schaar’s who blazed a trail’ for them to follow. Paul Serwinek, Editor of Christian Emerita Profile on Essie Rutledge in They also may find HBCU campuses Sociologist Newsletter the April 2012 Footnotes. As one who and faculty not worthy of their career came after Essie yet before the larger attention. But, I owe my entire being Response to “In Favor of On Diversity in Religious number of African American women as a sociologist to those campuses Relevance” Studies in sociology, I am deeply indebted to and to women trail blazers like Essie I was extremely disappointed by I must thank Ryan Cragun for pro- the large footsteps she left. I came into Rutledge and hope that ASA and our the response (April 2012) to Christian viding us an excellent illustration of the discipline as a graduate student discipline doesn’t become so big, so Smith’s March Footnotes ASA Forum exactly the kind of ignorance of which just as Essie and others were forming multicultural, so professional, or so piece. The response missed the point I wrote in my March 2012 issue of the Black Caucus in Sociology. When all of the other categories that suggest of the original letter. Smith called Footnotes. His assertion (April 2012 I went to Atlanta University to direct inclusiveness that we omit re-telling attention to the disrespect of some Footnotes) that religion matters little research for the School of Social Work the historical stories that brought us sociologists toward the general topic in social life and, when so, mostly in (the first such school for African to the place we are. of sociology of religion. His appeal was pernicious ways, is stunningly oblivi- Americans in the United States and Thank you Essie, Anna, Joyce, and to take religion more seriously and to ous to the findings of decades of the a legacy graduate Historically Black all the others! best research that tells us otherwise. I respect the professionalism and views University), I met another Black Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State of researchers working in the field of can only interpret it as wishful think- female sociologist—Anna Grant. University ing on his part. Cragun claims that Anna was on faculty at Morehouse sociology of religion. The analytical challenge As Editor of the Christian religion has very little effect on health, College, also a signature HBCU, and Sociologist Newsletter, I have person- for instance. But research shows she shared her “trail-blazing” story Some of us work to enrich sociol- ally received many letters from soci- that highly religious Americans live with me. It follows Essie’s experi- ogy for its own sake, a perfectly ology students relating how they were seven years longer than non-religious ences. Anna was from Florida but honorable pursuit. Others—so one belittled in class or forced to listen Americans, an effect on mortality the state paid her graduate tuition day an even stronger sociology will to a harangue by a professor on why equivalent to not smoking a pack of rather than admit her to a graduate be available to tackle challenges that he personally abhors religion. They cigarettes per day (Robert Hummer, program in that state. Anna instead plague our society and that of others. ask, “How can professors can get et al. 1999, “Religious Involvement completed her graduate work in the And some—to try to understand the away with venting their hatred when, and U.S. Mortality,” Demography). state of Washington. social world around us and to now if they spoke similarly about Gay Such associations and the causal We often talk about the problems serve those who seek to better it. Rights, they would be ostracized?” mechanisms that produce them have and negative effects of segregated These lines are for the third group, Frankly, I have no response. been demonstrated and well worked education, and I am not advocating which I wish would be even larger It is unfortunate that members of out for decades now, not merely in any further return to that situation. and have more opportunities to voice our organization feel no compunc- health but many other fields as well. However, my inspiration to complete its findings. tion in proclaiming their belief in Perhaps Cragun is not reading the the PhD did not come from the We face a major sociological the irrelevance of religion in our research. Then again when religious number and variety of faculty profes- puzzle. We see around us a society society when religion, an aspect of effects are not found in studies, it sors and advisors at the University of in which banks are bailed out but our culture, is a major component of is often because religion is poorly California-Berkeley. It was listening not homeowners, millions of whom society. As our respondent admitted, measured or analyzed by scholars to Anna, meeting Essie. and others have lost their life savings and been religion, through Dr. King and oth- who do not understand it adequately. of the Black Caucus in Sociology, and kicked into the street. We see execu- ers, has spearheaded the Civil Rights In view of the mass of published evi- following the footsteps of sociologist tives paid billions in bonuses using Movement and to this day African dence against Cragun’s view, one can Joyce Ladner at the Institute of the tax payers’ monies—and those long American churches remain vigilant only imagine that he simply does not Black World in Atlanta, GA. unemployed loose their meager that the momentum toward equality want religion to matter. He is entitled As a master’s student I completed benefits. We see pharmaceutical continues. Religious organizations to that view personally, but not as a a major research paper on Black companies that fake data to continue arguably do more for the home- sociologist. We are bound to deal with women and higher education, “To sell harmful medications, corrupt less than any other institution in empirical reality, whatever it is, like it Define Black Womanhood,” yet there politicians, biased courts, and so on. America. And we know that the 2012 or not. As to Cragun’s view that reli- remained a myriad reasons to stop One would expect—at least I elections will be greatly influenced by gion is dying, I suggest he get out of my education at the MA level, not did—a major protest led by the left religious belief. In fact, once know- his office and do some world traveling the least was a Berkeley professor to remake the regime. Instead we ing a voter’s belief system, whether to open his eyes. And as to his insinu- telling me “you people don’t have witness a major shift to the right. Evangelical, Agnostic, Catholic, Black ation that my own scholarship has a a culture, you just have learned to (Occupy is so nebbish it barely Protestant, Buddhist etc.. one could pro-religion bias, if anything, the pub- adjust.” I was ready to quit. The two counts). We need sociology to under- fairly accurately predict his/her views lic record stands that most everything previous cohorts each had an African stand this odd move and whether it on the major issues and candidates. I have published is in fact quite critical American woman and they left after can be redirected. And some claim that religion is no of religion in various ways. In short, the master’s. It was too difficult, but Some of my colleagues will assume longer relevant! Over 300 members Cragun is staking out a position that seeing and listening to Essie, Joyce, that know the answer. It is false of the ASA Section on the Sociology made sense in the 1950s but is out of Anna, and the other sociologists of consciousness they declare. First, of Religion and the more than 500 touch with empirical reality today, the Caucus, and hearing their stories this needs to be documented rather subscribers, mostly ASA members, of and in that sense simply provides of completing the degree, I could not than pronounced. (In effect, three the Christian Sociology Newsletter feel more evidence for my original point. quit. political scientists who tried to do so religion is very relevant in our mod- Christian Smith, Today’s graduate students may found that about 75% of Americans University of Notre Dame believe our current society to be a ern world. I have been proud that Continued on next page
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Grants or limit cross-age partnership, and forcibly relocated to rural areas ferings mean to their later life than from page 13 how these cultural and structural and “re-educated” in the 1960s and those with lower socioeconomic forms shape participants’ lived 1970s. These educated youths, now status. The broader purpose of the has grown significantly in the past experiences of childhood, adult- older adults, should have similar project is to further understand the 20 years. However, there is little hood, and the relationship between narratives about their suffering. intersection between biography and research on children’s participa- children and adults. By examining However, their interpretations about history. tion and the meaning of childhood how childhood is constructed and the meanings and values of the suf- Contributions and Applications within social movements. This experienced within this type of fering vary greatly. Using in-depth project begins to fill this gap by organization, this project will exam- interviews and a survey, the study We are asking ASA members to provide exploring the interactions between ine the durability and fluidity of the will answer two research questions: the donations needed to keep the FAD children and adults in the Peruvian meaning of childhood. how do the former educated youths program at current funding levels. movement of working children—a Bin Xu, Florida International interpret their shared experience? Individuals can send contributions movement that sees children as University, received $7,000 for What social factors can explain earmarked to FAD, c/o Business Office, political subjects and seeks to create “Some Sufferings Are More Equal the variations in their interpreta- American Sociological Association, 1430 K St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, collaborative political relationships than Others: China‘s Educated tions? The hypothesis is that current DC 20005, or call Girma Efa at (202) across age differences. Through Youths and the Difficult Past.” This socioeconomic status leads to varia- 383-9005, ext. 306. Potential applicants document analysis, participant project identifies and explains tions in their interpretations of the can reach the program director, Roberta observation, and in-depth inter- different interpretation of memo- past. Those educated youths who Spalter-Roth, at [email protected]; viewing, this project will examine ries among the “educated youth” attained relatively higher socio- the co-director Nicole Van Vooren can be organizational and cultural dis- generation in China. Approximately economic status after the educated reached at [email protected]. For courses about childhood, institu- 18 million urban Chinese middle youth years are more likely to have more information, visit www.asanet.org/ tional structures that facilitate and/ and high school graduates were a positive view about what their suf- funding/fad.cfm.
ASA Forum The ASA open a moderated web Leadership background information you can from previous page page in which all those who seek from Page 1 provide about qualifications (e.g., to speak to these issues will have CV) would be most helpful to the vote what they called “correctly,” in their say, as long as it is based on [email protected] as soon as committee. line with their interests and values. sociological data and analysis. Or possible but no later than August 10, Service on an ASA committee or Second we need to understand what –a workshop. Or??? I am penning 2012. Any background information service as an elected leader of the asso- sustains false consciousness in the these lines because I sure do not see you can provide about qualifications ciation is one of the strongest com- face of such overwhelming evidence. the answer, and I have not been so would be helpful. mitments a person can make to their We are quick to point the finger at despondent since the end of the war At the same time, the Committee profession and to their professional the media, as Norman Ornstein and in Vietnam. I hope to learn from my on Committees will spend a full day organization. The ASA is a member- Thomas Mann do inIt’s Worse Than colleagues: what must be done? What identifying potential members to ship organization that operates with It Looks. However, in this age, the can be done? serve on approximately 15 different member leaders. We need you and we media, including the social media, Amitai Etzioni served as the President of association committees, including need your voice and your views. are not all playing the same tune. the American Sociological Association all of the award selection commit- In addition to having a voice in the And the question stands, why do from 1994-1995. tees, the four status committees, operation of the organization, mem- more Americans listen to Fox than to References the Committee on Awards and the bers serve on one-of-a-kind net- MSNBC, to Rush Limbaugh than to Committee on Professional Ethics. working opportunities that most find NPR? And what can be done for our 1 Richard R. Lau, David J. Andersen, If you are interested in volunteer- extraordinarily valuable. Whether fellow citizens to hear whatever the David P. Redlawsk, “An Exploration of ing for any of these positions, please you’re ready to volunteer or just have true voices of reform are? Correct Voting in Recent U.S. Presidential Elections,” American Journal of Political contact us at [email protected] questions, please feel free to contact Maybe we should start modestly. Science, 52.2 (April 2008): 395-411. no later than August 10, 2012. Any us at [email protected].
Bicycle incorporated in 1875 as a wealthy tive housing stock and proximity References ‘suburb’ to the city with its own to downtown have contributed from Page 12 B-cycle 2012 (www.bcycle.com). municipality but merged with the to rapid gentrification by non- DURA. Crawford pioneered the city of Denver in 1896. By this time, Latino white professional residents. Civic Center Conservancy 2012 (civiccen- terconservancy.org/) redevelopment of Larimer Square the Highlands had transitioned to According to 2010 Census data, the throughout the coming years, creat- an immigrant-dominated area with Highlands population is now more Denver Post 2010 (www.denverpost.com/ election2010/ci_15673894) ing a lively shopping area from the Irish, German, English and a bit than 57 percent non-Latino white, neglected and abandoned buildings later, Italian enclaves forming. The higher than Denver as a whole. The Denver Post 2012 (www.denverpost.com/ news/ci_20447090/2-year-old-denver- of Denver’s original main street. Highlands continued as an immi- Latino population in 2010 was esti- bike-sharing-program-has). Larimer Square became Denver’s grant destination throughout the mated at just over 37 percent. This th DURA. 2008. “Denver Urban Renewal first historic district in 1971. 20 century, becoming predomi- marks a remarkable change from Authority: 50 years of revitalizing Denver.” nantly Latino, particularly Mexican- 2000 when the Highlands held a Highlands Simmons, Sarah. 2012. “No arrests as American, by the latter half of the population that was over 66 percent The Highlands neighborhood is Denver Police enforce camping ban.” century. Within the past couple Latino and less than 30 percent Denver Post, 06/05/2012. located just across the South Platte of decades, however, the attrac- white (Piton 2012). River from downtown. It was first Piton 2012 (www.piton.org)
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seek essays that will interrogate the topics. First special issue: New Findings perspective to any topic are welcome, Call for Papers ways in which a state of emergency, from the 2010 Census. Research notes including interdisciplinary work. We Publications whether it be about economic scarcity, as well as full-length manuscripts will welcome presentations employing morality under siege, sexual violence be accepted. Only completed work can a wide range of theoretical perspec- Analyses of Social Issues and Public or national security, is politically be considered and manuscripts will tives and methodological approaches Policy (ASAP), a journal of the Society constructed and (re)produced through be peer reviewed. The intent of this and will make every effort to include for the Psychological Study of Social Is- myriad technologies of power. We also issue is to highlight empirical findings your presentation in our program. sues (SPSSI), is issuing a call for papers invite scholarship that names states of from the 2010 Census that demon- Session formats include panels and on the social psychology of the 2012 emergency made invisible by existing strate changes in the US population, posters. The 2012 Program Committee U.S. presidential election. This collec- public discourse, analyzes the role and that bring attention to issues related is developing a number of special ses- tion will be the third in ASAP’s series power of difference in framing narra- to data collection methods, or that sions including teaching workshops for on American Presidential Elections, tives of emergency, and question what critique Census 2010 reported findings. graduate students and faculty, sessions continuing a tradition that began with can count as a state of emergency. Deadline: September 1, 2012. Contact: just for undergraduate students, etc. our collection on the 2004 election and Manuscripts will undergo blind review Stephanie Bohon at [email protected] We welcome films or videos on socio- continued with the 2008 campaign. and must adhere to the publishing and William O’Hare at billohare1@ logical themes. Student Participation: Submissions should be short, 10-35 guidelines of Feminist Formations. gmail.com. The second special issue: NYSSA has traditionally encouraged double-spaced manuscript pages Deadline: August 1, 2012. Contact: Exploring population issues relating participation by undergraduate and including references. Deadline: March Jill Bystydzienski at bystydzienski.1@ to sexual minority status. The journal graduate students. Student presenta- 20, 2013. Contact: Kevin Lanning at lan- osu.edu, Jennifer Suchland at such- is interested in papers that describe tions are integrated into the regular [email protected].
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Psychology Beyond Borders (PBB) is be unpublished and not under consid- Institution, and Kenneth Johnson, Meetings an international non-profit organiza- eration for publication at the time of University of New Hampshire, were September 9-12, 2012. 14th Biennial tion focusing on the psychosocial submission. However, papers that have quoted in a May 17 Washington Post Conference of the International Society impacts of disasters, armed conflicts, appeared in a “working paper” series article about how minority babies now for Justice Research (ISJR), The College and terrorism. PBB is seeking to fund are still eligible for consideration in comprise the majority of babies in the of Management Academic Studies, research and service-oriented projects the competition. The prize committee United States. Isreal. Theme: “Social Justice in a Com- that support work in this area, with a also invites submissions in languages plex Reality.” Contact: socialjustice@ Héctor Cordero-Guzmán, Baruch particular focus on work that addresses other than English. Deadline: October College, Todd Gitlin, Columbia colman.ac.il.
footnotes • July/August 2012 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements the growing body of research on the Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins and I-Fen Lin, both of Bowling Green Americans’ Responses to Large-Scale sources, nature, and impacts of politi- University, was quoted in a Bloomberg State University, were mentioned in a Disasters.” cal ideology. News article, which appeared in the May 25 FoxBusiness.com article about S. Michael Gaddis, University of North Rosemary Erickson, Athena Research San Francisco Chronicle on June 7 about what baby boomers need to know to Carolina-Chapel Hill, has received Corporation, was quoted in a May 14 Spain’s recession and unemployment protect their assets when they are go- a National Academy of Education/ Daily Beast article about female bank situation. ing through a divorce. Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for the robbers. Mark Pachucki, University of Tom Smith, University of Chicago, was 2012-2013 academic year. Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College, California-San Francisco and University mentioned in a May 14 post on Foreign Gordon Hirabayashi was posthu- and Harvey Molotch, New York Uni- of California-Berkeley, was quoted in Policy’s “Passport” blog about his re- mously presented the Presidential versity, were quoted in a May 26 CNN. a May 28 WebMD article, “Research search on a belief in God in 30 countries. Medal of Freedom from President com article, “The Golden Days of Air Has Implications for Preventing Child Anthony J. Spires, The Chinese Univer- Barack Obama on May 29, 2012. It was Travel: How Glorious Were They?” Obesity.” sity of Hong Kong, wrote a March 28 in accepted by his family who traveled Charles Gallagher, La Salle University, Toby Parcel, North Carolina State Uni- YaleGlobal Online op-ed, “U.S. Founda- to Washington, DC, from Edmonton, was quoted in February 9 and May 15 versity, was quoted in a May 16 post on tions Boost Chinese Government, Not Alberta, Canada. USAriseup.com columns on how politi- the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Get NGOs.” The op-ed, based on his 2011 Julie Kmec received the Washington cally racist stereotypes pervade the Schooled” blog about her Journal of study in the Journal of Civil Society, was State University’s William F. Mullen Excel- 2012 presidential race and on whether Health and Social Behavior study, which reprinted in The South China Morning lence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. white parents ignore the issue of race found that children in the United States Post, The Khaleej Times, and The Epoch and Great Britain share risk factors for Times. The Journal of Civil Society study James W. Loewen, Catholic University, with their children; a February 24 received the Spirit of America Award Arizona Republic article, which also ap- behavioral problems. was also the subject of numerous reports in the Chinese media, including for 2012 from the National Council for peared on USATODAY.com, about the Charles Perrow, Yale University, the Social Studies. progress or lack of progress of black was mentioned in a May 18 Atlantic the Southern Metropolitan Daily, China actors in Hollywood; February 28 and column, “Why the Internet Makes It Youth On Line, China Philanthropy Lee Maril, East Carolina University, March 20 Christian Science Monitor ar- Impossible to Stop Giant Wall Street Times, and Elite Reference. received the 2012 Ray and Pat Browne ticles about the Oscars and perceptions Losses.” Gayle Sulik, University at Albany- Award for the Best Single Work pub- lished in 2011 for The Fence: National of race in America and about racism in Brian Powell, Indiana University, was SUNY, was quoted in a June 1 New York the 2012 presidential campaign; and a Times article, “Turning a Charity Symbol Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Im- mentioned in a May 10 Los Angeles migration along the U.S.-Mexico Border March 13 Philadelphia Inquirer story on Times op-ed about President Obama’s Into a Corporate Logo.” a film about African immigration. He from the Popular Culture and American position on same-sex marriage. The Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Studies Association. He also was a final- also appeared on WTFX-TV discussing a op-ed also appeared in The Baltimore was mentioned in a March 22 Toronto controversial sports column in the New ist for Best Scholarly Book of 2011 from Sun on May 10. Powell was also quoted Star article, “Twitter’s Birthday: Six the Texas Institute of Letters. York Post about race. in a May 17 Christian Science Monitor Tweet Years Already?,” quoted in a Gordon Gauchat, University of North article about same-sex marriage. March 26 USA Today article, “Technolo- Andrea Miller received the 2012 Kem- Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in a gy Can Push Our Crazy Buttons, Rewire per Excellence in Teaching Award from Jill Quadagno, Florida State University, Webster University. May 22 CNN.com column, “Anti-Science was mentioned in a June 8 Huffington Brains,” and in an April 7 Los Angeles and Anti-Contraception.” Post column, “Why the War on Afford- Times article, “Twitter Friends: It May Carla Pfefferreceived the 2011-2012 Barry Glassner, Lewis and Clark Col- able Health Care is a War on Blacks and Be a Good Idea to Meet Up,” and was Purdue University-North Central lege, was quoted in a May 30 Vancou- Latinos.” interviewed on February 21 on NPR’s Outstanding Teaching Award for Excel- ver Sun article, “Smartphone Software “Morning Edition” about the Internet, lence in Education. Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American Twitter, and community. Keeps Tabs on Warnings.” University, was quoted in a National Jennifer L. Pierce received the Distin- Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of Catholic Reporter article, which ap- Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University– guished Teaching Award for Graduate, California-Berkeley, was mentioned in peared in the April 27-May 10 issue, Purdue University Indianapolis, was Professional, and Post-Baccalaureate a May 9 Wall Street Journal article about about Melinda Gates’ TEDxChange quoted in a June 8 Time.com article on Education from the University of Min- her book, The Outsourced Self: Intimate speech on the importance of women’s Catholicism and women. nesota. Life in Market Times. access to contraception. Diane Pike, Augsburg College, was Philip Kasinitz, Graduate Center-CU- Fabio Rojas, Indiana University, was Awards honored for her article, “The Tyranny of NY, was quoted in a May 30 New York quoted in a May 9 Inside Higher Ed Franco Barchiesi, Ohio State Univer- Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning,” Daily News article, “Prospect Heights’ article, “The Trouble with Black Studies.” sity, recieved the 2012 CLR James Book which was designated a finalist for the Award of the Working Class Studies 2012 Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work Ice Cream Shops Show Parents’ Push to Patricia A. Roos, Rutgers University, Shift Culture of Neighborhood.” Association for his book Precarious on Teaching and Learning sponsored and Adia Harvey Wingfield, Georgia Liberation: Workers, the State, and Con- by Magna Publications. George C. Klein, Oakton Community State University, were mentioned in a tested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid College, was interviewed on April 27 on May 21 New York Times article about South Africa. Mari Plikuhn, Univeristy of Evansville, LBC Radio (London) where he discussed how more men are entering fields has been named the University of a hostage situation in central London. dominated by women. Nachman Ben-Yehuda was awarded Evansville’s Outstanding Teacher of the 2012 Hebrew University Rector’s the Year. Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, Robert J. Sampson, Harvard Univer- Award for Excellence in Teaching and and her research were the subject of a sity, is mentioned in a May 13 New York Research. Larry T. Reynolds, Central Michi- May 31 LiveScience article, “Studying the Times article, “Meet Your Neighbors, If gan University, and Keith Roberts, Value and Worth of Modern Life,” and a Only Online.” Krista Brumley received the Presiden- Hanover College, were the recipients, video interview that went along with it. tial Award for Excellence in Teaching at respectively, of the 2011 and 2012 Amy T. Schalet, University of Massa- Wayne State University. North Central Sociological Association’s Katrina Leupp, University of Washing- chusetts-Amherst, wrote an April 7 New Karen A. Cerulo won the 2012 Faculty J. Milton Yinger Lifetime Distinguished ton, and the American Sociological York Times op-ed, “Caring, Romantic Career Award in Sociology. Association were mentioned in a May American Boys,” which argues that fear Scholar-Teacher Award from Rutgers 4 Toronto Star article about fathers and and love play a larger role in boys’ first University. Virginia Rutter received the 2012 work-life conflict. sexual experiences than American Shannon Davis has been recognized Distinguished Teaching Award at Framingham State University. Sarah Mustillo, Purdue University, was popular and locker room culture would as a Teacher of Distinction at George the subject of a May 24 Huffington Post suggest. Schalet’s op-ed sparked a Mason University. Kristen Schilt received the 2011-2012 discussion in the blogosphere, includ- Q&A interview centered around her Justin Farrell, Notre Dame Univer- University of Chicago Faculty Award for Journal of Health and Social Behavior ing commentary from Jezebel, Alternet, Excellence in Graduate Teaching and and the Center of American Progress. sity, received the Environment and study, which found that not everyone Technology Section’s Marvin E. Olsen Mentoring. gains confidence when they lose Pepper Schwartz, University of Wash- Student Paper Award for his paper Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. weight. ington, was quoted and Susan Brown “Moral Outpouring: The BP Oil Spill and Patterson received a 2012 Emerald
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Literati Network, Highly Commended nology at California State University- health care organizations, and commu- Award, for their article, “The Effects of East Bay. Morewitz’s book with Mark L. nity leaders to help shape health policy New Publications Perceived Funding Trends on Nonprofit Goldstein, Chronic Disorders in Children decisions. Through the Center, faculty Announcing the American Journal Advocacy: A National Survey of Non- and Adolescents, was featured in an and students will conduct interdisciplin- of Cultural Sociology (AJCS), pub- profit Advocacy Organizations in the Autism Awareness Month Book Exhibit ary research and timely policy analysis, lished by Palgrave-Macmillan. The United States,” that appeared in the at the California State University-East issue policy briefs, organize policy American Journal of Cultural Sociology International Journal of Public Sector Bay Library. forums, analyze issues beyond the scope publicly crystallizes the cultural turn Management. of health services research and serve an in contemporary sociology. By provid- educational function through training ing a common forum for the many Christian Smith, University of Notre New Books voices engaged in meaning-centered Dame, received the 2012 Distinguished grants and policy fellowships. The Center Dan A. Chekki, University of Winnipeg, provides training through the Nebraska social inquiry, the AJCS will facilitate Career Award from the ASA Altruism, From India to Canada: The Autobiog- communication, sharpen contrasts, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section Health Policy Academy, which teaches raphy of a Sociologist (Basava Tatwa public health workers to use health sustain clarity, and allow for periodic Scholarship Awards. Smith also received Prasara Samsthe, 2011). condensation and synthesis of differ- the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award policy as a public health tool.
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