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Congressional Briefing on Aging in Rural America: inside 21st Century Trends E. Helen Berry, Utah State University and when one in Nina Glasgow, Cornell University five Americans STEM at the Mall 3 nce rural America was young; are expected to ASA participated in the Onow it is a lot older, result- be of retire- grown-up version of a ing in opportunities and chal- ment age. A science fair hoping to spark lenges for nonmetropolitan majority of the young people’s interest in areas. The Consortium of Social retirees will be science. Science Associations (COSSA) women. Rural hosted a congressional briefing in places will be Public Engagement: Washington, DC, on June 20, 2013, more affected 4 by aging than U.S. vs. UK that addressed those prospects. In an overview at the briefing, urban areas, not The United States is better at only because Nina Glasgow (Cornell University) (From left to right) E. Helen Berry, Joachim Singelmann, Nina Glasgow, writing for audiences other rural areas are than peer reviewers. observed that, in 2012, nearly 17 Douglas Gurak, Howard Silver, Kenneth Johnson percent of the nonmetropolitan demographi- population was age 65 or older com- cally older rural counties, primarily in the 5 Rural Sociology’s pared with only 13 percent in met- but because rural older residents South and West, receive internal in- Historian ropolitan areas. The last of the baby receive lower Social Security and migration from well-to-do retirees At the age of 103, Olaf boomers will reach age 65 by 2030 pension benefits than urban elders. Larson is still busy in the Concurrently, some high amenity Continued on page 6 field. 6 The Sorokin Lecture Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Manuscript Review Strategies Major ASA lectured for a different type David Brunsma, Virginia Tech; counting only time actually spent Award Recipients of audience at a community Monica Prasad, Northwestern University; reviewing the manuscript (i.e., college. Ezra Zuckerman, MIT only the net work time)? Honored in New n August 2011 the ASA Council 2. Are there standard things that Nominate Your Iappointed an ad hoc committee you look for, or standard issues York City 7 Colleagues to investigate manuscript review that crop up with manuscripts? he American Sociological Know a great teacher, times in journals. The subcommit- 3. What are your strategies for TAssociation (ASA) presented the researcher, writer, tee identified several areas in need reviewing the manuscript 2013 major awards at this year’s dissertation? Nominate of improvement, such as presenting quickly? Annual Meeting on August 12 in New them for an ASA award. more accurate measures of editorial 4. What are your strategies for York City. The Awards Ceremony, lag statistics. Another recommen- reviewing the manuscript followed by the Presidential Address, dation was that ASA interview thoroughly? was well attended. These awards are reviewers nominated by editors as We note that, because we did not given to sociologists for their outstand- unusually skilled and then create attempt to identify average or poor ing publications, achievements in the and publicize a document summa- reviewers and compare them with scholarship, teaching, and practice of rizing these reviewers’ strategies for these good reviewers, we have no sociology, as well as for their overall reviewing articles thoroughly and way of knowing whether these good advancement of the discipline. Below in a timely manner. The subcom- reviewers’ stated strategies actually are the profiles of the awardees. The mittee’s full report on “best reviewer contributed to their reputation for profiles of the Dissertation co-winners From the Executive Officer...... 2 practices” is available at
from the executive officer Congressional Impasse and Government Shutdown Hurts Science and the Nation
he Science, Technology, Reaches into the Classroom,” of its employees furloughed. federal service—civil service, TEngineering and Mathematics October 4, 2013, The Chronicle of The approximately 30 percent of appointed or elected—is eroding (STEM) Career Fair (see page Higher Education); and, middle employees who continued to work so quickly one wonders who will 3 for ASA’s participation) was school-age children saw class at NIH maintained intramural fill these vital roles on behalf of our one of the last public trips to Washington, experiments, cared for patients, nation in the coming years. I know engagement programs DC, cancelled because provided security and other tasks. this personally; I and many of my the National Science our National Mall, NSF had even fewer staff on hand. professional colleagues have served Foundation (NSF) Smithsonian Museums, Because of this, research money one or more of these roles. participated in prior to and historic monu- did not make its way to investiga- Not the Way to Govern or the October 1, 2013, ments were closed and tors—closing facilities and putting Advance Science federal government shutdown, barricaded. research on hold. which lasted 16 days. While this It is now apparent that shut- Not just kids, but sociological And the future of public ser- STEM Career Fair occurred in ting the federal government (and science impacted vice too a suburban Washington, DC, holding the debt default hostage) shopping mall with thousands Obviously, students were not the The shutdown took a personal was an attempt to achieve a narrow of eager children participating, only ones hurt from the govern- toll on the more than 800,000 political objective. This type of gov- events like this occur throughout ment shutdown, but the younger furloughed employees. While erning is short-sighted and deeply the country most weekends of the among them are newer to science federal employees will receive damaging, especially to long-term year. Federal agencies like the U.S. and politics. ASA members and retroactive pay, they did not national commitments such as our Census Bureau, NASA, NOAA, other researchers faced significant receive full paychecks until after investment in science. This past Department of Energy, EPA, difficulties as well. With only 40 the shutdown ended. The many several weeks has done damage, and National Institutes of Health federal employees at the Census more federal contractors are some of which is not repairable, (NIH) sponsor and participate in Bureau headquarters, the Bureau’s unlikely to see any retroactive pay. but it is also a scary precedent. these events regularly to help the work stopped. Sociologists Federal employees scrambled to Shutting down the nation’s gov- public, especially younger students and other data users across the find money to pay mortgages, col- ernment by a few elected leaders is and teens, gain an appreciation for country could not access the lege tuition, and other debts. The difficult to reconcile with a modern science and a better understanding Census Bureau’s demographic and national newspapers reported on democratic society. When they of the numerous science careers socioeconomic data. Federal data- the many workers who dipped into caused the shutdown, they failed to available to them. Students may collection was halted, including their retirement or leveraged their act in the best interest of our nation be inspired by these events and the American Community Survey home equity to cover expenses, or and the American people. (ACS) and Current Population missed a rent payment and had to among them are our nation’s future Share Your Shutdown Story innovators. Survey (CPS), which means that take their kids and move in with The federal government shut- Because of the federal govern- unemployment and other labor parents. The press also reported down affected all of us. At first ment shutdown, these worthwhile force reports will be delayed or on those Americans who believe the shutdown did not appear to events were diminished in scope cancelled. Analysis for widely the shutdown had no negative have a lasting negative impact, and impact and even cancelled. used data products, including consequences. I guess these folks but its ripples soon became waves. Will some children choose a differ- ACS estimates for 2012, was put didn’t notice that preparation for Share your story with us so that ent career path because they were on hold, delaying the availability the flu season by the Centers for we can help Congress understand not exposed to science outside the of this information for months. Disease Control is significantly that forcing a shutdown of the classroom or could not sustain The resulting gaps in social data behind schedule; many die from government is not an appropriate their initial interest? and other scientific data (e.g., the flu each year in the United legislative choice. Comment on During the shutdown, stu- Antarctic research because the States, especially children and the our Facebook page, via Twitter at dents from elementary school to U.S. scientists were stuck in budget elderly. @ASAnews, or via email at public. graduate school were unable to limbo) will haunt scientists for a In addition to financial stress, [email protected]. use the latest online and widely very long time. According to an growing negative morale among accessed government data because article in Politico, “’[T]hese data, federal employees strengthened. (Endnotes) the observations are all just gone Having someone identify your of the shutdown. Elementary 1 Politico: Shutdown’s science fallout could school children (including one forever. We never get them back,’ work as “non-essential,” not know- last for years, by Darren Samuelsohn, of our own ASA staff kids) were said Hugh Ducklow, an oceanog- ing when you will be returning to October 17, 2013. unable to access NOAA maps rapher and professor at Columbia work, and being used as a pawn in as they researched our world’s University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth a political game weighed heavily 1 oceans; college courses and class Observatory.” on federal employees. In addition, Sally T. Hillsman is projects that examined data col- Research proposals at NSF, when employees went back to work the Executive Officer lection saw their assignments NIH, and other agencies were not they faced more than two weeks of of ASA. She can be altered because of unavailable examined, funded, or otherwise backlogged projects and work in reached by email at resources (“Government Shutdown supported. NIH, for instance, their inboxes. The spirit of pride executive.office@ operated with over 70 percent at serving your country through asanet.org.
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science policy
The Future of the by experts in sociol- Asian ancestry. Los Angeles county ties have become minority-majority Sociology of Aging: ogy, demography, social had the largest Asian population counties. For more information, An Agenda for Action genomics, public health, of any county in the United States., see
Not Your Usual Day at the Mall: A Science Career Fair and an Informal STEM Education Experiment n September 27-28, hundreds a p-value in a test of significance. goers to sociology and sociological group and 118 in the control group. Oof visitors to the Dulles Town This was all part of the ASA’s booth careers, it also attempted to teach Sociologist Cora Marrett, NSF Center shopping mall in Northern at the “Change the World: Careers them scientific concepts central Acting Director and Representative Virginia learned about sociology, in Science and Engineering” event, to the discipline. After being led Wolf had both stopped by the the difference between a census sponsored by the National Science through a 15-minute interactive booth. Six young people had won a and a sample, how to distinguish Foundation (NSF) and the office of exercise called “Family Structure new iPod Shuffle. And, the results independent variables from depen- Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA). and Kids’ Health Behaviors,” of our experiment? The treatment dent variables, and the meaning of Working with staff from the participants were asked to fill group outscored the control group “Teaching out a “mini-quiz” that included by 15 points. with Data” two demographic questions (age, project at the gender) and three substantive ques- University of tions. Anyone who participated 2013 Section Awards Michigan, ASA in the activity and filled out the developed an mini-quiz was then invited to pull The winners of this year’s informal STEM a “ticket” from a raffle box for a section awards are now education chance to win one of several iPod available on our website. experiment Shuffles. Control group data were ASA has also placed all that not only collected by inviting people in the records of past award win- introduced mall who had not participated in ners online for your refer- local middle the activity to fill out the mini-quiz. ence. See
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international perspectives Public Engagement: Differences Between the U.S. and the UK
Ann Brooks, National University of academia, to lending their intel- Beyond Peer Review in the UK and MSNBC all call on academ- Singapore lect, expertise, and scholarship to This point is an important ics routinely for expert comment. attended the British Sociological the public good—that is, to the one. The lack of public intellec- MSNBC is a centre-left network and IAssociation’s (BSA) Conference development of public discourse tuals may be a result of the fact provides a high level of engagement “Engaging Sociology” in April, and and to the development of policies that, in order to have impact, all with academic experts across a I was drawn into the debate around on issues of public concern. UCB research and publications must range of debates. One of the reasons how the sociological community in draws on the best minds glob- be peer reviewed, within research for this is the intellectual profile of the UK can have more impact on ally to lend their voices to issues structures such as the REF. Thus many of the presenters: the Rachel social and political discourse. Given of local, national, and political there is little scope and time to Maddow Show on MSNBC is an the traditional anti-intellectualism concern. There is an expecta- write and publish in areas outside example. She has a BA in Public of the British media and its disdain tion that academics will make a the strait-jacket of peer review. But Policy from Stanford University and for expert commentary, how then contribution to both intellectual how does this affect impact in the a DPhil from Oxford, where she was do sociologists have an impact on life and to the wider community. broader sense? I would argue that a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship. social and political debate in the UK? The (then) Chancellor, Robert it seriously restricts an intervention She was the first openly gay or In addition, given the narrowness of Birgeneau, frequently emailed by sociologists into areas relevant lesbian American to win the award. the Research Excellence Framework’s the UCB academic community to to public discourse, when the form Her book, Drift: The Unmooring of (REF) definition of ‘impact,’ as need- engage everyone in issues of con- of the intervention is a television American Military Power, topped ing to be linked to peer review, what cern to the university and wider interview, newspaper article, or the New York Times best-seller list incentives are there for sociologists community. online news contribution. for five weeks. MSNBC moderators and academics more generally to It may be that there is greater It could also be the fact that the Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes engage in broader public debate on interchange between academic and involvement of academics more rou- have also authored books. MSNBC issues where they could and should political life in the United States. tinely as contributors in the media involves academics and others as have a voice as public intellectuals? This might be a motivating factor as experts is much more common contributors, political analysts, or My recent experience in the for academics who wish to flag an in the United States compared to policy analysts. United States as a Visiting Research interest in political office. the UK. There is a problem in the Then there is the academic Scholar at the University of Academics in the United States British media that goes way beyond media presenter, for example California-Berkeley (UCB) from write and involve themselves anti-intellectualism. BBC journalists, Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, June 2011-December 2012 may with a significantly wider set of editors, and even presenters often see who presents two weekend shows provide some insights. This was a audiences. Saskia Sassen, Robert themselves as the experts and they discussing issues of race, gen- transformative experience for me as S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at draw on their own resources rather der and politics. Harris-Perry is an international academic who has Columbia, contributes regularly than on real experts in the field. a Professor of Political Science worked in global universities. It has to opendemocracy.net and the Thus academics are left out of any at Tulane University and was had a significant impact on my inter- Huffington Post and she is also on engagement as experts in a range Associate Professor of Politics national scholarship and on my views the Council for Foreign Relations. of fields across a broad spectrum of and African American Studies at on the role of public intellectuals. The idea of being a public intel- subjects. This is a huge misjudge- Princeton. She attracts a wide range The Department of Sociology lectual, involving oneself in issues ment on the part of the BBC and the of academic commentators to her at UCB has, of course, an illustri- of public concern, is an important failures are highlighted by Calhoun roundtable debates on Saturday ous tradition within the global element in defining oneself as a in his trouncing of the BBC in his and Sunday mornings. Apart from sociological community. More significant U.S. academic by offer- article in the Times Higher Education MSNBC, CNN also has a number than this, there is a tradition within ing more than routine scholarship. in April. Calling out the media in of programs that include interna- UCB, as a public university, for It seems very clear that the public this way is clearly a mark of a public tional academics on a regular basis. academics to make a contribution intellectual barely exists in the intellectual and Calhoun brings that Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s Global to social and political discourse as UK academy, although the arrival grand tradition with him from the Public Square is a good example. public intellectuals. Robert Reich, of Craig Calhoun at the London United States. Additionally, there is A version of this article first appeared Arlie Hochschild, George Lakoff, School of Economics (LSE) may little comparison between the qual- in the British Sociological Association’s and Christina Romer, among many change that. This might be because ity of journalism and , news content magazine, Network, July 2013. The others, are all well-established a U.S. public university has an of The New York Times and The original article is at
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emeritus profile A Rural Sociologist for Almost Eight Decades: Olaf F. Larson
Julie Zimmerman, University of Kentucky and served as department chair tory in Sociology in Government: familiar to rural sociology, Olaf for 11 years. While at Cornell, The Galpin-Taylor Years in the U.S. either knew or met. Today, it is not wo years ago, Olaf F. Larson saw Olaf was twice a Fulbright Scholar Department of Agriculture, 1919- just Olaf’s students, but the students his fifth and sixth books come out T and became the first Director of 1953, published by Penn State Press. of his students who are now being in print—one from the University of the Northeast Regional Center for Both books were published in coop- counted among the senior rural Wisconsin Press and one Rural Development. In eration with the ASA and are part of sociologists. And, he continues to from Penn State Press. At 1954, he was voted into the the RSS Rural Studies Series. support students through various the time, he was 101 years elite Sociological Research About five years later, Olaf again funds he has set up at both the old. Association. In 1957-58 he joined forces with this author to University of Wisconsin and Born in 1910 on a farm was president of the Rural write a third book to consider Cornell. In 2010, for his 100th birth- in Rock County, WI, Olaf Sociological Society, and in the Division’s work. Also part day, the Rural Sociological Society graduated from a one- the early 1960s he served as of the RSS Rural Studies Series, renamed the graduate student paper room school. Ever the soci- Vice Chair of the commit- Opening Windows onto Hidden award in his honor, and in 2012, a ologist, he writes about his tee that organized the first Lives: Women, Country Life, and video welcome from Olaf opened rural and farm life at the Olaf Larson World Congress of Rural Early Rural Sociological Research the Society’s 75th Anniversary turn of the last century in Sociology—to name but a few of his focuses on the unexpected inclu- celebration. his most recent book, When Horses accomplishments. sion of women in the unit’s body of At last count, Olaf has been Pulled the Plow. research. Published by Penn State formally interviewed more than Leaving the farm in 1928, he So-Called Retirement Press in 2013, it was nominated a dozen times and informally an attend the University of Wisconsin. After working at Cornell for for the ASA History of Sociology innumerable number of times. He While he earned both a bachelor’s nearly 30 years, Olaf retired in Section’s Distinguished Scholarly has been a source of invaluable and master’s degree in agricultural 1975. Nevertheless, Retirement did Publication Award. information on people and events journalism, it was through working not mean an end to work. Instead, that would have otherwise been just with J. H. Kolb that Olaf discov- Last of a Generation as he once told this author, being names and places in the histories of ered rural sociology. In 1934, he retired freed him to pursue research Olaf is the last of his generation sociology and rural sociology. But completed his preliminary exams to in areas that interested him. With of rural sociologists and the last Olaf is not done yet. Never one to sit earn a PhD. Minnie Brown, he worked on a remaining person who worked in still for very long, at 103 years old Olaf entered the professoriate in manuscript on black farmers and the first unit of the federal gov- and nearly four decades since his 1935 at Colorado A&M (Colorado in 1990 he was co-edited the book ernment devoted to sociological retirement, he is already planning State University) and in two Sociology of Agriculture, which was research. Many of the big names his next project. years was promoted to Associate produced for the 50th anniversary Professor. During this time, Olaf of the Rural Sociological Society. attended what would be a momen- In 1985, Olaf was recognized with tous meeting of the members of the the Society’s highest award— call for papers ASA Section on Rural Sociology. Distinguished Rural Sociologist. A year after establishing their own In the late 1980s, together with journal, section members voted to Edward O. Moe and an advisory The 2014 Annual form the Rural Sociological Society group of six former Division (RSS) separate from the ASA. members, Olaf embarked on a Meeting Call for Papers In 1938, Olaf left Colorado project to document and assess the is now available online when Carl Taylor (ASA President work of the USDA unit he had once in 1946) hired Olaf to work in the been a part of. Supported by the at www.asanet. USDA’s Division of Farm Population ASA, the Division’s successor unit, and Rural Life. The Division, as the USDA’s Economic Research org/meetings/call_ it was called, was the first unit of Service, and the Department of for_papers.cfm. The Online Paper the federal government devoted Rural Sociology at Cornell, Olaf set to sociological research. (It would about collecting what turned out to Submission System will open on also become a key focus of Olaf’s be the voluminous work produced post-retirement research.) While during the Division’s 53 years. It was December 6, 2013. At that time, authors at the Division, Olaf worked in also during this project that Olaf may submit their scholarly work to several regional offices as well as adopted (albeit informally) his final in Washington, DC, and in 1941 student—this author. Regular Session topics, Section paper he completed his PhD in rural In 1992, the first stage of the sessions and roundtables, and Open sociology. project was completed with the Seeking more stability for his publication of a bibliography con- Refereed Roundtables. The deadline for young family, in 1946, Olaf left taining more than 1,500 citations of the Division to join the faculty the Division’s work. In 2003, delayed all submissions is January 8, 2014. at Cornell University. Olaf was in part by a change in publishers, promoted to full professor in 1949 came the unit’s analysis and his-
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My Sorokin Lecture at Passaic County Community College
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Publication Award to participate the black and minority masses at political and economic program Duke University at regional conferences, was this historical juncture and how for people of color, I was not at all “Philosophers have hitherto expanded in 2005 to include as it blinds them from seeing what in agreement with leaving whites only interpreted the world in potential speakers “winners of is in front of their noses. Thus, and white supremacy off the hook. various ways; the point is to major ASA awards in the past two we dueled passionately for about I also challenged this young man change it.” –Karl Marx years” to allow invited speakers an hour on mostly the Obama on his tacit agreement with the “to deliver a lecture at a state, phenomenon. racist premises of the older white have given hundreds of talks in regional, or aligned sociological Following my presentation, I male, that is, with the notion that Imy career, but few have truly association meeting, and on an was asked some of the usual ques- the problem with black is blacks. mattered. Most of the time I academic campus.” As the 2011 tions I get on this matter such as The debate was spirited and I lecture to largely white middle- winner of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier “So, do you support Mitt Romney am not sure if I changed many and upper-middle-class students, Award, ASA sponsored my trip to in the upcoming election?” (My minds, but interestingly, after the students whose future is all but Passaic College. lecture was just before the 2012 lecture and discussion ended, we guaranteed. Therefore, for most of My audience was primar- election) and “Don’t you think all shook hands and talked for these students, my interventions ily minority students of various Obama inherited a mess and another 30 minutes. may be interesting, even provoca- ages (many of whom were over needs more time to get us out of I am glad I did this lecture and tive, but not significant events that 30 years old) from poor and it?” I answered these questions hope more colleges like Passaic will help them retool their lives. working-class backgrounds. with ease as I have answered them College take advantage of the They listen to my indictment of My lecture was titled “From Dr. many times before, but I did get a Sorokin Lecture Program. It is the racial regime of contempo- King to President Obama: Racial few questions that were unique. A great opportunity for students at rary America and politely agree, Vision, Racial Blindness, and member of The Nation of Islam, institutions with limited financial disagree, or ignore me altogether. Racial Politics in Obamerica.” I in response to a comment from resources, but it is also good for Last year, however, I was invited to spoke about the “new racism,” an older white male who said sociologists who labor at so-called deliver a lecture at Passaic County color-blindness, and about how that the problem with minori- elite institutions. Lecturing at Community College in Paterson, the politics, policies, and even ties is that they do not work hard Passaic Community College NJ, and the experience was quite persona of President Obama did and play the “race card,” sug- reminded me why I became a different from what happens in not represent a challenge to the gested that blacks needed to do sociologist in the first place: to do my usual talks. current racial order. The audience like Jewish, Chinese, and Indian work that generated discussion, I lectured at Passaic College agreed with my arguments on people and work hard, focus on passion, and, hopefully, inspire because the organizer, Sonia the new racism and on color- their communities, and ignore some to take action to change the Brown, took advantage of the blindness, but for the most part, racism as white folks will never world. ASA Sorokin Lecture Program. vehemently disagreed with my give them anything. This gener- For more information on the Sorokin This program, originally criticisms of Obama. This reac- ated a truly deep debate. I argued Lecture, see www.asanet.org/funding/ designed to allow the winner tion was not news to me as I have that although I appreciated the sorokin_grants.cfm. The deadline to of the Distinguished Scholarly written about the nationalism of need for a version of a nationalist apply is February 1, 2014.
Aging having children, population aging on the health of older African of small geographic areas. Slides From page 1 results in natural decrease, a trend Americans. Using the American presented at the briefing can be that is increasing rapidly in nonmet- Community Survey, they show that found here
6 footnotes • November 2013 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Call for ASA Award Nominations
SA members are encouraged manner in which sociology is taught or public organizations, agencies, or broaden the thinking of society and Ato submit nominations for the at a regional, state, national, or associations, or as a solo practitio- to broaden what the mainstream following ASA awards. Award international level. These contri- ner. Nominations should include a included. In the spirit of the lifetime selection committees, appointed butions may include preparation one- to two-page statement and the efforts of Cox, Johnson, and Frazier, by ASA Council, are constituted to of teaching- and curriculum- vita of the nominee. The most com- the committee invites nomina- review nominations. These awards related materials and publications, pelling cases contain five to eight tions of individuals or institutions are presented at the ASA Annual participation in the scholarship of letters from a variety of individuals with a record of outstanding work, Meeting each August. The deadline teaching and learning, development able to speak to the qualifications of such as, but not limited to: work for submission of nominations is and communication of innovative the nominees. The person making on social justice issues, work on January 31, 2014, unless otherwise teaching techniques, leadership in the nomination should obtain this human rights, activism, community noted. teaching-related workshops and material and forward it to the com- efforts, the building of institutions, symposia, involvement in innova- mittee, with the nominee’s curricu- or sustaining programs, with an W.E.B. DuBois Career of tive program development, and lum vitae, as a package. emphasis on African American Distinguished Scholarship contributions to the enhancement or similarly disadvantaged racial/ Award Excellence in the Reporting of of teaching within state, regional, ethnic populations that have expe- Social Issues Award This award honors scholars who or national associations. The award rienced historical racial discrimi- have shown outstanding commit- typically is given for a series of con- The Award for Excellence in the nation. Occasionally institutional ment to the profession of sociology tributions spanning several years or Reporting of Social Issues honors commitment to social justice and and whose cumulative work has a career, although it may recognize individuals for their promotion of to broadening the tradition to contributed in important ways to a single project of exceptional sociological findings and a broader include and empower marginalized the advancement of the discipline. impact. The award is not designed vision of sociology. The ASA would scholars and marginalized people, The body of lifetime work may to recognize outstanding teach- like to recognize the contributions is so compelling that this award can include theoretical and/or method- ing ability at one’s own institution of those who have been especially recognize a communal institutional ological contributions. The award unless that is part of a career with a effective in disseminating sociologi- effort. Nominations should include selection committee is particularly broader impact. Individuals, depart- cal perspectives and research. The a one to two-page cover letter that interested in work that substantially ments, schools, or other collective ASA is cognizant of the fact that explains why the individual or reorients the field in general or in actors are eligible. Nominations there are many professionals (e.g., institution fits the criteria, a CV, a particular subfield. Nominations should include the nominee and a journalists, filmmakers) whose and possibly one or two additional should include a copy of the nomi- one- to two-page statement explain- job it is to translate and interpret a letters of recommendation nee’s curriculum vitae and letters ing the basis of the nomination. wide range of information, includ- Award for Public in support of the nomination. The Nominations should also include ing sociological perspectives and Understanding of Sociology most compelling cases contain a vita, if applicable, and relevant research, for the general public. five to eight letters from a variety supporting materials. Nominations This award is intended to promote a This award is given annually of individuals able to speak to the must now also include at least a broader vision of sociology and gain to a scholar or scholars who have qualifications of the nominees. The paragraph within the nomination public support for the discipline. made exemplary contributions to person making the nomination letter explaining how the CV illus- The most compelling cases contain advance the public understanding should obtain this material and trates the nominee’s contributions to five to eight letters from a variety of sociology, sociological research, forward it to the committee, with teaching. of individuals able to speak to the and scholarship among the general the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a qualifications of the nominees. The public. The award may recognize package. Distinguished Career Award for person making the nomination a contribution in the preceding the Practice of Sociology should obtain this material and year or for a longer career of such Distinguished Book Award This award honors outstand- forward it to the committee, with contributions. Nominations should This award is given for a single ing contributions to sociological the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a include the nominee’s vita and a book published in 2012, 2013, and practice. The award may recognize package. detailed one to two page nomina- in the month of January in 2014. work that has facilitated or served tion statement that describes how Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Nominations must come from as a model for the work of others; the person’s work has contributed to members of the Association and work that has significantly advanced The Cox-Johnson-Frazier increasing the public understand- should include the name of author, the utility of one or more specialty Award is given to an individual or ing and knowledge of sociology. title of book, date of publication, areas in sociology and, by so doing, individuals for their work in the The most compelling cases contain publisher, and a brief statement has elevated the professional status intellectual traditions of the work five to eight letters from a variety about why the book should be con- or public image of the field as a of these three African American of individuals able to speak to the sidered for this award. whole; or work that has been hon- scholars. Cox, Johnson, and Frazier qualifications of the nominees. The placed their scholarship in service Distinguished Contributions to ored or widely recognized outside person making the nomination to social justice, with an eye toward Teaching Award the discipline for its significant should obtain this material and impacts, particularly in advanc- advancing the status of disadvan- forward it to the committee, with The ASA Distinguished ing human welfare. The recipient taged populations. Their scholarship the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a Contributions to Teaching Award of this award will have spent at was not limited to just the gather- package. honors outstanding contributions least a decade of substantial work ing of more data, but was rather to undergraduate and/or graduate Jessie Bernard Award involving research, administrative, scholarship that was attempting teaching of sociology. The award or operational responsibilities as a to better conditions globally. Cox, The Jessie Bernard Award is given recognizes contributions that have member of or consultant to private Johnson, and Frazier worked to made a significant impact on the Continued on page 14 footnotes • November 2013 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards society. He continues to engage other with four in progress. Among these published book in urban sociology, From page 1 scholars and students through his are Systemic Racism (2006); Racist while Code of the Streets received sociological publications, as well as America (2nd ed., 2010); and White the 2000 Komarovsky Award from sociologi- the concerned public through the Party, White Government (2012). In the Eastern Sociological Society. In cal research is social science blog he initiated with his current work, How Blacks Saved addition, Anderson has published focused on what former student Jessie Daniels, www. America: Making Liberty, Justice, and 5 edited volumes and more than 50 Du Bois himself racismreview.org. Democracy Real, he demonstrates the articles. regarded as the Joe was a scholar-in-residence at important positive contributions of The responsibility of the ethnog- preeminent the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights Black Americans to the educational, rapher, as Anderson instructs us, is problem of the in 1974-75. His experience working cultural, scientific, political, and to observe, apprehend, comprehend, 20th century: with leading black, Latino, and white social patterns and institutions of the and understand the shared conven- “the problem of Joe R. Feagin feminist scholars and activists edu- United States. He has 203 research tions of the people being studied. the color line.” cated him on the importance of civil articles and book chapters, many From the extensive explorations of a His continuing research shows that rights laws and of protest strategies. in collaboration with colleagues midwestern bar and liquor store in due to systemic racism, the problem It informed and renewed his com- and students who share his concern A Place on the Corner to the streets, has still not been solved in the 21st mitment to the study of racism and for contributing to a better society. homes, and gentrifying neighbor- century. Like DuBois, he is com- sexism as fundamental social forces His impact on the field of sociol- hoods of a northeastern city in mitted to dissecting the sociological in the United States. He continues ogy is enormous, not because of the his next two books, Anderson has dynamics of white racism with an to work with a variety of govern- quantity of his work, but because of cultivated critical interpretations emphasis on the institutional and ments, universities, and community its intellectual and socio-political of the sociological significance of social structural context in which organizations, addressing issues of importance. urban spaces. His commitment to racism emerges. discrimination and antiracism in the analytical prowess and narrative Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Feagin has made significant their jurisdictions. artistry of ethnography has produced contributions to the fields of racial- Currently the Ella C. McFadden Elijah Anderson, Yale University illuminating and thought-provoking ethnic relations; the new urban Professor in Sociology at Texas A&M A master accounts of how people—especially sociology, sex and gender inequality; University, Feagin loves teaching and ethnographer African Americans and the urban race, gender and class analysis; and mentoring students. He stated firmly, of race, Elijah poor—understand and conduct their sociology of education. He was the “Teaching is so much fun!” Student Anderson, lives under the shattering impacts of 1999–2000 ASA President. His con- engagement and mentoring are the Lanman deindustrialization, drug wars, gen- cepts of systemic racism and sexism an integral part of his scholarship, Professor of trification, a growing wealth gap, and influence the work of social scientists including working with graduate Sociology at enduring, if morphed, manifestations worldwide. Most of his extensive and undergraduate students as co- Yale University, of racial discrimination. His most scholarship uses a lens of race, class, authors. His many publications over is the recipi- Elijiah Anderson recent work, Cosmopolitan Canopy, or gender. While he stresses social nearly five decades demonstrate the ent of the 2013 is situated in public parks and structure, he also addresses the social diversity of his collaborations and Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. He markets as well as workplaces. There psychological dynamics that allows collaborators, from colleagues to previously held faculty appoint- he identifies the emergent norms of whites/men to deny racism and sex- undergraduates. He is the founding ments at Swarthmore College and seemingly desegregated spaces, while ism while actively reinforcing both editor of two book series that provide as the Charles and William L. Day revealing the negotiated occupation forms of oppression. While he ana- publication venues for scholars con- Distinguished Professor at the and bounded interactions by race lyzes structures of oppression, he also cerned about race, class, gender, and University of Pennsylvania, where and class within these civic spaces. points to the amazing resistance and social justice. he received the Lindback Award for Anderson’s writings are noted achievements of oppressed groups Hernan Vera, in a recommenda- Distinguished Teaching. Beginning for weaving theory, method, thick that have positively impacted social, tion letter, wrote: Feagin “seeks to his graduate studies at the University descriptions and in situ interviewing, educational and political structures. define an identity for the discipline of of Chicago, he earned his doctorate coupled with a rigorous, reiterative He often looks carefully at the myths sociology.” His research and lecturing at Northwestern University. process of interpretation. As one used to exclude racial groups, and reinforce sociologists’ professional For three and a half decades, recommender rightly observes, “Few he finds the personal and organiza- commitment to the values of social Anderson’s prominence and pro- can boast of studying race in urban tional resistance to racism of those justice, egalitarianism, and human duction undoubtedly place him in America as carefully, thoroughly, and oppressed. freedom. elite company. How many other sensitively as Elijah Anderson,” or As former SSSP president Claire Elijah Anderson said, “Professor contemporary ethnographers’ as another attests, “of honoring the Renzetti notes, “In all his work, Feagin is quite simply a giant among research endeavors have produced humanity or what DuBois called the Joe, like Du Bois, shows himself scholars of his generation, a major four solo-authored ethnographies? ‘soul beauty’ of Black Americans.” to be a risk taker; he unapologeti- figure in our field who has added His include A Place on the Corner: Anderson has received numerous cally, though uncondescendingly, mightily to this discipline, but Study of Black Street Corner Men professional recognitions. He was the challenges everyone to examine particularly to the critical area of race (1978), Streetwise: Race, Class, and Robin M. Williams, Jr., Distinguished their taken-for-granted assump- relations…He has pressed up all to Change in an Urban Community Lecturer of the Eastern Sociological tions, attitudes, and behaviors stand a little higher, and to be a bit (1990), Code of the Street: Decency, Society; on the Board of Directors of around race…. Joe has brought to bolder and braver in our work.” Violence, and the Moral Life of the the American Academy of Political light the ‘backstage’ racism of many Feagin’s extremely prolific col- Inner City (1999), and most recently, and Social Science; and the ASA who loudly proclaim that they are lection includes important theories The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Vice President in 2002. He also not racist.” His research continues and findings, which are shared with Civility in Everyday Life (2011). Two served on the editorial boards of to demonstrate the significance of colleagues, students, and activ- of the four titles are award winners. many key journals, among them the race in our supposedly “post-racial” ists. He has completed 60 books, Streetwise received the 1991 ASA Robert E. Park Award for the best Continued on next page
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American Sociological Review, City ing on issues of her collaborators have challenged Jessie Bernard Award & Community, Qualitative Sociology, inequality, labor, this view, documenting how immi- Kathleen Gerson, New York Ethnography, American Journal of gender, and grants have embraced unionization. University Sociology, Annals of the Society of immigration. In And in work about California’s Paid The Jessie Bernard Award rec- Political and Social Science, and the addition, she has Family Leave policy, Milkman and ognizes scholarly work that signifi- International Journal of Urban and presented her collaborator Eileen Appelbaum cantly expands the scholarship on Regional Research. research findings found that contrary to business women in society. This year, the Elijah Anderson has also been to both the U.S. lobby fears, the policy did not have award goes to Professor Kathleen instrumental in the professional Congress and the Ruth Milkman a deleterious effect on the economy. Gerson, New York University, for her development and success of genera- California legis- This is important in an era when lifelong scholarship on the gendered tions of ethnographers, educators, lature. Notably, she also has headed many employers are arguing that it nature of constrained choices that and scholars. His former graduate up research centers—in California is not possible to provide increased arise from the interaction of struc- students, young scholars of all races and New York—that focus on issues benefits during troubled economic tural opportunities and constraints, and ethnic backgrounds, and other of employment, labor, and industrial times. In addition, they found that gendered cultural norms, and indi- colleagues wrote highly of him as a relations. the policy benefited both low- and vidual negotiations in relationships. generous and dedicated mentor as Professor Milkman received high-waged employees, and that the The well as a conscientious and con- her PhD in Sociology from the percent of men taking advantage of Committee structive critic. In hosting a series University of California-Berkeley the program increased over time. on Awards of conferences, Anderson and his in 1981 after having earned her MA Lastly, they found that there was a agreed with colleagues have helped sustain the four years earlier from the same lack of awareness about the policy the nominators significance of ethnography within institution. She began her academic among many workers. Their research that Professor sociology. Moreover, the conferences career at Brown University, where and the publicity it garnered have Gerson has have featured compelling accounts of her independent major, “Women in enriched debates about improving steadfastly led what is at stake in the most impor- Society,” presaged her later contribu- employment conditions and workers’ the feminist Kathleen Gerson tant social justice battles of our time. tions to scholarship on gender. work-life balance. cause over the His analyses resound well beyond Her academic career then brought In his 2004 Presidential address last 30 years by writing path-break- the walls of the academy, as com- her to CUNY, UCLA, and then, a to the American Sociological ing books and articles that enable us munity members, media, and public few years ago, back to CUNY. She Association, Michael Burawoy to understand gender as the outcome officials have relied on his insights in has authored or co-authored nine noted that many of us were drawn of a combination of possibilities and informing urban politics and policy. books, including her 2010 co- to sociology because of a “passion constraints of structural conditions Anderson has served as a consul- authored book (with Joshua Bloom for social justice, economic equality, and cultural moorings, both within tant to a variety of national entities, and Victor Narro) Working for human rights, sustainable environ- and across individual lifetimes. including the White House, the U.S. Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing ment, political freedom or simply Gerson’s first two books, Hard Congress, and the National Academy and Advocacy (which followed up a better world.” He then bemoaned Choices: How Women Decide About of Science; and as a member of the her earlier award-winning book L.A. the fact that often those passions Work, Career, and Motherhood (1985) National Research Council’s Panel on Story: Immigrant Workers and the get subsumed by the requirements and No Man’s Land: Men’s Changing the Understanding and Control of Future of the U.S. Labor Movement). of academia. However, Milkman’s Commitments to Family and Work Violent Behavior. In addition, she has produced more career demonstrates that praxis (1993), based on life history analyses, These are but a few of myriad than 65 chapters and articles, almost is possible. Sophisticated theories provide early frameworks for under- reasons for which we honor Elijah as many reviews and review essays, and rigorous research can be put to standing women’s and men’s paths Anderson as the 2013 recipient of the and numerous policy reports. Her the service of the public, to further and strategies amid revolutionary Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. research has covered a wide span of social justice, to work toward shifts in work, marriage, and parent- issues related to inequality, includ- economic equality and human Award for Public Understanding hood. As one of the nominators said, ing work on labor violations, union rights, and perhaps, to help move us of Sociology Award Hard Choices helped bring “a socio- membership, women and work, towards a better world. logical frame to the study of women’s Ruth Milkman, CUNY-Graduate immigrant activism, and paid family Issues of labor, inequality, gender, lives in an era when role theory was Center leave. The Centers she has directed— and immigration are splashed the only game in town.” She convinc- This award is given annually to a the UCLA Institute of Industrial across the daily newspapers and in ingly demonstrated that childhood person or persons who have made Relations, the statewide University the cacophony of opinions raised socialization did not create feminine exemplary contributions to advance of California Institute for Labor and on all sides of policies and politics women who desired domestic lives, the public understanding of sociol- Employment, and, most recently, about inequality; it is good to have but that experiences in the labor force ogy, sociological research, and schol- the Murphy Institute for Worker informed voices inserted into these and in marriage could explain how arship among the general public. Education and Labor Studies— debates. Thankfully, sociologists such women chose, within constraints, to This year, we honor Ruth Milkman, have helped academics bring their as Ruth Milkman opt not to stay in balance work and family. This book Professor of Sociology at the City research to the policy forefront. their ivory towers, but instead jump was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills University of New York Graduate Across all of her work, Milkman into the fray and get their hands Award and the William J. Goode Center and Academic Director of challenges taken-for-granted dirty, so that the public will better Distinguished Book Award. Similarly, the Murphy Institute for Worker assumptions that influence academia, understand the underlying social No Man’s Land, which was selected Education and Labor Studies. policy, and activism. For example, issues governing their lives and as a “new and noteworthy” paper- Through a combination of immigrants have long been thought politics. It is because of this tireless back by the New York Times Book traditional scholarship and presenta- to be resistant to unionization efforts. work and her impact on alleviating Review, documented men’s responses tions to community organizations, However, through research and work inequality in our society, that we to contemporary work-family issues Milkman provides a model of the with unions in Los Angeles, she and honor Milkman. engaged public sociologist, focus- Continued on next page footnotes • November 2013 9 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards has developed an excellent record with Bell that the rise of a service tion of three distinct processes: From page 9 of persuading reporters to look economy would come to charac- deregulation of financial markets, beyond their culture-war frame- terize a “postindustrial society,” encouragement of global capital that have given them both expanded works and into more expansive Krippner nonetheless argues that flows, and altered monetary policy. freedom to avoid family responsibili- and complex views of women and this new economic and social struc- Each of these was a response to ties and rising incentives to become gender. She has actively participated ture was realized “with a slight twist: immediate problems as well as more more involved in family life. in a wide range of efforts to apply rather than the rise of services in a general social and political crises. Gerson’s co-authored study with sociological insights about women generic sense, the rise of a particular Beyond the important history, is the Jerry Jacobs, The Time Divide: and gender to public debates and kind of service—finance—proved more general lesson that particular Work, Family and Gender Inequality social policy. to be the dominant trend…” Her solutions pursued for particular (2004), moved us beyond stud- Kathleen Gerson’s scholarship has argument rests, however, on her purposes in response to particular ies that focus only on individuals. made—and continues to make—sig- agreement with Bell that “there is no crises produced consequences that Instead, by focusing on the indi- nificant contribution to the literature escape from economics.” could not be predicted in advance. It vidual lodged within a family, they and policy on gender, furthering our Capitalizing on Crisis has a large leaves one with profound concerns showed that the context and content understanding of the complex inter- number of sociological virtues. not only about the course of public of work matter in the shaping the play of culture, economy, and public Its theoretical framing, concep- policy, but about its very possibility. ways in which individuals experi- policy in shaping the possibilities for tual development, and empirical As such, it is a powerful warning to ence the hours of work time. The gender justice. documentation are meticulous. The any self-confident policymaker. Time Divide was named a “best The Committee extends its warm- book has been widely praised, for Although Krippner’s work on business book” by Strategy Business est congratulations to Kathleen instance, for its chapter on “finan- these issues began before the finan- magazine, received honorable Gerson and looks forward to read- cialization,” which she defines as cial crisis of 2008, Capitalizing on mention for the Mirra Komarovsky ing her current work investigating “the growing importance of financial Crisis illuminates the historical and Book Award, and was featured at “new moral dilemmas of work and activities as a source of profits in the structural origins of the recent crisis, “Author Meets a Critic” sessions at c are .” economy.” This first chapter not only proving once again the importance the ASA, the ESS, and the Southern explicates the concept, but presents a of sociological work to pressing Distinguished Scholarly Book Sociological Society annual meet- nuanced quantitative analysis, which contemporary events. It does so, Award ings. Work from this project also leaves no doubt that the process moreover, in an extremely eco- received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Greta R. Krippner, University of she sets out to explain clearly hap- nomical and elegant format. It tells a Award for Excellence in Work- Michigan, for Capitalizing on Crisis pened and had the contours she remarkably insightful story about a Family Research. The attributes to it. The main body of the complex and consequential process, Gerson’s recent book, The Distinguished book then turns to explaining why and as such represents the best of Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Scholarly financialization occurred, and what contemporary American sociology. Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, Publication theoretical and practical lessons can Distinguished Contributions to and the Family (2011), which Award be drawn. Teaching Award was awarded the William Goode Committee read Krippner’s book is both a synthe- Distinguished Book award by the and evaluated sis of, and advance on, a number Rose Brewer, University of ASA section on Family in 2012, more than 60 of approaches. First, she examines Minnesota (co-recipient) furthers addresses the significant nominated Greta R. Krippner those sociological approaches that Rose M. changes in gender, work, and books, a great criticize the economic theory that Brewer, family life that have impacted the many excellent works of scholar- financial markets are, by definition, Professor of choices and possibilities for future ship, with quite a few worthy of efficient by pointing out the dynam- Afro American generations of families. She leads significant distinction. This year, the ics inherent in markets that lead to and African us to examine generational gender Distinguished Scholarly Publication manias and bubbles; the problem Studies at the trajectories, culturally embedded Award goes to Greta Krippner for with these established critiques, University of strategies, workplace constraints, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political she argues, is that they treat politics Minnesota- and the moral responsibilities of Origins of the Rise of Finance. and the state as exogenous. Second, Twin Cities, is Rose Brewer social institutions. In Capitalizing on Crisis, a very she addresses “shareholder value” recognized for The committee was not only significant and particularly timely approaches developed by organi- her outstanding contributions to impressed by Professor Gerson’s book, Krippner illuminates the zation theorists, which pay more reforming the sociological curricu- scholarly record, they noted that historical and structural origins attention to the state, but more as a lum to better incorporate the inter- she has developed an outstanding of the recent financial crisis. In context for firms than as something sections of race, class, and gender. record of guiding a new genera- particular, she shows how and why requiring explanation in its own Brewer previously received the tion of scholars who credit her with leaders embraced financializa- right. Finally, Krippner examines University of Minnesota’s Morse “being a great intellectual mentor, a tion as a solution to the problems Marxist and world-systems perspec- Alumni Teaching Award for out- tremendous social mentor, and role of inequality, and how doing so tives, which account for financial- standing contributions to under- model. She exemplifies both profes- depoliticized a significant source of ization in terms of the goals of the graduate education, the Outstanding sional and personal success, and conflict in American society. It tells state, but take such a broad histori- Achievements in Education Award how to balance the two, in ways that a remarkably insightful story about cal sweep that the specific bounded- from the African American Student are critical for graduate students to an extraordinarily complex and ness of these goals is lost. Association at Northeastern State observe in action.” consequential process, and as such it With this profound understand- University, the African American Gerson has also been an effective represents the best of contemporary ing of complex literatures, Krippner Learning Resources Center Award advocate in bringing her scholarly American sociology. then delves into the details of the for teaching excellence, and the insights to the public realm. She Krippner begins and ends her history, identifying the combina- book with Daniel Bell. Agreeing Continued on next page
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Faculty Member of the Year award imaginations in identifying new of the Board of Advisors for the Group, which assists sociology depart- from the University of Minnesota avenues for creating change in their P.A. Mack Center for Inquiry on ments throughout the country with Black Student Union. Moreover, she communities. Teaching and Learning. external reviews, curriculum revision, was named a MacArthur Program Brewer is given the 2013 Howard has been a leader in the assessment tool development, and Faculty Fellow in 2002 and inducted Distinguished Contributions Award scholarship of teaching and learning mentoring for departmental officers. into the Academy of Distinguished in recognition of her comprehensive movement within sociology. He has Howard serves as a regular reviewer Teachers in 1999. impact on teaching in the social sci- contributed more than 35 publica- for ASA’s Teaching Sociology and previ- Brewer has been a leader in the ences. As indicated by her nominator tions on teaching and learning. His ously held the positions of Associate movement to create a multicultural Bernice McNair Barnett: work covers many of the important Editor (1997–99) and Deputy Editor curriculum in sociology and beyond. “Professor Brewer’s contribu- nuts and bolts aspects of teaching (2003–09) of that journal. Her scholarship in this regard was tions go beyond her depart- such as how to write a syllabus, In sum, Howard’s career epito- showcased in the 2007 publication of ment and her university. For engage students in class discussions, mizes the criteria and the spirit of The Critical Classroom: Education for example, over the years I have develop effective writing assign- this award. As his nominator (Keith Liberation and Movement Building had the pleasure of attend- ments, motivate students to read Roberts) wrote: (with Walda Katz-Fishman and Lisa ing her regional and national the textbook, teach mass classes, “He has contributed to (1) the Albrecht). Her current book projects, ASA workshops on teaching and develop critical thinking skills scholarship of teaching and including an introductory text on race, class, and gender and in students. Howard’s contributions learning; (2) to the eminence of race theory and one on the sociology found her workshops, lectures, extend beyond the foundational our discipline’s flagship teaching of African Americans, will continue teaching materials, handouts, basics to encompass scholarly work publication; (3) to the quality of her efforts toward a more inclusive and innovative strategies to be on the significance of the introduc- instruction around the country social science. Brewer has also pub- enormously helpful in my own tory sociology course for a liberal via publications, workshops, lished dozens of articles and book teaching here at Illinois. In my arts education and research on and consulting under the chapters on intersectional analysis observation, Professor Brewer how and what students learn in banner of the Departmental and its applications to teaching and has made a commitment to our classrooms. His recent book Resources Group; (4) to the learning. In addition, she has gener- teaching not only at the depart- (with Nancy A. Greenwood), First training of graduate students on ously shared her insights in over 30 ment, university, regional, and Contact: Teaching and Learning in the professorial role, especially workshops on curriculum transfor- national levels, but also at the Introductory Sociology, is destined to the teaching dimensions of mation and multicultural education. international level as reflected become a necessity for both new and that position; and (5) to the Her impact was first observed at the in her teaching, lecturing, and more experienced teachers of this advancement of sociology University of Minnesota, but over the workshops in Latin America, all-important course. through serving on awards past 25 years, Brewer’s influence on Africa, and other countries.” Howard is not only a distinguished committees and section leader- the teaching and learning of sociol- teaching scholar, he has also played ship positions. Jay Howard’s ogy has reached far beyond the local Distinguished Contributions to a pivotal role in developing other work on behalf of teaching is level. Teaching Award teaching scholars. At the regional varied, substantial, and always Brewer has been instrumen- Jay Howard, Butler University level, Howard has organized and done with attention to q u a l i t y.” tal in enhancing the professional (co-recipient) presented in numerous teaching training of graduate students and Jay R. and learning sessions at the North Distinguished Career Award for faculty by serving as co-director Howard, Central Sociological Association the Practice of Sociology of the University of Minnesota’s Professor of (NCSA) annual meetings, made Donald Light, University of Multicultural Teaching and Learning Sociology teaching and learning the focus of his Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Fellowship Program for the past and Dean of address as president of that organiza- Over the past four years and as the current Faculty the College of tion in 2007, and played a key role in 35 years, Don Director of the University Center for Liberal Arts developing the NCSA Future Faculty Light has applied Teaching and Learning. Several of and Sciences Certificate Program. his training in Brewer’s former graduate students at Butler Jay Howard Howard’s many contributions to the medical and and colleagues attest to the transfor- University, is scholarship of teaching and learn- organizational mative effect of her instruction and recognized for a career of outstand- ing at the national level provide a sociology toward mentoring on their own teaching ing contributions to the scholarship blueprint for aspiring winners of this the goal of careers. of teaching and learning in sociol- award. In the ASA section on teach- reducing bar- Donald Light Throughout her career Brewer has ogy and in undergraduate education ing and learning, Howard held the riers to health worked tirelessly to link the academy more broadly. position of treasurer and was elected care among disadvantaged popula- and the community. Her current Howard is also past win- for a three-year term on the section tions. After leaving the sociology efforts in this regard exemplify the ner of the Indiana University council. He currently co-edits (with department at Princeton in 1975, best of community engaged teach- President’s Award for Teaching Nancy Greenwood) the “Introductory he became a senior social scientist ing and learning. Brewer arranges Excellence, the P.A. Mack Award for Sociology” section for the ASA online with the Sophie Davis School for service learning placements for Distinguished Service to Teaching database TRAILS. Howard has given Biomedical Education in Harlem that her students to discover firsthand from Indiana University, the North invited presentations at the Section on was dedicated to teaching students the history of civil rights activism Central Sociological Association’s Teaching and Learning preconference to assess the health needs of the of the Twin Cities area as well as Distinguished Contributions to workshops, at the ASA Department community and address those not the critical issues confronting the Teaching Award, and the Hans O. Chairs Conference, and in numer- being met. The program provided current African American com- Mauksch Award for Distinguished ous workshops at annual meetings. integrated college and medical munity. Moreover, Brewer asks her Contributions to Undergraduate Since 2001, Howard has served on school training at a low cost to many students to apply their sociological Education. 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Awards Blair. Over the years, he campaigned on social issues people who find themselves in situa- From page 11 against managed competition to the general tions with no normative map; about reforms in Europe. This work led to public. This America as seen through the eyes of talented minority and lower-income a special issue of Social Science & year’s award new immigrants; and about the role high school students and continues Medicine in 2001. honors Ira of television in everyday lives. An to be successful in graduating most As a founding fellow of the Glass and the early show considered class mobility of its students with BS and MD Center for Bioethics at the producers of the through the stories of people trying degrees. University of Pennsylvania in 1995, radio program to make something for nothing; This work led to an appointment Light also became concerned about This American Ira Glass another traced the 1973 American in 1980 as professor and director of price barriers for access to drugs Life. Each week, Psychiatric Association decision to community medicine at the School and vaccines among lower income This American Life combines Glass’s end listing homosexuality as a men- of Osteopathic Medicine, University patients. Since 2000, he has under- long-standing interest in social tal illness; and another compiled of Medicine & Dentistry of New taken critical research on claims by issues with the story format in a stories of people who gave up firmly Jersey, where Light taught commu- the pharmaceutical industry that revelatory sociological way, using held beliefs. Recently, “Act V” fol- nity medicine to medical students. huge R&D costs force companies immersive reporting and intimate lowed prison inmates, all murder- During this time, he discovered to charge high prices, and further interviews to show the backstage of ers, through the casting, rehearsals that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of that U.S. prices are so high because social life. and performance of Hamlet, a play New Jersey was violating its charter European prices are too low to Ira Glass began his career with about murder and its consequences. to provide community-rate, level recover costs. A campaign with the NPR as an intern at age 19. Over In response to a letter from a premiums to individuals and small Pan American Health Organization his public radio career of some 30 14-year-old requesting a show about groups through rates that discrimi- (PAHO) set out to document years, he was a reporter and host middle school, This American Life nated by race, gender, and age. He that global companies had lower on several NPR programs, includ- aired “Life in the Middle Ages,” a organized a statewide campaign to research costs than they claimed ing Morning Edition, All Things full-hour probe into the physical, stop the increases; NOW, NAACP, for important new vaccines against Considered, and Talk of the Nation. emotional, and social experiences and AARP joined in this coali- rotavirus, and they ultimately During this period, he laid the of middle school students. After a tion. The NAACP Legal Defense recovered these costs within two foundation for a career of report- program highlighting the one-man Fund took the case to the Public years. PAHO successfully used this ing social issues, such as extensive theater performances of by Michael Advocate and eventually won, research to reduce prices for infant coverage of the Chicago Public Daisy about the exploitation of rolling back premiums for 600,000 vaccination by 75 percent in Pan School System. He credits his early foreign factory workers for Apple, people. Blue Cross tried other tac- American countries. work with radio pioneer Joe Frank Glass issued an on-air retraction, tics and successful campaigns were Most recently, Professor Light’s as the source of his inspiration that exposing the factual distortions in organized against each. For these work has focused on the harm- radio could be used to tell a certain Daisey’s performance. This action efforts, Light won the President’s ful side effects of prescription kind of story. generated new discussions about the Award from the New Jersey Public drugs. His latest book, The Risks Since 1995, he has hosted and boundaries between the creativ- Health Association, a University of Prescription Drugs, which was produced This American Life, which ity of theater and fact gathering in Excellence Award for Community commissioned by the Social Science reaches over 1.7 million listeners reporting. Service, and a Certificate of Merit Research Council, assembles evi- a week on more than 500 stations. The impact ofThis America Life from the American Public Health dence showing that such side effects The programs routinely involve is both broad and deep. In 2007, Association. are a leading cause of accidents, sociologically informed storytell- Ira Glass and his production team Because of this advocacy work, hospitalization, and the fourth- ing. The in-depth coverage in the began airing a television version Light began to write about the ethics leading cause of death in the United weekly show is made possible by of the show on the Showtime of health insurance, and in 1990 he States. The September 2011 issue of the collective efforts of the show’s network. In 2009, Glass was named was accepted as a visiting fellow at AARP Bulletin, with a circulation of accomplished team of reporters, the recipient of the Edward R. Oxford where he studied social eth- 42 million seniors, made the risks of producers, and editors, who invest Murrow Award for Outstanding ics. At the time, Margaret Thatcher drugs its cover story. He demon- great time and energy engaging Contributions to Public Radio. In launched a radical restructuring of strated that the medical barriers to in what Kristen Luker calls the 2011, he was awarded the George England’s National Health Service access need to be higher, by approv- “logic of discovery”—conducting Polk Award in Radio Reporting (NHS) from a public service to a ing drugs that are clinically superior fieldwork, analyzing findings, and for “Very Tough Love,” a program series of contracts between purchas- and safer. This work led to a fellow- crafting narratives imbued with showing severe punishments ers and providers ostensibly in order ship for Light this year at Harvard sociological meaning. For nearly handed down by a judge in a to create managed competition, University’s Edmond J. Safra Center two decades, this strategy has con- Georgia drug court, whose charge reduce costs, and increase efficiency. for Ethics. sistently produced programs that was to rehabilitate. As a result of Light wrote a series of critical offer new and surprising insights the This American Life investiga- Excellence in Reporting on articles on how these changes would into social issues from a diverse set tion, ethical misconduct charges Social Issues Award increase management costs as well of contributors. Several sociologists were brought against the judge, as inequalities, which he termed Ira Glass and the Staff ofThis have participated in the program, who stepped down. Glass is not the as “pernicious competition.” He American Life and the sociological imagination only member of the This American applied his expertise to various The ASA Award for Excellence animates every show. Life team to win high honors for parts of the NHS and was invited to in the Reporting of Social Issues There have been shows about reporting. The show’s producers be the overseas member of the plan- honors individuals for their effective quantifying things that are hard to include a Pulitzer Prize winner for ning committee for the NHS 50th translation, promotion, and dis- quantify, like love; about summer human interest reporting and an anniversary. He also co-authored an semination of a wide range of infor- camp and the mystery of its impor- Emmy winner for documentary anniversary monograph with Tony mation, including reporting that tance in many people’s lives; about television. conveys a sociological perspective
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16 footnotes • November 2013 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements sidered. He was also interviewed about viewed on September 17 on NESN August 12, the New York Daily News on University, were quoted in a Septem- his book, White Bound: Nationalists, about the incident. August 15, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune ber 18 Agence France-Presse article Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Jack Levin, Northeastern University, on August 16, and a number of other about the mass shooting at the Navy Race, on an August 9 podcast of “New was quoted and Arnold Arluke, North- media outlets. Yard in Washington, D.C. Books in African American Studies” eastern University, was mentioned in Guðmundur Oddsson and Andrew Victor Roudometof, University of and an August 26 podcast of “We Are an August 14 CBSNews.com article Fisher, both of University of Missouri, Cyprus, was quoted in a June 20 BBC Respectable Negroes.” about their study, which found that and Takeshi Wada, University of News Magazine article about the revival David Jacobson, University of South people have more empathy for bat- Tokyo, had their research featured in an of Ancient Greek religion. Florida, was interviewed on August 21 tered dogs than human adult, but August 13 Atlantic Cities article, “How Daniel Rudel and Natasha Yurk, both on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, not child, victims. The study was also Race and Inequality Influence the Size of Indiana University-Bloomington, Australian Broadcasting Corporation covered by LiveScience.com and UPI. of Urban Police Forces.” were quoted in an August 12 Inside (ABC), about his recent book, Of Virgins com on August 10, the Daily Mail on Robert Nash Parker, University of Higher Ed article, “Student Loan Life- and Martyrs: Women and Sexuality in August 11, The Atlanta Journal-Consti- California-Riverside, was mentioned in styles,” about their research. Global Conflict. tution on August 13, Boston magazine a September 20 Huffington Postarticle, Robert Sampson, Harvard University, Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North on August 19, and a number of other “Gun Violence and Alcohol: Study Finds media outlets. was quoted in a September 22 Chris- Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in Proximity to Liquor Store Increases tian Science Monitor article, “Can This August 29 New York Times and Los Judith Levine, Temple University, was Chances of Being Shot in Chicago.” Chicago Community be Saved? Hope Angeles Times articles, an August 30 quoted in a September 17 Philadelphia Lori Peek, Department of Sociol- Rises in Englewood.” Christian Science Monitor article, and Inquirer article, “As many as 8 of Every ogy, Colorado State University was a September 3 Dagens Næringsliv 10 Welfare Applicants in 2013 Denied Rick Settersten, Oregon State Uni- quoted in a June 19 news feature in versity, wrote an August 11 Oregonian (a Norwegian business daily) article by Pa., Inquirer Has Found.” The article Nature magazine regarding our recent about the fast-food workers strike and also appeared on the NBC 10 Philadel- column, “White Dads, Black Kids: Close research at the Center for Disaster Encounters of the Racist Kind.” the continued creation of low-wage phia website on September 21. and Risk Analysis on earthquake risk jobs in the United States. In addition, Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State reduction. Gregory Squires, George Washington he authored an August 29 Raleigh University, was quoted in a September University, was cited for her research Becky Pettit, University of Washing- News and Observer op-ed about the about cohabitation and divorce in a 21 Argus Leader article, “Motivated to strike and was quoted in an August 3 ton, was mentioned in a September 21 Move and Improve.” June 23 New York Times article about Huffington Post article, “Save America’s Wall Street Journal article about the low marriage. quality of jobs that are being created in Most Dangerous City: Provide Entre- J. Jill Suitor, Purdue University, was the American economy. Isaac William Martin, University of preneurship Education to Every Child.” mentioned in a September 18 New York California-San Diego, was quoted in Times article, “Daughters (Still) Are the Stephen Klineberg, Rice University, Michael S. Pollard, RAND Corpora- Caregivers.” a September 18 American Prospect tion, was quoted in an August 12 was mentioned in a September 24 article, “We Shall Overwhelm,” about Houston Business Journal article, “Half of LiveScience.com article, “Teens Quit Pot Christopher G. Takacs, University of his new book, Rich People’s Movements: If Their Friends Are Smoke-Free,” about Chicago, and Daniel F. Chambliss, Houston Misses the Mark for Afford- Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One able Housing Standards, Study Says.” a paper he presented at the ASA An- Hamilton College, were quoted in Percent. nual Meeting. The article also appeared an August 12 Inside Higher Ed article, Karen Z. Kramer, University of Illinois- Elizabeth Aura McClintock, University in The Huffington Post and Yahoo!News “Majoring in a Professor,” about their Urbana-Champaign, was quoted in a of Notre Dame, was quoted in an Au- on August 13 and on FoxNews.com on research. September 8 Desert News article, “More gust 13 LiveScience.com article about August 14. Verta Taylor, University of California- Dads Are Staying Home with Kids Full her study, which found that a man’s Time, New Study Finds.” Zhenchao Qian, Ohio State University, Santa Barbara, was quoted in a June occupation is linked to the time he and Philip Cohen, University of Mary- 27 Santa Barbara Independent article Annette Lareau, University of Penn- spends on housework. The study was land, were quoted in a September 11 “New Tome Tracks Marriage Movement sylvania, was quoted in a September also covered by the Daily Mail on Au- Washington Post article, “Children Suf- Trends: Verta Taylor Co-Edits The Marry- 19 Atlantic article, “Poor Students Need gust 12, NBCNews.com, Yahoo!News, fer from Growing Economic Inequality ing Kind Just in Time.” She was quoted Homework.” and U.S. News and World Report on Among Families since Recession.” The in a July 3 Phys.org article on the Kari Lerum, University of Washington, August 13, The Atlantic on August 14, article also appeared in The Courier- same-sex marriage debate within LBGT and Viviana Zelizer, Princeton Univer- and a number of other media outlets. Journal on September 22. movement, , a July 5 news-medical. net article on her book about same-sex sity, were quoted in a September 22 Martin Monto, University of Port- Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland, New York Times article, “Intimacy on the land, was quoted in an August 13 marriage, and interviewed on June 27 and Matthew W. Hughey, University by Richard Flacks on KCSB radio 91.9 Web, with a Crowd.” USA Today article about his study, of Connecticut, were quoted in a Sep- which challenges the perception that about the Supreme Court¹s gay mar- Janet Lever, California State Univer- tember 19 USA Today article, “College riage ruling. sity-Los Angeles, was quoted in an there is a “new and pervasive hookup Changes Sorority Rush Process Amid August 11 Toronto Star article about a culture” among contemporary college Racism Claims.” Jeremy Uecker, Baylor University, and study she co-authored with Rosanna students. Anna Carey, University of Richard Petts, Ball State University, Portland, co-authored the study, which Fabio Rojas, Indiana University-Bloom- were quoted and Samuel Stroope, Hertz, Wellesley College, and David ington, was quoted and Joseph DiGra- Frederick, Chapman University. The was also covered by the Los Angeles Louisiana State University, and W. Mat- Times on August 12, TIME.com and the zia, Indiana University-Bloomington, thew Henderson, Baylor University, study, which examines men’s and was mentioned in an August 12 Wall women’s beliefs about who should pay San Jose Mercury News, The New Repub- were mentioned in a September 22 lic, and Inside Higher Ed on August 13, Street Journal article about their study, Huffington Post article, “Does Religion for dates during courtship, was also which found that Twitter posts can covered by Jezebel on August 11, the The Huffington Post and The Globe and Increase or Decrease Parental Stress?” Mail on August 14, Slate on August 15, predict election results. The study was New York Daily News and Cosmopolitan also covered by the National Journal Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia Univer- magazine on August 12, the New York Scientific American on August 16, and a number of other media outlets. and Popular Science on August 12, The sity, was the subject of a September 13 Post and The Huffington Post on August Atlantic on August 13, the Washington Mother Jones Q&A article, “‘Rogue So- 13, TIME.com on August 14, Slate on Sara M. Moorman, Boston College, Post, the Huffington Post, and Politico ciologist’ Embeds With Prostitutes and August 21, Men’s Health on August 29, was quoted and Jeffrey E. Stokes, on August 14, and a number of other Crack Dealers in NYC,” centered around and a number other media outlets. Boston College, was mentioned in media outlets. Rojas also wrote an op- his new book, Floating City: A Rogue Conan O’Brien also referenced the an August 15 New York Times article ed about the study, which appeared in Sociologist Lost and Found In New York’s study on August 14 on his show. about their study, which found that the Washington Post on August 11 and Underground Economy. He was also Jack Levin, Northeastern Univer- strong grandparent-adult grandchild was republished in publications includ- quoted in a September 19 New York sity, was quoted in a September 18 relationships reduce depression ing the Star Tribune and the Tribune- Daily News article, “Sudhir Venkatesh Vancouver Sun article centered around for both parties. The study was also Review on August 12. Goes Rogue in ‘Floating City.’” covered by the Today show, CBSNews. the mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Balti- Lisa Wade, Occidental College, wrote Washington, DC He was also inter- com, LiveScience.com, U.S. News and World Report, and FoxNews.com on more, and Jack Levin, Northeastern a September 18 Salon column, “Sex
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Shocker! Men and Women Aren’t That Symbolic Interaction Geroge Herbert Arnout van de Rijt, SUNY-Stony Different.” Mead Award for Lifetime Achieve- Brook University, was awarded a Other Isidor Wallimann, Syracuse Univer- ment. $275,000 research grant from the Organizations sity, was mentioned in an August 21 Nancy S. Berns, Drake University, re- National Science Foundation as sole P.I. for the project “Field Experiments The Global Awareness Society Inter- Wall Street Journal article, “Reception ceived the SSSI Charles Horton Cooley national 23rd Annual International in Switzerland for Refugees Starts to Award for Recent Book Article for her and Formal Models of Arbitrary Social Inequality”. Conference, Jamaica, May 22-27, Cool.” book, Closure: The Rush to End Grief and 2014. Theme: “The Search for Peace Matthew Ward, University of Southern What it Costs Us (Temple University in a Challenging Global Environment.” Mississippi, was quoted in an August Press, 2012). People This interdisciplinary conference invites 16 Agence France-Presse article about Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, Gary D Bouma, Monash University, presentations and panels from all areas young activists pushing for U.S. im- received the ASA Section on Racial & UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and of sociology, social work, and criminal migration reform. Ethnic Minorities’ Founders’ Award for Intercultural Relations - Asia-Pacific, justice with emphasis on international Scholarship & Service; Top Profes- has been appointed by the Governor- and global concerns. Contact: James Chris Wienke, Southern Illinois General of Australia as a Member of Pomfret at [email protected] or (570) University-Carbondale, and Gretchen sor (Lifetime Achievement) Award, Affordable-College-Online.org; Soka the Order of Australia for ‘Significant 389-5177. For more information, visit: J. Hill, Arkansas State University-Jones- service to Sociology as an Academic,
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Davidson began studying human those of us fortunate to have served He leaves his brother Merwin; his and finally planning, theory, and prac- sexuality in the 1960s while teaching at with him (including many women daughter Saren; his son Paul; June, his tice. He subscribed to W.B. Yeats’ view, Augusta State College and serving as a navigating the academy), Ken was a ex-wife but present companion; and which argues that “[e]ducation is not research instructor and survey consul- gracious and just-plain-kind support, Joseph Lynaugh, his intellectual col- filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” tant in the Department of Obstetrics but also a reminder of the importance league and close friend of 45 years. In He aimed to create an environment and Gynecology at the Medical College of generous gatekeepers who open lieu of flowers, memorial contributions for student-directed, project-based of Georgia, commencing the focus of opportunities to the next generation. may be made to Friends of the Lay learning, where his role was an active his work throughout his career and Fortunate among us are those who Center, C/O 3900 Cathedral Ave. NW, guide. Bob was a recipient of the even into retirement. In addition to his counted Ken as “family,” celebrating Apt 202A, Washington, DC 20016. UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for more than 80 research publications, marriages, births, graduations, and the Teaching Excellence; a UNSW nominee he co-authored numerous textbooks other rites of passage of family life with Robert “Bob” Bolles Zehner for a national teaching award; and the in the areas of sociology, marriage and this gentleman. 1941-2013 recipient of a national citation from family, and human sexuality. Davidson Our colleague and friend is survived Bob Zehner was an American-born the Australian Learning and Teaching was recognized as a Certified Family by his two sons, John Kenneth David- Australian educator whose passions Council for Outstanding Contributions Life Educator by the National Council son, Jr. (Houston, Texas) and Stephen were teaching, cricket, and bushwalk- to Student Learning. He also took great on Family Relations (NCFR) in 1989. In Wood Davidson (Atlanta, Georgia), as ing. pride in the successes of others such 2005, he was awarded Fellow status in well as John’s wife, Emmy Davidson as his family, students, and those he NCFR, “an honor awarded to relatively Bob was born in Norwalk, CT in 1941, and grandsons John Kenneth (Jake) the son of John Randall Zehner, a civil mentored. Three junior colleagues few living members on the basis of Davidson III and William Laughlin (Will) mentees were recipients of UNSW their outstanding contributions to engineer, and Margaret Bolles Zehner, Davidson (Houston). a schoolteacher and social worker. He Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching family science … that have broad Excellence; he supervised the theses of Meg Wilkes Karraker, University of St. grew up in Nyack, NY, and married impact on the field and are enduring six undergraduate University Medalists; Thomas, and Dennis R, McSeveney, Ruth Sauter, a botanist, in 1964. over time.” and five students whose theses won University of New Orleans In 2005 the Kinsey Institute for Educated at Amherst College with an state and national awards. Research in Sex, Gender and Repro- MA and PhD in sociology from the Uni- Fred H. Goldner versity of Michigan, Bob held teaching His research interests included life in duction at Indiana University acquired 1926-2013 positions at the University of Michigan Australian mining towns, nationwide the lifelong collection of research and the University of North Carolina surveys of local government planners files and scholarly work on human Fred H. Goldner, Professor Emeritus before moving to Australia in 1975 on a and climate change, planning educa- sexuality compiled by Davidson and of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY, Fulbright Scholarship. After return- tion, and studio teaching in art, archi- his collaborator, Nelwyn B. Moore, died August 19, 2013, at the age of 86, ing briefly to the University of North tecture, and design. Bob was a driving Professor Emerita, Texas State Univer- after a three-year tourist visit to cancer Carolina, the family moved to Australia force behind ConnectED 2007, the first sity-San Marcos. The archive contains country without a return visa. Born permanently in July 1976. Bob was a International Conference on Design more than 10,000 articles on human in New Haven, CT, he had a long and member of the Faculty of Built Environ- Education, which featured 200 refereed sexuality. The head of the library at the varied career, going back and forth ment at the University of New South papers from more than 25 countries. Kinsey Institute noted, between academia and the public Wales (UNSW), where he held a series ConnectED was a collaboration of and private corporate world, which in- For the past four decades, their of leadership roles including Head of the Faculty of Built Environment, the cluded serving both as Chief of Staff of research contributions covered a the School Town Planning, Associate Faculty of Engineering and the UNSW the New York City Health and Hospitals wide range of topics, from studies Dean of Education, and Senior Associ- College of Fine Arts. Corporation and as an Executive Con- on sexual emotions to sexual ate Dean. He was mace-bearer faculty Away from his work, Bob coached sultant with an emergent HMO-Sanus relations and knowledge of mar- graduation ceremonies from 2007 to and umpired his son’s cricket teams and its national successor NYLCare. riage and family.” The Institute 2010. Bob was instrumental in estab- and gained full umpire’s accreditation. library aims to acquire, organize, His most notable scholarly contribu- lishing the workplace giving program He umpired more than 100 grade preserve as well as provide access tions included: the development of at UNSW. He was also instrumental in cricket matches. He was a bushwalker, to human sexuality resources the concept of Pronoia (the delusional the creation of three awards, the last completing the Milford Track, Overland and is visited by students and opposite of Paranoia); the delineation bearing his name. He sat on numerous Track, and the Grand Traverse Walk. scholars of sexuality from all of power relations within organiza- committees and councils for the wider Bob completed the City-to-Surf 29 over the world. The Davidson/ tions; pointing out the necessity of University. In November 2010, Ill health times, and had a great love of travel Moore collection will expand and following the flow of money through caused him to retire from an active role and photography. enhance our collecting scope, an organization in order to understand at the UNSW. Bob passed away on August 21, 2013, and we are very pleased that they organizational processes; calling Bob was passionate about teaching. after a long battle with prostate cancer. have decided to deposit their attention to managerial demotion; At UNSW he taught urban sociology, He is survived by his wife of 48 years lifelong collection with the Kinsey developing the concept of organiza- research methodology, quantitative Ruth, his sons: David and Erick, his Institute. tional cynical knowledge; studying methods, photography (team-taught daughter-in-law, Rachel, and his grand- the effects of belief systems within Throughout his career, Davidson was with a professional photographer), children, Annabelle and Zachary. organizations; identifying correlations the consummate servant-leader. He integrated planning—communication; was active in the American Sociological between managerial perspectives and Association, the Groves Conference on future success or failure and discern- Marriage and the Family, the Midwest ing, by the analysis of survey data, the Sociological Society, the National startling differences between the belief Council on Family Relations, the Soci- systems of older and younger priests in ety for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the late 1960s. Send Us Your News the Southern Sociological Society, the He served in the U.S. Navy 1944–46 Texas Council on Family Relations, and and taught at Columbia Graduate Were you recently promoted? Have a book the Society for the Scientific Study of School of Business from1964–70. He published? Or were you quoted in the Sexuality. Davidson served as President was an active member of the American of the Mid-South Sociological Associa- Association of Public Opinion Research news? Did you win an award? Or maybe tion and as President of Alpha Kappa (AAPOR), honored twice as nominee Delta, the international sociology for president and serving on the Coun- you know about a funding opportunity or honor society that has named its Dis- cil and as Conference Chair in 1981. tinguished Service Award in his honor. He started competitive swimming for want to promote your meeting to other In addition to his ambitious scholarly the first time at 75 and placed in the agenda and his devotion to profes- top 10 nationally 76 times. During the sociologists? Send your announcements to sional service, Ken always had time last decade, he was an advisor to the to lend a nonjudgmental ear and to Board of the Lay Center of Foyer Unitas Footnotes at [email protected]. extend professional guidance. For in Rome.
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