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Volume 46 • Number 4 Introducing Mary Romero, 2019 ASA President Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M to the subordination of Mexican (Wright State University) wrote: inside University culture and people. This work, like “Mary is a wonderful scholar-men- magine writing a dissertation on much of her work since then, was tor, which she will bring with her Icultural appropriation 40 groundbreaking. as our newest President of the A Tribute to James Short, years before it became a Like many women of American Sociological Association.” 2 color in the discipline of 75th ASA President: widespread topic of con- Smart, Savvy, and Fierce sociology, Mary watched A Pioneer in Criminology versation in the discipline. As a pioneering woman of color Mary Romero, Professor her work go underrated or uncited when topics she in the early 1980s, Mary conducted Sociologists Critically of Justice Studies and foundational research on women of Social Inquiry at Arizona already published came 3 Explored Feeling Race color—whose experiences had been State University, was an into vogue in mainstream at the 2018 ASA Annual sociology. Yet Mary marginalized or excluded in the innovative social thinker Mary Romero historical production of sociological Meeting even as a graduate student has been unflinchingly committed to exposing the knowledge. Like many women, she at the University of Colorado in found academia to be less than wel- Take Advantage of What the 1970s. A standout in her rather mechanisms of social inequality and 5 shining a light on the experiences of coming. Her savvy as a researcher NSF Has to Offer large cohort of approximately 30 was disregarded by a largely white, students, her keen insight into the those who have been marginalized in society as well as in our disci- male, and elite academic landscape Send in Your dynamics of social inequality led her and her first jobs out of graduate 7 to investigate how U.S. government pline. Her scholarship, mentorship, Nominations for ASA and service have all developed from school were predominantly in programs appropriated Mexican teaching institutions. Mary taught Awards culture in the service of white diver- her fundamental commitment to social justice. As Marlese Durr sity narratives, ultimately leading Continued on Page 4 Making Space for 10 Indigenous Sociology within the Discipline ASA Renews Partnership 2018 ASA Award 11 Applications Invited for ASA Editorships with SAGE Publishing Recipients SA has partnered with SAGE the Committee on Publications. We he ASA presented the 2018 Asince 2010 when Council are pleased to report that this thor- Tawards at this year’s Annual decided to move away from ough review process culminated in Meeting in Philadelphia on August self-publishing its scholarly jour- a contract renewal for most of our 12. Congratulations to all our dis- ASA Forum ............................................ 12 nals. As anticipated at the time, the journals. Signed in the late summer, tinguished winners. Announcements ................................. 13 decision to work with a commercial the renewal contract will extend Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: publisher has greatly enhanced our from January 2019 through 2026. A Obituaries .............................................. 16 Joe Feagin, Texas A & M University ability over the past nine years to few of our SAGE publications are on Joe Feagin disseminate scholarship broadly, separate contracts that will not be is the 2018 strengthen our journal portfolio, up for renewal for several years. recipient of the more effectively and efficiently Expanding the dissemination ASA Cox- manage journal operations, and of scholarship Johnson-Frazier generate revenue for mission-driven Award. Feagin purposes. ASA and SAGE share a commit- continues and As we approached the end to ment to making our publications mirrors the our second contract this year, ASA as accessible as possible, both legacy of Oliver Council and ASA Committee on to our members and to a wider Joe Feagin Cromwell Cox, the Executive Office and Budget audience. For example, our con- Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin engaged in extensive discussion tract allows us to provide online Frazier of civically engaged aca- about future options for our access to all ASA-wide journals demic scholarship in the service of publications. These conversa- from 2004 to the present to all social justice. Through his research, tions were informed both by the ASA members. In addition, we teaching, and service across the report of an external consultant provide free access to our journals profession with international and a thorough evaluation by an to more than 5,000 institutions acclaim, Joe Feagin expands and ad-hoc committee composed of the in developing countries. Further, represents the important disci- President, Secretary, and Chair of Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 6 footnotes To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org A Tribute to James Short, 75th ASA President: A Pioneer in Criminology Lorine Hughes, University of Colorado- the “Chicago School”—both of eventually took a leave of absence (1984) and American Association Denver, and Andrew Papachristos, which lasted throughout his life. from WSU to join the faculty of the for the Advancement of Science Northwestern University Influenced by faculty such as Everett University of Chicago as Visiting (1985). ames Franklin Short, Jr. (Jim), Hughes, Samuel Kincheloe, Clifford Associate Professor of Sociology Jim maintained a vibrant JProfessor Emeritus of Sociology Shaw, Louis Wirth, and, especially, and lead an ambitious three-year scholarly agenda throughout these at Washington State University William Ogburn, Jim became (1959-62) collaboration with Fred engagements. He used his 1984 (WSU), died peacefully at his home “hooked” on sociology during his Strodtbeck. Known formally as presidential address to the ASA to in Pullman, WA, on May second year of gradu- the Youth Studies Project (YSP), call for greater understanding of 13, 2018. He was 93 years ate school. His doctoral their research collected a variety “how people in fact live with risks old. dissertation focused on the of sociological, psychometric, and and how living with risks affects Jim was a pioneer in the effects of business cycles on observational data on more than 30 their perceptions and behavior.” study of crime, law, and crime and, in combination gangs and delinquent groups from The importance of group processes deviance whose contri- with the research of close roughly 25 Chicago communities in never left Jim’s mind and featured butions to sociology are friend and fellow graduate order to test propositions embedded prominently in his studies of crim- outdone only by his gener- student Andrew Henry, in dominant macrolevel theoretical inological topics ranging widely ous nature and love for his James Short evolved into the ground- perspectives, particularly Cloward from white-collar crime to Poverty, friends and family. breaking book Suicide and Ohlin’s (1960) highly influential Ethnicity, and Violence (1997). In Jim’s name adorns a host of and Homicide: Some Economic, Opportunity Theory. The resulting a now-classic essay, Jim elaborated impressive things, including a sta- Sociological, and Psychological book, Group Process and Gang on his earlier work to identify “The tistical index used in criminology, Aspects of Aggression (1954). Delinquency (1965), advanced a Level of Explanation Problem in a “best paper” award for from the After earning his PhD, Jim group process perspective high- Criminology” (1985), noting that ASA Section on Crime, Law, and accepted a position as Instructor lighting the causal significance of “complete explanation and under- Deviance, and an entire build- of Sociology at WSU (known then social interaction in delinquent and standing are impossible” without ing on the campus of Washington as State College of Washington) in violent behaviors and showed that integrating macro, individual, and State University. Jim served as the Pullman, WA, where he and his much of what previously had been micro levels. More than a decade Director of Research on President beloved wife Kelma would spend interpreted as short-run hedonism later, Jim returned to this topic for Lyndon Johnson’s Commission many happy years raising their two could be better understood as the his 1997 Presidential Address to the on the Causes and Prevention children, Susan and Michael, and outcome of a rational balancing American Society of Criminology, of Violence, a member of the building a large circle of friends. process in which the immediate urging criminologists to pay more Chicago Planning Commission, Within a year of arriving, Jim was rewards of status within the context attention to groups as units of anal- and President of both the American appointed to a tenure-track assistant of the gang are weighed against ysis and to situational contexts and Sociological Association and the professor position and received a broader, more remote conse- interaction processes contributing American Society of Criminology three-year faculty research fellow- quences. Gang scholars continue to violent and delinquent behaviors. (the only person to have been ship to support his pursuit of a new to analyze YSP data more than five Over the course of his nearly elected to both positions). line of inquiry that would change decades later. 70-year career, Jim authored 5 A native of rural Illinois, Jim was the face of the field