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2008 President Is a Defender of the “Poorest of the Poor” by Barbara Ehrenreich, inveigled me into working with her on late George A. Wiley, leader of the 1960s responsible professor as well as an activ- author of Bait and Switch the program of the annual meeting of the welfare rights movement, and developed ist and writer. How does she do it? The Society for the Study of Social Problems the confrontational strategy that led to a secret, revealed to me over time, is that I first met Frances Fox Piven in the (SSSP), over which she then presided. liberalization of welfare she does not sleep much, and early 1980s. I was a struggling freelance and a reduction in somehow manages to remain writer; she was an intellectual star. Fighting to Reduce Poverty extreme poverty during alert on a punishing schedule Everything about her intimidated me: When we met, Frances was already that decade. Even more of meetings, travel, and writ- Her habit of not saying anything until widely known for her classic books, perturbing to many ing deadlines. she had thought it through, her sociolog- co-authored with her long-time com- of her fellow social Within a short time of our ical erudition, her relentless work ethic, panion, Richard A. Cloward: Poor scientists, she always initial meeting, Frances and her fearlessness in the face of authority, People’s Movements and Regulating the said exactly what was I began our intellectual and and—if I may mention it—her drop-dead Poor. She had achieved tenure at Boston on her mind even if activist collaboration. We co- good looks. I am not sure why she took University and considerable recogni- that meant publicly authored articles on welfare an interest in me, but within months tion, including a Guggenheim fellowship upbraiding them for and the threat of welfare she had convinced me that the high- and the C. Wright Mills Award from the statements she found “reform” for a variety of pub- est feminist priority was the defense of SSSP. But because of her activism, she condescending to the lications, including Dissent, the poorest of the poor, that is, women was still a bit of an enfant terrible within poor. The Nation, and Mother Jones. on welfare. And she had somehow academia. She had collaborated with the At the same time, She is a delightful person to Frances was—and Frances Fox Piven write with—rigorous, logical, remains—a diligent meticulous about facts, and and hard-working academic citizen. utterly ego-free. We spent many hours NSF Education and Human Resources Sometimes I have chided her for putting over tea, outlining our arguments, so much time into academic committees mustering our data, and dividing up the to Be Headed by Marrett and slaving over her students’ disserta- actual writing. In the 1980s, we launched tions, but she always insisted on being a workforce of scientists, technicians, engi- See Piven, page 7 Cora B. Marrett, senior vice president neers, mathematicians and educators and for academic affairs at the University a well-informed citizenry that has access of Wisconsin-Madison and long-time to the ideas and tools of science and engi- ASA member, has been appointed neering. The purpose of these activities is Names Change for Two ASA Awards Assistant Director of the National to enhance the quality of life of all citizens Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for and the health, prosperity, welfare and W.E.B. DuBois Name Is Directly Related to Scholarship Education and Human Resources (EHR), security of the nation. making her one of seven directorate Marrett’s position at NSF will be As the result of a major petition drive, including signatures from two-thirds heads. She assumes her position February in conjunction with the University of the ASA Council and 13 ASA presidents and the necessary number of votes 1, 2007, where she will lead NSF’s mis- of Wisconsin’s (UW) Department of in the May 2006 ASA election, ASA announces the change in name of two of its sion to achieve excellence in U.S. science, Sociology, where she will remain a major awards: the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award is now the W.E.B. technology, engineering, and mathematics tenured faculty member. She has served DuBois Career Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and the DuBois-Johnson- (STEM) education at all levels. UW in her current position for the last Frazier Award is now the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. The latter award is No stranger to the NSF, six years. From 1974-97, she named after sociologists Oliver Cox, the first recipient of the award back in 1971, Marrett also served as the first was a faculty member in two Charles Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier. This is the second change to the ASA Assistant Director of the NSF departments—Sociology and major award program in the past two years after the addition of the Excellence in Directorate for Social, Behavioral Afro-American Studies—where Reporting of Social Issues Award. and Economic Sciences (SBE) she advanced from associate Aldon Morris (Northwestern University) and Michael Schwartz (Stony in 1992-96. For her leadership professor to full professor and Brook University), who wrote the petition for the changes in both award names, in developing new research was chair of the sociology depart- believed it was important to make connections between the history of the disci- programs and articulating the ment in between (1988-91). During pline and those who are practitioners today (see May/June 2006 Footnotes). scientific projects of the direc- that time she also was affili- In addition, Morris and Schwartz said in their petition, “If the award is named torate, she received the NSF ated with the Wisconsin Center after someone whose visibility extends well beyond the profession, it allows the profession to borrow this visibility, and to project our winners to an audience well Distinguished Service Award. In Cora B. Marrett for Educational Research. In 2005 she added the Erich Bloch between her faculty and academic beyond the profession. For sociology, we believe that this is particularly impor- Distinguished Service Award from the affairs positions at UW, she served as tant, since we aspire as a profession to reach an audience beyond the confines of Quality Education for Minorities Network the senior vice chancellor for academic our discipline with insights that can hopefully make a difference in social life.” to her award roster. The award is given affairs and provost at the University of Because of such needed publicity, Morris and Schwartz believed DuBois was annually to an individual who has made Massachusetts-Amherst for four years. a perfect fit for the Distinguished Scholarship Award. “DuBois was the consum- singular contributions to the advance- In addition to her UW and NSF roles, mate public intellectual. . . . He fought ment of science and to the participation of Marrett has served as director of two for the rights of people of color, not just “Congratulations” to the 2006 groups underrepresented in STEM fields. programs for the United Negro College in the United States, but also around ASA Section Award Winners! “We’re thrilled to have Dr. Marrett Fund (1990-92), was a fellow at the Center the world. He fought for women’s ASA is proud to announce the winners join us at NSF again at this critical time in for Advanced Study in the Behavioral rights, worker’s rights, Jewish free- of the various awards given by ASA’s our agency’s mission,” said NSF Director Sciences (1976-77), an assistant professor dom, a peaceful world without nuclear Arden Bement in the NSF announcement. at the University of North Carolina (1968- weapons, and for human dignity and special interest sections. Not all 44 sec- “Leadership in STEM education at NSF is 69), assistant and associate professor of democracy across the globe.” They con- tions give awards, but the vast majority immensely important, and the agency is sociology at Western Michigan University tinued, “. . . because of his singular role of sections have now reported their fortunate to have a professional such as (1969-74), and a senior policy fellow at the as public intellectual, his name would 2006 award winners to ASA, and they are Dr. Marrett leading EHR.” National Academy of Sciences (1973-74). confer a more appropriate luster to the listed on the ASA website
Published by the American Sociological Association November 2006 Footnotes
The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . Educating for a Sustainable Future In May of 2006, leaders from 13 national discipline associations, including the ASA, convened to discuss higher education in relation to promoting an environmentally sustainable future for human Holberg Prize society. ASA had been invited to participate by the Association Awarded to a for American Colleges and Universities and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and the Sociologist meeting was organized by the Higher Education Associations 3 Sustainability Consortium (HEASC). HEASC is an informal S. N. Eisenstadt received an network of higher education associations with a commitment to international award worth Sally T. Hillsman advancing sustainability within their constituencies and within about $690,000. higher education. HEASC was formed in 2005 to support and enhance the capacity of higher education to fulfill a critical role in producing an educated and engaged citizenry and associated knowledge to create a culture of sustainability. The Centennial Sustainable Development Background The United Nations has declared the period 2005-2014 as the Decade of Education for
of Feliks Gross Sustainable Development, in order to promote the local and global understanding of prin- The ASA is not the only one ciples of “sustainable development” (see
Possible Educational Enhancements Missing from much higher education, including sociology, according to educators involved in the sustainability initiative, is a holistic approach to the concept of developing Our Regular Features a sustainable future. But more than 1,000 syllabi in a variety of disciplines have already been collected that demonstrate how a fluid integration of sustainability can be incorpo- Departments...... 11 rated into courses. The HEASC is developing on its
Sociologist Testifies on Capitol Hill PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE Congress Advised on Census Bureau’s Population Estimates
the number of occupied housing units ✔ And we thought ASA’s 14,000-plus October membership milestone was a avid Swanson, director of the (households) multiplied by the average D big number! . . . . In October, the United States joined China and India as the University of Mississippi Center number of persons per household, plus third country to be home to at least 300 million people. Changes since the for Population Studies and chair of the number of persons living in group United States reached 200 million in 1967 include: a decline in household size; the Department of Sociology and quarters, such as college dormitories, rise in women’s labor force participation; increase in education; growth in Anthropology, testified on September 6, prisons, or nursing homes. the number of foreign-born people; and rising rates of child poverty. To com- 2006, that the federal government should In a prepared statement, U.S. Rep. memorate the 300-million U.S. population, the Population Reference Bureau consider overhauling the methods it uses Michael Turner (R-OH), subcommit- (PRB), with sponsorship from the American Sociological Association and to count Americans between decennial tee chair, said, “Unfortunately, inter- other groups, organized a symposium at the National Press Club highlighted censuses. He was among four expert wit- censal estimates are often inaccurate. the impacts of America’s growing population on the ways we work, live, and nesses who testified on Census Bureau Washington, DC, for example, has are governed. The symposium, “300 Million and Counting,” on October 5 programs before the Subcommittee on disputed the bureau’s estimates every in Washington, DC, was a tremendous success, with more than 100 people Federalism and the Census, of the U.S. year since 2002 and, as noted in a July in attendance, including numerous media (i.e., Newsweek, CNN, CBS Radio House Committee on Government Reform. 22, 2006, Washington Post article, the News, Associated Press, New York Times, and Washington Post). Sociology was The hearing, “2+2 Should Never Equal bureau recently acknowledged that they 3: Getting Intercensal Population Estimates had missed about 6 percent of DC’s mentioned often by the eight presenters. William Butz, an economist at RAND Right the First Time,” examined the population.” and PRB President, moderated, and Faith Mitchell, National Academy of bureau’s intercensal population estimates “[HUM] would lead not only to Sciences, opened the nearly four-hour session. Presentations included eye- programs. The other witnesses were Joy timely, accurate and cost-effective inter- opening synopses of recent Census statistics. See
November 2006 Footnotes
ASA member celebrates 100th birthday… (1999). His many honors come from the Professor Feliks Gross: Sociological Humanist Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Polish Academy of Arts and by Jerome Krase, City University V. Gromada, Executive Director of PIASA served as a democratic and independent Sciences, Order of Polonia Restituta, Polish of New York-Brooklyn College spoke about his life and works. His beacon for Polish scholars and scholarship National Archive, and the Phoenix King daughter, Eva Gross Friedman was also in until Poland again became “free” in 1989. of Greece. Gross also received awards Footnotes asked me to write a attendance as her father was recognized He and Priva were married for 55 years and from the Public Affairs, Sloan, Rockefeller, “brief” (600- to 800-word) article on the life not only for his intellect but also for his he has frequently said that if not for her, he Fulbright, and Columbia University and times of Feliks Gross the oldest liv- exceptional character, charity and respect could not have done as much as he did. Foundations. ing member of the American Sociological for people of any social station. For Feliks Gross the answer to the Association. That translates to about six to Teacher, Author, Awardee, Idealist question of what makes it possible for Beginning in Poland eight words per year, and here is it is: From 1946-77, Gross was a faculty people who are different from each Brooklyn College Professor Emeritus Feliks Gross was born June 17, 1906, member at the Brooklyn College Sociology other to live in peace has been a peren- Feliks Gross celebrated his 100th birthday in Krakow. At that time Krakow was part Department and lectured at the CUNY nial quest. He notes that diverse groups on June 17, 2006. To mark the occasion, the of the autonomous Austrian province of Graduate can be bound Academy of Humanities and Sciences of Galicia and a vibrant center of Polish intel- Center on together by the City University of New York (CUNY) lectual and cultural life. Gross was raised political sociol- coercive means, and the Polish Institute of Arts and and educated in this city and studied at the ogy. Over the but that to do so Sciences in America (PIASA) held special esteemed Jagiellonian University where years his inter- with consensus events. The CUNY Academy, which he he earned a Doctorate in Jurisprudence. ests expanded calls for different helped found in 1980, held a special “Feliks Later, on a fellowship to the University of to include techniques and Gross Endowment Award” luncheon London, he came to know the great anthro- American principles. “Such at CUNY. The honor is given annually pologist Bronislaw Malinowski whose issues of civil an association of to emerging scholars for their research influence led him into the social sciences. rights and different peoples, and scholarly achievements. After lunch, As a member of a prominent Jewish Polish developing ethnic groups friends and colleagues spoke of his contri- family, Gross became a courageous and African nations. with equal rights butions to the intellectual life of the univer- respected social and political activist as Over his long for all, free of sity, and the Graduate Center’s President, well as a scholar. He was the founder and career he held discrimination by William P. Kelly, gave the keynote address. Director of the Labor Social Science School positions at Felix Gross public authori- in Krakow (1934-38), a committed and the League of ties, necessitates Celebrating a Century energetic labor lawyer, and a member of Nations, the London School of Economics, the need for a common bond that would embrace all, a broad bond, and in the PIASA honored Gross with an exhibi- the prewar Polish Socialist Party. Despite Eastern European Planning Board, and hierarchy of accepted standards, one that tion from its archive on his exceptional cen- all his ample credentials however, he was lectured at New York University, University rises above ethnic or racial identification; tury-long life. Two sessions at PIASA’s 64th denied the opportunity for a university of Wyoming, University of Virginia, and in a word, a common denominator for all. Annual Meeting at Hunter College focused appointment as he once put it, “… because the Universities of Florence, Paris, Rome, Citizenship is such a bond; it is also a vital on his life and work. The first session, of my religion, origin, and political views” and the College of Europe. He authored common denominator” (Gross, 1999). “Feliks Gross: The Enlightened Pluralist” (Gross, 1986). more than 20 books beginning with The featured presentations by Jan Kubik, There is no need to explain why he Polish Worker (1945) and countless articles, References Rutgers University, “The Humanism of and his wife, Priva, hastily left Poland in which have been published in many dif- Feliks Gross’s Social Science”; an illus- 1939, fleeing both Nazis, and, later, Soviet ferent languages including, Chinese. His Gross, Feliks. 1986. “Young Malinowski and His Later Years.” American Ethnologist trated presentation “Feliks Gross and His Communists, before making his way to Ideologies Goals and Values (1985) is an 13:556–70. Cracovian Roots” by Grazyna Kubica- the United States. It is also understand- important synthesis of his work. During the Gross, Feliks. 1999. Citizenship and Ethnicity: Heller, Jagiellonian University; and my able that, without ignoring its all too many last decade, he published The Civic and the The Growth and Development of a Democratic Multiethnic Institution. Westport, CT: own, ”Feliks Gross: Between Assimilation lapses, Gross sees America as a model Tribal State (1998), Citizenship and Ethnicity Greenwood Press. and Multiculturalism.” Civic State; a multiethnic state founded The second session, which I chaired, upon the principles of democracy. After “Feliks Gross: Teacher, Friend and settling in New York City, he became a Council Briefs Colleague,” brought together many member of the Polish Institute of Arts and former friends, students, and colleagues. Sciences of America, which was estab- During the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montréal, the 2005-2006 ASA Council Henry Wasser, CUNY Academy on the lished in 1942 by Malinowski along with held its final meeting under the chairmanship of Cynthia Epstein. The following Humanities and Sciences; Hans Trefousse, other prominent Polish scholars. Gross day, the 2006-2007 ASA Council held its initial meeting under the leadership of Brooklyn College; Joseph Wieczerzak, helped convince Malinowski to become Frances Fox Piven. Meeting only once every six months there is never a shortage editor of The Polish Review; and Thaddeus PIASA’s first President. The Institute has of issues for consideration; these meetings were no exception with each session having a full agenda. The following list is not exhaustive of everything Council accomplished during the August meetings but is a selected list of important items. Full minutes of the meetings will be posted on the ASA website when they are New Annual Meeting Workshops approved by Council. • Accepted the audit of 2005 financial activities. Designed for Practitioner Networking • Agreed to incorporate three new policies into the overall financial policies by Carla B. Howery, Executive Office for Applied and Clinical Sociology and of the association, including a whistleblower policy about the reporting of the ASA’s Section on Sociological Practice, unethical or illegal activities, a document retention policy, and a conflict of The Annual Meeting program includes members expressed a desire for more interest policy. over 100 workshops on teaching, aca- advanced training for themselves, as well • Received an extensive report from the Task Force on the Institutionalization demic issues, professional development, as opportunities for networking. of Public Sociology and agreed to extend the tenure of the task force for two methodological training, and more, for In 2007, the program will include about additional years. sociologists at all stages of the career cycle eight workshops that are designed for soci- • Received and accepted a final report from the Task Force on General and in a variety of workplaces. One area ologists already employed in a work sphere, Education. in which the Program Committee and the who wish to get more information and • Voted to endorse in principle the American Library Association’s Executive Office wanted additional devel- connect with others who engage in similar Anthropology and Sociology Section (ALA ANSS) guidelines for informa- opment centers on supporting the work work. At present, those topics include: tion literacy in sociology, and to recommend that departments of sociology of sociologists in applied and research • Sociologists Working in Advertising work with their library staff to consider their implementation in ways they settings. and Marketing find appropriate. Many of the workshops that deal with • Challenges and Opportunities for • Approved a COLA adjustment in dues rates for 2007. careers in applied and research settings Working on Disaster Research • Supported a recommendation to offer a new online-only option for library have been led by sociologists employed in • Challenges and Opportunities for subscribers for 2007. those workplaces. Those colleagues have working on State Government • Increased most institutional subscription rates for 2007 by 6%. been generous in sharing information Contracts for Family and Childrens’ • Increased Annual Meeting registration fees by $5 for most categories for 2007. about the satisfactions of their work, the Services • Established three new task forces: Task Force on Sociology and work culture, how sociological training • Sociological Skills at Work in the Criminology Programs; Task Force on Teaching Ethics throughout the is pertinent, and how to successfully find Insurance Industry Sociology Curriculum; and Task Force on Academic Freedom and Scientific employment. Sharing this professional • Sociologists in Federal Government Integrity. experience is a tremendous service to Research Positions • Agreed to participate in Research!America for the coming year. young sociologists considering different • Careers in Contract Research • Agreed to maintain the current dues structure but to continue reviewing employment options. But for the prac- • A Hidden Washington Story: the issue of its increasing progress. titioners themselves, does the annual Sociologists in “Natural” Science • Asked the EOB and Executive Office to review the portfolio of public meeting provide enough training, relevant Organizations information activities and options and to prepare an assessment of what the substantive sessions, and networking • Sociologists Working in Public Association is currently doing in this arena. opportunities to advance their careers, as Opinion Polling • Renewed the Association’s commitment to Contexts through 2010. well as keep them connected to ASA and All of these workshops will appear on • Approved ASA Statement on Creationism and Related Religious Doctrines sociology? In conversations with practi- the program and will be free and open to in U.S. Science Education. tioner organizations, including the Society all meeting attendees. November 2006 Footnotes
Ethiopian Sociological Association and The XVI World Congress of the International the Iranian Sociological Association. One issue that came up in the course Sociological Association, South Africa of the delegates’ deliberations in Durban was how to handle resolutions that seek by Val Moghadam, Science Council, enjoys NGO status in nominated me as the ASA delegate to to get the ISA to publicly adopt positions UNESCO and Purdue University formal associate relations with UNESCO, the ISA and as a candidate for election on political or social matters of concern. and has a special consultative status to the National Associations Liaison A delegate from Turkey had proposed a The World Congress of Sociology with the United Nation’s Economic Committee, or NALC (to succeed resolution calling on all parties to cease convenes every four years under the and Social Council. Over the years, Douglas Kincaid). An unprecedented hostilities in the Middle East. Past-presi- auspices of the International Sociological the ISA has co-published some impor- 12 persons ran for the position of ISA dent Piotr Sztompka pointed out that Association (ISA). In July, Durban, South tant scholarly works, such as James A. president, and Michel Wieviorka of we lacked procedures to do so, and thus Africa, hosted the 16th World Congress. Beckford’s New Religious Movements and France was elected. Five NALC may seek to pro- Among the more than 3,000 participants, Rapid Social Change, (1986) and its journal vice-presidents were elected: pose to the ISA Executive American sociologists were well repre- International Sociology is highly regarded. Arturo Rodriguez Morato, Committee procedures for sented—at the plenaries, at the panels I became a member of the ISA in Research Council; Hans handling such resolutions organized by the various Research 1990 and attended the world congresses Joas, Congress Programme; from the membership in an Committees, at the receptions, and (I in Madrid, Bielefeld, and Montréal. I Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, open, democratic, and civil am told) at the safaris and side trips that missed the 2002 congress in Brisbane, Publications; Jan Marie Fritz, fashion. took place before, during, and after Australia, but remained active in RC-32, Finance and Membership; What are some of the the congress. And two of us—Michael the Research Committee on Women in Michael Burawoy, National issues that this Executive Burawoy and myself—were elected to Societies, which has the most members Associations. (See gray box Committee will take on in the Executive Committee. of the Research Committees. Issues of below.) the next four years? ISA The ISA’s administrative center is language and geographic representa- Michael Burawoy’s NALC President Wieviorka has in Madrid, but the associa- tion have dogged many of 12 member team consists of suggested eight issues: tion is run by an Executive the congresses, but Durban representatives from almost Michael Burawoy (1) tackling the persistent Committee including a set a precedent and a chal- all continents. The goals, as question of languages; president, five vice-presi- lenge. By convening, for laid down by Burawoy, are to (2) supporting junior dents (for research, publica- the first time, in an African (a) try to secure broader participation in sociologists; (3) enhancing internal tions, national associations, country, the 16th World the ISA from the National Associations, democracy; (4) developing connections programme, finance and Congress raised the African especially in regions that are underrep- with professional, regional, and linguis- membership), and representa- participation rate from 2% resented; (b) promote and facilitate six to tic associations; (5) improving relations tives of National Associations to 15%. Some 104 countries 10 Regional Conferences; (c) organize the and exchanges with other disciplines; and of Research Committees were represented, of which Conference of National Associations in (6) initiating “State of the Art” projects; that are elected, respectively, 25 were African, making the 2009; and (d) construct a central website (7) exploring how to involve China in the by the Council of National Durban congress a record-set- for the National Associations, linked ISA; and (8) increasing the membership. Associations and the Council ting event. The Congress was to the website of individual National All this plus planning for the XVII World of Research Committees (see Val Moghadam very well organized Associations. In just the Congress, in Göteborg, Sweden, in July ISA website:
tenure and promotion committees continue to view applied research and CBLR Sociologists in Research as less important and less rigorous than theoretically oriented scholarship. Furthermore, working with CBO staff can entail certain risks. How does a faculty member find a CBO partner? How can faculty and CBO staff effectively work and Applied Settings together, given their disparate work cultures and professional norms? This occasional column focuses on the interesting career paths and achieve- ments of sociologists whose primary work in sociology is not in the academy Tapping Existing Networks or whose “extracurricular” work outside academic settings is noteworthy for its As a sociologist, Marullo realized that people are societal or policy impact. These sociologists are engaged directly with the pub- more likely to work together if they are already con- lic, applying methods of science and their sociological expertise. nected by social networks, so he set about to develop and strengthen networks between DC-area CBOs and univer- sities. He also knew that academics would be more likely to engage in CBLR if the culture of academia supported it, so he set about to change that culture. Finally, as a Sociologist Establishes Community community activist, Marullo understood that there are smart and talented people from all over the Washington Research and Learning Network area who are already working for positive social change but what they needed was an infrastructure to bring by Amy S. Hubbard, Senior Research Associate, JBS International, Inc. them together and support their work over the long haul. Sam Marullo This is particularly important work because of the Sociologists gathered at the annual meeting in August to consider the theme unique nature of the District of Columbia. It is typically seen by the outside world Great Divides: Trangressing Boundaries. Thematic sessions explored “the complex as a place where national leaders collaborate, negotiate and/or clash over the fate processes and institutional underpinnings that create boundaries” within and of the most powerful country in the world. However, Washington is a city strug- across societies to better understand how inequalities are constructed and how gling with many of the same urban problems affecting other U.S. cities but with- they can be diminished. This theme reflected the fact that sociologists, whose out the traditional kinds of state and community support available to those cities. profession centers on writing and teaching about public life, seek to participate For example, there are few local foundations whose specific agenda is to support in “constructing the public agenda.” Yet, in reality, we often face professional initiatives benefiting the local community. Furthermore, political leaders who boundaries that can restrain our involvement in public life and make it difficult to seek higher office will have more opportunity if they base themselves in Virginia build bridges with community leaders who are driving the public agenda. or Maryland, since DC has no state-level offices and no voting representation in Sam Marullo, a Georgetown University sociologist, transgresses those Congress. Therefore, Marullo’s work has been essential in bringing together and boundaries and assists others in doing the same through his work with the focusing local talent and resources on local problems. Community Research and Learning Network (CoRAL Network) in the Marullo’s work with CoRAL grew out of his involvement in pro- Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Soft-spoken and reserved, one moting CBLR at Georgetown University, where he is Chair of the hardly associates Marullo with the term “transgression,” which is Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Since 1997 he has generally reserved for radicals, militants, and avant-garde think- taught courses such as Project DC, where students work with ers. Yet for the last decade, Marullo has been quietly building the CBOs on research projects addressing community concerns, such infrastructure for collaboration between university faculty and as welfare-to-work programs, charter schools, and affordable students and local community-based organizations (CBOs). In housing. From 1997 through 2004, Project DC students contrib- May 2006, the District of Columbia Sociological Society (DCSS) uted more than 5,000 hours of service to CBLR projects for 379 recognized Marullo for this ground-breaking work by awarding organizations, such as the Council of Latino Agencies and DC him the Morris Rosenberg Merit Award. Central Kitchen. Marullo played a central role in building a new concentra- Positive Social Change tion in Social Justice Analysis in the sociology major. He was also instrumental in the creation of Georgetown University’s Center CoRAL Network
Regional Sociological Association Schedules President Mel Manson, Endicott College ([email protected]). For more infor- Eastern Sociological Society: March 15-18, 2007—Philadelphia, PA. Theme: New mation, go to
Call for ASA Award Nominations
ment in innovative program development, and contributions to the enhancement of W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship teaching within state, regional, or national associations. The award typically is given for a series of contributions spanning several years or an entire career, although it This award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the may recognize a single project of exceptional impact. The award is not designed to profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in impor- recognize outstanding teaching ability at one’s own institution unless that is part of tant ways to the advancement of the discipline. The body of lifetime work may a career with a broader impact. Individuals, departments, schools, or other collective include theoretical and/or methodological contributions. The award selection actors are eligible. Nominations should include the name of the nominee and a one committee is particularly interested in work that substantially reorients the field to two page statement explaining the basis of the nomination. Nominations should in general or in a particular subfield. Nominations should include a copy of the also include a vita, if applicable, and relevant supporting materials. nominee’s curriculum vitae and letters in support of the nomination. The most compelling cases contain five to eight letters from a variety of individuals able to Jessie Bernard Award speak to the qualifications of the nominees. The person making the nomination should obtain this material and forward it to the committee, with the nominee’s The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged curriculum vitae, as a package. Nominations remain under active consideration the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The for five award cycles. contribution may be in empirical research, theory, or methodology. It is presented for significant cumulative work done throughout a professional career. The award Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award is open to women or men and is not restricted to sociologists. Only members of the Association may submit nominations for the Jessie Bernard Award. Nominations for This award honors the intellectual traditions and contributions of Oliver Cox, career achievement should include a letter of nomination, a copy of the vita of the Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier. The award is given either to a soci- nominee, and examples of relevant scholarship or other materials. ologist for a lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community or to an academic institution for its work in assisting the development of scholarly Award for Public Understanding of Sociology efforts in this tradition. Nominations should include a summary of the nominee’s career or achievement, and the way in which it is consistent with the traditions This award is given annually to a person or persons who have made exemplary con- of these outstanding African-American scholars and educators. tributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public. The award may recognize a contribu- Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology tion in the preceding year or for a longer career of such contributions. Nominations should include the nominee’s vita and a detailed one to two page nomination state- This award honors outstanding contributions to sociological practice. The award ment that describes how the person’s work has contributed to increasing the public may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of understanding and knowledge of sociology. others; work that has significantly advanced the utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing, has elevated the professional status or pub- Dissertation Award lic image of the field as a whole; or work that has been honored or widely recog- nized outside the discipline for its significant impacts, particularly in advancing The ASA Dissertation Award honors the best PhD dissertation from among those human welfare. The recipient of this award will have spent at least a decade of submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline. Dissertations from PhD substantial work involving research, administrative, or operational responsibili- recipients with degree awarded in the 2006 calendar year will be eligible for con- ties as a member of or consultant to private or public organizations, agencies, or sideration for the 2007 ASA Dissertation Awards. Nominations must be received associations, or as a solo practitioner. Nominations should include a one to two from the student’s advisor or the scholar most familiar with the student’s research. page statement and the vita of the nominee. Nominations remain under active Nominations should explain the precise nature and merits of the work. Six copies of consideration for five award cycles. the dissertation must be submitted.
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award ASA Award for Excellence in Reporting of Social Issues
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a series of polemics against the notion 1983, she co-founded, with Cloward, a 1993, popularly known as the “motor Nuts, Brilliant, and Courageous that full employment is the solution to group called Human SERVE, which was voter bill.” She is not one to confide casually, poverty, pointing out the expansion of dedicated to the idea that if citizens were One anecdote about that sticks in and it was some time before I came to low-wage, poverty-level jobs, even in allowed to register to vote when they my mind. Sometime in the mid-1990s, understand how deeply rooted her pas- times of relative prosperity. In the mid- apply for aid from government pro- Frances found herself on the way to the sion about poverty is. I could see how 1990s, we helped organize a committee grams or for drivers’ licenses, some of airport without her driver’s license. She she glowed when she talked about her of women academics and journalists in the historic administrative encumbrances called Richard at their home and asked grassroots welfare rights activism and opposition to punitive forms of welfare on the right to vote could be overcome. him to find it and bring it to her at the the friendships she had forged in the reform. The poor in particular, who often lack train station. He failed to find it, and course of it. She is genuinely comfortable the time for voter registration, would instead brought her a photo of herself with the kind of poor women, usually Motor Voter Bill be effectively enfranchised. Human and Bill Clinton taken at the time of the African American, she has worked with SERVE’s approach was incorporated in signing of the motor voter bill. That was Economic issues were not all that on welfare rights, and this no doubt has the National Voter Registration Act of enough to get Frances on the plane. preoccupied Frances in those years. In See Piven, page 10 November 2006 Footnotes
Introducing New Minority Fellows
Khaya Clark (SWS/ABS Fellow) State in 1996. After graduation she graduate, he was interested in Hip-Hop The American Sociological Association Graduate Institution: worked for several years in higher edu- Culture, leading him to write his honors and the Minority Fellowship Program University of cation administration at the University thesis and shoot a mini-documentary (MFP) are pleased to introduce the nine Oregon of Richmond before returning to earn her titled, “Hip-Hop Culture as Informal new Fellows who comprise MFP Cohort Undergraduate MS in Sociology from Virginia Tech in Politics.” At UCLA, his primary areas of 33. The MFP Advisory Panel met last Institution: 2002. Most recently she has been work- interest are in mental health/disorder, spring in Washington, DC, to review the University of ing on the Ohio Discrimination Project, race, culture, urban sociology, and social highly competitive pool of applicants. Oregon under Vincent Roscigno. This project is interaction. His main research focuses MFP Cohort 33 consists of PhD candi- Khaya is a fourth the basis for her dissertation research on the everyday lives of individuals dates with strong research interests in year PhD student on the psychological consequences of with autism. Through UCLA’s Center the sociological study of mental health at the University of employment discrimination. Lisette also for Autism Research and Treatment, and mental illness, race and ethnicity, Oregon. She earned enjoys spending time in the classroom Jooyoung conducts participant observa- and the discipline in general. a BA in Sociology from the University of having taught several courses, includ- tion in a Los Angeles high school, noting The new MFP Fellows officially Oregon and an MA from the University ing the Sociology of Education, Social the ways that autistic youth use a ‘theory began their Fellowships on August 1, of California-Santa Cruz. Her dis- Stratification, and Work, Employment of mind’ and manage peer stigma within 2006. As an early part of their training, sertation is titled “The Development & Society. She was selected as the everyday school activities. Jooyoung has the Fellows attended the 2006 Annual of a Racial Attitudes Index, Grades Outstanding Graduate and Professional not lost his interest in hip-hop, however, Meeting in Montréal, where they partici- K-3” and is funded by the National Student for 2004 and the Beyond the having further developed his previous pated in a day-long orientation complete Science Foundation (Methodology, Baccalaureate Research Forum winner at in research by conducting an ethnographic with a brief history of the ASA and Measurement, and Statistics Program). 2003 at OSU. She was also an American study of young black men (ages 18-26) MFP followed by research presentations Her academic research interests are race Association for Higher Education who rap on a street corner in South by several sociologists with expertise and ethnicity, sociology of childhood Hispanic Caucus Fellow and a Form- Central Los Angeles. This study reveals in mental health, medicine, and race. (with an emphasis on racial attitudes Huber Fellow in the OSU Department of subtle forms of social cooperation and During the remainder of their time in and social schemas), and social psychol- Sociology for 2002. deference within a public space com- Montréal, they participated in numer- ogy. In her spare time, Khaya works as a monly linked to street violence and ous sessions and workshops, attended Research Scientist at an applied research Mary Gee (NIMH Fellow) public disorder. MFP-sponsored events, and met sociolo- institute in Eugene, OR. With funding Graduate Institution: gists with similar research interests. All from the National Institutes of Health, University of Genevieve Pham-Kanter (NIMH current and new MFP Fellows heard Khaya’s applied research involves topics California-San Fellow) words of encouragement from Eduardo related to diversity, children’s under- Francisco Graduate Institution: Bonilla-Silva (Duke University) and standing of race and phenotypic varia- Undergraduate University of Mercedes Rubio (National Institute of tion, and racial disparities in healthcare Institution: Chicago Mental Health) at the MFP breakfast. and education. Khaya grew up in the University of Undergraduate The Minority Fellowship Program, Pacific Northwest and enjoys cycling, California-Berkeley Institution: established in 1974, is funded primarily backpacking, gardening, and spending Mary, a San University of Iowa through a T-32 training grant provided quality time with friends and family. Francisco native, is Genevieve is by the National Institute of Mental a second-year PhD a PhD student at Health (NIMH), with some co-fund- Delores A. Forbes-Edelen (NIMH student in the Department of Social and the University of ing by the National Institute of Drug Fellow) Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. Prior to Abuse (NIDA). MFP is also supported by Graduate Institution: California-San Francisco. Since graduat- graduate school in Sociology, she worked generous donations from Alpha Kappa University of ing Cum Laude with a BA in Psychology for several years at the World Bank on Delta, the Midwest Sociological Society, Central Florida from the University of California- international health issues as well as Sociologists for Women in Society, the Undergraduate Berkeley, Mary has been employed as a in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Her Association of Black Sociologists, the Institution: Research Coordinator/VP with Davis primary research field is social stratifica- Southwestern Sociological Association, University of Y. Ja and Associates, Inc., a program tion with a primary focus on socioeco- and the ASA Council, as well as con- Central Florida evaluation consulting firm in the San nomic disparities in physical and mental tributions from many individual ASA Delores is a Francisco Bay Area. She has gained health, and in the biological and material members. doctoral student valuable applied evaluation research mechanisms through which social condi- in the Department experience working with nonprofits on tions affect health. Genevieve completed The New MFP Fellows Are: of Sociology at demonstration grants serving ethnic undergraduate work at the University Sabrina Alimahomed (NIMH Fellow) the University of Central Florida. As a minority and underserved populations of Iowa (Biomedical Engineering) and Graduate Institution: research associate with the department’s in the areas of mental health/substance Northwestern University (Philosophy), University of Institute for Social and Behavioral treatment and prevention, criminal jus- and holds master’s degrees from California-Riverside Sciences, she has gained considerable tice, housing, eating disorders, and HIV/ Harvard University (Tropical Public Undergraduate research experience in her role as project AIDS. To complement these experiences, Health) and the University of Cambridge Institution: manager for a wide range of social policy Mary decided to return to school in 2004 (Economics). When she is not squinting University of and impact study research projects to pursue further academic training in in front of her computer, she enjoys dis- California-Berkeley conducted at the institute. Her doctoral the sociology and social psychology of tance running and trying to fix her hap- Sabrina is research will build on Carol Aneshensel’s health, illness, and health care policy less Toyota by listening to “Car Talk.” currently a third innovative social outcomes model to and institutions. Her research interests Zandria Robinson (Midwest year PhD student identify the social and behavioral pro- include examining the socio-cultural fac- Sociological in Sociology at cesses that contribute to early onset men- tors contributing to the prevalence of eat- Society Fellow) University of California-Riverside. She tal illnesses. Her research will attempt to ing disorders among Asian Americans, Graduate Institution: completed her undergraduate work at help explain what aspects of children’s as well as their implications for mental Northwestern the University of California-Berkeley social location are most psychologically health treatment, access to care, advo- University where she majored in Interdisciplinary deleterious for African-American and cacy efforts, policy, and mental health Undergraduate Field Studies with an emphasis in Hispanic children, by gender, in order disparities. Mary is actively involved Institution: Sociology, Ethnic Studies, and Women’s to articulate the processes by which with the Academy for Eating Disorders University of Studies. Sabrina was awarded the Beth children and youths of different racial and Eating Disorders Coalition for Memphis Hess Memorial Scholarship by the and ethnic groups and genders come to Research, Policy & Action. Zandria is Sociologists for Women in Society last be overrepresented in populations with Jooyoung Lee (NIMH Fellow) a PhD student year for her scholarly and activist com- different psychological disorders. Graduate Institution: in the Department of Sociology at mitments towards social change. She Lisette M. Garcia (NIMH Fellow) University of Northwestern. She earned her BA in recently co-authored an article with Graduate Institution: California-Los English and in African and African Edna Bonacich on global, racialized Ohio State Angeles American Studies and her MA in labor. Sabrina is interested in the inter- University Undergraduate Sociology from the University of secting oppressions of race, class, gender, Undergraduate Institution: Memphis. Her general research inter- and sexuality. Her research focuses on Institution: University of ests include epistemology and social the mental health of lesbian and bisexual Pennsylvania State California-Berkeley theory, urban sociology, race, class, women of color. Sabrina stays grounded University Prior to becom- gender, and sexuality, and the sociology by working with social justice commu- Lisette is a PhD ing a PhD student of culture. Zandria’s current research nity organizations. student at Ohio at University projects focus on young black women’s State University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), reproductive decision-making pro- (OSU). She Jooyoung attended University of cesses and local hip-hop scenes. As a earned a BA in Sociology and a BS in California-Berkeley where he received master’s student, Zandria served as a Labor Studies with minors in Business his BA in Political Science and Graduate Fellow with the Benjamin L. Administration and Spanish from Penn Interdisciplinary Studies. As an under- Hooks Institute for Social Change and See MFP, page 9 November 2006 Footnotes
Collaboration Between Librarians and Sociologists Yields Standards for Library Literacy • Help students understand what is 3. Consider the costs and benefits of expected of them in specific terms acquiring the needed information. various regional meetings and at the 2007 Standard Two—Access needed infor- hat do sociology students need to for research and writing in these W ASA Annual Meeting. ASA’s Department mation effectively, efficiently, know about doing research and con- two disciplines Resources Group, a network of consultants and ethically structing knowledge in their major? The sociologists-librarians team is on teaching and learning who undertake What the student needs to do: “Information literacy” is often one of the very interested in your comments and program reviews, will receive training on 1. Select the most appropriate investi- goals of general education or liberal edu- whether or how these standards resonate the guidelines as well. gative methods and information retrieval cation, helping our students to become with sociology faculty. Please consider systems for accessing the needed lifelong learners. Librarians are key part- Input and Examples Sought any or all of the following questions: information. ners in working with sociology faculty Thinking of the kind of research The next step in enhancing the library 2. Construct, implement, and refine to prepare sociology students to retrieve, you want your anthropology or sociol- literacy of sociology students is to gather well-designed search strategies that use a evaluate, and use information. ogy students to do, are important areas existing materials from faculty. Many variety of methods to find information. The American Library Association missing from this draft? If so, what are faculty have modules within their courses 3. Keep track of the information and (ALA) is an umbrella professional asso- they? Do you have specific examples that involve library work (from the tradi- its sources. ciation including librarians in university of research skills or situations to share tional term paper to data retrieval). Some Standard Three—Evaluate infor- settings. The Association of College and that might enrich the document with libraries have orientation exercises that mation and its sources critically; Research Libraries (ACRL) is the main elements you value? If students could help students find social science relevant Incorporate selected information into home for librarians at the college and perform the "key behaviors” identified in materials. ASA is collecting such examples knowledge base and value system university level1. The ACRL has a special the document, do you think they would to post on the website for other faculty to What the student needs to do: interest group for sociology and anthro- be doing better anthropology or sociol- use. Please send your materials to apap@ 1. Summarize the main ideas to be pology, with co-chairs Triveni Kuchi, ogy research and writing better papers? asanet.org for that purpose. extracted from the information gathered Rutgers University, and Susan Macicak, Are the standards overly ambitious? Even though the draft has been and synthesize main ideas to construct University of Texas-Austin. This Realistic? Attainable (e.g., via collabora- approved, there are still opportunities for new concepts. Anthropology and Sociology Section tion with librarians and other faculty and input. The more faculty input we receive 2. Apply appropriate criteria for (ANSS) contacted Edward L. Kain, via the curriculum)? on the draft, the more pertinent and inte- evaluating both the information and its Southwestern University and ASA about gral the document can become as a tool to: Standards for Library Literacy source. collaborating on library literacy guide- • Provide ideas for infusing course- in Sociology 3. Compare new knowledge with lines for sociology (and anthropology) work, assignments, and websites prior knowledge to determine the value students. The American Anthropological The four standards build from basic to with content that will both increase added, contradictions, or other unique Association was also contacted. more advanced, as do the key behaviors students’ anthropology or sociol- characteristics of the information and Kain and ASA’s Carla Howery for success identified for each standard. ogy knowledge and enhance their take steps to reconcile differences. attended the ALA annual meeting in Likewise, students will learn the neces- research skills Standard Four—Use information June 2006 in New Orleans to work sary skills incrementally as each succes- • Assist faculty and librarians in com- effectively and ethically to accomplish with the ANSS group on finalizing sive information-seeking and research municating with students about a specific purpose these guidelines. The draft document experience provides opportunities for research and critical approaches to What the student needs to do: was circulated thereafter via the ASA learning. Local institutions, academic information 1. Apply new and prior information website for comment from sociologists departments, and curricular committees • Equip faculty and librarians with a to the planning, creation, and revision of and revised accordingly. The revised will decide how and when students are discipline-specific understanding of a particular product or performance. draft was included in the ASA Council’s introduced to the concepts and skills that “information literacy” which can be In the full document, available on agenda book. At the August 2006 meet- enable them to meet the standards, and useful in discussions with adminis- the ASA website, the standards have ing, where Kuchi made a presentation, at what point in the major or a graduate trators, curriculum committees, and considerably more information. Each one the ASA Council approved the standards degree each standard should be partially accreditation teams includes “Key behaviors for success,” in principle and asked that they be dis- or fully met. • Facilitate faculty-librarian commu- which provides criteria for assessment. seminated to sociology departments. The standards are written in such nication about information literacy Each has examples of library sources The guidelines are on the ASA a way as to make it possible to assess goals and provide opportunities for relevant to the standard, so faculty homepage, as part of that dissemina- whether students can accomplish wider discussion of these issues and librarians can map ways to expose tion effort. In addition, ASA’s Academic the “key behaviors.” The standards • Inform the teaching and consulting students to the fullest range of sources. and Professional Affairs Program will can therefore be used in department that librarians provide anthropology Finally and significantly, each standard offer workshops on the guidelines at assessments and department/pro- and sociology students addresses the ethical, sociocultural, and gram reviews. They can also be used in legal dimensions such that students will conjunction with the ASA recommenda- have clear guidance about proper profes- tions on the undergraduate sociology MFP, from page 8 sional practice. major (McKinney, Howery, Strand, Kain, Please read these guidelines in full on & Berheide, 2004. Liberal Learning and received a research grant for her work- earned her BA in Anthropology at the the website, give us your feedback, and the Sociology Major), the ASA’s shared ing paper, “Stratification Processes University of Florida, where she gradu- send in the assignments and exercises learning outcomes in anthropology and in the City Schools: Race, Property ated summa cum laude. While at the you use in enhancing sociology students’ sociology (Kain, Wagenaar, & Howery, and Postmodernism,” published by University of Florida, she was a Ronald library literacy. 2006. Models and Best Practices for Joint the Hooks Institute Working Paper E. McNair Scholar and a University Susan Macicak [email protected]. Sociology-Anthropology Programs), and Series, Contemporary Frontiers in Civil Scholar. She is interested in the long- edu; Triveni Kuchi [email protected]. similar statements on learning in or edu- Rights and Social Justice. She is author lasting psychological effects of racial edu; Edward L. Kain kaine@southwest- cation for anthropology and sociology. (with Wanda Rushing) of a chapter in violence (broadly-conceived) that whites ern.edu; Carla B. Howery howery@ Standard One—Know what kind of African Americans and Whites: Changing perpetrated on African Americans during asanet.org Relationships on College Campuses (2006, legal segregation. Her research indicates information is needed University Press of America). This year that the mental well-being of elderly What the student needs to do: 1 Association of College and Research she will serve as student representative African Americans in the U.S. Southwest 1. Define and articulate the informa- Libraries. 2000. Information literacy compe- tion needed. tency standards for higher education. Chicago, to the Association of Black Sociologists. and Southeast has been greatly affected IL: Association of College and Research Aside from her academic career, Zandria by their experiences with racial violence 2. Identify a variety of formats and Libraries. Also available online at
ASA Teaching Resources Center—Call for Submissions Piven, from page 7
Share Your Teaching Materials something to do with her own childhood Authority: How Ordinary People Change Organizational: Organizational as the daughter of impoverished Russian America, forthcoming. Teaching Resources Center (TRC) items Sociology: A Handbook of Syllabi and Other immigrants in Queens. By all accounts, are constantly under revision to update Reaching Resources (Third Edition), Jill E. her family was more than mildly dysfunc- And Modest, Too readings, references, and ideas for Fuller, UNC-Greensboro, jefuller@uncg. tional, with a father who worked until late But as she won respectability, Frances instructional techniques. Your teaching edu at night and a mother unable to adjust to retained her radical vision and critical materials may merit greater professional Peace and War: Teaching the Sociology life in America. At age 15, Frances was spirit. If anything, the Bush years pushed visibility and recognition. We invite you of Peace, War, and Social Conflict,Morten accepted at the University of Chicago and her toward even greater outspokenness to send your ideas and materials to the Ender, U.S. Military Academy, morten. left home to matriculate. She was “a bit and involvement. At CUNY, she was TRC editor(s) for consideration. Your [email protected] nuts” then, she now says, but surely also active in the struggle to hold down tuition ideas and suggestions regarding existing Portfolios: Teaching Portfolios, Dan brilliant and courageous. and fee increases. She also became active and future products and services are also Renfrow, University of Washington, dren- After graduating—and a brief mar- in the anti-war movement, signing public welcome. [email protected] riage—she became a young single mother petitions and speaking at rallies. I was on The listed products are under develop- Race & Ethnic Relations: Teaching and graduate student. Those were difficult a plenary panel with her at the 2004 ASA ment or are being revised. As materials Race and Ethnic Relations: Syllabi and years, with Frances torn between mother- Annual Meeting, where she received a are completed, they will be recognized Instructional Materials (Fifth Edition), hood, academic life, and activism. Her standing ovation for her rousing challenge in Footnotes and distributed through the Donald Cunnigen, [email protected] relationship with Richard, which began to develop a more socially engaged and TRC. Race, Gender, and Class: Race, Gender, in the 1960s, no doubt had a stabilizing “public” practice of sociology. Her latest If you have pertinent materials, and Class in Sociology: Toward an Inclusive effect. He was hardly a typical academic, book, Challenging Authority (I think it may contact the editors. They are interested Curriculum, BarBara Scott, Northeastern with his rugged, plainspoken manner and be one of her best), makes an intellectu- in course syllabi, class exercises and Illinois University, [email protected] impatience with any kind of obfuscation, ally impeccable argument for the role of assignments, examinations and evalua- Research Methods: Qualitative Research but the perfect match for Frances. They disruption in progressive social change. tion instruments, computer software and Methods: Syllabi and Instructional Materials, collaborated on almost everything until In a blurb for the cover, I described it as film reviews, and essays on pedagogical James David Ballard, California State his death in 2001. I was proud to call him, “a Molotov cocktail encased in an elegant challenges and opportunities involved University-Northridge, [email protected] as well as Frances, a friend. crystal decanter.” in teaching courses that are relevant to Rural: Rural Sociology, Carol Jenkins, Frances herself is modest about her the title. Glendale Community College, carol. Author, Speaker, and Professor “lifetime achievements.” After all, welfare It is important to send your materials [email protected] In the late eighties and nineties, reform was enacted in an especially puni- electronically in MS Word format. Sexuality: The Sociology of Sexuality Frances’s oeuvre expanded and her influ- tive form, and the motor voter law has Appalachian Studies: Appalachian and Sexual Orientation: Syllabi and Teaching ence grew. We co-authored, with Cloward been vitiated by failures in enforcement Studies: Syllabus Guide and Teaching Materials, Betsy Lucal, Indiana University- and Fred Bloch, The Mean Season: The and a rash of new state restrictions on Materials, Chris Baker, Walters State South Bend, [email protected] Attack on the access to registration Community College, [email protected] Social Problems: Instructor’s Resource Welfare State; she and voting. But her Applied Sociology: Applied Sociology: Manual on Social Problems, Walter Carroll, and Richard wrote Her latest book, Challenging Authority critique of welfare Syllabi and Instructional Materials, Bridgewater State College, wcarroll@ Why Americans (I think it may be one of her best), reform continues AnneMarie Scarisbrick-Hauser, bridgew.edu Don’t Vote and makes an intellectually impeccable to reverberate, and University of Akron, scarisbrick@uakron. Social Psychology: Teaching Social The Breaking of the argument for the role of disruption in helped spark a edu Psychology, Robert Kettlitz, Hastings American Social growing scholarly Body: Sociology of the Body: Syllabi and College, [email protected] Compact, and progressive social change. concern about the Instructional Materials, Erin Anderson, Student Clubs: Sociology Student she published low status of “car- Washington College, eanderson@wash- Club Toolkit, Kyle Murphy, American Labor Parties in Post-Industrial Societies. ing” work, such as child-raising. Similarly, coll.edu Sociological Association, [email protected] In addition to being a lucid and compel- her work on voting rights has fed into Capstone Course: Teaching the Violence: Violence in American Society, ling writer, she had become a powerful dismay over the limitations and violations Capstone Course, Ted Wagenaar, Miami Suzanne Goodney-Lea, Gallaudet public speaker, and when she wasn’t of electoral democracy. Recently, her work University, [email protected] University, [email protected] writing or working with Human SERVE, on the effects of militarism on the welfare Community College: Teaching Visual: Visual Sociology, Diana she was traveling to speak on college state has reinforced the growing public Sociology in a Community College, Papademas, SUNY-Old Westbury, papde- campuses, for professional organizations, discontent with the current administra- Carol Jenkins, Glendale Community [email protected] and at national and international confer- tion’s foreign policy. College, [email protected]. Welfare: The Welfare State Revisited, ences. She became a close friend and ally edu Robin Roth, Lesley University, rroth@ of Senator Paul Wellstone, who reliably Defining Public Sociology Comparative & Historical: Teaching mail.lesley.edu championed the poor in the Senate until More important, in this context is her Comparative & Historical Sociology, John Writing: Handbook of the Mechanics of his untimely death in 2000. contribution to the social sciences—not Foran, University of California, foran@ Paper, Thesis, and Dissertation Preparation, Meanwhile, her academic career had only her books and other substantive soc.ucsb.edu Joan Krenzin, Western Kentucky been jolted by the conflict between Boston contributions—but her status as a role Computational Modeling: University, [email protected] University president John Silber and model for a morally focused, relentlessly Disseminating Computational Modeling, much of his faculty. When it became clear James Kitts, University of Washington, critical style of scholarship. At recent ASA that the autocratic Silber would prevail, meetings, there has been much discussion [email protected] Leadership, from page 5 many of the faculty leaders left or were Criminology: Teaching Criminology: of what “public sociology” might mean. It forced out. Frances resettled at the City should be no mystery, since Frances her- Resources and Issues, Timothy Brezina, and Asia. They will work with other University of New York Graduate Center [email protected] self embodies it. Her research interests are ISA Executive Committee members in 1982, where she attracted a succession defined by glaring social problems, and Deviance: Teaching the Sociology from countries such as Nigeria, Brazil, of adoring graduate students. They would of Deviance and Social Control, Bruce she is never content with research, pub- Australia, and South Africa on many of arrive at her apartment a dozen at a time, lication, and teaching—always following Hoffman, [email protected] ISA’s initiatives. Also among the new for lengthy discussions over Chinese take- Emotions: The Sociology of Emotions, through with activism and, when neces- ISA Executive Committee members out. Frances told me she thought of them sary, the creation of new organizations David Boyns, [email protected] is Valentine Moghadam, Chief of the as her “daughters and sons.” History: The History of Sociology, for social change. Reading through her Gender Equity and Development Section Within the last few years, she received accomplishments as an activist scholar, Patricia Lengermann, patleng@attglobal. in UNESCO and the ASA representative increasingly mainstream academic recog- net you might think she is actually a fairly to the ISA. nition, winning a Distinguished Career hefty, multi-talented, team, and not just Human Rights: Teaching About ISA provides opportunities for profes- Award for the Practice of Sociology from Human Rights, Joyce Apsel, New York one individual. sors, scholar-practitioners, researchers the ASA (2000), a Lifetime Achievement Finally, on a personal note, I want University, [email protected] and graduate students from around the Award in Social Work Education from Internationalizing: Internationalizing to express my own debt to Frances—as world, fostering international relation- the Council of Social Work Education friend, collaborator, and intellectual guru. Sociology in the Age of Globalization, ships among members, university (2001), the ASA Award for the Public Abdallah Badadah, University of North She sharpened my indignation at the departments, research organizations Understanding of Sociology (2003), and a kinds of economic justice that has inspired Dakota, [email protected]. and national associations. ISA’s dues Charles E. McCoy Lifetime Achievement edu my work over the last decade. She has structure allows those in economically Award, from a section of the American been more than generous with her time Life Course: The Life Course: A developed countries to support the Political Science Association (2004). In Handbook of Syllabi and Instructional and her insights, again and again giving participation of those from countries 2002, she lent her own name to a new a critical reading to drafts I have written. Materials, Richard Settersten, Richard.set- facing difficult economic challenges. award: the Annual Frances Fox Piven and [email protected], Dale Dannefer, When I was on the road, working on my Membership rates are favorable for Richard A. Cloward Award from the New book Nickel and Dimed, she was one of the [email protected] seniors and students. Graduate students Political Science Section of the American Mental Health: Teaching Materials for only people from my real life, other than particularly will be interested in learning Political Science Association. Meanwhile, family, that I called, telling her that I could the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, about the expense-paid student laborato- the books kept coming: a revised and Teresa Scheid, University of North not believe what I was finding and experi- ries and research paper competitions. updated edition of Why Americans Don’t encing. In that and every other project, her Carolina-Charlotte, [email protected]. For more information, visit the ISA Vote, (with Cloward) in 2000, The War edu encouragement and enthusiasm have kept website
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August 13 Washington Post article. The research on the psychological benefits of Johns Hopkins University, and David Erin Leahy, Jason Crockett, and Laura In the News article was also picked up by the Seattle marriage covered in the Washington Post Popenoe, Rutgers University, were Hunter, all of the University of Arizona, Times, a PBS news show To the Contrary, on August 31, the Times of London on Au- quoted in an August 5 New York Times were the topic of an August 14 InsideHigh- Benigno Aguirre, University of Dela- Scripps Howard News Service, Salon.com, gust 16, Toronto Globe and Mail on August article about marriage rate trends among erEd.com article on “Sociology, Gender and ware, was quoted in the September 11, and an op-ed in The Capital. 16, Reuters News Service on August 12, U.S. males over age 40 as a function of Higher Ed” for their research on specializa- 2006, Washington Post about the responses United Press International on August 14, education level. tion in academia, which was presented at that contribute to survival of individuals Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, Al- Copley News Service on August 11, and the 2006 American Sociological Associa- and groups in disaster situations. exandra Kalev, University of California- Agence France Presse on August 14. Brett Johnson, Luther College, was tion Annual Meeting. Berkeley, and Erin Kelly, University of quoted in the September 29 Chronicle of Omar H. Altalib was interviewed on Minnesota, had their research on diversity William Frey, Brookings Institution, was Higher Education about research on the Jerry Lembcke, Holy Cross College, was Voice of America on July 16, 2006. training from the August American Socio- a guest on National Public Radio’s Diane “Straight Edge” music subculture. noted as author of The Spitting Image: Myth, logical Review reported in the September Rehm Show on October 5, 2006, discussing Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam in film The American Sociological Association 13 Washington Post. global demographic trends and the im- Heather Beth Johnson, Lehigh Univer- reviews by the New York Times on April 19, 2006 Annual Meeting was the topic of an pact of immigration on the U.S. 300-mil- sity, was quoted in an October 1 New York Los Angeles Times on May 5, and several August 12 Montréal Gazette article about Kevin Dougherty, Baylor University lion milestone in 2006. He was quoted in Times article on children’s knowledge of other publications for his appearance in the the different research being discussed at Institute for Studies of Religion, had the an October 3 New York Times article about real estate or which homes are better. anti-war documentary, Sir! No Sir! the meeting. Karen Dubinsky, Queen’s results of his survey of Americans’ reli- new Census Bureau data and analyses University, and Katherine Arnup, Car- gious beliefs featured in a September 12, by sociologist Andrew A. Beveridge Eric Klinenberg, New York University, John R. Logan, Brown University, was leton University, were also quoted or 2006, Washington Post article and the USA showing that housing costs have become was interviewed by the following outlets quoted in an August 31 Washington Post mentioned in the article. The American Today. The findings were released public- a serious burden for renters and owners during July and August: ABC World News, article on large “yard cards” on the front Sociological Association 2006 Annual ly on September 11. across the United States. the CBS Early Show, NPR’s All Things lawn. Meeting was also mentioned in an Au- Considered, NPR’s On the Media, NPR’s gust 29 New York Times article focused Peter Dreier, Occidental College, was Paul Froese, Baylor University, was News and Notes, the New York Times, the Kristin Luker, University of California- on the relative percentages of female vs. quoted in the LA Times on August 13 interviewed on Washington Post Radio Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Berkeley, had her book, When Sex Goes to male law clerks working at the Supreme about gentrification and the Torrance on September 20 about his survey on Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, School, reviewed in the August 27 New York Court. The article mentioned Supreme Daily Breeze about LA Mayor’s record religious views of Americans. He was Sacramento Bee, the Fresno Bee, the As- Times Book Review. Court Justice Ginsburg’s plenary speech on affordable housing on September 16, also quoted in a September 12, 2006, USA sociated Press, Agence France Presse, at ASA’s Annual Meeting in Montréal. 2006. The LA Times quoted Dreier about Today article about the results of a fall WNBC-New York, WNYC-New York, Joseph L. Mahoney, Yale University, An- the California AFL-CIO’s decision to op- 2005 national random sample survey of WBBM-Chicago, ABC7-California, Go- gel L. Harris, University of Texas-Austin, Andrew Beveridge, Queens College, pose an anti-abortion measure. He was Americans’ religious beliefs. thamist, and Gawker. and Jacquelynn S. Eccles, University of was interviewed on October 5, 2006, on quoted in two articles in the Pasadena Michigan, had their research on the posi- WWRL-AM on a call-in radio show and Star-News on August 30 and September Charles A. Gallagher, Georgia State Uni- Barry Kosmin, CUNY-Graduate Center, tive consequences of youth participation Washington Post Radio about real estate 17, 2006. He was quoted in an August 7 versity, was interviewed by the Atlanta was quoted in a September 12, 2006, Wash- in extra curricular activities and the lack costs. He was quoted in an October 1 Los Angeles Times article on the decision Journal and Constitution and the Clayton ington Post article about findings from of support for the over-scheduling hypoth- New York Times article about the median by the California Labor Federation to News Daily about white racial attitudes his American Religious Identification esis was profiled in or cited by the New York income of blacks being higher than that oppose Prop. 85 on abortion. His article, and the rapid “white flight” taking place Survey, in reference to Baylor University Times, UPI, CBS News, BBC News, and a of whites in Queens. He was a guest on “Act First, Ask Later,” about law-break- in a county adjacent to Atlanta. sociologist Kevin Dougherty’s survey of number of media outlets. the October 3, 2006, Brian Lehrer Show ing as a strategy appeared on TomPaine. Americans’ religious beliefs, the results of on New York City’s WNYC, discussing Com on July 11, 2006. He coauthored an Kathleen Gerson, New York University, which were released on September 11. Miller McPherson, University of Arizona his research on new Census Bureau data appraisal of LA Mayor Villaraigosa’s first was quoted in an October 1 New York and Duke University, Lynn Smith-Lovin, (from 2000 to 2005) that indicates hous- year in office in the Summer 2006 issue Times article written by a self-proclaimed Maria Krysan, University of Illinois- Duke University, and Matthew Brashears, ing costs have become a serious burden of Dissent magazine. That article was “groomzilla” discussing the stress of a Chicago, is cited in a McClatchy News- University of Arizona, research on social across the United States. His work was reprinted in the Italian magazine Reset in groom planning a wedding. paper article on increased levels of social isolation was mentioned in the Omaha also the topic of an October 3 New York its July/August 2006 issue. Dreier coau- integration across racial categories in World-Herald, on WHYY-Philadelphia’s Times article. thored an op-ed column in the Pasadena Robert Getso, City University of New the United States. The article appeard in Voices in the Family August 28, Salon, Star-News on June 24, 2006. York, had his letter to the editor on whistle newspapers across the country. August 16, New York Magazine, August Jennifer Booher-Jennings, Columbia blowers published in the August 26 New 21, and the San Antonio Express-News. The University doctoral candidate, wrote an Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University, York Times. Michele Lamont published an op-ed, “Le research was also mentioned on the McNeil op-ed article that appeared in the Octo- was a primary focus of an August 20 Chi- mal americain,” with Eloi Laurent in the News Hour on PBS in August and in the ber 5 Washington Post on the rationing of cago Tribune article about his August 2006 Neil Gross, Harvard University, French newspaper Liberation.fr, on July 6, Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Sacramento education to comply with the No Child American Sociological Review article on the and Solon Simmons, George Mason 2006. They also published “France shows Bee, and the Orlando sentinel. The research Left Behind policy. 1995 Chicago heat wave that resulted in University, had their recent national its true colors” in The Boston Globe on June is the focus of a November Ladies Home hundreds of deaths. survey of U.S. professors’ perceptions 3, 2006 and the International Herald Tribune Journal article. Wayne Brekhus, University of Missouri- about the probable causes of the scarcity on June 6, 2006. Columbia, was quoted on historical Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, of women among science and engineering Sharon Methvin, Clark College, was changes in gay life in the suburbs and on was quoted in the September 11 issue faculty featured in the September 20, 2006, Olaf Larson, formerly at the U.S. Depart- profiled in a September 17, 2006, article in differences between suburban and urban of Newsweek for her research on atheists InsideHigherEd.com. ment of Agriculture and Cornell Univer- The Columbian for her rescue work in New gay bars in a July 28 Chicago Tribune story being seen as a threat to the American sity, was profiled in a series of articles in Orleans saving animals left behind after on the 30th anniversary of a gay tavern way of life. Neil Gross, Harvard University, is quot- the Rural Sociologist. Hurricane Katrina. in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park, ed in the September 6, 2006, InsideHigh- Illinois. Morten Ender, United States Military erEd.com about college students posting Academy, was interviewed and quoted video recordings online at YouTube.com Diane R. Brown, University of Medi- for an article and news story in both Time. of their professors delivering lectures cine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was com and on CNN on September 29 and but without secured permission from the interviewed on September 12 for NBC October 2. He was also interviewed and professors to be videotaped. Nightly News with Brian Williams on the quoted in an article titled, “The Spoiled Harvard Health Study on disparities in Elite Don’t Fight Wars,” published in the Ross Haenfler, University of Mississippi, longevity among different subgroups of Hartford Courant on September 22. was profiled for his research and recent the population and was quoted in the publication on straight edge culture as Newark Star Ledger September 12 on the Cynthia Epstein, Graduate Center of the a social movement in a September 29 th same study. City University of New York, had her let- Chronicle of Higher Education article. 5 Annual ter to the editor, commenting on women Christopher Browning, Kathleen Cag- in science, published in the September 28 John Hagan, Northwestern University, Qualitative Research ney, Danielle Wallace, and Seth Fein- New York Times. was quoted in the September 15 New berg, all of Ohio State University, had York Times for his research on the un- Summer Intensive their research on the 1995 Chicago heat Kenneth Ferraro, Purdue University, derreported number of people killed in wave featured in the Chicago Sun Times was quoted in the Chicago Sun Times, Sudan’s Darfur conflict. His research with June 23-27, 2007 on August. 2, United Press International Washington Post, South Bend Tribune, and Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin, on August 3, and Scripps Howard News Indianapolis Star regarding the relation- was reported in the September 15 journal Long Island, NY Service August 2. ship between religion and obesity. Science. It was also covered by the Associ- ated Press and Reuters. Take courses taught by leading scholars in the field David L. Brunsma, University of Mis- Dana Fisher, Columbia University, had of qualitative analysis. souri-Columbia, was quoted extensively her recently published book, Activism, Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University, in a September 16 New York Times article Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots was quoted in the Chicago Sun Times July Topics include: on school uniforms. Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics 5, the Chicago Tribune July 7, the LA Times in America, featured in a review in the Sep- July 10, and the San Jose Mercury News July Case Study Claudia Buchmann, Vincent Roscigno, tember 15 Chronicle of Higher Education. 31, among others, discussing her recent and Dennis Condron, all of Ohio State paper with Steven Shafer that appeared Ethnography University, had their research on higher- Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, University of in the June issue of Social Science Quarterly income families having the benefit of SAT Illinois-Chicago, was quoted in a variety regarding the gendered aspects of Internet Focus Groups preparation courses and consequently a of sources about the University of Illinois- user skills. Hargittai was also interviewed college admission advantage, was includ- Chicago survey of participants in the May on the Future Tense show of the Minnesota Grounded Theory ed in this month’s OSU Research News, the 1 immigration march in Chicago, includ- Public Radio about this project. Qualitative Methods Buffalo News on August 15 and the United ing the Chicago Tribune on July 17 and the Press International on August 14. July 18 editions of the Spanish-language Chrys Ingraham, Russell Sage College, And more… newspapers Hoy and La Raza. She was did a radio interview that aired on July 13, Kathleen Crittenden, University of Il- also interviewed on radio and TV reports 2006, with Mary Stanley of the show Wom- Contact [email protected] to be linois-Chicago, was featured in a Philip- including Chicago’s WGN-AM evening en’s Voices, WAER, Syracuse University’s added to our mailing list for more information and pine Daily Inquirer story on her project newscasts on July 17 and WBEZ-FM’s public radio station, where she discussed documenting the history of a Philippine Eight Forty-Eight program. Other radio recent findings from the second edition early registration discount offers. town and the impact volcanic eruptions and TV outlets that have reported on the of her book White Weddings: Romancing have had on its citizens. study include WFLD-TV, (FOX), CLTV, Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. WGN-AM, and WBBM-AM. RESEARCHTALK, INC. Phone (631) 218 - 8875 Philip Cohen, University of North Caro- Christopher Jencks, Harvard University, 1650 Sycamore Ave. Suite 53, Bohemia, NY 11716 lina-Chapel Hill, and his research on the Adrianne Frech and Kristi Williams, Valerie K. Oppenheimer, University of www.researchtalk.com gender wage gap was the subject of an both of Ohio State University, had their California-Los Angeles, Andrew Cherlin, November 2006 Footnotes 13
Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse Iraq. He was also quoted in the Morris Higher Ed” for her research on athletic lence: Peace Psychology Division of the North Carolina A&T State University. University, had her research on the lack County Daily Record about older soldiers participation and academic achievement, American Psychological Association. of future social security benefits for Af- in the National Guard. His research with which was presented at the 2006 Ameri- Shelley Clark was promoted to associate rican American women discussed in the Mady W. Segal on the demography of the can Sociological Association Annual Marita McComiskey, University of Con- professor of sociology and research scien- September 22 Washington Post. American military was cited extensively Meeting. necticut, received the Feminist Activist tist at the Institute for Health and Social in the cover article of the July 1 National Award from Sociologists for Women in Policy at McGill University. Ruth Milkman, University of California- Journal. He was quoted in the Christian Christopher Uggen, University of Society. Los Angeles, was quoted in a September Science Monitor on July 5 on the need for Minnesota, and Jeff Manza, North- Mark Fossett, Texas A&M University- 29 New York Times article about arrested cultural awareness among U.S. troops western University, were quoted in the Michael Messner, University of South- College Station, was promoted to head protesters at a unionization effort for and on July 11 on the Army’s recruiting September 2, 2006, Wall Street Journal ern California, received the Sociologists of the department of sociology. hotel workers. goals, in the Washington Post on July 9 and had a September 8 letter to the for Women in Society 2006 Feminist on 30 years of gender integration at the editor published in the paper about racial Lecturership. Odis Johnson, Jr., accepted a faculty ap- Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan U.S. Naval Academy, and on July 30 on factors related to voting laws affecting pointment at the University of Maryland- University, was quoted in a September a soldier who was alleged to have raped ex-felons. Evelyn NakanoGlenn, University of College Park in the College of Behavioral 28 Washington Post article about a poll and murdered a young Iraqi girl. He was California-Berkeley received the Sociolo- and Social Sciences. finding that a majority or Iraqi citizens also quoted in USA Today on July 10 on W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. gists for Women in Society 2007 Feminist want an American troop pull out. He was changing military recruiting standards, Nock, both of the University of Virginia, Lectureship. Kimberly A. Mahaffy, Millersville Uni- quoted by the Bulletin News Network, and in the Times Record News on July 23 were cited in the August 27 Washington versity, was promoted to director of the Inc. on the same subject August 17. on the increase in awards of the Bronze Post as the researchers whose Social Robert Miller, Queen’s University, was Latino-studies minor program. Star medal by the Army. Forces paper, “What’s Love Got to Do recently awarded a £3.4 million grant Hiroshi Ono, Stockholm School of with It? Equality, Equity, Commitment from the United Kingdom Economic & Robert Manning, Rochester Institute Economics, was quoted in a June 27 Elizabeth Sheff, Georgia State University, and Women’s Marital Quality,” was the Social Research Council’s Large Grants of Technology, was promoted to Distin- International Herald Tribune article for his was quoted on a September 17 CNN.com probable source for a recent Forbes maga- Scheme for his project: “ARK – Social & guished Research Professor and Director research on foreign direct investment and video news story about reasons increasing zine opinion piece, “Don’t Marry Career Political Archive for Northern Ireland’. of the Center for Consumer Financial the diffusion of Western-style manage- numbers of Americans have for remain- Women,” by Michael Noer, which gener- The ARK Project is a primarily web-based Services. ment in Japan. ing single. ated a counterpoint piece, “Don’t Marry a consortium of colleagues at Queens Lazy Man,” by a Forbes senior editor. University, Belfast and the University of Robert Miller, Queen’s University, was Lisandro Perez, Florida International Gregory Squires, George Washington Ulster dedicated to making social science promoted to a personal Chair of Sociology University, was quoted in an August University, had an op-ed published in Robb Willer, University of California- information on Northern Ireland avail- in the School of Sociology, Social Policy & 3 New York Times article on Castro and the New York Times on one year after Hur- Berkeley, was quoted in a September 20 able to the widest-possible publics. The Social Work, Queens University, Belfast, Cuba. ricane Katrina August 30. USA Today article on President Bush’s grant is to provide core infrastructure Northern Ireland. approval rating being related to the price funding for the next five years. John Reynolds, Florida State University, Kristen W. Springer, Rutgers Univer- of gas. was quoted in a September 27 USA Today sity, published an op-ed in the August Tasleem Padamse won the 2006 Martin article about his study that tracked chang- 31, 2006, Newsday about a recent Forbes Howard Winant, University of Califor- Levine Student Essay Competition for her es in high school seniors’ educational and opinion article by Michael Noer, titled nia-Santa Barbara, was quoted in the paper, “The Critical Role of Health Care People occupational plans from 1976 to 2000. “Don’t Marry Career Women.” September 3 San Francisco Chronicle article Institutions in National AIDS Treatment titled, “Typecasting Muslims as a Race.” Policy: Findings from the United States Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Baruch Col- Patricia A. Roos and Mary L. Gatta, both Rodney Stark, Baylor University, was and the United Kingdom.” lege-CUNY, was appointed by New York of Rutgers University, were the topic of quoted in a September 12, 2006, USA Diane L. Wolf, University of California- City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the an August 14 InsideHigherEd.com article Today article about the results of national Davis, was interviewed for and quoted in Jen’nan Ghazal Read, University of Cali- Temporary Commission on Day Laborer on “Sociology, Gender and Higher Ed” random sample survey of Americans’ re- an article about the evolution of the word fornia-Irvine, has been named a Carnegie Job Centers. for their research on discrimination and ligious beliefs. “shiksa,” a term that denotes a non-Jew- Scholar for 2006-08. She is one of 20 schol- gender at the university level, which was ish female in Yiddish in Moment magazine ars chosen from a nationwide competition Greg J. Duncan, Northwestern Univer- presented at the 2006 American Socio- Verta Taylor, University of California- in June 2006. and she will use the two-year fellowship sity, was elected President-elect of the logical Association Annual Meeting. Santa Barbara, was quoted in an August to further pursue her research on Muslim Population Association of America. His 6 New York Times article about Oprah Robert T. Wood, University of Leth- American political incorporation. term begins January 1, 2007. Rubén Rumbaut and Frank Bean, both Winfrey’s recent denial of the rumor that bridge, was profiled for his research and of the University of California-Irvine, and she is gay. recent publication on straight edge youth Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of S. N. Eisenstadt, The Hebrew University Douglas Massey, Princeton University, culture in a September 29 Chronicle of Minnesota, and Ryan D. King, Univer- of Jerusalem, was elected as a Correspond- had their September 2006 Population and Kathleen Tierney, Natural Hazards Higher Education article. sity at Albany, SUNY, received the Law ing Fellow of the British Academy. Development Review article featured in Center at the University of Colorado, was and Society Association’s 2006 Article a September 13 Reuters news service quoted in an August 20 Time magazine Julia Wrigley, City University of New Award for “Institutionalizing Collec- Eric Klinenberg, New York Univer- article. article on disasters and the lessons on York Graduate Center, was quoted in a tive Memories of Hate: Law and Law sity, was called to California to provide Hurricane Katrina. September 28 New York Times article on Enforcement in Germany and the United the lead testimony in the State Senate David R. Segal, University of Maryland, babysitters and nannies and what parents States,” published in the American Journal hearings on heat waves in August, and was quoted in the USA Today on June 2, Jennifer Todd, Cornell University, was want them to feed children. of Sociology (2005). testified on social isolation in New York in Le Figaro on June 3, and in Salon.com the topic of an August 14 InsideHigherEd. City before the City Council of New regarding illegal behavior by soldiers in com article on “Sociology, Gender and Kurt Schock, Rutgers-Newark, received York City. the Best Book of the Year award for 2005 from the Comparative Democratization Charis E. Kubrin, George Washington Introducing a Landmark Series... Awards section of the American Political Sci- University, has been elected President ence Association for his book, Unarmed of the District of Columbia Sociological Annual Review of Law and Social Science™ Janet Afary and Kevin B. 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that took markets as autonomous spheres, December 26, 2005, in the oncology wing also considered neglected contributors to logical Methodology (1977-79), was elected courses taught by faculty from different treated interpersonal networks as the of the Bloomington Hospital. Members sociology in the public-minded scientists President of the (then) Ohio Valley Socio- liberal arts departments. She was dean in primary connections between markets of his family were visiting him during of earlier periods (i.e., John Graunt). logical Society. He was routinely asked to an era when there were few women deans and social life at large, neglected culture, the holiday. Schuessler authored and edited more serve as panelist, consultant, committee and still fewer female higher university failed to integrate the analysis of markets Karl’s wife, Lucille, died in May 1987. than a dozen books, including three member, and advisor to numerous coun- administrators. with systems of reciprocity or redistribu- He is survived by sons Tom (Tucson, AZ) editions of Statistical Reasoning in Sociol- cils and academies including the Social In the late 70s, when the University ran tion, and more generally disconnected and Brian (Lake Forest Park, WA); five ogy (1963-77), Social Policy and Sociology Science Research Council, the National into a major budget crisis, leading to a se- economic analysis from the overall opera- grandchildren; and a great-grandchild (1975; co-edited by Larsen and Demerath Academy of Sciences, the National Re- ries of annual “crisis” tenure cases, a suc- tion of society as a system. who he met shortly before he died. III), Measuring Social Life Feelings (1982), search Council, and the Social Science cessful campaign to form a faculty union Barber believed in sociology as a com- Karl was a devoted husband, a loving Sutherland’s On Analyzing Crime (1973, and Humanities Research Council of occurred. The university needed agile and munity of scholars moving the discipline father and grandfather, a talented jazz edited and introduced), Analyzing Social Canada. At Indiana University, he served imaginative educators and leaders, such collectively toward maturity, greater clarinetist (who played professionally Data: A Statistical Orientation (1971), and on several committees and as an elected as Tagliacozzo, who could take the long understanding of social phenomena, and while in his teens and with faculty and Social Research Methods (1964). He edited member of the Faculty Council. view and empathize with anxious junior patterns of behavior, always hopeful that town musicians in Bloomington), a na- three volumes of Sociological Methodology. In daily interaction, Karl was an ama- faculty members and various factions of the quest for sociological knowledge and val officer in World War II, a statistical Finally, Karl is among a small number of teur ethnomethodologist; a visitor to his senior faculty. explanation was within grasp. He was an innovator, and a chair and developer of sociologists whose library catalog entries office might be met by a minimal greeting In 1975, Tagliacozzo submitted her intellectual cartographer, mapping out the Department of Sociology at Indiana include a cassette of such Dixieland fa- followed by silence, which often gener- resignation as the dean due in part new areas of knowledge and behavior University. After his term as chair, he vorites as “Tin Roof Blues” and “Kansas ated less than careful talk by the visitor. If to a reversal of tenure recommenda- that would benefit from the sociologist’s maintained loyalty to the university, City Stomp.” a junior faculty member pressed Karl for tions for what she perceived as unclear angle of vision. He stood next to giants, but nonetheless became a staunch critic In addition to his visiting stints in an answer about when he might be con- reasons. Despite intense administrative but failed to appreciate fully that it was of overreach and malfeasance by uni- Bangkok and Mannheim, which re- sidered for promotion, Karl might well changes, she continued to lead, both at on his broad shoulders that so many of versity administrators. Founder of the sulted in books, Schuessler held visit- respond that there were some members UMB and nationally, from her position in us stood. He was honored and continues Department’s Institute of Social Research ing professorships at the University of who were not persuaded that he should the Sociology department. A compelling to be honored by his peers—his works on (now the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for California-Berkeley and the University even be retained. presence, serious but with a mischievous science, for example, are still highly cited Social Research), Karl was a mentor to of Washington. Towards the end of Karl’s tenure as sense of humor, she deeply impressed her by any measure. His ideas are alive today generations of graduate students and Karl greatly enjoyed reading and for chair (“the Schuessler era”) it seemed colleagues. not only in his own works but also in the young faculty. many years belonged to a monthly book that we were having faculty meetings Although not having taught for 15 works of his students. Karl was a consummate professional discussion group. He was fond of most almost weekly. The most junior faculty years, she quickly developed a variety We write this reflection on Bernard and made contributions in research, music and profoundly enjoyed the rich- would regularly gather after these faculty of new courses. One of her early An- Barber’s contributions to sociology with teaching, and service to sociology, to his ness of music available at the Indiana Uni- meetings to unwind with drinks and com- nual Faculty Reports in the Sociology admiration and affection. The three of us specialty (quantitative analysis and meth- versity School of Music. He was a merci- plaints about Karl’s “tight ship.” They department note that students say “she were fortunate to share our lives profes- ods), to the ASA and other professional less bridge player (perhaps a residue of realized later that, while they complained, cares, communicates clearly, stimulates sionally and personally with him. We will associations, to Indiana University, and naval service and statistical research), an Karl guided the department in reorgani- discussion, [and] explains abstruse ideas miss him as a pioneering social scientist to U.S. and world society. He published enthusiastic handball player, and played zation of graduate and undergraduate patiently.” and as our dear friend. in major sociological journals (American tennis well into his eighties. curricula and requirements, created the Outside the classroom, Tagliacozzo was Sociological Review, American Journal of institute, and started the department Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University; Jonathan Karl was a long-time member of the elected to serve as the faculty representa- Sociology, and the Annual Review of Sociol- down the road to substantially stronger Cole, Columbia University; and Viviana Zel- ASA. In addition to playing jazz at An- tive to the Board of Trustees. She chaired ogy), in specialty publications (Sociometry, faculty and programs. izer, Princeton University nual Meetings, he was a member of and the Academic Affairs committee. She Sociological Methodology), across disciplin- advisor to numerous ASA Committees Karl viewed self-advertisement nega- drafted a formative report to the dean of ary boundaries on topics of shared inter- tively, which made writing this note Karl F. Schuessler (including Budget, Executive Office, the College of Arts and Sciences on the est (e.g., the American Anthropologist), and difficult. While copies of Karl’s books (1916–2005) Nominations, Program, and Publications) future of graduate education at UMB. She on topics ranging from children’s learning and was elected to Council in 1973. He are on display at the Schuessler Institute, served on search committees, committees Karl Frederick Schuessler, born in of relative values of coins to “quality of served terms as editor of the American filing cabinets filled with his published to evaluate programs, and worked with Quincy, IL, on February 16, 1916; died life” variables and the scalograms. He Sociological Review (1969-71) and Socio- and unpublished research, and reports the new Gerontology program. are nowhere to be found. Efforts to locate Throughout her professional life, his vita or resume or even a simple list Tagliacozzo contributed to progress in her of publications for documentation of field and in higher education. She was a Schuessler’s achievements were initially consultant to the National Endowment fruitless. His family has neither a vita nor of Humanities, reviewed grant propos- copies of his publications. The department als for the National Science Foundation, has only fugitive records. The archive of and wrote reports for the U.S. Congress Indiana University has been unable to on technology and the handicapped, for locate relevant materials. The ASA, an or- the Department of Education on federal ganization which he served with distinc- funding of liberal arts colleges, and on tion in different capacities, has no easily varied topics for the National Institutes retrievable record of that service. of Health and for the National Academy Perhaps more success could have oc- of Sciences. curred at Zuma, the Centre for Survey In her last Annual Faculty Report, she Research and Methodology at Mannheim, wrote that she had been able to do no another organization for which Karl was research due to an illness that sapped her an early advisor and teacher. At meetings energies. Despite this illness, she taught of the International Sociological Asso- a full course load, was active on a search ciation in the 1980s, Karl could often be committee, and on the Executive Board found in the center of admiring students of Oxfam America. and faculty from Zuma. An exchange Daisy was half-Jewish, born in Berlin between Mannheim and Indiana, which and came of age in Nazi Germany. She Karl was instrumental in establishing, was 16 when Hitler invaded Poland. She continues today. In 1990, some of Karl’s lived with her mother, now divorced, and Mannheim colleagues organized a confer- was ordered by Nazi authorities to work ence and Festschrift on attitude measure- on a Junker estate, and then in a factory ment in his honor making uniforms. Toward the end of I provide this detail in hopes that col- the war, she was scheduled to be sent to leagues who have not kept their vita up one of the concentration camps, but was to date will do so—so that their children suddenly released. Toward the end of her and grandchildren can know what they career, she developed an interest (and did with their lives—and so that obitu- yet another Sociology course) in autobi- ary writers and historians will have an ography and this stimulated her to write easier time than I had. His life was a personal memoir that contains vivid exemplary and his career of contribu- memories of her years in Germany. tion worth emulation. Karl Schuessler is In 1945, her father, who had escaped profoundly missed. We will do our best to the United States, brought her to Mas- to “carry on.” sachusetts and enrolled her in Boston Allen D. Grimshaw, Indiana University University. In the mid-1950s, she married (emeritus) Luigi Tagliacozzo, a psychoanalyst who was himself an émigré from Italy. Her Daisy Tagliacozzo step-daughter, Susanna Edelstein of Wilmette, IL, who survives her, became Daisy Tagliacozzo, former liberal arts a close friend. But after only 10 years of college dean and Sociology Professor at marriage Luigi Tagliacozzo died. The loss the University of Massachusetts-Boston was severe. (UMB), died following a very long illness Months after her retirement in 1989, on July 20. the cause of her illness was discovered: Daisy was hired by UMB in 1971 to a brain tumor. The tumor was not com- serve as dean to promote smaller teacher- pletely removed, and a second round of student learning communities in the surgery was needed three years later. downtown commuter setting. It left this most gifted of lecturers and With a PhD in Sociology from the Uni- conversationalists without the ability to versity of Chicago (1956), she came to talk and only limited capacity to move her UMB from the Illinois Institute of Technol- arms and legs. For the last 17 years of her ogy where she had served as department life, she lived in health facilities. A team chair. An academic innovator, she was of UMB faculty continued to care for her drawn to this “small college” and was and called themselves the Daisy chain. a leading proponent of interdisciplinary They visited regularly and organized a scholarship and teaching. She was instru- yearly birthday party. mental in forming the Law and Justice Program, which was a Ford Foundation- The above text is an edited version of an obitu- funded experiment that offered students ary sent to the UMB community. 16 November 2006 Footnotes
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