Title Index for Footnotes Articles 1972 to current issue

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October 1972 (Volume 7, Number 8) (pdf file; 5.7 MB) • Coser and Lenski at the Top of the Ticket (ASA Candidates) • Eliot Friedson Wins Sorokin Award • Editorial: Ten Years that Shook No World • Mirra Komarovsky, Barnard College, President of ASA • A Decade in Review and a Preview of Dues (Audit) • Minorities and Women in Sociology: Are Opportunities Changing (by Maurice Jackson, ASA Executive Specialist) • Talent Bank Still Open for Deposits • In-Groups and Out-Groups (New/Terminated ASA Sections) • White House Fellows • The Grilling of the Monteleone • ASA Establishes SAS Award for Methodology • Backwash from Bourbon Street: Questions and Answers from the Titles of Papers in the Annual Program • Annual Meeting Program Items • Sociologists Join Citizen Effort to Dispel Myths on Population Growth • Honors to the Honor Society • Jackson Adds Age to Sex and Minority Concerns • Social Indicators Center in Washington • Letters to the Editor (Howard J. Lewis, Harry A. Scarr, James M. Fendrich, Edgar F. Borgatta) • “How Many Are We?” • NSF Research Grants (for fiscal year ending June 30, 1972) • Social Forces Editor Change (Everett K. Wilson) • Deaths: Wayland J. Hayes, John Kosa, Mary van Kleeck, Thomas Jackson Woofter, Jr. • Obituaries: Lee Marshall Brooks, Donald P. Kent, Glenn Almer Bakkum, Purna Chandra Subudhi, Joseph William McGee, Thomas Johnson

The American Sociologist November 1972 (Volume 7, Number 9) (pdf file; 6.7 MB) • Who Shall Govern? Know Your Council Nominees (ASA Candidates) • Eliot Friedson Elected to NAS Institute of Medicine • Publish and Perish--If You Don’t Get Permission: Guidelines to Copyright Materials • David Heise to Edit Sociological Methodology • Oligarchic Complaint Proposes Selective Constraint to Counter Editorial Ecospecies • Letters to the Editor (Edgar Chasteen, Davida P. Gates, M.I.A. Bulmer, Warren E. Solomon) • Addenda to List of PhDs Special Section on Studies and Comments on the Profession • Recent Trends in Graduate Training: Preliminary Results of a Survey (Robert W, Habenstein) • Quantitative and Collaborative Trends in American Sociological Research (Narsi Patel) • Measuring Sociological Productivity: A Review and a Proposal (Frank Clemente) • The Failure of 100 Divided by 3 to Equal 33-1/3 (Arthur E. Nudelman and Clifford C. Landers) • Journal Productivity of PhD Sociologists (Richard F. Larson, Marc L. Petrowsky, and Joseph S. Vandiver) • Publish or Perish: Book Productivity and Academic Rank at 26 Elite Universities (Richard Doering) • University and Departmental Determinants of the Prestige of Sociology Departments (Walter F. Abbott) • Sociologists on the Move (Clyde W. Franklin, Jr., Wen L. Li and Laurel R. Walum) • Outcome Measures and Social Action Experiments: An Immodest Proposal for Redirecting Research Efforts (Howard E. Freeman) • Variations in Introductory Sociology Courses (Howard D. Schwartz and Cary S. Kart) • A Note on Teaching Basic Sociological Concepts (Susan O. Gustavus)

The American Sociologist December 1972 (Volume 7, Number 10) (pdf file; 3.0 MB) • Westward Ho! Council Convenes in San Francisco • 1973 Program Additions • Opportunities for Professors Emeriti and Graduate Students in Developing Institutions • Suggestions for Annual Program? 1973 Program Closed; 1974 Program Open • Research Probed from Policy Implications and New Directions in Graduate Training • Panel on Social Experimentation • TAS Leaves Tabloid and Returns to Journal Format • The Fall and Rise of the Academic Job Market for Sociologists (Kurt Finsterbusch) • An Anniversary: 20 Years of Sociological Abstracts • Minutes from August 26, 1972 Council Meeting (1972 Council) • Minutes from August 27, 1972 Council Meeting (1973 Council) • Minutes from August 31-September 1, 1972 Council Meeting (1973 Council) • Minutes from August 29-30, 1972 Business Meetings • Obituaries: John Kosa

Footnotes January 1973 (Volume 1, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • Fog Lifts as Council Moves at Golden Gate • A Note on Footnotes • 456 New PhDs Seek Employment • Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching (COFRAT) Gets Guidelines for Go at Grievances • Free Sociological Inquiry • Sex and Publication Credit • Economizing Be Hanged; We Need to Add Some New Functionalities on Our Campuses • East Europe Turning to Sociologists for Some Answers (Robert G. Kaiser and Dan Morgan) • 1973 ASA Committees and Representatives • International Sociological Association (ISA) Announces the Eighth World Congress of Sociology • Short Skis to Cast Editor • Obituaries: Thomas Jackson Woofter, Morris Gilmore Caldwell

Footnotes February 1973 (Volume 1, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.8 MB) • Discussion Group Summary: Carmel Conference Ponders Graduate Training Options • Last Chance: March 1 Deadline for Directory of Members Entry • Annual Meeting Update: Ten Roads to Refreshment in 1973 • Change in Nominees: Smith for Eckland vs. Thompson • ASA on SAS Award: Methodology Selection Committee Announced • Five Areas to be Probed: What Have We Learned • Open Forum: Howard Schuman , “Introduction to Alien Research”; Lois B. DeFleur, “Squeeze on Discipline”; Herb Costner, “Stratch a Sociologist”; Water R. Gove, “Hardnosed Journal”; Joan Aldous, “Is Anyone Listening”; Charles E. Bidwell, “Skills, Commitments, Capacities”; Kurt W. Back, “Social Value of Science”; Richard L. Simpson, “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” Burkart Holzner, “More Time for Doctoral Study”; W. Richard Scott, “New Organizational Forms”; Robert L. Hall, “Create C.A.S.S.”; Robert F. Winch, “A Plurality of Themes” • On to Montreal: 1974 Program Committee Meets • Interpersonal Rating Scale • Clarification: ASA Reprint Policies and Permission Fees • Socio-Crostic No. 2 (crossword puzzle) • Sociologists on Board: TV Political Advertising to be Collected and Catalogued for Research • Guide to Help Community Leaders Use 1970 Census Data • Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Lester F. Ward’s 1906 ASA Presidential Address) • Letter to the Editor: “Change-Agent Delighted” (Robert W. Friedrichs)

Footnotes March 1973 (Volume 1, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • Coleman Prods Government and Probes: Ten Principles Governing Research • Facts Confirm Rumors: Training Grants to Terminate • Focus and Locus of: Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators • Open Forum: H.M. Blalock, Jr., “Thoughts on the Development of Sociology”; Gertrude MacFarlane, “On Canadianism”; Joan Huber, “On Criteria for Hiring, Promotion, Tenure” • Letter to the Editor: “Whop Drop Boomerang (Paul M. Roman); “Edgar Eats On” (Edgar F. Borgatta) • Presidential Box: Famous Last Words (from Albion Small’s 1912 ASA Presidential Address) • What’s the Message: Communications to the Executive Office • Deaths: Kimball Young, Thomas D. Eliot • Obituaries: Samuel Koenig • Prometheus Bound? New Archives Invites Participation by Students of Change and Social Policy • Notes on Votes: Youth Timid in Turnout in 1972 Presidential Election • Anonymous Contribution: Sociological Theorists Comment on 1972 Election • Minutes from December 2, 1972 meeting of 1973 Council • Minutes from December 3, 1972 Interim meeting of 1973 Council

Footnotes April 1973 (Volume 1, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • NSF Sponsors Six Summer Institutes for Secondary School Teachers in Sociology • New Mandate for CSWS • Institute International de Sociologie • Structure Functions as Council and Committees Convene in Quarterly Confab • Open Forum: Philo Wasburn, “On Letters of Recommendation”; David R. Fendrick, “On the Modern-Day Tower of Babel” • Call for Limericks • Afrikaans to Zulu: The Many Tongues of Higher Education • Questions and Answers: The NORC National Data Program for the Social Sciences • “The Limits of Growth” Explored • Note to Sociology Departments: How to Start a Chapter of AKD • Sex Semantics from The Vermont Sociologist • Scholars Examine Value of Social Scientists in Public Policy (William Chapman, Washington Post Staff Writer, with introduction by Harold J. Laski) • A Tribute to Conrad Taeuber • Active Amitai: The Many Roles of a Sociologist • Letters to the Editor: “Challenge to Council” (Dudley Duncan); Corrections on Soviet Sociology (Wesley A. Fisher) • Obituaries: Benjamin Kaplan

Footnotes May 1973 (Volume 1, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • New ASA Publication: The Status of Women in Sociology, 1968-1972 • How Far from Providence? Participation in the Annual Program: Preliminary Report • Ida Harper Simpson to Edit Rose Monograph Series • Undergraduate Education Asserts that “The Best is Last”--On ASA New York Program • Letters to the Editor: “Graduate Training Options” (Ludwig L. Geismar); “Response to Geismar” (Herbert L. Costner); “Michigan Program” (John E. Tropman); “Scale Trail” (Carl L. Harter); “A Response to Coleman’s ‘Ten Principles Governing Policy Research [March 1973]” (Ivan Chapman); “Brockinvwestrange” (Don Brockway III); “Letters of Recommendation” (Richard J. Hill); “Support Robert Bellah” (Jessie Bernard); “Undergraduate Section Newsletter” (Melvin J. Williams); “Response to Blalock” (Jiri Kolaja); “Imaginative Fee Structure” (David R. Carlin); “Purge of Radical Sociologists” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Personal Tribute to Warner E. Gettys” (Reece McGee) • Methodology Section Sponsors Training Institute • Grantsmanship and Other Matters • Federal Service Entrance Examinations • Backlash Mounts for Women and Minorities: Reverse Bias Alleged in College Hiring (Bart Barnes) • A Strategy for Science Education in the 1970s • Impressions from a Romanian Sociologist: Among Social Scientists in America (Erno Gall) • Pittsburgh Launches an Applied Sociology Program • Where Do You Publish? Sociologists to Compile Directory of Journals • “The American Soldier” Revisited • Lloyd Rogler Appointed to National Advisory Mental Health Council • Obituaries: Kimball Young, John J. Kane • Call for Syllabi and Reading Lists on World Conflicts • Minutes of March 3-4, 1973 meeting of the 1973 Council

Footnotes August 1973 (Volume 1, Number 6) (pdf file; 6.6 MB) • President-Elect Peter Blau Posts Plans for 1975 Montreal Meeting • Presidential Perspective from New York: The Year in Review (Mirra Komarovsky) • Our New President Peter Blau (Peter H. Rossi) • Panels to Probe Publishing and Federal Research Funding • Election Results: Coser President, Smelser Vice President, Form Secretary • Change in By-Laws Proposed: Vote on Nominations Procedures Scheduled • Special Fund Created and Study Groups on Theoretical and Methodological Issues Authorized • Faulty Engineers or Neglected Experts? • A Mentor of Sociologists [Talcott Parsons] Retires After 42 Years at Harvard Post (Robert Reinhold) • Open Forum: “Reactions to Coleman on Policy Research” (LaMar T. Empey); “The Problem of ‘Policy’” (Edmund Volkart); “On Obstacles to the Development of New Fields in Sociology” (Robert C. Atchley); “Editor of ASR Responds” (James F. Short, Jr.); “Editor of Sociometry Responds” (Richard J. Hill) • Letters to the Editor: “Grievances” (Peter H. Rossi); “Response to Blalock” (Morton King); “Utopias, Power, Love” (Don Brockway III); “No Purge” (Nicholas J. Demerath); “GRE Scores Again” (James W. Loewen); “Urge Affirmative Action” (Marjorie G. Kelley); “Need for Data” (Joan Huber); “Letter to Skewed Association” (Marshall I. Farkas); “CSWS Protest” (Cora Bagley Marrett, Rose Laub Coser, Karen O. Mason, Shirley Nuss, Murray A. Straus, James Sweet, Lenore J. Weitzman); “Letters of Recommendation Revisited” (Philo Wasburn); “Letters Controversy” (James Boudoris) • The Academic Woman . . . Male vs. Female: A Bread-and-Butter Issue • Support and Promote Affirmative Action Programs • Capitol Gains • Obituaries: Henry Allen Bullock, Serwood Dean Fox • Report of the Secretary (J. Milton Yinger) • Report of the Executive Officer (Otto N. Larsen) • Report of the Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women (Maurice Jackson) • Editors’ Reports • Committee Reports • Minutes from the June 2-3, 1974 meeting of the 1973 Council

Footnotes October 1973 (Volume 1, Number 7) • Million Dollar Minority Fellowship Program • Guidelines for Funding New Approaches to Problems of the Discipline • Joan R. Harris Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women • Membership Categories May Be Revised As Canadian Call for Constitutional Revision Heeded • Open Forum: “The Sociological Condition: A Response to Blalock” (Ann E. Davis • Section Resurrection: Social Psychology Lives Again • Everything High at 68th Annual Meeting • $10,000 to ISA for 8th World Congress • ASA Presidents Parley in New York • Questions and Answers from the New York Program • Letters: “Competition for What Ales Us” (Saul D. Feldman; “ASA Membership Trends: Correction” (Robert A. Rothman); “Annual Meeting Program” (Y. Michal Bodemann) • Academies Elect Sociologists to Membership • Awards of NATO Senior Fellowships in Science • NIE Research Policy Announced • Sociologists on NIE Review Panels • Deaths: Erwin O. Smigel, Emory S. Bogardus • Obituaries: Sigurd Johansen, Warner Ensign Gettys

Footnotes November 1973 (Volume 1, Number 8) (pdf file; 4.3 MB) • Elections Loom with Western Bloom: Blalock and Short to Vie for Presidency; Inkeles and Simon for Vice-Presidency • ASA Annual Awards • Open Forum: “The Statistician in Sociology: Some Recent Levels of Pain” (Sanford Labovitz) • Eight Candidates for Four Council Positions • Final Call for Papers: Fifteen Sessions Added to 1974 Program in Montreal • Americans Involved in Planning for International Meetings in Israel and Greece • An Easy Way to Analyze Qualitative Variables • ASA Council Member (Renee Fox) Selected as Visiting Scholar • The 1973 Academic Job Market for Sociologists (Kurt Finsterbusch) • Fewer Openings: Sociologists Still in Demand, but Job Outlook Is Clouded • Zelditch and (Helen) Hughes Appointed as New ASA Editors (Zelditch ASR, Hughes ASA Reader Series on Issues and Trends in Sociology) • Committee on Professional Ethics Calls for Cases • Massachusetts Senate Adopts Resolution for the Employment of Sociologists • PSAC: Last Hurrah from Panel on Youth (John Walsh) • Major Opportunity for Research in Washington, DC (National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Fellowship) • Postscripts to a Presidential Address (Russell Dynes, from North Central Sociological Association, May 10, 1973) • Call for Mimeographed Papers: New NCSA Directory Established • Obituaries: Emory Stephen Bogardus

Footnotes December 1973 (Volume 1, Number 9) (pdf file; 3.0 MB) • Bennett Berger to Edit Contemporary Sociology • New ASA Directory of Members and Guide to Graduate Departments Available • Dues Billing Delayed for 1974 Membership Renewal • 1974 ASA Committees and Representatives • Open Forum: “Affirmative Action in Action” (Edgar Borgatta) • Affirmative Action--Affirmative Results? (Maurice Jackson) • Letters to the Editor: “A Very Small Fable for Our Times” (Midred Seltzer); “Correspondence on Conflict Methodology between Peter M. Blau, ASA President, and T.R. Young, Director, The Red Feature Institute” (Peter Blau, T.R. Young); “Committee Calls for Aid to Chile” (Maurice Zeitlin); “Perchilda from Pullerchild, Washington” (William R. Catton, Jr.); “Kudos for Karate” (Erwin Krohl) • Annual Membership Dues Rates • Minutes from August 30, 1973 meeting of the 1974 Council • Minutes from August 29, 1973 Business Meeting • Call for Nominations for ASA Sorokin and Stouffer Awards • Nominations Opened and Canadians Internationalized as Members Vote to Revise ASA By-Laws • Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1973

Footnotes January 1974 (Volume 2, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • Editorial: Footnotes, One Year Later • 1975 Program Committee Solicits Suggestions for San Francisco Meeting • Sociologists Meet in Chicago for Undergraduate Workshop Organized by Hans Mauksch • Roster of Sociologists Available: 460 New PhDs Seek Employment • Certification Requirements for Teaching Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology in Secondary Schools (Margo Johnson, APA) • Sociology Honor Society Invites Chapter Applications • A Year of Experience in Undergraduate Innovative Learning in Brigham Young Program • Sociologists Among Fulbright-Hays Foreign Scholars in U.S. in 1973-74 • Sociologists Work in Agency for International Development • Sociology and Foreign Policy: Peter Blau Represents ASA at State Department Conference • PSA Call for Research Papers by Undergraduates • New Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Announced • A Modest Proposal (Et tu Sociology?) (John Condry) • A Tribute to Maurice Jackson by the Caucus of Black Sociologists • Washington University-St. Louis Launches Departmental Newsletter • Nutrition and the Behavioral Sciences • Sociological Organizations on the Intra-Regional Level • How ASA Responds to Threats Against Freedom of Research and Teaching • ASA Announces Graduate Fellowships for Minority Students, 1974-75

Footnotes February 1974 (Volume 2, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Doubleheader in Canada: Eighth World Congress of Sociology, Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, and ASA Annual Meeting All to be Held in August 1974 • Open Nominations Add 15 Candidates to 1974 Election Ballot • Working Papers: Innovation and Invitation (Peter Blau) • Open Forum: “Expanding the Labor Market for Sociologists” (Lawrence Rhoades) • Where in the World is ASA? (about foreign members) • SWS and CSWSD Announce Legislation Project for Sociologists • SSRC Launches Committee on Work and Personality in the Middle Years • Letters to the Editor: “Response to Labovitz” (Franklyn Nelson) • Obituaries: James D. Thompson, Erwin O. Smigel, Mason Griff, James Mickel Williams • Sociologists in ARI (U.S. Army Research Institute): A New Name, a New Approach to Social Research in the Army • Minutes of December 1, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council • Program for International Sociological Association Eighth World Congress of Sociology on “Science and Revolution in Contemporary Societies” (August 18-24, 1974, Toronto)

Footnotes March 1974 (Volume 2, Number 3) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • What is a Sociologist? U.S. Department of Labor to Revise the Dictionary of Occupational Titles • Request for Information: A Study of the Confidentiality of Social Science Research Sources and Data • Focus on Social Structure Sharpens as 25 Features are Announced for 69th Annual Meeting in Montreal • Social Research and Development: Notes on the Budget of the U.S. for FY1975 • U.S. Civil Service Commission Moves to Strengthen Relations with Universities • No Run on RANN by Sociologists: Small Turnout Yields Large Grants for Research Applied to National Needs • Letters to the Editor: “Data on ASA Election” (Peter Blau); “Negative Reaction to Affirmative Action” (Pierre van den Berghe); “On Conflict Methodology” (Hin-Wai Wong); “The Statistician in Sociology” (Julia Mewes) • University Presidents Call for Aid to Chilean Scholars • Faculty Recruitment and Affirmative Action (Linda Kumi, ASA Research Assistant) • ASR Leads ASA Publication Circulation in 1973

Footnotes April 1974 (Volume 2, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • Facts Compiled from Directory: Non-Academic Employment of ASA Members • ASA Council Makes New Appointments • G. Franklin Edwards and Ralph Turner to Represent ASA in ISA • Committee on Environmental Sociology Appointed • ASA Council Member Orville Brim, Jr., Heads Foundation for Child Development • Search Committee for New ASA Executive Officer • Open Forum: “A Possible Way to Increase Employment Opportunities for Sociologists” (Paul Snyder); “The Challenge of New Roles for Sociologists in Academic and Non-Academic Settings” (Annabelle B. Motz); “Boundary Maintenance and Shiboleths in the Grove of Academe” (B. Eugene Griessman) • Q’s and A’s About the ASA • Interdisciplinary Cooperation Brings Social Science to High Schools • Letters to the Editor: Letter to Leonid Brezhnev from Peter Blau; “Comment on Edgar Borgatta, ‘Affirmative Action in Action’” (Joan Huber); “Rejoinder to Joan Huber” (Edgar Borgatta); “Love, Sociological Style” (Bob Sessions); “Employment” (Arlene Kershaw); “Summation” (Werner D. von der Ohe); “Response from ISA” (Reuben Hill); “Environmental Sociology” (Joel Smith); “Footnotes Fan” (Gerald Marwell) • Jessie Bernard Wins Stuart Rice Merit Award • Institute of International Sociology Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

Footnotes May 1974 (Volume 2, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • First Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • Schedule Lengthened, Fees Altered for Annual Meeting in Montreal • Authors to ASA Journal Articles to Share Equally in Reprint Fee Revenue • Council Meets for Mid-Year Review • Sociology, Energy, and the NSF Budget • 1970 Census Public Use Sample Data File Available • SSSP Meetings in Montreal to Feature International Perspectives on Equal Rights • Survey Research Problems Getting Worse, Study Says • AKD Now 50 Years Old • Q’s and A’s About the ASA • Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to American Sociological Society for Sale at $250 • Minutes from March 9, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

Footnotes August 1974 (Volume 2, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.3 MB) • President-Elect Lewis Coser Posts Plans for San Francisco Meeting • Presidential Perspective from Montreal: The Year in Review (ASA President Peter Blau) • International Flavor Marks Montreal Meeting • Portrait of New President Lewis Coser • 1975 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers • Secretary J. Milton Yinger Sums Up Three Year Term • Alfred McClung Lee New President-Elect; Alex Inkeles New Vice President-Elect • NIMH Offers Research Opportunities at ASA • New ASA Appointments: William A. Anderson, Director of Minority Fellowship Program; Lawrence J. Rhoades New Executive Associate • Questions and Answers from the Montreal Program • Open Forum: “Erase Homo Sapiens” (John James); “Possible Nominees for 1973- 76 ASA Offices” (Albert D. Biderman); “Sociology and Social Policy” (Pamela Roby); “A New Course Proposal: Sociology in Practice” (Jack Nusan Porter); “A Conventional Method of Extracting Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors” (Larry Chase); “Does the Ivory Tower Turn to Plastic in the Real World?” (Margaret DiCanio); “Organizing the Profession at the State Level” (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Letters to the Editor: “Legal Rationale for the Sociologist’s Role in Researching Social Impacts” (Pamela Dee Savatsky); “Chilling Response” (R.P. Cuzzort); “Gouldner’s ‘Is’” (Don Martindale); “Seminal Plot” (Mary Schwab); “Response to Motz” (Stephanie Garrett); “To: Dean of Faculty” (Stanley Grupp) • Obituaries: Irene Barnes Taeuber • Report of the Executive Officer (Otto Larsen) • Report of the Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women (Joan Harris) • Editors’ Reports • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Section Reports • Minutes of June 1, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council

Footnotes October 1974 (Volume 2, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • 1975 Program Supplement • ASA Launches Study to Improve Undergraduate Programs in Sociology • First 20 MFP Fellows Start Training; Applications Open for Second Round • Open Forum: “Colony Hutterites as Research Subjects” (S.C. Lee); “Inside the Corps of Engineers” (E. Jackson Baur) • Photos from 1974 Annual Meeting in Montreal • Social Forces Marks Golden Anniversary • Computer-Based Undergraduate Curriculum Materials Exchange • National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elect Sociologists to Membership • New Source of Info on Personalized Instructional Methods • Boys Town Center for Youth Development at Stanford • Invitation for Research on TV and Social Behavior • Letters to the Editor: “What Is the Use of Statistics in Sociology?” (Hung-tak Lee); “Response to RANN” (D.S. Mileti); “Affirmative Action” (Kenneth R. Temblay, Jr.); “Affirmative Action without Affirmative Results: The Irony of Affirmative Action in Action” (Bhagwati P.K. Poddar); “Scolded” (Jessie Bernard); “Constructing Social Systems” (Bernard Phillips) • AAAS Seeks College Teachers for Short Course Program • Materials Sought for Exhibits on Exemplary Social Graphics • Protection of the Subjects of Social Research • Conference on Transnational Problems • Sociologist David Goslin Named Executive Director of NRC Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences • Obituaries: F. Stuart Chapin, Carl Mayer, Ivan Vallier, James M. Reinhardt, Edmund deSchweinitz Brunner, Mark Benney • Socio-Crostic #3 (crossword puzzle, by Gerald Marwell)

Footnotes November 1974 (Volume 2, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • ASA Renews Grants for Problems of the Discipline • ASA Committee Selects Candidates for 1975 • Open Nominations Procedures Outlined • Undergraduate Study Seeks Proposals • Suggestions Solicited for 1976 Annual Meeting Program • Open Forum: “Inside the Committee on Nominations” (Richard Hall); “Cultural Lag in Sociology: A Byte of a Minority Problem” (C. Jack Gilchrist, Fred S. Halley, John Sonquist); “Toward a More Appropriate Bibliography” (Warren Hagstrom, Gerald Marwell, Kenneth Newton) • Otis Dudley Duncan and Leo A. Goodman Receive 1974 Stouffer Award • HUD Grants for Dissertation Research • Executive Officer Establishes New Links to Committees • Two Sessions Added to 1975 Program • Sorokin Award to Clifford Geertz and Christopher Jencks • Minority Fellowship Deadline Set • Graduate Departments Report Downward Trend in Undergraduate Enrollments • Graduate Departments Cite Areas of Competent Training • Council Takes Action on ASA Publications • Help for Handicapped Students Solicited • Pictures from 1974 Annual Meeting DAN Night • Obituaries: J.L. Moreno • Programs Offered on Western Europe • Questions and Answers on Areas of Sociological Competence • Non-Sexist Terminology • 1975 PhD Roster Forms • Minutes from August 26, 1974 meeting of 1974 Council • Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1974

Footnotes December 1974 (Volume 2, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • New Editors Appointed for ASA Journals (Doris Entwisle SOE, Allen Grimshaw TAS, Mary Goss JHSB) • Working Paper Sessions Retained for 1975 Annual Meeting • Unfunded ASA Fellows Named • ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women Sought • Director for ASA Minority Fellowship Program Sought • Call for Topics and Presenters for 1976 Didactic Seminars • Open Forum: Otis Dudley Duncan Requests Reconsideration of Stouffer Award (says Leo Goodman should be sole recipient); Leo Goodman Seeks Broader Mandate for Stouffer Award • Letters to the Editor: “University of Karachi Needs Books” (Marvin Sussman); “African Teacher Wants Books” (Julius Chiwata) • NSF Announces 46 Sociology Research Grants • Sociologists Serve as LEAA Fellows; More Fellowships Open • Rutgers Searches For Non-Academic Jobs for Sociologists • NRC Research Associateships • Minority Fellowship Deadline • Sociologists Named Fulbright-Hays Scholars • Russell Sage Offers Resident Fellowships • Procedures Outlined for Sending Address Changes to ASA Office • Transfer Student Problem Cited; Action Urged • Record Voter Turnout Recorded for First ASA Presidential Runoff • Summer Fellowships in Mental Health • 1975 Program Adds Social Indicator Session • Manuscripts Solicited for Rose Monograph Series • Sociologist Samuel Stern Writes Column for Weekly Newspaper • More Sociology Majors Gained Than Lost to Other Disciplines • Comparison of Annual Meetings Shows Stability, Change • Guinean Professor Seeks Correspondent (Merton Bland) • Nominations Sought for ASA Awards • Academic Job Market Report: Some Good News and Some Bad News • Obituaries: Harold W. Saunders • Training in Genetics Available Summer 1974 • American Association for Public Opinion Research Seeks Student Papers for Competition • Photographs Wanted for Traveling Exhibit • Media Internships Offered by AAAS • ASA Executive Office Located at Landmark Address in Washington

Footnotes January 1975 (Volume 3, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • ASA Committee Appointments and Representatives • NSF Program Outlined; Emphasized Areas Cited (by Larry Rhoades, ASA Executive Associate; first in a series of articles on the research mission and interests of federal agencies) • Plenary Sessions, Thematic Panels for 1975 Annual Meeting in San Francisco • NEH Summer Seminars Offered to Undergraduate Teachers • Job Hunting Hints Given to Undergraduate Majors • Open Forum: “Discriminatory Practices Against Non-Citizens Assailed” (Bradley W. Parlin and Kooros M. Mahmondi) • Letters to the Editor: “Wants Information on Rejected Proposals” (Donald B. Wallace); “Turnaround Time” (Daniel Koenig) • Elbridge Sibley Traces 50-Year History of SSRC • Sociological Methodology 1975 Available • Limits to Growth Offers $20,000 In Prizes for Research Papers • New PhD Roster for Sale • Graduate Departments Included in 1975 Guide • Policy Change on Page Charges May Yield Funds for ASA Journals • Women and Minorities in Sociology: Findings from Annual ASA Audit (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • Call for Papers on Auto Safety • Social Indicator Publications Ready • State Associations Increase to 20 • Sources for Information on Federal Jobs • New Committee on Annual Meeting Child Care Seeks Volunteers • Sociologists Active in ACLS • Nominations Invited for ASA DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award • State Department Offers Internships in Intercultural Communications • Summary Institute in Survey Research Techniques • Candidates Sought for ASA Executive Posts • Applied Communication Research, Inc. Seeks Innovations in Disseminating Scientific, Technical Information • Applied Sociology Yields Environmental Awards • Evaluation Research Training Offered by New Sociological and Demographic Institute at the University of Massachusetts • Questionnaires for 1975 Directory of Members Mailed • International Journal on Language Problems Seeks Articles • NSF Publications on Programs, Grants, Rules, and Procedures • Fulbright-Hays Program Seeks Applications • Problems of the Discipline Grant Proposal Deadline: February 1

Footnotes February 1975 (Volume 3, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Council Acts on Resolutions from Annual Business Meeting • Open Nomination Process Adds 17 Candidates to 1975 Ballot • 501 New PhDs Seeking Jobs • 13 Didactic Seminars Announced for Annual Meeting in San Francisco • Federal Control: Debate Rates Over Rules for Research • Self Control: Ethics Committee Concerns Cited; Reactions Invited (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein) • Open Forum: “Stouffer Committee Affirms Action; Asks for Mandate Interpretation” (John A. Clausen); “Hors d’oeuvres: Threat or Menace” (Roy Lotz and Robert M. Regoli); “Comments on Issues Related to Environmental Sociology” (Patrick C. Jobes) • Letters to the Editor: “New Sampling Designs” (Riley E. Dunlap) • Rockefeller-Form Program Invites Applications for Policy Research • Renee Fox to Serve Second Year as Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar • AKD Elects Officers, Adds Chapters and Contest • Sociological Focus Sharpens “Focus on Policy” • Michigan State University Holds Workshop on Visual Methods • NEH Supports 22 Humanistically-Oriented Projects • First Undergraduate Audit Compares Graduate and Undergraduate Departments (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • Six Sociologists Visit U.S. Under Fulbright-Hays Program • Video Tapes, Monograph Series Issued by International Sociological Association • ASA Directory Mailing Rescheduled for March • Minorities and Women: Notes on Guidelines to Affirmative Action (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • Immigration History Research Center at University of Minnesota Offers Research Funds to Study White Ethnic Groups • Social Problems Solicits Manuscripts for Special Issue on Women • Integrity of Federal Statistics Systems Scrutinized by ASA Committee on Government Statistics • Roper Center Prepares Survey Trend Data for Social Indicator Research • Notre Dame Council Endorses Part-Time Faculty Appointments • ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education Seeks Assessments of Four Areas in Education • British Survey Center Offers Fellowships • Journal of Social Issues Extends Call for Papers • Institut International de Sociologie to Hold 26th International Congress • Update on ASA Project on Undergraduate Education • Socio-Crostic #4 (William Petersen) • Minutes from December 7, 1974, meeting of 1975 Council • Obituaries: Bernard Sklar, Joseph Bram

Footnotes March 1975 (Volume 3, Number 3) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Hans Mauksch Named ASA Executive Officer • Professional Workshops Added to 1975 Program • NIMH Cites Social Science Research Interests and Funding (Larry Rhoades, ASA Executive Associate) • Group Flights to San Francisco Meeting • Retired Sociologists Wanted for Registry • Roper Center Data Bank Provides Opportunities for Secondary Analysis • Minorities and Women: DuBois Conference Papers Summarized (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • NIMH Announces Basic and Applied Grants to Sociologists for 78 Projects • SSRC Workshops and Fellowships Offered on Criminal Justice Indicators • AAAS Congressional Fellows Program Seeks Candidates • Travel Research Association Announces Contest for Student Papers on Travel or Tourism • Info on Data Banks Wanted for Footnotes Listing

Footnotes April 1975 (Volume 3, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Social R&D Study May Set Terms for National Debate • National Center for Public Service Internship Programs • Author’s Guide to Selected Journals Launches New ASA Series • State Associations Exploring Role in Several Areas • New Sections on Marxist and Environmental Sociology Forming for 1976 • Special Vote Scheduled on ASA Constitutional Issues • Open Forum: “Blalock Replies to Duncan on Methodology” (H.M. Blalock, Jr.); “Metric Conversion: Study Needed” (Saul D. Feldman); “Quantification: No Substitution for Insight” (Charles P. Flynn) • DC Sociological Society Gives Employment Assistance to Sociology Majors (Steven Cades) • Arithmetical Statistics: A Different Approach (Richard G. Lefkon) • Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum Emphasizes “Practical” Courses • Black Doctorates in Sociology Total 185; 53 Added Since 1968 • Roster of Black Doctorates Ready • Did ASA Start Trend to Washington? • NIE Provides Funding for 27 Sociology Projects • University of Chicago Expands Post-Doc Program • SWS Seeking Input for Publications • Salisbury State College Offers Academic Credit to Students Attending Annual Meeting • New Volume Relates Social Policy to Sociology • Letters to the Editor: “Cussler Legal Defense Fund” (Herbert Blumer, Lewis A. Coser, Alfred McClung Lee, Albert J. McQueen, Stanton Wheeler, Charlotte Wolf, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Carelton W. Smith); “SWS Pleased with Child Care” (Judith Lorber); “Affirmative Action Column Draws Comment” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Parsons Restates View on Research Needs” (Carole W. Parsons); “Journal Editor Replies on Turnaround Problem” (Gary H. Winkel); “Taiwan Department Seeks Ties with U.S. Counterparts” (Daniel Ross) • Minorities and Women: Report on Roster Workshop (Joan R. Harris, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • NEXU.S.: Only a Phone Call Away! • World Health Organization Offers Travel Funds • Texas Christian University Establishes Data Center on Drug Abuse • Obituaries: Leonard Reissman, Thomas F. O’Dea, Joseph H. Bunzel, John F. O’Rourke, Joseph Kelly Johnson, Frank J. Cannavale, Jr., Miron Constantinescu, Carl Martin Rosenquist • Researchers Seek Info on Legal Regulation of Life Styles • ISI Offers Philadelphia Tours to Scientists During Bicentennial • Social Science Quarterly Seeks Manuscripts for Special Issue on Society and Scarcity • New Section on World Conflicts in Formation • Japan Society Announces Grants

Footnotes May 1975 (Volume 3, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 39 ASA Minority Fellows Named; Some Funding Needed • Council Establishes 12-Week Reporting Rule for Editors • ASA Runoff Election Required for President, Vice President • Undergraduate Project Attracts 75 Volunteers • First Annual ASA “Roast” Set for San Francisco Meeting • ASA in 1980: Counsel to Council on Planning (Otto N. Larsen, ASA Executive Officer) • Open Forum: “Sewell Responds to Proxmire on NSF Funding of Basic Research” (William H. Sewell); “Comments on Multiple Submissions Policy” (A. Emerson Smith); “Training Needs for Non-Academic Jobs Cited” (Edward E. Harris) • ASA Committee Seeks Information from Non-Academic Sociologists (Leonard I. Pearlin) • Ethnographic Study Proposals Sought • Foundation Center Provides Information on Funding by Foundations • Child Care Committee Reports on Arrangements for San Francisco Meeting (Jerome H. Skolnick) • Assembly Charged with Relating Social Science to Government Policy • Professional Workshop Participants Announced • NEH Wants Proposals for Summer Seminars • Planned Change Proposals Sought for Award Competition • Committee on Status of Women in Sociology Schedules Open Session for Annual Meeting • German Marshall Fund Offers Fellowships for Work on Industrial Societies • Letters to the Editor: “Change Proposed in ASA Ballot” (Ithiel de Sola Pool); “Would You Respond to This Vacancy Ad?” (Charles Burton); “ISA Deviance Committee Outlines Major Goals” (Jim Hackler); “Wants Tables, Figures Inserted in Text” (Warren O. Hagstrom) • Regional Science Association Announces Dissertation Award • Minutes from March 8, 1975, meeting of 1975 Council • AAAS Seeks Papers for Psychological-Social-Cultural Prize • Call for Papers for Third Conference on Behavior Research and Technology in Higher Education • Deaths: Ely Chinoy, Caroline Rose • Second Round of Proposals on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Due in October

Footnotes August 1975 (Volume 3, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Sociology for Whom? President-Elect Alfred McClung Lee States 1976 Program Theme • Conflict and Dissensus: President Lewis Coser Underscores Program Theme for San Francisco • Amnesty Statement Endorsed; Members Split on ASA Action • Registry of Retired Sociologists Available • Special Phone Number for San Francisco Meeting • Study in Contrasts: Portrait of New ASA President Alfred McClung Lee • 70th Annual Meeting Sets Participation Records • Open Forum: “ASA Editors Not Paradigm Enforcers; Mirror Work of Profession” (Lee Freese); “Calls for ASA Initiatives on Research Rules” (John R. Maiolo) • Deadlines and Procedures Posted for 1976 Annual Meeting in New York • 1975 ASA Directory of Members Available • SSSI Notes Newsletter • ASA Author’s Guide to Selected Journals Available • Lucy W. Sells Named ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women • Proposals Wanted by ASA Undergraduate Sociology Project • Phillip Carey Named ASA Minority Fellowship Program Director • ISA 9th World Congress to be Held in Uppsala, Sweden • Pacific Sociological Association Adopts Bicentennial Theme for 1976 Meeting • Bicentennial Youth Debates Program Invites Participants • Social Science Information Service Seeks Research Findings on Pending Legislation • New Journal, Sociological Practice, Announced • Richard Yinger Seeks New Specialty Based on Extraterrestrial Life • Wilson Fellowships Offer Support for Major Scholarly Undertakings • RANN Offers Disaster Research Funding • Quizzical Guide to San Francisco Program Sessions • Report of the ASA Executive Officer (Otto N. Larsen) • Report of the Secretary (William Form) • Committee Reports • Editors’ Reports • Section Reports • Representative Reports • Special Report of the Investigation of the Commitment to Affirmative Action by the University of California-Berkeley Department of Sociology • Obituaries: Carl Cleveland Taylor, Caroline B. Rose, Oliver Cromwell Cox • Runoff Vote Elects J. Milton Yinger ASA President and Suzanne Keller Vice President • Problems of the Discipline Grants Announced • Minority Program Strengthened by Spivack Fellowship Grants • First ASA President Lester Frank Ward Memorialized in Cathedral

Footnotes October 1975 (Volume 3, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Sorokin Award Presented to Immanuel Wallerstein; Stouffer Award Presented to Harrison White • Council Ruling Requires Membership for Program Participation • R&D Funding at State Level Quadruples • About the 1975 Meeting Held in San Francisco • 1976 RANN Objectives Outlined • Open Forum: “Sociologists Need to Address Foundational Issues of Discipline” (Stephen Turner) • A Glossary of Sociological Terms (Arthur E. Nudelman, Donald H. Smith, Barbara E. Nudelman, James B. Haugh) • New Social Indicators Edition Adds Three Areas • High School Students Given College Introduction to Social Sciences • NAS Admits One Sociologist Among 14 New Candidates • NSF Programs Provide Support for Student Research Projects • Student Assistants Provided by AID • Letters to the Editor: “Suggests Career Option: Management Consultant” (Linda Pappas); “Quantification Needed in Sociology as Well” (David F. Greenberg) • Talmon Competition Wants Manuscripts • Invitation for Proposals on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology • A Note from the New Editor of The American Sociologist (Alan D. Grimshaw) • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honors Seven Sociologists • Guggenheim Grants Awarded to Nine Sociologists

Footnotes November 1975 (Volume 3, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.2 MB) • Sessions Added for 1976 Program • Candidates Selected for 1976 Elections • Open Nominations Procedure • Open Forum: “On Publishing” (Helena Z. Lopata) • Letters to the Editor: “In Memory of Oliver C. Cox” (Edward Harris and Rhoda Lois Goldstein); “Sociologists Gay Caucus” (Steering Committee) • Order Form for 1975 Convention Cassettes • Obituaries: Rupert Bayless Vance, Lathrop V. Beale, Benjamin F. McLuckie, Floyd Nelson House, Tilman M. Cantrell • Auditor’s Report, June 30, 1975 • ASA Publication on Sociologists in Non-Academic Employment Available • Invitation to Participate in Program of Undergraduate Teaching Recognition

Footnotes December 1975 (Volume 3, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Council Changes Fiscal Year to Calendar Year; Begins Long Range Planning • New Policies for ASA Publications • 1976 Program Reminder • Political Scientists Give American Sociological Review High Ratings • Open Forum: “Justice and Affirmative Action” (Paul Riedesel); “Affirmative Action and Principled Ethics” (Stephen K. Sanderson); “Affirmative Action Continued” (Richard D. Alba) • Obituaries: Ely Chinoy • Minority Fellowship Program Application Deadline • Sociologists Elected to Institute of Medicine • Minutes from August 30, 1975, meeting of 1976 Council

Footnotes January 1976 (Volume 4, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Reaction to ASA Report on Integrity of Federal Statistics • Mathematics, Minorities and Women (Lucy W. Sells, ASA Executive Specialist for Minorities and Women) • Survey Conducted on Teacher Development in Sociology (Bill Ewens, Diane Emling) • Inaugural Remarks by ASA President Alfred McClung Lee (from 1975 Annual Meeting Business Meeting) • Deaths: Arthur J. Field • Open Forum: “In Response to Helena Lopata” (Bernard Goldstein, Arlene Kaplan Daniels); “A Journal of Abstracts” (Lee H. Bowker) • Workshop on Faculty Development to be Held in Philadelphia • State Department Seeks Qualified Consultants

Footnotes February 1976 (Volume 4, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Council Meetings to be Open to Members • NSF Issues Guidelines for New Program on Research Initiation and Support • National Science Board Notes Social Science Deficiencies • Minority Fellowship Program Enters Third Year • Council Takes Action on Ethics, Conditions of Research and Teaching • Notes from the International Sociological Association • 1976 ASA Committees and Representatives • Presidents of State Associations Recommend Actions • Mental Health Postdoctoral Training Program in Quantitative Anthropology (at University of California-Berkeley) • Nominations Invited to 1976 ASA Awards (Sorokin, Stouffer, and DuBois-Johnson- Frazier)

Footnotes March 1976 (Volume 4, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Special Election Issue: Biographies of Candidates for ASA Office • Petition Candidates • Petition Received to Change Constitution and By-Laws • Minutes from December 5, 1975, meeting of 1976 Council • Conference on Measurement of Social and Economic Data and Public Policy • Appeal Procedures Outlined by NSF • The Decline of Academic Morality • Nominations Invited to ASR and CS Editorships • Alex Inkeles and David Norton Smith Receive Hadley Cantril Memorial Award • The Year the Annual Meeting Stood Still (Otto Larsen)

Footnotes April 1976 (Volume 4, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • In Favor of Referendum Proposals (Alfred McClung Lee, Pamela Roby, Carol A. Brown, Leo P. Chall, Ted Goertzel, William Kuvelsky, Elizabeth Briant Lee, S.M. Miller, John Moland, Jr., Dorothy K. Newman, Kurt H. Wolff) • Reasons for ASA Council Opposition to the Petition • Interpretation of Proposed Changes to Constitution and By-Laws • New Editors Appointed for Three ASA Publications in 1977 (Robin M. Williams, Jr., Rose Monograph Series; Howard M. Schuman, Sociometry; Karl F. Schuessler, Sociological Methodology) • Council Task Group Seeks Volunteers • ASA Renews Grants for Problems of the Discipline • Cornell Journal of Social Relations Publishes Special Issue in Memory of Leonard Reissman • Open Forum: “Replies to Riedesel, Sanderson, and Alba” (Joan Huber); “Opportunities for Sociologists through U.S. Department of Labor” (William F. Whyte) • Teacher Development Workshop Planned, Applications Invited

Footnotes May 1976 (Volume 4, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • ASA Council and Committees to Hold Open Meetings in New York • ASA Election Districts, Elections, and Representation • Three Sociologists Elected to NAS • ASA Teacher Development Project Funded by Lilly • Correspondence Received in Response to Forthcoming Referendum (Arlene Kaplan Daniels, et al., for SWS; Alfred McClung Lee, et al.; Jay Demerath; David Knoke; Sheldon Stryker; John Peace; Barbara Hetrick, et al.) • To the Friends of the Late Ely Chinoy • Sociologists Named Recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships • Higher Education in the Nation’s Consciousness • Census Bureau Seeks Suggestions on 20th Decennial • Clearinghouses Offer Sociologists Variety of Services • Open Forum: “Saints Stink While Whores Smell Good: A Lesson from the Social Theories of Robert Merton” (Don Martindale) • Letters to the Editor (J.L. Fischer; Ann Arlov; Charles M. Unkovic and W.T. Austin) • Eastern Sociological Society Honors Paul Lazarsfeld • Auditor’s Report, December 31, 1975 • Undergraduates Report Observations of 1975 Annual Meeting • Minutes from March 6, 1976, meeting of 1976 Council

Footnotes August 1976 (Volume 4, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.1 MB) • Valedictory: A Report on the Year 1975-76 (by outgoing ASA President Alfred McClung Lee) • Shared and Divergent Perspectives: President-Elect J. Milton Yinger Announces Theme • Report of the Secretary (William Form) • Portrait of New President J. Milton Yinger • 1977 Program: Call for Papers (Sessions and Organizers) • Report of Executive Officer Hans Mauksch • Presidential Election Unresolved--Runoff Ballot Mailed; Alice Rossi Elected Vice President, James Short Secretary • ASA Revises Reporting Dates • Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Project Newsletter • Sue Titus Reid Appointed ASA Executive Associate • Open Forum: “Recruiting and Job Hunting Through Footnotes” (William Bruce Cameron, Raymond H. Wheeler); “Translation Guide to Reading Letters of Reference” (John J. Hartman) • Increases in Social Science Degrees Anticipated • NSF Gets Committee Report • Letters to the Editor (William Foote Whyte; Jackson Toby; Thomas M. Kando; A Student Member; Dirk Hoerder; Amitai Etzioni) • Social Systems Research Center Program in Innovative Teaching • ASA Teacher Development Workshop in Texas • ADAMHA Sets Grant Application Deadline • ASA Employment Bulletin to Become Separate Publication • Peace Research Abstracts Journal Seeks Abstractors

Footnotes October 1976 (Volume 4, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.7 MB) • ASA Major Awards Announced in New York: Jeffrey Paige and Robert Bellah Win Sorokin Award; Hylan Garnet Lewis Wins DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Selection of Stouffer Recipient Delayed Due to Award Selection Committee Chair Paul Lazarsfeld’s Death • Amos Hawley is New ASA President Elect • 1977 Program Additions • Proposed Amendments to Constitution and By-Laws Rejected in Referendum Vote • Search Authorized for New ASA Executive Officer • Cornerhouse Fund Provides Dissertation Fellowships • Meeting with Representatives of Latin American Sociological Association • Sociologists Appointed to NSF Posts: Herbert Costner Appointed Director of Social Sciences Division; H. Laurence Ross New Director of Law and Social Sciences; William A. Anderson Appointed Program Manager in RANN • Teacher Development Workshop Held at Boston College • National Graduate University Offers Courses on Grants • AID Internship Applications Invited • Institutions Currently Under AAUP Censure • ACLS Travel Grants Available

Footnotes November 1976 (Volume 4, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Council Reviews Long Range Planning • Candidates Selected for 1977 Elections • Council Reinstates Full Section Day • MFP Reception Held During Annual Meeting • ASA Council Meeting Schedule • Federal Funds for Social Science Research • Open Forum: “Making Sense of Affirmative Action” (William Austin); “The Annual Meetings for Whom?” (Kenneth Wilson and Christa Reiser); “A Divergent Perspective from the ‘Shared and the Divergent Perspectives . . . Theme’” (John R. Maiolo) • Programs in NSF’s Division of Social Sciences • The Editorial Policy of the American Sociological Review (Morris Zelditch, ASR Editor) • Letters to the Editor (James S. Coleman; Joe Feagin; Alexander D. Blumenstiel; Harold S. Stamm; Charles P. Flynn; Carol Van Steenberg; Robin Karasik; Kenneth H. Reichstein; George Floro) • Paul Williams New ASA MFP Director • Privacy Study Commission Hearing • Social Indicators 1976 Seeks Papers • News from the International Sociological Association • Obituaries: Donald Winston Ball, Yoon Hough Kim, Samuel Harman Lowrie, Maurice Manel, Charles H. Newton, Thomas Lynn Smith, Shirley A. Staff (and editor’s note that obituaries which had been moved to TAS will be published in Footnotes again)

Footnotes December 1976 (Volume 4, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Additional Candidates for 1977 Ballot • Study of Nontraditional Careers Planned • ASA Experiments with Programs Newsletter • EOB Committee Follows Council: Reviews Executive Office Staff • Council Confronts Crunch for Space at Annual Meeting • 1977 Program Additions • Teaching Column • Minutes of September 1, 1976, meeting of 1976 Council • Minutes of September 4, 1976, meeting of 1977 Council • Section Reports • Obituaries: Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Dinko A. Tomasic, Joyce O. Hertzler

Footnotes January 1977 (Volume 5, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • Due Date Extended for MFP Applications • Information Discussion Sessions Planned for 1977 Annual Meeting • Second Dues Renewal Mailed • The Editorial Policy of Sociological Methodology • Call for 1978 Program Suggestions • ASA Signs Contract with Cambridge University Press to Publish Rose Monograph Series • Letters to the Editor: Charles C. Moskos, Jr., and Morris Janowitz Respond to Kenneth Reichstein; Irwin Deutscher; Alexander D. Blumenstiel • AAAS Symposium on Behavioral Research Training in Medicine and Health • Books and Journals for Asia • Committee Reports • Representative Reports

Footnotes February 1977 (Volume 5, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Changes in Tax Law Affect Faculty Members • Variety of Government Agencies Support Research for Funding • Herbert Gans Added to Committee on Publications Slate • ASA Answers Privacy Commission Proposals • Search for Executive Associates Started • Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development Opens • New AKD Officers • Nominations Invited for Sorokin, Stouffer, and DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Awards • Undergraduate Field Research Planned Again for 1977 Meeting • Committees and Representatives • Open Forum: “Disseminating Sociological Knowledge Through Teaching Function” (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • NSF Highlight: Law and Social Sciences Program • Letters to the Editor: DC Chapter of SWS; John Mogey; Ralph H. Turner • Obituaries: Myron Herbert Levenson, Louise Ann Johnson • Research and Instructional Resources for the Social Sciences • LEAA Exemplary Projects Information Available • Privacy Commission Policy and Program Recommendations • Committee Reports

Footnotes March 1977 (Volume 5, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • The President at Mid-Year (J. Milton Yinger) • Russell R. Dynes Named ASA Executive Officer • International Issues Permeate Council Deliberations • ASA Election Issue: Candidate Biographies • National Labor Surveys • Petition Candidates • Editors’ Reports • Job Market for College Grads Brighter • Federal Summer Jobs for Students

Footnotes April 1977 (Volume 5, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • Russell Dynes Chairs NAS Committee on International Disaster Assistance • ASA at Faculty-Publishers Symposium • Annual Meeting Program Continued (J. Milton Yinger) • Increase in Academic Employment • Schuman on Sociometry (Howard Schuman) • New from the ISA • New Data on Marriage and Divorce • Open Forum: “Uses and Abuses of the Terms ‘Racism’ and ‘Racist’” (H. Goodrich) • Minutes from January 7, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council • Statistical Abstract Available from Bureau of the Census

Footnotes May 1977 (Volume 5, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.2 MB) • Council Ponders New ASA Journal for Non-Specialists • Rita J. Simon New ASR Editor • Norval Glenn New CS Editor • Problems of the Discipline Grants Announced • Sociology and Related Disciplines: Shared and Divergent Perspectives (Annual Meeting Plenary and Thematic Sessions) • Sociometry Becomes Social Psychology • Change Magazine to Feature Teaching of Sociology • Open Meetings Planned by ASA Committees on Women and Minorities • NSF Seeks Minorities, Women, and Handicapped • NEH Seeks 1978 Summer Program Directors • Letters to the Editor (Charles Powers; Daniel Lerner; Joan Huber; Francis D. Glamser; William Falk and Forrest A. Deseran; Irene R. Kiernan) • Robert Merton and Seymour Spilerman Join Russell Sage Foundation as Distinguished Scholars • Changes in 1977 Committees and Representatives • Call for Papers for Special Issue of TAS on “Alternative Theoretical Perspectives” • Open Forum: “The Gift: A Typology of Responses from Editors and Reviewers to Unsolicited Papers Submitted for Publication” (Walter Abbott); “Advocates Further Development of State Associations” (Lawrence J. Rhoades); “An Historical Sketch of the Relationship Between the Regional Sociological Societies and the ASA, 1934- 1977” (John Pease, Barbara Hetrick) • John Scanzoni New ASA Representative to Journal of Consumer Research • Obituaries: Charles H. Anderson, San Schulman, Eileen Markley Znaniecki, Harry Braverman

Footnotes August 1977 (Volume 5, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.2 MB) • Report of the ASA President (J. Milton Yinger) • President Elect Amos H. Hawley Announces Theme for 1978 Program: Societal Growth Processes and Implications • Special Supplement on the Status of Minorities • An Introduction to Amos Hawley, ASA President 1977-78 (Everett K. Wilson) • Program Call for Papers • Officers of Regional Societies and ASA Meet to Improve Cooperation • Hubert Blalock President-Elect, Charles Glock, Vice President-Elect • Two Executive Office Appointments: Doris Wilkinson is Executive Associate for Careers, Minorities and Women; Larry Rhoades Chosen as Executive Associate for Program • Report of the Executive Officer (Hans Mauksch) • ASA Council Revises Employment Bulletin Procedures for 1978 • ASA Testimony Before Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects • Sociologists to Participate in 1977-78 NSF Chautauqua-Type Short Courses • Allen Grimshaw Reflects on The American Sociologist • Early Mailing for 1978 Dues Renewals Announced • Annual Meeting Child Care Program Set • Obituaries: Dorothy Swaine Thomas, Donald Ramsey Young, Leonard Z. Breen, Robert F. Winch • Minutes of March 25, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council • COFRAT Report on the Case of Dr. Paul J. Nyden and the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Footnotes October 1977 (Volume 5, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • ASA Project on Undergraduate Sociology Receives Funds for Follow-Up Project • ASA Committee on Expanding Employment Opportunities Makes Recommendations • Council Sets Guidelines for ASA Journals • Council Approves $10 Processing Fees for ASA Journals • Spivack Fellowships Available for 1977 • ASA Award Winners: Kai Erikson and Perry Anderson Win Sorokin Award; Mirra Komarovsky Wins First Jessie Bernard Award; Otis Dudley Duncan Wins Stouffer Award • Annual Meeting Program Changes for 1978 • Open Forum: “Urges Revision of Ethic Code to Include Teaching and Student Rights” (John F. Galliher); “Introductory Sociology” (Ruth Harriet Jacobs; poem) • Amos Hawley, Herbert Hyman, Norman Ryder, and Arthur Stinchcombe Elected to AAAS Membership • Eight Sociologists Win Guggenheim Awards • World Congress Set for Uppsala in August • Undergraduate Project Adds More Resources; Revised Annotated Bibliography and Books • NEH Sets Deadline for Teacher Fellowships • Notre Dame Planning Student Convention • Massachusetts Sociological Association Celebrates 10th Anniversary • Obituaries: James McElvoy III, Virlyn A. Boyd, Stephen Schafer • Minutes of June 10, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council

Footnotes November 1977 (Volume 5, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • Travel Arrangements Set for World Congress in Uppsala • ADAMHA Places Emphasis on Post-Doctoral Fellowships • Program Committee Seeks Suggestions • Teaching Resources Group Becomes Operational • Nominations Committee Announces 1978 President, Vice President Candidates • Commission Supports Confidentiality of Data • Candidates Sought for SOE and JHSB Editorships • Yale Project Links Social Sciences to Energy • Letters to the Editor: “Questions Use of Photographs, Need for Date of Terminal Degree” (Paul M. Roman); “Emphasizes Goals of Social Psychology” (Howard Schuman); “Wants to Reduce Application Materials” (F.C. Rochte); “Need Applied Emphasis in Graduate Programs” (Alexander D. Blumenstiel); “Opposes Changing Name of Section” (Pawel Horoszowksi); “Supports Broadening Concept of Racism” (Darnell F. Hawkins); “Defends Broader Definition of Racism” (Kenneth Reichstein) • Sorokin Collection at University of Saskatchewan • Pre-Service Workshop Scheduled for Sacramento by ASA Project • NORC Cumulative Survey Data Set Available • Research by Students Funded by NSF • NSF Announces New Fellowships • NEH Offers Summer Seminars for College Teachers • Change Magazine Publications Available from Project Office • Undergraduate Education Section Orders Second Printing of Syllabi Set • Third New England Undergraduate Research Conference in Sociology • Eugene Griessman Receives Fulbright Lectureship • George F. Bishop Awarded Grant • Educational Testing Service Seeks Social Scientist to Develop Research Program • Obituaries: Sanford Labovitz, Louise E. Dotson, Jaroslav G. Moravec, Ronald C. Engle, June Sklar • Postdoctoral Grants Available for East European Studies • Ken Dossar Receives Mass Media Internship from AAAS • Changes for 1978 Program • Council Adopts Petition Guidelines • Editors Receive Grant to Develop Association • Eastern Sociological Society Receives Grant from Falk Fund • University of Minnesota Names Building for Sociologist Malcom Macdonald Wiley

Footnotes December 1977 (Volume 5, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Minority Fellowship Program Funds 28 • National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Seeks Proposals • Committee on Executive Office and Budget Urges Prompt Payment of Dues • Roland Liebert to Direct NSF Program • Sociological Follies Slated for San Francisco Meeting • Commission Urges Removal of Identifiers • ASA Suggests FAD Donation for Gift Givers • Council, Committee Candidates Announced for 1978 Election • Center on Youth Development Dedicated at Catholic University • Changes Announced for 1978 Meeting • Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards • Requirements for Fulbright Award Applications • First “Inter-Nos” Column from Executive Officer Russell Dynes • Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association Meeting Accents Teaching, Draws Large Turnout • Obituaries: Benjamin Nelson, Peter P. Klassen, Eleanor E. Carroll, Martin W. Davis, C. Edward Noll • Minutes of September 7, 1977, meeting of 1977 Council • Minutes of September 10, 1977, meeting of 1978 Council • Percentage of Women Doctorates in Sociology Increases (Doris Wilkinson) • Nathan Keyfitz Elected to NAS • Deaths: Harry Alpert

Footnotes January 1978 (Volume 6, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.9 MB) • Is Sociology Relevant to the “Real” World? Yes, but . . . • Minority Fellowship Program Compiles Impressive Four Year Record • Teaching Workshop Scheduled for Midwest Meeting • Committee Structure Revised by ASA Council • Sociologist Andrew Lind’s Classroom on Wheels • Commission Addressed Conditions at Disclosure • Aging Symposium Set for AAAS Meeting • Minority Fellowship Program Offers Applied Fellowships • Ode to Boston: Center of the Universe (a poem by Spencer Condie) • Open Forum: “Recommends Specific Training for Federal Careers” (Ronald Manderscheid) • ASA Committee on Expanding Employment Opportunities Seeks Sociologists in Non-Academic Settings • Applied Sociology Workshop Slated for Pacific Meeting • Danforth Program Offers Fellowships • Sale of Teaching Materials Shows Substantial Increase • NIA Seeks Health Scientist Administrator • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • SPSSI Announces Dissertation Prizes • Obituaries: T. Earl Sullenger • The American Sociologist Features New Perspectives • Family Impact Survey Underway • NCJRS Offers Free Services • Preparing Worldwide Report on Health Systems Research

Footnotes February 1978 (Volume 6, Number 2) (pdf file; 8.6 MB) • Decline in Social Science Majors • Candidates for ASA Election • Non Academic Settings Supportive of Research • New ASA Publications: Careers in Sociology, 1978 Guide, Directory of Members, Directory of Departments • Committee Structure for 1978 • ICPSR Programs Provide Training Opportunities • Sociologists Head Seminars for College Teachers • Obituaries: John M. Foskett • Elizabeth Briant Lee Elected President of Association for Humanist Sociology • World Congress of Sociology Theme, Travel, Grants • Eastern Sociological Society Forms Lectureship Committee • Social Indicators Issued by Commerce Department • Teaching vs. Research: Everett Wilson Calls for Revision of Teaching Role in Sociology • Occupational Data File Available • Eastern Sociological Society Meeting Schedules Innovative Sessions • Emory University Program Studies English Health Care • Committee on Alternative Resources Seeks Support • Proposals Sought on Institutional Racism • Conference on Meta-Theory • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Forum Debates Business Responsibility • Paul Chalfant Elected Mid-South Sociological Association President • NIH Forum Seeks Sociologists • AAAS Seeks Congressional Fellowship Applicants • Committee Appointments • New HRAF Improves Potential for Worldwide Theory Testing • Council Seeks Advice on Election Procedures

Footnotes March 1978 (Volume 6, Number 3) (pdf file; 5.4 MB) • Council Approves Continuation of Problems of Discipline Program • Non-Academic Settings: Breadth and Depth Needed in Graduate Training • Workshop Held on Opportunities in Federal Employment • Midwest Sociological Society Examines Structural Paradigm • Southern Sociological Society Special Sessions • NIE Plans New Programs and Expands Others • Election Edition: Candidate Biographies • Notre Dame Research Convention • On Verses Versus Boston (a poem by Suzanne Fleming) • Open Forum: “Seeks More Effective Organization of Sociologists” (Wade H. Andrews); “Cites Need to Notice How Much Learning is Taking Place” (Reyes Ramos) • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Information Sought on Memorial Session Held to Honor Harry Braverman • Obituaries: Harry Alpert, Henry A. Bowman, Carroll D. Clark, Norman S. Hayner • Committee on Publications Report • Editors’ Reports • Letters to the Editor: “Piener Rgues 4 Reformd Spelling” (S. Colum Gilfillan); “Photos Provide Data for Voting Decisions” (Cecelia E. Sudia); “Request Fewer Letters of Reference” (Phyllis C. Barrins) • Survey on Ethical Issues in Evaluation Research • ASA Project Plans Workshops in Florida and Colorado

Footnotes April 1978 (Volume 6, Number 4) (pdf file; 4.0 MB) • ASA Teaching Newsletter Seeks Subscribers • ASA Creates New Award Structure • Several ABASS Studies Underway • Departmental Role Focuses on Undergraduate Teaching • NSF Reorganizes RANN Program • Alternative Career Opportunities Outlined by Sociologists • ISA Travel Information • Spivack Fellowship Deadline Set for June 1 • Nominations Sought for Myrdal Prizes • Percent of Social Science Degrees Decreases in 1970s • Second Edition of Inquiries in Sociology Published • Pennsylvania Sociological Society Officers • Open Forum: “Assets Minority Employment Prospects Bright” (Phillip Carey); “Seeks Questions for Practical Research Bank” (Donald E. Allen) • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Election Studies Given Long-Range Funding • Center for Rape Prevention Offers Three Categories of Grants • Center Seeks Proposals on Reproductive Behavior • Proposals Sought on Social Factors Related to Oral Health • Sociological Follies Need Volunteers • Mount Vernon College Offers Facilities for Summer Programs • Visual Sociologists Invite Participation • Obituaries: Robert L. Kanter, Paul L. Wuebben, Morton DeCorcey Nachlas • Minutes of January 13, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council • More Editors’ Reports • More Committee Reports • Section Reports • After Thoughts; Final Words • Departments Attend ASA Teaching Workshop • NCSA Focuses on Human Rights, Undergraduate Teaching • New Videotape on Computer Graphics • ASA Award Deadlines

Footnotes May 1978 (Volume 6, Number 5) (pdf file; 5.2 MB) • Council Debates ERA Issues and Convention Sites • Federal Budget Requests for Social Science Outlined • COGRAT Issues Recommendations on Initial Appointments • Plenary and Thematic Sessions Emphasize Grown Phenomena • First Spivack Fellowships Announced • ASA Committee on the Profession Seeks Information on COINTELPRO Activities • ASA Committee on the Profession Seeks Information on Unethical Publishers • Non-Academic Settings: Sociologists React to and Discuss Meaning of Labels • Countries Request Fulbrights in Sociology • Spivack Fellowship Application Deadline • Conference to Examine Research Regulations • ASA Award Deadlines • New National Council Soliciting Research Proposals on Soviet Union and East Europe • Section on Aging Seeks Members • Academic Advising: Full-Time Position Termed “Rewarding” • ASA Annual Meeting to Serve as Lab: New Sponsor Named • Population Policy Proposals Sought • Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Seeks Editor • AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize Competition • New Members Named to NSF Advisory Group • Citizens Willing to Fund Research • Research Proposals Sought on Health Costs • NCSA Session Focuses on Futures for Sociologists • ASA Problem of Discipline Grants Supporting Three Groups • COFRAT: Guidelines for Initiation Appointments (including suggested letter of initial appointment offer) • Western Massachusetts Consortium Holds First Meeting • Council Considering Offering Group Insurance • Lazarsfeld Lectures Begin; Hans Zeisel to Give First Lecture • Minutes of March 11, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council • Committee Reports • Time, Space Allocation Guidelines Announced for Annual Meetings • Award Winning Student Films • Auditor’s Report: December 31, 1977 • Letters to the Editor: Difficulties in Selecting Job Applicants (Lauren H. Seiler) • DC Society Holds Job Conference for Undergraduates • Obituaries: D. Mehdi Azimi • New Service Provides Quick Access to Federal Statistics • Inter-Organizational Cooperation Produces Workshop on Introductory Sociology Course (Robert E. Kennedy, Jr., and Mohammad Tavakoli) • ASA Receives Funds for Abt Prize on the Conditions of Social Research • NIMH Wants More Research on Minority Groups • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes August 1978 (Volume 6, Number 6) (pdf file; 6.2 MB) • Report of the President: Amos Hawley Cites New ASA Actions • President Elect Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Announces Theme for 1979 Annual Meeting • Peter Rossi Wins Presidential Runoff; Helen MacGill Hughes Elected Vice President • Monanes Make Bequest to ASA for Two Programs • Teaching Center Relocates to ASA Office • Sociologists in Non-Academic Jobs Suggest Actions • William Foote Whyte Heads Effort to Link Academia and Congress • Portrait of the New ASA President: A Bundle of Contradictions: Which is the Real Tad Blalock? (Gerhard Lenski) • General Sessions and Organizers Named for 1979 ASA Meeting • Sociological Follies Cancelled • ASA Developing Non-Academic Roster • Editors Selected for ASA Journals: Howard B. Kaplan, JHSB; Alan C. Kerckhoff, SOE; Allen Grimshaw to Remain TAS Editor While Council Considers Future • Effort Underway to Improve Reporting of Social Sciences • Mid-South Sociological Association Launches New Journal, Sociological Forum • Postsecondary Research Group Forms in AERA • Washington Forms State Association • Report of the Secretary: Short: Remodeling, Finances and Divisive Tendencies (James F. Short, Jr.) • Problems of the Discipline Grant Deadline • Employment Projections, Job Seeking Tips Presented for Undergraduate, Graduate Sociology Trainees (Doris Wilkinson) • Foundation Seeks Proposals on Current Values • Sociologists Receive Grants for Population Policy Studies • Non-Profit Organizations Fund Sociologists (Guggenheim, German Marshall Fund, ACLS/SSRC, ACLS) • ASA Projects Schedule Workshops for Departmental Chairs and New Teachers • Report of the Executive Officer: Executive Office Functions to ASA Constitution (Russell Dynes) • ASA Historical Materials Sought • What Do You Do in the Executive Office? An Empirical Answer (Russell Dynes) • ASA Staff: An Introduction by Person and Job Activities • Minority Fellowship Program: First PhD, Celestino Fernandez, Fulfilling Its Promise • Proposals Wanted on Health of Children • Minority Fellowship Program Facing Funding Reductions • Researchers on Western Europe Sought • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Regulations for Research on Children • Wisconsin Association Plans Teaching Workshop • Section on Methodology Announces Training Institute at Annual Meeting • Leaflet on Information Act • Organizations Elect Sociologists • NSF Facing Large Budget Cut • Clinical Sociology Network Launched • ASA Conducts Referendum on Site of 1980 Annual Meeting (because Atlanta is not in an ERA state) • Sociologists Selected Woodrow Wilson Scholars • Recommendations for Review Board to be Published • Student Journal Directory Seeking Information • Letters to the Editor: On the New Careers in Sociology: “Unrealistic Picture on Roles, Market” (Jon Darling, Roslyn Darling); “Reads Well, Likes Gender Balance” (Charles A. Goldsmid); “An Improvement, a Disappointment” (Monica M. Morris). Other: “Must Return to a Quality System” (Pierre L. van den Berghe) • Open Forum: “Visions of Utopia” (Don Martindale) • TAS Wants Ideas on Academic Freedom • Obituaries: Frieda Fligelman, Winston W. Ehrmann, Hans W. Mattick, Harley O. Preston, Olive M. Stone • Harry Alpert Fund Established • Copies of National Drug Abuse Studies Available from NIDA • Late Charge Instituted for Late ASA Dues Payment • Clearinghouse on Academic Freedom Created • Funds Available for NIMH Grants • Grants Awarded for World Congress Travel

Footnotes October 1978 (Volume 6, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Editor’s Note: Continuous series on “Social Science and Government” launched • Social Science and Government: Study Examines Federal Investment in Social Science (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Nathan Glazer: Graduate Training Needs Professional Perspective • Program Committee Seeks Suggestions • Annual Meeting Moves to New York, Result of Referendum • Alice Meyers, ASA Administrative Officer, to Retire • New ISA Officers • Assessing Interest in Social Aspects of Space Utilization • David Mechanic Resigns Council Seat; Pauline Bart Accepts Council Post (Caroline Perrucci takes Bart’s Seat on Committee on Nominations) • Corresponding with ASA • Jessie Bernard Award Guidelines Announced • Privacy Research Competition Seeks Proposals • From Social R&D to Social Knowledge P&A • Problems Hamper Social Organization of Social Research Effort (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Oversight Institutions Named • Federal Funds: How Much, From Where, For What, For Whom (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • ASA Projects Slate Workshop for New Teachers • Syllabi Set on Sociology of Education Available from Teaching Resources Center • Supplementary Sessions • Undergraduate Teachers Participate in NEH Summer Seminars • Sociologists Teaching Chatauqua Courses: Apply Now • Registry of Retired Sociology Being Updated • Obituaries: Betty Radley Green, Hei Chu Kim, Robert Lee Sutherland • Lecture Series Honors Robert F. Winch • Minutes of June 16, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council • Another View of Graduate Education • Civil Service Commission Expands Program to Graduate Students

Footnotes November 1978 (Volume 6, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.8 MB) • Lilly Awards Second Grant to ASA Teacher Development Project • Candidates for ASA Offices • Teaching Resources Group Expands as Demand Increases in Third Year • Minority Fellowship Program Receives Additional Funds • Participation of Sociologists in Fulbright Program Reviewed (Russell Dynes) • Spivack Fellowships Awarded • Eubank Collection Donated to Chicago • COINTELPRO Activities • Proposals Wanted on Diet and Nutrition • Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Being Organized • ASA Involvement in International Scene • Sociologists Named Fulbright Scholars for 1978-79 • Tax Deductions for Attending Meetings in Other Countries • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • A Profile: Minorities in Sociology and Other Behavioral Sciences (Doris Wilkinson) • International Effort: Integration of Social Science Information • ASA Guidelines Cited for Exercising Right to Petition • Statisticians Honor Three Sociologists • New AID Division Seeks Social Science Feedback • SPSSI Task Force Seeks Input • Paper Discusses Statistical Disclosure • Teaching Positions Overseas • General Social Survey Results Available • Human Relations Area File Announces Summer Workshop • Section Organizers • Photos of Former ASA Presidents Available • Science Citation Index Data Base Leased by NSF

Footnotes December 1978 (Volume 6, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • NIE Awards ASA Grant for Research Skills Institute • ASA Council, Committee Candidates • Social Science and Government: NSF Council Preparing Reports on Science Policy Issues (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Sociologists to Participate in AAAS Meeting • Blalock: A Personal Appeal for Suggestions • NSF Seeks Replacement for Herbert Costner • Studies Wanted on Drug Abuse • Nominations Sought for Editors of Rose Monograph Series and SPQ • Open Forum: “ABS Statement Assails Book by Wilson”; “Black Sociologist Backs Wilson” (William A. Sampson); “Wants to Remove Restrictions on Meeting Papers” (Lee H. Bowker); “Suggest New Course of Action for State Sociological Associations” (Charlene Rushton Black) • Section on Visual Sociology Being Organized • Sociologists Place in SPSSI Dissertation Award Competition • ASA Council Opposes Proposition 6 • MFP Invites Applications • Minutes of September 6, 1978, meeting of 1978 Council • Career Bibliography II: More Resources for Sociology Trainees (Doris Wilkinson) • Alternative Careers for Academics Bulletin • Visiting Fulbrights Open to Invitations • Study Project on Social Research and Development Publications Available • Donations to ASA Fund for the Discipline Invited

Footnotes January 1979 (Volume 7, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Science and Technology Report Shows Need for Social Sciences (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award Given Posthumously to Ira de Augustine Reid • William Foote Whyte Becomes ASA Presidential Candidate through Open Nominations Process • William H. Sewell Heads National Commission on Research • Congress Adds to R&D Funding for Fiscal Year 1979 • Teaching/Learning Strategy Accents Citizenship Role • Annual Reviews: Assistance in Keeping Up with Developments; Suggestions Invited • ASA Solicits Proposals on Invasion of Privacy for Abt Award • Society for Social Studies of Science Elect Lowell Hargens and Jerry Gaston to Offices • Uppsala ISA Tax Forms Lost • FCC Children’s Television Task Force Seeks Studies • Journal of the History of Sociology Founded to Celebrate Centennial of Teaching of Sociology • ASA Represented at APHA Meeting • Eleven ASA Minority Fellows Have Received PhDs • Research Program Proposed on Female Equity in Education • Samuel Leinhardt Named SM Editor • James McCartney Named TAS Editor • Three New Publishing Ventures Announced for Social Sciences • Council of Editors Formed to Promote Cooperation and Communication • British Sociological Association Assumes Control of Journal, Moves to New Offices • Studies Sought on Effect of Inflation and Taxation on Consumers • National Archives Contain Data for Research and Teaching • Committee on National Statistics Seeks Input on Incomplete Survey Data • New York State Sociological Association, South Carolina Sociological Association Announce Election Results • University of California-Berkeley Begins Teaching Assistant Training Program • Brown University Receives Grant from Henry Luce Foundation • Letters to the Editor: “Teach General Skills of Analysis” (Paul M. Gustafson) • NIMH Solicits Proposals for Fellowships • Obituaries: Leo G. Reeder, Buford H. Junker, C. Terence Pihlblad, Henry L. Manheim, Joseph Chiozza Lagey • National Research and Information Center Offers Services to Facilitate Research on Death • Minutes of September 9, 1978, meeting of 1979 Council • NSF Sets Proposal Limits • Language-International Studies Commission Identifies Focus; Allen Kassof is Member • Survey of Longitudinal Studies • Institutional Review Board Comments Invited

Footnotes February 1979 (Volume 7, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Thematic Panels Announced for Boston Annual Meeting • Changes in Committee Structure Limited to Ad Hoc Category • William D’Antonio: Curriculum Needs to be Turned Inside Out • NEH Offers Summer Seminars for College Teachers • NIE Wants Proposals on Teaching and Learning • Center for Population Research Issues Call for Applications on Unwanted Pregnancy Studies • Merriam Professorship in Political Science at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign • Success of First ASA Projects Chair Workshop Leads to Planning Another • Social Problems Syllabi Available from TRC • East-West Population Institute Sponsors Population Summer Seminar • Editors’ Reports • Committee Appointments • Murray Melbin Wins AAAS Socio-Psychological Price • Fulbright Opportunities • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes March 1979 (Volume 7, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Referendum Slated on Membership-Dues Structure • Sociological Inventory: Ready for Reviews • Election Edition: Candidate Biographies • Plenary Sessions Announced for Boston Annual Meeting • Applications Invited for Spivack Fellowships • ASA Award Deadlines • Paris Conference on Sociology of Education • National Archives Offers Courses • Cancer Institute Seeks Proposals • Kenneth Prewitt Named SSRC President • Report of Status of Women in Sociology, 1934-1977 (Doris Wilkinson) • Sociologists Help Produce Handbook on Educational Planning • Footnotes Publishes Classified Ads • NCSA Workshop on Educating Applied Sociologists • ASA Projects Workshop Begins Development of Network for Training Graduate Students to Teach • Interfuture Provides Research Opportunities for Undergraduates • Association for Humanist Sociology Announces Election Results, New Address • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Committee Reports • RFP Performance of Agencies Assessed • Council Approves Insurance Plan • Matilda Riley, Orville Brim Elected to Institute of Medicine • Survey Research Techniques Summer Seminar • Rose Monograph Series Enters Second Decade; 20 Titles Issued • Sociology and ASA Course Becomes National Honors Program • Employment Bulletin Encourages Non-Academic Listings • New 1979 Guide to Graduate Departments • New Edition of Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

Footnotes April 1979 (Volume 7, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Changes Made in Space Allocation at Annual Meeting • Committee on Sections Re-Established • Preferential Voting Set for ASA Election • Plenary Marks Symbolic Transfer of Responsibility (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • ASA Offers Opportunity to Form Ad Hoc Research Groups • Task Force on Certification/Accreditation Created • ADAMHA Raises Small Grant Limit • NSF Launches Program to Improve Management of Research Projects • Section Dues Increased for 1980 • Section on Methodology Training Institute • Five Sessions to Focus on Teaching at ASA Meeting • Texas Establishes Monetary Teaching Award • Pennsylvania Sociological Society Elects Officers • Feeder System Developed by Illinois Wesleyan AKD • NIE Invites Proposals on Organizational Process • Planning Survey of PhD Nurses • NEH Offers Fellowships to Teachers • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Youth Values Report • Census Experts Wanted for Project • Summer Program in Medical Sociology at Boston University • Minutes of January 23, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council • Section Reports • Criminal Justice Studies Underway at Northwestern University • Obituaries: James Tamplin Laing, Svend Henry Reimer • Biopolitical Research Center Established at Northern Illinois University • Problems of Discipline Program Funds Three Projects; Proposals Solicited • Council Expands Membership and Mission of Problems of Discipline Committee • Humanities Report Final Report Due

Footnotes May 1979 (Volume 7, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.2 MB) • China Reinstates Sociology as a Branch of Science • Council Establishes Two Major Awards, Approves Publications Policies • Golden Fleece Suite Reaches Supreme Court • ASA President Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Urges More Support for Minorities in Science • Debates on Major Theoretical Issues Set for Boston Annual Meeting • Edward Shils Named NEH Jefferson Lecturer • Committee on Profession Reports Results of Survey: Fewer Scholar/Publisher Problems than Expected • Milton Gordon Encourages Closer Links Between Psychology and Sociology in ESS Presidential Address • ASA Professional Workshop Series • Techniques for Teaching Concepts Available from TRC • Didactic Seminars Aim to Update Knowledge, Skills • More TRC Syllabi Sets Being Developed; Submissions Invited • Ethelyn Davis Receives Cornaro Award • California State-Northridge Course Explores Sociological Dimensions of Industrialization and Settlement of Space • ICPSR Summer Program on Quantitative Methods • Anthropology Editors Donate Royalties to Minority Fellowship Program • Analysis of 1971-77 Job Listings Available • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Cartoon by David Adams, Ohio State-Lima • Letters to the Editor: “Caution Expressed on Free Services” (Thomas C. Nelson); “Underrepresentation of White Males” (Samuel Mueller); “Free Academic Use of Meeting Papers” (Bo G. Eriksson); “Urges International Approach to Sociology” (Maria Maxfield); “Social Consequences of Science and Technology” (Shirley Kolack) • Countries Want Sociologist Fulbright Scholars • Auditor’s Report, December 31, 1978 • Obituaries: Melville Dalton, Hans Heinrich Gerth • Executive Associates Doris Wilkinson and Lawrence J. Rhoades Reappointed • Committee on Publications Report • Representative Reports • Richard Ofshe Shares Pulitzer Prize for Public Service • Nominations Invited for Committees on Nominations, Committees • New ASA Publications: Guide to Graduate Departments, Directory of Departments, Directory of Members, Federal Funding Programs for Social Scientists, Guidelines for Initial Appointments in Sociology

Footnotes August 1979 (Volume 7, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Report of the President: Hubert Blalock, Jr. Stresses Long-Term Issues • President-Elect Peter Rossi Recognizes Diversity in 1980 Annual Meeting Theme • William Foote Whyte New ASA President; Renee Fox, Vice President; Herbert Costner, Secretary • ASA Council Takes Actions in Support of Teaching • Portrait of ASA President Peter Rossi: A Robin Hooding Heavyweight at the Helm • Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1980 Annual Meeting • Clinical Sociology Association Organized • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes; to Alice Myers on her retirement) • Open Forum: “Institutional Review Boards: Legal-Administrative Bases” (James M. Murtha, Lauren H. Seiler) • Tributes to Talcott Parsons, 1902-1979 • ASA Research Skills Development Institute Held at Morgan State • George Bohrnstedt Named SPQ Editor • Suzanne Keller Named Rose Editor • Student Reception Scheduled for 1979 Annual Meeting • Report of the Secretary: James F. Short, Jr. Outlines Association Actions in Search for Equity • MFP Given New Grant; Dissertation Awards Made • ASA Projects Schedule Second Chair Workshop • New Teaching Resources Available at Annual Meeting • Sociologists Win Guggenheims • NEH Offers Year-Long Seminars for Teachers • Hospitality Suite for Teachers at 1979 Annual Meeting • Census Bureau Developing Workbook • Chautauqua Course Schedule Ready • Boston Meeting: Last Hurrah for Alice (on Alice Myers’ Retirement) • Sheldon Stryker’s NCSA Presidential Address: Identity Crisis in Sociology Calls for Common Vision of Relevance • Michael Schudsen, Gail Lapidus Named Rockefeller Fellows • Research Wanted on Immigration • Journalist-Sociologist (Richard Ofshe) Team Wins Pulitzer Prize • Support Solicited for Textbook Suite • Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Reviews Executive Office Activities and Restructuring • Problems of Discipline Grant Proposal Deadline • Minutes of March 10, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council • John and Ruth Useem Honored for Scholarship on International Exchanges • Orville Brim, Jr. Receives Kurt Lewin Award • Social Science and Government: Supreme Court Rules Researchers Are Not Public Figures (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Membership Renewal Incorporates Referendum Changes

Footnotes October 1979 (Volume 7, Number 7) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Council Approves Theory Annual, Constitutional Referendum • Social Science and Government: IRB Regulations Published by HEW • April 1980 Designated “Teaching of Sociology” Month by ASA Projects • Candidates Announced • Helen Fein Wins Sorokin Award • Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer and Nancy Chodorow Win Jessie Bernard Award • Last Spivack Fellows Chosen • IRB Regulations: An Opposing View from Ithiel de Sola Pool • Minority Fellowship Program Announces Spivack Dissertation Awards • MFP Seeks 1980-81 Applicants • COFRAT: Evolution of Mission During First Decade • COFRAT Procedures for Investigating Cases • IPA Positions Available at Health Research Center • Supplementary Sessions at 1980 Annual Meeting • Obituaries: Fred Cottrell, Louis Schneider, Grace Duncan Hopper, Ruth Viola Reed • Deaths: David V. Glass, Hillquit Linch • Nominations Invited for ASR, CS, JHSB, and SOE Editorships • Proposals Wanted on Soviet Union, Eastern Europe • Maurice Falk Medical Lecture Series Seeking Sociologists • NSF Offers Fellowships

Footnotes November 1979 (Volume 7, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Annual Meeting to Explore Frontiers of Social Inventions (William Foote Whyte) • Minority Fellowship Program Receives Funds for Applied Fellowships • Social Science and Government: Study Reports Trouble Ahead for University Research (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Open Forum: “Problems of Professional Nomads Need Attention” (J. Allen Whitt and Charles Derber) • Sociologists Win Fulbright Awards • Sociological Horoscope (periodic feature by Jackie Boles) • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Obituaries: William Earle Cole, Allan W. Eister, Lawrence La Fave, Paul W. Massing • Minutes from June 15, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council • Sociologists Receive Honorable Mentions for Allport Prize • ASA Guidelines for Exercising Right to Petition • New Youth Survey Added to Longitudinal Labor Force Study • Charles Y. Glock Honored by B’nai B’rith

Footnotes December 1979 (Volume 7, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • First Common Wealth Awards Honor Robert K. Merton and Kingsley Davis • Poster Sessions Scheduled for 1980 Annual Meeting • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Historical Series Commemorating ASA’s 75th Anniversary Begins • Teaching Workshops Set for April 1980 • SSRC/ACLS Grants to Sociologists for International Research • MFP Names 10 Research Fellows; Five More Fellows Receive PhDs • Second Research Skills Institute Set for UCLA • ASA Council Censures University of Vermont • Matilda Riley Heads Social Research at NIA • NSF Sociology Program Managers Offer Assistance to Colleagues • Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship • Iner Nos (Russell Dynes on Paul Chalfant) • NSF Equipment Grants • Books Wanted for China • Efforts to Establish ASA Section on Racial and Cultural Minorities • Human Resources Workshop at Howard University • Argentinian Worker Wants Books to Continue Study • Obituaries: Alex Simirenko, Karen A. Laidlaw • Deaths: Myron (Mike) Lewis, Everett V. Stonequist, Elijah L. White, Ernest M. Banzet • Minutes of August 30, 1979, meeting of 1979 Council • Minutes of September 1, 1979, meeting of 1980 Council • Referendum: Proposed Changes in ASA Constitution, By-Laws • Council on Social Work Education Approves Programs • Letters to the Editor: “Sexism in Sociology” (Barrie Thorne, Lewis Coser, Joyce Ladner, Essie Manuel Rutledge, Pepper Schwartz, Gaye Tuchman); “Sociology and NIMH Training Programs” (for Social Science Fellowship Training Committee, William T. Liu and Roberta G. Simmons) • Problems of Discipline Grants Support Collaborative Scholarship; Proposals Invited

Footnotes January 1980 (Volume 8, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Sociologists Form Separate, Independent Society (Lawrence J. Rhoades; first in a series on the history of ASA) • NCES Reports Unexpected Rise in College Enrollments • NSF Sociology Program 72 Grants in FY 1979 • ASA Projects Invite Participation in Teaching Month Observance • Social Science and Government: Strategy Proposed for Preserving Research Excellence thru Year 2000 (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Nominations Invited for DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award • Presidential Commission Calls for Languages and International Studies • Health Service System Research Program Started • NIE Seeks Proposals on School Organization; Nine Sociologists Funded • Sociologists Named to Peace Commission • NEH Announces Summer Seminars for College Teachers • Chair Workshop Initiates Effort to Start Newsletter for Sociology Department Chairs • ASA Projects Revises Schedule for Teaching Workshops • Letters to the Editor: “Commends Comment on Nomads” (Helen J. Raschke); “Sociological Methodology Policies Outlined” (Samuel Leinhardt, SM Editor); “Graduate Student Comments on Faculty” (Name withheld); “Is This Your Typical Day?” (Warren R. Paap, Bill Hanson) • Proposed ASA Code of Ethics: Reactions Solicited • Obie Clayton, ASA Minority Fellow, Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award • Sexual Biases in Sociological Research: Problems and Issues (prepared by the Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology) • Obituaries: Jerome Davis, Gino Gemani, John A. O’Donnell • Privacy Research Proposals Wanted • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes February 1980 (Volume 8, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • Council Actions Revamp Committee Structure for 1980 • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Aids Creation of Social Science Institutions • Application Deadline Set for ASA Research Skills Development Institute • ASA Considering Faculty Conference on Organizational Analysis • Six Mini-Workshops Scheduled for Teaching Sociology Month • Open Forum: “Language Courses Based on Social Science Content” (Magoroh Maruyama) • Letters to the Editor: “Questions Access to Books in China” (Werner Cohn); “Openness Reported; Encourages Support” (response by Russell Dynes) • Problems of the Discipline Grants Produce Two Books; Another Forthcoming • Efforts Continue to Organize State Sociological Associations • Applications Invited for Indiana University Training Program in Measurement • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Committee Reports • AKD Announces Officers • Population Reports Service Changes • ASA Committee Appointments • Scholars from Nine Countries Become Visiting Fulbright Scholars

Footnotes March 1980 (Volume 8, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.9 MB) • Council Approves Tri-Partite Editorship for Theory Annual; Other Council Actions • Four Monographs Added to Rose Series in 1979 • Open Nominations Candidates Announced • Plenary Sessions to Focus on Critical Institutions • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Grows in Size and Complexity in First 25 Years • Open Forum: “Mauksch Urges Participation in April: Teaching Month” (Hans O. Mauksch) • ASA Teaching Newsletter Seeks Subscribers • Graduate Students Win Fulbrights • Seventh Mini-Workshop Set for April • NSF Seeks Candidates for Associate Program Director in Sociology Program • Workshop on Developmental Transitions in the Lives of Women and Men • AAAS Committee Details Legal Protection for Whistle Blowing • NCSA Offers Employment Service • Guide to Graduate Departments Available • ASA May Offer Faculty Conference on Organizational Analysis • Federal Funding Level for Social/Behavioral Science Indicates Low National Priority • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Obituaries: Austin L. Porterfield, Winifred Raushenbush • Editors’ Reports • Candidate Biographies • Applications Invited for Research Workshop at Howard University • Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Career of Distinguished Scholarship • ASA Diamond Anniversary Contest Quiz

Footnotes April 1980 (Volume 8, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Social Science and Government: Congress Urged to Support Basic Social Science Research • Thematic Sessions Announced for 1980 Annual Meeting • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Experienced Major Social Change in Turbulent 1930s • William D’Antonio to Edit Contemporary Sociology • ASA Meeting Serves as Classroom for Honors Course • Nominations Invited to ASA Teaching Award • Nominations Still Open for Editorships of JHSB, SOE • NSF Funding Cut; Workshop on Organizational Analysis Cancelled • Institute on Health and Health Care Slated • A Synopsis: Projections for the Profession in the 1980s (Doris Y. Wilkinson) • Conference on Organizational Taxonomies • NIH Seeks Health Science Administrator • Minutes of January 19, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council • Section Reports • Nominations Invited for ASA Distinguished Scholarship Award • Guide Shows Variety in Degree Grantors • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes May 1980 (Volume 8, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • Survey of ASA Members Scheduled for June • Council Launches Teaching Services Program; Other Council Actions • ASA Meeting Features Variety of Sessions • NIMH Awards 99 Grants to Sociologists in FY 1979 • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Currents of Change Flow Through Society as Second Quarter-Century Begins • Open Forum: “Applied Sociology Suggested as Best Generic Term” (Alexander Boros) • Summer Programs Provide Opportunities for Development • Peter Burger, Randall Collins, Irving Zeitlin Named Editors for Sociological Theory • Publish-or-Perish Policy Hurting Scholarly Journals, Says Helen Hughes in ESS Presidential Address • The American Sociologist Invites Papers for Possible Special Issue on “The ASA at 75” • ASA Reference Materials Available • A Summary: Sections and the Changing Structure of ASA (Doris Wilkinson) • Event-History Data Workshop to be Held at Columbia University • Council Accepts Recommendations of COFRAT • Nominations Invited for ASA Elected and Appointed Positions • Bills Support Confidentiality of Data (Bradford H. Gray) • Annual Meeting Child Care. Room Sharing • Nominations Invited for Distinguished Scholarship Award • Task Group on Homosexuality Questionnaire • Council Resolution: Privacy Due Rape Victims • Countries Seek Sociology Fulbright Scholars • Auditor’s Report: December 31, 1979 • Problems of Discipline Awards Four Grants; Deadline August 1 • Chautauqua Short Courses • NIA Expands Social Research on Aging • NSF Sociology Directors Describe Program, Provide Data on Projects • Nancy Tuma, Mayer Zald Appointed to NSF Sociology Review Panel • Teachers Information Exchange Telephone Referral Service • NSF Minority Fellowships • ACE Study Says College Enrollments May Not Decline as Expected • Committee Reports • More 1979 Section Reports • Representative Reports • Office of Naval Research Interested in Organizational Socialization • Robert Merton First Sociologist to Win Talcott Parsons Prize • Proxmire to Pay Settlement in Golden Fleece Libel Suit • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes August 1980 (Volume 8, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.5 MB) • Report of the President: Peter Rossi Expresses Concern about Diversity in Sociology • President Elect William Foote Whyte Aims 1981 Program at Reorientation of Research • Erving Goffman Elected ASA President; Joan Huber New Vice President • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Major Organizational Steps Taken During Disruptive 1940s • William Form Named Interim Editor of ASR • Portrait of New ASA President: Bill Whyte: In Essence a Participant Observer • Otto Larsen Directs Social Sciences at NSF • Leonard Gordon Calls for Consensus on Rules of Evidence • Research Data Not Available Through Freedom of Information Act • A Presidential Invitation to the Annual Meeting (Peter Rossi) • Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1981 Annual Meeting • Teaching Workshops Set for November • Teaching Sociology Month Attracts Nationwide Support • Submissions Invited to ASA Teaching Newsletter • New TRC Products • Max Weber: A Spy! • NIMH Office of Prevention • Harold L.Sheppard Advises President Carter on Aging • Site Options for Annual Meetings Outlined by Study Committee • Problems of Discipline Grant Proposals Invited • Clinical Sociology to Hold Presentations, Workshops in New York City • Harvard University Seeks Full Professor in Social Psychology • ASA Minority Fellowship Program: The First Seven Years (Paul Williams) • MFP Fellows, Spivack Awards Announced • Students Begin Graduate Training as NSF Fellows • Report of the Secretary: James F. Short, Jr., Cites Changes, Remaining Problems as Tenure Ends • Community Section Honors Helen and Robert Lynds • Departmental Alumni Night Scheduled • Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Outlines Association Activities • Meeting on Indexing ASA Journals • NSF Program on Law and Social Sciences Invites Research Proposals • National Council Formed to Promote Languages, International Studies • Paul Freddolino Receives ASA Privacy Research Award, Funded by Abt • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • University of California-San Francisco Seeks Director of Program in Human Development and Aging • Revised Code of Ethics; Discussion Set for Annual Meeting • NIJ Announces Research Program in Evaluation and Research Methods • Student Reception Set for Annual Meeting • Social Survey Data Ready • Proposals Wanted on Substance Abuse • Diamond Anniversary Quiz: Questions, Answers, Winner • Letters to the Editor: “Rosenthal Questions COFRAT Findings” (Steven J. Rosenthal); “Support Sociology in High Schools” (James L. Wood, Phillip T. Gay) • Sociologists Win Guggenheims • Sociologists Receive Public Service Residencies • NSF Program on Science in Developing Countries Established • NSF Advisory Council Seeks Innovative Research Proposals • Sociologists Awarded Marshall Fund Fellowships • Minutes of March 15, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council • ISI Expands Grants Program • Abt Associates to Offer Applied Statistics Workshops • SSS Presidential Address: Peter Rossi Cites Opportunities in Applied Social Research • Program Changes • Sociologists Given Lectures on Education • Harvard University Seeks Non-Tenure Appointees • Simirenko Apple: Tribute to a Colleague

Footnotes October 1980 (Volume 8, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Sheldon Stryker Named ASR Editor • New Theory Annual, Sociological Theory, Ready to Receive Submissions • New Products Available from Teaching Resources Center • Nominations Invited for Rose, SM, SPQ, TAS Editorships • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Society Prospers as Golden Era Gets Underway in Expansive 1950s • Open Forum: “Suggests Restructuring Criteria for Faculty Recruitment” (Magoroh Maruyama) • Doris Wilkinson Moves to Howard University • Careers, Minorities and Women: Skills Assessment: Marketing Our Assets (Doris Wilkinson) • Attend ASA Research Skills Development Institute • Evaluation Research Society Establishes Job Bank • Nominations Invited for Jessie Bernard Award • Sociology in China: Its Restoration and Future Role • TAS Article on China • The China Connection in American Sociology: Scholarly and Personal • American Sociologists Assisting Restoration in China • Seeming an Indigenous Form (Martin Whyte and Burton Pasternak) • Journal, Social Sciences in China, Started • Learned Societies Urged to Support Humanities • Students Receive NSF Research Grants • NEH Offers Fellowships to Undergraduate Teachers • Ideas for Evaluating and Testing Students Wanted for TRC Document • Undergraduate Section Invites Submissions for 1981 Program • James J. Zuiches and Paul Burstein Named NSF Sociology Program Directors • Enrollment Started for Disability Insurance Plan • ASA Subcommittee on Certification Seeks Input • Marshall Sklare Named Director of Jewish Center at Brandeis University • Proposals Invited on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention • Obituaries: Read Bain, Henry D. McKay, Hae Young Lee, Robert H. Talbert • Deaths: Edward C. Jandy, William Jones, Carl F. Kraenzel • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards for Research and Teaching in 19 Countries • Inventory Clearance Sale on Rose Monographs

Footnotes November 1980 (Volume 8, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • ASA Awards: Career of Distinguished Scholarship, Robert K. Merton; Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Peter M. Blau and Theda Skocpol; Contributions to Teaching, Everett K. Wilson; DuBois-Johnson-Frazier, Joseph S. Himes • Social Science Directorate Included in NSF Reorganization Plan • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Association Reaches Zenith in Tumultuous 1960s • Candidates for ASA President, Vice President • Careers, Minorities, Women: Evaluating Graduate Education in Sociology (Doris Wilkinson) • Minnesota Women’s Center Project Explores Science and Technology Careers for Women • James Coleman, Otis Dudley Duncan Receive 1980 Common Wealth Awards • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Minority Fellowship Program Seeks 1981-82 Applicants • NSF Awards Applied Grants to Sociologists • Maurice Falk Medical Lecture Series Seeks Lecturers, Host Institutions • Reorganization Plan for LEAA • ASA Guidelines Cited for Exercising Right to Petition • Obituaries: David Street, Audrey Russell Jackson • Universities Using TRG Visits More than Colleges • Hans Mauksch Receives Undergraduate Education Section Award • Departments Given NSF Equipment Grants • Survey of Departments Conducted to Gather Information on Teaching Innovations

Footnotes December 1980 (Volume 8, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • Committee on Nominations Completes Slate for 1981 Election • Freeman Outlines Major Issues Related to Applied Sociology (Howard E. Freeman) • Teaching Endowment Fund Receives Challenge Grants • ASA’s 75th Anniversary: Association Enters Period of Consolidation and Transition in 1970s • Leonard Pearlin Named JHSB Editor; Maureen Hallinan to Edit SOE • Three Study Groups Receive Problems of Discipline Grants • Supply and Demand Data Wanted on Sociologists by ASA Committee • TAS Special Issue on “The ASA at 75” to be Published in February 1981 • Minutes of August 29, 1980, meeting of 1980 Council • Minutes of September 1, 1980, meeting of 1981 Council • TRC Issues Two-Volume Family Syllabi Set • Georgia Sociological Association Sponsors Teaching Workshops • Vita on Women Being Collected by ASA Committee on Status of Women • Nominations Invited for ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship

Footnotes January 1981 (Volume 9, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • NSF Sociology Program Announces Recipients of FY 1980 Awards • William Foote Whyte Describes Common Culture Pattern of Annual Meetings • NEH Offers Summer Seminars for Undergraduate Teachers • Grace Henderson Assumes Responsibilities for ASA Careers, Minorities, and Women • MFP Deadline February 1 • ADAMHA Funds Research through National Institutes • Nominations Invited for Jessie Bernard Award, Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship • Conference on Women in the Professions to be Held at Purdue University • Research Workshop Scheduled at Howard University • Obituaries: August Hollingshead, Werner J. Cahnman, Richard E. DuWors, John James • Deaths: Rollin Chambliss, William Christian Lehmann • Memorial Planned for Martin Haskell • Studies in Higher Education Surveys Departments • Teaching Services Program Plans Workshop Series • Letters to the Editor: “Task Group Clarifies Surveys on Homosexuality” (John Gagnon, Joan Huber, Suzanne Keller, Ron Lawson, Patricia Miller, William Simon • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes)

Footnotes February 1981 (Volume 9, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • NSF Merges Basic and Applied; No Social Science Directorate • Social Inventions Featured at 1981 Annual Meeting • New Staff Needed in ASA Executive Office • New Registry of Retired Sociologists Planned • National ASA Teaching Workshops Set for May 14-19 • ASA Workshops Held on Planning and Evaluation • Ideas Needed for TRC: Minority Syllabi, Testing Students • Barriers to Support of Social Sciences: Alpert 1958 • Fulbright awards • Liaison Representatives Needed for Work Areas • ASA Committee on World Sociology Seeks Liaison with Social Scientists Around World • NSF Chautauqua Courses • “Emile n’ Maz” (cartoon by D. Adams) • ASA Committee Appointments Announced • Jessie Bernard Award Nominations Sought • Graduate Students Receive 1980-81 Fulbright Awards for Overseas Study • Obituaries: Kingsley H. Birge, Henry J. Browne, George K. Hesslink • Committee Reports • Four Receive SSSI Awards • 10th World Congress of Sociology to be Held in Mexico City • Departments Receive DOE Grants for Minorities • Lesley College Announces New Program in Mental Health Management • Problems of Discipline Grants Available: Deadline May 1 • NIE Grant Proposals Due • Requests for Other Group Activities at Annual Meeting Due

Footnotes March 1981 (Volume 9, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.1 MB) • OMB Guts NSF Social Science Budget • Toronto Plenaries Announced • Final Research Regulations Approved: Most Social Science Research Exempt • ASA Council Meetings; Actions Discussed • NEH to Hold Seminar on Language • System Research Program at NIMH • Jo Ann Ruckel Appointed ASA Administrative Officer • Candidate Biographies (Election Issue) • Petition Candidates Announced • NSF Director Otto Larsen: Need for Continuing Support for Social Sciences • Nominations Sought for ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching • Duke University Department Survives “Creative Retrenchment” (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • “Middletown” Revisited: Documentary Planned on Community Studies by Robert and Helen Lynd • Obituaries: Alvin Ward Gouldner, Vernon K. Dibble • International Conference Set for University of Pittsburgh • ASA Voting Study Planned • Inter Nos (Russell Dunes) • Editors’ Reports • National Series of ASA Teaching Workshops Planned for May 14-19 • ASA Teaching Newsletter Subscription Form

Footnotes April 1981 (Volume 9, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Social Science Research and Training Support Cut • Workshops and Seminars Set for 1981 Annual Meeting • Sociologists Receive Grants from NIMH • Committee on Sections Proposes Change in By-Laws (increase in members required) • Seventh Annual Honors Program Scheduled • TRC Seeks Contributions for Handbook on Humor in Teaching Sociology • SSRC Plans Research on Social Indicators • Rockefeller Fellowships Awarded • Social Indicators III Issued by Commerce Department • Census Reports Available • Federal Statistics Council Opens Office • Panel Study Data File • Additional Fulbright Awards • Gail E. Thomas Donates Royalties to MFP • States Develop Programs to Improve Research Environment • 1980 AAAS Socio-Psychological Prize Awarded to Bib Latane, Stephen Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Nominations Invited to Distinguished Scholarship, Teaching Awards • Census Data Set Available • Cheryl Miller, Stephen Kalberg Receive NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships • ASA Contributors • Obituaries: William C. Lehmann, Arthur Hiederhoffer • Social Security Administration Plans Retirement Study • Section Reports • SSRC, ACLS Fellowships Announced • Letters to the Editor: Irwin Deutscher, Stanford W. Gregory, Jr. • New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available

Footnotes May 1981 (Volume 9, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • ASA Joins with Other Organizations to Establish Consortium to Support Congressional Liaison Office (COSSA) • NIDA and NIAAA Awards • MFP Fellows Selected; Support Uncertain • ASA Applied Sociology Conference Set for DC • Countries Seek Fulbrights in Sociology • Auditor’s Report • National Committee for 1980 Census Research Established • ICPSR to Distribute 1980 Census Data Files • Travel Funds Available for Grenoble Meeting • Minority Students Receive NSF Awards • Information on 1981 Annual Meeting: Air Travel, Child Care, Room Sharing • Inter Nos: Thoughts--Pure and Applied--on the Administration Budget for Social Science (Russell Dynes) • SWS Establishes Natalie Allon Defense Fund • ASA/SSSP To Co-Sponsor Sessions at Annual Meeting • TAS Invites Papers for Special Issue on Financing Sociological Research • Nominations Invited for ASA Elected and Appointed Positions • Sections Plan Annual Meeting Activities • Materials on Clinical Sociology Sought for Upcoming Bibliography • Council Minutes from January 23, 1981, meeting of 1981 Council • New ASA Guide, Directories Available • Obituaries: Robert Graham Caldwell • New TRC Syllabi Set on Environmental Sociology

Footnotes August 1981 (Volume 9, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Alice Rossi Wins ASA Presidency; Everett K. Wilson New Vice President • ASA President William Foote Whyte Calls for Practical Sociology • ASA Workshop on Directions in Applied Sociology • Search for New ASA Executive Officer • Gallaudet University to Sponsor Interpreters at Annual Meeting • ASA Biographical Directory of Members Scheduled for 1982 • New ASA President: Presentation of Erving Goffman • ASA Survey Results: Members Like Services; Want More • Alex Inkeles, Charles Tilly Elected to National Academy of Sciences • New Executive Office Appointments: Carla Howery, Bettina Huber, Paul Williams • Lawrence Rhoades Accepts NIMY Position • Invitation to the Annual Meeting • COSSA Responds to Budget Crisis • Canadian Postal Strike May Affect Hotel Reservations for Annual Meeting • Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1982 ASA Annual Meeting • Program Committee Encourages Papers on Range of Methodologies • Report of the Secretary: Herbert Costner Reports Executive Office Activities and Changes • Nominations Invited for 1984-86 CS Editorship • Boyd Printing Company President Henry Quellmalz’s 30 Years of Service Recognized and Appreciated • Report of the Executive Officer: Russell Dynes Outlines Association Activities • Portrait of William Edward Burghardt DuBois on National Public Radio Series • Clinical Sociology Association to Hold Workshops in Toronto • Problems of Discipline Grant Deadline: November 1 • TRC Offers Three New Products • TRC Seeks Submissions for Resources on Humor, Testing Students • Teaching Newsletter to Resume in 1982 • Sociologists Receive 1981 Humanities Awards • ASA Reports on Women’s Participation Available • Preston Valien Receives Stuart Rice Award from CDSA • Cora Marrett to Chair NSF Committee • Samuel Heilman, Wolf V. Heydebrand, Elliott Rudwick Receive ACLS Awards • History of the ASA: 1905-1980 Available • National Scientific Associations Support Social Sciences • James Bjorkman and Wolfgang Teckenberg Receive German Marshall Fund Fellowships • Regional Officers Announced • John Lofland: Sociologists Need a More Activist Stance • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • ASA Focuses on Career Planning and Development (Grace Henderson) • NRC Workshop Report Released • ISA Invites ASA Members to 10th World Congress • Currency Exchange at Annual Meeting • ISA Library Program Expands • Six Receive NSF Fellowships • Sociological Theory Invites Manuscripts • Sociologists Win Guggenheims • Minutes of May 16, 1981, meeting of 1981 ASA Council • ASA Representative Reports • More 1980 ASA Committee Reports • Obituaries: Edward Wadsworth Gregory, Leonard Louis Linden, Richard T. Morris, Jane Cassels Record, David Rodnick, Paul Kecskemeti • Deaths: Vernon Davies • Data Gathering Efforts Hampered by Funding Cuts • Clinical Sociology Association Initiates Curriculum File • New ASA Insurance Plans Offered • Military Family Center Established • Letters to the Editor: Wade H. Andrews

Footnotes October 1981 (Volume 9, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • ASA Awards Announced: Career of Distinguished Scholarship--Everett C. Hughes; Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship--E. Digby Baltzell and Morris Rosenberg; Distinguished Contributions to Teaching--Hans O. Mauksch; Jessie Bernard Award-- Elise Boulding • Council to Review ASA Publications Program • ASA Applied Workshop Set • COSSA to Continue Budget Monitoring • COSSA Contributions Needed • Mayer Zald Appointed to Council as Sheldon Styker Resigns to Edit ASR • Two Programs Receive NSF Grants for Teaching • National Humanities Alliance Formed • New ASA Editors: Rose Series--Ernest Campbell; TAS--Robert Perrucci • ASA Section Sponsors New Volume on Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives • Thirteen Receive Fulbright Grants • Congressional Committee Open to Social Sciences • Oliphant Cartoon on social science study (reprinted from Washington Star) • Twenty States Participate in New Polling Network • Howard Becker, Peter Blau Receive 1981 Common Wealth Awards • 15th Century Data Files Finally Available • Report of the President: William Foote Whyte Reviews Term; Emphasizes Field Work • Annual Meeting Successful Despite “Strikes” Against It • Photographs from 1981 Annual Meeting • Changes Needed in Graduate Sociology Training for the 1980s (Edward C. McDonagh and Kent P. Schwirian) • Obituaries: Tamme Wittermans, Jane Alison Weiss • Letters to the Editor: “Human Subjects Catch-22?” (Ithiel de Sola Pool) • ASA Guidelines for Exercising Right to Petition

Footnotes November 1981 (Volume 9, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • NIMH to Support Some Social Research • Candidates for 1982 ASA Offices • Non-Academic Employers Surveyed • Program Committee Invites Suggestions for Annual Meting • New Human Subjects Policies Announced; Exemptions Outlined (Bettina Huber) • Scientific and Technical Personnel Data Tapes Available • New International Education Register • Sociology Fulbrights Announced • William Flinn Assesses Rural Sociology • Harris Sourcebook Published • Three Receive NEH Grants • SSRC Fellowships and Grants Announced • Problems of the Discipline Grants Deadline February 1 • SSSP Award Honors Alfred and Elizabeth Lee • Filmed Introductory Course Developed • Midwest Universities Offer Minority Fellowships • Regional Meeting Calendar • Deaths: Donald R. Baker, Wendell H. Bash, Rayman Charles Forston, Samuel Kincheloe • Interuniversity Institute • Heart Attack Victims Sought for Study • MFP Seeks 1982-83 Applicants

Footnotes December 1981 (Volume 9, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • ASA Election Slate Announced • Council Unable to Act on Complaint Against Brandeis University • COSSA Shows Interdisciplinary Cooperation is Effective; Long-Term Commitment Needed • Needed Research in the Sociology of Age (Matilda White Riley) • Comments on ASA Handicapped Services Wanted • A Commentary: Gutting Affirmative Action--New Policy in Action (Bettina Huber) • Administration’s Budget Threatens Fulbright Program • NEH Publishes Application Deadlines • 10th World Congress Set for Mexico City, August 16-21, 1982 • New JHSB Editorial Address • Federal Funding for the Social Sciences: Threats and Responses (Kenneth Prewitt and David L. Sills) • Deaths: Rensis Likert, T. Scott Miyakawa • Over 50 TRC Products Available; More Being Developed • Teaching Services Program Announces Spring Workshops • Social Science Photo Exhibit at Northwestern University • Teaching Information Exchange

Footnotes January 1982 (Volume 10, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • New ASA Editors: Peter Burke, SPQ; Nancy Tuma, SM • Sociologists Receive 1981 NSF Grants • NSF Advisory Committee • SOE to Publish Special Issue Focusing on Coleman Study • Applied Workshop Held in Washington, DC • Fulbrights Awarded to 24 Sociologists • World Congress Set for August; Travel Grants Expected • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Peer Review Study Findings Spark Controversy • Applied Sociology Association Thrives in Sacramento • Archibald Haller Awarded Order of Merit • Annual Meeting Honors Program Attracts 23 • Executive Office Wants Ideas on Teaching • Regional Teaching Workshops Scheduled for March • Minutes of August 27, 1981, meeting of 1981 ASA Council • Urban Institute to Award Minority Fellowships • Deaths: Dorothy Jean Young (wife of T.R. Young)

Footnotes February 1982 (Volume 10, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • MFP Has 40 Graduates; Now Aids 62 • Committees Appointed • NIMH Proposal Survey • Peace Academy Bill Introduced in Congress • Petition Candidates • San Francisco Annual Meeting Sessions Announced • World Congress Travel Grants • Sociology PhD Production Declines in Late 1970s (Bettina J. Huber) • Robert Nisbet Appointed to Advisory Group • Doonesbury Cartoon on Sociology Cuts • Spivack Dissertation Fellows • Minutes of August 29, 1981, meeting of 1982 Council • Section Reports • Deaths: David W. Craigie (mini-obituary), James E. McKeown • Obituaries: Morroe Berger, Carlo Caldarola, Forrest D. Dill, T. Scott Miyakawa, Douglas S. Yamamura • Nominations Sought for Major ASA Awards • How ASA Committees are Chosen (Bettina J. Huber) • Member Contributions

Footnotes March 1982 (Volume 10, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.0 MB) • Special Election Issue • Referendum Set on Membership Requirements and Dues • Council Discontinues TAS; Keeps SOE, Annuals • COSSA Gears Up for New Budget Fight • SSRC Begins Series on Social Indicators • Update of Registry of Retired Sociologists Planned • Federal Agency Research Budgets: Complex and Deceptive • Problems of the Discipline Grants Available • Candidate Election Biographies • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Editors’ Reports • ASA to Hold Workshop on Teaching Applied Sociology • State Association News • Samuel Bloom Receives Sage Award • Annual Meeting Space Requests: Other Groups • Deaths: Andrew Moore (son of Burt and Joan Moore)

Footnotes April 1982 (Volume 10, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • San Francisco Plenaries, Other Special Sessions • Teaching Resources Group Available to Help Departments • Sex and Gender in the Social Sciences: New Publication Available • Sociological Theory Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Volume • Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • New NCES Publications and Data Files on High School Students Available • Miyakawa Fellowship Find • TRC Releases “Up the Job Market” • Linda Keller Brown Heads U.S.ICA Programs • Fulbright Program to Get More Money; Has New Openings • Sociology Editors on Writing • Robert Cole and Zoltan Tar Receive Grants from NEH • Committee Reports • Charles Willie to Study Desegregation Plans • New Membership Directory, Departmental Guides Available • More ASA Contributors

Footnotes May 1982 (Volume 10, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • New Sociology Research Grants Down Sharply at NIMH • NIA Supports Program in Behavioral Science Research • Four New Titles Added to Rose Monograph Series • Rose Series New Editor’s Statement (Ernest Campbell) • Ten Students Selected for ASA MFP Fellowships • Preliminary Program in the Mail • New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available • Open Forum: On the Council Proposal to Modify Membership (Charles E. King); Code of Ethics Contradiction (Donald M. Heer) • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes) • Information on Travel, Hotels, Child Care for 1982 Annual Meeting • Auditor’s Report • More Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Section Reports • Deaths: James A. Beaudry • More ASA Contributors • Letters to the Editor: “On Affirmative Action” (Judith Lorber); “On Professionalism” (Virginia M. Paulsen); “On the Future of Sociology” (Wayne Wheeler); “On the Use of Languages” (Jack Nusan Porter)

Footnotes August 1982 (Volume 10, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Election Results: James F. Short, Jr., is ASA President Elect; Edgar Borgatta is Vice President Elect; Theodore Caplow is Secretary Elect • William D’Antonio Chosen to Head Executive Office (William Form) • Meetings to Focus on Age and Gender; Innovative Sessions Planned • Robin Williams, Jr., and Shmuel Eisenstadt Elected to NAS • SM Submission Addresses • Deadline for Problems of the Discipline Grants • Task Force to Study Employment and Other Issues (Edna Bonacich) • Invitation to 1982 Annual Meeting • Alice S. Rossi: A Profile of the New ASA President (Joan Huber) • Support Urged for NEH • Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1983 Annual Meeting • Craig Calhoun, Jan Fritz Receive Kellogg Awards • New Annual Review of Sociology Available (Ralph Turner) • Census Users’ Guide • North Central Award Given to Russell Dynes, Butler Jones, and John Useem • Census Bureau Will Tabulate Data for All Zip Code Areas • ACLS Awards • Preferential Voting Used in ASA Elections • Federal Statistics Users Testify Before Congress • NICHD to Support Research on Adolescence • Executive Officer’s Report: Members and Staff Involved in Many Activities (Russell Dynes) • New Center for Women’s Research Established at Memphis State • Deaths: Raymond L. Hightower, Judson T. Landis, A.A. Smick • SWS Job Service • Diane Welch Vines Named White House Fellow • Charles Nam Focuses on Sociology and Population in Southern Sociological Society Presidential Address • Minutes of the January 22, 1982, meeting of 1982 Council • ASA Teaching Workshops Scheduled for 1982 Annual Meeting • Inter Nos (Russell Dynes; his farewell column)

Footnotes October 1982 (Volume 10, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.6 MB) • Jerold Heiss, then Barbara Laslett, to Edit CS • Major ASA Award Recipients: Kingsley Davis, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Stanley Lieberson, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; John Pock, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Daniel C. Thompson, DuBois-Johnson- Frazier Award • Charles Tilly Receives Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service • Program Theme: The Social Fabric (James F. Short, Jr.) • Travel Grants Awarded for World Congress • Letters to the Editor: “Marxist Section Report Clarification” (James Geschwender); “TAS Phase-Out and Ethics” (Robert W. Friedrichs) • Nominations Sought for JHSB Editorship • Report of the Secretary: Budget Concerns Dominate Year; 1982 Outlook Uncertain (Herbert Costner) • Five Sociologists Win Guggenheims • New Insurance Plan Offered • Deaths: Harold C. Hoffsommer • Submissions Sought for TRC Publication on Stratification and Inequality • Annual Meeting Registration and Attendance Continue to Decline • Personal Reflections on the 1982 Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio) • Scenes from San Francisco (photos) • NIMH Research Funds Available • June Workshop Focuses on Teaching Applied Sociology • CIC Minority Fellowships Offered • Photographs Needed as Teaching Aids for Introductory Courses • New Applied Sociology Career Booklets Available from ASA (Embarking/Mastering)

Footnotes November 1982 (Volume 10, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.5 MB) • Charles Tiley Receives Common Wealth Award • Problems of the Discipline Grants Made to Two Groups • Council Considers Resolutions Passed at Business Meeting • Alva Myrdal Receives Nobel Prize • Doing Sociology in Detroit • NSF Announces Continuation of Graduate Fellowship Programs • Open Forum: “Sociologists Should Limit Criticism” (Virginia M. Paulsen) • Many Sociologists Communicate to “Larger Audiences” (Russell Dynes) • Observing (William D’Antonio; new Executive Officer’s column) • New Edition of Publishing Options Available • ASA Petition Guidelines • Two National Reports Highlight Need for Basic Research • Three Sociologists (Harriet Friedman, Lee Rainwater, Erik Wright) Receive German Marshall Fund Awards • Obituaries: Cecil Lynn French, Neal Gross, James E. McKeown • Conferences Get Grants from Problems of Discipline Fund • Handicapped Directory Information Sought • Nominations Invited for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award • Deaths: Frana S. Wendell • Australian National Survey

Footnotes December 1982 (Volume 10, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Nominations Committee Announces 1983 ASA Slate • Erving Goffman, Past ASA President, Dies • A Letter from the President: Detroit: A Good Setting for an Annual Meeting (Alice S. Rossi) • Task Group on Homosexuality Report Published • Departmental Visits Program Continues to be Successful • Open Forum: “An Alternative Approach to Discipline’s Funding Problems” (Cynthia B. Flynn); “The Future of Sociology and the University: A Reply” (Edna Bonacich) • Observing: “On Consciousness Raising, and Other Matters” (William D’Antonio) • NCFR Honors Reuben Hill • New Applied Lists Available from ASA • Sociologists Would Benefit from More ISA Participation (Melvin Kohn) • John Gilderbloom, Richard Appelbaum Receive McGregor Award • Association of Sociologists in Business and Industry Formed by ASA Practice Section • Committee on Women Compiling Vitae • Minorities and Women in Sociology: An Update (Paul Williams) • Obituaries: Michael J. Hindelang • Russell Sage Foundation Program Announcement • Four Sociologists (James Coleman, Steven Del Sesto, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Samuel Ross Cohen) Receive Russell Sage Awards • The Sociology of Names: Having Fun with the ASA Directory (David O. Friedrichs) • Urban Theory and Policy Conference

Footnotes January 1983 (Volume 11, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Social Science Grant Proposals Down Sharply at NIMH • 1983 Election Slate Completed • An Official Invitation to Detroit (Mel Ravitz) • January is a Good Time to Visit Representatives (Helen Rauch) • SOE to Publish Special Issue on Ethnographic Studies • A Tribute to Erving Goffman (Arlene Daniels; Russell Dynes) • Rabel Burdge Receives Research Award • Visiting Fulbright Scholars Announced • Denis Johnston Lectures in China • Population Council Administers International Research Awards • Information Requested on Foreign Travelers • COFRAT Guidelines for Initial Appointments in Sociology • Suggested Letter for Initial Appointments Offer • Letters to the Editor: Are Women Sociologists Invisible? (Judith Lorber) • Herbert Kelman Receives New York Science Award • Minutes of September 9, 1982, meeting of 1982 Council • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Sociologists

Footnotes February 1983 (Volume 11, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • MFP in 10th Year Supports 57 Students • Membership Renewals Down 10 Percent • Publications Committee Reviews CS • Letter from the President: Death of Everett Hughes Evokes Celebration of His Life (Alice S. Rossi) • Association Committees Appointed • New Congress Term Calls for Reassessment of COSSA Role (William F. Whyte) • New ISA Address in The Netherlands • Open Forum: On Teaching Introductory Sociology: A Commentary (Robert J. Hockin and Mary M. Wilkes Karraker) • Committee on Statistics Wants Input • Otto Larsen Takes New Position at NSF • State Societies (Pennsylvania, Arkansas) Elect New Officers • Special Issue of TAS on “Financing Sociological Research” Available • Observing (William D’Antonio) • Fourth Teaching Workshop Series to Start in April • Special Annual Meeting Sessions Will Focus on Problems Facing City of Detroit • NSF Supports NORC Survey • Bernice Neugarten Receives Gerontology Award • Annual Meeting Space for Other Groups • New Funding Opportunities at NIMH • David Mechanic Appointed to National Advisory Council on Aging • Minutes of September 11, 1982, meeting of 1983 ASA Council • Letters to the Editor: ASA Urged to Report Data on Handicapped (Robert Z. Segalman) • Obituaries: Harold C. Hoffsommer, Judson T. Landis, Frederick B. Parker, Donald Roy (died 1980) • Census Bureau Offers Courses • 1982 AAAS Election Results • Member Contributions

Footnotes March 1983 (Volume 11, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.0 MB) • Special Election Issue • NSF Budget Increases • NSF Announces Sociology Grants for FY1982 • Council Adopts 1983 Budget • Politics Dominate Research Programs at NIE • ASA Congressional Fellowship Established • Joanne Miller Heads Sociology at NSF • NSF Seeks Associate Director for Sociology • Observing (William D’Antonio) • Windsor Will Welcome ASA Visitors to 1983 Annual Meeting • 1983 Candidate Biographies • Petition Candidates Announced • Section Reports • Committee Reports • Congressional Fellowship Provides New Insights for Sociologist (Richard K. Scotch) • Letters to the Editor: On Non-Academic Employment (Nina Gruen)

Footnotes April 1983 (Volume 11, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Decline in Research Support from NIMH Continues • Letter from the President: Detroit Center Plight Eases; Festivals Overlap Meetings (Alice Rossi) • Registry of Retired Sociologists to be Updated • New Criteria Set for Small Grants Program • ASA Sponsors New Workshops • FY1984 Research Budget Has Mixed Message • Annual Meeting Session to Honor Works of Erving Goffman and Everett Hughes (Alice Rossi) • Letter to the Editor: “Issues Regarding Ethics Code Enforcement” (Rodolfo Alvarez) • Four VPI Faculty Receive Fulbrights • World Sociology Committee Establishes Area Liaisons • NEH Fellowships Announced • ASA Insurance Plan Special Enrollment Period • Open Forum: “Sociologists Must Contribute to World Peace Movement” (Allen D. Grimshaw); “Report Shows Excessive Concern for Underdogs” (Thomas M. Kando) • Toward the 1990 Census • Undergraduate Overseas Plan • Obituaries: Everett Cherrington Hughes, Walter Phillips, Kenneth Evans • Procedures Proposed for Ethics Code Enforcement • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • TRC Wants Submissions for Computer Instruction in Sociology • Deaths: Barbara Snell Dorhenwend, Frank W. Notestein

Footnotes May 1983 (Volume 11, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.8 MB) • New Research Grants from NIA Behavioral Research Program • Letter from the President: Detroit Program in Final Form: Age and Gender Are in Focus (Alice Rossi) • Sociological Practitioners: Their Characteristics and Role in the Profession (Bettina Huber) • Committee on Certification Seeks Assistance • 1983 Preliminary Program in the Mail • Information on 1983 Annual Meeting • Fulbright Applications Being Accepted • Observing (William D’Antonio) • 1982 Auditor’s Report • Guidelines for Congressional Visits • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Obituaries: Desmond M. Camacho, Rochard Marc Emerson, Gerald W. McDonald, Jeremiah Patrick Shalloo, Carle C. Zimmerman • Ninth Annual Honors Program Set for Annual Meeting • Member Contributions

Footnotes August 1983 (Volume 11, Number 6) (pdf file; 13.5 MB) • Election Results: Kai T. Erikson is ASA President Elect; Morris Rosenberg is Vice President Elect • 1984 Annual Meeting to Focus on “The Social Fabric” • Carol H. Weiss Appointed first ASA Congressional Fellow • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Stanley Lieberson and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. • Members Offered Three Workshops in Spring • New Registry of Retired Sociologists Available • James F. Short, Jr.: A Profile of the New ASA President (Lois B. DeFleur) • Information for the Hearing Impaired • Sociologists Receive NEH Awards • Invitation to the Annual Meeting • Sessions, Organizers Announced for 1984 Annual Meeting • Open Forum: “Report from Task Group on Homosexuality Defended” (Janet Saltzman Chafetz); “ASA Should Assist More with Job Hunting” (Gregory D. Squires); “Members Need More Detailed Information About ASA Finances” (Leonard Broom) • New SM Editor Invites Submissions • Executive Officer’s Report: Association Membership Shows Continuing Decline (William D’Antonio) • Women in Departmental Administrative Positions (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Bettina Huber) • New MFP Fellows Selected • Sociologists Shaping Public Policy: Two Profiles (William Darrow and Wendell Hester profiled by Carla B. Howery) • Alva Myrdal, Applied Sociologist • Five Sociologists Receive Guggenheims • Editors’ Reports • Obituaries: Raymond F. Sletto, Margaret L. Helfrich, Carl A. Nissen, Thomas E. Ryther, Allan Sharlin, John T. Washington • Sociology Is Key to Orderly Change (James E. Teele) • Richard Suzman Joins NIA • Linda Grant Wins Women in Education Award • TRC Seeks Social Theory Syllabi • T. Franklin Williams New NIA Director • NCES Will Conduct High School Survey Follow-up • Stephen Spitzer Produces Videotape on Applied Sociology • GSS Board Seeks

Footnotes October 1983 (Volume 11, Number 7) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • ASA Major Award Recipients: Herbert Bulmer, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Orlando Patterson, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; David Riesman, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Alice S. Rossi, Jessie Bernard Award • Council Discusses Certification Report; Adopts Guidelines for Hiring Women • Sociologists’ Salaries (Bettina Huber) • New Problems of the Discipline Grants Deadline • Open Forum: “Members Should Question Publication of Anonymous Reviews” (H. Leon Abrams, Jr.) • William H. Sewell Receives Common Wealth Award • MacArthur Prize Given to Robert Merton • Deaths: Franz Adler, Katharine Jocher, Robert O. Richards, Herbert W. Roll • SWS Resolution on Appointment of Marjorie Fine Knowles as TIAA-CREF Board Member • Robert Roberts Receives Kellogg Award • Observing (William D’Antonio) • AKD Undergoing Change (Marie Marschall Fuller, AKD President) • William Kornblum, Paula Rayman Hold Seminars for Congressmen • Howard Freeman Elected to Institute of Medicine • New Sections on Asian and Asian America/Political Sociology Seek Members • NSF Minority Fellowships Offered • Alice Rossi’s SSS Presidential Address Available • New TRC Products • 1984 Coupon Listing

Footnotes November 1983 (Volume 11, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • NIMH Releases Behavioral Sciences Research Report • Nominations Committee Announces 1984 Candidates • Committee on Publications Evaluates JHSB • Reflections on a Changing Academic Job Market (Gary S. Foster, Edward W. Gregory, Jr.) • William R. Freudenburg Is Second ASA Congressional Fellow • ASA Minority Fellowships Available • Proposal Submissions Down (reprinted from COSSA Washington Update) • Thomas Guterbock New NSF Associate • Peace Academy Legislation Debated in Congress • Observing (William D’Antonio) • Scenes from Detroit (photos) • Ellen Louise Idler Receives Newcombe Award • NRC Commemorates Ogburn Report • ASA Applied Sociology Collection Now Available from Jossey-Bass • Charles Tilley Receives German Marshall Fund Fellowship • 1984 ASA Teaching Workshops Scheduled • Obituaries: Ernst Borinski, Lionel I. Dannick, Gregory Prentice Stone • Five Sociologists Receive ACLS Awards • NIA Invites Grant Applications • NRC to Award 35 Minority Fellowships • Dental Institute Supports Social Research • TRC Seeks Criminology Teaching Materials • COSSA Newsletter Available by Subscription • Clinical Sociology College at Georgetown University • Open Forum: “Hiring Guidelines Questioned” (Edgar F. Borgatta) • SSRC Workshop • CIC Minority Fellowships Offered • Rose Monograph Series Invites Submissions

Footnotes December 1983 (Volume 11, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Eugene Gallagher to Edit JHSB • Sociologists at NIH • 1985 Program Theme: “Working and Not Working” • Report of the President: End of Term Brings Mixture of Relief and Regret (Alice S. Rossi) • More Candidates for 1984 Election • Open Forum: “More Comments Regarding Anonymous Reviews” (Harold Orlans, Immanuel Wallerstein, Rebecca D. Dixon); “World Conflict Research Needed” (Kurt Lang) • Census Bureau Offers Courses • Observing (William D’Antonio) • Annual Meeting Job Clinic • 1984 Professional Development Workshops • CIES Announces 1984 Visiting Fulbright Scholars • Seminar on Medical Sociology Held in People’s Republic of China • Student Fulbright-Hays Awards • Film on Fred Crawford Available • Rodolfo Alvarez Receives First AKD Bogardus Award • Adolescent Pregnancy Data Archive Established • A Sociologist in Retirement (by Stuart A. Queen, the oldest living ASA past president, with introduction by Raymond V. Bowers) • Applied Sociologists in Western U.S. • 1983 Annual Meeting Goffman/Hughes Memorial Session Available on Tape • Using the Computer to Teach Sociology (William S. Johnson) • Lists of Applied Sociologists Available from ASA • University of North Dakota Honors John M. Gallette • Letter to the Editor: “Amnesty International Protests Sentence” (Ivan Light) • COPAFS Gets Favorable Review • Senate Committee Looks at Relocation of Census Bureau • Census Bureau Reports Available • Center Studies Employee Ownership • Local Decision-Making and Fiscal Policy in U.S. and European Cities Examined • Deaths: Joy Glick (wife of Paul Glick) • Richard Levinson Receives Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship • Vassar Receives Grant for New Theory Course

Footnotes January 1984 (Volume 12, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.2 MB) • ASA President: San Antonio . . . A Fine Convention City (James F. Short, Jr.) • NIA Programs Seek Proposals • Professional Development Workshops Address Teaching (Carla Howery) • Candidates Named for Committee on Committees • Edward Shils Wins Balkan Prize for Scholarly Contributions • Irving Louis Horowitz Calls for Nobel Prize in Social Science • Social Scientists Head for China; Alice Rossi Chairs Delegation • Open Forum: “Applied Sociology Can Advance Discipline” (Albert E. Gollin) • Letter to the Editor: “Mortality, Not Morality” (Richard E. Barrett) • Other International Society (International Sociological Association) Schedules Meeting in Seattle (Marie L. Borgatta) • Observing (William D’Antonio) • NSF Announces New Program • GAO Offers Several Opportunities for Sociologists (Carla Howery) • TRG Campus Visits Cover Range of Topics • Obituaries: Raymond Aron, Noel P. Gist, Robert O. Richards, Chung-Wu Chang • Nominations Invited for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

Footnotes February 1984 (Volume 12, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • Short Outlines Plenary and Thematic Sessions (James F. Short, Jr.) • More Candidates Not Likely • NRC Symposium Commemorates Pioneering Social Trends Report (Lawrence J. Rhoades; first in a series) • Bienvenidos a San Antonio! (Edward Murguia) • Council Actions Show Consistent Support for Rights of Homosexuals • Employment Bulletin “Phone-In” Fee to Increase • Open Forum: “Caucus Seeks Assistance for Unemployed/Underemployed Sociologists” (Samuel R. Friedman, Gregory D. Squires, Thomas A. Lyson, Edna Bonacich) • CONDUIT Offers Computer-Based Learning Materials in Sociology (Ronald E. Anderson) • University of Wisconsin Symposium on Rural Sociology • Teaching Column: TSP Promotes Computer Literacy for Teachers (Carla Howery) • The World Bank: Shift to Target Groups Involves Sociologists in Planned Development (by Carla Howery, on Michael Cernea) • Letter to the Editor: “Seminal vs. Germinal Ideas” (Pauline B. Bart) • ASA Professional Workshop Schedule • Annual Meeting Space Available for Other Groups • Medical Sociology Section Receives Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • Nominations Requested for ASA Awards • Roslyn Arlin Mickelson Wins SSRC Fellowship • Technical Advisor: Sociologist Aids Agricultural Projects in Caribbean (by Carla Howery, on Michael G. Patton) • ASA Petition Guidelines • Census Bureau Releases Catalog on Data • Observing: Task Force on Social Studies in the High Schools (William D’Antonio) • Obituaries: Dorothy M. Dohen • Deaths: Osvaldo Barreras • Minutes of January 29, 1983, meeting of 1983 Council • Sociologists: Resource for Congress

Footnotes March 1984 (Volume 12, Number 3) (pdf file; 10.5 MB) • Special Election Issues • Mayor of San Antonio Extends Personal Invitation (Henry G. Cisneros) • Council Approves Balanced Budget • ASA Launches Summer Fellowship Program • New Constitutional, Standing Committees Added to ASA Structure • ASA Council Discusses Certification and Licensure Issues (Bettina Huber) • Carnegie Corporation Aims Grant Programs at Broad Goals • New Footnotes Column Reports Sociology, Sociologists in Mass Media • COPAFS Elects Sociologists (Laure Sharpe, Conrad Taeuber) to Executive Committee • Obgurn Puzzle: What to Do About Science . . . About Social Action? (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • Observing: COSSA Reports on Social Science Funding (William D’Antonio) • Letter to the Editor: Responding to Horowitz on Social Science Nobel Prize (Matthew Melko) • Member Contributions • Curriculum Innovation: Degree Offered in Emergency Management • Vita Summaries of Minority Sociologists Sought by ASA Committee • 1984 Candidate Biographies • New Policies and Procedures Outlined for Member Referendum • Committee Reports • Section Reports • Obituaries: Peter A. Munch

Footnotes April 1984 (Volume 12, Number 4) (pdf file; 6.9 MB) • Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • Annual Meeting: Didactic Seminars, Mini-Courses Focus on Research Methodology • ASA Teaching Services Program Seeks Coordinator for Workshops, Department Visits • NSF Awards 58 Grants to Sociologists in 1983 • Neil Smelser: Research and Theory Have Altered Ogburn Vision (Lawrence J. Rhoades; third in a series) • Council Receives Briefing on Teaching Program (Carla Howery) • ASA Executive Office Reorganizes; Five Managers Appointed (William D’Antonio) • ASA Workshop Held on Applied Sociology Programs and Curricula • Biographical Directories on Sale to Reduce Inventory • Incorporating Women Faculty in Sociology Departments During 1980s; Report Sets 1990 Hiring Targets for Women in Tenured Ranks • More ASA Contributors • Observing: Social Science Funding (William D’Antonio) • David Phillips Wins AAAS Prize • Discount Airfares Available for Annual Meeting Travel • Obituaries: William L. Gum, Selz Cabot Mayo, Leonard W. Moss, Judith Handel • Editors’ Reports • Section Reports • OMB to Revise Basis for Collecting Industrial Data

Footnotes May 1984 (Volume 12, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Study Seeks Research Opportunities in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • NIMH Awards 45 Grants to Sociologists in 1983 • Paul Starr Awarded Pulitzer Prize • Lynn Atwater and William Martin: Communicating Sociology Through Mass Media (Carla Howery) • Annual Meeting Workshops Focus on Applied Settings • Albert J. Reiss, Jr.: Social Policy Is Shaped in Crucible of Social Change (Lawrence J. Rhoades; last in a series) • San Antonio Serves as Bridge Between Hemispheres (John M. Donahue) • Come to San Antonio: About the 1984 Annual Meeting • Survey to College Data on Services Needed by Persons with Disabilities • 10th Annual Honors Program • Membership Committee Reports Survey Suggestions, Criticism (Holly Holland and Carla Howery) • Jessie Bernard at 80: Reflections on Life and Sociology (an interview by Carla Howery) • Nona Glazer Awarded NSF Fellowship • Program Officers Outline Roads to Federal Support of Research • 1984 Guide Available • Roberta Balstad Miller Takes NSF Post; COSSA Position Open • Career Expert Richard Irish to Conduct Job Clinic • Foundation Seeks to Aid Minority Sociologists • W. Clark Roof, Robert Cole Named Wilson Scholars • Pennsylvania State Association Establishes Record; First to Publish Book • Letters to the Editor: “Nobel Prize” (Andreas Buss); “Seminal Ideas” (Robert J. McNamara); “More Seminal Ideas” (James M. Henslin) • Volunteers Needed to Monitor Licensing Issues in Each State • Gary Albrecht Chosen Editor of The Sociological Quarterly • SOE Moves to Notre Dame • SSRC Concentrates on Long-Term Needs of Social Sciences (David L. Sills) • Senate Proposes More Oversight on Statistics Policy • 1983 Auditor’s Report • Observing: Audit (William D’Antonio) • Foreign Student Travel Grant to Annual Meeting • ICPSR To Fund Teaching Packages • Committee Reports • Section Reports • Representative Reports • Seminar Explores Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methods • JHSB Moves to University of Kentucky • Professorships Established at George Mason • Obituaries: Simon Marcson, Ivan Belknap

Footnotes August 1984 (Volume 12, Number 6) (pdf file; 8.7 MB) • Election Results: Matilda White Riley is ASA President Elect; Rose Coser Vice President Elect • 1985 Annual Meeting to Discuss Sociology of Work • ASA Seeks Assistant Executive Officer to Administer MFP • Political Leaders Will Address San Antonio Gathering in August • TSP Coordinator Sought • 1984 Annual Meeting Highlights: Orientation Party, Chinese Scholars, Honors Program • Renee Fox Receives Reeder Award • Statistics Session Added • Rural Sociology Society to Meet in August • San Antonio Has Much to Offer (Alice Franzke) • Portrait of the President: Kai Erikson, a Scholar for All Seasons, Will Lead ASA in 1985 (Marvin Bressler) • Observing (William D’Antonio) • Virginia Sociological Association Elects Officers • ASA Service Workshop Has Openings • Joyce Reeves, George Baldwin Receive Kellogg Fellowships • TRC Offers 11 New Products • Behavioral Science Project: How Do You View the Future of Sociology and Research (Lawrence J. Rhoades) • COPAFS Report • Who’s Who Clarified • New Cohort of MFP Fellows • Corherhouse Fund Gives $10,000 to MFP • DC Fellow in GAO: Sociologist Raymond Russell Uses DC Fellowship to Study Employee Ownership • Post Inventory Sale on ASA Publications • Sessions and Organizers Announced for 1985 Annual Meeting • Secretary’s Report: A Year of Notable Progress (Theodore Caplow) • Sociologists: Resource for Congress • Sociologists in the Media: Set Your Radio Dial to Sociology (by Carla Howery on Jack Levin) • Obituaries: Calvert Dedrick • James Ault, Jr., Receives NEH Grant • Court Case Establishes Limited Protection for Scholars (on Mario Brujaha) • Letter from Mario Brujaha • Deaths: A. Eugene Havens, Cheryl Allyn Miller • David Segal Studies Relationships Between Government and Individual • Executive Officer’s Report: Internal Changes in Activities • Minutes of the September 3, 1983, meeting of 1983 Council • Open Forum: On the “Mass Media” Column (Janet Saltzman Chafetz, A. Gary Dworkin, Joseph A. Kotarba, David Gottlieb) • Letter to the Editor: Response to Cernea (Ruth L. Love) • Ruth Thaler New Footnotes Managing Editor

Footnotes October 1984 (Volume 12, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • ASA Major Award Recipients: Morris Janowitz, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Marcia Guttentag and Paul Secord, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; Joseph Bensman, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Joyce A. Ladner, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier • Deadline announced for Problems of the Discipline Grants • Membership Renewals, Coupons Are on the Way • MFP Funded; Director Paul Williams Honored • Matilda White Riley Receives Common Wealth Award • New Spivack Fellowships • Section Awards • ASA Certification Program Accepted in Principle (Bettina Huber) • Scenes from the 1984 Annual Meeting (photos) • Observing: On the Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio) • Congressman Henry Gonzalez: Research on Policy Issues Needed • James F. Short, Jr.: Risks Demand In-Depth Research, Analysis (Presidential Address) • Threat to Confidentiality of Fieldnotes; Council Authorizes $2,000 Contribution to Brahuja Defense • Vilma Nunez Receives First Latin American Scholar Award • Media Coverage at Annual Meeting • Teaching: Ways to Improve Sociology Programs (Carla Howery) • New ASA Teaching Endowment Fund Supports Innovative Teaching • TRC Seeks Syllabi on Marriage and Family • Here’s How Annual Meeting Sites Are Chosen • New Brochure, Career Possibilities, Outlines Jobs in Sociology • James Laue Heads New Center for Metropolitan Studies • COSSA, NIMH Name New Directors • Minutes of September 5, 1983, meeting of 1984 Council • TRC Issues Call for Papers

Footnotes November 1984 (Volume 12, Number 8) (pdf file; 1.3 MB) • Robert Merton Honored by Who’s Who as Founder of Sociology of Science • 1985 Candidates Announced • New ASA Journal on Teaching Sociology Seeks Journal (before ASA purchased TS from Sage) • Nominations Open for Jessie Bernard Award • Independent Scholars: An Emergent Intellectual Grouping (Bettina Huber) • Planning, Research, Timing Key to Getting Applied Jobs (Phillip Monchar) • TRC Seeks Materials on Sociology of Law • Nominations Open for Teaching Award • International Institute of Sociology Holds Successful Meeting • Code of Ethics Revision Planned • Observing: National Peace Academy (William D’Antonio) • Revised Code of Ethics Available • Resources for Independent Scholars • Update on ASA Group Insurance • Special Inventory Reduction Prices on Rose Monographs • Teaching: Workshop on Using Computers • Internship Opportunities Abound in Nation’s Capital • Nominations Open for Scholarship Award • General Survey Data Available • Obituaries: Franz Adler, A. Eugene Havens, Alden Dykstra Miller

Footnotes December 1984 (Volume 12, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.2 MB) • President’s Report: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Reflections on a Rewarding Year (James F. Short, Jr.) • Intellectual Pleasures in Nation’s Capital During Annual Meeting (Carla Howery) • New Nominations for 1985 Elections • NSF Seeks Sociologists for Two Positions • Nominations Sought for North Central Region Award • Observing: COSSA (William D’Antonio) • Teaching Workshops to Focus on Basic Skills and More • Open Forum: Sociologists and Writing Skills (Jeff Broadbent) • TSP Campus Visits Called Helpful to Departments (Hans O. Mauksch) • AKD Competition Open for Student Papers • Plug Into Microcomputer Users’ Groups Through ASA • Coupon Listing Corrections • Publicizing Sociological Activities Serves Important Function for the Discipline (Albert E. Gollin) • TRC Call for Syllabi • Career Possibilities for Sociology Graduates (Bettina J. Huber; reprint of brochure) • Sociologist Esther Ngan-Ling Chow Honored for Contributions to Women of Color • Teaching: Applied Sociology Programs (Carla Howery)

Footnotes January 1985 (Volume 13, Number 1) (pdf file; 4.6 MB) • 1986 Program Committee Announces Theme: “Social Structures and Human Lives” • Enjoy Capital Culture During 1985 Annual Meeting (Ruth Thaler) • Editor Sought for New Teaching Journal • Public Relations Program Features Multi-faceted Efforts (Carla Howery) • NIH Offers Funding Opportunities for Sociologists (Janet M. Cuca) • Nominations Open for ASA Scholarship Award • Observing: ACLS/COSSA Meetings (William V. D’Antonio) • Sociologists Receive NSF/NIMH Grants • Upcoming Teaching Workshops • TRC Seeks Ideas on Advising for Monograph • Teaching: Sociology in High School (Carla Howery) • Salary Update: 1983-84 Figures for Academics (Bettina Huber) • Everett Hughes Collection Dedicated in Paris (Arlene Kaplan Daniels) • Obituaries: Aida K. Tomeh, Dwight W. Culver, Joseph T. Klapper, Cheryl Allyn Miller • Nominations Open for ASA Family Section Award • SSSP Seeks Executive Officer • Sociologists Participate in African Seminar • Sociologists Attend Symposium in China

Footnotes February 1985 (Volume 13, Number 2) (pdf file; 5.9 MB) • No ASA Petition Candidates Likely • 1985 Annual Meeting Plenary, Thematic Sessions Deal with Facets of Work (Kai Erikson) • Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Sherry Turkle Honored by Ms. Magazine • National Peace Institute Update (Ruth Thaler) • Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla Howery) • Pennsylvania Sociological Society Announces New Officers • Ford Program Funds Minority Scholars (Laure Sharp) • Observing: In Praise of Excellence (on Henry Quellmalz) (William D’Antonio) • Professional Workshops for March 1995 • Two Views of German Sociology (Dean Gerstein and Jiri Kolaja) • Editor Sough for New ASA Teaching Journal) • Robin M. Williams, Jr., New Editor of Sociological Forum • Conrad Taeuber Looks Back Over 50 Years of Demography (an interview by Carla Howery) • New Insurance Available to ASA Members • Deaths: Anita Kassen Fischer, Robin Williams III, Linda Keller Brown, Rex M. Johnson, Bell Boone Beard, Dorothy D. “Dee Dee” Vellenga, James S. Davie, Janina Adamczyk • Obituaries: Ch’eng-K’un Chung, John H. Mabry • Special Prices on Rose Monographs and Other Publications • ASA Committees and Representatives • Contributions to ASA Programs • Letter to the Editor: On letters of reference as opposed to names of referees (D. Katongo-Male) • Minutes of August 30, 1984, Meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes March 1985 (Volume 13, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Special Election Issue: Candidate Biographies • D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Jr., Extends Welcome to Sociologists • 1986 ASA Annual Meeting Site, Dates Changed (to New York City) • Community Surveys Train Students, Provide Service (Carla Howery) • William Ewens Named Teaching Services Program Field Coordinator • Editors Sought for ST, ASR, CS • Spring 1985 Regional Meetings • Teaching Materials Sought for Sex and Gender • Observing: Council Actions/Mario Brajuha (William D’Antonio) • Libraries Seek Donations • Nominations Sought for ASA Medical Sociology Section Dissertation Award • By-Laws Change Proposed: Program Committee composition • Job Clinic and Workshop on Federal Jobs Offering During 1985 Annual Meeting • “The Sociologist’s Song” (a record) • Publishing Options Available Again • Teaching: Rewarding Effective Teaching (Carla Howery) • Workshop on Evaluations to be Offered May 1985 • ASA Needs Information on Using Libraries • Professional Workshops Aid Career Growth and Change • AKD Awards Presented • Kinsey Awards Open • Clinical Sociology Review Seeks Editor • Obituaries: Anita Kassen Fischer, Mildred Kornacker • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Minutes of September 1, 1984, meeting of ASA Council • 1985 Guide to Graduate Departments Available • How ASA Committees Are Chosen (and application form for committee service)

Footnotes April 1985 (Volume 13, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Lionel Maldonado Joins ASA Staff • Council Takes Action on Multifaceted Initiative on Certification and Licensure • New ASA Award for Distinguished Career in Practice of Sociology • Greetings from DC Congressman Walter Fauntroy • Rockefeller Foundation Minority Group Scholar Fellowships Awarded • State Licensure Monitors Appointed • S. Frankl Miyamoto Named to HHS Advisory Council • Discount Air Fares for Annual Meeting Travel • Three Yugoslav Sociologists Sentenced • ASA Workshop on Strengthening Graduate Education • Observing: The Federal Budget for FY1986 (William D’Antonio) • Dispute Resolution Gains Ground (Maria R. Volpe) • Summer Internships Available at ASA Office • ASA Commission Proposes Policy-Related Research Directions (Bettina Huber) • Teaching: Team Teaching Benefits Faculty, Students, Curriculum (Carla Howery) • Three Committees Present Proposals to ASA Council • Minority Sociologists and Their Status in Academia • Sociology Around the Globe • NCSA Establishes Tomeh Award • C. Matthew Snipp Is American Statistical Association Fellow • Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • Travel Grants to Annual Meeting Available to Foreign Students • Good Ideas Column • Promote Your Book in ASA Journals • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Editors’ reports

Footnotes May 1985 (Volume 13, Number 5) (pdf file; 1.9 MB) • Mario Brajuha Fieldnotes Case Resolved; Scholars’ Rights Supported (Ruth Thaler) • Membership Committee Initiates System of Area Representatives • A Tribute to Paul Williams (Robert B. Hill) • Lively Plenary Sessions Set for Annual Meeting • Everything You Need to Know About the 1985 Annual Meeting • Getting Students Involved in the Annual Meeting (Carla Howery) • Annual Media Relations Shaping Up Well (Ruth Thaler) • Observing: ASA’s Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio) • 1984 Audit • Sociology Series Wins Public Affairs Honors • ASA Contributors • Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (George Dowdall, Ross Koppel, Arthur Shostak) • NEH Funding Guide Available • Teaching Endowment Fund Gets Boost from Undergraduate Education Section • Daniel Ross and Robert Reimer Are Leaders in Asian Universities • Open Forum: “Social Science Research and Congressional Policy” (Richard M. Levinson) • Sociology Theory Becomes ASA Journal • Employment Patterns in Sociology Available • Obituaries: Robert Cooley Angell, Theodore M. Newcomb, Romolo Toigo • ASA Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program Seeks Input • Section Reports • ASA Workshops on Using Computers

Footnotes August 1985 (Volume 13, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.6 MB) • Election Results: Melvin Kohn is ASA President Elect; Mayer Zald, Vice President Elect; Michael Aiken, Secretary-Elect • A New Look: New Design for Footnotes • American Sociological Foundation Established by Council • 1985 Annual Meeting Update • Secretary’s Report: 1986: A Year of Accomplishment (Theodore Caplow) • Executive Officer’s Report: Pursuing Short and Long-Range Goals (William D’Antonio) • 1985 Annual Meeting: Discover and Rediscover Washington, DC (William Martineau) • Microcomputer Users to Meet at Annual Meeting • Letter to the Editor: Whyte on Whyte (William F. Whyte) • Annual Meeting Presenters: Keep It Short • Wingspread Conference Focuses on Teaching (Carla Howery) • ASA Purchases Teaching Sociology from Sage • Teaching Endowment Fund Established • ASA Summer Interns • NSF Changes Submission Dates • COSSA to Meet • 1986 Professional Development Workshops • 1986 World Congress to be Held in New Delhi (Ann Kremers) • Clifford Clogg New SM Editor • Open Forum: “Sociology Outside the Academy” (Melvin Kohn) • New ASA Major Medical Insurance Plan Offered • The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; first in a series) • Membership Committee’s 80% Club (Departments with 80% or more faculty being ASA members) • Profile of the ASA President: Matilda White Riley: Of Her Times and Ahead of Her Time (Anne Foner) • 1986 Annual Meeting: Focus on Social Structures and Human Lives; Sessions, Organizers Announced • New 1986 Dues Structure • Deaths: Rue Bucher, George Dixon, Isaac Franck, Eileen H. Hepburn, Betty Irish, Sylvia Lasser, Don Martindale • Obituaries: Leonard Slater Cottrell, Jr., James P. Earp, John A. Kinneman, Paul Meadows, Adolph S. Tomars, Dorothy D. Vellenga, Eugene Weinstein • Minutes of February 2, 1985, meeting of ASA Council • Committee Report

Footnotes October 1985 (Volume 13, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • ASA Major Award Recipients: Reinhard Bendix, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Duncan Gallie, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship; Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Joan Huber and Judith Stacey, Jessie Bernard Award • A Good Meeting that Almost Wasn’t (on the switch of locations due to Hilton fire) (Stephen C. Warren) • ASA Council Censures University of California-Santa Cruz • IIS International Congress to be Held in Portugal • Problems of the Discipline Grants Open • New TS Editor: Theodore Wagenaar • New SM Editor: Clifford C. Clogg • Nominees Sought for SOE Editor • 1987 ASA Candidates • New ST Editor: Norbert Wiley • Thank You to ASA Staff (Kai Erikson) • Peter Rossi Receives Common Wealth Award • Council Briefs • Observing: Notes from the Washington, DC Convention (William D’Antonio) • 1985 Annual Meeting: Retrospective (photos) • Three Sections Present Awards During Annual Meeting • New Sessions for 1986 Annual Meeting • Clinical Sociology Syllabi Set Available • MFP Announces Fellows for 1985-86 • 1985 Exhibits Called Successful (Karen Gray Edwards) • MFP Receives Cornerhouse Grant • Teaching: Teaching Using Discussion (William Ewens) • Attend Dallas Workshop on Teaching Applied/Clinical Sociology • SPQ Evaluation Stresses New Submissions (Bettina Huber) • Open Forum: “On Neofunctionalism” (Charles H. Page); “War & Peace” (William A. Gamson and James M. Skelly) • Two Sociology Associations Celebrate First Decade: Gay Caucus (Meredith Gould)/Association for Humanist Sociology (Stuart Hills) • Passing On Sociology Back in Print • Mark Abrahamson, Stanley Presser Head NSF Sociology Program • Sociology Around the World • Hans Zeisel and Harriet Zuckerman Elected to AAAS • Deaths: Rose Goldsen, Reuben Hill, Paul H. Landis • Obituaries: Rue Bucher, Don Albert Martindale, John Seidler, Francis Montgomery Sim • 1986 Guide Listings Due

Footnotes November 1985 (Volume 13, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • 1987 Program Theme: “Cross-National Research in Sociology” • Lenore Weitzman’s Research Plans Key Role in New Research • MFP Task Force Begins • Norbert Wiley: Profile of the New ST Editor • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Sessions on Uses of Sociology New Feature • Wohlers Offers New Disability Income Insurance Plan • Fulbright Grants Still Available • Observing: Your Voice Counts (William D’Antonio) • Sociological Practice Notes: Ronald Lippitt Receives Clinical Sociology Association Career Award • ASA Contributors: Thanks! • Indiana University Sociologists Celebrate 100th Anniversary • Sociologists Demonstrate at South African Embassy • Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak) • Employment Bulletin Fees to Increase • University of California-San Francisco Sociology Celebrates 25 Years • The Status of Minorities and Women in ASA (Bettina Huber; second in a series) • Sociologists Receive Brazil Merit Awards • Open Forum: “A Walk on the Applied Side: Ideology and the Celebration of Applied Sociology” (Gregory D. Squires, Thomas A. Lyson); “The Pricking of a Sacred Cow” (Cecil L. Willis, Richard H. Wells, J. Steven Picou) • Mark Granovetter Wins Theory Prize • Section on Aging Honors George Maddox • SSRC Appoints Francis X. Sutton President • David Jenness: COSSA Director Discusses Plans (an interview by Carla Howery) • Reference Format for ASA Journals to Change in 1986 • COSSA’s “Breakfast on the Hill” (John Hammer) • Teaching Program Sponsors Workshops • COPAFS Reports on Activities and Accomplishments (Kathy Wallman) • Ilene Nagel Appointed to New Sentencing Commission • TRC Offers 12 New Products • Accuracy in Academia Group Targets Radical Faculty • New Asia/Asian America Section Holds Sessions, Elects Officers • GSA Presents Kleemeier Award to George Maddox • Obituaries: Paul M. Houser, Paul J. Landis, Arthur Liebman

Footnotes December 1985 (Volume 13, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Nominations for 1986 Elections • American Sociological Foundation Off and Running • The Outcome of the Mario Brajuha Case: Legal Implications for Sociologists • President’s Report: Recollections and Gratitude (Kai Erikson) • Capital Comment (column) • ISA World Congress Travel Arrangements • House Task Force Holds Hearings on Social Science • 1986 Regional Meeting Schedule • Sociological Practice (column) • ASA Contributors • Teaching: Applied Curriculum Can Enhance Liberal Arts Learning (Kathryn Grzeldowski, Jim Mitchell) • Sociologists Honored with NSF/NIMH Awards • Gary Hamilton Touts Fulbright Experience • ACLS Awards • Fulbright Awards • GSA Awards • ASA/ACLS Conducts Survey of Scholars • Mark Abraham, Stanley Presser Share Plans, Advice: NSF’s Sociology Program Spearheads Research (an interview by Carla Howery) • Open Forum: “Whyte Revisited: Further Thoughts on Improving Annual Meetings” (Gary S. Foster); “Barriers Between Sociology” (Amitai Etzioni); “Communicating Sociology as a Useful Humanistic Science at the State Level” (Catherine T. Harris) • Alice Rossi, Daniel Gallego Appointed to Council on Aging • Obituaries: Rose K. Goldsen, Reuben L. Hill, Werner Stark

Footnotes January 1986 (Volume 14, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Four New (Petition) Candidates File for ASA Presidency--Edgar Borgatta, Amitai Etzioni, Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Neil J. Smelser • Enjoy New York on Fewer Dollars a Day (William Silverman) • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Further Highlights of the Emerging Program (Matilda White Riley) • Observing: COSSA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio) • ASA Launches New Effort in Professional Development (Carla Howery) • ASA Members Respond to ACLS Survey • Nominations Sought for ASA Awards • Salary Update: 1984-85 Figures for Academics • Materials Sought for ASA Liberal Arts Monograph • Two Conferences at Windspread Focus on Teaching: The Wingspread Conference on Teaching (Catherine White Berheide) and the National Conference on Higher Education (Theodore Wagenaar) • Open Forum: “Why Neofunctionalism: Two Responses to Page” (Jeffrey C. Alexander and David Scuilli); “Looking Backward and Forward” (Claude C. Bowman) • 1986 Directory of Members Begins Production • Annual Meeting Space Available for Other Groups • Leo Goodman, Teresa Sullivan, Robert Gutman Win Major Awards • Teaching: “Professional Socialization Among Undergraduate Sociology Students” (Barbara R. Keating); “Taking Action for Undergraduate Student Participation” (Carla Howery) • Resources for Under- and Unemployed Sociologists • TRC Seeks Sociology of Religion Materials • Soviet-U.S. Exchanges Begin at 1985 ASA Annual Meeting • More Contributors • Five Teaching Services Program Workshops Coming in Spring • Minutes of August 31, 1985, meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes February 1986 (Volume 14, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • ASA Seeks New Professional Staff: Assistant Executive Officer for New Professional Development Program • No Petition Candidates for Council, Committees • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Seminars, Courses, Workshops (Matilda White Riley) • ASF Launches Three-Year Endowment Campaign • Observing: Facing the Challenges (William D’Antonio) • Letter to the Editor: Vote for the Nominated ASA President Candidates (William J. Chambliss) • ASA Awards Near Deadlines • Tour Information for ISA Meetings in India • The New Budget Game: Welcome to Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (prepared by COSSA) • Members Respond to New Journals (ST and TS); More Libraries Needed • Sociologists Active in HHS Task Force on Minority Health (Lionel Maldonado) • Katrina Johnson Serves as Task Force Director • NIA Awards Grants for Research • Members Invited to Apply for Annual Meeting Table Space • Ask ASA! (new column) • ASA, Other Sociology Organizations Work Together • Materials Sought for Teaching Social Ecology • Thanks to Contributors • Teaching: Microcomputers Aid Teaching Research Methods (Russell K. Schutt) • ASA Committees and Representatives • Three Computer Workshops Offered in June • New Capstone Course at GWU • Teaching: A Computer Assisted Introductory Sociology Course (David Ellison) • New Teaching Resources Available • Special Issue of Quarterly Journal of Ideology on Controversy in the Classroom • NSF Minority Research Initiative • Howard F. Taylor to Lead Study of Minority Students • Deaths: Minerva Etzioni (wife of Amitai Etzioni) • Obituaries: Leonard Clayton Kercher • Committee Reports

Footnotes March 1986 (Volume 14, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.4 MB) • Special Election Issue • New York: Public Spaces are Resting Places • The ASF Endowment Campaign: The Price of Commitment (William D’Antonio) • The Minority Fellowship Program: A Successful Program at the Crossroads (Lionel Maldonado) • Observing: Council Adopts Balanced Budget for 1986 (William D’Antonio) • 1985 Audit • Eight Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Thematic and Plenary Sessions Take Shape (Matilda White Riley) • Council Creates Editor-Designate Position; Rose, SPQ Editors Sought • Feedback Sought on Guidelines for Part-time Faculty • Council Acts on Business Meeting Resolutions: Affirms Policy to South Africa • Publications Committee Evaluates SOE; Finds Scope Could be Broadened Still Further (Bettina Huber) • Methodology Section Establishes Lazarsfeld Award • Sociology of Religion Submissions Sought • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Deaths: Joseph Ben-David, Alva Myrdal, Elliott M. Rudwick • Obituaries: Herbert H. Hyman • Committee Reports • Section Reports

Footnotes April 1986 (Volume 14, Number 4) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Profiles of New ASA Editors: William Form (ASR), Ida Harper Simpson (CS), Philip Wexler (SOE) • ASF Endowment Campaign Mounts Spring Telethon • PhD Certification Program to Begin (Bettina Huber) • 1987 Program Update: Theme is “Cross-National Research in Sociology” • Observing: Social Science and the Federal Budget, FY87 (William D’Antonio) • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Regular Sessions, Roundtables, Tours, and More (Matilda White Riley) • Exploring Greenwich Village (Caroline Hodges Persell) • Hispanic Diversity in New York (Lloyd H. Rogler) • New Presidential Series Volume Available: James F. Short, Jr.’s The Social Fabric • NEH Acting Director John Agresto Advises Sociologists Seeking NEH Support (an interview by Carla Howery) • E. Pluribus Unum (Asoke Basu) • Polish, Czech, German Cooperation in Urban/Regional Sociology • FY87 Budget Report Available from COSSA • Open Forum: “Neofunctionalism: Long on Rhetoric, Short (As Yet) on Substance” (George Ritzer); “More on the Neofunctionalism Debate” (R. Stephen Warner); “On Chambliss and Alternative Candidates” (Kendrick S. Thompson) • Submissions Sought on Historical Sociology • A Place in Science: ASA Involvement in the AAAS • Job Clinic Again Annual Meeting Feature • ISA Update • Annual Meeting Travel Grants for Foreign Students • Teaching: Using Computers to Teach Sociology: A Departmental Survey (Ross Koppel, George Dowdall, Arthur Shostak) • Develop Greater Computer/Teaching Skills this Summer at ASA Workshops • Teaching: High School Sociology: A View from California (Dean Dorn) • Ethical Guidelines Covering the Publication Process (Barbara Reskin) • On the Difference Between Reviewing and Being Reviewed (Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., reprinted from Science) • Sociological Perspectives on Drunk Driving (Ellen Berg) • The ASA Journal Calendar • Good Ideas • Council Reaffirms Constraints on Self, Committees • Paulo Freire and William F. Whyte Discuss Practice and Teaching • Update on Alpha Kappa Delta (Jerry Michel) • Ask ASA • Students: Attend the Annual Meeting • Information on Competency Tests Sought • Computer Network Exchange • NIMH Reorganizes; New Division Created • Congressman George Willer Receives Award • Catastrophe Insurance Plan • Rosabeth Moss Kanter Joins Harvard Business School Faculty • Daniel Monti Receives Curators Publication Award • Philip McMichael Receives Allan Sharlin Memorial Award • William Chambliss Receives Criminal Justice Award • 1986 ASA Reference Materials Available at a Discount • Deaths: Waldo Wadsworth Burchard, H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald Marsh, Mary B. Treudley • Obituaries: Gladys Meyer, Elliott Rudwick, Arthur F. Wileden • Committee Reports, Section Reports, Representative Reports

Footnotes May 1986 (Volume 14, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB’ note that first page of issue is mislabeled May 1985) • ASA Award Winners: Edward Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career Award for the Practice of Sociology • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: In Anticipation of the Annual Meeting (Matilda White Riley) • Annual SM to be Published by ASA (Bettina Huber) • Observing: Questions and Answers (William D’Antonio) • Jessie Bernard Award Open for Nominations • Barrie Thorne, 1986 Miller Lecturer, Available for Campus Visits • Minority Representation in U.S. Departments (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, Leonard Gordon; first in a series) • Looking for Something To Do? Attend the 1986 Annual Meeting! • New York Offers Convention Attendees Fashion in Action (Ruth P. Rubinstein) • ASA Hosts Congressional Seminar on Work and Family Policies • ASF Plans Fund-Raising Auction for Annual Meeting • Sociological Tours of the World • IIS Changes Schedule for Future Congresses • Topical Supplements Planned to the General Social Survey • New Culture, Emotions Sections • Faculty Exchange Center • TSP Sponsoring Workshop on Computers • Ad for Nancy Shaw Legal Defense Fund • Deaths: William H. Exum, Sarah Alice Mayfield Rice, Leila Rosen Young • Obituaries: H. Warren Dunham, Frank E. Hartung, Donald C. Marsh • Section Reports • Editors’ reports • Special Pre-Publication Offer on SM86

Footnotes August 1986 (Volume 14, Number 6) (pdf file; 10.0 MB) • Election Results: Herbert J. Gans is ASA President Elect; Richard J. Hill Vice President Elect • Stephen A. Buff Joins ASA Staff • Members Respond to ASF Campaign • 1986 Annual Meeting: Update from the President: Program Highlights: Join Us in New York (Matilda White Riley) • A Snapshot Tour of New York • Sociologists in Business Organize Network • Media Plans Press Forward (Ruth Thaler and Carla Howery) • ASF to Hold Auction at Annual Meeting (Jay Demerath) • Secretary’s Report: Today’s ASA: Redefining Our Goals (Theodore Caplow) • Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of New Activities (William D’Antonio) • Observing: ASA’s 1985 Budget Audit: A Smaller than Expected Deficit (William D’Antonio) • 1985 Audit • Textook Donations Sought • Thank You ASA Contributors • Sociology Around the World (Carla Howery) • SWS/DCSS Make Donations • Open Forum: “Media Interest in a Sociology Course” (Jerry M. Lewis); “Sociological Forces” (Donald L. Metz); “Poem” (Bob LaFleur) • NSF Graduate Fellowship Awards • Stanford Fellows • Letter to the Editor: Blind Voting (Harry Perlstadt) • Flourishing Exchanges Between Chinese and American Sociologists (Nan Lin) • The Prosperity of China: Celebrating the Seventh Anniversary of the Reestablishment of Chinese Sociology (Wang Kang) • The American Sociologist (TAS) Resumes Publication • Media and Sociology: Positive Press (Carla Howery) • NRC Funds Projects by Three Sociologists • 1987 Call for Papers: Sessions, Organizers Announced • Pre-Publication Offer on Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals • Culture Section Now Organizing • ASF T-Shirts • International Society of Political Psychology • New Section on Emotions • Deaths: Charles R. Lawrence, Edward Sagarin • Obituaries: William Henry Exum, Leila Rosen Young • Minutes of January 31, 1986, meeting of ASA Council

Footnotes October 1986 (Volume 14, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • ASA Major Award Recipients: Edward A. Shils, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Sister Marie Augusta Neal, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Conrad Taeuber, Career of Distinguished Contributions to Practice of Sociology; Aldon Morris and Lenore Weitzman, Distinguished Scholarly Publications; James Blackwell, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award; John Clausen, Common Wealth Award • Major Addresses Focus on Aging, Sociological Lives (Ellen Berg) • Clausen Donates Half of Common Wealth Award Stipend to ASF • New Sections on Culture, Emotions Off to Good Start • Council Briefs • 1986 Annual Meeting: The Greatest Show on Earth (Ellen Berg) • Nominations Invited for Innovative Jensen Scholarship • Applications Invited for Problems of the Discipline Grants • Scenes from New York • A Celebration of Practice • 1987 Guide Listing Forms Mailed • MFP Announces New Fellows for 1986-87 • MFP Fundraising Efforts and Contributions • Profile of the President: Melvin L. Kohn: Linking Social Structure and Personality (Glen H. Elder, Jr.) • Observing: Postlude to the 1986 Election (William D’Antonio) • TRC Seeks Submissions for Monograph on Branch Campuses • Teaching: Zero Base and Safety Valve: Procedures for Curriculum Revision (Charlotte Vaughan, Reece McGee) • New Venture at NSF: An Organizations Database • Theory Is the Key in Introductory Sociology at Vassar (Ellen Burg) • Open Forum: “The Black Family: Under Attack Again” (Joyce E. Williams); “Still More on Neofunctionalism” (Seth Knoepler); “Lest We Hope in Vain: On the First Anniversary of the U.S. Institute of Peace” (Peter Nishiyama) • Peace Institute Announces Grant Procedures • Deaths: Kenneth Olsen, Robert Verbeck • Obituaries: Edward Sagarin, Mary Lees, Roger L. Riffer • Frederic Wakeman New SSRC President • Update on ST

Footnotes November 1986 (Volume 14, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1988 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology in America (Herbert J. Gans) • 1988 Candidates for ASA President, Vice President • Sections Bestow Awards in New York • ASA/MFP Doctoral Fellowship Applications • Observing: Rethinking the Dues Structure (William D’Antonio) • Emotions Section Gets Off the Ground • Letter From the Editor: Apology for “ad hominem” statements about Talcott Parsons and Jeffrey Alexander (William D’Antonio) • Registry of Retired Sociologists Available • 1987 Program Update: More Sessions, Organizers • Order the Cumulative Index Now • Report of the IIS Congress • New TRC Products Debut at Annual Meeting • Louis Goodman Appointed Dean at American University • SM86 Now Available • ASA/Duke University Sponsor Jensen Award • Daniel Sullivan New President of Allegheny College • Life on the Applied/Clinical Side (Thomas J. Rice) • Update on Human Rights Cases (Carla Howery) • Rose and Lewis Coser Retire • Submissions Solicited for 1987 Teaching Resources • ASA Sponsors Seminars for Federal Employers (Bettina Huber) • Interactive Videodisc Technology as Revolution • 1986 Gerontology Fellows • Lois DeFleur Named Provost at University of Missouri-Columbia • Obituaries: Cesar Grana

Footnotes December 1986 (Volume 14, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • 1987 Annual Meeting Theme: “Cross National Research in Sociology” (Melvin L. Kohn) • ASA Reaffirms Atlanta in 1988 • Candidates Announced for 1987 Election (Council/Committees) • Observing: The Undergraduate Program in Sociology (William D’Antonio) • Stalking the Undergraduate Credit Hour: Some Ideas and Tactics (Gerald Marwell) • TSP Field Coordinator: Report on the First Year (William Ewens) • Call for Rural Sociology Materials • From the Past President: Report on 1986: Integrative Impuses in the Discipline (Matilda White Riley) • “Lost” Authors: ASA Owes You Reprint Fees! • NAE/NRC Fellows • COSSA Acts as Catalyst for OMB Investigation • Sociologist Donald W. Light Writes for Scientific American • Subscribe to COSSA Washington Update • Update on Certification (Lionel Maldonado) • 1987 Regional Meeting Schedule • TRC Seeks Religion Submissions • ASA Contributors • Annual Meeting Media Papers Published • Researching the Church from Within (Carla Howery) • Sociological Perspectives on AIDS (Ellen Berg) • ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek) • Lewis Coser Appointed PBK Scholar • Teaching: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi, John Useem, William Ewens) • Attend Teaching Workshop on Establishing Research Centers • Open Forum: “An Unanticipated Retirement Obstacle” (George K. Floro); “The Practice and the Discipline: Why We Must Choose” (Henry H. Brownstein) • NIMH Research Grants • Sociologists Win Guggenheim, NSF, ACLS Fellowships and Grants • New Beneficiary Survey from Social Security • The Greatest Books of Sociology (Delbert C. Miller) • Deaths: Marston McCluggage • Obituaries: Kenneth Marvin Olson, James A. Sartain

Footnotes January 1987 (Volume 15, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Andrew Greeley Makes $50,000 Challenge Grant to ASF • New Sections Established: Sociology of Emotions, Sociology of Culture • Joseph Gittler Bequest Funds Two Sociology Chairs at George Mason University • Robert Merton Receives Honorary Degree from Oxford • Increasing the Effectiveness of the ASA Public Information Program • Nominations Sought for ASA Awards • Council Acts on Paul Cameron Case • Industrial Sociology: The Competitive Edge (Robert H. Guest) • Teaching Column: Problems Foreign Students Face as Teaching Assistants (Akbar Mahdi) • Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Changing the Sociology Curriculum • National Science Foundation FY1986 Awards • Teaching Column: Grading Electronically (Nicholas Mullins) • Homelessness in Three Dimensions: Professors, Practitioners, and Politicians (Russell K. Schutt and Gerald R. Garrett) • Carnegie Corporation Appoints 24 Members to Council on Adolescent Development • Minority Representation in U.S. Departments of Sociology (Stephen Kulis, Karen A. Miller, Morris Axelrod, and Leonard Gordon) • Sociological Practitioners Get More Respect (George C. Zeller) • Open Forum: “Look to Literature” (Thomas J. Scheff) • Council on International Educational Exchange Honors John Useem and Ruth Hill Useem • Reflections on the ISA Meeting in New Delhi (Larry Suter) • Electronic Network Committee Plans New Service • Good Ideas • Obituaries: Nels Anderson, Joel Van Meter Berreman, Carol A. Fromme, Ronald Lippitt, Charles S. Perry • Minutes of September 2, 1986, meeting of 1985-86 ASA Council

Footnotes February 1987 (Volume 15, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • ASA Professional Development Program Shapes Up (Stephen A. Buff) • New Section on Sociology of Culture (Ellen Berg) • Observing: “Bits ‘n Pieces” (William V. D’Antonio) • Teaching Services Program Sponsors Practice Workshop • Donald Pierson Honored by University of Bahia (Brazil) • Get Yourself Some Press Coverage (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Committees and Representatives • Open Forum: “A Response to Miller’s ‘Great Books’” (Ellen Ziskind Berg); “Professional Dignity” (Michael A. Faia); “ASA and Politics” (Seymour Yellin) • Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop • ASF Contributors • Sociologists and Big Science: Applied Sociology in Multidisciplinary Research (David Gottlieb) • Sociologists Receive 1986-87 Fulbright Grants • Robert M. Hauser Receives Lazarsfeld Award • ASA Award Nomination Reminders • NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Program Director • Teaching Column: Measuring Up to Writing Good Multiple Choice Tests (Carla B. Howery) • Deaths: Dick Haas, Robert T. LaPiere • Minutes from September 6, 1986, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council • Section Reports

Footnotes March 1987 (Volume 15, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • ASA Establishes Practice Journal (Sociological Practice Review); First Editor South • ASF Pursues Second Hundred Thousand (Jay Demerath) • University of California Agrees to Settlement with Nancy Shaw • 1987 Annual Meeting: Ethnic Diversity Enlivens Chicago (William T. Liu) • Observing: Council Struggles to Balance 1987 Budget (William D’Antonio) • Council Briefs • Teaching Services Program to Hold Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum • Feminist Theory: Moving Sociology from the “Malestream” (Ellen Berg) • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • MFP Task Force Changes Direction, Marches On • Gary Becker Receives NIH MERIT Award • Teaching Sociology Holds Lottery for Student Subscriptions • Sociologists’ AIDS Network Formed • ASA Contributors • AKD Elects New Officers • Deaths: Charles Flynn, Mrs. Paul Takagi • Obituaries: Richard T. LaPiere • Section Reports

Footnotes April 1987 (Volume 15, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Career Expert (Richard Irish) to Conduct 1987 Annual Meeting Job Clinic • Seven Problems of the Discipline Grants Awarded • Nancy Shaw Awarded Tenure by University of California-Santa Cruz • Editor Sought for Sociological Practice Review • Observing: Meeting the Challenges (William D’Antonio) • Soviet Sociologist (Tatyana Zaslavskaya) Calls for Attention to Her Science • The Sixth Circle or “Dis Must be the Place” (Albert Hunter) • Richard Ofshe Wins Case Against Synanon (Lionel Maldonado) • Marge Clark and Ember Reichgott Bring Sociology to State Houses (Carla B. Howery) • June Competition for Problems of the Discipline Grants • Medical Sociology Section Graduate Internship Program in Applied Medical Sociology • Honors Program Accepting Applications for Annual Meeting • Available June 1987: Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals • COPAFS: Meeting the Challenges of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow • TSP Field Coordinator Sought • Letters to the Editor: “Business as Usual” (Ralph L. Spencer); “A Letter from Another Publisher” (Franklin C. Graham; responding to Ted Peacock) • TSP Workshop on Critical Thinking • Wolhlers Insurance Offers Daily Cash Benefits • Ellen Black Winston Honored by American Association of University Women • Open Forum: “More Greatest Books” (Claude C. Bowman); “Take Care in Labeling” (Robert M. Marsh; response to Kulis et al.) • Black-on-Black Crime: Old Wine, New Bottle (Bernard D. Headley) • TSP Workshop on Community-Based Learning • Norman Goodman Recognized for Teaching Excellence • Deaths: Alvin C. Dorse, Anne K. Peters, Peter New • Obituaries: Harry Jennings Crockett, Jr., Philip M. Marcus • Section Reports • Committee Reports

Footnotes May 1987 (Volume 15, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • Lois Lee Takes Back Children from the Night • ASF Endowment Campaign: A Rationale (Jay Demerath) • ASA Awards Announced: Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contribution to Teaching; John W. Riley, Distinguished Career for the Practice of Sociology • Observing: Meeting the Challenge? (William D’Antonio) • Carla Howery and James Fremming Are Proud Parents of Kevin Carl Fremming, Born March 16 • Committee Appointed to Review ASA Dues Structure • Panel Urges More Large NSF Awards • 1987 Annual Meeting: Chicago: Your Kind of Town (Robert F. Lovely) • Travel Grants for Students • Methods and Statistics Requirements for the MA Degree: Some Data from Sociology Departments (Bettina J. Huber; first in a series) • Black Sociologists at Washington State University: A Homecoming (Robert F. Meier) • SWS Presents Miller Lectureship to Barbara Reskin • James F. Short, Jr., Receives Washington State Excellence Award • William Darrow Reports on AIDS Among Prostitutes • Letter-Writing Campaign Helps Keep Yugoslav Sociologist Milan Nikolic Out of Jail • TSP Field Coordinator Sough • 1987 Annual Meeting Information • Open Forum: “On Paul Cameron” (Chester L. Hunt) • Obituaries: George Benello, Charles P. Flynn, Paul H. Jacobsen, Herbert Menzel • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Editors’ Reports

Footnotes August 1987 (Volume 15, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.7 MB) • Joan Huber Elected ASA President; Glen H. Elder, Jr., is Vice President • Savoring the “Second City” (Chicago; Phil Nyden) • Teresa Sullivan New Editor of the Rose Monograph Series • Karen S. Cook New Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly • Executive Officer’s Report: A Five-Year Review (William D’Antonio) • Observing: 1986 Audit: A Precarious Balance (William D’Antonio) • NSF Organizations Data Base Awards • Milton Yinger Honored at Oberlin • Sociologists Win Guggenheim Fellowships • James S. Coleman Receives Honorary Degree from University of Southern California • Gerontological Society of America Fellows Announced • Regional Societies Bestow Awards (SSS, NCSA, MSS) • William Julius Wilson Receives MacArthur Award • 1988 Call for Papers: ASA in Atlanta • Annual Review of Sociology: Stability and Change (W. Richard Scott) • Matida White Riley and Harold Wilensky Elected to AAAS • Frances Mullaney and Davida Weinberg Are Newcombe Fellows • NIMH Develops Guidelines for Research on Women’s Mental Health • Ed Chasteen: Sociologist’s Biking Odyssey • Update on ASA Press Activities • Students Win Teaching Sociology Subscription Lottery • Sociological Practice Association Annual Meeting • David Goslin to Leave National Research Council • The Social Sciences in the National Academy of Sciences • Clinton Jesser Runs in Peace Maraton • Dutch Sociologists to Attend ASA Annual Meeting • Deaths: Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz • Obituaries: Donald N. Barrett, Herbert Blumer, Ira H. Cisin, Alvin C. Dorse, Fredric Lee DuBow, Harry Fishman, John T. Gullahorn, Gunnar Myrdal, Anne K. Peters, Konstantin Symmons • Minutes from January 23, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council

Footnotes October 1987 (Volume 15, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • ASA Awards Presented in Chicago: Sandra Harding and Judith Rollins, Jessie Bernard Award; William A. Gamson, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; John W. Riley, Jr., Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Wilbert E. Moore, Career of Distinguished Scholarship • MFP Invites Applications • Observing: Reflections on the ASA Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio) • Council Briefs • Herb Gans: “How Do You Known That?” (Judith Blau) • MFP Announces New 1987-88 Fellows • Catastrophe Major Medical Plan • TRC Seeks Teaching Materials • Amitai Etzioni Awarded Professorship at Harvard Business School • Graduate Students Receive Spencer Dissertation Fellowships • Rural Sociological Society Presents Awards • Menno Boldt Receives Haultain Prize • David Garth Taylor Receives APSA Book Award • ASA/NSF Grant Deadline • Six Receive ASA/NSF Grants • New TRC Products Available • New Rose Monograph on Social Investment by Severyn Bruyn • Deaths: Donald R. Cressey, Frederick Fliegel, Hans Haferkamp, Uriel Schoenbach • Obituaries: Paul Duncan-Jones, Gilberto Freyre, Roger H. Jehenson, Emory Kimbrough, Jr., Herman R. Lantz

Footnotes November 1987 (Volume 15, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Strengthening Sociology’s Position in the University (Joan Huber) • 1989 Annual Meeting Program Topics, Organizers Invited • MFP Invites Applications • Candidates for 1989 President-Elect, Vice President-Elect • Observing: Rethinking the Intellectual Challenge (William D’Antonio) • Sociologist-Journalist Sought for Clearinghouse • NIMH Increases Funding for Sociology • 1988 Annual Meeting Program Update: ASA in Atlanta • Sections Present 1987 Awards in Chicago • SSSI Annual Spring Symposium Held in Urbana • Soviet and U.S. Sociologists Work Together (Michael Swafford) • AKD Holds Statewide Initiation • Media Beat: Sociologist as Columnist (Gordon Clanton) • GSS Survey: An Update (Duane F. Alwin) • Obituaries: Margaret T. Cussler, Milla A. Alihan • Minutes from August 20, 1987, meeting of 1986-87 ASA Council • Minutes from August 22, 1987, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

Footnotes December 1987 (Volume 15, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • Candidates Announced for 1988 ASA Election • Updated Figures on Faculty Salaries (Bettina J. Huber) • MFP Invites Applications • Membership Benefits Packages Sent Bulk Rate • Two Vignettes of Academia in Latin America (Donald P. Irish) • On Sabbatical in Nicaragua (Joel P. Lazinger) • Aid Request from Nicaraguan Sociologists • SSA Auction to Benefit MFP • Books in Third World Countries • New ASA Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology • Open Forum: “ASA and Politics, Left and Right” (Mark Iutcovich); “More on Cameron” (Committee on Status of Homosexuals in Sociology); “Expansively ‘Doing’ Sociology: Thoughts on the Limits and Linkages of Sociological Practice” (Norman L. Friedman) • ASA Department Services Program Begins • Sociology in China: A New Approach (Richard H. Hall) • Teaching Workshop Looks at Local Research Centers • Good Ideas • Study of “Natural Experiment in History” Completed • Ask ASA • National Institute on Aging Research Grants • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships • National Institute on Mental Health Research Grants • National Research Council Minority Fellowships • SSRC/ACLS Grant Foreign Area Awards • 1987 National Science Foundation Awards • ASA Section on Microcomputers Considered • TSP Workshop on Integrating Computers into the Curriculum • ASA Contributors • 1988 Regional Meeting Schedule • Sociology in the Field: A Variety of Work Roles at U.S.DA (Lambert N. Wenner) • ASA/NSF/Census Research Program (Arnold Reznek) • ASA Award Deadlines • Deaths: Stuart Queen, Fred Roy Yoder • Obituaries: Donald R. Cressey, Gerard DeGre, Frederick Fliegel, Eugene M. Kleban

Footnotes January 1988 (Volume 16, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Membership Survey Results Help Guide Future (Carla B. Howery) • Clearinghouse Seeks News, Media Contacts • ASA President Herbert Gans Honored by SUNY-Albany • Sociology Major (Tim Brown) Wins Heisman Trophy • A Newcomer’s View of NSF (about Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery) • Committee on World Sociology Liaison Coordinators • Observing: Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio) • Teaching Column: Teaching Courses in Controversial and Value-Laden Areas (Kathleen McKinney) • TSP Workshop on Local Research Centers • The Presentation of Minorities in Sociology (Richard R. Verdugo and James E. Blackwell) • Peter Rossi Presents First Jensen Lectures • “Sociologist’s Song” Available from TRC • The Resurgence of Sociology at California State University-Los Angeles (Ralph Thomlinson) • Jonathan R. Cole Named Vice President, Arts and Sciences, at Columbia University • Barbara Katz Rothman Named SWS Miller Lecturer • Guidelines for Employment of Part-Time Faculty • Congressions of a Part-Time Professor (Thomas K. Pinhey) • Open Forum: ”For More Sociology/Society Interface” (Amitai Etzioni); “South Korean Sociologist Imprisoned” (Alvin L. Jacobson) • ISA Group Urges Housing Reform • Three Books Win SSSP Award • Nominations Sought for ASA Awards • The Treatment of Gender in Research • A Varied Menu of Teaching Workshops • Sociological Networking (Russell K. Schutt for the Electronic Sociological Network Committee) • New TRC Product on Inclusive Curriculum • Certification, Licensure, and Legitimacy (Lisa King) • Deaths: Maurice Jackson, Jay Schulman, Louis Zurcher • Obituaries: Stuart A. Queen, Fred R. Yoder

Footnotes February 1988 (Volume 16, Number 2) (pdf file; 2/4 MB) • Robin M. Williams, Jr., Receives Common Wealth Award • MFP Makes Dissertation Awards for 1987-88 • Editors Sought for American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior • TSP Workshop on Computers • Observing: Honors and Achievements (William D’Antonio) • Sociologists Receive NEH Awards • Inside 1722: Edwards and Frensilli Guide Publications • Methods and Statistics Requirement for the MA Degree (Bettina J. Huber; second in a series) • Sociologists Receive NIDA Research Grants • 1987-88 Fulbright Awards • Nominations Sought for ASA Awards • Open Forum: “And God Created Man . . .” (Raymond Eve); “On the Theory of Culture” (Robert Wuthnow); “Nicaragua: A Vibrant, Open Society” (Richard A. Dello Buono) • Women & Minorities • The Computer Network • More ASA Contributors • The Social World of Florida’s Mariel Cubans (Lionel Maldonado) • ASA’s Cumulative Index: A Welcome Aid to Many • TSP Workshop on “Teaching the Sociology of Family Violence” • Sociology of the Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (Olaf Larson) • Fire at University of Dayton • Letter to the Editor: “A Media Event Worth Viewing” (Thomas J. Scheff) • Open Forum: “Bureaucracy at the Indo-U.S. Subcommission” (Helena Z. Lopata) • Manhattan Study: A Classic • Raising Your Hand Just Won’t Do (Gary T. Marx) • Social/Behavioral Science Research Funding: 1988 Federal Budget • Ask ASA • Deaths: Wilbert E. Moore • Obituaries: Graham Tomlinson • Section Reports

Footnotes March 1988 (Volume 16, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • MFP Expands to Undergraduates, Postdocs • David Armor: The Sociologist as Policy Maker • Observing: 1988’s Balanced Budget: A Commentary (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: Astner Conducts Annual Meetings • ASA Council Approves Credit Card Proposal • ASA Council Tackles a Full Agenda at Mid-Year Meeting (Council Briefs) • Editors Sought for ASR, JHSB • TSP Workshop on Participatory Research and Community-Based Education • New TRC Product: Teaching Sociology on the Branch Campus • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Obituaries: Jack London, William G. Mather, Jay Schulman • Editors’ Reports • Section Reports • Committee Reports

Footnotes April 1988 (Volume 16, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Explore Atlanta on Sociology Tours • New Think Tank Links Research and Policy on Women: Heidi Hartmann (Carla Howery) • Publications Committee Evaluates JHSB • Observing: Is It Morning Again in Sociology (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: “Good Morning . . . . ASA; May I Help You”—Nancy Sylvester • STEP Grants for Meeting Travel • Representation of Women in U.S. Sociology Departments (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod) • Reach Out and Touch Someone: A Report on AIDS (Ellen Berg) • Ask ASA • Professional Ethics and the ASA (Barbara Altizer and Benigno Aguirre) • Open Forum: “And Sociologists Created Man” (Pierre van den Berghe) • Ronald Kessler Wins MERIT Award • 1988 Annual Meeting: Sociology by Subway in Atlanta (Brian Sherman) • Rosabeth Moss Kanter Writes on “Massachusetts Miracle” with Dukakis • Richard Irish to Lead 1988 Annual Meeting Job Clinic • Improving Sociology’s Relations with Journals (Herbert Gans) • Funding and Activities of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development • Sociologists Think Science (magazine) • ASA Honors Program in Atlanta • University of Southern California Prepares Sociologists to Do Family Therapy (Carla Howery) • NSF Seeks Applicants for Sociology Position • POD Grants and Deadline Announced • New Section on Microcomputing • New Footnotes Columns Need Input (New Books, Commentary and Ideas) • Deaths: Beverly Duncan, Irving Goldaber, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum • Obituaries: Joseph Bensman, Wilbert Ellis Moore • Section Reports • Committee Reports • Representative Reports

Footnotes May 1988 (Volume 16, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Robin M. Williams, Jr., Honored in Common Wealth Ceremony • How to Improve Your Teaching in Atlanta • ASA Award Winners Announced • Observing: The ASA Dues Structure (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: Good Luck and Thank You, Bettina (Huber) • Lois K. Cohen Named Phillips Visiting Professor at Columbia University • Encouraging NSF Funding of Qualitative Research (Herbert J. Gans, ASA President) • Second Biennial Update: The Status of Minorities and Women Within ASA (Bettina J. Huber) • Conference Looks at Race/Ethnic Relations in 1990s (Lionel A. Maldonado) • Charles U. Smith Receives Florida A&M Award • SSSP to Meet in Conjunction with ASA • ASA in Atlanta: All About the 1988 Annual Meeting • “Born Again” Documentary to Screen at 1988 Annual Meeting in Atlanta • Deaths: Harry Abravanel, J. Don Harris, Joan Holley • Obituaries: Theodore Abel, Beverly Duncan, Bruce H. Mayhew, Wayne C. Rohrer, Barbara Rosenblum • Committee Reports • Section Reports • Minutes of January 28, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council

Footnotes August 1988 (Volume 16, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • William Julius Wilson Elected ASA President; Edna Bonacich Vice President; Beth B. Hess Secretary • Atlanta: Old South, New South (Charles Karcher and Barbara Karcher) • Executive Officer’s Report: A Year of Progress and Problems (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: A Front Office Dynamic Duo—Frances M. Foster and Angela Foster Grisby • Michael Aiken Appointed Provost at University of Pennsylvania • Observing: 1987 Audit: ASA Budget in Balance (William D’Antonio) • 1987 Audit • Two Special Events at 1988 Annual Meeting: Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities 10th Anniversary; Filmmaker Fred Wiseman to Show New Film, “Missile” • 1989 Annual Meeting Call for Papers • Deaths: Harold Feldman, Nicholas Mullins, Wai-Ying • Obituaries: Irving Goldaber, John W. Hudson, Maurice Jackson, John E. Mayer, Louis Anthony Zurcher

Footnotes October 1988 (Volume 16, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Major ASA Awards Given at 1988 Annual Meeting: George Homans, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Paul Glick, Career of Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Sociology; Sharon McPherron and Charles A. Goldsmid, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Michael Mann, Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Doris Y. Wilkinson, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award • ASF Trustees Make First Grant, to MFP • Editors Sough for TS, ST, SPR • Dues Renewal Underway • President’s Report: The 1988 ASA Presidency: A Personal Account (Herbert J. Gans) • Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces from the 1988 Annual Meeting (William D’Antonio) • Profile of the President: Joan Huber: Sociological Theory and Common Sense (Mary Ann Lamanna) • 1989 Annual Meeting Theme: Macro/Micro Sociology • J. Michael Brooks Leads ASA Teaching Services Program • Sections Bestow Awards at ASA Annual Meeting • Cumulative Index of Sociology Journals Available on Disk • Winners of Raffle for Airline Tickets • Upcoming in Teaching Sociology: An Article by George Ritzer on “Textbookgate” (Ellen Berg) • Council Establishes Standing Committee on Employment (Stephen A. Buff) • POD Grant Deadlines, Winners Announced • ASA and Duke University Invite Nominations for Jensen Lectureship • Deaths: Ruth Bleier • Obituaries: Albert B. Blumenthal, Robert Galen Burnight, Hugh Carter, Manuel Elmer, Harold Feldman, Nicholas C. Mullins

Footnotes November 1988 (Volume 16, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Breakthrough: New Federal Job Description for Sociology (Stephen A. Buff) • 1990 Program Committee Invites Suggestions for Sessions • 1989 Candidates Announced • NIMH Program for Hispanics Celebrates 11th Anniversary • Observing: David Kingsbury Resigns NSF Post (William D’Antonio) • MFP Fellows Announced for 1988-89 • Benefits of the ASA Credit Card • Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matilda White Riley Included in Ladies Home Journal’s “100 Most Important Women in 1988” • Minority Scholars Awarded NRC Fellowships • CIES Invites Applications for Awards • More Section Awards Presented In Atlanta • Ideas and Commentary: How Can the ASA Increase the Representation of Practitioners in the Membership, Program, and Elected Leadership? With: “Make Membership Worthwhile” (Meredith Gould); “Helping Practitioners Reclaim Their Sociological Identities” (Elizabeth J. Clark); “Making Membership Worth More to Us” (Theodore A. Lamb); “A Useful List of Ideas” (David J. Kallen); “Outreach to Practicing Sociologists” (Mitchell A. Pravatiner) • Open Forum: Differing Views on the ASA’s Annual Meeting Child Care Service—“A Commendation . . .” (Carolyn Howe and Jerry Lembke); “ . . . And a Complaint” (Art Stinchcombe); “A Note from the Executive Office” (Carla Howery) • Two Sociologists (David Grusky and Mark Mizruchi) Receive NSF Awards • ASA in San Francisco: Update on 1989 Program Sessions • Women’s Representation Among Graduate Students in Sociology (Karen A. Miller, Stephen Kulis, Leonard Gordon, and Morris Axelrod) • The Whys of ASA Membership: “Why I Belong to the ASA” (Earl Babbie); “Graduate Students and the ASA” (Lorna Lueker) • Area Representatives Provide Local Linkages • New ASA Dissertation Award; Nominations Invited • Anthony Giddens Joins University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology Department • Group Disability Income Insurance • Honors Program Honor Hans Mauksch • Philip Converse Named Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences • Deaths: Paul Riesman • Obituaries: Shelley Coverman, Laud Humphreys, Andrew William Lind, Herbert Scott, Jr.

Footnotes December 1988 (Volume 16, Number 9) (pdf file; 3.7 MB) • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Last Chance for a 1988 Tax Deduction: ASF Endowment Campaign Sprints to the Finish Line • 1990 Annual Meeting Theme: Sociology and the Public Agenda (William Julius Wilson) • Observing: Forming Partnerships with Soviets and Our High Schools (William D’Antonio) • New Coalition to Promote International Education: Coalition for the Advancement of Foreign Languages and International Studies (Stephen A. Buff) • The AIDS Experience (about Levi Kamel; by Ellen Berg) • The Prison as Classroom (Carla B. Howery) • Experiment Station Directors Support New Social Science Research Initiatives (ESCOP) • Share Your Teaching Materials with TRC • New Materials from the ASA Teaching Resources Center • Teaching Resources Group Continues Visitation Program • ASA Emeritus Membership • The Hispanic Center at Arizona State University • ASA Contributors • Media Beat: Promoting Yourself or Your Research to a Wider Audience (Jan Yager) • Natalie Allon’s Books Donated to University of Pittsburgh • Sociological Practice Association Establishes Charles Good Gomillion Collection at Paine College • TSP Workshop on Outcomes Assessment • ASA Council Considers Redistricting • Sociologists Garner Awards and Grants: NICHHD, NSF, NIA • Space Available for Other Activities at 1989 Annual Meeting • 1989 Regional Meeting Schedule • Open Forum: “Calling Names” (Judith Lorber); “On the Resectioning of Culture” (Eugene Rochberg-Halton); “Part-Time Professional Work” (Susan B. Prager); “Candidate Qualifications” (name withheld); “Gender Bias Paranoia” (Richard Zeller); “To the Editor” (Sharon Georgianna); “Image and Conviction in Sociology” (Richard C.J. Kilminster) • Humanist Sociology in South Africa (David O. Friedrichs) • Ideas and Commentary: “Should the ASA Offer Commercial Benefits?” (Jeanne Ballantine); “The ASA Master Card” (Marie R. Haug) • Nominations Invited for 1990 ASA Awards • Mental Health Services Research Conference Held at ASA • New Concerns Surface Over Imprisoned South Korean Sociologist (Carla Howery) • Media Beat: Sociologist as Television Commenter (Brian S. Vargus) • Malaysian Sociologists Arrested; Letters of Protest Requested • Sociology Department at University of Dayton Damaged by Fire (Patrick G. Donnelly) • IIS International Congress to be Held in Rome, June 1989 • “On Retirement” (a poem by J. Saltman) • Deaths: David Dodge, H. Kent Geiger, Morris Janowitz, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif • Obituaries: (William) Douglas Martin Chittick, Burton R. Fisher, Barbara Hargrove • Minutes from August 27, 1988, meeting of 1987-88 ASA Council • Minutes from August 28, 1988, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes January 1989 (Volume 17, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Sorokin Lives! Centennial Observations (Barry V. Johnston) • NSF Seeks New Director of Division of Social and Economic Science • Departmental Services Program in Second Year • Observing: From Page Costs to Soviet Guests (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: ASA’s Meetings and Marketing Manager—Jen Suter • Sex and Gender Section Honors Karen Hossfeld • Public Opinion and Reform in China (David S. Mason and Ken Colburn) • American Nurses’ Association Conducts Leadership Seminars for Women of Color • Update on Alpha Kappa Delta • Ohio State and Pennsylvania State Host Student Receptions in Atlanta • Open Forum: “More on Sociological Practice” (Christine Wright-Isak); “Response to SOE Section Award” (James Coleman) • Will and Dorothy Lissner Retire from American Journal of Economics and Sociology • Ask ASA • Teaching: A Proposal for Enhancing Anticipatory Socialization to Graduate School (Robert L. Hummel and Gary S. Foster) • Issues Debated at World-System Conference on “War and Revolution” (Terry Boswell and Frank Lechner) • Honors Program Continues to Shine • Facilitating Data Sharing (Josefina J. Card) • Deaths: Joel Cantor • Obituaries: Robert E. Corley, David L. Dodge, Milton Rokeach, Muzafer Sherif • Section Reports

Footnotes February 1989 (Volume 17, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1989 Annual Meeting: What Ever Happened to the Haight-Asbury? (Sherri Cavan) • Sociology and the Humanities Closing the Gap (Joseph R. Gusfield) • No Petition Candidates for ASA Election • 1989 Annual Meeting: Plenaries and Thematics • Increasing the Pool of Reviewers for ASA Journals • Thanks to ASA Members Responding to Survey • Long-Term Care Group Insurance Available • Plagiarism Case Documented (Foon plagiarized Wilson) • Association for the Sociology of Religion Turns 50 • ASA Panel on Federal Employment • Mary Fennell New JHSB Editor • Chairs of Graduate Departments: Where Do They Come From? (Thomas Van Valey and Kathleen A. Tiemann) • ISA Competition for Young Sociologists • Stephen J. Morewitz Founds Litigation Firm • NIAAA Funds Sociologists, Seeks Proposals on Alcohol and AIDS • ASA Holds Workshop on Teaching About the Sociology of Family Crises • What Do Our Introductory Sociology Students Know? (Richard F. Tomasson) • Teaching: Teaching, Internships, and Employment: An Opportunity for Humane Social Change (Richard Salem and Charles S. Green III) • ASA Holds Writing Skills Workshop • Rich Survey Data Available from ICPSR • Open Forum: “A Request for Clarification” (on the Levi Kamel story; Thomas Ford Hoult); “The High Cost of Meeting” (Julie M. Gricar and Erich Hirsch); “Activity in the Park Service” (William H. Key) • Jonathan R. Cole Named New Provost at Columbia University • Section Reports • Deaths: Ozzie G. Simmons, Donald Campion, Ann Davis • Obituaries: David B. Carpenter, Morriz Janowitz, Walter Cade Reckless

Footnotes March 1989 (Volume 17, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1989 Annual Meeting: Tenderloin Mosaic (Sherri Cavan) • Examination for ASA Certification at the MA Level Available at 1989 Annual Meeting (Herbert L. Costner) • Observing: Reviewing the ASA Budget (William D’Antonio) • ASA Council Adopts Revised Code of Ethics (Barbara Walters Altizer) • SWS Names Maxine Baca Zinn 1989 Miller Lecturer • Candidates for ASA President, Vice President • Online Searches as a Data Source (Michael A. Faia) • NSF Sociology Program: New Initiatives, Cautious Optimism (about Robert Althauser and Phyllis Moen; by Carla B. Howery) • Section on Sociology of Education Needs Teaching Ideas for Curriculum Guide • Open Forum: “A Call to Read the Original Sorokin and Sumner” (Alfred McClung Lee; “On the Confusion of Social Justice and Social Reality” (Reece McGee); “The Possibility of a Rational Discourse in Sociology?” (Pierre L. van den Berghe); “Overcoming Gender Bias” (Graves E. Enck and James D. Preston); “Investigating Equality of Opportunity in Ulster” (Robert L. Miller); “Asking the Right Questions” (Monica B. Morris); “Complexity of an American’s Experience in South Africa” (Michael J. Pravetz); “Response to Pravetz” (David O. Friedrichs) • AIDS, Gay Men, and Their (Invisible) Sociology (Stephen O. Murray) • More ASA Contributors • ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards • NSF Seeks Information on How NSF Grants Contributed to Non-Academic Activities (Roberta Balstad Miller) • Obituaries: Jess M. Carrillo, Anne E. Davis, Ozzie G. Simmons • Committee Reports

Footnotes April 1989 (Volume 17, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1989 Annual Meeting: The Castro in Transition (Kay Tiblier) • Alice S. Rossi Wins Common Wealth Award • Inside the ASA Budget: The Annual Meeting (Janet L. Astner) • Observing: Bits ‘n Pieces (William D’Antonio) • Sociologists Working in Israel: “Building Sociology and a New State: Sociologists at Work in Israel” (Shulamit Reinharz); “Inside the Peacekeeping Forces” (David R. Segal); “Organizational Consulting in Israel” (Bruce Alan Phillips) • Deaths: John F. Cuber • Obituaries: Marie Ann Bandl • Committee Reports • Representative Reports • Editors’ Reports • Minutes from the January 26, 1989, meeting of the 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes May 1989 (Volume 17, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1989 Annual Meeting: Berkeley: Updating the Image(s) (E. Barbara Phillips) • Robert Dentler New Editor of SPR • ASA Award Winners Announced • Clifford Clogg Editor of JASA • Observing: International Linkages and Jobs at Home (William D’Antonio) • David Featherman is New SSRC President • Linda Aiken Wins Sociological Practice Section Award • Participate in the POD Grant Program (Richard H. Hall) • Washington University Department of Sociology to Close • AAC project on the Sociology Major • Is There a Future for the ASA Child Care Program? (Jen L. Suter) • Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic • Good Ideas • Enjoy a Laugh with SWS • ASA in San Francisco: All About the 1989 Annual Meeting • Open Forum: “Humanities and Social Sciences Link to Inform Policy” (Robert P. Wolensky); “Which Came First?” (Richard F. Tomasson); “Cultural Literacy, Indeed?!” (Naomi Rosenthal); “A Response to Coleman” (John C. Leggett); “Coleman Was Right” (Chester L. Hunt); “More on Coleman” (Alfred McClung Lee) • Inside the ASA Budget: Minority Fellowship Program (Lionel Maldonado) • Deaths: Arthur Seeger, Robert Clay, Robert W. Hodge

Footnotes August 1989 (Volume 17, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.1 MB) • Stanley Lieberson Elected ASA President; Barbara Reskin is Vice President • 1989 Annual Meeting: Art, Food, and Politics in the City by the Bay (Sherri Cavan) • Common Wealth Award: Alice Rossi on Love and Work • Executive Officer’s Report: Sociology on the Move (William D’Antonio) • 1989 Audit: ASA Budget Shows Small Surplus • Inside 1722: Sharon Gray—ASA’s Institutional Memory • Late Breaking News About the 1989 Annual Meeting, including “The Accessibility of ASA Meetings: A Progress Report to the Membership” (R. Greg Emerton, Chair, ASA Committee on Society and Persons with Disabilities) • Media Beat: David and Goliath in Media Relations (Carla B. Howery) • Federal Job Description Available • SWS Enbraces Unity and Diversity (Carla B. Howery) • Give an ASA Gift Membership • ASA Goes Electronic: ASA’s New Fax Number and Bitnet Address • Adeline Levine Receives Honorary Degree from Beaver College • Deaths: George C. Homans, G.W. Levi Kamel, Richard Troiden • Obituaries: John F. Cuber, Robert W. Hodge, Alfred W. Jones, Magdalena Sokolowska, Frederic W. Terrien, Helmut R. Wagner

Footnotes September 1989 (Volume 17, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.2 MB) • Future Organizational Trends of the ASA (a report of the ASA Ad Hoc Committee on ASA Future Organizational Trends) • 1990 Call for Papers: Regular Session Topics and Organizers for 1990 Annual Meeting • Washington University’s Sociology Department: An Update • NSF Fellowships Valuable to Scholars and Institutions (Edward Murguia) • Urgent Need for Sociology Departments to Encourage NSF Graduate and Minority Fellowship Applications • NSF Celebrates 25,000th Fellowship (Robert Althauser) • Teaching Workshop on Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts • Engineers Confer with Sociologists on Technological Change • Plagiarism Discovered; ASA Takes Action (by Stephen A. Buff; about Jerri Husch’s dissertation being plagiarized in Mellen Press’s book by Stephen H. Barnes) • COPAFS: Confronting the Challenges (Katherine Wallman) • NRC Committee Releases AIDS Report • Revised Code of Ethics Applies to All Sociologists’ Work Settings (Ruth L. Love) • American Sociological Foundation: Doing Well and Doing Good (James F. Short) • Durkheim Studies Moves to Illinois • Doris Wilkinson’s Odyssey Back In Time (Susan Frensilli) • Shmuel N. Eisenstadt Receives 1988 Balzan Prize • Section Reports

Footnotes October 1989 (Volume 17, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Major ASA Awards Given in San Francisco: Jessie Bernard, Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship; David L. Sills, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; James A. Davis, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Charles Tilly, Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication; Samuel Cohn and Joan Robinson Acker, Jessie Bernard Award • Gerald Marwell to Edit ASR • Observing: Reflections on the 1989 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (William D’Antonio) • William D’Antonio to Retire; Search for New Executive Officer Begun • Eight Receive ASA/NSF Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due • Annual Review Discount Increased • Profile of the President: William Julius Wilson: A Bold and Sober Intellect (Katherine O’Sullivan See) • Section Award Winners Honored at 1989 Annual Meeting • 1990 Guide Listings Due • Dues Renewals in the Mail • President’s Report: Events of the Passing Year in Retrospect (Joan Huber) • Honors Program Joins ASA; Seeks Director for 1990 • IIS-ISA and Oaths Opposing Apartheid: “On Promoting Open Exchange of Scholarly Work” (Edgar F. Borgatta); “Apartheid in Focus” (Else Oyen); “A View on ISA and World Politics” (Margaret Archer); “Rejoinder” (Edgar Borgatta) • Deaths: Stefann Nowak, Hugh Anderson Johnson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner • Obituaries: Albert E. Chabot, Douglas Ensminger, Harold Finestone, Mark Lefton, John E. Owen, Edgar Tristam Thompson, Richard R. Troiden

Footnotes November 1989 (Volume 17, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • MFP Initiates Undergraduate Component • Alan Sica to Edit Sociological Theory • Dean Dorn to Edit Teaching Sociology • Candidates for ASA President and Vice President • Observing: Positive News in Sociology (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: “Dr. D’Antonio’s Office”—Juanita Hampton • ASA Area Representatives and Coordinators • ASA Now has TDD Machine • The Rebuilding of Sociology in the Soviet Union: “Soviet Sociology Today: Possibilities for Cooperation” (Louise Shelley); “Lecturing in the U.S.SR” (Harvey Molotch); “The Face, and Pace, of Change in the Soviet Union” (Michael Swafford) • Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meeting • More Section Award Winners from Annual Meeting • ASA Teaching Services Program: New Products, Workshops, Submissions Sought • ASA Contributors • Ask ASA • Sociologists Honored with Awards: Richard Tessler and Bernice Pescosolido Receive NIMH Awards; Vern Bengtson Receives MERIT Award; Jacqueline Wiseman Receives SSSI Award • 1990 Annual Meeting: Update on Program Sessions; Space for Other Groups • Suggestions Solicited for 1991 Annual Meeting Program • Coming in 1990: Sociological Practice Review • Subcommission on Women in East Germany, U.S. • Deaths: Wolfram Eberhard, Stanley Grupp, Robert Laufer • Obituaries: Hanan C. Selvin • Minutes from the August 12, 1989, meeting of 1988-89 ASA Council

Footnotes December 1989 (Volume 17, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Candidates Announced for 1990 Elections • ASA Successful in Pursuing Plagiarism Case (on Husch/Mellen) • White House Science Advisor (D. Allan Bromley) “Speaks” to COSSA • Observing: Advocacy for a Diverse Clientele (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: “Sections Are Where It’s At”—Caroline Bugno • New Organization for Chairs of PhD Departments • Sociologists Receive Awards: Joseph Kasof Wins ASA Social Psychology Section Award; Thelma McCormack Receives Honorary Degree from Mount Saint Vincent University; H. Laurence Ross Wins Widmark Prize; Paul Dimaggio, Gary Hamilton, and Theda Skocpol Win Guggenheims; Gary Marx to Give Jensen Lecturer • ASA Staff Attend Other Meetings • Summer School and Sociological Theory: Dead Head Sociology and Canoeing Toward Utopia (Carla B. Howery) • Sociologists Keep Pressure on Washington University Administration • Short Takes • MFP Announces 1989-90 Fellows • Update on MFP Funding • The Evaluation of Sociology Journals by Political Scientists (David Jacobs); journal rankings • 1990 Regional Meeting Schedule • Open Forum: “More on Sociology in Israel” (Stanley Cohen); “A View on Arab Palestine” (Hassan Elnajjar) • Who Are You Going to Call? TRG! (Teaching Resources Group) • Deaths: Robert David • Obituaries: Wayman J. (Bud) Crow, Wolfram Everhard, Robert S. Laufer, Forrest E. LaViolette, Stefan Nowak, George Simpson, Priscilla Kiehnle Warner • Minutes of August 13, 1989, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

Footnotes January 1990 (Volume 18, Number 1) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • Observing: In Memorium (on the sociologists murdered in El Salvador; William D’Antonio) • Nominations Requested for 1991 ASA Awards • Rosabeth Moss Kanter Appointed Editor of Harvard Business Review • Minority Roster Project Begins • Open Forum: “We Should be Able to Move Easily Between Teaching and Practice” (Henry H. Brownstein); “Focusing Again on Open Scholarly Exchange” (Paolo Ammassari) • Inside the ASA Budget: Publications (Karen Gray Edwards) • Support for Independent Scholars • Independent Scholars Needed for Research Project • Center for Research on Women is a Goldmine (Carla B. Howery) • Emeritus Member Criteria Changed • Clyda Rent is New President of Mississippi University for Women (Carla B. Howery) • Southern Sociological Society Clearinghouse for Hate Crimes • Scholarly Exchanges Between Hungary and the U.S. (Anthony Obershall) • Agenda Proposed for Arctic Social Sciences • Eastern European Cities in Comparative Perspective • The Development of Sociology in New Zealand (Paul Spooney) • Sociologists Study Food and Society • Good Ideas • Open Forum: “How Was Plagiarism Overlooked?” (Ben Agger); “Rejoinder on Foon Plagiarism Case”; “Is ASA Committed to Sociological Practice?” (David J. Kallen); “The Voting Rights of Student Members” (Donald Davis, Melvin F. Hall, Kari Lerum, Mark Meyerson and 36 other students); “Technology Is Too Important to be Left to the Engineers” (Ruth Love); “Steve Buff Replies” (Stephen A. Buff); “Unethical Publishers: Why Not Do Something About Them?” (Anne-Marie Ambert) • Pre-Publication Discount on 1990 Biographical Directory of Members • China’s Long Hot Summer (Peter M. Nardi) • Nancy Tuma Returns from China • Fiske on Departments of Sociology (Richard A. Wright) • Authors and Networks: Gender in Sociological Journal Articles (Maren Lockwood Carden) • Review Copies of College Texts Can be Returned Painlessly • Short Takes • AAP’s Education Division Statement on Principles for College Publishing • Teaching: Merit Pay and Assessment of Teaching: A Procedure for Peer Evaluation in Multidisplinary Unites (Keith A. Roberts) • Small World: Fulbright Scholars Visit U.S. • Joseph L. Tropea Runs Capital Market Workshops for Poles • New in 1990: Sociological Practice Review • Travel Awards for 1990 ISA Meetings • New TRC Resource: Training Teaching Assistants • Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD, NIMH • Obituaries: C. Norman Alexander • Section on Sociology of Aging Introduces Series of Research Committees

Footnotes February 1990 (Volume 18, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Mirra Komarovsky Receives Common Wealth Award • 1991 Annual Meeting Theme: “The World of Ethnic Relations” (Stanley Lieberson) • 1990 Petition Candidates Announced • Observing: Monitoring Ourselves: The ASA Election Process; Considering Accreditation (William D’Antonio) • Inside 1722: Maru Corrado—“Here’s what I’m doing with a BA a Sociology” • John Hagan Wins Criminology Award • A Peace Movement Has Emerged Against the War on Drugs (Craig Reinarman, Harry Gene Levine) • The Editor: Peter Rossi Apologizes (Peter H. Rossi) • Teaching: Making the Evaluation Process More Credible (Carla B. Howery) • New Research Institute Named to Honor Sociology (on Julian Samora; by Susan Frensilli) • Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: J. Richard Udry Receives MERIT Award; Arlene Kaplan Daniels Named Miller Lecturer; Pastore Honored by University of Wisconsin • Open Forum: “Publishing Vote Totals: A Loss for Democracy” (Bernardt Lieberman) • AAAS Program Takes Journals to African Researchers • ASF Receives First Will Bequest from Hanan C. Selvin’s Estate • ASA Committees and Representatives • IIS 29th International Congress in Rome • Increasing Committee Participation by Members Employed at Two- and Four-Year Institutions and Practitioners • Transaction to Reissue Social Psychology Volume • The Trouble with Feminist Theory (Michael A. Faia) • New UCLA Training Program on AIDS • Good Ideas • Departmental Services Program in Third Year • ASA Contributors • Deaths: Mary Moynihan Dolan • Obituaries: Michael Eugene Choukas, Dwight Dean, Richard J. Hill • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes March 1990 (Volume 18, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Population Association of American Moves to ASA Office • Council Briefs • Attention: Overseas Members • Friends of Sociology at Washington University • Observing: An Action Packed Council Meeting • Candidates for ASA President, Vice President • A Briefing on the Census (Harvey M. Choldin) • David Bills to Lead ASA Honors Program • Subcommittee Reviews Sociology of Education (Susan Frensilli) • Open Forum: “Keeping the Focus on Apartheid” (Else Oyen) • Zelda Gamson Directs New Resource Center for Educators • MFP Receives Grant from Leo Chall • Charles Chakerian Establishes Research Fund at Yale • Medical Sociology Section Honors Samuel Bloom • Call for Examples of Research with Grass Roots Groups • Short Takes • Deaths: Richard J. Hill • Obituaries: Robert L. David, Segundo Montes • Section Reports • Committee Reports • Representative Reports

Footnotes April 1990 (Volume 18, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Washington University Update—A Close Vote: Faculty Almost Overturns Dean’s Decision • Sociological Practice Review Soon to Make Its Debut! • Contribute to Child Care! Remember the Voluntary Contribution on the Annual Meeting Registration Form • Capitol Steps to Perform at Annual Meeting • Please Contact the ASA: On Insurance, On Teaching • Observing: The ASA Budget: Direct and Indirect Costs (William D’Antonio) • Marie Haug Honored at Case Western Reserve University • New Teaching Resource: The Internship Handbook • SSSI Holds Symposium on Subjectivity (Carolyn Ellis and Michael Flaherty) • Open Forum: “Tenure Decisions and Equal Employment: An Opportunity for Research” (Paul Burstein) • The Multifaceted Career of a “Retired” Sociologist (Donald P. Irish) • Visiting Germany: Impressions of a German Expatriot (Joachim Savelsburg) • IPFW Makes Links with Poland • Practice Beat: On the Transition from the Academy to a Career in Business (Kenneth R. Donow) • Minutes from January 19, 1990, meeting of the 1989-90 ASA Council • Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May 1990 (Volume 18, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • 1990 Annual Meeting: Beyond Your High School Class Trip to Washington • Major ASA Award Winners Announced • Minority Opportunity Summer Training Launched • STEP Awards Cancelled • Set Sail for the Teaching Endowment Fund • Observing: More Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio) • Inside the ASA Budget: The Teaching Services Program (Carla B. Howery) • Inside 1722: The Busy Business Office—Cassandra Twardowsky and Barbara Bouquet • Teaching: Teaching the Lessons of the Vietnam War (Carla B. Howery) • ASF/NSF Grants; New Deadline Nears • Update on ASA Insurance Programs • The Student Sociologist Reaches Undergraduates • Help Cover ASA’s Printing Costs (Voluntary Page Charges) • Honors Program Wants a Few Good Students • ASA in Washington, DC: All About the 1990 Annual Meeting • Open Forum: “Are We Part of the Problem?” (Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.); “To ASA Members” (Nikolay A. Smodlev); “A Structuralist’s View” (George A. Hillary; a poem written for his introductory sociology students) • Richard Irish to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic • East Carolina University Honors D.D. Garrett • Deaths: Bruno Bettleheim, John H. Staggers • Obituaries: Stanley E. Grupp, Robert William Janes, Patricia L. Kendall, Belle Milton Sicurella, Hans Speier • TSP Seeks Field Coordinator

Footnotes August 1990 (Volume 18, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • James Coleman Elected President; Doris Wilkinson is Vice President • ASA’s New Executive Officer: Felice J. Levine • 1990 Annual Meeting: Adams-Morgan: A DC Neighborhood to Explore • New ASA Phone System to Begin • Executive Officer’s Report: Routine and Non-Routine Events Make a Busy Year (William D’Antonio) • 1991 Annual Meeting: Late Breaking News • Inside the ASA Budget: Sections (Carla B. Howery) • Sociology at the National Science Foundation: A Bright Future (an interview with Murray A. Webster, Jr., and Gwendolyn L. Lewis; by Carla B. Howery) • 1989 Audit: Surplus Strengthens Reserve • Charles U. Smith Receives Washington State University Centennial Award • Sociology Award to Honor Elbridge Sibley • NSF Programs of Interest to Sociologists • Celestino Fernandez is New Vice President at University of Arizona • Deaths: Ralph David Abernathy, Donald J. Newman • Obituaries: Howard D. Abramowitz, Marian MacNeil Deininger, Ras Mohun Halder, Elizabeth L. Mullins, Edward Strong, Harold Wildstein, Michelle Wimbley

Footnotes September 1990 (Volume 18, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Mirra Komarovsky on Family and Work (Common Wealth Award) • AAC Report on the Undergraduate Major • MFP Director Lionel Maldonado Leaves ASA • ASA Begins New Phone System • Minority Roster Ready for Use • Profile of the President: Stanley Lieberson: No Shortage of Interesting Questions (Mary C. Waters) • Soviet Sociologists and Students Speak on Capitol Hill (Stephen A. Buff) • Universities Bestow Honors on Tatiana Zaslavskaya • American Chemical Society Releases Data • Daniel Monti: Working for Civil Rights by Linking Research to Politics (Carla B. Howery) • Inside 1722: Everything You Ordered Is in the Mail—Don Stanley and David Matthews • Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities • Open Forum: “The Ethics of an Internship” (David C. Barrows); “On ‘Homophobia’” (Panos Bardis); “Czech Sociology Rebuilds” (Bohumil Geist); “Another View on Society in Israel” (Aaron Antonovsky); “Teaching Evaluated by Students” (Panos Bardis); “Rejoinder on Feminist Theory” (Roslyn Wallach Bologh); “Education and Evaluation” (Panos Bardis) • Most Grad Students are Women • Writing the Social Text: Anthropological, Literary Perspectives (Richard Brown) • Gary Marx Presents Jensen Lectures • Good Ideas • 1991 Annual Meeting Call for Papers: Topics and Organizers Announced: Focus on Change in Regular Sessions • Sex and Gender Directory Ready • Special Issue of Teaching Sociology on Medical Sociology • Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., New ICS President; Morris Rosenberg Honored by ESS; David L. Altheide Honored by Arizona State University • Deaths: Lee C. Binhammer, Robert Bower • Obituaries: Helen M. Feeney, Marianne A. (Tracey) Paget, Hubert O’Gorman • Directory of Sociological Practitioners

Footnotes October 1990 (Volume 18, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Major ASA Awards Presented at Annual Meeting: Robin M. Williams, Jr., Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee, Award for a Distinguished Career in the Practice of Sociology; Southwest Texas State University Sociology Program, Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch for Urban Fortunes, with special recognition to Kim Scheppele for Legal Secrets, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award; Vedat Milor, Dissertation Award; William Julius Wilson, Dubois-Johnson- Frazier Award • Observing: On Past and Future Annual Meetings (William D’Antonio) • MFP Announces Fellows for 1990-91, Seeks Applications for 1991-92 • ASA/NSF Grants Awarded; New Deadline Nears • ASA Contributors • Open Forum: “What is Feminist Theory?” (Francesca M. Cancian) • Section Award Winners Honored at Annual Meeting • Deaths: John C. Belcher, Jr., St. Clair Drake • Obituaries: Esther Lucile Brown

Footnotes November 1990 (Volume 18, Number 9) (pdf file; 4.0 MB) • Walter E. Massey Named New NSF Director • Neil Smelser is Elected ISA Vice President • Suggestions Solicited for 1992 Annual Meeting Program • ASA Publications: Order through Boyd • Observing: Should the Social Sciences Go On Their Own at NSF? (William D’Antonio) • Inside the ASA Budget: The Professional Development Program (Stephen A. Buff) • Minority Opportunity Summer Training (MOST) Has a Great First Program • Secretary’s Report: The Work of the Executive Office and Budget Committee (Beth B. Hess) • The “Quality” of Journals in Sociology Reconsidered: Objective Measurers of Journal Influence (Michael Patrick Allen) • Jeffrey Alexander Receives Gold Shield Prize • TRC Seeks Submissions, Announces New Products • Harvard Business Review Wants You! • Community Forum Discussion: What’s Next (Edna Bonacich) • International Institute of Sociology Meeting to be Held in Kobe, Japan • Sociologists Visit the World Bank • James Blackwell Prize and Fellowship Established • Lenore Weitzman Wins Harvard Teaching Award • Lois DeFleur Appointed President of SUNY-Binghamton • An Appeal to Sociologists All Over the World (about human rights in Eastern-Central Europe; by The Hungarian Sociological Association) • NSF Seeks New Sociology Program Directors • More Section Awards from the 1990 Annual Meeting • Update on 1991 Annual Meeting Program Sessions • Teaching: How Am I Teaching? (reprinted from Center for Teaching and Professional Development Newsletter, Sonoma State University, December 1989) • Sociologists in Higher Administration: A Symposium Introduction (Riley E. Dunlap) • Where the Jobs Are: Openings in Sociology Departments, 1984 to 1989 • Robert Groves New Census Associate Director • Norman Goodman Honored by SUNY-Stony Brook • Two Issues of Sociological Practice Review Now Available (Stephen A. Buff) • Open Forum: “A View from the Left” (T.R. Young with rejoinder by ASA); “What Do We Mean by ‘Paradigm’?” (Wendell Bell); “On Undergraduate Program Accreditation” (Anthony J. Blasi); “Social Science for the 1990s: A New Synthesis of Qualitative Methods and Environmental Ethics” (Maurice A. Renard and Paul M. Baker); “More on ‘Homophobia’” (Joel I. Brodksy) • Good Ideas • International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Opens Moscow Office • Deaths: Myra Elizabeth Mack Chang (assassinated in Guatemala City), Joanne R. Frankel • Obituaries: C. Arnold Anderson, Robert T. Bower, Jack E. Dodson, Norbert Elias

Footnotes December 1990 (Volume 18, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Candidates Announced for 1991 ASA Election • A Challenge and an Opportunity: ASF Fellowships (Matilda White Riley and James F. Short, Jr.) • Observing: Cincinnati: More than the Reds and Mapplethorpe (William D’Antonio) • Nominations Invited for Third Jensen Lectureship • 1991 Regional Meeting Schedule • ASA Departmental Services Program • Status of Women Faculty in Graduate Departments: 1973 and 1988 (Leonard Beeghley and Debra Van Ausdale) • Unique Barriers Women of Color Faculty Encounter (Denise Segura and K. Sue Jewell) • The Graduate Commencement Address at Tulane University: Sociology’s Pomposity and Utility (James D. Wright) • Sociology in the New York Times (William Silverman) • California Sociological Association Holds First General Meeting • Funding Opportunities and Awards for Sociologists: NSF, NICHD • A Decade of the New Chinese Sociology (Ming Yan) • Good Ideas • ASA Campus Representatives • AAAS Minority Scholars Workshop • Obituaries: Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, George Caspar Homans, Constant Jacquet, Gary M. Maranell, George D. McCune, Basil George Zimmer • Minutes from August 14, 1990, meeting of 1989-90 ASA Council

Footnotes January 1991 (Volume 19, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Update on El Salvador: Toward an Enduring Memorial (Stephen A. Buff) • Peter Marsden: New Editor of Sociological Methodology (Joseph Galaskiewicz) • The ASA Congressional Fellowship Program: Help Send a Sociologist to Washington (Raymond Russel, Congressional Fellowship Fund) • Observing: BBS Task Force Recommends Separate Directorate for Social Sciences (William D’Antonio) • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (planning third annual meeting) • Mental Illness Issues to Consider (excerpt of ASA Annual Meeting presentation by Dr. Lewis Judd) • National Institute of Mental Health Grants (awarded 102 research grants) • Nominations Requested for 1991 ASA Awards • Highlighting the AAC Report on the Undergraduate Major: Sequencing Significant Legislation on Disabilities Issues (Carla B. Howery) • Upcoming Teaching Workshops: “Teaching About Substance Abuse and Prevention Efforts”; “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills” • ASA Honors Program (information and call for applications) • University of California Santa Barbara Receives Sun Microsystems Grant • 1991 Annual Meeting: Cincinnati: A Drive-to as Well as a Fly-to City • ASA Seeks Two New Staff Assistant Executive Officers • Obituaries: Jerry Walker Combs, Jr., Sakari Sariola • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Representative Report; Committee Report

Footnotes February 1991 (Volume 19, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Robert K. Merton Professorship Established • 1991 Annual Meeting: Appalachians in Cincinnati: “A Case Study in Ethnic Group Formation” (Philip J. Obermiller) • Editors Sought for SPQ, Rose Series • Observing: Membership and Dues Structure (William D’Antonio) • Inside the ASA Budget: Association Governance (William H. Martineau and Caroline Bugno) • 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Child Care Program Passed to Janet Onnie from Jen Suter • Highlighting the AAC Report on the Sociology Major: Goals (Carla B. Howery) • Teaching: “Making Letters of Reference More Meaningful About Teaching” (Carla B. Howery) • Open Forum: “An Intellectual Aid Package for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?” (Charles Derber); “Is There Bias in ASR Article Selection?” (Thomas J. Scheff); “Spell it Right” (Thomas L. Van Valey) • Toward a Sociology of Energy (Barbara C. Farhar) • Sociology Informs an Electric Utility Industry Workshop • 10 years of Research Support From NIA (Matilda White Riley) • Which Campus Will Host MOST? • ASA Seeks Two New Staff Assistant Executive Officers • Louis Willie Takes a Backswing at Segregation • Obituaries: John Cheslow Belcher, Jr., Albert “Steve” Foley, Vernon J. Parenton, Lloyd V. Temme • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes March 1991 (Volume 19, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Keyfitz Named 1991 Common Wealth Award Winner • Powell to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Paul DiMaggio, Charles Perrow, Doug McAdam) • 1991 Annual Meeting: New Sections in Formation: Alcohol and Drugs, Sociology of Mental Health, Latina/o Sociology • Observing: War in the Gulf: A Challenge for the Social Sciences (William D’Antonio) • Six Receive ASA/NSF Small Grants; Next Deadline Nears • Student Membership Is the Future of ASA • Council Briefs. Meeting in January 18-20, 1991 • Insurance and Credit Cards – Membership Benefits of Junk Mail? • Student Voting Rights to be Voted Upon • Making ASA Governance More Inclusive (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Officers, Committee Members Serve the Profession: List of ASA Officers, Committees, and Official Representatives. • Council Endorses the Seville Statement on Violence (Stephen A. Buff) • Candidates for President, Vice-President, Secretary: Biographical sketches of the Candidates • A Century of Sociology at Kansas (Alan Sica) • IIS Congress to be Held in Kobe, Japan • IIS Travel Arrangements for 1991 Meeting in Kobe, Japan • Deaths: Edward P. Hutchinson • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the first meeting of the 1990-91 Council (August 15, 1990), Committee Reports, Representative Reports, Section Reports

Footnotes April 1991 (Volume 19, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Lazarsfeld Award Made to Hubert M. Blalock • Know the Land and the Life It Will Support (Daniel J. Ransohoff) • Jeanne Ballantine Leads Teaching Services Program Field Office • Observing: More Bits and Pieces (William D’Antonio) • New Mental Health Section Forms • Subcommittee Reviews the Rose Monograph Series (Karen Gray Edwards) • SWS Holds Mid-Year Meeting • Teaching: What I Learned on an NSF Panel (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Teaching Resources Group Seeks New Members • 1991 Annual Meeting: Didactic Seminars. Sessions prepared for the Annual Meeting by the 1991 Program Committee • 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Cincinnati (Janet Onnie) • Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Light Invited to British Institute Lecture Series; Glassman Named Princeton Fellow; Elder Wins NIMH and GSA Awards; Rent Honored by Florida State • Career Expert to Conduct Annual Meeting Job Clinic • Academic Leadership: The Role of the Chair • A Question of Academic Freedom in Japan (Jeffrey Broadbent) • Mission, Future of the Association of Black Sociologists (Florence Bonner) • First Meeting of Managing Editors Held in Albany • Open Forum: “A Critique of the Seville Statement on Violence” (Robert M. Marsh); “Students Should Get to Vote” (Melvin F. Hall); “On Bias in ASR: A Reply to Scheff” (Gerald Maxwell); “Network Analysis on the Bulgarian Frontier” (Barry Wellman) • Obituaries: Hubert M. (Tad) Blalock, Mary Driscoll, Edward P. Hutchinson, Arnold J. Levine • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Editors’ Reports, Committee Reports

Footnotes May 1991 (Volume 19, Number 5) (pdf file; 3.5 MB) • 1991 Annual Meeting: Visit Cincinnati . . . Rich History, a Vibrant Present • Introducing ASA’s New Executive Officer: Felice Levine (Richard Lempert) • Winners of Major ASA Awards Announced • Observing: The Common Wealth Awards and COSSA (William D’ Antonio) • All About the 1991 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati • Subcommittee Reaffirms SPQ’s Importance and Quality (Karen Gray Edwards) • Council Censures Mississippi State University: Letter to Donald W. Zacharias by Stanley Lieberson and William D’Antonio • 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. Child Care Program for the 1991 Annual Meeting (Janet Onnie) • Salvaging Sociology’s Past (Stephen Turner) • Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Midway College Honors Doris Wilkinson; Francesca Cancian is 1991 Miller/SWS Lecturer; Brint and Karabel Honored for Landmark Study • Government Sociologists Move Ahead with Network (Stephen A. Buff) • Media Beat: Jerry M. Lewis analyzes media interviews regarding Kent State tragedy; Ed Kain participates in a game show in Hollywood • Teaching: Socialization for Effective Teaching: Loyola’s Teaching Fellows Program (Carla B. Howery) • ISA and Apartheid • A Structural Solution to Scientific Fraud, Misconduct • Consider a Student Prize from Your Department • Deaths: Philip Whitney Blumstein • Obituaries: Reinhard Bendix, Rita Braito, John C. Gessner, Benjamin J. Keeley, Alfred R. Lindesmith, Ulysses Santamaria • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports, Minutes of the second meeting of the 1990-91 Council (January 18, 1991)

Footnotes August 1991 (Volume 19, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Seymour Martin Lipset elected ASA President; Jill Quadagno Vice President; Arlene Daniels Secretary • Two New ASA Professional Staff Begin in August: Janet Mancini Billson and Tahi Lani Mottl (Carla B. Howery) • Executive Officer’s Report: Bidding a Fond Farewell to ASA and its Staff (William D’Antonio) • 1990 ASA Audit • Update on ASA Sections: New Section on Latina/o Sociology; New Sections Hold Meetings in Cincinnati • 1991 Annual Meeting: Annual Meeting Section Update • NORC Establishes Washington, DC, Office • Survey of Senior Sociologists (James G. Hougland, Jr.) • Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students • Committee on Membership Constituency Survey #1: Racial and Ethnic Minority Members of ASA • 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner. “Kidvention 91” (Janet Onnie) • A Clarification on ASA’s Investment Policy • Open Forum: “More on the Seville Statement: Three Views” (Jen Hlavaceck); “Why Are All ASA Managing Editors Women?” (Harold L. Orbach); “Winning the Peace” (Afif I. Tannous); “Preserve Sociology’s History” (Harold Orbach) • Teaching: “The Backlash Against Democratic Education: The Illiberal Construction of Imaginary Enemies” (Becky Wangsgarrd Thompson) • Inmates Graduate from Oklahoma Colleges • The Sociology of Children: A New ASA Section? “Is There Sufficient Interest to Establish a Sociology of Children?” (Gertrud Lenzer) • Matilda White Riley Honored: Rank of Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service Conferred to Dr. Riley by the President of the United States • Purdue University Honors Carolyn C. Perrucci: First Violet Hass Recognition Award given by the Council on the Status of Women at Purdue University • Sociologists Named Wilson Fellows: Jonathan B. Imber, Jerzy Szacki, Dennis H. Wrong • Highlighting the AAC Report: “Levels in Sequenced Major” (Carla B. Howery) • On Raising Hopes on Raising Sociology: “ASA Membership in the 90’s and Beyond” (Stephen F. Steele) • Open Forum: “A Response to Van Valey” (Glenn Firebaugh); “From the University of Central America” (Charles J. Bierne); “Czechoslovak Sociological Association News” (Miloslav Petrusek) • ASA’s International Outreach • Fulbright Winners • Mechanic, Wilson Elected to National Academy of Sciences • Late Breaking News About the 1991 Annual Meeting • Robert Perrucci Named 1991 Distinguished Alumnus by Purdue University • Deaths: Albert D’ Antonio, Jerzy Kosinski, Isabel Cary Lundberg, Allen R. Potter, John Shope • Obituaries: Philip Whitney Blumstein, Esther Lucile Brown, W. Byron (Casey) Groves, Guy B. Johnson, Harald Pedersen, Norman Washburne • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editor’s Reports

Footnotes September 1991 (Volume 19, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • $750,000 Gift Awarded to ASA: “Cornerhouse Funds Spivack Program in Applied Social Research” • Senate Action: “Social Science Triumphs in Congress After Setback on American Teenage Study” • COSSA Action Alert • Profile of the President: James S. Coleman: “Intellectual Energy and an Ambivalent Response” (Aage B. Sorensen) • News from the 1991 Annual Meeting • Matilda White Riley Named Senior Social Scientist at NIA (Katrina Johnson) • Teaching: “Handling the Hordes: Teaching Large Classes” (Carla B. Howery) • 1992 Call for Papers: Open Submission Topics and Organizers Announced for 1992 Annual Meeting • AJS to Publish Special Issue: “New Research Links Medical Sociology to New Work in Medicine” (Donald W. Light) • Gerald Marwell Appointed Ely Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison • An Idea Borrowed and Worth Thinking About (Irwin Deutscher) • Sociology in the Former German Democratic Republic (Hildegard Nickel) • ISA Working Group on Tourism Formed • Global Damage from Oilfires: Image and Reality (Claire W. Gilbert) • Deaths: Morris Forslund • Obituaries: Rudolf Heberle, John Henry Shope, Robert G. Wegmann

Footnotes October 1991 (Volume 19, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Major ASA Awards Presented at 1991 Annual Meeting: Mira Komarovsky, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; The Systems of Professions by Andrew Abbott, Distinguished Publication Award; Charles G. Gomillion, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Recreating Motherhood by Barbara Kattz Rothman, Jessie Bernard Award; “Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany” by Rogers Brubaker , Dissertation Award; Nathan Keyfitz was introduced to receive the tribute of all sociologists gathered • The Open Window: First Column as Executive Officer (Felice J. Levine) • Secretary’s Report: “Another Very Good Year for ASA” (Beth B. Hess) • Six Receive ASA/NSF Grants; New Deadline Nears • Duke University Honors Contemporary Sociology and Robert Merton (Karen Gray Edwards) • D’Antonio: “Thank You!” (William V. D’Antonio) • An Interview with Robert K. Merton: “Knowledge Transcends National Boundaries” (Ming Yan) • Minority Opportunity Summer Training Has a Great Second Program • New Sites for MOST Program • Quadagno Speaks to Florida State University Grads • ASA Section Award Winners Honored in Cincinnati • Deaths: Bruno M. Cormier, Leon L. Zikowski • Obituaries: Morris A. Forslund, Ruth Ann Pitts, R. Welling Roskelley

Footnotes November 1991 (Volume 19, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • NSF Creates Separate Directorate for Social Science • Strengthening Sociology’s Position in the University (William Falk) • ASA Council Acts on Resolutions in Cincinnati: “Lifting of HIV Entry Restrictions Endorsed”; “Military Policy on Gays Opposed”; “National Health Care Legislation Action” (Janet Mancini Billson) • 1991 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner: Kidvention ’91 a success. (Janet Onnie) • The Open Window: National Science Foundation. (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Committee on National Statistics • Minority Fellowship Program Announces Fellows • Greetings from the New MAP Director (Tahi Mottl) • More Section Awards from the 1991 Annual Meeting • Update on 1992 Annual Meeting Program Sessions • Space for Other Activities Available at 1992 Annual Meeting • Janet Mancini Billson on Transitions • Open Forum: “More on the Seville Statement” (Sharon Linzey) • Deaths: Sr. Mary Edward Healy • Obituaries: E. (Edward) William Noland, Harvey L. Smith • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the 1990-91 Council (August 26, 1991)

Footnotes December 1991 (Volume 19, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Candidates Announced for Offices, Council, Committees • Julia Wrigley to Edit Sociology of Education (Edna Bonacich) • Demystifying the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (J. Michael Armer) • The Open Window: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Support of Social Research on Adult and Adolescent Sexual Behavior (Felice J. Levine) • Sociologists’ AIDS Network Update (Rose Weitz) • The Sociology of Children: “A New ASA Section Progress Report” (Gertrude Lenzer) • The ASA Honors Program: Strong at its 19th Year (David Bills) • Robert K. Merton Receives Award on 50th Anniversary of Focused Interview (Albert E. Gollin) • Sandra L. Hefforth to Give Jensen Lectures • Recruitment and Retention of Women Sociologists (Helen Rose Ebaugh) • Singout on Sociology (Mitchell A. Pravatiner) • Membership Committee Initiatives for Graduate Students, Campus Reps • Teachers for a Democratic Culture • Global Research Opportunities for Sociology: “Funding Alert U.S.DA” (James J. Zuiches); “Global Perspectives on Sociolegal Studies”; “Human Dimensions of Global Change: A Research Opportunity” • Sociology Around the World: “International Sociologists in U.S. Fulbright Programs”; “International Notes” (Linda Fuller) • Textbook Publishers Okay Major Test of Comp Copy Return Mailers • Expert Witnesses for ASA Clearinghouse • Open Forum: “Self-Righteous Feminism and Political Correctness” (Eugene Rochberg-Halton); “Questioning Unearned Privileges” (Abraham S. Blumberg); “This Is a Debate” (John Sumser); “American Psycho Boycott Urged” (Joey Sprague); “Honors by Default?” (Mary F. Rogers); “The Lone Vote to Censure” (William Foote Whyte) • Comparative Historical Section Award • Obituaries: William R. Beer, Richard A. Schermerhorn, Harwin L. Voss

Footnotes January 1992 (Volume 20, Number 1) (pdf file; 1.1 MB) • Action Alert: “Congressional Directive on Sexual Behavior Research: Your Letters Are Needed Now!” • Calling All ABDs: An Opportunity to Teach in Eastern Europe (Janet Mancini Billson) • The American Sociologist – Revised and Resubmitted (interview with Richard H. Hall) • The Open Window: Priorities for the Coming Year. (Felice J. Levine) • Wisconsin Sociologists Successfully Challenge Restrictive Bill (Janet Mancini Billson) • ASA State Licensing Monitor Program: An Opportunity to Serve (Janet Onnie)

Footnotes February 1992 (Volume 20, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plan for Pittsburgh . . . A City for Living” (Tracey Modic) • “ . . . Look Ahead to Miami: 1993 Annual Meeting Theme: Transition to Democracy” (Seymour Martin Lipset) • The Open Window: National Research Council Public Forum. (Felice J. Levine) • Open Forum: “Teachers for a Democratic Culture: Commentary and Apologies” (Dan McMurry, Paul Hollander, Carla B. Howery) • Stanley Lieberson Honored with Endowed Chair at Harvard (Wendy Hanson) • From Academia to the Market Place: “Sociologists in Business and Public Administration” (Lewis F. Carter) • Some Reflections on Sociology’s Future in California (Charles Hohm) • James E. Blackwell and Julian Samora Honored as Mentors • Revising the ASA Code of Ethics • Open Forum: “To the Editor” (Robert K. Merton); “Needed: Better Hiring Practices” (Ali-Akbar Mahdi); “To President James S. Coleman” (Donald F. Gildea) • Sociology of Aging Distinguished Scholar Award • Teaching: “Aging Course Promises and Delivers Time for Contemplation” (Donna Phillips) • Focus Group Workshop to Precede 1992 Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson) • A Studious Retirement (Nancy Wick) • New Graduate Program at Humboldt State University (Betsy Watson) • Environment and Technology Award Winner – Kai Erikson (Allan Schnaiberg) • The Invisibility of Sociology: The State of Our Discipline (William A. Pearman) • Scientists Keep an Eye on Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) Reshuffle (Tina Adler) • The “Lost Generation” and Other Concerns: The ASA Committee on Employment (Thomas Lyson) • Deaths: Larry (Lucky) Baber, Nason Hall • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the first meeting of the 1991-92 Council (August 27, 1991)

Footnotes March 1992 (Volume 20, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Marrett to Lead new Directorate at the National Science Foundation • Spivack Program Launched with Briefing Papers (Carla B. Howery) • 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plans for Pittsburgh: An American Renaissance” (Tracey Jill Modic) • The Open Window: Sociology Department at Yale University. (Felice J. Levine) • Walter W. Powell Wins the Max Weber Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Section on Organizations and Occupations • Teaching: New Thrust in Defining Scholarly Work; Four New Sections in the Making (Carla B. Howery) • Four New Sections in the Making: Alcohol and Drugs, Sociology of Children, Sociology of Law, Mental Health • Open Forum (Andrew Abbott) • Henry Etzkowitz and Mary Frank Fox Receive Major National Science Foundation Grant • Candidates for ASA President, Vice-President: William A. Gamson, Charles Tilly (President-Elect); Barrie Thorne, Charles V. Willie (Vice President-Elect) • The 1990 Census and the Politics of Apportionment (Patrick G. Feeney) • International Institute of Sociology Meets in Kobe, Japan • D’ Antonio Elected International Institute of Sociology President • Four Receive American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Grants; June Deadline Nears • Observations on the Passing of the Soviet Empire (Wayne Youngquist) • Perestroika for Russian Health Care? (Donald W. Light) • ASA Officers, Council, Committee Members • Sociological Statement on War and Violence • Deaths: Theodore Miles, Charles Page, Morris Rosenberg, A. Donald Williams • Obituaries: Lucky Larry Baber • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Reports

Footnotes April 1992 (Volume 20, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1992 Annual Meeting: “Pittsburgh: A Region in Structural Change” (Burkart Holzner) • The Federal Network: A New Career Opportunity (Janet Mancini Billson) • 1992 Congressional Fellowship: June 1 Deadline • The Open Window: Program on Research on the Profession (Felice J. Levine) • Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery) • Council Passes Policy on Exhibits, Ads, Sales • Special Funding Opportunities: National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Research Grants; NSF Graduate Research Traineeships; Human Dimensions of Global Change; American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grants: June 15 Deadline • Open Forum: “Do Not Cite?” (Barry Wellman) • Teaching: Ethical Guidelines for Faculty (Carla B. Howery) • Three Sociologists Are Council for Advancement and Support of Education Top Teachers (Wendy Hanson) • North Carolina High School for Social Sciences (Carla B. Howery) • Teaching: A World of Gestures (Carla B. Howery) • Sociology of Children Section Approved (Gertrud Lenzer) • Federal Government Ethics Standards: “To Lunch or Not to Lunch?” • National Science Foundation Sociology Awards for 1991 • Charles Price Loomis’ “Festgabe” (Julius Rivera) • Sociologists for Women in Society Holds Meeting on Social Policy (Carla B. Howery) • Obituaries: Paolo Ammassari, Hope Tisdale Eldridge, Peter Wayne Falkman, Marjorie E. Fiske, Morris Rosenberg • Official Reports and Proceedings: Committee Reports • Deaths: Marshall Sklare, Hans Zeisel

Footnotes May 1992 (Volume 20, Number 5) (pdf file; 3.8 MB) • 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plan for Pittsburgh: The Pleasantries of Pittsburgh” (Charles F. Hanna) • Winners of Major ASA Awards • ASA Joins National Mental Health Leadership Forum • The Open Window: International Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • Sociologists Respond to Newsweek’s “Lonely Crowd”: “Sociology: An Idea Whose Time Has Come” (Earl Babbie); “Sociology’s Lonely Crowd – Indeed!” (William V. D’Antonio) • University of Chicago Sociology Department Celebrates Centennial (William Harms) • Dips in the Academic Job Market? (Janet Mancini Billson) • Sociologists Receive Honors and Awards: Lazarsfeld Award to Hans Zeisel (Clifford Clogg); Amy S. Hubbard Receives Student Paper Award (Elton Jackson); Aldrich Named Kenan Professor • Hate Crimes Task Force Compiles Materials • All About the 1992 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh! • Teaching: Ethnic Diversity at Indiana University: A Tale of Eight Campuses (Barry V. Johnston) • Writing Tips for Sociologists: Keeping It Simple (Karen Feinberg) • MacArthur Travel Grants Approved for ASA Annual Meeting • Social Science and the Challenge of Global Environmental Change (Roberta Balstad Miller) • International News and Notes: The International Social Survey Program (Tom W. Smith); The Polish Sociological Association in Transition (Antoni Sulek); International Funding Opportunities (Laury Saligman); The Road to Acquafredda: An International Workshop on Academic-Industry Relations (Henry Etzkowitz) • Open Forum: “When Promotion Goes Too Far” (Robert J. Stevenson); “Professional Ethics Revisited” (Barbara Walters Altizar) • The Federal Bureau of Investigation and American Sociology (Mike Keen) • 1992 Annual Meeting: Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh Offers Much for Students (Kathy Rowell) • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports; Section Reports; Council Minutes: Minutes of the second meeting of the 1991-92 Council (January 30, 1992) • Deaths: Jay Artis, Carl Harter • Obituaries: Mhyra Schway Minnis, Robert W. O’Brien, Marshall Sklare, Hans Ziesel

Footnotes August 1992 (Volume 20, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • William A. Gamson Elected ASA President; Barrie Thorne is Vice President • 1992 Annual Meeting: “Plans for Pittsburgh: The Many Faces of Religion in Pittsburgh” (Paula Kane) • William Sims Bainbridge Appointed Sociology Program Director at National Science Foundation • The Open Window: Executive Officer’s Report: The Challenges Ahead (Felice J. Levine) • San Diego State University’s Sociology Department Faces Cuts (Carla B. Howery) • Edward J. Lawler Succeeds Karen Cook as Social Psychology Quarterly Editor (Morris Zelditch, Jr.) • Learning the Right Lessons From Yale (Kai Erikson) • 1992 Annual Meeting: Child Care Corner: Pittsburgh (Janet Onnie) • SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation): Democratic Rights and Professional Risks (Penelope Canan) • 1992 Annual Meeting: Pittsburgh’s Ethnic Heritage (Tracey Modic) • Open Forum: “In Support of TDC and Freedom of Expression” (Peter M. Blau); “Sociologists Are in TDC” (Barbara J. Risman); “More on NAS and TDC” (Monroe Lerner); Putting It Into Perspective” (Martin Oppenheimer); Denouncing the NOW Boycott” (Ted G. Goertzel); “The State of Sociology” (John E. Glass); “Sociology’s Identity Crisis” (Jack Nusan Porter); “The Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Survey: A Supplement” (Florence Bonner); “The SWS Survey: Single-Issue Politics” (Jack P. Gibbs) • Deaths: Fr. Paul H. Furfey, Marvin E. Olsen • Obituaries: Jay W. Artis, Carl L. Harter, Helen MacGill Hughes, Alfred McClung Lee, Charles Hunt Page, Chester Levon Rash

Footnotes September 1992 (Volume 20, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Profile of the ASA President: “Seymour Martin Lipset: The World Is His Oyster” (Mildred Schwartz) • Catherine White Berheide New Congressional Fellow (Carla B. Howery) • Update on San Diego State University (Carla B. Howery) • The Open Window: Keep the American Sociological Foundation Congressional Fellowship Thriving (Felice J. Levine) • Cora Marrett Organizes New Directorate • Marta Tienda to Lead National Science Foundation Advisory Board • Joan Huber Appointed Vice-President and Provost at Ohio State University (William Martineau) • ASA Research Program Progresses (Carla B. Howery) • Sociology at Tulane Celebrates 90th Anniversary (James D. Wright) • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Awards Prize to Daniel Bell • Stephen Cole New Editor of Sociological Forum • Riley E. Dunlap Named Gallup Fellow • International News and Notes: Gender and Perestroika: A Personal Account (Barbara Risman); International Funding Opportunities (Laury Saligman); Sociology and Change in the Former U.S.SR (Michael Swafford); International Network on Personal Relationships (Steven Duck); Sociologists Respond to Call for International Teaching Opportunity (Janet Mancini Billson); International Institute of Sociology Centenary Congress at the Sorbonne (William V. D’Antonio); Suggestions for International Book Donations (S. “Meena” Meenakshy); News from Abroad About a Special Relationship (Vaneeta-marie D’Andrea) • Sociologists Play Key Roles with U.S. Commission on Women in the Military (H. Lovell Smith) • Massachusetts Sociological Association Becomes New England Sociological Association (Walter F. Carroll) • Teaching: Think Science Education, Think NSF (National Science Foundation)! (Carla B. Howery) • Phyllis Moen Named Director of New Life Course Institute of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University • Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students (Departmental Prize for Outstanding Sociology Students) • 1991 ASA Audit: Limited Resources, Good Financial Health • Obituaries: Paul Hanly Furfey, Aaron Lipman, Marvin E. Olsen, Lee M. Wiggins, Jr.

Footnotes October 1992 (Volume 20, Number 8) (pdf file; 4.7 MB) • Major ASA Awards Presented at 1992 Annual Meeting: Daniel Bell, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman, Distinguished Publication Award; Theodore C. Wagenaar, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Matilda White Riley and Elliot Liebow, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Andrew Billingsley, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Elizabeth Mitchell, ASA Dissertation Award • ASA Ceases Publication of Sociological Practice Review • Suggestions Solicited for 1994 Program: “Theme: The Challenge of Democratic Participation” • The Open Window: Enhancing the Stature of Sociology in the Academy (Felice J. Levine) • San Diego Layoffs Rescinded (Carla B. Howery) • Annual Meeting Tops Attendance Record • Scenes from the 1992 Annual Meeting • Report of the ASA Secretary: A Successful Stewardship for the Future (Beth B. Hess) • Eight Receive ASA/NSF Grants; November Deadline Next • Section Award Winners Honored at Annual Meeting • Annual Meeting 1993 Call for Papers: Open Submission Topics, Section Organizers Announced • Space for Other Activities at the 1993 Annual Meeting • ASA Committee on the Freedom of Research and Teaching Confronts Barriers • Nominations Invited for Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Theory Editors • Which Campus Will Host Minority Opportunity Summer Training? • Council Briefs • Open Forum: “Gender Equality is Relevant” (Steve Derne); “SWS Questions Assess Inclusiveness” (Leonard Gordon) • Deaths: M. Patricia Golden, Joseph S. Himes, Walter Jewell • Obituaries: Nason E. Hall, William Maxwell McCord, John C. McKinney, Edmund Howell Volkart, Sister Frances Jerome Woods, CDP • Official Reports and Proceedings: Representative Reports

Footnotes November 1992 (Volume 20, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Commission to Study the Future of National Science Foundation (Carla B. Howery) • Judith Blau to Edit ASA Rose Monograph Series (Howard E. Aldrich and Kent Redding) • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Make it to Miami!” August 13-17, Fontainbleau Hilton; Theme: Transition to Democracy (Seymour Martin Lipset) • The Open Window: ASA Speaks to National Science Foundation Commission (Felice J. Levine) • Strengthening the State of Sociology on Campus: Creativity and Consensus: Building a Sociology Department (Mike Otten); Strengthening the Position of Sociology Within the University (Lois B. DeFleur); Some Virtues of Sociology (Herbert J. Gans); Temporaries in Sociology (Beth Hartung) • GRE Scores and Graduate School Success (James L. Wood and Amy C. Wong) • Writing Tips for Sociologists: Using Verbs to Add Strength (Karen Feinberg) • International News and Notes: Resident Peoples and National Parks (Patrick C. West and Steven R. Brechin) • The Job Market in Sociology (Dan Clawson and Kathleen Holmes) • Resources for Teaching and Research at Sociometrics (Elinore Lurie) • Hunter College Social Research Graduate Program in 20th Year (Michael Wood) • Senior Sociologists’ View of ASA (James G. Hougland, Jr. and Joyce M. Iutcovich) • Minority Fellowship Program Announces Fellows for 1992-93 • Deaths: Louis M. Beck • Obituaries: Ford W. Cleere, Joseph S. Himes, Edward E. McKenna, James A. Peterson, Nora K. Stewart

Footnotes December 1992 (Volume 20, Number 10) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: Crossroads of the Americas” • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Deadline March 15: 1993 Congressional Fellowship • ASA President Seynour Martin Lipset Part of Mandate for Change • The Open Window: ASA Represented on Committee to Protect Children as Research Subjects (Felice J. Levine) • Inside 1722: Sulakshana “Sulu” Ghoting Has Your (Membership) Number (Maru Corrada and Carla Howery) • William Julius Wilson Elected Consortium of Social Science Association President • Judy Auerbach Will Become Senior Program Officer with the Institute of Medicine’s Division of Biobehavioral Sciences and Mental Disorders of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council • Nominations Requested for 1994 Major ASA Awards • International News and Notes: The East is Sociological (Clarence Y.H. Lo); The First European Conference of Sociology (Haldun Gulalp) • Opportunities with the General Social Survey (Barbara Reskin) • Open Forum: “Gibbs and Gordon Differ on SWS Questionnaire” (Jack P. Gibbs, Leonard Gordon) • ASA Section News: Section on Law Invities New Members; Section on Latino/a Sociology (Julia E. Curry); Section on Rational Choice Begins Activities; Sociology of Children Section Interfaces with Other Groups (Gertrud Lenzer); Kathleen S. Crittenden Receives Mauksch Award (Henry Olsen); Herbert Gans Receives Lynd Award (Terry Nichols Clark); Susan Cott Watkins Wins Duncan Award (Douglas S. Massey); Section Awards—It’s Time to Nominate • Award-Winning Teachers: Paul J. Baker Named Distinguished Professor; Keith Farrington Named Professor of the Year; Hal Charnofsky Honored by California State University System; Harriet Presser Honored by George Washington University • Deaths: John P. Conrad, Howard E. Freeman, Charles Grigg, William Philips, Jr. • Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes: Minutes of the Third Meeting of the 1991-92 Council (August 23, 1992); Minutes of the first meeting of the 1992-93 Council (August 24, 1992)

Footnotes January 1993 (Volume 21, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: Postmodern from Birth” • Spivack Program Sponsors Work-Family Linkages Briefing (Paula Trubisky) • Panel Releases Report on Future of the National Science Foundation • The Open Window: The Children Are Our Future (Felice J. Levine) • National Research Council Panel Looks at Understanding and Preventing Violence • Update on San Diego State Defense Fund • Students get the “MOST” Out of Summer at Michigan (Silvia Pedraza) • Teaching: How Sociologists Are Grappling with Outcome Assessment: “Figuring Out the Assessment Landscape” (Mike Otten); “A Tale of Assessment” (Ardyth Stimson); “Assessment From the Beginning: A Case Study” (James A. Reynolds, Ronald A. Stevens) • Sociologists Participate in Focus Group Training (Janet Mancini Billson) • Working Group Conference on Feminist Organizations • Jonathan Turner New Editor of Sociological Perspectives • Open Forum: “Revisiting History: Hughes and Lee” (Irwin Deutscher); “A Department Under Threat?” (Peter V. Marsden); “Sociology at Harvard: Toward a Paradigm Shift” (Jack Nusan Porter); “Looking Forward to Miami” (Barry Wellman) • Clusters (Robert R. Montgomery) • Alleviating Professional Immobility in Sociology: Faculty Exchange as a Remedy (Richard M. Coughlin) • Writing Tips: Noun Strings (Karen Feinberg) • International News and Notes: UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Inter-Governmental Social Science Program (Ali Kazancigil); An Open Letter from the Institute of Socio-political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences (Gennadi Osipov); Higher Education, Feminist Style (Janet Mancini Billson) • Deaths: Jacob G. Franz, James W. Longest • Obituaries: Charles M. Grigg, Gordon Shipman, Charles B. Spaulding

Footnotes February 1993 (Volume 21, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1993 Annual Meeting: The Long Shadow of Hurricane Andrew • Search for New Sociological Theory Editor Continues • March 15 Deadline: 1993 Congressional Fellowship • The Open Window: ASA Resolution on Gays in the Military (Felice J. Levine) • Florence Bonner Interim ASA Minority Affairs Program Director • Roberta Balstad Miller Leaves National Science Foundation for Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) • Applications Invited for National Science Foundation Social Science Director • ASA Seeks New Staff: Staff Sociologist/ Director of Minority Affairs • Focus on Departments: A Discipline in Trouble: Why More Sociology Departments May be Closing Shortly (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford) • The “Lost Generation” of Sociologists (Thomas A. Lyson, Gregory D. Squires) • Conferences Held on Issues of Sexual Harassment: “Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment” (Kristen Dowling); “A Two for One Media Opportunity: Scientists’ Institute for Public Information and ASA” (Wendy Hanson); “Second International Conference on Campus Sexual Assault” (Kristen Dowling) • Open Forum: “Are There Floor Scores?” (Janet Saltzman Chafetz); “Graduate Record Examination Issues to Consider” (Ross M. Stolzenberg); “Throw Out the Graduate Record Examinations? Whoa!” (Sheldon G. Levy); “Use Graduate Record Examinations Appropriately” (Robert M. Hauser) • Input Sought for Code of Ethics Revision • International News and Notes: Parochial Content Reported in U.S. Undergraduate Sociology (J. Michael Armer) • Caroline Hodges Persell Named as First Williams Lecturer by Eastern Sociological Society • University of California-Berkeley Establishes Fellowship in Honor of Reinhard Bendix • Deaths: Selden D. Bacon, David Caplovitz • Obituaries: Frances Robbins Allen, James H. Barnett, William M. Phillips, Jr. • Official Reports and Proceedings: Section Annual Reports

Footnotes March 1993 (Volume 21, Number 3) (pdf file; 3.1 MB) • ASA Sponsors Media Briefing on Family/ Medical Leave Act • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Cuban Miami: No Passport Required” • Petition Candidates Added to Ballot for ASA Elections • The Open Window: ASA Meets With California State University Sysytem Sociology Department Chairs (Felice J. Levine) • Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery) • SSAs (State Sociological Association): A Strategic Link in Sociology’s Future (Marlynn L. May) • State Societies Are Important Partners (Carla B. Howery) • Focus on Departments: How Our Department’s Enrollment Grew by Over 400% in Three Years! (Henry W. Fischer III) • Award Named for Professor Rozanne Brooks • Candidates for ASA President, Vice President: Amitai Etzioni, Neil Joseph Smelser, Mayer N. Zald (President-Elect); Karen S. Cook, Richard (Dick) Scott (Vice President-Elect) • San Diego State University Update: Contracts and Tenure (Charles F. Hohm) • Professional Socialization and ASA Membership (Roberta Lessor) • Steamship Quanza (Kristen Dowling) • Can We Do Research Differently? A New Institute Says Yes • Unconventional Medicine at the National Institute of Health • Deaths: Rebecca A. Donovan, Leonard H. Jordan, Jr., Roberta Simmons • Obituaries: Selden D. Bacon, Howard Freeman, M. Patricia Golden, J.W. Longest, Arthur Raymond Mangus, Helen Tibbitts

Footnotes April 1993 (Volume 21, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Miami: More Than Just a Pretty Face” • Social Impact Assessment Workshop to Precede Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson) • ASA Congressional Fellowship Update (Catherine White Berheide) • The Open Window: MOST: A Pipeline to Diversity in Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Plans Briefing on AIDS • Seven ASA/NSF (National Science Foundation) Grants Awarded • International News and Notes: Uzbek Center for Sociological Research: Student Opportunties (Janet Mancini Billson) • Walter L. Goldfrank Receives Grant to Study Chile’s Fruit Export Region • Submissions Sought: ASA/NSF Small Grant Program • Award-Winning Sociologists: Microcomputing Section Award (Robert Leik); Jean A. Dowdall President Elect of Simmons College • Open Forum: “Are Our Troubles Unavoidable or Have We Brought Them on Ourselves” (Gerhard Lenski); “More on the Harvard Debate” (Bradley J. Buchner); “Parson’s Real Moral?” (Gaye Tuchman); The Census and Apportionment: An Update” (Pat Feeney) • Teaching: Sociologists Become More Involved with Outcome Assessment (Carla B. Howery) • Students Satisfied with Sociology BA as a Liberal Arts Degree (Steven E. Barkan) • Mammoth Discovery Becomes Innovative Teaching Tool • ASA Officers, Council, and Committee Members • Deaths: Ralph G. Hurlin, Leo Lowenthal, Sophia Fagin McDowell • Obituaries: Ely Chertok, Fred Davis • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the second meeting of the 1992-93 Council (January 22, 1993)

Footnotes May 1993 (Volume 21, Number 5) (pdf file; 4.0 MB) • 1993 Annual Meeting: “Black Miami: Searching for a Voice” • Paula England to Edit American Sociological Review • Peter Cookson is Selected ASA’s New Congressional Fellow • Winners of Major ASA Awards: Joan R. Acker, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Jack Goldstone for Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Distinguished Publication Award; Grace M. Barnes, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, and Lynn Weber, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber, and Dorothy E. Smith, Jessie Bernard Award • The Open Window: ASA Files Amicus Brief Protecting Confidential Research Information (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Addresses Miami Boycott: Special Plenary on African American Employment in Miami • Join in the 1993 Annual Meeting in Miami Beach • Regional Campuses and Regional Scholars • Partnering Departments: Building Identity Among Graduate Students (Janet Mancini Billson) • Sociology and Real Estate: A Rewarding Combination (Rachelle Cummins) • Michael T. Aiken New Univesity of Illinois Chancellor • Open Forum: Responses to the “Lost Generation” and “A Discipline in Trouble”: “Looking for the ‘Lost Generation’ in All the Worng Places” (Ross Koppel); “Just How Lost Are We?” (Felica B. Le Clare); “Call for Rigor” (Pauline E. Council); “Introductory Sociology and a Revitalized Discipline” (Ted G. Goertzel); “Publishers Assault Quality Education in Campaign to Control Photocopy Coursepacks” (John Lofland); “The State Level Picture” (Alan Hill); “GRE Scores and Graduate School Success: A Response to the Commentaries” (James L. Wood, Amy C. Wong) • International News and Notes: The Road to Bucharest: Science in Transition in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe (Henry Etzkowitz); Sociologists Teaching in Eastern Europe: “Frustration and Inspiration” (Dennis Layton) • Inside 1722: Win-Win: When Interns Become Employees • Three Centers Focus on Family and Gender Issues: A New and Distinguished Life Course Institute; Brandeis’ Family and Children’s Policy Center; Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality (Rachelle L. Cummins) • State Licensing Program Welcomes New Monitors (Wendy Hanson) • ASA Small Grants Program: Conference on the Meaning and Measurement of Gender • Writing Tips: Active and Passive Verbs (Karen Feinberg) • Interdisciplinary Working Group on Homicide Research • Latest News from the Federal Network (Wendy Hanson) • Bum Raps: Daydreams of a Weary Conferencer (Barry Wellman) • Deaths: Brewton Berry, Kenneth Boulding, Joseph R. DeMartini, Martin P. Levine • Obituaries: Sidney H. Aronson, Jann Adel Ackert Azumi, August F. Beatke, Blanche Greer, Ralph G. Hurlin, Olga Scarpetta • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports, Committee Reports, Representative Reports

Footnotes August 1993 (Volume 21, Number 6) (pdf file; 3.0 MB) • Amitai Etzioni Elected ASA President; Karen S. Cook is Vice President • Ramom Torrecilha to Lead ASA Minority Affairs Program • The Open Window: Sociology Graduate Student Jailed; Scholars’ Privilege Under Attack (Felice J. Levine) • Spivack Program Sponsors AIDS Briefing, Violence Workshop • Inside 1722: Mitch Edelstein Directs ASA Administration and Finance • Funding Opportunities Day is August 14 • Boycott of Miami Settled with Gains for African-American Community (Carla B. Howery) • National Science Foundation’s Sociology Program Encourages Submission of Grant Proposals (William Sims Bainbridge, Martin K. Whyte) • Ronald J. Angel to Edit Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Norval D. Glenn) • ASA Congressional Fellows: Peter Cookson Begins Congressional Fellowship on Education Issues; Catherine White Berheide on the ASA Congressional Fellowship (Catherine White Berheide) • Sociologists Testify in Congress: William Julius Wilson Lobbies for National Science Foundation Funding for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE); Felice J. Levine Argues for Research Resources at Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the Department of Justice • Deaths: Judith Blake • Obituaries: Brewton Berry, Tom Bottomore, David Caplovitz, Joe DeMartini, Roberta G. Simmons, Orry C. Walz

Footnotes October 1993 (Volume 21, Number 7) (pdf file; 5.0 MB) • ASA Award Winners Reflect Broad Spectrum of Sociology • Richard Scarce Remains Jailed; ASA Council Advocates for Researcher’s Privilege • Suggestions Solicited for 1995 Annual Meeting Program: Theme: “Community of Communities: Shaping Our Future” • The Open Window: ASA Works in Coalition to Advance Social and Behavioral Sciences at the National Institute of Health (Felice J. Levine) • 1993 Annual Meeting: We Made It to Miami! A Great Meeting and a Beach Too! • Profile of the President: William A. Gamson: The Benefits of Serious Play (Meyer N. Zald) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Theme: The Challenge of Democratic Participation • ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program – Apply by December 10 • ASA Section Awards Presented in Miami • Open Forum: A Discipline in Trouble? Three Responses to Lynch et al.: “Midwest Sociologists Critique Deans’ Study” (Barbara Ryan); “A Response to Ryan et al.” (David M. Lynch, J. Richard McFerron, Lee H. Bowker, Ian A.C. Beckford); “Less Handwringing and More New Analysis” (Nathan Keyfitz) • Deaths: Ruth Shonle Cavan, James C. Laue, John C. Osolnach • Obituaries: Walter L. Baeumler, Leonard G. Benson, Patricia Ann Brewster Begin, Judith Blake, Alfred Hunter, Martin P. Levine, Mark Van de Vall

Footnotes November 1993 (Volume 21, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.9 MB) • Minority Opportunities through School Transformation (MOST II) Receives Funding form Ford Foundation (Ramon S. Torrecilha) • February 1 Deadline: 1994 Congressional Fellowship • Richard A. Scarce Released from Jail • The Open Window: ASA Testifies to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Social Dimensions of AIDS (Felice J. Levine) • Section on Sociology of Religion in Formation • Kathleen McKinney to Edit Teaching Sociology (Kathleen Tiemann) • ASA/National Science Foundation Awards; Next Deadline December 10 • Good Ideas • Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards • Teaching: How an Inexpensive Computer and Fax/Modem Can Improve or Facilitate Your Teaching and/or Research (William R. Aho) • Mathematical Sociology Section to be Formed • International News and Notes: Record Attendance at the 31st Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (David Sciulli); Appeal to Libraries and Individuals; Italian-American Sociologists Participate in Pisa-Fenova Conference; Wanted: Books and Journals for Asia, China, Indochina, the Philippines, Mongolia and Other Countries; A World-Systems Electronic Conferencing Network: wsn • New Caucus of South Asian Sociologists Forming • Inside 1722: Valerie is Valuable • Jeremiah Kaplan, The Free Press, and Post-War Sociology (Seymour Martin Lipset) • ASA Congressional Fellow Update (Peter W. Cookson, Jr.) • Pine Forge Press Forges a New Trend in Publishing (Carla B. Howery) • Persian Gulf War Effects on Psychiatric Inpatients • Deaths: Julien Freund • Obituaries: Norman W. Bell, James Bennett, Paul J. Jehlik, James H. Laue, David Trevor Lewis

Footnotes December 1993 (Volume 21, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • ASA Promotes Social Research at the National Institute of Health (Paula Trubisky) • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, and Committees • Sociology Departments Sought for New Minority Opportunties through School Transformation (MOST) Program – February 4 deadline • The Open Window: ASA Focuses on the Academy (Felice J. Levine) • Social Scientists Gather to Discuss Genocide (Paula Trubisky) • Award-Winning Sociologists: Matilda White Riley Presents Pepper Lecture; Andrew Cherlin Receives $1.5 Million National Institute for Health Award; Doris Y. Wilkinson Receives Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) Distinguished Scholar Award; Arlie Hochschild Receives Sloan Foundation Grant; ASA Nominee Joyce Ladner Selected for Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award • Sociology of Gambling? You Bet! (Carla B. Howery) • Nominations Invited for 1995 Major ASA Awards • International News and Notes: North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) Holds Conference on “Gender Issues In Chinese Societies”; International Sociological Association (ISA) Looks to Bielefeld • Can We Talk? Bertice Berry Begins National TV Talk Show (Nina Alesci) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Looking Ahead to Los Angeles ’94: Space for Other Activities at the 1994 Annual Meeting; Think Posters! (Beth Hess) • 1993 Annual Meeting: More ASA Section Award Winners in Miami: Christian Suter Wins Political Economy of the World Sysytem (PEWS) Award (Philip McMichael); Gerald Suttles Wind Lynd Award (Ruth Horowitz) • ASA Sections Invite Nominations for 1994 Awards • Building an Applied Information Network (Janet M. Ruane) • Faculty Writing Groups and Professional Development (Kathleen A. Tiemann) • Minority Affairs Program News: Last Call for 1994 Minority Fellowship Program Competition; Minority Fellowship Program Dissertation Awards; Minority Fellowship Program Awardees • Winner of Raffle Ticket Announced • Writing Tips: Fad Words and Fuzzy Phrases (Karen Feinberg) • Open Forum: “A Response to Lofland” (Harold Orlans); “Where Do Sociologists Come From?” (Robert J. Stevenson); “Recognition of Sociology: A Tale of Two Cities” (Dean Conley) • Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students • 1993 Honors Program Students Announced • Deaths: Hans O. Mauksch

Footnotes January 1994 (Volume 22, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Felice J. Levine Meets with Chairs: Core Disciplines at Issue in Kentucky Universities • Federal Science Policy Is the Theme for the 1993 Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Annual Meeting • ASA Department Affiliates Program: Forging a Partnership to Strengthen Sociology (Janet Mancini Billson) • The Open Window: A Foot in the White House Door (Felice J. Levine) • Secretary’s Report: 1993 Marked by Financial Stability, Programmatic Accomplishments (Arlene Kaplan Daniels) • Lessons from Waco (Nancy T. Ammerman) • ASA MOST Program Seeks Departmental Participation (Ramon S. Torrecilha) • Neal Lane and Allan Kornberg Appointed to Key Positions at the National Science Foundation • 1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Increases Attention on Accessabilty Issues: 1994 Annual Meeting Site Reviewed (Janet L. Astner) • Teaching: Increased National Attention Focuses on Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla B. Howery) • ASA to Survey Members About Gay and Lesbian Issues • United States Holocaust Institute • Nominations Invited for the Jensen Lectureship • Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Bill Darrow Receives 1993 Award for Sociological Practice; 1993 Cheryl Miller/Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Lecturer • Sociology of Religion Seeks to Become a New ASA Section • Open Forum: “A Bright Future for William and Mary” (Satoshi Ito); “Stealing Books and the Sociological Imagination” (N. Prabha Unnithan); “The Closing of Sociology Departments: Changing Our View, Not the Dean’s View” (Lynn Mulkey and John Wildeman); “Scorned” (Anonymous) • 1992 Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Future • Writing Tips: Verb Tenses (Karen Feinberg) • Obituaries: Henry A. Gordon, Hans O. Mauksh • Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes of the 1992-93 Council Meeting (1993 ASA Annual Meeting)

Footnotes February 1994 (Volume 22, Number 2) (pdf file; 1.4 MB) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Los Angeles: The City With Zeal for Innovations (Harvey Molotch) • The Open Window: ASA—Moving Forward for Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • Two More Section Award Nominations Sought • National Science Foundation Search: Law and Social Science Program Director • ASA Regional Reps Sought • An Analysis of General Interest Sociology Journals (Richard A. Wright) • Deaths: Earl D.C. Brewer, Werner J. Cahnman, Leo Chall, James W. Gladden, Albert G. Hess, Mervin G. Smith, George J. Vlasak, John Wildeman • Obituaries: Kenneth P. Wilkinson

Footnotes March 1994 (Volume 22, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Re-Inventing the Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic City of the 21st Century? (Melvin L. Oliver) • Code of Professional Ethics Revision (John Kennedy, Barbara Melber) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Documentary Visions of Los Angeles (Barrie Thorne) • The Open Window: Academic Freedom and the Role of ASA (Felice J. Levine) • On the Well-Being of Graduate Departments • ASA MOST Program Seeks Host Sites for Summer 1995 (Ramon Torrecilha) • New Opportunities for Sociologists in HIV/AIDS Prevention Planning (Paula Trubisky) • Candidates for ASA President, Vice President, Secretary • National Science Foundation Search: Sociology Program Director • International News and Notes: On Sociology in Japan and Japanese Sociological Society; Russian Libraries and Archives Available by E-Mail (Carol Erickson); The Russian Businessman: His Leanings and Interests (Vladimir Gubernatorov) • Professional Socialization for What? (David Yamane) • Open Forum: “ASA’s Candidate Slate” (Barbara Katz Rothman); “Some Questions About Confidentiality” (Lee Clarke); “Funding for Sociology” (James L. Wood); “Full Papers in Advance? No.” (Henry J. Steadman); “Contemporary Sociology, New Editor or New Orientation?” (Guy Ankerl); “Can Sociologists Study Personality?” (Russell Eisenman) • Obituaries: Benedict S. Alper, Ruth Shonle Cavan, Leo Chall, Marshall Jones, John Wildeman • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1993-94 Council Minutes (no date listed)

Footnotes April 1994 (Volume 22, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Gay in Los Angeles (Peter M. Nardi) • International Sociological Association Travel Grant Applications Due May 13: XIII World Congress of Sociology • 1994 Annual Meeting Theme: Explaining and Preventing Genocide (William A. Gamson) • The Open Window: Moving on to Move Forward: Core Programs Reorient the Executive Office (Felice J. Levine) • News from the Minority Affairs Program: Bridging the Diversity Gap (Ramon S. Torrecilha) • MOST Program Seeks Graduate Sites (Ramon S. Torrecilha) • ASA Works to Protect School-Based Research • Sociology and National Health Care Reform (Ronald Manderscheid) • Council Briefs • National Science Foundation Sociology Program Awards for Fiscal Year 1993 • Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching in U.S. and Canadian Sociology Departments (Bernice A. Pescosolido and Melissa A. Milkie); Using a Computer to Improve Classroom Teaching and (Even) Meeting Presentations: A Footnote to Footnotes Article (William R. Aho) • Neil J. Smelser and Wendy Baldwin Assume Key Posts: Smelser to Head Institute of Advanced Study; Baldwin Named National Institute of Health Deputy Director • Six Receive Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due • Update on Scarce Case and the Scholar’s Privilege • ASA Aids Sociology at California State University-Northridge • Open Forum: “Support for the Nominations Process” (Denise D. Bielby, et. al.); “The Academic Demand for Sociologists” (Robert J. Stevenson) • Research Program on the Discipline and Profession: Sociology Departments and Their Affinities • Writing Tips: Enough of “That” (Karen Feinberg) • Mady Wechsler Segal, Charles V. Willie Awarded Lectureships: Mady Wechsler Segal 1994 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer on Women and Social Change; Charles Willie Named Eastern Sociological Society Williams Lecturer • Environmental Newsletter Founded and Published by Sociologist (Nina Alesci) • Inside 1722: Monica Joyi is a Special Addition to ASA • Survey Shows Attendees Satisfied with 1993 ASA Annual Meeting • ASA Seeks New Teaching Services Field Coordinator • Deaths: Melvin Tumin • Obituaries: Joseph H. Fichter, James W. Gladden, Phil Campbell

Footnotes May 1994 (Volume 22, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • 1994 Annual Meeting: The Production of Mass Culture (William Bielby and Denise Bielby) • Winners of Major ASA Awards: Lewis A. Coser, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Reece McGee, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Nelson Foote, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Charles V. Willie, DuBois- Johnson-Frazier Award; Mitchell Duneier for his book Slim’s Table, Distinguished Scholarly Publication • MOST Selects Undergraduate Departments • The Open Window: The Challenge of Democratic Participation Here at Home (Felice J. Levine) • Role of the Chair Workshop to Embrace Three Chair Meetings (Janet Mancini Billson) • A New Means of Communication with ASA • Don’t Miss the 1994 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles! • 1994 Annual Meeting: A Different Kind of Business Meeting • Craig Calhoun to Edit Sociological Theory (Michael D. Kennedy) • Expert Witnessing: Memoirs of Beginner (Ann Goetting) • Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes: 1994 Mid-Winter Council Meeting (January 28-30, 1994) • Deaths: Lynn Atwater, George H. Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, A. Wade Smith • Obituaries: Vailes Daka-Mulwanda, Reverend Joseph L. Kerrins, CSSR, Janet Lee Koenigsamen, J. Zvi Namenwirth, Alden Speare, Jr., Gordon G. Wallace, David M. Willems

Footnotes Summer 1994 (Volume 22, Number 6) (pdf file; 4.2 MB) • Maureen Hallinan Elected ASA President; Myra Marx Ferree is Vice-President; Teresa Sullivan Secretary • Jill S. Quadagno Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow (Carla B. Howery) • Revitalizing Public Education: Sociologists Speak Out (Paula Trubisky) • The Open Window: Valuing Communication (Felice J. Levine) • Bringing Sociology Back In: A “Little” Big Success Story (Janet Mancini Billson) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Looking to Los Angeles ’94 • Funding Opportunities for Sociologists in Mental Health • ASA Facilitates International Travel Grants for Sociologists (Janet Mancini Billson) • International Scholars to Visit U.S. on Fulbrights • Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Matilda White Riley Honored by National Academy of Sciences and Radcliffe College; Ronald Abeles Named Associate Director at the National Institute on Aging; Sheldon Steinhauser Receives Honorary Degree; Kathleen Blee Named Research Professor; James S. Coleman Honored by Polish Sociological Association; Theda Skocpol Book Selected by Phi Beta Kappa; Joane Nagel New Jensen Lecturer • “Socumentaries” Prove Pictures Worth a Thousand Words (Nina L. Alesci) • Joint Program in Survey Methodology Flourishes (Elizabeth E. Schuster) • Writing Tips: “We met a man with a hairpiece named Melvin”; The Importance of Word Order (Karen Feinberg) • Sociologists Help Rewrite Law on Whistleblowers • American Association for the Advencement of Science and Georgia on My Mind (Phyllis Moen) • Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students • Society for Applied Sociology Annual Meeting Theme: Using Sociology Around the World • Open Forum: “The Vision for Contemporary Sociology” (Craig Calhoun); “MOST II?: A View from the Trenches” (John Kinch); “A Code of Ethics for COPE” (Leonard Broom); “Many Sociologists Do Incorporate Personality Variables into Their Theories and Research” (Michael Klausner); “Cheap Shots at Minorities?” (Irwin Deutscher) • 1994 Annual Meeting: An Opportunity to Innovate, Do “The Vision Thing” in Los Angeles (John Angle) • A New Means of Communication with ASA • 1993 Audit: ASA’s Solid Financial Picture • Theorizing South Africa (S.M. Miller) • Deaths: Daniel Levinson, Rabbi Samuel Teitelbaum • Obituaries: Lynn Atwater, Marshall H. Becker, Patrick L. Biernacki, Rhoda Lois Blumberg, H. Paul Chalfant, George Henry Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, Leo Meltzer, Ralph Miliband, G. Peter Paulhe, A. Wade Smith • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes October 1994 (Volume 22, Number 7) (pdf file; 5.5 MB) • 1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Major Award Winners Honored in Los Angeles • 1994 Annual Meeting Highlights (Janet L. Astner) • 1996 Annual Meeting Theme: “Social Change: Opportunities and Constraints” • The Open Window: American Sociological Foundation: Building for the Future of Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • Ann Petersen Appointed to Key National Science Foundation Post • Profile of the President: Amitai Etzioni: The Active Sociologist (Richard M. Coughlin) • Window on Washington: Clinton Officials Address Sociologists (Paula Trubisky); Institute of Medicine Urges Support of Social and Behavioral Science Research (Paula Trubisky) • Robert K. Merton, William Julius Wilson Wilson Receive Awards: Merton Wins Medal of Science; W.J. Wilson Awarded Seidman Prize • Immanuel Wallerstein Elected International Sociological Association President • Adrian Raftery is New Editor of Sociological Methodology (Michael Hout) • ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Proposals Due • Amitai Etzioni Receives Honorary Degrees • ASA Committee Focuses on Graduate Education (Carla B. Howery) • The Sociology Graduate Record Examination: Problems and Prospects (Richard H. Hall) • Two Sections Approved (Rational Choice and Sociology of Religion); One More in Formation (International Migration) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Role of the Chair Workshop Tackles Questions at Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson) • The “Lost Generation” Survey: Preliminary Analysis of Qualitative Responses (Margot B. Kempers) • ASA Sections Bestow Awards in Los Angeles • Deaths: Carl Couch, Rose Laub Coser, Albert H. Hobbs, Elliott Liebow, Dick Lopata, Edward S. Weeks, Jr. • Obituaries: Robert H. Barker, Robert Bugoslaw, Chester L. Hunt, Leo Kuper, Melvin M. Tumin, Leslie D. Zeleny

Footnotes November 1994 (Volume 22, Number 8) (pdf file; 6.2 MB) • Dan Clawson to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman) • Congress Asked to Address National Institutes of Health Social/Behavioral Research • Clinton Names William J. Wilson to Committee on National Medal • The Open Window: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Socio-environmental Lab Under Threat (Felice J. Levine) • Melvin L. Kohn Decries National Institute of Mental Health Lab Closing (Melvin L. Kohn) • James S. Coleman Honored by Johns Hopkins University (Andrew Sherman) • ASA Council Resolution on National Institute of Mental Health Laboratory Closing, August 11, 1994 • 1994 Annual Meeting: Minority Fellowship Program Celebrates the Past, Anticipates the Future (Ramon S. Torrecilha) • National Insitute of Mental Health Information Via Fax (Andrew Sherman) • National Institute of Mental Health Renews Minority Fellowship Program with Substantial Growth (Paula Trubisky) • New Minroty Fellowship Program Fellows Announced • National Institutes of Health Raises Stipend Levels • Committee to Review ASA Certification Program (John M. Kennedy) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Honors Program Celebrates 21st year in Los Angeles (David Bills) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Teaching Endowment Fund Benefits from Evening at La Golondria (Janet Mancini Billson) • 1994 Annual Meeting: Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Draws Full House in Los Angeles (Janet Mancini Billson) • International News and Notes: Faculty Cite benefits of International Student Internships: Immersion in Nicaraguan Society (Johannes P. Van Vugt); Rich Collaboration in the Caribbean (Harriet Miller); Changes in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Academic Entrepreneurship During Transformation of the Institutions of Science in Russia (Victor Vornkov and Miles McNall); Democracy and Sociology in Transition: Insight into Croatia and Culture (Nina L. Alesci); Waiting for a Miracle: Sociologists Help Run Underground University in Former Yugoslavia (Janet Mancini Billson); Cultural Divergence and Sociological Fissure: A Tale of Two Countries, or, The Local in the Global (Philip McMichael) • 1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Sections Bestow Awards in Los Angeles • Obituaries: Rose Laub Coser, Carl J. Couch, Daniel J. Levinson, Elliot Liebow, Calvin F. Schmid, Gerald W. Simmons

Footnotes December 1994 (Volume 22, Number 9) (pdf file; 5.0 MB) • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • ASA Meets with Health and Human Services Secretary Shalala (Paula Trubisky) • ASA Adds Four New MOST Sites (Paula Trubisky) • The Open Window: Consortium of Social Science Associations as Key (Felice J. Levine) • Seven Receive Small Grants; New Proposals Due • Sandria Freitag Named American Historical Association Executive Director • National Science Foundation Renews Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Support to ASA • A Conversation with Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Joyce Justus (Ellen Berg) • Clinton Appoints Social Scientists to Science Board • The Internet, E-Journals, and Academia (Carl H.A. Dassbach) • Challenges of the 1980s, Challenges for the 1990s (Reynolds Farley) • Important Changes with the Graduate Record Examinations: Chairs and Departments Need to Act Now! (Carla B. Howery) • New Graduate Record Examination General Test to be Introduced in 1997 (Ann Williard) • International News and Notes: The World Bank’s Sociologists: An Interview with Michael Cernea: Bringing New Knowledge Into the Development Program (Janet Mancini Billson) • Nominations Invited for 1996 Major ASA Awards • Sociologists on the Move: Sociologists Appointed to Key Posts at University of Maryland; Maryland Professor to Indianapolis; Rose M. Brewer 1995 SWS Feminist Lecturer; Featherman to Institute for Social Research • 1994 Annual Meeting: More Section Awards from the 1994 Annual Meeting • Deaths: Ralph Miliband • Obituaries: Vernon Boggs, Wallace W. Culver, Zelma George, Marion Langer, Thorsten Sellin

Footnotes January 1995 (Volume 23, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • Congressional Briefing Highlights Sexual Behavior Survey (Paula Trubisky) • Mildred Schwartz Joins National Science Foundation Sociology Program • National Endowment for the Humanities Threatened by Deep Budget Cuts or Elimination (Paula Trubisky) • Director Search for the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research: End in Sight • The Open Window: Scholarship in a World Order (Felice J. Levine) • Changes in Peer Review System at National Institutes of Health (Paula Trubisky) • ASA Achieves Insurance Coverage for Domestic Partners • Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) News: Charles Schultze Named COSSA President; William Julius Wilson, Lois DeFleur Remain on the Board • Making the “MOST” of the Summer of 1994 (Felice J. Levine, Ramon Torrecilha): Michigan State University (Maxine Baca Zinn, Katherine O’ Sullivan); Texas A&M University (Rogelio Saenz) • Mainstreaming Sociology: Strategies for the 21st Century (Executive Board of the North Carolina Sociological Association and Colleagues) • New Coalition on Public Understanding of Science (Andrew Sherman) • Spring Conference on the Role of Advocacy in the Classroom • February and March Deadlines Near: Major Funding Opportunities at National Science Foundation • ASA Participates in American Psychological Association Roundtable on Changing Demographics • March 15 Deadline: Space for Other Groups at 1995 ASA Annual Meeting • Teaching: Melvin Oliver Honored as California’s Professor of the Year; University of California-Los Angeles Program for Undergraduates Brings Urban Issues to Classroom and Community Work • A Dilemma We Face: Presentation of Self in the Classroom (Ellen Z. Berg) • The Declining Influence of Dissertations on Sociological Research (Richard A. Wright, Colette Soma) • Writing Tips: Verb Tenses (Karen Feinberg) • A Special Thank You to ASA Contributors in 1994 • Deaths: Leigh Burstein, J. Russell Hale, Paul C. Kochan, Mildred Seltzer, John B. Stephenson, Harrison M. Trice, Irving Kenneth Zola • Obituaries: Calvin F. Schmid, Austin Van der Slice

Footnotes February 1995 (Volume 23, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1995 Annual Meeting: Washington DC: From Bi-Racial City to Multicultural Metropolis (Robert D. Manning) • National Science Foundation Announces Violence Research Consortium Funding • Conference Examines Implementation of Federal Education Legislation (Carla B. Howery) • The Open Window: National Endowment for the Humanities Needs You! Important Support in Peril (Felice J. Levine) • Key Figure in National Institutes of Mental Health Minority Fellowship Program Retires: Mary Harper: Sociologist Extraordinaire (Ellen Berg) • Sociologists Meet with Bill Clinton, Al Gore • National Science Foundation Solicitation for Consortium for Research on Violence • My Experience on the Staff of the Entitlement Commission (Jill Quadagno) • Call for Best Practices in Graduate Education (Carla B. Howery) • William Foote Whyte Autobiography Available • ASA Chairlink Keeps Chairs on the Cutting Edge (Janet Mancini Billson) • Closing of National Institutes of Mental Health Socio-Environmental Lab on Hold • International News and Notes: The European Sociological Association (Robert Millar) • Sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso New President of Brazil • Open Forum: “Comment on the Declining Influence of Dissertations” (Daniel J. Myers); “Concern Over Depiction of Trieste (Andrej Rus, Hajdeja Iglic); “How Useful Is the Graduate Record Examination?” (James W. Loewen) • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1993-94 Council Minutes (August 8, 1994) • Deaths: Thomas A. Bonomo, Tillman Cothran, Pietro Cardinal Pavan, Helen Philips • Obituaries: Milton L. Barnett, Philip M. Hauser, Esko Newhill, John B. Stephenson, Harrison Miller Trice, Herman Turk

Footnotes March 1995 (Volume 23, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Sociologists Square Off on The Bell Curve • Effort Backed by ASA: House Okays Crime Research • The Open Window: Committee on Professional Ethics—Working for You! (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Convenes Meeting on Christian Right • Public Affairs Update • ASA Council Adopts Standards for High School Sociology (Carla B. Howery) • Council Briefs • At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting in Washington: Doing DC with Children! (Carla B. Howery) • Council Okays Modest Hike for Child Care • Housing Details Still in the Works • Candidates for ASA President and Vice President • MOST Program Tackles Transformation Agenda (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Develops Directory of Sociologists • Judy Auerbach Gets Key National Institutes of Health Job • ASA Co-Sponsors Conference on “Role of Advocacy in the Classroom” • ASA Council and Committee Chairs, Members for 1995 • Deaths: Ralph Miliband, Edward Shils • Obituaries: Josephine Wtulich Garland, Richard Kolm, Irving Kenneth Zola • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (August 9, 1994)

Footnotes April 1995 (Volume 23, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Sociologist Says Overhaul Unnecessary: ASA Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Social Security • House Limits Notification Options for Federally-Funded Researchers • Major ASA Award Winners 1995: Leo Goodman, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award; Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Jessie Bernard Career Award; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis for Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Jessie Bernard Book Award; Albert D. Biderman, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Dean S. Dorn, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Nancy A. Denton and Douglas S. Massey for American Apartheid; James B. McKee for Sociology and the Race Problem, Distinguished Publication Award; To be announced, Dissertation Award • The Open Window: New Links Between ASA and Rural Sociological Society: “We’re Going to Make Our Garden Grow!” (Felice J. Levine) • For Women in Science: Glass Ceiling Remains • Sociologists Join White House Salute to Women Scientists • Public Affairs Update • Rose Series Seeks Editor, Input on New Format • Proposition 187 and Post-Secondary Education • Plenary Sessions Announced • ASA to Participate in National Conference on Teaching Assistant Training • At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting: Sociology and Communities Lie Outside the Beltway • Proposals Sought: June 15 Deadline: ASA/National Science Foundation Fund for Advancement of the Discipline Program • New Section in Formation: Race, Class, and Gender • M.R.C. Greenwood to Leave Office of Science and Technology Policy • 1994 Annual Meeting Survey Analysis Report (Michael Schuchert) • Deaths: James Coleman, Carol Juth-Gavasso, Jesse A. Pavis, Charles Westie • Obituaries: Jean Leonard Elliot, Kathy A. London, James Walter Ramey, Mildred Murstein Seltzer, Edward Shils • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ reports

Footnotes May/June 1995 (Volume 23, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Jim Coleman Leaves Legacy of Excellence • Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching Mandate Shifts (William Gamson) • At ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting, Historic Chinatown Awaits (Esther Ngan-Ling Chow) • The Open Window: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gain New Presence at National Institutes of Health (Felice J. Levine) • Graham Spanier Tapped as New Pennsylvania State University President • Public Affairs Update • 1995 Annual Meeting Highlights • 1996 Preview Session at 1995 Annual Meeting (Maureen Hallinan) • Jim Coleman: Colleagues Remember (Kathryn M. Borman) • Committee on Freedom in Research and Teaching: Revision and Renewal in a Changing Society (Marlynn L, May, Peter Meiksens) • Eight Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards • Kenneth Prewitt to Serve as President of Social Science Research Council • Deaths: Virginia Wicks Vidich • Obituaries: Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Elliot Seldin, Charles M. Unkovic

Footnotes July/August 1995 (Volume 23, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.9 MB) • Neil J. Smelser Elected President, Charles V. Willie is Vice President • 1995 Annual Meeting: It May Be Remembered as “The Great Meeting of 95”! • The Open Window: National Science Foundation and Behavioral Science Attacked: Meeting Our Biggest Challenge to Date (Felice J. Levine) • Confessions of a Candidate: A Sociologist Runs for Congress (Stephen Crawford) • Havidan Rodriguez to Lead ASA Minority Affairs Program • Public Affairs Update • Community Action Fellowships Given • For One Official Observer: Aging Conference Provides Lifetime Memories (Phyllis Moen) • 1995 Annual Meeting: A Letter from ASA President Amitai Etzinoi • ASA Council Seeks Member Views • Washington’s New Memorials Worth a Visit (Carla B. Howery) • Public Forum: “A Critique of Professional Sociologists Based on Sound Scholarship?” (Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg); “Horowitz Responds” (Irving Louis Horowitz) • Richard J. Gelles Named ASA Fellow • Edward L. Kain New ASA Field Coordinator • American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grants Awarded • Deaths: Irving Weber, Rodney E. White • Obituaries: Clifford C. Clogg, Guy E. Swanson, Odell Uzzell • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (January 28, 1995)

Footnotes September/October 1995 (Volume 23, Number 7) (pdf file; 4.7 MB) • The 1995 Annual Meeting . . . Sociology with a Bang • ASA President Maureen Hallinan: She’s in a Class by Herself (Barbara Schneider) • 1996 Annual Meeting: New York, New York: It’s a Helluva Town • The Open Window: Connecting Sociology to Public Policy (Felice J. Levine) • At ASA Council: Anne C. Petersen Affirms National Science Foundation Support for Social and Behavioral Research • Council Urges Greater Exchange in House Immigration Legislation • Public Affairs Update • High-Level Government Positions Available: National Science Foundation Seeks Applicants for Sociology Program Director; National Institutes of Health Seeks Director for Division of Research Grants • Suggestions Solicited for 1997 ASA Annual Meeting Program • Council Adopts New Site Selection Policy • 1997 Annual Meeting Theme: Bridges for Sociology: International and Interdisciplinary • 1995 Annual Meeting: Major ASA Awards Presented to Ovations (see April 1995) • 1995 Annual Meeting: 1995 Section Awards Presented in Washington • Public Forum: “The Trouble with Horowitz” (Mohammed A Bamyeh); “Rejoinder to Horowitz” (Jerry A. Jacobs); “Response to Myers on the Declining Influence of Dissertations” (Richard A. Wright); “Setting the Record Straight” (Kai T. Erikson); “Concern with Pseudo-Surveys” (David C. Barrows) • 1994 Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Picture • Obituaries: Harold Benenson, Muriel Goldsman Cantor, A. Lee Coleman, Duane L. Gibson, Charles P. Loomis, Haridas T. Mazumdar, James C. McCann, Donald E. Muir, Edward N. Muller, Marco Orru

Footnotes November 1995 (Volume 23, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • New Report Explodes Myths on Nonmarital Pregnancy • President Fernando Cardoso Reflects on Brazil and Sociology (Ted Goertzel) • National Research Council Report Issued on Departmental Rankings • The Open Window: Promoting Ethical Research on Children (Felice J. Levine) • National Science Foundation Announces Grants: Sociologists Awarded $2 Million from Human Capital Initiative • Public Affairs Update • Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology Off the Ground • ASA Committee on Graduate Education Explores New Topics (Carla B. Howery) • 1996 Annual Meeting: Interaction and Participation Means Livelier Annual Meeting • Report on Nonmarital Childbearing: Footnotes Interviews Kristin Moore on the Sociological Perspective • Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing . . . Some Things You May Not Know • More Section Awards from ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting! • Sociologists Urged to Monitor Federal Statistics (Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Moss) • Deaths: William H. Harlan, Henry W. Herzog • Obituaries: John Biesanz, Charles G. Gomillion, J. Henry Korson

Footnotes December 1995 (Volume 23, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • Candidates Announced for ASA Positions • ASA Testifies House Bill Harmful to Nation, Research • 1996 Annual Meeting: For the Discerning Sociologist It’s More Than a Helluva Town • The Open Window: The Meanings of Membership (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Testifies Before Federal AIDS Panel • Public Affairs Update • Sociology Plays Central Role at Graduate Teaching Conference (Carla B. Howery) • National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Science Program Searches for a New Program Director • Nominations Sought for Major ASA Awards • Sections Seek Nominations for 1996 Awards • Through ASA’s Academic and Professsional Affairs, Consultants Can Help Build Departments and Provide Teaching Workshops • Minority Fellowship Program Continues to Prosper • More Section Awards from ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting • Sociologists for Women in Society Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary (Kathryn P. Meadows Orlans) • Public Forum: “Concern About ASA’s Call for Papers” (R. Stephen Warner); “ASA Program Committee Responds” (Jeylan Mortimer, Maureen Hallinan, Felice J. Levine) • The Conundrums of Ethnic-Based Awards (Richard Tomasson) • Visiting Fulbright Scholars Available to Lecture • Deaths: Clyde W. Franklin II, Morris S. Schwartz • Obituaries: Gerald Breese, Larry W. DeBord • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1994-95 Council Minutes (August 22, 1995)

Footnotes January 1996 (Volume 24, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Key National Science Foundation Board Approves New Violence Consortium • The Curtain is Up! Welcome to the ASA Home Page (Phoebe H. Stevenson) • 1996 Annual Meeting: Sociologists: Eyes Open for Trends in New York City (Andrew A. Beveridge) • The Open Window: Immigration Reform Threatens U.S. Research (Felice J. Levine) • National Science Foundation Holds Conference on Women and Science • ASA Invited to Serve on Census 2000 Committee • Public Affairs Update • Mark Your Calendars for 1996 Spring Regional Meetings • Remembering the ASA MOST Program 1995 Summer Institutes • Public Forum: “Getting on a Reporter’s Rolodex” (Paul Luebke); “A Sociological Tale of Close Encounters with Political Assassination Events” (Nachman Ben-Yehuda) • Teaching Materials Sought for New ASA Products • 1996 Annual Meeting: Seeking Meeting Space? Here Are the Guidelines • More Section Awards from ASA’s 1995 Annual Meeting • ASA MOST Student Named Rhodes Scholar • National Institute of Mental Health Announces Award for Minority Faculty • Deadlines Near for Spivack Initiatives: Applications Sought for ASA Congressional Fellowship • Deaths: John P. Clark, Rodney Riffel, Richard Schoenherr, Morris S. Schwartz • Obituaries: Harry A. Scarr, Clyde W. Franklin II, William H. Harlan, Sherman L. Ricards

Footnotes February 1996 (Volume 24, Number 2) (pdf file; 3.7 MB) • National Institutes of Health Official Emphasizes Social Factors (Norman B. Anderson) • ASA Report on Violence Calls for Enhanced Research Investment • New York City Schools Stir Sociological Imagination (Peter W. Cookson, Jr.) • The Open Window: Our Favorite Spring Ritual (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Participates in Drug Abuse Conference • Military Research Center Established at Maryland • Public Affairs Update • National Science Foundation Seeks Visiting Scientist for Statistics Program Director • Ranking Sociology Departments: A Different Perspective (Yoshinori Kamo) • Beyond the Vitae: Finding Candidates Who Can Teach (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Addresses Hate Crimes • Deaths: James Greenley, Martin U. Martel, Darwin D. Solomon • Obituaries: John P. Clark, Joseph Cohen, Rodney W. Riffel • Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes 1995-96 Council (August 23, 1995)

Footnotes March 1996 (Volume 24, Number 3) (pdf file; 5.5 MB) • ASA Council Proposes New Dues Structure (Teresa A. Sullivan) • ASA Sponsors Hill Briefing on “Transforming the Economy” • 1996 Annual Meeting: Stroll the Upper East Side for Lifestyles of the Elite (Andrew A. Beveridge) • The Open Window: Diversity—Core to the Discipline (Felice J. Levine) • Sociology of Education Moves Forward with Editor Pam Walters (Bernice A. Pescosolido, J. Scott Long) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Candidates for President and Vice President-Elect • Updating U.S. Copyright Laws: What Lies Ahead (John Hammer) • Public Forum: “In Canada, Separate Sociologies Living Parallel Lives” (Paul Bernard); “In Response to Horowitz” (H. Yuan Tien) • Colleagues Remember Ernest Boyer as Leader in Practice and Study of Higher Education • Purdue Creates Professorship in Honor of Sociologist • ASA Announces Winners of Small Grants Program • Council Appoints New Editors for ASA Publications: American Scoiological Review (Glenn Firebaugh); Rose Series (George Farkas); Social Psychology Quarterly (Linda Molm and Lynn-Smith Lovin); Teaching Sociology (Jeffrey Chin) • 1996 Annual Meeting: When in New York, Try the Jamaican Meat Pies (Judith Lorber) • Ten Receive Fund for Advancement of the Discipline Awards • New Proposals Due June 15: ASA Seeks Proposals for Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) Awards • The ASA Starts Operating . . . Electronically! (Barry Wellman) • Deaths: John H. Scalf, Richard A. Schoenherr • Obituaries: Howard Higman, Martin U. Martel, Bernard Rosenberg

Footnotes April 1996 (Volume 24, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.9 MB) • 1996 Annual Meeting: New York 101? Start on the Lower East Side! (Janet Abu- Lughod) • ASA on Capitol Hill • For Contemporary Sociology, These are Books That Made a Difference (Dan Clawson) • The Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years • The Open Window: The Complementarity of Solid Science and Sound Policy (Felice J. Levine) • Sociologists Speak to Policy-Makers on Family Issues • Public Affairs Update • Sociologist Steve Crawford Wins Primary • National Science Foundation Sponsors Education Workshop • National Institutes of Health Releases New Report on Status of AIDS Research • Proposals Sought—June 15 Deadline: ASA/ National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Deaths: Ariel S. Baliff, Pat N. Lackey • Obituaries: John Adam Clausen, Ruth Miller, Richard A. Schoenherr, Morris S. Schwartz • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May/June 1996 (Volume 24, Number 5) (pdf file; 4.9 MB) • 1996 Annual Meeting: Look to NYC for the Truly Great Convention! • American Sociological Review Features Debate Over Divorce Data • Sociology Job Seekers: The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Wants You! (Dan Clawson) • ASA’s Felice J. Levine Testifies for Social and Behavioral Research • The Open Window: Advocating Support for National Science Foundation Social Science • Contact Your Senators Now!: Defeat H.R. 1271 • Public Affairs Update • Felice J. Levine Urges Funding for Research at Justice Department • At the 1996 Annual Meeting: A City of High Fashion Awaits (Ruth P. Rubinstein) • Sociology and Education at ASA’s 1996 Annual Meeting • ASA Announces Major Award Winners • New ASA Editors: Profiles, Missions, and Goals: “George Farkas Brings Energy, Enthusiasm, Commitment to Rose Series” (Paula England); “Re-Establishing the ASA Rose Series (George Farkas); “Glenn Firebaugh: The Right Choice to Lead American Sociological Review” (Barrett A. Lee); “Nothing But the Best Is Good Enough for American Sociological Review” (Glenn Firebaugh) • Melvin Oliver Tapped as Vice President at Ford Foundation • Marta Tienda Elected Trustee to Carnegie Corporation • Section on Sexualities Proposed (Gilbert Zicklin, Steven Seidman) • Deaths: Harsja Wardhana Bachtiar, Earl W. Crichlow, Mylthili Haq • Obituaries: Clarence Elmer Glick, Scott Greer, Solomon Kobrin, James Andrew Palmore, Jr.

Footnotes July/August 1996 (Volume 24, Number 6) (pdf file; 7.3 MB) • 1996 Annual Meeting: Start packing and Oh, yes, Remember the Plenaries! • 1996 Annual Meeting: Art in New York City: It’s a World Without Limits (Vera L. Zolberg) • Jill Quadagno Elected President; Cora Bagley Marrett is Vice President • The Open Window: Connecting with Sociology in Community Colleges (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Opposes H.R. 1271 at Senate Staff and press Briefing • ASA Members Endorse New Dues Structure • Public Affairs Update: The ASA MOST Program: Achievements and Opportunities (Havidan Rodriguez) • Section on the History of Sociology Is Proposed • Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Summer Program Gets Underway • Linda Molm and Lynn Smith-Lovin to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly (Paula England, Dave Snow) • Jeffrey Chin Takes Over as New Teaching Sociology Editor (Robert F. Kelly) • Hot Off the Press: Revised Draft of ASA Code of Ethics (John Kennedy) • Public Forum: “Learning to Labour” (Richard Lachmann); “What’s Missing” (Jerry A Jacobs); “The SPSS Manual” (Barry Wellman); “We Need More Lists” (Herbert J. Gans); “Habits of the Heart” (Douglas Snider); “More Suggestions” (Steve Derne); “Who Counts” (Maurice Zeitlin); “How Many is Enough?” (William G. Rothstein) • Honors Program Announces Recipients for 1996 • Matilda White Riley Honored at Bowdoin College Ceremony • Friends and Colleagues Say Thanks to Butler Jones • Guggenheim Taps Two Sociologists • On the Hill With an ASA Congressional Fellow (Richard Gelles) • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Picks Travel Grant Winners • ASA Spivack Program Awards Community Action Fellowships • Educational Testing Service Revises Sociology Subject Test • Sociology Students Win 1996 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants • Congratulations to Departmental Prize for Outstanding Sociology Students Winners • Obituaries: Inge Bell • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1995-96 Council Minutes (January 28-29, 1996)

Footnotes September/October 1996 (Volume 24, Number 7) (pdf file; 3.5 MB) • 1996 Annual Meeting: “Quite Simply . . . One of the Best in ASA History” • New ASA President Neil J. Smelser: A Bridge-Builder Par Excellence (Ruth A. Wallace) • Donna Shalala Defends Welfare Bill • The Open Window: Training the Next Generation in Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • Federal AIDS Panel Prioritizes Research Issues (Samuel R. Friedman) • Public Affairs Update • Anne Petersen Says Farewell to National Science Foundation • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in New York • ASA, Boyd Printing Company Celebrate 45-Year Partnership • Juan Somavia Addresses Peace and War Reception • Snapshots of the 1996 ASA Annual Meeting • RU-486: Where Science and Ideology Cross Lines (Harriet B. Presser) • Spivack Program Looks at Key Policy Issues: Report on Affirmative Action Due; Workshop on School Violence Held • National Institute of Mental Health: Office on AIDS • Minority Fellowship Program Invites 1996-97 Applications • National Science Foundation Funding Deadlines Near • Suggestions Solicited for 1998 Annual Meeting Program • 1998 Annual Meeting Theme: Inequality and Social Policy: A Challenge for Sociology • Nora Jacobson Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow • Next Deadline December 15: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) Grant Winners Announced • Deaths: E. Digby Baltzell, Robert A. Nisbet, Anthony Soto, Anselm Strauss • Obituaries: Panos D. Bardis, Nicholas J. Demerath, George A. Hillery, Jr., Ernest Mandel, Jiri Nehnevajsa, William S. Robinson, Julian Samora, William Spinrad

Footnotes November 1996 (Volume 24, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • Fondly, Sociologists Remember Jessie Bernard • Sociology Alive and Well at National Institutes of Health: The Work of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): What Every Sociologist Should Know (Jan Howard); Norman Anderson Reflects on the Challenges at the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) • The Open Window: Support for Sampling in Census 2000 (Felice J. Levine) • Bill Clinton’s Reading Proposal Draws from Work of Texas Sociologist • Public Affairs Update • ASA’s Felice J. Levine to Chair Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Executive Committee • Congratulations to ASA Section Award Winners! • Sociologist Inaugurated as Elizabethtown College President • ASA Committee on Public Information Seeks Nomination for Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology • National Level Certifications Available to Sociologists • Public Forum (Fred Hoffman) • Committee Releases Report on Teacher Training (William G. Roy) • Graduate Education Committee Explores New Opportunities (Carla B. Howery) • Fred S. Halley Awarded ASA-EDUCOM Medal • ASA’s On-Line Employment Bulletin Attracts Widespread Attention • Making a Difference Through the Minority Fellowship program (MFP): MFP Donations of All Sizes Are Encouraged; Minority Fellowship Program Announces 1996-97 Fellows • Department Visits and Reviews Strengthen Sociology • Melivin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro Win C. Wright Mills Award • 1997 Regional Meeting Schedule • Deaths: Alicja Iwanska, Bernard Goldstein • Obituaries: E. Digby Baltzell, Jessie Bernard, Robert Nisbet, Marie Withers Osmond • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1995-96 Council Minutes (August 19, 1996)

Footnotes December 1996 (Volume 24, Number 9) (pdf file; 1.7 MB) • ASA Signs Publication Agreements: Russell Sage Agrees to Publish ASA Rose Series; ASA Journals to be Stored Electronically • Candidates Announced for 1997-98 ASA Offices • The Open Window: Sociology in the Media (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Receives Grant for Graduate Employment Study • Public Affairs Update • Call for Nominations for 1997 ASA Awards • Sociology Still Central to National Institute on Aging Research Mission (Ronald P. Abeles) • In Honor of Robin M. Williams, Jr.: Symposium on Diversity Held at Cornell University (Michael Macy) • Call for Nominations for 1997 ASA Section Awards • Deaths: Richard E. Martin, Steve Vieux • Obituaries: T. Stanton Dietrich, Bernard Goldstein, Albert Lewis Rhodes

Footnotes January 1997 (Volume 25, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: The City that Worked: Toronto’s Contested Future (Engin F. Isin) • Sociology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): A Span of Topics and Opportunities (Christine A. Bachrach) • Washington, DC’s Control Board Taps Joyce Ladner for Leadership • The Open Window: The K-12 Pipeline in Sociology (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Executive Officer Felice J. Levine Appointed to Violence Panels • Bennett I. Bertenthal Shares Vision for National Science Foundation Post • Public Affairs Update • Successful Practices in Master’s Programs in Sociology (James G. Hougland, Jr.) • Texas Christian University’s Austin Porterfield Remembered • Call for Nominations for 1997 ASA Awards • From the President: An Update on the 1997 ASA Annual Meeting (Neil J. Smelser) • American Humanics and a Sociology Major: A Winning Combo (Carla B. Howery) • February 7 Deadline Nears: National Science Foundation Announces Funding for Learning and Intelligent Systems Initiative • Sociology Students Receive Fulbrights • Emphasizing Social Science Inquiry Early in the Curriculum (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Honors Program Celebrates 24th year • Obituaries: Dennis Brissett, Edwin M. Lemert, Richard E. Martin, Anselm L. Strauss, Steve Vieux • Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes 1996-97 Council (August 20-21, 1996)

Footnotes February 1997 (Volume 25, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.4 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: A Walk in Inner Toronto: Elements of the City’s Fabric (Jon Caulfield) • 1997 Annual Meeting: Board the Red Rocket in Streetcar City (Tony Turrittin) • At National Institutes of Health: AIDS Research Needs Sociological Input (Jusy Auerbach) • The Open Window: Communicating Is More Than a Footnote (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Council Meets; Recommends Ethics Code Revision • Public Affairs Update • Deadline April 15: ASA Supports Media Fellowship • Talking the Talk: Sociological Messages on T.V. Talk Shows (Vicki Abt, Mel Seesholtz) • Fond Memories of ASA’s MOST Summer Institutes • ASA Committee Releases Report on Professional Socialization of Graduate Students (Bernice A. Pescosolido) • Anthony Giddens Named Director of London School of Economics • National Science Foundation Names Sociology Grant Winners • ASA Awards Policy Committee Proposes New Schedule • Awards Committees and Chairs for 1997 • Awards Committees and Chairs for 1998 • The Ford Foundation Announces “Crossing Borders” Initiative • Six Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grants • June 15, 1997 Deadline! Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) Award • March 1, 1997 Deadline: Apply Now! ASA 1997-98 Congressional Fellowship • ASA Member Develops New Telephone Assistance System • Deaths: Sigurd Berentzen, Ruth Farkas, Masayasu Yamamoto • Obituaries: David J. Gray, Sol Levine

Footnotes March 1997 (Volume 25, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.3 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: Immigration and Toronto’s “Stylish New Personality” (Jeffrey G. Reitz, Janet M. Lum) • ASA Members to Vote on Revised Ethics Code • 1997-98 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers • The Open Window: ASA’s Sections: The Vitality of Its Parts (Felice J. Levine) • At National Science Foundation: “Cold Spots” Offer Sociologists Some “Warm Opportunities” • Public Affairs Update • Sociologists Commend Panel Report on AIDS Interventions • Apply by April 15: 1997 ASA-American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Media Fellowship • National Institutes of Health Self-Report Conference Important to Sociology (Lois M. Verbrugge, Jack Fowler) • The Case of the Sociologist Who Untangled Himself from the Web (Richard C. Rockwell) • National Institute on Aging Invites Proposals for Minority Aging Research • Capitol Hill Diary: From Graduate School to “Senator Kennedy’s Office: Can I Help You?” (Nora Jacobson) • ASA and International Sociological Association to Cosponsor Conference on Future Directions • Expo Introduces High School Students to Sociology (Teri Kepner) • Public Forum: “Thinking Sociologically” (Allan G. Johnson) • The 1995 ASA Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Picture • Deaths: Kingsley Davis, Hugh Max Miller • Obituaries: James R. Greenley, Gary D. Hill, Terence Kilbourne Hopkins, William Kolb, Paul Evan Peters

Footnotes April 1997 (Volume 25, Number 4) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: Toronto: Cultural Capital of the 21st Century? (Joan Davies) • From the President: The Interdisciplinary Enterprise (Neil J. Smelser) • ASA Holds Congressional Briefing on Welfare to Work • The Open Window: Get Out and Vote! (Felice J. Levine) • Administrators Briefed on Social Science Contributions • National Science Foundation’s Patricia White to Spend Year at ASA Executive Office • Remembering Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) • Building a New College on New Realities (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Taps into Online Employment Links (David Waller) • Capitol Hill Diary: Notes Toward an Ethnography (Nora Jacobson) • A Bridge to International Sociology (Dan Clawson) • Proposals Sought—June 15 Deadline: ASA/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Program • ASA Awards Fellowships for Teaching, Community Research • Con Artist Targets Sociologists • Deaths: Conrad M. Arensberg • Obituaries: Alicja Iwanska, Solomon Kobrin • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1996 Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May/June 1997 (Volume 25, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • ASA on Capitol Hill • Senate Backs Down on Census Sampling Ban • 1997 Annual Meeting: Rural Ontario: An Intriguing Hinterland and a Place to Visit (J.I. Bakker) • The Open Window: Strong Departments—The Foundation of Our Discipline (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Urges Increased Funding for Social and Behavioral Research • Public Affairs Update • ASA Celebrates National Institute of Mental Health 50th Anniversary • National Science Foundation Seeks Proposals for Graduate Education Training • Sociology and Drug Abuse Research Opportunities at National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Zili Sloboda) • A Peek Behind the Scenes of the Graduate Record Examination (Carla B. Howery) • The Gift of Obscurity: Advice for Emerging PhDs (Annette Lareau) • State Sociological Associations Are Flourishing (Carla B. Howery) • The Great Job Search: Dos, Don’ts, and Where to Look: A Sociologist Searches for Employment . . . And Finds It (Zhidong Hao); ASA Literature Can Provide Some Useful Clues (Amy Roussell) • Nine Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards • National Science Foundation Program Targets Women Scientists and Engineers • MOST Program on Display at Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting • Sociologists Receive Awards and Fellowships: Anne Boyle is First ASA-American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Media Fellow; Three Sociologists Selected as Guggenheim Fellows; Lois Monteiro Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow; Rice University Student is Named Rhodes Scholar; Woodrow Wilson Fellows Include Sociologists • Public Forum: “San Diego State Creates Legal Defense Fund” (James L. Wood) • Deaths: James D. Tarver • Obituaries: Faros Ahmed; Gerald L. Leslie, Sol Levine, Erich Rosenthal

Footnotes July/August 1997 (Volume 25, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: Sociologists Get Ready for a Great Meeting • Alejandro Portes, Patricia A. Roos, Florence B. Bonner Elected; New Ethics Code Approved • ASA Announces 1997 Award Winners: Dalton Clark Conley, Dissertation Award; Nona Glazer, Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Jessie Bernard Award; G. Franklin Edwards, DuBois-Johnson-Frazer Award; Charles Moskos, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology; Irwin Deutscher, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Robert R. Alford, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro for Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award; William Hamilton Sewell, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award • The Open Window: A FAD (Fund for the Advencement of the Discipline) Worth Sustaining (Felice J. Levine) • More Than 80 Attend: ASA Holds Briefing on Youth Violence • Public Affairs Update • American Sociological Foundation to Cease as Separate Entity But Its Mission Carries On . . . • Submissions Sought: Montreal to Host 1998 International Sociological Association Meeting • Sociologist Makes His “CASE” (Conference of Academics for Sexual Equity) on Professor-Student Relations (Barry M. Dank) • Capitol Hill Diary: Backstage at a U.S. Senate Hearing (Nora Jacobson) • Minority Fellowship Program Fellows Benefit by Proposal Development Workshop • 1997 Annual Meeting: Two Sociologies: National, Separate, Alike (Claude Denis) • Section on Undergraduate Education Celebrates Its 25th (Tom Gerschick) • Sociologists Recast Canadian Feminism and the Progressive Women of Toronto: Canadian Feminism: A Tale of Two Eurocentric Cultures and Three Nations (Thelma McCormack); Toronto and Its Women: A Challenge to Change (Gerda R. Wekerle) • Deaths: Vytautas Kavolis • Obituaries: Donald I. Warren • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1996-97 Council Minutes (January 25-26, 1997)

Footnotes September/October 1997 (Volume 25, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1997 Annual Meeting: It Was a Feast for Mind and Spirit • Add Health Findings Released • Profile of the President: “Mission Control: Quadagno Now in Charge” (John Myles) • The Open Window: ASA and the President’s Initiative on Race (Felice J. Levine) • Suggestions Solicited for 1999 Annual Meeting Program • Public Affairs Update • 1999 Annual Meeting Theme: Transitions in World’s Society: At Century’s End • Explaining the “Feminization” of ASA Elections, 1975-1996 • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Toronto (see July/August) • ASA Co-Hosts Science Writers’ Workshop on Health Issues • ASA Releases Call for Major Award Nominations • Florida Police Urge Victims of Con Artist to Come Forward • December 31 Deadline: Minority Fellowship Program Fellowships • The 1996 ASA Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Picture • Deaths: Joseph J. Mangalam, Emily Schroeder, Harold Sheppard, Thomas Steahr, Glen Laird Taggart, George H. Weightman • Obituaries: Conrad M. Arensberg, Annabelle Motz Blum, Richard Henshel, Vytautas Kavolis, Hugh Max Miller, Robert A. Polson

Footnotes November 1997 (Volume 25, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • Two Sociologists Address White House Race Panel • Pennsylvania State University Gets Set to House ASA Archives • Public Discourse on Sociological Research: The Public Values Debate: An ASA Call for Submissions • The Open Window: Sociological Lines of Work (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Delegation Participates in Conference on Part-time Faculty (Carla B. Howery) • Public Affairs Update • Women Sociologists Could Benefit by the “POWRE” (Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education) of National Science Foundation • John Mirowsky Brings Energy, Commitment to Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Elizabeth G. Menaghan) • At Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Researchers Will Cultivate Their Science (John Mirowsky) • Contemporary Sociology: A “Great Choice” Is Made (Jeffrey Leiter) • Contemporary Sociology to be Central Forum for Thoughtful Discourse (Barbara Risman, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) • Call for Help: Social Science Knowledge on Race, Racism, and Race Relations • History of Sociology: New ASA Section-in-Formation • Public Forum: “Sociologist Says ‘Time Crunch’ Can be Worse Than Suspected” (Penny Edgell Becker); Moskos’ Selection for ASA Award Stirs Give and Take: “Groups Outraged by Selection” (The Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Sociologists; The Sociologists’ Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered Caucus; The Council of the Sexuality Section); “Committee Says Moskos Still the Best Pick” (ASA Committee on the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology); “Moskos Defends Views on Gays in the Military” (Charles Moskos); Decision to Change Status of American Sociological Foundation (ASF) Is Discussed: “Demerath Says ASF Failed to Justify Decision” (Jan Demerath); “ASF Chair Says Change is Appropriate” (Charles M. Bonjean); “Irvine Says Dank Wrong on Student-Faculty Relationships” (Leslie Irvine); “Dank Responds” (Barry M. Dank) • Social Capital Belongs to Interdisciplinary Discipline (Michael Woolcock) • Congratulations to 1997 Section Award Winners • Deaths: Orrin Klapp, Harold Sheppard • Obituaries: Harry C. Bredemeier, Fernand Dumont, Fathy Soliman Elbana, E.M. Rallings, Glen Laird Taggart

Footnotes December 1997 (Volume 25, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: Come to San Francisco and Experience a Postmodern Dream (Sherri Cavan) • National Science Foundation Sociology Program Gets a Winner: Barry Markovsky • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • The Open Window: The Health of Our Data Infrastructure in Social Science (Felice J. Levine) • Conference Held on Future of Scholarly Monograph (Carla B. Howery) • Public Affairs Update • Join International Sociological Association and Head North! • Ford Foundation Approves ASA Grant Request for Initiative on Race • Mark Becker and Michael Sobel: Sociological Methodology Gets a Winning Duo (Yu Xie) • American Sociological Review Examines Self-Esteem Issues (Glenn Firebaugh) • Editors Pledge Innovative Articles (Michael Sobel, Mark Becker) • American Association for the Advencement of Science: Making Room for Sociological Research (Frank D. Bean, Mary Frank Fox) • Symposium Part of Festivities to Celebrate Archives Opening • January 15 Deadline: National Science Foundation Sociology Program Welcomes Submissions • Disability Is an Area Rich With Sociological Opportunity (Gary L. Albrecht) • Public Forum: Sociologists for Women in Society Has Heavily Influenced ASA • ASA Media Fellow Puts Sociology to Work in Newsroom (Anne Boyle) • Five Sociology Students Are Awarded Ford Fellowships • January 31 Deadline: Posdtdoctoral Fellowship in Demography of Aging Available at University of Wisconsin • 1998 Annual Meeting: Call Out for 1998 Section Award Nominations • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1996-97 Council Minutes (August 12, 1997) • Obituaries: Orrin Edgar Klapp, Marion Theo (Red) Loftin, Daniel R. Miller

Footnotes January 1998 (Volume 26, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: California Lessons Outside the Annual Meeting (Tracie Danforth) • New PhDs to Receive Employment Survey • American Sociological Review and Contemporary Sociology Back Issues Available in JSTOR • Reminder!: February 1 Deadline for ASA Award Nominations • The Open Window: ASA, Sections, and the Sum of Our Parts: 2 (Felice J. Levine) • Two Sociologists, Roberta Spalter-Roth and John Kennedy, Enrich ASA Executive Office Staff • Public Affairs Update • Submission Deadline: February 1, 1998: Session Suggestions for the 1999 Annual Meeting • Introducing Students to Sociology . . . In Spanish (Carla B. Howery) • Appalachian Studies: Exciting Regional Sociology (Carla B. Howery) • Fourteen Sociologists Receive 1997-98 Fulbright Awards • Community Research Is Where the Action Is • February 15, 1998 Deadline: Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy • February 15, 1998 Deadline: Applications Invited for 1998-99 ASA Congressional Fellowship • A Window on Ourselves: An Upcoming Review of the Discipline in Contemporary Sociology (Barbara Risman, Don Tomaskovic-Devey) • Seven Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards • Sociologists Differ About Family Textbooks’ Message • Organization Seeks to Inform Public of Research on Families • 1998 Annual Meeting: Honors Program to Celebrate 25th Year in San Francisco • ASA Seeks to Expand Data Resources Session • 1998 Annual Meeting Information: Call for Papers Update • 1998 Annual Meeting: Space for Other Activities • National Science Foundation Calls for Planning on Data Infrastructure • February 15 Deadline: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants • National Science Foundation Position Available: Law and Social Science Program Seeks New Director • ASA Hosts Chinese Social Scientists • ASA Launches Monograph on Peer Review of Teaching • A Celebration of Black Sociological Scholarship • International Institute of Sociology Holds 33rd World Congress • Obituaries: H. Laurence Ross, Thomas Edward Steahr

Footnotes February 1998 (Volume 26, Number 2) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: Some Features of Changing Demographics in San Francisco (William Edwards) • Census Bureau Director Martha Riche Resigns • Two Candidates, Earl R. Babbie and Sheldon Stryker, Added to ASA Ballot by Petition • The Open Window: “Our” ASA Annual Meeting (Felice J. Levine) • Medical Sociology and Gulf War Illness: Ill-Defined Illnesses and Medically Unexplained Symptoms Syndrome (Lois Monteiro) • Public Affairs Update • International Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards to U.S. • Tenure, Post-Tenure Review, and Faculty Accountability (Shirley Laska) • After the Fall: The Growth Rate of Sociology BAs • Latest Citation Data Reveal Shifts in Journal Rankings (Steve Vallas) • Alpha Kappa Delta Benefits Sociology (Steve Hoffman) • Classroom Accessibility for Students with Disabilities (Sharon Barnartt) • Sociological Practice Association: Certification Program Provides Credentials for Practicing Sociologists (Ray Kirshak) • Public Forum: “Glenn Comments on Family Textbook Rejoinders” (Norval D. Glenn); “Families from the Clinical View” (Frank L. Nelson) • Deaths: Hugh J. Parry, Donald P. Warwick • Obituaries: G. Franklin Edwards, Daniel B. Glos, Howard N. Boughey • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1997-98 Council Minutes (August 13-14, 1997)

Footnotes March 1998 (Volume 26, Number 3) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: Lesbigay San Francisco: A Sociological View (Christopher Carrington) • Council Adopts New ASA Committee Structure • Judy Auerbach Becomes Assistant Director at Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) • The Open Window: Doing the MOST (Felice J. Levine) • James Richardson Devotes His Energy to Faculty Governance (Carla B. Howery) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Election Ballot Coming Soon • 1998-99 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers • Are Hiring Practices Sensitive to Persons with Disabilties? (Ed Ponczek) • Sociological “ACTS” (Association of Christian Teachers of Sociology) (Carla B. Howery) • Community Action Research Initiative Grants Awarded • Sociologists Active in Organizations to Address Sexual Harrassment • Texas A&M Sociologists Funded for Summer Institute (Andrea Lohse) • On a “Lost” Article by Donald Campbell, to Reconsider Today (Thomas J. Scheff) • Daniel Bell Directs New Committee on Intellectual Correspondence • “It’s in the American Sociological Review”: Inside the Newsroom: How Front Page Stories are Chosen (Glenn Firebaugh) • Change Magazine Honors Educators • ASA Archives Dedicated at Pennsylvania State University • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports • Deaths: Cornelius Castoriadis, Ida S. Frankel, Jesse J. Frankel, A. Orin Leonard, Glenna Walter Mars, Daniel R. Miller, Julian Simon • Obituaries: A.J. Jaffe, Frederick B. Lindstrom, Donald P. Warwick

Footnotes April 1998 (Volume 26, Number 4) (pdf file; 1.8 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: A Sociologist’s View of Stereotypic Images by the Bay (Rhonda Matthews) • American Sociological Review Authorship Patterns: Are There Gender Differences? (Susan Singley, Glenn Firebaugh, Anna Chase) • Kellogg Foundation Funds ASA Race Project • The Open Window: Advancing Social and Behavioral Perspectives on Health (Felice J. Levine) • Public Affairs Update: “Dear Colleague”: How Congress Members Informally Communicate with Each Other (Lois Monteiro); Susan Rachel Gragg Selected New ASA Congressional Fellow • Radio as a Sound Salvation: Sociologists Lend Their Voices to the Airwaves (Steve Hoffman) • Sarah Eichberg is Second ASA-American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Media Fellow • Public Forum: “More on the 1996 Journal Citation Reports” (Steven Vallas); “Real Shifts of Random Shocks? Using the ‘Impact Factor’ to Measure Journal Rankings” (Lowell Hargens); “Twenty-Seven of the Top 15 Journals in Sociology: A Comment” (John Mirowsky) • Deaths: Robert E.L. Faris, Dale M. Frihart, Tshuyoshi Ishida, Marvin Walker • Obituaries: Russell Barta, Howard N. Boughey, Corneilius Castoriadis, Narendra Nath Kalia, Jaya Sastry, Dan Lee Tweed • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May/June 1998 (Volume 26, Number 5) (pdf file; 2.6 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: Of Microchips and Multiculturalism: Notes from Northern California (Karen Hossfeld) • Working Conference Spurs Race Initiative (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Ed Murguia Tapped for the Minority Affairs Program (MAP) • The Open Window: Reinventing Undergraduate Education—ASA Anticipates the Call (Felice J. Levine) • Census Bureau Developing American Community Survey • Public Affairs Update • The Same Old Publishing Crisis or a New One? (Wendy Griswold) • ASA Small Grants for Innovative Research and Teaching • “It’s in the American Sociological Review”: How Much Does Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? (Glenn Firebaugh) • This June in Journal of Health and Social Behavior (John Mirowsky) • Incorporating Disability Studies in Sociology Courses (Lynn Schlesinger, Diane E. Taub) • An Invitation for Sociologists to Contribute to HIV Prevention Efforts (Duane Wilkerson) • Letters to the Editor: “ASA Committee Reorganization” (Dan Clawson); “Taking Issue with Association of Christian Teaches of Sociology (ACTS)” (Lee Martin); “A Final Word from the Institute for American Values” (David Blankenhorn) • 1998 Annual Meeting: Go West, All Sociologists, Go West! • Robert E. Lee Faris and the Discipline of Sociology • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1997-98 Council Minutes (January 24, 1998) • Deaths: Thomas Eynon, Walter T. James, Walter B. Valtzen, Marvin E. Wolfgang, John Davis Wright • Obituaries: Dale Frihart, Bruce D. Waxman

Footnotes July/August 1998 (Volume 26, Number 6) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • 1998 Annual Meeting: California Here We Come! • San Francisco Mayor to Address ASA • Joe R. Feagin Elected ASA President; Nan Lin Is Vice President • ASA Announces 1998 Award Winners: Douglas Guthrie, Dissertation Award; Ruth Wallace, Jessie Bernard Award; Howard Taylor, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award; William Julius Wilson, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology; Leonard Pearlin, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Sociology Major Program, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Santa Clara University, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; John Markoff for Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award; Howard S. Becker, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award • The Open Window: ASA as Publisher (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Holds Hill Briefing on Immigration (Carla B. Howery) • Public Affairs Update • Sociologists Profiled at Hill Exhibits • The Importance of MA-Only Departments in Graduate Education (Roberta Spalter- Roth) • Minority Fellows Meet for Grant Workshop (Ed Murguia) • Bringing Qualitative Sociology to a School of Education (D.R. LaMagdeleine) • Eight of Nine By-Law Changes Approved • Silvia Pedraza’s Cuba: Past but Never Present (Carla B. Howery) • Improving Research by Asserting Access (Corinne Kirchner) • Letters to the Editor: “The Wrong Basis for Endorsement?” (David Lempert); “Integrating Faith and Sociology” (Jack B. Monpas-Huber); More on the Association of Christian Teachers of Sociology (ACTS) (C. Emory Burton) • Sociologists Driving on the Technological Highway (Tracie Danforth) • Light Directs National Health Service Project • Congressional Fellow Report: Demographics and Sacred Ground (Lois Monteiro) • Follow Up . . . • New Section on Consumers and Consumption • Deaths: Alfred A. Clarke, Jr., Jeanine H. Gavin, Mancur Olson, C. Wilson Record, Dallas J. Reed • Obituaries: Thomas G. Eynon, Derek Godfrey Gill, Kenneth J. Lenihan, Nathan Pitts, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Carolyn Zeleney

Footnotes September/October 1998 (Volume 26, Number 7) (pdf file; 2.7 MB) • Council Approves New “Perspectives” Journal • 1998 Annual Meeting: Setting Records in San Francisco • Major Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco (see July/August for list of winners) • The Open Window: Affirmative Action. . . Bringing Social Science to Bear (Felice J. Levine) • Suggestions Solicited for 2000 Annual Meeting Program • 2000 Annual Meeting Theme: Oppression, Domination, and Liberation: Challenges for the 21st Century. • Public Affiars Update • Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Research at the World Bank. • Profile of the ASA President: Alejandro Portes’ Sociological Journey (Viviana A. Zelizer) • The 1997 ASA Audit: A Sound Financial Picture at ASA • Deaths: Wendell Reese Brown, Solomon Davis, Christen T. Jonasses, Rev. Bonaventure Kiley, John Patrick Smith • Obituaries: Ann Hill Beuf, Louisa Howe, Marvin R. Koller, Cy Wilson Record, Cristina Maria Riegos, Mary Bess Cameron

Footnotes November 1998 (Volume 26, Number 8) (pdf file; 2.5 MB) • ASA Office to Relocate • Council Advances Restructuring from Annual Meeting Discussions • Ford Foundation Awards $485,000 More for MOST • Nominations Sought for 1999 Major ASA Awards • The Open Window: Reorganizing National Institutes of Health Peer Review for Social and Behavioral Science (Felice J. Levine) • Congressional Fellow’s Report: Veterans Losing in the Tobacco Wars (Lois Monteiro) • Public Affairs Update • January 15, 1999 Deadline: National Science Foundation Program Welcomes Submissions • March 1, 1999 Deadline Expected: Enhancing Infrastructure for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: NSF Call for Proposals • The ASA Honors Program: Engaging Students at the Annual Meeting 26 Years and Running • New ASA Student Forum Promotes Future Sociologists • ASA Welcomes Students to the 1999 Annual Meeting • December 31, 1998 Deadline: Applications for Minority fellowship Program Invited • Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: Cuban Sociology is Back (Alejandro Portes) • Spotlight on Departments: Seven in One Go! (David J. Pratto) • Sociology Holds its Own in Climate of Retrenchment and Restructuring • “It’s in the American Sociological Review. . .”: Cars, Carpets, and Transports (Glenn Firebaugh) • Datasets for Exploring Aspects of Disability (Eric L. Lang) • Congratulations to 1998 ASA Section Award Winners! • Deaths: John Wardwell • Obituaries: Robert Bierstedt, Solomon Davis, Harriet Holter, Adam Podgórecki, Dietrich C. Reitzes

Footnotes December 1998 (Volume 26, Number 9) (pdf file; 2.8 MB) • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Minority Fellowship Program Celebrates 25th Anniversary (Edward Murguia) • Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Annual Meeting Highlights Key Science Agencies and Issues • The Open Window: The Decade of Behavior: Coming Soon! (Felice J. Levine) • Sociology Faculty Salaries Grow During the 1980s and Stabilize in the 1990s (Roberta Spalter-Roth, Andrew Sutter) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Council Terminates Certification Program (John Kennedy) • Social Sciences Teaching Resources Depository (Nan Chico, Ed Nelson, Elizabeth Nelson, Jim Ross) • Spotlight on Departments: University of California-Los Angeles Sociology Department Awarded Center on Culture • “It’s in the American Sociological Review”: What Separation Between Church and State? (Anna Chase, Glenn Firebaugh) • Sociology One Focus for Carnegie Academy • National Research Council Fellowships • Letters to the Editor: “On Affirmative Action” (William J. Tinney, Jr.); “News About My Discipline?” (Irwin Deutscher) • Sociologists Named Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars • The Campus Compact: A Resource for Sociology and Service-Learning (Sandra Enos) • Sheldon Ekland-Olson Named New University of Texas-Austin Provost • Call for 1999 ASA Section Award Nominations • Obituaries: W.W. “Sandy” Charters, David Cooperman, Galina Starovoitova, Christen Tonnes Jonassen, Robert Parke, Jr., Hélcio Ulhôa Saraiva

Footnotes January 1999 (Volume 27, Number 1) (pdf file; 2.0 MB) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Spotlight on Chicago (R. Stephen Warner) • Happy New Year from the ASA Staff • William Julius Wilson Awarded National Medal of Science • The Open Window: Research, Data Collection and the Public’s Right to Know (Felice J. Levine); Sociologist Sues California Governor Over Bar on Data (Andrew L. Barlow, Troy Duster) • Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Priorities at National Institutes of Health (Norman B. Anderson) • Public Affairs Update • Six Receive ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards • Deaths: Shirley Vining Brown, Philip H. Ennis, Byron Evans, Niklas Luhmann • Obituaries: Rose Helper, Ann Madalyn Kremers, Rosalie Hankey Wax • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1998-99 Council Minutes (August 25-26, 1998)

Footnotes February 1999 (Volume 27, Number 2) (pdf file; 307 KB) 1999 Annual Meeting: Spotlight on Chicago (Anthony M. Orum) • ASA Seeks Editor for “Perspectives” Journal • ASA Council Approves New Task Forces; Seeks Member Involvement • The Open Window: Sociologists Take Note: Data Access and Proposed Use of Freedom of Information Act (Felice J. Levine) • American Association for the Advancement of Science Passes Resolution on Freedom of Information Act Demands • Applications and Nominations Sought for Key National Science Foundation Positions • Public Affairs Update • Aaron Pallas Leads Sociology of Education (Gary Natriello) • “It’s in the American Sociological Review. . . “ Children of the Cultural Revolution (Glenn Firebaugh) • Confidentiality and the 1997 ASA Code of Ethics: A Query (John Lowman and Ted Palys) • Confidentiality and the 1997 Code of Ethics: A Response from the Committee on Professional Ethics (Joyce Iutcovich, Sue Hoppe, John Kennedy, Felice J. Levine) • Public Forum: Creativity in Graduate Schools (S.M. Miller) • National Science Foundation Sociology Program Announces 1998 Grants • Spotlight on Departments: St. Cloud State University Awarded First Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology Accreditation • ASA Council Votes to Reinstate Emeritus Membership • Medical Sociologists Win Major Research Awards (Donald W. Light) • Sociology Abroad: Vive la Sociologie! Vive la France! • State Sociological Associations: The Rewards of Going “Out of the Box” (John E. Farley) • Sociology and Service-Learning: Lessons from the Field (Carolyn Vasques-Scalera, Mark Chesler) • Deaths: E. Colvin Baird, Peter Becker, William H. Whyte • Obituaries: Philip Ennis, Mamoru Iga, Allen E. Liska, Delbert C. Miller, George eaton Simpson, John Wardwell, Wilbur Watson

Footnotes March 1999 (Volume 27, Number 3) (pdf file; 409 KB) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Chicago Music (Deena Weinstein) • ASA Council Offers Guidelines on Policymaking; Seeks Input • A Message from the ASA President (Alejandro Portes) • New Editors for ASA Journals • The Open Window: ASA and Public Policy: The Role of a Scientific Society (Felice J. Levine) • Congressional Fellow’s Report: Clean Money, Clean Elections (Rachel Gragg) • Public Affairs Update • American Council of Learned Societies President John D’Arms Addresses ASA Council • 1999-2000 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers: (President Elect) Douglas S. Massey, Mayer N. Zald; (Vice President-Elect) Richard D. Alba, Gary D. Sandefur • Interagency Education Research Initiative: A Great Opportunity for Sociologists • Nominations Sought for Major ASA Awards in 2000 • Spotlight on Departments: Hunter College Engages First Generation College Students in Applied Research • We’d Love to Hire them But. . . : The Underrepresentation of Sociologists of Color and Its Implications (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Cedric Herring) • MOST Program Moves Ahead • MOST Department Receives Diversity Award • The Demise of the GRE Sociology Examination (Rhonda Zingraff) • Three Sociologists Walk the Talk. . . By Bicycle (Carla B. Howery) • Public Forum: “The ‘Purpose’ of the ASA?” (Richard Tomasson, et al); “Council Action”; “Reskin Responds” (Barbara F. Reskin); :From the editor and ASA Executive Officer” (Felice J. Levine) • Excerpts from ASA Council Subcommittee Report on Policymaking and Resolutions • Deaths: Margaret Baltes, W. Roy Cook, Mirra Komarovsky Heyman, David L. Stevenson • Obituaries: Peter M. Becker, Shirley Ann Vining Brown, Robert C. Davis, Walter Hirsch

Footnotes April 1999 (Volume 27, Number 4) (pdf file; 709 KB) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Town Meeting with Kenneth Prewitt on Census 2000 • Jonathan Turner is New Editor of Sociological Theory (Randall Collins) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Black Chicago (Mary Patillo-McCoy) • The Open Window: Proposed Use of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for Data Access (Felice J. Levine) • Kenneth Prewitt Leads Census Bureau Toward 2000 (Suzanne Bianchi) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Council Approves Student Forum • The Pipeline of Faculty of Color in Sociology (Roberta Spalter-Roth, Felice J. Levine, Andrew Sutter) • Conference on Black Women in the Academy Builds Networks and Insights (Steve Hoffman) • George Dowdall Named New ASA Congressional Fellow • Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Two Projects • Daniel Harrison is Third ASA-AAAS Media Fellow • Community Action Research Initiative Awards • It’s in the American Sociological Review: Real in their Consequences (Anna Chase, Karen Bloom) • Economic Sociology Section in Formation (Wayne E. Baker) • Public Forum: “The New Genetics: A Challenge to Sociology?” (Robert Dingwall, Alison Pilnick); “More Chicago Stories” (Ruth L. Love); “Have Our Efforts Succeeded? (Bernard Philips) • Deaths: Albert E. Gollin, Donald Ploch, Winson Small, Deborah Theado, Morton G. Wenger • Obituaries: Carlo L. Lastrucci, Clarence H. Patrick • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editor’s Reports

Footnotes May/June 1999 (Volume 27, Number 5) (pdf file; 342 KB) • Mirra Komarovsky (1907-1999): Old World Grace and New World Ideas (Jonathan Rieder) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Chicago With Kids (Christena Nippert Eng) • Section Journals Now Possible: Council Affirms New Guidelines for Establishing and Retaining ASA Journals • The Open Window: Planting the Seeds for Curriculum Change (Felive J. Levine) • Public Affairs Update: National Humanities Alliance Holds Annual Meeting in April (William R. Ferris); Action Update: Keep Opposition Up! Use of Freedom of Information Act for Data Sharing • Immediate Action Needed! Press for Restored Support for National Endowment for the Humanities • Colleagues Remember Mirra Komarovsky • It’s in the American Sociological Review: Collective Violence and Group Solidarity (Susan G. Singley) • What’s New in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior? (John Mirowsky) • Associations Give New Attention to Civic Engagement (Carla B. Howery) • Carnegie Academy Focuses on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Sociology, Selects Fellows (Carla B. Howery and Steve Hoffman) • Spotlight on Departments: A Open House for Prospective Graduate Students at Northwestern University • ASA testifies on National Science Foundation Appropriations • Sociology Doctoral Student and Activist Honored (Kim Cameron-Dominguez) • ASA-COSSA Toast: William Julius Wilson Honored for National Medal of Science • Public Forum: Members Comment on ASA’s Publication on Affirmative Action (Harold Orlans, William J. Tinney, Jr., Evelyn Nakano-Glenn and Robert Perucci, Angela Haddad and Robert Newby) • The Power of Positive Thinking Revisited: Positive Psychology Project Launched (Carla B. Howery) • Rethinking Outreach as Professional Service in Higher Education (Carla B. Howery) • Deaths: Gerd Schroeter • Obituaries: W. Roy Cook, Carolyn R. Dexter, Albert E. Gollin, Niklas Luhmann, Donald R. Ploch, Timothy P. Rouse, Stanley L. Saxton, Jr., Shirley Wilson Strickland, Deborah Theado

Footnotes July/August 1999 (Volume 27, Number 6) • ASA Election Results: Douglas S. Massey Elected ASA President; Richard D. Alba is Vice-President • 1999 Annual Meeting: Battling Uneven Development in Chicago (Phil Nyden, Gwen Nyden) • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • Major ASA Award Winners Announced for 1999: Sarah L. Babb (Dissertation Award); Paula England (Jessie Bernard Award); not awarded in 1999 (DuBois- Johnson-Frazier Award); Herbert J. Gans (Award for Public Understanding of Sociology); Peter H. Rossi (Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology); William G. Roy (Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award); Randall Collins (Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award); Dorothy E. Smith (Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award) • The Open Window: A Walk on the Applied Side (Felice J. Levine) • Craig Calhoun to Head the Social Science Research Council • Public Affairs Update • Charles Camic/Franklin Wilson: A Profile of the New American Sociological Review Editors (Erik Olin Wright) • Helen Moore to Edit Teaching Sociology (Lynn White) • 1999 Annual Meeting: ASA in Chicago . . . Everything You Need to Know! • 1999 Annual Meeting: Tour the Windy City! (Tracie Danforth) • Minority Fellowship Program Presents New Fellows (Edward Murguia) • Pubic Forum: Publications Committee Letter of Resignation by Michael Burawoy; Response by ASA President by Alejandro Portes) • Eight Projects Receive ASA-National Science Foundation Small Grant Awards • Gender, Citizenship, and the Work of Caring (Francesca Cancian) • Emeritus Category Reinstated • Obituaries: Ross Paul Scherer, David Lee Stevenson • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1998-99 Council Minutes (February 5, 1999)

Footnotes September/October 1999 (Volume 27, Number 7) • 1999 Annual Meeting: Lively Annual Meeting in Sociology’s Kind of Town • ASA Council Appoints Five Task Forces • ASA Annual Meeting Over the Newswire (Rachel Gragg) • The Open Window: The ASA’s Minority Fellowship Program—A Solid Investment (Felice J. Levine) • Suggestions Solicited for 2001 Annual Meeting Program • 2001 Annual Meeting Theme: “Cities of the Future” • Public Affairs Update • ASA Council Renews Call for Input on ASA Policy on Policymaking • Profile of the ASA President: Joe R. Feagin: Willing to take a Stand (Hernan Vera) • Executive Officer’s Report on Actions from ASA Council—August 1999 • Public Forum: “Many Voices Weigh In on ASR and the Editor Selection Process” (Michael Schwartz, et al, Glenn Firebaugh, Erik Olin Wright, Samuel R. Lucas, James F. Short, Jr., Patricia A. Roos, Douglas S. Massey); “A Challenge to Deracialization of Scholarship” (Barbara J. Costello); ‘Is This for Real?’ (Stephen H. Balch). • 1999 Annual Meeting: Major Award Recipients Honored in Chicago • International Sociology has a U.S. Home • Sociology Makes the List (Amy Hartlaub) • Spotlight on Departments: Augsburg College’s Process for Making the Right Hire • 1998 ASA Audit: A Sound Financial Picture at ASA • Nominations Sought for ASA Journal Editors • Deaths: Nicholas Babchuk, Carlfred Broderick, Eleanor Paperno Wolf • Obituaries: Jane Cooley Carlson, Alan S. Meyer, Richard Hayes Ogles, Rev. Chancy Robert Rawleigh, William J. Reddin

Footnotes November 1999 (Volume 27, Number 8) • Contemporary Sociology Offers Utopian Visions (Barbara Risman and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) • ASA Holds Congressional Briefing on Hate Crimes (Carla Howery) • Preliminary Program Has a New Face in 2000 • Special Issue of Sociology of Education: Spencer Foundation Makes Grant • The Open Window: Building Strong Departments: ASA and the Department Resources Group (DRG) (Felice J. Levine) • Edward Murguia Concludes ASA term in August 2000; Search Commences • Public Affairs Update • Claude Fischer to Edit New ASA General Perspectives Journal • Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) Issues Decision in the Case of Jean Ait Amber Belkir • Public Forum: "Institutional Racism, ASA Council, and the American Sociological Review Editorship" (Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Officers and members); "Response from President Feagin" (Joe R. Feagin); "Response from President-Elect Massey" (Douglas S. Massey); "Response from Past-president Portes" (Alejandro Portes); "More on the ASR Controversy" (Rochelle L. Woods); "A Response to Lucas" (Herbert J. Gans); "On Survey Data" (Howard Schuman, et al) • Congratulations to ASA Section Award Winners! • Sociologists Go to Work in High Technology (Jon Guice) • Spotlight on Departments: Curriculum Change and Assessment: Bemidji State Takes It On! • 2000 Coupon Listing • Dialogue and Partnership with Asian American Communities (Yvonne M. Lau and Esther Ngan-ling Chow) • Notre Dame Institute Advances Educational Initiatives (Amy Hartlaub) • Council on Undergraduate Research to Include Social Sciences (Edward Murguia) • Obituaries: Nicholas Babchuck, Carlfred Broderick, William Woodland Reeder, Susan Su

Footnotes December 1999 (Volume 27, Number 9) • Budget, Policy and Substance Frame Consortium for Social Science Associations (COSSA) Annual Meeting • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Commmittees • American Council of Learned Societies and ASA: Reflections in 1999 • The Open Window: Preparing Future Faculty (Felice J. Levine) • Search Underway for Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) Director • National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director Search: Law and Social Science • Public Affairs Update • Sociologists Appointed Russell Sage Foundation Fellows • Help Sought in Using and Assessing NSF Pilot Project • Faculty Salaries Exceed Inflation for 1998-1999 (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Eight Projects Receive Fall 1999 Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) Awards • The ASA Honors Program: Bringing Terrific Students to the Annual Meeting and Into the Profession • An Inside Sociological View: Race and the School Expulsions in Decatur, Illinois (Larry Lovell-Troy and Robert Hironimus-Wendt ) • Spotlight on Departments: Augusta State University: Developing Researchers Linked to Their Community • Public Forum: "Politics and the ASA" (James Tucker) • 2000 Annual Meeting Update • Call for ASA Section Award Nominations for 2000 • Deaths: Raymond P. Cuzzort, Sigmund Diamond, Robert W. Peddycoat • Obituaries: Verl R.W. Franz

Footnotes January 2000 (Volume 28, Number 1) • Census 2000: Counting on a Civic Moment (Terri Ann Lowenthal, Felice J. Levine) • 2000 Annual Meeting: You're Invited! (Joe R. Feagin) • The Open Window: Training Opportunities for Minorities: Sociology Can Heed the Call (Felice J. Levine) • Public Affairs Update: ASA Speaks to Science Policy; New Funding Initiatives; National Association of Graduate Professional Students to Conduct Web-Based Survey; National Humanities Alliance Hosts Jefferson Day; National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Alcohol Research Mentoring Program; Office of Behavior and Social Science Position Search Extended • Public Forum: "More Commentary on the ASR Editor Decision and the Statement by the Section on Racial and Ehtnic Minorities" (Naomi L. Lacy; Miguel Angel Centeno, et al; Mary C. Waters, et al; Kenneth Liberman) • Deaths: Warren Breed, Holley Gimpel, Everett K. Wilson • Obituaries: Howard W. Beers, Daryl P. Evans

Footnotes February 2000 (Volume 28, Number 2) • 2000 Annual Meeting: Off the Beaten Path: Advice from Local Sociologists About What to See in DC (Carla B. Howery) • Departments Ranked by Journal Publications (Barry Markovsky) • The Open Window: ASA Sections. . . Opportunity Becomes Reality (Felice J. Levine) • Congressional Fellow Update: Finding a Hill Placement as an ASA Congressional Fellow (George Dawdall) • Public Affairs Update • More National Science Foundation Funding on Education and Learning Research • Nominations Sought for 2001 Major ASA Awards • ASA Part of Preparing Future Faculty Project • Get Real Comics Reveal a Sociological Touch (Carla B. Howery) • Sociologist Launches Civic Action Network (Redante Asuncion-Reed) • The Sociology of Consumption: A Sub-Field in Search of Discovery (George Ritzer) • Spotlight on Departments: Pitzer College in a Live Video Conference with China (Charmaine Samaraweera) • The Rural Life Center Engages Campus and Community (Carla B. Howery) • Introducing the British Sociological Association (Elizabeth Ettorre) • Public Forum: "More on ASR: Clarification of Editors' Support" (Barbara J. Risman, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey); "Politics and Sociology" (Hernan Vera); "No ASA in 2000" (John C. Pock); "Reorienting the ASR" (James V. Fenelon); "Proposal for Additional Sessions at the Annual Meetings" (David W. Britt, et al) • National Association of Graduate-Professional Students to Conduct Web-Based Survey • From the National Science Foundation: Notice to Principal Investigators • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1998-1999 Council Minutes (August 9, 1999) • Deaths: Michael E. Eckstein, Fenton Keyes, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Fred Thalheimer • Obituaries: Fred Hoffman

Footnotes March 2000 (Volume 28, Number 3) • 2000 Annual Meeting: National or International Capital? The African Immigrant Presence in Washington, DC (Kinuthia Macharia) • The Beginning of a Virtual Community for ASA Members • Council Appoints New ASA Editors • The Open Window: Use of ASA Mailing List for Rushton Book • Referendum on the Spring Ballot to Expand Representation on the Committee on Sections • Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Speaks to Council on American Sociological Review • Public Affairs Update • Congressional Fellow Update: Working as a Congressional Fellow for Senator Biden (George Dowdall) • Task Force Reflects on ASA Governance (Myra Marx Ferree) • Sociology's Diversity: ASA's Annual Meeting Enriched by "Other" Sociology Organizations (Stephen Steele) • Carnegie Foundation Selects Five Sociologists as Pew Scholars (Carla B. Howery) • ASA Journals Look Ahead: American Sociological Review: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Glenn Firebaugh); Contemporary Sociology: Sociologists Design the Future • The Credit Card Nation Begins in College (Amy Hartlaub) • New On-Line Technology Leads to Innovative Offerings for ASA Members • Profile of ASA Membership (Roberta Spalter-Roth and Sunhwa Lee) • 2000-2001 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers • Deaths: Ronald J. Lorimor, Steling Schoen • Obituaries: James Stephen Brown, Robert Blair Campbell, Raymond Paul Cuzzort, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Hermann A. Roether, Fred Thalheimer, William Ward, Everett K. Wilson, Eleanor Paperno Wolf • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors' Reports

Footnotes April 2000 (Volume 28, Number 4) • 2000 Annual Meeting: The Sociology of Selected Monuments in Washington, DC or Stories Behind the Stones (James W. Loewen) • ASA Council Approves First Section Journal: City and Community • Conference on Sociology and Education: The Spencer Foundation and ASA Join Forces to Look Ahead • The Open Window: Institutional Review Boards and Sociologists' Experiences (Felice J. Levine) • Murray Webster Returns to National Science Foundation Sociology Program • Public Affairs Update • The Sloan Center: Unparalleled Research on Working Families (Roberta Spalter- Roth) • American Association for Higher Education Hires Sociologist to Promote Diversity in Learning (Edward Murguia) • What Do We Mean By "Assessment?" (Charles F. Hohm) • Community Action Research Grants Announced • Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports New Projects (Carla B. Howery) • Public Forum: "The Meaning of Departmental Rankings" (Robert J. Stevenson); "Rethinking Departmental Productivity" (Margaret L. Andersen); "Menage a Trois: ASA, American Sociological Review and Politics" (Marcelo Aftalion); "University4Sale-dot-com: The Educational Cost of Free Notes on the Internet" (Mathieu Deflem) • Congressional Fellow Update: Working in a Senate Office as a Congressional Fellow (George Dowdall) • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1999-2000 Council Minutes, August 10, 1999 • Deaths: Sidney Robert Davis, Richard A. Smith, Kathryn M. Taylor • Obituaries: Kurt W. Back, Jack Scott, Conrad Taeuber

Footnotes May/June 2000 (Volume 28, Number 5) • 2000 Annual Meeting: A Vibrant Latino Presence in Washington, DC (Rose Ann M. Renteria • A Dream Team: Perrucci, Miller, and Contemporary Sociology (Earl Wysong) • The Open Window: ASA’s Member Forum: Join the Talk (Felice J. Levine) • Larry Burnmeister Selected as Next Congressional Fellow • Rachel Rinaldo Selected Fourth ASA-AAAS Media Fellow • Public Affairs Update • ASA Past-President Portes Elected to National Academy of Sciences • Nebraska-Lincoln and Tulane Celebrate Centennials: Sociology at Nebraska- Lincoln is 100 Years Old in 2000 (Mary Jo Deegan, Tulane’s Sociology Department Celebrates 100th Anniversary (James D. Wright) • Alba and Edelman Win Guggenheims • Seven Projects Receive ASA-NSF Small Grant Awards • Teaching and Research on Disabilities: Only for Individuals with Disabilities? (Rosalyn Benjamin Darling) • Back by Popular Demand (Amy Hartlaub) • New Editor for Journal of Health and Social Behavior • Departments Undertake Projects to Prepare Future Faculty (Carla B. Howery) • College Works to Ease Racial Tension on Campus (Kim Cameron-Dominguez) • National Conference on Re-Envisioning the PhD • Public Forum: Scholarship and Departmental Rankings Revisited (Bruce Keith); No Reserve Army of Faculty (Linda D. Molm); and Footnotes Deserves a Pulitzer (Barry Schwartz) • 2000 Annual Meeting: Preliminary Program • BA Growth Trend: Sociology Overtakes Economics (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Deaths: E. Gartly Jaco, George Stabler • Obituaries: Donald Adamchak, Hylan G. Lewis, Floyd M. Martinson, Archibald Ward • Call for Submissions: Promoting the Success of Students of Color • 2000 Annual Meeting: Combined Book Exhibit Reservation Form • Journals in Transition: New Submission Addresses

Footnotes July/August 2000 (Volume 28, Number 6 • Major ASA Award Winners Announced for 2000 • ASA Election Results: Reskin Elected ASA President; Anderson is VP • 2000 Annual Meeting: Behind the Monuments: Taking a Sociological Look at Life in the Nation’s Capital (Samantha Friedman) • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • The Open Window: Professional Service: Take Up a Task (Felice J. Levine) • Nominations Sought by Council for Two New Task Forces; Advanced Placement Course in Sociology for High Schools, ASA Statement on Race • 2000 Annual Meeting: attend Open Forums; Task Force on the Reexamination of COC and CON; Task Force on ASA Journal Diversity • Alfonso Latoni to Lead Minority Affairs Program (Edward Murguia) • Public Affairs Update • Congressional Fellow Update: Completing an ASA Congressional Fellowship (George W. Dowdall) • Sociology Web-Lab Featured at CNSF Exhibit • Spotlight on Departments: CSU-Sacramento Showcases its Electronic Portfolio • 2000 Annual Meeting: Come to the Nation’s Capital • Minority Fellowship Program Presents New Fellows (Edward Murguia) • Ross Stolzenberg to Edit Sociological Methodology (Kenneth E. Land) • New Flowers and New Florists in the ASA Rose Garden (Jay Demerath) • Michael Hughes to Edit JHSB (Walter R. Gove) • ASA-AAAS Media Fellow Report: A Letter from Raleigh (Rachel Rinaldo) • Preparing Future Faculty Project Launched (Carla B. Howery) • Council on Undergraduate Research to Include all Social Sciences (K. Elaine Hoagland) • Carnegie Scholars Work on Teaching and Learning Projects • Public Forum: What Happened to the Interest? Sociology, Disability, and Scholarship; Departmental Article Production Reconsidered • Deaths: C. Eric Lincoln • Obituaries: Wade H. Andrews, Bernard Farber, Charles E. Fritz, Clay Allen Haney, David Hale Malone, Seymour Sudman, Solomon Sutker, N.J.C. Vasantkumar

Footnotes September/October 2000 (Volume 28, Number 7) • NIMH Awards $2.7 Million to continue Minority Fellowship Program (Edward Murguia and Alfonso Latoni) • Hot News: ASA Membership Dues Held at 2000 Level; 2001 ASA Annual Meeting Program Now four Days: August 18-21, 2001 • The Open Window: The 2001 ASA Annual Meeting: A Four-Day Event (Felice J. Levine) • Suggestions Solicited for 2002 Annual Meeting Program • 2002 Annual Meeting Theme: Allocation Process and Ascription • Public Affairs Update • 2000 Preliminary Program: Your Reactions? • Major Award Recipients Honored in Washington, DC • Scenes from the 2000 Annual Meeting • Colleagues Salute William Foote Whyte • Profile of the President: The Massey Odyssey • New Works Encourage New Focus on Hate Crime (Abby L. Ferber) • Regional Meeting Schedule • Two Task Forces Meet at Annual Meeting, Seek Member Comments • International News and Notes: International Institute of Sociology Holds 34th World Congress; Sociologists Selected for Advanced Human Rights Training; Global Networks, A Journal of Transnational Affairs Makes its Debut • McAdam to Direct Center for Advanced Study at Stanford • Public Forum: Sociologists to the Barricades (Richard Tomasson); A Response from (Past) President Feagin (Joe R. Feagin); A Response from the Organizer of the Session in which Nader Appeared (Stephen J. Rosenthal); The Dangerous Theory of “You Have to Be One” (Raymond W. Mack); Protection of Human Subjects (Murray L. Wax) • The 1999 ASA Audit: A Sound Financial Picture at ASA • Spotlight on Departments: Theory@Madison: New Directions for Wisconsin Sociology • New Staff Join the ASA Executive Office • Matilda White Riley Returns to Maine • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1999-2000 Council Minutes • Deaths: Thomas J. Duggan, Hilda Skott, Selma Sternig, John Useem • Obituaries: Frank A. Darknell, A.M. Denton, Jr., Israel Gerver, David Goldberg, Derek L. Jackson, Moshe Kerem, George Carleton Myers, Harman J. Sander, William Simon, Henry Hadley Stewart, Jr., Gus Tuberville, George Katsuichi Yamamoto

Footnotes November 2000 (Volume 28, Number 8) • Neighborhoods are Topic of Discussion at ASA Congressional Briefing (Johanna Ebner) • Decade of Behavior Launched on Capitol Hill • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Sociology Workshop Is a Catalyst (Carla B. Howery) • The Open Window: Thanks…and…Giving (Felice J. Levine) • Call to Serve on ASA “Status” Committees • ASA Council Calls for Task Force Proposals • Public Affairs Update • Update from the National Science Foundation: Pampel Joins the Sociology Division of the NSF; NSF Sociology Program Announces 2000 Grants • Congratulations to 2000 Section Award Winners • 2001 Coupon Listing • Obituaries: Leslie Kish; Ned Polsky; John Useem • ASA Funding Opportunities

Footnotes December 2000 (Volume 28, Number 9 • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • It’s Not Too Early to Think About 2002 • 2002 Annual Meeting Theme: Allocation Process and Ascription • Investing in Our Future • The Open Window: Sociologists at Work (Felice J. Levine) • James Griffin Joins Office of Science and Technology and Policy • Public Affairs Update • ASA’s Members’ Forum Activated • Teaching Norms and the ASA’s Code of Ethics (Alan E. Bayer and John Braxton • Four Projects Receive ASA-NSF Small Grant Awards • FAQ’s About the ASA Annual Meeting (Janet L. Astner) • Requests for Space at 2001 Annual Meeting • 2001 Call for Papers Update • Section-in-Formation Status Approved for Animals & Society (David Nibert and Anna Williams) • Sociologists Selected for AAHE Campus Compact Consulting Corps • High School Fellowship Program Gives Research Experience (Meghan Rich) • Spotlight on Departments: Anne Arundel’s Career Efforts (Meghan Rich) • Changes in Graduate Enrollments: Increases Followed by Declines • Public Forum: Justice Served (Ronald Freedman) • A New British Monograph Publisher: sociologypress (Martin Albrow) • Thank You, ASA Contributors! • ASA Funding Opportunities • Call for ASA Section Award Nominations for 2001 • Deaths: Christos Apostle, Morris Mitzner, Samuel A. Mueller, Sherwood Slater, Charlotte Wolf • Obituaries: Charles P. DeSanto, Martin M. Grossack, Earle MacCannell • Official Reports and Proceedings: 1999-2000 Council Minutes, Tuesday, August 15, 2000

Footnotes January 2001 (Volume 29, Number 1) • COSSA Annual Meeting Takes Up Key Issues • 2001 Annual Meeting: What to See in Orange County, California • Ridgeway Aims for a Broad Sociological SPQ (Morris Zelditch, Jr.) • The Open Window: Weighing In On Protecting Human Research Participants; Let Our Voices Be Heard (Felice J. Levine) • Public Affairs Update • Social Science and Public Health (Johanna Ebner) • Deaths: Jeanne Bowman, Vatro Murvar • Obituaries: J. Allan Beegle • ASA Funding Opportunities • Start the New Year With a Bounty of Benefits from Your ASA Membership

Footnotes February 2001 (Volume 29, Number 2) • 2001 Annual Meeting: Our Boys: Gang Life in Orange County, California • You Just Completed a Day of Sessions… What Will You Do? (Johanna Ebner) • IOM Hears Concerns About Human Subjects’ Protection (Angela L. Sharpe) • The Open Window: Carrying the Sociological “Flag” on Health Disparities (Felice J. Levine) • OBSSR Looks to the Future: NIH Agenda on Social and Cultural Dimensions Taking Form • NRC Helps Chart New Horizons for Social and Behavioral Sciences at NIH • Public Affairs Update • From the Desk of… Fred Pampel, Sociology Program Director, National Science Foundation: NSF Funding Opportunity on the IT Workplace • Tuesdays With Morrie Reconstructs the Dying Process (Carla B. Howery) • A “Window” on the Social Landscape of Technology (Johanna Ebner) • June 15 Deadlines: Nominations Sought for 2002 Major ASA Awards • April 1 Deadline: 2001 ASA Dissertation Award • New NYC Demographics Website (Johanna Ebner) • Deaths: Charles Barresi, Phyllis Endreny, Rabbi Irving Koslowe, Richard LeBlond, Jr., Edna M. O’Hearn, Philip F. Puleio, Jean Thoresen • Obituaries: Alan P. Bates, George C. Myers • Official Reports and Proceedings: 2000-2001 Council Minutes, August 16-17, 2000

Footnotes March 2001 (Volume 29, Number 3) • 2001 Annual Meeting: Orange County: What Better Place to Go to Study Social Change (Fred Smoller and Roberta Lessor) • FAD Funded Again! • General Social Survey Adds Two New Members to Board of Overseers (Tom W. Smith) • The Open Window: ASA Council Working for You (Felice J. Levine) • ASA’s Levine Appointed to National Human Research Committee • NSF Seeks Sociology Program Director • Public Affairs Update • Burmeister Joins Sen. Conrad’s Staff (Larry Burmeister) • Sociological Thais (Carla B. Howery) • Spotlight on Departments: University of Akron Focuses on the Scholarship of Teaching (Carla B. Howery) • 2001-2002 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers • 2001 Annual Meeting: New Rules Fit New Annual Meeting Roles • 2002 Annual Meeting: Nominations Invites, Author-Critic Sessions • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline: A History of Success (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Deaths: Katrina M Galli, M. Powell Lawton, Charles E. Starnes • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports • Applications Due May 1: 2001 Student Travel Awards

Footnotes April 2001 Volume 29 Number 4 • ASA to Publish New Magazine; UC Press Gets the Nod (Karen Gray Edwards) • 2001 Annual Meeting: Reinventing the Wheen: Import Car Racing and Asian American youth in Orange County, California (Victoria Namkung) • Looking for a Preliminary Program Schedule? • Contexts Invites Ideas • The Open Window: Speaking Our for Human Rights (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Congressional Fellow Report: Congressional Committee System (Larry Burmeister) • Public Affairs Update • Tran and Waldron Selected as Media Fellows • American Sociological Review Focuses on families • Data on the discipine Now on ASA Website • ASA Council Continues Four-Day Annual Meeting • ASA Reaches Beyond the Borders • SSDAN and ASA Join Forces: New NSF Award to Promote Undergraduate Data Analytic Skills (Carla B. Howery) • NHA Leads Advocacy for NEH • Council Approves New Task Forces: Nominations for Service Sought by May 25 Deadline • Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports New Projects • Spotlight on Departments: Change in Tenure Review Procedures Assists Tenure-Track Faculty at Middle Tennessee State University • Entering the Cyber Society: The GSS Internet Module • Publishing Social Science Research in Science (Brooks Hanson) • Report from the AAAS Meeting (Douglas Kincaid) • Can the Sociology of Sport Go for the Gold? (Carla B. Howery) • The Student Forum: Connecting ASA and the Next Generation of Sociologists • Understanding Racial Inequality and Segregation Through a Virtual Laboratory (Meghan Rich) • The AIDS Epidemic and Sociological Enquiry (Bronwen Lichtenstein) • Sociology Well Represented in Indiana Teaching Awards • Deadline May 10: New NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars • Public Forum: Different Views on About.com, Mathieu Deflem, Bob Timm • Events at the 2001 ASA Annual Meeting for Department Leaders • Deaths: Tpini Enoch Kyllonen, Will Lissner, Audrey Meyer • Obituaries: Charles M. Barresi, Raymond V. Bowers, Mary Cuthrell Curry, Robert E. Franz, William R. F. Phillips, Hendrik W. wan der Merwe

Footnotes May/June 2001 Volume 29 Number 5 • 2001 Annual Meeting The Mouse and the Magnifying Glass: A Sciological and Sardonic Tour of Disneyland (Harry J. Mersmann) • Council Seeks Comments for Special Ballot Referendum Council Recommends Reinstatement of Committee on Committees and Council Recommend Decoupling Dues and Journal Subscriptions • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column: Déjà vu All Over Again— The Tiahrt Amendment (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Congressional Fellow Report Update on “Freedom to Farm” (Larry Burmeister) • Public Affairs Update • Iutcovich Selected as Next Congressional Fellow • Seven Projects Receive ASA-NSF Small Grant Awards • ASA and Boyd Mark Fifty Years of Printing • More Information on ASA Candidates • From the Mudflats to the Living Room Interdisciplinary Service-Learning at the University of New England (Meghan Rich • First Annual Ohio Chairs Conference (Meghan Rich) • National Leadership Resource Database on HIV/AIDS • Special 2001 Annual Meeting Supplement • Deaths: Paul Hochstim, Robert B. McGinniss, Aage Sorensen

Footnotes July/August 2001 Volume 29 Number 6 • Major ASA Award Winners Announced for 2001 • ASA Election Results Bielby Elected ASA President; Szelenyi is VP • 2001 Annual Meeting The Orange County Human Relations Commission: Managing Diversity and Transformation (Dennis J. Downey) • Special Referendum Coming in September • The Open Window The Executive Officer’s Column The Rose Blossoms (Felice J. Levine) • ASA Congressional Fellow Report When a Sociologist Meets Congress (Larry Burmeister) • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • Public Affairs Update • Sociologists’ Work Represented on the Hill (Johanna Ebner) • Colleagues Remember William Sewell • Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows (Alfonso R. Latoni- Rodriguez) • Council Maintains Flexibility in Policymaking and Resolutions • Community Action Research Initiative Grants Awarded • 2001 Annual Meeting: Anaheim Meets ASA • Annual Meeting Introduction to ASA President Doug Massey • Preparing Future Faculty Project Gains Momentum (Carla B. Howery) • Preparing Future Faculty Events at the 2001 ASA Annual Meeting; Open to Everyone! • Spotlight on Departments: The Preparing Future Faculty Program at Indiana University (Meghan Rich) • How Will You Spend the 21st Century? Peter Dreier • The Boyer Legacy (Carla B. Howery) • Departments • Deaths: Jerome K. Meyers, Mary Gwynne Schmidt, William H. Sewell, II, Robert N. Stern, Christopher Vanderpool • Obituaries: Andy B. Anderson, Marie Jahoda, Clyde V. Kisser, Toimi Enoch Kyllonen, Audren Kittel Meyer, Aage Sorensen, Philip Taietz • Official Reports and Proceedings: 2000-2001 Council Minutes • Folk Sociology a poem by Otto Larsen

Footnotes September/October 2001 Volume 29 Number 7 • 2001 Annual Meeting: Four Full Days in Anaheim: A Stimulating Program! • Contexts Is Where It’s At! • Statement of the American Sociological Association on the September 11 Terrorist Attack • The Open Window The Executive Officer’s Column. Support for the Human Rights of Sociologists—Its Continuing Relevance (Felice J. Levine) • Current News: Human Subject Research Protections (Paula Skedsvold) • Public Affairs Update • Profile of the President Barbara Reskin: A Social Scientist Working for Social Change (Mary C. Waters) • Making News: Segregation and the Census 2000 (John Logan) • New Social Science Division Formed at Council on Undergraduate Research (Tom Van Valey) • Council Approves Cost Reduction for JSTOR • Presidential Adress Highlights Role of Emotions in Unstanding Social Life • Major Award Recipients Honored in Anaheim • Help Shape an Exciting Program for the 2003 Annual Meeting. Submissions are Invited for the 2002 Annual Meeting Program • 2003 Annual Meeting Theme. A Question of Culture • International Institute of Sociology Holds 35th World Congress (Masamichi Sasaki) • Former MFP Fellow Publishes Book on Multiculturalism, Curriculum Change (Alfonso Latoni-Rodriquez) • Roy L. Austin Appointed as Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago • Call for Applications: Deadline December 1, 2001. Integrating Census Data Analysis into Curriculum • Budding Visual Sociologists. University of Kentucky’s First Annual Visual Sociology Workshop (Brian Gran) • Spotlight on Departments. Texas A&M: Taking Steps to Attract and Retain Students (Keisha T. Jones) • Small Grants Program: February 2, 2002 Deadline. ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund • Sociologists Reflect on the Events of September 11 • 2001 AAAS Mass Media Fellow Report. Tips for Improved Media Coverage (Quynh-Giang Tran) • Applications Invited for Editor of Sociology of Education • The Electronic Journal of Sociology: Seven Years of Electronic Publishing. • Second Annual Carework Conference Bridges Scholarship and Policy • NSF Funding Opportunity. Innovations and Organizational Change Program • The 2000 ASA Audit. The Association is Financially Stable.

Footnotes November 2001, Volume 29, Number 8 • Special Referendum Results: ASA Voting Members Send Clear Message of Support • COSSA Annual Meeting Marks 20 Years of Success • 2002 Annual Meeting Moving Ahead: Processes of Allocation and Ascription • National Science Foundation Awards Post 9/11 Attack Grants • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column. Public Information and ASA’s Giving Sociology Away (Felice J. Levine) • Williams and Gray Elected to IOM • AAAS Honors ASA’s Levine • Leshner Named CEO of AAAS • Public Affairs Update • Democracy Matters on Campus (Kerry Strand, Hood College) • Spotlight on Departments: GWU Offers New PhD Focusing on Race, Ethnicity, Public Policy • New Section-in-Formation: Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis (Anne Warfield Rawls and Douglas Maynard) • 100th Birthday of Trinidadian Sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox (Alfonso R. Latoni- Rodriquez) • Matilda Riley Soars in NIH Lecture Series in Her Honor • Columbia Conference Honors Lazarsfeld Birth Centennial (Leslie Wright, Columbia University) • Congratulations to 2001 ASA Section Award Winners! • An Expert Witness on Race and Tenure: Wellman Educates the Courts (Alfonso R. Latoni-Rodriquez) • Major Drug Prevention Program Led by Akron Sociologists (Stacey S. Merola) • 2002 Coupon Listing • NSF Sociology Program Announces 2001 Grants • Call on ASA’s Department Resources Group for Reviews and More (Carla B. Howery) • 2003 Annual Meeting: Call for Student Session Proposals • Departments • Deaths: Donald P. Addison, Richard Cloward, Kriss Dass, Marie R. Haug, Jack, Szmatka • Obituaries: Robert McGinnis, John W. Prehn, Richard F. Tomasson

Footnotes December 2001, Volume 29, Number 9 • Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees • Executive Officer Levine to Depart ASA in May 2002 • Donations to Special Funds Sought • The Open Window The Executive Officer’s Column: Give a Gift that Lasts (Felice J. Levine) • Chairs to receive BA, Graduate Program Survey • Reeve Vanneman Joins NSF Sociology Program (Carla B. Howery) • Public Affairs Update • ISA World Congress to be Held in Brisbane, Australia • ASA Executive Officer Search Launched • ASA Taskforce on AP Course in Sociology Gets Down to Work • Section on Undergraduate Education Changes Mission, Name • What is the Effect of Feminization on Disciplinary Subfields? • ASA Honors Program Update (Duane Dukes, John Carroll University, Director) • Utopian Thinking in Sociology: An Interview with Art Shostak • Thank You, ASA Contributors! • Call for 2002 Section Award Nominations • Corrections • Departments • Deaths (Natalie Allon, Emily Dunn Dale) • Obituaries (Kriss A. Drass, Jeanne Zeringue Hand, Marie Haug) • Official Reports and Proceedings, 2000-2001 Council Minutes

Footnotes January 2002, Volume 30 Number 1 • Publishing Innovations for 2002 to Debut Soon • All ASA Members to Get Contexts in February • City & Community Forthcoming in March • New Accrediting Organization for Human Research Protection • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column. The Annual Meeting: A Learned Place and a Place to Learn • New Developments Concerning Public Use Data Files (Paula Skedsvold) • Public Affairs Update • Seven Projects Receive ASA-NSF Small Grant Awards • Call for NIH Proposals: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health • Applications Due March 31: ISA Travel Grant Expected for XV World Congress of Sociology • Tackling Issues of Human Rights and Globalization (Stacey S. Merola) • Indiana Center on Educations Brings Fields Together (Carla B. Howery) • Social and Economic Justice Undergraduate Minor: Experiment in Process (Judith R. Blau) • Teaching Students to Think by Teaching Radical Sociology • Spotlight on Departments: Theory and Research in Sociology Program at JMU (Meghan Rich) • Profile of the 2001 ASA Membership (Stacey S. Merola and Roberta Spalter- Roth) • NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education • SSRC Creates September 11 Website (Craig Calhoun) • NSF Funds Collaborative Project on Exploring U.S. Social Change • Help Shape an Exciting Program for the 2003 Annual Meeting • Sociologists as Expert Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System (Lewis Yablonsky) • Deaths: John Dowling Campbell, Francesco Cordasco, Vassillis C. Economopoulos, Calvin C. Herton, Kenneth Lutterman, Patrick McNamara, Alvin Rudoff, Lore K. Wright • Obituaries: Natalie Allon, Deirdre Mary Boden, Emily Dunn Dale, Esther I. Madriz, Patrick Hayes McNamara, C. Dale Johnson

Footnotes February 2002, Volume 30 Number 2 • Council Passes Resolution on Data Access: Environment and Technology Section Provides Expertise • Social Sciences Turn Expertise to Terrorism and 9-11; an ASA Priority for 2002 Annual Meeting, Too • NHRPAC Takes Actions Vital to Social Science • The Open Window, The Executive Officer’s Column. Council Launches ASA Centennial Planning ( Felice J. Levine) • Sociologist Lempert to NSF • John H. D’Arms, ACLS President, Dies • Pubic Affairs Update • Traveling Sociologists: An Ellis Island Survey (A. Gary Dworkin) • Croatian Sociology Steps forward (Keith Doubt) • “Everything is Social”: In Memoriam, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) • Travel Grants for ISA Meeting Applications Due March 31 • A Sociological Lens on Graduate School Attrition (Carla B. Howery) • Majority of New PhDs have Tenure Track Jobs Four Years Later • World of Opportunity in Community College Teaching (Carla B. Howery) • Spotlight on Departments: Enhancing the Curriculum through the Web at Rutgers-Camden • Call for Applications; Deadline March 1, 2002: ASA Honors Program • The Ideal Suburb Turns 50 (Stacey S. Merola) • Locating the State of High School Sociology on the Academic Map (Michael A. DeCesare) • ASA Statement and Resolution on Access to Pubic Data Adopted by Council • 2002 Student Travel Awards Applications Due May 1 • New Departments Move to Top (Graduate) Chair-Producing List (Kathleen A. Tiemann and Thomas L. Van Valey) • Deaths: Francesco Cordasco, Nathalie Friedman, Betty Maynard • Obituaries: Melvin Schubert Brooks, Robert Murray Hunter, Natalie Rogoff Ramsoy, John Winchell Riley, Jr. • Official Reports and Proceedings: 2001-2001 Council, August 22, 2001

Footnotes March 2002, Volume 30 Number 3

• ASA Co-Sponsors Health Briefing on Capitol Hill • Committee on Committees to be Elected this Spring: Members Urged to Volunteer to serve on ASA Committees • Six Departments Selected for IDA Launch • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column, What’s Happening in Your Own Backyard! (Felice J. Levin) • Capitol Hill: Will First Impressions be Lasting Ones? (Joyce Iutcovich) • Public Affairs Update • NSF Seek Sociology Program Director, August 2002 Start • Sharing Research Data: NIH Announces Draft Statement on Sharing Research Data • Feds Plan Study of Environmental Impacts on Child Health (Paula Skedsvold) • Sociological Methodology and Sociological Theory Now Available from JSTOR • Update on Sociology Human Rights Cases: Sociologist Released in Egypt and Sociologist Gao Zhan Speaks out. • Sociologists Central to Peace Studies (Meghan Rich) • Nominations Sought for 2003 Major ASA Awards • 2002-2003 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers • The International Social Survey Program (Tom W. Smith) • Spotlight on Departments: Learning from Service in the Sociology Major (Kerry Strand and Meghan Rich) • Graduate Poster Session at ASA Annual Meeting • Deaths: Margaret Byrd Rawson • Obituaries: Martin Glabeerman, Alan C. Kerckhoff, Hans Sebald, Robert Bruce Wiegand • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes April 2002 (Volume 30, Number 4) • Sally T. Hillsman Appointed New ASA Executive Officer • Two Courses Enrich 2002 Annual Meeting • Special Plenary and Reception Opens the 2002 Annual Meeting • Nominations Open for New Films/Videos • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column Keeping the Window Open (Felice J. Levine) • What is Scientifically Based Research? (Joyce Iutcovich, Congressional Fellow) • IOM Report Highlights Racial Divide in Health Care • Public Affairs Update • Colleagues Remember Peter Blau • ASA Awards Community Action Research Initiative Grants • Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports New Projects • Recovering Community on the Anniversary of Buffalo Creek Disaster (T.P. Schwartz-Barcott) • Recognizing the Nontraditional Student: The Buffalo State Family College Program (Meghan Rich) • Council on Contemporary Families Committed to Public Discourse (Kerry J. Strand) • AAUP Issues Statement on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work (Stacey Merola and Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Departments • Obituaries: Marion Arline Harris; Kenneth G. Lutterman; Frances Cooke MacGregor; Nicos N. Mouratides; Leonard David Savitz;

Footnotes May/June 2002 (Volume 30, Number 5)

• Chicago: A Sociologist’s Kind of Town. Join thousands of your esteemed sociology colleagues for an “intellectual feast like none other” at the 97th ASA Annual Meeting in August • David Riesman (1909-2002) • Sociologist Elected to National Academy of Sciences • The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column. Thank You, Felice (Carla B. Howery, Arne Kalleberg, Barbara F. Reskin) • Congressional Fellow Report: The Role of Science in Policy Debates (Joyce Iutcovich, Congressional Fellow) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff • Gossard Selected as 2002 ASA/AAAS Media Fellow • Sociologist-Cartoonist Hixson Pokes Fun at Academic Life • Spotlight on Departments: Preparing Future Faculty at Indiana University-South Bend • Nine ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded for 2001-2002 • ASA Travel Grants to ISA World Congress Are Awarded • Special 2002 Annual Meeting Supplement • Public Forum: Rejoinder to Article on Graduate School Attrition, Brian R. Buchner; What Does It Mean? Robert J. Stevenson • ASA Student Forum: Past, Present, and Future (Sam Michalowski) • Departments • Deaths: Caroline Bird, Arthur F. Clagett, Roger V. Gould • Obituaries: Lionel Cantu, Jr.; Natalie S. Friedman; Walter T. Martin; Michael Young • ASA Staff Sociologist/Director of Minority Affairs Sought • Ideas Invited for Special Sessions on 2003 Annual Meeting Program

Footnotes July/August 2002 (Volume 30, Number 6)

• Capstone Conference Transports Lessons of MOST: Transforming Higher Education • Burawoy Elected ASA President; Pesconsoido is VP: ASA Election Results • 2002 Major ASA Award Winners • 2002 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago: Remember to come early… • Vantage Point: The Executive Officer’s Column. Putting Sociological Principles to Work in our Departments • Sociological Work Enhances Recent Congressional Briefings (Lee Herring) • Public Affairs Update • Karl Alexander to Edit Sociology of Education (Aaron Pallas) • Anne Arundel Community College Establishes Letter of Recognition in Applied Sociology • Minnesota’s Department of Sociology Celebrates 100 Years (Ron Aminzade) • Spotlight on Departments: Qualitative Methods Take Hold at St. Olaf (Meghan Rich) • The Politics of Unrealistic Expectations and the Rhetoric of Accountability: Congressional Fellow Report • Dimock Selected as This Year’s Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner) • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • Public Forum: More of Us Should Become Public Sociologists, Herbert J. Gans; Why Don’t sociologists Subscribe to Journals or Join ASA? Adam S. Weinberg • ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff: Torrey Adroski, Jean Beaman, Les Briggs, Kareem Jenkins, Jean H. Shin • American University in Moscow Seeks Sociologist Graduate Advisors (Lee Herring) • Summer Work Transforms Courses (Carla B. Howery) • Trends in Professional Master’s Degrees in the Social Sciences (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows • Departments o Deaths: Alexander Vucinich o Obituaries: Arthur Clagett, Roger Gould, Thomas Ford Hoult, L. Paul Metzger, Marion Levy, Jr., Alvin H. Scaff

Footnotes September/October 2002 (Volume 30, Number 7)

• ASA Issues Official Statement on Importance of Collecting Data on Race (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Profile of the President: Rock ‘n’ Roll Sociologist: William T. Bielby • 2002 Annual Meeting in Chicago Draws Near-Record Attendance • Vantage Point: The Executive Officer’s Column. A Bold and Necessary Stance on Race Data (Sally T. Hillsman) • Upcoming Enhancements for ASA Elections • ASA Editor Applications Invited • Public Affairs Update • Help Shape An Exciting Program for the 2004 Annual Meeting • 2004 Annual Meeting Theme: Public Sociologies • Guidelines for Session Proposals • Major Award Recipients Honored in Chicago • Call for Applications, Deadline December 15, 2002. Integrating Census Data Analysis into the Curriculum • List of Scholarly Journals Available on ASA Home Page • Departments o Deaths: Sherry Corbet o Obituaries: Theodore R. Anderson, Judith Huggins Balfe, K. Peter Etzkorn, Joseph F. Jones, Ernest Maheim, David J. Pittman, Robert Smart Official Reports and Proceedings; 2001-2002 Council, January 26-27, 2002

Footnotes November 2002, Volume 30, Number 8 o Sociologists Join Board of Social Science Research Council o Sociologists Gather “Down Under” for ISA o Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “Click with ASA” (Sally T. Hillsman) o Joane Nagel Joins NSF Sociology Program Staff o Public Affairs Update o ASA Happenings: For those who can’t get enough theory… Sociological Theory Goes Quarterly o ASA Department Resources Group o ASA Welcomes Newest Section, Embraces Its “Animal Side” o Call for Submissions: ASA Teaching Materials o Call for Applications: Integrating Census Data Analysis into the Cirriculum o Creating the Perfect Sociology Building: Beyond Good Luck and Good Politics (Meghan Rich) o Sociologist Becomes Executive Vice Chancellor for University of Texas System o Congratulations to 2002 ASA Section Award Winners o Economic Sociiology and the Nobel Prize (Arne L. Kalleberg and Ivar Berg) o Teaching with the Case Method: From the Classroom to the Web (John Foran) o New Internet Tool Makes Population Analysis Popular in Classroom (Kerry Strand) o Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline: ASA.NSF Small Grants Program o Instituting Systemic Departmental Change to Increase Student Diversity: New Book on MOST Program Released. o Learing from the Past: On the “Etiology” of Sociology o Guiding Principles in MOST’s Systemic Reform Approach o A Ten-year Perspective on the Status of Sociology (Stacey S. Merola) o Post 9/11 Reactions: Public Support for International Education Remains Strong Other key attitude changes since September 11 o Sociologists Involved in Local School (Systems) (Kerry Strand) o 2002 ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellow Report: News from Newsweek (Marcia Hill Gossard) o ASA/AAAS Media Fellowship o 2003 Regional Meetings o Public Forum: Pax Soziologie, Steve Rice; On Ibrahim, Chandler Davidson; Sociologists, Political Scientists’ Manifesto for International Nonviolence, Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada; Sociological Knowledge and Terrorism Bernice Phillips o Spotlight on Departments: Pacific Lutheran Sociology Department “Goes to the Mat” to Achieve Goals (Jean Beaman) o Community Action Research Initiative o New Publications from ASA o Thank You, ASA Members! o The 2001 ASA Audit: Investment Income Down, but Bottom Line Healthy o 2003 Coupon Listing o Departments: o Obituaries: Norman Paul Hummon, David J. Pratto, Willis A. Sutton, Jr.,

Footnotes December 2002 (Volume 30, Number 9) • Slate of Candidates for the 2003 ASA Election • Sociology Faculty Salaries Hold the Line in Economic Downturn (Roberta-Spalter- Roth and Stacey S. Merola) • ASA Launches New Link with High School Sociology (Carla B. Howery) • New on the ASA Home Page: Call for Section Award Nominations • Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “A Cornucopia of Post-Election Positives, Potentials, and Possible Pitfalls” (Sally T. Hillsman) • Baldwin Named Vice President for Research at University of Kentucky • Egyptian Sociologist Given a New Trial • Public Affairs Update • Three ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded for Summer 2002 Round • There’s Space for Other Activities at the 2003 Annual Meeting • Submission Deadline: January 154, 2003; 2003 Call for Papers Update • Last Call for 2004 Session Suggestions • Sociological Approaches Hold Promise to Curb Campus Drinking (Kerry J. Strand) • Six Degrees of Separation? Retesting the Small World Phenomenon (Jean Beaman) • Public Forum: Models of Public Sciology (Murray Hausknecht); Happy Rejoinder to Gans, on “Public Sociologists” (Marcelo Afialion) • Early Head Start Yields Positive Results • Community Action Research Initiative • Architectural Sociology (Jean Beaman) • Willigan and Heise Study Navajo Social Interaction and Culture (Jean H. Shin) • Deadline: February 1, 2003; Applications Invited for 2003-2004 Congressional Fellowship • Departments: Deaths: Tamara K. Hareven, Rachel Rosenfeld; Obituaries: Theodore R. Anderson, Barbara Manning Gibbs

Footnotes January 2003 (Volume 31, Number 1) • What Do We Know About Postdocs? No “Reserve Army” in Sociology (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • 2003 Annnual Meeting…The Question of Culture: The Changing Face of Atlanta (Charles Gallagher, Karyn Lacy) • Public Opinion in Islamic Countries: Survey Results (Monsoor Moaddel) • Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “Wired for 2003 and the Horizon Beyond” (Sally T. Hillsman) • Takeuchi Selected for Decade of Behavior Advisory Committee • Public Affairs Update • Sociologist Takes “Supporting Role” in Columbine Documentary (Johanna Ebner) • Kathleen McKinney is Named First Cross Chair (Jean Beaman) • Sociologist Juergensmeyer Receives Grawemeyer Award • Things My Mentor Never Told Me (Michael D. Schulman) • Spotlight On Departments: Lehigh University’s Community Fellowship Program (Torrey Androski) • More ASA Section Award Winners • Public Forum: Public Sociologies: Response to Hausknecht (Michael Burawoy); Public Sociologies: Reply to Hausknecht (Herbert J. Gans); Racial Classification: A Wrong Turn (Yehudi Webster); Reply to Webster (Troy Duster) • Call for Nominations for 2003 ASA Section Awards • Departments • Obituaries: Ivan Illich

Footnotes February 2003 (Volume 31, Number 2) • Contexts Magazine Wins Publisher’s Award • Has Sociology Suffered the Declines Predicted Ten Years Ago? (Roberta Spalter- Roth) • 2003 Annual Meeting: Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Obie Clayton) • Vantage Point, The Executive Officer’s Column: “The Sociology Pipeline Begins in High School” (Sally T. Hillsman) • AAAS, ASA Honor Saad Ibrahim • New American Community Survey is in Jeopardy (Torrey Androski) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Seeks 2004 Award Nominations • A Tribute to Patsy Mink, “Mother” of Equal Educational Opportunity (Joyce Chinen) • Spotlight on Departments: Appalachian State’s “All-for-one” Master’s Degree • Preparing Future Faculty Project Capstone (Carla B. Howery) • North Carolina State University Certifies PFF Scholars (Jean Beaman) • Six More Departments Selected for Integrating Data Analysis Project • New York to Belarus: Sociology in International Distance-learning (Jean Beaman) • Educating the “Walking Wounded” (Jean Beaman) • Sociology News for the Dinner Table: If Felons Could Have Voted, National Election Outcomes Would Have Been Different • ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff: Redante Asuncion-Reed, William Erskine, Kathy Lamb, Glen Grant • Social Science Has Impact on NSF’s Environmental R&E Plans • Sociological Issues in Environmental Research and Education • Public Forum: Binge Drinking Prevention Research; Student Drinking: Reply to Wechsler and Nelson • Departments • Deaths: Ruth Murray Brown, Ivan Fahs, Robert Wilson • Obituaries: B. Meredith Burke, Lewis S. Feurer, Tamara K. Hareven, Rachel A. Rosenfeld • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Third Meeting of the 2001-2002 Council

Footnotes March 2003 (Volume 31, Number 3) • ASA Submits Amicus Brief in US Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action in College Admissions (William T. Bielby) • Robert K. Merton Remembered (Craig Calhoun) • Bylaws Tune-Up • 2003 Annual Meeting: Multimedia Portrayals of a Communications Center: Race and Film in Atlanta (Dana White and Alex Hicks) • Vantage Point: Public Socologies—An Agenda for Collaboration (Sally T. Hillsman) • Social Science Community Celebrates National Institutes of Health Deputy Appointment (Johanna Ebner) • Public Affairs Update • ASA Council in Action: Brief Summary of Recent ASA Council Actions • Doing Eye-Opening Policy Work in Washington, DC (Susan Halebsky Dimock) • Spotlight on Departments: Not Just Sociology at U. of Wisonsin-Green Bay (Jean Beaman) • Ask ASA • A Supreme Court Challenge to Legal Aid (Douglas Snyder) • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2003: President-Elect, Richard Alba and Troy Duster; Vice President-Elect, Caroline Hodges Persell, David Snow; Secretary-Elect, William Roy, Franklin D. Wilson • Council Approves New Task Forces, Seeks Member Involvement • Sociologists Remember Robert K. Merton • Supreme Court Matter is Focus of 2003 ASA Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Session in Atlanta • Departments • Deaths: Robert Alford, Helena Lopata, Joseph B. Meier, Ruth C. Shaeffer, Marcello Truzzi, Charles Warriner • Obituaries: Ivan J. Fahs • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the First Meeting of the 2002-2003 Council

Footnotes April 2003 (Volume 31, Number 4) • Egyptian Sociologist Ibrahim is Acquitted • Social Science is Focus of Cairo Conference: Surveying Worldviews of Islamic Publics (Joanne Nagel and Patricia White) • 2003 Annual Meeting: The Double-Edged Sword of Gentrification in Atlanta (Lesley Williams Reid and Robert M. Adelman) • Vantage Point: Sociologists as Scientists Engaged in Civic Discourse (Sally T. Hillsman) • Mercedes Rubio to Lead Minority Affairs Program (Torrey Androski) • Proposed ASA Statement Against the War on Iraq • Jerry A. Jacobs is Appointed Incoming American Sociological Review Editor (Kethleen Gerson) • Ask ASA: Technical support for statistical software packages • How Would Sociologists Design a Homeland Security Alert System? (Lee Herring) • Sociologists’ Tributes to Daniel Patrick Moynihan… (Seymour Martin Lipset and Robert B. Hill) • Public Forum: A Double Life Stitched: On the Merits of Being an Academic and Activist (Amitai Etzioni); Rejoinder to Burawoy, Gans (Murray Hausknecht); Public Sociologies: Sociology’s Lack of Credibility (Bernard Phillips) • Departments • Deaths: Jeffrey K. Hadden, Stanford Morris Lyman, Alan S. Miller • Obituaries: Robert Alford, Dafna Nundi Izraeli, Helena Lopata, Norma Juliet Wikler • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editor’s Reports, Table: Summary of Editorial Activity, January 1 – December 31, 2002.

Footnotes May/June 2003 (Volume 31, Number 5) • 2003 Annual Meeting: Atlanta: City Without a Sound? (Allen Tullos, Matt Miller and Timothy J. Dowd) • Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Awards • Contexts Magazine is Ranked Among Top 10 of “New Magazines of 2002” • Vantage Point: Electronic Publication and the Health of Scientific Research (Sally T. Hillsman) • Schaafsma Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner) • ASA Executive Officer Joins Justice Institute Trustees • Public Affairs Update • The Legislative Challenge of Bioterrorism (Susan Halebsky Dimoc) • Liz Grauerholz to Edit Teaching Sociology (Dean S. Dorn) • Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • Community Action Research Grants Announced (Johanna Ebner) • Improving the Teaching of Sociology (Jean Beaman) • ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • A Sociological Success Story: 30 years of the General Social Survey (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Public Forum: Racial Classification: Rejoinder to Duster Reply (Yehudi Webster); ASA Member Resolution on Iraq War (Mark Iutcovich) • A “Case Study”: Popular Authoring (Jean Beaman) • Terrorism and Tourism (Erin Higgins) • Departments • ASA 2003 Annual Meeting Pullout Section • Deaths: Odin W. Anderson, George W. Baker, Walter M. Gerson, William Goode, Howard Harrod, Thomas Ktsanes, Bevode C. McCall, Constance Ormsby Verdi, Werner D. von der Ohe, Eugene C. Weiner • Obituaries: Robert W. Avery, Donna Darden, Beth B. Hess, David Jerome Jackson, Sheldon L. Messinger, Alan S. Miller, J. L. Simmons, Marcello Truzzi • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Second Meeting of the 2002-2003 ASA Council, February 1-2, 2003.

Footnotes July/August 2003 (Volume 31, Number 6) • ASA General Election Results: Duster Elected ASA President; Persell Elected Vice President • ASA Briefs Congress on Policy Role of Racial and Ethnic Data (Susan Halebsky Dimock) • 2003 Annual Meeting: A Field Study Tour of the City of Atlanta (Isa Williams and Brenda Hoke) • Si Goode Remembered (Lenore J. Weitzman) • Vantage Point: Sociologists and IRBs (Sally T. Hillsman) • AAHRPP is Taking Accreditation Seriously (Johanna Ebner) • Public Affairs Update • National Science Foundation Awards Nearly $5.6 Million for Sociology • Vinita Mehta Selected as 2003 ASA/AAAS Media Fellow (Johanna Ebner) • Spencer Cahill to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly (Michael Flaherty) • Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards • 2003 Major ASA Award Winners • Public Forum: Researchers Challenge California Initiative to Ban Racial Data (Andrew L. Barlow and Troy Duster) • Sociologists Remember William J. Goode • Departments • Deaths: Albert Biderman, Nati Cohen, Sandra S. Tangri • Obituaries: Wilbur B. Brookover, Donna K. Darden, Stanford M. Lyman, Dorothy Nelkin, Edward Louis Rose, Carl H. Simpson • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices

Footnotes September/October 2003 (Volume 31, Number 7) • Many Changes Evident Since Sociologists Last Converged in Atlanta (Johanna Ebner) • Profile of the President (Jeff Byles) • Lewis Coser Remembered (Andrew Perrin) • Vantage Point: NIH Peer Review Survives Political Challenge—for Now (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologists Receive Prestigious Fulbright Awards • Public Affairs Update • Suggestions are Invited for the 2005 Annual Meeting Program • ASA Award Recipients Honored in Atlanta • Public Sociology: Sociology Needs a Public (Frances Fox Piven) • Job Openings in Sociology: What is in Demand? (Patricia Drentea and Juan Xi) • New Resource for Research and Teaching: Child Trends DataBank (Brett Brown and Berkeley Smith) • Last-minute Legislating in the Senate (Susan Halebsky-Dimock) • Sociologist Redefines Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease • Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows (Mercedes Rubio) • Sociologists Remember Lewis Coser • Special Public Forum: ASA Member Resolution on the Iraq War; Response to Criticisms (Judith R. Blau); Professional Objectivity (Dick Flacks); Democratic Impulse (Philip B. Gonzales); Idols of the Tribe (Thomas Cushman); Dissent (Joan Huber); Code of Ethics (James Tucker) • Public Forum: Doing “Racial” Research: A Dissent (Yehudi Webster); Reply to Webster: The Serious Consequences of Banning Racial Data (Andrew L. Barlow) • Departments • Deaths: Deborah Franzman, Rob E. Kling, Joseph H. Meyerowitz, Msgr. Philip J. Murnion, Ashakant Nimbark, Ruth Useem, Kurt Wolff • Obituaries: Albert D. Biderman, Elizabeth Anne Czepiel, John T. Flint, Butler A. Jones, Carl B. Klockars, Ruth C. Shaffer, Robert Neal Wilson, Bette Woody • Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Meeting of the ASA Council March 31, 2003

Footnotes November 2003 (Volume 31, Number 8) • 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociologies: Public Sociology and the UC’s Institute on Labor and Employment (Sarah Anne Minkin) • Sociologists are Appointed Sage Fellows • Are Sociology Programs Downsizing? (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Vantage Point: The NIH Roadmap: Path to Better Health Research? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Will Tobacco Ever Be Regulated? (Susan Helebsky Dimock) • Public Affairs Update • David Mechanic to Receive Rema Lapouse Award (Anthony C. Kouzis) • Sociologists Inducted as AAPSS Fellows (Johanna Ebner) • Mathematical Sociologist’s Angle on Income Makes Its Mark in Inequality Modeling (Lee Herring) • Council Briefs • Sociology of Education Section’s Professional Workshop for Young Scholars (Amy G. Langenkamp) • Public Sociology: How Theory Travels: A Most Public Public Sociology (Diane Vaughan) • Community in History: Levittown and the Decline of a Postwar American Dream (Chad M. Kimmel) • “Congratulations!” to the 2003 ASA Section Award Winners • 2004 Coupon Listing • Departments • Obituaries: Harold Taylor Christensen, James Copp, Kurt H.Wolff

Footnotes December 2003 (Volume 31, Number 9) • ASA Congressional Briefing Examines Policy Implications Regarding Disasters (Lee Herring) • Slate of Candidates for the 2004 ASA Election • 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociologies: Still Booming: Prisons in California (Megan L. Comfort) • Vantage Point: Membership as a Public Good (Sally T. Hillsman) • 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates Use Sociologist’s Research Findings in Speeches and Debates (Johanna Ebner) • NSF Director is Receptive to Warnings About the Context of Federal Science Support (Lee Herring) • Public Affairs Update • NSF Workshop Targets Improving Social Science Education (Caroline Hodges Persell) • Sociologist Provides Briefing at the United Nations • Community Reinvestment: Connecting Sociological Findings to Advocacy (Torrey S. Androski) • Streetwise ASA Minority Fellow Tackles Gang Violence • Spotlight on Departments: Expanding Understanding: University of Idaho’s Certificate in Diversity and Stratification (Jean Beaman) • Publlic Sociology: A Labor of Love: Empirical Empowerment for Unions (Arthur B. Shostak) • Advancing the Discipline Through ASA-NSF Small Grants • The “Core Influence” of Journals in Sociology Revisited (Michael Patrick Allen) • Sociology in Cuba (Orlando Rodriguez) • Learning from the Cuban Health Care Paradox (Mercedes Rubio) • Disaster Research Center Celebrates 40th Anniversary • Public Forum: The End of Admissions Affirmative Action (Charles V. Willie); Renewing Graduate Programs, Overcoming Routinization (Thomas J. Scheff); A More Public Sociology (Paul Lachelier) • Departments • Deaths: Sue Dynes, Ruth Simms Hamilton • Obituaries: Richard Harvey Brown, Ashakant Nimbark, Steven Philip Schacht, Ruth Hill Useem • Got Something to Include in the 2004 ASA Annual Meeting? Meeting Space for Other Activities

Footnotes January 2004 (Volume 32, Number 1) • 2004 Annual Meeting: The Transformation of Sexual Commerce and Urban Space in San Francisco (Elizabeth Bernstein) • The Social Sciences in Britain (Harold Orlans) • Sociologists Often Need Up-to-date Data on the Profession in a Hurry…So ASA’s Website Now Provides “Today’s Data Yesterday” • Vantage Point: Membership as a Public Good…Continued (Sally T. Hillsman) • David R. Williams Receives “Decade of Behavior” Award (Johanna Ebner) • Public Affairs Update • Spotlight on Departments: On the Road: Wake Forest University’s Social Stratification in the American South Course (Jean Beaman) • Public Sociology: Public Sociology…It’s What Teaching-oriented Departments Do • Thank You, ASA Members! • Crime Prevention Research Partnerships Aid Criminal Justice (Anthony A. Braga) • Public Forum: President Profiled (Helen Fein); ON the “Fourth Dimension” of Ethnocentrism; Seeking a Neologist (John M. Plott) • Departments • Deaths: Gordon H. Armbruster; Aliza Kolker • Obituaries: Mary Jo Huth; Dorothy Jones Jessop; Thomas Ktsanes; Erwin K. Scheuch; Ronny Turner

Footnotes February 2004 (Volume 32, Number 2) • 2004 Annual Meeting: Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, A Human Rights Voice That Will Not be Silenced (Mona Younis) • ASA Seeks a Few Good Sociologists…for ASA’s Annual Awards Nominations • State of the State Sociology Series (Kenneth C. Land) • Vantage Point: A Full Menu of Public Policy, Science (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologists Receive 2003-2004 Fulbright Awards • Public Affairs Update • $3.4 Million Race and Ethnicity Panel Study Gets Under Way (Johanna Ebner) • Social Sciences are Key to Developing the STEM Workforce (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • New NSF Priority Area Represents Significant Iopportunity for Sociology (Lee Herring) • Cross-cutting “Human and Social Dynamics” is First NSF Priority Area Led by Behavioral and Social Sciences (Pat White and Joane Nagel) • 2004 Annual Meeting: The Politics of Homelessness in San Francisco (Darren Noy) • State of the State Sociology Societies: Sociology Out Front (Ron Wimberley) • State of the State Sociology Societies: How to Maintain a Positive Cash Flow in a Sluggish Economy…Without Becoming the Next ENRON (Robert A. Wortham) • State of the State Sociology Societies: A Quick Look at Grassroots Sociology (Catherine T. Harris and Michael Wise) • State of the State Sociology Societies: Let 50 Flowers Bloom (Monte Bute) • Public Anger, Politics and the Middle Class (Marjorie Schaafsma) • ASA’s First Section Journal is Expanding (Johanna Ebner) • Public Forum: A Cuban Experience (Hannah R. Wartenberg); Public Action and Public Policy (Herbert J. Gans) • Those Who Can, Teach! • New Staff Join ASA (Kendra Eastman, Felicia Evans, Donya Williams) • Departments • Deaths: Mary Jane Crenshaw Tully • Obituaries: Ruth Simms Hamilton; Paul Burleigh Horton; Aliza Kolker; John Itsuro Kitsuse

Footnotes March 2004 (Volume 32, Number 3) • 2004 Annual Meeting: Former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso: A Most Public Sociologist (Gay Seidman) • Teaching Sociology in High School: A Pilot Project Begins in Chicago (Caroline Hodges Persell and Carla B. Howery) • The 2004 World Social Forum: A Movement Rising (Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott) • Vantage Point: Engineering Better Mileage for Research? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Task Force to Invigorate “Public Sociology” (Lee Herring) • Public Affairs Update • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2004: Glen H. Elder, Jr., Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (President-Elect); Dan Clawson, Lynn Smith-Lovin (Vice President-Elect) • Developments in Data Sharing in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Duane F. Alwin) • Four Daylong Courses to Enrich 2004 Annual Meeting • Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery) • Mumbai and the Future (Boaventura de Sousa Santos) • Among Women at Mumbai (Patricia Ticineto Clough) • Spotlight on Departments: Georgetown University’s Social Justice Analysis Concentration Deepens the Curriculum and the Community (Jean Beaman) • Public Forum: Is Social Forces Still a Core Journal? (Robert M. Marsh); Mere Degrees of Reflected Lunar Light? (Richard Koffler); Reply to Marsh, Koffler (Michael Patrick Allen); Public Sociology Challenges Discipline’s Prestige and Power Structure (Kenneth L. Stewart and D. Stanley Eitzen) • Departments • Deaths: Janet Kohn, Egon Mayer, Warren A. Peterson, T. R. Young • Obituaries: Gordon Hawkins, Margaret Stacey

Footnotes April 2004 (Volume 32, Number 4) • 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociology Meets Public Intellectual, Activist and Novelist Arundhati Roy (Ben Crow) • Hill Briefing on Social and Economic Consequences of Job Loss Draws Crowd (Johanna Ebner) • Vantage Point: Academic Freedom and Publishing in Interesting Times (Sally T. Hillsman) • Call for Centennial Session Proposals and Participation • Public Affairs Udpate • The Status of High School Sociology: Some Recommendations (Michael DeCesare and Jeff Lashbrook) • James Downton: Awakening Teachers to Creative Teaching (Jean Beaman) • A Rebel with a Theory (Johanna Ebner) • Opening 2004 Plenary Session on W.E. B DuBois, a Model for Public Sociology (Jean Beaman) • Public Sociology: Empowered Participatory Governance: An Unexpected Columbia Venture in Public Sociology (Cesar Rodriguez and Erik Olin Wright) • ASA Annual Meeting Workshop: Using the University of California Atlas of Global Inequality as a Teaching Tool • Public Sociology “from the files…” (exchange of letters between Henry Brownstein and Robert K. Merton) • Public Forum: Public Sociology Challenges Discipline’s Prestige and Power Structure (Kenneth L. Stewart and D. Stanley Eitzen); Reply to Stewart and Eitzen (Murray Hausknecht) • Sociology Receives the Largest Number of Professional Master’s Planning Grants (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Departments • Deaths: Fred B. Silberstein, Frank Robert Westie, Joan McCord • Obituaries: William Harry “Bill” Howell, Egon Mayer, Norval Morris, Sister Marie Augusta Neal, T.R. Young • Classified Ad • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May/June 2004 (Volume 32, Number 5) • 2004 Annual Meeting: Paul Krugman: The Wicked Economist? (Marion Fourcade- Gourinchas) • Why Did Sociologists Go to Atlanta? Who is Going to San Francisco? (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine) • ASA Congressional Briefing on Immigration Packs the House (Johanna Ebner) • Vantage Point: Affirming Action in Higher Education (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologist Named Director of the American Bar Foundation • Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Awards • Public Affairs Update • Weblogging for Public Sociologies (Peter Dixon, Erin Murphy and Nicholas Hoover Wilson) • Sociologists without Borders (Jean Beaman) • Goodwin and Jasper are the New Contexts Magazine Editors (Edwin Amenta) • Personal Essay: Sociologists Behind Bars (Jodi L. Short and Elizabeth Drogin) • Legislators Warn that Prisoner Census Counts Skew Resource Distribution and Political Representation (Torrey Androski) • Public Sociology: Community Organizing as Engaged Scholarship (Robert Kleidman) • Public Forum: Journal Influence (Judith R. Blau) • Sociologist Elected to the NAS • Sociologists and Political Scientists Honor Marty Lipset • Departments • Obituaries: Fred Bates, Fred B. Silberstein, Frank Robert Westie • Special Annual Meeting Insert

Footnotes July/August 2004 (Volume 32, Number 6) • 2004 Annual Meeting: The Sands of San Francisco (Richard Walker) • ASA Election Results: Epstein Elected ASA President; Smith-Lovin Vice President • 2004 Major ASA Award Winners: Jessie Bernard Award, Myra Marx Ferree; Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Arthur Stinchcombe; Distinguished Scholaraly Publication Award, Mounira Maya Charrad; Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, Jeanne Ballantine; Public Understanding of Sociology Award, Jerome Scott and Walda Katz Fishman • Vantage Point: Annual Meeting Dialogue: Forums for All • Sociologists Lead 15-nation Study on Attitudes Toward Mental Illness (Jack K. Martin) • Public Affairs Update • New ASA-NSF Grantees to Help Advance the Discipline • Peggy Thoits Assumes Health Journal Editorship in 2005 (Bernice Pescosolido) • Public Sociology: The Moral Monster: Public Sociology in a Maximum Security Prison (Patricia Fernandez-Kelly) • ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Four New Projects (Jean Beaman) • Public Sociology Explored from an International View (Johanna Ebner) • Group Seeks to Reform Market-driven College Athletics (Redante Asuncion-Reed) • Open Forums at the 2004 Annual Meeting in San Francisco • 2004 Regional Award Winners • Community Action Research Grants (Johanna Ebner) • Public Forum: There’s the ASA, But Where’s the Sociology (Mathieu Deflem); Democracy in Question: Reply to Deflem (Michael Burawoy); Were We Right? Assessing the Merits of ASA’s Anti-War Resolution (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) • Departments • Obituaries: Thomas R. Forrest

Footnotes September/October 2004 (Volume 32, Number 7) • Profile of the ASA President: Troy Duster: A Biography in History (Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinerman) • Public Sociologists Broke Records in San Francisco • ASA Centennial Will Honor Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues • Vantage Point: The Power of IDA—The Place of Data (Sally T. Hillsman) • Tomas Jimenez Selected as 2005 ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner) • Beth Rubin Joins NSF Sociology Program (Lee Herring) • Sociologists Among Inductees of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences • Sociologists Among American Academy of Policital and Social Science Honorees • Political Science Goes Public…A Lesson for Public Sociology? (Roberta Spalter- Roth) • Should Sociologists Run for Public Office? (Jack Nusan Porter) • Social Scientists Help Identify Research Agenda to Improve U.S. Voting Process • Suggestions Are Invited for the 2006 Annual Meeting Program • No Child Left Behind Act Scrutinized at Sociology of Education Section Policy Conference • Spotlight on Departments: Using “Advanced Introductory Courses” to Level the Playing Field for Transfer Students • Yale Group to Edit Sociological Theory (Isaac Reed) • Applications Invited for ASA Editor Positions • Faculty Salaries Saw Little Growth in Past 21 Years (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine) • Small Grants for Integrating Data Analysis in the Sociology Curriculum • ASA Announces New Minority Fellows (Mercedes Rubio and Felicia Evans) • Brownstein to Direct Center for Crime, Drugs and Justice (Torrey Androski) • International Sociology: Nigerian, Cleveland Sociologists Collaborate (Jean Beaman) • Public Sociology: The Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (Beth Roy) • Public Forum: Toward an Academically Engaged Academy (Rick Cherwitz); Is Modern Sociology Too “Managerial?” (Nathan Rosseau); Reply to Stewart and Eitzen; Our Time in the Political Wilderness Should End (George C. Klein) • Departments • Deaths: Jerry Salomone, William Silverman • Obituaries: James Ecks, Witold Krassowski, Joel B. Montague, Jr., Harold Lyle Nix, Frank Riessman

Footnotes November 2004 (Volume 32, Number 8) • ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco • Prospects for Change in Saudi Arabia (Mansoor Moaddel) • ASA Receives $165,000 from Science Foundation to Fund Early Career Scholars • Vantage Point: Remaining Vigilant for an Essential Survey (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologist Appointed to Defense Task Force Examining Solutions to Harrassment • Public Affairs Update • Council Briefs (Michael Murphy) • Calendar of Regional Sociological Association Meetings • Seven Years and Seven Journals with JSTOR • Sociology Departments Can Now Vie for “Seal of Approval” for Gender- and Women-friendliness (Lee Herring) • New PhD Program at Central Florida (Victoria Hougham) • Public Sociology: The Engaged Department: Public Sociology in the Twin Cities (Ronald Aminzade) • “Congratulations!” to the 2004 ASA Section Award Winners • Departments • Deaths: Dante Germanotta, Morris Goldman, Witold Krassowski, Tamotsu Shibutani, Norma Williams • Obituaries: William K. Bunis

Footnotes December 2004 (Volume 32, Number 9) • The Costs and Benefits of Temporary Faculty (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine) • President’s Science and Technology Appointments Should be Based on Nation’s Interests, Says NAS (Johanna Ebner and Lee Herring) • 2005 ASA Candidates • Vantage Point: Opening Access to Pandora’s Box in Science Communication (Sally T. Hillsman) • American Community Survey Survived Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriations (Lee Herring) • Public Affairs Update • Task Force Outlines Goals for the Sociology Major (Carla B. Howery) • New ASA-NSF Grantees • Implicit Versus Explicit Professional Training in Sociology (David Shulman and Ira Silver) • Public Sociology: Wages and Working Conditions at Berkeley (Amy Schalet, Gretchen Purser and Ofer Sharone) • ASA High School Outreach Initiative Seeks Members in 12 Key States (Carla B. Howery) • Hesser Honored as CASE Professor for Minnesota • Sociologists Explore Scientist Demographics at NSF Conference (Roberta Spalter- Roth) • NSF Awarded $6.6 Million to Soiology in ‘03 • Public Forum: Reply to Bonilla-Silva and Smith: Assessing the Anti-war Resolution (Mark Iutcovich); Response to Rousseau, Cherwitz; The Sociology of Sociology (Richard A. Hilbert) • Thank You ASA Members • Departments • Deaths: Otis Dudley Duncan, Matilda White Riley • Obituaries: Tanis Doe, Charles Gordon, Norma Williams

Footnotes January 2005 (Volume 33, Number 1) • ASA is 100 Years Old • Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005 • Soaring: Celebrating Matilda White Riley (1911-2004) (Ronald P. Abeles) • Vantage Point: On Being 100 (Sally T. Hillsman) • National Lecture Named for Lipset • Institutionalizing Public Sociologies (Leslie Hossfeld, Philip Nyden) • Public Affairs Update • What Can You Do with a Sociology BA? (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Bringing Sociology Into Our High Schools Through Student-to-student Outreach (Victoria Hougham) • NSF Awarded $5.5 Million to Sociology in ‘04 • ASA Welcomes New Staff (Carla B. Howery) • Public Sociology: The Global Carbon Project (Penelope Canan) • Sociological Perspectives on International Trends in Mathematics and Science Achievement (Theodore A. Lamb and Rodger Bybee) • Analyzing Adolescent Science and Mathematics Literacy Across the Globe (Theodore A. Lamb and Molly McGarrigle) • Sociologists Selected as Presidents of Colleges • Colleagues Remember Matilda White Riley • Departments • Deaths: Mildred Peacock Crowder, Solomon Poll • Obituaries: Otis Dudley Duncan, William Silverman

Footnotes February 2005 (Volume 33, Number 2) • Philadelphia: The City (Michael Zuckerman) • Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005 • Fighting International Terrorism with Social Science Knowledge (Johanna Ebner) • Vantage Point: On Becoming 200: Looking Forward (Sally T. Hillsman) • Centennial Inspires Expansion of ASA Sorokin Lecture (Carla B. Howery) • Sociology in Action on the Hill • Public Affairs Update • Departments • Deaths: Loren Frankel, Gene Levine, Ellen Mara Rosengarten, John F. Schnabel

Footnotes March 2005 (Volume 33, Number 3) • Philadelphia: A Metro Area in Transition (David Elesh) • Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005 • ASA Weighs in on Gender and Science Careers • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2006 • ASA Seeks Major Award Nominations • Vantage Point: A Price for U.S. Science • National Institutes of Health Implements Contested Public Access Policy • Public Affairs Update • ASA’s History in a “Nutshell” • Celebrating Seven Decades of Excellence in ASA’s Flagship Scholarly Journal (ASR editor, Jerry Jacobs) • Putting the Science in Quanlitative Methodology (Roberta Spalter-Roth, ASA) • Inside-Out Program Creates Link Bewteen Higher Education and the Criminal Justice System (Jessica Spickard) • Gaming in Watts: UCLA and Locke Senior High School in Partnership (Victoria Hougham) • ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Seven New Projects • Dennis Rome Will Held ASA Honors Program in 2006 • ASA Council Briefs (from February 4-6, 2005) • Recent Status Reports Accepted by Council • ASA Council Statement on the Causes of Gender Differences in Science and Math Career Achievement/Harvard’s Lawrence Summers and the Ensuing Public Debate • Project to Infuse Data Analysis into the Sociology Curriculum Enters Dissemination Phase • On the Merits of Graduate Students as Book Reviewers (Barbara Katz Rothman) • State Representatives Make Inroads with High School Sociology (Carla Howery) • Deaths: Che Fu-Lee, Laure M. Sharp • Obituaries: Robert K. Bain, Frederick Buttel, Robert O. Carlson, William Byrd Hanson, Gene Levine, Ellen Mara Rosengarten, John Schnabel • Member Benefit: Capital for Knowledge • 2005 Student Travel Awards

Footnotes April 2005 (Volume 33, Number 4) • AAAS 2005 Meeting Was Where Science Meets Society, and Sociology was There Too • At 125 Annual Meeting, ASA Exhibits, Sociological Research Reigns, and ASA President Duster Participates in a Press Conference (Johanna Ebner) • Scientists Warn of Conceptual Traps Concerning Genetics and “Race” in New Genetic Map of Human Populations (Lee Herring and Mercedes Rubio) • Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005 • “Culture Wars” Explored at Contexts Forum (Johanna Ebner) • Council Approves New ASA Editors • Vantage Point: Rumors of Departmental Decline are Greatly Exaggerated (Sally T. Hillsman) • ASA Returns to San Francisco in 2006 • Public Affairs Update • Paradoxes of U.S. Health Care System Have Complex Social Origins (Donald W. Light) • Sociologist Named Director of Vera Institute • New ASA-NSF Grantees • Mapping High School Sociology: Fairfield University Partners with High Schools (Victoria Hougham and Gavin W. Hougham) • Moving Forward with the National Acadmey of Education (Amy Swauger) • Sociologists Present at 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting • First Annual Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Named for Matilda White Riley • Public Forum: Response to Iutcovich; Reply to Bonilla-Silva and Smith: Assessing the Anti-war Resolution (Bradford B. Hepler) • Departments • Deaths: Coramae Richey Mann, Ethel Shanas, Laure M. Sharp • Obituaries: Leonard E. Bloomquist, Che-Fu Lee, Ethel Shanas, Tamotsu Shibutani • Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

Footnotes May/June 2005 (Volume 33, Number 5) • Dalton Conley Becomes First Sociologist to Receive the National Science Board’s Prestigioous Alan T. Waterman Award (Johanna Ebner, Lee Herring) • Philly Delights: Where to Walk, Look, Take Kids and Do a Little Shopping (Magali Sarfatti Larson) • Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005 • Annual Meeting Supplement in this Issue • Vantage Point: What Really Mattered to the Supreme Court • Sociologists Receive Guggenheims • Sociologist Brings Data to Federal Debate on Bankrutpcy Reform Bill • Public Affairs Update • Public Sociology: What Happened When I Took My Sociological Imagination to the Dump (Daniel Knapp) • Sociologists Impact Interpretation of Federal Welfare Legislation (Lee Herring, Johanna Ebner) • On Being in the Minority (Tomas Jimenez) • Teachers Teaching Teachers: An ASA Pre-Conference • Contemporary Sociology Comes to UC-Irvine (Christine Byrd) • Annual Meeting Supplement • The Intersection of Sociology and Bioethics (Joseph E. Davis, Raymond DeVries, John H. Evans) • 2005 Regional Sociological Associations’ Award Winners • Public Forum: Whose Science is Behind the Science in Qualitative Methodology (Norman K. Denzin); On the Creation of “Public Interest Sociology” (George C. Klein); Institutionalizing Public Sociology (Paul Lechelier); Another Centennial (Werner Lange); Utilizing the Energy of Interactive Sessions (Scott R. Sernau) • Deaths: Marijean Ferguson • Obituaries: Warren E. Kalbach

Footnotes July/August 2005 (Volume 33, Number 6) • 2005 Annual Meeting: The Philadelphia Sound (Jerome Hodos and David Grazian) • Results of 2005 ASA Election: Frances Fox Piven is President-elect and Bonnie Thornton Dill is Vice President-elect • Recipients of 2004 ASA Awards • Vantage Point: Global Sociology and the ASA Centenary (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologists Connect ‘Six Degrees’ on Capitol Hill (Johanna Ebner) • Sociological Skills Used in the Capture of Saddam Hussein (Victoria Hougham) • Full-time Faculty Salaries Sink in Academic Year 2004-2005 (Roberta Spalter-Roth, William Erskine) • The Rise of the Right Discussed at the Annual Meeting (Harry G. Levine) • 2005 Annual Meeting: Philly Folk Culture (Karen Bettez Halnon) • Karen Gray Edwards’ 25th Year at ASA (Carla B. Howery) • Barbara Schneider to Edit Sociology of Education (Chandra Muller) • Teaching Sociology Introduces “Applications” to Help Instructors Integrate Sociological Research into Undergraduate Courses (Liz Grauerholz, Jerry Jacobs) • NIDA Invested $19.5 Million in Sociologist-led Research in FY04 (Anna Stanton) • Two New Task Forces Seated • Deaths: Elizabeth G. Cohen, Samih K. Farsoun • Obituaries: Paul K. Clare, Andre Gunder Frank, Linda Saltzman, Benjamin B. Tregoe

Footnotes September/October 2005 (Volume 33, Number 7) • The ASA Celebrates its 100th Birthday in the Nation’s Birthplace • Profile of the ASA President: Pushing Social Boundaries: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (Judith Lorber) • Going to be in Washington, DC in late October? • On Hurricanes and Sociology • Vantage Point: Minority Research Training Milestones (Sally T. Hillsman) • Ameircan Immigration Policy: Toward Integration (Tomas Jimenez) • Sociology Exhibited on Capitol Hill • Public Affairs Update • ASA Announces New Minority Fellows • Council Approves Revised Specialty Areas • UCSD Culture Conference Discussed the Future of Cultural Sociology • Training High School Sociology Teachers at Association Meetings (Victoria Hougham) • ASA’s Member-Get-a-Member Capaign is a Success • Applications Invited for ASA Editor Positions • Departments • Deaths: Michelle Cook, George C. Helling, Henry L. Lennard • Obituaries: Ferris C. Baker, Stephen Bunker, Elizabeth G. Cohen, James Ensign Curtis, Laure M. Sharp, Robert L. Skrabanek, Fred Strodtbeck

Footnotes November 2005 (Volume 33, Number 8) • A Capitol Hill Party Celebrates 100 Years (Johanna Olexy, Lee Herring) • Sociologist-led Homeland Security Center is Unveiled (David C. Walsh) • Think Ahead to 2007! Session Proposals are Invited for the 102nd Annual Meeting Program! • Vantage Point: ASA’s Centennial Year: Member Speak, Council Responds • Sociologist to Lead National Children’s Study Center (Sylvia Pociask, Lee Herring) • Proposed Disaster Legislation is Informed by Sociological Research (Lee Herring) • Immigration Reform and the Latino Vote (Tomas R. Jimenez) • Increasing the Visibility of Sociology PhDs Outside the Ivory Tower (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • A Century of Professional Organization in American Sociology (Bruce Keith) • International Workshop on Social Networks Theory and Methodology: Applications for Regional Carbon Management (Penelope Canan) • ASA Council Briefs, August 16-17, 2005 • Spotlight on Departments: Kent State and University of Akron Collaborating for More than a Quarter Century (Victoria Hougham) • Community Action Research Grants Awarded (Johanna Olexy) • ASA Statement on Human Rights • Attendance Doubles at Third Math Sociology Conference (Herman Smith, Paul McFarlane) • Sociology Project a Finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search • Major Award Recipients Honored in Philadelphia • Public Forum: Sociology and the Politics of Fear (David L. Altheide); Complications of “Hispanic: Race of Ethnicity? (Amitai Etzioni); New Orleans Hurricane Katrina: Natural or Social Disaster? (Martha K. Huggins) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Departments • Deaths: Fred Strodtbeck • Obituaries: Samih K. Farsoun, George Clifford Helling, J. Dennis Willigan

Footnotes December 2005 (Volume 33, Number 9) • Sociologist Testifies at House Hearing on Disasters (Lee Herring) • Multiple Methods in ASR (Jerry A. Jacobs) • Candidates for the 2006 ASA Election • ASA Sections Seek 2006 Award Nominations • Vantage Point: Indicators for a New “Social Science of Science Policy” (Sally T. Hillsman) • Another Texan Goes to Washington: ASA’s 2006 Congressional Fellow • A Call to Transform Black Education (Lavon Rice) • Call for Mateirals on Desegregation and Educational Outcomes • A Salute to Janet Astner • A Century of Motion: Disciplinary Culture and Organizational Drift in American Sociology (Bruce Keith) • Centenary of the First Sociology Doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill) • Departments • Deaths: Leo Bogart, Joseph Gittler, Mary Rose Holley • Obituaries: Henry L. Lennard, John Kenneth Morland

Footnotes January 2006 (Volume 34, Number 1) • What Research Skills Do Sociology Undergraduates Take Into the Labor Market? (William Erskine and Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Teresa Sullivan Selected as Provost of the University of Michigan • Social Science Consortium Hosts U.S. Science Advisor, NSF, and NIH Social Science Leadership • Vantage Point: Some Congress Members Stirred by Faltering Science and Tech Support (Sally T. Hillsman) • Rep. Gordon Urges Attention to Social Science Data in Federal Planning for a Potnetial Flu Epidemic • Public Affairs Update • The NIH Announces the Matidla White Riley Annual Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Population Health, Challenges for Science and Society • New Materials on Assessment are Available (Carla B. Howery) • Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences: Sociologist to Lead $2-million NSF Grant for Social Sciences Web Archive • SRCD Scholars Bring Sociology to Public Policy (Andrea Browning) • Assessing Undergraduate Program Efficacy and Outcomes (Patrick Moynihan, James A. Wilson, Laura Backstrom) • New ASA-NSF Grantees • Katherine Rowell Honored as Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year (Carla B. Howery) • Sociologists Receive 2005-2006 Fulbright Awards • Public Forum: Reply to Altheide, “Politics of Fear” (Gary LaFree) • Organizational Directions: Setting a Course of Action for the Second Century of American Sociology (Bruce Keith) • How to Request Meeting Space for Other Activities for the 101st ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, August 11-14, 2006 • Thank You, ASA Members! • Public Sociology: Re-Presenting Sociological Research to Prisoners: The Play is the Thing (Elizabeth Dermody Leonard) • Call for Papers • Deaths: John Shields Aird, Eliot Freidson • Obituaries: Bennett Berger, Leo Bogart, Mary Rose Holley, George G. Reader

Footnotes February 2006 (Volume 34, Number 2) • On Science and Society: Science and Politics: The Uneasy Relationship (Howard J. Sliver) • A Year in the Life of ASA’s Sociology of Education: A View from the Inside (Karl Alexander, Angela Estacion, Christopher Tracy, Yingyi Ma) • XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 • Vantage Point: Sociology on a World Stage (Sally T. Hillsman) • Risky BehaviorsAssociated with Preventable Deaths Have Begun by Adulthood • 2007 Annual Meeting: Book Nominations Invited for Author Meets Critic Sessions • Public Affairs Update • Who Works the Most… (Lee Herring) • Where Are They Now? Two Scholars Examine Golden Decade’s Imprint on Today’s Sociologists (Stephen Turner, Alan Sica) • Peer Reviewers of Teaching (Carla B. Howery) • Departments • Deaths: Alphonso Pnkney, Karl F. Schuessler • Obituaries: Kianda Bell, Eliot Freidson, Paul C. Glick, Allen W. Imershein, Douglas Yale Longshore

Footnotes March 2006 (Volume 34, Number 3) • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2006 • Betty Friedan: An Appreciation (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein) • Looking Forward to the ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal… Canada and Quebec: An Update (Simon Langlois) • Vantage Point: A Fight to Preserve Research and Ensure Government Accountability (Sally T. Hillsman) • Shin to Direct ASA’s Minority Affairs Program • Banner Year for Major ASA Award Nominations (Daniel Spar) • Public Affairs Update • Who Influences Whom? Mass Communication and Social Networks (Leah Lubin) • Shedding Light on Sundown Towns (LaVon Rice) • Editorial Collective at Stony Brook (Tyson Smith) • International Sociology… UNESCO Launches Palestinian Women’s Research Center (Val Moghadam) • Public Sociology: The U.S. Border Patrol at a Juncture with Public Sociology (Robert Lee Maril) • NSF’s 2005 Support for Sociology Totaled $11.6 Million • Public Forum: Universal Sociological Law (Jason Eastman) • Departments • Deaths: Walter Buckley, Valerie Moore, Marshall A. Robinson, Lyle W. Shannon • Obituaries: William Hart Gulley, Drenan Kelley, Will Charles Kennedy, R. George Kirkpatrick, Wen Lang Li, Alphonso Pinkney

Footnotes April 2006 (Volume 34, Number 4) • Albany Sociologist Heads NSF-funded International Study of the Children of Immigrants • House Science Committee Holds Hearing Featuring Sociologist Expert on Science Education • New Guidelines on Joint Sociology-Anthropology Programs • Vantage Point: 2006 Chair Conference to Focus on Graduate Education (Sally T. Hillsman) • Disparities Legislation Signals Divergent Health Policy (Erma Lawson) • Science Board Develops Hurricane Research Agenda with Social Science Component • All [High School] Politics Are Local: Devoted Professor Helps Enhance High School Sociology Courses (Victoria Hougham) • N.C. State Department of Sociology and Anthropology Turns 85 • Departments • Deaths: Arthur J. Vidich • Editors’ Reports for 2005

Footnotes May/June 2006 (Volume 34, Number 5) • Exciting Plenaries and Sessions at the 101st ASA Annual Meeting (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein) • Yu Xie Is Incoming Editor of Sociological Methodology (Michael Hout) • Members Propose Resolution to Rename ASA Awards • Vantage Point: On the Importance of Being Engaged in ASA (Sally T. Hillsman) • Child Well-being Index Results Reveal Education Levels Still at Standstill • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • Teaching Materials to Go Online (Carla B. Howery and Victoria Hougham) • Public Affairs Update • Who’s Been an ASA Member for 70 Years? Ethelyn Davis Celebrates a Membership Milestone (Craig Schaar) • Beyond the Ivory Tower: Sociologists Working in Applied and Research Settings… Profile of Rita Kirshstein (Stacey Merola) • Six New Projects Are Sponsored by the Community Action Research Initiative • Time Travelers: The Commute Between Campus and Community (Carol Wickersham, Charles Westerberg, and Kate Linnenberg) • O’Donnell Honored with Lynton Award • New ASA-NSF Grantees • Program Announcement: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Sociologists Are Honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Daniel Spar) • Background on Proposed Name Change for ASA’s Distinguished Scholarship Award (Aldon Morris, Michael Schwartz, Mary Pattillo, Dan Clawson, Cedric Herring, Howard Winant, and Walter Allen) • Sociological Forum Editor Search • 2006 Regional Sociological Associations Award Winners • News from the Midwest Sociological Society • New Staff in the ASA Executive Office • ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Seven New Projects • Public Sociology: Reducing vs. Suppressing Campus Crime (Howard Robboy) • Public Forum: Single-issue Voting Tactic? (Mathieu Deflem) • Departments • Deaths: Al Bertrand, Al Reiss • Obituaries: Albert N. Cousins, Valerie Moore, Arthur Vidich

Footnotes July/August 2006 (Volume 34, Number 6) • Human Rights Is Focus of Welcoming Plenary • 2006 ASA Election Results: Arne Kalleberg is President, Douglas McAdam is Vice President, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is Secretary • Roscigno, Hodson Are Incoming Editors of American Sociological Review • Vantage Point: Taking the Pulse of the Nation: Key National Indicators (Sally T. Hillsman) • Sociologist Informs Senators About Universal Health Insurance • ASA Award Winners Announced • Public Affairs Update • Bread and Circuses: A Regional Session Explores the Politics and Culture of Montréal (Christopher McAll) • United Nations and Women’s Rights (Mari Simonen) • The Sociology of Consumption (Daniel Thomas Cook) • The Rhetoric of Openness to Cultural Diversity in Québec (Michèle Ollivier and Linda Pietrantonio) • SSRC Task Force Reports on Hurricane Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast (Craig Calhoun and Kai Erikson) • A House of Refuge (Dana M. Greene and James R. Peacock) • Retrospectives on the Death and Life of Jane Jacobs (Anthony Orum) • Public Forum: ASA Candidates: Reply to Deflem (Christine E. Bose and Catherine Zimmer); Response to SWS (Mathieu Deflem) • Departments • Deaths: Yung-Teh Chow, Robert Herman Mugge, Bernd Weiler, Robin Williams • Obituaries: Alvin Lee Bertrand, Thomas R. Ford, Albert Reiss

Footnotes September/October 2006 (Volume 34, Number 7) • Gary Alan Fine to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly • Sociologists Draw Significant Attention in Montréal • Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1914-2006): A Sociologist for All Seasons (Phyllis Moen) • Vantage Point: Annual Meeting Venues Past, Present, and Future • Sociology Exhibited on Capitol Hill • NIH Celebrates 10 Years of Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research • Public Affairs Update • From "Technology for Sociology" to "The Sociology of Technology": A Short History of CITASA (Barry Wellman) • Sociologists Named American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows • 2008 ASA Annual Meeting Program Theme Announced • Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • Small Grants Program: ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Montréal • Colleagues Pay Tribute to a Man for All Seasons • Applications Invited for Editorship of Contexts, JHSB • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Announcements • Deaths: Mary Starke Harper • Obituaries: Harry V. Ball, Terry Boswell, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Betty Frankel Kirschner, Philip Rieff, Lyle Shannon, Lynn Zimmer

Footnotes November 2006 (Volume 34, Number 8) • 2007 President is a Defender of the "Poorest of the Poor" (Barbara Ehrenreich) • NSF Education and Human Resources to be Headed by Marrett • Name Changes for Two ASA Awards • Vantage Point: Educating for a Sustainable Future • Sociologist Testifies on Capitol Hill • Sociologist Receives the Holberg International Memorial Prize • Public Affairs Update • Professor Feliks Gross: Sociological Humanist (Jerome Krase) • New Annual Meeting Workshops Designed for Practitioner Networking • The XVI World Congress of the International Sociological Association, South Africa (Val Moghadam) • Burawoy and Fritz Elected to International Leadershiip Positions • Sociologists Receive Travel Support tot he ISA Meeting • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: Sociologist Establishes Community Research and Learning Network (Amy S. Hubbard) • Regional Sociological Association Schedules • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Introducing New Minority Fellows • Collaboration Between Librarians and Sociologists Yields Standards for Library Literacy • Share Your Teaching Materials • Announcements • Deaths: Donald H. Bouma, Pencer Cahill, Polly Swift Grimshaw, WIlliam F. Kenkel, Emile Jean Pin, Peter Rossi • Obituaries: Bernard Barber, Karl F. Schuessler, Daisy Tagliacozzo

Footnotes December 2006 (Volume 34, Number 9) • Sociological Research on Health Disparities Is Core of NIH Conference • Peter H. Rossi (1921-2006) • Candidates for the 2007 ASA Election • Vantage Point: Demystifying ASA's Public Statements • Loyola COmmunity-engaged Research Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary • Public Affairs Update • New ASA-NSF Awardees • Medical Sociologist Elected to the Institute of Medicine • Session Proposals are Invited for the 2008 Annual Meeting program • Academic Branding and Public Sociology at the University of Buffalo-SUNY (Michael Farrell) • Nominations Being Accepted for the 2007 Section Awards • Two Regionals to Join Forces for their 2007 Annual Meeting (Bruce Keith) • Sociologists Contribute to Quantitative Literacy (Bernard Madison) • Sociology and the Commision on Professionals in Science and Technology • NSF ADVANCE Informed by SOciological Perspectives and Approaches • Colleagues Remember the Expansive Interests and Wit of Peter Rossi • Thank you ASA Members • Spotlight on Departments: Bergen Community College's Center for Suburban Crinimal Justice • Public Forum: How Not to Make a Presentation • Ruth Simms Hamilton Award • Announcements • Deaths: Donald H. Bouma, John H. Burma, Clifford Geertz, Linda Faye Williams, Ellen Willis • Obituaries: Meyer Barash, SPencer E. Cahill, William F. Kenkel

Footnotes January 2007 (Volume 35, Number 1) • Sociology Is Well Represented Among NSF's Human and Social Dynamics Grantees • ASA, Professors Submit Brief to U.S. Appeals Court on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy (David Segal) • What the Iraqi Study Group Missed: The Iraqi People (Mansoor Moaddel) • Vantage Point: An Assesment of National Social Science Advocacy • ASA Joins Research!America Alliance • ASR Publishes the Latest International and Comparative Socological Studies (Jerry A. Jacobs) • Contexts Magazine as a Teaching Tool (James M. Jasper) • A Woman of the World: A Spotlight on Dean Johnson's Globetrotting Sociological Career • 2007 ASA Congressional Fellow Faces a New Congress • Changes in the Graduate Record Exam • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: Shameless Lackey or Consumer Advocate • Applied and Clinical Sociology Careers by the Numbers (Mary Gee) • ASA Deputy Carla Howery Celebrates 25th Year at ASA • Apply Now for the Sorokin Lecture Series • Spotlight on Departments: A Vehicle for Enrichment: University of Wisconsin- Madison's Undergraduate Concentration in Analysis and Research • How to Request Meeting Space for Other Activities • Council on Contemporary Families Deisseminates Nonpartisan Knowledge • Weber's 1904 Visit to the United States • New Staff Join ASA (Kyle Murphy, Diego de los Rios, Nicole Van Vooren) • Public Forum: Suggestions for Encouraging a Satisfying Conference • Departments • ASA Position Announcement: Staff Sociologist/Director of Academic and Professional Affairs • Deaths: Samuel W. Bloom, Bill Borchert Larson, Yuri Levada, Robert Smock • Obituaries: Feliks Gross, Doris P. Slesinger

Footnotes February 2007 (Volume 35, Number 2) • "Without Yesterday There Is No Tomorrow": Ricardo Lagos and Chile's Democratic Transition (Peter Winn) • Four Trends Shaping the Big Apple (Andrew Beveridge) • Remembering a Giant of Sociology: Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006) (Claude S. Fischer, Ann Swidler) • Vantage Point: Enhancing the ASA Public Inforamtion Program • ASA Honors Program Expands Opportunities for Undergraduates • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Tilly with the 2006 Sidney Hook Memorial Award • Portrait of the Sociologist as Blogger • Busboys, Poets, and Sociologists: A Place for Discourse • Task Force on General Education Issues Report • Congratulations to the 2007 ASA Award Winners • Colleagues Pay Tribute to Seymour martin Lipset • Sociologists Serving as Foreign Ambassadors... From Afganistan to Germany to America and Back • A Mathematical Sociologist's Tribute to Comte: Sociology as a Science (John Angle) • Member Spotlight: Thomas Lief: A Profile of Service to His Community • Just for Fun: A Sociological Trivial Pursuit • New Staff at the ASA Executive Office (Robin Licata, Sujata Sinha) • Public Forum: Thank You, ASA • Departments • Deaths: Kurt B. Mayer, Helen Ralston • Obituaries: Donald D. Bouma, Helen Ralston

Footnotes March 2007 (Volume 35, Number 3) • Finding New York City's Culture Through Shopping (Sharon Zukin) • The Eroison and Rebirth of American Democracy (Magali Sarfatti Larson) • Too Few PhDs? The Replacement Rate in Sociology • Vantage Point: Advancing International Scholary Communication • Robert Bellah Honored for Career of Scholarship • New Recipient Announced for the W.E.B. Dubois Award! • A Better World is a World with Universal Human Rights (Judith Blau) • Campus Organizing and Today's Movement Building Moment (Walda Katz- Fishman) • Paul Ciccantell Joins the NSF Sociology Program • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2007 • Protest and trust at Gallaudet University (Margaret Weigers Vitullo) • Public Sociology: A Sociologist in the Hard Science World (Rachel Ivie) • NSF Awarded $8.7 Million for Sociological Research and Education in 2006 • Council Briefs • Departments • Deaths: Brandy Britton, Eric Markusen

Footnotes April 2007 (Volume 35, Number 4) • Paradox and the City: Why the Working Class Has Political Power (Dan Cantor & J.W. Mason) • How Do We Get to ANother World? (Fred Block) • Council Passes New Resolution • Vantage Point: ASA's Engagement in the Teaching of Sociology • The Faith-Based Initiative (Rebbeca Sager) • Committee and Executive Office Collaborate to Make Annual Meeting Accessible • SWS Supports New Orleans' Rebuilding • Public Sociology: Public Sociology and Sociology in Public: The Case of Serbia (Aleksej Kisjuhas) • ASA Tapped for Senate Judiciary Committee Congressional Fellow • In the Spotlight: Armed with a Camera: Mount St. Mary's Film and Social Justice Program • Sociology in America • Public Forum: Social Science and Iraq; More on Annual Meeting Presentations; Responses to the Mascot Resolution • Departments • Deaths: Judith Nelson Cates, Jean Baker Miller, Martin Trow • Obituaries: Thomas A. Lyson, Martin Trow • Editors' Reports for 2006

Footnotes May/June 2007 (Volume 35, Number 5) • Down and Out In New York City (Mitchell Duneier & Patrick Markee) • Eliza Pavalko to Serve as the Next Editor of JHSB • Plenary Examines Popular Culture as Propaganda and Critique • Vantage Point: An "Accountability Squeeze" on Higher Education • Is the Federal Budget a Moral Document (Rebecca Sager) • Sociologists' Encyclopedic Impact • For Conference Presentations, Less Is More • The Educational Testing Service Retracts Recent Changes to the GRE • That's a Lot of Candles: Russell sage Celebrates 100 Years • ASA Awards Small Grants in Sociology • The Management and Society Program at UNC-Chapel Hill • New Program to Increase Diversity of Leadership in Health Policy • Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Fellowships • Public Sociology: Enlarging the target: A Sociology of Self-Defense • 2007 Regional Sociological Associations' Award Winners • Winners of the 2007 Community Action Research Initiative Awards • Public Forum: How Bellah's Ideas Spread: The Diffusion of a Scholar's Influence • ASA's Teaching Enhancment Fund Supports Four New Projects • Departments • Deaths: Jean Baudrillard, Bernhardt Lieberman, Patrick McGuire • Obituaries: Samuel W. Bloom, Hiram J. Friedsam, David L. Westby

Footnotes July/August 2007 (Volume 35, Number 6) • New York: A Unique Immigrant City (Nancy Foner) • Prospects for Change in American Politics (Bonnie Thornton Dill) • ASA General Election Results: Patricia Hill Collins is President, Margaret Anderson is Vice President • Hartman and Uggen are the New Editors of Contexts • Vantage Point: Advancing the Placement of Sociology • Sociologists Brief Senate Audience on Social-Cultural Factors Affecting Military Recruitment and Retention • ASA 2007 Dissertation Award Recipient Announced • Promoting Sociology to the Media • Student Protestors Successful at Moscow State University • The All-Consuming Life of an Encyclopedia Editor (George Ritzer) • 35 Years Later...Planning for the Future of the General Social Survey • Introducing MFP Cohort 34 • Vitullo to Direct ASA's Academic and Professional Affairs Program • The Labor Section and ABS Celebrate the DuBois Legacy (Michael Schwartz) • Public Sociology: Sociological Research and Praxis: An Autobiographical and Retrospective Account • Public Forum: ASA Should Not Support China; I Heart (Alternatives Modes of transportation to) New York • Departments • Deaths: Wilma Allen, Ida R. Hoos, David M. Heer, Otto N. Larsen • Obituaries: John H. Burma, Eric Markusen, Patrick McGuire, Ida R. Hoos, D. Lawrence Wieder

Footnotes September/October 2007 (Volume 35, Number 7) (pdf) • ASA President Arne Kalleberg Prepares for "Worlds of Work" (Peter Marsden) • The Biggest Meeting Happened in the Big Apple • Vanatge Point: Tapping Contexts for Teaching • Hate Crimes Legislation is on the Move (Michelle Van Brakle) • Sociologists Elected to the Natioanl Academy of Sciences • The AAPSS Honors Social Scientists and Junior Scholars • Framingham State College Discovered An Inconvenient Truth (Virginia Rutter & Ira Silver) • Think Ahead to 2009! • 2009 Annual Meeting: The New Politics of Community • ASA's New International Associate Membership Category • Sumner's Tales: Reflections on 133 Years of Sociology at Yale (Nadya Jaworsky) • Research on SOciology as a Profession: Highlights • Applications Invited for Editorship of Contemporary Sociology • Sociologists Named American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows • A New Kind of Lesson Plan • Public Forum: Politically Correct; A Response to Leslie Irvine's Comment on China; Responses to Dan Wang • Departments • Deaths: Helen Gouldner, Peter Lyman, Peter Marris, Parren Mitchell, Jeanne Clare Ridley • Obituaries: Brenda M. Derby, Mary Douglas, Helen Gouldner, David M. Heer, Bernard Karsh, Otto Larsen

Footnotes November 2007 (Volume 35, Number 8) (pdf) • British Boycott Threat Sparks ASA Council Action • ASA Files Complaint Against the U.S. Government for Excluding South African Scholar from the United States • Federal Funding for Sociology Increases Relative to Other Social Sciences • Vantage Point: ACLU and ASA File Suit over Academic Freedom • Sociology on the Hill • Position Announcement: Research Associate Position • The Sociology of Human Rights • ASA Collaborates with Sociology Librarians • Traditions and Trends in Rural Sociology (Richard S. Krannich & Jess Gilbert) • A Tool for Surfing the Wake of the Spellings Commission: The Department Resources Group • The Immigrant Mobilization Research Project at UIC (Michael Rodriguez Muniz) • Sociologist Joins Yahoo! to Shape Future of the Web • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in New York • 2007 Award Recipients Honored • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Public Sociology: Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (Jeffery Broadbent) • Council Highlights • Regional Sociological Association Schedules • Public Forum: Reaction to ASA Council's Resolution on Israeli Boycott; The Invisible Namesakes: In Recogonition of African American Founders in ASA?; Response to Professor Leslie Irvine • Departments: • Deaths: Sam Joseph Dennis, Ruth Frankenberg, Gangadharappa Nanjundappa, James Ronald Pinkerton, Blasco Sobrinho, Marvni B.Sussman, Peter Whalley, Wayne Wheeler, Jon Kelley Wright • Obituaries: Peter H. Marris, Jeanne Clare Ridley, Marvin Bernard Sussman

Footnotes December 2007 (Volume 35, Number 9) (pdf) • High School Sociology on the Endangered Species List in Michigan (Denise Reiling & David Kinney) • Candidates for the 2008 ASA Election • Plans and Outcomes: Data from Phase II of the BA-and-Beyond Survey • Vantage Point: To Leave No Child Behind Requires Social Science Discipline • 2008 Annual Meeting - Space for Other Activities • Nominate Colleagues for Major ASA Awards Online • A Perfect Storm: The Jena Six from a Sociohistorical Perspective (Juan Battle) • Sociology at UNC Wilmington Goes Public • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: My Life as a Closet Sociologist • Coser Theory Award Bestowed upon Three Scholars • The ASA Governamce and Sections Office Announces the Creation of Two New Sections-in-Formation • Public Forum: AP or Not AP? That is the Question; Response to DeCesare's "AP or Not AP: That is the Question;" Erendira in American Sociology • Departments • Deaths: Robert L. Carroll • Obituaries: Barbara H.Kaplan, James Pinkerton; Peter Whalley

Footnotes January 2008 (Volume 36, Number 1) • The Social History of Boston's Back Bay, Site of the 2008 ASA Conference (Wilfred Holton) • Sociologists Examine the Global Labor Market in STEM Occupations • International Perspectives: What's New in French Sociology? (Daniel Benamouzig, Olivier Borraz & Cyril Lemieux) • Vantage Point: Footnotes Looks Different, Yes? • Faith in Their Future? (Rebecca Sager) • Social Scientist Receives Presidential Medal of Honor • Social Scientist Awarded the 2008 Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award • Kalleberg Engages Campuses During His Presidential Year • Apply Now for the Sorokin Lecture Series • A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the ASA Student Forum • ASA Awards Small Grants in Sociology • Achieving the Dream: Helping Community College Focus on Student Success • Public Sociology: Genocide - It Is My Problem • Garfinkel Recognized for Lifetime of Achievement • ASA Forum: On the Interpretation of Polls; Another Take on AP or Not AP ; More on the Sociology of Human Rights; Concerning the W.E.B. Dubois Career Award for Dintinguished Scholarship • Announcements • Deaths: Melvin Pollner, Stanton Wheeler • Obituaries: Gangadharappa Nanjundappa, Gwynne Nettler, Wayne Wheeler

Footnotes February 2008 (Volume 36, Number 2) • A New, Permanent Home for ASA (Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) • Congratulations to the 2008 ASA Award Winners • Boston: Greener than an Emerald Necklace (Joan Fitzgerald) • Vantage Point: How Does Your Department Grow? With Chairs Help, You Can Know! • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: A Perspective on Business Careers for Sociologists (Joe Mercurio) • Bearmam Is First Sociologist to Receive Prestigious NIH Pioneer Award • The Costs of Mass Incarceration Examined by Congressional Panel (Howard Silver) • Sociologist to Head Genome Center for Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research • Forty-Five Years as an ASA Member • Public Sciology: Using Social and Behvioral Science to Design Better Energy and Climate Change Policies and Programs • Three Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • The National Academy of Sciences Honors Sociologist • ASA Forum: Defending Against Misuses of Data on Race and Ethnicity; Rejoinder tp Professor Persell • Announcements • Deaths: T. Quentin Evans, Karol Krotki, Chet Meeks, Harold Orlans, Joel Tortenson • Obituaries: Miriam Johnson,

Footnotes March 2008 (Volume 36, Number 3) • Plenary Session on "The Future of the American Labor Movement" Kicks Off the 2008 ASA Meeting (Arne L. Kalleberg) • Progress in Breaking the Glass Ceiling • Boston's African American Heritage (Robert L. Hall) • Vantage Point: An Open Invitation to Visit Your New ASA Headquarters • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2008 • Heat Wave: A Sociological Drama Hits Center Stage (Ellen C. Berrey) • Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Celebrated 100 Years (Jan Nederveen Pieterse) • An International Conference Examines Stigma Research (Terry White) • UNC Students Tackle a U.S. Constitution Update (Beth A. Latshaw) • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: The Evaluator in the Field as an Outsider Within (Mindy Fried) • ASA Forum: That's in a Name: Concerning the ASA Career Award • Announcements • Deaths: Charles Bonjean, Gordon Bultena, Stephen L. Nock, G. Howard Phillips, Sister Eleanor Rice, Edward P. Torrey • Obituaries: Herbert Reese Barringer, Ronald Freedman, Chet Meeks, Stanton Wheeler

Footnotes April 2008 (Volume 36, Number 4) • Three Plenary Sessions at 2008 ASA Meetings Focus on Policy, Globalizaton, and Immigration (Arne L. Kalleberg) • Green Initiatives on the Rise at the ASA (Stella Capek, Sally T. Hillsman, Janet Astner, Lauren Heberle, & Robert Brulle) • Communal Grief and Solidarity after 4/16/07 at Virginia Tech (Laura Agnich, James Hawdon, & John Ryan) • Vantage Point: Helping Avoid a Health Crisis and Fiscal "Train Wreck" • Task Force on Sociology and Criminology Programs (Dennis MacDonald & Steven E. Barkan) • Best-Selling Books by Sociologists - A New Study (Herbert Gans) • FSU Celebrates 90 Years of Sociology by Examining Where it Was and Where It Is (Irene Padavic) • Sociologists Elected AAAS Fellows • ASA Forum: Professionalizing Sociology the Discipline for Branding Purposes Only • Council Highlights • Editor Search: City & Community • Announcements • Deaths: Ronald Freedman, Benjamin S. Kleinberg, Ralph Lane, Robert C. Sorensen • Obituaries: J. Michael Armer, Charles M. Bonjean, Gail Jefferson, Benjamin Kleinberg, Bernard Nathan Meltzer, Steven L. Nock, Harold Orlans, Robert C. Sorensen

Footnotes May/June 2008 (Volume 36, Number 5) • The Sociology of Boston's Restaurants: Where Diversity and Good Food Meet (Jack Levin) • Alan Sica to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Charles Lemert) • What Skills Do Sociology Majors Learn and What Is the Pathway to Using Them on the Job? • Vantage Point: Who Speaks for Social Science--In Court? • Science Polocy • Science Organizations Examine Ways to Enhance Diversity in Science • ASA's Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Two New Projects • Doris Wilkinson Receives Honors (Florence Bonner & Jean Shin) • ASA Announces the 2007-2008 ASA Congressional Fellow • George Mason Introduces New PhD Program in Public Sociology (Mark D. Jacobs & Amy Best) • Beyond Endnote: Citing Web Sources in ASA Style • Dealing with the Shock of Violence at Northern Illinois University (Fred. E. Markowitz) • The Wrong Solutions for a Tragedy (Kirk Miller) • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: Explaining Terror Networks in the 21st Century (Marc Sageman) • ASA Awards Grants to Advance Sociology • Sociology and Genocide Studies (Jack Nusan Porter) • A New Home and New Staff • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Robert Dentler, Ralph Lane, Charles Tilly • Obituaries: Karen Bloom Robert A. Dentler, John Freeman, Ralph Lane, Jr., Melvin Pollner, Charles Tilly, Kay Michael Troost

Footnotes July/August 2008 (Volume 36, Number 6) • Race Relations and Immigration in Boston (Silvia Diminguez) • The 2008 ASA Election Results Are In: Evelyn Nakano Glenn is President, John R. Logan is Vice President • International Perspectives: Report on the Executive Meeting of the International Sociological Association (Val Moghadam) • Vantage Point: Building Organizational Social Captial in Departments of Sociology • Science Policy • From Mobile to Shagnhai: Reflections on my ASA Presidential Year (Arne L. Kalleberg) • ASA Hosts Open House to Debut New Office • ASA Honored for Real Estate Deal • Howard University Celebrates 50 Years of Doctoral Education with Sociology Focus • A Candid Examination of the Performance of Science in Government • The Art and Social Science of War • ASA Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships • Alba Delivers Huggins Lecture at Harvard • ASA 2008 Dissertation Award Recipient Announced • Universal Design: Creating Presentations That Speak to All • ASA Welcomes MFP Cohort 35 • Declines in Sociology Faculty Purchasing Power • Sociologist Presents on Violent Crime at Congressional Briefing • Skocpol Elected to the NAS • Journal of World-Systems Research Approved for Section Sponsorship • Sociology: A Rare But Well-Paying Job? • ASA Forum: Family Myth to Family Reality • Announcements • Deaths: Charles Moskos • Obituaries: Wallis Bwasley, Robert M. Figlio, James B. Skellenger, Herman W. Smith, III

Footnotes September/October 2008 (Volume 36, Number 7) • Sociologists at Work in Boston • A New Perspective with Patricia Hill Collins (Elizabeth Higginbotham) • Vantage Point: Federal Support for Basic Research and Training of the Future Scientific Workforce • Science Policy • ASA Brings Sociology to Capitol Hill • Kessler Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • The Past, Present, and Future of the Journal of World-Systems Research (Andrew K. Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick) • Sociological AIDS Research Needs an Intervention (Judith Auerbach) • Building on the Strength of the Department Resources Group • Think Ahead to 2010! • Toward a Sociology of Citizenship • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings • The ASA and Sociological Practice (Jay Weinstein and Kathryn Goldman Schuyler • Public Sociology • Applications for Invited Editorship • 2008-09 Regional and Aligned Association Meetings • ASA Modifies Copyright to Comply with NIH Public Access Regulation • Announcements • Deaths: Cynthia F. Barnett, Brent K. Marshall • Obituaries: Carl W. Backman, Murray S. Davis, William P. Kuvlesky, Nancy E. Waxler Morrison, Charles Moskos

Footnotes November 2008 (Volume 37, Number 8) • A Festschrift in Honor of Pearlin Looks to the Future of the Stress Process Paradigm • Success of Women with Children in Sociology • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Boston • Congratulations to the 2008 ASA Section Award Winners! • Vantage Point: The Strength of Disciplinary Diversity • Science Policy • Coming out from Behind the Scences: ASA Publications Committee • ASA Teaching Resources Center Call for Proposals • ASA Council Highlights • What Can I Do with a Master's Degree in Sociology? • Chow Builds a Foundation for Education in China • Four New Projects Are Sponsered by ASA's 2008 Community Action Research Initiative • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Announcements • Deaths: Calvin L. Beale, Dean Hodge, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Herschel S. Shosteck, Paul V. Smith, R. Dean Wright • Obituaries: Orlando Fals Borda, Robert G. Holloway, Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Gay Capouch Kitson, Ralph Segalman

Footnotes December 2008 (Volume 37, Number 9) • Making Class Prep Easier: ASA's New Digital Library of Sociological Teaching Materials • Seeking Nominations for ASA Officers and Committees • First "Sociological Forum" of the International Sociological Association • Vantage Point: Science in an Obama Administration • Science Policy • Women Move Up the Faculty Ladder Slowly • Space for other Activities • Health Care Reform as an Emergency Growth Strategy (Elizabeth Jacobs) • Announcing the New Student Sociologist Newsletter • Call for Nominations: 2009 Section Awards • Transforming Employment Institutions to Sustain the American Dream (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Arne L. Kalleberg) • Climate Change and the Sociological Imagination (Kari Marie Norgaard and Alan Rudy) • Apply Now for the Sorkin Lecture Series • Sociologist Presented 2008 Brown Lecture in Education • Do European Border toens Hold the Key to Cultural Integration, Incubation? (Alberto Gasparini) • ASA Honors Program 2009 Call for Nominations • ASA Member Reaches 50-year Membership Milestone • Public Sociology and Participatory Action Research in Rural Sociology (Karen M. O'Neil) • Did You Know? • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Heather Hartley • Obituaries: Felix M. Berardo, Heather L. Hartley, Dean Hoge, R. Dean Wright

Footnotes January 2009 (Volume 37, Number 1) • MFP Kicks Off 35th Anniversary Year • Slate of Candidates for the ASA 2009 Election • Sociology Student Active in the Election of 2008 • Vantage Point: Science Serving Human Rights • Science Policy • Sociologist Addresses Issues in Educating the Next Generation of the Scientific Workforce • Sociology Professors Awarded Grawemeyer Award • IOM Meeting Focuses on Behavioral/Social Determinants of Health • International Perspectives: Sociology and Public Arenas: A View from Australia (Raewyn Connell) • International Perspectives:: American Sociological Association and International Initiatives • On the Cutting-Edge of Scholarship in Sociology • ASA Staff Give Back for the Holidays • Sociology Internal Interest Group Approved by ISSOTL (Kathleen McKinney) • New Staff at ASA Executive Office: Nortia Bailey, Edward J. Matchett, Tonya VanField • ASA Seeks Applications for Student Travel to 2009 Annual Meeting • Sociologists in Research and APplied Settings: Sociologist Explores Workforce Readiness of New Graduates (Henry M. Silvert) • Update on ASA and the ACLU Academic Freedom Case • ASA Online Job Bank Going Strong • Thank You, ASA Members • Announcements • Obituaries: John T. Doby, Harold S. Guetzkow, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Richard P. Nadeau

Footnotes February 2009 (Volume 37, Number 2) • Sex in the City: A Sociological History of San Francisco (Siobhan Brooks) • Two New DGG Services to Help Sociology Departments • Sociology Makes Top-Ten Careers List • Vantage Point: Social Science's Role in Building Bridges to an American Recovery • Science Policy • BA and Beyond...and to Graduate School • A Sociologist in a College of Engineering: Stranger in a Strange Land? (Don Winiecki) • Re-Stating the Significance of the DuBois Distinguished Scholarship Award (Mary Pattillo) • The Debate on "Neighborhood Pressure" in Turkey (Ates Altinordu) • More Candidates for the ASA Election • Putting the Community First through Public Sociology: The Highlander Research and Education Center (Chris Baker, Frank Adams, Lee WIlliams, Randy Stoecker, & Glenn S. Johnson) • On Meeting a Queen (Thomas J. Scheff) • Lights, Camera, Answers! (Stefanie Joshua) • Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • ASA Awarded Grant for Travel Support to ISA World Congress 2010 • Public Sociology: Reprise of a Battle Won: Sociologist Monitors Boston Transit System's Treatment of the Disabled • Announcements • Obituaries: Lloyd E. Ohlin

Footnotes March 2009 (Volume 37, Number 3) • A New Politics of Community in Action? (Patricia Hill Collins) • San Francisco 40 Years Later (Edward A. Tiryakian) • Congratulations to the 2009 ASA Award Winners • Vantage Point: Economics 101: Investing in ASA • Science Policy • Sociologists Headlined Plenary at NIH Summit • Busy Time for AKD (Jeffery Chin) • ASA Annouces the 2008-09 Congressional Fellow • PowerPoint: To Use or Not to Use? (Madeleine Cousineau) • Delgado to Take on Social Problems • What Can I Do with a Master's in Sociology?: The Department as Context • The First Lady and Princeton Sociology (Howard Taylor) • Building Global Community for Online Students and Faculty (Darlene A. Smuncy and Katherine Humber) • The Use of FAD Funds: Expanding Experimental Investigations of Race/Ethnicity in Sociology (Carla Goar and Jane Sell) • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2009 • The Golden Anniversary of Medical Sociology • Are Journal Accept Rates as Low as They Look? (Paula England) • JHSB Research Gets Local AIrtime Nationwide • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Peter Kollock, G. William Skinner • Obituaries: David A. Ward, Laura Winterfield, James Rutland Wood

Footnotes April 2009 (Volume 37, Number 3) • Bringing Communities Back In? Setting a New Policy Agenda (Patricia Hill Collins) • Kathleen S. Lowney to Edit Teachng Sociology (Maxine P. Atkinson) • Vantage Point: Time for a New (or Renewed) Office of Technology Assesment • Science Policy • News from ASA's Research Department • ASA Council Supports Independence of Federal Statistical and Research Agencies. • UCSF Doctoral Sociology Program Celebrates its 40th • Task Force on Teaching Ethics Completes Its Work • Beyond the Regular and Dissertation Competitions: Funding Opportunnities at NSF • ASA's Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Three New Projects • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Ethelyn C. Davis, John Hope Franklin, Carla B. Howery, Bruce D. Johnson • Obituaries: Bruce L. Berg, Patrick G. Feeney, Mohamed Dayee Turay

Footnotes May/June 2009 (Volume 37, Number 5) • Local Flavor: Alternative Agriculture and Food Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alison Alkon) • Brown, Donato, Isaac and McCammon are Incoming Editors of American Sociological Review (Daniel B. Cornfield) • Vantage Point: Only One Way to Write. Right? • Science Policy • Assessing History in the Making (Elizabeth Jacobs) • Sociologists Take the "Science of Science Policy" to Capitol Hill • The Undergraduate Sociology Degree's Real-World Application • Diverse Research Workforce is Key to Health of Nation's Science Enterprise • An Update on Gender-friendly Sociology Departments • Over 60 Years of Sociology at UMass-Amherst (Randall Stokes) • Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: A Sociologist Tackles Homeland Security (John S. Verrico) • MFP at the Annual Meeting • East vs. West? • Between Public and Professional: Chinese Sociology and the Construction of a Harmonious Society (Xiaogang Wu) • ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • Four New Projects are Funded through th ASA Community Action Research Initiative • Sociologists Receive 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships • ASA Forum • Announcements • Obituaries: Carla Beth Howery

Footnotes July/August 2009 (Volume 37, Number 6) • Building Excellent, Diverse, and Just Communities: A Conversation Among Artists, Academics, and Activists (Patricia Hill Collins) • ASA Partners with Sage for Journal Publishing • Results of 2009 Election Are In: Randall Collins is President, David Snow is Vice President, Kate Berheide is Secretary • David Bills to Edit Sociology of Education (James Rosenbaum) • Vantage Point: Quantitatively Hard Science: Counting Us • Science Policy • Data Users Struggle to Prevent Suppression of Race, Ethnic, and Gender Statistics • ASA's Rose Series Continues Award-Winning Ways (Matthew Mahler) • NSF Report Tackles Standards of Evaluation for Qualitative Research (Michèle Lamont) • Sociology in the Twittersphere • SWS Targets Healthcare Policy as Action Issue (Jessica Holden Sherwood) • The Significance of the Jessie Bernard Award (Patrica Yancey Martin) • TEF Small Grants Renamed to Honor Howery (Patricia Hill Collins) • Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • Sustaining Sociology in a Bad Economy (Maralee Mayberry and Donileen Losske) • What's Segregation Got to Do with the Nation's Subprime Mortgage Lending Fiasco? • Introducing MFP Cohort 36 • ISA Call for Papers • International Perspectives: The State of Russian Sociology Today (Mischa Gabowitsch) • Short-Term Jobs with Long-Term Results with the 2010 Census • Announcements • Deaths: Mary Alice Eaton Ericson, Jane Collier Kronick, Ralf Dahrendorf, Robert Thamm • Obituaries: Timothy McDaniel

Footnotes September/October 2009 (Volume 37, Number 7) • Evelyn Nakano Glenn's Displacements and Connections (Myra Marx Ferree) • The Subject and Practice of Community Explored at the ASA Annual Meeting • Neil Gross to Edit Sociological Theory • Vantage Point: Science Has Returned to the Nation's Capital, But... • Science Policy • ISA Prepares for 2010 World Congress of Sociology (Val Moghadam) • The XVII World Congress of Sociology Gothenburg, Sweden, July 10-16, 2010 Call for Papers • Sociologist Delivers Policy-relevant Economic Testimony to Congress • Successful Research in Small Departments (Vince Bolduc) • ASA Leadership Campaign Begins by Raising $300,000 for MFP • Lessons Learned from a Public Controversy (Donald C. Reitzes, Mindy Stombler, Kirk W. Elifson) • The U.S. Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act (Douglas Snyder) • Additional Sociologist Receives 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships • Think Ahead to 2011! • Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas • 2009-10 Regional and Aligned Associations Meetings • Sociology Jobs • Searching for a Job with an Undergraduate Degree in Sociology • Johns Hopkins Department of Sociology Celebrates Its Golden Year (greg Rienzi) • Applications Invited for Editorships • Announcements • Deaths: Giovanni Arrighi, Alexander Logie Clark, Donald M. Crider, Helen Miller, Mary Rogers, Neil Alan Weiner, and Jerry Alan Winter • Obituaries: Bill Devall, Seymour Leventman, Mary F. Rogers, and Allan Schnaiberg

Footnotes November/December 2009 (Volume 37, Number 7) • Amos Hawley: A Pioneer in Human Ecology (John D. Kasarda) • Tim Futing Liao to Edit Sociological Methodology (David B. Grusky) • Seeking Nominations for ASA Officers and Committees • Vantage Point: "Adopt a Federal Database"... and Open the Data Highway for Better Research and More Informed Public Policy • Science Policy • Dealing with World Hunger (Sada Aksartova) • NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Sociological Approaches to Studying Morality (Steven Hitlin and Chad Michael) • Are Students Satisfied with Their Sociology Master's Degree? • Recent ASA Research Briefs • Reflections from a Sociologist of Popular Culture (Oliver Wang) • The Significance of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (Earl Wright II and Jean Shin) • Nominations Sought for 2010 Section Awards • ASA Members and Friends • Sociologists Spend Summer Briefing, Testifying Before Congressional Audiences • Footnotes to Focus on Online Website in 2010 • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco • Call for Nominations • A Tribute to Amos Hawley: Mentor, Colleague, and Friend • Public Sociology: [Not] Moving Along: The Policing and Regulating of the Public Space (Salvador Vidal-Ortiz) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Section-in-Formation Status Approved for Global and Transnational Sociology (George Ritzer) • 2010 Annual Meeting Space for Other Activities • The 2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers is Online • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Thomas P. Imse, Debra Kelley, Lenora Finn Paradis, and Jerry Alan Winter • Obituaries: Peter Kollock, Katherine Pavelka Luke, Charles R. Snyder, and Frederick L. Whitam • Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program • Congratulations to the 2009 ASA Section Award Winners!

Footnotes January 2010 (Volume 38, Number 1) • Alice Rossi (1922-2009): Feminist Scholar and an Ardent Activist (Naomi Gerstel and Michael Lewis) • 2010 Annual Meeting: Why Atlanta? • ASA Recognizes 2009's 76 MFP Leadership Campaign Contributors • Vantage Point: ASA's Electronic Persona: Expanding Interactive Communications in Sociology • Candidates for 2010 ASA Election • Science Policy • ASA Night at the Aquarium • Notable Dining • Council Highlights • Reflections on Alice Rossi • Stanford Sociology Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Its Renewal (W. Richard Scott) • Apply for the Sorokin Lecture Series • Clickstream Mapping of Scientific Activity - Opportunity and Caution (Donald Janelle and Michael Goodchild) • New ASA Staff: Valerie Jiggetts and Michele Muller • Travel grants for ISA Meeting • NSF Data Finds an Increase in Sociology PhDs • Emeritus Profile: Archibald Haller • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Leonard Broom, Burton R. Clark, Claude Levi-Strauss, Valerie Oppenheimer, Neil Meredith Palmer, Charles L. Robbins, and Joseph Bernard Tamney • Obituaries: Leonard Broom, A. Paul Hare, Valerie Oppenheimer, Samuel Franklin Sampson, and Joe Tamney • Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy • ASA Honors Program 2010 Call for Nominations • ESS Changes Meeting Site in Face of Labor Concerns • 2010 ASA Student Forum Advisory Board Call for Nominations

Footnotes February 2010 (Volume 38, Number 2) • State Department Acts on Academic Freedom Issue Pursued by ASA • Sociologist Sullivan Chosen as First Female UVA President • Atlanta: Birthplace of American Sociology (Earl Wright II) • Vantage Point: ASA Celebrates State Department Accountability • Science Policy • "Bandits Going Wild in Haiti" and Other Post-Quake Myths (Tanya Golash-Boza) • Exploring Atlanta's Neighborhoods • What's New at the Rural Sociological Society? (Ralph B. Brown, Willis Goudy, Kenneth Pigg, Joachim Singlemann) • The Measure of America: Introducing the American Human Development Project (Kristen Lewis, Sarah Burd-Sharps, & Patrick Guyer) • Doing Forensic/Litigation Sociology (Stephen J. Morewitz) • ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • A Sociological Influence in Dora the Explorer • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Emeritus Profile: Lloyd H. Rogler, More Than 50 Years a Member of ASA • Call for Nominations: 2010 Section Awards • ASA Forum • Travel Grants for ISA Meeting • Thank You, ASA Members! • Announcements • Deaths: Gladys K. Bowles, William M. Evan, John Irwin, Joseph Kahl, Thomas Lasswell, Earl Rubington, Margaret "Margie" Zamudio • Obituaries: James A. Inciardi, Harold W. Pfautz • Funding: 2010 Student Forum Travel Awards

Footnotes March 2010 (Volume 38, Number 3) • Council Adopts New Diversity Statement and Recommendations from GBLT Status Committee • SWS Votes Significant Gift to MFP Leadership Campaign • Sociological Lens Is Applied to Global Climate Change • Vantage Point: Social Science Speaks, "NIH Listens" and Acts • Engaged Scholarship and Service Learning Initiatives at Metro-Atlanta Universities (Elizabeth Griffiths) • Science Policy • Networking Opportunities at the ASA Annual Meeting • Recipients of 2010 ASA Awards • Candidates for the ASA Offices in 2010 • 2010 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening • Task Force Issues Recommendations on Sociology and Criminology Programs (Dennis MacDonald) • The Digital Library Gets a Name! • New ASA Journal Editors • ASA Seeks Volunteers for New Task Force on Climate Change • Opportunities for Sociology Students in Undergraduate Research Journals • Announcements • Deaths: Lucie Cheng, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, Earl Rubington • Obituaries: James P. Jana, Joseph A. Kahl, Earl Rubington, Margaret (Margie) Zamundio • 2010 Student Forum Travel Awards

Footnotes April 2010 (Volume 38, Number 4) • Citizenship in Action: Vine CIty and English Avenue Harm Reduction (Miriam Boeri and Jeff McDowell) • ASA and AAAS: Improving Human Rights Through Science • The Right's Attack on Frances Fox Piven (Peter Drier) • Vantage Point: Historic Health Reform Legislation Enhances the Role of Social Science Research in Improving Americans' Health • Child Care at the Annual Meeting • Science Policy • California State University Launches New Center on Indigeneous People (James Fenelon) • ASA's Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant Supports Three New Projects • Enjoy the Annual Meeting Benefit Receptions! • International Perspectives: Sociology in Germany: The Social Science Research Center Berlin • Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • ASA Research in the Blogosphere • ASA Forum: Sociologists Needed to Study Terrorism, Problems at the University of Kurdistan • Announcements • Obituaries: William M. Evan, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, Roland L. Warren, J. Alan Winter • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline

Footnotes May/June 2010 (Volume 38, Number 5) • ASA Set to Launch First-of-Its-Kind Teaching Tool • The Past amd Present of Immigration in Atlanta (Robert M. Adelman and Charles Jaret) • Debra Umberson to Edit the Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Michael Hughes) • Vantage Point: A Cutting-Edge Tool for Facilitating and Diffusing Innovative Teaching in Sociology • Sociology Research on Trust in Relationships Featured on Capitol Hill • Science Policy • University of Tennessee Launches Center for the Study of Social Justice (Stephanie A. Bohon) • Publish Globally and Perish Locally: Rating System in the Elite Universities in the Arab East (Sari Hanafi) • Four Sociologists Elected to the National Academies • Sociologists Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences • Severyn Bruyn: Putting Research on the Social Economy Into Action • ASA 2010 Annual Meeting Insert • ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff: Dalton, Fowler, Mayorova • ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • Spivack Committee Awards Four CARI Grants • 2009 National Science Foundation Sociology Program Awards • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Richard Patrick Coleman, David J. Kallen, Richard A. Peterson • Obituaries: Lucie Cheng

Footnotes July/August 2010 (Volume 38, Number 6) • Results of 2010 Election Are In: Erik Olin Wright is President, Edward Telles is Vice President • Social Psychology Quarterly Moves to Emory (Linda D. Molm and Lynn Smith-Lovin) • Response to Marquette University • Vantage Point: Council's Condemnation of Two New Arizona Laws • Science Policy • Sociologist Plays Key Role in Academy's Climate Change Report • Sociologist-led Teams Receive NIH Grants to Address Cancer Disparities • The Origins and Development of Sociology in Ireland (Brian Conway) • Annual Meeting Premiers The Atlanta Way: A Documentary on Gentrification (Deirdre A. Oakley) • New Website for Teaching Introductory Sociology (CAroline Hodges Persell) • Sociology Welcomes a New Doctoral Program at Rice • Social Scientists Offer a Multifaceted Picture of Poverty's Consequences • Sociologist Receives 2010Guggenheim Fellowship • NCHS Celebrates its 50th Anniversary (Virginia S. Cain) • Introducing Minority Fellowship Program Cohort 37 • Council Highlights • Announcements • Deaths: David E. Apter, James R. Beniger, Elise Boulding, Art M. Grubert, Glen Nygreen • Obituaries: James R. Beniger, Alfred C. Clarke, David Kallen, Nathan Keyfitz

Footnotes September/October 2010 (Volume 38, Number 7) • Randall Collins: A Smart and Influential Theorist • Sociologists Explore Citizenship As Annual Meeting Returns to Atlanta • Sociology on the Move in Gothenburg (Margaret Abraham) • Vantage Point: The Climate Is More than Right for Sociology • Science Policy • Think Ahead to 2012! • 2012 Annual Meeting Theme: Real Utopias: Emancipatory Projects, Institutional Designs, Possible Futures • ASA Travel Grants to ISA World Congress Are Awarded • ACLS Fellowships: Opportunities for Sociologists (Joyce Lee and Steven Wheatley) • Sociology on the National Mall • ASA Awards First Cohort of Postdoctoral Fellowships at Six Universities • Tracking Master's Students through Programs and into Careers • A Manual on Launching Majors into Satisfying Careers • 2010-2011 Regional and Aligned Sociology Associations Meetings • Applications Invited for ASA Editorships • Announcements • Deaths: Lynn Mulkey, Dorothy Newman, Glen T. Nygreen, Joseph B. Perry, Jana Pershing, Philip Selznick, Mary E. Weber Goss, Paul R. Wozniak • Obituaries: Marshall Barron Clinard, Mary E. Weber Goss, Philip Selznick, Steven Vago

Footnotes November 2010 (Volume 38, Number 8) • SAGE to Publish Contexts Magazine in 2011 • A Festival for Science Enthusiasta: Young, Old, and Historical • Rankings of More than 5,000 U.S. Doctoral Programs Was Released to Much Doscussion • Vantage Point: Sociological Careers - Can Graduate Training Meet the Challenge? • Science Policy • Rondini Heads to Capitol Hill as ASA's Congressional Fellow • MFP Leadership Campaign Makes Year-End Push to Reach $500,000 5-Year Pledge Goal • Glassner Named the 24th Lewis & Clark President • Longtime PSA Executive Director Dean Dorn to Step Down after 17 Years • Society and Mental Health Jounal Forthcoming in 2011 • The Faculty Pay Gap Between Private and Public Institutions • ASA Seeks Volunteers for New Task Force on Post-Doctorates in Sociology • ASA Committee on Professional Ethics: Helping Members Address Ethical Situations (Thomas L. Van Valey) • Jonathan Turner Receives Highest Honors from UC Regents (Jan E. Stets) • Council Highlights • The Pursuit of Scholarship, Innovation, and Transparency (Christine Williams) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Atlanta • Announcements • Deaths: Clifton Dow Bryant, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Larry Dale, Alex Inkeles, Thomas Lasswell, Randolph Quick, David Sciulli • Obituaries: Thomas Ely Lasswell, Lynn Michelle Mulkey, Tam Tran

Footnotes December 2010 (Volume 38, Number 9) • New Department of Education Rules Raise Questions about "Quality" in Higher Ed • ASA to Move 2011 Annual Meeting from Chicago • The Social and Behavioral Sciences Look to the Future at COSSA Annual Meeting • Candidates for 2011 ASA Election • Vantage Point: Sciences in the New Congress • Science Policy • The Necessity and Insufficiency of Policy-Based Responses: "Bullying" and Anti- Gay Bigotry • How to ... Access your online ASA Journals • Election Recap: What It Means for the Social Sciences • 2011 Annual Meeting Space for Other Activities • Contemporary Ukrainian Sociology: Difficulties of Self-preservation • Submit Ideas for the Imternational Perspectives Column • Nominations Sought for 2011 Section Awards • Interested in Having a Major ASA Award Winner Speak at Your COnference? Apply for the Sorokin Lecture Series • Emerging Ethical and Academic Issues in the Teaching of Online Sociology Courses • ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • 2011 MFP Call for Applications • Congratulations to the 2010 ASA Section Award Winners! • Announcements • Deaths: Sarah Marie Hall • Obituaries: Marvin Bressler, Hank Frundt, Alex Inkeles, Normas B. Ryder, Franz Schurmann, Gresham M. Sykes

Footnotes January 2011 (Volume 39, Number 1) • Just Announced: ASA to Hold 2011 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas • Should New Phds Consider Non-Academic Careers? • How to: Grant Writing in the Discipline: What Makes for a Successful Proposal? (Jan E. Stets) • Vantage Point: Responding to Crises with Sociological Tools: Thoughts on the Anniversary of the Earthquake in Haiti • Science Policy • For-Profit Schools and Underserved Student Populations: Expanding Access or Exploiting Aspirations? (Ashley Rondini) • Setting Up a Sociology Club on Your Campus • New PhD Program at the University of Louisville Focuses on Applied Sociology (Patricia Gagne & Cynthia Negrey) • Teaching Social Statistics Online (Amy Guptill) • Public Sociology: The Inside-Out Experience: The Training Ground for Future Scholars (Angela Harvey & Brian Chad Starks) • Same Book, Different Author: Any Similar Stories? (Bonnie Berry) • Funding: Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy • Announcements • Deaths: C. Neil Bull, Kim R. Kihl, Lewis M. Killian, James Salaff • Obituaries: Katherine Ruth Jensen, Nathan Joseph, Glen T. Nygreen

Footnotes February 2011 (Volume 39, Number 2) • Recipients of 2011 ASA Awards • Segregation and the Windy City (Black Hawk Hancock & Roberta Garner) • ASA Goes to Vegas • Vantage Point: The ASA Speaks Out Against Efforts to Intimidate Piven: Why Her? Why Now? • Science Policy • A Public Affairs Focus at the ASA Executive Office • Teaching-The Second Time Around (Cynthia Flynn) • New Staff at the ASA Executive Office • Next Generation Work anfdFamily Research Network Awarded Sloan Foundation Grant • ESS Partners with ASA in MFP Leadership Campaign • Thank You ASA Members! • Sheldon Stryker: Influencing Students Even in His Retirement • Announcements • Deaths: Peter Carter Dodd • Obituaries: Elise Boulding, Lewis M. Killian, John Stuart Western

Footnotes March 2011 (Volume 39, Number 3) • Intergrating Business with Pleasure in Las Vegas (Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas) • ASA Council Proposes Revised Dues Structure for Member Approval (Randall Collins, Erik Olin Wright, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Catherine White Berheide, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) • Ask the ASA Executive Officer • Vantage Point: ASA's Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Walmart v. Dukes, et al.: The Value of Collective • Science Policy • Sociological Research Received Extensive Media Coverage • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2011 • How to ... Publish in Trails • International Perpectives: Lineages, Trajectories and Challenges to Socioloy in India (Sujata Patel) • Sociological Careers: Finding Your Way Outside the Academy (Paula Chambers) • Tell me what Democracy looks like • ASA Forum • Doing Sociology, Practicing Sociology (Henry H. Brownstein) • Announcements • Obituaries: Daniel Bell, C. Neil Bull, Shmuel Noah (S.N. Eisenstadt, Roland J. Pellegrin, Paul Sites, James J. Teevan, and George A. Theodorson

Footnotes April 2011 (Volume 39, Number 4) • Racialized Barriers and Social Action in West Las Vegas: The F Street Wall Controversy (Robert McKee and Shannon M. Monnat) • ASA Revenues and Expenses: A Report from the ASA Secretary (Catherine White Berheide) • Why Do We Need the Dues Change? Impact of the Proposed Dues Structure on Association Revenues (Catherine White Berheide) • Vantage Point: Department Under Pressure? How the ASA Can Help During Crises or Normal Times • Science Policy • Where are We Now? Are the ASA Dues Higher than Comparable Associations? (Catherine White Berheide) • Comment on the Continuation of the American Community Survey • Yes, My Chihuahua Is a Service Dog...and a Reasonable Accommodation (Dana M. Greene) • Applied Sociology: Forging a Career Outside the Tenure Track (Katrina Kimport) • ASA Forum: The Unexpected Danger of Conducting Sociological Research (Archibald O. Haller) • The PROSE Awards: Calling Sociologists! (James M. Jasper) • Time to Vote! • Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Announcements • Deaths: Robert J. Stevenson • Obituaries: Norval D. Glenn

Footnotes May/June 2011 (Volume 39, Number 5) • From Chicago to Las Vegas (Michael Ian Borer) • Welcome the New Contexts Editors: Jodi O'Brien and Arlene Stein (Peter M. NArdi) • Chicago or Las Vegas: Anticipate an Intellectual Event (Randall Collins) • Vantage Point: ASA Council Weighs in on the NRC Doctorate Program Rankings Debate • Science Policy • Protection from Rape as a Civil Right: The Evolution of Policy Concerning Sexual Assault on College Campuses (Ashley C. Rondini) • Danish Sociology: The Fall and Rise of a National Sociology (Kristoffer Kropp) • Is Rawanda a Success Story? A Sociologist's View (Jeanne Ballantine) • Sociologists Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences • Making Students Count: Fostering Undergraduate Research (Jeneve R. Brooks) • UMD Graduate Students Go Beyond the Traditional in a Conference Theorizing the Web (Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey) • Core and Diversity in Sociology Section Membership in 2010 • Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • 2011 CARI Winners Announced • ASA Forum: Help Wanted: The Government Needs Sociologists Too (Phyllis Puffer) • Moving Forward with High School Sociology: Efforts to Strengthen and Support Teachers (Hayley Lotspiech) • Annual Meeting Insert • Announcements • Deaths: Harold Garfinkel, Warren Kubitschek, & John Francis Michael • Obituaries: Igor Semenovich Kon

Footnotes July/August 2011 (Volume 39, Number 6) • The Results of the 2011 Elections Are In: Cecilia Ridgeway is President, Jennifer Glass is Vice President • The Rose Series: Still Rising (James M. Jasper) • The ISA Embraces the Digital World (Michael Burawoy) • Vantage Point: Dangerous Times For Federal Support of Social Science • Science Policy • ASA Research on the Diffusion of New Knowledge Featured on Capitol Hill • International Perspectives: The Egyptian Revolution: Ethnographic Notes from Tahrir (Atef Said) • Sociologists Join Forces with the White House to Support Military Families (Mary K. Kniskern) • ASA Membership Approves New Dues Structure • ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • Emeritus Profile: A war Veteran Recounts His Journey to Becoming a Sociologist • ASA's Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant Supports Two New Projects • Nwe Policy Brief Series in JHSB (Debra Umberson) • 2011-2012 Regional and Aligned Sociology Association Meetings • ASA Welcomes Five New MFP Fellows • Council Highlights • While In Las Vegas • Welcome the New ASA Staff • Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences • Announcements • Deaths: David C. Baldus, Egon Bittner, Richard Daniels • Obituaries: Egon Bittner, William R. Freudenburg, Sylvia K. Polgar

Footnotes September/October 2011 (Volume 39, Number 7) • 103rd ASA President Erik Olin Wright: Reinventing Sociology (Michael Burawoy) • Sociologists Explore Conflict at ASA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas • J. Milton Yinger (1916-2011): A Towering Sociological Figure from a Small College (Stephen J. Cutler) • Vantage Point: Promoting Transparency and Accountability at the ASA • The Importance of STEM Education HIghlighted in NRC Report • Science Policy • Think Ahead to 2013! • 2013 Annual Meeting Theme: Interrogating Inequality: Linking Micro and Macro • International Diversity at the Women's World Conference (Ann Denis) • Looking Ahead to 2012: Changes in ASA Membership • On Reproductive Justice and the Importance of Listening to People with Whom We Disagree (Jeanne Flavin) • Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program • Not Everyone is Your "Friend" in an Online World • Memories of J. Milton Yinger: Friends, Colleagues, and Family Share Their Reflections • ASA Forum: Another Look at Rwanda; Sociology in Secondary Schools • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • Announcements • Deaths: Leon F. Bouvier, Ronald C. Wimberley • Obituaries: Harold Garfinkel, Allen Day Grimshaw, Warren N. Kubitschek, Roger W. Nett

Footnotes November 2011 (Volume 39, Number 8) • A Call to Duty: ASA and the Wikipedia Initiative (Erik Olin Wright) • Sociological Spring: Human Rights and the Discpline (Bruce Friesen) • ICPSR Celebrates its Upcoming 50th Anniversary (Dan Meisler) • Vantage Point: Science Serving Human Rights (From January 2009 Footnotes) • Science Policy • A New ASA Congressional Fellow • Electronic Manuscript Posting Policies Updated • Participate in New NSF-Funded Survey of Sociology Majors • Council Highlights • News on the ASA Sections • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Las Vegas • The ASA Seeks Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships • Announcements • Deaths: Lawrence Carter, Judith Richie Demerath, Howard B. Kaplan, Raymond

Footnotes December 2011 (Volume 39, Number 9) • ASA President Trip to Mid-South's Sociological Association Meeting • The Changing Political Landscape: COSSA 1981-2011 • Candidates for 2012 Election • Vantage Point: Changes in the Common Rule? The Social and Behavioral Sciences at Center Stage • Science Policy • The U.S. Census Introduces the New Supplemental Poverty Measure • 2012 Annual Meeting Space for other Activities • 2012 Annual Meeting Updates • PubsComm: Let the Sunsine In (Robert Zussman) • Nominations Sought for 2012 Section Awards • Report Shows Sociology's Competitiveness in Gaining Federal R&D Dollars • ASA honors Program 2012 Call for Nominations • A Sociologist's View of the "Occupy" Camps: Movements in a Shifting Media Landscape (Sarah Sobieraj) • ASA Forum: The Courage to Publicize One's Convictions (Alan Sica) • Announcements • Deaths: Howard Bernard Kaplan, Pamela L. Tremayne, Harold Wilensky • Obituaries: Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Joseph B. Perry, Jr., Robert J. Stevenson

Footnotes January 2012 (Volume 40, Number 1) • Denver and Utopia: Historical Notions and Contemporary Realities (David Piacenti) • ASA Financial Support for Editorial Offices (Catherine White Berheide) • Footnotes Returns to Print • Vantage Point: The Limitations of Electronic Comminucation: Returning to a Printed Footnotes • Science Policy • Comparative Years to Degree for Social Science PhDs • 2012 ASA Annual Meeting: Denver-The Cultural Center of the Rocky Mountains • Denver Spotlight-The Denver Zoo • Starting a Discussion with 200+ High School Teachers of Sociology • Social Science with Social Media (Scott Golder and Michael Macy) • ASA Awards grants for the Advancement of Sociology • The ASA Student Forum Advisory Board (Patrick O'Brien) • Sociologist Explores Trans (In)visibilities in Bogota, Columbia (Salvador Vidal-Ortiz) • Internationalization of Japanese Sociology and Its Identity Crisis (Yoshimichi Sato) • Invitation to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society (Conner Bailey) • Two Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • ASA Community Action Research (CARI) Grant • ASA Congressional Fellowship • Announcements • Deaths: Phil Bosserman, April Brayfield, Gert Harald Mueller, Harold Wilensky • Obituaries: Leon F. Bouvier

Footnotes February 2012 (Volume 40, Number 2) • TRAILS Completes First Full Calendar Year; ASA Announces Call for TRAILS Editor • Recipients of 2012 ASA Awards • Finding Sociology in Colorado (N. Prabha Unnithan) • Vantage Point: Fostering Continuity and Engagement with ASA during Career Transitions • Social Scientists and Research Development: What Do Research Development Professionals Do? (Gila Budescu & Barbara L.E. Walker) • International Perspectives: Chinese Social Science, Stability and the State (Leta Hong Fincher) • Moving Beyond "Doing the Right Thing" • Thank You, ASA Members! • Graduate School Poster Session • Announcements • Deaths: Arlene Kaplan Daniels • Obituaries: Charles Phillip Bosserman, April Brayfield, Lawrence R. Carter, James C. Kimberly, Gert Harold Mueller, Joseph T. Mullan

Footnotes March 2012 (Volume 40, Number 3) • Montana: The Last Best Place (R. Patrick Bixler) • Implementing Professional Curb Cuts: Recommendations of the Status Committee on Persons with Disabilities (Margaret Weigers Vitullo and Allison C. Carey) • New Member Benefit: Submit Resources to TRAILS Without a Subscription • Vantage Point: ASA Advocacy on Capitol Hill • Science Policy • ASA Launches Campaign to Expand its Database of Subject Matter Experts for the Media • Sociology Research Makes Headlines • Applied Sociology: Kevin Bales: Using Sociology to Fight Slavery • What Happens in a Course that is Truly Global (Rodney D. Coates) • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2012 • 2012 ASA President Visiting Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities • My Journey into the Deaf-World: A Visit to Gallaudet University (Erik Olin Wright) • Council Highlights • Student Forum Travel Awards • ASA Forum: Beyond Ignorance and Dogma: On Taking Religion Seriously (Christian Smith) • Announcements • Obituaries: Arlene Kaplan Daniels

Footnotes April 2012 (Volume 40, Number 4) • Local Flavor: Clean Tech and Renewable Energy Clusters in Colorado (Elizabeth Stephan) • Snippets from the Travels with Erik Blog • New Task Force on Community College Sociologists • Vantage Point: Sounds Utopian - and It's Real • Science Policy • Federal Investments in R&D Pays Off • Time to Vote! • Lessons Learned from Media Coverage • New Member Benefit for 2012 • Interested in Volunteering for the ASA Task Force on Community College Faculty? • Latest Data on Social Science Jobs for new PhDs • Emerita Profile: Essie Rutledge: Blazing a Trail in African American Studies • ASA Forum: In Favor of Relevance: When Religion Studies Matter (Ryan T. Cragun) • Call for a New Task Force on the Post-Doctorate in Sociology • Announcements • Deaths: Mohamed El-Attar, Hy Enzer, Gordon Hirabayashi • Obituaries: John Colombotos, John Pock, Suzanne E. Szabo

Footnotes May/June 2012 (Volume 40, Number 5) • Colorado Springs: Whose Utopia? (Heather Albanesi ,Michele Companion, Lynda Dickson, Richard Dukes, Abby Ferber, and Edwardo Portillos) • The Real Utopia Theme at the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting (Erik Olin Wright) • Snippets from the Travels with Erik Blog, Part 2 • Vantage Point: Federal Budget Bills Threaten Social Science Research and Jobs • Science Policy • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • Providing Professional Development for Department Leaders: Chair and DGS Conference at the Annual Meeting • Sociologists Receive Major Awards and Honors • Teaching Sociology to 11 to 14 Year Olds • The Expanding Classroom: Welcoming New Media into Sociology Courses (Carey Sargent) • Annual Meeting Insert • Public Sociology: Targeting Elites for Social Justice (Donald W. Light) • Six Projects are Funded by the 2012 CARI Grant • ASA's Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant Support Two New Projects • The New Department Survey: providing Up-to-Date Information for Chairs and Faculty • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: Irving Louis Horowitz, Harriet B. Presser • Obituaries: Joseph S. Vandiver

Footnotes July/August 2012 (Volume 40, Number 6) • The Results of the 2012 Election Are in: Annette Lareau is President, Brian Powell is Vice President, Mary Romero is Secretary • Wheel Utopias: Denver's Urban Transitions Seen by Bicycle (Lucy Dwight and Joshua Goode) • Interested in an ASA Leadership Position? • Vantage Point: Sociologists Teresa Sullivan-Extraordinary Scholar, Teacher, Mentor and higher Education Leader-Faces her next Challenges as UVA President • Science Policy • Announcing the Newest Members of the Department Resources Group • New MCAT Emphasizes Social Foundations of Health and Disease (Shannon N. Davis and Jason M. Satterfield) • Tukufu Talks History Detectives, Offers Advice on Communicating Sociology • Calhoun Appointed as the New Director of the London School of Economics • Trails Welcomes its New Editor: Diane Pike (Stephen Sweet) • International Perspectives: An American Sociologist in Armenia (Daina S. Eglitis) • Should Every Sociologist Blog? (Philip N. Cohen) • Public Sociology: Finding the Right Fit Outside of Academia (Henry H. Brownstein) • ASA Welcomes Eight New MFP Fellows • ASA Awards Eight Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • ASA Forum • Announcements • Deaths: W. Phillips Davison, Roslyn Muraskin, John Van Dyke Saunders, Jack Tucker

Footnotes September/October 2012 (Volume 40, Number 7) • Meet the 2013 ASA President: Cecilia Ridgeway (Shelly J. Correll and Kathryne M. Young) • Sociologists Explore Real Utopias in an Annual Meeting Filled with Firsts • The International Sociological Association 2nd Forum of Sociology in Buenos Aires (Margaret Abraham) • Vantage Point: Sequestration = Devastation of Key Federal Programs • Science Policy • President Fernando Henrique Cardoso Is Awarded the Kluge Prize • A Year in Congress (Dennis Bogusz) • Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 109th Annual Meeting Program! • Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals • ASA Awards Second Cohort of NSF-Funded Postdoctoral Fellowships in Economic Sociology • Inequality in the United States: A Primer (Sharon Jank and Lindsay Owens) • Applications Invited for Editorships • 2012-2013 Regional and Aligned Sociology Association Meetings • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • Announcements • Deaths: F. James Davis, Mayer Nathan Zald • Obituaries: Debra S. Emmelman, Nelson Northrup Foote, Irving Louis Horowitz, Harriet B. Presser

Footnotes November 2012 (Volume 40, Number 8) • Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Sociologically Smart College Procedures to Improve Student Success (James E. Rosenbaum, Northwestern University, and Janet Rosenbaum) • Join the ASA Database of Subject Matter Experts • Gender in the Field - ASA Department of Research on the Discipline and the Profession. (Do female sociologists concentrate heavily on gender and family in their scholarly work?) • Member Donations Make the ASA Small Grants Program a Significant Disciplinary Resource (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy - Statement on Conviction of Italian Earthquake Scientists, Persistent Pay Gap Affects Women Just One Year Out of College, NIH Videos Demonstrate Behavior’s Role in Personal Health • Heather Gautney Is the 2012-13 ASA Congressional Fellow • “Big Bang” for Higher Education and the Uncertain Future of Sociology in the UK (John Holmwood) • 2012 Department Survey to Remain Open Through December • Minority Fellowship Program Sees Changes to Application • Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy • Kent State Sociology Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary (Richard T. Serpe and Jerry M. Lewis) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Denver (William A. Gamson, Frank Dobbin, Chandra Mukerji, Diane Pike, Katherine Rowell, Judith Blau, Katha Pollitt, James W. Loewen, Douglas S. Massey, Michael A. Messner, Kimberly Kay Hoang) • Council Highlights • Announcements • Deaths (Katherine Payne Moseley)

Footnotes December 2012 (Volume 40, Number 9) • Challenges Ahead for Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy (COSSA) (Brad Smith) • Changes in the MCAT Have Implications for Sociology Department Planning (Edward L. Kain) • Candidates for 2013 ASA Election • Science is in the Public Interest: Obama gets it, but can he do it? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy - U.S. Census Bureau Releases American Community Survey 5- Year Estimates, NHA Board of Directors Names New Executive Director, Anthropology Association Names New Executive Director. • Space for Other Group Activities (at ASA Annual Meeting) • An Alternative Gift Fair for Sociology – Donate to the Small Grants Program (Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund, Community Action Research Initiative (CARI), Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • PubsComm: Getting the Word Out (Karen A. Cerulo) • Announcements • Deaths (Roger Scott) • Obituaries: Rudolf Johannes Faller, James L. McCartney, Rekha Mirchandani, Katharine Payne Moseley, Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi • Funding: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program

Footnotes January 2013 (Volume 41, Number 1) • TRAILS Digital Library Hits 1,000 Subscriber Milestone (Diane Pike) • Recruitment and Retention of Sociology Majors (ASA Research Department) • Gun Violence: Lifting the Shackles on Federal Firearms Research (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy - The NIH Launches Blog on Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Results of the 2012 Monitoring the Future Survey Are Available) • The Applied Theorist with an Academic Day Job (Thomasina Borkman) • Internationalising the Curriculum: Economic Rationalist or Transformative Approach (Cynthia Joseph) • Using Social Media in the Classroom: A Community College Perspective (Chad M. Gesser) • Thank You, ASA Members! • Seven Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows (Howard E. Aldrich, Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Randy Hodson, Melvin L. Oliver, Zhenchao Qian, John Skvoretz, Richard Michael Suzman • ASA Awards Six Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Rebekah Burroway, Andy Clarno, Sarah Damaske, Claire Laurier Decoteau, Steve Lopez, Lizabeth Zack • Deaths: Charles Louis Kincannon • Obituaries: Josef C. Gutenkauf, Aubrey Wendling

Footnotes February 2013 (Volume 41, Number 2) • The Two Cities of New York: Wealth, Poverty, and Diversity in the Big Apple (Andrew A. Beveridge) • Recipients of the 2013 ASA Awards: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award - Joe R. Feagin, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology - Donald Light, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award - Greta R. Krippner, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award - Rose M. Brewer and Jay R. Howard, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award - Elijah Anderson, Jessie Bernard Award - Kathleen Gerson, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award - Ira Glass and the staff of This American Life, Public Understanding of Sociology Award Ruth Milkman. • Sociologists Help Establish Network to Promote Community Engaged Scholarship (Jose Calderon and Mark R. Warren) • Sociology Is a STEM Discipline (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy; Americans in Worse Health than People in Other HighIncome Countries, The NHA Named Stephen Kidd the New Executive Director, NIH Names New Director of The Center for Scientific Review • Russell Sage Foundation Names a New President: Sheldon H. Danziger • TRAILS Top 10 Resources of 2012 (Jaime Hecht) • 2013 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening (Jamie Hecht) • Responding to the Students in our Classrooms: On Teaching Military Veterans and Engineering Majors (Lisa Brush) • The Growing Presence of Social Science in Qatar (Jon T. Crist) • ASA Forum (Phyllis Puffer) • Deaths: Stanley Cohen • Obituaries: Michal McCall-Meshejian • Funding: Student Forum Travel Grants • For Members Only: Individual Health Insurance Plans

Footnotes March/April 2013 (Volume 41, Number 3) • New York: A City Transformed by Immigration (Nancy Foner) • Rob Warren to Edit Sociology of Education • Enhancing Teaching and Learning for Active-Duty Military Students (Darlene Smucny and Merrily Stover) • Speaking for Science: ASA Submits an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Speaking for Science: ASA Submits an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, Population Reference Bureau: Changes in U.S. Foreign Born May Slow Population Growth • Coburn Amendment Restricts NSF Political Science Funding (Howard Silver) • What Do We Know about Postdoctorates in Sociology? (Department of Research on the Profession and the Discipline) • Visiting New York City (ASA Meeting Services) • Candidates for ASA Offices in 2013: Candidates for President-Elect: Paula England, Aldon D. Morris Candidates for Vice President-Elect: Cecilia Menjívar, Rubén G. Rumbaut • Upcoming Program Review? Browse ASA’s List of Highly Qualified External Reviewers (The Department Resources Group) • This is in addition to the extenHuman Rights Delegation as a Post-Retirement Venture: Keith Roberts • Statistics Is Cool! (Ronald L. Wasserstein) • Announcements • Deaths: Irene Taviss Thomson • Council Appoints New Editors of JHSB and SOE • For Members Only Subscribe to TRAILS to Access Content, Submit Teaching Tools to TRAILS without Subscribing

Footnotes May/June 2013 (Volume 41, Number 4) • Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Capital of Cool (Sharon Zukin) • Interrogating Inequality: Plans for ASA in New York (Cecilia L. Ridgeway) • Sociologists Featured at 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting (Roberta Spalter-Roth & Jean H. Shin) • Social Sciences under Attack—Again and Worse (Sally T. Hillsman) • Summary of ASA Editorial Activity • New Department Affiliates Benefit Professional Development Webinars for Sociology Faculty (Margaret Weigers Vitullo) • Sociology in Australia: A Disciple Finding Its Way in the World (Salvatore Babones) • Building a STEM – Literate Society Calls for Sociologists’ Expertise (Debbie Storrs and John Mihelich) • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices • ASA Awards Seven Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Mikhail Balaev, Carolyn Chen, Ashley Currier, Kim Ebert, Chunping Han, John W. Mohr, Tiffany Taylor • 2013 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners: Stephanie Medley-Rath, David Blouin, Allison Moss, Tracy Ore, Ashley Rondini • William Knox: A Positive Force in Greensboro (MaryBe MacMillan’s) • Sociologist Honored for Research on Education and Immigrant Populations (Rubén G. Rumbaut) • ASA Forum: Sociologists and Same-Sex Marriage: Politics of Truth (Mathieu Deflem) • Deaths: Carol H. Weiss, Raymond Boudon • Obituaries Gerald R. Garrett, David E. Lavin, Gerald Marwell, Carol H. Weiss • Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (ad) • For members Only: Health Proponent: Help for Health Care and Insurance Problems, Members on Vacation, ASA Online Bookstore (ad)

Footnotes July/August 2013 (Volume 41, Number 5) • The High Line Park in NYC (David Halle) • 2013 Election Results: President-Elect Paula England, New York University, Vice President-Elect Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University, Council Members-at- Large Patricia E. White, National Science Foundation, Leslie McCall, Northwestern University, Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan, Tina Fetner, McMaster University, Committee on Nominations Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan, Francesca Polletta, University of California-Irvine, Monica McDermott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Kathleen J. Ferraro, Northern Arizona University, Maxine Leeds Craig, University of California-Davis, Dawn T. Robinson, University of Georgia • Briefing: Strategies for Building a Diverse Scientific Workforce (Angela L. Sharpe) • Your First ASA Annual Meeting? Helpful hints from a old long-time member (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: A New Census Bureau Director Nominated, Provisions Affecting the NSF Political Science Program of the Federal Continuing Appropriations Act • Three Sociologists Honored: William Julius Wilson, Richard Hauser, Yu Xie • Improvement in Faculty Salaries for Some (ASA Department of Research) • Austin Summit on LGBT Families Report (Amy C. Lodge and Brandon Andrew Robinson) • ISA World Congress in Yokohama, Japan, July 2014 • An Artful Transition to Retirement (Thomas L. Van Valey) • Online BS in Sociology: A “Natural Experiment” at Kennesaw State University (Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens and Samuel Abaidoo) • What’s Distinctive about Teaching Writing to Sociology Students? (William G. Roy) • The Sociology and Politics of Being a Mayor (Mike Hirsch) • ASA Welcomes Minority Fellowship Program Cohort 40 (ASA Minority Fellowship Program) Edwin Ackerman (ASA Council MFP), Regina S. Baker (ABS/Leadership Campaign MFP), Jessica Dunning-Lozano (ASA Council MFP), Joseph Ewoodzie (MSS/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Elena Shih (SWS MFP #1), Stacy Torres (SWS MFP # 2), Matthew Town (AKD MFP) • Giving Up Keeping Up (Peter J. Donaldson) • ASA Forum: Making Content as Important as Form (Thomas Schef) • Announcements • Deaths: Michel Crozier, Gerald Marwell, Aristide R. Zolberg • Obituaries: Daniel O’Haver Price

Footnotes September/October 2013 (Volume 41, Number 6) • An Ethnographer, a Teacher, and the 2014 ASA President (Robin Leidne) • The Journal of Health and Social Behavior Welcomes New Editor: Gilbert Gee • 2013 ASA Annual Meeting Breaks Attendance Record (Daniel Fowler) • Sociological Careers – Can Graduate Training Meet the Challenge? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Why the President’s 2014 Budget Should Restore Funding for ESOPs (Heather Gautney) • 2013 CNSF Exhibition & Reception (ASA Public Affairs) • Sexualities in the Social World (Paula England) • Think Ahead to 2015! (ASA Meetings) • Eight Projects Are Funded by the 2013 CARI Grant (Claudia Chaufan, Shane Lachtman, Carl Milofsky, Caitlin Patler, Frank Ridzi and Matthew Loveland, Mark Sherry, Dale Willits) • The University as an Open Space: the World Social Forum (Val Moghadam,) • 2013-2014 Regional and Aligned Sociology Meetings (ASA Meeting Services) • Applications Invited for Editorships Meetings (ASA Publications Committee) • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success (ASA Membership) • ASA Forum: Do You Know Your Students’ Rights? (Shirley A. Jackson) • Announcements • Deaths: Robert N. Bellah, Fred H. Goldner, William Gray, Rita J. Simon, Philip E. Slater • Obituaries: Raymond Boudon, Andrew M. Greeley, Won Moo Hurh, Bernard Dov Lazerwitz, Gerald Marwell, Ralph Wahrman • 2014 MFP Call for Applications (ASA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP)

Footnotes November 2013 (Volume 41, Number 7) • Congressional Briefing on Aging in Rural America: 21st Century Trends (E. Helen Berry) • Manuscript Review Strategies (David Brunsma; Monica Prasad, Ezra Zuckerman • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in New York City - W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award: Joe R. Feagin, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: Elijah Anderson, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology Award: Ruth Milkman, Jessie Bernard Award Kathleen Gerson, Distinguished Scholarly Book: Award Greta R. Krippner, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Rose Brewer, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Jay Howard, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Donald Light, Excellence in Reporting on Social Issues Award: Ira Glass and the Staff of This American Life. • Congressional Impasse and Government Shutdown Hurts Science and the Nation (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Forum (The Future of the Sociology of Aging: An Agenda for Action, Census: Asians Fastest Growing Race or Ethnic Group in 2012, Toolkit for Community Conversations about Mental Health) • Not Your Usual Day at the Mall: A Science Career Fair and an Informal STEM Education Experiment (ASA APAP) • Public Engagement: Differences Between the U.S. and the UK (Ann Brooks) • A Rural Sociologist for Almost Eight Decades: Olaf F. Larson (Julie Zimmerman) • My Sorokin Lecture at Passaic County Community College (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) • Call for ASA Award Nominations (W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Distinguished Book Award, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology, Dissertation Award) (ASA Governance Department) • Council Highlights • ASA Forum: Shakers and Shakees: A Defense of Social Science (John C. Alessio) • Announcements • Deaths: Carmen “Joey” Veneziano, Robert “Bob” Bolles Zehner • Obituaries: J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr., Fred H. Goldner, Robert “Bob” Bolles Zehner

Footnotes December 2013 (Volume 41, Number 8) • Challenges and Opportunities for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Brad Smith) • The NAS Celebrates 150 Years with a Nod to the Social Sciences (Michael Kisielewski) • Candidates for 2014 Election (President-Elect: Ruth Milkman, Bernice A. Pescosolido; Vice President-Elect: Mary Bernstein, Barbara Jane Risman, Council Members-At Large: Katharine Donato, Tanya Marie Golash-Boza, Mark Gould, Adia M. Harvey-Wingfield, Margaret Hunter, Peter Kivisto, Jyoti Puri, Robb Willer, Committee on Nominations Tim Bartley, Wendy Cadge, William F. Danaher, Steve G. Hoffman, Michael Hughes, Grace Kao, Omar A. Lizardo, Rashawn Ray, Victor Rios, Thomas E. Shriver, Lyn Spillman, Stephen A. Sweet, Committee on Publications Kathleen M. Blee, Timothy Hallett, Douglas Hartmann, Nella Van Dyke, Committee on Committees Member-at-Large Caroline W. Lee, Dawne Moon, Gilda Laura Ochoa, Bandana Purkayastha, David Flores, Rita Stephan, Amin Ghaziani, Steven J. Gold,) • Should Graduate Sociology Programs Teach Academic Writing? And If so, How? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: New Website Launched by AAAS, Impact of Sequestration on the National Institutes Of Health, U.S. Life Expectancy Increases Overall, Declines For Some • Wendy Baldwin Retires as Population Reference Bureau President and CEO (Johanna Olexy) • Space for Other Group Activities (ASA Meetings) • Five Ws of an ASA Congressional Fellowship (Heather Gautney) • Call for Papers Is Now Open • Dissertation Award Winners: Dissertation Major ASA Award Larissa Buchholz , Dissertation Award Daniel A. Menchik • “Why Teach at a Community College?” (A. James McKeever) • ASA Honors Program Participants: Then and Now; Dennis Rome, David Embrick, Sean Everton, Joseph Ewoodzie, Diane Grams. • Two Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows; Paul D. Cleary & Alberto Palloni • Mark Caldwell Funded by the 2013 CARI Grant • Nominations Sought for 2014 Section Awards • Announcements • Deaths: Suzanne Bianchi, Ernest Q. Campbell, Bill Erbe, Richard P. Gale, Juan Linz • Obituaries: Suzanne Bianchi, Richard P. Gale

Footnotes January 2014 (Volume 42, Number 1) • Yes, Virginia, There Is High School Sociology (Jean Shin) • ASA Awarded Support for Travel Grants for the ISA World Congress (Jordan Robison, ASA Governance and Information Systems Department) • Looking Back at Three Decades at COSSA (Howard Silver) • ASA Assists U.S. Sociologists Collaborate Internationally (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Dan Gaylin Named President of NORC at the University of Chicago, Social Explorer and Census Bureau Collaborate • COSSA Names Wendy Naus New Executive Director • AS Student Members: What Does ASA Membership Mean to you? A video competition (ASA Academic & Professional Affairs) • Competing Poverty Measures: An Analysis (Diana M. Pearce) • A Scholar with an International Focus (Craig Schaar) • ASA Awards Six Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Maryann Bylander, Jonathan Eastwood, Wendy Roth, Aliya Saperstein, Amy Lianne Stone, James Michael Thomas) • Thank You, ASA Members! • MFP Celebrates 40th Anniversary in 2014 (ASA Minority Affairs Program) • When Buying Peaches or Measuring Learning Complexities Abound (Irving Franke) • Claude Steele Named Provost at Berkeley • Announcements • Deaths: Suzanne Kurth, Clifford Nass • Obituaries: Clifford I. Nass, Eugene A. Rosa • Funding: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program

Footnotes February 2014 (Volume 42, Number 2) • Hard Times and Inequality San Francisco Bay Area Style (Sheila M. Katz) • Recipients of the 2014 ASA Awards: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award - William Julius Wilson, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology - Harry Perlstadt, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award - Monica Prasad, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award - Kathleen Lowney, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award - Richard O. Hope, Jessie Bernard Award - Christine L. Williams and Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award - Lee Rainie, Public Understanding of Sociology Award - Juliet B. Schor. • FAD Funds: Crossing Boundaries, Workshopping Sexualities (Mary Bernstein) • Consensus on the Common Rule: Proposed Revisions to Human Subjects Regulations Would Benefit Social Sciences (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: OBSSR Enacts Twitter Chats on Career Development, A Updated Census.gov Website, NSF Releases 2012 U.S. Doctoral Degree Recipient Data, NSF Study Shows Declines in Federal Funding for Research and Development • ASA Files Amicus Brief in Support of Suits to Overturn UT, OK Gay Marriage Bans (ASA Public Affairs) • ASA’s CARI Grant: Using Social Science to Help Respond to a Violent Tragedy (Stephanie Hartwell) • UIC Sociology and a Chicago High School Partner to Bring Public Sociology to Students (Emily Ruehs; William “Buddy” Scarborough; Carolina Calvillo; Michael De Anda Muñiz; Jesse Holzman) • 2014 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening (Jamie Hecht) • How the ASA’s Section Websites and Listservs Came to Be — Or Not to Be (Barry Wellman) • Getting Back into the Flow with Intro (Melinda Messineo) • Soc Connect: A Peer Mentoring Program (Mridula Udayagiri) • ASA Forum; High School Student Participation in the Association (Nate Breznau) • It’s Here! 21st Century Careers in Sociology 2nd Edition (ASA Publications) • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Now Accepting Submissions (ASA Publications) • Khurana Appointed Harvard College Dean (Johanna Olexy) • Announcements • Deaths: Janet Abu-Lughod, Roderick D. Bush, Stuart Hall, William Anderson, Tess Hauser • Obituaries: Janet Abu-Lughod • Student Forum Travel Grants • For Members Only Individual Health Insurance Plans

Footnotes March 2014 (Volume 42, Number 3) • Designing and Conducting Research to Make Real Social Change in Abortion Care (Tracy A. Weitz) • Maureen T. Hallinan: A Mentor in the Sociology of Education (Mark Berends) • Candidates for the 2014 ASA Election: Candidates for President-Elect: Ruth Milkman, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Candidates for Vice President-Elect: Mary Bernstein, Barbara J. Risman, • Dismantling the NSF SBE Directorate: House Republicans’ FIRST Act (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: NSF Selects Fay Lomax Cook to Head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, Fourteen Business, Higher Education, Scientific Organizations Urge Congress to Support Federal Investments in Research • National Trends Push Departments to Focus on Career Advising: ASA Can Help (Margaret Weigers Vitullo) • The Value of Booking within the ASA Hotel Block (ASA Meetings Department) • Annual Meeting 2014 News and Updates (ASA Meetings Department) • Colleagues and Friends Pay Tribute to Maureen Hallinan (Teresa Sullivan) • ASA to Launch Open Access Scholarly Journal (ASA Publications Department) • Announcements • Deaths: F. Ivan Nye • Obituaries: William J. Chambliss, F. Ivan Nye • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • For Members Only Subscribe to TRAILS to Access Content

Footnotes April 2014 (Volume 42, Number 4) • Understanding Super-Gentrification in San Francisco (John Stover) • ASA’s New Opportunities in Retirement Network Formed • Undergraduate Students as Applied Sociologists: Community-Based Research Addresses Homelessness (Laura Nichols and Norma A. Winston) • Advocating Sociology—You Are Essential to Our Success (Sally T. Hillsman) • Socio-Innovations at SAGE Publications (Sophia Puglisi) • Sociology in Japan: History, Challenges, and the Yokohama World Congress (Koichi Hasegawa) • Sociology, Visually (Douglas Harper) • American Sociological Association Council Highlights • New Report from the National Research Council: Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences • Summary of Editorial Activity, (January 1-December 31, 2013) (ASA Publications Department) • Announcements • Deaths: Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss, Charles William Mueller, Elva Marie Pees, Lewis Yablonsky • Obituaries: Abbott L. Ferriss

Footnotes May/June 2014 (Volume 42, Number 5) • Hard Times for Low-Wage Latino Immigrants in San Francisco’s Mission District (Susanne Jonas) • Stephen Sweet to Edit Teaching Sociology (John Zipp) • MFP Thanks Donors Who Completed Their Five-Year Leadership Campaign Pledge (Jean Shin) • The Positive Value of ASA Membership from the Perspective of Those Who Haven’t Renewed (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Excessive Regulations Turning Scientists into Bureaucrats, Exploring the Future of the Aging Population, Presidential Science Advisors Releases Report on Big Data and Privacy • Elizabeth Wikler Is the 2013-14 ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Olexy) • ASA to Offer Social Media Pre-Conference Workshop (Nathan Palmer) • Applications Invited for Inaugural Editor of the New ASA Open Access Journal (ASA Publications) • Dual-Credit Partnership Between a High School and Hawkeye Community College (Chad Van Cleve) • 2014 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners: Jesse Holzman, Carolina Calvillo, Michael De Anda Muñiz, William Scarborough, and Barbara Risman, Danielle Kane, James Kitts. • ASA Forum: The Open Access Movement and Activism for the “Knowledge Commons” (Jackie Smith) • Congratulations to the ISA Travel Grant Awardees • Sociologists Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Adam Gamoran, Sherry R. Turkle. • Sociologists Appointed Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars: Richard D. Alba, Zai Liang, Ann Morning, Sean Reardon, Aliya Saperstein, Susan Silbey • Sociologists Receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships: Jack A. Goldstone & Cecilia Menjívar. • It’s Here! 21st Century Careers in Sociology, 2nd Edition (ASA Publications) • Announcements • Deaths: Micheal S. Jarrett, William E. Knox • Obituaries: Rodney M. Coe, James “Jim” McAllister • Call for Nominations for ASA Offices

Footnotes July/August 2014 (Volume 42, Number 6) • Youth Activism in the Bay Area (Jessica K. Taft & Hava R. Gordon) • Results of the 2014 Election: President-Elect Ruth Milkman, Vice President-Elect Barbara J. Risman, Council Members-at-Large Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Margaret Hunter, Peter Kivisto, Committee on Nominations Grace Kao, Rashawn Ray, Omar A Lizardo, Lyn Spillman, Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University Victor Rios, Committee on Publications Kathleen M. Blee, Douglas Hartmann, Committee on Committees Bandana Purkayastha, Gilda L. Ochoa, Rita Stephan, State Amin Ghaziani • Social Psychology Quarterly Welcomes New Co-Editors (Brian Powel) • The Importance of Statistics within the Discipline (sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: NSF Addressing Transparency and Accountability, Census Bureau Story Maps Illustrate Metro Area and County Population Change, Impact of Behavioral Health Conditions and Treatment on Young Adults, U.S. Teen Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates Reach Historic Lows • Advocating for Social Science Is a Team Sport (Wendy A. Naus) • 2014 ASA Dissertation Award Winners: Yan Long, Ya-Wen Lei • Thank You, Bobbie Spalter-Roth! (Mary Scheuer Senter) • Making a Life in Applied Sociology: Working at an Employee-Owned Research Corporation (Margaret Weigers Vitullo) • Evolving Oakland: Five Years Living in a Gentrified, Occupied, and Artified City (Cynthia Ganote and Sheila Katz) • 2014 Graduate Poster Session • Seeking Donations: Digitizing Editorial Archives (ASA Executive Office) • Sociologists Tackle Access to Health Care in a Rural Community (Brandn Green, Kristal Jones and Carl Milofsky) • Russian Academia: Building an Information Society and Global Ties (Olga V. Mayorova) • Introducing MFP Cohort 4: Shani Adia Evans (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Ryan Gabriel (MSS/ABS MFP), Jackelyn Hwang (AKD MFP) Yvonne Y. Kwan (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Victoria Reyes (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Sasha Maria Rodriguez (SWS MFP #1), Firuzeh Shokooh Valle (SWS MFP #2), (ASA Minority Fellowship) • Three Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Peter Bearman, Kathryn Edin, Kathleen Mullan Harris. • ASA Awards Six Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Jennifer Karas Montez, Zulema Valdez, Nancy Plankey Videla, Michaela Soyer and Gary Zajac, Sean Kelly, Amanda K. Damarin, Emily Ryo. • The AAPSS Elects Three Sociologists among its 2014 Fellows: Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, and Heidi Hartmann. • ASA Forum: Labeling Theory in Retrospect (Thomas Schef) • Announcements • Deaths: Gary S. Becker, Donald J. Bogue, Mary Cay Sengstock • Obituaries: William Averette Anderson, Roderick Douglas Bush, Mary Cay Sengstock, Austin T. Turk • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline

Footnotes September/October 2014 (Volume 42, Number 7) • Paula England: No Sense of (Geographic) Direction but a Profound Sense of Academic Direction (Kathryn Edin) • The Contexts Editors Bring Energy and Experience with Public Engagement (Douglas Hartmann) • 2014 ASA Annual Meeting Sets Attendance Records (Daniel Fowler) • Why Study Social Science? “Because It Matters.” (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Census Bureau’s ACS Provides State and Local Income, Poverty, Health Insurance Statistics, PRB’s 2014 World Population Data Sheet Is Online, NICHD Partners with Other Federal Agencies to Support Young Children • New Major Department Affiliate Benefits Launched (ASA Membership) • Think Ahead to 2016! Invited Session Proposals Solicited for the 111th Annual Meeting (ASA Membership) • 2016 Annual Meeting Theme: Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World? (ASA Membership) • The ASA Minority Fellowship Program (Johanna Olexy) • Council Highlights from August 19-20, 2014, meetings in San Francisco • American Sociology in an Era of Rising Inequalities (Herbert J. Gans) • ASA Open Access Journal Editors • Ralph H. Turner: Social Psychologist and Eclectic Symbolic Interactionist 1919-2014 (Robert Emerson and David A. Snow) • Tributes to Turner: A Master Sociological Craftsman • ASA Congratulates Havidán and Gary! (ASA Minority Affairs Program) • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • Regional and Aligned 2014–15 Meeting Schedule (ASA Meetings Department) • News from the International Sociological Association Margaret Abraham Elected as ISA President for 2014–2018 • Creating Universally Accessible Online Instruction (Mamadi Corra & Tracy E. Ore) • Applications Invited for Editorships (ASA Publications) • Three Years of the ASA Wikipedia Initiative (LiAnna Davis and Jami Mathewson) • Meet a Few ASA Staff • ASA Forum: Why I Value the ASA Meetings (James J. Dowd) • Announcements • Deaths: Elaine M. Brody, JoAnn Carmin, Peter Freund, Harvey H. Marshall, Norman Miller, Lillian B. Rubin • Obituaries: JoAnn Carmin, Peter E.S. Freund, Harvey Huston Marshall • Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline

Footnotes November 2014 (Volume 42, Number 8) • The Epidemic of Sickness and Death from Prescription Drugs (Donald W. Light) • Contemporary Sociology and Borges’s Total Library (Gabriel Abend) • After Lean In: Research Reflections on Gender Studies (Marianne Cooper) • Creating Standards for High School Sociology (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Love Data Mining? 2011–2013 American Community Survey Estimates Now Available, The NSF on Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research • ASA Council Establishes Task Force for Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major: Volunteers Sought (ASA Department Resources Group (DRG) • Facing an Unequal World: The 2014 ISA World Congress at Yokohama, Japan (Bandana Purkayastha) • Purkayastha Appointed ASA Representative to the ISA (Johanna Olexy) • ASA Welcomes its Newest Congressional Fellow (Johanna Olexy) • The Spivack Program Awards Eight CARI Grants: Tony Cheng, Gloria Gonzalez, Maryann Mason, Jennifer Randles, Melissa M. Sloan and Jane Roberts, Rebecca L. Som Castellano, Elizabeth L. Sweet and Donna Marie Peters, Leslie K. Wang. • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco: W.E.B. Dubois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award William Julius Wilson, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Richard O. Hope, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology Juliet B. Schor, • Vision Statements for ASR, SM, ST Editor Candidates Available Online for Member Comment (ASA Publications) • Call for Submissions: Sociological Lives • American Sociologist Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Award: Donald Tomaskovic- Devey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst • TRAILS Seeks an Editor (ASA APAP) • Announcements • Obituaries: Susan Schwartz Danziger Borchert, Llewellyn Z. Gross, Harvey Huston Marshall, Norman Miller, Leonard I. Pearlin • Call for Applications: The Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy Community Action Research Initiative Grant • ASA Congressional Fellowship

Footnotes December 2014 (Volume 42, Number 9) • The Committee on Revising the Code of Ethics (Thomas Van Valey) • ASA Partners with Interfolio to Bring Big Benefits to Members, Department Affiliates (Jamie Panzarella) • 2015 ASA Election Candidates: President-Elect: Michele Lamont, Min Zhou, Vice President-Elect: Kathleen Gerson, Verta Taylor, Secretary-Elect: Mary Bernstein, David Takeuchi, Council Members At-Large: Mabel Berezin, Daniel F. Chambliss, Cynthia Feliciano, Mignon R. Moore, Wendy Ng, Wanda Rushing, Brent Simpson, Frederick F. Wherry, Committee on Nominations: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Rodney D. Coates, D’Lane Compton, James R. Elliott, David G. Embrick, Brian Gareau, Maria Krysan, Nancy Lopez, Becky Pettit, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Jiannbin Shiao, Tom J. Waidzunas, Committee on Publications: Jessica Collett, Matthew O. Hunt, Jodi O’Brien, Claire M. Renzetti, Committee on Committees: Member at-Large Ben Carrington, Ruth N. Lopez-Turley, Ann J. Morning, Iddo Tavory, University Masters / FourYear Schools: Peter Callero, Charles Gallagher, Two Year Schools: Kira N. Arthurs, James McKeever. • Renewing a Commitment to Sociology and the ASA: Reflections from Members and Staff (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: AAAS Announces Their New CEO Is Representative Holt, IOM: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Important for Patient Care • Council Bestows its Appreciation for Cora Marrett (ASA Minority Affairs) • Space for Affiliates and Other Group Activities (ASA Meetings Department) • A Poverty and Inequality Course for All (David B. Grusky and Lindsay Owens) • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco, Continued - Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (co-recipient) Monica Prasad, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (co-recipient) Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (honorable mention) Claudio E. Benzecry, Jessie Bernard Award Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Jessie Bernard Major ASA Award Christine Williams, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Kathleen S. Lowney, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology Harry Perlstadt, Excellence in Reporting on Social Issues Award Lee Rainee, Dissertation Major ASA Award Ya-Wen Lei, Dissertation Major ASA Award Yan Long. • Using Wikipedia in Sociology Courses: the Faculty Perspective (Darcie Vandegrift and Natalie Jolly) • ASA Awards Five Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Shiri Noy, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Christopher Uggen, Victor Ray, and Matthew Hughey, Kristen Shorette, Nicholas Wilson, Yale University, and Damon Mayrl. • Call for Papers: ASA Student Forum Paper Competition (ASA Student Forum) • Report from the ASA Committee on Publications (Erin L. Kelly) • Announcements • Call for Nominations: ASA Honors Program • Obituaries: Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr. • Call for Applications: Extended Call for Applications for Sociological Theory Journal Editorship • Call for Applications: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program

Footnotes January 2015 (Volume 43, Number 1) • High School Sociology Front and Center Once Again at NCSS (Jean H. Shin, Beth Floyd, and Margaret Weigers Vitullo) • Sociology and Criminal Justice: Few Differences in Learning and Career Outcomes (Mary S. Senter and Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Teaching Sociology with Wikipedia (Eryk Salvaggio and Jami Mathewson) • The Policy Relevance of Sociology (Sally T. Hillsman) • Science Policy: Discontinuation of the National Children’s Study, Twenty Years of OBSSR: Behavioral and Social Sciences Remain Important to Health Research • The Shifting Landscape: Critically Contextualizing Conversations About Campus Sexual Violence (Ashley C. Rondini) • Producing the Most Valid and Reliable Estimates Possible at the U.S. Census (Johanna Olexy) • Bolstering Confidence and Understanding by Presenting with Undergraduates at Regional Meetings (Rena Zito) • Three Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows: Dudley L. Poston, Jr, Barbara Schneider, Michael J. White • Attracting and Retaining Sociology Majors (Julia Nevarez) • Applied Sociology: Starting a Master’s Online (Jeffrey Michael Clair) • Call for 2016 Annual Meeting Workshop Proposals! (ASA Meetings Department) • Earl Babbie to Present Inaugural Lecture in ORN’s “A Life in Sociology” Series, (ASA Meetings Department) • Call for Nominations: 2015 ASA Student Forum Advisory Board • Announcements • Thank You, ASA Members! • Obituaries: Daniel Aaron Foss, Albert K. Cohen,

Footnotes February 2015 (Volume 43, Number 2) • Back to Sweet Home Chicago (William T. Bielby) • Reflections on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre (Erik Olin Wright) • Recipients of 2015 ASA Awards: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award: John W. Meyer, Publication Award: Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Eleanor Lyon, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Gwen Sharpe and Lisa Wade, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: Howard Winant, Jessie Bernard Award: Nancy Naples, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award: Bill Moyers, Public Understanding of Sociology Award: Katherine Shelley Newman. • Communicating Social Science • Science Policy: Criminologist Appointed Director of NIJ, Belief in “Raw Brilliance” May Decrease Academic Diversity, New Steps to Enhance Transparency and Accountability at NSF • New Bylaws to Modernize COSSA’s Governance Structure (Wendy Naus) • 2015 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening (Jaime Hecht) • Choosing the Slate of Candidates for ASA Elections (Johanna Olexy) • Helping Students Make the Connection Between Sociology and Careers (Heather Sullivan-Catlin) • Class Activity: Learning Sociology by Updating the U.S. Constitution (Judith Blau) • Review for Contemporary Sociology (ASA Publications Committee) • New ASA Executive Office Staff: Redante Asuncion-Reed, John Curtis, Brandon McCain • Announcements • ASA Forum: Commentary on the Paris Killings at Charlie Hebdo, Google Offers Free Research Assistance • Deaths: Joseph Gusfield, Elizabeth (Liz) Markson, Eugene S. Uyeki, Hernán Vera • Obituaries: Albert K. Cohen, Scott R. Eliason, Linda Majka, Elizabeth Warren Markson, JoAnn L. Miller • Call for Applications: Student Forum Travel Grants

Footnotes March/April 2015 (Volume 43, Number 3) • The Chicago Craft Brew Scene (Paul-Brian McInerney) • ASA Files Amicus Brief With Supreme Court in Support of Marriage Equality (Daniel Fowler) • Candidates for the 2015 ASA Election: Michele Lamont, Min Zhou, Kathleen Gerson, Verta Taylor, Mary Bernstein, David Takeuchi • Why Standards? (Sally T. Hillsman) • Social Science Research and Public Policy: Context, Networks, and Strategies (Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best and Kelly Joyce) • Global Dialogue: An ISA President’s Reflections (Michael Burawoy) • Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Posters on the Hill (Jaime Hecht) • American Sociological Association Council Highlights • The Value of Booking Within the ASA Hotel Block (Kareem D. Jenkins) • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Launched Its Inaugural Issue • 2014 Top 10 Resources in TRAILS (Jaime Hecht) • Chicago: Windier than Jazz Hands (Jordan Aubry Robison) • Two ASA Presidents Speak at DCSS (President Paula England & Ruth Milkman) • Effective Program Review: The Lessons I Have Learned (Theodore C. Wagenaar) • Congratulations to Janet Astner on Her 40 Years at ASA (Jean Shin) • 2015 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners: Molly Clever & Karen Miller, Dennis J. Downey, Naomi Spence • Announcements • Deaths: Randy Hodson, Bruce R. Roberts • Obituaries: Ulrich Beck, Homer C. Cooper, Howard J. Ehrlich, Adeline “Addie” Levine • Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (ASA Research and Development Department)

Footnotes May/June 2015 (Volume 43, Number 4) • Social Inequality, Racial Isolation and the Windy City (Roberta Garner, Black Hawk Hancock and Bryan Sykes) • Keister and Moody to Edit Socius (Mark S. Mizruchi) • Social Media Pre-Conference at the 2015 ASA Annual Meeting • Vantage Point: Socius, Open Access, and the Future of Scholarly Publication • Science Policy: NIH Names Eliseo Perez-Stable Director of the NIMHD; The Census’s American Community Survey Will Keep Questions on Marriage and Major; Federally Funded R&D Center Spending Declined Since One-time Infusion of Funds in 2009; OSTP: Using Behavioral Science Insights to Make Government More Effective, Simpler, and More People-Friendly • Sociologist Present Policy-Relevant Research on Capitol Hill • Looking for a New Position? The ASA Can Help on the Job Hunt • International Perspectives: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences: A Reflection of the Current Arab World (Mohammed A. Bamyeh) • The Comedy of Sociology (Nate Dern) • ASA Awards Six FAD Grants for the Advancement of Sociology • A FAD Grant Update: The Democratizing Inequalities Project (Caroline Lee) • COSSA Host Annual Meeting and Inaugural Cross-Social Science Advocacy Day (Wendy Naus) • Tracing the Trajectory of Federal Initiatives Addressing Campus Sexual Violence (Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin, and Marsha College) • Sociologist Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences • Three Sociologists Named Carnegie Fellows • There Are at Least 52 Reasons to Join a Section, Here Are a Few • 25 years ago what was going on at the ASA? • Three Sociologist Receive 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships • Sociologist Appointed Russell Safe Foundation Visiting Scholars • Announcements • Deaths: Jan Hullum, Donald N. Levine, Richard Suzman

Footnotes July/August 2015 (Volume 43, Number 5)

• Results of the 2015 Election: Michèle Lamont is President, Kathleen Gerson is Vice President, and David Takeuchi is Secretary-Elect • Notre Dame Scholars to Take Over the Helm at ASR (Jeremy Freese) • Musical Chicago (Deena Weinstein) • Vantage Point: ASA Journal Editorial Records 1991-2009 • Tough Months for SBE Sciences in the U.S. House (Brad Smith) • Schedules that Work (Lindsay Owens) • A Dream Come True: Duane Alwin to Edit Sociologist Methodology (Jennifer Barber) • In Our Son’s Name: A Documentary on the Transformation of Tragedy (Matthew T. Lee) • Climate Change and Society ASA Task Force Report Published by Oxford (Riley E. Dunlap) • ASA Welcomes MFP Cohort 42 (Beth Floyd) • ABS Celebrates Its 45th Annual Conference in Chicago (Jean H. Shin) • The Supreme Court Reognizes Marriage Equality • Reimagining Medicine: Sociology and the MCAT (Natalie A. Jansen) • Working Group Reports on How the Annual Meeting Sites Are Selected • New Stuff Happening at Context (Syed Ali) • The Spivack Program Awards Nine CARI Grants • Announcements • Funding: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program • Obituaries: Walter Firey • Deaths: Gerald M. Platt, Don C. Gibbons, Jack K Martin, James B. McKee, Robert K. Miller, Jr., Samuel E. Wallace, Hans Zetterberg,

Footnotes September/October 2015 (Volume 43, Number 6)

• Meet the 2016 ASA President: Ruth Milkman (Sarah Jaffe) • Sociological Theory Welcomes New Editor Mustafa Emirbayer (Chad Alan Goldberg) • Executive Officer Hillsman to Retire in May 2016 • Vantage Point: Council Approves Disciplinary Standards for High School Sociology • Science Policy: HHS Releases Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule; White House Announces New Steps to Improve Federal Programs by Leveraging for SBS Research Insights; William T. Riley Selected as Next Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research • William Julius Wilson says His Arguments on Race and Class Still Apply • Think Ahead to 2017! Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 112th Annual Meeting • 2017 Annual Meeting Theme: Culture, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion across the Globe (Michele Lamont) • Sociologist Take Windy City by Storm (Daniel Fowler and Catherine Turvey) • How Is Your Program Preparing Undergrads for Employment? Liberal Learning Task Force Seeks Examples • Sex and Gender Categories for ASA Membership • The Importance of State and Regional Associations (Douglas Hartmann) • 2015-2016 Regional and Aligned Association Meetings • ASA Open Access Journal Socius Is Accepting Manuscripts (Lisa A. Keister and James W. Moody) • The Graduate Teaching Seminar Project Using TRAILS (Diane Pike) • Impactful IDEAS (Christopher Wetzel) • American Sociological Review Ranked #1 • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • Applications Invited for Editorships • Announcements • Funding: American Academy in Berlin; Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies • Obituaries: Leonard Gordon, Randy Hodson, Burkart Holzner, Thomas S. Korllos, Suet-ling Pong, Jack Siegman

Footnotes November 2015 (Volume 43, Number 7)

• Sociology Makes a Comeback! The Department Returns to Washington University in St. Louis (Adia Harvey) • Earl Babbie: An [Accidental] Career in Sociology (Craig Schaar) • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Chicago • TRAILS Is Now a Core Benefit of ASA Membership • Science Policy: NSF Seeks Candidates for Division Director of Social and Economic Sciences; Census Measuring Race and Ethnicity across The Decades: 1970-2010; PRB Releases World Population Data Sheet • The AAPSS Welcomes a New President and a New Fellow • Invited Session Proposals Solicited for the 2017 Annual Meeting • How Sociology Departments Can Help Pre-Med Students (Elizabeth Borland) • Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Council Highlights • 2016 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers • New Fellowship at the Center for Engaged Scholarship • Send Us Your News • Visionary Sociology and Academic Recognition (Wesley Shrum and Greg Scott) • Announcements • Funding: Ideas 42, International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS REMEP), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 2016 Sakip Sabanci International Research Award • Deaths: Richard Hall, Andrew Kohut • Obituaries: Susan Gonzalez Baker, Timothy J. Gallagher, Gerald M. Platt, Vladimir Shlapentokh, A. Kathryn Stout

Footnotes December 2015 (Volume 43, Number 8)

• Council Establishes Task Force on Contingent Faculty • ASA Joins AERA et al. in Fisher v. UT-Austin Amicus • 2016 ASA National Election Candidates • Vantage Point: Sociology is a STEM Discipline • ASA Welcomes its Newest Congressional Fellow • Where Are They Now? • Three Sociologist Elected as AAAS Fellows • Space for Affiliates and Other Group Activities • ASA Executive Officer Job Announcement • ASA Congressional Fellowship • Nominations Sought for 2016 Section Awards • Challenges and Rewards of Community Action Research (Rebecca L. Som Castellano) • TRAILS Welcomes Juilie Pelton as its New Editor (Doug Hartmann) • Top-Cited Articles in Sociology Journals, 2010-2014 (Jerry A. Jacobs) • Student Retention in the Sociology Major: First Generation, Students of Color, and Low-Income Students (Richard Paul Devin) • A Report from PubsComm (Jennifer Barber) • ASA Awards Five GAD Grants to Advance Sociology • ASA Forum for Public Discussion and Debate • Announcements • Funding: Advertising Educational Foundation 2016 Visiting Professor Program, American Council of Learned Socities (ACLS) Digital Extension Grant, Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa, National Institutes of Health Common Fund, National Institute of Nursing Research, Sakip Sabanci International Research Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) • Deaths: Jorge Chapa, Viola Lee Hamilton, George Kourvetaris • Obituaries: George A. Kourvetaris

Footnotes January 2016 (Volume 44, Number 1)

• Report of the ASA Secretary on ASA Finances: The ASA Operating Budget and Invested Assets (Mary Romero) • Launching a New Pilot Mentoring Program at ASA (Beth Floyd and Jean Shin) • ASA Rolls Out Standards for High School Sociology NCSS (Jean Shin) • Vantage Point: Change the Conversation: Communicate Sociological Research • Science Policy: National Academies Press’s Guide to the Science within SOTU, Census Bureau Releases 2014 Income and Poverty Estimates for All Counties, NSF: Immigrants Play Increasing Role in U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce • Alexander, Olson, and Entwisle Win Top Education Award for The Long Shadow • My Childhood Memories of Florian Znaniecki (Marcia Kaplan Rudin) • Teaching Premedical Students in the Sociology Classroom (Elaine Hernandez) • Nation’s First Department of Rural Sociology Celebrates its Centennial (Julie N. Zimmerman and David Brown) • Thank You, ASA Members! • Annoucements • Funding: Advertising Educational Foundation 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Extension Grant, Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN), National Institute of Nursing Research, Sakip Sabanci International Research Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) • Deaths: Gerhard (Gerry) Emmanuel Lenski Jr., Fatema Mernissi, Allan Silver • Obituaries: James G. Ennis, William Form, Richard H. Hall, Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski, Jr., Allan Silver

Footnotes February 2016 (Volume 44, Number 2)

• ASA in the Emerald City (Jerald R. Herting and Jennifer McKinney) • Four Steps to Enhance Your Social Media Presence (Dustin Kidd) • Recipients of the 2016 ASA Awards • Vantage Point: A Cautionary Success Story in Congress: ASA Members Did their Part! • Science Policy: NSF States that Harassment Will Not Be Tolerated • It’s Better in the Block • President-Elect Lamont Speaks at DCSS • Using NSF Funds to Study Differences in School Desegregation in Five Southern Systems (Toby L. Parcel, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, and Stephen Samuel Smith) • The Campus Kitchen at Fayetteville State University (Sherree Davis, Stacye Blount and Nicole Lucas) • Austrian Sociology in the Dawn of the ISA Forum 2016 (Rudolf Richter) • Sociologists Appointed Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars • Top TRAILS Downloads in 2015 • Most Downloaded Footnotes articles of 2015 • Announcements • Funding: Advertising Educational Foundation 2016 Visiting Professor Program (VPP), National Institute of Nursing Research, Partner University Fund • Obituaries: Ivar E. Berg, Theodore Caplow, Robert M. Marsh

Footnotes March/April 2016 (Volume 44, Number 3)

• ASA is Seattle Bound! (M. Cadigan, E. Carll, C. Gilroy, T. Marques, T. Thomas, J. Herting and J. McKinney) • Report of the ASA Secretary on ASA Dues: A Comparative Perspective (Mary Romero) • Candidates for 2016 ASA Election • Vantage Point: Human Rights and the Scholary Society: What is ASA’s Role? • Science Policy: Census: More than Half of Asians in U.S. Have a Bachelor’s or Higher; DARPA: Accelerating Discovery with New Tools and Methods for Next Generation Social Science; Pew Research Center: Women Generally Are More Religious than Men • Proposed Changes to the Common Rule -- the Protection of Human Subjects (John Kennedy and Thomas Van Valey) • Preparing for a 21st Century Job Hunt with a BA in Sociology • Why I Go to the ASA Department Chairs Conference (Julia McQullian) • Tips for Promoting a New Book (Abigail C. Saguy) • Teaching and Technology (Maxine P. Atkinson and Emily Medina) • Teaching Around the World: Sociology on the Semester at Sea Ship (Michelle M. Camacho) • The Sociology of Migration and Understanding Recent Transformations in U.S. Anti- immigrant Sentiment (Steven Gold) • BlackLivesMatter: “Where Is the Outrage?” • Announcements • Funding: African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP); Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Research Grant Program; National Institute of Health; Sociological Initiatives Foundation; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health; W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Race and Crime • Deaths: Alan Booth • Obituaries: Charles D. Bolton, John Henry Gagnon

Footnotes May/June 2016 (Volume 44, Number 4 )

• Homeless in Seattle: A State of Emergency (Jennifer McKinney and Karen A. Snedker) • Is ASA “Only for the Rich”? (Mary Romero) • ASA Names Nancy Weinberg Kidd New Executive Officer (Daniel Fowler) • Vantage Point: Out with the Old, In With the New – The ASA Website • Science Policy: Young Women in STEM Fields Earn Less than Men; The Fair Standards Labor Act: What Does It Mean for Postdoctoral Scholars?; Maureen M. Goodenow Appointed Associate Director for AIDS Research, NIH • Sociologist Are Making an Impact (Beth Pearson) • American Sociological Association Council Meeting Highlights • The Value of Social Sciences Highlighted at COSSA Annual Meeting • New Updates to the ASA Job Bank (Jamie L. Panzarella) • ASA’s Editorial Office Archive Project Update • ASA Council Approves the Membership of the Task Force on Contingent Faculty • Teaching Sociology seeks submissions for a Special Issue on “Incorporating Globalization in the Sociology Curriculum.” • Conservatives on Campus: Myths and Realities (Josh McCabe) • Measuring Changes in Work • The Long Journey to an Ethics Code (Bonnie Berry) • A Coup Against Scientific Autonomy (Cihan Ziya Tugal) • 2016 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners • NAS Lecture: The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants • Building Your Audience through Social Media: An Interview with Dustin Kidd • Researchers Behind Landmark Adolescent Health Study Received Golden Goose Award • The AAPSS Welcomes New Fellows • Measuring College Learning in Sociology: SSRC and ASA Collaboration Reaches Milestone • ASA Statement on Human Rights: American Exceptionalism? (Jackie Smith) • Announcemnts • Funding: National Institutes of Health Common Fund; National Institute of Justice • Deaths: Edgar F. Borgatta; Jaap Dronkers • Obituaries: S.F. Camilleri; Alan Emery; Charles S. Green, III; Ruth A. Wallace

Footnotes July/August 2016 (Volume 44, Number 5)

• Results of the 2016 Election: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is President, Christopher Uggen is Vice President. • Richard Carpiano and Brian Kelly to Lead JHSB (Sarah Mustillo) • Socio-Cultural Facts about Seattle’s Immigrant and Refugee History (Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar) • Vantage Point: Important ASA Committee Work Most Members Don’t See • Science Policy: NIH Study of Breast Cancer Genetics in Black Women Could Inform Disparities; NAS Releases Educational Modules to Help Future Policymakers Understand the Role of Science in Decision Making; The NIH Launches Research Program to Reduce Health Disparities in Surgical Outcomes • ASA Applauds Supreme Court’s Ruling to Uphold Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas • ASA Awards Small Grants to Advance Sociology • Frequently Asked Questions about Managing the ASA Operating Budget (Mary Romero) • LL3 Task Force is Making Progress (Susan Ferguson) • The Concerns of Student Protestors and What Sociology Has to Offer (Victor Ray) • Political Parties or Sociology Parties? (Michael S. Pollard) • MFP Announces Cohort 43 for the 2016-2017 Academic Year • Syrian Refugees Seeking Freedom with Dignity (Louise Cainkar, and Rita Stephan) • New Faces at the ASA Executive Office • Sociology, Stigma, and Community Colleges (Charles Selengut, Jill Schennum, Olivia Hetzler) • Sociologist Elected to the National Academy of Sciences Announcements • Funding: Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship; Fulbright Scholar Program; NCAA Graduate Student Research Grant Program; National Institutes of Health; Nineteenth Century Studies Association; Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust • Obituaries: Ed Borgatta; Sanford M. Dornbusch; Thomas H. Jenkins; Susan Archer Mann

September/October 2016 (Volume 44, Number 6)

• Introducing Michèle Lamont, ASA’s 2017 President (Ann Swidler) • After Almost 60 Years, ASA Returns to Seattle (Dan Fowler) • Evaluating Public Communication in Tenure and Promotion (Arne L. Kalleberg) • Vantage Point: “#Doingsociology” at the ASA for 14 Wonderful Years • Science Policy: Census Bureau Releases 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates; NIH Names Dr. Joshua Gordon Director of The National Institute of Mental Health; Setting the Record Straight on “Wasteful Research” • Council Establishes Task Force on Membership • Teaching in the Community College Context • 2018 Annual Meeting Theme: Feeling Race: An Invitation to Explore Racialized Emotions • Think Ahead to 2018! Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 113th Annual Meeting • Sociology and the MCAT: One More Time with Variations on a Theme (William J. Staudenmeier, Jr.) • A Conversation with Margaret Abraham, ISA President (Bandana Purkayastha) • ASA Web Redesign Thank You • Applications Invited for ASA Editorships • #BlackLivesMatter at UMD: Community-based Participatory Research to Create a More Equitable America (Rashawn Ray) • Annual Meeting Town Hall Discussion to Continue • Survey for Underrepresented Minority Scholars in Sociology and Economics, 1995-2006 PhD Cohorts • Those Who Can Teach (Jennifer H. Lundquist) • Apply to have your class be part of the ASA TRAILS Teaching Seminar Initiative • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • 2017 Regional and Aligned Association Meetings • Annoucements • Funding: American Philosophical Society; Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI); Dr. Jorge Chapa Scholarship Fund; Evidence for Action; National Institutes of Health; Science of Behavior Change • Obituaries: Joan Robinson Acker; Paul R. Eberts; Gladys Engel Lang; Helen Raisz

November 2016 (Volume 44, Number 7)

• Sociology of Education Welcomes New Editor Linda Renzulli (Brian Powell) • Annual Meeting Town Hall Discussion Continues Join Us for a Twitter Chat • Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Seattle • New Leadership at the Executive Office: Introducing Nancy Kidd (Peter Mendel) • America's Poverty and Inequality Course (Stephanie Garlow and David B. Grusky) • Sections Collaborate to Explore Disability as an Overlooked Axis of Intersectionality and Inequality (Sara Green) • Don’t Miss It / C’est à ne pas manquer!! (Michèle Lamont) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • On the Value of Diversity in Higher Education (Stephanie A. Bohon) • The ASA Awards Eight Community Action • Announcements • Funding: Advertising Educational Foundation 201-Visiting Professor Program; Berlin Program for Advance European Studies; Dr. Jorge Chapa Scholarship Fund; Evidence for Action; NEWFAMSTRAT; National Science Fund (NSF) Advance Call for Partnership; Society for Applied Anthropology • Deaths: Chester Britt; Leslie Stanley-Stevens • Obituaries: James A. Davis; Susan Archer Mann; Leslie Stanley-Stevens

December 2016 (Volume 44, Number 8)

• Sociologists Reflect on the 2016 Presidential Election (Todd Beer) • 2017 ASA National Election Candidates • There Are Many Opportunities in Retirement (John Kennedy) • ASA Continues to Respond to the Changing Climate for Sociologists in America • Science Policy: A New Strategic Direction for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH; The U.S. House of Representatives Sends America COMPETES Act Successor to President; COSSA Releases 2017 Rankings of Social and Behavioral Science Funding; A New NAS Report on Communicating Science Effectively: • Emerald Nguyen Is the Newest ASA Congressional Fellow • Space for Affiliates and Other Group Activities • How Sociology Can Support Black Lives Matter (Judy Lubin) • ASA Updates Sex and Gender Membership Categories (Bernadette Barton, and Ashley Currier) • ASA Awards Eight FAD Grants to Advance Sociology • Two Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • Farmworkers Teach Students a Lesson (Mark Sherry) • Announcements • Funding: ACLS 2016-2017 Digital Extension Grant; International Sociological Association; Population Reference Bureau (PRB); Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tainghua University; Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) • Obituaries: Georges Balandier

January-March 2017 (Volume 45, Number 1)

• Bienvenue à Montréal! (Greg Nielse and Jean-Francois Coté) • Recipients of the 2017 ASA Awards • Candidates for the 2017 ASA Election • President’s Proposed Budget Blueprint Significantly Threatens Research and Education Funding • Sociology in the News • Science Policy: NCSES Publishes Report on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering; HHS Announces Changes to the “Common Rule”; NSF Announces its Plan for Public Access to Foundation- funded Research • ASA President Michele Lamont Awarded 2017 Erasmus Prize • Trails Top 10 Downloaded Resources of 2016 • Why and How to Conduct Alumni Surveys (Mary Senter) • TRAILS Welcomes New Area Editors; Thanks to Outgoing Editors (Jaime Hecht) • Interfaith Leadership and Sociology: An Interview with Eboo Patel (Michele Lee Kozimor-King) • Community Colleges: Great Places to Start and Great Places to Stay (Rebecca Romo) • Teaching Sociology at a Community College: Transforming Sociology through a Cultural Lens (Aurora Bautista, Latasha Sarpy and Carlos Maynard) • Please Grant Permission to Use Your ASR Manuscripts and Reviews in the ASA Digital Archive • ASA President-Elect Bonilla-Silva Speaks at DCSS • What Does It Mean to Have a Right to Science? • Sociologist Bernice Pescosolido Elected to National Academy of Medicine • Pat White, a Force for Sociology, Retires from the NSF (Roberta Spalter-Roth) • Thank you, ASA Members! • Announcements • Funding: Dirksen Congressional Center; NCAA Research Committee; National Institute on Minority Health Disparities; W.E.BN Du Bois Program of Research on Race and Crime • Deaths: Henry A. Landsberger; Paul Luebke; and Ronald M. Pavalko • Obituaries: Hugh F. “Tony” Cline; Robert Fulton; and Sheldon Stryker

May-June 2017 (Volume 45, Number 2)

• Sex and the Province: A Short History of Quebec (Poulami Roychowdhury) • Proposed Change to the Selection Process for Status Committee Membership • A New Membership Category for High School Teachers • Sociology at the March for Science • Science Policy: Census Bureau Director Resigns, Complicating Outlook for 2020 Decennial; Federally Funded R&D Center Funding Rebounded in FY 2015 after Four Years of Declines; Report on the Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States • Engaging in Policy-Making during a Period of Political Change (Emerald Nguyen) • New for 2017: An Employment Fair at the Annual Meeting • Imprisonment of a Sociologist and Many Other Social Scientists in Turkey on Trumped-Up Charges (Fatma Muge Gocek) • Sociologist Receives Pulitzer Prize • Montreal’s Distinctive Cultural Diversity (Victor Armony) • ASA Awards Four FAD Grants to Advance Sociology • A Few Reasons to Attend the ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal • Council Establishes Task Force on First-Generation and Working-Class People in Sociology • Sociological Research on the Effects of Concealed Carry on College Campuses • Using Twitter (Tyson Smith) • Thank you, ASA Members! • ASA Welcomes New Director of Communications • The State of Higher Education in Uganda from a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow Perspective (Johnson W. Makoba) • Departmental Performance Metrics and the University Audit Culture • ASA Launches 2017 Member-Get-A-Member Campaign • Sociologists Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship • Announcements • Funding: Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust; William T. Grant Foundation • Deaths: Ai-li S. Chin • Obituaries: Jack Elinson; Henry Landsberger; Krishnan Namboodiri; Ronald M. Pavalko

July-August 2017 (Volume 45, Number 3) • The 2017 ASA Election Results • Brashears and Simpson will edit Social Psychology Quarterly (Dawn T. Robinson) • ASA Harassment Group Formed • Bringing Sociology to the Public (Carmen Russell) • Science Policy: Report Calls for NSF to Develop Strategic Plan Specifying SBE Sciences Research Priorities; NIH OBSSR's Director Blog on Increasing Mortality of Working Class Whites; In 2015, U.S. institutions awarded most doctorates ever recorded • Havidan Rodriguez Makes SUNY History • Sociology's Contributions to Addressing Global Climate Change • COSSA and Social Science Advocacy • Thank You, ASA Members! • Robert Hauser Named Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society • The Clothesline Project: Promoting Gender Violence Awareness and Student Activism (Tanice Foltz) • It's Not Every Day that You Get to Design a New Sociology Major (Jessica Holden) • ASA Announces Cohort 44 for the 2017-2018 Academic Year • Promoting Transgender Justice through Sociology (Erik Anthony Grollman and Laurel Westbrook) • From Book to Book Talk: Taking the Show on the Road (Mindy Fried) • 2017 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners • Sociologist Receiving Honors • 2016 Journal Manuscript Summary Reports • Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline • Annoucements • Deaths: Enrico L. Quarantelli • Obituaries: Charles W. Smith

September/October 2017 (Volume 45, Number 4) • Introducing Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2018 ASA President (David G. Embrick) • ASA Welcomes New Rose Series Editors from CUNY (Judith Gerson) • Communicating Across Difference: Free and Responsible Speech • Meri Beaucoup, Montreal! See You in Philadelphia in 2018 • OBSSR Director on How to Help Social and Behavioral Research Findings Make their Way into Practice Settings • U.S. Census Barriers, Attitudes and Motivation Survey • From the Russian Revolution to her PhD, a Member Celebrates 100 • ASA Task Force on Contingent Faculty Interim Report • Call for Volunteers: ASA Status Committee Membership • ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success • Call for ASA Award Nominations • 2017 ASA Award Recipients Honored in Montreal • ASA Statement on Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals • Exciting New Community Action Reseach Initiative Grants • Announcements • Funding: The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies; The Center for the Study of Religion and Society • Obituaries: John S. Holik, Saad Z. Nagi, and Eleanor Singer

November/December (Volume 45, Number 5) • Preview the 2018 ASA Election Candidates • Contexts Welcomes Its Newest Editors, Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas (Quincy Thomas Stewart) • Teaching What and Why: New Guidelines for the Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum • Prepare for a Vote: Understanding the Proposal Revision to the ASA Code of Ethics • Sara Goldrick-Rab Wins Top Education Award • Your Membership Supports the Discipline • ASA Minority Fellowship Program Call for Applications • Sociologist Receive ASA Funding to Study Impact of Laws Permitting Concealed Weapons on College Campuses • 2019 Annual Meeting Theme: Engaging Justice for a Better World • Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 114th Annual Meeting • ASA Awards Four FAD Grants to Advance Sociology • C. Matthew Snipp Joins ASA Committee on Executive Office and Budget • Tally's Corner Revisited (Hilary Silver) • Announcements • Funding: The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) • Obituary: Irving Tallman

Volume 46, Number 1 • Philadelphia Pioneered Worldwide Criminal Justice Systems • Recipients of the 2018 ASA Awards • Almost Half a Million High School Students Enroll in Sociology Courses Each Year • A Year of ASA Advocacy Activities • A Tribute to Neil Smelser, 88th President of the American Sociological Association • ASA Holds Successful High School Sociology Symposium at NCSS 2017 • 2018 ASA Annual Meeting Tours in Philadelphia • Evidence of Outstanding Pedagogical Accomplishment: TRAILS Top 10 Downloaded Resources of 2017 • Call for Applications for TRAILS Editorship • TRAILS Welcomes New Area Editors and Thanks Outgoing Editors • A Brief Report from the ASA Committee on Publications • Announcements| • Death: William "Bill" Pooler • Obituaries: Allen H. Barton, Olaf Larson, Lee Rainwater, Richard L. Simpson, and Morris "Buzz" Zelditch

Volume 46, Number 2 • ASA’s Working Group on Harassment Takes First Steps • Two New Symposia at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia • Candidates for the 2018 ASA Election • What Motivates High School Teachers of Sociology to Join the ASA? • FAD-funded Conference on Intertwined Legacies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr. • Call for Suggestions: Nominees for Elective and Appointed Offices • Can Anti-Harassment Programs Reduce Sexual Harassment? • #MeToo and the ASA Working Group on Harassment • Looking Backward and Forward to the March for Science • Apply to Participate in the ASA TRAILS Teaching Seminar Program • ASA Awards Four Grants to Advance Sociology • Experts Improve Public Understanding of Sociology Through Wikipedia • Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Fellowships • Two Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows • Announcements • Funding: Research and Evaluation of Technologies to Improve School Safety • The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Immigration and Immigrant Integration • Russell Sage Foundation Computational Social Sciences • Russell Sage Foundation Integratng Biology and Social Science Knowledge • Russell Sage Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration • Death: Peter Mandel Hall • Obituaries: Karen Halnon, Wynona Smutz, Garretson Hartley, Gene Sharp, Robert Benjamin Smith, Frank Arved Freudenfeld Steinhart and Devon T. Wade

Volume 46, Number 3 • 2018 ASA Election Results • Announcing ASA's Campaign to Strengthen Inclusion in Sociology • A Rip in Philadelphia's Cosmopolitan Canopy • COSSA 2018 Conference: Advancing Science for Federal Policy • A Tribute to Stanley Lieberson, 82nd ASA President • Congratulations to Our New Minority Fellows! Announcing MFP Fellowship Program Cohort 45 • Sociologist Present Their Research on Capitol Hill • ASA Working Group on Harassment Takes Action • Sexual Harassment Training: Promises, Pitfalls, and Future Directions • ASA Anti-Harassment Policy At the ASA Annual Meeting • Sexual Misconduct Events at the 2018 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia • Wikipedia as Public Sociology: It's Not What You Think • 2018 Howery Teaching Enhancements Fund Winners • Want to Support Teaching and Learning at ASA? Join the TRAILS Area Editor Team! • Staying Active: ASA Opportunities in Retirement Network and Its Members • 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies in Philadelphia • Annoucements • Funding: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program; Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust; and The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives • Deaths: James W. Balkwell; Gerald Handel; and Ephraim Mizruchi • Obituaries: Anthony R. Harris, Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, and R. Jay Turner

Volume 46, Number 4 (June-August 2018)

• Introducing Mary Romero, 2019 ASA President (Wendy Leo Moore) • ASA Renews Partnership with SAGE Publishing • 2018 ASA Award Recipients: Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (Joe Feagin); Dissertation Award (Juliette Galonnier); Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (Kristin Anderson Moore, Child Trends); Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award (Daniel F. Chambliss); Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (Lauren B. Edelman for Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights); Public Understanding of Sociology Award (Adia M. Harvey Wingfield); W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (Elijah Anderson) • A Tribute to James Short, 75th ASA President: A Pioneer in Criminology (Lorine Hughes and Andrew Papachristos) • Critical Exploration of Feeling Race at the 2018 ASA Annual Meeting • Take Advantage of What NSF Has to Offer (Toby Parcel and Joe Whitmeyer) • Call for ASA Award Nominations • Making Space for Indigenous Sociology within the Discipline (Kari Marie Norgaard) • Applications Invited for ASA Editorships • 2019 Regional/Aligned Sociology Meetings: Sociologists for Women in Society (Winter: Denver, CO); Eastern Sociological Society (Boston, MA); Pacific Sociological Association (Oakland, CA); North Central Sociological Association (Cincinnati, OH); Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, GA); Population Association of America (Austin, TX); Midwest Sociological Society (Chicago, IL); Association of Black Sociologists (New York); Society for the Study of Social Problems (New York); Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (New York); Sociologists for Women in Society (Summer: New York); Association for the Sociology of Religion (New York); Southwestern Social Science Association (San Diego, CA) • ASA Forum for Public Discussion and Debate (2018 Annual Meeting: Joshua Klugman) • Funding: Thei Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology; The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grants; The American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research; Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grants • Deaths: Linton “Lin” Freeman • Obituaries: Jan Hajda, Cedric Herring, James Ryland Hudson, Francois Nielsen, Keith A Roberts, Carmi Schooler, Arthur Stinchcombe