Dr. Joe Feagin Named a University Distinguished Professor Dr

MARCH 2014  CONFERENCE ...... 3

 WORKSHOP ...... 4

 JOURNAL ARTICLES…..5

 BOOK CHAPTERS…..6

 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS…..7 Gemeinshaft NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Dr. Joe Feagin named a University Distinguished Professor Dr. Joe Feagin, the Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociolo- their fields and their gy, has been named a University Distinguished Professor – accomplishments are the highest academic honor awarded at Texas A&M – in exemplified by out- recognition of his pre-eminence in the field. Along with the standing teaching, men- title, which is bestowed in perpetuity, Feagin will receive an toring, discovery and annual award provided by the Texas A&M Foundation of service. They demon- $5,000 for five years. strate to the world the The 2014 university distinguished professor honorees join a high quality of scholar- select group of more than 70 current faculty members that ship underway at Texas hold the prestigious title. This designation denotes a faculty A&M University.” member who is pre-eminent in his or her field, has made at Texas A&M Interim least one seminal contribution to the discipline, and whose President Mark Hussey work is central in any narrative of the field and is widely and the Texas A&M recognized to have changed the direction of scholarship in Foundation will host a reception on April 30 recognizing the the field. six new university distinguished professors and honoring all “University Distinguished Professors represent the highest of the University Distinguished Professors. More infor- level of achievement for our faculty,” said Dr. Karan L. mation, including a complete list of University Distinguished Watson, provost and executive vice president for academic Professors, is available online at http://dof.tamu.edu/ affairs. “They are recognized as pre-eminent authorities in distinguished-professor.

Joe Feagin came to Texas A&M as the Ella systemic sexism influence the work of social American Sociological Association. In the C. McFadden Professor in Sociology in the scientists world-wide. He has published 63 last year, he has won four career achieve- College of Liberal Arts in 2004. He earned books and more than 200 articles and other ment awards: the Arthur Fletcher Lifetime his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His re- significant publications. Throughout his ca- Achievement Award by the American Associ- search and teaching interests concern mainly reer he has amassed an amazing number of ation for Affirmative Action; the Soka Gakkai the development and structure of racial and awards, including the Robert and Helen Lynd International USA Social Justice Award; The gender prejudice and discrimination, espe- Award for Lifetime Contributions to Commu- American Sociological Association’s Section cially institutional and systemic discrimina- nity and Urban Sociology, the highest award on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Founders tion and racism. He is well known for his given in Community and Urban Sociology, Award; and the W.E.B. Du Bois Career ground-breaking contributions to the fields of and the Harvard Alumni Association (HDS) Award, the highest award given by the Amer- racial-ethnic relations, the new urban sociol- Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award. He was ican Sociological Association. He was also ogy, sex and gender inequality, race, gender appointed as a Fellow in the Study of Poverty the 1999-2000 president of the American and class analysis, and the sociology of edu- and Inequality at Stanford University and has Sociological Association. cation. His concepts of systemic racism and won awards from numerous sections of the

1 CONGRATULATIONS!

The Midwest Sociological Society has awarded Dr. Mary Campbell the 2014 Early Career Scholarship Award. Dr. Campbell will receive it at the annual meeting in April 2014. The MSS Early Career Scholarship Award recognizes a number of publications by a younger scholar, working alone or with collaborators, which are particularly meritorious, creative or enlightening. The Award is offered biennially and carries a cash prize of $500. Dr. Sam Cohn is giving seminars at the School for Oriental and African Stud- ies at the University of London, at the Institute SOCIOLOGY IN NEWS: Barcelona de Estudis In- ternationalis and at the University of Neuchatel. Dr. Reuben May was quoted in a March 25th article in the SLATE. The story was on the popular television program Friday Night Tykes, He also notes that the entitled "Rich Kids are Soft, Poor Kids Need to be Toughened Up: stock of social scientists How race and class affect the way we coach our children" (by Stefan doing very strong interna- Fatsis). tional work in the city of London is mindboggling Dudley Poston was featured in mid-January 2014 in a radio news both in its quality and in interview show from Beijing, "People in the Know." His 12+ minute its quantity. phone interview was broadcast throughout China and much of East Asia. "People In the Know" is "China's only high-end English radio interview program, featuring events that shape not only China, but the world as well." Its programs are broadcast every Monday through Friday by China Radio International. If you are interested, you can listen to the interview at the link below. There is a short two or so minute introduction before his 12 minute interview begins. Link: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/01/10/3361s807513.htm

Jesus Smith, a Ph.D. Student, gave the closing Lectures keynote address at the very conference he created

Dudley Poston gave a keynote lecture on as an undergraduate student 5 years earlier! Cho- “China’s Demographic Destiny” at the Academy sen by the UTEP Queer History Month Commit- of Future International Leaders Seminar, TAMU, tee, Jesus's speech addressed the intersections of February 27, 2014. race, gender and sexuality on the US/Mexico border as a young academic and queer student. The Dudley Poston gave an address on “Where the speech was titled, “There and Back again, A Boys Are: Millions of Bachelors in China and Queer Afro-Latino’s Tale as a play on J.R.R. Tol- Millions More on the Way” at the Alpha Kappa kein's The Hobbit: There and Back Again” and it Delta Induction Ceremony, TAMU, Mar 27. utilized his own life journey as an example of how one can overcome the deepest of obstacles.

Legend: Faculty Graduate student GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 2 Conference Announcement: Measuring the Diverging Components of Race in Multiracial America

June 26-27, 2014 Co-organizers: Jenifer Bratter, Rice University Texas A&M University Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University College Station, TX Wendy D. Roth, University of British Columbia

This 2-day conference will focus how racial categories are experi- importance of both individual- and on the central questions of how enced has become much more so- group-level shifts in the construc- “race” and “ethnicity” are meas- phisticated, as researchers tion of these categories. The con- ured, lived, and experienced in acknowledge the importance of ference will involve presentations today’s evolving racial landscape. self-identification for the creation of cutting-edge research on the Immigration, interracial families, of identity, meaning and commu- measurement of race and ethnicity, and changing ideas about racial nity, identification by others for discussion of key existing re- categorization have all combined the effects of discrimination and sources on measuring diverse to create an evolving landscape for differences in treatment, pheno- components of race, and discus- the lived experiences of “race,” type as a key dimension influenc- sion of what measurements and both in the United States and ing racialized experience within question formats are needed in fu- around the world. Research on racial and ethnic groups, and the ture data collection and research.

The conference is funded by the ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, the Texas A&M Uni- versity Sociology Department, the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) at Texas A&M, the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M, and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.

PRELIMINARY LIST OF PRESENTERS:

Stan Bailey, Carolyn Liebler, Jane Sell, University of California-Irvine University of Minnesota Texas A&M University Aaron Gullickson, Ann Morning, Patrick Simon, University of Oregon New York University Institut National d'Etudes Verna Keith, Andrew Penner, Demographiques Texas A&M University University of California-Irvine Matt Snipp, Jennifer Lee, Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University University of California-Irvine Stanford University Edward Telles, Princeton University

Legend: Faculty Graduate student GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 3 Workshop Announcement: Multigenerational Life Course Studies: A Workshop on the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigenerational Study (KLAMS)

May 19-20, 2014 Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University

The Howard B. Kaplan Laboratory for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University are proud to announce a 2-day workshop on the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigeneration- al Study (KLAMS). The workshop is open to scholars and graduate students who are interested in exploring Preliminary topics to be covered: research possibilities with KLAMS data. The work- The history of the KLAMS shop will feature talks by Dr. Robert Johnson, Dr. Data documentation and questionnaires Jane Sell, Dr. Heili Pals, Dr. Tony Love, Dr. Carlton Dr. Kaplan’s self-referent literature Mathis, and selected graduate students who are cur- Examples of current research rently working with the data. Additionally, Dr. Chuck Hands-on introduction to the data Huber, Senior Statistician at Stata Headquarters, will The multigenerational nature of the data present on multilevel/longitudinal models using Neighborhood- and school-level data STATA. Multilevel modeling using Stata

Please RSVP by April 25th, 2014 to Dr. Heili Pals at [email protected].

We are excited to an- levels. Also, this new geo- amount of deviance that New Develop- nounce that, as a team, we graphic indicator can easi- was happening in their ments in the have added a new layer of ly be associated with other middle school--good kids data to the original important variables of in- in bad schools, and bad Kaplan Longi- KLAMS data identifying terest, such as racial com- kids in good schools. Dr. tudinal and which school the first gen- position, percent of the Heili Pals, Dr. Tony Multigenera- eration respondents at- neighborhood in poverty, Love, Dr. Warren tional Study tended in the seventh or even reported rates of Waren, and Bryce Han- grade. Working with Dr. crime. This addition vast- nibal are researching the (KLAMS) Warren Waren, we have ly expands the possibili- longitudinal effects over also successfully added ties for new research us- the life-course of a student Addition of School the neighborhood-level ing the KLAMS and in- being relatively different Neighborhood-Level data surrounding each of creases the usefulness of from their overall school. Data the original schools in the the dataset for scholars in They are now able to in- KLAMS. This important new research areas. clude original neighbor- addition allows for a new hood-level indicators such level of analysis using Hi- The first project to use the as racial composition and erarchical Linear Model- school neighborhood- percent of neighborhood ing. Now researchers can level data within KLAMS in poverty as moderating investigate effects at the investigates the difference effects in their model. individual, parent, school, between an individual's and school neighborhood level of deviance and the

Legend: Faculty Graduate student GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 4 JOURNAL ARTICLES

Moore, Wendy Leo. 2014. “The Stare Decisis of Staudt, Kathleen, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, Racial Inequality: Supreme Court Race Juris- and Mosi Dane’el. 2013. “Stories, Science, prudence and the Legacy of Legal Apart- and Power in Policy Change: Environmental heid.” Critical Sociology 40 (1): 67-88. Health, Community-Based Research, and Community Organizing in a U.S.-Mexico Prechel, Harland and George Touche.2014. "The Border Colonia.” Environmental Justice 6(6): Effects of Organizational and State Environ- 191-199. mental Policies on Sulfur-Dioxide Pollution in U.S. Electrical Corporations." Social Sci- Villegas, Garay, Sagrario, Verónica Mon- ence Quarterly 95:77-96. tes de Oca and Jennifer Guillén. 2014. “Social Support and Social Reuben A. May. “When the Methodological Shoe is Networks among the Elderly in on the Other Foot: African American Inter- Mexico.” Journal of Population viewer and White Interviewees.” Qualitative Ageing 7(1):1-17. Sociology 37(1): 117-136. Conference Presentations Smith, Jesus. 2014. “Latino Men who have Sex Smith, Jesus. 2014. “Race Play in BDSM Pornogra- with Men and the way they deal with Sexual phy.” Presented at the Communicating Di- Racism in a Gay Community.” Presented at versity Conference at Texas A&M Universi- the Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference at ty, College Station, TX on March 28th. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX on March 22nd.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY RECRUITING EFFORTS

Mathey, Christopher L-P. Dr. Wendi Moore attended a recruiting event in No- 2014. "Electronic Monitor- vember at the Bayou Classic Education Fair, target- ing." Encyclopedia of ing HBCUs in Louisiana. Criminology and Criminal Justice. Malden, MA: Wiley.

Jennifer Guillén has been elected to serve as 2015-2017 Program Chair for the Women's and Gender Studies Sec- tion of the Southwestern Social Science Association.

Legend: Faculty Graduate student GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 5 BOOK CHAPTERS Foster, Holly and Jocelyn Lewis. 2015. “Race/ “Patterns of Sexual Activity in China and Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of the United States.” Chapter 6 in Dudley L. Children of Incarcerated Moth- Poston, Jr., Wen Shan Yang, and D. Nicole ers: Comparative Patterns and Maternal Farris (editors), The Family and Social Experiences.” Pp. 92-106 in Understand- Change in Chinese Societies. New York: ing Diversity: Celebrating Difference, Springer Publishers. Challenging Inequality, edited by Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Ber- Li Zhang, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Chiung- gen. New York: Pearson. Fang Chang. 2014. “Male and Female Fer- tility in Taiwan.” Chapter 9 in Dudley L. Regan, M. R., Carter-Francique, A. R., & Feagin, Poston, Jr., Wen Shan Yang, and D. Nicole J. R. 2014. “Systemic racism theory: Criti- Farris (editors), The Family and Social cally examining college sport leadership.” Change in Chinese Societies. New York: In L. L. Martin (Ed.), Out of Bounds: Rac- Springer Publishers.\ ism and the Black Athlete. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Hosik Min, and Sherry L. McKibben. 2014. “Son Preference and Fer- Reuben May and Kenneth S. Chaplin. 2014. tility in China, South Korea, and the United “Cracking the Code: Race, Class, and Ac- States.” Chapter 14 in Dudley L. Poston, cess in Urban America,” In The Urban Eth- Jr., Wen Shan Yang, and D. Nicole Farris nography Reader, edited by Mitch Duneier, (editors), The Family and Social Change in Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy. Chinese Societies. New York: Springer Cambridge: Oxford University Press. Re- Publishers. printed from Qualitative Sociology 2008, 31: 57-72. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Li Zhang. 2014. “Taiwan’s Demographic Destiny: Marriage Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Qian Xiong, and Demetrea Market and Aged Dependency Implications Nicole Farris. 2014. “Infant Mortality.” Pp. for the 21st Century.” Chapter 16 in Dud- 271-274 in The A-Z of Death and Dying: ley L. Poston, Jr., Wen Shan Yang, and D. Social, Medical and Cultural Aspects, edit- Nicole Farris (editors), The Family and So- ed by Michael Brennan. Santa Barbara, cial Change in Chinese Societies. New CA: Greenwood. York: Springer Publishers.

Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Demetrea Nicole Farris, Farris, Demetrea Nicole and Dudley L. Poston, and Qian Xiong. 2014. “Mortality Jr. 2014. “Intoduction: Family Issues in Rates.” Pp. 317-321 in The A-Z of Death Taiwan and China.” Pp. vii-xviii in Dudley and Dying: Social, Medical and Cultural L. Poston, Jr., Wen Shan Yang, and D. Ni- Aspects, edited by Michael Brennan. Santa cole Farris (editors), The Family and Social Barbara, CA: Greenwood. Change in Chinese Societies. New York: Springer Publishers. Ginny Garcia, Heather K. M. Terrell, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Carol S. Walther. 2014.

Legend: Faculty Graduate student GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 6 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

Cristina Cruz

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

The Ford Foundation Predoctoral the review panels, have Fellowship provide three years of demonstrated superior aca- support for individuals engaged demic achievement, are com- in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Phi- mitted to a career in teaching losophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science and research at the college or (Sc.D.) degree. Predoctoral fellowships are university level, show promise awarded in a national competition adminis- of future achievement as tered by the National Research Council scholars and teachers, and are (NRC) of the National Academies on behalf well prepared to use diversity of the Ford Foundation. The awards are as a resource for enriching the education of made to individuals who, in the judgment of all students.

Katherine Willyard

Graduate Scholar Award from Interdisciplinary Social Sciences For each conference, Graduate from 1988 to 1993. This study Scholar Awards are given to outstanding shows how historical conditions graduate students who have an active aca- and the exercise of power explain demic interest in the conference area. The how U.S. loan guarantees were Award with its accompanying responsibili- linked to Israel’s settlement activities. Her ties provides a strong professional develop- doctoral research focuses on the politics of ment opportunity for graduate students at regulating the natural gas industry and the this stage in their academic careers. impact of these policies on communities and Kate currently serves as her depart- the natural environment. Kate will present ment’s undergraduate advisor. Kate’s mas- her master's paper research at the Interna- ter’s research examined the policy formation tional Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Con- process on U.S. loan guarantees to Israel ference in Vancouver, Canada in June.

Michael Regan

Vision 2020 Dissertation Enhancement Award. College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University

These competitive awards research, data collection, or other substan- (~$5,000) are given to PhD students to tive material acquisition or research activi- support their dissertation research. The ty directly affecting the quality of the dis- purpose of the award is to facilitate high sertation. quality research. Funds may support field

GEMEINSHAFT, MARCH 2014 Legend: Faculty Graduate student 7 STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK

Cuellar, Ernesto and Elva Perales. 2014. “Falling Short: How Failure to Achieve Educa- tional Aspirations Affects Long-Term Health.” Mentored by Dr. Heili Pals and Dr. Tony Love. Poster presented at the TAMU Student Research Week, March 25-27.

Brocato, Billy. 2014. “An Interpretive Interac- tionist Ethnography of Bastrop Fire Survivors’ Narratives and the Aesthetics of Everyday Ob- jects.” Mentored by Dr. Kathryn Henderson. Presented at the TAMU Student Research Week Symposium, March 25-27.

Wedding Bells!!!

Wedding bells rang for Bethany Edwards and her long-time boyfriend Anthony Giarratano on March 29, 2014. Bethany and Anthony met 4 years ago online through a dating website.

Newsletter editor: Dr. Heili Pals [email protected]

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