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Sociology Makes a Comeback! The Department Returns inside to Washington University in St. Louis Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington ing, substance abuse, and others. were aware that the absence of University-St. Louis The program also produced several this important discipline had an How Sociology 5 espite recent debates around well-known contemporary sociolo- impact, and that other depart- Departments Can Help gists such as Melvin Oliver, Thomas ments were simply not able to fill Dpublic engagement and the value Pre-Meds of our work, there are indications Shapiro, and Mark Mizruchi. And the void. At times, administrators With sociology on the MCAT, that sociology is still valued and it made important contributions to considered various ways to bring sociology departments may vibrant. One such indication is the scholarship, with its involvement back sociology. One idea was to try be looking for new ways to return of sociology to Washington in the founding of the American a “superstar” model for rebuilding— attract and help pre-med University in St. Louis. Sociological Review as an alternative to bring in one or maybe two very undergraduates. Washington University in St. to University of Chicago’s American high profile, well-known scholars Louis was founded in 1853. Its Journal of Sociology. who could attract other faculty Unfortunately, the department by virtue of their reputation and Nominate Your sociology department quickly 6 was shuttered in 1991. The few fac- standing in the field. But ultimately, Colleagues! became a top, albeit controversial, department. It was home to many ulty who remained at this time went Barbara Schaal, Dean of the Faculty Do you know an noted sociologists including Lee to other institutions or other depart- in Arts & Sciences, decided on a innovative educator, read Rainwater, David Pittman, and ments within the university. Even different approach—a longer-term a groundbreaking book, others. These sociologists did without a sociology department, the project that would involve hiring a or know an individual important research with significant school managed to maintain its sta- few faculty each year to rebuild the who deserves accolades? implications—work on public hous- tus as a top-tier university, but many Nominate them for a major administrators, faculty, and students Continued on Page 4 ASA award. 7 Council Highlights ASA Council was busy this Emeritus Profile Major ASA summer approving new benefits and discussing Earl Babbie: An [Accidental] Career Award committees and task forces. in Sociology Recipients 13 A New Journal and a Craig Schaar, Film Festival ASA Membership Honored in Two researchers felt that hen Earl Babbie Chicago movies with sociological Wwas giving the implications needed an inaugural lecture at the he American Sociological outlet so they created a ASA’s Opportunities in TAssociation (ASA) presented the journal and a film festival. Retirement Network 2015 major awards at this year’s (ORN) meeting this past Annual Meeting on August 23 in August in Chicago, he had Chicago. The Awards Ceremony, a slight disagreement with Earl Babbie receives a Certificate of Appreciation from the followed by the Presidential Address, the program title, “A Career ASA Opportunities in Retirement Network was well attended. These awards in Sociology.” For Babbie, it are given to sociologists for their was more like an “acciden- 13, his mother married Herman outstanding publications, achieve- tal” career in sociology. To hear the Babbie. The young Babbie took his ments in the scholarship, teaching, full ORN speech, go to www.asanet. stepfather’s surname and desired and practice of sociology, as well as org/members/ORN/ORN-intro.cfm. to become an auto-body mechanic for their overall advancement of the From the Executive Officer...... 2 Earl Babbie, currently the just like his stepfather. Fortunately, discipline. Below are the profiles of Science Policy...... 3 Campbell Professor Emeritus in he listened to the encouragement the awardees. from his teachers; He applied to Announcements...... 14 Behavioral Sciences at Chapman W.E.B. Dubois Career of one college he’d heard of—and was Obituaries...... 18 University, was born in 1938 Distinguished Scholarship accepted—it was Harvard. and grew up in Vermont and Award Connecticut. He was raised by Influenced by Parsons John W. Meyer, Stanford University a single mother who worked as While struggling with his physics John Meyer is a Emeritus a housekeeper. When he was Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 8 footnotes • November 2015 To view the online version, visit 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

from the executive officer TRAILS Is Now a Core Benefit of ASA Membership

Why TRAILS? TRAILS is a necessary tool for our Members felt they needed TRAILS intentional, scholarly, and iterative discipline to advance scholarly too and we instituted it as a core about the teaching and learning t has long been recognized that teaching and promote disciplin- member benefit this year. process. Under his leadership, the Icommunicating the knowledge of ary excellence. It should therefore ASA established the Section on What Is TRAILS? sociology is as important be an automatic part of Undergraduate Education (now the to the discipline as the ASA membership. For ASA developed and built Section on Teaching and Learning) production of new knowl- the new scholar-teacher the Teaching Resources and and began publishing the journal edge. Without communi- or student, this is a way Innovation Library for Sociology Teaching Sociology. ASA’s com- cation, knowledge does ASA membership benefits (TRAILS) as a digital archive and mitment to teaching and learning not live, breathe, and grow. The your immediate teaching needs launched it in May 2010. The gained momentum and sustained teaching and learning of sociologi- and provides peer recognition of content of TRAILS was built on growth under the leadership of cal knowledge has therefore always your growing expertise. For the the foundation of 2,700 scanned Carla Howery, in her roles as the been at the core of the profession later-career scholar-teacher, this teaching and learning resources ASA Director of Academic and and central to the scholarly life of new ASA member benefit can eas- that had been published in Professional Affairs Program the academy. ily expand your repertoire of new print form by the ASA Teaching (APAP) and later as ASA Deputy As sociology’s national disciplin- and up-to-date teaching modules Resources Center. Since then, Executive Officer. It has continued ary society, ASA has reflected the and bring you quickly up to speed all new resources published in to flourish under the leadership of discipline’s commitment to high if you face teaching a new course. TRAILS include explicit learning Margaret Weigers Vitullo, Director quality teaching and learning for For the late career or retired ASA goals and assessments and have of APAP since 2007. decades, but in 2016 ASA will member, the benefit provides an gone through a two-stage peer By developing TRAILS, the further embed that principle at the opportunity for you to place your review process before being pub- Association extended its com- core of ASA well-crafted lished in digital format in TRAILS. mitment to teaching and learning membership teaching Members may also submit adapta- into the 21st century with a flexible by making ASA Council’s materials tions of resources they use for peer digital format that is responsive TRAILS, the from areas of review and possible publication in to today’s instructors and new Teaching decision to make your scholarly TRAILS. instructional methods and with Resources and specialization The review process for TRAILS content that is prepared and tested Innovation TRAILS a benefit to all in an acces- submissions begins with review by, as well as reviewed by, socio- Library for sible archive by one of the 32 TRAILS Subject logical experts, designed explicitly Sociology, members continues for continued Area Editors, followed by a review for sociologists. an automatic use by future and final decision by the TRAILS By meeting the needs of ASA benefit of the Association’s teacher-schol- Editor. All review criteria are members, we will also greatly membership. ars. publicly shared on the TRAILS expand TRAILS’ user base and When you long-standing website. Once a submission is pool of potential authors. This sup- TRAILS renew or join approved for publication, TRAILS ports TRAILS’ mission to advance commitment to Meets ASA for 2016, automatically generates a cover scholarly teaching and learning in Members’ therefore, you page with a citation including our discipline, increase access to the Scholarship Needs will imme- name of the author. TRAILS users high quality teaching materials that diately have of Teaching and While ASA electronically sign an agreement reflect the latest knowledge in our full access to members stating that any resource they use, discipline, and increase the respect the TRAILS Learning. engage in a either in its original or modified and rewards associated with teach- collection of wide variety form, will contain a clear citation ing excellence. sociologi- of professional detailing who authored the mate- If you have not previously cal teaching work in all rial. Professors who modify materi- explored TRAILS (www.asanet. materials— currently more than sectors of the economy, it is safe to als have the option of submitting org/teaching/resources/TRAILS. 3,100 unique resources. Members say that the vast majority of them their adaptations to TRAILS for cfm), I encourage you to do so are also welcome to add their are either students or faculty in approval and inclusion in the digi- now. If you have developed a own authored teaching materials educational settings at some point tal library alongside the original class activity, effective lecture, or through the TRAILS peer-review in the course of their member- resources. a unique syllabus, please consider process and receive authorship ship in ASA; often for much of ASA’s Commitment to the submitting it to TRAILS. credit for the communication as it. A small survey we conducted Scholarship of Teaching and well as the production of sociologi- of members indicated that access Learning cal scholarship. to TRAILS was the second most ASA Council’s decision to make frequently mentioned new benefit ASA’s commitment to teach- Sally T. Hillsman is TRAILS a benefit to all mem- that members felt would be helpful ing and learning did not begin the Executive Officer bers continues the Association’s to them. Online access to all ASA with TRAILS. Hans Mauksch, of ASA. She can be long-standing commitment to journals became a benefit last year ASA Executive Director from reached by email at the Scholarship of Teaching and because it was the most frequently 1975-1977, believed that sociolo- executive.office@ Learning by recognizing that mentioned benefit of membership. gists needed to become far more asanet.org.

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NSF Seeks Candidates for DD). Applications may be submit- users — to understand how race and Reference Bureau (PRB) provides Division Director of Social and ted through USAJOBS. ethnicity categories have changed the latest demographic data for the Economic Sciences over 220 years in the decennial world, global regions, and more Census: Measuring Race and census. This understanding is than 200 countries. This year’s col- The National Science Foundation Ethnicity across The Decades: important in order to interpret lection of indicators include several (NSF) recently announced that it 1790-2010 is accepting applications for the results from the 2010 Census Race focusing on the status of women The U.S. Census Bureau recently position of Division and Hispanic Origin Alternative in key areas such as education, released a new interac- Director for the Social Questionnaire Experiment and the employment, and government. tive visualization, which and Economic Sciences current mid-decade testing of race Looking at the numbers across the shows how race and (SES) Division within the and ethnicity questions, including world, researchers are able to get a ethnicity categories have Directorate for Social, the 2015 National Content Test. The picture of women’s progress towards changed over time since Behavioral, and Economic National Content Test will inform empowerment—available at www. the first census in 1790. Sciences (SBE). The design changes for collecting data prb.org. This year’s Data Sheet pack- This visualization allows interested Division Director “provides leader- on race and ethnicity in the 2020 age includes: a digital visualization individuals better understand ship and direction for the support Census and other ongoing demo- at www.worldpopdata.org featuring the relationship between histori- of research and education activities graphic and economic surveys con- a customized data dashboard where cal classifications and the present that develop and advance scientific ducted by the Census Bureau. For users can view multiple indicators time. A static version of this same knowledge focusing on political, more information, see blogs.census. for a region or country, a video visualization was presented in April economic, and social systems and gov/2015/11/02/measuring-race- focusing on what the data say about 2015 at the Population Association how individuals and organiza- and-ethnicity-across-the-decades- the state of women’s empowerment, of America Annual Meeting. The tions function within them.” More 1790-2010/?cid=RS27. an interactive world map illustrat- interactive timeline was created information on the position can be ing key demographic variables by to establish a starting point for PRB Releases World Population found in the Dear Colleague Letter country and region, a lesson plan the public—including community Data Sheet from SBE (www.nsf.gov/sbe/Career/ for teachers, and PRB’s DataFinder stakeholders, academics, and data Each year, the Population Dear_Colleague_Letter_for_SES_ database.

The AAPSS Welcomes a New President and a Invited Session New Fellow Proposals Solicited for the n May 7, The American networks change. Fischer has Columbia University, succeeded OAcademy of Political and authored several award-winning Douglas Massey, as AAPSS 2017 Annual Social Science (AAPSS) inducted books, including Inequality President; Massey served as Meeting sociologist Claude S. Fischer as a by Design: Cracking the Bell President for nine years. A for- The substantive program for the 2017 2015 Fellow. AAPSS Fellows are Curve Myth (with Hout, Lucas, mer director of the U.S. Census Annual Meeting is now taking shape recognized for their contributions Sánchez-Jankowski, Swidler, and Bureau and former president under the leadership of President- to the improvement of society Voss), and received the 1996 of the Social Science Research elect Michéle Lamont and the 2017 through research and influence Robert and Helen Lynd Award in Council, Prewitt has been a Program Committee. The theme of over public policy. Since the recognition of his lifetime contri- long-time champion of the ways “Culture, Inequalities, and Social founding of its Fellows program butions in urban studies. in which sound data and good Inclusion across the Globe” invites in 2000, AAPSS has inducted After inducting the 2015 social science can advance the participation across the discipline almost 100 distinguished scholars Academy Fellows, the AAPSS public good and inform public and provides many opportunities and public servants as Fellows. awarded University of Wisonsin policy. Like Massey, Prewitt has to bring together a variety of Fischer is the Natalie Cohen Chancellor Rebecca Blank the demonstrated commitment to sociological work in diverse formats. Professor of Sociology at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize. the Academy and its work; he is Proposals for invited sessions are University of California-Berkley. According to the Academy, the a Fellow, a former AAPSS Board due by February 5, 2016. Invited While his early research focused prize “was created to recognize member, and an ANNALS editor sessions include Workshops, Special on urban studies, social net- social scientists, public officials, and contributor. Founded in Sessions, Regional Spotlight Sessions, works, and economic inequal- and civic leaders who champion 1889, the AAPSS strives to pro- Author Meets Critic Sessions , and ity, his most recent works have the use of informed judgement to mote the progress of the social Courses (the deadline for thematics focused on social history. With advance the public good.” sciences and their use for public has passed). All proposals must funding from the National Kenneth Prewitt, the Carnegie policy and the advancement of be submitted through the online member portal. Institute of Aging, he is currently Professor of Public Affairs social good. The Academy also working on a five-year panel and director of The Future of produces ANNALS, a bimonthly For more information, see study of how personal ties and Scholarly Knowledge project at journal. www.asanet.org/meetings/ member_suggestions.cfm.

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Babbie but it was accurate—I could do the time, was sent to the United Institute and The Population Media From Page 1 better.” States to learn more about teach- Center. The two groups address Babbie’s doctoral dissertation ing methods and building faculty overpopulation issues around the courses at Harvard, Babbie enrolled included a national survey of exchange programs. When asked globe. He expects to be teaching in a course on cultural anthropol- medical school faculty regarding what he taught in his introduc- a methods course via Skype to a ogy. “The course changed my life,” he the scientific trends in patient care. tory courses, Babbie offered two women’s university class in Iran. said. “I never conceived of the differ- He would earn his doctorate from introductory textbooks he authored, Babbie offers this advice to cur- ences in human culture.” The course Berkeley in 1969. Society by Agreement and Survey rent students: “It is very important led him to change his major to Social Research Methods. Fei was so appre- to learn research methods in both An Expert at Survey Research Relations—with some courses taught ciative of the offer that “he eagerly quantitative and qualitative meth- by leading scholars such as Talcott Noticing the talent and efforts of grabbed the textbooks out of my ods. I would encourage them as Parsons. “I came out of the exams his protégé, Glock made Babbie an hands,” said Babbie. sociologists to look at the potential smarter than I came in,” observed apprentice at his sociological survey Babbie would leave the University for society—what is going wrong Babbie regarding having Parsons has research center, where the graduate of Hawaii in 1979 to spend several and how can it be made right and his professor. Nearing the end of his student would eventually earn the years writing and updating sociol- how can sociology do that? As soci- undergraduate schooling, he met assistant director position. Glock ogy textbooks, and in 1987 he ologists, we have an obligation to with Parsons for advice on a career in also hired him as a course material returned to the U.S. mainland where look out for the wellbeing of people sociology. Parsons recommended the reader and class lecturer. he was hired as the department in society.” University of California-Berkeley for Douglas Yamamura, University chair at Chapman University. In In 2010, a professor in Shanghai graduate studies. of Hawaii, approached Glock about addition to teaching courses, he was invited Babbie to give a keynote at Before attending graduate school, starting a research center in Hawaii. tapped to handle university admin- the first conference of the Chinese Babbie spent three years with the Glock recommended Babbie to head istrative duties—though he pre- Survey Research Association. U.S. Marine Corps as part of his the new survey research center. This ferred spending more time teaching. The professor mentioned in his ROTC commitment. When he was a big project for a young profes- In 2006, Babbie retired from full- invitation that the attendees were entered the UC-Berkeley sociology sional—including supervising two time teaching at Chapman. Earl Babbie’s students. Although program, he expressed an interest staff members and directing a survey In 2012, a new survey research Babbie had never taught a course in the sociology of religion. Charles project that involved interview- center was formed under Babbie’s to Chinese students, this is how Glock was the assigned adviser for ing rural communities on the large name at Chapman University. The profoundly his textbooks shaped the that sociological area of interest and Hawaii island, Manoa. In addition Babbie Research Center conducts learning of many sociology students would become his mentor through to running the research center, he national survey projects including a both in China and in the United his entire graduate study. Glock was taught a survey methods course. current study of fear in contempo- States. “An entire generation of us an intimating figure who was direct While teaching in Hawaii, Babbie rary American society. grew up with Earl Babbie as our first with his critiques. Babbie recalled: had an interesting visit from a guide into the world of systematic In Retirement “while I was working on a survey for Chinese scholar. In 1979, during the social inquiry,” said Edward Day, my dissertation, I wrote 26 drafts of reform period of Deng Xiaoping, During his retirement, Babbie Director of the Babbie Research the questionnaire and I would give sociology was being re-established relocated to Arkansas where he met Center. Not a bad legacy for a man the questionnaire drafts to Charlie as an academic pursuit in Chinese his current wife. He serves on the who accidently found a career in Glock for review and he would say universities. Fei Xiao-tung, the most board of two national non-profit sociology. that I can do better. I was crushed prominent sociologist in China at organizations: The Population

Department book, After the Great Recession: Mark’s research in a speech on on how social processes reproduce From Page 1 The Struggle for Economic Recovery economic mobility). racial and gender inequality in the and Growth, examines how rising David hails from Brandeis, where workplace, with particular attention department and reinstate it to its income inequality is linked to he served as department chair. to black professional men in my full former stature. greater household debt, and has His research interests are in social recent book No More Invisible Man. generated international attention movements, particularly the scope Bringing Sociology Back Starting with Five for its prescient analysis of key and breadth of racial contention, In 2015, the first stage of this aspects of the recession and its and his book Klansville, USA The five of us are excited about plan came to fruition. After nearly aftermath. Mark has the unique was recently the subject of a PBS the prospect of building our group a quarter of a century, Washington distinction of being a member of documentary. and re-establishing it as a preemi- University (Wash U) now has a soci- the original department, though Jake is a native St. Louisian who nent department filled with scholars ology department! We are currently he transitioned over to Brown returned here from University of doing innovative, relevant sociologi- comprised of five faculty members: School of Social Work before the Washington in Seattle. His book, cal research. We all explore issues Steve Fazzari, Mark Rank, David department closed. He now returns What Unions No Longer Do, has related to social inequality, broadly Cunningham, Jake Rosenfeld, and to sociology to serve as Associate generated attention from the New speaking, and will continue to build myself. Steve hails from econom- Chair. York Times, The Nation, Politico, and the department in that direction. ics and is acting as chair until the Mark is an expert on poverty The Atlantic for its provocative and We also look forward to becom- department is a little more estab- whose recent book Chasing the important conclusions about the ing a top-notch department that is lished and we select someone with a American Dream is particularly consequences of declining union diverse in a number of ways—not sociology background to take on this apropos, given the widening income membership in the United States. just in terms of racial and gender role in a more permanent capacity. inequality in our time (a fact which I round out the group, having diversity, but in terms of method- Steve’s work has a great deal of drew the attention of none other moved here from Georgia State ological, theoretical, and substantive overlap with sociology. His 2013 than President Obama, who cited University. My own research focuses Continued on Page 12

4 footnotes • November 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association How Sociology Departments Can Help Pre-Med Students

Elizabeth Borland, The College of New medicine, including a field observa- Day (“Many Roads Lead to Medical letters of recommendation for medi- Jersey, [email protected] tion outside a hospital or clinic and School: The Social Science Path”) and cal school admissions. A campus- hen I became chair three years dataset labs where students examine offer a “Health and Environment” wide process usually filters faculty Wago, my predecessor warned immunization and obesity rates. major specialization that signals letters: if you write one, someone on me about looming changes to the While targeted courses may appeal health as an area of sociological inter- your campus will review it as they MCAT. We wanted to attract and to institutions with many pre-meds, est and expertise. In our materials, we create a composite recommendation. support pre-med students, but I was they were not a good option for my emphasize why sociological skills and In addition to assessing the applicant’s not sure how. Therefore, I eagerly small department. Instead, like other content are important for medical competencies in scientific reasoning, read a December 2012 Footnotes programs, we recommend SOC101 schools and future health profession- critical thinking, and writing, the article by Ed Kain about how to to pre-med students and encourage als by highlighting human and social Association of American Medical “proactively plan for this change.” additional health electives. aspects of medicine. Colleges asks recommenders to note As we attract more pre-meds, we if the applicant has overcome adver- Below, I share what I learned as I Preparing SOC101 followed his advice in hopes it will need to be prepared to advise them. sity, and to detail intra- and interper- Relying on SOC101 means that 6 be useful to your department. Erik Larson’s research at Macalester sonal qualities. As sociologists, we professors need to be ready to College finds students prioritize are well-positioned to address these Collect Data & Advocate for address questions from pre-meds. social motives for studying medicine. details and can help by including con- Resources Departments can help instructors As sociologists, we can help them crete observations from office hours, Kain recommends seeking to understand the MCAT: social to consider these motives. Anne classroom interactions, and students’ information from campus pre-med science content is a quarter of the Figert, who has advised pre-meds community-engaged work. advisors, so I contacted my college’s exam; sociology is about 30 percent at Loyola-Chicago for over 15 years, Though I was skeptical at first, I medical careers advisory committee of this section alongside psychol- told me that it is important to help believe the new MCAT allows us to chair. She told me how many pre- ogy (65%) and biology (5%). While with goal evaluation: “It’s a wonder- support pre-meds as they think criti- meds apply (100/year at my public our learning outcomes for SOC101 ful experience working with these cally about the practice of medicine, primarily undergraduate institution) provide a sound foundation, I was students and helping them in their patients, and medical institutions. and shared advising documents. My concerned about specific content discernment process. They are amaz- It is an opportunity that goes way colleague Lynn Gazley and I used coverage because so many profes- ing students doing so much for all the beyond “teaching to the test.” sors, including adjuncts, teach it. them to create a course planner for right reasons.” Good advising may Endnotes pre-med sociology majors.1 To respond, I created a workshop entail tough conversations about how 1 In anticipation of rising demand for SOC101 instructors. I presented to prepare, even if it means waiting https://sociology.tcnj.edu/ sociology-major-for-pre-med-students/ for our courses, Kain suggests pre-med demographics and gave to apply to medical school and using 2 an overview of the MCAT’s content the time to gain more experience www.aamc.org/mcat2015exam advocating for resources. I was 2 surprised to find out that no one knowledge and skills. We practiced shadowing or scribing in medical 3 www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat questions from the Khan Academy 4 knew how many of our entering settings, boosting a weak academic www.aamc.org/advisors to illustrate what students encounter.3 students were pre-med. When I told record with a master’s, or gaining life 5 www.mededportal.org/pre-health Attendees talked about which topics my dean, he pressed for a “pre-med” experience. 6 to recommend students study solo www.aamc.org/initiatives/ designation on student software. The We also need to be ready to write admissionsinitiative/letters/ (see an Interactive Course Mapping numbers helped me convince him 4 we needed more SOC101 sections. Tool ). My favorite moment of the Some departments have also gained workshop was when we talked about call for submissions faculty lines; we included this logic how the MCAT emphasizes skills we in successful bids to hire a medical already teach: critical thinking and Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement research design. Instructors reported sociologist and a biological anthro- Grants Program pologist. MIT, lacking a major, even they were more prepared to address hired a post-doc sociologist to teach questions from pre-meds, including Deadline: February 1, 2016 pre-med students. everyone’s favorite, “is this covered Applications are being accepted for the Carla B. Howery Teaching Some sociology programs offer on the MCAT?,” and enjoyed brain- Enhancement Grants Program. This small grants program sup- targeted courses for first-year storming learning activities, includ- ports teaching projects that advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within the discipline of sociology. pre-meds, and we considered this. ing film clips, data projects, and Owen Whooley, who teaches “The in-class assignments. I compiled and The Teaching Enhancement grants can support an individual, a circulated notes that I share with new program, a department, or a committee of a state or regional as- Social Contours of Health” for the sociation. ASA will award up to two grants, of up to $2,000 each. University of New Mexico BA/MD instructors and can add to for future workshop iterations, appending Competitive proposals describe projects that will advance the program that has long included teaching and learning of sociology, will continue to have an impact materials from the MedEdPORTAL’s over time, and optimally, will lead to systemic change. The crite- sociology, said that teaching new 5 pre-meds sets them up for more iCollaborative. ria are intentionally flexible in order to accommodate innovative proposals. thoughtful doctor-patient interac- Attracting Pre-meds Applications should be sent as a PDF file to [email protected]. Only tions throughout training. The Because my department is seeking pre-health Intro course designed electronic submissions will be accepted. Notification of awards will to attract pre-med majors, we have be sent out in early April. For more information about the Carla B. by Wesley James at the University employed a range of other tactics Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program and required ap- of Memphis has a similar goal. that seem to be paying off. We give plication materials, visit www.asanet.org/funding/tef.cfm or e-mail Current instructor Kendra Murphy presentations at Accepted Students [email protected]. focuses assignments on health and

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SA members are encouraged manner in which sociology is taught or public organizations, agencies, or broaden the thinking of society and Ato submit nominations for the at a regional, state, national, or associations, or as a solo practitio- to broaden what the mainstream following ASA awards. Award international level. These contri- ner. Nominations should include a included. In the spirit of the lifetime selection committees, appointed butions may include preparation one- to two-page statement and the efforts of Cox, Johnson, and Frazier, by ASA Council, are constituted to of teaching- and curriculum- vita of the nominee. The most com- the committee invites nomina- review nominations. These awards related materials and publications, pelling cases contain five to eight tions of individuals or institutions are presented at the ASA Annual participation in the scholarship of letters from a variety of individuals with a record of outstanding work, Meeting each August. The deadline teaching and learning, development able to speak to the qualifications of such as, but not limited to: work for submission of nominations is and communication of innovative the nominees. The person making on social justice issues, work on January 29, 2016, unless otherwise teaching techniques, leadership in the nomination should obtain this human rights, activism, community noted. teaching-related workshops and material and forward it to the com- efforts, the building of institutions, symposia, involvement in innova- mittee, with the nominee’s curricu- or sustaining programs, with an W.E.B. DuBois Career of tive program development, and lum vitae, as a package. emphasis on African American Distinguished Scholarship contributions to the enhancement or similarly disadvantaged racial/ Award Excellence in the Reporting of of teaching within state, regional, ethnic populations that have expe- Social Issues Award This award honors scholars who or national associations. The award rienced historical racial discrimi- have shown outstanding commit- typically is given for a series of con- The Award for Excellence in the nation. Occasionally institutional ment to the profession of sociology tributions spanning several years or Reporting of Social Issues honors commitment to social justice and and whose cumulative work has a career, although it may recognize individuals for their promotion of to broadening the tradition to contributed in important ways to a single project of exceptional sociological findings and a broader include and empower marginalized the advancement of the discipline. impact. The award is not designed vision of sociology. The ASA would scholars and marginalized people, The body of lifetime work may to recognize outstanding teach- like to recognize the contributions is so compelling that this award can include theoretical and/or method- ing ability at one’s own institution of those who have been especially recognize a communal institutional ological contributions. The award unless that is part of a career with a effective in disseminating sociologi- effort. Nominations should include selection committee is particularly broader impact. Individuals, depart- cal perspectives and research. The a one to two-page cover letter that interested in work that substantially ments, schools, or other collective ASA is cognizant of the fact that explains why the individual or reorients the field in general or in actors are eligible. Nominations there are many professionals (e.g., institution fits the criteria, a CV, a particular subfield. Nominations should include the nominee and a journalists, filmmakers) whose and possibly one or two additional should include a copy of the nomi- one- to two-page statement explain- job it is to translate and interpret a letters of recommendation nee’s curriculum vitae and letters ing the basis of the nomination. wide range of information, includ- Award for Public in support of the nomination. The Nominations should also include ing sociological perspectives and Understanding of Sociology most compelling cases contain a vita, if applicable, and relevant research, for the general public. five to eight letters from a variety supporting materials. Nominations This award is intended to promote a This award is given annually of individuals able to speak to the must now also include at least a broader vision of sociology and gain to a scholar or scholars who have qualifications of the nominees. The paragraph within the nomination public support for the discipline. made exemplary contributions to person making the nomination letter explaining how the CV illus- The most compelling cases contain advance the public understanding should obtain this material and trates the nominee’s contributions to five to eight letters from a variety of sociology, sociological research, forward it to the committee, with teaching. of individuals able to speak to the and scholarship among the general the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a qualifications of the nominees. The public. The award may recognize package. Distinguished Career Award for person making the nomination a contribution in the preceding the Practice of Sociology should obtain this material and year or for a longer career of such Distinguished Book Award This award honors outstand- forward it to the committee, with contributions. Nominations should This award is given for a single ing contributions to sociological the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a include the nominee’s vita and a book published in 2014, 2015, and practice. The award may recognize package. detailed one to two page nomina- in the month of January in 2016. work that has facilitated or served tion statement that describes how Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Nominations must come from as a model for the work of others; the person’s work has contributed to members of the Association and work that has significantly advanced The Cox-Johnson-Frazier increasing the public understand- should include the name of author, the utility of one or more specialty Award is given to an individual or ing and knowledge of sociology. title of book, date of publication, areas in sociology and, by so doing, individuals for their work in the The most compelling cases contain publisher, and a brief statement has elevated the professional status intellectual traditions of the work five to eight letters from a variety about why the book should be con- or public image of the field as a of these three African American of individuals able to speak to the sidered for this award. whole; or work that has been hon- scholars. Cox, Johnson, and Frazier qualifications of the nominees. The placed their scholarship in service Distinguished Contributions to ored or widely recognized outside person making the nomination to social justice, with an eye toward Teaching Award the discipline for its significant should obtain this material and impacts, particularly in advanc- advancing the status of disadvan- forward it to the committee, with The ASA Distinguished ing human welfare. The recipient taged populations. Their scholarship the nominee’s curriculum vitae, as a Contributions to Teaching Award of this award will have spent at was not limited to just the gather- package. honors outstanding contributions least a decade of substantial work ing of more data, but was rather to undergraduate and/or graduate Jessie Bernard Award involving research, administrative, scholarship that was attempting teaching of sociology. The award or operational responsibilities as a to better conditions globally. 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t its August 25-26, 2015, meet- plans to commence the search for a • Established a joint subcom- name to “Committee on Aings in Chicago, ASA Council new Executive Officer. mittee to explore alternate the Status of Lesbian, Gay, welcomed seven new Council Membership. business models for Contexts Bisexual, Transgender, and members: President-Elect Michèle that would be revenue neu- Queer (LGBTQ) People in • Added free access to TRAILS Lamont, Vice President-Elect tral; the subcommittee will Sociology”; and approved the as a new member benefit for Kathleen Gerson, Secretary- be comprised of members committee’s amended mission 2016. Elect David Takeuchi, and of Council, the Committee statement. Council Members-at-large Daniel • Approved giving new sociol- on Publications, the EOB High School Sociology. The pro- Chambliss, Cynthia Feliciano, ogy PhDs a free one-year Committee, the Task Force posed National Standards for High Mignon Moore, and Wendy Ng. membership to ASA and one on Engaging Sociology, and School Sociology, prepared by the Pending Council approval and section of their choice for a Executive Office staff. High School Sociology Planning online posting of the minutes, the two-year trial period (2016 • Approved the Committee on Program, were approved. The stan- following is a brief snapshot of key and 2017 membership years). Publications recommendation dards focus on four broad learning decisions and information. • Approved the Volunteer that the submission process domains, each of which includes Minutes. Meeting minutes for Opportunities in a for all ASA journals include a 3-4 assessable competencies. February 7, 2015, were approved. Collaborative Environment requirement that authors be Sections. The collaboration of All Council minutes are posted (VOICE) proposal as a future asked to write short state- the ASA Section on Racial and online at www.asanet.org/about/ member benefit. ments on: IRB approval Ethnic Minorities with the Samuel Council_Minutes.cfm. • Approved a COLA adjust- (whether required or not by DuBois Cook Center on Social Audit. The audited financial ment in 2016 dues. research institution), data- Equity at Duke University was statement for Fiscal Year 2014 was sharing, funding source(s) for Journal Subscription Rates. authorized, if their grant pro- approved and is available online at the research, and any conflicts posal for a mentoring program is • Approved no increase in www.asanet.org/about/audit.cfm. of interest in research or approved by NSF. Member rates, which remain funding. Annual Report. The 2014 ASA at 2010 levels. Task Forces. Annual Report was distributed Committee and Task Force • Expressed deep appreciation at the ASA Bookstore during the • Approved institutional sub- Appointments. scription rate increases of 5 to for the work of the Task Force 2015 Annual Meeting. The online • Accepted the recommenda- 6 percent for 2016 as negoti- on Sociology and Global version is posted on the ASA tions of the Committee on ated with the publishers. Climate Change in produc- website and will also be available Committees, ASA Secretary, ing the edited volume, titled through iTunes later this fall. Annual Meeting. Fees for registra- and ASA Executive Officer for Climate Change and Society: Awards. The Committee on tion, events, and services for the 2016 appointed Association Sociological Perspectives Awards was requested to review 2016 Annual Meeting will remain positions. (Oxford, 2015). and prepare a recommendation at 2015 levels. • Affirmed the long-standing • Received updates on the for the March 2016 Council meet- Job Bank. A new fee structure was policy that Council members activities of the Task Force on ing regarding a proposal from the approved for job listings and indi- are ineligible to serve on com- Engaging Sociology, the Task ASA Dissertation Award Selection vidual non-member subscriptions. mittees for which they have Force on Community College Committee that dissertations Publications. appointive authority. Faculty, and the Task Force receiving the award be made pub- on Liberal Learning and the licly available in the year that the • Approved an updated • Approved President-Elect Sociology Major, 3rd edition. dissertation receives the award. statement of mission for Michèle Lamont’s recommen- Sociological Theory. dation of the following mem- Executive Office. In response to New Business. Following review • Affirmed the Secretary’s bers for the 2017 Program of a business meeting resolution the Executive Officer’s letter of res- Committee: Sada Aksartova, ignation, effective May 2016, the approval of additional pages asking for the establishment of a for the 2015 volume of David Grusky, David task force on contingency faculty, Committee on the Executive Office Harding, Ann Morning, and Budget (EOB) reported on its Sociological Methodology. Council asked the ASA Research Kristen Schilt, Graziella Department to prepare a summary Moraes Silva, Yasemin Soysal, report on the state of knowledge and Anna Sun; and ex-officio about contingent employment 2016 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers members Kathleen Gerson in sociology, resurrect the report (ASA Vice President-Elect), from the previous task force on The 2016 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Online Mary Romero (Secretary), contingent faculty, and draft in David Takeuchi (Secretary- consultation with ASA officers a Submission System is now available at Elect), and Sally T. Hillsman www.asanet.org/AM2016/callforpapers.cfm. The charge for a possible new task force (Executive Officer). to be considered by Council at its submission system opened on November 3, 2015. • Renewed the Committee on next meeting. Authors may now submit their scholarly work to Regular the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Next Council Meeting. The next Session topics, Section Paper Sessions and Roundtables, Bisexual, and Transgendered Council meeting will be held on and Open Refereed Roundtables. The deadline for all Persons in Sociology for March 12-13, 2016, in Washington, submissions is January 6, 2016. another five-year term; DC. changed the committee’s

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Awards educational attainment on social Distinguished Scholarly Book who are interested in a fun, party- From Page 1 stratification to predict the growing Award filled college experience with few isomorphism among educational academic demands. Universities Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University Professor institutions worldwide…” As a accommodate these students with of Michigan, and Laura T. Hamilton, at Stanford result of his insights, many nations easy majors, ways to opt out of chal- University of California-Merced, for University around the globe have drawn on lenging course requirements, and Paying for the Party: How College where he began his work and indeed, governments schedules compatible with partying. Maintains Inequality (Harvard his career in of Botswana, Namibia, Georgia, The “fun” aspect of the party path- University, 2013) 1966. His areas etc., have asked Meyer to visit their way is often delegated to fraternities This important, provocative of research schools and review their educational and sororities, which provide their ethnographic study examines how interests are systems. His research has been con- members with alcohol, partners college exacerbates class differences broadly defined John W. Meyer ducted with incisiveness, sensitivity, for hooking-up, and a demanding rather than offering a pathway as the sociol- and analytical rigor. schedule of meetings and activities. for social mobility. Armstrong ogy of education, political sociology, In the area of globalization, The book develops the third path- and Hamilton follow a group of world society, and organizations. He reviewers highlighted that “over way. Although the authors note that, young women through a flagship has published more than 200 articles four decades of empirical work, “extremely affluent students with Midwestern University as they and chapters on these topics and Meyer established a shared meth- middling academic credentials are attempt to balance their social and has received numerous honors for odological imagination and jointly the ideal candidates” (p. 15) for the academic lives. The authors took his impressive trajectory of work. At compiled a remarkable quantitative party pathway, students from other up housing in a women’s floor in a multiple points in his career, he was dataset extending from the early backgrounds—especially underpre- residence hall to conduct an ambi- a fellow at the Center for Advanced 19th century. These accomplish- pared students of underrepresented tious five-year ethnographic study. Study in Berlin. He received the ments have yielded a detailed groups in academia—also end up Initially the study was framed as Lifetime Contributions Award to the description of the features of world partying their way through college. an attempt to understand college Study of Globalization from the ASA society, key social entities that are These students stress about making as a site where young women learn Globalization Section and the Waller embedded in it, and key processes at the best impression during rush about sexuality. Instead, it devel- Award for Lifetime Contributions work in both stabilizing and trans- and adjusting their course sched- oped into a study of how institutes to the Sociology of Education from forming it.” Meyer has impressively ule to accommodate a demanding of higher learning perpetuate social the ASA Sociology of Education “extended Weber’s rationalization social calendar. While the wealthy stratification. Section. Among his many awards, thesis into a globalization thesis.” He students rely on their parents to bail Armstrong and Hamilton dis- he has received honorary doctorates is frequently viewed as the leading them out after graduation with an tinguish three pathways by which in economics from the Stockholm figure in world sociology, and his internships at a Fortune 500 com- students move through a univer- School of Economics in Sweden, main foundational contributions pany and a condo in the city, the sity. The professional pathway fits in sociology from the University are contained in World Society: The less-advantaged students swept up ambitious students from privileged of Bielefeld in Germany and in Writings of John Meyer (2010). on the party pathway leave college families and rests on competition Sociology from the University of Nomination letters consistently indebted with low GPAs in worth- cultivated in high school. Students Lucerne in Switzerland. reported that they “know of no less majors (such as “event plan- with AP credit skip the big intro- John Meyer has not only devel- living American sociologist” who ning”). Armstrong and Hamilton ductory university classes to take oped a robust set of theoretical has had a more powerful and observe that when these students the smaller seminars with more perspectives but he has also carried transformational “influence on core transfer to community colleges with intensive faculty contact. Students out rigorous empirical testing of his sociological thinking and research” less developed party pathways, they aiming for a professional career also ideas. As a result, he has profoundly over the past 50 years. Committee end up doing better. search out lead- impacted analyses of organizations, members highlighted the ways in The authors put some of the ership positions educational institutions, and world which his work has innovatively blame for the party pathway on the in student or society. He was involved in and impacted not just U.S. sociology way public universities respond to philanthropic responsible for the early develop- but sociology worldwide. They also cutthroat institutional competi- organizations. ment of neo-institutional theory noted his extraordinary mentor- tion. The party pathway demands The mobility that represents a major paradigm, ship, stating that as his “influential institutional spending on extracur- pathway caters which has influenced generations streams of research,” emerged as he ricular activities such as football to students of of sociologists. Meyer is also one of worked closely with doctoral stu- and basketball teams that leads to diverse social the most cited figures in organiza- dents to help them to develop their Elizabeth Armstrong higher tuition for the entire student backgrounds, tional sociology. He has answered own ideas and ideas in common. population. Channeling students to pointing them fundamental questions that helped Among faculty, Meyer is described the mobility or professional pathway to majors to elucidate how certain institu- as being intellectually generous and instead requires an investment in connected to tional forms of education have he is referred to as having “remark- academic advisors, counseling, and specific jobs emerged, diffused, and experienced able collegiality.” Meyer has made professors to attend to the less well- such as nursing, extreme expansion throughout the a lasting and cumulative impact on prepared students. accounting, world. Nomination letters note that the field combining powerful theo- Paying for the Party is a game or teaching. his “theoretical perspectives on rization and sophisticated empiri- changer in the sociology of educa- This pathway education as a major independent cal work. The depth, breadth, and tion but also breaks new ground depends on Laura T. Hamilton institution with far-ranging cultural lasting impact of his work are highly for sociologists interested in academic influence has been effectively deserving of the W.E.B DuBois gender, class, and social stratifica- engagement and social integration employed to explain the histori- Distinguished Career of Scholarship tion. The book takes issue with the but not on heavy partying. The cal intensification of the impact of Award. partying pathway indulges students Continued on Next Page

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Awards minds” and for and is used as a source by a wide and then in From Previous Page an analysis that range of news organizations, 1981 served is “both fiercely including Jezebel, Business Insider, as the director self-congratulatory argument that intelligent and PolicyMic, Pacific Standard, of the Divorce higher education is an engine for jargon-free.” Racialicious, and the Huffington Mediation social mobility worth billions of What is notable Post. As Myra Marx Ferree asserts in Research dollars in financial aid. Instead, this about Wade her nomination, Sociological Images Project for book reveals the collateral dam- and Sharp, provides a “visual commons of vari- a federally age of public universities chasing Uggen goes on Gwen Sharp ous informative images for free use funded project Eleanor Lyon the wealthiest students at a time of to say, is that by faculty, students, and interested in Connecticut. retrenchment of state funding for they “work journalists.” She emphasizes that She served as Research Consultant higher education. incredibly hard although the images are gathered for United Social and Mental Health Distinguished Contributions to and selflessly collectively as a “true creative com- Services in Connecticut and, for 15 Teaching Award (co-recipients) to teach us all mons, they are made useful by Lisa years, as Research Associate at The about sociol- and Gwen’s sophisticated indexing Village for Families & Children, Inc. Gwen Sharp, Nevada State College, ogy, but make and cross-referencing.” Sociological in Hartford. and Lisa Wade, Occidental College, it appear effort- Images continues to provide high In 1988, Lyon founded the for Sociological Images Blog less to readers Lisa Wade quality images, commentary, and consulting firm, Lyon & Associates, A blog and website produced by and students.” access to sociological research free which extended her research and Lisa Wade (Occidental College) and Sociological Images has changed of charge to a large public audience. evaluation work through projects Gwen Sharp (Nevada State College), the way many of us teach sociology. An enormous contribution to for the Department of Health and Sociological Images has become a When Michael Kimmel and Abby sociology, Sociological Images truly Human Services, the Centers for central source for contemporary Kinchy asked for examples of how has sparked sociological imagina- Disease Control and Prevention, cultural commentary and criticism sociologists used the blog, within tions everywhere. the National Resource Center on from a sociological perspective. minutes, dozens of colleagues wrote Domestic Violence, the Rhode Distinguished Career Award for Wade began the blog in 2007 and to relay how they used Sociological Island Coalition Against Domestic the Practice of Sociology recruited colleagues to contrib- Images to support teaching and Violence, and many others. In ute materials in the hopes that learning in a wide range of sociol- Eleanor Lyon, University of 2001, Lyon became Director of the Sociological Images would become ogy courses, including Introduction Connecticut Institute for Violence Prevention a useful site where professors could to Sociology, social stratification “Knowledge is power.” This state- and Reduction at the University share images they used in teaching. and inequality, historical sociol- ment in Eleanor Lyon’s outcome of Connecticut’s School of Social Sharp, one of the earliest con- ogy, economic sociology, ethnic evaluation brief for the National Work. In these positions, Lyon has tributors, joined Lisa as an editor relations and the sociology of sex Resource Center on Domestic led research on a range of issues, to create an extremely popular and and gender. Sociology teachers Violence is exemplified by her including the role of racism and useful teaching resource. Sociological have written to say “I check the own work, over 40 years, as she women’s concerns for their children Images curates images and provides website every day…”, “I use it all the has made vital contributions to the in domestic violence cases, the basic commentary grounded in and time…” Sociological Images “has knowledge base that has helped impact of a culturally-sensitive framed by sociological research. become invaluable to me…I am to reduce significantly the rate of curriculum for men convicted of Wade and Sharp offer sample also a friend of the site on Facebook serious intimate partner violence domestic violence, the experiences assignments, and the site provides a and frequently share their postings against women. Through research of domestic violence victims/sur- space for readers’ commentary and with my own social network”, and and scholarship, program leader- vivors in domestic violence shelter original contributions that leverages “I find them a very helpful way to ship, and policy development, Lyon programs. the best of the web while ensuring show students about the everyday has helped scholars, practitioners, Lyon’s applied work has contrib- quality content. The site has par- application of sociology in the and policymakers understand and uted to state-wide alternative sen- ticular depth in the critical analysis world around them.” In Kimmel and improve policies and programs tencing programs in Connecticut, of class, race, and gender and also Kinchy’s words, Sociological Images about domestic violence, juvenile gender-specific programming for offers materials on a wide range of “is, quite simply, one of the most detention, families of homicide juvenile girls involved in the legal other sociological topics. wonderful teaching tools to come victims, and other pressing social system, domestic violence programs Hosted by the Society Pages along in a very long time.” problems. across the country, and guidelines (thesocietypages.org) and attached Sociological Images is also public Lyon received her PhD in sociol- for shelters by the World Health to Contexts, the blog has become sociology of the first order. Wade ogy from Northwestern University Organization. Her publications have an invaluable teaching tool for and Sharp bring a much-needed in 1975 and then briefly taught at improved understanding of domes- sociologists in the United States scholarly dimension to public Temple University. In 1976, she tic violence, ethnographic meth- and around the world. Easy to discussions of feminism, culture, started teaching sociology at the ods, and social policies. Professor use, well catalogued, and astutely colonialism, U.S. foreign policy, University of Connecticut—where Clinton Sanders at the University of curated, Sociological Images has and women’s bodies, and the site she has continued to teach and is Connecticut notes that Lyon’s book also received positive attention in is very well trafficked. With an now Associate Professor Emerita— with Jill Davies, Domestic Violence Teaching Sociology, Visual Studies, archive of nearly 5,000 descrip- and served as evaluator for a Advocacy: Complex Lives, Difficult and Teaching in Higher Education. tive and analytical posts, the local domestic violence response Choices (now in its 2nd edition with Christopher Uggen, former Contexts site receives about half a million program. In 1979, Lyon became SAGE), has become “the primary blog editor and current editor of The visits a month. Sociological Images Director of the Victim, Offender source for information and advo- Society Pages lauds Wade and Sharp enjoys a substantial following on and Battered Women’s Program of cacy guidance for domestic violence for their “brilliant and creative Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest Tumblr a Connecticut social service agency, Continued on Page 10 footnotes • November 2015 9 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Awards the President. and celebrating the country’s history ship and socio- From Page 9 Thereafter, of activism.” logical practice. Moyers went There has been no one else on His contribu- programs and coalitions across the into journalism television quite like Moyers. With tions to the country.” Her articles on research full time—for some three dozen Emmy Awards, a study of racial methods have been published a few years lifetime Peabody award, member- inequality have in the Journal of Contemporary as publisher ship in the Television Hall of Fame, been transfor- Ethnography and Evaluation and of Newsday and other honors, he has been mational both Program Planning, while her and then in Bill Moyers widely recognized for his achieve- within and out- Howard Winant insights for service providers have broadcast ments. For television viewers, he side of sociol- been appeared in such journals as television. He went to the fledg- helped to broaden the very notion ogy. Winant’s research, particularly Social Casework and Social Work ling PBS in 1971, moving to CBS of what television is capable of his seminal work on racial forma- with Groups. News 1976–86, and then returning doing. He treated his audience tion theory (with Michael Omi) has Lyon has also helped sociologists to PBS but supported by his own as people who think and people been so influential that it is almost develop professional organizations independent production company. who seek to transcend the every- impossible to read a scholarly in support of sociological practice. In a succession of several successful day. His television journalism has article on race, institutional racism, She was a member of the Society formats on public television, Moyers explored more than it has preached, or racial inequality from a global for Applied Sociology (serving as addressed key issues of concern to employing the tools of investigative perspective and not see reference treasurer and vice-president), the sociologists and to the general pub- journalism, and endowing television to his work. In five books, Racial Sociological Practice Association, lic, including political scandals, eco- with a legacy of critique, conversa- Formation in the United States: and the Association for Applied and nomic inequality, climate change, tion, and civility. From the 1960s to the 1990s (with Clinical Sociology (AACS) (serving government secrecy, the corruption Michael Omi; 2015, 1994, 1986); Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award as both treasurer and secretary). She of government through corporate The New Politics of Race: Globalism, has chaired the ASA’s Section on influence, and media policy. Howard Winant, University of Difference, Justice (2004); The World Sociological Practice and the AACS The selection committee noted California-Santa Barbara is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Commission on Accreditation of that Bill Moyers has shown an Professor Howard Winant or Since World War II (2001); Racial Programs. Lyon also received the enduring engagement by provid- “Howie” as friends and colleagues Conditions: Politics, Theory, AACS Robert Ezra Park Award for ing “conversations on democracy” know him, continues the legacy of Comparisons (1994); and Stalemate: Sociological Practice in 2008. and exploring contemporary Oliver Cromwell Cox, Charles S. Political Economic Origins of Supply- Excellence in Reporting on culture, rich in the historical and Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier Side Policy (1988), and in numerous Social Issues Award sociological context that is rare in in the relentless use of academic articles as well as book chapters, he contemporary media. He brought scholarship in the service of social has illuminated the structural forces Bill Moyers, Journalist to television poets, filmmakers, justice. Through his research, teach- creating racial and class inequality Bill Moyers, a leading journal- theologians, and others in discus- ing, and service to the profession within and between nations. ist for more than four decades, sions that he effectively made at and the world, Winant embodies Winant’s theoretical sophistica- has notably expanded the range once serious and accessible. He the tradition of a public intellectual. tion and engagement with social and reach of public broadcast- has focused on theologians (Karen He brings sociological analysis to movements and relationships ing. He is the 2015 recipient of the Armstrong), organizers (Ernesto bear on the problems gripping mod- to power have produced lasting ASA Award for Excellence in the Cortes), historians (Howard Zinn ern society and communicates the insights into the shifting, yet stable, Reporting of Social Issues. and Diane Ravitch), provocative insights of his analysis through both global terrain of race. While the Bill Moyers was born in 1934 in political writers (Ta-Nehisi Coates, word and deed to a professional and precise nature of “racial formation” Hugo, OK, and raised in Marshall, Naomi Klein), and unconventional lay audience. took different shapes in Brazil, TX. He studied journalism at North politicians (Senator Bernie Sanders). Howard Winant earned his PhD the Caribbean, and South Africa, Texas State College and then at the There is no mistaking a strong tilt in sociology from the University the global comparative frame- University of Texas-Austin where to the left in his guest list, but this of California-Santa Cruz in 1980, work he advances enabled him to he received his BA, majoring in is by no means uniform. He has after receiving his BA from Brandeis articulate underlying patterns that journalism. He went on to be an also interviewed Richard Viguerie University in 1968. He is a Professor make the entire “world system” a ordained minister and received a and Ron Paul and other leading of Sociology at the University racial project. Winant’s work has Master of Divinity at Southwestern conservatives in pursuit of making of California-Santa Barbara and fundamentally shaped our under- Baptist Theological Seminary. He television a public sphere of debate was the founding Director of the standing of how racial hierarchies was also an aide to then-Senator and discussion. University of California Center for reproduce racial inequality and he Lyndon B. Johnson and in 1959 Clearly, Bill Moyers has fol- New Racial Studies (UCCNRS), part has relentlessly pursued a progres- moved to Washington to work for lowed his own moral vision in of the UC MultiCampus Research sive agenda that aims to make racial Johnson full time. His served in the his journalism, never promising Program. Winant is also affiliated inequality visible while aiding in its Kennedy administration as Deputy to be neutral. A great admirer of with the Black Studies, Chicana/o amelioration. Director of the Peace Corps. When journalistic muckraking, he identi- Studies, and Asian American Professor Winant’s commitment Kennedy was assassinated and fies it as “the conviction that news Studies departments and he has to racial equality extends far beyond Vice President Johnson became is what’s hidden. Everything else worked and taught in Mexico, his research; he participates in president, Moyers became his close is publicity.” Moyers’ TV shows, as Brazil, and Argentina. numerous community movements and trusted aide, serving first as Occidental College political scientist For almost 35 years, Howard for justice, at the local, national, Johnson’s assistant for domestic Peter Dreier put it in a 2015 tribute, Winant has crafted a career that and international levels. He was an policy, later as press secretary “roared with a combination of out- demonstrates the transformative active participant in the UN World 1965–67, and in other posts close to rage and decency, exposing abuse potential in the synergy of scholar- Continued on Next Page

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Awards with economic however. She is also an institution Feminist From Previous Page insecurity in builder. At Harvard and Princeton Scholar award- the United University, Newman founded the ees to have also Conference against Racism, Racial States. While “Joint Degree Program in Sociology been singled Discrimination, and Xenophobia her work details and Social Policy,” programs that out, in 2011, for and urged other to do the same. He with empathy continue to produce excellent their presti- has been praised as an incredibly the poignant scholars dedicated to bringing the gious Feminist engaged and generous mentor to stories of those sociological lens to contemporary Mentor Award. minority students, junior faculty of at the center of Katherine Newman social problems. These institutional She further Nancy Naples color, and race scholars. economic and changes act as a multiplier effect won the 2012 The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award social cataclysms, it also contributes beyond just one person’s group of Scholar Activist Award from the Committee enthusiastically and to scholarly debates. For example, advisees, to generate many scholars SSSP Division of Sociology and unanimously commends Professor No Shame in My Game, which who broaden sociology’s applicabil- Social Welfare and the 2014 Lee Winant for his groundbreaking documents the lives of the work- ity beyond the academy. Founders Award from SSSP. intellectual agenda and uncom- ing urban poor, brought to light Thanks to Newman’s powerful Nancy A. Naples uses a variety promising commitment to greater the trials of a group rendered fairly research, her impressive ability of methods including ethnography, racial and social justice. His com- invisible by a consensus about to translate it so that it connects discourse analysis, archival research, mitment to scholarship, mentorship, inner-city residents as an under- with many different people, and and comparative research to analyze and activism continues the legacy of class without access to work. Her her dedication to and achievement the intersection of gender, sexual- this award’s namesakes and serves scholarship on other topics has in enabling more policy-relevant ity, race, political activism, social as an example to us all. proven equally influential, such as social science, sociology has a more policies, and citizenship. Naples Award for Public her treatise on school shootings, significant public presence. has produced seminal works in the Rampage, which has been featured areas of feminist theory, methodol- Understanding of Sociology Jessie Bernard Award Award in congressional testimony and ogy, and activism and has advanced extensive news coverage. Many of Nancy A. Naples, University of our understanding of poor women’s Katherine Shelley Newman, these books have received acclaim Connecticut community-based and transnational University of Massachusetts-Amherst for their excellence; she’s received The Jessie Bernard Award is given activism. She has authored two Katherine Newman received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, annually in recognition of a body of monographs, Grassroots Warriors: the 2015 Public Understanding of the Sidney Hillman Foundation scholarly work that has enlarged the Activist Mothering, Community Sociology award for her proven Book Award, and a C. Wright Mills horizons of sociology to encompass Work, and the War on Poverty record in expanding the public award honorable mention, while the fully the role of women in society. (1998) and Feminism and Method: presence of sociology. Newman New York Times, Choice, and Library Nancy A. Naples is this year’s recipi- Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, is the Provost and Senior Vice Journal have all named her work to ent with a career that exemplifies and Activist Research (2003) and Chancellor for Academic Affairs at their “best of” lists. At once humane this award. edited or co-edited many others. the University of Massachusetts- and theoretical, Newman’s widely Nancy A. Naples is Board of Several of these works have won Amherst. She has written many read research offers us sympathetic Trustees Distinguished Professor awards or honorable mentions from influential books and articles about accounts of people’s lived experience of Sociology and Women’s, the ASA and SSSP. She has also how people cope with challenges while also weighing them against Gender, and Sexuality Studies at published more than 50 articles such as destitution, violence, and existing scholarly explanations. the University of Connecticut. She and chapters in sociology and other global competition. She has worked Her writings have a vast audience is Past President of the Eastern disciplinary and interdisciplinary to translate such research for public among elites and the lay public Sociological Society, Past President venues including Gender & Society, audiences in the media, the U.S. alike, from congressional testimony of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Signs, and Feminist Congress, and globally. Finally, she to multiple appearances in interna- Social Problems (SSSP), and a Past Economics. has shaped institutions so they can tional media. Several of her books President of Sociologists for Women Naples is known for exceptional enable and encourage sociologi- have been the focus of extended in Society (SWS). She is also Past engagement in mentoring graduate cal work, particularly that which is hour-long shows by PBS Newshour, Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender students and for a commitment to broadly relevant for social policy. the Today show, or Oprah. Newman Section. Naples has been recognized social justice and service. One of The legacy of this work is a world has also made extensive efforts to repeatedly by a variety of profes- Professor Naples colleagues sum- that is better able to understand broaden the public reach of her sional societies for her scholarship, marizes it best: “It is rare to have the the sociology behind its social scholarly work, including writing her teaching and mentoring, and for opportunity to commend a scholar problems. more than 25 op-eds in such outlets a commitment to social justice. She who already is a ‘trifecta’ winner of One major theme in her capa- as the New York Times, Newsweek, has won numerous awards for her national awards for scholarship, for cious scholarship—14 books and the Nation; presenting her work research including the 2008 Faculty mentoring and teaching excellence, and 7 edited volumes alone—is to gatherings of state judges, econo- Excellence Award in Research and for commitment and contribu- how people manage poverty and mists, and other non-sociological (Humanities/Social Sciences) from tions to social justice and university downward mobility in a society audiences; and serving as a ready the Alumni Association and the service. Yet Nancy has repeatedly that brooks little dissent from its resource for many journalists in 2011 Excellence in Research Award been singled out as exceptional meritocratic ideology. Her award- high-profile venues. for Social Sciences from the College on all three scores…” Altogether, winning books Falling from Grace, Newman earns this award not of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Nancy A. Naples demonstrates Declining Fortunes, No Shame in only for her outstanding capac- the University of Connecticut. In how to blend scholarship, teach- My Game, Chutes and Ladders, and ity to communicate widely what 2010, she won the prestigious SWS ing, mentoring, and activism into The Missing Class each chronicle sociological thinking has to offer the Distinguished Feminist Lecturer a distinguished career. The Jessie the pain and pride of those who live central social problems of our time, award and is one of very few SWS Continued on Page 12 footnotes • November 2015 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org

Awards system in grants. African American incarcera- in the last few years after protests From Page 11 the South in tion rates in the North increased in Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD, the late 19th with the influx of southern and New York City. Taken together, Bernard Award committee extends century to their migrants, and these increases were these essays suggest that racial dis- their warmest congratulations to census records. largest in states where immigrants parity in imprisonment is not solely Naples. It describes from Europe dominated the police a product of the recent history of Dissertation Award the highly force. The third essay provides a the prison boom. Muller’s disserta- exploitative descriptive account of trends in tion has compelling theory and Christopher Michael Muller, Harvard convict-lease Christopher Muller racial inequality in imprisonment uses rigorous methods. It applies University. for “Historical Origins of system that from the late 1980s through the first the tools of causal inference to data Racial Inequality in Incarceration in lent out mainly black prisoners decade of the 21st century. It shows gathered from archives and histori- the United States” to white industrialists and farm- that although prison admissions cal administrative records. Further, Between 1970 and 2010, the U.S. ers. Muller’s research shows that grew dramatically, relative racial it is timely in showing that African imprisonment rate increased five- African-American men were disparity in admissions remained Americans’ distrust of the police has fold, from roughly 100 per 100,000 more likely to be incarcerated for roughly stable. Disparity in drug deep historical roots reaching back residents to roughly 500 per 100,000 property crimes in counties where admissions spiked dramatically to the 1930s in the North and the residents. No other nation incarcer- African Americans had begun to between 1985 and 2005, particu- 1880s in the South. ates such a large proportion of its achieve economic and geographical larly in the Northeast and Midwest, Muller completed this work population. As the incarceration mobility. The second essay focuses but disparity in admissions for at Harvard University under the rate increased, it retained a striking on racial disparity in incarceration non-drug crimes was also high. supervision of Bruce Western, racial disparity. African Americans among African Americans in the This suggests that racial disparity in Christopher Winship, Orlando today are imprisoned at about six North in the early 1900s. It traces a imprisonment cannot be traced to Patterson, and Robert Sampson. He times the rate of whites. portion of the increase in dispar- the War on Drugs alone. is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Muller’s dissertation focuses on ity during this period to increasing This dissertation is timely since Foundation Health & Society three historical periods. The first rates of African American migra- the issue of African American and Scholar at Columbia University. essay examines a unique dataset tion to the North, which triggered police relations, and, indeed, race In June of 2016, he will join the linking the administrative records economic, residential, and status relations in the United States as a sociology faculty of the University of individuals in the convict lease conflicts with European immi- whole, have dominated the news of California-Berkeley.

Department ments I hear is that it sounds New Fellowship at the Center for From Page 4 like such a rare and promising opportunity to help take the Engaged Scholarship approaches as well. And finally, lead in creating a new depart- The Center for Engaged Scholarship has announced that it will give two we are committed to collegial- ment. These colleagues are or three dissertation fellowships of $25,000 in the 2016-2017 academic ity with faculty who genuinely absolutely right! Sociology is year to students in the social sciences whose research is of high quality respect each other and work well such a well-established discipline and that has the promise of contributing to progressive social change. together. Steve, Mark, David, that it is very unusual to find a The competition is open to social science PhD students of any national- and Jake certainly make this part university that does not have a ity at U.S. universities. The Center defines progressive as advancing the very easy! department at all. But through- values of equality, stronger democratic institutions, and environmental In the 2015–16 academic out my interview process and sustainability. Deadline: January 31, 2016. For more information and to year, we currently have a search during the short time that I have apply, visit cescholar.org. underway for two assistant pro- been a member of the Wash U fessors. Following this, we have community, I’ve been consis- The Center operates under the sponsorship of Community Initiatives. a commitment from our dean tently impressed by the fellow It is led by sociologists Fred Block, University of California-Davis, and for 10 hires in our first five years. faculty’s and the administration’s Mridula Udayagiri, formerly at Cal State Sacramento. Their goal is to By the 2016–17 school year, we dedication to, and support of, build a durable organization that will be run by and for progressive so- should have nearly 20 courses bringing back sociology. This is cial scientists. In this time of political polarization and attacks on higher on the books, and we hope to definitely not something that we education, they see a need to build organizations that can support and be able to launch a major and take for granted, given a broader sustain progressive scholars and progressive scholarship. The disserta- minor. Shortly after that, we plan public landscape that can be tion fellowship is the Center’s inaugural project. Block and Udayagiri to establish a graduate program hostile to sociologists and our insist that engaged scholarship rooted in progressive values can meet and begin accepting applicants conclusions, particularly—and the highest scholarly standards. One of the motivations behind the dis- for graduate study. And all the especially—when they challenge sertation fellowship is to counter the professional pressures on gradu- while, we will be searching for the status quo, as good sociology ate students to frame their work as objective and apolitical. other sociologists who want to often does. We hope to repay the be part of the dynamic, innova- goodwill, generosity, support, tive, and exciting project of and enthusiasm of the University Send Us Your News building a department from the by fulfilling our mission to create Were you recently promoted? Have a book published? ground up. an exceptional home for sociolo- Or were you quoted in the news? Did you win an award? When colleagues find out gists and a fertile environment Or maybe you know about a funding opportunity or want to promote that I relocated to Wash U, one for rigorous sociological educa- your meeting to other sociologists? Send your announcements to of the most common senti- tion and study. Footnotes at [email protected].

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Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State of public sociology is the assump- occurs each April in Paris, and early impressionists. We watch University, and Greg Scott, DePaul tion of literacy, mostly implicit and differs from other film festivals in films for four days, drink wine, and University wholly untenable for any sociology two respects. Two categories of talk. Submissions are open for our uring the past decade, not long of engagement, owing to the confu- entries are reserved for academics third festival. We solicit nonfic- Dafter the “public sociology” debate sion of ends with means (Shrum and (“Academic features/shorts”). A film tion movies of any length made by began in earnest, we asked our Castle 2014). is academic if a researcher or educa- sociologists and other academic academic colleagues whether books We realized that we did not know tor plays a major role (e.g., director, filmmakers (see ethnografilm.com). or movies were better for reaching much about the movies that sociolo- editor, producer). The second differ- What is the primary alternative non-academic audiences. To be sure, gists were creating across the planet. ence is that it is a director’s festival, to the communication of knowledge this was an informal inventory. But Were there many or few? Who was by which we mean that our audi- through texts? It is the communi- responses were as close to uniform as making them? We began to consider ence largely consists of the directors cation of understanding through one ever sees: ideally books, but most linked institutions such as ours. of other movies on the program. visuals and sound. But the reward likely movies. Our response came to We could imagine a peer-reviewed This form of organization is a system of sociology is tied to anony- fruition one year ago with the launch journal, of audiovisual contribu- surprise to the documentarians in mous peer-review as the principle of the Journal of Video Ethnography tions that are mistakenly considered the audience, but not to academics. for tenure and recognition. We are and Ethnografilm, an annual film non-academic. In parallel we would Academic meetings are organized committed to this, and believe it can festival in Paris. organize a familiar, non-academic this way, as a forum to hear about be applied just as certainly and seri- Why has it taken so long for institution—a film festival—in an each other’s work, to talk, to meet ously to movies as text. movies to become an accepted academic way. new friends and collaborators. Reference form of sociological output? There Our venue, Ciné 13 Théâtre, And a Journal Shrum, W. and Lucas Castle. 2014. has been a mismatch between is located at the highest point of The first issue of the Journal of “Visionary Sociology: Problems of Public the conventional means of movie the city, next to the Moulin de la Video Ethnography (JVE) appeared Sociology and Audiovisual Solutions.” distribution and the conventional Gallette painted by many of the American Sociologist 45: 412-431. in September 2014 and has since means of allocating academic credit: published two regular issues peer-reviewed contributions to and one special issue. While we the literature. As once dominant intended JVE to serve as a peer- means of film distribution (theaters, review mechanism for academic DVDs) give way to online forums films, our biggest impediment was and film festivals, it seemed time to Dissertation Award not legal, technological, or institu- Call for Nominations channel academic movies through tional prejudice. The problem was From Page 6 The ASA Dissertation Award the same credentialing process that our own failure to appreciate that a honors the best PhD disserta- has, until recently, been reserved for given in recognition of scholarly journal consisting entirely of movies tion from among those submitted academic journals. work that has enlarged the horizons is still but a journal. Our imagined by advisors and mentors in the We established a new journal and of sociology to encompass fully problems disappeared when we fully discipline. Dissertations from PhD film festival in an attempt to begin the role of women in society. The accepted that this journal is just like recipients with degree awarded the process of bringing movies contribution may be in empirical any other. It is an academic, peer- in the 2015 calendar year will be into the academic mainstream by research, theory, or methodology. It reviewed forum in the tradition of eligible for consideration for the treating them in the same fashion is presented for significant cumula- ethnographic research, broadly con- 2016 ASA Dissertation Awards. as other academic products. The tive work done throughout a profes- ceived, located at videoethno.com. Nominations must be received from sociology departments at our insti- sional career. The award is open to Authors may submit films and the student’s advisor or the scholar tutions, DePaul and Louisiana State women or men and is not restricted subscribe for free. The journal is not most familiar with the student’s University, have established linked to sociologists. Only members (1) a website where you post your research. Nominations should institutions over the past five years. of the American Sociological videos; (2) a journal with multime- explain the precise nature and mer- We trust they will soon co-exist Association may submit nomina- dia supplements to standard text- its of the work. with others in an ecosystem where tions for the Jessie Bernard Award. based articles; (3) a journal with academic film serves as a legitimate Nominations for career achieve- Please send nominations to: American articles about movies. It is a journal Sociological Association, 1430 K St. NW, scholarly tool, receiving full credit ment should include a narrative that publishes movies, reviewed Suite 600; (202) 383-9005; governance@ in the tenure and promotion pro- letter of nomination, a copy of the by academics. This means that asanet.org. For more information, see cess, annual review, and sociological vita of the nominee, and three sup- submissions will receive comments www.asanet.org/about/awards.cfm. distinction. porting letters. and may be asked to revise and Movies resubmit. Authors are free to reject Journals are, of course, the the reviewer comments. And, a film traditional forum for disseminat- may be rejected for insufficiently 2015 Section Awards ing sociological research, and taking comments into account. It is, after all, an academic journal. The winners of this year’s section awards are there is good reason that work on now available on our website. ASA has also a particular subject should culmi- Visit www.videoethno.com for more nate in one place. Yet text-based information placed all records of all past award winners scholarly presentations, are a hurdle A Film Festival online for your reference. See www.asanet.org/sections/sec- for most audiences and a barrier The film festival, Ethnografilm, tion_awards.cfm. for some. One of the oddest aspects

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politics of women’s diverse fashion or Tori Svoboda at tsvoboda@uwlax. University of Akron, March 10-11, 2016, Call for Papers and beauty practices in contemporary edu. For more information, visit www. Alliance, OH. Theme: “The Barak Obama Publications Africa. Historically and to this day, in rowman.com/Page/RLAuthRes. Presidency: Legacy and Record.” An even-handed, non-partisan, and all their diversity, women in Africa Social Sciences invites submissions for Community Psychology in Global scholarly examination of the actions ‘dress up.’ They engage in changing a special issue on “Women, Gender and Perspective invites submissions for a and consequences of the Obama and highly reflexive practices of bodily Politics: An International Overview.” special issue on “Structural Violence.” Presidency on the United States and adornment, beautification, clothing This Special Issue focuses on women, Structural violence refers to the world from a variety of perspectives. and display. They dress up in private, gender, and politics in international production and maintenance of social Deadline: December 1, 2015. Contact: playfully experimenting at home, perspective with a particular emphasis inequality and oppression. The concept Michael Grossman at grossmmo@ with friends, or to pose for a camera. on the interaction between local orga- signifies the mechanisms through mountunion.edu; (330) 829-8740. They dress to appear and distinguish nizing and transnational politics; public which social systems produce and nor- For more information, visit www. themselves in public, too. And yet, of policy and constructions of gender; malize exclusion and marginalization raider.mountunion.edu/~GROSSMMO/ course, how women in Africa dress–the effects of women’s participation in along lines of race, class, gender, eth- Obama.htm. clothes they wear, the makeup they electoral office, national governmental nicity, nationality, and other invidious apply, what they do or do not do to categories. Community Psychology in agencies, and international gover- O’Brien Graduate Fellowships in Hu- their hair–is not merely personal, nance; gender differences in political man Rights is accepting applications Global Perspective publishes work that nor is it always or only pleasurable. is of relevance to community psycholo- participation, activism, and policy for 2016. The fellowship was estab- Deadline: December 31, 2015. Contact: outcomes; and queer and transgender lished in 2005 through a generous gift gists as well as scholars and profes- [email protected]. For more sionals from a diverse array of other politics and policies. Deadline: January from David O’Brien for outstanding information, visit www.feministafrica. 10, 2016. Contact: [email protected]. masters or doctoral students study- backgrounds with shared interest in org. community-focused work. Deadline: For more information, visit www.mdpi. ing in the area of human rights and January 15, 2016, Contact: Urmitapa Journal of Labor & Society invites com/journal/socsci/special_issues/ legal pluralism in the Faculty of Law Dutta at [email protected]. For submissions for a special issue on “The Women_Gender_and_Politics. at McGill University. O’Brien Fellows become members of the Centre for more information, visit www.siba-ese. Global Mass Strike, 2009-2013: Results Sociological Studies of Children and Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, a unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/index. and Prospects.” The global economic Youth (SSCY) invites papers to be focal point for innovative legal and crisis that emerged in 2008 was accom- considered for a guest-edited volume Contemporary Perspectives in Family interdisciplinary research, dialogue, panied a by global mass strike process. that will explore the role of schools and Research (CPFR), an annual series and outreach on human rights and In contrast to general strikes called by education in young people’s lives. This that focuses on cutting-edge topics in legal pluralism. Valued at $25,000 per trade union federations that parts of volume will consider the lived experi- family research around the globe, is annum, successful applicants will have Latin America and Europe are still in ence of education and schools from seeking manuscript submissions for its a strong research proposal in the field strike, the mass strike is not a single the perspectives of youth and explore 2016 volume. The 2016 volume of CPFR of human rights and legal pluralism. event enunciated from above. Please the contemporary issues and inequali- will focus on the theme of “Divorce, Deadline: December 15, 2015. For submit abstracts (as Microsoft Word ties children and youth face today. The Separation, and Remarriage: The more information, visit www.mcgill.ca/ documents), no longer than 400 words. volume will also explore the inter- Transformation of Family.” While the law-admissions/graduates/financial/ Deadline: December 1, 2015. Contact: twined nature of education and work. family remains a core social institution John Arena at [email protected]. obrien. in every society, it is, nonetheless, an Manuscripts should be a maximum of edu or Immanuel Ness at many.ness@ 30 pages or 14,500 words, including South Carolina Sociological As- institution which continues to evolve. gmail.com. Manuscripts should be submitted references, adhere to the series author sociation (SCSA) Annual Meeting, directly to the editors in MS WORD Journal of Negro Education issues guidelines, and use APA 6th edition February 19-20, 2016, Charleston, SC. format. Manuscripts should not exceed a call for papers for a special issue style. Deadline: December 1, 2015. Theme: “Gender, Sexuality, and Place in 40 double-spaced pages (not includ- to be published in summer 2016 to Contact: [email protected]. South Carolina.” Paper and presenta- ing tables, figures, and references). illuminate the lives and experiences of For more information, visit, www.em- tion proposals are invited that use the Manuscripts should adhere to the APA black women and girls in educational eraldgrouppublishing.com/products/ theories and methods of sociology to format. An abstract of 150-200 words settings, policies, and practices. This books/series.htm?id=1537-4661. reimagine the significance of gender, sexuality, and place in the Palmetto should be included. Deadline: January special issue will feature articles repre- Society and Mental Health seeks State, with a particular focus on the 23, 2016. Contact: Giovanna Gianesini senting comprehensive, theoretically scholarship on public sector men- intersections with other systems of at [email protected] and grounded, cutting-edge scholarship tal health, with focus on the role of stratification, such as class and race. As Sampson Lee Blair at slblair@buffalo. and research that illuminates the structural and behavioral correlates of one of the most conservative states in edu. experiences of Black women and girls mental health disparities and the con- the country, South Carolina has a long in a range of educational contexts. For sequences of social inequality for those The Costs of School Closure: Context and complicated relationship with consideration, submit a 15- to 20-page systems that meet the needs of indi- and Consequences invites submissions issues of sex and gender. Please send manuscript inclusive of references. viduals with severe mental disorders. for chapter proposals. Schools are key 150-word abstracts or statements of Deadline: December 1, 2015. Contact: Of particular interest is scholarship that social organizations that allocate status interest. Deadline: December 15, 2015. [email protected]. For more explores the role of the Affordable Care and facilitate opportunities for upward Contact: Daniel Harrison at southcaro- information, visit www.journalnegroed. Act and Medicaid expansion. Manu- social mobility. They are also sites [email protected]. For more org/JNE%20Call%20for%20Papers%20 scripts which elucidate the unique where competing and contradictory information, visit www.scsociology. 2016.pdf. contributions sociologists can make public policies perpetuate deleterious tumblr.com/. educational and social outcomes, espe- Social Class in Education a call for to mental health services research are cially for underserved groups. The edi- book proposals from Rowman & also welcome. Articles will be peer Work and Family Researchers Net- tor of The Costs of School Closure seeks Littlefield. While education is often reviewed and 4 to 6 papers selected for work (WFRN) 2016 Conference, June original, robust manuscripts on the heralded as a means to social mobility, inclusion in this special issue. The guest 23-25, 2016, Washington, DC. Theme: contexts and consequences of recent educational outcomes suggest that editor will provide a brief historic over- “Careers, Care, and Life-Course ‘Fit:’ primary and secondary school closures schools, colleges, and universities view of developments in public mental Implications for Health, Equality, and in the United States and elsewhere. actually replicate rather than transform health care. Please submit papers using Policy.” The Work and Family Research- Authors are invited to submit abstracts social class inequities. This series fo- the journal’s online system. Deadline: ers Network is an international mem- (up to 250 words) with “School Closure cuses on the ways in which social and March 15, 2016. bership organization of interdisciplin- Abstract” in the subject line. Deadline: socioeconomic class issues, broadly ary work and family researchers. WFRN December 1, 2015. Contact: Ebony M. defined, impact educational experi- Conferences invites paper submissions with fresh Duncan at [email protected] ences and outcomes. Submissions are Conference on the Barak Obama and innovative scientific contributions invited from scholars focused on Pre-K Presidency by the Department of on work and family issues. Deadline: Feminist Africa from the African Gen- through post-secondary environments, November 2, 2015. For more informa- der Institute at the University of Cape Political Science and International as well as manuscripts that explore in- Studies at the University of Mount tion, visit www.workfamily.sas.upenn. Town invites submission for a special tersections of classism and other forms edu/content/call-papers. issue on “Fashion and Beauty Politics” Union, in coordination with the Ray C. of identities and oppressions. Contact: Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the (features, profiles, standpoints) on the Buffy Smith at [email protected]

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ogy. Financial support is granted in Society for Research in Child Devel- of 45 pages) based on original research Meetings accordance with the guidelines of the opment (SRCD) Fellowship SRCD is in the general area of health or human March 4-5, 2016. Annual Conference Max Planck Society in the form of a seeking applicants for SRCD Policy Fel- services (broadly interpreted) from from the Council on Contemporary doctoral contract. The financial sup- lowships for 2016-2017. There are two students at the graduate or undergrad- Families (CCF). Austin, TX. Theme: port regarding the doctoral contract types of fellowships: Congressional and uate level. The Competition winner “Families as They Really Are: Demogra- corresponds with public service Executive Branch. Both types of fellow- will receive a cash prize of $3,000 as phy, Disparities, and Debates.” For more organizations. Deadline: December 1, ships provide researchers with exciting well as an engraved Baccarat trophy. information, visit www.contemporary- 2015. For more information, visit www. opportunities to come to Washington, Travel funds will also be provided for families.org/category/news/news-and- remep.mpg.de/24724/2015-09-Call- DC, and use their research skills in child the winner to present the paper at the upcoming-events/. for-Applications. development to inform public policy. SfAA Meeting in Vancouver, BC Canada March 23-26, 2016. Midwest Socio- National Collegiate Athletic Associa- Fellows work as resident scholars in March 2016.Deadline: December 31, logical Society (MSS) and the North tion (NCAA) will award $100,000 in within congressional or federal agency 2015. Contact: [email protected] or (405) Central Sociological Association (NCSA) grants for the 2016 calendar year to offices. Fellowships are full-time im- 843-5113. For more information, visit 2016 Joint Conference, Chicago, IL. support research and data-driven pilot mersion experiences and run from www.sfaa.net. Theme: “Inequality, Injustice, and programs designed to enhance stu- September 1, 2016 through August 31, Intersectionality.” dent-athlete psychosocial well-being 2017. Deadline: December 15, 2015. In the News For more information, visit www.srcd. June 13-15, 2015. International and mental health. Topics funded by Cawo Abdi, University of Minnesota, the NCAA Innovations in Research and org/policy-media/policy-fellowships/ Conference on Unequal Families and applying-fellowships. wrote an August 24 CNN.com op-ed, Relationships, Edinburgh, Great Britain. Practice Grant Program may include, “Where Is My Islam? The Identity Crisis Theme: “Unequal Families.” For more but are not limited to, managing University of New Mexico (UNM) of 21st Century Muslims.” transitions, identity development, Center for Health Policy 2016-2017 information, visit www.crfr.ac.uk/ Chad Broughton, University of Chi- international-conference-2016/. stress management, substance use, Doctoral Fellowships. The UNM bystander intervention, cultivating Health Policy Doctoral fellowship cago, wrote a September 23 Atlantic June 23-25, 2016. Work and Family healthy relationships, career explora- is a prestigious doctoral fellow- article, “Just Another Factory Closing.” Researchers Network (WFRN) 2016 tion and sport exit strategies. Proposals ship program for PhD students with Stephanie Canizales, University of Conference, Washington, DC. will be judged in part on their potential educational and research interests Southern California, was quoted in an Theme: “Careers, Care, and Life-Course to result in campus-level program- that include health and health policy August 18 Los Angeles Times article, ‘Fit:’ Implications for Health, Equality, ming that can positively impact the analysis. Fellows will receive up to four “Young Immigrants Placed in Sponsor and Policy.” The Work and Family Re- well-being of NCAA student-athletes. years of funding support including Homes Are at Risk of Abuse, Experts searchers Network is an international For more information, visit www.ncaa. paid in-state tuition, a paid position Say.” org/about/resources/research/ncaa- of up to $24,000 awarded through membership organization of interdisci- Daniel L. Carlson, Georgia State Uni- plinary work and family researchers. innovations-research-and-practice- an annual research assistantship, and grant-program. student health insurance. Deadline: versity, was quoted in a September 1 July 10-14, 2016. International February 12, 2016. For more informa- New York Times article about the study, Sociology Association Third Forum of 2016 Sakıp Sabancı International Re- “The Division of Childcare, Sexual search Award involves a Jury Prize of tion, visit: www.healthpolicy.unm.edu/ Sociology, Vienna, Austria. Theme: “The phdfellowships. Intimacy, and Relationship Quality in Futures We Want: Global Sociology and $25,000 awarded to an individual who Couples,” which he co-authored with the Struggle for a Better World.” The has made contributions to the theme. Woodrow Wilson National Fellow- Sarah Hanson and Andrea Fitzroy, WebForum is an experimental space An independent and international jury ship Foundation announces its Junior both of Georgia State University. The for intellectual debate on the broadly will select the Awardee. In addition, Es- Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 study was covered in numerous media conceived theme. For more informa- say Awards will be given to researchers academic year. This fellowship was cre- outlets including the Chicago Tribune tion, visit www.isa-sociology.org/ under 45 years of age. This category ated in honor of Nancy Weiss Malkiel, a on August 26, the Huffington Post, CNN. forum-2016/. includes $10,000 for each of the three 1965 Woodrow Wilson Fellow. This fel- com and U.S. News and World Report award-winning essays selected by lowship is designed to support junior on August 24, and the Washington the same jury. Submissions that make faculty as they work towards achieving Post, the Daily Mail, and BBC.com on Funding general and specific contributions to tenure. Five 12-month awards of August 23. Ideas 42 requests proposals for this subject from a wide and interdis- $10,000 will be made in the 2015-16 contributions to its research. Physical, ciplinary academic perspective are academic year. Deadline: December 1, Shannon K. Carter, University of sexual, economic and/or psychological welcome. Deadline: January 15, 2016. 2015. For more information, visit www. Central Florida, was interviewed by harm by a current or former partner, For more information, visit www.award. woodrow.org/fellowships/nwmfellow- Fox “Good Day Orlando” show on June technically known as Intimate Partner sabanciuniv.edu. ship. 18, News 13 on July 10, the Orlando Violence (IPV), is a serious issue that Sentinel on June 28, and Orlando affects millions of people around the Public Radio on June 10 about her world, primarily women and girls. As Fellowships Competitions research on peer breast milk sharing. well as being a fundamental injustice Department of Sociomedical Sci- National Science Foundation has The story was also covered in Science that violates women’s basic rights, ences at Columbia University’s published a new solicitation for the Daily, Yahoo!News, El Nuevo Herald, Fit it affects the mental and physical Mailman School of Public Health 2016 and 2017 competitions for RIDER Pregnancy, What to Expect When You’re well-being of survivors, their families, will offer a Predoctoral Fellowship in (Resource Implementations for Data Expecting, and other media outlets. and broader communities. 4-6 teams Gender, Sexuality and Health to a PhD Intensive Research in the SBE Sciences). Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Common- will be awarded funding for finalizing applicant entering in the fall of 2016. The RIDIR Program supports the wealth University, was quoted in a designs and pilot testing. Funding is This fellowship is funded by a training development of user-friendly large- Michigan Radio article and interviewed not to exceed $250,000. For more in- grant award from the National Institute scale next-generation data resources on Michigan Radio about his new formation, visit www.ideas42.org/blog/ of Child Health and Human Develop- and relevant analytic techniques to book, Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in project/intimate-partner-violence/. ment, Population Dynamics Branch. advance fundamental research in SBE an Unfair Economy. Fellowships cover tuition and include (social, behavioral, economic) areas of International Max Planck Research monies for professional meeting travel study. Successful proposals describe Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins Uni- School on Retaliation, Mediation and academic supplies. Funding is products that have significant impacts versity, and Valarie King, Pennsylvania and Punishment (IMPRS REMEP) guaranteed up to five years. Contact: by enabling new types of data- State University, were quoted in a announces its call for applications for Peter A. Messeri at pam9@cumc. intensive research. Deadline: February September 19 Bucks County Courier its doctoral program. IMPRS REMEP of- columbia.edu and Andrea Constancio 29, 2016. For more information, visit Times article, “Pope Francis Will Find a fers, in cooperation with the University at [email protected]. For www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ. Far Different ‘Typical’ USA Family Than of Freiburg, in accordance with the more information, visit www.mailman. jsp?pims_id=505168. Pope John Paul II Did in 1979.” conditions of the Max Planck Society columbia.edu/become-student/ Peter K. New Student Research Com- Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin, for the support of young researchers degrees/doctoral-programs/doctor- several doctoral research positions petition is sponsored by the Society was quoted in a September 24 Madi- public-health/sociomedical-sciences/ for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). The son.com article, “Professor Looks at (employment contracts) within the training. areas of Criminal Law and Criminol- competition invites papers (maximum 2011 Protests Through New Lens.”

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Marianne Cooper, Stanford University, Stacey Oliker, University of Wisconsin- Stephen Klineberg, Rice University, Times article, “Study Says Unionizing was quoted in a June 21 SFGate article, Milwaukee, were mentioned in a Sep- was quoted in a September 22 Houston Helps Close Racial Wage Gap.” “For Dads in the Valley, Balancing Work tember 11 Press Democrat article, “BFF? Chronicle article, “Jajoo Hoping to Make Aldon Morris, Northwestern Univer- and Home is Tough, Too.” She was men- Beer Buddies? Sonoma State Study History in Sugar Land as City’s First sity, was quoted in a September 16 tioned and her book was referenced in Finds New Facts About Friendship.” South Asian Mayor Next Year.” Chicago Tribune article, “NU Professor’s a June 26 Slate article, “The Church of Katherine Giuffre, Colorado Col- Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox, University of Book Highlights W.E.B. Du Bois’ Contri- Self-Help.” In addition, she wrote a Sep- lege, was quoted in a September 26 Florida, was quoted in a September 17 butions to Sociology,” about his new tember 22 “PBS NewsHour” blog post, News and Observer article, “‘Drunken Associated Press article, “Household book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois “Why Women Are Often Put in Charge Spelunker’ Recalls Nights at The Cave Income Approaches Prerecession Level and the Birth of Modern Sociology. of Failing Companies.” and other Chapel Hill Haunts” about in Florida.” The article appeared in a Paolo Parigi, Stanford University, was Matthew Desmond, Harvard Univer- her first novel, The Drunken Spelunker’s number of media outlets including quoted in a September 23 Atlantic sity, was quoted in a September 29 Guide to Plato. the San Francisco Chronicle and the article, “What’s a Saint, Anyway?” Boston Globe article, “Area Researchers Orlando Sentinel on September 17. Matthias Gross, University of Jena Sangyoub Park, Washburn University, Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants.” Des- and Helmholtz Centre Leipzig, and Derek Kreager, Pennsylvania State mond was one of the winners. was quoted in an August 13 NPR.org Linsey McGoey, University of Essex, University, was quoted in an August article, “Party of 1: We Are Eating a Lot Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice Univer- were quoted in an August 24 New York 25 Today.com article about the study, ff Meals Alone.” sity, was mentioned in an August 5 Times op-ed, “The Case for Teaching “The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Huffington Post article, “Mere Christian- Ignorance.” Gender, Sexual Behavior and Early Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, ity Meets Mainstream Science.” Adolescent Peer Acceptance,” which was interviewed on August 14 on Al Anthony Jack, Harvard University, was Jazeera America’s television program, Lindsey A. Freeman, State University quoted in a September 15 Madison. he co-authored with Jeremy Staff, Pennsylvania State University, and Inside Story, about the possible return of New York-Buffalo State, was a guest com article, “Harvard Researcher of Cuban Americans, who immigrated on the August 6 episode, “Hiroshima: Reveals Alienating Effects of Inclusion others. The study was also covered in a number of other media outlets to the U.S., back to Cuba. She was also Two Narratives,” of BBC World Service’s Programs.” interviewed on August 15 on BBC radio show, “World Have Your Say.” including Yahoo!Finance, U.S. News and Carole Joffe, University of California- World Report, and Business Insider on World Service for the Weekend Edition, Asia Friedman, University of Delaware, San Francisco, wrote an August 4 New August 24. London, about Cuban American at- was quoted in an August 30 CNN. York Times letter to the editor about the titudes towards the reopening of the com article about her study, “There silence to date of fetal tissue research- Anthony E. Ladd, Loyola University U.S. Embassy in Havana and the new Are Two People at Work That I’m Fairly ers in the face of attacks on Planned New Orleans, was quoted in a July 27 U.S.-Cuba relations. Times-Picayune article about the Bernie Certain Are Black.” Her study was on Parenthood. She was also quoted in a Dudley Poston, Texas A&M University, blind people and reacism, the subject story about abortion clinic closings in Sanders political rally outside New Orleans that drew 4,500 supporters. was recently interviewed several times of articles in a number of media outlets the October issue of Mother Jones. about international migrants to the including the Daily Mail on September Michael Kimmel, Stony Brook Uni- Adam Lankford, University of United States from China and India 13 and the Philadelphia Inquirer on versity, was quoted in a September 23 Alabama, was quoted in an August now outnumbering the international August 27. Washington Post article, “What Hap- 24 Los Angeles Times article about his migrants from Mexico. One interview Amin Ghaziani, University of British pens When You Act Too Manly at Work,” study, “Mass Shooters, Firearms, and was broadcast on radio station WOAI, Columbia, was quoted in an August and a September 9 Esquire blog post, Social Strains: A Global Analysis of an San Antonio, on May 7 and news stories 1 Los Angeles Times article, “Are ‘Gaybor- “What Does It Mean to Be a Man? This Exceptionally American Problem.” The based on other interviews with Poston hoods’ a Victim of the Gay Rights Move- Professor Might Have the Answer.” Kim- study was covered in numerous other appeared in the Miami Herald on May 9 ment’s Success?” mel was also interviewed on August 23 media outlets including U.S. News and and in the Bryan Eagle on May 10. on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” about the World Report and Newsweek on August Brian Gillespie, Sonoma State Univer- 23, the Washington Post, the Dallas Enrique S. Pumar, Catholic University, sity, was quoted and Claude Fischer, male culture at prep schools that may was interviewed on July 20 on the contribute to sexual assaults. Morning News, Yahoo!News, and CNN. University of California-Berkeley, and com on August 27. Additionally, Lank- Washington, DC, NPR affiliate WAMU’s ford was interviewed about his study “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” about U.S.- on August 27 on “MSNBC Live” and on Cuba relations and the opening of the August 29 on MSNBC’s “Weekends With Cuban Embassy in Washington. Alex Witt.” Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford Uni- Joscha Legewie, New York University, versity, was quoted in an August 27 was quoted in a recent Associated Washington Post article about his study, Press article about his study, “Con- “Who Wants the Breakup? Gender Published monthly with combined issues in May/June, July/August, and September/ tested Boundaries: Explaining Where and Breakup in Heterosexual Couples.” October. Mailed to all ASA members. Ethno-Racial Diversity Provokes Neigh- The study was covered in a number of borhood Conflict.” The article appeared other media outlets including TIME. Editor: Sally T. Hillsman Associate Editor: Margaret Weigers Vitullo in a number of media outlets including com and LiveScience on August 22, and Managing Editor: Johanna Olexy Secretary: Mary Romero NBCNewYork.com, Greenwich Time, the CBSNews.com, The Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, and Yahoo!News, on August Article submissions are limited to 1,000 words and must have journalistic value (e.g., San Antonio Express-News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Houston 24. Additionally, the study was featured timeliness, significant impact, general interest) rather than be research oriented or Chronicle on August 21. on the television program, “CBS This scholarly in nature. Submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board for pos- Morning” on August 24. sible publication. “ASA Forum” (including letters to the editor) contributions are Elizabeth McClintock, University of John Shelton Reed, University of limited to 400–600 words; “Obituaries,” 500–700 words; and “Announcements,” 200 Notre Dame, was quoted in an August 25 Chicago Tribune article about her North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was men- words. All submissions should include a contact name and, if possible, an e-mail study, “The Social Context of Sexual tioned in a September 26 Economist address. ASA reserves the right to edit all material published for style and length. Identity.” The study was the subject of article, “Some Stand With Ahmed.” The deadline for all material is the first of the month preceding publication (e.g., articles in a number of other media Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University, February 1 for March issue). outlets including the Telegraph, the and Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley New York Daily News, and LiveScience Send communications on material, subscriptions, and advertising to: American State University, were quoted in a on August 25 and FOXNews.com and September 1 Newsweek article, “Male? Sociological Association, 1430 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 383- the Times of India on August 26 9005; fax (202) 638-0882; email [email protected]; . Female? … Er, It’s Complicated.” Ruth Milkman, City University of New John Skrentny, University of Copyright 2015, American Sociological Association. © York Graduate Center, was quoted in California-San Diego, was quoted in a a September 27 Virginian-Pilot article, September 4 Arizona Republic article footnotes is printed on recycled paper “Paid Sick Leave is a Luxury Not All on birthright citizenship, as well as an Enjoy,” and in a September 5 New York

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August 23 Politifact article on the same Erik Olin Wright, University of Wiscon- gists AIDS Network 2015 Marin Levine Sociales (FLASCO), Eds., Handbook of topic. He was also quoted in an August sin-Madison, was quoted in a Septem- Paper Competition Award. Social Movements across Latin America 24 National Journal article on border ber 24 Pacific Standard article, “A Social Suzan Walters, SUNY-Stony Brook, (Springer, 2015). security. Scientist, a Climate Change Physicist, received the 2015 Sociologists AIDS Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, C. Matthew Snipp, Stanford University, and Pope Francis Walk Into a Bar...” Network Scholarly Activity Award. How Blacks Built America: Labor, Culture, was quoted in a September 3 Washing- Corey Lee Wrenn, Colorado State Uni- Freedom, and Democracy (Routledge, ton Post article, “Millennials Have Low Awards versity, was named the 2016 Exemplary 2015-2016). Opinion of Themselves, Compared to Barry Adam, University of Windsor, Diversity Scholar by the University of Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, Boomers.” received the 2015 Sociologists AIDS Michigan’s National Center for Institu- Hernan Vera, University of Florida, and Isabelle Solal and Kaisa Snellman, Network Outstanding Career Award. tion Diversity. Kimberley Ducey, University of Win- both of INSEAD, were mentioned in a Liberty Walther Barnes, University of nipeg, Liberation Sociology,3rd edition July 30 Washington Post op-ed, “In the Cambridge, received the 2015 Sociol- Transitions (Paradigm Books, 2015). Business World, Diversity Pays. Really.” ogy of Health and Illness Book prize for Valarie J. Bell, Texas Woman’s Univer- Alice Fothergill, University of Vermont, Pamela Stone, Hunter College, was her book, Conceiving Masculinity: Male sity, was named the editor of In Critical and Lori Peek, Colorado State Univer- quoted in a September 17 Atlantic Infertility, Medicine, and Identity (Temple Solidarity — the American Sociological sity, Children of Katrina (University of article, “Parents in Law: Is it Possible to University Press, 2015). Association’s Labor and Labor Move- Texas Pres, 2015). Be Both an Attorney and a Committed Matthew Desmond, Harvard Univer- ments Section’s newsletter. Wes Markofski, University of Wiscon- Mom or Dad?” sity, was named a 2015 MacArthur Óscar F. Gil-García has accepted a sin-Madison, New Monasticism and the Marta Tienda, Princeton University, Foundation Fellow. position as Assistant Professor of Soci- Transformation of American Evangelical- was mentioned in a September 27 Hans Joas, University of Erfurt, ology at DePauw University. ism (Oxford University Press, 2015). Orange County Register article, “CSUF received the Max Plank Award for Jessica Hausauer, Syracuse University, Philip R. Newman, Independent Senior Wants to Improve the Lives of research on secularization and moder- social psychologist, and Barbara M. Women Around the World.” has accepted a position at Minnesota nity worth Euro 750,000. State University-Moorehead. Newman, University of Rhode Island, Kathleen Tierney, University of Colora- Theories of Human Development, 2nd Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State Univer- Jennifer Montez joined the Syracuse do-Boulder, was quoted in a Septem- sity, received the College of Liberal Arts edition (Psychology Press, 2016). ber 25 Aspen Times article, “Researcher Univeristy Sociology Department in Achievement Award for Excellence in August as an Assistant Professor. Bandana Purkayastha, University at Snowmass Conference Frames Why Scholarly/Creative Activities. of Connecticut, and Roseanne Njiru, Wildfire Impact Is Growing.” Prema Ann Kurien, Syracuse Univer- People University of Nairobi, Voices of Internally Zeynep Tufekci, University of North sity, received a $200,000 grant from the Displaced Persons in Kenya: A Human Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in a National Science Foundation for her Chloe E. Bird, RAND, presented on Rights Perspective (Frontpage, 2015). September 16 Washington Post article, project, “The Political Incorporation of “Gender Gaps in Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Corey Lee Wrenn, Colorado State Uni- “Facebook Doesn’t Need a ‘Dislike’ But- Religious Minorities in Canada and the versity, A Rational Approach to Animal ton. Here’s Why.” United States.” Within and Across Geographic Areas” at the National Academies of Sciences, Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute Reuben A. Buford May, Texas A & M Engineering and Medicine Workshop, (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). of Technology, was mentioned in a University, was awarded the Glasscock Raising the Bar: The Health of American Farhan Navid Yousaf and Bandana September 10 Pacific Standard article, University Professorship in Undergrad- Women, September 25, 2015. Purkayastha, both of University of “Shelf Help: ‘Reclaiming Conversation: uate Teaching Excellence. Martyn Pickersgill, University of Edin- Connecticut, Human Trafficking Amidst The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,’” Interlocking Oppressions: A Focus on about her new book. Angie Mejia, Syracuse University, was burgh, has been promoted to Welcome awarded the Sociologists for Women Trust Reader in the Social Studies of Pakistan (Frontpage Publications, 2015). Dirk vom Lehn, King’s College London, in Society’s Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Biomedicine. and his video-based research of Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship. New Publications museum visitors were mentioned in a September 3 Le Monde article. Martyn Pickersgill, University of Ed- New Books Italian Sociological Review is now inburgh, has been awarded the Henry available in pdf format. The journal Mary Waters, Harvard University, was Paul D. Almeida, University of Duncan Medal for Social Science from California-Merced, and Allen Cordero, brings together the research and quoted in a September 24 Think- the Royal Society of Edinburgh. theoretical contributions of Italian and Progress article, “New Study Demolish- Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias es 3 Pernicious Myths About First-Gen- Jillian Powers, Brandeis University, eration Immigrants in America.” received the 2015/2016 Berman Foun- dation Early Career Fellowship from the Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University Association for Jewish Studies. of Utah, and W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, were quoted in Enrique S. Pumar, Catholic University, an August 18 New York Times article, was awarded a CIBER Grant from the 111th ASA Annual “Republicans Report Being Happier University of Miami School of Business in Marriage,” about their research on and was invited to join CASA Faculty Meeting Circle. marriage satisfaction and political af- August 20-23, 2016 filiation. The research was also covered Rebecca L. Schewe, Syracuse Univer- in a number of other media outlets sity, was awarded a $250,000 grant Washington State including the Atlantic and Yahoo!News under the National Marine Fisheries on August 17. Service’s Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Convention Center Corey L. Wrenn, Monmouth University, Program for their project “Communica- Seattle, WA was interviewed on September 22 tion Avenues for Vietnamese-American about her sociological work on social Fishing Communities on the Gulf of movements and human-animal interac- Mexico with Coastal Resource Agen- tions on KPFK’s “Feminist Magazine,” a cies.” weekly Southern California radio show. Bryan S. Turner, Graduate Center- Erik Olin Wright, University of Wis- CUNY, received the Max Plank Award consin-Madison, and Robert Brulle, for research on secularization and Drexel University, were quoted in a modernity worth Euro 750,000. September 24 BuzzFeed article, “The Gowri Vijayakumar , University of Cali- Pope’s Moral Outrage Won’t Fix Climate fornia-Berkeley, received the Sociolo- Change, Scientists Say.” footnotes • November 2015 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements international scholars who intend to pollster who once led the Gallup orga- demonstrated how immigrants did and PhD (Sociology) from Western contribute to the consolidation and nization and the Pew Research Center, not passively accept IRCA, but instead Michigan University, and an MPE (Psy- development of knowledge in fields died September 8, 2015 in Baltimore, interpreted IRCA and acted according chiatric Epidemiology) from Washing- of study related to sociology and MD. He was 73. to their own agendas and within the ton University School of Medicine in St. in general, to the social and human context of their own communities. Louis. Tim was a Postdoctoral Research sciences. For more information, visit Obituaries Her pioneering scholarship on IRCA Fellow at both Washington University www.italiansociologicalreview.org/ojs/ in the 1980s continues to inform im- School of Medicine and the University index.php?journal=ISR. Susan Gonzalez Baker migration debates and is regularly dis- of Michigan. His expertise in medical 1961-2015 cussed in today’s immigration policy sociology, communications, bioso- ciology, and quantitative methods Caught on the Web With the unexpected passing of discussions, helping policymakers and resulted in a number of publications Susan Gonzalez Baker, 53, on June 30 scholars alike better understand the CriminalJusticeDegree.com is a and presentations throughout his this year, the sociology community policy choices for immigration reform. non-profit site created to promote career. His interest in language and lost a dear friend, talented scholar, Susan’s second area of research better understanding of the field of nonverbal communications produced and valued colleague. focused on the phenomenal growth criminal justice as well as provide an important research papers in political unbiased source where students can Susan was born in La Jolla, CA, on of the Mexican- origin population in the United States, paying close and medical sociology. In addition, his see the many accredited schools that December 25, 1961, but was raised in interest in the dynamics of teaching led offer criminal justice degrees. The site South and Southwest Texas and very attention to the implications for race and ethnic relations, and a number to publications on superstitions related is designed to be comprehensive, easy much identified herself as a Texan. to undergraduate test taking. Recently, to find, and provide updated informa- She earned her bachelor’s degree of institutions ranging from family to education to political spheres. She he had become interested in cogni- tion and links. The website aims to be magna cum laude in sociology and tive sociology and began integrating a useful resource for criminal justice psychology at Trinity University in San published widely in this area, further examining how gender and genera- this interest with the work of George students. Schools with criminal justice Antonio, her master’s degree in sociol- Herbert Mead. programs are listed on the front page ogy at the University of California at tional dynamics alter Mexican-origin He served the department of and lead directly to each program; they Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in sociology family politics on the U.S. side of the sociology in several administrative are sorted by state. at the University of Texas-Austin. Her border. Some of her most notable capacities including acting chair first professional position was as a works in this area include Race and and chair of undergraduate studies. senior research associate at the Urban Ethnic Relations in America, with Dale New Programs He was an active member of Akron Institute in Washington, DC. She McLemore and Harriett Romo (2000); Toastmasters Club 151 and the Kent University of Southern California went on to take academic positions “Mexican-Origin Population Trends Chorus. He enjoyed running, playing (USC) announces its new PhD program at the University of Arizona and the in the United States: A Demographic classical guitar, and spending time in Population, Health, and Place. The University of Texas-Austin. While at and Policy Overview.” in Immigrants in outdoors with his family. PhD’s primary goal is to position our the University of Arizona she spent a the United States and Spain, edited by graduates among the leading scholars year in Spain on a Fulbright Fellow- Tomás Calvo Buezas and Isabel Gentil Several members of our department and practitioners working to clarify ship studying international migration García (2010); “U.S. Immigration Policy have published papers with Tim and the role and significance of “place” in in the region. At UT-Austin, she was and Trends: The Growing Importance have found him to be an amiable and shaping human health and well-being awarded a prestigious university of Mexico,” with Frank D. Bean, Agustín capable colleague. One of his best in the future. For more information teaching award presented to her dur- Escobar Latapi, and Sidney Weintraub qualities was his evident excitement contact, Myles G. Cockburn at myles@ ing half-time at a Longhorn football in Crossings: Mexican Immigration in In- in discussing first the research idea med.usc.edu, Jennifer Hook at hook@ game. She came to the University of terdisciplinary Perspectives (1998); and and then in setting forth steps in usc.edu, or John P. Wilson at jpwilson@ Texas-Arlington in 2005 as Director “Demographic Trends in the Chicana/o forming the experimental protocol or usc.edu. of the Center for Mexican Ameri- Population: Policy Implications for the research study agenda. His ability to can Studies (CMAS) and a tenured 21st Century” in Chicanas/Chicanos at translate a complicated hypothesis Summer Programs member of the sociology faculty. As the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and into operational and statistical terms Political Change (1996). was excellent. Also, his ability to Racial Democracy, Crime and Director of CMAS she created the distinguished lecture series, which Susan was an outstanding scholar rally graduate assistants’ interest in Justice Network’s Summer Research with a razor-sharp intellect, an award- understanding research goals and Institute (SRI) is designed to promote became the Center’s annual signature event. She stepped down as director winning teacher, a dynamic mentor, carrying them out with accuracy scholarly success and career advance- and a passionate advocate for the and enthusiasm was unique and ment among faculty from under- in 2013 but remained a member of the faculty until her passing. study of issues affecting Latino/a com- commendable. Finally, it was simply a represented groups working in areas joy to work with Tim in accomplishing Susan was a social demographer munities in the United States. She was of crime and criminal justice. Faculty research projects. We miss his whose scholarship focused on the also a marvelous woman, full of joie de pursuing tenure in research-intensive collegiality, diligence, and good humor. social and political processes affecting vivre, compassion, and sincerity. She institutions, academics transitioning Funeral Services were held on April 28, the Mexican-origin population in the was a dear friend, engaging colleague, from teaching to research institutions, 2015, at St. Mark Lutheran Church in United States. She published widely, beloved teacher, advisor, and innova- and faculty members carrying out Tallmadge, OH. He is survived by his becoming well known for her work on tive scholar. Above all, she was a de- research in teaching contexts are en- wife, Jill; daughters, Kelly, Jesse, and how U.S. immigration policy shapes voted mother, daughter, sister, niece, couraged to apply for the three-week Casey; and members of his extended the settlement experiences and op- and aunt. Susan is survived by her intensive institute. During the institute, family. portunity structures of Latinos in the three children, Paul Teodoro Palmer, each participant will complete the Jordan Alejandro Palmer, and Julia U.S. What made her research so excit- Carla Goar, Stanford Gregory, Jr., Jerry M. project proposed in this application Grace Palmer; her mother, Dr. Maria ing is that it moved beyond the typical Lewis, Richard Serpe, Clare Stacey, Susan The institute will provide resources for G. Baker; her father, Forbes Baker; her narrative of how public policy affects Roxburgh, Kent State University completing the Travel and living ex- sister, Maggie Baker; her uncle, Peter penses will be covered by the institute. immigrant communities, to investi- gating how social actors implement Gonzales Falcon; and her niece and Gerald M. Platt Deadline: February 12, 2016. Contact: nephew, Gabriela and Lucas Bole. [email protected]. For more policy and how target populations in- 1933–2015 information, visit www.cjrc.osu.edu/sri. terpret and respond to policy change. Jacqueline Hagan, University of North Professor Gerald M. Platt of the In her acclaimed monograph, The Carolina-Chapel Hill University of Massachusetts-Amherst Deaths Cautious Welcome (1990) Susan drew passed away on May 7, 2015. The on interviews with those responsible Timothy J. Gallagher cause of death was complications of Richard Hall, SUNY-University at Al- for program implementation at fed- 1960–2015 Alzheimer’s disease. bany Distinguished Service Professor of eral, state, and local levels to chronicle Timothy J. Gallagher, 54, passed away Jerry was held in great esteem by Sociology, passed away on September the outcomes of the legal provisions April 21, 2015. He was an associate both colleagues and students. He 23, 2015. He was 80. Richard Hall was a of the 1986 Immigration Reform and professor of sociology at Kent State could always be counted upon for sup- major figure in the sociology of organi- Control Act (IRCA). I was fortunate University, joining the department in port coupled with honest intellectual zations and work. to collaborate with her on an article 1996. He earned a BA (Communica- response—both offered with unfor- Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center, a that extended that piece further. We tions, French), MA (Communications),

18 footnotes • November 2015 footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements gettable warmth. He was an original In 1970 Jerry joined the faculty of the Volodia prevailed and migrated with A. Kathryn Stout thinker whose efforts to link sociology University of Massachusetts-Amherst. his family to the United States. Volodia 1956–2015 published more than 40 books (most and psychoanalysis bore fruit in the He rose to the rank of full professor, Kate Stout passed away peacefully recently Power and Inequality in Inter- publication of The Wish to be Free and served as director of graduate studies on July 21, 2015, at the age of 58 in her personal Relations (Transaction, 2015), Psychoanalytic Sociology (with the his- and was twice elected chair of the De- hometown of New Orleans, follow- dozens of articles, op-ed columns in torian, Fred Weinstein) and Advances in partment of Sociology, retiring in 2011. ing a long struggle with respiratory The New York Times, The Washington Psychoanalytic Sociology (with Jerome Gerald is survived by his two children, problems. A hurricane Katrina survivor, Post, and The Los Angeles Times among Rabow and Marion Goldman). Genevieve and Lucas, as well as by two Kate had been Associate Professor of others, and an online blog. His early He also collaborated with Talcott Par- granddaughters. Sociology at Manhattan College since work on survey methods was followed sons in the publication of The American Those who knew him have lost a the autumn of 2012. University. valued friend and sociology has lost a by more recent research comparing Russian and American society and Kate dedicated her life to teaching In particular, Jerry worked at integrat- passionate champion. politics. Notable among his books are and to promoting progressive social ing the understanding of macro-his- Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University The Public and Private Life of the Soviet change. Her research focused on social torical events, such as revolutions and Chicago, and Michael Lewis, University of People (Oxford, 1989), Feudal America: movements and the legal limits of mass social movements, with insights Massachusetts-Amherst Elements of the Middle Ages in Contem- protest, which she pursued from a generated from psychoanalytic sociol- porary Society (Pennsylvania State, critical, sociology of law approach. Her ogy and symbolic interactionism. He Vladimir Shlapentokh 2011), Restricting Freedom: Limitations study of the mid-1980s Sanctuary Move- wrote on the French Revolution and for 1927-2015 on the Individual in Contemporary ment brought her to the field along the several years prior to his death, devot- Vladimir Shlapentokh, Professor America (Transaction, 2013), and Free- southwest border with Mexico where ed himself to the study of the American Emeritus of Sociology at Michigan dom, Repression, and Private Property in she came face to face with contradictory civil rights movement. Using a sample State University and a “founding father” Russia (Cambridge, 2013). U.S. responses to recurring migratory of letters written to the Rev. Dr. Martin of sociology in the Soviet Union, born crises. Subsequent travels brought Luther King, Jr.—both supportive and Volodia was the very model of an in Kiev, Ukraine, on October 19, 1926, her to Nicaragua and Cuba where she oppositional—Jerry and a number of intellectual. He relished discussions died on October 5, 2015 in Greenville, expressed an unconditional solidarity his graduate students examined the on any conceivable topic and with NC. Vladimir (Volodia) graduated from with peoples under attack by misguided conceptions of movement leadership, remarkable eruditeness charmed, con- the Department of History at Kiev State U.S. foreign policy. Everywhere she went, belonging, and participation from the vinced, and cajoled his audience, even University in 1949, was a “Candidate” of Kate established ties of friendship and ground up, taking into account the those who vehemently disagreed, Economic Sciences at Moscow Univer- mutual learning that fueled her exem- ways in which ordinary people made into respecting diverse opinion. He sity in 1956, and received his Doctorate plary interactive classroom teaching. Her sense of their social contexts and the was intensely curious about every in Economic Sciences from the Moscow enormous skills at translating complex events surrounding them. Articles from facet of his new life in America, not Institute of World Economy and Inter- social and legal processes into plain this project were published in edited least concerning issues about female national Affairs in 1956. He accepted a English are now legendary. collections and journals such as Social labor mobility, race relations, and senior position as Professor of Sociol- In earlier decades, Kate was active in Problems and Sociological Theory. Two interpersonal and group relations. ogy with Michigan State University in a variety of professional associations, of his former students are continuing He frequently returned to Moscow to 1979. He was a profoundly productive including the Association for Humanist to work on papers left unfinished at lecture and speak publicly and to the scholar, a passionate teacher, and a Sociology (AHS), the Society for the his death. very end continued to be active in the local, regional, national, and interna- intellectual world he had left so many Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Ameri- Jerry was a passionate teacher who tional public intellectual. years before. He organized numerous can Sociological Association (ASA), and centered all his classes on the intersec- Sociology—and survey research conferences and symposia, often with the Division on Critical Criminology of tions of events happening in the world, methods in particular—was proscribed leading Russian scholars, including the Section of the American Society how those involved conceptualized in Stalin-era Russia, only regaining his former colleagues and fellow of Criminology (ASC). Over recent these events, and how sociological legitimacy during the Brezhnev era co-founders of Russian sociology years, however, her declining health theory helped or hindered understand- when the utility of understanding labor Yuri Levada, Vladimir Yadov and Boris made it increasingly difficult to attend ing of these two factors. For years Jerry force stability and trends in marriage Grushin, pioneer of public opinion professional meetings. Prior to coming taught the required graduate seminar and family were recognized as valuable polling in the Soviet Union. Volodia to New York City, she was an Associate in contemporary sociological theory for economic planning. Vladimir, a was a frequent consultant to the U.S, Professor at the Southern University as well as the department’s required scholar at the prestigious Academic government on social processes, ideol- of New Orleans (SUNO), where she theory class for undergraduate majors. Complex, a division of the Russian ogy, and public opinion in Russia and participated in post-Katrina reconstruc- In addition, he regularly taught classes Academy of Sciences, in the southwest other post-Communist countries. tion. She held earlier posts at Domini- in social movements and more specifi- can University and Northeastern Illinois Siberian city of Novosibirsk, designed Despite his negative experience cally the Civil U.S. Rights Movement. University, along with visiting posts at the first national public opinion survey with the USSR and his appreciation of Whether in the classroom, or in com- SUNY- Plattsburgh, Purdue University, in the Soviet Union. This innovative American freedom and opportunity, menting on a graduate student’s thesis and Central Michigan University. Her study was recognized not only for its he maintained a nuanced and realistic or dissertation Jerry could be counted doctoral work under the direction of methodological rigor but also for its view of both societies. Not long on for a forthright appraisal, emerg- the late Bill Chambliss was completed inclusion of both Western and Soviet after arriving in the United States, he ing directly from his own theoretical at the University of Delaware following social science perspectives. Volodia remarked that while the Russian dissi- perspective. These could sting a bit, her MA at Boston College, where she continued his sociological and meth- dent community assumed that Ameri- but they were in the service of pushing was influenced by mentors such as odological research as Senior Fellow at can social problems were all fictions students toward greater clarity and Richard Quinney and Stephen Pfohl. the Institute of Sociology in Moscow, created by the Soviet government, he better arguments. Kate was in the process of editing also a division of the Russian Academy now understood that the United States’ Gerald Platt was born in 1933 and a collection of critical criminology of Sciences. His theoretical and meth- society and economy had real, almost grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He worked scholarship dedicated to the legacy odological contributions contributed intractable problems. his way through Brooklyn College as a significantly to the re-emergence of of Chambliss when her health took a Volodia retired in 2014 and he stevedore at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. sociology as a respected academic and dramatic turn for the worse. and Luba moved to Greenville, NC, He received his doctorate in sociol- policy relevant discipline. In the end, the tenacity with which ogy from University of California-Los although they maintained their home The Jackson-Vanik amendment to Kate struggled for survival was sur- Angeles in 1963 under the direction of in Florida. His wife, children (Dmitri, a the U.S. Trade Act of 1974, eliminating passed only by the uncompromising Ralph Turner. Jerry began his teaching professor of history at Indiana Univer- barriers to the emigration of Soviet lifelong stance she took on demanding career that year with a lectureship at sity in Bloomington and Alexandra, a Jews, signed into law by President Ford social justice. She felt that sociology Harvard University in the Department professor of mathematics at East Caro- in 1975, resulted in increased emigra- was at its best when it provided a voice of Social Relations. In the late 1960s lina University), and four grandchildren tion from the Soviet Union. Although for the voiceless. She will be greatly he was part of a faculty movement to survive him. procuring an exit visa was fraught with missed by her students, friends, and increase minority admissions to the administrative difficulties and great Brendan Mullan and Lawrence Busch, colleagues. college and to the Graduate School of personal and family inconvenience, Michigan State University Arts and Sciences. R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College

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