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Exciting Plenaries and Sessions at the 101st ASA Annual Meeting by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, can Civil Liberties Union. She will be and author of many books, will ad- who, with Thurgood Marshall, orchestrat- ASA President joined by Deborah Rhode of the Stanford dress another plenary whose subject is ed Brown vs. Board of Education will speak Law School, Director of the Keck Center “Transgressing Distinctions on Gender with Laura Gomez, a scholar of Mexican- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profes- and Race.” Also at the American issues, and Ginsburg and American feminist Gloria sion, and a specialist on women’s rights plenary, ASA’s own Rachel Moran, of Boalt Steinem—two leaders responsible for and ethics. Rhode was a counsel to the Lawrence Bobo, Martin Hall School of Law, challenging boundaries in American Judiciary Committee during President Luther King Jr. Cen- University of California- society—are the lead plenary speakers Bill Clinton’s administration. Also on the tennial Professor and Berkeley, who writes on at this year’s American Sociological As- plenary panel will be Judith Resnik, of Director of the Center for interracial intimacy. sociation Annual Meeting in Montréal. Yale Law School, founder and director of Comparative Studies in Following up on the At the Friday, August 11, plenary on the Arthur Limon Center on Public Inter- Race and Ethnicity and ASA’s objective to be “Transgressing Sex Segregation: The est Law. Resnik’s current work focuses Program in African and responsive to immedi- Law, Social Science and Social Policy,” on the United States’ “exceptionalism” African American Studies ate pressures emanat- Justice Ginsburg will speak on changes with regard to human rights. at Stanford University, ing from disasters, Kai in the legal profession over the past 40 Among other special sessions focus- will focus on race issues Erikson, Yale University, years. She was responsible for argu- ing on human rights, Jeremy Waldron, of and the political sphere. with Shirley Laska, Uni- ing many of the landmark cases that the Columbia University Law School and versity of New Orleans, changed employment practices and a world-renowned political philosopher, Ethnic Boundaries has organized and will other civil rights issues in her days as will speak at a special thematic session A number of very address “The Flooding
a law professor and the head of the on torture. exciting thematic sessions States Court of the United of the Supreme Collection Petteway, Steve by of New Orleans: Views Women’s Rights Division of the Ameri- are also on the program. Ruth Bader Ginsburg from Up Close,” which Gender and Race Boundaries They are too numerous to will tackle the issues stemming from Hur- Annual Meeting Issue On Monday, August 14, Gloria note here but a few are unusual, includ- Steinem, the women’s rights activist, ing a session focusing on how the law is ricane Katrina and its aftermath. Also, in See insert on Montréal Annual founder of Ms. magazine, cofounder of instrumental in undercutting the bound- the session “Creating and Maintaining Meeting highlights! the National Women’s Political Caucus aries of color and race. At this thematic See ASA Meeting, page 4 with Betty Friedan and Shirley Chisolm, session, noted lawyer Jack Greenberg,
Yu Xie Is Incoming Editor Members Propose Resolution of Sociological Methodology to Rename ASA Awards
by Michael Hout, Others will import perspectives from Background other disciplines. But all articles will aim University of California-Berkeley In 2005 two members submitted a proposal suggesting that ASA rename to equip sociological researchers with two existing ASA Awards. Specifically, they proposed renaming the “ASA the tools they need for their substantive Yu Xie, the Otis Dudley Duncan Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award” the “W.E.B. DuBois Career of work. SM has, from its founding, fos- Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Distinguished Scholarship Award,” and since the DuBois name already ap- tered the development, the University of Michi- pears on an ASA award, they also proposed renaming the existing DuBois/ adaptation, and dis- gan-Ann Arbor, will suc- Frazier/Johnson Award to the Cox/Frazier/Johnson Award. ceed Ross Stolzenberg, semination of method- University of Chicago, as ological developments. Review by Committee on Awards editor of Sociological Meth- Important papers on Watch for the ASA odology (SM) beginning path analysis, latent That proposal was forwarded to the ASA Commit- with the 2007 issue of this variables, log-linear tee on Awards (COA) for review and recommendation. ballot in your mail. COA debated the proposal at length in light of existing annual journal. Members models, event-history Return ballot by 5pm of ASA, especially mem- analysis, multi-level Council policy (immediately below), ultimately voting ET June 8, 2006. bers of the methodology methods, and causal to reject the proposed name changes. section, thank Stolzenberg inference have given Existing Award Policy for his six years in service SM a strong impact to the journal. factor of 1.12 in 2004 For nearly three decades it has been ASA policy that awards should be for influence on the identified by the reason for the award, not the name of a person. This policy Methodology Is Integral field. (Impact factor is is based upon the principle that many individuals who have been pivotal to Substance of Research calculated by dividing to the discipline and the Association over the years are worthy of recogni- tion. For more than 25 years Council has consistently opposed using the Xie believes that the total number of Yu Xie ASA Awards program as the way to recognize and honor such figures. To sociological methodology citations of a journal’s some degree the more than 90 section awards have assumed that role; there should not be separated articles in a specified are now many section awards that honor contemporary as well as histori- from substantive concerns in sociological two-year range by the total number of cal figures important to sociology. Recent proposals for named ASA awards research and best sums up this perspec- articles published in that journal during have been rejected, and awards that were previously named have been given tive in his own words: “Sociology has that period.) descriptive titles, including the Pitirim A. Sorokin Award, now the ASA Dis- much to offer both scholarly and wider Xie hopes to continue SM’s tradition tinguished Scholarly Publication Award, and the Samuel A. Stouffer Award, audiences. We have not had the impact of high-impact articles during his stew- now the ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. we can and should have, however, in ardship of the journal. Of course, no edi- part because we have sometimes allowed tor can anticipate where his colleagues’ The Question Now Before the Voting Members methodological, theoretical, or ideologi- ingenuity will take them next. And so he cal differences to get in the way of doing encourages researchers with articles on Following rejection by the COA, the two members collected signatures what we do best: produce empirical the full array of methodological topics to from the required 3 percent of the voting membership supporting their pro- knowledge about human societies.” To submit their work to SM. posal and submitted it to ASA as a member initiated resolution. At the Febru- that end, Xie promises a journal that is, ary 2006 meeting, members of the ASA Council considered the resolution. About the Editor above all, practical. Council did not take a position on the proposed name change for these two Xie’s top priority is to publish articles Since 1999, Xie has directed Michi- awards, but referred the question to the membership along with an explana- that the entire sociological commu- gan’s world-famous Quantitative Meth- tion of existing association policy regarding awards. nity can use. Some articles will bring odology Program at the Institute for For more information on the issue of the proposed member resolution, researchers out to the cutting edge of see
Published by The American Sociological Association May/June 2006 Footnotes
The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . . . On the Importance of Being Engaged in ASA I am pleased to report that the state of the discipline of sociology is excellent and that the vitality of the Association as a membership organization and as the national voice of the Education Is Going discipline can be seen in all aspects of our activities. You, the members of ASA, are the vital force behind these achievements, Nowhere as made evident by your roles in departments and universities, Kenneth Land discussed the Child research and practice, the public sphere, and your engagement 3 Well-being Index’s latest results at in the Association. a Brookings briefing. Sally T. Hillsman The excellent state of the discipline and Association Bachelor’s degrees in sociology have steadily increased over the last 20 years and the awarding of doctoral degrees has recovered well from the declines of the 1980s and early 1990s. Grant awards to sociology for scientific research What Is the Seventieth have increased steadily and scholarly productivity is high. In the Association’s centen- nial year, the National Science Board recognized for the first time a sociologist, Dalton Anniversary Gift? Conley, as winner of the coveted Alan T. Waterman Award. ASA membership has con- Ethelyn Davis has been a member tinued to grow and will soon reach historically high levels. Section memberships have longer than any other member. mushroomed as members have increased their activity in the Association. Submissions 4 to ASA journals are up and their quality is high, and the website logged almost two mil- lion page hits in April alone. Beyond the Ivory Tower The sociological energy at Annual Meetings Annual Meetings in the last several years have had record attendance. Most important, Kirshstein discusses her non- session organizers for the 2006 Program Committee of President Cynthia Fuchs Epstein academic, challenging work in the received a record number of paper sub- applied and research setting. missions for the Montréal meeting. It will 5 undoubtedly be another outstanding meet- ing of ASA members and sociologists from North America and across the globe.
Community-based You are needed Learning or Service As always, however, there are clouds which we have reported often in Footnotes Learning? and in this column. As I write, the Chair 6 Whatever you call it, Beloit College of the Senate Science and Space Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (which has jurisdiction over the National Science Foundation has also faced the issues and has a [NSF] authorization), Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), suggested it might be time few answers. to remove the social, behavioral, and economic sciences from NSF. The hearing was, in the eyes of social science observers, “not a pretty sight.” The sociology discipline thrives, however, and in the professional and public spheres, members of the Association and staff will confront this challenge together as we have confronted others. ASA and NSF Fund The centrality of the Association Sociology Projects The Association represents a primary source of engagement in and support of the FAD grant supports six new sociological profession. Its community provides each of us intellectual stimulation and 7 projects on topics such as post- validation, a source of professional identity, and a structure and system for achieving in- dividual career and communal goals. ASA’s functions are thus complementary to or an Katrina New Orleans and social extension of our sociological workplaces. Within each of these domains leaders emerge capital. who help us all achieve agreed-upon goals, both personal and organizational. The importance of your participation Nearly 1,000 ASA members hold volunteer leader positions within the governance A Rose by Any and journal publication infrastructure of the Association. These include, among others, Council, editorial boards, award selection committees, annual meeting program com- Other Name? mittees, as well as ASA section councils and committees. This is a high number of volun- More on the proposed name teers and they are the ones who make the Association work. Some positions require only a few hours of work each year, while others require many. But none of this work is just 8 of the Career of Distinguished “free labor” for the Association; rather it is engagement in the mission of the sociological Scholarship Award from ASA community, and it makes a great deal of difference to the profession, the discipline, and the members. members. It makes a real-world impact Members volunteer to make decisions about who will become an ASA Minority Fellow from the many applications the program receives. Members decide who will Meet New ASA receive Student Travel Grants to the annual meetings, and to the International Sociologi- cal Association. Volunteers review and read dozens of dissertations nominated for the Staff Members Association’s dissertation award, read the many books nominated for the annual book Find out more about the new award, and decide all the major professional honors awarded by the ASA. Members 10 and not-so-new ASA staff ready volunteer huge amounts of time to review submissions to the ASA journals, determining the journals’ scholarly content. Members volunteer to develop the Association’s teach- to serve you. ing materials and work on committees that produce important reports for the discipline. These professional rewards and intellectual materials matter to a great many sociolo- gists, to the strength of the discipline, and to the standing of your Association. ASA sections are at the heart of the on-going intellectual exchange within the As- sociation. Members provide contact with the sections’ many peer networks. Motivated volunteers keep these communities active and productive year round and more are Our Regular Features needed to fulfill the many opportunities for engagement in ASA’s 44 sections. The sec- tions are a major venue for developing our association’s student leaders. Public Sociology...... 11 Putting your name forward Public Forum...... 12 The ASA is an association of, by, and for its members, so it is imperative that mem- bers be involved. Everyone suffers from a severe shortage of time, but your peers Departments...... 12 appreciate, recognize, and applaud those who give of their time to lead within the ASA. Members who serve on nominations bodies encourage other members to put themselves Obituaries...... 15 forward as someone willing to serve by running for office, and they encourage sec- tions to bring new names forward. This outreach helps nominating committees get new See Vantage Point, page 12 May/June 2006 Footnotes
Child Well-being Index Results Reveal PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATE Education Levels Still at Standstill ✔ Heard in DC . . . molecular/cellular Nobel laureate touts importance of At a briefing at the “social factors” in understanding learning and memory . . . . At a recent Dana Brookings Institution Foundation-hosted conversation between former New York Times columnist on March 28, Kenneth William Safire (Dana Chairman) and renowned neuroscientist and Nobel Land, Professor of Prize winner Eric Kandel about Kandel’s research and publications on basic Demographic Studies cellular, genetic, and molecular mechanisms underlying animal learning and Sociology at Duke and memory, Kandel asserted the importance of social context and factors University, presented an in the learning process. Before a large audience of national science policy- overview of the latest makers, leaders, and students, as well as the general public, Safire asked a findings from the Child self-admitted “trick question” about the abilities of women (relative to men) Well-being Index (CWI), in science and math. Kandel, a molecular/cellular biologist, did not miss a of which he is also the beat and elaborated on the importance of “social context” and “social factors” author. The CWI, which in determining gender differences. It was reassuring, from a social science collects data on seven perspective, to hear a biological scientist acknowledge that the social world areas of child well-being is a critical subject of scientific scrutiny. A webcast is available at
Who’s Been an ASA Member for 70 Years? Ethelyn Davis celebrates a membership milestone problem when she university. Davis’s col- applied for a teaching league, Elinor Johansen by Craig Schaar, During the same year that she joined assistant position at the recalled, “we invited the ASA Membership Department the association, she recalls her profes- University of Missouri. Dean of Arts and Sci- sor driving his students to the American “When I applied, there ences to our department were two applicants for to celebrate with us—in thelyn C. Davis was a graduate Sociological Society meeting in Chicago. E the position. I was told large part as protection sociology student at Southern Meth- “The organization was small enough to years later that I was not for us as we were pour- odist University when she joined the include field trips to give us a view of chosen because of my ing champagne when ASA. (But in that year, 1936, what she various parts of Chicago,” said Davis in gender.” She received a the TWU campus was joined was the “American Sociological a recent interview with Footnotes. $40 per month scholar- dry.” The University Society,” which did not change its name Academic positions for sociologists ship instead. also offers a scholarship to ASA until 1959; were sparse for recent Davis joined the in honor of Ethelyn Da- but the editor sheep- graduates during the faculty at the Texas vis for full-time gradu- ishly refuses to use Finding academic positions 1930s. So, Davis had to Women’s University ate students obtaining the former acronym teach in public school was particularly challenging (TWU) in 1942. Located a master’s or a doctoral in this article.) The for four years before for female graduates....”When in the Dallas-Forth degree in sociology. year she joined was she could earn her Ethelyn Davis Worth area, Texas Davis has noticed the same year that the I applied, there were two ap- doctorate degree at the Women’s University is the country’s that sociology has received more recogni- American Sociologi- plicants for the position. I was University of Missouri. largest educational institution primarily tion in the last 70 years. “Sociology has cal Society published The Great Depression told years later that I was not for women. Davis taught sociology there become better understood by persons its first issue of the during the 1930s was for 37 years until her retirement in 1979. outside the field,” said Davis. “When American Sociological chosen because of my gender.” certainly one factor for The last 26 of those years, she served as I was asked about my field and I said Review journal. And, She received a $40 per month the tight job market for the Chair of the Department of Sociology ‘sociology,’ I would get a blank stare Davis has been a loyal sociologists. scholarship instead. and Social Work. from people.” Times have changed for member of the associa- Finding academic In recognition for her dedication and the sociology discipline. tion ever since. positions was particu- service to the University, Davis was At 91 years of age, Davis remains When she joined, Davis was looking larly challenging for female graduates. awarded the inaugural Cornaro Award active by doing community volunteer to connect with the handful of people The social science disciplines were in 1978, the highest honor for teaching work. ❑ who were sociology majors at the time. comprised of mostly male faculty and teaching assistants. Davis recalls this and commitment to scholarship by the
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Social Research. He chaired the meth- 1982. He earned master’s degrees in so- in 1996 and 1999, and became the Otis of women’s productivity to the equally odology section of ASA from 2001–03 ciology and the history of science from Dudley Duncan professor in 2004. He rapid decline of that resource advan- and served on the SM editorial board the University of was also elected tage. Mothers and immigrant women, (1994–97), the Sociological Methods and Wisconsin-Madi- a Fellow of the however, remain seriously disadvan- Research editorial board (1989–present), son in 1984, and Xie made headlines in 2005 when his American Acad- taged in American science. and the Sociology of Education editorial his doctorate from book Women in Science, co-authored emy of Arts and I met Yu Xie when he was a graduate board (2003–06). He was deputy edi- Wisconsin in 1989. with Kimberlee Schauman…, was Sciences in 2004 student. He sent me detailed comments tor of the American Sociological Review He became an and an Academi- on the book I was working on at the (1996–2000) and associate editor of the assistant profes- widely cited as a counter-balance cian of Academia time. We have become close friends and Journal of the American Statistical As- sor of sociology at to Harvard President Lawrence Sinica that same valued colleagues since then, shar- sociation (1999–2001). Altogether, Xie the University of Summer’s speculations on why men year. ing manuscripts and opinions many has nearly 30 years of editorial board Michigan in 1989, Xie’s main times over the years. Xie’s insights and experience. earned tenure outnumber women in science. areas of research comments have been making my work A native of China, Xie earned a there in 1994, was interest are social better throughout our nearly 20 years bachelor’s degree in engineering from promoted to full professor in 1996, was stratification, demography, statistical of friendship, and authors who submit Shanghai University of Technology in honored with named professorships methods, Chinese studies, and sociol- to SM can expect its new editor to help ogy of science. His interests in sociologi- them improve their work, too. cal methodology are wide-ranging, and ASA Meeting, from page 1 they are all integrated with his substan- tive research. His best known method- Ethnic Boundaries,” Erikson will address, acceptable and unacceptable topics to ological work is his log-multiplicative with Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale Uni- be discussed on the airwaves, will speak model (published in ASR in 1992), also versity, ethnic boundaries and their role in at a thematic panel on changing sexual called the “unidiff” model, that allows tumultuous contemporary problems. mores. “Dr. Ruth,” holds a degree in so- researchers to compare two-way relative ciology and is the author of a number of odds across the categories of additional Labor Boundaries books that locate sexual behavior within variables. His 2000 book Statistical social contexts. Methods for Categorical Data Analysis Further, two sessions (co-authored with sociologist Daniel A. were organized to focus Unlike academics, a number of guests we Powers) has become the standard text- on the future of the U.S. book in many top graduate programs. labor movement. One invited to the meetings cannot make commit- is by Daniel Cornfield, Taking on the Gender Gap Vanderbilt University, ments to the ASA yet, on globalizing capital but the Program Com- Xie made headlines in 2005 when and globalizing labor. mittee hopes to have his book Women in Science, co-authored The second session is some other interesting with Kimberlee Schauman (Harvard being organized by Ruth speakers on the pro- University Press, 2004), was widely Milkman, University of gram, among them the cited as a counter-balance to Harvard Governor General of President Lawrence Summer’s specula- California-Los Angeles, Contact Xie (at [email protected]) and Dan Clawson, Uni- Canada, Her Excellency tions on why men outnumber women Michaëlle Jean, and in science. Their myth-busting research with your ideas for papers. Starting versity of Massachusetts- July 1, 2006, new manuscripts for SM Amherst, to examine the Pierre Sané, Assistant shows that (1) women are not ill-pre- Director-General for pared by inferior math training in high should be sent to Yu Xie at Institute for timely issue of low-wage Social Research, Room 2074, University workers. And, the New Social and Human Sci- school (the gender gap in standardized ences of UNESCO. tests is small and declining), (2) many of Michigan, 426 Thompson, Box 1248, York Times economics Gloria Steinem Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248 or electroni- writer, Louis Uchitelle, women earn science and engineering Discoveries at the cally to [email protected]. ❑ will speak about his new book, The Dis- degrees after starting in a different ma- Boundaries posable American, at a session cosponsored jor, (3) marriage does not limit women by the ASA Section on Organizations, Thus, although focusing on “Great scientists’ geographical mobility, (4) the Need hotel reservations for gender gap in scientific productivity Occupations, and Work. Divides,” we look forward to produc- the ASA Annual Meeting? tively “Transgressing Boundaries” and is rapidly closing, and (5) the residual Sexuality Boundaries examining the social problems this topic difference between men and women Visit
Beyond the Ivory Tower Sociologists Working in Applied and Research Settings… Profile of Rita Kirshstein they faced the challenge of trying to find nal to make people think that if they are demands involved with working at a jobs in the same geographic area. They not academics, they are failures.” She place like AIR. She feels that she has to by Stacey Merola, moved to Buffalo, NY, where she worked feels that the profession could benefit revise the reports that she writes more American Institutes for Research in the research and evaluation depart- from a bridge between the academic than she would have to as an academic, ment of a state mental hospital and had and nonacademic realms, particularly and that timeliness is more important Like many sociologists, Rita an adjunct teaching appointment. While since “academic positions are so tight in this world than in academia. On a Kirshstein works outside of the profes- in Buffalo, they decided right now.” She said day-to-day basis people are often doing sorate and believes that though her job that they did not want that recently, even after things radically different than what differs in many aspects from that of a to have to move every her many successes; they were trained in, no matter what the professor, they are not the aspects that time each one of them she encountered this field. Tasks are also more differentiated many people expect. “I still teach and do wanted to change jobs, bias at a party. She was between staff of various levels because research, but the teaching doesn’t occur so they targeted either introduced to a new the budget is driving the work. in a classroom—and I don’t have to deal Washington, DC, or acquaintance with the She feels that one of the more positive with department politics.” Chicago for their next qualifier, “She works aspects of her work is that what she does Kirshstein, a Managing Research move. for a consulting firm, feeds directly into policy and tends to Scientist at the American Institutes for After they moved but she does good be more “grounded.” “We are trying to Research (AIR), has worked at AIR for to the Washington, DC work.” Kirshstein feels see what works and what doesn’t work, 19 years. Over that time, she has taught area, Kirshstein worked that one way to change as opposed to testing a theory,” said many research assistants and new PhDs part-time for the Mont- attitudes would be to Kirshstein. “Our work is grounded more how to do research in an applied setting. gomery County Public have nonacademics in research questions than in theory. We Some of these research assistants have School system, and then work in an academic tend to start off with a research question themselves gone on to sociology gradu- came to Pelavin Associ- setting full-time for a and that drives the process.” ate programs and to successful academic ates, which later merged year, with their salaries Additionally, she feels that the envi- careers. She said that, “nonacademic with the American funded through grants. ronment she works in is more collabora- environments are teaching grounds. In Institutes for Research. In addition to foster- tive than competitive. “I feel comfortable Rita Kirshstein this environment, a number of former In addition to her duties ing a more positive sharing ideas with colleagues, even if research assistants have been turned on at AIR, Kirshstein is a attitude towards non- they aren’t polished. I also get ideas from to sociology.” member of the board of trustees of the academic jobs, having a nonacademic other people. We’re all working towards Kirshstein did not come to AIR University of the District of Columbia sociologist as part of a department for the same goal.” Many of the people she straight from graduate school. After and is on the board of the Foxfire Fund, a year could provide graduate students works with are not sociologists and bring graduate school she obtained an academ- a non-profit educational and cultural with practical guidance and realistic different approaches and worldviews ic job that she held for four years. The program located in the Appalachian expectations towards nonacademic to the projects they work on together. “I university she worked at had not been Mountains of Rabun County, Georgia. careers. Kirshstein indicated that a lot of like working with people with differ- coed for that long and at the time there Over the years, she has also served on the skills she uses can only be learned on ent training from mine. I feel like I learn were not many women faculty. While for other county commissions including the job, such as interacting with clients. from them.” her those were very difficult years, they a Commission for Women, which she However, graduate schools could help Rita Kirshstein has no regrets about also gave her a sense of what she wanted chaired, and a Child Care Commission. students learn how to write for a nonaca- her career choices: “I’ve been very happy in a job. “I recognized early on that I Kirshstein says she is troubled by the demic context. here and have had many opportunities liked teaching and research, but I didn’t bias against nonacademic jobs that exist Graduate students can also gain a I would not have had otherwise, and I like the politics.” within academe. “When I talk to PhDs realistic view of what nonacademic jobs don’t have to deal with academic poli- She met her husband during her time in sociology, they still feel that getting a are like on a daily basis. Kirshstein said tics. All jobs are crazy; you just have to as an assistant professor and together nonacademic job is a failure. It’s crimi- that as with any job, there are specific pick the craziness you can live with.” ❑
Six New Projects Are Sponsored by the Community Action Research Initiative
and to conduct a formative evaluation particularly in relation to the homeless The American Sociological Association’s Spivack Program in Applied Social of the Conversations on Race (COR), and the organizations that serve them. a community-based organization that The project is a college-community col- Research and Social Policy announces the recipients of the 2006 Community deals with race relations, to assist with laborative. The approach is to provide a Action Research Initiative (CARI) awards. This small grants program its work. The research intends to un- needs assessment evaluation regarding encourages and supports sociologists to bring social science knowledge, derstand the social policy impact of the housing and personal needs of prisoner COR program on individual partici- re-entry. The College and the Hospi- methods, and expertise to address community-identified issues and pants and on the community of Mont- tality Center will perform this assess- concerns. Each applicant described a proposed project for pro bono work with clair, NJ. In order to do this project, the ment and host meetings between social researchers will develop a workable service providers in the community in a community organization or local public interest group, the group’s request database, which will provide inside and order to develop new programming for collaboration, and the intended outcomes. CARI provides up to $2,500 for outside individuals accurate informa- strategies. each project to cover direct costs associated with doing community action tion on the membership. COR will ben- Karen Werner, Goddard College, efit from more effective management for will work with Julie Graham, Univer- research. The six 2006 proposals selected are listed below. program leadership. sity of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Heather M. Fitz Gibbon and Anne Natalie Shafiroff, to do participatory M. Nurse, both from the College of research with three community enter- Rebecca Bach, Duke University, funds to work with one of the most ac- Wooster, received support for their prises—market-oriented projects whose will work with Kim Dixon, director tive human rights organizations in the project, “Summer Evaluation Research focus is community well-being—in the of Durham Crisis Response Center city of Salvador in Brazil, AGANJU. His Program.” This program will partner Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. They (DCRC), to collect data on issues of “Engenho Velho Project” will develop with the United Way to evaluate the will produce case studies of three local motherhood among battered women. and implement community-based hu- effectiveness of their activities and to enterprises in order to provide them They will conduct in-depth interviews man-rights monitoring in a predomi- build the evaluation skills of sociol- with their own self-assessments, help of women with children. They will use nately Afro-Brazilian neighborhood in ogy undergraduates at the College of them learn from each other, and make the data collection to provide the most Salvador. With five students from the Wooster. With the researchers at the their knowledge available to other effective safe and supportive environ- neighborhood, his research will involve center, the undergraduates will help the groups and policymakers in the Valley. ment for battered women and to assist community mapping through inter- United Way and other future agencies The community groups are: Communi- them in their transition to independent views with the community and focused identify their goals and develop ways to ty Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, living. With a better understanding of discussion groups with identified assess how well they are meeting those Anti-Displacement Project, and River the women the center serves, the staff stakeholders. He intends to produce a goals. Valley Market. can provide more tailored information, publication for human rights education Jeffrey Gingrich, Cabrini College, will The deadline for applications for resources, and counseling to provide a in the neighborhood. work in partnership with the Hospital- the 2007 CARI award is February 1, successful transition. Rosann Bar and Yang Kai, both of ity Center of Norristown, a homeless 2007. Additional information is on Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Caldwell College, will use their CARI day shelter, to address issues of prisoner the ASA Funding webpage at
Time Travelers: the students to have explicit conversa- tions with their mentors about the ebb The Commute Between Campus and Community and flow of their semester: the mid-term crunch and the flexibility of the week Efforts to connect higher education classrooms with the real world are increasingly popular that follows. Faculty serve as brokers of the relationship helping to communicate by Carol Wickersham, Charles Westerberg, Real-World Example difficult for those engaged in commu- the differences in time and schedule. and Kate Linnenberg, Beloit College nity-based education to determine how Students need to be prepped for the One of Beloit College’s programs, transitions, lest they come away cynical or a not atypical example of community- many hours should be required to get an “A.” Progress can be tough to measure. confused, rather than enlightened. Buck t’s the academic year 2005/06, and based learning, places students at 17 I Different units may be necessary in each Rogers may need us to slow him down, we are about to join the intrepid student very different sites throughout the context—profits are up, blood sugar so that he listens for a long time before time travelers from Campus X as they community: businesses, schools, social levels are down, voter turnout is good, he speaks. Students need our help to set forth on a quest to unknown worlds. service agencies, farms, clinics, govern- an autistic child makes eye contact for connect the texts of their community sites Venturing far from home where time is ment agencies. The students work with a the first time. Learning how to define with their academic texts, and to find lan- measured in predictable credit hours wide range of groups of people including and evaluate success in each different guage to transport their truths between and semesters, they are embarking on a young children and bankers; diabetic space-time context may be one of the worlds. They need our help to recognize valuable adventure. Their destinations patients and organic most important and that differences in the way time is con- are varied, and so we must resynchro- farmers; and officials transferable lessons strued create differences in meaning. nize our watches to time measured at city hall and recent Across the country these programs our student time in fiscal quarters or growing seasons, immigrants. Varied are mushrooming under various Transparent Learning as these population travelers will learn. the length of a hospital stay or a third In all of this we need to acknowledge groupings and their monikers (e.g., service-learning, grader’s recess. Brokering the that we as faculty are often not much respective institu- community-based research, Who are these academic “space ca- Transition more than novices ourselves. Time travel tions are, they share dets”? They are the thousands of college co-operative learning, field place- is not just a skill for students to mas- similarities with each So how do our and university students who participate ment). What they have in common ter; professors may also need to adjust other and common students get up to in academically brokered, community- their assumptions. Consider the differ- temporal differ- is a desire to connect academic speed? Faculty and based learning. Across the country these ence in the manifestation of time for a ences with the Beloit reflection with the “real” world staff who deploy and programs are mushrooming under tenured professor and that for almost campus. teach these adventur- various monikers (e.g., service-learning, outside the classroom…. any employee in any other context. This Academic time ers play an important community-based research, co-operative difference cannot be overestimated. is chopped into role in negotiating learning, field placement). What they Tenure can freeze time, allowing compla- quanta—credit hours, semesters, aca- community-based learning experiences. have in common is a desire to connect cent faculty members to teach the same demic units. Of course, an advantage of We operate as the clutch in the time academic reflection with the “real” world class with the same texts and same tests the artificial construct of campus-time machine, enabling these two worlds, outside the classroom—what we in the for 30 years. Those who must prove their is that it is easier to do “assessment”—a spinning at different speeds, to interface sociology department at Beloit College relevance in a fast-paced world are not favorite activity of those who dwell smoothly. We relay to the farmer or the call “hands-on, heads-engaged” learning. allowed to remain static. On the other in academia. Grades, which seem so banker the schedule for the semester, Still, even the most eager and capable hand, tenure may have the opposite meaningful in the academic time frame, highlighting the fact that the students will inevitably suffer a shock as they effect, as professors launch into hyper- often make no earthly sense in commu- will be gone for a week in the middle of transition from one world to the other, space, taking creative risks unimaginable nity contexts. This may be why it is so the term for spring break. We encourage from one version of time to another. to those who must yearly justify their existence to bosses, stockholders, or funding agencies. Awareness of such differences can make us more competent travelers, as we guide our students. If O’Donnell Honored with Lynton Award we are willing to make our own learning transparent, we can help students under- Sociology professor builds community through model teaching approach and alliance building stand that time travel requires lifelong learning. There are always strange new worlds to explore. artwick College Professor of Organization for Women in the Oneonta, forefront of lobbying and organizing as H What, exactly, can students learn in Sociology and ASA member Katherine NY, community in 1981. Early on, she well as performing at the scores of OCAY the community that they cannot learn O’Donnell has been named one of three also focused her efforts on women in events, including coffeehouses, Battles of in the classroom? One important lesson recipients of the 2006 Ernest A. Lynton rural poverty and worked with The the Bands, and SUMMERFEST. Hartwick is how to negotiate a graceful transi- Award for Faculty Professional Service Migrant Tutorial Outreach Program with students have provided research support tion between worlds, anticipating when and Academic Outreach, given annually area dairy farm worker families. to OCAY as well as assisting in develop- to brake and when to accelerate. This by the New England Resource Center for O’Donnell’s pedagogical model is ing grant proposals. requires the ability to think outside of Higher Education at the University of demonstrated in her work with Project In the late 1990s, O’Donnell repli- one’s own reference frame—a funda- Massachusetts-Boston’s Graduate Col- REACH and Planned Parenthood in the cated her integrative pedagogical model mental skill as students prepare to boldly lege of Education. late 1990s. This project linked 13 com- to an international level in Chiapas, go where no student has gone before. The Lynton Award recognizes out- munity partners, including a rural high Mexico. Over a period of years, she Another crucial lesson emphasizes the standing college professors who con- school, a boys’ and girls’ club, and three has taken students to Chiapas as part value of experience, as they get in the nect their professional expertise and colleges and health organizations in a of a Hartwick off-campus course to habit of testing book-learned theory scholarship to community outreach by comprehensive vocational, educational, engage in social change through various against experience in the real world; integrating socially responsive teaching, health, and counseling empowerment grassroots projects, including develop- they will, we hope, return to rewrite research, and community service. Unlike program for rural teens in grades 9–12. ing fundraising and service programs the books, linking real-world time with traditional service-learning awards that The project provided the opportunity to assist schools and clinics, building a academic theory. focus on the link between teaching and for extensive student-faculty collabora- natural dye production facility in the Yet the most important lesson of service, the Lynton Award emphasizes tive research. O’Donnell trained a total mountains of Chiapas, and creating an time travel may be in finding one’s applied scholarly activity more broadly. of 21 Hartwick student researchers and organic garden at the leadership and own stride. By learning to recognize the Over the past eight years, more than 500 mentors over the course of the project, training center in San Cristobal, Chiapas, discrepancies in time between individual faculty members have been nominated supported by several Faculty Research Mexico. Her economic solidarity work and cultural contexts, students gain the for this prestigious award. Grants, funded by the Hartwick College with Jolom Mayaetik, a Mayan women’s confidence they need to take control Board of Trustees. weaving cooperative of 320 workers, of their own explorations. They learn Building Community has resulted in year-round, fair trade to adjust their pacing as smoothly as if Community Alliance and human rights popular education O’Donnell’s commitment to building stepping from a moving walkway and workshops, university lectures, exhibi- community transcends three decades In 1996, O’Donnell founded OCAY into their futures. In this way the journey tions, and solidarity marketing across and two countries. Her efforts have re- (Oneonta Community Alliance for of a thousand light years can begin with the United States. In addition, O’Donnell sulted in the development of a multitude Youth) with Oneonta-area parents just a single step—off campus. ❑ of courses, community-based learning and teens. OCAY created a coalition of has published numerous articles based experiences and research, alliances with municipal, town, foundation, private, on her north–south solidarity in Chiapas, Carol Wickersham, Charles Westerberg, community partners, and inspired, business, Job Corps, parent, and teen and her book manuscript, Weaving Trans- and Kate Linnenberg are sociology faculty actively engaged students. Among the partners to fund and build a municipal national Solidarity, is currently under at Beloit College in Beloit, WI. Wickersham early outcomes of O’Donnell’s efforts skate park. A true “grassroots” orga- review at Left Coast Press. can be reached at [email protected]. O’Donnell has been on the Hartwick was the establishment of a Women’s nization, OCAY has been lobbying for Center on the Hartwick College campus several years to create a local, municipal faculty since 1980 and is active in the ASA, particularly the Section on Teach- Discuss this article in the ASA Member in the early 1980s and the formation of teen center and café for teen music and Forum by visiting the Member-Only page Hartwick’s Women’s Studies Program in arts events and an after-school program ing and Learning and the Department ❑ on the ASA website at
New ASA-NSF Grantees access to different kinds of social capital of economic incorporation in capitalism. resources for middle- and working-class These four groups have different rates of ASA selects awardees to help advance the discipline Blacks, how they use the social capital business ownership. The PI hypothesizes resources that they have, at what stages that these group differences in business The American Sociological Association (ASA) is pleased to announce six new of their lives they use social capital re- ownership are “rooted” in the avail- grants from the December 2005 review cycle of ASA’s Fund for the Advance- sources, and the effects of access to social ability and mobilization of primary and capital resources on their life outcomes. secondary relationships, or social capital. ment of the Discipline (FAD), a competitive small grants program funded by The PI will explore these questions by To test this hypothesis, she focuses on ASA and by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and admin- using in-depth interviewing and qualita- the types of resources, the extent of these tive data analysis. The findings about resources, and whether resource mo- istered by the ASA. These awards provide seed money to PhD scholars for access to and returns from social capital bilization strategies differ across racial innovative research projects and for scientific conferences that advance the resources will be compared to a similar and ethnic groups and gender among 40 discipline through theoretical and methodological breakthroughs. Below is a class of interviews with Whites. randomly selected restaurant owners. Zulema Valdez, Texas A&M Univer- A reminder: ASA needs to increase list of the latest FAD Principal Investigators (PIs) and a brief description of their sity, $5,000 for “Beyond Ethnic Entre- member contributions to the FAD pro- projects, which are commencing in 2006. preneurship: An Embedded Market gram. Please contribute to this co-funded Approach to Racial and Ethnic Business ASA-NSF program that rewards scholars Ownership in the United States.” The at all levels and all types of institutions Emily Barman, Boston Univer- Empire” has proliferated in the popular purpose of this research is to find out of higher education for proposing and sity, received $5,000, for “Doing Good: press in recent years, but sociologi- whether “resource mobilization strate- implementing cutting-edge research and Accounting for Measurement in the cal research has not examined the U.S. gies” differ across ethnic lines. The PI conferences that advance theory and Nonprofit Sector.” This study seeks to empire, compared it to other empires, proposes to investigate the ways in method in the discipline. To contribute, explain the trend toward the use of out- or generated theories of imperial states which different types of “ethnic entre- send checks to FAD, c/o Business Office, come measures by non-profit organiza- and dynamics. To begin to generate such preneurs” (including Korean, Mexi- American Sociological Association, 1307 tions by testing alternative explanations theories, the PI will contrast the dynam- can, non-Hispanic White, and African New York Avenue, Suite 700, Washing- for this form of assessment. According ics of the United States Empire with its American men and women) learn how to ton, DC 20005-4701, or call Girma Efa to the PI, organizations in the nonprofit predecessor the British Empire. He will gain and use resources in order to start at 202-383-9005, ext. 306. Additional sector increasingly are being asked to compare them by creating a database of and maintain businesses in Houston, TX. information is available on the ASA demonstrate their effectiveness. Unlike imperial practices (largely of military According to the PI, this study proposes homepage at
of Marist College, Nicole Elizabeth Sociologists Are Honored by the American Academy Spirgen of Wittenberg University, and Suzanne Marie Stachel of Baldwin-Wal- of Political and Social Science lace College.
by Daniel Spar, neighborhoods successfully manage Pennsylvania State University. Out of Sociologist as President ASA Governance Office bad conditions when the residents the 10 Undergraduate Research Awards In addition to its recognition of sociol- themselves take initiative to improve given, one went to sociology student ogy fellows, AAPSS greeted ASA Past- he American Academy of Politi- their surroundings and take actions for Sarah Faith Nehrling of the University T Presdient Douglas S. Massey, Princeton cal and Social Science (AAPSS) recently each other’s benefit. Earls’ publications of Wisconsin-Madison for her project, University, as its new president in inducted six new fellows at its 2006 include studies ranging from behavioral Sensitizing the Sanaars: An Evaluation of January 2006. Massey is serving a three- ceremony in Washington, DC. Among problems in preschool children to the Sensitization Campaigns on Literacy Efforts year term as AAPSS President. Massey them was a friend of sociology, Felton international aspects of child and ado- in Senegal. previously taught at the University of Earls, Professor of Human Behavior and lescent mental health. His most recent Among the 130 Junior Fellows Pennsylvania, where he was the Direc- Development at Harvard University. publication is Firearm Violence Exposure were 24 sociology students, including: tor of the Population Research Center. This was AAPSS’ seventh induction and Serious Violent Behavior. Katherine Miriam M. Bagley of Sarah His research focuses on international of fellows. Each fellowship is named Lawrence College, Marie A. Bozin of migration, race and housing, discrimina- after a distinguished scholar and public Junior and Graduate Fellows University of Akron, Elizabeth Bullock tion, education, urban poverty, and Latin servant who has written for the Acade- of University of Notre Dame, Sarah The Academy invites leading social America. Some of his recent publica- my’s journal, The Annals of the Academy Collins of University of Maine, Alison science departments in the United States tions include Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: of Political and Social Science. Carol Kaplan Fogarty of University of to designate one undergraduate senior Mexican Immigrants in an Age of Economic The Mahatma Arizona, Sara Ann Holloway of Princ- as a Junior Fellow Integration, Source of the River: The Social Gandhi Fellow went eton University, Bernadette Jaworsky of They discovered that the key to and one graduate Origins of Freshmen at America’s Selective to Felton Earls. Earls, Wellesley College, Katharina Jenkins of student who has ful- Colleges and Universities, and the award- with colleagues Rob- reducing crime goes beyond the Washington and Lee University, Zachary filled requirements winning American Apartheid, co-authored ert Sampson, Stephen Kagan Guthrie of Wesleyan University, popular “broken window” theory for PhD candidacy with Nancy A. Denton. Raudenbush and Amy Jessica Kaslovsky of the State of crime reduction: neighborhoods as a Graduate Fel- The AAPSS seeks to promote the Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, University of New York-Geneseo, Laura low of the AAPSS. progress of the social sciences and the spent 10 years on The successfully manage bad condi- E. Kelliher of Saint Anselm College, In addition to the use of social science knowledge in the Project on Human tions when the residents them- Meaghan Leddy of Johns Hopkins Uni- Junior and Graduate enrichment of public understanding and Development in Chi- versity, Leslie Lindgren of University of selves take initiative to improve Fellows, a sociol- in the development of public policy. It cago Neighborhoods, Minnesota, Sarah Malpass of Wheaton their surroundings and take ogy undergraduate does so by fostering multidisciplinary an interdisciplinary College, Augustino Ting of Univer- student was recog- understanding of important questions study directed at actions for each other’s benefit. sity of Utah, Rebecca Lauren Medway nized among the among those who create, disseminate, deepening society’s of Georgetown University, Angela S. nine Junior Fellows and apply the social sciences, and by understanding of the causes and path- Mendiola of Colorado College, Jason L. awarded with Undergraduate Research encouraging and celebrating talented ways of juvenile delinquency, adult Metzger of University of Central Florida, Awards. The individuals who received people who produce and use research to crime, mental disorder and violence. Kyle A. Murphy of James Madison Uni- the awards for the Graduate Fellow were enhance public understanding of impor- They discovered that the key to reduc- versity, Tracey Nance of Furman Univer- Samantha Ammons of University of tant social problems. ❑ ing crime goes beyond the popular “bro- Minnesota, Rebecca Sager of Univer- sity, Sarah Faith Nehrling of University ken window” theory of crime reduction: sity of Arizona, and Edward Walker of of Wisconsin-Madison, Kaitlin Nelson
Background on Proposed Name Change Sociological for ASA’s Distinguished Scholarship Award Forum Editor W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Search by Aldon Morris, Michael Schwartz, Mary Pattillo, Dan Clawson, Renaming the award sets the standard Cedric Herring, Howard Winant and Walter Allen for a distinguished sociological career at Robert Max Jackson completes the very highest level of achievement. his term as editor of Sociological Forum, impact on the world through his writ- Because this would not be one award the journal of the Eastern Sociological See page-1 article for a description ings and his efforts to bring insights among many, it would most closely Society (ESS), on December, 31, 2006. The of the proposed name change. to bear on key social problems. And approximate our ideal of what a sociolo- ESS thanks him for his notable efforts throughout his life, these efforts bore gist can achieve. By naming this award and begins its search for his successor. fruit: in the formation of the NAACP, the for W.E.B. Du Bois, we reinvigorate our Submit proposals to Richard Alba, Editor e believe that the proposal to creation of The Crisis Magazine, and his W sense of what’s possible in sociology and Search Committee, Eastern Sociological rename the ASA Career of Distinguished pivotal work that helped lay the founda- vivify our discipline. Because this change Society, University at Albany, SUNY, Scholarship Award after W.E.B. Du Bois tion for the independence of Africa and cannot be made lightly, it is to be decided 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY is an idea whose time has come. Indeed, Asia. Du Bois’ scholarship and activism by the entire ASA membership. 12222. The committee begins reviewing we collected more than 600 signatures established him as the consummate With this change, we would be assert- proposals June 15, 2006. Nominations in less than a month from ASA members public intellectual. He fought for the ing that Du Bois’ legacy is the ongoing by persons other than candidates are who endorsed the change. Signatures rights of people of color worldwide, for business of sociology; welcome. Candidates should have were received from two-thirds of the women and work- that we have a profes- published extensively in leading journals ASA Council, 13 ASA presidents and the er’s rights, Jewish We believe that renaming the sional commitment with preference to those with previous last four winners of the current award. freedom, a peaceful award is to de-racialize excellence to the values of social editorial experience. It is fitting that a vote of the entire ASA world without nu- justice, egalitarianism, Proposals should include a 2–4 page membership will now determine wheth- clear weapons, and and provide an opportunity for and human freedom. statement of planned editorial policies er this important change will be enacted. global democracy. members to claim their multicul- These values have and innovations; a complete Curriculum Du Bois’ work has taken on enhanced We believe that tural intellectual heritage. sometimes lifted our Vitae; a statement of previous journal/ prominence because American scholars renaming the award field to its highest book editorial experience; names, appreciate his body of thought as a key is to de-racialize excellence and provide level of influence, enabling us to identify, addresses, and telephone numbers tool for understanding the globalizing an opportunity for members to claim as Du Bois did, with human emancipa- of three senior scholars familiar with world, and because in other countries, their multicultural intellectual heritage. tion, democracy, and peace. Can we one’s work and collegial relationships; Du Bois has long been recognized as the There is a growing sense in the profes- embrace that identity again? and a letter addressing the possibility pre-eminent American sociologist. His sion that we need to project a coherent A great deal depends on how we of support from one’s own academic foundational ideas are current in many image to the broader public we seek to answer this question, and we therefore institution. It is customary for areas, including social psychology, strati- inform. Other social sciences send out urge all members to vote for this impor- universities to offer at least modest fication, race relations, social change, and key intellectual messages by naming tant commitment to the best sociological support (e.g., released time from other world systems. His pioneering empirical prizes after appropriate figures: the high- principles. duties, secretarial, administrative, or work has established methodological est award in Political Science is named research assistance) for faculty who trajectories in a wide array of fields. As after James Madison; Anthropology’s A comprehensive statement supporting serve as journal editors. The Editor a result, Du Bois is one of the most cited highest award is named after Franz Boas. the proposal is available at
2006 Regional Sociological Associations Award Winners
Eastern Sociological Society North Central Sociological erness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge University of Oklahoma, “Bonds to (ESS) Association (NCSA) American’s Divisions; and Honorable Conventional Society: A Comparison Mention: Nicole Raeburn, University of Japanese and American College Candace Rogers Award: Jeffrey Dixon, Aidah Tomeh Distinguished Service of San Francisco, Changing Corporate Students” Indiana University, “A Clash of Award: Thomas Calhoun, Southern America from Inside Out: Lesbian and President’s Special Awards: Kent Sand- Civilizations? Examining Liberal- Illinois University Gay Workplace Rights strom, University of Northern Iowa Democratic Values in Turkey and the Distinguished Contributions to Teach- European Union” ing Award: Leslie Wang, University Southern Sociological Society Southwestern Sociological Rose Laub Coser Award: Michelle Pou- of Toledo (SSS) Association (SSA) lin, Boston University, “Strategizing Undergraduate Student Paper Win- AIDS Prevention: The Exercise of Sex- ners: First: Mary Kathleen Dingeman, Charles S. Johnson Award: Delores P. Outstanding Undergraduate-level ual Agency Among Adolescent Girls Saint Mary’s College, “From War to Aldridge, Emory University paper: Bailey Dawn Cato, University in Rural Malawai” Honorable Men- ‘Refuge’: A Case Study of Liberian Martin S. Levin Distinguished Service of Oklahoma, “An Application of tions: Phyllis Brashler, Northeastern Refugees Resettled in South Bend, Award: Abbott L. Ferriss, Emory Agnew’s Strain Theory to Academic University, “Flirting with Feminism: Indiana” Second: Michelle Manno, University Misconduct” The State & the Battered Women’s Indiana Purdue University-Ft. Wayne, Distinguished Contributions to Teach- Outstanding Master’s-level paper: Am- Movement in Massachusetts” and “Weight Room Etiquette: Who Be- ing Award: Idee Winfield, College of ber Deane, Texas Woman’s University, Amy Steinbugler, Temple University, longs, Who Doesn’t, and How Every- Charleston “Internalized Homonegativity in “Race Has Always Been More Than one Seems to Know Without Needing The Odum Award, Best Undergraduate South Asian LGBTQ Communities: A Just Race: Gender, Sexuality and the to be Told” Third: Sarah Medina, Saint Paper: Alexandra Hendley, South- Preliminary Investigation” Negotiation of Race in Interracial Mary’s College, (Sexual) Minority western University in Texas, “Barreras Outstanding Doctoral-level paper: Relationships” Report: A Survey of Student Attitudes del Lenguaje: Children’s Negotiation Helen (Xiuhong) You and Erin Ham- Komarovsky Book Award: Eiko Ike- Regarding the Social and Cultural of Adult-Centered Exclusionary Struc- ilton, University of Texas-Austin, gami, New School for Social Research, Environment for Sexual Minorities” tures.” The other Odum undergradu- “Deteriorating Mexican-American Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and Demoya Gordon, Macalester Col- ate paper award was to Diya Surie at Child Health? The Role of Health and the Political Origins of Japanese lege, “Policing Sexuality in America’s Centenary College in Louisiana for insurance” Culture Churches: Theological, Congregation- her paper, “Ideological Foundations Distinguished paper: Diane C. Bates, The 2005–2006 Robin M. Williams, Jr., Lec- al, and Political Influences on Regula- of Healthcare Inequality: A Cross-Cul- College of New Jersey, “Does Regional tureship Acknowledgement: Vincent tion of Same-Sex Behavior” tural Study.” Environmental Regulation Sacrifice Parrillo, William Paterson University Graduate Student Paper Winners: First: The Odum Award, Best Graduate Social Justice? Assessing the Relation- 2006–2007 Robin M. Williams, Jr., Laura Hamilton, Indiana University, Student Paper: Miyuki Fukushima, ship with Affordable Housing” ❑ Lecturer: Michele Lamont, Harvard “Trading on Heterosexuality: Col- University lege Women’s Gender Strategies ESS Merit Award: Charles Willie, Har- and Anti-Lesbian Discrimination” vard University Graduate School of Second: Samantha Kwan, University News from the… Education of Arizona, “Framing Fat: Govern- ment, Activists and Industry Frame Contests” Third: Kyle Dotson, Indiana Midwest Sociological Society Midwest Sociological Society University, “Revisiting the Turnout (MSS) Decline: Assessing the Contribution of Federal immigration law reform efforts spark proposal by sociologists Cohort Replacement” and Shelley A. Student Paper Competition Winners McGrath & Ruthie A. Chanie, South- he Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), acting on a proposal brought Graduate Division: First: Tif- ern Illinois University, “Female Body T fani Saunders, Indiana University, Builders: Crossing Gender Lines” by its Social Action Committee to the full board at a board meeting April 2, “Race/Ethnicity and Depression: The 2006, approved a resolution favoring immigration reform, as follows: Importance of Financial Resources and Perceived Financial Support” Pacific Sociological Association WHEREAS as a body of sociologists, the Midwest Sociological So- Second: Zachary Neal, University of Il- (PSA) ciety is concerned about the well-being of the people in our region; linois Chicago, “Building a Blauurban and WHEREAS our research on work, education, families, social Space” Third: Melissa Powell, South- Award for Distinguished Contributions change, inequality, migration, criminology and other areas sug- ern Illinois University-Carbondale, to Teaching: John Foran, University of gests the importance of immigration to the vitality of our region: “Accomplishing Emotion Manage- California-Santa Barbara ment: A Qualitative Examination of Award for Distinguished Contributions BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Victim Advocacy” to Practice: Ryken Grattet, University Undergraduate Division: First: Matthew of California-Davis We favor immigration reform that allows for movement to citizen- R. Kubal, Indiana University, “Ac- Award for Distinguished Undergradu- ship of those who desire it. quiring an Abstinent Identity” Second: ate Student Paper: Lexi Shiovitz, Cris Ramon, Macalester College, “In- University of Southern California, We oppose immigration reform that turns unauthorized migrants stitutional Activism: Variability and “Predatory Self-Esteem Boosting and those who support them into felons. Consistency in the Development of and the Creation of Gifted Identity” Worker Owned Cooperatives” Third: Honorable Mention: Macy Boggs, Boise We oppose immigration reform that invests scarce public Vasilios Bournas, Carthage College, State University, “Finding Freedom: A resources in wasteful and ineffective infrastructure, such as a “Prejudice and Immigration Today: Discourse Analysis of Bush’s Weekly wall or fence at our borders. Contact, Perceived Occupational Addresses” Competition, and National Pride as Award for Distinguished Graduate In other news Factors Affecting Attitudes toward Student Paper: Sarah Stohlman, Immigrants” Fourth: Ian Ritz, Macal- University of Southern California, “At ester College, “Playing for an Active Yesenia’s House: Central American In other board action, the Midwest Sociological Society approved a Community: Youth Sports Participa- Immigrant Pentecostalism, Congre- proposal from its Long Range Planning Committee to initiate three new tion and Civic Engagement” gational Homophily, and Religious awards: An Early Career Scholarship Award will draw attention to the Social Action Awards: One World Com- Innovation in Los Angeles” Honorable quality of scholarship being produced by younger scholars working in munity Health Center and the Latina Mention: Michael Smyth, University of the Midwest region and underscore MSS’s commitment to professional Resource Center, both of Omaha, California-Irvine, “Queers and Provo- development. The MSS Departmental Award in Teaching Excellence will Nebraska cateurs: Hegemony, Ideology, and the recognize departments that have created innovative programs, curricula, ‘Homosexual Advance’ Defense” and teaching and learning strategies. The TSQ Distinguished Contribu- Award for Distinguished Contributions tion to Scholarship Award will be awarded to the article making the most New England Sociological to Scholarship: John Foran, Univer- significant contribution to sociological research to appear inThe Sociological Association (NESA) sity of California-Santa Barbara, for his book, Taking Power: On the Origins Quarterly during the previous two years. For more information about MSS New England Sociologist of the Year of Third World Revolutions, and Paul awards, contact the MSS Executive Office at (608) 787-8551, or at Mid- Award: Steve Green, Massachusetts Lichterman, University of Southern [email protected]. ❑ College of Liberal Arts California, for his book, Elusive Togeth- 10 May/June 2006 Footnotes
New Staff in the ASA Executive Office
MD. Her family moved to the Washing- ful at the end of the day knowing that I ton, DC, area from El Salvador about 30 was able to help someone.” In addition years ago. to working full time and raising two Prior to working at ASA, Karina was children, she is pursuing a Bachelors of a daycare teacher, which she greatly en- Applied Science Degree in sociology and joyed. Working with children and their network systems administration. She families taught her patience, organiza- was born in the Buckeye State and loves tion, stress skills, and the importance of traveling and amusement parks due to communication to make an organization being a “spoiled Army Brat.” run smoothly. She brings these skills to ASA and is eager to join ASA and learn Daniel Spar Jill Campbell something new about the discipline. Karina is primarily interested in race Daniel Spar, the newest member of Jill Campbell joined ASA as the new and ethnic relations and the sociology of the Governance, Sections, and Archives Publications Manager on April 10. She education. She hopes to attend graduate department, joined ASA in November. has a BA in English from the University school to continue to study sociology He primarily assists with ASA’s Major of Maryland-College Park and an MS with an emphasis on Latino studies. She Award Program and helps to give it in technical communication from the has a passion for music and has played the attention it deserves. He also works University of Washington-Seattle. Her tenor saxophone since high school with ASA’s election process, compiling professional publications experience continuing to play at the college level. candidate information and keeping the She also plays a little piano, clarinet, and lines of communication open during the includes working as an editor and desk- Jamie Panzarella top publisher in academic, nonprofit, plans on learning guitar in the near fu- process. If you are interested in being and corporate settings. Until recently, ture. She enjoys traveling, having visited nominated for an award or a position on she worked in California as a freelancer, various Latin American countries and Jamie Panzarella began working Council, he’s your man. He doesn’t make while also pursuing outside interests in Italy on a two-week photography tour. full-time in the Publications and General the decisions, though, so there’s no use alternative healthcare and fitness. She Services Departments of ASA in May in flattering him. brings to ASA extensive experience and 2005, after interning for a year with the Before ASA, Daniel worked as Volun- proficiency in graphic design, communi- ASA Research Department. Jamie’s main teers Manager with AIDSWalk Washing- cation, desktop publishing, and publica- tasks include work on Footnotes, the ton. He has a rich background in public tions production. Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociolo- relations, working for Steve Madden, gy, publication permissions, and Spivack Ltd., and with the Food Marketing Insti- Program projects. tute, a trade association. His background With a sociology degree, Jamie is ex- gives him the skills to work with various cited to expand her sociological knowl- types of publics. As anyone at ASA will edge working with the ASA. Her areas of tell you, his energy and passion for com- interest include urban sociology, political munication is evident both in and out of sociology, community, family, and public the office. With a diverse background in Shannon Lymore policy. the restaurant and hospitality industry, Originally from Rhode Island, Jamie Daniel is accustomed to a demanding Shannon Lymore isn’t exactly new, moved to Washington, DC, in August workload and knows this experience since she started with the ASA more 2001 to attend George Washington Uni- will help him work with ASA’s large than a year ago in the customer ser- versity, from which she graduated last membership. Karina J. Havrilla vice/membership department but she May with a BA in sociology and political Born in Westchester County, NY, his may be new to the readers of Footnotes. science, with a concentration in public family moved to Bethesda, MD, where Karina J. Havrilla joined the ASA She has worked at various associations policy. Before interning at the ASA, Jamie he then attended the University of Executive Office as the Minority Affairs as a database specialist for several years interned at the National Foundation for Maryland, earning his degree in pub- Program Assistant May 31, 2006. Karina and intends to retire working with Women Legislators, the Office of Sena- lic relations with a minor in sociology. graduated in May from McDaniel Col- an association. “I love working with tor Jack Reed (D-RI), and the Office of Wanting to stay close to his family has lege (with a BA in Spanish and sociol- associations in the membership depart- Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI). kept Daniel in the Washington, DC, area. ogy), where she has been a very active ments because I am able to interact with While at George Washington, Jamie was He is excited to be a part of the ASA fam- member of the student body. She was customers and help solve their issues a member of the GW Symphonic Band ily as well. ❑ born and raised in Montgomery County, in the best way possible. I feel wonder- and Colonial Brass.
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Dana M. Greene and James R. Peacock (Ap- Ronica N. Rooks (Kent State University) will Seven awards designed to enrich the quality palachian State University) will develop and coordinate a service learning project focused on of teaching of sociology have been made through implement quantitative modules in five required health care settings for her Sociology of Health the American Sociological Association’s Teaching lower-level sociology courses. Greene has been and Health Care class. She will develop an up- Enhancement Fund (TEF). The Fund supports active in ASA’s Integrating Data Analysis (IDA) dated community organization database to help innovative projects that are transportable to other project and has developed exercises to help stu- students choose where they will do their service settings and will have a lasting impact on teach- dents become more comfortable with basic data learning project. Rooks’ project will include ing sociology. The 2006 funded projects are as analysis. exercises to help students apply what they have follows: Karen Honeycutt (Keene State College) will learned about social change, organizations, and Agnes Caldwell (Adrian College) will cre- develop a VHS and DVD archive of selected TV inequality to health care settings. ate and maintain a website on critical thinking networks and programs to be used as a content Stephen Sharkey and Jeana Abromeit (Al- in sociology geared for high school and higher analysis dataset. This database will be available, verno College) will integrate Geographical education sociology educators. The website will at first, to students and faculty at her institu- Information Systems (GIS) into their core required share syllabi, curricular activities, and materials tion through the Center for Cultural and Media research sequence for the sociology major. They showing how to evaluate critical thinking. Studies (CCMS), and will eventually be made hope eventually to prepare an article for Teaching John Foran (University of California-Santa available to the general public through the CCMS Sociology, evaluating the effects of implementing Barbara) will develop an online training module website. GIS on student learning. that will introduce students to the main research Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom (Drew University) The next deadline for TEF applications is Feb- traditions in sociology, including, but not limited and Francis Schmidt (Bergen Community Col- ruary 1, 2007. For additional information, visit the to, survey research, ethnography, interviewing, lege) will develop a website catalogue of visual ASA website at
tions with their perpetrators, often resulting in panic attacks and difficulties in Public Sociology concentrating on their academic work. Discussions with members of the campus police provided additional claims Sociology translates to public action . . . of administrative improprieties including the changing of police reports and the under-reporting of campus crimes. I became a whistleblower by contacting This occasional column highlights sociologists who successfully engage so- the Clery’s through Security on Campus, Inc. An associate notified the U.S. ciology in the civic arena in service to organizations and communities. Over Department of Education of these irregularities and an audit was conducted the years, members of ASA and sociologists as individual professionals and of the college’s crime records. During this process, I learned that this problem citizens have sought to make the knowledge we generate directly relevant was not unique to The College of New Jersey, but, rather, was prevalent on to our communities, countries, and the world community. Many sociologists many college and university campuses. within the academy and in other sectors practice the translation of expert Research knowledge to numerous critical issues through consultation, advisement, testimony, commentary, writing, and participation in a variety of activities In a nutshell, research findings indicate that one out of four college women and venues. Readers are invited to submit contributions, but consult with report having been victims of sexual assaults. Approximately 90 percent of these assaults result from date and acquaintance relationships, while only 10 Managing Editor Lee Herring ([email protected], 202-383-9005 x320) prior percent are committed by strangers. When the perpetrators of stranger rapes to submitting your draft (1,000 to 1,200 words maximum). are arrested by police, college and university officials will usually prosecute the perpetrators to the full extent of the law and publicize their actions. On the other hand, these same officials will often conceal date and acquaintance rapes. To acknowledge the prevalence of the latter would reveal that rap- ists and potential rapists constitute part of their student body, which in turn Reducing vs. Suppressing would tarnish their institution’s public image. When college and university officials intentionally hide, minimize, and under-report crimes, they place Campus Crime their institutions in violation of the Clery Act and subject them to investigation by the U.S. Department of Education, if detected. When this occurs, victims by Howard Robboy, The College of New Jersey are often discouraged or blocked from coming forward to provide details. This leaves the institution vulnerable to Title IX lawsuits. For the last six years or so, my non-teaching, professional activities have I currently serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Security on entailed conducting research on and being an advocate for campus safety. The Campus as well as work closely with Katherine Redmond and her National focus and consequences of these endeavors are on the mechanisms employed Coalition against Violent Athletes. These eight years have become the most by many college officials as they attempt to negotiate the legal, politi- satisfying and fulfilling period in my life, as I have actively utilized cal, and economic terrain of campus crime including require- sociology to aid and bring justice to victims of campus crimes ments to report such crime. Many administrators act in ways and achieve institutional change. that intentionally mask, or minimize and under-report campus crime, especially sexual assault. The incentives Application to engage in these practices are strong, as they protect A large component of the advocacy work involves the public image of institutions. But institutional image consciousness raising and training. I have guided preservation comes at the expense of the safety of the investigative work of newspaper and television students and the justice normally granted to victims reporters and informed student journalists about the of crime. nature of campus crime statistics. For example, in 2004, Harvard University (24,000 students) reported Background 52 sexual assaults. The College of New Jersey (6,800 In 1986, Jeanne Clery, a freshman at Lehigh Uni- students) reported 17 such assaults, and Hamilton versity, was raped and murdered on campus. Clery’s College (1,800 students) reported five. By contrast, parents (Connie and Howard Clery) learned at the Auburn University (with 23,000 students) reported trial that Lehigh University had hidden 38 other violent zero sexual assaults in 2004. campus crimes from the public. The act of hiding these Campus police are frequently instructed (ultimately by crimes from public view had the effect of increasing the upper-level administrators) to deny student reporters access campus’ dangerousness, given that students and the univer- to campus crime logs (a Clery Act violation) and thus filter the sity community itself would have been unaware of the campus information available to them for publication. On many cam- safety level and consequently more sanguine about their relative puses, the security lectures given to freshman, as well as the security chance of becoming a potential victim. They were effectively denied the infor- devices provided by campus police, are designed to inform and protect female mation necessary to take more informed precautionary measures to protect students from stranger rapes. Coeds may be warned not to walk alone at night, themselves in proportion to the level of threat. avoid dark areas of campus, and request escorts during the evening hours. The Clery’s sued Lehigh University and with the money gained from the Many schools give photographs of incoming freshman to the upper class- settlement, created a non- men to facilitate the socialization of the new students. But some students refer profit organization, “Secu- to these photographs as “pig books” and target freshman women for “con- Many administrators act in ways rity on Campus,” and dedi- quest.” This may relate to the fact that the first semester of the freshman year that intentionally mask, or minimize cated their lives to making is the most dangerous for college females. college campuses safer for But, in the near future, administrators will be less able to rely on the “ex- and under-report campus crime, students. In 1990, a federal cuse” that the Clery Act is too confusing to implement, because beginning this especially sexual assault. The law was passed requiring July, colleges and universities will have an important new tool to help demys- incentives to engage in these colleges and universities to tify the Act’s crime reporting and victims’ rights provisions. The U.S. Depart- report their campus crimes ment of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime has funded a series of day-and- practices are strong, as they protect annually to the U.S. Depart- a-half training seminars to be conducted in various regions nationally. The the public image of institutions. ment of Education. A few curriculum was developed with a team of campus police, student affairs, and years later, this law was re- victim advocate representatives to create a program that thoroughly addresses named The Jeanne Clery Act. each of the Act’s key compliance areas including classifying crime and provid- In 1991, Katherine Redmond, an 18-year-old freshman at The University of ing assistance to victims. Nebraska-Lincoln, was sexually assaulted by the same football player on two A reflective relationship has developed between my research and advocacy consecutive days. Redmond filed a Title IV suit against the university and her roles. Insights gained from the advocacy work have sharpened, broadened, perpetrator, and upon settlement of the suit created a non-profit organization, and re-focused my sociological “eye.” At the same time, a fusion of theoretical The National Coalition against Violent Athletes, to support and gain justice perspectives and layers of sociological knowledge have fueled the effective- for sexual assault victims as well as to seek appropriate sanctions for their ness of my activist work. So far, I have presented four papers on this work at perpetrators. professional meetings and plan to write journal articles and a book. I speak to My study of campus crime began in the mid- to late-1990s, when sexual college students when opportunities arise to raise their consciousness, and, assault victims at the College of New Jersey confided in me as to their disap- hopefully, their safety. pointments and frustrations resulting from mistreatment when attempting to report crimes and seek justice for themselves and the perpetrators. They Howard Robboy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and can be reached at ❑ reported that the college staff did little to shield them from further interac- [email protected]. 12 May/June 2006 Footnotes
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group, the Promise Keepers, is scaling the relative recruiting success of the Texas from Phi Beta Kappa for his service as a legeville, Minnesota, respectively. Cortese down. The group used to pack football National Guard. He was quoted in several professor and leader in the cause of liberal delivered a keynote address, “Opposing Members’ New stadiums with the faithful, but lately has Scripps-Howard newspapers on Febru- arts education. Hate Speech.” been holding more meetings in people’s ary 16 on the military’s need to adapt to Books homes. He also was interviewed by Swed- changes in youth culture (e.g., hairdos Chris Uggen has been chosen as one of Kenneth F. Ferraro, Purdue University, ish National Public Radio on February and color, jewelry, manicures) in order the four 2006 Distinguished McKnight has begun a four-year term as editor of the Winifred Breines, Northeastern Univer- 11 about the Danish newspaper cartoons to recruit effectively. He was quoted in University Professors. The goal of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. sity, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy that sparked riots amongst Muslims of- several Knight-Ridder newspapers, and Distinguished McKnight University History of White and Black Women in the fended by them. interviewed by CBS News on February 28 Professorship program is to honor and Lorena Garcia will be joining the faculty Feminist Movement (Oxford University on a Zogby poll of American soldiers in reward the University’s highest-achiev- at the Department of Sociology at the Press, 2006). Michael Mann, University of California- Iraq showing that three-quarters felt that ing faculty whose work and reputation University of Illinois at Chicago as an Los Angeles, was interviewed on camera the United States should withdraw from are identified with Minnesota, who bring Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Leonard Cain, Portland State University, about a society’s definition of “terrorist” Iraq within a year. renown and prestige to the University, fall of 2006. A Man’s Grasp Should Exceed His Reach: A versus “hero” in a March 18, 2006, CNN and who can be expected to make ad- Biography of Sociologist Austin Larimore story about a new British film titled V Karen Sternheimer, University of South- ditional significant contributions to their J. Craig Jenkins, Ohio State Univer- Porterfield (University Press, 2005). for Vendetta. ern California, appeared on CNN’s “An- discipline in the future. sity, has been appointed chair of the derson Cooper 360” on March 17, 2006, Department of Sociology at Ohio State Mohammad A. Chaichian, Mount Mercy Richard Moran, Mount Holyoke College, to discuss fears of violence following a Charles Webel was named a Fulbright University. College, White Racism on the Western Urban commented in the April 6 Washington Post shooting at a Denny’s restaurant in Pismo Senior Specialist in Peace, Conflict, and Frontier: Dynamics of Race and Class in on the Moussaoui jurors hearing Septem- Beach, California. Terrorism Studies, 2006. Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College-CUNY, Dubuque, Iowa (1800-2000) (Africa World ber 11, 2001, tapes. has been appointed Visiting Scholar in Press, 2006). Jeremy Straughn, Purdue University, was Charles Willie, Harvard Graduate School Sociology at Wagner College in New Philip Morgan, Duke University, was quoted in a March 17 Associated Press of Education, received the Merit Award York City. Charles T. Clotfelter, After Brown: The quoted in a March 26 Washington Post article article about the anti-war protests on from the Eastern Sociological Society Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation on twenty-somethings not having enough the third anniversary of the war in Iraq. at its 76th Annual Meeting in February Jill Quadagno, Florida State University, (Princeton University Press, 2006). time for committed relationships. The story was reprinted in at least seven 2006. The Award is given annually for was invited by Senator Harry Reid to newspapers around the country. “Outstanding Contribution to the Dis- make a presentation on a panel on uni- Uta Gerhardt, Heidelberg University, Peter C. Moskos, John Jay College of cipline, the Profession, and the Eastern versal coverage at the Issues Conference Soziologie der Stunde Null. Zur Gesellschafts- Criminal Justice, commented in a March Debra Umberson, University of Texas- Sociological Society.” In August 2005 for Democratic Senators on April 28. The konzeption des amerikanischen Besatzungsre- 26 New York Times article on the numbers Austin, was quoted in the March 27 Chi- Willie received a similar honor from the retreat was organized by the Democratic gimes in Deutschland 1944-1945/1946 [The of police needed in a police force. cago Sun Times for her research on marital ASA—the Career of Distinguished Schol- Policy Committee. Sociology of Germany’s Transformation to strain and health, which appeared in the arship Award—at its Annual Meeting in Democracy Through American Military Cheryl G. Najarian, University of Mas- March 2006 issue of the Journal of Health Philadelphia. Barbara J. Risman moved to the De- Government, 1944-1945/1946] (Suhrkamp, sachusetts-Lowell, did a radio interview and Social Behavior. partment of Sociology at the University 2005). on March 1 with Christine Dunlap of the of Illinois-Chicago in January 2006, as show Sunrise 91.5 FM, WUML, University Duncan Watts, Columbia University, Professor and Head of the Sociology Burkart Holzner, University of Pitts- of Massachusetts-Lowell’s radio station, described what is involved in social Department. burgh, and Leslie Holzner, Transparency where she discussed some of the find- network research in a March 12 New York People in Global Change: The Vanguard of the Open ings in her book on deaf women and Times Magazine about network theory Kim Scipes, Purdue University North Society (University of Pittsburgh Press, work and the challenges they face in the thwarting terrorists. Douglas Anderton has been named as the Central, led workshops on “US and Inter- 2006). workplace. incoming editor, and Gianpaolo Baoicchi national Labor Solidarity Developments” Charles Willie, Harvard Graduate School associate editor, of the interdisciplinary and on “The National Endowment for De- Linda Kalof, Michigan State University, Mark Oromaner, New York, had a letter of Education, had an article dedicated to journal Social Science History. The Social mocracy (NED)” at the National Venezu- Looking at Animals in Human History (Con- published in the New York Times on Feb- his interpretation of why Martin Luther and Demographic Research Institute at ela Solidarity Conference held at George tinuum, 2006). ruary 16 in which he argued that if Vice King, Jr., was an effective leader of grass- the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Washington University in Washington, President Cheney’s defenders of his delay roots social actions in the The Post-Stan- will be home to the journal beginning DC, March 4-6. Scipes also spoke at public Edith King, University of Denver, Meeting in reporting the incident in which he shot dard daily newspaper in Syracuse, New July 1, 2006. demonstrations against the NED outside the Challenges of Teaching in an Era of Terror- a fellow hunter are to argue that this was York. The article, “Without His Mentors, its headquarters, and against AFL-CIO ism (Thomson Publishers, 2006). part of his private life and not part of his We Couldn’t Honor King,” was published Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State Uni- involvement with NED at the AFL-CIO public life, then we should have a policy January 16, 2006. King and Willie were versity, was elected president of the headquarters on March 6. Cheryl G. Najarian, University of Mas- requiring members of the administration classmates at Morehouse College in At- Tennessee Conference of the American sachusetts-Lowell, “Between Worlds:” Deaf to pay all expenses associated with such lanta from 1944 to 1948. Association of University Professors. David Sonnenfeld, Washington State Women, Work, and Intersections of Gender activities. University, returned as Scholar in Resi- and Ability (Routledge, 2006). Tracy Chu, City University of New York, dence with the Environmental Policy Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, has received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Group, Wageningen University, the R. Keith Sawyer, Washington University- wrote a review essay on “Being and Black- Research Improvement Grant for her dis- Netherlands, in March. St. Louis, Social Emergence: Societies as ness” in the New York Times Book Review of Awards sertation, “The Pathology of Victimhood: Complex Systems (Cambridge University January 8, 2006. He also wrote an op-ed Mental Health and the Social Construc- Chikako Usui, Duquesne University, will Press, 2005). that appeared in the March 26 New York Anthony Cortese’s recent book, Opposing tion of ‘Trauma’ Among Refugee/Asy- become acting-chair of the Department of Times on the disconnection of black youth Hate Speech, has been nominated for the lum-seeking Survivors of Torture.” Sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Ruth Sidel, Hunter College, Unsung Hero- from the American mainstream and the 2006 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Louis for the 2006–07 academic year. ines: Single Mothers and the American Dream cultural reasons behind this. He also Award. The Myers Center Outstanding Lee Clarke, Rutgers University, has been (University of California Press, 2005). mentions Roger Waldinger, University of Book Awards identify and review books awarded the Anschutz Distinguished Fel- Linda Vo, University of California-Irvine, California-Los Angeles, in the article. published each year analyzing bigotry lowship for 2006–07. has been named a Chancellor’s Fellow. Metta Spencer, University of Toronto, and discrimination, and advancing hu- This three-year honor recognizes faculty Two Aspirins and a Comedy: How Television Barbara Risman, University of Illinois- man rights. Richard Colignon, Duquesne University, of exceptional value to the university Can Enhance Health and Society (Paradigm Chicago, was quoted in a USA Today story will become chair of the Department of whose recent achievements in scholar- Publishers, 2006). on March 16 on the “failure to launch” Michelle Gawerc, Boston College, and Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Louis ship evidence extraordinary promise for phenomenon of adult children not leav- Ryan Burgess, Columbia University University. world-class contributions to knowledge. Charles Tilly, Columbia University, Why? ing their parental home. She was also Teachers College, have been selected as (Princeton University Press, 2006). interviewed on a live talk show on KOA the 2006 Peace, War and Social Conflict Anthony Cortese, Southern Methodist Charles Webel presented papers last year at Radio in Denver on the same topic. Section Graduate Student Fellows. University, served a two-day residency the World Congress of Psychoanalysis, Rio Charles Webel, Terror, Terrorism, and the Gawerc’s work on people-to-people at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint de Janeiro, and the International Society Human Condition (Palgrave-Macmillan, Robert Sampson, Harvard University, peace initiatives and Burgess’s work on John’s University in St. Joseph and Col- for Theoretical Psychology, Cape Town. 2005). Forthcoming with Johan Galtung, and Stephen Raudenbush, University of children in conflict areas, as well as their Michigan, had their research highlighted involvement in peace-making activities, in “The Cracks in ‘Broken Windows’” reflects the goals of the Section and those published in the February 19, 2006, Ideas of the people for whom the award was section of the Boston Globe. He published established. Special Issue! an op-ed in the March 11, 2006, New York Times about crime rates in the United States D. Michael Lindsay, Princeton Univer- Cultivating Quantitative Literacy in relation to immigration patterns. sity, has won the 4th Worldwide Competi- tion for Junior Sociologists sponsored by Kim Scipes, Purdue University North the International Sociological Association. A special issue of Teaching Sociology focuses Central, provided background and was The award, based on Lindsay’s paper on initiatives to better prepare sociology quoted in a radio news report about “Liminal Organization in Elite Ranks: demonstrations against the National Linking Societal Power to Religious undergraduates to use quantitative data and Endowment for Democracy carried on Faith,” will be presented in July at the skills in their courses and careers. Workers Independent News Service World Congress of Sociology in Durban, (WIN), a nationwide news service, on South Africa. March 10. Guest editors: Stephen Sweet and Kerry Natalia Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel, Strand. 92 pages. David R. Segal, University of Maryland, both of the University of Massachusetts- was interviewed on Maryland Public Amherst, have been named the winners Radio (WYPR) regarding his research of the 6th Annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter $7.00 members/$15.00 non-members. on military recruiting on December 13. Award for Excellence in Work-Family He was quoted in the Newark Record on Research by the Center for Families at To order this publication visit the ASA online February 2 regarding his research on Purdue University and the Boston College enlistment propensity, in the New York Center for Work & Family, with exclusive bookstore:
ed., The Handbook of Peace and Conflict Eastern Europe because of the 20th anni- 8 a.m.,” one student observed—were for analysis of the interaction of race and the Second World War. In April 1942, he Studies (Routledge, 2006). versary of 1989. While particularly in CEE singled out in a news report. gender, the ways race is gendered and enlisted in the Marine Corps and, before participants, observers and academics Cousins toned down the flashiness in gender is racialized. Valerie did it. Many being shipped overseas, completed his Robert W. White, Indiana University- will be recording their interpretations, his later years, but, according to his son, have theorized the invisibility but use undergraduate education at the Universi- Purdue University Indianapolis, Ruairí 1989 was also a global and world-his- Daniel, “He definitely has a few jackets of whiteness. Valerie analyzed it. Many ty of Michigan, with a major in economics. Ó Brádaigh, The Life and Politics of an Irish torical event. Cultural, economic, legal, that I’m afraid to wear.” have insisted that social context shapes He served in the Pacific theater with the Revolutionary (Indiana University Press, political and social interpretations are The Cleveland native had lived most of the use of race, as well as gender. Valerie Second Regiment of the Second Marine 2006). intertwined with the flow of history and his life in University Heights and Cleve- theorized and concretized its effects. Her Division, rising to first lieutenant and are themselves subject to appropriation land Heights. substantive interest in gender and race machine-gun platoon leader. Nine days Tamar Diana Wilson, University of Mis- and revision by actors. “Before” and “af- “Six weeks ago, he was shoveling his resulted in influential research articles after Nagasaki was devastated by the souri-St. Louis, Subsidizing Capitalism: ter” 1989 are thus inextricably linked. We driveway of snow,” his son said. “Then it in, among other outlets, Social Problems nuclear bomb, he disembarked in the port Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border invite Working Group proposals. Propos- all fell out from under him. His health col- and Gender and Society. At the time of city as part of the first occupying force (State University of New York Press, als should advance, interrogate or replace lapsed. He wanted to live independently her death, she was writing an invited of the Japanese islands. His first-hand 2005). knowledge claims by identifying an intel- as long as he could. And he did that.” proposal on these issues for a book in the observations of the effects of the bomb lectual agenda that is worthy of sustained He spent his last weeks at an assisted Rose Monograph Series. on Nagasaki made him a life-long critic Patricia A. Wittberg, Indiana University- attention. Initiators of working group living facility near his son in the Boston In addition to her important schol- of nuclear weapons. Purdue University Indianapolis, From proposals may expect to lead the group. area. He died at Concord (Mass.) Health arly and service contributions during After his discharge from the Marine Piety to Professionalism—and Back? Trans- Please find further information on the Care Center. her all-too-brief career, Dr. Moore will Corps, Art returned to the University formations of Organized Religious Virtuosity website: <193.175.239.69/1989/groups/ As a youngster, Cousins had worked at be remembered for her effectiveness as of Wisconsin where he obtained his MA (Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield index.html>. The Opening Plenary is a Cleveland food market run by his Rus- a teacher and mentor. Presiding over a in sociology and anthropology in 1948. Publishers, 2006). scheduled for October 24 to 28, 2006, to be sian-immigrant parents. He ran track at large introductory lecture class or teach- Wisconsin’s illustrious faculty in the held at the European University Institute East Technical High School in the 1930s ing a dozen or so students in the inten- social sciences, including Hans H. Gerth, Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University,
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