Volume 47 • Number 3
2019 ASA Election Results
SA is pleased to announce the 2020, following a year of service Committee on Committees, six inside Aresults of the 2019 as President-elect and members of the Committee on ASA election. Thank you Vice President-elect Nominations, and three members to all the candidates who (2019-2020). Morris will of the Committee on Publications 2 Bessen-Cassino Selected generously volunteered chair the 2021 Program In announcing the results of the as the Next Editor of their service, and con- Committee that will election, Secretary Nancy Lopez Contemporary Sociology gratulations to the new shape the ASA Annual and Executive Director Nancy Kidd members of our leader- Meeting program in extended their heartiest congratu- Melamed and Vuolo ship team. Chicago, August 7-10, lations to the newly elected leaders 2 Named the New Aldon Morris, 2021. and their appreciation to all ASA Northwestern University, Aldon Morris Members also elected members who have served the Editors of Sociological has been elected the 112th four new Council Association by running for office Methodology President of the American Members-at-Large: Ruha and voting in this election. Sociological Association, Benjamin (Princeton President-Elect 5 Bystander Intervention and Rhacel Salazar University), Laura Prevention Strategies as Parrenas, University of Hamilton (University One-year term as President-Elect, a Solution to Addressing Southern California, of California-Merced), one-year term as President, and one- Sexual Harassment and has been elected Vice Maria Krysan (University year term as Past President Assault President. of Illinois at Chicago), Aldon Morris, Northwestern Professors Morris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Vincent Roscigno (Ohio University Parrenas will assume State University). Also Congratulations to Our their respective offices in August elected were four members of the Continued on Page 14 6 New Minority Fellows! Announcing MFP Cohort 46 Task Force on Contingent Faculty 2019 ASA Award 7 The Latino Population in New York City Employment in Sociology Report Recipients he ASA will present the 2019 Thank You, ASA Gets Strong Support from Council 8 Tawards at this year’s Annual Members! n early 2016, ASA Council The American Sociological Meeting in New York City on Iappointed a task force “to explore Association Task Force on August 11. Congratulations to all of the dynamics and implications of Contingent Faculty was our distinguished winners. the recent growth of contingent appointed to address the ongo- W.E.B. Du Bois Career of employment among sociologists in ing shift in academia toward Distinguished Scholarship Award the context of the broader structural contingent faculty employ- transformations now underway in ment. According to the GAO, Harvey L. Molotch, New York Announcements...... 16 U.S. universities and in compar- between 1995 and 2011, full-time University Obituaries...... 21 ison to other disciplines.” And in tenure-track positions fell from The W.E.B. March 2019, Council approved the 42% to 28% of all instructional Du Bois Award final report from the Task Force on positions in the United States. recognizes an Contingent Faculty The task force And according to 2015 data from ASA mem- was co-chaired by the late Dan the Integrated Postsecondary ber whose Clawson and Louis Edgar Esparza, Education Data System, part- cumulative and included members Marisa time and full-time non-tenure body of work has significantly Allison, Celeste Atkins, Michael track faculty comprise 61% of Harvey L. Molotch Burawoy, Jay R. Howard, Penny instructional positions at four- advanced the Lewis, Ruth Milkman, Catherine year institutions, 84% at two-year discipline. This Moran, Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, institutions, and over 99% at year’s awardee, Harvey Molotch, Nicholas Pagnucco, and Victor Perez. for-profit institutions. This has embodies this criterion. As his 10 The Executive Summary of the profound implications for faculty nominators eloquently expressed in report articulately and concisely working conditions, career their letters of support for him, he outlines the richness of the material prospects for graduate students, is a giant in the discipline who has in the full report: helped to move established fields Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 4 footnotes To view the online version, visit
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2 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Yasemin Bessen-Cassino Selected as the Next Editor of Contemporary Sociology Laura Kramer, Montclair State University school, Yasemin served as Managing Society. As an emeritus faculty mem- and youth, particularly youth Editor of Men and Masculinities. ber, I benefited from her recognizing employment, began while she was he ASA recently announced With Bessen-Cassino’s editorship, this underutilized resource when she a graduate student. She has since the appointment of Yasemin T we can anticipate several new or invited me to review. She is savvy added a focus on gender, youth, Bessen-Cassino as incoming editor expanded features in Contemporary about the invisible work of an editor; and the political arena. In each area, of Contemporary Sociology Sociology. Yasemin will for example, tapping retired sociol- Yasemin has been extremely produc- (CS), the association’s enrich the reviewer base by ogists is apt to improve acceptance tive. She models the variety of ways bimonthly journal of book drawing on an increasingly rates and turn-around times! Another to share her results: books, mono- reviews and critical essays. international pool of sociol- initiative we will see is an increased graphs, articles, conference presen- This is an “obvious” next ogists and by bringing in level of social media activity related to tations, podcasting, and the popular step in a career marked people from across the the journal. At Gender & Society she media. Yasemin is also an active by a high level of edito- career span. She plans to initiated the creation of podcasts with book and manuscript reviewer. Last rial experience. Yasemin encourage jointly written some reviewed authors. In addition, August, she drew on her experiences recently completed four Yasemin reviews, which may intro- Yasemin plans to use Twitter and as an editor and reviewer to present years as Book Review Bessen-Cassino duce people to the reviewer Instagram to publicize the articles “How to Write Book Reviews” at the Editor of Gender & Society role earlier in their careers as well as and reviews in CS. ASA meetings. This productivity –shepherding reviews for six issues bring people with different areas of Besen-Cassino came to Montclair is especially notable given the high published annually, and handling the expertise together to collaborate in State’s Sociology Department in teaching load at MSU, as well as the challenge of choosing from among reviewing a book with an interdisci- 2005 directly from her graduate relative scarcity of internal support the many new volumes submitted plinary focus. studies at SUNY-Stony Brook, for research and writing. or suggested for review. She has Yasemin’s data-based approach where she earned both her masters She has received numerous just finished a term on the editorial to editing led her to learn about the and doctoral degrees. Yasemin’s awards for her work. Missing from board of Contexts. While in graduate patterns of reviewer use at Gender & specialization in the study of gender Continued on Page 14
Melamed and Vuolo Named the New Editors of Sociological Methodology
John Levi Martin, University of Chicago of Arizona in 2012, after earning methodological approaches—in cally informed, way of creating a his MA in sociology and addition to classical statistics, he modularity matrix for an eigenspec- his summer, editor- his BA in sociology and uses simulations and experiments, trum decomposition. As a scholar, Tship of Sociological philosophy from Kent State as well as various forms of categori- Melamed joins this sort of creativity Methodology transitions University. He has always cal data analysis. with a careful desire to recreate, to Ohio State University had a flair for creativity and While Melamed’s main research whenever possible, plausible models (OSU) into the capable innovation, such as when, directions turn on social psycho- for the generation of his data, com- hands of two dynamic as a teenager, he set off (he logical issues of cooperation and bining the vision of a mathematical young associate professors claimed) “to go camp- status, he also has published on sociologist with the rigor of a true there, David Melamed and ing,” but returned with a new methodological approaches social psychologist. Michael Vuolo. They are David Melamed wrecked car and a tattoo, to mobility data and to cross-case th Michael Vuolo the 16 editorial team since after ending up drinking comparison. (At OSU, he is affiliated the journal began in 1969, beer with hockey players in not only with the Criminal Justice Michael Vuolo received his PhD and the third duo. Their Niagara Falls. Research Center, but with the in sociology from the University of collaboration began early Melamed became Mershon Center for International Minnesota in 2009, after receiving – both came to OSU as the convinced in his graduate Security Studies.) His articles a master’s both in statistics and in first generation of a new training that the weak have appeared in ASR, American mathematics there. He grew up in interdisciplinary group link in our work was Journal of Sociology, Sociological New Haven, CT, and, despite having (the Translational Data usually methodological, Methods & Research (SMR), and no formal family connections to Analytics Institute) that Michael Vuolo not theoretical, and he Social Networks. A good example Yale, managed to make use of its puts them in touch with was inspired to pursue of Melamed’s creative approach is munificent resources not only by leading methodologists across fields. innovative methods by those who his sole-authored article in Research sneaking into parties, but by finding In particular, this position locates pioneered elegant, simple, and in Social Stratification and Mobility the secret subterranean tunnels both in the center of cross-currents powerful approaches, such as Blau’s (2015), in which he proposes using and roof passages that made for coming from other disciplines, most Inequality and Heterogeneity or community detection network ideal hangouts. Yet, by daylight, importantly computer science, and Effron’s bootstrap, and the work methods to identify structures of Mike took college classes at Yale as an awareness of the opportunities of people like O.D. Duncan, Scott occupational classes from a conven- a precocious high school student. and the dangers therefrom. Eliason, Harrison White, and his tional mobility table. One can either But it was Brad Wright at UConn David Melamed collaborator and one of his mentors see it as using network methods who turned Vuolo on to the path of Ron Breiger. Like his inspirations, on the residuals from mobility research and the life of a professor. David Melamed received his PhD Vuolo’s intellectual origin in in sociology from the University Melamed has strengths in multiple tables, or a new, more theoreti- Continued on Page 15 footnotes 3 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger. judges, and the courtrooms in provides numerous examples of From Page 1 This intellectual curiosity and which they practice and adjudicate how this system operates, such as engagement with an array of topics the law. While more attention has when an elderly African American in new directions and develop new are reasons why one nominator, been focused on race and polic- woman, leaning on her oxygen tank fields at the same time, all while Christena Nippert-Eng, wrote that ing, criminal courts are a central for support appeared before the giving back through committed “If there was a poster child for the actor in perpetuating the racialized judge to plead for her life saying she and extensive teaching and service. sociological imagination, Harvey outcomes evident in U.S. jails and did not mean to kill her husband In the words of nominator Craig would be it.” prisons. Gonzalez Van Cleve docu- who had abused her for years. She Calhoun, “Harvey Molotch is one of Throughout this distinguished ments and analyzes how powerful, was berated by the judge for being the most wonderful, distinguished, career of scholarship, Molotch has disproportionately white male a “bad person” with little reference original sociologists of the last half been dedicated to developing new decisionmakers create and shape an to the crime for which she was century of so.” generations of scholars. The many extraordinarily corrupt and systemi- charged. Using Garfinkel’s work A 1968 PhD from the University students he has trained and young cally racist system. as a point of departure alongside of Chicago who has spent his career scholars he has invested in speak Crook County is based on over of research on colorblind racism, at the University of California-Santa passionately of him. As one nomi- 1,000 hours of ethnographic Gonzalez Van Cleve argues this is Barbara and New York University, nator, James Elliot, wrote, “I suspect observations of court proceedings, but one example of racial degrada- Dr. Molotch’s work is grounded in that there are many more stories as well as interviews with judges tion ceremonies pervasive in the urban and community sociology. like mine out there – distinguished and lawyers, giving the reader a courtroom that focus on judgments His pioneering research on such contributions by way of personal truly original and path-breaking of immorality directed at defendants hot-button issues as white flight and interactions with a giant in the field sense of how racism is embedded of color and the poor. urban growth introduced a deeply who cared not only about sociology in the “inside” of the criminal Such stories are analyzed in sociological perspective to heated and the world, but those trying to justice system. The findings reveal dialogue with relevant research but debates, emphasizing power and make sense of both.” Notably, they a frankly heartbreaking account of with a level of detail that is rarely inequality but also the divergent have gone on to become leaders of a complicated habitus where race found in other work on the topic ways that people from different many different fields of sociology, and class are continually reinforced and reflects the countless hours of strata of society value space. This carrying his ideas, perspectives, in the negative assumptions about ethnographic observation and inter- work is exemplified by such books and approaches with them into new the poor and people of color that views she and her research assistants as Managed Integration: Dilemmas areas. lawyers and judges make, and how undertook. Throughout this book, of Doing Good in the City and Urban For this broad impact on sociol- the treatment of these accused Gonzalez Van Cleve gives additional Fortunes: The Political Economy of ogy, ASA has recognized Molotch individuals affirms “racialized rules” breadth and depth to Malcolm Place (with John Logan) that truly many times. Among his many and colorblind racism. Feeley’s notion that the “process changed how scholars view modern accolades are the Robert Park Book What sets Gonzalez Van Cleve’s is the punishment.” This book is urban life. of the Year Award and distinguished work apart from numerous impressive for the rigor of the data As much as Molotch has con- career awards from multiple sec- accounts of racial inequality in collection and analysis, poignancy tributed to urban and community tions of the organization. He now arrests, sentencing, and treatment of of the narratives, and beautifully sociology, he has also taken the receives the highest honor from the poor and people of color is her written observations that deepen insights he developed within this ASA for a distinguished career, and analysis of the everyday workings our understanding of the ways in field into new areas with equal it is well deserved. of the criminal justice system. Her which racialized punishment oper- impact. Consider his research in research reveals everyday racial ates in our legal system. Distinguished Scholarly the sociology of the environment. It microaggressions articulated and Book Award Distinguished Contributions to helped to link macro- and micro- practiced by lawyers and judges Teaching Award level perspectives by considering the Crook County: Racism and Injustice before a judgement is even rendered tensions between local communities in America’s Largest Criminal through racialized rules and scripts William Frey, Brookings Institute and and national actors over environ- Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van that routinely disorient and subju- University of Michigan mental issues, such as the interplay Cleve, University of Delaware gate low-income people of color. William H. of local mobilization efforts and Nicole Throughout the book, Gonzalez Van Frey, Research national bureaucracies after an envi- Gonzalez Van Cleve cracks open the door not only Professor at ronmental disaster. Such a socio- Cleve’s Crook of courtrooms, but also of judge’s the University logical take on the environment County: Racism chambers and attorney’s offices, to of Michigan- also advanced new ways of thinking and Injustice show how prosecutors, judges, and Ann Arbor and about media narratives of major in America’s public defendants regularly engage Senior Fellow at events—how they are constructed Largest in racist practices that abuse both the Brookings William H. Frey and consumed. In recent years, he Criminal Court defendants and their families. Institute, moved into newer areas, such as the (Stanford Nicole Gonzalez is the 2019 Van Cleve Beginning with her entrance design and use of material objects, University into the Gang Crimes Unit where recipient of the ASA Distinguished as described in the truly original Press) offers the white state attorneys bore such Contributions of Teaching Award. Where Stuff Comes From: How new insight into the processes of names as “Beast-Man Miller,” the Dr. Frey is a strong advocate of Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers everyday “colorblind racism” within author entered a world that denies the teacher-scholar model and one and Many Other Things Come one of the largest court systems in the humanity of African American of the most visible figures in the to Be as They Are, and collective the United States. This well-writ- and Latinos through racialized discipline promoting hands-on- responses to anxiety about safety in ten and engaging book offers a cultural practices that demean the research, in particular Quantitative the timely Against Security: How We remarkably relevant and important defendants and facilitate wrong- Reasoning (QR) instruction, across Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and analysis of the U.S. criminal justice ful convictions. The ethnography system by focusing on attorneys, Continued on Page 10
4 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association Bystander Intervention Prevention Strategies as a Solution to Addressing Sexual Harassment and Assault
Sharyn J. Potter, supported by actions and policies at or seeking help from an authority. Safety apps that enable users or their University of New Hampshire higher levels (Bronferbrenner 1977; All community members need to friends to subtly exit dangerous or s the #MeToo Movement has Dahlberg and Krug 2002; Potter know how to intervene in ways that potentially dangerous situations are Apropelled the problem of sexual 2016). Organizational leadership do not feel risky or career limiting. another bystander strategy (Black harassment and assault to the media must take the initiative in demon- Intervening as a bystander can be 2017; Merrow 2017). headlines, bystander intervention strating that cultural change is nec- difficult as people feel their social Campus leaders should be prevention strategies are often cited essary for preventing campus sexual status, friendships, or career can be encouraged to recognize the unique assault and harassment. Drawing on at risk if they intervene, particularly opportunity they possess to change as a solution to addressing these problems. Sometimes called a “com- the social ecology and social ecologi- if they call out a senior colleague or the prevailing larger culture. munity of responsibility” approach, cal models, the bystander approach popular peer. Barriers to intervening The years that students spend on bystander intervention strategies encompasses key components of as a bystander can be based on one’s campus are a period of important effective prevention efforts including gender, rank, race, and more (e.g., cognitive development. The college teach organizational members to know they can and should take an the provision of an environment Brown, Banyard & Moynihan 2014). experience encourages students to active role in creating a safe and with survivor-centered policies The choice to intervene is often explore new identities and attitudes. respectful environment by shifting and procedures and a safety net to shaped by a person’s own status. That Thus, college represents an oppor- community norms and behavior protect people who come forward is why it is especially important for tunity for campuses to promote new expectations. (Campbell 2008). senior leaders in secure positions to attitudes and behavioral norms that For almost 20 years, psycholo- The bystander approach teaches lead by example and intervene in a students can bring to their future gists, sociologists, and public health community members how to inter- visible manner that signals to others workplaces and families. researchers and practitioners working vene safely and pro-socially in sit- that harassment and other degrading Larger cultural change is also in the area of campus sexual violence uations that involve sexual assault, behaviors are not acceptable. possible. We saw this level of prevention have been developing sexual harassment, or other forms People who are nearby before, change occur in the anti-drunk and evaluating different types of of sexual violence, thereby widening during, or after an incident can play driving movement of the late 1970s bystander intervention prevention the safety net for victims. Effective a critical role in comprehensive pre- and early 1980s where broader strategies including in-person pro- bystander prevention and interven- vention by building a community of normative intolerance for drunk grams, social marketing campaigns, tion strategies increase community active bystanders which engages all driving gradually permeated the online programs, video games, and members’ awareness and knowl- community members to end sexual prevailing culture at the societal safety and prevention apps. Unlike edge of the problem, teach how to harassment and sexual assault. level; tolerance of drunk driving prevention strategies directed mainly identify the problem, and provide Bystander intervention prevention decreased, and behaviors like toward victims or perpetrators, them the skills to intervene when efforts are impactful as they engage appointing a designated driver bystander intervention strategies they see sexual harassment and the community in the preven- became the norm (Potter 2016). emphasizes the importance of a wider assault occurring, about to occur, or tion of sexual harassment assault, By leveraging all levels of social ecology approach that involves in the aftermath of an occurrence instead of emphasizing the victim’s the social ecological model, the active participation of constituencies (Moynihan et al. 2015). responses and perpetrator actions concepts of “designated drivers” representing a variety of populations. Like a marketing campaign, (Banyard, Moynihan, Plante 2007). “friends don’t let friends drink For example, in a campus community one 20-minute program presented Scientifically evaluated bystander and drive,” were normalized and this includes administrators, faculty, once is not adequate; successful intervention prevention programs popularized. This was an example of staff, students, family members, and programs require booster sessions need to be presented in a manner bystander behavior, and the results even local business owners who for enhancing prevention education that resonates with target audi- were impressive. Between the mid- engage to prevent and reduce sexual (Banyard et al., 2018). As commu- ence members (Potter, Moynihan, 1970s and mid-2000s, the percent- assault and harassment. nity members gain awareness in Stapleton 2011), and be adminis- age of traffic fatalities resulting from The origins of the bystander inter- their knowledge of the problem tered through different mechanisms alcohol use plummeted from 60 to vention focus on leveraging com- of sexual harassment and assault, with the key knowledge and skills 31 percent (Potter 2016). munity awareness and responsibility organizational leaders can leverage regularly reinforced to change the The anti-drunk driving move- can be traced to the social ecology the knowledge and skills of these overall culture. For example, a ment that started a generation model first identified and engaged trained bystanders so they can focus on the campus culture would ago shows that cultural change is by sociologists at the Chicago School create environments that cultivate use mechanisms that may include possible. Reducing sexual assault in their efforts to address prevailing respect, community responsibility, facilitated in-person prevention and harassment in the campus urban problems. More recently, and shared visions for safety. programs (Moynihan et. al. 2015; community involves implementing Bronferbrenner (1977) is credited While most communities are full Coker et al. 2011; Katz 1995) and strategies that stop violence before with the creation of the social of bystanders — people who witness bystander intervention video games it occurs and creating organiza- ecological model. Both models hold sexual harassment and assault — (Potter et al. 2019) that provide par- tional cultures that support safe that social change requires all five most leaders have not activated ticipants opportunities to practice and respectful environments. levels of a social ecological model these bystanders. When bystanders the necessary skills. Additionally, Bystander intervention strategies (1) individual, (2) relational, (3) witness these situations, they need social marketing campaigns are an integral part of these efforts. community, (4) institutional, and to feel empowered and be willing to (Potter 2012), which model active Research examining the efficacy of (5) societal to be activated so that act to address the problem, whether bystander skills, provide audience bystander intervention prevention desired behaviors at one level are it be by defusing the situation or members with skills they can use to strategies demonstrate that this is an safely subtly or directly intervening help other community members. Continued on Page 13 footnotes 5 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Congratulations to Our New Minority Fellows! Announcing MFP Cohort 46
SA is pleased to introduce the five new scholars who comprise MFP Cohort 46. these talented PhD candidates with strong and diverse sociological Aresearch interests were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants. The Fellows will officially begin their participation on August 1, 2019. The MFP program provides a stipend, mentoring, and a cohort opportunity to predoctoral minority students. The new Fellows will attend the 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City, where they will participate in a full program of professional development and networking activities. We invite you to attend the MFP Benefit Reception on Sunday, August 11. Those wishing to attend can purchase tickets to this event when registering for the Annual Meeting or at the door. Since 2010, MFP has been generously supported on an annual basis by Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), the Association of Black Sociologists (ABS), and the Southwestern Sociological Association (SSA), with more recent support from the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) and the Southern Sociological Society (SSS). Support for MFP also comes from the ASA Council, with significant gifts made by individual ASA members annually and through the 2009-2010 Leadership Campaign in which SWS and the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) participated as donor organizations. More recent support has come from ASA’s Campaign to Strengthen Inclusion (for more information, visit www.asanet. org/donate).
Malissa Alinor (MSS MFP) the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Program Coordinator for a group of in the U.S. and internationally as undergraduates who are embark- a survey researcher for more than Undergraduate Institution: Myles D. Moody (ABS MFP) University of Florida ing on their own research projects 10 years. Her book manuscript Undergraduate Institution: Graduate Institution: University of to improve health outcomes for Surveying Indigenous Communities: Morehouse College Georgia vulnerable and underserved popula- Methods and Case Studies is in Graduate Institution: University of Malissa tions in their communities. preparation. Beyond research, Desi Kentucky Alinor is a PhD is committed to training new gener- Myles D. Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (AKD candidate at ations of Indigenous data warriors, Moody is a MFP) the University raising a toddler, and enjoying her first-gener- Undergraduate Institution: Stanford of Georgia, family. She is the co-founder of the ation PhD University where she U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty candidate at Graduate Institutions: University also earned a Network (USIDSN) and on the the University of Arizona and University of master’s degree Board of Directors for the Missing of Kentucky. Waikato-New Zealand in sociology. and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Malissa Alinor He earned his Desi She graduated Database. Desi is a citizen of the BA in sociol- Myles D. Moody Rodriguez- summa cum laude with a bache- Northern Cheyenne Nation and ogy from Lonebear is lor’s degree from the University of Chicana. She grew up on the Morehouse College before earn- a dual PhD Florida. Malissa’s mixed-methods Cheyenne homeland in rural ing his MA in sociology from the candidate in dissertation explores the affective Montana where she says, “The University of Memphis. His passion sociology at components of racial discrim- buffalo still roam and reservation for studying social inequality the University ination. This project draws on borders crossed all of us.” sprung from his experiences as a St. of Arizona and interview data from persons of Louis native, where he recognized at demography at Desi Yvonne P. Sherwood color as well as white individuals to an early age how residential segre- the University Rodriguez-Lonebear (SWS MFP #1) map and understand the emotions gation shaped people’s life chances. of Waikato Undergraduate Institution: Eastern that accompany experiencing, During his education, Myles has in New Zealand. Her research Washington University recounting, witnessing, or even been committed to studying the interests are both sociological and Graduate Institution: University of enacting racial discrimination. She social determinants of health, interdisciplinary, including social California-Santa Cruz is also using experimental methods focusing on the strongest predictors demography, critical statistics, racial Yvonne P. to examine how these racialized of morbidity and mortality for Black and ethnic classification, health Sherwood is emotions lead to action or inaction. Americans. His dissertation exam- disparities, and stratification. Desi from Spokane Her research interests also include ines the impact of vicarious experi- is advancing two related research and Coeur d’ the consequences of stereotypic ences of racism on the well-being of streams: one focuses on data justice Alene, born perceptions and the effectiveness Black Americans using quantitative for Indigenous communities; and raised of strategies aimed at reducing methods, along with the race-re- the second critically explores the within the those perceptions. For her master’s lated stress and life course frame- enumeration and classification Yakama Nation thesis, funded by the University of works. Currently, His work appears of Indigenous peoples in official Reservation. A Georgia Research and Engagement Yvonne P. Sherwood in the Journal of African-American statistics and tribal data systems. PhD candidate in Diversity grant, Malissa used Studies, the Journal of Racial and Her mixed-methods dissertation at the University of California-Santa experimental methods to test Ethnic Health Disparities, Society examines the intersection of racial Cruz, she studies the intersections how clothing attire influences the and Mental Health, and Addictive classification, collective identity, and of settler colonialism, anti-black- threatening perception of black Behaviors. Additionally, Myles is tribal citizenship through the lenses ness, and heteropatriarchy in and men. In addition, she is a part of a research assistant at the Center of statistical statecraft and critical across law and education; and, an ongoing research collaboration for Health Equity Transformation theories of race. She specializes in in organizing and activist spaces, to understand the effects of sexual (CHET) at the University of quantitative methods and has part- actively engages across these entan- misconduct policies, of which she is Kentucky, where he is the Research nered with Indigenous communities co-author on a paper published in Continued on Page 9
6 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association The Latino Population in New York City
Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Austin 1965 to the present with the increas- the Andean Marxe School of Public and International ing diversification of the Hispanic region of Affairs at Baruch College of CUNY community in New York City. South America n spite of very public and visible Before 1900, most of the Latinos including Iattempts to curtail the level of that immigrated into New York Ecuador, Latino migration into the United were predominantly involved in Colombia, States by increasing enforcement commerce, trade, and in various and Peru, in and deportations, expanding the service, craft, and production-re- addition to immigrant detention complex, and lated skills. Many were political new flows proposing a citizenship question exiles who congregated in the city to from Mexico on the 2020 Census, the growth of earn a living, flee persecution, and and Honduras. the Latino population in the United further their political activities and Migration States continues. Sustained migra- engagement with their countries of from Latin Photo by BICAD MEDIA on Unsplash tion through family reunification, origin. In the second phase between America and now than in the past and includes lower age at first birth, and higher 1900 to 1945 there was a definitive the non-His- significant contingents from Latin fertility rates have continued to fuel “Antillean Orientation” (Haspip- panic Caribbean into New York City America, Asia, South Asia, Africa the growth of the Latino population. Viera and Baver 2017) to New between 1970 and 2011 grew signifi- and the Middle East. In terms of the Large American cities like Miami, York City’s Latino community. The cantly. In 1970 there were approx- Latino population, there have also Los Angeles, and Houston, are well continued political, commercial, imately 211,000 immigrants from been numerous significant trends known for their significant Latino\ economic, and social ties between Latin America and the Hispanic that are worth highlighting. Hispanic populations, but cities like New York City and the Caribbean Caribbean and another 113,000 First, there have been changes New York and Chicago also have region expanded migratory ties and from the non-Hispanic Caribbean. in the proportion of New York significant and growing Latino pop- flows from the region. New York By 1990, there were close to 574,151 City’s population that is of Latino ulations. Most recent estimates put City served as the administrative immigrants from Latin America and origin and Hispanics have become a the Latino population in New York and commercial center of contact Hispanic Caribbean countries and higher proportion of the population City at about 2.5 million persons or with the islands of the Caribbean another 410,532 from the non-His- in New York City over time—up to 29% of the city’s population. This and numerous investments, corpo- panic Caribbean. The Latino and 29% of the current total. population is largely comprised of rate relations, and other commercial Caribbean populations grew signifi- Second, there have been notable Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, and personal ties expanded. These cantly to almost a million people changes in the composition of the each making up about 29% of the facilitated and sustained the early born in Latin America and Hispanic Latino population in New York Latino population and together and continuous migration pro- Caribbean, not including Puerto City as Hispanics have become represent close to half the Latinos in cesses from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Rico (City of New York 2013). much more diverse. Puerto Ricans New York City. Mexicans are now Dominican Republic, and the other Changes in the Latino population used to be the dominant group the third largest group representing islands of the Caribbean. in New York City since 1965 can be divided into two phases: a) between (upwards to 70% in the 1970s) but about 14% of the Latino population, The Growing Population at present they comprise slightly less and the remaining 23% are from 1965 and 2001, a period of sustained The third phase of Hispanic\ than a third of Hispanics, similar countries in Central and South growth in the foreign-born popu- Latino growth in New York City, to the number of Dominicans, but America. Between 2000 and 2015, lation from 1.4 million, or 18.2% between 1945 and 1965, was char- there are growing proportions of the Latino population in New York of the City’s population in 1970, to acterized by large waves of Puerto Mexicans, Ecuadorians Colombians, City grew by more than 14%, with 2.8 million. or 35.9% of the city’s Rican migration and the build- Peruvians, and other South and 58% of the Latinos born in the population, with 800,000 of the ing-out from small settlements into Central Americans that make up a U.S. and 42% born outside of the foreign-born coming in the decade large communities throughout the more diverse Latino population. country. between 1990 and 2000; and b) Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. Third, there is variation in the There have been a variety of aca- between 2001 and the present where The garment industry, general man- migration experiences of different demic publications on the evolution migration levels have slowed down ufacturing, and various personal Latino populations. There are nota- of the Hispanic\Latino population and the focus, after the 9/11 attacks, and professional services employed ble differences among the groups in New York City (see references has been on “national security and large proportions of the Puerto and between Latinos and non-Lati- below). More recently, an overall local law enforcement.” The total Rican and growing Dominican nos in New York City in age struc- assessment of the Latino condition population in New York has been populations, and, as the populations ture, educational characteristics, in the recent volume by Haslip- hovering around 8.3 million persons grew, they diversified into other engagement in the labor market, Viera and Baver (2017) break down and the number of foreign-born is sectors of the economy. The fourth access to different occupations and the history and development of about 3 million persons, or 37.2% of phase of Latino settlement in New industries, incomes and earnings, the Hispanic\Latino community in the city’s population. York City started around 1965 and in poverty levels. New York City into four periods: a) Recent Trends in the Latino and provided significant growth The Latino population in New before 1900, with the pioneers, b) Population and diversification of the Latino York City continues to face signifi- between 1900 to 1945 setting the population. Sustained by migration Over the last four decades, the cant challenges in education at the foundations and roots in several flows from Latin America and the racial\ethnic\national origin com- K-12 level, particularly in differ- communities and industries, c) Caribbean, larger settlements were position of immigrants has changed ences in the dropout rate, access to from 1945 to 1965/70 an era of mass formed from several countries, significantly. New York City’s specialized schools, and access to growth in the Puerto Rican and including the Dominican Republic, population is much more diverse other Latino populations, and d) Continued on Page 15 footnotes 7 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org Thank You, ASA Members!
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MFP and research, she volunteers as a shaped her lives, experiences, and organizing From Page 6 UCSC MINT mentor and a leading work personal work of young Black activists. organizer within parentsforqual- life and her Chaniqua does engaged scholarship glements. Her dissertation, “Water itycare.org. She has published work as a as a part of her commitment to is Sacred! Women are Sacred!” in Open Rivers Journal, Fourth sociologist. Black, LGBTQ, and other minori- Indigenous Womxn’s Embodied World Journal, American Indian She received a tized people. She is a member of Knowledges Across the Fourth Culture and Research, and co-au- BA in sociol- the first Movement for Black Lives Wor l d ,” challenges the cooptation of thored an article on nuclear ogy with a Electoral Justice League Fellowship, Indigenous Knowledge by the state colonialism in Intercontinental Cry. certificate in Chaniqua Simpson where she worked with organizers and resituates it as an anticolo- A past recipient of the University professional to help build coalitions and support nial project by exploring the ways of California-Santa Cruz’s Dean’s writing from Fayetteville State to push for affordable housing Indigenous peoples, especially Diversity Fellowship and President’s University, where she was a McNair in Raleigh. She also works at the womxn activists, continue to fight Dissertation Year Fellowship, she Scholar and participated in the Women’s Center at NC State, where for sovereignty and community is honored to be among the other Summer Research Opportunities she works to bridge sociology into well-being across the Fourth MFPs. Program. She is currently a PhD campus community programming, World. Drawing from participa- candidate at North Carolina State specifically around race, gender, Chaniqua Simpson tory ethnography and in-depth University. Her interests include and equity. She facilitates inter- (SWS MFP #2) interviews, Sherwood’s dissertation race, class and gender, Black resis- active trainings, workshops, and develops sociological theories of Undergraduate Institution: tance, critical theory, social control, talks around race, racism, sexuality, settler colonialism, critical race, Fayetteville State University sexual politics, community-engaged and social justice. Her work can and gender. A community college Graduate Institution: North research, and food and environmen- be found in the Journal of Poverty graduate, she received her master’s Carolina State University tal justice. Her dissertation focuses and Social Justice and in Amplified degree in sociology from University Chaniqua Simpson (she/her) is on Black resistance movements and Voices, Intersecting Identities: of California-Santa Cruz and her a first-generation college stu- how Black organizers make sense First-Generation PhDs Navigating bachelor’s degree summa cum dent, Black queer feminist writer, of their work within the historical Institutional Power (forthcoming). laude from Eastern Washington caregiver, and organizer. Born and and contemporary cultural and In addition, Chaniqua provides University in sociology and women’s raised in Brooklyn and then rural political contexts. Specifically, it care for her aging mother. She also and gender studies with minors North Carolina, Chaniqua likes to draws attention to systems of power uses her spare time to tell bad jokes, in American Indian studies and call herself a “Sortherner” because stemming from class, gender, and binge-watch television, walk her Chicanx studies. Between work most of these geographic locations sexuality, and how they shape the dog, and care for her plants. footnotes 9 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards participated in SSDAN workshops of one or more fields of sociology; Studies and Research Center at the From Page 4 organized by Frey, a number that elevated the professional status and university. In July 2016, she joined attests to the wide-reaching impact public image of sociology; and have the Vanderbilt University Office the sociology curriculum. on teaching that he has had in the been honored or widely recog- of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Most notably, Frey has devel- ways sociology is taught across nized outside the discipline for its as Assistant Vice Chancellor of oped several websites that promote multiple institutions. significant impacts in advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. the use of primary data analysis Another letter writer further human welfare. This year’s win- Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Dr. in teaching. Most widely used attests to why Frey’s work is not ner of the award is Eric Wanner, Barnes was an Associate Professor among his curriculum develop- just impactful, but important for Past-President of the Russell Sage in the Department of Sociology at ment projects is the Social Science the key issue of inequality that is Foundation, which was founded in Case Western Reserve University Data Analysis Network (SSDAN). a central concern to the discipline 1907 “to promote “the improvement (2007-2008) and an Assistant and This platform promotes the use of of sociology: “As much as sociol- of social and living conditions in [subsequently] Associate Professor Census Data by students, as well ogists purport to want to change the United States,” surely a mission in the Department of Sociology as the general public. This website systems of inequality, our own relevant to the practice of sociol- and Anthropology and the African is designed to make data accessi- connections, research agendas, and ogy.In his 27 years as Russell Sage American Studies Research Center ble and includes resources from funding opportunities often reward Foundation President, Wanner’s at Purdue University (2000-2007). user guides to hands-on computer those at the most prestigious and steadfast support guaranteed a As an urban sociologist, Barnes’ classroom materials. He is also the well-funded institutions. Dr. Frey’s constant stream of funding for the research has historically focused creator of CensusScope, a website approach has been radically differ- study of topics central to sociology. on adaptability and resiliency of designed for generalists as well as ent. He has intentionally reached Critical funding kept the topics poor, near-poor, and working-class specialists. This is a user-friendly out to faculty ‘in the trenches,’ those of immigration, race, work, and individuals, providing counter- environment that enables the inves- of us teaching at non-elite schools, inequality on the academic agenda narratives to negative descriptions tigation of demographic trends and serving some of the most disadvan- even when federal funding grew about these persons. This work includes visually appealing graphics taged students.” scarce. Residential fellowships is informed by her interest in as well as exportable Census trend Finally, another letter writer awarded to more than 90 sociol- inequality and stratification with data. sums up why Frey was enthusiasti- ogists produced 130 sociological the impetus of this interest being Frey’s commitment to and impact cally chosen by the Distinguished research monographs that have won rooted in her personal experiences on spreading best-teaching practices Contributions of Teaching Award 14 ASA Awards, including books by in urban settings. She transitioned is further attested by the over dozen Committee: “[V]ery few people 11 former ASA Presidents and 16 to research on the Black church grants and contracts he’s received on within our discipline will have the volumes in the ASA’s Rose Series. with a focus on how this institution curriculum development, includ- breadth and depth of influence on It is therefore a great honor for the empowers people and, sometimes, ing Sloan Foundation Awards, and teaching sociology as Dr. William Selection Committee to present the routinizes attitudes and behaviors. several NICHD and NSF grants. Frey. I would argue that there is no 2019 Career Award for the Practice In addition to her teaching and Most prominently has been his other ‘scholar’ within the field of of Sociology to Eric Wanner for his research responsibilities, Barnes collaboration with the American sociology that has done as much to work on behalf of the field at the recently completed the creation Sociological Association that estab- improve the teaching of sociology Russell Sage Foundation. of a one-hour documentary, titled lished the Integrating Data Analysis at all levels as much as Dr. William Gary, Indiana: A Tale of Two Cities. Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Throughout the Curriculum (IDA) Frey. He has influenced countless This documentary examines how initiative with support from the numbers of high school teach- Sandra Barnes, Vanderbilt University faith-based communities in Gary, NSF. This project’s goal was to close ers, community college teachers, The Cox- IN, empower and equip residents. the QR gap in sociology via a variety college and university teachers, and Johnson- This project is especially dear to of curriculum developments, such students around the world with his Frazier Award her heart because she is a native as encouraging research experiences tireless efforts to introduce students is given to an of Gary. It was her goal to pro- in the undergraduate curriculum to data analysis early and often in individual or vide a balanced assessment of the beyond research methods and sta- the sociology curriculum. He is individuals for city – its past, present, and future. tistics courses. The initiative focused truly deserving of this award.” their work in Additionally, she was interested in on the training of instructors from the intellectual tapping into audiences that may not Distinguished Career Award for across the country who received traditions of the Sandra Barnes read an academic book or journal the Practice of Sociology training in best practices for QR work of Oliver article yet still desire to be informed instruction at his institute at the Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. about lived experiences in con- University of Michigan. As Frey’s The Career Franklin Frazier, three African temporary urban spaces. In 2015, nominator, Esther I Wilder, wrote, Award for the American scholars. Sandra L. Vanderbilt University was awarded “As a result of Dr. Frey’s workshops, Practice of Barnes is the winner of the 2019 a $1.5 million five-year grant a wide range of institutions have Sociology rec- Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. from the Department of Health made data analysis central to their ognizes work She holds joint faculty appoint- and Human Services: Substance curricula, not just in sociology but by someone ments as Sociology Professor in Abuse and Mental Health Services across all subject areas.” who has spent the Department of Human and Administration (SAMSHA) to study Letters of support of his nom- at least a decade Organizational Development in HIV/hepatitis prevention. The title ination also attest to Frey’s broad as a researcher, Eric Wanner Peabody College of Education and of the research project is “Capacity influence and impact on teaching administrator, the Divinity School at Vanderbilt Building Innovations: Substance throughout the discipline. One or consultant to a public or private University. Additionally, she is an Abuse and HIV Prevention Services letter writer, for instance, identified organization, agency, or association. affiliate faculty member with the for African American Young Men nearly 1,000 individuals who have The award winner’s work must have African American and Diaspora significantly advanced the utility Continued on the Next Page
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Awards that undergird racial disparities awards from outside the academy uses inflamed and inflammatory From the Previous Page and exploring how to counter recognizing the influence of his images to reinforce stereotypes and such racist ideology. His work work, including the Gustavus Myers social divisions.His nominators Who Sleep with Men.” Barnes serves is widely read and cited, and his Center for the Study of Bigotry and see Deggans on “the front lines” as Principal Investigator of this theories have provided a frame- Human Rights Outstanding Book of translating and disseminating project. In partnership with Fisk work for many sociological studies. Award and the Arthur Fletcher sociological concepts such as University, the program focuses on Among Feagin’s many books are Lifetime Achievement Award from colorblindness and systemic racism community-relationship building titles such as: Ghetto Revolts: The the American Association for to the masses. His use of detailed with participation of individuals Politics of Violence in American Affirmative Action. case studies, in-depth interviews, in a prevention program targeted Cities; Living With Racism: The For decades, Feagin’s work has and other research aligns neatly at enhancing existing strengths, Black Middle Class Experience; extended beyond the academy with sociology’s own methodolog- knowledge and skills already White Racism: The Basics; Racist highlighting the origins and impact ical traditions and commitment to possessed by the men. Barnes America: Roots, Current Realities, of racism and working towards empirical research. They believe has authored several books and and Future Reparations; Systemic racial justice. His exemplary career Deggans and his work “can not only numerous journal articles. She is Racism: A Theory of Oppression; The as a public sociologist makes him educate laypeople, but can send editor of Issues in Race & Society: An First R: How Children Learn Race an ideal recipient of ASA’s Public them searching for sociological texts Interdisciplinary Global Journal. She and Racism; and The White Racial Understanding of Sociology Award. to learn…and debate sensitive issues earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing [such as] race, sexuality, gender, and Excellence in the Reporting of in Mathematics and Economics and Counterframing. Additionally, poverty.” As one of his nominators Social Issues Award from Fisk University (1986), Master his bestselling textbook, Racial summarized: “[Deggans’] work is of Science Degree in Operations and Ethnic Relations, currently in Eric Deggans, NPR a valuable means of disseminating Research from Georgia Institute its 9th edition, manages to distill Deggans is a information about sociology as he of Technology (1989), Master of an incredibly complicated subject television and brings a sociological perspective to Science Degree in Sociology of matter in an accessible, engaging, film critique discussions of popular culture in Religion and Christian Education and transformative textbook that who integrates order to stimulate debate and pro- from the Interdenominational has changed the way many young a sociological mote best practices of inclusion.” Theological Center, and her PhD people think about race. vision and Jessie Bernard Award in Sociology from Georgia State Indeed, in addition to his prolific critique of race University (1999). scholarship, Feagin has worked relations and Rhacel Parrenas, University of Eric Deggans diligently to expand the reach of his diversity in all Southern California (co-winner) Public Understanding of his work. His Rhacel Sociology Award ideas to a larger audience. He has given numerous public talks trans- writing has appeared in mainstream Parrenas, Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University lating his work to non-academic publications such as The Washington Professor of Joe R. venues. Moreover, he founded Post, The Chicago Tribune, Salon, Sociology Feagin is the racismreview.com, a website that and Rolling Stone. He wrote about and Gender recipient of the promotes racial justice scholarship popular culture for the award-win- Studies at the 2019 Public and activism. ning Tampa Bay News for 20 years, University Understanding Within the field of sociology, before joining National Public of Southern Rhacel Salazar Parreñas of Sociology Feagin has served as a leader, Radio (NPR) as a contributor and California, has Award. This including such prestigious posi- then its first full-time television been described award honors tions as President of the American critic. He is also a contributor as ‘incredibly prolific’. As a young ASA mem- Joe Feagin Sociological Association and to NBC News and MSNBC, has scholar, she has already produced bers who have Vice-President of the Society for an impressive presence on social nine books and over 60 peer-re- brought sociological scholarship the Study of Social Problems. media, and gives talks at colleges, viewed articles, and book chapters. to the forefront, addressing a He has also served on numerous conferences, and universities across Her work covers the intersections larger audience, and encouraging editorial boards. Beyond formal the United States—including a of gender, migration, Southeast critical public engagement with positions, his mentorship of faculty 2013 TEDx talk, titled “How to Asian Studies, economic globaliza- sociology. Feagin is a Distinguished and students in the field has been Talk about Race Across Race Lines” tion, and sexuality. One key focus Professor of Sociology at Texas exceptional. that has been viewed over 30,000 has been women’s labor migration A&M University, and a preemi- Feagin’s scholarship, mentorship, times. Deggans is also the author of in the global economy. Here she nent scholar in the field with an and service has been recognized Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields reveals the impact of Filipina wom- outstanding record of scholarship with numerous awards from ASA Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation en’s migration on their families, including of over 70 books and including the Oliver C. Cox Book (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). In the care of children and gender more than 200 articles. His work on Award, the Section on Racial and that book he argues that prejudice constructions. She was one of the race and racism has shaped genera- Ethnic Minorities’ Founder’s Award and structural racism fuel mod- first to go beyond the emphasis tions of scholars both in and outside for Scholarship and Service, the ern media depictions in ways that on employer/employee relations of sociology, and his contributions Robert and Helen Lynd Award cement existing inequalities. With to exposing the devastation on to understanding the underpinnings for Contribution to Community an eye on the biases of news outlets, family members. Her attention to of racial discrimination have had far and Urban Sociology, the W.E.B Race-Baiter anticipated many of the the lives of children and the impact broader reach outside of academia. Du Bois Career of Distinguished current dynamics and discussions of on mother/child relations have Feagin’s work documents how Scholarship Award, and the Cox- media polarization, niche markets, become classic. This research also racism functions in our society, Johnson-Frazier Award. Moreover, and “fake news” with interviews and draws attention to global hierar- creating theoretical paradigms Feagin has received numerous evidence-based accounts of how to explain the complex processes the news media skews facts and Continued on Page 12 footnotes 11 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards Red Cross) that seek constructive tions in the U.S. and abroad.Her where she is a former President From Page 11 ideas on policy, human trafficking, work is foundational for making (2013). She has worked tirelessly domestic workers and human rights. intersectional theory relevant to within the American Sociological chies and the problem of child care What is important here is that she multi-country realities, and her Association on numerous com- deficiency across the globe.Another brings to the table bold and new emphasis on complex hierarchies mittees including the Committee focus examines human trafficking perspectives on relationships, expe- reveal that any group can be simul- on Committees and the Asia and and labor migration. Her research riences, and the struggles of women, taneously privileged and margin- Asian American section, where she on domestic workers in Dubai sexual minorities, and immigrants alized. She mainstreamed a gender received the career award for her and Singapore draws attention to in labor markets across the globe. perspective in immigration studies contributions, and built a mentoring how the involvement of different Her work has been translated into at and brought an ethnic perspective component into the section. Her actors (states, recruitment agencies least five languages.It’s no surprise to gender studies. She is a pioneer in editorial activities include dep- and employers) results in migrant that Parrenas has garnered many South Asian Studies in the United uty editor for Gender and Society workers becoming ‘unfree laborers’. awards: The Association for Asian States. In Negotiating Ethnicity, for as well as work on the Journal of Domestic workers are situated in American Studies Social Science instance, her insights include the South Asian Diaspora, Sociology of specific host countries with laws Book Award (2008), the ASA-Labor gendered racism borne by ‘model Race and Ethnicity as well as the and policies that highlight broader Movements Distinguished Book minority’ communities and the fact Frontpage Publications’ Human issues: citizenship options and Award (2012), many Fellowships that families are ‘regenerative sites Rights Series.While Purkayastha the marginalization of migrant (Fulbright, Ford, and Rockefeller), of ethnic identity construction’. This has received many national and workers regardless the specifics of as well as Visiting Scholar appoint- has gained traction among scholars international honors, her awards the host country.Among her many ments. In addition to her own in immigration studies. Further, for teaching and mentoring are contributions on human traffick- graduate students, she has consis- her ethnographic study, As Leaves striking. In addition to awards from ing, the study conducted in Japan tently worked with students through Turn Gold, uncovers the gendered the ASA, she holds the record of has been earmarked as bold, not institutions like the SSRC and the experience of aging and caregiv- being selected thrice by students only because of her fieldwork as a Mellon and Ford Foundations. She ing within economically diverse as the Best Mentor in Sociology Filipina hostess, but also because has served as Department Chair Asian American Communities. at UCONN. Other teaching and she challenges the established (2012-15), has worked on several Purkayastha has written exten- mentoring awards have been given narrative that these women are traf- editorial boards, is Co-Editor for the sively on women’s human rights. by UCONN alumni Association ficked persons. Taking the Filipina Stanford University book series on In addition to her own research, and the State of Connecticut. Not women’s perspectives, she highlights Globalization in Everyday Life and she has strategically worked with only do students flourish under her their agency and gives a nuanced was Vice President for SWS (2016). colleagues and students to develop direction and encouragement, she understanding of their situation, No doubt Parrenas will continue interdisciplinary and transnational also mentors colleagues.Purkayastha which involves ‘choice and coercion, to break new ground in gender perspectives. Human Rights in Our has contributed significantly to opportunity and threat, freedom research and inspire others. Backyard turned a much-needed national and global scholarship on and servitude’. She crafts the phe- attention to human rights issues gender theory she has also worked Jessie Bernard Award nomenon as one that goes beyond within the U.S. and won the 2013 vigorously to steer feminist organi- victimhood. Another dimension of Bandana Purkayastha, University of Gordon Hirabayashi book award zations though difficult times to sta- this study focuses on the experi- Connecticut (co-winner) in the ASA Human Rights section. bility and growth, while remaining ences of transgender Japanese host- The scholars Her work demands we understand generous to her mentees both near esses, the bakla, who, as members who nominated local aspirations and recognize that and far. She truly has a diverse and of higher socioeconomic classes, do Dr. Bandana communities in the Global South global influence. not experience the same stigma as Purkayastha construct human rights perspectives 2019 Dissertation Award the Filipina women. The study deals were exception- from their own local experiences Recipient with sex work, emotional labor and ally enthusi- and not merely from imported comparisons regarding sexuality astic about ideas. Her research in this area has Anjuli N. Fahlberg, Tufts University among two groups of workers, high- her impact on drawn attention to many pressing Anjuli N. lighting important aspects of gender gender studies Bandana Purkayastha issues: violence against women, Fahlberg, construction.Given Parrenas’s across mul- human trafficking (Pakistan), Lecturer original approaches to research tiple domains and her innovative displaced persons (Kenya) and the at Tufts on gender, labor, migration, and scholarship, institutional leader- experiences of Dalit communities in University, sexuality, it is not surprising that she ship, and mentorship. Purkayastha, India. A major goal has been to link received has coined new concepts in these Professor of Sociology and Asian research to policy and action, which the 2019 areas: intimate labor, indentured & Asian American Studies at the she emphasizes in her publications Dissertation mobility and intimate industries. University of Connecticut, has an and in practice.Her leadership skills Award for Anjuli N. Fahlberg These terms have also been taken enviable publishing record of 14 are legendary. At UCONN, Bandana “Activism up by governments and NGOs. Her books and over 50 peer-reviewed served as Chair of the Sociology Under Fire: Violence, Poverty, and cumulative impact is that she is articles and book chapters. She is Department from 2011-2016. Collective Action in Rio de Janeiro.” very much in demand as a distin- a nationally and internationally Through her effort and vision, the Fahlberg completed this work at guished lecturer in academia, and respected sociologist conducting outreach of our professional associ- Northeastern University, under the as a consultant to public agencies/ path-breaking research in gender ations has grown. Two notable cases supervision of Liza Weinstein. In institutions (U.S. Department of theory, migration, Asian stud- are the International Sociological Latin America’s struggling democ- Labor, Human Rights Watch, the ies, and human rights. Her work Association, where she is the racies, the urban poor suffer from California State Department, VPRO has been translated into several ASA’s national representative and brutal conflicts between the police TV (Netherlands), and the Icelandic languages, and she is frequently Sociologists for Women in Society, invited for lectures and presenta- Continued on Page 14
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Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Today we take the infrastructure challenges we now face, and making sciences, he stressed the importance Delaware for our discipline for granted—one connections around the world. of the two fields learning more about nniversaries are special occasions. that supports the field and growth On Friday, the report from the each other. AThey are moments for organiza- in new areas of knowledge. Yet, the ACLS President Yu included a con- The breakout groups enabled tions to think about origins, accom- origins were fragile. Participating versation with Joy Connolly, who will participants to share their own plishments, and the future. This in ACLS events, I’ve come to see serve as the new President beginning experiences with central issues in the year marks the 100th anniversary of how many learned societies face July 1. Professor Connolly is a recog- field. The final panel, presented by the American Council of Learned important milestones and challenges nized scholar of Greek and Roman The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Societies (ACLS). at a time when technologies have literature and political thought. Her highlighted 50 years of changes in Beginning in the wake of World changed how we do business. commitment of knowledge for the scholarly communications. This War I, the ACLS sought to revive and The ACLS meeting began at the public good and efforts at innovative included not only the electronic expand the intellectual communities Smithsonian National Museum of education at the Graduate Center availability of journals via JSTOR, that were shattered by the war. In an the American Indian (New York), of the City University of New York but how teaching, learning, and era when much of the focus was on housed in the Old Customs House makes her an excellent candidate for sharing is reshaped with new means the sciences, this agency recognized at One Bowling Green, renovated in taking ACLS into its’ second century. of communicating. the importance of the humanities 1907 for many purposes, including The conversation was a nice way of Friday evening concluded with studies. Our learned society, the the National Archives for NYC. introducing her to the membership. the Charles Homer Haskins Prize American Sociological Association, On April 26, we celebrated Pauline There were micro reports from Lecture, which is named for the beginning in 1905, was one of the Yu, who is stepping down as the members of Learned Societies, first chairman of the ACLS. Lynn initial societies that took on the task President of ACLS after 16 years. which is an opportunity to learn Hunt delivered the 2019 “A Life of of advocating for the humanities and Traditionally ACLS grants fellow- about the challenges and directions Learning” lecture. She grew up in humanistic social sciences. In 2019, ships for dissertation research, early of other humanities groups. One Minnesota and attended Carleton there are 75 member societies. career, and to established scholars of the high points of the morning College, which was close to home, Early philanthropy helped to advance knowledge in a range of was presentation from scholars who before pursuing further degrees at this new institution give grants fields of study. During Pauline Yu’s received ACLS fellowships. The Stanford University. She recognized and expand the humanities. The tenure, the ACLS has worked on presenters’ highlighted new themes her advantages as a baby boomer, humanists played a pivotal role expanding outreach for area studies, and methods in humanities research, who came of age during an era of during World War II, both in lan- community college faculty, digital including the development of a digi- affordable higher education. Now a guage-teaching, area studies when projects and supporting humanities tal archive for transgender studies. Distinguished Research Professor at few scholars thought beyond the scholars working with non-profit The luncheon speaker was Jon UCLA, she talked about her intellec- United States and Europe, and the organizations. The evening speakers Parrish Peede, Senior Deputy tual development, which motivated Preservation of Cultural Treasures in used humor, poetry, and perplexing Chairman of the National her to learn French to understand War Areas. The ACLS supported the prose to both celebrate Pauline and Endowment of the Humanities. He the French Revolution, history, and creation of the National Endowment document how ACLS funds aided spoke firmly about the value of the how people construct the past. The for the Humanities in 1965. pivotal moments of their careers. humanities and recognized the many holder of many honors and positions Currently, the ACLS is the nation’s Their talks deepened my own grasp careers of humanists in the arts and in learned societies, Hunt talked major source of research fellowships of the work of the ACLS and the cultural sector. While he acknowl- about how she was touched by the in the humanities. many roles that scholars play in edged the manufactured tension social movements of the 1960s and interpreting the past, exploring the between the humanities and the 1970s.
Bystander and Elizabethe G. Plante. 2007. “Sexual Behaviors Related to Sexual Violence.” What Program Effects Remain One Year Violence Prevention through Bystander Psychology of Women Quarterly 38: Later?” Journal of Interpersonal Violence From Page 5 Education: An Experimental Evaluation.” 350-362. 30: 110-132. Journal of Community Psychology 35: Campbell, Rebecca. 2008. “The Potter, Sharyn J. 2016. “Reducing Sexual important tool in increasing both 463-481. Psychological Impact of Rape Victims.” Assault on Campus: Lessons from the community members’ understand- Banyard, Victoria L., Sharyn J. Potter, American Psychologist 63: 702-717. Movement to Prevent Drunk Driving.” ing of the problems and providing Allison C. Cares, Linda M. Williams, Coker, Ann L., Patricia G. Cook-Craig, American Journal of Public Health 106: tools and skills to prevent sexual Mary M. Moynihan, Jane G. Stapleton. Corinne M. Williams, et al. 2011. 822-829. 2018. “Multiple Sexual Violence “Evaluation of Green Dot: An Active Potter, Sharyn J., Mary M. Moynihan, and assault and harassment. What we Prevention Tools: Doses and Boosters.” Bystander Intervention to Reduce Sexual Jane G. Stapleton. 2011. “Using Social know about the effectiveness of Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Violence on College Campuses. Violence Self-Identification in Social Marketing bystander intervention strategies on Research 10: 145-155. Against Women 17: 777-796. Materials Aimed at Reducing Violence campus may lead this generation in Black, Laura. 2017. “Using an App to Keep Katz, Jackson T. 1995. Reconstructing Against Women on Campus.” Journal of reducing the number of people who Kids Schools Safe.” Schools and Campus Masculinity in the Locker Room: The Interpersonal Violence 26: 971-990. Safety News. Illinois School and Campus Mentors in Violence Prevention Project. Potter, Sharyn J., Mary Flanagan, Max are sexually assaulted and harassed, Safety Program. Harvard Educational Review 68: 94-101. Seidman, and Jane G. Stapleton. 2019. thereby reducing the number of Bronfenbrenner, Urie. 1977. “Toward Merrow, Martha. 2017. “Mobile App to “Video Games as a Mechanism for #MeToo accounts and being this an Experimental Ecology of Human Combat Sex Assault Gets UNH Rollout.” Teaching College Students Bystander generation’s “anti-drunk driving Development.” American Psychologist 32: Fosters Daily Democrat. September 22. Behaviors.” Games for Health Journal 8: 1. 513-531. Moynihan, Mary M., Victoria L. Banyard, Potter, Sharyn J. 2012. “Using a Multimedia movement.” Brown, Amy L., Victoria L. Banyard, and Alison C. Cares, Linda M. Williams, Social Marketing Campaign to Increase References Mary M. Moynihan. 2014. “The Impact of Sharyn J. Potter, and Jane G Stapleton. Active Bystanders on the College Perceived Peer Norms and Gender, Age, 2015. “Encouraging Responses in Sexual Campus.” Journal of American College Banyard, Victoria L., Mary M. Moynihan, and Race on Bystander Intentions and and Relationship Violence Prevention: Health 60: 282-295. footnotes 13 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org
Awards tions to the people she studies. conditions of extreme poverty and forces also engender organized From Page 12 Fahlberg’s findings reveal the violence and sheds light on how effortsagainst violence and for myriad and often subtle demo- activists overcome multiple barriers social development, citizenship and the drug trade and are largely cratic practices and strategies for to make claims for their needs rights, and racial equality. The excluded from mainstream political, claims-making presence in violent and rights. Her study shows that dissertation thus expands our economic, or social institutions, spaces. Within the favela, activist while violence, poverty, racism, understanding of the possibilities leaving them with few avenues for groups subvert violent gangs and and corruption do in fact constrain for collective action in violent and democratic engagement. Existing their political allies by remaining organized political action in dis- chaotic democratic states through- research on collective action and small, avoiding local political net- advantaged neighborhoods, these out the world. social movements suggests that works, and constructing non-threat- social mobilization is unlikely under ening “feminized” narratives around such circumstances. Questioning non-violence, social services, and Contemporary Sociology quantitative methods, she and Dan this view, Fahlberg’s dissertation art. At the same time, activists From Page 3 authored Social Science Research asks whether collective action is demand change by leveraging Methods by Example (Routledge, indeed possible amid extreme political resources outside the favela, her CV is one particular treat she 2017). A new membership in the poverty and violence, and what including allies in urban and trans- received because of her work; she ASA’s Program Reviewers and strategies enable it to survive and national movements and officials in had the opportunity to meet Lilly Consultants group (previously affect political change. municipal and state governments. Ledbetter, for whom the Fair Pay Act known as the Department Resources Fahlberg conducted ethnographic The dissertation highlights three (2009) was named. Group) indicates both her interest in research in the City of God, the infa- models of effective non-violent Yasemin’s work is international and insight into the challenges facing mously violent favela on the outskirts collective action: (1) transformative in scope. Her undergraduate degree sociology and sociologists in the of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing on assistencialismo, wherein com- was earned at Bogazici University, contemporary academy. informal social networks, a position munity-based organizations use in Istanbul. While her research has In addition to Yasemin’s research, as a volunteer with a charitable orga- service provision as a mechanism to largely focused on the United States, writing, and teaching, she is actively nization, and her own deep familiar- politicize local residents; (2) com- she has often participated in multina- involved in service – she is starting a ity with Brazilian culture, Fahlberg munity militancy, in which activists tional conferences to share with and term as Sociology Department Chair was able to move in and out of the make direct demands on municipal learn about related research in other at Montclair and is a member of the community in ways that avoided and state actors for neighborhood societies. Her work is also interdisci- Publications Committee of SWS – suspicion from local violent factions. development; and (3) cultural plinary – several of her projects have which is a big responsibility as the Fahlberg combines participatory protest, wherein activists use artistic been collaborations with her husband, organization plans to launch a second observation with in-depth interviews expression to demand governmental Dan Cassino, a political scientist. journal! Yasemin is committed to and quantitative analysis. Particularly and social reforms. Yasemin’s teaching has been being a public sociologist. For exam- noteworthy is the thoughtful and Fahlberg’s dissertation demon- recognized since her graduate ple, she testified as an expert witness reflexive way Fahlberg balances the strates that non-violent collective school days. Using their strengths in o gender and wage inequity to the goals of her research with her obliga- action is in fact possible under teaching and using qualitative and New Jersey State Legislature.
Election Virginia D’Antonio, Northern Kristin Turney, University of bylaws was approved. Virginia Community College California, Irvine From Page 1 Opportunities in Retirement Tyrone A. Forman, University of Debra Umberson, The University of Network Vice President-Elect Illinois at Chicago Texas at Austin Melissa Wooten, University of Two-year term: One-year term as Vice President-Elect, Student Forum one-year term as Vice President, and Massachusetts-Amherst Sarah Fenstermaker, University Graduate Student Members, Two- of California - Santa Barbara one-year term as Past Vice President: Committee on Nominations Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of year terms: (Retired) Southern California Two-year terms Madelyn Diaz, University of Central Harry Perlstadt, Michigan State Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College Florida University (retired) Council Members-at-Large Tanya Golash-Boza, University of TehQuin D. Forbes, Florida State David R. Segal, University of Three-year terms: California, Merced University Maryland (retired) Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Karina Santellano, University of Roberta Spalter-Roth, Center for Laura Hamilton, University of Chicago Southern California Social Science Research, George California, Merced Daniel Laurison, Swarthmore College Mi’Chael Wright, Howard University Mason University Anthony Paik, University of Maria Krysan, University of Illinois Undergraduate Student Member, Proposed Amendments the Massachusetts-Amherst at Chicago One-year term: Opportunities in Retirement Wendy D. Roth, University of Vincent Roscigno, Ohio State Kelsey Broadfield, Bennington Network Bylaws British Columbia University College The proposal amending the Committee on Committees Committee on Publications Proposed Amendments the Student name to ASA Retirement Network as well as other changes was Two-year terms: Three-year terms Forum Advisory Board Bylaws approved. Kara Cebulko, Providence College Julia Adams, Yale University The proposal amending the
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New York City represent community interests, Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1917–1948. Pot and the Mosaic: African Americans (Contributions in Ethnic Studies, Number and Puerto Ricans in the New York From Page 9 engage in advocacy on a range of 9.) Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press. Political Economy. Philadelphia: Temple issues, organize the community University Press. college. While more Latino youth Smith, Robert Courtney. 2006. Mexican and community events, articulate New York: Transnational Lives of New TorresSaillant, Silvio and Ramona are entering the university, they still the community’s needs to policy- Immigrants. Berkeley: University of Hernandez. 1998. The Dominican do so at rates much lower than other makers, and manage resources into California Press. Americans (New Americans). Westport, groups, and the completion and community programs. Many of the Torres, Andres. 1995. Between the Melting CT: Greenwood Publishing. graduation rates continue to lag. Latino community-based organiza- In terms of employment, there are tions have developed connections to significant differences in labor force the countries and regions of origin variables: perhaps an egregiously participation between the various and are also a resource for them in Sociological Methodology skewed one will be logged, but Latino groups with Puerto Ricans, the United States. At the same time, From Page 3 that’s about it. Almost never do we on one end, having relatively low these groups engage in exchanges mathematics shows. He never tires grapple with the fact that many of labor force participation levels and of information, goods, services, and of going back to the most founda- our methods rely on assumptions Mexicans, at the other extreme, with in multiple visits and transnational tional issues in the derivation of sta- about joint distributions that may the highest participation rates in ties that maintain the links between tistics. His inspirations are less Blau fail to be satisfied by the data—and New York City. And, while there are immigrant communities in New and Duncan than Cauchy, Gauss, we do this because more flexible differences in access to employment, York City and their families, com- LaPlace, as well as statisticians like models can turn into computational Latinos in New York City tend to munities, and countries of origin. Fisher, Pearson, and Cox. And he nightmares. Here, Vuolo presents concentrate in low-wage jobs and The Latino community in New sees the fundamental issues in the a range of models for quantifying occupations and have less access to York is young, growing, and poised derivation of mathematical statis- the dependence between variables managerial jobs and the higher-pay- to become a major economic and tics, such as our need to grapple that make no such assumptions, ing occupations. Poverty rates for political force in the city. The com- with complexity, as being relevant and instead, take whatever marginal Latinos are the highest at 33% for munity faces significant challenges in for qualitative methods as well. distributions are observed and use Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, and housing affordability; inclusive com- His work brings cutting-edge these to determine the appropriate 34% for Mexicans, the three largest munity economic development that statistical approaches to issues of quantification of dependence by Latino groups. The poverty rate for helps build community and does not crime, law, and deviance; he has considering their cumulative dis- other Hispanics is similar to the 22% displace them; and a political class studied both the predictors and tribution functions. It’s an elegant, rate for the Black population, but that, while it has grown, has failed the consequences of drug and powerful, and important solution— higher than the 19% for the Asian to address the broader needs of the tobacco use, as well as aspects of but one that requires that we realize population and the 13% for the Latino community in a systematic, criminal justice procedures. Vuolo that there is an underlying problem, white population in New York City. concerted, and sustained way. is affiliated with both the Institute which is just the sort of recasting New York City can be char- Advocacy for Population Research and the that Vuolo excels at. acterized by an expression that Criminal Justice Research Center There are a range of policy issues The Future of Soc Meth as They anthropologist Gordon Lewis used at OSU; he has published in SMR, that have a particular impact on to describe the Caribbean many See It the Latino population in New York Demography, American Journal of decades ago “a multilayered pig- Public Health and SPQ. The overarching goal for City, including migration policy, mentocracy,” and the role the grow- education structures and policies, A good example of Vuolo’s Melamed and Vuolo is to make ing Latino community will continue mathematical flair in action is his SM the obvious first choice for the labor market structure policies, to play New York City is growing changes in social welfare policy, 2017 SMR article on copula models. submission of the best work in and evolving. What is clear is that Conventional practice in sociology sociological methodology across changes in criminal justice policy, unless systematic efforts are made and the evolution of communi- is to give the most cursory attention a wide range of approaches, both to reduce levels of inequality and to the actual distribution of our numerical and non-numerical. ty-based organizations. As the poverty in the Latino community, Latino community in New York the future for Latinos, and for New City develops, there are coun- York City overall, will not fulfill its try-specific dynamics that dominate promise. 2019 ASA Annual Meeting News discussions within various Latino References ASA encourages all members to join us in New York for the 114th Annual groups, In addition, there are Meeting. If you have not yet registered, you may still register online or evolving intergroup dynamics were City of New York. 2013. The Newest New onsite in New York. the relationships within the various Yorkers. New York: Department of City • Registration and Badge Pick Up. Onsite registration and badge pick up immigrant groups are managed Planning. will be at the Registration/Member Services area located on the second more systematically. Haslip-Viera, Gabriel and Sherrie L. Baver. floor promenade of the New York Hilton. Hours are August 9, 1:00-7:00 In fact, one bright spot in 2017. Latinos in New York: Communities p.m.; August 10-12, 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; August 13, 7:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in Transition. Notre Dame: University of • Program App. Download the ASA 2019 Program app to navigate the An- the development of the Latino Notre Dame Press. nual Meeting. To download the app, go to the App Store or Google Play community of New York City has Jones-Correa, Michael. 1998. Between and search for “ASA Annual Meeting.” For all other device types, point been the proliferation of commu- Two Nations: The Political Predicament your mobile browser to app.core-apps.com/asaannual to be directed nity-based organizations that have of Latinos in New York City. Cornell to the proper download version for your device. Questions? Contact been established to help manage University Press. [email protected]. the migration process and provide Milkman, Ruth, and Ed Ott. 2014. New • The ASA Award Ceremony and Presidential Address will be held 4:30- Labor in New York: Precarious Workers a range of social services that assist 6:10 p.m. on Sunday, August 11, in the Grand Ballroom of the New York and the Future of the Labor Movement. Hilton. Please plan to attend to celebrate ASA award winners and to in the socioeconomic and cultural Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. hear President Mary Romero’s Presidential Address, “Sociology: Engag- adaptation and incorporation of Sánchez Korrol, Virginia E. 1983. From ing with Social Justice.” Latino immigrants. These groups- Colonia to Community: The History of
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Task Force this goal may be difficult, and what in advance of starting dates. The ASA Council expressed From Page 1 constitutes equality may be subject Contingent faculty should be appreciation for the work of the task to discussion, but there should provided as much short- and force, and the association has already undergraduate education, aca- be a consensus that treatment in long-term job security as possible. started to implement some of the demic freedom, and the gover- the academic workplace should All faculty should be eligible for recommendations in the report. For nance of institutions of higher not depend on whether a faculty academic awards and professional example, a new space on the ASA education. This report details the member is full-time or part-time, development support and should website has been dedicated to con- changing employment structure tenure-track or non-tenure-track. be included in intellectual and tingent faculty issues. You can read and the ways in which it affects Among the many proposed social events. All faculty should the full task force report on that page: faculty members, students, and the approaches for reaching our fun- be included in governance. And www.asanet.org/teaching-learning/ character of higher education. damental goal that are described academic freedom should be contingent-faculty. On that page, you The report espouses a series of fun- in detail in this report are: Pay protected for all faculty. The report can also find instructions for signing damental principles to which all should be proportional to work also articulates some recom- up to participate in a new listserv for parties involved in this ecosystem done; equal pay for equal work. mendations for the American contingent faculty and those inter- should commit as well as some Institutions of higher educa- Sociological Association that are ested in issues related to contingency. tangible, realistic recommenda- tion should provide benefits to designed to ensure recognition Task force co-chair Dan Clawson tions for implementation. Our contingent faculty proportionate of the problem of contingency passed away in May. The positive fundamental goal is to promote to their workloads. Employment in the discipline and inclusion of changes inspired by the work of this maximum feasible equity for con- offers should be provided well contingent faculty in the discipline task force should further his legacy (see tingent faculty. Operationalizing and the association. obituary below.)
Dan Clawson,1948-2019 In The Next Upsurge: Labor and the achievements does not, however, do for writing comments that often New Social Movements, he envisioned justice to his career, let alone his life. approached the length of the chapter an Clawson, Professor of a labor movement revitalized by alli- Dan’s scholarship was inextricable or article they had asked him to Sociology at the University of D ances to social movements organized from his activism. Dan was neither read. He was a generous colleague: Massachusetts-Amherst, died of a around race and gender. His final an armchair philosopher nor the The list of his collaborators runs into heart attack on May 7, 2019, at the co-authored book, Unequal Time, sort of radical who supported all the dozens. Wherever Dan went, age of 70. compared four healthcare occupations movements as long as they were he was a voice for justice and for Dan attended Carleton College, not only to show how gender and class not in his backyard: Quite the responsibility. Few, if any, of us felt graduated from Washington interact to produce unequal control reverse. As an assistant professor we could live up to his high moral University in Saint Louis, and over work time and family time but in 1980, he joined the picket lines and political standards or to his received his PhD from the State also what a more responsive, predict- in a strike at an Amherst nursing energy. Dan was an exemplar. He University of New York at Stony able and equitable workplace might home. As president of the UMass made our department, our univer- Brook in 1978. That same year he look like. faculty union, he led the fight for sity, and our state all better places. began as an assistant professor at the Dan was the author or co-au- paid parental leave and advocated Dan was an extraordinarily good University of Massachusetts where thor of numerous other books for non-tenure track faculty, helping and loyal friend, for which we are he remained for more than four including Dollars and Votes: How craft a contract that provided them both grateful. He leaves his wife decades. Although he was planning Business Campaign Contributions some measure of job security He Mary Ann Clawson, his partner of to retire from teaching at the end Subvert Democracy and Money was a founder of PHENOM (the 50 years, also a professor of sociol- of the semester, he had no plans for Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Public Higher Education Network of ogy, recently retired from Wesleyan retiring from research or writing, let Influence. In addition, he edited Massachusetts), which advocates for University. Dan often quoted Mary alone from political activism. or co-edited Families at Work: quality higher education that is both Ann and readily acknowledged that Dan was a scholar driven by Expanding the Bounds, Required free and open. no one had a greater impact on his activism and an activist driven by Reading: Sociology’s Most Influential In recent years Dan devoted political and intellectual life. He is scholarship. Dan’s numerous books Books, and Public Sociology: Fifteen much of his considerable energy also survived by his daughter Laura and articles addressed the labor pro- Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics to the Massachusetts Teacher Clawson, assistant managing editor cess, the impact of corporate money & the Profession in the Twenty-First Association (MTA), as a member of of Daily Kos and herself a sociology on politics, the labor movement, and Century as well as the forthcoming its Executive Committee, as co-chair PhD—someone whose diapers he the effects of work life on families. Labor Under Trump: Challenges and of its Educational Policy and Practice once changed as a devoted, hands-on Running through all of his work was Responses. He published dozens of Committee, and, most importantly, father and whom, as an adult, he an intention to expose the sources articles, both in mainstream journals as a leader of EDU (Educators for a spoke to nearly every night—and and character of class inequalities, (e.g., ASR, AJS, ARS) as well as in Democratic Union), a reform caucus by Laura’s husband Arjun Jaikumar with an outrage disciplined by a more explicitly political publications within the MTA advocating for a and their three-year old son Danny. commitment to rigorous research. (like New Labor Forum, Jacobin, and more democratic union and for more When Danny becomes an adult, From beginning to end, Dan was Labor Notes). Dan was a remarkably progressive public education. Within we hope that he will remember the an optimist. His dissertation, later innovative editor of Contemporary the MTA, he grew as an organizer, grandfather he was named for, with published by the Monthly Review Sociology, 1995-97 and a co-editor of cultivating activists and fostering lead- whom he had developed a strong Press as Bureaucracy and the Labor the Rose Series in Sociology, 2000- ership at all levels of the organization. bond and learn why many of his Process: The Transformation of U.S. 2005. We believe he was the first Dan was a committed teacher, grandfather’s friends, colleagues, Industry 1860-1920, insisted that work self-avowed Marxist to edit an ASA not least of undergraduates who, he comrades, and students will miss could be “satisfying and creative” even journal. He also served as chair of the feared, could be short changed at a him deeply. as it showed how the capitalist factory Labor Section of the ASA. public research university. Among regime ensured that it would not be. Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman, A mere list of Dan’s scholarly graduate students he was famous University of Massachusetts-Amherst footnotes 17 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements
families and welcome submissions add to, or provide a corrective for, versity, Spokane, WA. Theme: “Bridges Call for Papers from across various methodolo- Blumerian interactionism. Deadline: and Walls Across the Americas: Publications gies. Man Yee Kan of the University September 30, 2019. Submit all Dialogues of Survivance, Endurance, of Oxford (UK), and Sampson Lee papers through the journal’s online and Resistance.” For more information, The Journal of Gang Research wel- Blair will serve as co-editors for the portal: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/si. visit www.gonzaga.edu/erip. comes qualitative, quantitative, policy next volume. Deadline: October 31. Cover letters should mention that the October 16-17, 2019. 22nd Confer- analysis, and historical pieces of origi- Questions may be directed to us at submission is intended for the special ence on the Small City and Regional nal research dealing with gangs, gang [email protected] and issue commemorating the anniversary Community, University of Wiscon- members, gang problems, gang issues, [email protected]. For more infor- of Blumer’s (1969) book. For more sin-Stevens Point. Theme: “Population organized crime, and hate groups. For mation, visit www.emeraldgrouppub- information, contact the editors Dynamics: Implications for Small over 25 years, the Journal of Gang Re- lishing.com/products/books/series. Jacqueline Low at [email protected] and Cities, Towns, and Rural Areas.” Con- search has published original research, htm?id=1530-3535. Gary Bowden at [email protected], or the tact: UWSP Center for the Small City, book reviews and interviews dealing Symbolic Interaction Special Issue, editor-in-chief at [email protected]. [email protected] or rwolensk@ with gangs and gang problems. To edited by Jacqueline Low and Gary uwsp.edu. submit a manuscript, send four (4) Bowden, welcomes papers for a Conference copies of the manuscript to: George W. November 15-16, 2019. New York special issue on “Celebrating and In- Knox, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of IVTH ISA Forum of Sociology. State Sociological Association Annual terrogating the Blumerian Legacy.” As Gang Research, National Gang Crime Consider submitting an English-lan- Meeting, Rochester, NY, Nazareth Col- we mark the 50th Anniversary of the Research Center, PO Box 990, Peotone, guage abstract for the sessions lege. Theme: “’For the Common Good’ publication of Blumer’s (1969) pivotal IL 60468-0990. being organized for the ISA’s forum Social Justice, Multiple Sovereignties Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective on “Challenges of the 21st Century: and Public Engagement.” For more in- Contemporary Perspectives in and Method, it is timely to address Democracy, Environment, Inequali- formation, visit www.newyorkstateso- Family Research is an annual volume debates and critical claims central to ties, Intersectionality” on July 14-18, ciology.net/annual-meeting-1 which publishes cutting-edge family the status and future of Blumerian 2020, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. While research. The next volume of CPFR interactionism. We envision a mix of the expansion and the deepening June 25-27, 2020. The 2020 Work will focus on the theme of “Chinese papers which both commemorate of democratization was taken for and Family Researchers Network Families: Tradition, Modernization, and and critically assess Blumer himself, or granted at the turn of the Millennium, Conference, New York Hilton Midtown Change.” We are interested in a wide Blumerian theory and methodology, democracy has been at stake in an in New York City. Theme: “is Advancing variety of topics related to Chinese as well as substantive papers that increasing number of countries, while Equality at Work and Home: Strength- its key component such as diversity ening Science and Collaboration.” and equal respect for all citizens are Submissions open in July and close threatened. The hope for a global November 1, 2019. For more informa- democracy able to tackle global issues tion, visit wfrn.org/conference-2020/. funding such as climate change, migrations March 26-29, 2020. Pacific Sociologi- and rising inequalities have faded. It cal Association 91st Annual Meetings/ has now become clear that to face Conference. Eugene, OR. President: ASA Funding Opportunities global challenges, democracy needs Dennis Downey, CSU Channel Islands. to be re-invented within and beyond Theme: “Democracy in a Divided Soci- ASA’s grant and fellowship programs the representative system. Deadline: ety.” For more information, visit www. September 30, 2019. For more infor- pacificsoc.org. provide educational stipends and small mation on the conference, see www. isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/ Funding grants to members for supporting forum/porto-alegre-2020 www.isa-so- ciology.org/en/conferences/forum/ Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust research initiatives and other important porto-alegre-2020. offers research grants to non-profit -or ganization, for research into the caus- scientific activities including conference es of alcoholism or substance abuse. Meetings Basic, clinical and social-environmen- attendance. August 9-11, 2019. 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18 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements meeting of SfAA (in Albuquerque, NM Evacuations.” The article also ran in the March 17-21, 2020). The competition National Post, one of Canada’s largest and award honors the late Peter newspapers, the New York Times, and Kong-ming New, a distinguished in several local news affiliates. medical sociologist-anthropologist. Carole Joffe, University of Califor- Deadline: November 30, 2019. For nia-San Francisco, published an op-ed, more information, visit www.sfaa.net/ co-authored with David Cohen, pk-new-award. Drexel University, on April 29 in the Washington Post, titled “Supporters of Workshops Abortion Rights Should Be Energized, Qualitative Inquiry Seminars and not Demoralized,” which argues Qualitative Data Analysis Camp, Fall that despite many serious threats 2019, Carrboro, NC. ResearchTalk’s Fall to abortion access in some states, in 2019 calendar includes a Qualita- other states abortion supporters are tive Inquiry Seminar Series and our achieving victories, victories which Qualitative Data Analysis Camp, all have been largely overlooked. And held in October and November. Gain she was quoted in a May 23 New York theoretical and practical understand- Times article about the language used ing of qualitative inquiry while learn- by both sides in the abortion debate ing from leading scholars, including in the U.S. Alison Hamilton, Johnny Saldaña, and Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North sociologists Ray Maietta and Rashawn Carolina at Chapel Hill, was quoted in Ray. Topics include using qualitative a story on the large number of Amer- inquiry to contribute to social justice, icans who have second jobs or “side implementation research, qualitative hustles” that appeared in nbcnews. analysis and styles of qualitative com on June 5, 2019. writing and reporting. For more information, visit www.researchtalk. Nancy López, University of New com/upcoming-events or email info@ Mexico, wrote “The US Census Bureau researchtalk.com. Use discount code Keeps Confusing Race and Ethnicity,” ASA15 for 15% off registration. for The Conversation, on February 28, 2018. It was republished in Salon.com, Associated Press, Newsela for teachers In the News in K-12 (Instructional Online Platform). Emily Barman, Boston University, was Kari Marie Norgaard, University of featured in a March 22 article in Inside Oregon, had her work on climate Higher Ed. She supervised a policy denial covered in some depth in the change in the BU Graduate School BBC radio documentary “The Age of of Arts and Sciences that formalizes Denial: A Warm Winter” on March 11, a graduate student leave policy al- 2019. The documentary also featured lowing year-round stipend recipients that also discusses sociologist Stanely 10 days off. Cohen. She was also a featured guest Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston for her work on climate denial on University, was quoted in a May 1 New “Why Large-Scale Activism is the Most York Times article about the changing Powerful Path Out of Climate Despair” racial composition of U.S. neighbor- on CBC Radio on May 19, 2019. hoods. Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers Universi- Deborah Carr, Boston University, was ty-Camden, was interviewed by BBC featured in a March 17 Forbes article America for the show Cut Through the and a February 25 CNBC article, fo- Noise about interracial marriage in cused on her new book Golden Years? the United States. It originally aired Social Inequalities in Later Life (Russell on February 14, 2019, in honor of Val- Sage, 2019). entine’s Day. She was also quoted in a Amin Ghaziani, University of British May 7, CNN article “Analysis: Don’t Use Columbia, was interviewed by Oak- the Royal Birth to Trot Out a Danger- land Magazine on why, despite being ous Myth” about multiracial children. the third largest city in the U.S., Oak- Michael Polgar, Pennsylvania State land, does not have a gayborhood. University, appeared with his new Barry Glassner was a featured expert book, Holocaust and Human Rights in April on the BBC program, “The Education, in the Dallas (PA) Post on Inquiry: How Scared Should We Be?,” March 26, 2019. and he published an op-ed on Trump Heather Schoenfeld, Boston Univer- in The Los Angeles Times on April 19. sity, published an op-ed on April 30 Saida Grundy, Boston University, was for The Tampa Bay Times. The essay quoted in a March 22 New York Times describes the history of mandatory article on black women accusing black minimum sentencing in Florida, and it men of sexual assault. appeared just as the Florida legis- lature was set to vote on a criminal Timothy J. Haney, Mount Royal Uni- justice reform bill. versity (Calgary, Alberta) and Director of the Centre for Community Disaster Stacy Torres, University of Califor- Research, was interviewed in an April nia-San Francisco, wrote an op-ed, 27 Washington Post article, “Many Fire- titled “Why I Won’t Ever Ditch My Tax Prone California Towns Don’t Plan for Preparer,” that appeared in the San
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Francisco Chronicle on April 7, 2019. Alliance Fellowship. She also received at two-year colleges. Munshi’s project She also wrote a May 12 op-ed in an Honorable Mention for the Ford is “Cultural/Sane: Immigrant Domestic Transitions the Los Angeles Times, “Happy ‘Other’ Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Violence Survivors, Mental Health, and Andrew J. Perrin, University of Mother’s Day,” which celebrates the Lastly, she was awarded the Sociolo- Logics of Citizenship.” North Carolina-Chapel Hill. has been selected as the next Director of UNC’s contributions of “other” mothers, such gy Summer Support Award and the Jennifer R. Myhre, De Anza College, as aunts, teachers, grandmothers, Center for Engaged Teaching and Institute for the Arts and Humanities received the American Council of beginning July 1. and other community members, and Learning Fellowship at the University Learned Societies (ACLS) 2019 Mellon/ mentions the work of sociologists of California-Merced. ACLS Community College Faculty Patricia Hill Collins, Carol Stack, and Peggy Giordano, Bowling Green Fellows. This is the first year of this People Madonna Harrington Meyer. State University, was named the 2019 program, which supports research Alondra Nelson has been appointed recipient of the Edwin L. Sutherland projects from humanities and social Professor and Harold F. Linder Chair Awards Award by the American Society of science faculty who teach at two-year in the School of Social Science at the Nancy Ammerman, Boston Univer- Criminology for her outstanding con- colleges. Myhre’s project is “1500 Institute for Advanced Study, effective sity, has received the 2019 Andrew tributions to the field of criminology. Stories: Giving Voice to Economic July 1, 2019. She will be recognized at the awards Inequality.” M. Greeley Lifetime Achievement Jake Rosenfeld, Washington Uni- ceremony during the annual meeting Award in the Sociology of Religion. Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers Universi- versity-St. Louis, testified before the in November. The award is conferred by the Younger ty-Camden, was awarded a $5,000 House Subcommittee on Education Scholars in the Sociology of Religion. Sarah L. Hoiland, City University of Rutgers-Camden Provost Fund for and Labor at a hearing on “Protecting Kevin B. Anderson, University of New York, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Research Catalyst Grant to conduct re- Workers’ Right to Organize: The Need California-Santa Barbara, was awarded Community College, received the search on how the institution of nurs- for Labor Law Reform.” American Council of Learned Societies ing socializes foreign-born Africans the American Council of Learned Soci- Kim Scipes, Purdue University North- (ACLS) 2019 Mellon/ACLS Community into understanding U.S. ethnoracial eties (ACLS) 2019 ACLS Fellowship. As west, gave a talk on “The KMU Labor College Faculty Fellows. This is the first boundaries. an ACLS fellow, Anderson’s research Center of the Philippines During the year of this program, which supports project will be on “Mapping the Late Randall A. Salm, College of Southern Time of President Rodrigo Duterte: research projects from humanities and Marx: On Colonialism, Gender, De- Maryland, received the American A First-Hand Account,” regarding social science faculty who teach at velopment, and Multilinear Concepts Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) his research during July 2018 at the two-year colleges. Hoiland’s project is of Revolution.” Awards range from 2019 Mellon/ACLS Community Center for Southeast Asian Studies at “Righteous Sisterhood: Constructing a $40,000 to $70,000, depending on the College Faculty Fellows. This is the first the University of Wisconsin-Madison Feminist Biker Identity in a Misogynist scholar’s career stage, and support six year of this program, which supports on March 8 to twelve months of full-time research Subculture.” research projects from humanities Meredith Worthen, University of and writing. Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado and social science faculty who teach Oklahoma, is currently the youngest Boulder, received the 2019 Boulder at two-year colleges. Salm’s project Tanya N. Cook, Community College full professor at OU, and is possibly Faculty Assembly Award for Excel- is “Prewar, Wartime, and Postwar of Aurora, received the American the youngest woman to be promoted lence in Leadership and Service. Identity of Former Child Soldiers in Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to full in the university’s history. 2019 Mellon/ACLS Community Adam Lippert, University of Colo- Colombia and Syria.” College Faculty Fellows. This is the first rado-Denver, received the Dean’s Heather Schoenfeld, Boston Univer- year of this program, which supports Master’s Student Mentoring Award sity, was selected as a 2019 Award of New Books research projects from humanities from the Graduate School. Excellence winner by the Leadership Katrin B. Anacker, George Mason and social science faculty who teach in History awards committee for her University, Mai Thi Nguyen, David P. at two-year colleges. Cook’s project is Soniya Munshi, City University of Varady, The Routledge Handbook of New York, Borough of Manhattan book Building the Prison State: Race “Always Keep Nerd Fighting: Fandoms and the Politics of Mass Incarceration Housing Policy and Planning (Rout- as Social Movements.” Community College, received the ledge, 2019). American Council of Learned Societies (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Maria D. Duenas, University of (ACLS) 2019 Mellon/ACLS Community The AASLH Leadership in History Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt Universi- California-Merced, was awarded College Faculty Fellows. This is the first Awards is the nation’s most presti- ty, and Benita Blanford-Jones, Inde- the National Science Foundation year of this program, which supports gious competition for recognition of pendent Scholar, Kings of Mississippi: Alliances for Graduate Education research projects from humanities achievement in state and local history. Race, Religious Education, and the and the Professoriate California HSI and social science faculty who teach Maren Scull, University of Colora- Making of a Middle-Class Black Family do-Denver, received the award for in the Segregated South (Cambridge Excellence in Enhancing Diversity & University Press, 2019). Inclusion through Service and Lead- Patrick Bergemann, University of ership from the College of Liberal Arts Chicago, Judge Thy Neighbor: Denun- and Sciences. ciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Esther Sullivan, University of Colora- Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany, do-Denver, was one of seven Universi- (Columbia University Press, 2019). Editor: Nancy Kidd Associate Editor: Naomi Paiss ty faculty selected as the Chancellor’s Martha E. Giménez, University of TIAA Engaged Scholars demonstrating Managing Editor: Johanna Olexy Colorado-Boulder, Marx, Women, and community engagement in their Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marx- Article submissions are limited to 1,000 words and must have journalistic teaching, service, and scholarship. ist-Feminist Essays value (e.g., timeliness, significant impact, general interest) rather than be Amy E. Traver, City University of New (Brill, 2018). research oriented or scholarly in nature. Submissions will be reviewed for York, Queensborough Community possible publication. Obituaries are limited to 600–900 words and An- College, received the American Coun- Sabrina Gatti. Selinus University, cil of Learned Societies (ACLS) 2019 Florigrafia. Il linguaggio dei fiori(CTL nouncements, 200 words. All submissions should include a contact name Editore Livorno, 2019). and an e-mail address. ASA reserves the right to edit all published material Mellon/ACLS Community College for style and length. Faculty Fellows. This is the first year of David R. Heise, Indiana University, this program, which supports research Cultural Meanings and Social Institu- All Footnotes communications can be directed to: American Sociological projects from humanities and social tions: Social Organization Through Association, 1430 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 383-9005; science faculty who teach at two-year Language (Palgrave Pivot, 2019). colleges. 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Lucjan Miś, Jagiellonian University Bartolomeo) Cascini were immigrants Cascini was a 71-year member of the ed to George’s critique of function- in Kraków, Problemy społeczne Grupy from Italy in the early 1900s. Graduate SD annual Conference of the United alism and long-term concern with Wyszehradzkiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwer- of Mont Pleasant High School where Methodist Church, 60-year member of social class. sytetu Jagiellońskiego (Kraków 2019). he earned letters in football, he was the American Sociological Associ- Very early in his career, he wrote Kari Marie Norgaard, University of proud of his senior season as his team ation, an associate member of First path-breaking articles and a book in Oregon, Salmon and Acorns Feed Our was both unbeaten and unscored United Methodist Church. Because he the fields that he would emphasize People: Colonialism, Nature and Social upon. He graduated with a BS in was so heavily invested in education, throughout his career—the sociology Action (Rutgers University Press, 2019). sociology from Asbury College in he took great comfort in his three of art and culture, social class and Wilmore, KY, in 1948. children’s accomplishments: all grad- stratification, and Marxist theory. His Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers Universi- Cascini accepted a United Methodist uates of NWU with advanced degrees first book,The Sociology of Film Art, ty-Camden, Boundaries of Love: Interra- Church charge at Gary-Clear Lake in their chosen fields of study. published by Basic Books in 1965 with cial Marriage and the Meaning of Race in South Dakota. While serving as The family wishes to extend a forward by Lowenthal, remains a (New York University Press, 2019). a church pastor, he met his future heartfelt appreciation to the nurses cult classic in the analysis of film and Thomas K. Rudel, Rutgers University, wife, Edythe Peden, a member of the and aides of the Eastmont Lifebrook its social context. The book’s three Shocks, States, and Sustainability: The Gary Church and a senior at Hamline Memory Care Center and the Tabitha parts—on German expressionism, Origins of Radical Environmental Re- University (St. Paul, MN). They were Hospice Services for their patience, Soviet expressive realism, and Italian forms (Oxford University Press, 2019). married in 1949 and celebrated their understanding, love and kindness neorealism—illuminated the links 69th anniversary in 2018. They moved while caring for Bill. Bill is survived among those countries’ socio-histori- Victor N. Shaw, California State to Denver, CO, in 1951 where Bill by wife Edythe, son Wade (Marcella) cal conditions, the social organization University-Northridge, Three Worlds of attended the Iliff School of Theology, of Sammamish, WA, daughter Janelle of film production, and the resulting Collective Human Experience: Individual earning a Master of Theology in 1953 Herres (Michael) of Lincoln and artistic products. George’s exhaustive Life, Social Change, and Human Evolu- and a ThD in 1955. daughter-in-law Mary (Lundy) Cas- research on the transformation of tion (Springer Nature, 2019). Awarded both the Elizabeth Iliff cini of Lincoln. Grandchildren Jillian Soviet film from the post-revolution- A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College, Warren Fellowship and Dempster Cascini of Wausau WI, Zane Cascini, ary to the Stalinist period remains Massachusetts, Clinard and Quinney’s Graduate Scholarship enabled him Alex Zappala, Macrae Zappala Kate unsurpassed. Criminal Behavior Systems, revised to do further studies in sociology Edwards, Will (Jessica) Herres all of While he continued his interest in edition (Routledge, 2019). of religion at New York University. Lincoln, Great grandchildren; Paxon the sociology of art and literature, There he taught sociology classes and Blaire Schneider, Nola Edwards, for instance in his unusual study of Deaths as a graduate assistant. Bill took a and Mabel Herres. Preceded in death novels and novelists during the Mex- by his son Brett, his parents, brother James D. Cockcroft, a specialist in faculty position at Nebraska Wesleyan ican revolution, George also made University (NWU) in Lincoln, NE, in Anthony, sister Eva and her husband important contributions to general Latin American studies, died on April Gene Brandt of Clear Lake, SD. 16 in Montreal, age 83. He taught at 1957 with the intent not only to teach sociological theory. During the year Rutgers University among other insti- sociology classes (which was part of Memorials may be given to the he received his doctorate in 1963, the tutions and lectured widely on Latin political science at the time), but to William and Edythe Peden Cascini American Sociological Review pub- establish a Department of Sociology, Endowed Scholarship at Nebraska lished his masterful article, “A Logical American affairs. He was a well-known th activist in numerous anti-war and Anthropology, and Social Work. This Wesleyan University, 50 and St. Paul, Analysis of the Davis and Moore anti-imperialist campaigns. was accomplished followed by ac- Lincoln, NE 68504, or William and Theory of Stratification.” Shortly after, creditation for the social work major Edythe Cascini Scholarship at Iliff in 1966, George published in Inquiry Adelaide M. Cromwell, Professor as well as introducing criminal justice School of Theology, 2204 S. University Emerita of Sociology, Boston Uni- courses into the curriculum. Dr. Blvd., Denver, CO 80210, or Eastmont versity, peacefully passed in hospice Cascini remained at NWU for 38 years, Towers Benevolent Fund, 6315 O care on June 8, 2019. She held her serving as chair of his department for Street, Lincoln, NE 68510 or to donor’s final class in Brookline, MA, where 35 of those years. choice. Condolences at www.roper- she resided for 44 of her 99 years, In addition to his professorship at andsons.com. encouraging her acolytes-here, near NWU, Cascini did part-time mar- George A. Huaco and abroad-to improve themselves riage, family, and supportive therapy as global citizens, with a particular counseling in conjunction with a 1927-2018 imperative to empower women, psychiatric practice in Lincoln for over George Huaco, a remarkable social especially those of color, and cherish 25 years. On campus he served as theorist, beloved sociologist, and the vulnerable, the promising, and law advisor, guiding many students marvelous human being, died in 2018 the brave. into that profession through his at the age of 90, having retired only Kurt Lang, an expert on Nazi Germa- encouragement and confidence in six years earlier. During his 55 years ny and a sociologist who with his wife, their abilities. He counseled countless as a sociologist, he served first on the Gladys, wrote several books about the young adults as they struggled with faculty at Yale, then at SUNY Buffalo, influence of television on politics and personal problems, both on and off and later for more than four decades public opinion, died at the age of 95 campus, while as students, or years at the University of New Mexico on May 1, 2019. He became director later. He was also the faculty advisor (UNM). He influenced students and of the communication school at the to the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for 15 colleagues through his prodigious University of Washington in 1984 and years. knowledge of social theory, the remained there until his retirement Cascini retired in 1995, at the age of graceful simplicity and clarity of his in 1993. 70 after having touched the lives of writing, his supportive and enthusias- over 11,000 students over the span tic work as a teacher, and his nurtur- Stephanie Magean, the long-time ant personal style that endeared him copyeditor of Sociological Method- of his years. He and his wife estab- lished a scholarship that is awarded to colleagues, students, and friends. ology, died May 16, 2019, in Jupiter Early in life, George emerged as Beach, FL. each year to an NWU student in the social sciences. In retirement, he a brilliant scholar of philosophy at and Edythe worked with teachers of the University of California-Berkeley Obituaries English and Social Services in Ostuni, during college, of film and theater arts at UCLA as a graduate student, William Mario Cascini Italy in the Global Volunteer Program. He also participated in an ElderHos- and of sociology as a doctoral student 1924-2019 tel archeological dig in restoring a at UC-Berkeley. His main mentors William Mario Cascini of Lincoln, presidio in San Diego. They moved included Leo Lowenthal, whose roots NE, died on May 17, 2019. Born June from their home on Wedgewood Lake in the Frankfurt School helped foster 18, 1924, in Schenectady, NY, his to Eastmont Retirement Community George’s interest in the sociology of parents, Nicola and Giovanna (di in 2004. art, and Neil Smelser, who contribut-
footnotes 21 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org announcements his famous critique concerning the which he himself contributed earlier analyses appear in dozens of articles ‘If you want to get something done, limits of functionalism in studies in his career), recent Marxist scholar- and four books: How Americans Use ask a busy person.” But another part of stratification, “The Functionalist ship, and the ongoing U.S. political Time: A Social Psychological Analysis of the explanation is that he had an Theory of Stratification: Two Decades morass. With the enthusiasm of a of Everyday Behavior (Robinson 1977), extraordinary knack for recruiting of Controversy,” reprinted widely, this passionate raconteur, George would The Rhythm of Everyday Life (Robinson, others to work with him. John’s CV paper became one of several that teach and learn from others in the Andreyenkov, and Patrushev 1986), lists nearly 100 different co-authors, contributed to functionalism’s decline way intellectual life happens during Time for Life: The Surprising Ways dozens of whom appear multiple as an influential theory. its best moments. Memories of those Americans Use Their Time (Robinson times. For John, social science was a George’s profound work on Marxist moments will remain among those and Godbey 1994) and Changing social enterprise -- one in which he theory culminated in his book, Marx who benefited from his time on the Rhythms of American Family Life was immensely generous with his and Sociobiology 1999, which resulted planet. (Bianchi, Robinson, and Milkie 2006), time, always encouraging those with the last of which received the Best whom he interacted, and frequently from a long-term effort to reconcile Howard Waitzkin, Distinguished Book Award from both the Family and sharing the fruits of his participation Marxism with Darwinian evolutionary Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Demography Sections of ASA. Among in diverse worlds beyond academia biology and contemporary sociobiol- School of Medicine, and Susan Tiano, John’s most notable findings was that, ranging from microbreweries to Burn- ogy. His complementary work on the Professor of Sociology, University of contrary to conventional wisdom, ing Man festivals. sociology of altruism appeared during New Mexico 2006 in the journal World Cultures. Americans’ leisure time increased Not surprisingly, John played th Marx and Sociobiology remains a pro- John P. Robinson over the second half of the 20 Cen- important roles in professional asso- tury. He argued that the widespread found, comprehensible, yet accessible 1935-2019 ciations, serving as conference chair analysis of Marxist theory, including misperception that people had less for both the American Association John P. Robinson, University of its limitations. In this book, based on time was explained by the trend for Public Opinion Research (1974) Maryland professor emeritus, died erudite knowledge of original sources during the same period for Americans and the World Association for Public March 22, 2019, at age 83. Often over a vast literature in sociology, to want to do more, from hobbies and Opinion Research (1976) and on the referred to as “Father Time,” John was philosophy, economics, and the hu- self-improvement activities to use of editorial boards of Social Psychology a pioneering time-use scholar, who manities, George explained critically new media. Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, played an important role in creating some of the key concepts that Marx Time use represented only one Journal of Communication, Media the modern time-use survey and was and later Marxists have developed, strand of John’s research. John was Culture and Society, Journalism Mono- central to its later development. including ideology, consciousness, struck by the fact researchers often graphs, and Social Indicators Research. the structural characteristics of inher- Born and raised in Rochester, NY, devised their own indicators for He was also an institution builder, ent exploitation under capitalism, the John graduated from the Aquinas constructs that had been measured founding both Cleveland State meaning of class struggle, and the Institute in 1953, earned a BA in by others and realized that if social University’s Communication Research relationships between Marxist theory actuarial science and statistics from science was to progress in cumulative Center (which he directed from 1975 and the discoveries of evolutionary the University of Toronto in 1957, fashion, greater standardization was to 1980), and the University of Mary- biology. While readers may disagree received an MS in mathematical needed. So, he spearheaded a project land Survey Research Center (which with some of George’s interpretations, statistics from Virginia Polytechnic that produced three influential he directed from 1980 to 1988). Institute in 1959, and was awarded they cannot help but be impressed by volumes – Measures of Occupational According to The Baltimore Sun, he two MAs (one in Psychology, the the lucidity and passion of his prose. Attitudes and Occupational Charac- is survived by his son, Stephen of Los second in Sociology) and a PhD (in His engaging prose and humanist teristics (1967), Measures of Political Angeles, two sisters, Mary Daly and Mathematical and Social Psychology) spirit carried over into his teaching Attitudes (1968, revised edition 1999), Shelley Oliver, both of Rochester; by the University of Michigan in 1963, and his collegial relationships. At the and Measures of Personality and Social a brother, Paul of Atlanta; and two 1964, and 1965, respectively. University of New Mexico, he inspired Psychological Attitudes (1969, revised grandchildren. (His daughter, Jennifer and guided at least two generations John’s dissertation, “A Multidimen- edition 1991)—that were both a Lyn died in 2018.) of undergraduates and graduate sional Investigation into Public and significant spur towards, and a key Stanley Presser, University of Maryland students, who sought him out as a Academic Perceptions of Nations,” resource for, standardizing measure- was based on the 1964 Detroit Area ment across the social sciences. warm, supportive, and constructive Gideon A. Sjoberg mentor. For many years, he chaired Study (DAS), for which he served as Taken together, the work John did 1922-2019 the graduate program in sociology, teaching assistant. Remarkably, given on time use and on measurement where he fostered the recruitment that DAS publications were usually standardization was more than Gideon A. Sjoberg was born in Dinu- and advancement of a diverse authored by DAS faculty sponsors, enough to keep one scholar very ba, CA, on August 31, 1922. He died student body, including women and John was sole or first author of five of busy. Yet John did extensive and in Austin, TX, on December 4, 2018, members of ethnic/ racial minorities the six publications from that year’s important work well beyond these at the age of 96. His parents were who benefited from the safe academ- project. areas. Beginning with his service in migrants from Finland. His father was ic environment that George nurtured. For the 10 years after receiving 1969 as Research Coordinator for a farmer in California; his mother had His active, full-time teaching contin- his doctorate, John was a Study the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory been a nurse in the Finnish Civil War. ued through his mid-80s. Among his Director at the Michigan Survey Committee on Television and Human Sjoberg’s family were Swedish-speak- roles, he lovingly curated the sociol- Research Center (where he had been Behavior, to his book The Main Source: ing Finns. ogy library, which due to George’s a Sampling Section research assistant Learning from Television News (Robin- After finishing junior college in Fres- deep knowledge of original sources before serving as DAS TA). During son and Levy 1986), through his later no, Sjoberg enrolled at the University became an important intellectual those years, he was co-principal work on the internet (e.g., his 2001 of New Mexico in Albuquerque where resource. For his faculty colleagues, investigator with Philip E. Converse Annual Review article with DiMaggio, he met his future wife Andree. From George unfailingly provided con- of the first modern time-use survey in Hargittai, and Neuman) he made key there he went to Washington State structive criticism and helpful advice 1965-66 and co-principal investigator contributions to our understanding College (now Washington State Uni- about preliminary work informally or (with a group of economists led by F. of the mass media. This work led versity). His interest in comparative in department seminars. Thomas Juster) of the successor study to John’s receiving the William F. sociology was piqued in a reading George’s passion for the intellec- in 1975-76. These two studies, along Ogburn Career Achievement Award course with the Anthropologist Allan tual life continued after retirement. with three more (in 1985-86, 1992-94, of ASA’s Section on Communication, H. Smith, who guided him in reading Until his death, George hung out and 1998-99) that John directed after Information Technologies, and Media about the major cultural areas of the almost every day at a popular café moving to the University of Maryland, Sociology. world. After completing his work at in Albuquerque, where he would are the main source for quantitative John contributed to still other Washington State, the Sjobergs spent th voraciously read books and peri- estimates of time-use in 20 century areas of research, for instance, to the the summer of 1949 at the University odicals in his characteristic style. America and laid the groundwork for sociology of the arts – which raises of California-Berkeley. Frequently colleagues and students the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual the question of how he was able to Following the summer at Berke- would approach him and engage in American Time Use Survey that began accomplish so much. In part, the ley, the Sjobergs moved to Austin conversations about the latest issues in 2003. answer is that John was incredibly beginning Sjoberg’s 60-year run at of The New York Review of Books (to John’s pathbreaking time-use energetic – as he was fond of saying, the University of Texas. Here Sjoberg
22 footnotes footnotes.asanet.org American Sociological Association announcements focused his considerable intellect on Sjoberg (2018) also made a count- dents and colleagues who learned by Perhaps his most impressive scholarly three substantive areas: the preindus- er-system argument for dismantling his example the meaning of mento- accomplishment was serving as Edi- trial city, methodology, and bureau- the prison-industrial complex. ring. He was generous with his time, tor-in-Chief for the second edition of cracy. The plan for the Preindustrial At an age when many begin winding spending hours, primarily on the Elsevier’s International Encyclopedia City (1960) began shortly arriving in down, Sjoberg was hitting his stride. phone, listening to and expanding of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Austin. Two articles on Robert Red- His work stemming in the 1960s on upon ideas. The round-the-clock care a massive 26-volume reference book field’s work on folk societies prepared “Bureaucracy and the Lower Class” that the Allejo family provided both that won First Prize for Excellence in Sjoberg to examine an intermediate primed him to see the major shifts Sjobergs in their twilight years must Reference Works (all fields) from the stage of development between folk in political economy underfoot in also be recognized. Without this care, Association of American Publisher’s societies and industrial ones. He the United States. The growth he Sjoberg would not have been able Professional and Scholarly Publishing argued that the preindustrial city witnessed at the University of Texas to devote his mental energies to the Division PROSE Awards. Jim edited organized a distinctive spatial config- provided him a birds-eye view of production of sociological knowledge the scholarly journal Social Science uration of the city around functional the macro and micro processes that that extended well into his 90s. Research from 1978 to 2014, a 36-year requirements of social order that cut run that is the longest editorship on were unfolding across the country. Boyd Littrell, University of Nebraska- across cultural differences. record in the field of sociology. Furthermore, key works undertaken Omaha, and Karen Manges Douglas, The Preindustrial City was the first by his graduate students include, Sam Houston State University Wright provided expert testimony major work by a mid-century sociol- including Paula Miller, Dan Rigney, before the U.S. Congress six times ogist to take on issues addressed Sara McLanahan, Sherri Grasmuck James David Wright on the issues of gun control, crime, mainly by classicists and anthropol- and Norma Williams, aided his knowl- 1947-2019 homelessness and public health. He ogists. Sjoberg took sharp criticism edge of and expanded his theorizing has appeared on NPR, various TV James David Wright (“Jim”) was born from those quarters, but his work on the future, the role of large-scale shows, and presented his works at November 6, 1947, in Logansport, IN; endured and stimulated further bureaucracies, secrecy and human countless conferences and institu- he passed away on April 29, 2019, at work for more than half a century. rights. The edited volume A Critique tions around the world. home in St. Pete Beach, FL, surround- Further, his work cut against the grain of Contemporary American Sociology ed by his family and pets. He will be Jim was a passionate advocate for of much American urban sociology (1992) (with Vaughn and Reynolds) remembered for his intelligence, wit, the homeless with a long record of which was pre-occupied with the crystallized his views on bureaucracy, kindness and generosity; as an edu- professional service to numerous transition from rural, agricultural ethics and human rights making ex- cator, author, scholar, researcher, and non-profit organizations in Flor- societies into modern industrial ones. plicit problem areas that many sociol- mentor; as a husband, brother, father, ida and Louisiana. He served on Sjoberg did not reject the work of ogists avoid. Together with Vaughn, grandfather, cousin, and friend; and the Boards of Directors or in other such Chicago sociologists like Louis Sjoberg came to the realization that for his fabulous cooking. prominent roles in the Coalition for Wirth’s “Urbanism as a Way of Life,” to understand markets, one also had the Homeless of Central Florida, the Jim graduated from Logansport but The Preindustrial City was a sharp to understand the role of large-scale Homeless Services Network, the High School in 1965, earned a BA reminder that sociological theories of organizations in the economy. Orlando Area Trust for the Homeless, in philosophy (with honors) from cities would have to take account of a Sjoberg was influenced by the works Second Harvest Food Bank, HOPE Purdue University in 1969, and both distinctive type of city that was being of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. Helps, and many others. Before an MS and PhD in sociology from the ignored by his contemporaries. He shared their concern regarding moving to Florida, he was the director University of Wisconsin in 1970 and In 2018, Sjoberg revisited the Prein- the future and risks but was critical of of the Tulane-Xavier Campus Affiliates 1973, respectively. dustrial City for an essay in the Wiley their failure to satisfactorily grapple Program, a collaboration between Tu- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and with the role that large-scale organi- Wright was a distinguished profes- lane University, Xavier University, the Regional Studies (2019). He used the zations play in this arena. The expan- sor of sociology with a long career. Housing Authority of New Orleans, works of economic historian Joel sive role of multinational corporations He worked as a Professor of Sociology the U.S. Department of Housing and Mokyr (2002, 2005, 2011) to reinforce and the inadequacy of nation-state 1973–1988 at the University of Mas- Urban Development, and the resi- his argument that pre-industrial specific laws to address global human sachusetts-Amherst (where he also dents of the C.J. Peete public housing social orders were distinctive from rights abuses, led Sjoberg to adopt directed the Social and Demographic community in New Orleans. Research Institute), 1988–2001 at scientific, knowledge-based industrial a broad human rights perspective He is survived by his wife Christine Tulane University as the Charles A. ones. that extended beyond the typical Ellen Stewart of St. Pete Beach, FL; his and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Sjoberg’s methodological contribu- citizenship/national sovereignty per- sister Nancy Jeanne Wright of Fort Relations (where he was also an tions include his methodology book spectives. Sjoberg recognized that all Wayne, IN; his son Matthew James Adjunct Professor in the Department (with Roger Nett), Countersystem people have a right to dignity, respect Wright, daughter-in-law Stephanie of Biostatistics and Epidemiolo- Analysis and the Construction of Alter- and equality regardless of citizenship. Marie Akers-Wright, and grandson gy), and 2001–2018 as the Provost native Futures (with Leonard Cain), The final leg of Sjoberg’s academic Desmond Matthew Akers-Wright of Distinguished Research Professor at and his advocacy of comparative journey occurred after he turned 75. Stanford, CA; his son Derek William the University of Central Florida (UCF) sociology, case studies, and autobi- His preoccupation with large-scale Wright and his honorary daughter- (where he also directed the Institute ographies in sociological analyses. organizations, the future and risk in-law Naomi Panina Kimmelman for Social and Behavioral Sciences His methodology book employed a contributed to publications on the so- of Oakland, CA; and many cousins. and the Survey Research Laboratory). sociology of knowledge framework ciology of human rights, corporations He was predeceased by his parents From 2013–2018 he was designated and emphasized that researchers and human rights, the social control James Farrel Wright and Helen Lorette as a Pegasus Professor, UCF’s highest must critically consider the ethical industry and human rights, count- Wright and by his brother Jon Kelley faculty honor. He was considered by and political pressures they confront er-system analysis, and bureaucratic Wright. all who worked with him to be an when collecting and analyzing data. capitalism all of which addressed in outstanding and unselfish colleague, Jim enjoyed writing, reading, travel, The salience of this perspective was one way or another the need to re- collaborator and mentor. cooking, hosting parties, watching driven home in the 2008 financial flect on other social arrangements to and writing about NASCAR races, He was a prolific writer, publish- crisis when it came to light that the assist in confronting the grave issues riding around Pass-a-Grille in the golf ing 30 books, 200 major scholarly bond rating firm—Standard and we presently face and those to come. cart with his wife, and spending time articles and papers, and nearly 100 Poor’s —was assigning less-than His article justifying academic tenure with his family. other shorter works. The topics of his objective ratings contributing to the is prescient in these times of increas- A celebration of his life is scheduled financial crisis. ing use of adjuncts and deserves writings ranged widely, including: American politics, natural disasters, for August 4, 2-4 p.m., University of Sjoberg theorizing on a counter highlighting in this recitation of his guns and violence, poverty and Central Florida. In lieu of flowers, the system to reset the status quo is extensive academic record. homelessness, drugs and addiction, family requests that you do some- another idea that has caught on. Sjoberg never stopped working NASCAR, and the states where he thing kind or an act of service in Jim’s Eminent sociologist, Joe Feagin, made although admittedly, his pleasure lived. He also wrote on methods honor. Visit www.jameswright.online a counter system the defining feature diminished when his life partner An- of survey research, the theory and for more information about his life of what he calls “liberation sociology”; dree died in the spring of 2018. While practice of applied social research, and writings. so too did Steve Lyng in his analysis they had no children, they leave and other methodological topics. of the American health care system. behind a host of former graduate stu- Derek Wright and Dr. Matthew Wright
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call for submissions Journals in Transition
Journal of Health and Social Behavior: As of July 15, 2019, all new submissions and correspon- dence should be sent to the new editor: Amy Burdette, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, 526 Bellamy Building, 113 Collegiate Loop, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2270; email: jhsb@fsu. edu. All manuscripts should be submitted through ScholarOne: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhsb. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World: As of August 1, 2019, all new submis- sions should be sent to the new co-editors, Ryan Light, Aaron Gullickson, and CJ Pascoe, through ScholarOne: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/srd. Please address all correspondence to socius@uoregon. edu. Decisions on manuscripts received prior to August 1, 2019, will be made by the outgoing 114th ASA Annual Meeting editors (Lisa Keister and James Moody) in consulta- August 10-13, 2019 tion with the new editors. New York, NY