ESS 2016 MY DAY JOB: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia Eastern Sociological Society 86th Annual Meeting Boston Park Plaza Hotel March 17-20, 2016 GENERAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Hours: Thursday, 11:00 am-5:00 pm Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Saturday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm Sunday, 8:00 am-10:00 am. The Registration Desk is located in the Georgian Foyer on the Mezzanine 1. When you register, you will be given a registration badge. 2. Badges are to be worn at all sessions and are required for admission to ESS events. 3. Registered participants may request complimentary badges for their nonmember spouses. ESS COMMONS The ESS COMMONS is on the main level in the Grand Ballroom. It includes: The Book Exhibit, which is described on the back inside cover of the program. Because too few job openings were submitted prior to program publication, the Employment Center will be suspended for this year. Please do check the Employment Services section on our website (http://essnet.org) for current postings. COPIES OF PAPERS The ESS does not sell or distribute papers or abstracts. Please contact authors directly to obtain copies of papers or to get further information. SESSION AND PAPER LENGTH Sessions are scheduled with the expectation that presenters and discussants will take approximately 15 minutes to make their initial presentations. This will allow time for discussion among the panelists and for audience participation. Presiders should end sessions promptly to enable the following sessions to start on time. If there is no Presider listed, please appoint one from the panel for time-keeping purposes. Next Year's Annual Meeting will be at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown February 23- February 26, 2017 MY DAY JOB: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia The 86th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Boston Park Plaza Hotel Table of Contents Program Highlights 2 Program Summary 9 Program Details 22 Previous Officers and Award Winners 105 ESS Officers and Committees 109 Acknowledgements 112 Call for Papers 2017 114 Publisher Advertisements 115 Index of Participants 120 General Information Inside Front Cover Book Exhibitors, New Book Reception Inside Back Cover Session Room Maps Back Cover Cover Design: Brad Smith, Emily Mahon Begin Making Plans for ESS 2017: The End of the World as We Know It? Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown February 23- February 26, 2017 1 MY DAY JOB: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia ESS 2016 Program Highlights PLENARY SESSIONS Robin Williams Lecture, Peter I. Rose: The Thursday 5:30 - 7:00 PM 54 Politics of Fear: Intolerance, Nativism, and 'The Georgian Wars Within' Theda Skocpol: Higher Education and the Friday 5:30 - 7:00 PM 202 Georgian Challenge of Civic Engagement 2016 ESS Awards & Barbara Katz Rothman: OUR Saturday 5:30 - 7:00 PM 337 DAY JOBS: Sociology Confronts the Changing Georgian University SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL AND THEMATIC SESSIONS Between a Rock & a Hard Place: The Black Thursday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 219 Professorate Squeezed between the Politics of White Hill Colorblindness & Cultural Diversity I Between a Rock & a Hard Place: The Black Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 37 Professorate Squeezed between the Politics of White Hill Colorblindness & Cultural Diversity II Friday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 116 Attacks on Critical Scholars and Scholars of Color Arlington Friday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 149 Profit and Politics in Higher Education Arlington Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 176 The Erosion of Academic Freedom Arlington More Focused? More Narrow? The Changing Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM 203 White Hill Nature of Doctoral Education in Sociology Our Real Day Job: Ensuring the Future of the Saturday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 228 Discipline by Reinventing Ourselves and Arlington Preparing Sociology’s Future Majors Jean Anyon’s Screen Door: New Directions in the Saturday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 258 Arlington Political Economy of Urban Education The Neoliberal Graveyard: Feminist Ruminations Saturday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 286 Arlington on the Corporatized University Activism and Social Justice in the Academy: Saturday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 287 Clarendon Theory Meets Application Saturday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 313 Implicating Sociology in General Miseducation Arlington Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM 339 Education is a Social Movement Statler Sociology is a Combat Sport? How to Organize Sunday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 357 Statler Reponses to Attacks on Critical Scholars AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS Friday 8:30-10:00 AM 57 Pedigree by Lauren Rivera White Hill A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Friday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 84 Movements Resist Industrialization by Barbara Arlington Katz Rothman The Con Men: Hustling in New York City by Terry Friday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 85 White Hill Williams and Trevor B. Milton Friday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 150 The Tumbleweed Society by Allison Pugh White Hill Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 177 Beacon Hill Age in America by Roberto Gonzales Strangers No More: Immigration and the Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 178 Challenges of Integration in North America and Statler Western Europe by Richard Alba and Nancy Foner 2 MY DAY JOB: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS – cont’d The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 179 White Hill Movement by Michael Gould-Wartofsky Gender and International Migration by Katherine Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 204 Arlington Donato and Donna Gabaccia Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Saturday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 314 Statler Irrelevance by Eviatar Serubavel Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 340 Arlington Injustice by Carla Shedd Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 341 White Hill Economy by Victor Chen At the Chef’s Table: Culinary Creativity in Elite Sunday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 358 White Hill Restaurants by Vanina Leschziner Sunday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 374 American Zoo by Dave Grazian Back Bay Sexual States: Governance and Anti-Sodomy Law Sunday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 375 White Hill in India’s Present by Jyoti Puri CONVERSATIONS Thursday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 18 Tamura Lomax with C. Shawn McGuffey Arlington Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 36 Patricia Fernandez Kelly with Saskia Sassen Arlington Friday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 56 Sylvia Dominguez with Van Tran Arlington Friday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 117 Michael Schwartz with Gilda Zwerman Statler Saturday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 229 James Loewen with Crystal Fleming Statler Saturday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 259 Frances Fox Piven with Neil McLaughlin Statler Saturday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 288 Moustafa Bayoumi with Vivek Bald Statler Sunday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 356 Alondra Nelson with Carla Shedd Arlington MINI-CONFERENCE: Animal Sociologies Teaching the Intersectional Animal: Integrating Thursday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 1 Stuart Animals into Social Inequality Discussions Theoretical and Methodological Approaches and Thursday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 20 Stuart Innovations Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 38 Specific Cases and Ethical Questions Stuart MINI-CONFERENCE: Carework Friday 8:30 - 10:00 AM Carework Roundtables Georgian Friday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 86 Making Educational Carework Visible Back Bay Friday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 119 Unexplored Territories of Carework (1) Back Bay Friday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 151 Unexplored Territories of Carework (2) Back Bay Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 180 The Space of Caring Back Bay Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 205 Care Occupations: Mobility and Benefits Back Bay Saturday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 230 Care and Auto-ethnography Back Bay Saturday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 260 Caring Identities Back Bay Saturday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 289 Penalties of Caring Back Bay Saturday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 315 Care and Migration Back Bay 3 MY DAY JOB: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia MINI-CONFERENCE: Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences Friday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 58 Educational Perspectives on Colonial Heritage Boylston Is it Possible to Think of Science Absent the Friday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 87 Boylston “Western” Referent? Social Movements, Insurgencies, and Epistemic Friday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 120 Boylston Disobedience Friday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 152 Sovereignty and Empire Boylston The Global South in the North, the Capillaries of Friday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 181 the North in the South and the Generation of Boylston (In)Justice: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Sex, Gender Saturday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 232 Before and Beyond the Merely “Human” Boylston Saturday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 262 Post-Colonial Sociology Boylston Empirical and Historical Comparative Methods for Saturday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 291 Studying Global Inequalities though Boylston Post/Decolonial Lenses Saturday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 317 Concepts and Relations of States Boylston MINI-CONFERENCE: Digital Sociology & Social Change Through Social Media Thursday 12:00 – 1:30 PM 2 Digital Scholars, Legacy Institutions Beacon Hill Thursday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 21 Digital Sociology & Qualitative Methods Beacon Hill Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 PM 39 Digital Sociological Tools & Ways of Knowing Beacon Hill Friday 8:30 - 10:00 AM Digital Sociology Roundtables Georgian Friday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 88 Critical Theories of the Digital for Sociology Beacon Hill Friday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 121 Digital Structures, Digital Institutions Beacon Hill Friday 1:45 - 3:15 PM 153 Gender, Work and the Digital Beacon Hill [Social Change] Digital Feminism: The Pros and Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 AM 207 Cons of Using Social Media to Advance Women’s Franklin Concerns and Causes [Social Change] Social Media Approaches to Saturday 10:15 - 11:45 AM 235 Franklin Racial/Ethnic Activism and Social Bonding [Social Change] Online Grassroots Activism, Saturday 12:00 - 1:30 PM 265 Franklin Hashtag Activists, and Citizen’s Digital Literacy [Social Change] Digital Approaches