Candidates for 2018 ASA Election

In accordance with election policies established by the ASA Council, biographical sketches of the candi­dates for leadership positions in the ASA election appear in alphabetical order by office below.

Candidates for President-Elect

Christine Williams

Present Professional Position: The Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas- Austin, 1999-present.

Former Professional Positions: Chair of Sociology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 2010-14.

Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1988-99. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, 1986-88.

Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1986. MA, University of California-Berkeley, 1982. BA, University of Oklahoma, 1980.

Positions Held in ASA: Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2017-20. Member and Chair, Jessie Bernard Award Committee, 2015-17. Elected Chair, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, 2009-10. Elected Member and Chair, Publications Committee, 2008-10. Elected Chair, Sex and Gender Section, 2000-01.

Offices Held in Other Organizations: Editorial Board, Work and Occupations, 2011-present. Elected Member, SWS Publications Committee, 2013-16. Member and Chair, SWS Feminist Mentor Award Committee, 2014-16. Member, Sociology Dissertation Awards Committee, National Science Foundation, 2009-10. Editor, Gender & Society, 2004-06.

Selected Publications:

• Williams, Christine L., Kristine Kilanski, and Chandra Muller. 2014. “Corporate Diversity and Gender Inequality in the Oil and Gas Industry,” Work and Occupations 41: 440-76.
• Williams, Christine L. 2013. “The Glass Escalator, Revisited: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times,” Gender & Society 27: 609-629.
• Williams, Christine L. 2006. Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality. University of California Press.
• Williams, Christine L. 1992. “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ‘Female’ Professions,” Social Problems 39: 253-267.
• Williams, Christine L. 1989. Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations. University of California Press.

Personal Statement:

I have been active in ASA my entire career, from graduate school at Berkeley to Oklahoma and now Texas. The organization is crucial for fostering the work of new scholars, promoting diversity in the discipline, and building a broad community of sociologists, including activists, policymakers, and educators from a variety of institutions. My long-term support for these goals is reflected in my service to the association. I have chaired sections, served on com­mittees, organized sessions, and sat on the editorial boards of ASA journals. I also chaired my sociol­ogy department and edited Gender & Society. This professional service has enhanced my research, which focuses on how work organizations can mitigate the social inequalities of gender, race, and class. I was honored to receive ASA’s Jessie Bernard Award, as well as the SWS feminist mentoring and lecturer awards. If elected President, I would showcase the excellent work being done in sociology and its potential to explain and improve our world.

David R. Williams

Present Professional Position: Professor of Public Health, African and African American Studies and Sociology, Harvard University, 2006-present.

Former Professional Positions: Associate Professor of Sociology to Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Associate Research Scientist to Senior Research Scientist/Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; University of Michigan, 1992-2006. Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University; Assistant to Associate Professor of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 1986–1992.

Education:

PhD, University of Michigan, 1986. MA, University of Michigan, 1984. MPH, Loma Linda University, 1981.

Positions Held in ASA:

Member, Task Force for the ASA Statement on Race, 2001-03. Member, Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2000-02. Member, Nominations Committee, 1997-98. Secretary-Treasurer, Medical Sociology Section, 1995-97. Member, Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award Selection Committee, 1994-96.

Offices Held in Other Organizations:

Member, Health Disparities Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (appointed by Secretary of Health and Human Services), 2005-present. Member, Task Force on the Future of America’s Health and Retirement Security, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Foundation, 2014-present. Member, Eight different Committees for the National Academies of Sciences/National Academy of Medicine/National Research Council,1995-2017. Member, Steering Committee, Special Research Initiative, California Breast Cancer Research Program, University of California Office of the President, 2012-15. Staff Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America (1st national bi-partisan commission on improving America’s health), 2006-09, 2013-14.

Selected Publications:

• Williams, David R. and Morgan M. Medlock. 2017. “Health Effects of Dramatic Societal Events – Ramifications of the Recent Presidential Election,” New England Journal of Medicine 376(23):2295-2299.
• Williams, David R. and Selina A. Mohammed. 2013. “Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence,” American Behavioral Scientist 57(8):1152–1173.
• Williams, David R. and Michelle Sternthal. 2010. “Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51:15-28.
• Williams, David R., Hector M. González, Stacey Williams, Selina A. Mohammed, Hashim Moomal, and Dan J. Stein. 2008. “Perceived Discrimination, Race and Health in South Africa: Findings from the South Africa Stress and Health Study,” Social Science and Medicine 67:441-452.

Personal Statement:

In this time of significant political change and unprecedented social turmoil, sociologists should be strategically engaged to shape current debates and make sense of social issues in real time. There is enormous opportunity to share the breadth and depth of the insights from the sociological imagination and research with broader audi­ences. I view the ASA presidency as a platform to listen attentively to, and actively engage with, all of the many voices in our discipline, to advocate for faculty, practitioners, and students in all areas of our field; and to enhance the visibility and deepen and broaden the impact of sociology in the public square. This historic moment calls for engaged sociology, whereby we use our teaching and research as a basis for public engagement—locally, nation­ally and globally—to equip the gen­eral public and policymakers with sociology’s timely contributions to understanding and effectively addressing contemporary societal challenges.

Candidates for Vice President-Elect

Joya Misra

Present Professional Position: Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2009-Present.

Former Professional Positions: Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1999-2009; Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia, 1994-99.

Education: PhD, Emory University, 1994. MA, Emory University, 1991. BA, Centenary College, 1988.

Positions Held in ASA: Member and Chair, Distinguished Book Committee, 2016-19. Member of Council, 2010-13. Elected Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair of the Section on Race, Gender, and Class, 2009-12. Elected Member, Nominations Committee, 2006-07; (Elected) Council Member, Section on Political Sociology, 2003-06.

Offices Held in Other Organizations: Editor, Gender & Society, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2011-14. Member, Executive Office and Budgets, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2011-14. Member and Chair, Feminist Mentoring Award, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2010-13. Member, National Science Foundation Sociology Program Review Panel, 2007-09. Chair, Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2007-08.

Selected Publications:

• Joya Misra. 2018. “Categories, Structures, and Intersectional Theory.” In James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell (Eds.) Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research. NYU Press.
• Joya Misra, Mahala Dyer Stewart, and Marni Brown (Eds.), 2017. Gendered Lives, Sexualized Bodies. SAGE.
• Joya Misra and Kyla Walters. 2016. “All Fun and Cool Clothes? Youth Workers’ Consumer Identity in Retail Clothing.” Work & Occupations. 44(3): 294-32.
• Irene Boeckmann, Joya Misra, and Michelle Budig. 2015. “Mothers’ Employment in Wealthy Countries: How Do Cultural and Institutional Factors Shape the Motherhood Employment and Working Hours Gap?” Social Forces. 94(3) 1301-1333.
• Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, Randall Stokes, and Doug Anderton (Eds.). 2007. Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate the Politics and the Profession in the 21st Century, University of California Press.

Personal Statement:

I am deeply grateful to have been nominated. My research spans gender, race, class, politics and movements, labor and work, family, and higher education, and I use qualitative, quantitative, and comparative historical methods. My two proudest moments in sociology were winning the SWS Feminist Mentor Award, and serving on ASA Nominations when Patricia Hill Collins and Evelyn Nakano Glenn were nominated and won office of President. My goal is to make everyone feel included in the organization. As a woman of color, I would work to value, recognize, and support our membership, ampli­fying the voices of our members in organizational decision-making and practice. Deeply committed to public sociology, I also would think creatively about how to engage with a variety of wider publics. I would be pleased to give my time and energy to the discipline to develop an even more supportive and inclu­sive association and enhance public engagement.

Victor M. Rios

Present Professional Position: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California- Santa Barbara, 2006-Present.

Former Professional Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco, 2007-08.  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco, 2005-06. Youth Programs Director, Community Bridges Beacon, 1998-2000.

Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2005. MA, University of California-Berkeley, 2003.

Positions Held in ASA: Chair, ASA Latina/o Sociology Section, 2017-Present. Member, ASA Public Engagement Advisory Committee, 2017-Present. Member, Committee on Sections, 2015-16. Chair, Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2014-16. Member, ASA Nominations Committee, 2014-15.

Offices Held in Other Organizations: Member, Nominations Committee, American Society of Criminology (ASC), 2018. Member, Hindelang Book Award Committee, ASC, 2018 Chair, C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2016 Member, ASC Program Committee, 2015 Executive Board Member, Western Society of Criminology, 2011.

Selected Publications:

• Rios, Victor M. 2017. Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth. University of Chicago Press.
• Rios, V.M. 2017. “Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice.” Annual Review of Sociology. 43(1).
• Rios, V.M. 2016. “Beyond Power-blind Ethnography.” Sociological Focus. 50(1).
• Rios, V.M. 2015. “Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography.” City and Community. 15(2).
• Rios, V.M. 2011. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York University Press.

Personal Statement:

As Vice-President my goal will be to support the ASA in further developing strategies for sociologists to disseminate their work to mass audiences. I will work on bolstering the online communities that exist for sociologists to inform the public of their latest research and publi­cations. I would seek funding to continue to support programs that offer sociologists ongoing training in how to maintain a public-facing research agenda. The insights of sociology must be shared with the public in palatable ways in order to improve institutions and society. My research focuses on how education and criminal justice systems impact the lives of marginalized young people. Motivated to produce work that would relate to these popu­lations, I wrote three trade books and implemented reform programs and policies in schools and juvenile detention facilities. I have also worked as an administrator focused on improving student and faculty well-being at my home institu­tion. I look forward to sharing my experience and learning more about leading the ASA, if elected.

Candidates for Secretary-Elect

Ashley “Woody” Doane

Present Professional Position: Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hartford, 1990-present.

Former Professional Positions: Freshman Seminar Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, New Hampshire Technical Institute, 1988-90. Instructor of Sociology, Colby-Sawyer College, 1985-88.

Education: PhD, University of New Hampshire, 1989. MA, University of New Hampshire, 1983. BA, New England College, 1977.

Positions Held in ASA:

Chair, Publications Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2015-18. Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 2015-17. Member, Founding Editorial Board, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2014-16. Member, Founders Award Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2013. Chair, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2005-06.

Offices Held in Other Organizations: Treasurer, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2017-19. Member, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Article Award Committee, Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2015. Chair, Book Award Committee, Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, SSSP, 2014. Lee Founders Award Committee, SSSP, 2011. President, Association for Humanist Sociology, 1998-99.

Selected Publications:

• Doane, Ashley (“Woody”). 2017. “Beyond Color-Blindness: (Re) Theorizing Racial Ideology.” Sociological Perspectives.
• Doane, Ashley (“Woody”) and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Eds.), 2003, White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism. Routledge.
• Doane, Ashley (“Woody”). 2014. “Shades of Color Blindness: Rethinking Racial Ideology in the United States.” in The Colorblind Screen: Race and Television in Contemporary America, edited by Sarah Turner and Sarah Nilson, New York University Press.
• Doane, Ashley (“Woody”). 2006. “What Is Racism? Racial Discourse and Racial Politics.” Critical Sociology.
• Doane, Ashley (“Woody”). 1997. “Dominant Group Ethnic Identity in the United States: The Role of Hidden Ethnicity in Intergroup Relations.” Sociological Quarterly.

Personal Statement:

As a member of ASA for over three decades, I am honored by the opportunity to serve the leading national organization in my aca­demic field. If elected, I hope to use my administrative and budgeting expertise (department chair since 1999; associate dean since 2001) for the benefit of ASA and its members. And as a sociologist who has spent his career at a teaching institution, I hope to serve as a voice for those who teach, do research, and practice outside of Research 1 institutions. I also recognize that we need to do more to challenge the hierarchical structures (race, gender) and the elitism within our scholarly organi­zations and academic institutions that keep us from realizing our full potential. If elected, I intend to be an advocate for change. The future well-being of our discipline demands that we utilize the talents of all of our members.

Nancy López

Present Professional Position: Associate Professor, Sociology, University of New Mexico, 2008-present. Director and Co-founder, Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, 2009-present. Founding Coordinator, New Mexico Race, Gender, Class Data Policy Consortium, 2014-present.

Former Professional Positions: Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of New Mexico, 2001-08. Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1999-2001. Adjunct Instructor, Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Black and Hispanic Studies, Bernard M. Baruch College, Social Sciences, La Guardia Community College, City University of New York, 1993-97.

Education: PhD, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 1999. BA, Columbia College, Columbia University, 1991.

Positions Held in ASA: Chair, Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2015-present. Member, Article Award Committee, Section on Race, Gender, Class, 2016. Editorial Board, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2016-20. Member, Nominations Committee, 2015-16; Chair, Section on Race, Gender, and Class, 2014-15. Chair, Latino Section Awards Committee, 2006-08.

Offices Held in Other Organizations: Co-Chair, Critical Race Studies in Education Association, Local Planning Committee, 2017-18. Co-Chair, Sociologists for Women in Society, Local Planning Committee, Winter Meeting, 2017. Editorial Board, Latino Studies Journal, 2013-17. Inaugural Co-chair, Diversity Council, University of New Mexico, 2011-16.

Publications:

• López, Nancy, Edward Vargas, Melina Juarez, Lisa Cacari-Stone, and Sonia Bettez. 2017. “What’s Your ‘Street Race’? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
• López, Nancy, Christopher Erwin, Melissa Binder, and Mario Chavez. 2017. “Making the Invisible Visible: Advancing Quantitative Methods Through Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality for Revealing Complex Race-Gender-Class Inequalities in Higher Education, 1980-2015.” Special Issue: Methods, Race, Ethnicity and Education.
• López, Nancy and Vivian L. Gadsden. 2017. “Health Inequities, Social Determinants, and Intersectionality,” in Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Kimber Bogard, et al., (Eds.): National Academy of Medicine.
• Johnson, Richard Greggory III, Mario Rivera and Nancy López. 2017. “Social Movements and the Need for a Trans Ethics Approach to LGBTQ Homeless Youth.” Public Integrity, 19:1-14.
• López, Nancy. 2013. “Contextualizing Lived Race-Gender and the Racialized-Gendered Social Determinants of Health.” Pp.179-211 in Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research, edited by Laura Gómez and Nancy López, Rutgers University Press.

Personal Statement:

As a sociologist with a life­long commitment to advancing knowledge projects on race, gender, ethnic, and class inequality, I have focused my scholarship on two major policy arenas: education and health. I am the daughter of Dominican immigrants who were only able to attend elementary school. I was born and raised in public housing in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Spanish is my first language. I graduated from a large de facto segregated vocational public high school for girls. I believe in the importance of examining race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other systems of difference, power, and inequality together—in order to make the invisible visible. I am inspired by ASA’s commitment to creating bridges of understanding and synergies among academic, policy, practitioner, and other diverse audi­ences. ASA’s relevance, visibility, and impact on local, national, and global conversations about inequality and social justice policy and practice are our strength.

Candidates for Council Members-at-Large

Kelly H. Chong, University of Kansas
Pawan Dhingra, Tufts University
David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut
Derek Hyra, American University
Jose Itzigsohn, Brown University
Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University
Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver
Sara Shostak, Brandeis University

Candidates for Committee on Committees, Members-at-Large

Susan J. Ferguson, Grinnell College
Cecilia Menjivar, University of Kansas
Mignon Moore, Barnard College-Columbia University
CJ Pascoe, University of Oregon

Candidates for Committee on Committees, PhD Granting Institution

Shannon N. Davis, George Mason University
Waverly Duck, University of Pittsburgh

Candidates for Committee on Committees, Non-Academic Institutions

Terceira Ann Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Lynda Laughlin, U.S. Census Bureau

Candidates for Nominations Committee

Cawo Abdi, University of Minnesota, University of Pretoria
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
Lorena Garcia, University of Illinois-Chicago
David S. Meyer, University of California-Irvine
Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University
Richard Pitt, Vanderbilt University
Rebecca Romo, Santa Monica College
Deidre Tyler, Salt Lake Community College
Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Christopher Winship, Harvard University

Candidates for Publications Committee

Syed Ali, Long Island University-Brooklyn
Claudia Buchmann, Ohio State University
Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland-College Park
Claire Decoteau, University of Illinois-Chicago
Belinda Robnett, University of California-Irvine
Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago