Elections | American Sociological Association

Below is the 2024 slate of candidates for ASA officers, Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, and Publications Committee and a Member Petition. All members whose membership is, and will remain, active between April 1 and June 1, 2024, with the exception of affiliate members, will receive a ballot on April 17, 2024 for the ASA-wide election and elections for the Sections in which they have membership. To ensure eligibility, please renew your membership prior to March 31.

President-Elect
Vote for 1; the elected will be President-Elect in September 2024, President in September 2025, and Immediate Past President in September 2026.

Shelley J. Correll, Stanford University
Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Vice President-Elect
Vote for 1; the elected will be Vice President-Elect in September 2024, Vice President in September 2025, and Immediate Past Vice President in September 2026.

Tracy E. Ore, St. Cloud State University
Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa

Secretary-Treasurer-Elect
Vote for 1; the elected will be Secretary-Treasurer-Elect in September 2024, then Secretary-Treasurer from September 2025 to August 2028.

Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley State University
Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago

Council Members-at-Large
Vote for 4; the elected will serve three years starting September 2024

Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
Leslie S. Paik, Arizona State University
Christina Alicia Sue, University of Texas at San Antonio
Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California

Committee on Committees (Members-at-Large; 2024 and 2025 committees*)
Vote for 2; the elected will serve on the 2024 and 2025 committee for a term of June 2024 to August 2025.

Paul D. Almeida, University of California, Merced
Marc A. Garcia, Syracuse University
James M. Thomas, University of Mississippi
Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University

Committee on Committees (Members-at-Large; 2025 and 2026 committees*)
Vote for 2; the elected will serve on the 2025 and 2026 committees for a term of September 2024 to August 2026.

Carolina Bank Muñoz, Brooklyn College
Pawan H. Dhingra, Amherst College
David G. Ortiz, New Mexico State University
Diane L. Pike, Augsburg University

Committee on Committees (PHD-granting Institution)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve on the 2024 and 2025 committees for a term of June 2024 to August 2025.

Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh
Rocio Rosales, University of California, Irvine

Committee on Committees (Non-teaching institution or in self-employment)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve on the 2024 and 2025 committees for a term of June 2024 to August 2025.

Steven A. Boutcher, Law and Society Association
George L. Wimberly, American Educational Research Association

Committee on Committees (MA institution or four-year institution)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve on the 2025 and 2026 committees for a term of September 2024 to August 2026.

Colby R. King, University of South Carolina Upstate
Joanna B. Perez, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Committee on Committees (Two-year Institution)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve on the 2025 and 2026 committees for a term of September 2024 to August 2026.

Laurie Jordan Linhart, Des Moines Area Community College
Fumiko Takasugi, Honolulu Community College

Nominating Committee (2024 and 2025 committees*)
Vote for 5; the elected will serve on the 2024 and 2025 committees for a term of June 2024 to August 2025.

Regina S. Baker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Jean Beaman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, University of Cincinnati
Erica Chito Childs, Hunter College – CUNY Graduate Center
Jelani I. Ince, University of Washington
James R. Jones, Rutgers University-Newark
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University of Albany, SUNY
Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College

Nominating Committee (2025 and 2026 committees*)
Vote for 5; the elected will serve on the 2025 and 2026 committees for a term of September 2024 to August 2026.

Fenaba Rena Addo, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
Vilna Bashi, Northwestern University
Glenda M. Flores, University of California, Irvine
Elaine Hernandez, Indiana University Bloomington
Ellis Prentis Monk, Harvard University
Candice C. Robinson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Louise Seamster, University of Iowa
Casey Stockstill, Dartmouth College
Paige L. Sweet, University of Michigan

Publications Committee
Vote for 3; the elected will serve from September 2024 to August 2027.

Bart Bonikowski, New York University
Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago
D’Lane R. Compton, University of New Orleans
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
Linda Renzulli, Purdue University
Van C. Tran, CUNY Graduate Center

Member Petition

A member petition was submitted to the ASA Council for consideration, which the ASA Council did not approve. As per our Bylaws (Article II, Section 9), given that Council did not approve the petition, it now comes to the membership for a vote. Read the member petition, Resolution for Justice in Palestine, here. And read the Council’s response to the petition, which provides context for why ASA Council did not approve the member resolution, here.

Voting members will be asked to vote yes or no to approving the member petition.

Note that in order to meet the quorum requirement specified in the ASA Bylaws for taking action on this item, 799** voting members need to participate in this vote. A majority of the members voting on this item shall determine the matter, assuming a quorum has been met. A ballot must be received by the Association no later than Monday, May 20 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern to be counted.

* Council recently approved a policy and transition plan, detailed in Footnotes, to change the start date for all leadership positions to September 1 starting in 2024. Part of the approved plan is to elect two sets of candidates to run in the 2024 election. Though they will be elected during the same election, they will serve different terms. One set will begin their service immediately after the election in June 2024 for service on the 2024 and 2025 committees (a complete term of June 2024 to August 2025). And the other set will start their service in September 2024 and end in August 2026 to serve on the 2025 and 2026 committees.

**This number was originally presented as 795 on April 1. It was updated on April 3 to reflect an adjustment in the calculation.

Candidates for President-Elect

Shelley J. Correll

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, 2012-present

Personal Statement:
I am running for President-elect of ASA because I believe that professional associations have an especially important role to play during this time, with rising misinformation and prominent attacks that falsely pit diversity and inclusion against academic freedom and free speech. As a discipline, sociology is uniquely positioned to meet this moment—to examine the social forces behind its rise and engage in public dialogue to set the record straight. In my efforts to advance gender, racial, and other forms of equity, I have led two gender-focused organizations on my campus to provide the public with research-based strategies for creating open and inclusive organizations and communities. As president, I would apply what I have learned from these efforts to ensure that ASA is a trusted and actionable voice in defending the critical role of sociology in the world and in advocating for marginalized communities in higher education and beyond.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, 2008-2012
Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, 2005-2008
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, 2003-2005

Education

PhD, Stanford Unversity, 2001
MA, Stanford University, 1996
BS, Texas A&M University, 1989

Positions Held in ASA

Chair, Feminist Scholar Action Award Commitee, ASA Section on Sex and Gender (2012-2013)
Chair, Sally Hacker Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, ASA Section on Sex and Gender (2011-2012)
Council, ASA Section on Sex and Gender (2009-20112)
Council, ASA Section on Social Psychology (2008-2011)
Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association (2007-2010)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Associate Director, Stanford Impact Labs, 2020-present
Co-founder and Director, Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, 2019-present
Co-chair, Feminist Mentor Award Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2018-2019
Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, 2010-2019
Editorial Board, Gender & Society, 2005-2011

Publications

Correll, Shelley J, Katherine R. Weisshaar, Alison T. Wynn, and JoAnne Delfino Warner. 2020. “Inside the Black Box of Organizatioanl Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment.” American Sociolgical Review 85: 1022-1050.
Correll, Shelley J. 2017. “Reducing Gender Biases in Modern Workplaces: A Small Wins Approach to Organizational Change.” Gender & Society 31: 725-750.
Correll, Shelley J, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Ezra Zuckerman, Sharon Jank, Sara Jordan-Bloch,and Sandra Nakagawa. 2017. “It’s the Conventional Though That Counts: How Third-order Inference Produces Status Advantage”. American Sociological Review 82: 297-327.
Correll, Shelley J and Stephen Benard. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112: 1297-1338.
Correll, Shelley J. 2004. “Constraints into Preferences: Gender, Status, and Emerging Career Aspirations.” American Sociological Review 69: 93-113.

Christopher Uggen

Present Professional Position
Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology, Law, and Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2016-present.

Personal Statement:
Thank you for considering me as your ASA President. My agenda is to bring sociology to broader visibility and influence and to provide current and future sociologists with the resources and support they need to flourish. As a “big tent” sociologist and public scholar engaging contentious issues, I appreciate the richness, range, and diversity of our work and the science and advocacy it inspires. In challenging times, ASA leaders help put our internal tensions to good purpose, communicate effectively with external audiences, and advocate vigorously for our membership. As President, I will work hard to expand our reach and impact, to engage more members inside and outside academia, and to strengthen the infrastructure that supports our research, teaching, and learning. As a conference theme, the “Big Tent Society” will foreground (and debate!) this inclusive vision – both for ASA as a professional society and for the societies we engage and inhabit.

Former Professional Positions Held

Editor and Publisher, The Society Pages, 2012-2024.
Sociology Department Chair, University of Minnesota, 2006-2012.
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1995-2015.

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1995.
MS, University of Wisconsin, 1990.
BA, University of Wisconsin, 1986.

Positions Held in ASA

2022 Program Committee, 2020-2022.
Vice President Elect, Vice President, and Past Vice President, American Sociological Association, 2016-2018.
Public Understanding of Sociology Committee, American Sociological Association, 2015-2017.
Chair, Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, 2014-2015.
Editor, Contexts Magazine, 2007-2011.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Committee on Law and Justice, 2024-present.
Editor and Publisher, The Society Pages, 2012-present.
Co-Chair, University of Minnesota Presidential Search Advisory Committee, 2023-2024.
Scientific Advisory Board, General Social Survey, 2016-2020.
Executive Secretary and Board Member, American Society of Criminology, 2003-2009.

Publications

Schnittker, Jason, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2022. Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press.
McLaughlin, Heather, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” American Sociological Review 77:625-47.
Manza, Jeff, and Christopher Uggen. 2006, 2008. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Uggen, Christopher and Jeff Manza. 2002. “Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” American Sociological Review 67:777-803.
Edelman, Lauren B., Christopher Uggen, and Howard S. Erlanger. 1999. “The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth.” American Journal of Sociology 105:406-454.

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Candidates for Vice President-Elect

Tracy E. Ore

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, St. Cloud State University, 2009-present; Director, St. Cloud State University Community Garden, 2021-present

Personal Statement:
As an educator, activist, and sociologist, I have strong commitments to praxis and social justice, and my work and service to the profession through my involvement with ASA demonstrates these commitments. Throughout my career, I have served in multiple leadership roles both in and outside of ASA and have collaborated with numerous communities in my academic and applied work. During these times of critical social change, I have dedicated my academic and public projects to developing comprehensive strategies for addressing issues of social injustice, particularly toward the elimination of food apartheid in support of food justice and food sovereignty. If elected, I would dedicate my energies to fostering a supportive and diverse community of scholars and practitioners working to dismantle social inequalities and injustices.

Former Professional Positions Held

Chair, Department of Social Work, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, July 2012 – June 2015
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 2004-2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 2000 – 2004

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
MA, Sociology: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989
BA, Sociology and Social Psychology: Hope College, Holland, MI, 1984

Positions Held in ASA

Member, American Sociological Association’s Program Reviewers & Consultants (formerly, the Departmental Resources Group), 2003-present
Member, ASA Program Reviewers & Consultants Advisory Board, 2019-2023
Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2021-2023
Member, American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee, 2020-2021
Chair, Sexualities Section, American Sociological Association, 2005-2006

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Treasurer, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2024-present
Board Member, American Community Gardening Association, 2024-present
Member, Board of Directors, Central Minnesota Tri-County Action Program, 2015-present
President, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2010-2011
President, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, 2009-2010

Publications

Ore, Tracy. 2022. The Social Construction of Difference & Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality, Eighth Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ore, Tracy. 2022. Review: Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality & Urban Agriculture. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Volume: 52, no. 1, 84-86.
Ore, Tracy. 2020. Review: Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Volume: 49, no. 3, 298-299.
Ore, Tracy. 2011. “Something from Nothing: Women, Space, and Resistance.” Gender & Society, Volume 25(6): 689-695.
Fox, Catherine O. and Tracy E. Ore. 2010. “Reconsidering Safe(r) Spaces as Fluid Countersites for Allies in Process.” Feminist Studies, Volume 36(3): 629-649.

Victor E. Ray

Present Professional Position
F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology

Personal Statement:
I am honored to be nominated for ASA Vice-President and hope to continue serving the discipline through elected office. Sociology is critically important to understanding (and solving) many of our most pressing social issues. However, the discipline (and, by extension, the association) is facing several issues–from questions on the propriety of public statements to legislative threats to the field. My immediate prior service on the Council provides continuity and an understanding of the context of these concerns. Beyond this service, I am an active public scholar, often engaged in national debates on the general purpose of sociology and higher education. I bring personal experience from interacting with a broad range of higher education organizations (I attended a community college and now teach at an R1). As ASA Vice-President, I plan to continue to apply these broad experiences to the genuine dilemmas facing the association.

Former Professional Positions Held

2019-2021, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, The University of Iowa
2014-2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Education

2014 Ph.D. Duke University
2010 M.A. Sociology, Duke University
2007 B.A. Urban Studies, Vassar College

Positions Held in ASA

2021-23, ASA Council Member
2023, Chair, Public Understanding of Sociology Award Committee
2022, Member, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Committee, American Sociological Association
2022, Member, Public Understanding of Sociology Award Committee, American Sociological Association
2021, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association Theory Section

Offices Held in Other Organizations

2022, Member, Ford Foundation Fellowship Selection Committee
2022, Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Advancing Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM
2021, Session Organizer, Southern Sociological Society, Theory
2021, Chair, Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
2021, Member, Racial/Ethnic Minority Fellowship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Publications

Saadi, Altaf, and Victor E. Ray. 2023. “Police Violence in Health Care Settings in US Media Coverage.” JAMA Network Open 6(11):e2342998.
Ray, Victor, Pamela Herd, and Don Moynihan. 2023. “Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 33(1) 139-152.
Ray, Victor. 2022. On Critical Race Theory: What it is & Why it Matters. Penguin Random House.
Tiako, Max Jordan Nguemeni, Eugenia C. South, and Victor Ray. 2021. “Medical Schools as Racialized Organizations: A Primer.” Annals of Internal Medicine 174 (12) 1777-1778.
Ray, Victor. 2019. “A Theory of Racialized Organizations.” American Sociological Review 84(1): 26-53.

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Candidates for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Laurel Westbrook

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Grand Valley State University, 2021-present

Personal Statement:
I am honored to be considered for the position of Secretary/Treasurer. If elected, I will serve with integrity and dedication. The Secretary/Treasurer of ASA performs standard Secretary/Treasurer duties, including drafting and maintaining the budget, taking meeting minutes, and being a contributing member to ASA Council. They also serve as Chair of the Finance Committee and member of both the Publications Committee and Program Committee. I believe I am well-qualified for these tasks, as I have previously served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Sex & Gender Section of ASA, as well as Council Member for both the Sex & Gender Section and the Sociology of Sexualities Section. Moreover, I have served on the Program Committee for the ASA annual meeting as well as the Publications Committee for Sociologists for Women in Society. Through this previous service, I have developed and honed the skills necessary for this role.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Grand Valley State University, 2015-2021
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Grand Valley State University, 2009-2015
Dissertation Fellow and Instructor of Record, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008-2009

Education

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
BA, University of California, Berkeley, 2002

Positions Held in ASA

Nominating Committee for ASA (2021-2023)
Program Committee for the annual meeting of ASA (2020-2021)
Secretary/Treasurer, ASA Sex & Gender Section (2017-20)
Council Member, ASA Sex & Gender Section (2014-17)
Council Member, ASA Section on Sociology of Sexualities (2011-14)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Publications Committee Sociologists for Women in Society (2023-26)
Past-Chair, Sociologists for Trans Justice (2019-20)
Editorial Board, Sociological Perspectives (2018-22)
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Sociologists for Trans Justice (2016-19)
Editorial Board, Gender & Society (2016-18)

Publications

Westbrook, Laurel. 2023. “The Matrix of Violence: Intersectionality and Necropolitics in the Murder of Transgender People in the United States, 1990–2019.” Gender & Society 37(3):413–46.
Westbrook, Laurel. 2022. “Violence against Transgender People in the United States: Field Growth, Data Dilemmas, and Knowledge Gaps.” Sociology Compass 16(6):e12983.
shuster, stef m., and Laurel Westbrook. 2022. “Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy.” Social Problems spac034. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spac034.
Westbrook, Laurel, Jamie Budnick, and Aliya Saperstein. 2022. “Dangerous Data: Seeing Social Surveys through the Sexuality Prism.” Sexualities 25(5–6):717–49.
Westbrook, Laurel. 2021. Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Rhys H. Williams

Present Professional Position
Professor Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago, 2023-present

Personal Statement:
It is critical that the ASA be strong and vibrant, given the attacks on universities and the need for justice-based scholarship. The Secretary-Treasurer is not a policy making position but is key to the ASA’s health. The position requires accuracy, accountability, and transparency. I can provide all three. The three-year Secretary-Treasurer term provides continuity across ASA presidential terms, providing for the smooth functioning of the association via accurate record keeping and budgetary planning. I have experience with budgets, record keeping, and planning as department chair for two different departments, as treasurer for an ASA section, and as president and council member of ASA Sections and other scholarly societies. I have served on ASA Executive Council, and have experience working with ASA staff and with the association’s rules, aspirations, and challenges. I will use my experience with budgets and financial planning to pursue justice, within the ASA and society more broadly.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor and Department Chair of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, 2009-2023
Professor and Department Head of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, 2001-2009
Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1989-2001

Education

PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985
BA, Sociology and Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1979

Positions Held in ASA

Member, ASA Committee on Committees, 2021-2023
Member, ASA Executive Council, 2017-2020
Chair, ASA Section on Political Sociology, 2016-2017, Secretary-Treasurer, Political Sociology, 2012-15
Chair, ASA Section on Collective Behavior/Social Movements, 2006-2007
Chair, ASA Section on Sociology of Religion, 2001-2002

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Chair, Finance and Development Committee, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2023-2025
President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2011-2012
President, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2009-2010
Journal editor and Council member, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2003-2008
Chair, C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2001,2002

Publications

Williams, Rhys H. 2022. “Mobilizing Religion in 21st Century Nativism in the U.S.” Pp. 199-218 in Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, W. Goldstein and J.P. Reed, eds. New York: Routledge Publishers.
Barron, Jessica M. and Rhys H. Williams, 2017. The Urban Church Imagined: Race, Religion, and Authenticity in the City. New York: New York University Press.
Braunstein, Ruth, Todd Nicholas Fuist, and Rhys H. Williams, eds. 2017. Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics. New York: New York University Press.
Williams, Rhys H. 2013. “Civil Religion and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in Obama’s America.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 52: 239-257.
Williams, Rhys H. 2011. “Creating an American Islam: Thoughts on Religion, Identity, and Place.” Sociology of Religion, 72: 127-153.

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Candidates for Council Members-at-Large

Rodney D. Coates

Present Professional Position
Tenured Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio , 2005 to present.

Personal Statement:
We, sociologists, are at a crossroads or better yet an inflection point. What we do in the next few years will determine whether or not we will survive, and what our discipline will look like as we go forward. This is not the first time that we have been at a similar point. At each of the events, our discipline and our members have been under attack. We have deliberated and chosen a course that affirmed our reason for being and that articulated the values that we ascribe to. In this current moment, as the discipline and its members are being subject to censure and rebuke, marginalization and sanctions we can ill afford to bury our heads in the sands. Where are the attacks considering just a brief list – Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Political sociology and educational sociology, social justice and praxis, and the list goes on. My goal will be to work with our leadership and membership to rebuff these attacks. We must also look past our organization, and consider world issues. We must side with those being subject to atrocities in the middle east, Ukraine, throughout Africa and elsewhere. We must demand that all parties respect human rights and call for an immediate ceasefire. We must challenge foreign aid and push for foreign development. And we must understand that no border can be secure until people are secure.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, Oh. 1994 – 1999
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, Oh. 1990-1994
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carilina, Charlotte, NC 1988-1990

Education

PhD, University of Chicago 1987
MA, University of Chicago 1987
BA, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville 1977

Positions Held in ASA

Editorial Board -Race, Gender and Society
Associate Editor and Editorial Board – Critical Sociology
Editorial Board American Sociological Review,
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award -ASA

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Executive Board – SSSP

Editorial Board Social Forces,
Executive Board Southern Sociological Society
C. Wright Mills Award Committee -SSSP
Professional Review Panel: Ford Fellowship – National Academy of Sciences

Publications

Coates, Rodney, 2023. “Critical Race Theory, Neoliberalism, and the Illiberal University. ” Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, 1 (1): 53-82,
Coates, Rodney, 2024. Critical Race and the Search for Truth, Bristal University Press.
Coates, Rodney D., Abby Ferber, & David Brunsma, 2021. The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality, 2nd edition. Denver: Sage Publications.
Coates, Rodney, 2022. “Othering” in Framing Social Theory edited by Paola Rebughini and Enzo Columbo. London, Routledge.
Coates, Rodney, 2022. “A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing the University.” Sociological Teaching, 2(1): 24-39.
Coates, Rodney, 2020. “Voyage into the Matrix of Race and the Truly Determined.” Critical Sociology. 46 (7/8):1283-1300.

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2017-present

Personal Statement:
I am firmly committed to the promotion of research and knowledge-building in sociology, a discipline that has made paramount contributions to the understanding of lived environments over more than a century. Sociology’s mission to obtain an increasingly more precise understanding of empirical realities is even more important now that political forces confuse opinions for facts and impressionistic judgment for credible scientific inquiry. The rise of authoritarianism in the United States and abroad threatens the social sciences, as shown by recent attempts to eliminate sociology from the curriculum of public universities. I stand against such abuses. The American Sociological Association has been a major influence in my academic life. I am eager to serve the community of sociologists that I admire, and which has been pivotal to my own development. I look forward to collaborating with my colleagues to make our flagship organization as influential and worthy of respect as possible.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ – 2017 – present
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ – 1998 – 2016
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland — 1986-1997

Education

PhD. in Social Anthropology, Rutgers University, 1981
MA in Social Anthropology, Rutgers University, 1979
PhD (Equivalent) in Art History, Universidad Iberoamericana, 1974

Positions Held in ASA

Nominations Committee, ASA, 2018
Member of the Advisory Board, ASA, Sociological Action Network – 2020 – 2024
Member, organizing committee, ASA Annual Meeting 1997

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member, organizing committee, Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Annual Meeting – 2020
Chair of the Board, Latin American Legal Defense and Education fund (LALDEF) – 20010 – 2020

Publications

Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 2019. “Children of Immigrants in the Era of Mass Deportations.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue co-edited with Alejandro Portes).
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 2016. The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. (2017 C.Wright Mills Finalist Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems).
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 2021. “From Empire to Tompkins Square: Celebrating the Legacy of Janet Abu-Lughod. Sociological Forum, Vol. 36, Issue 2: 528-531.
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 2021. “The Integration Paradox: Contrasting Patterns in Adaptation among Immigrant Children in Central New Jersey.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1: 180-198.
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. 2019. “Reclaiming the Black and Asian Journeys: A Comparative Perspective on Culture, Class, and Immigration.” International Handbook of Migration (Steven J. Gold, Editor). New York: Routledge Publishers.

Leslie S. Paik

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2021-present

Personal Statement:
N/A

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, City College – CUNY, New York, NY, 2013-2021
Assistant Professor of Sociology, City College – CUNY, New York, NY, 2006-2013
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2010-2021

Education

PhD, UCLA, 2006
MA, UCLA, 2002
BA, Brown University, 1994

Positions Held in ASA

Rose Series Editor, 2018-2021
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Co-Editor, Theoretical Criminology, 2022-present

Publications

Paik, Leslie, Andrea Guiffre, Alexes Harris, and Sarah Shannon. 2023. “The Long Reach of Juvenile and Criminal Legal Debt: How Monetary Sanctions Shape Legal Cynicism and Adultification” Children and Youth Services Review https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107121
Paik, Leslie and Chiara Packard. 2023. “Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court.” Law and Social Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2022.77
La Scala-Gruenewald, Angela and Leslie Paik. 2023. “Legal Financial Obligations in the United States: A Review of Recent Research.” Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13070
Paik, Leslie. 2022. “The influence of family multi-institutional involvement on children’s health management practices.” Children, 9(6), 828; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9060828
Paik, Leslie. 2021. Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

Christina Alicia Sue

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology & Demography, University of Texas-San Antonio, 2023-present.

Personal Statement:
The ASA has been my intellectual home for many years, and I always endeavor to give back to the communities of which I am a part. Up until now, the bulk of my service has been dedicated to my department and university, as well as cultivating undergraduate interest in sociology and mentoring graduate students in our discipline. I actively conduct research in the areas of comparative race and ethnicity (with a focus on the U.S. and Latin America), ethnoracial integration, multiracialism, gender, culture, ethnographic methods, and, most recently, the demography of ethnoracial statistics. I have been involved in multiple ASA sections including race and ethnic minorities, international migration, sex and gender, Latino(a) sociology, and global and transnational sociology. I would be honored to represent the vast array of sociological subfields and advocate for our discipline, especially in these critical times.

Former Professional Positions Held

Director of the Arts & Sciences Honors Residential Academic Program, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2018-2022
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2016-2018

Education

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007

Positions Held in ASA

Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Sociology, 2017-2019

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Latin American Studies Center, Steering Committee, University of Colorado, 2014-2022
First Year Experience Advisory Board, LLC/RAP Subcommittee, University of Colorado, 2021-2022
Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, University of Colorado, 2020
Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) Diversity Committee, University of Colorado, 2019-2022
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, Reviewer panel, 2010-2013

Publications

Sue, Christina, Jessica Vasquez and Adriana Núñez. 2024. “Couple Identity Work: Collaborative Couplehood, Gender Inequalities, and Power in Naming” Gender & Society.
Sue, Christina, Fernando Riosmena, and Edward Telles. 2024. “Black Disadvantage or Advantage? Misalignment between State and Popular Understandings of Blackness in Mexico” Socius.
Sue, Christina, Michael Harris and Adriana Núñez. 2022. “Colorblind Spots in Qualitative Methods Training.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8(1): 229-233.
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2019. Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sue, Christina. 2013. Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. New York: Oxford University Press

Natasha Warikoo

Present Professional Position
Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Tufts University, Jan. 2020-present

Personal Statement:
It is an honor to be asked to run for ASA Council. Our field and higher education overall are facing a moment in which basic assumptions and routines are being questioned and rethought. This makes for an exciting time, in which leadership is critical. If elected I will bring my 25 years of experience in sociology, my research interests in race, diversity, and higher education, and my capacity to examine issues from all sides to this position.

Former Professional Positions Held

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Assistant-Associate Professor, Jan. 2009- Jan. 2019
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute for the Study of the Americas, May 2005-Dec. 2008

Education

PhD, Harvard University Department of Sociology, 2005
MEd, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1997
BA/BSc, Brown University (philosophy and mathematics), 1995

Positions Held in ASA

W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Selection Committee, 2024
Editorial Board, Sociology of Education (2024-27) and American Sociological Review (2021-24)
Sociology of Culture, Section Council (2023-2026) and Chair, Mary Douglas Book Award Selection Committee (2024)
Chair, Sociology of Education Section, 2023-2024
Secretary-Treasurer, Asian and Asian American Section, 2021-2024

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Co-Chair, Scholars Strategy Network, Boston Chapter, 2018-present
Member, Advisory Board of Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA) at Tufts University. 2022-present.
Member, Program Committee, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2018

Publications

Lewis-McCoy, L., N. Warikoo, S. Matthews, and N. Foley. (2023). “Introduction: Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.
Warikoo, N. (October 2022). Is Affirmative Action Fair? The Myth of Equity in College Admissions. Cambridge, UK: Polity Books.
Warikoo, N. (May 2022). Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Warikoo, N. (2016). The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Warikoo, N. (2020). “Addressing Emotional Health while Protecting Status: Asian American and White Parents in Suburban America.” American Journal of Sociology.

Hajar Yazdiha

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2018-present

Personal Statement:
I am honored and excited to be nominated as an ASA Council Member-at-Large as a long-time member who has served on councils of multiple ASA sections, award committees, and mini-conference planning committees. As a scholar who studies the politics of inclusion and exclusion, I am deeply invested in supporting the wide-ranging work of ASA’s scholars, of all ranks, institutional types, and places. In addition to my prior experiences on section councils, I bring to the table expertise in collaboration, team-building, and strategic planning. Put simply, I like organizing action items and bringing them to fruition. I am eager to work with fellow council members and leadership to develop sustained infrastructures for supporting our extensive membership, addressing members’ needs and concerns, and taking on the pressing issues facing the discipline. In a time when sociology programs are under attack, we need a strong ASA more than ever.

Former Professional Positions Held

Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California, 2017-2018

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
MA, Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
BA, English, University of Virginia, 2005

Positions Held in ASA

2024 ASA Jessie Bernard Award Committee
2023-26 ASA Political Sociology Section Council Member
2021-24 ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Publications Committee Member
2020-23 ASA International Migration Section Council Member
2020-23 ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements Membership, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee

Offices Held in Other Organizations

2021-2024 American Sociological Review Editorial Board Member
2021-2024 Social Problems Editorial Board Member
2023 Equity Research Institute Post-Doctoral Scholars Review Team
2020-2021 USC Graduate Race & Gender Equity Committee Co-Chair
2020-2023 USC Diversity, Inclusion, Access (DIA) JumpStart Faculty Mentor

Publications

Yazdiha, Hajar. 2023. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Yazdiha, Hajar. 2023. “The Relational Politics of Racialized Policing: Community Policing for Counterterrorism, Suspect Communities, and Muslim Immigrants’ Provisional Belonging.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(11): 2676-2697.
Yazdiha, Hajar. 2021. “Toward a Du Boisian Framework of Immigrant Incorporation: Racialized Contexts, Relational Identities, and Muslim American Collective Action.” Social Problems, 68(2): 300-320.
Yazdiha, Hajar. 2020. “All the Muslims Fit to Print: Racial Frames as Mechanisms of Ethnoracial Formation in the New York Times from 1992-2010.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Yazdiha, Hajar. 2020. “An Intersectional Theory of Strategic Action: Socially-Located Memories and the Challenge of Muslim Mobilization Against Police.” Mobilization, 25(4): 475-492.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees (Members-at-Large; 2024 and 2025 Committees)

Paul D. Almeida

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and Environmental Systems, University of California, Merced, 2015-Present

Personal Statement:
I have served in several ASA roles, including chair of the Political Sociology section and as a member of the 2021-2022 ASA Annual Meetings Committee. I would like to emphasize major global trends of climate change, racist nationalism, authoritarianism, and neoliberal economic structures and how to best use sociology to address and confront them.

Former Professional Positions Held

Chair, ASA Section on Political Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, Merced
Chair, Faculty Executive Committee, UC Merced Community and Labor Center

Education

PhD University of California, Riverside, 2001
MA, University of New Mexico, 1994
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991

Positions Held in ASA

Chair, Section on Political Sociology
Council Member, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Committee Member, 2022 ASA Conference Program Committee
Council Member, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology
Treasurer, Section on Labor and Labor Movements

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Chair, Faculty Executive Committee, UC Merced Community and Labor Center, 2022-Present
Vice Chair, Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation, UC Merced, 2021-Present
Editorial Board, Mobilization (Journal), 2008-Present
Decarbonization Committee, UC Merced, 2023-Present
Alianza-MX, UC Merced Faculty Representative, 2020-Present

Publications

Almeida, Paul, Luis Ruben Gonzalez, Edward Orozco Flores, Venise Curry, and Ana Padilla. 2023. “The Building Blocks of Community Participation in Local Climate Meetings.” Npj Climate Action 2. doi: 10.1038/s44168-023-00071-4.
Almeida, Paul D, Luis Ruben Gonzalez Marquez, and Eliana Fonsah. 2023. “The Forms of Climate Action.” Sociology Compass. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13177.
Almeida, Paul D, and Amalia Pérez Martín. 2022. Collective Resistance to Neoliberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Almeida, Paul, Eugenio Sosa, Allen Cordero, and Ricardo Argueta. 2021. “Protest Waves and Social Movement Fields: The Micro Foundations of Campaigning for Subaltern Political Parties.” Social Problems 68(4):831-51.
Almeida, Paul. 2019. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Marc A. Garcia

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University. August 2021-present

Personal Statement:
I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ASA Committee on Committees (COC). Over the years I have benefited tremendously from mentorship, networking, and collaborations with many ASA members, and I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the future growth and continued success of ASA through participation as a member of the COC. My life experiences have engendered a strong commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion among faculty and students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. If elected, I will draw on my background as a Mexican American, and the first in my family to pursue a college education to increase inclusivity and empower underrepresented groups to ensure equal representation of students and faculty across our ranks.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Institute of Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. July 2018-July 2021

Education

PhD, University of Texas-Austin, 2015
MS, Texas A&M University, 2011
BA, University of Texas-Pan American, 2008

Positions Held in ASA

Council Member, Aging and the Life Course (2022-2025)
Editorial Board Member – Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2021-2023)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Awards Committee Member – Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (2021-2024)
Associate Editor – Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences (2023 – present)
Editorial Board Member – Research on Aging (2021-2023)
Associate Editor – Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (2021)

Publications

Garcia, Marc A and Rogelio Sáenz. 2023. “Latino Mortality Paradox Found (Again): Covid-19 Mortality a Tale of Two Years.” Journal of Aging and Health 35(10):808-18.
Garcia, Marc A, Brian Downer, Chi-Tsun Chiu, Joseph L Saenz, Kasim Ortiz, and Rebeca Wong. 2021. “Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities.” The Gerontologist.
Garcia, Marc A, Patricia A Homan, Catherine García, and Tyson H Brown. 2021. “The Color of COVID-19: Structural Racism and the Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Older Black and Latinx Adults.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(3):e75-e80.
Garcia, Marc A, David F Warner, Catherine García, Brian Downer, and Mukaila Raji. 2021. “Age Patterns in Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment among Older Latino Subgroups and Non-Latino Whites in the U.S., 1997 to 2018: Implications for Public Health Policy.” Innovation in Aging.
Sáenz, Rogelio, and Marc A Garcia. 2021. “The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Older Latino Mortality: The Rapidly Diminishing Latino Paradox.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(3):e81-e87.

James M. Thomas

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 2019-present

Personal Statement:
I’m excited to be considered for an elected position on the American Sociological Association’s Committee on Committees. The Committee on Committees is charged with making recommendations for ASA Council on appointments to award selection committees, the Committee on Professional Ethics, and several other appointed positions. Members who serve on the Committee on Committees, then, have the responsibility of helping to ensure that the ASA’s governance structure represents and reflects the entire discipline, and not just the traditional hierarchy of our discipline. If elected, I promise to keep this responsibility at the center of my decision-making while serving on this committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2014-2019
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2012-2014
Community Impact Director, Heart of Missouri United Way, Columbia, MO, 2012

Education

PhD, University of Missouri, 2011
MA, University of Missouri, 2007
BA, University of Missouri, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

Co-editor, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2022-present
Review Panel, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Program, 2021-present
Editorial Board, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2015-2021
Editorial Board, Contexts, 2014-2017
Committee Member, Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2016

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Executive Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2023-present
Program Chair, Association of Humanist Sociology, 2021
Editorial Board, Social Problems, 2018-2021
Nominations Committee, Association of Humanist Sociology, 2018-2020

Publications

Thomas, James M. 2023. The Souls of Jewish Folk: W.E.B Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Correa, Jennifer G. and James M. Thomas. 2023. “’It’s my home, not a war zone’: Mobilizing a multitude to de-militarize the Texas Rio Grande Valley”. Sociology Compass, e13093. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13093.
Thomas, James M. 2021. “Race, Nation, and the Color-Line in the Twenty-First Century: A Du Boisian Analysis.” Social Problems, 68 (2): 267-283.
Johnson, Kirk, Willa Johnson, James M. Thomas, and John Green. 2021. “Mapping Microaggressions on a Southern University Campus: Where Are the Safe Spaces for Vulnerable Students?” Social Problems, 68 (1): 1-18.
Thomas, James M. 2020. Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Elizabeth Vaquera

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2016-present

Personal Statement:
I have served in sections for ASA (i.e. Latino/a/x Sociology and Sociology of Education), but I haven’t had the opportunity to serve ASA-wide committees yet. I am excited to give back and participate in a committee with a charge that I believe I can contribute significantly to. I strive to run an effective and efficient organization (I am the Executive Director of the Cisneros Institute at GW) and I believe my skills are easily transferrable to this role.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida. 2014-2016.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida. 2007-2014.

Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Positions Held in ASA

2017-2020 Secretary and Treasurer, Section on Latino Sociology, American Sociological Association.
2013-2016 Council, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association.
2021-2024 Editorial Board, Society and Mental Health.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Publications

Elizabeth Vaquera and Thomas Rachko, Jr. (forthcoming, 2024) “Im/migrant Well-Being Part II: Race, Ethnicity, and Legal Challenges to Incorporation and Well-being.” American Behavioral Scientist.
Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, Heide Castañeda, and Melanie Escue (forthcoming, 2024). “Normalized Expendability: Navigating Immigrant Legal Status during a Global Pandemic.” American Behavioral Scientist.
Roche, Kathleen, Katherine B. Ehrlich, Todd Little, and Elizabeth Vaquera (forthcoming, 2024). “Mental Health During Early Adolescence and Later Cardiometabolic Risk: A Prospective Study of US Latinx Youth.” Journal of Adolescent Health.
Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, Heide Castañeda, and *Girsea Martinez Rosas (2023). “Undocumented Again? DACA Rescission, Emotions, and Incorporation Outcomes among Young Adults.” Social Forces 101(3): 1321-1342. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac056
Vaquera, Elizabeth, Heide Castañeda, and Elizabeth Aranda (2022). “Legal and Ethnoracial Consciousness: Perceptions of Immigrant Media Narratives Among the Latino Undocumented 1.5 Generation.” American Behavioral Scientist 66: 1606-1626.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees (Members-at-Large; 2025 and 2026 Committees)

Carolina Bank Muñoz

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College 2004-present

Personal Statement:
As a long time member of the ASA, I am excited to be running for the Committee on Committees. I have always been active in ASA, serving in a number of capacities as chair of the Labor and Labor Movements section and as a council member for the Global and Transnational, and the Race, Gender, and Class sections. However, I have rarely had the opportunity to serve the ASA as a whole. My first experience with a ASA wide committee was the Distinguished Book Award committee, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I believe my experience, organizational skills, and dedication to a wide variety of ASA sections places me in a unique position to serve on the Committee on Committees.

Former Professional Positions Held

Education

Phd, University of California Riverside, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

American Sociological Association, Global and Transnational Sociology, Council (2019-2022)
American Sociological Association, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, (2019-2021)
American Sociological Association, Past Chair, Labor and Labor Movements Section (2011-2012)
American Sociological Association, Chair, Labor and Labor Movements Section (2010-2011)
American Sociological Association, Council Member, Race, Gender and Class Section (2009-2012)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Publications

Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Penny Lewis, and Emily Tumpson Molina. 2022. A People’s Guide to New York City . Oakland, University of California Press.
Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Bridget Kenny, and Antonio Stecher (eds). 2018. Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. Austin, University of Texas Press.
Bank Muñoz, Carolina. 2017. Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
Rooks Daisy, and Carolina Bank Muñoz. 2015. “Brilliant, Bored or Badly-Behaved? Media Coverage of the Charter School Debate in the U.S.” Teachers College Record 117(8).
Bank Muñoz, Carolina. 2008. Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in the U.S. and Mexico. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Pawan H. Dhingra

Present Professional Position
Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty, Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank ’55 Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2018-present

Personal Statement:
Having been on the ASA nominations committee and now as president of another national association, I appreciate the need for members to step up and support the continuity and change required for healthy associations. I will do my best to represent those within the discipline hoping for growth and relevance in the public sphere, grounded in thoughtful scholarly production.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Tufts University, 2012-2018
Associate Professor and Chair (previously assistant professor), Department of Sociology, Oberlin College, 2003-2012
Assisitant Professor, Department of Sociology, Bucknell University, 2001-2003

Education

PhD, Cornell University, 2002
MA, Cornell University, 1998
BA, Carleton College, 1994

Positions Held in ASA

International Migration Section treasurer, 2021-2022
2018-2021, editorial board, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
2017-2020, editorial board, Rose Monograph Series in Sociology
ASA Committee on Nominations, 2019-2021
Asia and Asian America Section chair, 2013-2014

Offices Held in Other Organizations

President, Association for Asian American Studies, 2022-2024
Board of Trustees President and Member, South Asian American Digital Archive, 2013-2017

Publications

Kim, Nadia and Pawan Dhingra (eds.), 2023. Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. New York: NYU Press.
Dhingra, Pawan and Robyn Rodriguez, 2021. Asian America, 2nd edition. London, UK: Polity Press.
Dhingra Pawan and Tanya Golash Boza (eds.) 2021. “Special issue on Immigration and White Supremacy,” Social Sciences.
Dhingra, Pawan. 2021. ‘“Over-zealous Parents, Over-programmed Families’: Asian Americans, Academic Achievement, and White Supremacy,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 7, 4: 458-471 (lead article)
Dhingra, Pawan. 2020. Hyper Education: Why Good Grades, Good Schools, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough, New York: NYU Press.

David G. Ortiz

Present Professional Position
Department Head of Sociology, New Mexico State University, 2021-present

Personal Statement:
I was honored to accept the nomination to be a candidate to serve in in this position. As a Mexican that immigrated to the United States and was given the opportunities to develop an academic career as a Sociologist, I am always looking for ways to give back and serve in any way possible. I have been a member of the ASA for more than 21 years, and have benefitted professionally and academically from my membership. Having served for two terms in the nominations committee for the CBSM section of ASA before, I think I am well prepared to serve on this committee for the ASA at-large. I look forward to working with other colleagues in a respectful manner, as we look for an inclusive and diverse group of candidates that we can recommend for the various ASA standing committees.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, New Mexico State University, 2017-present
Assistant Professor of Sociology, New Mexico State University, 2015-2016
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2008-2015

Education

PhD in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2008
MA in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2002
MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Univesity of Notre Dame, 1999

Positions Held in ASA

Committee Member, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements, 2018-2019
Committee Member, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements, 2016-2017

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Provost’s Inaugural Faculty Fellow, Center for Latin American and Border Studies (CLABS), New Mexico State University, 2020-present
Sociological Perspectives Journal, Associate Editor, 2016-2021
Mobilizing Ideas Blog, Collective Behavior and Section of ASA, Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief, 2011-2020
2012-2016 Associate Research Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy & Research, Tulane University, 2012-2016

Publications

Arnett, Stephanie M., Sandra M. Way, David G. Ortiz, Lorissa Humble, and Analyssa Martinez. 2021. “Toward an Understanding of the Relationship between Race/ Ethnicity, Gender, First Generation Student Status and Engineering Identity at Hispanic Serving Institutions.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings.
Ortiz, David G. 2018. “Represión Estatal y Movilización en América Latina” Pp.83-114 en Almeida, Paul y Allen Cordero Ulate. Movimientos Sociales en América Latina: Perspectivas, Tendencias y Casos. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
Ostertag, Stephen F. and David G. Ortiz. 2017. “Can Users of Social Media Produce Enduring Social Ties? Affordances and the Case of Katrina Bloggers.” Qualitative Sociology 40(1):59-82.
Ortiz, David G. and Stephen F. Ostertag. 2014. “Katrina Bloggers and the Development of Collective Civic Action: The Web as a Virtual Mobilizing Structure” Sociological Perspectives 57(1):52-78
Ortiz, David G., and Béjar, Sergio. 2013. “Participation in IMF-sponsored Economic Programs and Collective Action in Latin America, 1980-2007.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 30(5):492-515

Diane L. Pike

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology emerita, Augsburg University, 2022-present.

Personal Statement:
The opportunity to serve as a member of the Committee on Committees is motivated by my deep commitment to continue to engage as a sociologist and active ASA member following my retirement from full time teaching in 2022. As an organizational sociologist by training and with an extensive leadership background on my campus and in regional and national organizations, I am eager to contribute to the functional aspects of ASA and the work of meeting our mission as a professional organization serving the science of sociology. Efficient and effective work by well functioning and representative committees is key in our organizational structure.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor of Sociology, Augsburg University, 1994-2022

Education

PhD, Yale University 1981
Masters Degree, Yale University 1977
AB Connecticut College 1975

Positions Held in ASA

Program Review and Consulting Advisory Board 2023-2026
ASA Task Force on the Sociology Major 2015-2017
Editor of TRAILS 2012-2015
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Committee 2014-2016
Section on Committees 2010-2012

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Midwest Sociological Society Nominations Committee 2023-2025; Book Awards Committee 2023 Professional Standards Committee 2023-2025
Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest Board Member and Secretary 2019-2023
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Committee Co-Chair 2022-2024 Governing Members Group
Director of Augsburg Center for Teaching and Learning 2002-2009
Midwest Sociological Society President, (2010) Program Chair (2009) and Past President (2011)

Publications

Pike, Diane. 2023. “Sociology within the liberal arts.” Pp.26-36 in the Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology, edited by S. Cabrera and S. Sweet. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Pike, Diane. 2018. “Without Apology: Reclaiming the Lecture” in Learning from Each Other, edited by M. Kozimer-King, M. Lee and J. Chin, University of California Press.
Pike, Diane L., Teresa Ciabattari, Melinda Messineo, Renee A. Monson, Rifat A. Salam, Theodore C. Wagenaar, Jeffrey Chin, Susan J. Ferguson, Margaret Weigers Vitullo, Patrick Archer, Maxine P. Atkinson, Jeanne H. Ballantine, Thomas C. Calhoun, Paula England, Rebecca J. Erickson, Andrea N. Hunt, Kathleen S. Lowney, Suzanne B. Maurer, Mary S. Senter, and Stephen Sweet. 2017. The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees, PhD-granting Institution

Melanie M. Hughes

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018-present

Personal Statement:
As a member of The Committee on Committees (COC), I would be charged with making recommendations for appointments to ASA committees. I feel qualified for this position after spending three years as a Sociology Program Officer for the National Science Foundation. In that role I was responsible with identifying potential reviewers and panelists from across the discipline. I worked diligently to ensure that those who were invited represented the breadth of sociology, paying attention to individual characteristics, disciplinary subfields, methodological approaches, and types of institutions. As a member of the COC, I would ensure that those nominated to ASA committees represent the diversity of our discipline. I would pay special attention to recruiting candidates from marginalized groups and institutions.

Former Professional Positions Held

Program Director, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, 2020-2023
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013-2018
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008-2013

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University, 2008
MA, The Ohio State University, 2004
BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2001

Positions Held in ASA

Global and Transnational Sociology Section Council, 2017-2020
Chair, Best Publication by a Graduate Student Award Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology, 2019-2020
Distinguished Article Committee, Sex and Gender Section, 2017-2018
Best Scholarly Book Award Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology, 2017-2018
Membership Committee, Sex and Gender Section, 2016-2018

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Big Three Committee (includes oversight of General Social Survey), National Science Foundation, 2020-2023
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Advisory Board, 2021-2023
Co-Chair, Responsible Conduct in Research Working Group, National Science Foundation, 2023
Conference Co-Chair, Women and Politics Research Division, American Political Science Association, 2019-2020
Deputy Editor, Gender & Society, 2015-2019

Publications

Arana Araya, Ignacio, Melanie M. Hughes, and Anibal Perez-Linan. 2021. “Judicial Reshuffles and Women Justices in Latin America.” American Journal of Political Science 65(3):373-388.
Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, and Tiffany D. Barnes. 2020. Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective, 4th Edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Press.
Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, and Mona Lena Krook. 2017. “Gender Quotas for Legislatures and Corporate Boards.” Annual Review of Sociology 43:331-352.
Hughes, Melanie M., and Lisa D. Brush. 2015. “The Price of Protection: A Trajectory Analysis of Civil Remedies for Abuse and Women’s Earnings.” American Sociological Review 80(1):140-165.
Hughes, Melanie M., and Aili Mari Tripp. 2015. “Civl War and Trajectories of Change in Women’s Political Representation in Africa, 1985-2010.” Social Forces 93(4):1513-1540.

Rocio Rosales

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2014-present.

Personal Statement:
I have served in various capacities on committees within different ASA sections (for the Latino/a Section; Labor and Labor Studies Section, and Community and Urban Sociology Section). I would like to serve at the association level to increase my commitment to the discipline and to gain invaluable experience.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2021-present.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2014-2021.
UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2012-2014.

Education

PhD, University of California-Los Angeles, 2012
MA, University of California-Los Angeles, 2008
AB, Princeton University, 2005

Positions Held in ASA

Publications Committee Member, ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2021-2024
Council Member (elected), ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section, 2020-2023
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Committee Chair, ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section, 2022-2023
ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Reviewer, 2021-2022
Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, Committee Co-Chair, ASA Latina/o Section, 2021-2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Vice Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity, School of Social Sciences, University of California Irvine, 2023-present

Publications

Rosales, Rocío. Forthcoming. “Immigrant Street Vendors Looking Towards the Homeland: Transnationalism and Non-Participation in a Los Angeles Social Movement.” Latino Studies.
Vogler, Stefan and Rocío Rosales. 2022. “Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention.” Social Problems.
Rosales, Rocío. 2020. Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles. Oakland: University of California Press.
Armenta, Amada and Rocío Rosales. 2019. “Beyond the Fear of Deportation: Understanding Unauthorized Immigrants’ Ambivalence Towards the Police.” American Behavioral Scientist. 63(9): 1350-1369.
Rosales, Rocío. 2014. “Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(14): 2564-2579.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees, Non-Teaching Institution/Self-Employment

Steven A. Boutcher

Present Professional Position
Executive Officer, Law and Society Association, Amherst, MA, 2018-present.

Personal Statement:
I have been an active member of ASA for about 20 years and would be honored to serve the Association on this committee. I understand the importance that various committees play in the governance of academic associations and I am eager to bring my wealth of experience to this committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, 2017-2023
Executive Director, Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, 2017-2018
Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, 2010-2017

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2010
MA, Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2005
BA, Political Science, The Ohio State University, 2002

Positions Held in ASA

Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Sociology of Law Section, 2024
Treasurer/Secretary, Sociology of Law Section, 2017-2019
Council Member, Sociology of Law Section, 2015-2017
Dissertation Award Committee, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, 2016
Nominations Committee Chair, Sociology of Law Section, 2015-2016

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Treasurer, Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA), 2023-present
Executive Committee, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2021-present
Board Member, COSSA, 2018-present
Co-Organizer, Law and Social Movements CRN, Law and Society Association, 2015-2018
Board Member, Massachusetts Society of Professors, 2015-2016

Publications

Boutcher, Steven A., Corey Shdaimah, and Michael Yarbrough (eds.). 2023. Research Handbook on Law, Movements, and Social Change. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Boutcher, Steven A., Jason Houle, Carroll Seron, and Anna Raup-Kounovsky. 2023. “A Faustian Bargain: Re-examining the Role of Debt in Law Students’ Career Choices.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Bliss, John and Steven A. Boutcher. 2022. “Rationalizing Pro Bono: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Reinvention of Legal Professionalism in Elite American Law Firms.” In Global Pro Bono. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Baumle, Amanda K., M.V. Lee Badgett, and Steven A. Boutcher. 2020. “New Research on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination: Effect of State Policy on Charges Filed at the EEOC.”Journal of Homosexuality 67:1135-1144.
Leal, Diego, Anthony Paik, and Steven A. Boutcher. 2019. “Status and Collaboration: The Case of Pro Bono Network Inequalities in Corporate Law.” Social Science Research 84.

George L. Wimberly

Present Professional Position
Director of Professional Development / Diversity Officer, American Educational Research Association 2006-present

Personal Statement:
I am honored to accept the nomination for the ASA Committee on Committees (COC). As a sociologist and long-standing director of professional development at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and officer for the Association of Black Sociologists, I am aware of prominent and promising scholars in sociology and across the social sciences. My work at AERA builds research capacity among students and early career scholars and researchers by connecting them with networks of senior scholars who provide training in research methods and analytic techniques, enhance professional socialization as faculty members and scholars, and provide career mentoring. I also serve as a staff liaison to several AERA Governance committees and award selection committees. If elected, I will bring my experience and expertise as well as sound and fair judgement to the ASA COC as it makes recommendations to ASA Council for appointments to ASA standing committees and award selection committees.

Former Professional Positions Held

Coordinator of Assessment Research / Acting Coordinator of Applied Research, Montgomery County Public Schools, 2004-2006
Research Associate, ACT, Inc., 2000-2004
Research Analyst, Chicago Public Schools, 1996-2000

Education

Phd, The University of Chicago, 2000
AM, The University of Chicago, 1994
AB, College of the Holy Cross, 1992

Positions Held in ASA

Chair, Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, 2022
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Treasurer, Association of Black Sociologists, 2020-present

Publications

Wimberly, George L. 2018. “A Transnational Analysis of Students’ Interests in Science and Science-Related Research Careers” in Lori.D. Hill and Felice J. Levine (eds.) Global Perspectives on Education Research. New York: Routledge.
Wimberly, George L. (editor). 2015. LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
Wimberly, George L., and Noeth, Richard J. 2005. “Middle and Early High School Students Making Plans for the Future” Iowa City, IA: ACT Inc.,.
Wimberly, George L., and Noeth, Richard J. 2004. “Schools Involving Parents in Early Postsecondary Planning” Iowa City, IA. ACT Inc.,.
Wimberly, G.L. “African American Students’ Educational Outcomes: The Role of School Relationships” in Susan J. Paik (ed.) Advancing Educational Productivity: Policy Implications from National Databases. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees, MA or Four-year Institution

Colby R. King

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina Upstate, August 2023-present

Personal Statement:
I am excited for this opportunity because this committee plays an important role in ensuring that our organization’s governance reflects the individual and institutional diversity of our association, and in ensuring that all members are supported in their work. I currently work at a public university in a state in which some state lawmakers are, regretfully, advancing legislation which would reduce academic freedom. I believe it is critical for the ASA to support sociologists in these contexts and push back on these attacks. I am the son of a steel mill worker and the first person in my family to earn a bachelor’s degree, I have worked for more than a decade across two teaching-intensive regional comprehensive universities with diverse student populations. As a member of this committee, I would continue my efforts to support sociologists from historically marginalized backgrounds and strengthen our organization and discipline.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina Upstate, August 2019 to July of 2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bridgewater State University, August 2013 to July of 2019

Education

PhD, University of South Carolina, 2013
MA, University of South Carolina, 2009
BA, Westminster College, 2007

Positions Held in ASA

Council member for the Teaching and Learning Section, Fall 2023- present
Member, 2024 Selection Committee, ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee
Area editor for TRAILS, 2018-present
Editorial Board Member for Teaching Sociology, 2019-present
Member of the ASA Task Force on First-Generation and Working-Class People in Sociology, 2017-2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member, Executive Board, South Carolina Sociological Association, 2023-present
Local Arrangements Committee, SCSA Conference Committee, 2024 conference
Member, Elections Committee, Working-Class Studies Association, 2023-present
Member of Steering, Outreach, and Conference Committees, Working-Class Studies Association, 2016-2018
Member, Membership Committee, Urban Affairs Association, 2013-16

Publications

Hurst, Allison, Vincent J. Roscigno, Anthony Abraham Jack, Monica McDermott, Deborah M. Warnock, Jose A. Munoz, Wendi Johnson, Elizabeth M. Lee, Colby R. King, David Brady, Robert D. Francis, Kevin J. Delaney, Margaret Vitullo. “The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working Class Inequalities.” Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040723121505
Roscigno, Vincent J., Elizabeth Lee, Allison Hurst, David Brady, Colby R. King Anthony Abraham Jack, Kevin J. Delaney, Monica McDermott, Jose Munoz, Wendi Johnson, Robert Francis, Debbie Warnock, and Margaret Weigers Vitullo. “Mobility & Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter.” July 5, 2023. Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231181859
Francis, Robert D., Colby R. King, Marisela Martinez-Cola, Mary L. Scherer, Myron T. Strong. July 2023. “Introduction to the Special Issue – A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People.” Teaching Sociology, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X231178672
King, Colby R. and Celena Kusch. 2023. “Inclusive Podcast Pedagogies: Three Models and Strategies for Creating Engaging and Accessible Assignments.” In Emerging Stronger: Pedagogical Lessons from the Pandemic, edited by Jeffrey Chin and Michele Kozimor. Routledge. Available here: https://www.routledge.com/Emerging-Stronger-Pedagogical-Lessons-from-the-Pandemic/Chin-Lee-Kozimor/p/book/9781032327105
King, Colby R., Angie Harris, Todd Schoepflin, Karen Sternheimer, and Jonathan Wynn. July 2021. “Everyday Public Sociology.” Chapter in The Routledge International Handbook on Public Sociology, Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Cassius M. Hossfeld, editors. Available here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Public-Sociology/Hossfeld-Kelly-Hossfeld/p/book/9780367518837

Joanna B. Perez

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, 2021- Present.

Personal Statement:
As a proud daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and first-generation scholar, I am committed to engaging in social justice work that alters the social conditions of marginalized communities. Being a member of ASA for the past fifteen years has shaped the development of my research, teaching, mentoring, and service commitments. My involvement in various ASA sections as well as participation at ASA, PSA, and CSA has taught me the value of building community and collaborating with sociologists who are passionate about social change. Hence, I am honored to be nominated to serve as a member of the ASA Committee on Committees. If granted this opportunity, I look forward to working alongside other committee members to ensure that the recommendations submitted to Council continue to acknowledge, value, and celebrate transformative scholarship, disciplinary growth, and the cultivation of empowering learning spaces.

Former Professional Positions Held

Interim Faculty Associate Director of the Office of First- and Second-Year Experience, CSUDH, 2022-Present.
Mellon Foundation Career Enhancement Fellow, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, 2020-2021.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSUDH, 2016-2021.

Education

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2016.
MA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011.
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.

Positions Held in ASA

Committee Member: Norma Williams Workshop, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology (2019-2020).
Co-Chair: Nomination Committee, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology (2018-2020).
Council Member, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology (2017-2020).
Chair: Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award Committee, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology (2016-2017).
Fellow, ASA Minority Fellowship Program (2015-2016).

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Faculty Mentor. California For All College Corps. California Volunteers. 2022-Present.
Faculty in Residence. Immigrant Justice Center. CSUDH. 2021-Present.
Conference Planning Committee Member. American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Annual Conference (AAHHE). 2020-2021.
Research Advisory Committee Member. UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. 2019-2020.
Faculty Mentor. California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program. 2019-Present.

Publications

Paxton, Keisha C., Yesenia Ferna´ndez, and Joanna B. Perez. 2024. “The First-Year Seminar as a Vehicle for Belonging and Inclusion for Underrepresented College Students.” Pp. 65-79 in Academic Belonging in Higher Education: Fostering Student Connection, Competence, and Confidence, edited by E. Rueda & C. Lowe Swift. New York, NY: Routledge.
Perez, Joanna B. and Sarah R. Taylor. 2023. “Reimagining Civic Engagement and Academia.” Pp. 112-137 in Building Collective Leadership For Culture Change, by M. Avila, A.A. Rivera, J.B. Perez, A.P. Knoerr, K. Tornow Chai, & P.A. Vierira. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Zimmerman, Arely, Joanna B. Perez, and Leisy J. Abrego. 2022. “Complexities of Belonging: Compounded Foreignness and Racial Cover Among Undocumented Central American Youth.” Ethnicities, 23(6): 822-842. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968221134298.
Perez, Joanna B. 2020. “‘Targeted But Not Shut Down!:’ Latino Undocumented Immigrant Activists Fighting for Social Change.” Pp. 507-516 in Race & Ethnicity: The Sociological Mindful Approach, edited by J. Brooks, H. Sarabia, & A. Kimura Ida. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.
Perez, Joanna B. 2018. “Undocuartivism: Latino Undocumented Immigrant Empowerment Through Art and Activism.” Chiricu Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 2(2):23-44. doi:10.2979/chiricu.2.2.04.

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Candidates for Committee on Committees (Two-year Institution)

Laurie Jordan Linhart

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Director of Honors, Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines, IA, 2013-present

Personal Statement:
As a mid-career sociologist who has been very involved in teaching, administration, and service to the profession, I am qualified to serve on the Committee on Committees. My teaching career has spanned over three decades in both adjunct and full-time professor roles at a private university and a community college. In addition to teaching online, face to face, and blended sociology courses, I am the director of the Des Moines Area Community College Honors Program. Most recently I have completed my three-year term as chair of the ASA Teaching & Learning Committee and have first hand knowledge of how ASA functions. I am also able to draw upon my leadership experience in other national and regional professional organizations and city government. Further, I am a tireless advocate for the importance of our profession in times like these.

Former Professional Positions Held

Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Des Moines Area Community College, 1990 – 2013
Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Drake University, 1989 – 2020

Education

PhD Iowa State University 2013
MS Iowa State University 1988
BA Drake University 1983

Positions Held in ASA

Chair, Teaching and Learning Section
Member, Teaching and Learning Section

Offices Held in Other Organizations

President-Elect, Midwest Sociological Society
President, Upper Midwest Honors Council
Secretary, Two-Year College Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council
Commissioner, City of Urbandale Parks & Recreation Commission
Chair, Annual Meeting Committee, Midwest Sociological Society

Publications

Jordan-Raun, Laurie. 1988. The Effect of Parenting Factors, Moral Reasoning, and Empathy on Delinquency.
Linhart, Laurie J. 2013. “The Only Way Out: How Men and Women Sentenced to Life Construct a Commutable Identity.
Linhart, Laurie J. 2015. “The Journey through Grounded Theory Continues: This Time A Deeper, Richer One.” Symbolic Interaction 38(2):329-330.

Fumiko Takasugi

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, HI, 2006 – present

Personal Statement:
When I was asked to run, I realized that representation of the community college voice was important. It has been a while since I have run for office in a sociological association, but I have been at Honolulu Community College (in the University of Hawaii system) for almost 20 years, and realize there is a need for those of us in the CCs to bring our perspective to the table. Given my time in teaching and in administration (a short stint of 3 years as Interim Dean of Transportation and Trades programs) at a state university CC in different capacities, I feel that I can bring a unique perspective but one with a solid foundation in an indigenous-serving, urban commuter CC to the organization.

Former Professional Positions Held

Between 2018-2020, I served as an Interim Dean at HonCC, after which I returned to my faculty position.
Project Manager at the University of Hawaii Center on the Family from 2004 to 2005.
Lecturer at the University of Hawaii–West Oahu 2000 to 2004

Education

PhD, University of Hawaii, 2004
MA, Columbia University, 1989
BA, Sophia University, 1988

Positions Held in ASA

Student representative, Section on Asia and Asia America Executive Board (2004)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

President, Hawaii Sociological Association, 2011-2013
Vice President, Hawaii Sociological Association, 2009-2011

Publications

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Candidates for Nominating Committee (2024 and 2024 Committees)

Regina S. Baker

No Information Submitted.

Pallavi Banerjee

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and University of Calgary Research Excellence Chair

Personal Statement:
I want to ensure that an inclusive slate of candidates runs for various positions within ASA so that the organization and the discipline are transformed to become more decolonial and justice-oriented.

Former Professional Positions Held

Education

PhD in Sociology from University of Illinois at Chicago

Positions Held in ASA

Council Member, Sex and Gender Section
Jesse Barnard Award Committee
Program Committee, Sex and Gender Section

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Co-Chair, Sister to Sister Commiteee, Sociologists for Women in Society
Chair, Gender Divison, SSSP
Co-Chair, Academic Justice Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society

Publications

Jean Beaman

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020-present

Personal Statement:
I’m delighted to be considered for the Nominations Committee for ASA. I’ve served in a various capacities in ASA, both in various sections (CUSS, International Migration, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Sociology of Culture), and ASA-wide (including the Publications Committee, the Awards Committee, and the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Sociology). I have a strong commitment to DEI – on my own campus and through my service in ASA and the Council for European Studies. I am excited about this role as a chance to broaden participation in various roles in ASA.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, 2014-2019
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, 2013-2014

Education

PhD, Northwestern University, 2010
MA, Northwestern University, 2006
BA, Northwestern University, 2002

Positions Held in ASA

Publications Committee, 2021-2024 [Committee chair: 2023-2024]
Awards Committee, 2021-2023 [Committee chair: 2022, 2023]
Council Member, Section on International Migration, 2021-2024
Council Member, Sociology of Culture Section, 2021-2024
Council Member, Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2019-2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Associate Editor (Appointed), Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 2018-present
Corresponding Editor, Metropolitics/Metropolitiques, 2018-present
Executive Committee member, Council for European Studies, 2019-2023
Chair, Professional Awards Committee, Association of Black Sociologists, 2018-2021
Membership Committee Member, Council for European Studies, 2019-2023 [Committee chair: 2021-2022]

Publications

Beaman, Jean, N. Doerr, P. Kocyba, A. Lavizzari, and S. Zajak, eds. 2023. Black Lives Matter and the New Wave of Anti-racist Mobilizations in Europe. Special Issue of European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 10(4).
Beaman, Jean. 2017. Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Beaman, Jean. 2023. “From Cultural Citizenship to Suspect Citizenship: Notes on Rethinking Full Societal Inclusion.” Cultural Dynamics 35(1-2): 60-70.
Beaman, Jean and Jennifer Fredette. 2022. “The US/France Contrast Frame and Black Lives Matter in France.” Perspectives on Politics 20(4): 1346-1361.
Beaman, Jean. 2021. “Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in Europe.” Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review 59: 103-114.

Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Oh, 2022-present.

Personal Statement:
I would be delighted to be elected as part of the nominations committee of ASA. I am a Black feminist sociologist, and assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, where I am also an affiliate of the Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender, Sexualities Studies programs as well. As an assistant professor I have held leadership positions within my university appointments, and I am currently serving as Member-at-Large for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). As part of the nominations committee I would seek to fulfill my obligations in a timely fashion, with the hopes of learning more about the American Sociological Association.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2019-2022.
Presidential Pathways Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2018-2019.

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
BA, University of Northern Colorado, 2010

Positions Held in ASA

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member at Large, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2023-2025
Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Sport Journal, 2021-2023
Member, Yates Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate College, University of Cincinnati, 2023

Publications

Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso, Williams, Lamont, Schweinbenz, Amanda, and Ann Pegoraro (forthcoming). A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and the WNBA Black Athlete Activism. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. (2023). Learning to Breathe Again: Navigating Academic Weather: Grief, Microaggressions, and Misogynoir as a Black Woman on the Tenure Track. Issues in Race adn Society, 11, 67-86.
Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso. (2023). Why we Musi #SayHerName: A Black Feminist Look at Athlete Activism” in Montez de Oca, J. and Thangaraj, S. (Eds). Athlete Activism (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 17). Leeds: Emerald Publishing, 31-45.

Erica Chito Childs

Present Professional Position
Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hunter College- CUNY Graduate Center 2023-Present

Personal Statement:
I agreed to run for the Nominating Committee because I believe it is critical that ASA continues to ensure that those nominated to serve represent the diversity of our field, and those who are willing to stand up for sociology, and more importantly human rights. Since joining ASA as a graduate student in 1997, I have had the opportunity to participate, present, organize and lead, so I would welcome this new opportunity to serve.

Former Professional Positions Held

Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, Hunter College- CUNY Graduate Center 2017-2023
Professor of Sociology, Hunter College- CUNY Graduate Center 2016-Present
Associate Professor of Sociology, Hunter College- CUNY Graduate Center 2009-2016

Education

PhD Sociology, Fordham University 2001
BA Sociology/African-American Studies, San Jose State University 1995

Positions Held in ASA

ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Early Career Award Committee
ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Chair
ASA Section on Race, Class, Gender Council Member
ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Oliver Cromwell Cox Award Committee
ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Council Member

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Eastern Sociological Society, Vice President
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Associate Editor
International Sociological Association, RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity Council Member

Publications

Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah, Erica Chito Childs, and Stephanie Laudone. 2022. “Asian-White Mixed Identity after COVID-19: Racist Racial Projects and the Effects on Asian Multiraciality” Genealogy 6, no. 2: 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020053
Chito Childs, Erica; Alyssa Lyons & Stephanie Laudone Jones. 2021. “Migrating mixedness: exploring mixed identity development in New York City,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654153
Chito Childs, Erica. 2020. The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective London: Taylor& Francis
Chito Childs, Erica. 2009. Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Media and Popular Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Chito Childs, Erica. 2005. Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

Jelani Ince

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2021-present.

Personal Statement:
I am seeking office because I have previous leadership experience in ASA and my record demonstrates a commitment to building up, and making space for, the next generation of sociologists. These are qualities that will be instrumental for participation in this committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington (2021-Present)

Education

PhD, Indiana University, 2021
MA, Indiana University, 2017
BA, Wake Forest University, 2014

Positions Held in ASA

Secretary/Treasurer, Race, Gender, and Class section (2023-present)
Chair, Race, Gender, and Class Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award (2023-2024)
Committee Member, John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant, Sociology of Culture section (2022-2023)
Committee Member, Clifford Geertz Best Article Award, Sociology of Culture section (2021-2022)
Committee Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Sociology of Culture section (2021-2022)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Program Committee, Pacific Sociological Association (2023-2024)
Program Committee, Pacific Sociological Association (2022-2023)
Selection Committee, Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award, SSSI (2021-2022)

Publications

Ince, Jelani. 2023. “Between the Witness and the Observer: What Ethnography Can Learn from James Baldwin.” Frontiers in Sociology. 8: 1-12.
Ince, Jelani. 2022. “ ‘Saved’ by Interaction, Living by Race: The Diversity Demeanor in an Organizational Space.” Social Psychology Quarterly. 83.5: 259-278.
Dunivin, Zackary, Harry Yan, Jelani Ince, and Fabio Rojas. 2022. “Black Lives Matter Protests Shift Public Discourse.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119: 10. 1-11.

James R. Jones

Present Professional Position
James R Jones Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, 2017-present

Personal Statement:
I am excited to serve on the Nominations Committee of the American Sociological Association. Throughout my career, both in academia and in public engagement, I have been dedicated to advancing the field of sociology and addressing pressing social challenges. My experiences have equipped me with the insight and dedication necessary to effectively serve the organization during a pivotal moment of social change. If elected, I am committed to representing the interests of our membership, advocating for diverse perspectives, and ensuring that the ASA continues to be a leading force in shaping the future of our discipline.

Former Professional Positions Held

Director of Sheila Y Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America, 2023- present

Education

PhD, Columbia University, 2017
MPhil, Columbia University, 2013
BA, George Washington University, 2009

Positions Held in ASA

Editorial board, Theory and Society

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Executive Board Committee , Eastern Sociological Society

Program Committee, Association of Black Sociologists

Student Representative, Association of Black Sociologists

Publications

Jones, James R. The Last Plantation: Racism in the Halls of Congress. Princeton University Press (Forthcoming, May 2024)
Jones, James R. “Racism and Inequality in Congress.” PS: Political Science & Politics 55.2 (2022): 283-285
Jones, James R. 2019. “Congress as a Racialized Social System” Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). Melissa Wooten, ed. Emerald Insight Limited, 171-191.
Jones, James R. 2017. “Racing Through the Halls of Congress: The “Black Nod” as an Adaptive Strategy for Surviving in a Raced Institution.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, (14)1, 165-187.
Jones, R. James, Tiffany Win, and Carlos M. Vera. 2021. “Who Congress Pays: Analysis of Lawmakers’ Use of Intern Allowances in the 116th Congress.” Policy paper for Pay Your Interns. https://payourinterns.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pay-Our-Interns-Who-Congress-Pays.pdf
Jones, James R. 2020 “The Color of Congress: Racial Diversity Amongst Interns in the U.S of Representatives.” Policy paper for Pay Your Interns. https://payourinterns.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Color-Of-Congress-Report.pdf

Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 2019-present

Personal Statement:
ASA has served as my main intellectual home since I first entered the field of Sociology as a graduate student in 2012. (My first ASA was Denver in the summer before I began my PhD program!) I am honored to have been nominated to support the association in its work as a member of the Nomination Committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Sociology, New York, NY, 2018-2019
Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, New York, NY, 2010-2012
Research Assistant I to Analyst I, MDRC, New York, Ny, 2004-2010

Education

PhD, UC Berkeley, 2018
MA, UC Berkeley, 2014
MPA, New York University, 2012

Positions Held in ASA

City & Community editorial board member
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Social Problems editorial board member
Issues in Race and Society editorial board member

Publications

Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. Forthcoming. “Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage.” Social Problems.
Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. Forthcoming. “Ambitious Ideals, Realistic Expectations: How Prior Experiences with Structures Moderate the Goals of Section 8 Voucher Holders through Frames.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
Lichtenstein, Matty and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana.2023 [2021 online.]“Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Large-Scale Textual Data.” Sociological Methods and Research.
Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. 2022 [2021 online]. “Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism.” City & Community 21(3): 173-192.
Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. 2022 [2021 online]. “Race and the Financial Toolkit: Bridging Cultural Theories to Understand Behavior and Decision-Making in the Racial Wealth Gap.” Sociological Inquiry 92(2): 388-416.

Johnny Eric Williams

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1996-present

Personal Statement:
The American Sociological Association can be a powerful association. However, as many critics (to include past presidents) have contended, it is only as powerful and useful as its membership and leadership. Indeed, past President Alfred McClung Lee noted as much in his presidential ASA speech, “Sociology for Whom.” As a candidate for the Nomination Committee, my goal will be to assure that the leadership of ASA better reflects the range of intellectuals that comprise our discipline. From institutional affiliation to the mélange social groups within sociology we should have an eclectic group of leaders to draw from to take ASA in new directions that are firmly grounded in securing human well-being. I hope that by helping identify a new crop of people centered potential leaders, we can secure more intellectually innovative and action-oriented nominees who truly seek to advance sociological knowledge in ways that secures human freedom and dignity. Such inclusivity not only benefits our organization intellectually, but also financially.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor, Sociology, Trinity College, 2003-2016
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Trinity College, 1996-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1994-1996

Education

PhD, Brandeis University, 1995
MA , Brandeis University, 1990
MA, University of Arkansas, 1986

Positions Held in ASA

ASA SREM Cox Distinguished Article Award Committee, 2015

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award Committee, 2023
Lee Founders Award Committee for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020
Association for Humanist Sociology President, 2019-2021
Association for Humanist Sociology Program Chair, 2017
Eastern Sociology Society Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Committee, 2017

Publications

Williams, Johnny E. and David G. Embrick. 2023. “Alienation, Racial Capitalism & Racialization of Palestinians.” Critical Sociology 49:939-951
Williams, Johnny E. and Embrick, David G. 2023. “Moving Beyond Obfuscating Racial Microaggression Discourse.” Social Inclusion 11 (2):5-15
Williams, Johnny E. and David G. Embrick. 2023. “Global Racial Capitalism and Covid-19.” In Melvin Thomas, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton (ed.), Race, Ethnicity, and the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press.
Williams, Johnny E. “Afterwords: The Civility-Incivility Paradox.” 2021. In Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt and Kakali Bhattacharya (eds.), Civility, Free Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education. New York: Routledge.
Williams, Johnny E. 2020. “The Unblackening: ‘White’ License and the ‘Nice Racism’ Trope.” In Cameron Lippard, Scott Carter, and David Embrick (eds.), Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

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Candidates for Nominating Committee (2025 and 2026 Committees)

Fenaba Rena Addo

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

Personal Statement:
No Statement Submitted.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor, UW-Madison
Post Doctoral Fellow, RWJF Health & Society

Education

PhD, Cornell University
MS, Cornell University
BS, Duke University

Positions Held in ASA

Secretary/Treasurer, Population Section
Family Section Council
IPM Section Council

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Academic Research Council, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Board Member, Council on Contemporary Families

Publications

Su, Jessica H. and Fenaba Addo. 2023. “Wealth and the Transition to Motherhood.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad037
Houle, Jason and Fenaba Addo. 2022. A Dream Defaulted: The Student Debt Crisis Among Black Borrowers. Harvard Education Press.
Addo, Fenaba R., and William A. Darity, Jr. 2021. “Disparate recoveries: Wealth, race, and the working class after the Great Recession.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (695.1): 173-192.
Addo, Fenaba R. 2017. “Seeking Relief: Bankruptcy and Health Outcomes of Adult Women.” Social Science & Medicine: Population Health, 3, 326-334

Vilna Bashi

Present Professional Position
Osborn Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2021 to present

Personal Statement:
I’ve been a critical sociologist for nearly three decades. I don’t know if sociologists make a difference in this country or in this world, but I think so. I don’t know if the American Sociological Association is meaningful to the world around us or even to sociologists specifically, but most likely, yes. ASA officers organize annual meetings for sharing our scholarship and run many of our discipline’s top journals. The difference that ASA makes (however small) is the responsibility of office holders who are potential leaders in positive change. As a Nominations Committee member, I will nominate for office people who will diversify the powerholder ranks. By this I mean naming more minoritized people, people from underrepresented groups, and people who are marginalized in our society and in our discipline. I don’t know if diversification will make a difference, but I think so.

Former Professional Positions Held

Full Professor, Dept. of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 2016-2021, (Dept. Chair 2016-2020)
Chair and Full Professor, Dept. of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College (and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center), City University of New York, New York, NY, 2014-2016, (Associate Prof. 2007-2013)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2003-2006

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1997.
MS, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1994.
MIA, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1986.

Positions Held in ASA

ASA Consultant and Reviewer, 2021 to present.
Chair, Section on Political Economy of the World System (& Chair of the Distinguished (faculty) Article Award committee, and Chair of the Terence P. Hopkins Student paper Award committee), ASA 2023-
Chair-Elect, ASA Section on Political Economy of the World System (& Chair of the Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Prize Committee), 2022-23
Program Committee Member, and Founding Member of the ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2009-2013.
Secretary/Treasurer for the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2004-07.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member, Board of the Visual Sociology, International Sociological Association, 2018-2023.
Member of the Board of the Research Committee (RC05) on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2013-2016, 2016-2019
Editorial Board, Politics and Society, 2019 – present.
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 2016 – present.
Vice President, Eastern Sociological Society (2017-18)

Publications

Itzigsohn, José, Vilna Bashi, Freeden Blume Oeur, and Mo Torres. 2023. “Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, I (9), 1-9.
Bashi Treitler, Vilna. 2013. The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions. In the series Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Hazel Rose Markus and Paula M. L. Moya, series editors. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bashi, Vilna Francine. 2007. Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Bashi Treitler, Vilna. 2019. Outsider Sociology, a special section on Outsider Sociology, Sociological Forum, the journal of the Eastern Sociological Society, 34 (1).
Boatca, Manuela and Vilna Bashi Treitler, editors. 2016. Dynamics of Inequalities in a Global Perspective. A special monograph issue of Current Sociology, the journal of the International Sociological Association.
Bashi Treitler, Vilna Francine, editor. 2014. Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption. In the series Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life; Graham Allan, Lynn Jamieson and David Morgan, series editors. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Glenda M. Flores

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, UC, Irvine, California, 2017-present

Personal Statement:
I have served in various capacities on committees across different ASA sections and on the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). As a member of the nominating committee, my hope is to reach a broader community of sociologists, such as those who are trained in the discipline and work in sociology departments and those who work in other programs/fields/departments.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC, Irvine, California, 2012-2017

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of Southern California, 2011
MA, Sociology, University of Southern California, 2008
BA, Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine, 2005

Positions Held in ASA

Co-Chair, Latina/o Sociology Section Distinguished Article Award, ASA
Invited, Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), ASA
Elected Council Member for the Latina/o Sociology Section of the ASA
Race, Gender, Class Best Graduate Student Paper Awards Committee, ASA
Sociology of Education, Journal Editorial Board

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Acting Chair, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI, 2024
Gender and Society, Journal Editorial Board (2022-2024)
NAEd/Spencer External Reviewer, Dissertation Fellowship
Conference Planning Committee, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2020
Latinx Resource Center, Advisory Committee, UCI, 2018

Publications

Flores, Glenda Marisol, Bañuelos, Maricela, and Pheather R. Harris. 2023. “What are you Doing Here?: Examining Minoritized Student Undergraduate Experiences in STEM at a Minority Serving Institution” Journal for STEM Education Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41979-023-00103-y
Bañuelos, Maricela and Glenda M. Flores. 2021. ““I Could See Myself”: Professors Influence in First-Generation Latinx College Students’ Pathways into Doctoral Programs” Race, Ethnicity & Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2021.1969906
Flores, Glenda Marisol and Maricela Bañuelos. 2021. “Gendered Deference: Perceptions of Authority and Competence Among Latina/o Physicians in Medicine.” Gender & Society 35: 111-135.
Flores, Glenda M. 2018. “Pursuing Medicina [Medicine]: Latina Physicians and Parental Messages on Gendered Career Choices. Sex Roles, 81: 59-73.
Flores, Glenda M. 2017. Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture. NYU Press.

Elaine Hernandez

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Personal Statement:
Inequities in health are ubiquitous. I aim to understand the social, structural, and biological processes that create and perpetuate them. Using expertise in medical sociology, health demography, and health policy, I have published sole and collaborative work in sociology (Social Forces), medical sociology (Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine), demography (Demography), social networks (Social Networks), and medical (JAMA Pediatrics) journals. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in my newest line of collaborative work my team and I examine the effect of pandemic induced Medicaid policy changes on Black, Latine, and White beneficiaries’ access to health care by pairing Medicaid enrollment and utilization data with over 100 in-depth interviews. In recent years I have been elected to serve on multiple committees for the American Sociological Association and I am currently serving my third (and final) year on the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences board. Presently I am serving on the Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health editorial board and I previously served on the Journal of Health and Social Behavior editorial board. I am grateful for the nomination to serve on the ASA 2024 Committee on Nominations.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Indiana University – Bloomington
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Center, University of Texas – Austin

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota
MPH, University of Minnesota
BA, University of Notre Dame

Positions Held in ASA

ASA, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility nominations committee
ASA, Section on Aging and the Life Course nominations committee
ASA, Committee on Nominations
Journal of Health and Social Behavior editorial board
ASA, Medical Sociology Section nominations committee

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Sciences, Board Member
Editorial Board: Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair, Department of Sociology, Indiana University
Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, Indiana University

Publications

Thomeer, Mieke, Mia Brantley, and Elaine M. Hernandez. “Using Mixed Methods Approaches to Study Families.” 2024. (online first) Journal of Marriage and Family
Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, James Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz, Elaine Hernandez, and Courtney Boen. 2022 “Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities.” Demography 59 (5): 1953-1979.
Halpern-Manners, Andrew, Elaine M. Hernandez, and Tabitha Wilbur. 2022. “Crossover Effects of Education on Health within Married Couples.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 63(2): 301-318.
Hernandez, Elaine M. 2022. “Centering Equity in Health Care.” JAMA Pediatrics 176:9-10.
Hernandez, Elaine M. and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2021. “Health Decisions Amidst Controversy: Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and the Unequal Experience of Influence and Control in Networks.” Social Science & Medicine 286 (114319).

Ellis Prentis Monk

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2023-Present

Personal Statement:
It would be a great honor to be elected to serve on the Nominations Committee. This committee serves a vital role in ensuring a diverse group of scholars serve across the various positions at ASA. I have served in various roles across ASA and have served on the Nominations Committee for PAA. I would welcome the opportunity to bring the lessons I’ve learned from that experience to this role at ASA. Thanks for your consideration.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, 2020-2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, 2018-2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, 2016-2018

Education

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006

Positions Held in ASA

Program Committee, American Sociological Association 2024
Program Committee, American Sociological Association 2023
Council Member, ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility
Council Member, ASA Section on Theory
Member, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Committee

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Nominations Committee, PAA
Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly
Editorial Board, Social Science Research
Editorial Board, Social Problems

Publications

Heldreth, Courtney, Ellis Monk, Alan T. Clark, Susanna Ricco, and Xango Eyee. 2023. “Which Skin Tone Measures are the Most Inclusive? An Investigation of Skin Tone Measures for
Artificial Intelligence.” ACM Journal on Responsible Computing.
Schumann, Candice, Gbolahan O. Olanubi, Auriel Wright, Ellis Monk, Courtney Heldreth, and Susanna Ricco. 2023. “Consensus and Subjectivity of Skin Tone Annotation for ML
Fairness.” NeurIPS.
Iveniuk, James, Jocelyn Wilder, and Ellis Monk. 2023. “The threefold path to equity: Approaches for Health and Aging Researchers.” The Gerontologist
Yasmiyn Irizarry, Ellis Monk, and Ryon Cobb. 2023. “Race-Shifting in the United States: Latinxs, Skin Tone, and Ethnoracial Alignments” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity
Monk, Ellis. 2022. “Inequality without Groups: Contemporary Theories of Categories, Intersectional Typicality, and the Disaggregation of Difference” Sociological Theory

Candice C. Robinson

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, August 2021-Present

Personal Statement:
I would be honored to serve on the ASA Nominating Committee (2025 and 2026 Committees). I have been an active member in ASA for over a decade as both a graduate student and faculty member. During this time, I have served on section councils, participated as both a mentor and mentee for multiple sections, attended annual conferences, and interacted with colleagues from a variety of demographic, institutional, and research interest backgrounds. My expansive networking experience would assist the Nominating Committee with ensuring that we continue to present nominees that represent our diverse organization. I would be happy to continue to support ASA as part of the Nominating Committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Education

PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2021
MA, University of Iowa, 2013
BA, Hampton University 2010

Positions Held in ASA

Section Council, Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, American Sociological Association, 2023-Present
Editorial Board, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (Journal), 2022-present
Mentor, Collective Behavior Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2022-Present
Nominations Committee, Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, American Sociological Association, 2022
Student Representative, Altruism, Morality, Social Solidarity, 2017-2018

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Mentor, RAMP (Relationships and Mentoring Program), Association of Black Sociologists, 2022-2023
Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2023
C. Wright Mills Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2022
Editorial Board, Social Problems (Journal), Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2021-Present
Leadership, Training, and Development Committee, National Urban League Young Professionals, 2019-Present

Publications

Green, Aaryn L., Maretta McDonald, Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson, and Shantee Rosado. Forthcoming 2024. The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach. Routledge Press.
Blume Oeur, Freeden and Candice C. Robinson. 2023. “Strangely Hesitant about Antiblackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery.” Social Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725231204877
Robinson, Candice C. 2023. “Review of The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class.” Gender & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231209325
Robinson, Candice C., LaTeri McFadden, and J Nicole Johnson. 2023 “The Legacy of Good Trouble: The Next Frontier for Voting Rights.” The Dark Side of Reform: Exploring the Promises and Pitfalls of Contemporary Public Policy for Racial Equity, edited by Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn. Lexington Books.
Robinson, Candice C., and Michael Rosino. 2023. “Understanding Morality in a Racialized Society.” Second Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, edited by Steven Hitlin, Aliza Luft, and Shai M. Dromi. Springer. Routledge Press.

Louise Seamster

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2019-present

Personal Statement:
I look forward to this expanded opportunity to collaborate with others in reshaping ASA to reflect the diversity, core strengths and current social relevance of our field. This moment is important for the future of ASA, for higher education, and for society at large. I hope to help build out ASA’s collective vision evolving by broadening the field in terms of leadership, representation, and recognition for important work. I hope my commitment to bringing sociology into current debates and policy, while drawing on its essential insights and perspectives, will be of use in this ongoing transition.

Former Professional Positions Held

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Education

PhD, Sociology, Duke University 2016
MA, Sociology, Duke University 2013
MA, Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research 2008

Positions Held in ASA

2022-2024 ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology Selection Committee
Publications Committee (Chair, 2021-2022), Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Boston Fed Research Project Advisory Council
Conference Committee, Southern Sociological Society
Associate Editor, Social Problems 2021-present

Publications

Nikhil Deb and Louise Seamster (2023). “Slow Violence and Institutional Betrayal in Bhopal and Flint.” Sociology of Development. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2023.0008
Charron-Chénier, Raphaël, Louise Seamster, Tom Shapiro, and Laura Sullivan (2021). “A Pathway to Racial Equity: Student Debt Cancellation Policy Design.” Social Currents. DOI: DOI:10.1177/23294965211024671
Louise Seamster and Danielle Purifoy (2020). “What is Environmental Racism For? Place-Based Harm and Relational Development.” Environmental Sociology. Vol. 7(2) 110-21.
Seamster, Louise (2019). “Black Debt, White Debt.” Contexts 18(1): 30-35.
Seamster, Louise (2019). “WHEN DEMOCRACY DISAPPEARS: Emergency Management in Benton Harbor.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 15(2), 1-28.

Casey Stockstill

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, 2023-present

Personal Statement:
ASA brings together a set of diverse members, and I hope to foster that in nominating folks to stand for election in our organization. I have worked in two academic positions that differed in university endowments and teaching opportunities. I have also recently worked in a non-academic position that engaged with policy and practice. These experiences have expanded my networks and have expanded my knowledge of the many ways to be a sociologist. I would focus on helping to prepare slates of candidates that include sociologists with diverse professional roles.

Former Professional Positions Held

Research Director, Early Milestones Colorado, February 2022 to May 2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Denver, September 2018 to February 2022

Education

PhD in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
MS in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
BA in Sociology, Columbia University, 2012

Positions Held in ASA

Member, 2024 ASA Public Engagement Advisory Committee
Member, Publications Committee, ASA Section on Children & Youth 2020-21

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member, Denver Preschool Program Evaluation Committee. 2022-2024.
Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Department 2012-15

Publications

Stockstill, Casey. 2023. False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers. New York: NYU Press.
Stockstill, Casey. 2023. “The ‘Stuff’ of Class: How Property Rules in Preschool Reproduce Class Inequality.” Social Problems. 70(1): 1-21.
Stockstill, Casey and Grace Carson. 2022. “Are Lighter-Skinned Tanisha and Jamal Worth More Pay? White People’s Gendered Colorism toward Black Job Applicants with Racialized Names.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45(5): 896-917.
Fallon, Katherine and Casey Stockstill. 2018. “The Condensed Courtship Clock: How Elite Women Manage Self-Development and Marriage Ideals.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 4(Feb):1-14.

Paige L. Sweet

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, 2020-present

Personal Statement:
Service to ASA has been important to my professional goals since graduate school. I have served ASA sections in multiple committee and elected positions over the years, and I look forward to continuing to do so. In these positions, I have sought to promote diversity in terms of both representation, as well as theoretical and empirical interests. I enjoy working as part of a larger group interested in these goals.

Former Professional Positions Held

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2018-2020

Education

PhD in Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago, 2018
MA in Sociology, University of Illinois in Chicago, 2012
BA in Women’s Studies and English, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009

Positions Held in ASA

Council Member, Theory Section
Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award Committee
Body & Embodiment Section Nominations Committee
Gender & Society Editorial Board Member
Sociological Theory Editorial Board Member

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Publications

Sweet, Paige L. Forthcoming. “Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence.” American Sociological Review.
Sweet, Paige L., Maya C. Glenn,* and Jacob Caponi.* Forthcoming. “The Domestic Violence Victim as COVID Crisis Figure.” Theory & Society.
Sweet, Paige L. 2023. “Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims.” American Journal of Sociology 128(6):1678-1715.
Sweet, Paige L. 2021. The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermath. University of California Press.
Sweet, Paige L. 2020. “Who Knows? Reflexivity in Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bourdieu.” Gender & Society 34(6): 922-950.

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Candidates for Publications Committee

Bart Bonikowski

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics, New York University, New York, NY, 2020-present.

Personal Statement:
Having served on the editorial boards of the AJS, ASR, and Social Science Research and currently serving in leadership positions at Sociological Science and Nations and Nationalism, I have extensive experience in managing the peer review process and a deep knowledge of the academic publishing industry. If elected, I would prioritize the continued editorial autonomy of ASA journals (which is especially crucial given the recent crisis at Theory & Society and similar developments in other disciplines, all stemming from changing incentives among for-profit publishers), the need for an efficient and transparent review process at all ASA journals (high desk rejection rates, avoiding multiple R&Rs, etc.), and further institutionalization of data and code sharing for all published research. The ASA will also need to navigate new challenges introduced by AI technology, from increased risks of research fraud to changing meanings of original authorship.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, 2016-2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, 2011-2016

Education

PhD, Sociology, Princeton University, 2011
MA, Sociology, Princeton University, 2008
MA, Sociology, Duke University, 2005

Positions Held in ASA

Article Award Committee Chair, Political Sociology Section, 2024
Council Member, Political Sociology Section, 2022-present
Graduate Article Award Committee Member, Political Sociology Section, 2023
Ph.D. Mentorship Program, Sociology of Culture Section, 2022-23
Nominations Committee Member, Political Sociology Section, 2015-16

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Editorial Team Member, Nations and Nationalism
Deputy Editor, Sociological Science
Editorial Board Member, American Sociological Review
Editorial Board Member, Social Science Research
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology

Publications

Borwein, Sophie, Bart Bonikowski, Peter J. Loewen, Blake Lee-Whiting, and Beatrice Magistro. 2024. “Perceived Automation Threat and Vote Choice: Evidence from 15 European Democracies.” West European Politics. Online first.
Bonikowski, Bart, and Yueran Zhang. 2023. “Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments Toward Minorities.” Social Forces 102(1):180-201.
Bonikowski, Bart, and Oscar Stuhler. 2022. “Reclaiming the Past to Transcend the Present: Nostalgic Appeals in U.S. Presidential Elections.” Sociological Forum 37(S1):1263-93.
Bonikowski, Bart, and Laura K. Nelson. 2022. “From Means to Ends: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research.” Sociological Methods & Research 51(4):1469-83.
Bonikowski, Bart, Yuchen Luo, and Oscar Stuhler. 2022. “Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952-2020) with Neural Language Models.” Sociological Methods & Research 51(4):1721-87.
Simonsen, Kristina, and Bart Bonikowski. 2022. “Moralizing Immigration: The Impact of Political Framing on Polarization in the United States and Denmark.” Comparative Political Studies 55(8):1403-36.

Elisabeth S. Clemens

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago

Personal Statement:
Scholarly publication is central to the organization of our lives as scholars, as teachers, and as citizens seeking to articulate research with public concerns. But this system has been stressed and transformed – technologically, legally, and financially. With a long-standing interest in the organization of scientific knowledge, I have experience on the editorial side of journals (former editor, AJS; co-editor, Studies in American Political Development; editorial board member, ARS, ASR, and Contemporary Sociology) as well as books (University of Chicago Press Board). That experience, I hope, will be relevant to the issues currently confronting the Publications Committee. The challenge will be to navigate the opportunities and challenges presented by the commercialization of academic publishing, goals of equity and inclusion, the possibilities (and increasingly requirements) for open access, and the strategies available to those journals which remain under the control of scholars and vital to the functioning of our association.

Former Professional Positions Held

Deputy Dean and Collegiate Master, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago (2008-11, 2017-18)
Chair of the Dept. of Sociology, University of Chicago (2012-15)
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona (1997-2002)

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, 1990
AM, University of Chicago, 1985
BA, Harvard University, 1980

Positions Held in ASA

Council, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, 2021-23
Organizations, Occupations, & Work: Chair, Weber Prize Committee, 2000; Richard Scott Best Article Prize Committee, 2015
Section Chair, Comparative and Historical Sociology, 2009-10
Nominations Committee, ASA, 2006-07
Section Chair, Political Sociology, 2005-06

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Social Science History Association, President, 2012-13
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Executive Committee, 2000-03
Social Science History Association, Executive Committee, 1998-2001

Publications

Clemens, Elisabeth S. 2020. Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Clemens, Elisabeth S. 2015. What is Political Sociology? (Korean & Greek translations, 2nd edition in press)
Adams, Julia, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff. 2005. Remaking Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Clemens, Elisabeth S. 1997. The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Clemens, Elisabeth S., Walter W. Powell, Kris McIlwaine, and Dina Okamoto. 1995. “Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations.” American Journal of Sociology, 101, (2): 433-94.

D’Lane R. Compton

Present Professional Position
Full Professor of Sociology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 2008-present

Personal Statement:
I love sociology and academia. I value diversity of thought and locations, spurring micro-creativity, and collaborations in both problem solving and sociological endeavors. I also find purpose in our work and believe serving the profession is part of the job. It is important ideologically and practically. I find service rewarding in that I get to stay connected to the field and learn about areas of sociology I wouldn’t necessarily make time for otherwise. Most of all, I believe I can contribute from my and have time to so.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Orleans, 2014-2019
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of New Orleans, 2008-2014
Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College, 2007-2008

Education

PhD, Texas A&M University
MA, University of Missouri–St. Louis
BS, Texas A&M University

Positions Held in ASA

Committee Member, ASA Sections Committee, 2024
Council, ASA Section on Social Psychology, 2018-2020
Council, ASA Section on Sexualities, 2018-2020

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Co-chair, Program Committee Southern Sociological Society, 2023-2024
Local Liaison, Southern Sociological Society, 2020-2021

Publications

Committee on Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation. March 2022. Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC. March 2022 (https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/measuring-sex-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-for-the-national-institutes-of-health).
Compton, D’Lane R. and Amy Stone. (Eds). 2024. Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe. New York, NY: NYU Press. (Forthcoming).
Brown-Saracino, Japonica, D. Compton, and J. Parker. 2021. “Changing Social Context, Queer Recruitment Panics, and the Rise in LGBT Identification in the U.S.” Contexts Summer.
Lagos, Danya and D’Lane Compton. 2021. Evaluating the Use of Two-Step Gender Identity Measures in the 2018 General Social Survey. Demography. 58 (2): 763–772.
Davis, Jenny. L., Altmann, E., Barnes, N., Chouinard, J., Compton, D. R., Crowell, A. R., Cook, P. S., Copland, S., Dunstan, L., Gray, K., Jobin, A., Julien, C., Keane, H., Killen, G., Lê, H., Lê, J., Lockie, S. D., Lyall, B., Maitahitui, , Maddox, A., Mallon, A., Manago, B., Maughan, L., Morrison, D., Murphy, C. J., Novak, M., Olson, R., Pratley, E., Ransan-Cooper, H., Recuber, T., Rohlinger, D., Rose, J., Schrijnder, S., Smith, N., Thorpe, H., Tripodi, F., Vilkins, S., Wade, M., Williams, A., Wiltshire, N., and Wong, M. 2020. A crowdsourced sociology of COVID-19. Contexts, 27 Apr.

Peter Kivisto

Present Professional Position
Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought Emeritus, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, 2023-present

Personal Statement:
Scholarly publications are confronting challenging economic and political headwinds. Given the importance of the ASA’s portfolio of journals both for the dissemination of disciplinary knowledge—making available cutting-edge scholarship available to sociologists internationally—and for the financial well-being of the Association, ensuring their continued vitality is critical. Given my work as a former journal editor, past member of the publication committee of three professional sociological associations, and my membership on numerous journal advisory boards, I believe I would bring to this role a range of experience that can be of benefit to the Publications Committee. I would be honored to serve.

Former Professional Positions Held

Co-Director of the Laboratory on Transnationalism and Migration Processes, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015-2018
Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, 2012-2017
Finland Distinguished Professor, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2009-2012

Education

PhD, New School for Social Research, 1982
MDiv, Yale University, 1973
BA, University of Michigan, 1970

Positions Held in ASA

Chair of the History of Sociology Section, 2016-17
Member of ASA Council, 2014-17
Member of the Committee on Awards, 2009-12
Secretary-Treasurer of the International Migration Section, 2003-06
Secretary-Treasurer of the Theory Section, 1996-99

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Chair of the Midwest Sociological Society Governance Committee, 2020-present
Executive Board of the International Sociological Association’s RC-31, Research Committee on Migration, 2010-13
President of the Midwest Sociological Society, 2009-10
Chair of the Association for the Sociology of Religion’s Publications Committee, 2009-10
Chair of the Society for the Scientific Study of Social Problems’ Permanent Organizations Committee, 1996-2000

Publications

Kivisto, Peter, and Giuseppe Sciortino. 2023. “From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory.” Cultural Sociology 17: 3-20,
Kivisto, Peter. 2021. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory, 2 volumes. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kivisto, Peter. 2014. Religion and Immigration: Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Kivisto, Peter. 2012. “We Really Are All Multiculturalists Now.” The Sociological Quarterly 53: 1-24.
Kivisto, Peter. 2001. “Theorizing Transnational Immigration: A Critical Review of Current Efforts.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 24: 549-577.

Linda Renzulli

Present Professional Position
Professor and Department Head, Sociology, Purdue University West Lafayette, 2016-present.

Personal Statement:
The peer review process and publications of sociological work are the building blocks of our discipline. Despite varied methods, data sources, analysis techniques, sociological work has something in common: the goal to understand theoretically and empirically our lived (past, present, and future) social world. The publications committee has a unique and important responsibility to ensure our goals are met. As a researcher, I know first-hand the importance of a strong well-run publication process for disseminating my research. As editor of Sociology of Education from 2016-2021, I learned how to manage the journal effectively. I was able to bring its impact factor up to over 3 and kept the review time to about 7 weeks, for example. I did this by leaning on a diverse editorial board and community of scholars. I hope what I learned in that process can be useful as part of the Publications Committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor and Head of Sociology, Purdue University 2016-present
Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia, 2014-2016

Education

PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2001
MA, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1998
BA, Rutgers University, 1996

Positions Held in ASA

Sociology of Education Editor, ASA, 2016-2021

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Southern Sociological Society, Co-chair Committee on the Status of Students 2014-2015
Southern Sociological Society, Elected Executive Committee 2011-2014

Publications

Kearney, C., Nidia Garza, A., Perez, L., Renzulli, L., & Domina, T. (2024). Offer It and They Will Come? An Investigation of the Factors Associated With the Uptake of School-Sponsored Resources. American Educational Research Journal, 61(1), 145-176.
Renzulli, L., Boylan, R., & Paino, M. (2023). Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools. Social Science Research, 110, 102838.
Kaul, Vasundhara and Linda Renzulli. 2021. “The Duality of Persistence: Academic Enclaves and International Students’ Aspirations to Stay in the U.S.” Journal of International Students 12(2): 467-488.
Domina, T., Renzulli, L., Murray, B., Garza, A. N., & Perez, L. (2021). Remote or removed: Predicting successful engagement with online learning during COVID-19. Socius, 7, 2378023120988200.
Boylan, R. L., Petts, A., Renzulli, L., Domina, T., & Murray, B. (2021). Practicing parental involvement: Heterogeneity in parent involvement structures in charter and traditional public schools. Educational Administration Quarterly, 57(4), 570-606.

Van C. Tran

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and International Migration Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 2019-present

Personal Statement:
I am honored to have been nominated to serve on the Publications Committee. ASA publishes 13 journals encompassing a broad range of theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and research themes across the discipline. These journals have not only thrived in advancing original research but also engendered critical debates across subfields, reflecting the dedicated leadership of many teams of editors and editorial boards. ASA can build on this collective strength in three ways: expanding open and public access, addressing reproducibility and replicability of research, and amplifying the public impact of research findings. As a scholar of race and migration, I have served on five editorial boards and reviewed for 40 journals, including leading journals in five related disciplines—sociology, demography, political science, public health, and epidemiology. If elected, I will ensure that ASA journals are broadly inclusive of multiple ideas, perspectives, and lived experiences of our membership in the U.S. and beyond.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, 2013-2019
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013

Education

PhD, Harvard University, 2011
MA, Harvard University, 2007
BA, Hunter College, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

Council Member-at-Large (2020-2023)
Distinguished Contribution to the Field Award Committee, Section on Asia and Asian America (2021-2022)
Council Member, Section on Asia and Asian America (2019-2022)
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee (2018-2020)
Council Member, Section on International Migration Section (2015-2018)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Editorial Board, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2018-present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018-present)
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2017-2019)
Editorial Board, Social Forces (2014-2017)
Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly (2013-2016)

Publications

Tran, Van C. 2024. “Asian American Diversity and Growth.” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 50. Forthcoming.
Zapatka, Kasey and Van C. Tran. 2023. “New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(1): 52-83.
Holder, Jay, Ivan Calaff, Brett Maricque, and Van C. Tran. 2022. “Concentrated Incarceration and the Public-Housing-to-Prison Pipeline in New York City neighborhoods.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): 119 (36) e2123201119.
Abascal, Maria, Tiffany J. Huang and Van C. Tran. 2021. “Intervening in Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: The Causal Effects of Factual Information on Attitudes toward Immigration.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: 697(1):174-191.
Tran, Van C. and Francisco Lara-García*. 2020. “A New Beginning: Integration of Recent Refugees in the Early Years of Arrival to the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(3): 117-149.