- Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
- A New Teaching Resource on Sustainable Development
- Listen to Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
Webinar for All ASA Members
| November 30 | Trends in Mixed Methods Approaches |
Virtual Proseminar for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty
| November 16 | Assembling Your Thesis or Dissertation Committee |
Events for Department Affiliates*
| December 5 | ChairLink Live: Forums on the Fifth (open discussion forum for department chairs on the 5th of every month except weekends and holidays) |
| December 12 | Supporting and Advocating for Contingent Faculty webinar |
*Department Affiliate event links are shared via the listserv. Click here to learn more about Department Affiliates, including how to join and renew.
A New Teaching Resource on Sustainable Development
TRAILS, ASA’s peer-reviewed digital teaching resources library, which is free to ASA members, offers the Sustainable Development course. It is taught as a study abroad course and engages experiential learning pedagogy, current events, and sociological theory. It includes resources on organizing study abroad programs and teaching the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030.
Listen to Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their research. We invite you to listen to the latest podcasts and read the corresponding articles linked below.
- American Sociological Review (October 2023): “The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline” by Rachel Kahn Best and Alina Arseniev-Koehler; listen to the podcast.
- Sociology of Education (October 2023): “New Experimental Evidence on Anti-Asian Bias in White Parents’ School Preferences” by Greer Mellon and Bonnie Siegler; listen to the podcast.
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (October 2023): “‘Why Can’t We Have Some Kind of Unity?’ Cultural Contention Amongst Puerto Rican and Black Residents in Southern Suburbia” by Stephanie A. Dhuman; listen to the podcast.
- Teaching Sociology (October 2023): “Teaching with TikTok in Online Sociology of Sex and Gender Courses” by Nik M. Lampe; listen to the podcast.
Visit Podcasts to review more recent podcasts from ASA journals.
