Frontiers in Communication is seeking submissions on the research topic “Communication and Glocalization: Media, Culture, and Society in the 21st Century.” The goal of this research topic is to explore the varied themes and multiple techno-social relationships between communication and glocalization. The abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
Social Justice Research is seeking submissions for a special issue on the theme “Reshaping Educational Justice in the Post-Covid-19 Era.” Topics to be included in the special issue include educational gender inequality (e.g., tracking in STEM subjects); ethnic or racial exclusion in diverse education settings; prejudice and discrimination in formal and nonformal education; digital inequality in distance learning and other digital educational practices; distributive, procedural, and interactional justice in post-Covid education; literacy and numeracy gap in education; educational policies for promoting social justice; justice-related factors affecting teacher shortage in the wake of the Covid pandemic; and sense of justice and injustice and its implications among children, teachers, and parents. The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 31, 2023. Send abstracts to one of the guest editors Liat Biberman-Shalev or Clara Sabbagh, who will gladly answer your questions and provide further information.
NEOS, the flagship publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group of the American Anthropology Association, is seeking submissions for its fall 2023 issue on the theme “Communication in the Worlds of Children and Youth: Imagination, Language, Performance, and Creative Expression.” It invites submissions that speak to imagination, expression, and the senses in terms of how children know, experience, and express their perception of the present and envision the future. The deadline is August 16, 2023. Rolling submissions prior to this deadline are also welcome. Authors are encouraged to submit a brief message about their intent to the coeditors by August 2, 2023. Visit the website for more information about the journal, and click here for author guidelines. Access the submission portal for the fall 2023 issue here.
Social Sciences is seeking submissions for a special issue on “Marriage Equality around the World” on paths to marriage equality, attitudes toward marriage laws, LGBTQ+ marriage lives, and more. Send manuscript submissions by September 15, 2023. To read the full call for papers, visit the website.
The Journal Forum Sociológico is seeking papers for a special issue on the theme of “Urban Neoliberalism in the 21st Century: Exclusion and Struggles for The Right to the City” and invites articles with an interdisciplinary approach, crossing all disciplines with a focus on critical urban studies. All original articles and empirical proposals must be sent in their complete version by email, in .docx format, to Forum Sociológico with the title of the special issue in the email subject by September 30, 2023. Read the call for papers here.
The Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences will be held on the theme “Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change” in Oxford, UK, and online, July 19–21, 2023. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences and between the social, natural, and applied sciences. It invites proposals on several themes, including social and community studies; civic and political studies; cultural studies; global studies; environmental studies; organizational studies; educational studies; and communication. The deadline is June 19, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The National Institute of Justice seeks to fund research and evaluation on projects that inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects. It is particularly interested in funding research to advance knowledge and understanding in two categories: preventing and addressing hate crimes; and school-based hate crimes. Applications must be submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline. Submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in Grants.gov by May 16, 2023. Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants by May 30, 2023. Read the solicitation here.
The National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) invites participation in peer review of project proposals submitted within Calls for Project Proposals. The NRFU is Ukraine’s only public grantmaking agency for fundamental and applied projects in all fields of research and developments. One of the critical needs of the NRFU at the present time is to expand the number of international experts who are willing to review NRFU proposals. Becoming an international reviewer for NRFU is an easy way for members of the global scientific community to help Ukraine at this critical time by simply doing what they already do well—evaluating proposals. Register with NRFU as an international expert in the web-based system here. Your personal account will be then generated. Registration guidelines can be found here. To get acquainted with the NRFU Procedure of call selection here.
The following Qual-Works: Qualitative Research Workshops will be held online and are now open for registration: Qualitative Research Methods, May 1-5, 2023, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Eastern; Mentored Qualitative Methods Session, May 15, 2023, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Eastern; Qualitative Data Analysis, May 8-12, 2023, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Eastern; and Mentored Qualitative Analysis Session, May 16, 2023, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Eastern. To register or learn more, visit the website.
Instats is offering a free, one-day workshop on Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). NCA is rapidly entering a variety of research fields and can be used as a stand-alone method or in combination with other methods (e.g., multiple regression analysis, structural equation modeling, qualitative comparative analysis), and this workshop will provide a complete introduction to the logic and methods underlying NCA. The workshop will be held on May 10, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
Wiki Workshop 2023 is a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. Held virtually as a standalone event on May 11, 2023, Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year, aimed at bringing together researchers who study all aspects of Wikimedia projects (including, but not limited to, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary) as well as Wikimedia developers, affiliate organizations, and volunteer editors. For more information, visit the website.
The 2023 Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning will be held June 14–16, 2023, in Colorado Springs, CO. An intensive, three-day institute organized by the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, the institute provides much-needed tools, strategies, and support to build inclusive learning environments and deal with resistance in the classroom. Participants at all levels are welcome to examine and apply the concepts of privilege, oppression, and intersectionality in educational settings. For the past three years, 90 percent of our attendees say they would recommend the institute to colleagues; and 90 percent found it to be very useful and valuable. To ensure continued safety of participants, the institute will be a virtual format. Visit our website for more information.
The Kempe Interdisciplinary Research Institute will hold its Summer Intensive Courses at the Kempe Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, on August 14–18, 2023. Course One will be on the topic “Fundamentals of Clinical and Epidemiological Research.” Course Two will be on the topic “Challenges in Child Maltreatment Research.” Course Three will be on the topic “Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention Research and Evaluation through a Public Health Lens.” For more information and to register, visit the website.
The Workshop on Advanced Research Methods aims to share innovations and innovative uses of advanced research methods. It is held online on selected Thursdays through mid-November, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Eastern, and is open to the public. This year, the workshop has invited experts to present on network analysis, Bayesian analysis, structural equation models, sequence analysis, machine learning, and text analysis. Read more and register here. Spots are limited.
Caitlyn Collins, Washington University-St. Louis; Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne; Liana Christin Landívar, Maryland Population Research Center; and Buddy Scarborough, University of North Texas, had their work cited in the 2023 Economic Report of the President, released by the Council of Economic Advisers, a component of the Executive Office of the President in the Biden-Harris Administration.
The 2023 cohort of six Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science includes three sociologists. Rogelio Sáenz, University of Texas-San Antonio, is the 2023 Ernest Burgess Fellow. Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles, is the 2023 W.E.B. DuBois Fellow. Jennifer Lee, Columbia University, is the 2023 Samuel Stouffer Fellow.
Seth Abrutyn, University of British Columbia, was quoted in the March 24, 2023, piece “Suicide Can be Contagious for Teens, Research Shows. Here’s How Parents Can Help” in ABC News.
Amy J. Binder, University of California-San Diego, was quoted in the March 22, 2023, article “The Real Source of Self-Censorship” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Feinian Chen, Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in the March 7, 2023, article “China Cracks Down on Costly ‘Bride Price’ Custom to Boost Falling Birth Rate” in Bloomberg News.
Laurie F. DeRose, Catholic University of America, authored the March 27, 2023, article “When It Comes to Income Pooling, Marriage Still Matters” on the Institute for Family Studies blog.
Matthew Desmond, Princeton University, authored the March 9, 2023, article “Why Poverty Persists in America” in the New York Times Magazine. He was interviewed about his new book—Poverty, by America—for the March 19, 2023, episode of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and for the March 20, 2023, article “We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America” in Mother Jones. He was a guest on the March 23, 2023, episode of WBUR's On Point, “Sociologist Matthew Desmond on Why Poverty Persists in America.”
Dana R. Fisher, University of Maryland-College Park, was quoted in the March 7, 2023, articles “The Viral #StopWillow Campaign Shows How TikTokers Are Tackling Climate Change” and “Will the Senate Ratify a Landmark Treaty to Protect Ocean Life?” in the Washington Post. She was also quoted in the March 16, 2023, article “Biden’s Right Turns on Oil, Crime, Border ‘a Slap’ to Young Voters. Will He Pay in ’24?” in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Sylvia A. Fuller, University of British Columbia, was quoted in the March 16, 2023, article “How to Fight the ‘Pink Tax’ Amid Inflation” on NerdWallet.
Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University, and Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University, were quoted in the March 23, 2023, article “Here Comes the … Baby Bump” in the New York Times.
Philip Gorski, Yale University, was quoted in the March 28, 2023, article “Donald Trump Is Promising the Apocalypse” in the Washington Post.
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, commented on her recent research in the March 7, 2023, article “Want to Rein in Russian Oligarchs? Target the Wealth Managers, Study Says” in the Washington Post.
Aseem Hasnain, California State University-Fresno, coauthored the March 7, 2023, article “Discrimination Based on Caste Is Pervasive in South Asian Communities around the World – Now Seattle Has Banned It” in the Conversation with CSU economics professor Abhilasha Srivastava.
Junia Howell, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Washington University in St Louis, were quoted and had their research covered in the March 8, 2023, article “Black Couple Win Discrimination Case after Their House Value Was Lowballed” in the Guardian.
Robert A. Hummer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in the March 22, 2023, article “Child Mortality Is Rising at the Fastest Rate in 50 Years” in the Hill.
Angela Jones, SUNY-Farmingdale, was quoted in the March 24, 2023, article “Collateral Damage in the War on Sex Trafficking” on Bloomberg News.
Chris Knoester, Ohio State University, was quoted in the March 20, 2023, article “Study Provides Insight into How Culture War Issues Contributed to Trump’s Rise to Power” in PsyPost.
Arielle Kuperberg, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Lisa Wade, Tulane University; and Reuben J. Thomas, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque were quoted in the March 22, 2023, article “Young Americans Are Once Again Switching Up How They Date” in the Hill.
Rebecca London, University of California-Santa Cruz, was quoted in the March 23, 2023, article “Recess Is Good for Kids. Why Don’t More States Require It?” on FiveThirtyEight.
Nancy López, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, was quoted in the March 25, 2023, article “Should Latinos be Considered a Race?” in the New Yorker.
Richard A. Miech, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, was quoted in the March 26, 2023, article “Teen Overdose Deaths Have Doubled in Three Years. Blame Fentanyl” in the Hill.
Ruth Milkman, CUNY-Graduate Center, was quoted in the March 28, 2023, piece “Unions Are Having a Moment. So Why Isn't Union Membership Booming?” on NPR News.
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Dawn Culpepper, UMD ADVANCE Program at the University of Maryland; and KerryAnn O’Meara, University of Maryland, authored the March 30, 2023, article “Diversity Work, Meaningful Work and Faculty Workload” in Inside HigherEd.
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California, was quoted in the March 24, 2023, article “How Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s Foundation” in the Atlantic.
Christine M. Percheski, Northwestern University, was quoted in the March 23, 2023, article “Nearly Half of Parents with Adult Children Still Pay Their Bills” in the Hill.
Chavella T. Pittman, Dominican University, authored the March 7, 2023, article “Keys to Unlocking Tenure and Academic Freedom” on the Academe Blog, the blog of Academe magazine.
Néstor Rodriguez, University of Texas-Austin, was quoted in the March 7, 2023, article “Mexico Kidnapping: Why a Million Americans a Year Risk Mexico Medical Tourism” on BBC News.
Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University, was quoted in the March 22, 2023, article “The Ground Beneath Their Feet” in Grist.
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, was a guest on the March 6, 2023, episode of On Point, “Could a Four-Day Work Week Work in the United States?” from WBUR.
Michael Schudson, Columbia University, was quoted in the March 14, 2023, article “Don’t Trust the News Media? That’s Good” in the Conversation.
Esther Sullivan, University of Colorado-Denver, was quoted in the March 24, 2023, article “Calmatters: Mobile Home Parks Offer Refuge from California’s Housing Squeeze. Who’s Watching Them?” in SF Gate.
Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, had work quoted in the March 16, 2023, article “The Self-Appointed Covid Experts Are at It Again” in the Nation.
Orit Avishai, Fordham University, Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel (NYU Press 2023).
Pablo J. Boczkowski and Mora Matassi, Northwestern University, To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms (MIT Press 2023).
Larissa Buchholz, Northwestern University, The Global Rules of Art. The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy (Princeton University Press 2022).
Matthew Desmond, Princeton University, Poverty, by America (Crown 2023).
James V. Fenelon, California State University-San Bernardino, Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790 (Routledge 2023).
Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College; Lotte Meinert and Anne Line Dalsgård, Aarhus University, Eds., Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (Berghahn Books 2023).
Kez U. Gabriel, Esq., Bowie State University, Killer Kops Konfidential: Ending State Organized Terror (Goldline & Jacobs Publishing 2023).
Lisa McCormick, University of Edinburgh, Ed., The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
Professor Lauren Edelman, a leading figure in the sociology of law and organizations, passed away on February 7, 2023, after a brief and unexpected illness. A pathbreaking scholar, Edelman transformed both the sociolegal understanding of antidiscrimination law and the neoinstitutional understanding of organizational environments. Her sophisticated empirical research offered crucial insights into why civil rights laws often fail to generate meaningful social change, and her novel theoretical concepts of “legal endogeneity” and “managerialization” have become essential tools for analyzing how organizations institutionalize inequality and shape courtroom and workplace interpretations of legal compliance.
Edelman grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, the eldest daughter of political scientist Murray Edelman and ceramic artist Bacia Stepner Edelman. She earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin, her PhD in sociology from Stanford University, and her JD from the University of California-Berkeley. In 1986, she began her career on the sociology faculty at Wisconsin, returning to Berkeley in 1996 to become the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology.
An internationally recognized scholar, Edelman received too many honors to recount. Most prominently, her 2016 opus Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights (University of Chicago Press) won top association-wide book awards, including the American Sociological Association’s 2018 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award and the Academy of Management’s 2017 George R. Terry Book Award. In 2018, she received the Law and Society Association’s highest research honor, the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize for a body of “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.” In addition, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022) and the Sociological Research Association (2007), and she received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edelman was also a tireless institution builder and a leader in both the profession and the academy. She cofounded (1992) and chaired (1996–1997) the ASA Sociology of Law Section, and over the course of her career she held virtually every elected office in the Law and Society Association, including trustee (1993–1995 and 2019–2022), secretary (1997–1999), and president (2002–2003). At Berkeley, she directed the Center for the Study of Law and Society (2004–2009) and chaired the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program (2010–2013). She also served on the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation, on the National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Science Review Panel, and on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Perhaps her most lasting contribution, however, lay in her dedicated cultivation of emerging scholars, for which she received the Law and Society Association’s Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award in 2017. A fierce advocate and beloved counselor, she advised generations of graduate students and junior faculty across the country on research design, grant writing, tenure, and publishing. In addition, she launched formal mentoring programs in both the ASA and the Law and Society Association, cofounded the American Bar Foundation/National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Inequality, and led numerous summer institutes, didactic workshops, and professional development panels over the years.
Alongside these professional accomplishments, Edelman’s friends and colleagues will remember her humor, warmth, and zest for life. She loved birds, ferrets, and particularly dogs; she played Eastern European folk music on violin and gadulka; and she crafted stunning jewelry. Notoriously oblivious to the world of sports, she was fond of recounting how a certain college football coach had once pleaded that she “just had to” change his starting quarterback’s grade—to which she replied, in full sincerity, “What’s a quarterback?” Her infectious laugh, her wise counsel, and her steadfast friendship will be deeply missed.
Gifts to support programming in Professor Edelman's memory can be made to the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Graduate Program, UC Berkeley, 2240 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94720, or online at https://give.berkeley.edu/funddrive/105.
Mark Suchman, Brown University and The American Bar Foundation, and Catherine Albiston, University of California-Berkeley
Hugh Floyd, professor of sociology at Samford University died at his home in Westover, Alabama, on January 10, 2023, after a very short but devastating blow from cancer at the completion of his teaching for the fall semester. He was anticipating retirement in May 2023.
For more than fifty years, Floyd contributed to understanding and improving the human condition through his decades of scholarly research, his work as a clinical sociologist, and his teaching. His natural love for others marked his work and career as it did his life among his many colleagues, friends, and family.
Floyd was born in Malvern, Arkansas, and, due to his father’s Baptist ministry, lived in more than twenty cities across the south and midwestern United States before receiving his BA from Ouachita Baptist University. Following in his father’s footsteps, his own ministry began early as a preteen “boy preacher,” but he also became strongly attracted to scholarship. He partly supported himself through college by pastoring a small Baptist church in Arkansas. In 1966, Floyd entered the doctoral program in sociology at the University of Georgia (UGA). In 1968, while working as UGA Sociology Professor Paul Roman’s first graduate assistant, he developed his dissertation project, prescient of the contemporary issues relative to the stigma of mental illness.
After completing his PhD in 1970, Floyd joined the faculty of the University of New Orleans (then LSU in New Orleans) as an assistant professor of sociology. Floyd was promoted through the ranks to full professor, and he chaired the University of New Orleans (UNO) Department of Sociology. Hugh retired from UNO and moved to Samford University in 1993 as professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology.
At Samford, Floyd became known as the “environment guy.” His students found his energy toward social justice inspiring in so many areas, especially the environment. Floyd coauthored “Modernity and Anniston's Transformation from ‘Model City’ to ‘Toxic Town’”—written with his eldest son, M. Ryan Floyd, professor and chair of the History Department at Lander University and published in the July 2016 issue of The Alabama Review—and coauthored Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge (NYU Press 1997) with Steve Kroll-Smith.
Floyd published more than thirty articles, book chapters, and books, and presented innumerable papers at professional meetings. At the time of his passing, Floyd was working on a book with his son, Ryan.
An important facet of Floyd’s professional life was his private practice of clinical sociology, through which he helped individuals and families navigate the challenges of life. Floyd launched a practice while in New Orleans that meaningfully applied sociological frameworks to disruptive personal and family issues. While he was an important pioneer in clinical sociology, this involvement never overshadowed his commitment and involvement in academic teaching and research.
Floyd was active in professional organizations. He was a founding member and regular participant of the Mid-South Sociological Association and active in the Southern Sociological Society; Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society; the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; Alabama Marriage and Family Therapy Association; American Board of Medical Psychotherapists; and Phi Gamma Mu, the International Honor Society in Social Sciences.
Floyd is survived by his wife, Paula; two sons, M. Ryan, Lander University (Greenwood, South Carolina), and Stephen (Westover, Alabama), a middle school social sciences teacher; as well as five grandchildren.
Hugh Floyd, one of the good guys in higher education and in life, left too soon and will be missed.
Dennis R. McSeveney, University of New Orleans; Theresa Davidson, Samford University; and Paul Roman, University of Georgia
In Memory of My Graduate Students: Death and Mentoring
By Helen Moore, Aaron Douglas Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
I have been mentoring graduate students for over four decades at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). It devastates me that four of my gay and/or Black graduate students have lost their lives right before or after completing their degrees. These deaths have profoundly impacted my mentoring over the decades, but Yolanda Dillon’s recent violent murder in New Orleans brought on renewed grieving. I am writing this in memory of my marginalized colleagues who died too early.
Yolanda Dillion (died 2022) studied economically marginalized people of color when there is no work available. She earned her MA degree from Tulane University and after earning her UNL ABD designation, Yolanda moved back to New Orleans. She discovered her breast cancer (early enough to survive), while caretaking her elderly mother who was also cancer stricken. Yolanda held two jobs, one as a statistical analyst for the New Orleans Police Department, and one as an Uber driver. She was the victim of a random urban murder when a male passenger stabbed her to death from the back seat during an Uber trip. For Yolanda’s family and the Black community, the tragedy of her murder was multiplied by the uploading of videos that the passenger took of her dying.
Cheryl Applegate (died 2000) was a proud Black, lesbian, civil rights activist who came to UNL after a long history devoted to making social change. As an ABD student, she undertook full-time teaching at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. She was a committed, joyous teacher whose late diagnosis of colon cancer whittled away her life. We annually award our best Sociology graduate student teachers of intersections of race, class, and gender classes the Cheryl Applegate Award so that we can say her name.
Joel Brodsky, PhD, (died 1989) completed his dissertation “Controlling Sickness: The Political Economy of Gay Men's Health Care,” despite battling HIV/AIDS. Joel understood the institutionalized health care and politics that made his life vulnerable, that forced him to retake his doctoral exams because although his writing was well cited, it was considered “too political.” Joel dedicated his dissertation in memoriam to naming of friends dying from AIDS “who taught me that death is a more compelling enemy than domination.”
Vanetta Aaron (died 1997) was an MA student who was told by medical personnel that her troubled breathing was “due to her obesity.” Climbing the seven flights of stairs to our department, she later collapsed and soon after died in hospital from undiagnosed hypertension and heart failure. We established the annual Vanetta Aaron Inequality Paper Award given to a Sociology undergraduate so that each year we can say her name.
Supporting Students
Here are some recommendations for supervising graduate faculty members and graduate chairs to help them support their minority graduate students. A department discussion could further help establish guidelines based on your needs:
Faculty are not taught basic verbal and listening skills for noticing and caring about students and then providing supportive referrals. Sociologists can work to reduce the ratio of deaths among our marginalized graduate students who bend our disciplinary arc toward justice in the academy and in our communities.
Any opinions expressed in the articles in this publication are those of the author and not the American Sociological Association.
