The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences seeks papers for an upcoming issue on the topic “Asians in America Beyond Education: Career Choices, Trajectories, and Mobility Strategies.” Editors invite papers that address questions about the labor market choices, career trajectories, and mobility strategies of Asians in America. They welcome evidence-based proposals from all social science disciplines and all methodological approaches. Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract by December 11, 2023. Visit the website to read the complete call for papers.
Sociological Perspectives seeks articles for a special issue focused on queer and trans sociology that are attuned to how race and power shape sociological processes of gender and sexuality. Editors invite all submissions that contend with sociological processes of gender and sexuality and particularly seek contributions that highlight a queer and trans sociology that engages in an intersectional and/or transnational approach, decenters whiteness, and utilizes queer and trans of color critiques. Initial submission of extended abstracts (400-500 words) and a curriculum vita will be due to the guest editors by January 15, 2024. Read the complete call for papers here.
Family Transitions, formerly the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, seeks submissions for a special issue on the theme “Families Navigating Evolving Legal Contexts.” It welcomes a variety of submissions—including original empirical studies, meta-analyses, scoping or systematic reviews, and applied reports—that help to illuminate current understanding of the impacts of any legal/policy changes that directly or indirectly impact families. The deadline is April 1, 2024. Click here for the full call for papers.
The Society for Research in Child Development will be holding its Anti-Racist Developmental Science Summit in Panama City, May 15-17, 2024. It seeks submissions that address ways to dismantle structures, systems, and upstream factors that perpetuate racial inequity and the translation of developmental science, with implications for calls to action for equity and social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on resistance as well as resilience at multiple levels and contexts. For more information about the summit and to read the complete call for submissions, visit the website. The submission deadline is November 16, 2023.
The Popular Culture Association National Conference will be held March 27‒30, 2024, in Chicago. The conference is accepting papers for several special topic areas, which you can read more about here. For complete submission guidelines, click here. The deadline for paper proposals is November 30, 2023.
The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network/Surveillance and Society Conference 2024 will be held University of Ljubljana, May 28‒31, 2024, on the theme “Surveillance in an Age of Crisis.” It is accepting proposals for papers, panels, doctoral colloquium participation, and other interventions on all aspects of surveillance in these times of crisis. For more on the theme and how to submit, visit the website. The deadline to submit abstracts is December 31, 2023.
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Sociological Association will be held on the theme “The Value of Sociology in Changing Times” in Greenville, SC, on February 23–25, 2024. The 2024 SCSA Annual Meeting will offer sociologists and other social scientists from across South Carolina and elsewhere the opportunity to consider how sociology can maintain its relevance in current times and boost its relevance to students, faculty, and communities amid shifting contexts. Proposals are invited for several different formats, including thematic papers related to the conference theme, regular research papers, panel sessions or workshops, poster sessions, and author-meets-critic sessions. Submissions are now being accepted, with preference given to proposals received before Sunday, December 31, 2023. Further information and the full call for participation can be found on the SCSA website.
Editors of an upcoming book on graduates’ work in the knowledge economy seek book chapters that advance the understanding of this topic through sociological, economic, and political lenses. Editors are interested in personal and structural implications of graduate work across a variegated occupational spectrum. Abstracts are due January 15, 2024. For more details, click here.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, a series which focuses on cutting-edge topics in family research around the globe, is seeking manuscript submissions for a special volume on the theme “Education and the Family: Examining their Interwoven Linkages.” This volume seeks a broad examination of education and the family and welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological submissions that explore the many issues pertaining to the linkages between education and family. The deadline for initial submissions is March 15, 2024. Read the full call for proposals here.
The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan is now accepting applications for a visiting fellow for the 2024‒25 academic year. The fellowship provides an early-career social scientist with funded time to pursue their research in an intellectual community with a culture of engagement and collaboration. Applications are due by December 1, 2023. For more information, please visit the website.
The Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting will be held April 4‒7, 2024, in Des Moines, IA, on the theme “A Sociology of Joy: Centering Joy and Pleasure in Research, Teaching, and Practice.” For more about the theme and meeting details, visit the website.
The 2024 Annual Conference of Association for Asian American Studies will be held April 25‒27, 2024, in Seattle, WA, on the theme “Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities.” To learn more about the theme, how to volunteer, and how to register, visit the website.
Andrew J. Cognard-Black, St. Mary's College of Maryland, was recently promoted to associate professor of sociology with tenure.
Patti Giuffre, Texas State University, was promoted to Associate Dean of the Graduate College.
Jennifer Lee, Columbia University; Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles; and Rogelio Sáenz, University of Texas-San Antonio, were inducted as fellows into the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) at a ceremony on October 25, 2023.
Sarah Willie-LeBreton took office as the 12th president of Smith College on July 1, 2023. On October 20 and 21, 2023, the Smith community celebrated and welcomed Sarah Willie-LeBreton into its vibrant campus community with lectures, pop-up installations, musical performances, luncheons, and a dance party.
Musa al-Gharbi, Columbia University, authored the October 16, 2023, article “We Must Not Let the Truth Become a Casualty of This War” in the Nation.
Andrea Becker, University of California-San Francisco, authored the October 16, 2023, opinion piece “Elon Musk’s Feud with Grimes Is a Warning” in Slate.
Kelsy Burke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a guest on the July 10, 2023, episode of the PBS program the Open Mind, entitled “Porn and Us.”
Deborah Carr, Boston University, authored the September 28, 2023, opinion piece, “ ‘The Golden Bachelor’ Has a Lot to Teach Us” on CNN.
Prudence L. Carter, Brown University, and Leslie R. Hinkson, League of Conservation Voters, were quoted in the October 10, 2023, article “Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department” in the New York Times.
Matthew Desmond, Princeton University, was quoted in the October 2, 2023, article “The Americans Most Threatened by Eviction: Young Children” in the New York Times and was the guest on the October 16, 2023, episode of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan.
Kelley Fong, University of California-Irvine, authored the October 11, 2023, article "‘No Matter What I Do, I’m Not in Control’: What Happens When the State Takes Your Child" in the Guardian.
Jeff Goodwin, New York University, was quoted in the October 14, 2023, opinion piece “There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive” in the New York Times.
Mauro F. Guillen, University of Pennsylvania, was a guest on the October 16, 2023, episode of KQED’s World Affairs, entitled “Bye Bye Boomers, Hello Perennials.”
Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Washington University-St. Louis, was interviewed for the October 17, 2023, segment on NPR's Marketplace Morning Edition titled “Sociologist Explains How the Workplace Can Uphold Racist Practices” and authored the October 18, 2023, article “What Do a Black Scientist, Nonprofit Executive and Filmmaker Have in Common? They All Face Racism in the ‘Gray Areas’ of Workplace Culture” in the Conversation.
Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard University, had his book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press 2019) referenced in the October 3, 2023, article “A First-Generation Tale of Strife and Success” in the New Yorker.
Richard Lofton, Johns Hopkins University, was interviewed for an October 12, 2023, segment on Baltimore's WBAL News on how the state of public school infrastructure impacts students.
Michael McQuarrie, Arizona State University, authored the October 5, 2023, article “Why Are Thousands of Kaiser Health Care Workers on Strike? 5 Questions Answered” in the Conversation.
Michael Mendez, University of California-Irvine, was quoted in the October 17, 2023, article “Major U.S. Science Group Lays Out a Path To Smooth the Energy Transition” on NPR.
Ruth Milkman, CUNY-Graduate Center, was quoted in the October 12, 2023, article “Union-Busting with a Smile: Is Trader Joe’s the Next Starbucks?” in Sacramento News and Review.
Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University, was quoted in the October 18, 2023, article “As Asian American Christians Decline, Most ‘Nones’ Still Feel Close to Religion” in Christianity Today.
Tony Silva, University of British Columbia, authored the October 3, 2023, article “What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Daddy’?” in the Conversation.
Teresa A. Sullivan, University of Virginia, was quoted in the October 3, 2023, piece “The Growing Racial Gap in U.S. Census Results Is Raising an Expert Panel's Concerns” from NPR.
Steve Viscelli, University of Pennsylvania, was quoted in the October 18, 2023, article “Truck Leasing Task Force Explores Path Forward” on Overdrive.
Cristobal Young, Cornell University, was quoted in the October 16, 2023, article “Wealth Flight: Should We Care When the Rich Threaten to Go into Tax Exile?” in the Financial Times.
John D. Arena, CUNY-Staten Island, Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable Privatization in Newark (University of Minnesota Press 2023).
Steven A. Boutcher, Law and Society Association; Corey S. Shdaimah, University of Maryland-Baltimore; and Michael W. Yarbrough, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Eds., Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change (Elgar 2023).
Andrea Cossu, Università di Trento, and Jorge Fontdevila, California State University-Fullerton, Eds., Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination (Bristol University Press 2023).
Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, and Samuel D. Stabler, CUNY-Hunter College, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (University of Chicago Press 2023).
Morten G. Ender, United States Military Academy at West Point, Army Spouses: Military Families during the Global War or Terror (University of Virginia Press 2023); and with Ryan Kelty, United States Air Force Academy, and David Rohall, Eastern Ohio University, Eds., Inclusion in the American Military: A Force for Diversity, 2nd Edition (Lexington Books 2023).
Louis Edgar Esparza, California State University-Los Angeles, Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia (Lexington 2023).
Chuck Grose, Minnesota State University-Mankato (retired), Unwrapping Racism: Dealing with Differences (Vernon Press 2023).
Jeffrey A. Halley, University of Texas-San Antonio, and Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee-Knoxville., Eds., The Centrality of Sociality: Responses to Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Emerald 2022).
Gary D. Jaworski, Fairleigh Dickinson University (retired), Erving Goffman and the Cold War (Lexington 2023).
Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil (University of Chicago Press 2023).
Caitlin Killian, Drew University, Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity Press 2023).
Jean Yen-chun Lin, California State University-East Bay, A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities (Columbia University Press 2023).
Alka Menon, Yale University, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty (University of California Press 2023).
Werner Raub, Utrecht University; Nan Dirk De Graaf, Nuffield College-Oxford; and Klarita Gërxhani, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Eds., Handbook of Sociological Science: Contributions to Rigorous Sociology (Elgar 2023).
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times (University of California Press 2023).
Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times (New York University Press 2023).
Judith Stepan-Norris, University of California-Irvine (retired), and Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press 2023).
Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hamilton College, The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice (New York University Press 2023).
Casey Stockstill, Dartmouth College, False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers (New York University Press 2023).
Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia's Premier Erotic Playground (NYU Press 2023).
