Frontiers in Public Health is accepting manuscripts for a special issue on “Geographic Inequalities in Health and Mortality: Factors Contributing to Trends and Differentials.” The deadline is July 15, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
Studies in Comparative International Development is publishing a special issue on the topic of global health that seeks to critically challenge the absence of race and racism in mainstream international relations theory and the “epistemic parochialism” of major social science disciplines by highlighting important new work in the emergent sociologies and political sciences of global health. The deadline for submission is August 25, 2022. Click here for the complete call for papers. Questions about the special issue may be directed to the coeditors, Kim Yi Dionne and Joseph Harris.
The Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research book series is planning a volume on the theme of "Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships" that will delve into a wide variety of topics related to cohabitation. The submission date for manuscripts is September 30, 2022. Click here for the complete call for papers. Questions may be directed to the volume’s coeditors, Yongjun Zhang and Sampson Lee Blair.
A conference on hate crimes will be held in Roanoke, VA, August 31–September 2, 2022. Scholars interested in participating are encouraged to send a brief abstract describing their research to either James Hawdon or Matthew Costello by April 30, 2022. Selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to contribute to an anthology on hate crimes, Research Handbook on Hate Crime and Society.
The Conference on Korean Aging: Issues and Implications will be held in Portland, OR, August 3, 2022. Driven by the extremely low levels of fertility and much enhanced longevity, the pace of population aging in Korea has been the fastest in the world. To discuss various aspects of the aging population in Korea, the organizers are seeking abstracts based on original research that examines issues many older individuals in Korea face. Topics include but are not limited to: (1) health and mortality of older adults; (2) work and economic well-being over the life course; (3) family configuration and living arrangement among older adults; and (4) aging of gender and sexual minority adults. Please send your abstract (about 1,000 words) and CV to Hyeyoung Woo and Hyunjoon Park by May 15, 2022. Email questions to Hyeyoung Woo. Read the full call for papers here.
Sciences Po welcomes applications from senior academics for research stays of 1–2 months at Sciences Po in the heart of Paris. Visitors will work in close cooperation with the affiliated research centers: the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations, and the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement. Researchers with projects in economic sociology, political economy, economic history, or related fields are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is April 30, 2022. Click here for more information.
Public Religion Research Institute is seeking applicants whose research agendas align with one of four principal vectors of its ongoing work: (1) religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism; (2) racial justice and white supremacy; (3) immigration and migration studies; and (4) LGBTQ rights. In each area of scholarship, PRRI will select four fellows. The ideal candidates are mid-career scholars who have an aptitude and track record of socially engaged or public scholarship. PRRI is seeking a diverse cohort in terms of academic disciplines (both humanities and the social sciences), types of institutions (college, university, seminary, or research institute), and geographic location. The application deadline is May 15, 2022. For more details, visit the website.
The NIH Social, Behavioral, and Economic Health Impacts of COVID-19 initiative invites you to a spring webinar event for two half-days on April 27–28, 2022. This virtual event will bring together more than 45 grantees to further connect researchers and foster collaboration opportunities. Presentations will cover COVID-19-related research topics, including social networks, biological correlates, impacts on disadvantaged populations, mortality and morbidity, family impacts, mitigation efforts, interventions, and more. Visit the website to register and view the webinar agenda.
The Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences will be held on the theme “At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Considering Heterodoxy in the Social Sciences” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-School of Philosophy in Athens, Greece, on July 21–23, 2022. 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. For more information, visit the website.
The Fifteenth Global Studies Conference will be held on the theme of “What to Make of Crises: Emerging Methods, Principles, Actions” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-School of Philosophy in Athens, Greece on July 21–23, 2022. The Global Studies Research Network is devoted to mapping and interpreting past and emerging trends and patterns in globalization. For more information, visit the website.
The Twelfth International Conference on Food Studies will be held on the theme of “Imagining the Edible: Food, Creativity, and the Arts” at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City on October 22–23, 2022. The Food Studies Research Network is brought together around a common interest to explore new possibilities for sustainable food production and human nutrition, and the associated impacts of food systems on culture. Visit the website for more information.
The Civil Sphere Working Group is planning a meeting for 2023 in Germany. Composed of theorists and empirical social scientists who share the goal of developing and revising Civil Sphere Theory, the working group conferences every other year and sustains an ongoing discussion via the CSWG website, which includes papers, comments, and other news.
The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has given several sociologists awards as part of the Pipeline Grants Competition. The RSF-Gates Pipeline Grants initiative is designed to support early- and mid-career tenure-track scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and to promote diversity broadly, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity:
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, delivered the keynote remarks at the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation organized by the University of California-Santa Cruz on February 23, 2022.
RAND posted a short video of Chloe Bird’s work in which she talks about the positive ROI of increasing funding for research on women’s health: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Women's Health Research.
Bridget Goosby, University of Texas-Austin, was elected a lifetime Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her distinguished contributions to the scientific study of the effects of racism, discrimination, marginalization, and inequities on mental and physical health and physiological risks.
Jonathan Cox, University of Central Florida, was quoted in the article “Some Fear ‘Chilling Effect’ as Florida Advances ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ ‘Anti-Woke’ Laws,’” appearing in the February 25, 2022, edition of the Orlando Sentinel.
Maia Cucchiara, Temple University, authored the op-ed “The Pandemic Disrupted American Schools Again and Again. Why?” in the March 8, 2022, issue of the New York Times.
David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut, was quoted in the March 7, 2022, article “What Is Critical Race Theory—And Why Is It Important to Understand?” in Reader’s Digest.
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, authored the article “The Russian Elite Can’t Stand the Sanctions” in the March 5, 2022, edition of the Atlantic online.
Jonathan Mijs, Boston University, was interviewed in the January 29, 2022, article "Racial and Economic Inequality Persists. Why Do Many People Deny It?" in MarketWatch and was quoted in a January 21, 2022, article "This Professor Went Viral for Asking Students How Much They Think the Average Person Makes, and It's Eye-Opening" in BuzzFeed.
Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma, was quoted in the March 19, 2022, Washington Post article “Researchers Warn that Christian Nationalists are Becoming More Radical and Are Targeting Voting,” which also cited research from his new book with Philip Gorski, Yale University.
Jane H. Yamashiro, Mills College, was interviewed for the article "Japonité Et Mythe De L'homogénéité” about the myth of Japanese homogeneity in the January 2022 issue of the French magazine Tempura.
Said Arjomand, Stony Brook University, and Stephen Kalberg, Boston University, Eds., From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond (SUNY Press 2021).
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (Princeton University Press 2022).
Eli Friedman, Cornell University, The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City (Columbia University Press 2022).
Philip Gorski, Yale University, and Samuel L. Perry, Oklahoma State University, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Elizabeth Hoffmann, Purdue University, Lactation at Work: Expressing Milk, Expressed Concern, and the Expressive Value of Law (Cambridge University Press 2021).
Jane Lopez, Brigham Young University-Provo, Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State (Stanford University Press 2021).
Ethan Michelson, Indiana University-Bloomington, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts (Cambridge University Press 2022).
Giacomo Negro, Emory University, and Michael T. Hannan, Stanford University; with Susan Olzak, Stanford University, Wine Markets: Genres and Identities (Columbia University Press 2022).
Alexis Padilla, University of New Mexico, Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories (Routledge 2022).
Vânia Penha-Lopes, Bloomfield College, The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation (Lexington Books 2022).
Sal Restivo, (retired) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Inventions in Sociology: Studies in Science and Society (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
Kim Scipes, Purdue University Northwest, Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States (Lexington Books 2021).
Amy L. Stone, Trinity University, Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press 2022).
Phi Hong Su, Williams College, The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin (Stanford University Press 2022).
Lincoln H. Day, demographer and sociologist, passed away on December 11, 2021, at the age of 94. With his wife, Alice, Day authored the book Too Many Americans (Houghton Mifflin 1964), and he was the author, coauthor, and editor of more than 80 book chapters and articles, as well as several other books. Day joined the faculties of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale; was the Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Branch at the United Nations; and was Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University for 20 years. Read the full obituary here.
