The Annual Meeting Program Committee is pleased to announce the Book Forum line up for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Book Forums are designed to highlight books published in the last three years that contribute to the discipline. The format brings together authors and panelists to examine the importance of the work for sociologists across different areas of our discipline and to stimulate new thinking. We also hope that Book Forums will address the contribution of the featured texts to understanding current events in society.
At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
2021, Stanford University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Claire Laurier Decoteau, University of Illinois-Chicago; (Moderator) Claire Laurier Decoteau, University of Illinois-Chicago; (Author) Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University; (Panelist) Shiri Noy, Denison University; (Panelist) Robert Wyrod, University of Colorado Boulder; (Panelist) Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Texas A&M University-College Station
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend
2020, Stanford University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County; (Author) Cassi Pittman Claytor, Case Western Reserve University; (Moderator) Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, Loyola Marymount University; (Panelist) Saida Grundy, Boston University; (Panelist) Kris Marsh, University of Maryland-College Park
Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations
2020, University of Toronto Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Dean R. Ray, York University; (Author) Jeffrey Steven Denis, McMaster University; (Panelist) Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University; (Panelist) Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa; (Moderator) Dean R. Ray, York University
Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India
2021, Oxford University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; (Moderator) Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University; (Author) Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University; (Panelist) Monika Christine Krause, London School of Economics; (Panelist) Iddo Tavory, New York University; (Panelist) Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People
2021, Rutgers University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Angela Jones, SUNY-Farmingdale; (Author) Simone Alexandra Kolysh, Hood College; (Moderator) Alexandra Catherine Hayes Nowakowski, Florida State University; (Panelist) Natalie Ingraham, Farmingdale State College (SUNY); (Panelist) Brittany C. Slatton, Texas Southern University; (Panelist) Anima Adjepong, University of Cincinnati
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t
2022, Harvard University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) David Pedulla, Harvard University; (Moderator) David Pedulla, Harvard University; (Author) Frank Dobbin, Harvard University; (Author) Alexandra Kalev, Tel-Aviv University; (Panelist) Ellen Berrey, University of Toronto; (Panelist) Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Washington University-St. Louis; (Panelist) Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific
2021, Duke University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Kimberly R. Huyser, University of British Columbia; (Author) Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University; (Moderator) Zulema Valdez, University of California-Merced; (Panelist) Vilna Bashi, Northwestern University; (Panelist) Dwanna L. McKay, Colorado College
In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment
2023, University of California Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania; (Author) Rachel Ellis, University of Maryland-College Park; (Moderator) Forrest Stuart, Stanford University; (Panelist) Lynne Allison Haney, New York University; (Panelist) David J. Harding, University of California-Berkeley; (Panelist) TaLisa J. Carter, American University
Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards
2023, University of California Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati; (Author) Alka Menon, Yale University; (Moderator) Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati; (Panelist) Ann J. Morning, New York University; (Panelist) Maxine Leeds Craig, University of California-Davis; (Panelist) Monica G Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge
Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential
2022, Princeton University Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Ferdose Y Idris, Princeton University; (Author) Heba Gowayed, Boston University; (Moderator) Dialika Sall, CUNY-Lehman College; (Panelist) Cecilia Menjivar, University of California-Los Angeles; (Panelist) Neda Maghbouleh, University of British Columbia; (Panelist) Rawan Arar, University of Washington
Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man
2022, University of California Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University; (Author) Saida Grundy, Boston University; (Moderator) Deborwah Faulk, University of Richmond; (Panelist) Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Washington University-St. Louis; (Panelist) R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University; (Panelist) Taura Taylor, Morehouse College
The Bricks before Brown: The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans’ Struggle for Educational Equality
2022, University of Georgia Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County; (Moderator) Taura Taylor, Morehouse College; (Author) Marisela Martinez-Cola, Morehouse College; (Panelist) Kavitha Koshy, California State University-Long Beach; (Panelist) Sarah Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College; (Panelist) Alfonso R. Latoni, Division of Extramural Research and Training
Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism
2021, University of California Press
Participants: (Session Organizer) Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University; (Author) Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley State University; (Moderator) Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University; (Panelist) Joel Best, University of Delaware; (Panelist) Deborah B. Gould, University of California-Santa Cruz; (Panelist) Jocelyn Hollander, University of Oregon; (Panelist) Amy L. Stone, Trinity University
