The Annual Meeting Program Committee is pleased to announce the Book Forum line up for 2023. 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.
An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States
2022, Russell Sage Foundation
Participants: (Author) Ann J. Morning, New York University; (Author) Marcello Maneri, University of Milano-Bicocca; (Session Organizer) Camilla Alice Hawthorne, University of California-Santa Cruz; (Moderator) Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto; (Panelist) Jean Beaman, University of California-Santa Barbara; (Panelist) Camilla Alice Hawthorne, University of California-Santa Cruz; (Panelist) G. Cristina Mora, University of California-Berkeley
Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities
2021, University of Chicago Press
Participants: (Author) Laura T. Hamilton, University of California-Merced; (Author) Kelly Nielsen, University of California-Merced; (Session Organizer) Brian Powell, Indiana University-Bloomington; (Moderator) Jordan Conwell, University of Texas-Austin; (Panelist) Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa; (Panelist) Simon Eduardo Weffer-Elizondo, Northern Illinois University; (Panelist) Melissa Wooten, William T. Grant Foundation
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
2020, University of California Press
Participants: (Author) Rocío Rosales, University of California-Irvine; (Session Organizer) Rebecca Romo, Santa Monica College; (Moderator) Cecilia Menjivar, University of California-Los Angeles; (Panelist) Shannon Marie Gleeson, Cornell University, ILR School; (Panelist) Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, University of California-Merced; (Panelist) Veronica Montes, Bryn Mawr College
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
2021, Princeton University Press
Participants: (Author) Joseph C. Ewoodzie, Jr., Davidson College; (Session Organizer) Bailey A. Brown, Spelman College; (Moderator) James Michael Thomas, University of Mississippi; (Panelist) Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University; (Panelist) Bobby J. Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; (Panelist) Louwanda Evans, Millsaps College
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
2021, Little, Brown
Participants: (Author) Reuben Jonathan Miller, University of Chicago; (Session Organizer) Matthew Clair, Stanford University; (Moderator) Forrest Stuart, Stanford University; (Panelist) Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International; (Panelist) Dorothy E. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania; (Panelist) Michael Lawrence Walker, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World
2020, Stanford University Press
Participants: (Author) Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto; (Session Organizer) Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University-Bloomington; (Moderator) Pawan H. Dhingra, Amherst College; (Panelist) Prema Ann Kurien, Syracuse University; (Panelist) David Scott FitzGerald, University of California-San Diego; (Panelist) Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
2021, University of Chicago Press
Participants: (Author) Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University; (Author) Elizabeth McKenna, Johns Hopkins University; (Author) Michelle Oyakawa, Muskingum University; (Session Organizer) Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; (Moderator) Catherine Corrigall-Brown, University of British Columbia; (Panelist) Walter W. Powell, Stanford University; (Panelist) Adam D. Reich, Columbia University; (Panelist) Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border
2022, Stanford University Press
Participants: (Author) Sylvia Zamora, Loyola Marymount University; (Session Organizer) Celia Olivia Lacayo, University of California-Los Angeles; (Panelist) Christina Alicia Sue, University of Colorado-Boulder; (Panelist) Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, University of California-Merced; (Moderator) Celia Olivia Lacayo, University of California-Los Angeles
Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
2021, Oxford University Press
Participants: (Author) Deva R. Woodly, New School for Social Research; (Session Organizer) Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; (Moderator) Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; (Panelist) Joshua Bloom, University of Pittsburgh; (Panelist) Zakiya Luna, Washington University-St. Louis; (Panelist) Aldon D. Morris, Northwestern University
Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School
2021, Princeton University Press
Participants: (Author) Joanne W. Golann, Vanderbilt University; (Session Organizer) Amanda Evelyn Lewis, University of Illinois-Chicago; (Panelist) Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University; (Panelist) John B. Diamond, Brown University; (Panelist) Katherine Phillippo, Loyola University-Chicago; (Moderator) Maximilian Cuddy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification
2021, University of Chicago Press
Participants: (Author) Stefan Vogler, NORC; (Session Organizer) Patrick Ryan Grzanka, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; (Panelist) Jyoti Puri, Simmons University; (Panelist) Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Brown University; (Panelist) Tom J. Waidzunas, Temple University; (Moderator) Patrick Ryan Grzanka, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
2020, Oxford University Press
Participants: (Author) Andrew L. Whitehead, Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis; (Author) Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma; (Session Organizer) Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; (Moderator) Ruth Braunstein, University of Connecticut; (Panelist) Aliza Luft, University of California-Los Angeles; (Panelist) Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa
The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermath
2021, University of California Press
Participants: (Author) Paige L. Sweet, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; (Session Organizer) Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; (Panelist) Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California; (Panelist) Kelley Fong, University of California-Irvine; (Panelist) Mimi Kim, California State University, Long Beach; (Moderator) Jennifer Randles, California State University-Fresno
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences
2022, Columbia University Press
Participants: (Author) Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California-San Diego; (Session Organizer) Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, University of California, Berkeley; (Moderator) Wendy Nelson Espeland, Northwestern University; (Panelist) Laura K. Nelson, University of British Columbia; (Panelist) Victoria Reyes, University of California-Riverside; (Panelist) Tressie Cottom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Rainbow After the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the US
2021, Oxford University Press
Participants: (Author) Michael J. Rosenfeld, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College; (Moderator) Brian Powell, Indiana University-Bloomington; (Panelist) Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès; (Panelist) Paula S England, New York University; (Panelist) Kathleen E. Hull, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
2021, New York University Press
Participants: (Author) stef m. shuster, Michigan State University; (Session Organizer) Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University; (Panelist) Brea Louise Perry, Indiana University-Bloomington; (Panelist) Kristen W. Springer, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; (Panelist) Amy L. Stone, Trinity University; (Panelist) Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; (Moderator) Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University
