The American Sociological Association is committed to supporting sociologists who are working as contingent faculty.
Membership for Contingent Faculty
ASA has a special reduced fee membership category for part-time contingent faculty that provides the full package of member benefits. To learn more about ASA membership and to join or renew, click here.
Connect with other Contingent Faculty and Grow your Network
When completing your employment information while joining ASA or renewing your membership, if you indicate Lecturer for your Academic Rank, you will be automatically included in the Contingent Faculty listserv. Through the listserv, you can receive notifications about the latest Group happenings and make connections with others in the Group.
Task Force on Contingent Faculty Report
ASA Council approved the final report from the Task Force on Contingent Faculty. Members of the task force spent three years researching and analyzing data to better understand the dynamics and implications of the recent growth of contingent employment among sociologists and used this research to make recommendations. You can read the report below.
Teaching and Learning Symposium at the Annual Meeting
The Teaching and Learning Symposium consists of four back-to-back sessions of workshops, roundtable discussions, and poster presentations that are focused on teaching and learning in the discipline. Proposals to present at the symposium (which are due in January of each year) consist of a 300-word structured abstract. The symposium creates new pathways to engage a broader array of sociologists in discussions of teaching and learning in the discipline. The symposium is scheduled either the day before or the day after the main day of sessions organized by the Section on Teaching and Learning, resulting in two full days of programming focused on teaching at the Annual Meeting.
Note that contingent faculty are eligible for a substantially reduced Annual Meeting registration fee. For more information, visit the Annual Meeting Page.
Teaching Resources
Faculty are at the heart of the discipline of sociology. ASA offers resources and programs to support pedagogical success for faculty and teachers across the full range of institution types. Visit the ASA Teaching webpage for information on online learning, TRAILS (ASA’s online peer reviewed library of high-quality teaching resources), and more. Additionally, our public sociology journal Contexts and our Sociological Insights video collection are excellent ways to communicate cutting-edge social research to general audiences.
