- Professional Development Opportunities
- A Resource You Can Use: Learn About ASA Grants and Fellowships
- Teaching Resources on Immigration and Migration
- Listen to Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
Webinars for All ASA Members (held 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Eastern; registration links will be available at the ASA bookstore in August)
| September 28 | Creating Successful Writing Groups and Co-authorships |
| October 26 | Fostering Student Engagement in the Classroom |
| November 30 | Trends in Mixed Methods Approaches |
Virtual Proseminars for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty (held 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern; registration links will be available at the ASA bookstore in August)
| September 21 | Application Advice: Getting ASA research funding |
| October 19 | Making Service Work for You |
| November 16 | Assembling Your Thesis or Dissertation Committee |
Events for Department Affiliates
| August 17 | 2023 Department Leaders Preconference (in-person at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia from 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Eastern; for Department Leaders; register here) |
| September 5, October 5, and December 5 | ChairLink Live: Forums on the Fifth (department chairs are invited to attend this virtual forum from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern; register here) |
| December 12 | Webinar: Supporting and Advocating for Contingent Faculty (registration links will be emailed to department affiliates in August) |
A Resource You Can Use: Learn About ASA Grants and Fellowships
ASA’s webpage on grants and fellowships is a great resource to learn about all of the association’s funding opportunities and how to apply for them. Members can find out about teaching awards, dissertation grants, community service grants, Annual Meeting-related awards, and more. Review the additional funding resources section to learn about the 2023 Annual Meeting sessions related to funding and to also view webinars on this topic.
Teaching Resources on Immigration and Migration
- TRAILS, ASA’s peer-reviewed digital teaching resources library, which is free to ASA members, offers many resources on immigration/migration that you may find these useful as you prepare your courses:
- Migration Consultant Activity and Lecture by Kenneth Chen and Gowoon Jung
- The “What’s in a Name?” Exercise by Jerome Rabow, Keisha E. Payne, and Zachary Philyaw
- Transnational Migration and Latina/o Communities Syllabus by Julie Collins-Dogrul
- Context of Immigration Exercise and Lesson by Katy M. Pinto
- Deportation Nation by Katie Dingeman-Cerda
- Sociological Insights, a curated collection of short videos from ASA, features sociologists sharing their expertise on some of the most pressing topics today. The videos, which are ideal resources for teaching, cover topics from racism to poverty, from religion to immigration, and from health care to criminal justice. Strangers in Familiar Land features Cameron Lippard of Appalachian State University discussing Mexican migrants living in rural America who harvest Christmas trees under temporary work visas. While their families may feel more comfortable in rural communities than in urban areas, they still experience discrimination.
Listen to Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their research. We invite you to listen to the latest podcasts and read the corresponding articles linked below.
- American Sociological Review (June 2023): “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions” by Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga; listen to the podcast.
- Social Psychology Quarterly (June 2023): “Contesting Reports of Racism, Contesting the Rights to Assess” by Tianhao Zhang; listen to the podcast.
Visit Podcasts to review more recent podcasts from ASA journals.
