These Author Meets Critics sessions and book panels are designed to bring authors of recent books deemed to be important contributions to the discipline together with discussants chosen to provide different viewpoints. The Program Committee selected eight books to be featured on this year's program.

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press, 2003) by Annette Lareau

Organizer and Presider: Julia Wrigley, City University of New York Graduate Center
Critics: Katherine Newman, Harvard University
France Winddance Twine, Duke University and University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author: Annette Lareau, Temple University

Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2002) by Myra Marx Ferree, William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht

Organizer and Presider: Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
Critics: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago
Gail Kligman, University of California at Los Angeles
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
Authors: Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin
William A. Gamson, Boston College

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Too Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) by Elizabeth Higginbotham

Organizer and Presider: Jennifer L. Pierce, University of Minnesota
Critics: Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota
Bruce Williams, Mills College
Wendy Leo Moore, University of Minnesota
Author: Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware

Science in the Modern World Polity, (Stanford University Press, 2003) by Gili Drori, John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, Evan Schofer

Organizer and Presider: Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
Critics: Tom Gieryn, Indiana University
Michele Lamont, Harvard University
Karin Knorr, University of Chicago
Peter Weingart, University of Bielefeld
Authors: Gili Drori, Stanford University
John W. Meyer, Stanford University
Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University
Evan Schofer, University of Minnesota

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Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance (University of California Press, 2002) by Harold L. Wilensky

Organizer and Presider: Neil J. Smelser, University of California, Berkeley
Critics: Paul Burstein, University of Washington
Evelyn Huber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lane Kenworthy, Emory University
John Stephens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Author: Harold L. Wilensky, University of California, Berkeley

The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements (Cornell University Press, 2003) by Dan Clawson

Organizer and Presider: Kim Voss, University of California, Berkeley
Critics: Huw Beynon, Cardiff University
Roberto Franzosi, University of Reading
Steve Lopez, Ohio State University
Ann Mische, Rutgers University
Author: Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

Organizer and Presider: Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago
Critics: Michael Schudson, University of California at San Diego
Leo Panitch, York University
Francesca Polletta, Columbia University
Author: Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

America’s Newcomers: Immigrant Incorporation and the Dynamics of Diversity (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003) by Frank Bean and Gillian Stevens

Organizer and Presider: Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
Critics: Katherine Donato, Rice University
Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University
Philip Kasinitz, Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center
Authors: Frank Bean, University of California, Irvine
Gillian Stevens, University of Illinois, Urbana

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