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Call for Papers and Conferences Georgia Political Science Association, November 2003 Annual Meeting, November 14-15, 2003, The Callaway Inn at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA. Theme: “Consequences of Institutions and Cultures.” All other topics will be considered. The meeting is interdisciplinary and is open to all interested persons from all academic fields worldwide. For information about submitting proposals, registration and lodging, visit web2.mgc.edu/gpsa or e-mail Harold Cline at hcline@mgc.edu. New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA) 51st Annual Meeting, October 17-18, Siena College, Loudonville, NY. Papers and panels are welcomed from graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and other interested parties. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2003. Send abstracts to Paul T. Murray, Department of Sociology, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211; e-mail murray@siena.edu. Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) Conference, March 11-13, 2004, St. Louis, MO. Theme: “Cultural Imperialism and Competition: Travel, World’s Fairs and National/Colonial Image.” Abstracts by October 1, 2003. Contact: Carol Flores, Department of Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306; e-mail cflores@bsu.edu. Society for Applied Sociology (SAS) 21st Annual Meeting, October 16-19, 2003, New Orleans, LA, at the Lakeside Double Tree New Orleans Hotel in Metairie, LA. Theme: “Sociological Know-How: Back to Our Applied Roots.” The SAS Program Committee seeks proposals for papers, poster presentations, panels, and round tables that address important research questions, increase the knowledge and skills of SAS members, and promote the development of Applied Sociology in the academy, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private sector consulting firms. Proposal submission deadline: July 31, 2003. Contact: Paul T. Melevin, 2003 Program Chair, Customer Survey Services Unit, Audit and Evaluation Division, Employment Development Department, 800 Capitol Mall, MIC 78, Sacramento, CA 95814-4807; (916) 487-6990; fax (916) 653-7171; e-mail pmelevin@sbcglobal.net. www.appliedsoc.org. Advances in Life Course Research is an annual volume committed to extending scholarship on the life course. The aim of the 2004 volume is to present work examining the structure of the life course in terms of the occurrence, order, and timing of life course transitions. We seek theoretical and empirical papers that are original and innovative and reflect current debates on the standardization, individualization, and differentiation in life course events. The volume will include work on such diverse topics and orientations as individual and population processes, explorations of the structural and cultural context of the life course, historical or cross-nationally comparative analyses, examinations of the role of human agency in the construction of the life course, the implications of the structure of the life course for attainments and experiences, and work that cross-cuts the above areas of inquiry. Interested contributors should submit an abstract by September 15, 2003. Final papers will be due March 1, 2004. All submissions will be subject to peer review before publication. Please send abstracts and papers to: Ross Macmillan, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0412; (612) 624-6509; e-mail macmilla@atlas.socsci.umn.edu. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) is looking for research papers on the political economy of natural resource economics with a special emphasis on what we know about these processes in light of public policy and geopolitical change. A selection will be invited for inclusion in the January 2005 gala issue. The AJES is a 62-year old refereed journal that sets no ideological standards for its collaborators or contributors and is committed to constructive synthesis in the social sciences. Submit a 600-word abstract to the editor: Laurence S. Moss, Economics Department, Babson College, Babson Park, MA 02457; e-mail LMOS@AOL.COM. The deadline for submitting abstracts is November 30, 2003, and the proposed final version of the paper is due February 1, 2004. American Sexuality magazine seeks articles focused on sexuality health, education, and rights in the United States for immediate and future publication. American Sexuality is the online magazine published by San Francisco State University’s National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC). Newly established scholars and graduate students, as well as senior faculty are encouraged to submit brief proposals (200 words) for articles concerning sexual health, sexual education, sexual rights, and/or sexual communities and cultures in the United States The published article will be 1000-1500 words and written in a style that is accessible to non-academic audiences. Find American Sexuality magazine and further instructions for authors online at Gender & Society upcoming special issue on transnational feminist analyses of gender, sexuality, and state/nation. We invite feminist scholars to reconsider the sexual and gendered politics of states/nations and to critically analyze how states wield and realign their power. We are especially interested in articles that are empirically based while deepening and diversifying our theories of gender, sexuality, state, and nation. Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2003. Submit papers, including $10 submission fee payable to Gender & Society, to: Christine Williams, Editor, Gender & Society, Department of Sociology, 1 University Station A1700, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
Internationalizing Sociology in the Age of Globalization. A new revision of the ASA syllabi set is in progress. The editors are Kamini Maraj Grahame (Penn State University-Harrisburg), Peter Grahame (Mount Saint Mary’s College), and Martin Malone (Mount Saint Mary’s College). We invite syllabi on internationalizing sociology, globalization processes, and global studies. We are interested in both general processes of internationalization and globalization, as well as more specific topics such as the global environment. We seek to put together a diverse syllabi set and select from a wide variety of potential contributions. Assignments, lists of films, and other supplementary materials are also of interest. All materials should be submitted on disk or in electronic form; we encourage inclusion of paper copies as well. Deadline for contributions is September 10, 2003, but earlier submissions are encouraged. Syllabi, sample assignments, and supplementary materials should be sent to: Kamini Maraj Grahame, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057; e-mail kmg16@psu.edu.
Research in the Sociology of Work. Volume 14 of the JAI Press series will focus on entrepreneurship. Papers on all aspects of entrepreneurship research are appropriate for this volume including the factors that lead people to become entrepreneurs, the implications of entrepreneurship for individuals and families, and the effects of entrepreneurial activity on organizations and economies. I encourage empirical papers (both quantitative and qualitative), conceptual work, theoretical papers, comparative studies, synthesis of previous literature, and policy-relevant work. Two copies of completed manuscripts should be submitted by April 15, 2004, to the Editor: Lisa A. Keister, Department of Sociology, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 North Oval Mall, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; e-mail Keister.7@osu.edu.
Social and Preventive Medicine, the international journal of public health, will be producing issues on the following themes: (1) “Health Survey and Risk Factor Surveillance in Eastern Europe” (2) “Survey and Surveillance of Nutrition Behaviors: From Assessment of Nutrition Knowledge, Risk Perception and Dietary Habits to Public Health Action.” Submission deadline is October 31, 2003, for inclusion in the special issues. Contact: Nicole Graf, Editorial Offices SPM, Institut für Sozial-und Präventivmedizin, Niesenweg 6,
CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland; +41 31 631 3519; fax +41 31 631 3430; e-mail graf@ispm.unibe.ch www.birkhauser.ch/journals/3800/3800_tit.htm.
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth invites submissions for volume 11 to be published in 2004. This volume will examine children and youth from an international perspective. Papers submitted should report on the authors’ research on children and youth, highlighting methodological innovations, policy implications, or theoretical advancements. Contributions from all methodological orientations are encouraged. Authors should direct inquiries or submit a draft chapter by June 15, 2003, to: Loretta Bass, Guest Editor, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019; (405) 325-3262; fax (405) 325-7825; e-mail Lbass@ou.edu.
Syllabi and Instructional Material in Development and Women in Development. The ASA Teaching Resources Center invites submissions for consideration. Syllabi may be submitted in the broad areas of development and women in development (e.g., issues in development and globalization, women in development, sustainable development, development with an emphasis on the environment, peasants, refugees); regional development (e.g., Latin America, Africa, Asia, Middle East); and material concerning development studies programs in the United States and abroad. Instructional material may include bibliographies on development and women in development; titles of journals, periodicals, DVD/videos, and films with brief descriptions; Internet and web resources; national and international development organizations (e.g., NGOs, UN agencies, other types of organizations with an emphasis on development and women in development). Contact: Basil Kardaras, Capital University, Behavioral Sciences Department, Columbus, OH 43209; (614) 236-6785; fax (614) 236-6916. E-mail all submissions in electronic Word format to bkardara@capital.edu by June 15, 2003.
June 28-July 1, 2004, Head Start’s 7th National Research Conference, presented by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with Xtria, LLC; Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; and Society for Research in Child Development,
Washington, DC. Theme: “Promoting Positive Development in Young Children: Designing Strategies That Work.”
Contact: Bethany Chirico, (703) 821-3090 ext. 261; e-mail hsrc@xtria.com. www.headstartresearchconf.net.
July 13-15, 2003, Turning Science to the Service of Native Communities Conference, University of Alaska-Fairbanks. The focus of the conference will be on integrating behavioral and hard/environmental science with the goals, needs, cultures, and perspectives of Native communities. Contact: Sonya J. Le Febre, Department of Rangeland Ecosystem Science, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1478; (970)
491-3908; fax (970) 491-2339; e-mail slefebre@lamar.colostate.edu; lamar.colostate.edu/~natsci/.
August 13-16, 2003, Association of Black Sociologists 33rd Annual Conference, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA. Theme: “Front-Loading Social Reality: Critical Demography and Black Superiority in Wealth, Status and Power.” Contact: Frank Harold Wilson, ABS 2003 Program Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Bolton Hall 724, Milwaukee, WI 53211; (414) 229-5820; e-mail chocchip@uwm.edu.
August 15-17, 2003. The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 53rd Annual Meeting, Wyndham Hotel, Atlanta, GA. Theme: “Justice and the Sociological Imagination: Theory, Research, Teaching, Practice and Action.” Visit www.sssp1.org or contact Michele Koontz, Administrative Officer, mkoontz3@utk.edu, for additional information.
August 20, 2003, Mini-Conference on the Sociology of Music, organized by the ASA Sociology of Culture Section, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. The Mini-Conference provides a forum for discussion and an opportunity to hear of forthcoming
and ongoing work in the Sociology of Music. Contact Tim Dowd (e-mail tdowd@emory.edu) if you are interested in presenting a paper. A select group of these papers will be published in a special issue of Poetics.
September 24-26, 2003, International Colloquium, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Theme: “International Governance after September 11: Interdependence, Security, Democracy.” Contact: Alex Warleigh, Institute of Governance,
Public Policy and Social Research,
Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Ireland; fax +44 2890 272
551; e-mail A.Warleigh@qub.ac.uk; www.qub.ac.uk/gov.
September 25-26, 2003, Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh, Inc. Conference on Homelessness, Pittsburgh, PA, Omni William Penn Hotel. Theme: “Solutions that Work.” Contact: Conference on Homelessness: Solutions that Work, c/o Gove Group, 226 Paul Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15211; (412)
431-5087; fax (412) 431-5214; e-mail conference@gove.org.
October 9-10, 2003, Penn State 2003 National Family Symposium, Nittany Lion
Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus. Theme: “Creating the Next
Generation: Social, Economic, and Psycholo-gical Processes Underlying Fertility in Developed Countries.” Speakers and discussants from across the nation will
examine the factors influencing declining fertility in developed nations and the
implications of this decline. For more
information contact Ann Morris at (814) 863-6607, or e-mail amorris@pop.psu.edu. www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/.
October 31-November 1, 2003, Symposium on the “Treadmill of Production,” University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association. Contact: Fred Buttel, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1450 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706; (608) 262-7156; e-mail fhbuttel@wisc.edu.
December 12-14, 2003, Workshop sponsored by Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University in
Cairo and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University, Cairo, Egypt. Theme: “Gendered Bodies, Transnational Politics: Modern-
ities Reconsidered.” Contact: Rabab Abduladi (e-mail rabab.abdulhadi@nyu.edu) or Martina Rieker (e-mail mrieker@aucegypt.edu).
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) seeks to recognize an individual or a limited number of individuals working together in the scientific or engineering community for making an outstanding contribution to furthering international cooperation in science and engineering. The AAAS International Scientific Cooperation (ISC) award is presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting. A monetary prize of $5,000, a commemorative plaque, complimentary registration, and reimbursement for reasonable travel and hotel expenses to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting are given to the recipient. The award is open to all regardless of nationality or citizenship and to any individual or small group in the scientific and engineering community that has contributed substantially to the understanding or development of science or engineering across national boundaries. Nominations should be typed and include the following: nominator’s name, address, and phone number; nominee’s name and title, institutional affiliation, and address; a summary of the action(s) that form the basis for the nomination (about 250 words); a longer statement, not to exceed three pages, providing additional details of the action(s) for which the candidate is nominated; two letters of support; a curriculum vitae (three-page maximum); any documentation (books, articles, or other materials) that illuminates the significance of the nominee’s achievement may also be submitted. Completed nominations should be submitted to: Linda Stroud, Awards Liaison, International Office, AAAS, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Room 1111 Washington, DC 20005, All materials must be received by August 1. Visit www.aaas.org.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program offers small grants and fellowships for researchers who conduct studies related to education policy and practice that include the analysis of large-scale, national and international data sets such as TIMSS, NAEP, NELS, CCD, IPEDS. Funding is available for doctoral students and doctoral-level researchers. The program supports quantitative research on a wide variety of educational issues that include but are not limited to: teachers and teaching, student achievement and assessment, curriculum development, mathematics and science education, student and parental attitudes, educational participation and persistence, school finance, early childhood education, and higher education. Deadlines for applications for the 2003-2004 year are: September 5, 2003; January 10, 2004; and March 10, 2004. For further information and requirements contact (805) 964-5264; e-mail jmurdock@aera.net. www.aera.net/grantsprogram.
The Canadian Studies Conference Grant Program supports conferences addressing important and timely issues about Canada, Canada/U.S., or Canada/North America. The Canadian government is particularly interested in innovative projects that promote awareness among students and the public about Canadian society, culture, and values as well as Canada-U.S. bilateral relations and Canada’s role in international affairs. Linkages with Canadian institutions, such as student and faculty exchanges or joint academic programs, are especially welcome. The Conference Grants are intended to secure greater understanding of the background, complexity, and ramifications of these issues. They are designed to assist an institution in holding a conference and publishing the papers and proceedings. Linkage with a Canadian institution, while not required, is desirable. Applications for the conference grant program are due by June 15, 2003. More information: www.canadianembassy.org/education/grantguide-en.asp#conference or www.canadianembassy.org/education/guidelines-en.pdf.
The 12-week Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Internship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science and social science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis and creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. Each intern is assigned to a senior staff member who acts as his or her mentor. The mentor provides guidance and ensures that the intern’s time is focused on substantive work and activities. Students can apply for winter, summer, or fall each year. For details and application information, visit nationalacademies.org/internship.
MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) Pilot Grant Program. Two pilot project grants will be awarded for innovative interdisciplinary research on adult health and well-being, with an emphasis on integrative approaches to understanding life course and subgroup variations in physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive functioning. All research must be based on the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) data set, or its satellite studies including the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE) and sibling/twin subsample studies. Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to investigators from a variety of disciplines. For detailed information on the pilot grants and application process, see www.rci.rutgers.edu/~carrds/midus/midus_home.htm. Applications must be received no later than July 1, 2003. Direct all applications and inquiries to: Deborah Carr, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy & Aging Research, Rutgers University, 30 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901; (732) 932-4068; e-mail carrds@rci.rutgers.edu.
Peter F. McManus Trust, Norristown, Pennsylvania, offers research grants to non-profit ((501) (c) (3)) organizations for research into the causes of alcoholism or substance abuse. Basic, clinical, and social-environmental proposals will be considered. Trust expects to grant approximately $200,000 this year and will consider requests for up to $50,000. Send brief summary proposal (two to three pages) and proposed budget along with copy of institution’s (501) (c) (3) letter and investigator’s biosketch. Application deadline is August 30, 2003. Additional information may be requested after initial review. Before any grant may be renewed, the grant recipient must submit a report to the Trust. For information, contact: Katharine G. Lidz, P.O. Box 751, Norristown, PA 19404; (610) 279-3370.
The United States Institute of Peace invites applications for the 2004-2005 Senior Fellowship competition in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace. About 12-15 fellowships are awarded annually. The Institute funds projects related to preventive diplomacy, ethnic and regional conflicts, peacekeeping and peace operations, peace settlements, democratization and the rule of law, cross-cultural negotiations, nonviolent social movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century. This year the Institute is especially interested in topics addressing problems of the Muslim world, post-war reconstruction and reconciliation, and responses to terrorism and political violence. Fellows reside at the Institute in Washington, DC, for a period of up to ten months to conduct research on their projects, consult with staff, and contribute to the ongoing work of the Institute. The fellowship award includes a stipend of up to $80,000, travel to Washington for the fellow and dependents, health insurance, an office, and a half-time research assistant. The competition is open to citizens of all nations. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. All application materials must be received in our offices by September 15, 2003. For more information and an application form contact the Jennings Randolph Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036-3011; (202) 429-3886; fax (202) 429-6063; e-mail jrprogram@usip.org. www.usip.org.
The United States Institute of Peace invites applications for the 2004-2005 Peace Scholar dissertation fellowship competition of the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace. The Peace Scholar program supports doctoral dissertations that explore the sources and nature of international conflict, and strategies to prevent or end conflict and to sustain peace. Peace Scholars work at their universities or appropriate field research sites. Priority will be given to projects that contribute knowledge relevant to the formulation of policy on international peace and conflict issues. Citizens of all countries are eligible, but Peace Scholars must be enrolled in an accredited college or university in the United States. Applicants must have completed all requirements for the degree except the dissertation by the commencement of the award (September 1, 2004). The dissertation fellowship award is $17,000 for one year and may be used to support writing or field research. All application materials must be received in our offices by January 9, 2004. For more information and an application form, contact: Jennings Randolph Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036-3011; (202) 429-3886; fax (202) 429-6063; e-mail jrprogram@usip.org. www.usip.org.
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers a number of lecturing, research, and lecturing/research awards in sociology for the 2004-2005 academic year. Awards for both faculty and professionals range from two months to an academic year. While many awards specify project and host institution, there are a 153 open “All Disciplines” awards that allow candidates to propose their own project and determine their host institution affiliation. Foreign language skills are needed in some countries, but most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. Application deadlines for 2004-2005 awards are: August 1 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide. For information, visit www.cies.org, e-mail apprequest@cies.iie.org, or contact: The Council for International Exchange of Scholars 3007 Tilden Street NW, Suite 5L, Washington, DC 20008; (202) 686-7877.
The discipline of Sociology along with prominent sociologists Robert Merton, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Amitai Etzioni, and Anthony Giddens were featured in a March 21 article in the Financial Times about the advantage of sociology over economics as a social science in dealing with social issues and public policy.
The American Sociological Association was mentioned in two March 20 New York Times articles: one on the disagreements among scientists on the role of race in medicine and the other on a controversial study that challenges the notion that increased racial diversity in higher education improves racial tolerance and the educational experience of the student body in universities.
Richard Alba, State University of New York-Albany, was quoted in the March 18 New York Times about immigrants’ feelings about the war in Iraq and again on March 23 about immigrants feeling pressure to display their loyalty to America and how that affects their beliefs on war.
Nancy Ammerman, Hartford Seminary, was quoted in a March 16 Denver Post article on Elizabeth Smart and how she might have been coerced into silence by her abductor.
Juan Battle, Hunter College and CUNY-Graduate Center, was quoted in The Philadelphia Tribune on February 21 discussing homophobia on Black college campuses.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Texas A&M University, appeared in episode three of the PBS documentary “Race—The Power of an Illusion,” which aired on April 24.
Robert Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, was quoted in an Associated Press story about minority groups mobilizing against pollution in their area, which appeared in the Washington Post, CNN.com, and the Orange County Register.
Larry Bumpass, University of Wisconsin, was quoted in a March 13 Washington Post article on Census data about unmarried couples with children.
James Burk, Texas A&M University, was quoted and interviewed in numerous media outlets from January to March regarding the war in Iraq. These outlets include USA Today, BBC Radio News, Washington Post, The Cape Times (South Africa), Balochistan Post (Pakistan), New Zealand Herald, The Salt Lake Tribune, St. Louis Dispatch, KURV talk radio, Chicago Tribune, Orange County Register, Columbus Dispatch, Oakland Tribune, WWRL-AM talk radio, Dallas Morning News, New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Lee Clarke, Rutgers University, was quoted in a March 14 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the likelihood of a terror attack on different parts of the U.S.; and in the March 20 The Star Ledger on local and national government response to a potential terror attack or a catastrophic disaster.
Douglas B. Currivan, University of Massachusetts-Boston, was quoted in an April 24 Los Angeles Times article about the effect of walls, fences, hedges as barriers between neighbors and the impact they have.
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire, was quoted in the Boston Globe on April 18 and during the past few months in the Globe, the Eagle Tribune, Foster’s Daily Democrat, New Hampshire Public Radio, and local television, on issues pertaining to the Catholic Church.
Peter Dreier, Occidental College, authored two articles in The Nation: “The Rich Have Reason to Rejoice,” on January 6 and “Lobbying for Peace” on February 24. He was quoted in the March 13 Los Angeles Times profile of folksinger/activist Guy Carawan; in the March/April issue of Dollars & Sense on affordable housing; in the March 6 and 7 issues of the Pasadena Star-News on the potential economic impact of a war on Iraq; in the March 30 New York Times on the patriotism of the American left; in the February 28 Chronicle of Philanthropy on foundations’ pursuit of trendy issues; and in the April 25 National Journal on the politics of foundations. Dreier was also interviewed on March 13 in The California Report, a public affairs program syndicated on NPR-affiliated radio stations throughout California.
Carroll L. Estes, University of California-San Francisco, was featured prominently in a January 5 The Press Democrat article about her life and career as an advocate for the elderly.
Joe Feagin, University of Florida, was interviewed on the relations between Black Americans and Latino Americans for Voice of America’s Mainstreet program on March 11.
Donna Gaines, New School University, was featured in an article in the March 16 Boston Globe about her love for rock and roll, popular culture, and her recently published memoir, A Misfit’s Manifesto.
Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University. His new book, Democracy and the News (Oxford University Press, 2003), was reviewed in the Washington Post on March 13; in the New York Times Book Review on March l6; and in the Village Voice on March 18.
Barry Glassner, University of Southern California, was quoted in the March 23 New York Times on the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack and the perpetuation of fear; and in the May 1 Washington Post on the fear and conjecturing of the next terrorist attack.
William B. Helmreich, CUNY-Graduate Center, was quoted in the March 17 New York Times in an article about St. Patrick’s Day and Purim falling on the same day and the similarities between the two.
Donald J. Hernandez, University at Albany, was quoted in the February 10 issue of Newsweek on the work of adults and children on pre-industrial farms.
Arlie Hochschild, University of California-Berkeley, was quoted in a May 1 San Francisco Chronicle article about legislation to replace time-and-a-half pay with comp time.
Jason Kaufman, Harvard University, was featured in a front-page article in the Ottawa Citizen on Canadians’ general lack of interest in cricket, a sport with widespread appeal in most other Commonwealth countries.
James R. Kelly, Fordham University, was quoted in the April 20 New York Times about the uncertainties that still exist for New York and America in the “Season of Hope” of Passover and Easter.
Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University, wrote an op-ed column on approaches to the Iraq conflict that was published in the Turlock Journal and the Herald News.
Janja Lalich, California State University-Chico, was quoted in the New York Daily News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, NPR’s Morning Edition, and the Salt Lake Tribune on the Elizabeth Smart abduction.
Steven Levitt, University of Chicago, was featured in a March 16 Washington Post article about discriminatory tendencies among contestants in the game show The Weakest Link.
William Lockhart, Baylor University, was quoted in an April 19 Houston Chronicle article on the 10th anniversary of the Davidian compound in Waco, TX.
Martin N. Marger, Michigan State University, appeared on CBC radio and television on March 27, as part of a panel discussing current Canadian-American relations, “Are We Still Friends?”
Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University, was mentioned in an article in the April 11 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education about his project to compare Muslim attitudes on various topics before and after September 11, 2001.
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University, was quoted on a March 15 Washington Post article on the backlash against Jews during the Iraq war, and again in the March 22 New York Times about the lack of children of the elite serving in the war.
Gary Natriello, Columbia University Teachers College, was quoted in an April 22 Christian Science Monitor article on the state of public schools 20 years after “A Nation at Risk.”
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, was mentioned in an opinion piece regarding public policy on affirmative action by Yale law professor Peter Schuck in the May 2 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Robert Perrucci, Purdue University, was quoted in the April 15 issue of Family Circle on a special survey report conducted by the magazine and titled “Can Money Buy Happiness?”
Robert Ross, Clark University, was quoted in a March 12 USA Today article about fatality rates increasing for Hispanic workers.
Juliet Schor, Boston College, was quoted in the April 20 New York Times about people shopping and spending less during a time of war.
Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington-Seattle, was on Fox Broadcasting Company’s Married by America show on March 24, interacting with the show’s participants in a discussion about the couple’s relationships.
Paul Starr, Auburn University, appeared on Alabama Public Television’s For the Record on April 1 to talk about the cost and time of organizing the post-Saddam Iraq.
Diane Vaughn, Boston College, was quoted in the April 24, 2003, Washington Post in an article about aspects of the organizational culture at NASA that mitigate against efforts to increase safety of the space shuttle program and missions.
Linda Waite, University of Chicago, was quoted in an April 21 Washington Post article about the relationship between happiness and marriage.
Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati, was interviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Post, Kentucky
Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, San
Diego Union-Tribune, Beliefnet.com, ABCnewsNet.com, and WLW radio on religion and the current anti-war movement.
William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, was quoted in the March 27 New York Times regarding the political career of Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
CLIKS. In-depth, local-level data on the well-being of America’s children and families is now available at the CLIKS website located at www.aecf.org/kidscount/cliks/. Users can access state-specific inventories of local data on children from sources that include health departments, human services agencies, and schools. With dynamic tools such as community profiles and color-coded maps and graphs, users can create a snapshot of their town, city, or county. CLIKS’ ranking system compares communities within states, charting data on child well-being over time.
The Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology maintains a variety of teaching and research resources for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. These resources are online at www.tryoung.com.
The Association for Institutional Research, in cooperation with the Center for the Study of College Student Values at Florida State University, is conducting a national competition for papers that describe effective strategies for assessing character development in college. Papers are invited that describe character assessment programs in current use by colleges and universities and how such programs make a difference. First Prize: $4000; Second Prize: $2000; Third Prize: $1000. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2003. Contact: Jon Dalton, Director, Center for the Study of Values in College Student
Development, Educational Leadership
and Policy Studies; (850) 644-6446; e-mail jdalton@admin.fsu.edu. www.CollegeValues.org/Resources.cfm.
The Gypsy Lore Society has established a prize of $300 for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Romani Studies. Papers written in English by graduate students beyond their first year of study and those holding the PhD who are no more than three years beyond the awarding of the degree at the time of submission are eligible to compete. Any topic that would be deemed appropriate for the journal Romani Studies will be considered. The submitted paper must be unpublished and not under consideration for publication at the time of submission. However, papers that have appeared in a working papers series are still eligible for consideration. The deadline for papers is October 30, 2004. The winning paper will be published in an issue of the journal Romani Studies. Contact: Gypsy Lore Society Prize Competition, University of Chicago, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 405 Foster Hall, 1130 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637; tel/fax (301) 341-1261; e-mail ssalo@capaccess.org.
The Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society will take place June 29-July 24, 2003. The Summer Institute is an intensive four-week program focusing on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team. This
highly specialized program is for
advanced students, primarily PhD
and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working
for NGO’s. Contact: Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society, InternationalSchool for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Oude Turfmarkt 129,1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (+31 20) 525-3776; fax (+31 20) 525
3778; e-mail summerinstitute@ishss.uva.nl www.ishss.uva.nl/SummerInstitute.
Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation, Genocide and Human Rights University Program, August 5-15, 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The purpose of the course is to promote an understanding of genocide through a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach applied to major 20th century genocides. Case histories include the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust,
the genocides of Rwanda and Bosnia, and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Topics include the causes, methods, and
effects of genocide, genocide and
human rights, genocide and gender,
genocide denial, and genocide prevention. Faculty is made up of leading
genocide scholars from the U.S., Canada, Israel, and Turkey. The course is open to junior and senior undergraduates, graduate students and scholars at the assistant professor rank with an interest in genocide and human rights. The cost is $500 (U.S.) tuition and living expenses in Toronto.
Subsidized dormitory housing will
be available. For further infor
mation e-mail Zoryan@idirect.CA. www.ZoryanInstitute.org.
University of California-Irvine
is now offering an online master’s degree program in Criminology, Law, and
Society. The first online master’s program in the University of California
system, this fully accredited program is designed for professionals seeking a
graduate degree for career advancement in the areas of law enforcement,
probation, corrections, secret service, investigation, and many other fields.
More information is at learn.uci.edu/mas-cls. Contact Lise White, Educational
Consultant, University of California-Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society;
(949) 824-9055;
elwhite@uci.edu
.
Georgetown University
’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology is starting a new concentration in
Social Justice Analysis. This optional track focuses on the theories and
analysis of structural inequalities through community-based learning. This
concentration is designed to incorporate a student developmental approach to
learning and provide students with academic skills necessary to effect positive
social change. The gateway course to the concentration is “Social Justice
Analysis: Theory and Practice” and the capstone course is “Project D.C.”
More information is at
www.georgetown.edu/departments/sociology/newsletter/SJA.html
.
Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California, Timothy J. Biblarz, University of Southern California, and Robert E. L. Roberts, How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youths in Two Generations (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada-Reno, Globalization of Capital and the Nation-State (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University, My Brother’s Keeper: A Memoir and a Message (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega, University of Lille (France), editors, Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2002).
Joe Feagin, University of Florida, and Karyn McKinney, Penn State University-Altoona, The Many Costs of Racism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Michael J. Handel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings (Sage, 2002).
Peggy Levitt, Wellesely College, and Mary C. Waters, Harvard University, The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003).
Nancy Lopez, University of New Mexico, Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education (Routledge, 2003).
Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Florida International University, Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community (Routledge, 2002).
Omar M. McRoberts, University of Chicago, Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Phyllis Moen, Cornell University, editor, It’s About Time: Couples and Careers (Cornell University Press, 2003).
Jeylan T. Mortimer, University of Minnesota, Working and Growing Up in America (Harvard University Press, 2003).
John P. Myers, Rowan University, Dominant-Minority Relations in America: Linking Personal History with the Convergence in the New World (Allyn and Bacon, 2003).
Robert Prus, University of Waterloo, and Scott Grills, Brandon University, The Deviant Mystique: Involvements, Realities, and Regulation (Praeger Press, 2003).
Leslie Salzinger, University of Chicago, Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories (University of California Press, 2003).
John Schmalzbauer, College of the Holy Cross, People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 2003).
Beverly J. Silver, Johns Hopkins University, Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Christian Smith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, The Secular Revolution: Power, Interest, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life (University of California Press, 2003); Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Brett C. Stockdill, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Activism Against AIDS: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, Gender and Class (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).
Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, New School University, Lindsay Bremner, and Xolela Mangcu, editors, Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Post-Apartheid City (Routledge, 2003).
George Yancey, Who Is White? Latinos, Asians and the New Black/Nonblack Divide (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).
Wendell Bell, Yale University, spoke on March 9 at the public program, “How Has Life Changed since September 11?” at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
Peter Dreier, Occidental College, organized a three-day visit to the Occidental campus by folksinger/civil rights activist Guy Carawan including a concert on March 15 at which Carawan received an honorary degree.
Judith Lorber, Brooklyn College and CUNY-Graduate School, spent two weeks in Israel in January as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. She gave a workshop in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Bar Ilan University, and talks at Haifa University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University.
Maria Lowe, Southwestern University, was selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College and University Teachers Program titled “African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1866 to 1965.”
Gene Rosa, Washington State University, delivered the keynote address, “From the Tower: An Elevated View,” at the dedication of the Jeanne X. Kasperson Research Library at Clark University, Worcester, MA.
Carolyn Vasques Scalera is the new Assistant Director of Student Activities for Community Service at George Washington University.
John Seem has received a tenure-track position at St. John Fisher College, teaching undergraduate sociology and graduate human services administration.
Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association, is the incoming president of the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
The Alcohol Research Mentoring System (ARMS), sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health, is recruiting new, minority investigators interested in alcohol-focused social or behavioral science research projects. ARMS will match these new, PhD-level, investigators with senior, NIAAA-funded researchers who will serve as mentors. With guidance from a mentor, each new investigator will produce a grant application or improve an earlier grant submission that did not receive a fundable score. Participants will be expected to complete the specific aims and rationale for an application within three months of being assigned a mentor. To be considered, a candidate must submit a brief concept paper that describes his or her research plan, a letter of support for program participation from an appropriate teaching or research supervisor (e.g., Department Chair), and a professional letter of reference. ARMS is intended to broaden the base of research opportunities for racial and ethnic minorities and expand NIAAA’s research among underserved populations. Applications from African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and American Indian/Alaska Natives are encouraged. Non-minority faculty at Historically Black
Colleges and Universities are also welcome to apply. To request
an application, contact: Mary Ann D’Elio, e-mail mdelio@cdmgroup.com. To discuss research issues, contact Marcia Scott at NIAAA, (301) 402-6328. For more information about alcohol research or the ARMS program, visit www.niaaa.nih.gov or www.niaaa-arms.org.
The European Sociology Students Association (ESSA) was founded in Sovata, Romania, on March 2, 2003, by students from Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. The goals of the association are to promote sociology as a profession; to open communication channels; enable easier access to information; to promote and encourage sociological research on local, national or regional level; to promote and encourage interdisciplinary co-operation; to connect and co-operate with institutes for social sciences and other scientific institutions; and to care for and protect students’ educational, social, cultural and other interests and rights. Contact essa_europe@yahoo.com.
The North Carolina Sociological Association is pleased to announce the release of the new journal Sociation
Today. The first issue of the journal is located at www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/index.htm. Spread the word among your colleagues. Sociation Today seeks short articles with one or two tables that relate
to core sociological concepts. Details about the journal are located at www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/journal.htm.
The Department of Rural Sociology at Washington State University is pleased to announce its name change to the Department of Community and Rural Sociology. This reflects more accurately the teaching, research, and extension interests of the department as it has evolved into a broader orientation with an emphasis on interactions within the communities.
The Eastern Sociological Society presented the following awards: Candace Rogers Award, Gretchen Livingston, University of Pennsylvania; Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lectureship award, Ronald Taylor, University of Connecticut; Rose Laub Coser award, Karen Albright, New York University; Mirra Komarovsky Award, Eric Klinenberg, for Heat Wave; Honorable Mention to Kathleen Blee for Inside Organized Racism and Mounira Chaarrad for States and Women’s Rights; ESS Merit Award to Bernard Barber, Columbia University.
The Midwest Sociological Society presented the following awards: Graduate Student Paper Competition Award: First Place, David G. Ortiz, University of Notre Dame; Second Place, Janice McCabe, Indiana University; Third Place, Cihan Tugal, University of Michigan. Undergraduate Student Paper Competition Award: First Place, Brian Mckenzie, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Second Place, Ortencia Arellano, Beloit College; Third Place, Audrey Lynn Otto, Augustana College. Social Action Awards: “The Enterprising Kitchen,” The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
The North Central Sociological Association presented the following awards: Robert Newby, Central Michigan University, Distinguished Service Award; Charles P. Gallmeier, Indiana University Northwest, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award; Douglas Harper, Duquesne University, Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award; Carla Howery, American Sociological Association, special award for service to the region.
The Pacific Sociological Association presented the following awards: Amy Binder, University of Southern California, Distinguished Scholarship Award for her book Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools; Demetra Kalogrides, Santa Clara University, Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award; Andrew Jorgensen, University of California-Riverside, Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award; Richard Nagasawa, Arizona State University, Zhenchao Qian, Ohio State University, and Paul Wong, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award.
Rutgers University-Camden. The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice was awarded the university’s Programmatic Excellence Award in Undergraduate Education, which carries a $10,000 stipend and is based on the department’s pioneering role in technology use.
The Southern Sociological Society presented the following awards: Roll of Honor Award, Ronald Akers, University of Florida; Odum Award (graduate), Edward W. Morris, University of Texas-Austin; Odum Award (undergraduate), Harmony Newman, Centenary College; Distinguished Service Award, Martin L. Levin, Mississippi State University.
Margaret Andersen, University of Delaware, received the SWS Distinguished Feminist Lectureship Award.
The Louisiana Library Association Annual Literary Award was given to Carl L. Bankston III, Tulane University, and Stephen J. Caldas, University of Louisiana for their book, A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana.
Catherine White Berheide, Skidmore College, and Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University, were selected as two of the 26 Carnegie Scholars in Teaching and Learning for 2003-2004.
April Brayfield, Tulane University, received the 2003 R.C. Read Award for Excellence in Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the President’s Award for Innovative Use of Technology in Teaching.
Al Gedicks, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, received the 2003 Recognition of Excellence Award for Research/Scholarship/Creative Endeavors by the College of Liberal Studies.
Jeffrey A. Halley, University of Texas-San Antonio, is a Fulbright Professor for spring 2003 at Khazar University and the Caucasus Research and Resource Center of the Eurasia Foundation, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Sandra Hanson, Catholic University, Ivy Kennelly, George Washington University, and Stefan Fuchs, University of Munich, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation for their research on, “U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research—Perceptions of Fairness: Attitudes about Opportunity and Status Among Women Scientists in Germany and the U.S.”
Garry Hesser, Augsburg College, was the recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Sociologist of Minnesota Award presented annually by the Sociologists of Minnesota.
Barbara Karcher received the 2003 Kennesaw State University Distinguished Service Award.
Emily Kolker and Peter Conrad, Brandeis University, were awarded a two-year, $30,000 grant for Emily Kolker’s dissertation, “Family Networks and Social Understandings of Genetic Risk: The Case of Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer.”
Freddie R. Obligacion, Metropolitan College of New York, received an Employee Recognition Award for being the faculty member who best epitomizes and embodies empowerment.
Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, was awarded the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize for the best book on South Asia in 2003 by the Association of Asian Studies. The award recognizes Rajagopal’s book Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, 2001).
Doris P. Slesinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award from the Rural Sociological Society.
Joey Sprague, University of Kansas, is the 2003 recipient of the University’s Dykes Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, CUNY-Graduate Center, received the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program award from the Social Science Research Council for his dissertation fieldwork for 2003-04.
Christine Min Wotipka, Stanford University, is one of the inaugural group of post-doctoral Global Fellows at the International Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles for 2003-2004.
Odin W. Anderson, a pioneer in medical sociology and applied social science, passed away on March 18.
George W. Baker, National Science Foundation, died of renal failure on March 19 at his home in Chevy Chase, MD.
Walter M. Gerson, Professor Emeritus of Williamette University, died on December 24, 2002.
Former ASA president William Goode, George Mason University, died on May 4.
Howard Harrod, Vanderbilt University, died on February 3.
Thomas Ktsanes, Emeritus professor, Tulane University, died on March 25.
Bevode C. McCall died on March 3 in Jacksonville, FL.
Constance Ormsby Verdi, former professor at Prince George’s Community College, died on March 8 at Washington, DC.
Werner D. von der Ohe was murdered in Nairobi, Kenya, on February 9.
Eugene C. Weiner, Haifa University, died February 24.
Robert W. Avery
In so many ways, day after day, year after year, Bob Avery lived a life governed by strong academic value commitments, a concept favored by one of his mentors at Harvard, Talcott Parsons. In both his general approach to social science and in his collaborative interdisciplinary research studies of formal organizations, Bob combined a focus on both theory and practice. In the early 1960s Chancellor Litchfield called on him and Carl Beck, the political scientist, to create an Administrative Science Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Carl Beck and Bob Avery, with many others, then laid the groundwork for the establishment of the University Center for International Studies at Pittsburgh in 1968. Bob understood that “the international dimension,” as it was called then, was of crucial importance for the future of the University and for the social sciences and humanities. When changes in the political situation in China made it possible for some social scientists to venture to rebuild the discipline of sociology in the universities there, Bob was one of those in our field who went there to aid in that institution-building process. Later he served the sociology department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong as their external examiner.
Graduate students recognized him as someone who could be counted on to be a truly helpful mentor. Time and again, he worked with thesis drafts and redrafts with no other anticipated reward than that of helping the student to produce a valuable contribution to knowledge. Students from other cultures especially sought him out for his rare combination of sociological competence, his familiarity with their societies, and his mild-mannered ease of interaction. Undergraduate majors in sociology turned to him for advice not just about courses but about larger questions concerning the meaning and application of sociology and about how it might inform their search for a satisfying career after completion of their studies at Pittsburgh. As this writer can testify, chairs of the Department of Sociology—five over the decades of Bob’s career at Pittsburgh—would turn to Bob for counsel concerning departmental problems requiring the sort of collectivity-orientation that their roles required and which Bob naturally provided within the framework of his own personal dispositions.
When he retired, the Department of Sociology at Pittsburgh established the Robert W. Avery Award, given annually for excellence in sociology by a senior majoring in the field. Each year, while his health permitted, Bob attended the ceremony. It was a Durkheimian solidarity-renewing ritual in which his colleagues revived their sense of being more than a collection of individuals with their own interests. While the obvious common focus of attention was the recipient of the award, the ceremony also reminded all of us of the man in whose name it was given: two embodiments of the same generalized value commitment to sociological knowledge and to its transmission across the generations.
Bob Avery lived an exemplary virtuous life through his many roles in relation to the many others, not least his devoted wife Minnie and their splendid children Chris and Robin Avery. All of those who experienced his generosity of spirit and concern for their welfare will remember him fondly as a man of exceptional character and wisdom. We—the human community—need more people like him. We—the community of sociologists—should reflect on and attempt to implement in practice the construction of social conditions that produce such men as Bob Avery.
Thomas J. Fararo and Burkart Holzner, University of Pittsburgh
Donna Darden “Donna had a terrific sense of humor and a wealth of knowledge—not just ‘book’ knowledge, but knowledge about people and life,” says Gretta Stanger, interim chairperson of Sociology & Philosophy at Tennessee Technological University. “She had a strong personality, and I respect that. I’m going to miss her on a personal level, but also academically and professionally. Sociology as a profession is going to miss her. She was a major moving force in most of our organizations.”
Before joining the Tennessee Tech faculty in 1993, Darden was a visiting professor at the University of Tampa and a senior researcher at Fireside Productions in Atlanta. She also taught at the universities of Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii and South Florida. At Fireside Productions, a television commercial production company, Darden conducted demographic studies, focus group interviews and in-house training.
A graduate of Agnes Scott College and Louisiana State University, Darden earned a PhD from the University of Georgia in 1973. She was a member of a number of professional societies, serving as president of the National Council of State Sociological Associations, the international honor society of Alpha Kappa Delta, the Mid-South Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Arkansas Sociological Association.
In 1999, the Mid-South Sociological Association presented her with the Special Presidential Award for her “exemplary leadership, committed service and significant contributions as past president;” earlier this week, the group decided to name its annual undergraduate paper award in Darden’s honor.
Co-author of two textbooks, she published more than 50 articles, book chapters, reviews and essays and made more than 70 presentations at conferences. Her particular area of interest was symbolic interaction.
Darden chaired Sociology and Philosophy for seven years before deciding to resume full-time teaching. This term, she was teaching a double section of Introduction to Sociology, as well as Marriage and Family Relations. She was known in her department—and to sociology organizations nationwide—for her technological savvy; she was, for instance, known as the “list mom” of the TeachSoc listserv.
“Donna connected us to so many people, resources and organizations, and she was instrumental in developing our current pattern of undergraduates presenting papers at regional meetings,” says Stanger. “Students now expect that they’ll present their research at these meetings, thanks to our department culture being so supportive of undergraduate research.”
Darden also instituted the undergraduate teaching-assistants program in Sociology, in which students served as peer mentors.
“She had a real following, which was useful to students and the department—and led to our peer reviewer reporting that students stayed at Tech in part at least because they felt like they belonged,” says Stanger.
Darden leaves behind hundreds of devoted students and teaching assistants, as well as friends, family, and colleagues.
Adapted from the Tennessee Technological University’s Tech Times.
Beth B. Hess Beth Bowman Hess was born in Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Radcliffe College with a BA in government in 1950 and received her PhD in sociology from Rutgers University in 1971. She was Professor of Sociology at the County College of Morris from 1969 to 1997. While she had no illusions about the status of this position in the elitist hierarchy of academia, she valued her students and the opportunities to combine her teaching with her family life.
Despite the rigors of teaching at a community college, Beth was a prolific writer. In addition to numerous articles on aging, gender, and the family, Beth was the author and editor of many path-breaking books, including Aging and Society (1968), with Matilda White Riley; Aging and Old Age (1980) and Growing Old in America (four editions, 1976-1991), with Elizabeth Markson; Sociology (five editions, 1982-1996), with Elizabeth Markson and Peter Stein; Controversy and Coalition: Three Decades of the Feminist Movement (three editions, 1985, 1994, 2000) and Analyzing Gender (1987), with Myra Marx Ferree; Social Structure and Human Lives (1988), with Matilda White Riley and Bettina Huber; Revisioning Gender (1998), with Myra Marx Ferree and Judith Lorber; and The Essential Sociologist (2001), with Susan Farrell and Peter Stein.
It was always Beth’s style to enlist co-authors and co-editors into her many writing projects, and to work with her was to learn more about sociology and more about effective writing. Beth had no patience with obfuscation and pretension, whether in person or in prose. For her, good writing was a political act: it raised consciousness, made connections between issues, and illuminated the relation between individual life stories and public policies. She was a pioneer in integrating gender into the analysis of aging, and her introductory sociology textbook broke new ground in bringing race, gender, and class out of the ghetto of separate chapters into the overall analysis of all dimensions of society.
Beth Hess held a number of honors including the Presidency of the Association for Humanist Sociology (1986-87), Sociologists for Women in Society (1987-1989), the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) (1988-89), Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) (1994-95), Secretary of the American Sociological Association (1989-92), and Executive Officer of ESS (1978-1981). She became a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (1978) and was Chair of the Behavioral and Social Science Section of the Gerontological Society (1987-88). She was listed in Who’s Who of American Women (1987) and was awarded the SSSP Lee Founders Award in 2000.
The list of honors does not begin to capture the full scope of her contributions to many sociological organizations. She labored in the unsung vineyards of associational maintenance for decades, taking on the Executive Office role at the Eastern Sociological Society in a time of crisis and steering it through, putting her home and her good judgment into the service of Sociologists for Women in Society to plan the launching of Gender & Society and selecting its first editor, and helping many organizations to face their fiscal and structural issues more constructively.
Beth also served as editor and member of the editorial boards of Society/Transaction, Research on Aging, Contemporary Sociology, Gerontology Review, Teaching Sociology, American Sociologist, and Gender & Society. But her editing and reviewing was never limited to such gate-keeping roles. She gave generously of her time and red pencil to help both junior and senior colleagues to sharpen their arguments and get their dissertations and papers finished promptly and with style. At annual meetings of all the many associations to which she belonged, Beth reached out to graduate students and junior faculty and encouraged them to send her drafts to review. Her rewrites were not only tighter and more elegant, but she challenged all the weak spots of an argument. She believed that sociology had something worth saying to the world and cared deeply about getting it said effectively, no matter whose name was on the manuscript in the end. The saying that a person could accomplish great things if one did not care who got the credit was her motto (along with the realistic warning to junior scholars that the reward for service is more service).
Beth’s research and writing reflected a broad-based and humanistic perspective, with an emphasis on contemporary social problems. As she presented her work, we sociologists and thousands of undergraduates who have used her books in their courses have been led to see that these social problems are not those of the elderly, women, and wives, but of the social order that marginalized, exploited, and diminished them. She was a feminist who was committed to thinking about gender as a social construction, a relationship of power, and a structural factor with massive material consequences, and she was a humanist who celebrated the effective agency and life-long potential for change in every individual.
Beth’s husband, Richard Hess, died on December 25, 1986. She is survived by her mother, Yetta Bowman, her son, Larry, her daughter and son-in-law, Emily and Gary Robinson, and three grandchildren.
We had the privilege of working with Beth and we will miss deeply her insights, energy, friendship, cooperation, and support.
Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan Farrell, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Judith Lorber, Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City University of New York-Emerita; Elizabeth Markson, Boston University; Peter Stein, William Paterson University
David Jerome Jackson David was a courageous person. He understood who he was and he was willing to take major risks to follow his dreams. The breadth of his intellectual interests and concerns were amazing, and he was never afraid to follow his curiosity wherever it might lead. His scholarship was unquestionably of the highest quality, and he made a number of important contributions on the application of multivariate statistical models to the understanding of human behavior. Although he was a person of great intellect and scholarly achievement, more than anything, we remember the remarkable degree of humility and intellectual honesty with which David approached his scientific work. Those who had the pleasure of collaborating with him know that he was not easily satisfied. He wanted to address fundamental scientific issues and had little patience for trivial problems and easy answers.
David was survived by two loving families. He was the beloved husband of Sally Suter; father to two sons, Andy and Michael; and brother to Larry, Alice, and Judy. David was joyful that he was able to be with his sons just a few weeks before his death. He was loved and embraced by Sally’s extended family, especially her children, Tammy and Tatum. David and Sally were only two weeks from their second wedding anniversary. Although they found each other late in life, they had been finding each other for all time.
David was a gentle, genuine person. Despite his great intellectual depth, his humanistic interests were real and compelling. He loved music, art, and theatre nearly as much as his work as a scientist. During the last decade of his life, he worked toward becoming an independent, professional artist. He loved light and color, loved to express beauty through his art, loved to use his exquisite mind, and most of all, loved God.
We admired Dave very much as a person, colleague, and scholar. We knew him well—at different times and places—and we found in him the meaning of true unfailing friendship. We miss him very much.
Charles Longino, Wake Forest University; Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University
Sheldon L. Messinger Messinger was born in Chicago, married early, saw military service during World War II, taught sociology briefly at Princeton, then went to UCLA, where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees. His acquaintance with Gresham Sykes at Princeton, and Donald R. Cressey at UCLA focused his attention on criminology and, more specifically, on the sociology of corrections. In 1956-57 Messinger was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He then joined an interdisciplinary group studying the families of women hospitalized for mental illness. They were the “crazy ladies” Messinger fondly remembered and often mentioned.
Anticipating the work of Erving Goffman, Messinger saw a close connection between mental hospitals, prisons, and other “total institutions.” He was a great admirer of Goffman’s writings (and of Foucault’s) but he was more measured in his judgment and more ready to examine empirical variation. Thus in an essay on “Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality (Sociometry, March 1962), Messinger offered some criticism of the “dramaturgic” perspective, drawing on findings from the mental-illness study. He did not question the reality or importance of “performance” in social interaction, but he noted that the patients his group studied were keen to distinguish their “presented” or “projected” selves from their “real” or “natural” selves. This argument welcomes fresh insights and perspectives; but it also looks to empirical research for knowledge of contexts and limitations.
Messinger came to Berkeley in 1961 to help me found the Center for the Study of Law and Society. This was a good move, for him, for me, for the Center, and for the University. Vice-Chairman of the Center from 1961-1970, he was a mainstay of the enterprise. In 1970 he became professor and Dean of the School of Criminology. After the School of Criminology closed in 1977, Messinger became professor of law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program, and was Chair of the program from 1984-1987, contributing greatly to the work of faculty and students. Endowed with abundant gifts of patience, tact, and intellectual imagination, Messinger had a unique ability to help people make sense of their tentative insights and vague ideas, often suggesting lines of thought they took to be their own. It has been said of Messinger that, for him, “every student is a colleague, and every colleague is a student.” He brought warmth, wit, and humanity to the task of creating a research community. He knew what it meant to combine teaching with friendship, guidance with respect.
His own work focused mainly on deviance, social control, and the California system of prisons, probation, and parole. One important study was published as C-Unit: Search for Community in Prison (Studt, Messinger, and Wilson, Russell Sage Foundation, 1968), which told the story of an experimental program, combining research and action, in a prison for youthful offenders. A key finding was the importance of creating a cohesive “inmate-staff” community.
In his study of corrections, Messinger was imaginative and consistent in bringing to bear a sociological “systems” perspective; and his work was recognized in many ways by his colleagues in criminology. For example, in 1981 he received an award for “outstanding contributions to the field of criminology” from the Western Society of Criminology. In 1995 a volume of essays in his honor was published as Punishment and Social Control, edited by Thomas G. Blomberg and Stanley Cohen.
Messinger was irreverent, outspoken, and skeptical of received doctrine and established authority. But these rough edges barely hid a deep appreciation for the worth of all frail humans, including those who had run afoul of the law.
Philip Selznick, Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
Alan S. Miller Alan was born and raised in Los Angeles. He earned a BA from UCLA, an MA from California State University-Dominguez Hills, and a PhD from the University of Washington in 1991. He was Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 1991-93; Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, 1993-96; Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at Hokkaido University, 1996-1999; and Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at Hokkaido University from 1999 until his death.
In his short career, Alan published more than 20 articles, most first- or sole-authored, including a 2002 article co-authored with Rodney Stark in the American Journal of Sociology, and a 2001 book coauthored with Satoshi Kanazawa, Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan. His work falls roughly into four areas, religious beliefs and behavior, social and political attitudes, medical social psychology, and Japanese society. His most extensive body of work concerns religious behavior, and is informed by comparisons between the United States and Japan.
Alan was funny, entertaining, considerate, and generally delightful as a colleague and friend. He developed friendships with colleagues, neighbors, and a large number of accidental acquaintances throughout the United States and Japan. I suspect that without exception, every person who ever met Alan liked him immediately. His close friendships even extended to colleagues who knew him only through email. Parents of his children’s classmates at their Japanese school quickly accepted him, and indeed pressed Alan’s special social skills into service. For example, through his children and their classmates and families Alan introduced many people in Sapporo Japan to American pastimes such as Halloween trick-or-treating!
Despite his talent for getting along with people socially, Alan was not afraid of controversy in his work. In his most cited article, published in 1995 in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion with co-author John Hoffman, Alan argues that the relationship between gender and religiosity is due to the relationship between gender and risk preference, suggesting that men are more willing to take a chance on Pascal’s wager than women. In his 2002 article with Stark, they return to that relationship and show that cross-cultural evidence weighs against the gender and risk preference correlation being due to socialization. In the last several years Alan became convinced that sociology and sociological explanations needed to include an evolutionary, genetic component. Alan’s last scholarly paper, published in Social Psychology Quarterly in 2003, was a challenge to the standard survey measure of generalized trust. This measure is widely used, especially in cross-cultural studies, but Alan contended it measures something else entirely, namely, caution. This calls into question conclusions of other studies using this measure.
Alan used his deep acquaintance with Japan, and with other places as well (he also lived for a time in Taiwan), to develop important insights into aspects of both Japanese and American society and culture. The approach he took in his 2001 book on Japan was that many of the differences between Japan and the United States in macrosociological outcomes, such as in religiosity and crime rates, are due to differences in social organization, rather than to more nebulous cultural differences. For example, the United States is an exceptionally religious society while Japan is an exceptionally secular society. Alan argued that this was in part because Japanese companies provided many of the social services that American religious organizations did, such as in socialization of children.
Although Alan was hospitalized and gravely ill during the last several months of his life, he continued to work until just a few months before his death. In October 2002, he turned to a bit of fun, which turned out to be the last work he did. It was a book, written in just four weeks: The Old Testament According to the Three Stooges. He described it to me as, “A combination of Dave Barry and Dennis Miller with a good helping of hallucinogenic drugs thrown in.” In fact, it actually was quintessential Alan. A great many people miss him very much.
Joseph M. Whitmeyer, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
J. L. Simmons His life-journey began in Sioux City, Iowa, on August 16, 1933. Orphaned at an early age in Bloomfield, Nebraska, and largely blinded by congenital cataracts, Jerry was raised by relatives in Le Mars, Iowa. The marginality of his youth soon bore sociological fruit at the University of Iowa, where he quickly earned BA and PhD degrees as a student of social psychology and methodology under his mentors Manford H. Kuhn and David Gold.
It was there that Jerry and I, against all odds, forged our deep friendship and unique collaboration, pioneering role-identity theory in our 1966 book, Identities and Interactions, and in its subsequent revised and/or translated editions. That book, brought to fruition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, afforded two highly different individuals a rare opportunity to achieve a true jointness of thought and expression, a highwater mark of genuinely collaborative sociology. In the process, we developed an exquisite knowledge of each other’s self-concept and were hence able to provide each other, as friends, an unmatched richness of role-support.
And a complex character he was—a student of old-fashioned ethnographies, the varieties of psychoanalytic thought, mythologies of every land, exotic religious traditions, and weaponry ancient and modern. But closer to his core were poetry, old songs of every kind, Westerns, science fiction, and really good eating. On a daily basis each of these would be somehow worked into the fabric of his everyday conduct. His blindness produced characteristic and amusing errors in written expression, and in a semi-studied way he extended those to oral pronunciations as well. This often-concealed craftiness enabled him to make a good student living by skinning better-off undergraduates in games of poker, and by passing the hat after rendering a few yodeling songs in Iowa City taverns. Unable to drive, Jerry walked a lot, and as a young man used to swim great distances up and down the Iowa River.
While still at Urbana, Simmons and I also pursued our fascination with field studies (triggered by our early training under Albert J. Reiss, Jr.) to tease out from foundational pieces by others what we took to be the underlying logic of fieldwork, in our 1968 book, Issues in Participant Observation: A Text-Reader.
But it was Jerry’s theoretical insights into the nature of deviance that really propelled his migration to the West Coast, first at the University of California-Santa Barbara and later at UC-Davis. His subsequent books Deviants and It’s Happening (with Barry Winograd), together with his extensive national television appearances, consolidated his fame in that substantive area and he became renowned as a charismatic lecturer. Paradoxically, it was that high visibility that rendered Jerry such a mysterious character to many sociological colleagues. He took great pride in his lifelong membership in “the fringe,” and his own involvements in the socially murky waters of deviant cultures would remove him from sociological view for years at a time.
Much later, I was fortunate to persuade Jerry to give the academy, and the Midwest, another chance by joining me at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1985. Here, he enlightened our undergraduate students and we resumed our easy collaboration, writing Social Psychology: A Sociological Perspective and Social Research: The Craft of Finding Out.
Upon his retirement from UMSL, Jerry turned his sociological insights to the field of trade books. Alone he authored a pair of books on new-age religion (The Emerging New Age and Future Lives: A Fearless Guide to Our Transition Times), following up on some of his own involvements in deviant enterprises. Turning next to the problem of crime, he and I wrote 76 Ways to Protect Your Child from Crime, a well-respected tome subsequently translated into German and Russian. In what turned out to be his final published book, Simmons alone authored the companion volume 67 Ways to Protect Seniors from Crime.
His final years evolved, surprisingly, into a sustained involvement in computer applications with his wife of 46 years, Nola, and their two sons, Christopher and David.
The passing of this colorful and complicated man leaves all our lives, and the field of sociology, ever so much the poorer. We will miss you, Big Guy.
George J. McCall, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Marcello Truzzi The profession of sociology has always attracted unusual and unusually gifted people. To those who knew him well and to the many throughout the world who knew him through his work, Marcello Truzzi was clearly such a person. His death on February 2, 2003, after a prolonged bout with colon cancer, marked the end of a remarkable career as teacher, research scholar, and sociological practitioner. He will be greatly missed by family, friends, and colleagues.
Truzzi was born on September 6, 1935, in Copenhagen, Denmark, into family of famous circus performers. In 1944, he moved with his family to the United States, where his father, Massimiliano, a renowned juggler, had been offered a job with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Marcello served in the U.S. Army between 1958 and 1960 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1961. His BA and MA are from Florida State University and the University of Florida, respectively. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1970. Truzzi taught at the University of Michigan, the New College in Sarasota, Florida, and, between 1974 and the time of his death, he served as Professor and (1974-85) Head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University.
Truzzi was a prolific author and editor, with scores of articles and chapters and dozens of books and anthologies to his credit. The scope of his intellectual curiosity was boundless. His interests included folk music (he had worked as a professional singer and had a beautiful tenor voice), extraterrestrial claims, the culinary interests of witches, life in the circus, and—his most enduring concern—the uses and abuses of skepticism in science.
It was in the last named of these fields that Truzzi had the greatest public impact. He was founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims for the Paranormal and the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research. Through this work, he established professional and personal relationships with some of the best-known psychics and their critics, including Uri Gellar and Martin Gardiner. His main concern in this area was with what he termed “pseudoskepticism.” Characterizing himself as a classic positivist, Truzzi believed that those who seek to debunk paranormal claims and “weird science”—such as cold fusion—are often very careless about the kinds of evidence they bring to bear (or fail to use) to support their arguments. Because, he believed, most academic scholars have a vested interest in dismissing out of hand telepathy, clairvoyance, and the like, they are willing to apply a standard of proof to the assertions of the critics that is much lower than what they would tolerate in their own line of research. He, too, was a skeptic in these matters, but believed that many so-called disproofs of the paranormal are spurious.
Among Truzzi’s best-known works are the collections Sociology and Every Day Life and Verstehen: Subjective Understanding in the Social Sciences. Many sociologists will also remember his often-hilarious Subterranean Sociological Newsletter. His last published book, Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime (with Arthur Lyons) is a study of the use of psychics by law enforcement agencies. He left behind a private library of some 10,000 volumes, an unfinished intellectual autobiography, and numerous unpublished works.
Truzzi is survived by his mother Sonya—who also had performed in Circus Truzzi; Pat, his wife of 44 years; his sons Kristofer and Gianni; and Gianni’s daughter.
Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University
Official Reports and Proceedings
Minutes of the Second Meeting
of the 2002-2003 ASA Council Council Members Present: Elijah Anderson (Immediate Past Vice President), William T. Bielby (President), Michael Burawoy (President-Elect), Esther Chow (At Large), Robert Crutchfield (At Large), Jennifer Glass (At Large), David Grusky (At Large), Arne Kalleberg (Secretary), Deborah King (At Large), Rhonda Levine (At Large), Victor Nee (At Large), Bernice Pescosolido (Vice President-Elect), Barbara Reskin (Immediate Past President), Barbara Risman (At Large), Lynn Smith-Lovin (At Large), Ivan Szelnyi (Vice President), Pam Walters (At Large).
1. Call to Order
President William Bielby called the meeting to order at 9:10 am on Saturday, February 1, 2003 at the Radisson Barcelo Hotel in Washington, DC.
Grutter v. Bollinger
B. Approval of Agenda C. Minutes of August 20, 2002 Council Meeting 2. Report of the President
A. Overview of Year B. Appointment of Liaisons to Other Organizations 3. Report of the President-Elect
President-Elect Michael Burawoy announced that he and his program committee would be proposing to the Awards Committee a new award for the promotion of sociology in the media. In 1995, at the suggestion of Herb Gans, ASA introduced a new award for the Public Understanding of Sociology to be given to a sociologist who has been especially active and effective in disseminating sociological ideas to a wider audience. Burawoy will be proposing a new award to honor journalists (not professional sociologists who are covered by the Public Understanding award) for outstanding reporting of sociological findings and otherwise encouraging a better understanding of sociology. The Committee on Awards will review this proposal at their next meeting in August. If the Committee on Awards accepts the proposal, it will be forwarded to the Council meeting at the end of the Annual Meeting in August for consideration and action.
4. Report of the Secretary
Secretary Arne Kalleberg reported that the state of the Association is strong. He noted that the transition in senior staff leadership had gone seamlessly, and thanked Felice Levine for her commitment to making the transition smooth. He reported that he and the other officers found it a real pleasure to work with the staff of the Executive Office.
A. Review of 2002 Membership
B. Review of 2002 Section Membership
C. ASA Travel Policy
D. Free Section Membership for Students
5. Report of the Executive Officer
Executive Officer Sally T. Hillsman presented a report on operations and activities of the Executive Office.
A. Overview of the Year B. Executive Office Staffing Realignment
C. Contexts D. Member Contributions and Donations E. Human Subjects of Research Update
6. Information Technology
Director of Information Technology and Services, Kevin Brown, provided Council with update on ASA’s information technology abilities and plans.
A. Change in Approach to Systems B. Long-Range Planning
C. Web Users Group 7. Annual Meeting
Janet Astner, Director of Meeting Services and Operations, provided Council with a report on the 2002 Annual Meeting as well as issues related to future meetings.
A. Security Issues at 2002 Meeting
B. Site Selection for 2006 Annual Meeting C. Site Selection for 2007 Annual Meeting
D. Amended Guidelines for Future Annual Meeting Site Selection
E. Technical Support for Presentations at the Annual Meeting
8. ASA Investments and Reserves
Secretary Kalleberg provided an extensive written report on ASA’s long-term investments.
A. ASA Investments B. Review of Rose Fund Performance and Income Projections 9. Journal Publications
Arne Kalleberg briefed members of Council on the status of ASA publications.
A. Journal Subscriptions |