Meetings of the ASA Section on Asia & Asian America

ASA Meetings

Update from the American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association (ASA) will hold its 106th Annual Meeting August 20-23, 2011, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

ASA announced in December that it was moving its 2011 Annual Meeting from Chicago in response to a protracted labor dispute involving hotels in the city, including the two that had been scheduled to host the meeting. The contracts between Chicago union hotels and UNITE HERE Local 1 expired August 31, 2009.

Without any sign of an imminent resolution, the ASA Council voted unanimously to move the Annual Meeting because ASA could not guarantee that the facilities and environment for a successful meeting would be available.

Caesars Palace is a unionized facility with union contracts that do not expire until 2012.

Past ASA Meetings

Presentations Awards Photos

Section on Asia and Asian America

Paper Sessions: TBA

Refereed Roundtables: TBA

2008 Award Winners and Honorees:

2008 Book Award

Co-Winners: Das Gupta, Monisha. 2006. Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press.

Jung, Moon-Kie. 2006. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.

2008 Research Paper Award

Winner: Kelly, H. Chong. 2006. "Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender." Gender & Society 20: 697-724

2008 Graduate Student Paper Award

Winner: Leslie Kim Wang (University of California, Berkeley). "Multicultural Negotiations in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage." Unpublished Manuscript, Department of Sociology, UC, Berkeley

Honorable Mention

Hae Yeon Choo (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 2006. "Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settler in Contemporary South Korea." Gender & Society 20: 576-604.

2008 Early Career Award

Winner: Dina Okamoto, University of California, Davis

Honorable Mention

Angie Chung, The University at Albany

2008 Outstanding Teaching Award

[Not given this year]

Congratulations for all winners and honorees!

2005 Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Hwa-Ji Shin, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Trajectories of Nation: Remaking Citizenship, Immigration, and National Self-Image in Japan"

Exemplary Early Career Award
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, University of California at San Diego

Outstanding Book on Asia
Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia: 1700-1900
Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University
Cameron Campbell, University of California at Los Angeles
James E. Lee, University of Michigan

Distinguished Teacher and Mentor Award
Michael Allen Omi, University of California at Berkeley

Contributions to the Section Award
Morrison G. Wong, Texas Christian University