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Andrew A. Beveridge’s name was misspelled in the “In the News” section of the November 2007 Footnotes (p. 16). Meetings 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research, August 14-17, 2008, Adelaide, Australia. Theme: “Justice in a Diverse Society.” Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to submit contributions on a topic related to this theme or any other aspect of justice and fairness. The 2008 Conference will present a forum for the discussion of research on justice and diversity and other questions related to justice and fairness. The Program Committee invites submissions of symposia, individual papers, and posters. Submission deadline is March 15, 2008. Further information about the conference is available at www.isjr.org/2008. 21st Joint Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), June 4-8, 2008, New Orleans, LA. Theme: “Resilient Culinary Cultures: Disaster, Innovation and Change in Foodscapes.” Although ASFS and AFHVS encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences, we are encouraging papers and sessions that speak to the theme, particularly as resilience operates within historical and contemporary contexts of inequality, consumer cultures, international trade, and globalization. Panels that focus on race, ethnicity, gender, and social class are particularly welcome. The conference organizers also encourage full panel submissions and roundtable sessions on all topics related to the social, cultural, political, and ethical organization of food and agriculture. Submissions due: February 4, 2008. Abstracts only. Electronic submission preferred. Submit proposals to Alice P. Julier, Women’s Studies Program, 2208 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; apjulier@gmail.com. 26th SEUSS: Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, February 24-25, 2008, Emory University. Theme: “Health: Global, Social, Interpersonal, and Individual.” The Symposium provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to participate in a professional meeting. Papers in any area of sociology are welcome. Students whose papers are accepted will give a 12-15 minute presentation of their research. The three best papers will receive an Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Interested students should submit a one-page abstract and a faculty letter of support by January 31, 2008, to Corey Keyes at corey.keyes@emory.edu. The faculty letter should indicate that the paper is, or will be, completed and ready for presentation on February 25, 2008. For more information, visit www.sociology.emory.edu/SEUSS/. 2009 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March 26-29, 2009, Seattle, WA. The OAH invites submissions for session or single paper proposals. The call for papers is available at www.oah.org/2009. Contact: Amy Stark, Director of Meetings, Organization of American Historians, 112 N. Bryan Ave., PO Box 5457, Bloomington, IN 47407-5457; (812) 855-9853; fax (812) 855-0696; astark@oah.org; www.oah.org/2009. The Contested Terrain of Consumption Studies, July 31, 2008, Boston College. Advanced graduate students and junior faculty welcome. Submit by email (as a PDF or Word document) to Samuel_Binkley@emerson.edu. Include: author(s), paper title, and 500-word abstract. Deadline: March 1, 2008. Visit www.contestedconsumption.info for details. Eastern Community College Social Science Association (ECCSSA) 34th Annual Conference, March 27-29 2008, Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing Campus. Theme: “Exploring the Changing Role of the Social Sciences in a Global Community.” This conference is both timely and pressing in addressing the many changing roles that the social sciences encounter within the global community. We invite dialogue about these dynamic and imperative transitions. We are soliciting presentations from professionals from any of the areas pertaining to the changing role of the social sciences. The conference also calls for student presentations, panels, projects and exhibits. Student presenters are encouraged to participate from other colleges and universities and we are encouraging faculty to identify students from your classes that are worthy or interested in participating. Proposal deadline: February 1, 2008. Contact: Donna McElroy at dmcelroy@atlantic.edu or Carolyn Coulter at ccoulter@atlantic.edu. For more information, visit www.eccssa.org. The Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum, April 16-17, 2008, University of Massachusetts- Boston. Theme: “A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium.” The aim of this conference is to assess the relevance of Foucault’s ideas to contemporary social theory. Send a one-page abstract or proposal as email attachment (MS Word Format) to jorge.capetillo@umb.edu and Samuel_Binkley@emerson.edu, by January 11, 2008. Contact: Social Theory Forum, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts- Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125. First Annual Symposium on Science, Technology and Values, April 25-26, 2008. Submissions are welcome from any discipline, and from independent scholars. Possible topics include: ethics and biotechnology, information systems security and privacy, green engineering, sustainable development, technology transfer, risk assessment, technology and the arts, globalization and technology, and technology and everyday life. Especially welcome submissions on bioethics, values and biotechnologies, and values and medicine. Submit extended abstracts (1-2 pages in .doc or .pdf format) by January 4, 2008, to jhanks@stevens.edu. Contact: Craig Hanks, Chair, Symposium on Science, Technology, and Values, College of Arts and Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle- Point-On-Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030; jhanks@stevens.edu. Fourth Annual Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium (IISS), March 29, 2008, Princeton University. Theme: “Bridging Boundaries.” The theme reflects the diversity of the department and highlights our commitment to fostering interaction between young scholars from different institutions, substantive and methodological orientations, and sociological traditions. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts; we especially encourage submissions from scholars using new or innovative methodologies. Submit abstracts (no longer than 250 words) by January 21, 2008, to iiss2008@princeton.edu. For more information, visit www.princeton.edu/~iiss2008. Session for Process Generated Data at the Seventh International Conference on Social Science Methodology, September 1-5, 2008, Naples, Italy. This session aims at comparing a wide range of processgenerated data and discussing how they can be used for social research. Examples for standardised data are customer databases, web logs, administrational forms and GIS data. Examples for less structured data are documents, novels, diaries, letters, websites, paintings, films, photos, maps, mechanical drawings, construction plans, landscapes, buildings, monuments and objects. In order to gain a common ground of discussion, authors should also state their disciplinary and theoretical background and – in case of presenting a thematic case study – shortly present the thematic background of the study. Email an extended abstract (one-to-two pages) to: Nina Baur, Technical University, Berlin,Germany at nina.baur@tu-berlin.de. For more information, visit www.rc332008.unina.it, www.isa-sociology.org/rc33.htm, and www.isa-sociology.org. Deadline for extended abstracts is January 31, 2008. Session on Data for Historical Sociology and for Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes at the Seventh International Conference on Social Science Methodology, September 1-5, 2008, Naples. Many theoretical debates within sociology address long-term social processes. Papers debating general methodological questions and papers discussing specific problems using a concrete data type in a specific research project are both equally welcome. Email an extended abstract (1-2 pages) to: Nina Baur, Technical University, Berlin,Germany at nina.baur@tu-berlin.de. Deadline for extended abstracts (1-2 pages) is January 31, 2008. For more information, visit www.rc332008.unina.it, www.isa-sociology.org/rc33.htm, and www.isa-sociology.org/. Third International Multidisciplinary Conference, January 7-9, 2009, Imperial War Museum, London. Theme: “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution.” The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on survivors of Nazi persecution. For the purpose of the conference, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis’ or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial, political, ideological, or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived WWII. The organizers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of the ‘life after’, ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and critical studies. Send an abstract of 200-250 words and a biographical background of about 50 words by February 28, 2008, to Johannes-Dieter Steinert at J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk. For further information, contact u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de, or visit www.secolo-verlag.de. Publications Comparative Sociology is a quarterly international
scholarly journal dedicated to advancing
comparative sociological analyses
of societies and cultures, institutions and
organizations, groups and collectivities,
networks and interactions. Two issues
every year are devoted to special topics.
Three topics currently open for submissions
are: Democracy and Professions; Rule
of Law and Rechtstaat; and Typologies of
Democracy and non-Democracy. Consult
Humanity & Society invites submissions
for a special issue dedicated to the study
of the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrinarelated
evacuation for both evacuees and
service providers in New Orleans and
in the cities where many evacuees have
remained, titled “Civil Society and the
State: Katrina Evacuees and Services.” This
special issue will explore the ways in which
Katrina evacuees interacted with service
agencies, public and non-governmental,
and the nature and outcome of their experiences.
It will also explore the experiences
of service providers in a range of agencies
as they wrestled with the multiple needs
of Katrina evacuees and the demands of
the organizational environment within
which they worked. Papers are invited that
thoughtfully examine the experiences of
Katrina evacuees and the service providers
working with them and also the implications
of their experiences for understanding
the ramifications of U.S. poverty and
disaster policy. Manuscripts should not
exceed 30 double-spaced pages of text,
plus notes and references, and should
follow the “Notice to Contributors” guidelines
at Humanity & Society, invites submissions
for a special issue devoted to “Social
Inequalities and Health.” In many nations
the economic and political changes
associated with increasing economic globalization
have been seen as heightening
social inequalities with potential negative
effects on health outcomes. This has led
to a flurry of research and policy activity
concerned with reducing these social
and health inequalities. Such activity has
taken two forms: (1) An increased interest
in what is termed the social determinants
of health; (2) The political, economic, and
social forces that shape these social determinants
of health and how these forces
represent systematic inequalities in power
and influence within a society. Papers are
invited that will draw upon these two
areas of research activity and should focus
on various aspects of how social inequalities
come about and how they are linked
to health outcomes. Manuscripts should
not exceed 30 double-spaced pages of text
plus notes and should follow the “Notes
to Contributors” guidelines at The International Journal of the Sociology
of the Family invites submissions for
a special issue, “Intersectional Analyses of
the Family for the 21st Century,” focused
upon intersectionality within studies of
the family. The purpose of this special issue
is to specifically draw attention to the
way in which intersectional analyses have
been used to articulate the experience of
family and to understand the institution of
the family. Articles and research notes are
sought that pursue meaningful inquiries
emphasizing intersectional analyses of the
family in studies of courtship, marriage,
intimacy, sexuality, etc. as each relate to the
institution and experiences of the family.
Submissions may be both quantitative and
qualitative in methodology. Manuscripts
should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages
of text, inclusive of notes and references,
and should follow the “Notice to Contributors”
guidelines supplied at The Journal of Family Theory & Review.
The National Council on Family Relations,
publishers of the Journal of Marriage and
Family and Family Relations, announces
its forthcoming third scholarly journal;
the Journal of Family Theory & Review
(JFTR). The inaugural issue is slated for
publication in March 2009. JFTR will be
peer-reviewed and published quarterly.
Submissions are invited on theory and
review in any area of family studies.
The journal is especially interested in
publishing emergent theory or work that
reinterprets or integrates existing theory.
Contact: Robert Milardo, (207) 581-3128;
rhd360@maine.edu; Sociological Focus is soliciting papers
for a special issue titled “Globalization of
Crime with a Focus on East Asia.” This
special issue focuses on the globalization
of crime and its control. Topics may
include, but are not limited to, testing of
criminological theories with comparative
data, crime control in East Asian cultures,
human and drug trafficking, and various
forms of emerging crimes, such as Internet
crime in East Asia. For further information
about the special issue, contact:
Liqun Cao, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Criminology, Eastern
Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197;
liqun.cao@emich.edu; or Shanyang Zhao;
Department of Sociology, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122; bzhao001@
temple.edu. Send your manuscript to
Sociological Focus, Department of Sociology,
Box 210378, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378, by March 15, January 29-31, 2008. 11th International
CPTED Association Conference, Roanoke,
VA. Theme: “Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Crime, Environment and
Prevention,” This is a conference about
people, the ways they interact with one
another and the physical, legal, social, and
economic environments that surround
them. While the conference is about crime
prevention, there is much to be learned
from programs and projects that are not
specifically focused on either crime or
prevention. For more information, visit
www.cpe.vt.edu/cpted/.
Februrary 16, 2008. Hawaii Sociological
Association 29th Annual Meeting, Kapiolani
Community College, Honolulu,
HI. Theme: “Social Empowerment in
the 21st Century: Identity, Diversity, Engagement.”
For more information, visit
www.sociology.hawaii.edu/hsa/meetings.html.
February 24-25, 2008. 26th SEUSS: Southeastern
Undergraduate Sociology Symposium,
Emory University. Theme: “Health:
Global, Social, Interpersonal, and Individual.”
The Symposium provides undergraduate
students with the opportunity to
participate in a professional meeting. For
more information, visit www.sociology.emory.edu/SEUSS/.
March 5-7, 2008. The American Society of
Victimology Sixth American Symposium
on Victimology, Fresno Pacific University.
For more information, visit www.american-society-victimology.us/events/asv_2008/index.html.
March 25-27, 2008. Mental Health Response
to Mass Violence and Terrorism, Savannah,
GA. This course, offered by the U.S. Department
of Justice’s Office for Victims of
Crimes Training and Technical Assistance
Center, provides the basics of what mental
health providers, crime victim assistance
professionals, faith-based counselors,
chaplains, and others in direct contact
with victims need to know to provide
appropriate mental health support following
incidents involving criminal mass
victimization. For more information,
www.sei2003.com/ovcttac2008/MentalHealthResponse.htm.
March 26-29, 2008. 17th Conference of the
International Association for Research in
Juvenile Criminology, Swansea University,
Wales, UK. Theme: “Promoting Positive
Practices: Transforming Youth Justice
Policy and Practice.” The conference will
embrace positive practices in both prevention
of delinquency and direct work with
young people who have offended. For
more information, visit www.swansea.ac.uk/human_sciences.
March 26-29, 2009. 2009 Organization of
American Historians Annual Meeting, Seattle,
WA. Contact: Amy Stark, Director
of Meetings, Organization of American
Historians, 112 N. Bryan Ave., PO Box
5457, Bloomington, IN 47407-5457; (812)
855-9853; fax (812) 855-0696; astark@oah.org; www.oah.org/2009.
March 28-30, 2008. The British Sociological
Association’s Annual Conference 2008,
University of Warwick. Theme: “Social
Worlds, Natural Wonders.” For more
information, visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/conference.
March 29, 2008. Fourth Annual Inter-Ivy
Sociology Symposium (IISS), Princeton
University. Theme: “Bridging Boundaries.”
The theme reflects the diversity of
the department and highlights our commitment
to fostering interaction between
young scholars from different institutions,
substantive and methodological orientations,
and sociological traditions. For
more information, visit www.princeton.edu/~iiss2008.
March 27-29, 2008. Eastern Community
College Social Science Association (ECCSSA)
34th Annual Conference, Atlantic Cape
Community College, Mays Landing
Campus. Theme: “Exploring the Changing
Role of the Social Sciences in a Global
Community.” Contact: Donna McElroy at
dmcelroy@atlantic.edu or Carolyn Coulter
at ccoulter@atlantic.edu. For more
information, visit www.eccssa.org.
April 16-17, 2008. The Fifth Annual
Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts-
Boston. Theme: “A Foucault
for the 21st Century: Governmentality,
Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium.”
Contact: Social Theory Forum,
Department of Sociology, University of
Massachusetts-Boston, 100 Morrissey
Blvd., Boston, MA 02125.
April 25-26, 2008. First Annual Symposium
on Science, Technology and Values. Contact:
Craig Hanks, Chair, Symposium on Science,
Technology, and Values, College of
Arts and Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology,
Castle-Point-On-Hudson, Hoboken,
NJ 07030; jhanks@stevens.edu.
May 14-17, 2008. The Fourth International
Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2008),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Theme: “Ethics, Evidence and
Social Justice.” Participants will explore
the relationship between these three terms
and what these relationships mean for
qualitative inquiry. For more information,
visit: www.icqi.org.
June 4-8, 2008. 21st Joint Annual Meeting
of the Association for the Study of Food and
Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food
and Human Values Society (AFHVS), New
Orleans, LA. Theme: “Resilient Culinary
Cultures: Disaster, Innovation and
Change in Foodscapes.” Contact: Alice
P. Julier, Women’s Studies Program, 2208
Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
15260; apjulier@gmail.com.
June 9-12, 2008. John Jay College of Criminal
Justice International Conference, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Theme: “Justice and Policing
in Diverse Societies.” This conference
will seek to provide a framework
through which civic leaders, International
Government Organizations, government
officials, police, legal actors and scholars
can discuss our collective concerns in the
areas of oppression, crime, terrorism, conflict and instability. For more information,
visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/ic.
June 24-28, 2008. 12th European Association
of Development Research and Training Institutes
(EADI) General Conference, Geneva,
Switzerland. Theme: “Global Governance
for Sustainable Development: The Need
for Policy Coherence and New Partnerships.”
The conference will present the
perceptions of leading European development
experts and their associates
in the developing regions on dramatic
global challenges and on possible policy
options or governance models to meet
those challenges. For more information,
visit www.gc2008.net.
July 28-31, 2008. Rural Sociology 2008 Annual
Meeting, Manchester, NH, Radisson
Hotel. Theme: “Rural Sociology as Public
Sociology: Past, Present and Future.” For
more information, visit www.ruralsociology.org/annual-meeting/2008/.
July 21, 2008. The Contested Terrain of
Consumption Studies, Boston College.
Visit www.contestedconsumption.info
for details.
August 14-17, 2008. 12th Biennial Conference
of the International Society for Justice
Research, Adelaide, Australia. Theme:
“Justice in a Diverse Society.” Further
information is available at www.isjr.org/2008.
September 1-5, 2008. Seventh International
Conference on Social Science Methodology,
Naples, Italy. For more information, visit
www.rc332008.unina.it, www.isasociology.org/rc33.htm, and www.isa-sociology.org.
September 19-22, 2008. International
Conference of the Social Capital Foundation,
Malta. For more information, visit www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20conferences.htm.
January 7-9, 2009. Third International
Multidisciplinary Conference, Imperial
War Museum, London. Theme: “Beyond
Camps and Forced Labour: Current International
Research on Survivors of Nazi
Persecution.” The aim of this conference
is to bring together scholars from a variety
of disciplines who are engaged in research
on all survivors of Nazi persecution. Contact:
u.kuhlmann@agentur-sec.de, or visit
www.secolo-verlag.de. 2008 NCHS/AcademyHealth Health
Policy Fellowships. The Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s
National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) and AcademyHealth are seeking
applications for their 2008 Health Policy
Fellowship. The aim of the fellowship is to
foster collaboration between NCHS staff
and visiting scholars on a wide range of
topics of mutual concern. The fellowship
allows visiting scholars to conduct new
and innovative analyses and participate
in developmental and health policy activities
related to the design and content of
future NCHS surveys and offers access to
the data resources provided by the CDC.
Applicants may be at any stage in their
career from doctoral students to senior
investigators. Doctoral students must
have completed course work and be at the
dissertation phase of their program. They
must also demonstrate training and/or
experience in health services research and
methodology. For more information, visit
www.academyhealth.org/nchs.
AERA Postdoctoral Fellows Program.
The American Educational Research
Association (AERA) invites applications
for two fellowship programs for recent
doctoral degree recipients interested in
advancing their research knowledge and
expertise in the study of education and
education processes. The AERA-AIR
(A2) Fellows Program and the AERA-ETS
Fellowship Program in Measurement
offer two years of intensive research and
training opportunities in stimulating
environments that encourage excellence
in research as well as teamwork and collaboration.
Fellows gain practical experience
in education research and technical
assistance projects to prepare them for
productive research careers in a range of
employment contexts. Underrepresented
minority researchers are encouraged to
apply. For more information, visit www.aera.net. Applications must be received
by December 17, 2007.
Animals & Society Institute Fellowship
Program 2008. The Animals & Society
Institute invites applications for its second
annual summer fellowship program for
scholars pursuing research in Human-
Animal Studies. In the summer of 2008,
this interdisciplinary program will enable
six to eight fellows to pursue research in
residence at Michigan State University.
The fellowship is designed to support
research through mentorship, guest
lectures, and scholarly exchange among
fellows and opportunities to contribute
to the intellectual life of the host institution.
The fellowships are open to scholars
from any discipline investigating a topic
related to human-animal relationships.
Application deadline: January 31, 2008.
Applicants must (1) possess a PhD, JD, or
equivalent, or be a doctoral student at the
dissertation stage; (2) have a commitment
to advancing research in Human-Animal
Studies; (3) be actively engaged, during
the fellowship program, in a research
project that culminates in a journal article,
book, or other scholarly presentation, and
(4) submit a follow-up report six months
after the fellowship’s completion. Contact:
Committee on Fellowships, Animals
& Society Institute, 403 McCauley Street,
Washington Grove, MD 20880; (301) 963-
4751; ken.shapiro@animalsandsociety.org; www.animalsandsociety.org.
Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs.
The Coro Fellows Program in Public
Affairs is a nine-month, graduate level,
full-time, experience-based leadership
training program in public affairs. The
program is committed to strengthening
the quality of leadership in our country
through a comprehensive, nonpartisan
experiential training program for 68 participants
annually at five regional centers.
Participants learn about the real world in
the real world-by actively questioning,
interacting with diverse constituents, finding
resources, and coming up with innovative
solutions to the challenges faced by
their communities. Coro seeks individuals
with demonstrated leadership potential
and a genuine commitment to public service.
Participation requires at minimum
a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work
experience. Visit www.coro.org for
more program details. The deadline for
applications is January 11, 2008.
Fifth Worldwide Competition for Junior
Sociologists. The International Sociological
Association announces the organization
of the Fifth Worldwide Competition
for Junior Sociologists engaged in social
research. The winners will be invited to
participate in the XVII World Congress of
Sociology which will take place in Göteborg,
Sweden, July 2010. For details of the
competition, visit www.isa-sociology.org/wcys/index.htm.
The Horowitz Foundation. Each year
the foundation makes targeted grants
for work the social sciences, economics,
psychology, sociology, and urban studies,
as well as newer areas such as evaluation
research. Preference will be given
to projects that deal with contemporary
issues in the social sciences and issues
of policy relevance and to scholars in
the initial stages of research. Awards are
allocated solely on the basis of merit.
Candidates may propose new projects,
and they may also solicit support for
research in progress, including final work
on a dissertation, supplementing research
in progress, travel funds, or preparing a
work for publication. Preference will be
given to advanced graduate students
and untenured assistant professors and
instructors. Candidates should submit
applications no later than January 31,
2008. Contact: 2007 Awards, Horowitz
Foundation for Social Policy, PO Box 7,
Rocky Hill, NJ 08553-0007; www.horowitz-foundation.org.
The Litigation Research Fund. The ABA
Section of Litigation announces the establishment
of the Litigation Research Fund
to support original and practical scholarly
work that significantly advances the
understanding of civil litigation in the
United States. The Section anticipates
making individual awards of between
$5,000 and $20,000. Legal academics as
well as social scientists and scholars from
other disciplines are invited to apply. The
Litigation Research Fund will support research
and writing projects in: scholarship
relevant to litigation policy; and scholar ship bearing on litigation practice. Funded
scholarship may relate to judicial administration;
judicial independence; rules
and standards relating to litigation; the
assistance of counsel; trial and discovery
practice; or the jury process, among others.
Preference will be given to works with an
empirical foundation. Position papers,
comparative and historical scholarship,
and other original academic work will also
qualify for funding. Applications should
be submitted by email, with the subject
line “Litigation Research Fund,” to Patsy
Engelhard at pengelhard@staff.abanet.org,
and Robert Nelson at rnelson@abfn.org.
Awards will be made on a rolling basis;
priority consideration for the first awards
will be given to submissions received by
January 1, 2008. Contact: Bruce Green at
bgreen@law.fordham.edu.
Mellon Research Fellowships for Central
and Eastern Suropean Post-Doctoral
Scholars in Yemen 2008-2009. For details
about the program, eligibity, and application
requirements, visit www.aiy.org/fellowships.
Contact: Maria Ellis, AIYS, PO
Box 311, Ardmore, PA 19003-0311; (610)
896-5412; fax (610) 896-9049; mellis@sas.upenn.edu.
The Race, Gender & Public Policy Initiative
at the Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs is offering one-year post-doctoral
fellowships for researchers working at the
intersection of race, gender, and public
policy. The University of Minnesota’s
Humphrey Institute is a national leader in
the study of race and public policy and the
examination of gender and public policy.
We are widely recognized for our role
in examining public issues and shaping
public policy at the local, state, national,
and international levels. The newly formed
initiative on Race, Gender, and Public
Policy explores new frontiers of knowledge
at the intersection of race, gender,
and public policy. The program promotes
scholarship that benefits from cross-disciplinary
discussion and contributes to the
development of new ideas and tools for
both policy arenas. For more information,
visit employment.umn.edu.
Sloan Work-Family Career Development
Grant Program. The Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation announces the availability of
Work-Family Career Development Grants.
This program will award grants to up
to five junior faculty members who are
investigating important work and family
questions. The level of support for
2008 is $45,000 per grant recipient. More
information about these grants, including
information about eligibility requirements,
nomination deadlines, and application
procedures can be obtained on the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation website: www.sloan.org/programs/Work_Family_Career_Development_Grants.shtml. Additional
inquires can be sent via email to workfamily-grant@sas.upenn.edu. AERA Minority Fellowship Program in
Education Research. The purposes of the
program are to advance education research
by outstanding minority graduate students
and to improve the quality and diversity
of university faculties. This program offers
doctoral fellowships to enhance the
competitiveness of outstanding minority
scholars for academic appointments at
major research universities. It supports
fellows conducting education research and
provides mentoring and guidance toward
the completion of their doctoral studies.
AERA will award up to three doctoral
fellowships every year. Fellowships are
awarded for doctoral dissertation research
conducted under faculty sponsorship in
any accredited university in the United
States. Applicants must work full-time
on their dissertations and course requirements.
This program is targeted for members
of racial and ethnic groups historically
underrepresented in higher education.
Fellowships may be supplemented by university
or department awards and tuition
waivers. Applications must be received by
December 17, 2007. For more information,
visit www.aera.net.
Agriculture Food and Human Values
Society (AFHVS) Student Essay Competition.
The AFHV Society Student Paper
Award Committee will select up to one
undergraduate student and one graduate
student to receive awards for contributed
papers of scholarly excellence. Papers
should be related to the production, distribution,
or consumption of food, fiber, and
natural resources. AFHVS promotes open
discussion of the sustainability of modern
food production practices; alternative
visions of food systems; the benefits and
risks of biological technologies; and food
security in developed and developing
countries. Each submission must be accompanied
by an email or letter from the
student’s academic supervisor verifying
that the author is an undergraduate or
graduate student, and that the student
was the primary person responsible for
the paper. Papers submitted to AFHVS
cannot be submitted to the Association
for the Study of Food and Society Student
Paper Award (and vice versa). AFHVS
reserves the right to refer papers to ASFS.
Submissions must be emailed or postmarked
by March 21, 2008. It is preferred
that abstracts be submitted on disk or as a
file attachment by email to Marcy Ostrom,
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and
Natural Resources, Washington State University,
1100 N. Western Ave., Wenatchee,
WA 98801; mrostrom@wsu.edu. Include
your name, full address, email address,
and affiliation after the paper title and
before the text of the abstract. Contact:
David Beriss, University of New Orleans,
dberiss@gmail.com; or Alice P. Julier, University
of Pittsburgh at apjulier@gmail.com. All submissions are due February 4,
2008. For more information, visit www.afhvs.org.
Association for the Study of Food and
Society (ASFS) Student Paper Awards.
The ASFS invites undergraduate and
graduate to submit a paper for the William
Whit (undergraduate) and Alex
McIntosh (graduate) prizes. These awards
are intended to recognize students’ contributions
to the field of food studies. The
author will receive $500, membership,
and conference fees. Send submissions
on a wide range of issues relating to food,
society and culture, and from the diverse
disciplinary and transdisciplinary fields
that ASFS encompasses. All papers must
be double-spaced and include references,
should follow APA or MLA guidelines,
and no longer than 5,000 words, excluding
references and notes. Provide a
word count at the end of the paper. Only
single-authored papers will be considered.
Papers submitted to ASFS cannot
be submitted to AFHVS (and vice versa).
The paper should have been completed
within two years prior to submission date
and should have been written during a
course or research project directed by a
faculty member. All entries must include
a completed submission cover sheet (a
PDF file). A copy of the cover sheet can
be requested by email to Elaine Power
at power@post.queensu.ca. Submit an
electronic version of the paper, which
does not include personally identifying
information, along with the submission
cover sheet and electronic letter from the
primary supervising professor to: Angie
Maltby at aam2@post.queensu.ca. Deadline
for submission: March 14, 2008.
MSS Student Paper Competition. The
Midwest Sociological Society will hold its
45th Annual Student Paper Competition
in honor of Don Martindale. The competition
is open to all student members of the
Midwest Sociological Society. Submissions
due January 8, 2008. Graduate and undergraduate
papers are judged in separate
divisions with up to three prizes in each
division. Contact: Joan Hermsen, (573)
884-1420; hermsenj@missouri.edu; www.themss.org/STUDENTpage.html. Rebecca G. Adams, University of North
Carolina, was quoted on October 15, 2007,
a Boston Globe article on the baby boomer
generation retirees who are choosing to
live with friends.
Peter Bearman, Columbia University,
and Michael Woolcock, University of
Manchester, were quoted in an October 29
Washington Post article about social capital
and democracy building in Iraq.
Helen Berger, West Chester University,
was quoted by The Associated Press on
November 1, 2007, in a report on Marshall
University’s observance of Pagan
holidays.
Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh,
was quoted in USA Today, on
October 18, 2007, in an article on a civil
lawsuit filed against the second largest Ku
Klux Klan group in the United States.
Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, was
quoted on October 22, 2007, in a Newsday article on whether diversity training is
needed in the wake of the recent noose
hangings.
Paul Froese, Baylor University, was
quoted in the Dallas Morning News on
October 15, 2007, in an article on young
evangelical voters and how they are diverging
from their parents.
Barry Glassner, University of Southern
California, was quoted in USA Today on
October 15, 2007, in an article on the rising
rates of obesity in Los Angeles and a new
proposal that would slow the building of
new fast food restaurants.
Angela J. Hattery, Wake Forest University,
was quoted by The Associated Press
on November 1, 2007, in an article on how
parents are taking a more active role in
raising their children than a decade ago.
William B. Helmreich, City University
of New York, was quoted in Newsday on
October 15, 2007, in an article about a
noose that was found hanging in a Long
Island police station.
Tomás Jimenez, University of California-San Diego, wrote an opinion piece for
the Los Angeles Times on October 2, 2007,
about the racial achievement gap and the
academic struggles Latinos face in the
United States.
Carole Joffe, University of Califronia-Davis,
had a letter to the editor published in
the New York Times Magazine on October
7, 2007, about Justice John Paul Stevens
and the recent Gonzales vs. Carhart case
decided by the Supreme Court.
Debbie Kasper, Sweet Briar College,
was quoted on October 5, 2007, by The
Examiner in a piece on six students at
Lynchburg College who are living in an
eco-friendly house.
Tanya M. Koropeckyj-Cox, University
of Florida, had her study on how childlessness
bothers men more than women
covered by the wire service Health Day
News on October 19, 2007. The article was
re-printed in newspapers nationwide.
Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College-CUNY,
was extensively quoted in the feature
article, “Brooklyn Street Proves Yes, We
All Can Get Along,” by Rick Hampson,
in the August 15 USA Today.
Derek Kreager, Pennsylvania State University,
had his study on male adolescent
athletes, which appeared in the American
Sociological Review, covered by Reuters
Health and the Vancouver Sun on October
10, 2007.
Kevin T. Leicht, University of Iowa, was
quoted in The Boston Globe, on October 20,
2007, on how presidential hopefuls Mitt
Romney and Rudy Giuliani use different
techniques to woo Iowa voters.
Gregory M. Maney, Hofstra University,
was quoted in Newsday on October 14,
2007, on Nassau County Executive
Thomas Suozzi’s remarks on immigration
policies in the United States.
Robert Moore, Frostburg State University,
was quoted several times in a September
26 article in the Washington Post, “Colleges
See Flare in Racial Incidents.”
Katherine Newman, Princeton University,
and Victor Tan Chen, Harvard University,
wrote an opinion piece in the Chronicle of
Higher Education, on October 3, 2007, on
the crisis of near poor families, now being
called “the missing class.”
Janet E. Poppendieck, Hunter College,
was quoted by The Associated Press on
November 1, 2007, in an article on the new
trend of coffee shops opening up in high
school libraries.
Rubén Rumbaut, University of California-
Irvine, was quoted in the Washington Poston October 5, 2007, in an article on a new
bill in Congress called “The Dream Act.”
David R. Segal, University of Maryland,
was quoted in the Fort Worth Weekly on July
11 regarding immigrants serving in the U.S.
military. He was quoted in the Paradise Post on August 14 regarding the way returning
veterans are treated by American society.
He was quoted extensively in a Congressional
Quarterly CQ Researcher article dealing
with wounded veterans, on August
31. He was quoted in the Raleigh News &
Observer in an article on why there has been
a decline in African Americans enlisting in
the military. He was interviewed on NBC
on September 19 on public perceptions
of the Iraq War, and the interview was
posted on MSNBC.com. He was quoted
in Psychiatric News on September 21 on
an increase in suicide among soldiers. He
was quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on
September 30 on soldiers being diagnosed
with pre-existing mental illness rather than
PTSD, thereby becoming ineligible for disability
benefits.
Lawrence Sherman, University of Pennsylvania,
was quoted in the Philadelphia
Enquirer on October 5, 2007, in an article
on the possibility of implementing a “Stop
and Frisk” policy in Philadelphia to lower
violence and enforce stricter gun control.
Stephen Steinberg, Queens College and
Graduate Center-CUNY, wrote an op-ed,
“The Melting Pot Is NOT Broken,” that
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on
October 10, 2007.
Judith Treas, University of California-Irvine,
was quoted in the USA Today on October
17 on couples who pay to outsource
their household chores.
Bruce Western, Harvard University, was
featured in the September 23, 2007, Ideas
Section of The Boston Globe. David L. Brown, Cornell University, was
elected as a Doctor Honoris Causa of the
University of Rousse on October 2 in a
ceremony held in Rousse Bulgaria.
Bette J. Dickerson, American University,
received the A. Wade Smith Award for
Teaching, Mentorship, and Service from
the Association of Black Sociologists.
Walter DeKeseredy was recently awarded
the University of Ontario Institute of
Technology’s first Research Excellence
Award on September 5, 2007.
Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College,
has been honored with an ASA Marxist
Section award for his book, The End of the
Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in
America’s Paradise.
Mary E. Evans, University of South
Florida, was awarded the American Public
Health Association’s Carl A. Taube Award
for Lifetime Achievement in Mental Health
Services Research. She was also recently
designated as Distinguished University
Health Professor at the University of South
Florida.
Steve Gold, Michigan State University,
won the Charles Horton Cooley Award
for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology
from the Michigan Sociological Association.
Paul Hirschfield, Rutgers University,
received a grant of $98,507 for the project,
“Bridges and Barriers: Educational Attainment
of Youth Returning from Detention
and Correctional Facilities” from the FY07
Field Initiated Research and Evaluation
Program in the Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention.
Philip N. Howard, University of Washington,
received a $341,963 grant from the
National Science Foundation to support
the World Information Access Project. He
also received $107,000 from Intel’s People
and Practices Group to study information
access and technology diffusion in developing
countries.
Sherryl Kleinman, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, won the 2007
Women’s Advocacy Award from the Carolina
Women’s Center on the University of
North Carolina’s campus.
Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware,
recently won the 2007 American Society
of Criminology Ruth Shonle Cavan Young
Scholar Award, and the 2007 American Society
of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang
Book Award for Judging Juveniles.
Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University,
was named a 2007 Fellow at the Center
for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at
Stanford University, and was elected to the
American Philosophical Society.
Anne Lincoln, Southern Methodist University,
and Elaine Howard Ecklund,
University at Buffalo-State University of
New York, were awarded $299,334 by the
National Science Foundation for a threeyear
study titled “Perceptions of Women
in Academic Science.”
Carrie Oser, University of Kentucky,
received a Mentored Research Scientist
Development Award (K01) from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse. The project
is titled “Rural Drug Abuse Treatment:
Organizations, Counselors, and Client
Outcomes.”
Thomas J. Scheff, University of California-Santa Barbara, received an Outstanding
Academic Book award from Choice Magazinefor his 2006 Goffman Unbound. Jason Beckfield, Kathryn Edin, Filiz
Garip, and Jocelyn Viterna became Harvard
faculty as of July 2007.
Prudence L. Carter has joined the faculty
of the School of Education and the Department
of Sociology at Stanford University.
Glen Elder, University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, will retire at the end of this
academic year as assume a new role as
Research Professor.
Barbara Entwisle, University or North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, was promoted to the
rank of Distinguished Professor.
Jay R. Howard was named Interim Vice
Chancellor and Dean of Indiana University-
Purdue, University Columbus effective
July 1, 2007.
Jonathan London has joined the Faculty of
Social Sciences at City University of Hong
Kong as an Assistant Professor.
Rubén O. Martinez has moved to Michigan
State University as Director of the
Julian Samora Research Institute.
Marcyliena Morgan and Lawrence D.
Bobo have been appointed professors in
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Both will
join the Department of African and African
American Studies (AAAS); Bobo will have
a joint appointment in sociology.
Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, won an appointment
to the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences.
Xuefei Ren was appointed Assistant Professor
in the Department of Sociology and
Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan
State University. Larry Busch, Michigan State University,
co-organized an international symposium
on food safety and traceability in Beijing,
China, in October 2007.
Anthony Cortese, Southern Methodist
University, participated on a panel on
the Development, Relief, and Education
Alien Minors Act on November 1
sponsored by the Southern Methodist
University College Hispanic American
Students and the League of United Latin
American Citizens.
Elaine Howard Ecklund, University
at Buffalo, and Michael Emerson, Rice
University, received a grant for $190,149
from the Russell Sage Foundation to fund
a study titled “Religion and the Changing
Face of American Civic Life.”
Stephanie Nawyn, Michigan State University,
was the keynote speaker of the
Critical Issues Symposium, “Immigration:
Shaping and Reshaping America”
at Hope College in Holland, MI.
Gene Rosa, Washington State University,
was the single academic invited to
make a presentation at the Howard H.
Baker Center for Public Policy sponsored
conference, “The Role of Nuclear
Power in Global and Domestic Energy
Policy: Recent Developments and Future
Expectations,” at the Woodrow Wilson
Center International Center for Scholars
in Washington, DC.
David Schleifer, New York University,
presented research from his dissertation
on a panel of the American Institute of
Wine and Food, on October 10, 2007. His
presentation was called “Where Did All
the Trans-Fats Come From? Where Have
All The Trans-Fats Gone?” Ari Antikainen, University of Joensuu,
Transforming a Learning Society: The Case of
Finland, 2nd ed. (Peter Lang, 2007).
Ari Antikainen, University of Joensuu,
and Jarmo Houtsonen, Symbolic Power in
Cultural Contexts: Uncovering Social Reality(Sense Publishers, 2007).
Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert,
Hamline University, The U.S. Military’s
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy: A Reference
Handbook (Praeger Security International,
2007).
Linda Kalof, Michigan State University,
Ed., A Cultural History of Animals. Volume
1: Antiquity to the Dark Ages (25,000BC-
1000AD) (Berg, 2007).
Linda Kalof, Michigan State University,
and Brigitte Resl, University of Liverpool,
Eds. A Cultural History of Animals,
6 Vols. (Berg, 2007).
Sherryl Kleinman, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, Feminist Fieldwork
Analysis (Sage, 2007).
Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, and
Tevah Platt, Ed., The Staten Island Italian-
American Experience (Wagner College
DaVinci Society, 2007).
James A. Holstein, Marquette University,
and Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri,
Handbook of Constructionist Research(Guilford Press, 2008).
Gilda L. Ochoa, Pomona College, Learning
from Latino Teachers (Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 2007).
Roland Robertson (co-editor), University
of Aberdeen and University of Pittsburgh,
Encyclopedia of Globalization, 4 Vols.
(MTM/Routledge, 2007); (co-editor), Globalization
and Sport (Blackwell, 2007).
Michael J. Shanahan, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Ross
Macmillan, University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities. Biography and the Sociological
Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies(Norton, 2007).
Yoku Shaw-Taylor, National Opinion
Research Center at the University of
Chicago, and Steven A. Tuch, George
Washington University, The Other African
Americans: Contemporary African and
Caribbean Immigrants in the United States(Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Crime and Justice Summer Research
Institute: Broadening Perspectives &
Participation, July 7-25, 2008, the Ohio
State University. The institute is designed
to promote successful research projects
and careers among faculty from underrepresented
groups working in areas of
crime and criminal justice. During the
institute, each participant will complete
an ongoing project (either a research
paper or grant proposal) in preparation
for journal submission or agency funding
review. The Summer Research Institute
will provide participants with: Resources
for completing their research projects;
senior faculty mentors in their areas of
study; opportunities to network with
junior and senior scholars; workshops
addressing topics related to publishing,
professionalization, and career planning;
travel expenses to Ohio and living
expenses. Completed applications must
be postmarked by February 8, 2008. To
download the application form, visit
cjrc.osu.edu/summerinstitute. All applicants
must hold regular tenure-track
positions in U.S. institutions and demonstrate
how their participation broadens
participation of underrepresented groups
in crime and justice research. Graduate
students without tenure track appointments
are not eligible. Robert L. Carroll, professor emeritus of
sociology at the University of Cincinnati,
on August 30 in Cincinnati, OH, at the
age of 76. Barbara H. Kaplan Her friends, colleagues, and students
are saddened to report the passing of
Dr. Barbara Hockey Kaplan on 26 June,
2007, professor emerita of sociology at
American University in Washington, DC.
As a graduate of Melbourne University,
she taught at Columbia, Cornell, Penn,
George Washington, and American
Universities.
Not fully reflected in her teaching path
are the contributions Barbara made in her
research capacity in so many places, from
Australia to New York to Washington.
They range from post-colonial analyses
to public health studies and research on
student and neighborhood organizations.
During World War II, she was a research
officer and instructor in the School of
Pacific Administration, Australian Army.
In the 1960s, she co-edited (with Robert
Merton) Reader in Bureaucracy (1964).
At American University, Dr. Kaplan
grew into a pillar of the department,
especially, but not exclusively, with the
building of the Macro/World System
specialization. She edited Social Change
in the Capitalist World Economy (1978). It
is fitting that her last research project and
her continuing interests had to do with
the emerging new communication order
worldwide.
For most of us, Barbara Kaplan was
above all a gifted and unrivaled teacher.
Her classrooms and seminars were places
of great intellectual stimulation that made
a lasting impression. Many Masters and
PhD candidates also had the benefit of her
guidance toward a successful thesis.
I had the privilege of sharing an office
with Barbara for many years, and I will
never forget the richness of our discussions.
She exuded energy and enthusiasm
always. After her move to San Francisco,
the same dynamic prevailed in our occasional
phone conversations. She will
be sorely missed by all of us.
Jurg Siegenthaler, American University
James Pinkerton James “Jim” Ronald Pinkerton, 74, died
July 8, 2007, at Lenoir Woods Care Center
in Columbia, MO.
Jim was born on December 1, 1932, to
Florence Louise Korn and Adam Brownlie
Pinkerton in Milwaukee. An only child,
he lived first in Wauwatose, WI, and then
in Green Bay, WI. He graduated from
West Senior High School in 1950 and from
Carroll College in Waukesha in 1954 with
a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He then
joined the U.S. Army and spent 18 months
in Nancy, France. After his release, he
earned a master’s degree in insurance
and real estate from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
On June 29, 1957, he married Majorie
Midge Glass in Chicago. They moved
to Green Bay, where Jim worked in his
father’s insurance and real estate business,
The Pinkerton Agency. In 1959, the
Pinkertons returned to Madison, where
Jim earned a master’s degree and doctorate
in sociology.
He finished his courses in 1964 and
taught at Eastern Michigan University in
Ypsilanti, MI. He received his degrees in
May 1965. In July, Pinkerton came to the
University of Missouri-Columbia with
a joint teaching/research appointment
in the School of Business and Public
Administration and the Department of
Rural Sociology. His areas of concentration
were the community, demography,
and ecology.
From 1973 until he retired in 1998, he
was a professor in the rural sociology
department.
He was the co-author of two books: The
Human, Community, an urban sociology
text, and Outdoor Recreation and Leisure:
A Reference Guide and Selected Bibliography.
He also published research studies, journal
articles, and scholarly book reviews.
He was a member of the Rural Sociological
Society, American Sociological
Association, Population Association of
America, Midwest Sociological Society,
Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of
Agriculture-MU Chapter, and Retired
Ag Professors.
In the fall of 1995, Jim was an Honorary
Research Fellow in the sociology department
at the University of Glasgow in
Scotland. In Columbia, he was an active
member of numerous civic organizations.
For many years, Jim won medals for
swimming events at the Senior Games
and the Show-Me State Games.
He enjoyed travel, especially to Green
Bay Packer games each season and visits
with his father’s family in Scotland and
England and his mother’s relatives in
Norway.
Dr. Pinkerton is survived by his wife,
Midge, of Columbia; son Steven and his
wife Audrey of Stockton, CA; daughter
Kathy Catalina Baker of El Dorado Hills,
CA; and five grandchildren.
Kenneth E. Pigg, University of Missouri-
Columbia
Peter Whalley Peter Whalley, Professor of Sociology
at Loyola University-Chicago, died
suddenly on August 16, 2007, at the age
of 60. The cause of death was a stroke.
He had taught in the Loyola Sociology
Department for 28 years, serving as both
Department Chair and Graduate Program
Director. He also served as Chair of the
ASA section on Science, Knowledge and
Technology from 1997 to 1999.
Peter Whalley was born in Macclesfield,
England, and grew up in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. He received a scholarship
to attend Pembroke College, Oxford
University, from which he received his
Bachelor’s degree in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics in 1969. He did graduate
studies at Columbia University, earning
an MS in Urban Planning in 1972 and a
PhD in Sociology in 1982.
His research focused on the work of
highly educated and/or technically skilled
workers such as engineers, inventors, and
designers. However, he reached beyond
what he called “occupational sociology”
and to ask questions about the nature of
knowledge and its institutionalization in
various kinds of work settings. His work
is marked by an effort to incorporate
theoretical ideas into empirical research
and by a commitment to the use of qualitative
methods.
Dr. Whalley’s first book, The Social
Production of Technical Work, emerged
from a comparative study at Columbia
University (directed by Allan Silver) of
engineering. His study of British engineers
rejected the idea that they formed
a “new working class” whose structures
of technical knowledge posed a threat to
capitalist rationality. Neither were they
professionals in the medical or legal sense
of the term, whose tradition of autonomy
was at odds with corporate organization.
Rather, engineers in British firms were
“trusted employees,” who employ discretion
in their work, are on career ladders,
earn salaries and fringe benefits, and enjoy
relative job security. Yet, as he noted in
later work, decentralization and subcontracting
were replacing careers within
firms and threatening to undermine these
established organizational strategies for
earning engineers’ loyalty.
In the 1990s, Professor Whalley undertook
a study of independent inventors
which asked how their “creative ideas become
embodied in innovative products?”
He argued that, despite their apparent
solitude, inventors require social institutions
to support innovation. Legislation
and other means to construct a “framework
of trust” are needed to allow them to
break out of their isolation without risking
the theft of their ideas. In 1997, Whalley
also collaborated with Stephen Barley on
“Technical Work in the Division of Labor:
Stalking the Wily Anomaly,” in which
they demonstrated how technical work
transcends and destabilizes conventional
dichotomies between mental and manual
labor and occupational and organizational
structure, constituting a form of work that
“melds cultural opposites” and challenges
vertical divisions of labor.
In the late 1990s, Whalley collaborated
with Peter Meiksins on a Sloan Foundation-
sponsored study of voluntary parttime
work among technical professionals.
Their 2002 book, Putting Work in Its Place,
reported on interviews with 127 technical
workers who had “customized” their
work schedules. Rather than see these
arrangements as lesser forms of career
commitment, Meiksins and Whalley understood
them as challenges to prevailing
expectations that professional and technical
workers should dedicate the bulk of
their waking hours to the workplace.
Although he suffered from cancer of the
larynx which required him to undergo a
variety of medical treatments, Professor
Whalley remained an active researcher
and was collaborating with Peter Meiksins
on a new project on designers, partly
funded by the ASA Fund for the Advancement
of the Discipline, at the time of his
death.
Dr. Whalley exemplified the idea that
good researchers can also be good teachers
and colleagues. Under his guidance
the sociology program at Loyola became
nationally known and respected. He was
a demanding teacher who introduced
graduate and undergraduate students
alike to fundamental understandings of
sociological reasoning. He was also an
extremely versatile teacher, often teaching
advanced graduate seminars and
introductory freshman classes in the same
semester. He was a brilliant director of
students’ research, helping them to see
the sociological questions implicit in their
ideas and to follow the sociological clues
to their answers. He was a compassionate,
nurturing, and kind mentor to students,
who took great interest in their lives and
careers.
In keeping with his critical understanding
of the overreaching demands of work
on American workers, he was devoted to
his family, his wife Pam and sons Ned and
Nick. As he once said to an overworked
and stressed colleague, “When you’re
dead, the article you didn’t get to write
won’t matter.”
Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University,
and Judith Wittner, Loyola University
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