An Open Invitation to Visit Your New ASA Headquarters

As readers know from ASA Secretary Don Tomaskovic-Devey’s page-one Footnotes article in February 2008, ASA is moving to a permanent new headquarters this month. As of this writing, our moving schedule is still on track.

It seems appropriate for ASA to begin its second century—as the national association for sociologists in the United States—by settling down in an office we can once again call “our own.” ASA has not owned its own headquarters site in Washington, DC, since we sold our first permanent residence (the townhouse we had outgrown) a decade ago. We will open our new office’s doors on March 17, 2008, on the 6th floor of 1430 K Street NW, Washington, DC, and you are cordially invited to stop by and visit your Association in its new location. While we’ll be unpacking moving boxes and settling in for a while, we’ll be online, on the telephone, and on the look out for members and colleagues shortly after relocating to the new office.

If you are going to be in the District of Columbia, please stop by for a visit. If you need a cup of coffee between your meetings, come use our cozy lobby seating area or a conference room. While advance notice is always helpful (202-383-9005 [0] or executive.office@asanet.org), you are welcome to drop by. The Metrorail system has a stop at Farragut North (red line) and McPherson Square (blue and orange lines), which are both a very short walk to our location at K Street and 15th Street/Vermont Avenue. We are also only a short taxi ride from Union Station and Washington’s National Airport.

ASA’s elected leaders and members are pleased that the Association, once again, has a permanent home for members, visiting sociologists, and staff. Our location in the nation’s capital encourages us to believe that we will see many of you between Annual Meetings over the coming years. We know that many of you as practicing, academic, and research sociologists occasionally or frequently visit the nation’s capital in relation to your work. You may have business at the federal science and mission agencies, on Capitol Hill, at the think tanks, at disciplinary and higher education associations, and at the many colleges and universities in the DC metro area. Let us know when you are coming to DC, so that we can extend you the Association’s hospitality during your trip. We hope that you will come to view the ASA headquarters in DC as your sociological home away from home and will feel free to drop in. As Don reported in the February Footnotes, “The good guys are taking over K Street!” Welcome!