In the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows article in the September/ October issue of Footnotes, Bruce Western’s affiliation was incorrectly stated. He is at Harvard University.

Call for Papers

Meetings

26th Annual MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference Devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, April 4-6, 2008, University of Texas-Austin. MEPHISTOS welcomes proposals for individual papers from graduate students examining issues related to the History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Anthropology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Health. Application should include an abstract and CV with full contact information, department and university affiliation, and level in graduate program. Deadline for submission is January 1, 2008. Contact: mephistos2008@gmail.com; studentorgs.utexas.edu/mephistos/index.html.

2008 National CME & CNE Accredited Conference, April 17-20, 2008, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC. Theme: “Health Care Reform: A Priority for Hispanic Communities.” Presented by the National Hispanic Medical Association. www.nhmamd.org.

Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), July 9-12, 2008, Paris, France. Theme: “Building Bridges: Political Psychology and Other Disciplines, Political Psychology and the World.” Send papers that address the ties, challenges, and commonalities between political psychology and other scholarly disciplines and panels that inquire about how political psychologists can both share their scholarly knowledge with, and in turn gain knowledge from, politicians and political activists. Proposals are particularly welcomed that promote cooperation and communication between academics and non-academics who share the passion for understanding the psychological underpinnings of politics. To submit your proposal, visit the ISPP Annual Meeting website at ispp.org/meet.html. The deadline for submissions of proposals is February 1, 2008. Contact: ISPP Central Office, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 346 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244; ispp.conference@yahoo.com.

Conference sponsored by the African American Studies & Research Program, April 3-5, 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This conference marks the anniversaries of the 1908 Springfield, IL, riot and the cataclysmic events of 1968. This commemoration also provides a powerful point of entry into conversations about the history of riots, other organized violence against racialized bodies, rebellions and resistance, and their reverberations across time and space. “Rupture, Repression, and Uprising” seeks domestic, comparative, and international/transnational papers and organized panels of varied forms of violence that cross disciplinary lines. Deadline for panel and paper abstracts is December 1, 2007. Submissions should be mailed electronically to aasrp@uiuc.edu. Contact: Jennifer Hamer or Lou Turner at (217) 333-7781 or aasrp@uiuc.edu. For more information, visit www.aasrp.uiuc.edu.

International Sociological Association RC2 International Conference Research Committee on Language and Society, September 5-8, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Theme: “Speaking of Justice: Social Research and Social Justice.” RC25 is calling for paper, panel, and joint-session proposals for the first ISA World Forum of Sociology. RC25 encourages proposals on issues of national and international debate relevant to any aspect of social justice but also welcome proposals of general relevance to language and society. Submit an abstract (350 words maximum) by January 5, 2008, to: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, pascale@american.edu and Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Centre, NGO, paoletti@crisaps.org. For more information visit www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008.

Southern Sociological Society’s (SSS) 71st Annual Meeting, April 9-12, 2008, Richmond, VA, Marriott. Theme: “Movement Matters: Vision, Mobilization, and Memory.” Submissions should be made online at www.southernsociologicalsociety.org. Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2008. Contact: Program Co-Chairs Peggy Hargis at har_agga@georgiasouthern.edu, Woody Beck at wbeck@uga.edu, or President Larry Isaac at larry.isaac@vanderbilt.edu.

Terrorism & Justice-The Balance for Civil Liberties, a Multidisciplinary Academic Conference, February 18-20, 2008, University of Central Missouri. This conference seeks to investigate the breadth of issues underscoring the impact of counter-terrorism efforts upon the diverse concepts of justice at both domestic and international levels. International perspectives on these issues are welcome. Send a proposal of your presentation by December 1, 2007. An application form, updated information, including registration details and invited conference plenary session speakers, will be made available at www.ucmo.edu/cjinst. Contact: The Institute of Justice & International Studies, Criminal Justice Department, 300 Humphreys Building, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, 64093; (660) 543-8913; fax (660) 543-8306; cjinst@ucmo.edu.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Teaching Sociology

50 Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination: The Significance for Teaching and Learning Sociology

This special issue of Teaching Sociology will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of C. Wright Mills' The Sociological Imagination by exploring its meaning for teaching and learning sociology. The core ideas and lessons of Mills are most likely one of the first perspectives to which sociology students are exposed and his work has been a foundation to how and why countless sociologists teach in the discipline. We invite submissions of reflective essays discussing the past, present, and future meaning and significance of Mills for sociological pedagogy as well as empirical research on innovative methods and activities for incorporating this perspective into the classroom and achieving desired learning objectives. Submissions should be sent to Liz Grauerholz, Editor, and Stephen J. Scanlan, Guest Editor, Teaching Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Howard Phillips Hall 403, Orlando, FL 32816-1360. Questions can be directed to the editor or guest editor at grauer@mail.ucf.edu or scanlans@ohio.edu. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008.

Publications

Battleground: Immigration. Greenwood Publishing is producing a series on contemporary issues in the United States as part of a larger multi-volume reference collection on controversial issues and debates in contemporary society. We are seeking authors for the series on immigration. Each author is asked to write about a wide range of issues and debates concerning the chosen topic. Entries range from 1,000 to 5,000 words, depending on the theme. Authors will be awarded an honorarium for her/his contribution. Contact: Judith Ann Warner, Texas A&M International University, 5201 University Boulevard, Laredo, TX 78041-1900; email judithwarner@tamiu.edu or jwarner@tamiu.edu

Canadian Journal on Family and Youth invites researchers working in the areas of family, youth, and diversity to submit research papers. The journal includes a section for undergraduate papers and thus asks faculty to submit strong term papers for consideration. Contact: Korbla Puplampu at puplampuk@macewan.ca or Sandra Rollings-Magnusson at magnussons@macewan.ca.

International Journal of Peace Studies. Contributions are sought for a special issue on anti-war movements. The International Peace Research Association (IPRA) encourages researchers and activists to assess, compare, and theorize about historical and contemporary peace movements from around the world, and to consider when and how social movements can constrain the state in wartime. The theme issue, to be published in spring/summer 2008, focuses on effective and innovative movements. Articles should place movement histories in a theoretically informed context. In their analyses, authors are encouraged to emphasize lessons learned. Comparative perspectives are particularly welcome, but single-case analyses are of interest as well. Manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words, including references and notes, double spaced. Manuscripts should be in MS Word format and be received by January 7, 2008. Contact: Daniel Lieberfeld, Center for Social and Public Policy, 525 College Hall, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282; lieberfeld@duq.edu, or Orit Avishai, Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures University of California-Berkeley, 3411 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Intersectional Analyses of the Family for the 21st Century. The International Journal of Sociology of the Family invites submissions for a special issue on intersectionality within studies of the family. This special issue will 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. We seek articles and research notes which pursue meaningful inquiries 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. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages of text, inclusive of notes and references, and should follow the “Notice to Contributors” guidelines at www.internationaljournals.org. Each author must also provide a brief biological sketch along with their submission. Completed papers and inquiries should be submitted via email to Marla Kohlman and Bette Dickerson, at kohlmanm@kenyon.edu. Identify submissions with the keyword: Intersections. Deadline for submission is February 15, 2008.

The Journal of Aging in Emerging Economies (JAEE) is an online, peer-refereed forum for increasing understanding of human aging and for improving the services provided to later-life adults. The journal fills a need for a specialized outlet for the dissemination of science that focuses on aging in the developing world. The journal welcomes scholarly submissions from all relevant disciplines spanning the social, psychological, and biological dimensions of aging. Specific submission instructions can be found at www.kent.edu/sociology. Contact: Egerton Clarke at eclarke@kent.edu.

Law & Policy Special Issue: Global Warming, Governance, and the Law. The editors are bringing together a series of papers on the legal and policy issues around global warming. Our goal is to disseminate scholarship of the highest academic standard that can shed light on the multiple legal and policy challenges and opportunities posed by both the human impact on climate change and the growing need to respond to changes in climate being felt across the globe. We welcome scholarship from both specialists and non-specialists in the area of climate change. Contact: Nancy Reichman nreichma@du.edu, Fiona Haines fsh@unimelb.edu.au, or Colin Scott colin.scott@ucd.ie. For more information, visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/lapo. Deadline: January 31, 2008.

Marquette Books LLC is seeking highquality book manuscripts in the topical and theoretical areas. Selected manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, and the authors of textbooks selected for publication will receive a $300 signing bonus in addition to a generous royalty on net sales. The deadline for submission of books to be published in 2008 or 2009 is December 1, 2007. Submit the following materials at bookcall@marquettebooks.org: Author qualifications, a prospectus that includes a brief summary of the book, a chapter outline, why the book differs from competitor books, potential markets, and expected completion date, and the first chapter and/or introduction. For additional information, contact the publisher of Marquette Books: David Demers, a sociologically trained mass communication theorist.

Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, journal that seeks to publish research that expands our understanding of issues relating to race and racism, racial and gender/sexuality ideologies, and social activism. Spaces for Difference represents a conduit for scholars to bridge the traditional disciplines including, but not limited to: anthropology, art, education, english, ethnic studies, film studies, history, linguistics, literature, music, political science, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. We welcome alternative forms of presenting research including, but not limited to, photography and digital media. Contact: spacesfordifference@sa.ucsb.edu, repositories.cdlib.org/ucsb_ed/spaces.

Social Thought and Research Volume 29 will feature a talk by Saskia Sassen entitled “Globalization: Spaces, Scales, and Subjects.” We encourage papers that address globalization issues as well as other topics of sociological interest. Send one paper copy of your submission, one electronic version in a Microsoft Word-compatible format, and a $10.00 submission fee (waived for students) to STAR, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Department of Sociology, 716 Fraser Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-2172 by February 1, 2008. Manuscripts must include a 200-word abstract. Include author contact information and email address. For additional information, visit www.ku.edu/~starjrnl/star.html.

Teaching Sociology Special Issue: 50 Years of C. Wright Mills and The Sociological Imagination: The Significance for Teaching and Learning Sociology. This issue will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination by exploring its meaning for teaching and learning sociology. The core ideas and lessons of Mills are most likely one of the first perspectives sociology students are exposed and his work has been a foundation to how and why sociologists teach in the discipline. We invite submissions of reflective essays discussing the past, present, and future meaning and significance of Mills for sociological pedagogy as well as empirical research on innovative methods and activities for incorporating this perspective into the classroom. Submissions should be sent to Liz Grauerholz, Editor, and Stephen J. Scanlan, Guest Editor, Teaching Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Howard Phillips Hall 403, Orlando, FL 32816-1360. Questions can be directed to grauer@mail.ucf.edu or scanlans@ohio.edu. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008.

Visitor Studies, the official journal of the Visitor Studies Association, publishes high-quality international articles focusing on visitor research, visitor studies, evaluation studies, and research methodologies. Submission of manuscripts and book reviews that provide both theoretical and practical insights to practitioners and scholars in the visitation research community are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Packer at j.packer@uq.edu.au.

Meetings

December 10-14, 2007. The Fifth African Population Conference on Emerging Issues on Population and Development in Africa, Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC), Tanzania. For more information, visit www.uaps.org/ and the website of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, www.tanzania.go.tz/5apc/index.html. Contact: Bernadette Ochieng, uaps2007conf@aphrc.org.

December 13-14, 2007. Conference on Mapping Global Inequality: Beyond Income Inequality, University of California-Santa Cruz. The conference will expand debate by both mapping global inequality at various scales and by deploying multidisciplinary perspectives to take the debate beyond income inequality. For more information, visit ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html.

February 18-20, 2008. Terrorism & Justice- The Balance for Civil Liberties, a Multidisciplinary Academic Conference, University of Central Missouri. This conference seeks to investigate the breadth of issues underscoring the impact of counter-terrorism efforts upon the diverse concepts of justice. Contact: The Institute of Justice & International Studies, Criminal Justice Department, 300 Humphreys Building, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, 64093; (660) 543-8913; fax (660) 543-8306; cjinst@ucmo.edu; www.ucmo.edu/cjinst.

February 20-23, 2008. Society for Cross Cultural Research (SCCR), New Orleans. Information on SCCR and the annual meeting is available online at meeting.sccr.org.

February 21-24, 2008. Eastern Sociological Society 78th Annual Meeting, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY. Theme: “Beyond Ourselves: Sociology in a Global Mode.” For more information, visit www.meetingsavvy.com/ess, or www.essnet.org.

February 25-May , 2008. Scientists and Subjects: An Online Seminar on the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects. Scientists and Subjects is a unique and innovative Internet-based seminar designed for researchers concerned with the responsible conduct of research with human subjects. The seminar is open to junior and senior researchers, members of Institutional Review Boards and other administrators, and college and university faculty members. Contact: Poynter Center, Indiana University, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-3602; (812) 856-4986; fax (812) 855-3315; pimple@indiana.edu; poynter.indiana.edu/sas/sasos.php.

March 2-4, 2008. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) National Conference, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, VA. For more information, visit www.educationaleffectiveness.org.

April 3-5, 2008. Conference sponsored by the African American Studies & Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. By marking the anniversaries of the 1908 Springfield, IL riot, and the cataclysmic events of 1968, this conference (re)investigates their legacies for a dawning new century. Contact: Jennifer Hamer or Lou Turner at (217) 333-7781 or aasrp@uiuc.edu. For more information, visit www.aasrp.uiuc.edu.

April 3-5, 2008. 29th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Florida International University, Miami, FL. Theme: “Political Women: The First Generation.” Registration and accommodation information available at www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html.

April 4-6, 2008. The 26th Annual MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference Devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Texas-Austin. Contact: mephistos2008@gmail.com; studentorgs.utexas.edu/mephistos/index.html.

April 10-11, 2008. From Strawberries to Software: Immigration to Silicon Valley, San José State University, College of Social Sciences. Topics include economic issues, social, cultural and religious issues, and public policy issues. Community stakeholders who are interested in sharing “best practices” in working with immigrant communities are particularly encouraged to participate. Visit www.sjsu.edu/depts/SocialSciences/socsci.htm for more information.

April 17-19, 2008. Population Association of America 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. For more information, visit www.popassoc.org.

April 17-20, 2008. 2008 National CME & CNE Accredited Conference, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC. Theme: “Health Care Reform: A Priority for Hispanic Communities.” Presented by the National Hispanic Medical Association. .

May 2-3, 2008. The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States, University of California-Irvine. Spring 2008 Conference co-sponsored by Law & Society Review and the Center for Law, Society and Culture at the University of California-Irvine. Law has played a role in remedying and exacerbating racial and ethnic inequality in a variety of social and historical contexts. Contact: paradox@ uci.edu.

May 13-16, 2008. International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Health (RC15) Interim Meeting & the Canadian Medical Sociology Association Inaugural Meeting, Montréal, Canada. Theme: “Making Connections for Health.” This meeting will be bilingual. Contact: Tania Jenkins at cmsa.rc15.2008@mcgill.ca.

June 2-8, 2008. ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Migration Inter Congress Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France. Theme: “The Mediterranean: Between Passage, Movement, Settlement, and Detention.” www.isa-sociology.org/cforp347.htm.

July 9-12, 2008. Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Paris, France. Theme: “Building Bridges: Political Psychology and Other Disciplines, Political Psychology and the World.” Contact: ISPP Central Of- fice, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 346 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244; ispp. conference@yahoo.com; ispp.org/meet.html.

September 5-8, 2008. International Sociological Association RC25 International Conference Research Committee on Language and Society, RC25, Barcelona, Spain. Theme: “Speaking of Justice: Social Research and Social Justice.” Contact: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, pascale@ american.edu and Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Centre, NGO, paoletti@crisaps.org. For more information visit www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008.

September 19-22, 2008. International Conference of the Social Capital Foundation, Malta. For more information, visit www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/2008/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202008.htm.

Funding

2008 NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship. 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 and visiting scholars on a 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. Doctoral students must be at the dissertation phase of their program. Applications due January 7, 2008. For more information, visit www.academyhealth.org/nchs.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens Study in Greece: Programs & Fellowships 2008-2009. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, one of America’s most distinguished centers devoted to advanced teaching and research in the humanities, provides American graduate students and scholars a base for their studies in the history and civilization of the Greek world. There are more than a dozen funding programs for 2008-2009 for graduate students, predoctoral research, dissertation work, and postdoctoral research. For information on fellowship opportunities see www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowship/fellowships.htm. Contact: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 6-8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540; (609) 683-0800; ascsa@ascsa.org.

Center for the Study of Law and Society University of California-Berkeley Visiting Scholars 2008-2009. The Center fosters empirical research and theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions, legal processes, legal change, and the social consequences of law. Closely linked to Boalt Hall School of Law, the Center creates a multidisciplinary milieu with a faculty of distinguished socio-legal scholars in sociology of law, political science, criminal justice studies, etc. The Center will consider applications for varying time periods, from one month duration to the full academic year. Applicants should submit the information listed above by November 16, 2007 to: Visiting Scholars Program, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California-Berkeley, CA 94720-2150; csls@uclink.berkeley.edu. Contact: Lauren B. Edelman, ledeman@law.berkeley.edu or Rosann Greenspan, rgreenspan@law.berkeley.edu. For more information, visit www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/csls.

Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ibis Reproductive Health invites social science and public health researchers to apply for a two-year postdoctoral research and leadership training fellowship in abortion and reproductive health. We seek applicants who are committed to abortion scholarship and careers that include a focus on abortion research and policy. The fellowship includes independent and collaborative research, as well as work with advocacy organizations. For the 2008-2010 fellowship cohort, five fellows will be chosen. Each fellow receives an annual stipend between $50,000 and $55,000 (depending on the site), health benefits, and educational loan repayment assistance. Fellows may also apply for up to $15,000 per year to support individual research projects. Applicants must submit their application online by 11:59 p.m. PST, December 3rd, 2007, at www.ibisreproductivehealth.org/projects/fellowship.

Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. This Graduate Fellowship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, medical, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy. The program will comprise three 10-week sessions. Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and those who have completed graduate studies or postdoctoral research within the last five years are eligible to apply. Application materials as well as additional program information are available at national-academies.org/policyfellows. Deadlines: November 1 for the winter program, March 1 for the summer program, and June 1 for the fall program. Candidates may apply to all three programs concurrently. Contact: policyfellows@nas.edu.

Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems competition promotes quantitative, interdisciplinary analyses of relevant human and natural system processes and complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales. Seven to 12 standard or continuing grants. For more information, visit www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07598/nsf07598.htm#summary.

National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes. For U.S. Graduate Students Pursuing Science and Engineering. Summer 2008 Application Deadline: December 12, 2007. Contact: eapinfo@nsf.gov; www.nsf.gov/eapsi.

Eurasia Program Fellowships serve to expand and strengthen the field of Eurasian studies All fellowships are intended to support work on or related to the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire, regardless of the applicant’s discipline within the social sciences or humanities. Predoctoral Fellowships target individuals at seminal stages of their graduate careers. Predissertation Training Fellowships offer up to $7,000 and provide essential training opportunities for individuals in the early stages of their programs, while Dissertation Write-up Fellowships offer support in the amount of $22,000 for the 2008-2009 academic year. Postdoctoral Fellowships allow for and support the development of important, innovative research agendas by junior faculty and independent scholars, in particular those who have recently received PhDs. The Postdoctoral Research Fellowships provide $20,000 and afford their recipients concentrated time away from university obligations. Contact: Social Science Research Council, Eurasia Program Fellowship, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019; (212) 377-2700; fax (212) 377-2727; eurasia@ssrc.org; www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia. Deadline: November 13, 2007, 9:00 PM EST.

The Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships 2008-09. Brown University. Visions of Nature: Construction the Cultural Other. For more information, contact: Donna Goodnow at donna_goodnow@brown.edu; www.pembrokecenter.org.

SRCD Fellowships in Public Policy. Policy Fellowships with the Society for Research in Child Development will be available for 2008-09. Application deadline: December 15, 2007. SRCD Policy Fellows, in both Congressional and Executive Branch placements, work as “resident scholars” at the interface of science and policy. The goals of these fellowships are: to contribute to the effective use of scientific knowledge in developing public policy; to educate the scientific community about the formation of public policy; and to establish a more effective liaison between developmental scientists and the federal policy-making mechanisms. Both early and mid-career doctoral level professionals of all scientific disciplines related to child development are encouraged to apply. For more information and application instructions, visit www.SRCD.org/policyfellowships.html.

The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment 2008-09 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The IRLE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is designed to support a new generation of scholars engaged in research on issues of labor and employment. The program is for recent PhDs to pursue research on labor and employment in an interdisciplinary setting. IRLE Postdoctoral Fellows will be selected on a competitive basis and awarded an annual stipend of $52,000 (plus benefits) together with $3,000 for research expenses. Fellows will be expected to teach a one-quarter undergraduate course while in residence and to participate in IRLE colloquia and other public programs during the fellowship year. Applicants must have earned a PhD degree between January 1, 2004, and June 30, 2008, to be considered for the 2008-09 fellowship year. Applications must be received by January 11, 2008. For further information and application forms, visit www.irle.ucla.edu.

Competitions

The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a new or continuing graduate student who began her or his study in a community college or technical school. A student accepted in an accredited PhD program in sociology in the United States is eligible to apply before transferring to complete a BA. The Scholarship carries a stipend of $3500 from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) to be used to support the pursuit of graduate studies, as well as a one-year student membership in SWS, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), and the ASA. The committee will be looking for a commitment to teaching, especially at a community college or other institution serving less-privileged students; research and/or activism in social inequality, social justice, or social problems, with a focus on gender and/or gerontology being especially positive; service to the academic and/or local community, including mentoring; and high-quality research and writing. Six complete copies of the application should be submitted to: Myra Marx Ferree, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Applications must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2008. Contact: Myra Marx Ferree at mferree@ssc.wisc.edu. For application information see www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/24/pageId/707.

Midwest Sociological Society th Annual Student Paper Competition. The competition is open to all student members of the Midwest Sociological Society. Submissions will be accepted until January 8, 2008. Graduate and undergraduate papers are judged in separate divisions with up to three prizes in each division. Contact: Student Paper Competition Chair, Joan Hermsen; (573) 884-1420; hermsenj@missouri.edu; www.TheMSS.org.

NCSA 2008 Article Prize. The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) announces the 2008 Article Prize, which recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the 19th century (French Revolution to World War I). The winner will receive $500. Articles published between September 1, 2006, and August 31, 2007, are eligible for consideration for the 2008 prize and may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays. Applicants must document the date of actual publication by providing a letter from the editor of the journal or anthology in which the article appeared. Applicants should provide an email address. One entry per scholar and three per publisher are allowed annually; those who submit entries are asked to note the interdisciplinary focus of the prize. Essays written in part or in whole in a language other than English must be accompanied by English translations. Deadline for submission is November 15, 2007. Send three copies of published articles/essays to: Joan DelPlato, Department of Art History, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230; delplato@simons-rock.edu.

In the News

Anne Marie Ambert, York University, was quoted by numerous news outlets, including the CBC, on September 12, 2007, on new Canadian Census data showing that married people are outnumbered for the first time in Canada.

American Sociological Association 102nd Annual Meeting this past August in New York was mentioned in a September 10 article in the New York Times.

Jacqueline Angel, University of Texas- Austin, was cited in the San Antonio Express-News on August 12, 2007.

Vern Baxter, University of New Orleans, and Steve Kroll-Smith, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, were quoted by KRQE-TV on September 13, 2007, in a story on whether allowing employees to nap during the workday is productive.

Andrew Beveridge, Queen’s College - CUNY, was interviewed by the New York Times on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. He also had his analysis on wages in big cities discussed in an August 3 New York Times article.

Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland, was quoted in USA Today on September 12, 2007, on U.S. Census data that shows young adults are delaying marriage.

Wayne Brekhus, University of Missouri- Columbia, was quoted in an August 31 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about the contemporary relevance of Laud Humphreys’ landmark study Tearoom Trade (1970) to conservative Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s arrest for lewd behavior in a Minneapolis airport restroom.

Diane Brown, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was quoted in an August 20, 2007, Star Ledger article on the racial disparity in infant mortality among African American women. She was also quoted on September 6, 2007, on the importance of the social and environmental factors that may contribute to the greater mortality from breast cancer documented among African American women.

Robert Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, was profiled on CNN’s People You Should Know on July 17, 2007. The piece highlights his pioneering work in environmental justice and a recent report he co-wrote called “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism.”

Karen A. Cerulo, Rutgers University, and her book Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst were the topic of an editorial in the Times of India on how the book’s lessons could be used to avoid disasters. She was also quoted in USA Today regarding the ways in which blind optimism fuels risky spending.

Katherine K. Chen, William Paterson University, was interviewed on a callin hour-long segment on Radio West, a NPR-affiliate KUER & XFM radio. She discussed her forthcoming book on the annual Burning Man event.

Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in USA Today, on September 11, 2007, in an article on U.S. Census data that says young adults are getting married later than before.

Nicholas A. Christakis, Harvard University, wrote an op-ed for the August 24 New York Times on doctors’ tendency of avoiding making negative prognoses for seriously ill patients.

Dalton Conley, New York University, appeared on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook on October 1, 2007, to discuss what it is like to date when the woman makes more money than the man. He also wrote an article on how voters can protect against their inner bias for the August 10 Chronicle of Higher Education.

Shannon N. Davis, George Mason University, had her study on married men and housework featured in USA Today and CBC Canada on August 28, 2007.

Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, was interviewed on the remembrance of 9/11 on The Midday Show, XM Satellite Radio, September 11, 2007. He was also quoted in related news stories: “Six Years Later: What Is 9/11?” on Real- ClearPolitics.com, September 11, 2007, and “Attacks in Mind, But Life Goes On,” The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, September 9, 2007. He was quoted in an article on the arrest on terrorism-related charges of two foreign students in The Post and Courier on September 1, 2007, and interviewed for a radio program on the sociological relevance of the movies of Alfred Hitchcock for Radio City (Ecuador), August 13, 2007. He was quoted in an article on an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Laos in The Fresno Bee, June 7, 2007.

Peter Dreier, Occidental College, wrote, “Separate and Unequal,” that appeared in the September 13 Pasadena Weekly on how Pasadena is the most economically unequal city in California. The September 10 Nation published his article, “Progressive Jews Organize,” about the growing wave of inter-faith community organizing among Jewish synagogues.

Elaine Howard Ecklund, University at Buffalo-SUNY, and Christopher Scheitle, Pennsylvania State University, had their article, “Religion among Academic Scientists: Distinctions, Disciplines, and Demographics,” from Social Problems covered by ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, and Xinhua News Agency.

Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut, was quoted by the Associated Press, on September 2, 2007, in an article on why people need to have large homes.

Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, was cited in an August 5 Washington Post op-ed article on black Americans and urban myths.

Herbert Gans, Columbia University, and his book The Levittowners was mentioned on July 29, 2007, in a New York Times article on how the town of Levittown, in Long Island, remains a model for neighborhood developers.

Theodore P. Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote a column in the Washington Post on August 3, 2007, on whether there is another Cold War looming.

Gary Gereffi, Duke University, and Guillermina Jasso, New York University, along with non-sociologist colleagues, had their research on the possibility of a reverse brain drain due to the large visa backlog for skilled immigrants has received worldwide press coverage in September.

John L. Hammond, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in the August 27 New York Times on the application of human intuition in airport security checks.

Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University, had her research on people’s web use skills, which was published in the June 2006 issue of the Social Science Quarterly, featured in an article in the November issue of Women’s Health magazine.

John Hipp, University of California-Irvine, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article on September 22 discussing the study he conducted on viewing inter- and intra-group violent crime events between African Americans and Latinos in the southern portion of Los Angeles.

Lynne G. Hodgson, Quinnipiac University, was quoted by The Hartford Courant on September 12, 2007, on U.S Census data that shows more Americans are working past the traditional retirement age of 65.

Darnell Hunt, University of California- Los Angeles, was quoted by the Associated Press on August 29, 2007, in a story about Hurricane Katrina and the problems the Gulf Coast faces today.

Katherine Irwin, University of Hawaii- Manoa, was quoted by the Associated Press and The Hawaii Herald Tribune, on September 11 in an article on a new policy to search kids’ lockers in school.

Daniel Jaffee, Michigan State University, was the subject of a column in the July 27 Chronicle of Higher Education Review, which featured his new book, Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival. He was also interviewed on a report about fair trade that aired on Michigan Public Radio on April 2.

Guillermina Jasso, New York University, was cited in a July 25 Financial Times article for her research on the previous illegal experience of legal immigrants.

Thomas M. Kersen, University of North Alabama, was quoted in The Times Daily on September 11, 2007, on how the September 11th terrorist attacks were different from other attacks on the United States.

Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Essex County College, was quoted in the Star Ledger about a class he is running out of the Urban Issues Institute.

Eric Klinenberg, New York University, was quoted in The Los Angeles Times on September 6, 2007, about the heat wave in Southern California.

Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College-CUNY, and Philip Kasinitz, CUNY Graduate Center, were quoted in a USA Today cover story on ethnic relations in Brooklyn, NY, on August 15, 2007. Krase was also quoted by the Gannett News Service on the growing diversity in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY.

Jerry Lembcke, Holy Cross College, had his op-ed, “The Horror of War can be Catnip for Young Men,” published in the May 25 edition of National Catholic Reporter.

Lisa Martino-Taylor, University of Missouri- Columbia, was interviewed in an international documentary, Auslandsreporter, which aired on German Public Television on July 7, 2007. The subject was the Monsanto Company and the manufacture and use of chemical weapons.

Douglas Massey, Princeton University, was quoted in The Arizona Daily Star on August 3, 2007, in an article on the rising number of women who are trying to cross into the country illegally through the Arizona desert.

Susan McDaniel, University of Utah, was quoted by Canadian Press on September 12, 2007, on Canadian Census data that shows more Canadians are living alone.

Micki McGee, Fordham University, published a commentary essay in The Nation on June 4, 2007, regarding political organizing and the rise of self-improvement culture. She was also interviewed by the Toronto Globe and Mail on June 22, 2007, about positive psychology and the new cult(ure) of happiness.

Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Texas A&M University, was quoted in Time magazine on the Abu Ghraib trials on August 28, 2007.

Tatcho Mindiola, University of Houston, was quoted in an August 28, 2007, Houston Chronicle article on Alberto Gonzales’ resignation and what effects it has on the Hispanic community.

Barbara Ann Mitchell, Simon Fraser University, was quoted on September 12, 2007, by the Can-West News Service on Canadian Census data that shows Canadian families are more diversified now than before. She was also quoted by CTV on how Canadian young adults are living at home longer.

Mansoor Moaddel, University of Michigan, had his research on Iraqi Arabs mentioned in The Economist on September 6, 2007.

Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, was interviewed by CBS News on September 10, 2007, on dual-career couples and who should retire first. Her comments were mentioned by numerous print and broadcast news outlets across the country.

Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, had her research featured in the New York Times op-ed column, “The Catholic Boom,” on May 25, 2007.

Edward Morris, Ohio University, appeared on National Public Radio’s News and Notes on June 20, 2007, to discuss school discipline and African American girls. He was also quoted in a Philadelphia Daily News article on June 28, 2007.

Katherine S. Newman, Princeton University, was quoted extensively in an August 26 New York Times article on the missing class between middle and poverty level.

Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times on October 1, 2007, on the Jena 6.

Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, was quoted in an August 24 Washington Post article on an Associated Press and MTV poll that found that religious teens are happier than the non-religious.

H. Wesley Perkins, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, was quoted in the Boston Globe on April 29 about his research on how most college students overestimate drinking levels of their peers and effective strategy to reduce problem drinking. He was also quoted in the New York Sun on May 10 on the same topic.

Allison Pugh, University of Virginia, was quoted in an August 27 Washington Post article on the reasons that people purchase certain needless high-tech items.

Rachel L. Rayburn, University of Central Florida, wrote a letter to the editor about a biannual citizens survey, which appeared in the August 2 issue of The Florida Today.

Barbara Risman, University of Illinois- Chicago, appeared on the NBC Weekend Today Show on August 25 on women juggling work and family and on September 25 on a segment about a Census finding that indicates more than half of married Americans don’t reach their 25th wedding anniversary. She also appeared on CBS News with Katie Couric and was quoted in a New York Times article about the census reports that was also picked up by the Chicago Tribune and other local papers.

Craig Robertson, University of North Alabama, was quoted in The Times Daily on October 1, 2007, in an article on violence on television.

Ruben Rumbaut, University of California- Irvine, and Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, were quoted in an August 5 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz on a town in Illinois’ crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Robert Sampson, Harvard University, was quoted on October 1, 2007, in the Dallas Morning News on crime rates in Dallas, Texas.

Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois- Chicago, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune on July 16 in a story about girls in trouble with the law.

Michael Schwartz, University at Stony Brook, was interviewed on Between the Lines last week on August 6, discussing his article “Benchmarks that Matter,” about the failure of President Bush’s surge strategy in Iraq.

Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington, appeared on the Oprah show on September 25, 2007, to talk about the importance of sex at midlife. She was also quoted on October 1, 2007, in Men’s Health Magazine on how to jump start your sex life and interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 10, 2007, on her new book Prime.

Marcia Texler Segal, Indiana University- Southeast, was quoted in the New Albany Tribune and Jeffersonville Evening News on June 3, 2007, in an article on the newly opened Creation Museum. The museum supports a literal interpretation of Genesis and features an exhibit of dinosaurs and human beings living together.

Emerson Smith, Metromark Market Research Inc., was quoted by The Hartford Courant on September 10, 2007, in an article on personal privacy and confidentiality.

Paul Starr, Princeton University, wrote an opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 7, 2007, titled “The New Liberal Opportunity.”

Stephen Steinberg, Queens College and Graduate Center-CUNY, was interviewed on September 14 by the Times Ledger regarding Robert Putnam’s controversial findings about the consequences of diversity for civic engagement.

Murray Webster, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, was quoted in the Charlotte Observer on September 26 regarding the methodology employed in a study of the Charlotte area’s transit system. He chaired a research misconduct committee that investigated potential bias in the conduct of the controversial study.

Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, was quoted in a September 23 front-page Washington Post article that critically examined the sex trafficking issue. He was also quoted in a September 4, 2007, New York Times article on Internet facilitation of prostitution.

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, had his work on how Information and Communications Technology helps people contact their friends and how the Internet is more social than TV watching covered by the Canadian Press. He was quoted in Backbone Magazine about the need for more nuanced social-software apps. His work was also covered in an August 26 Washington Post article and in the Globe and Mail on August 2, 2007.

Ming Wen, University of Utah, was quoted in an August 20, 2007, New York Magazine article about increasing life expectancy in New York City.

William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, wrote a letter to the editor about HUD’s Moving to Opportunity experiment, which appeared in the August 4 New York Times.

Awards

David L. Altheide, Arizona State University, received the Cooley Award for the outstanding book in symbolic interaction from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) for his book, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear. He also received the SSSI’s Mentor Excellence Award.

Lonnie Athens, Seton Hall University, received the 2007 George Herbert Mead Award for career achievements from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Walter DeKeseredy, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, was recently awarded the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s first ever Research Excellence Award on September 5, 2007.

Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College, was awarded an ASA Marxist Section award for his book, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes From the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise.

Raine Dozier, University of Washington, won the 2007 Sex & Gender Distinguished Article Award for, “Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World.”

Russell R. Dynes, University of Delaware, was presented the Charles Fritz Award for career contributions by the Research Committee on Disaster, International Sociological Association.

Helen Fein, Institute for the Study of Genocide, received an award from the International Association of Genocide Scholars for “distinguished lifetime contribution to the field of genocide studies and prevention.” She also received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award of the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress and Genocide.

Mary Frank Fox and Willie Pearson, Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology, Lisa Frehill, Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, Suzanne Ortega, University of Washington, Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association, and Marta Tienda, Princeton University, were chosen to be on the 2007 National Science Foundation/Science Resources Statistics Human Resources Expert Panel.

Samuel R. Friedman, Social Theory Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at the National Development and Research Institutes, has won the first ever Career Contribution to the Sociology of AIDS Award.

Harold Garfinkel, University of California- Los Angeles, has received the ASA Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section Lifetime Achievement Award.

Monica Grant, University of Pennsylvania, won the Sociologist AIDS Network Martin Levine Student Essay Competition for her paper “Children’s Participation and HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi: The Role of Parental Knowledge and Perceptions.”

Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, won the 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for Judging Juveniles.

Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University, won the 2007 Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award for his book Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan.

Joan Meyers, University of California-Davis, won the 2007 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, “Unpacking Bureaucracy: An Intersectional Theory of Gendered Organizations.”

Paul Olson, Briar Cliff University, received the Bonaventure Award from the university for advancing the integration of student curricular and co-curricular experiences through the establishment of learning communities that promote the attainment of a holistic education.

Besnik Pula, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, was awarded the American Council of Learned Societies Southeast European Studies Program Dissertation Fellowship for, “Harnessing Tradition: Customary Law and State-Formation in Albania, 1919-1945.”

Erica Reichert, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, won the Sociologists AIDS Network Scholarly Activity Award for her master thesis titled, “Race and the Experiences of Mothers with HIV/AIDS.”

Barbara Risman, University of Illinois- Chicago, won the 2007 Feminist Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society.

Hirohisa Saito, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for, “Cosmopolitan Nationalism: The Development of Transnationality in Japanese Children and Adolescents.”

Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois- Chicago, won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for her qualitative research, Girls in Trouble with the Law, from the ASA Section on Childhood and Youth.

Daniel Schensui, Brown University, was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for, “Remaking and Apartheid City: State-Led Spatial Transformation in Durban, South Africa.”

Kazimierz Slomczynski, Ohio State University, was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Southeast European Studies Program Conference Grant.

Robert Wallace, McMurry University, received the 2007 Bennett Award, which is given to a faculty member for outstanding teaching, service, and leadership.

Kevin A. Whitehead, University of California- Santa Barbara, received the ASA Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section Graduate Student Paper Award for, “The Use, Management and Reproduction of Racial Commonsense in Interaction.”

Rolf T. Wigand, University of Arkansas- Little Rock, M. Lynne Markus, Bentley College, and Charles W. Steinfield, Michigan State University, are the recipients of a National Science Foundation research grant for $842,844. The research project is entitled, “Interorganizational Systems Integration through Industry-wide Information Systems Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas.” Their article, “Standards, Collective Action and IS Development- -Vertical Information Systems Standards in the US Home Mortgage Industry,” published in MIS Quarterly won the 2006 Best Paper Award by the editors of MIS Quarterly.

Grace Ann Witte, Briar Cliff University, received the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award from the university for demonstrating outstanding scholarship in teaching, research, service, and community- based application of knowledge.

Transitions

Elijah Anderson has been named Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Kevin Bales has been made Emeritus Professor at Roehampton University- London and Visiting Professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull.

Glen Elder, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, will retire at the end of this academic year and assume a new role as Research Professor.

Barbara Entwisle, University or North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor.

Jay Howard, Indiana University-Purdue University-Columbus, was appointed Vice Chancellor and Dean July 1, 2007.

Susan A. McDaniel has accepted a position as Professor of Family Studies and Senior Investigator in the Institute for Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah.

Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, won an appointment to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A&M University- College Station, was appointed Director of Asian Studies.

Beth Rubin and Noah Mark have joined the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

David Sonnenfeld has joined the Department of Environmental Studies at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, the State University of New York-Syracuse. He serves as Professor and Chair of the department.

People

Anthony Cortese, Southern Methodist University, has been appointed to a threeyear term on the Advisory Panel for the newly established Center for the Study of Latino/a Christianity and Religion in the Perkins School of Theology.

Elaine Howard Ecklund and Michael Emerson 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.”

Helen Fein, Institute for the Study of Genocide, had her article, “Reading the Second Text: Meaning and Misuses of the Holocaust,” published in Peace, Justice, and Jews.

Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Chicago, presented, “Marching Latinidad: Mass Mobilization and Latino Political Subjectivities in Chicago,” at the Latin American Studies Association meetings, was an invited lecturer at the Lasallian Social Justice Institute, and she presented “Seizing the Teachable Moment” as an invited lecture at the Mexican American/Raza Studies Institute.

Rachel Gordon and Anna Guzman, University of Illinois-Chicago, had their paper “Why Those Baby Blues? Change in Strain from Child Care Arrangements and in Depression among Employed Mothers of Young Children” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Stratification and Mobility (RC-28) in Montreal.

Mauro F. Guillén, University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed as Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management & International Studies.

Pamela Popliarz and Zachary Neal, University of Illinois-Chicago, published an article, “The Niche as a Theoretical Tool,” in the August 2007 Annual Review of Sociology.

Jill Quadagno, Florida State University, has been invited to serve on the Advisory Council on Seniors for the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.

Pam Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, published, “Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy” in the June 2007 Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

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,” held at the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois- Chicago, began her 2007-2008 Fulbright- Garcia Robles Fellowship in the Sociology Department at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Steve Warner, University of Illinois- Chicago, and Anne Heider presented a paper, “Bodily Ritual as a Foundation of Social Solidarity: The Case of Sacred Harp,” in July at the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. It was presented in form but in musical form.

Members' New Books

Kevin Bales, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves (University of California Press, 2007).

David L. Brunsma, University of Missouri- Columbia, David Overfelt, and Steven Picou, University of South Alabama, eds., The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

Werner J. Cahnman, Social Issues, Geopolitics, and Judaica, ed.by Judith T. Marcus and Zoltan Tarr (Transaction, 2007).

William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Social Causes of Health and Disease (Polity, 2007).

William V. D’Antonio and Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University, Voices of the Faithful: Loyal Catholics Striving for Change (Crossroad Publishing Company, 2007).

Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University, and Clariece B. Feagin, Racial and Ethnic Relations, 8th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2008).

Helen Fein, Institute for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide (Paradigm Publishers, 2007).

Diana K. Harris, The Sociology of Aging(Roman & Littlefield, 2007).

Daniel Jaffee, Michigan State University, Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (University of California Press, 2007).

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, and Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects (Blackwell, 2007).Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, Social Theory: Roots and Branches, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008); Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited, 4th ed. (Pine Forge Press, 2008).

George C. Klein, Oakton Community College, The Adventure: The Quest for My Romanian Babies (Hamilton Books, 2007).

Fred Kniss, Loyola University-Chicago, and Paul D. Numrich, Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus, Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest Immigrants (Rutgers University Press, 2007).

Jose Bell Lara, University of Havana, and Richard A. Dello Buono, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, eds, Neoliberalismo y luchas sociales en América Latina [Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America] (Ediciones Ántropos, 2007).

Kyriakos S. Markides, University of Texas Medical Branch, Encyclopedia of Health and Aging (Sage Publuications, Inc., 2007).

Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Texas A&M University, The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor(Paradigm Publishers, 2007).

Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse University, and Pamela Herd, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Market Friendly or Family Friendly?The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007).

Laura L. O’Toole, Roanoke College, Jessica R. Schiffman, University of Delaware, and Margie L. Kiter Edwards, Shepherd University, Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2nd ed. (New York University Press, 2007).

Anthony Oberschall, University of North Carolina, Conflcit and Peace Building in Divided Societies. Responses to Ethnic Violence (Routledge, 2007).

Piya Pangsapa, University at Buffalo, Texture of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand (ILR Press, August 2007).

Pam Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, Adoption in a Color-Blind Society(Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University, Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend (Left Coast Press, 2007).

Michael Schwalbe, North Carolina State University, Rigging the Game: How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Mitchell Stevens, New York University, Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007).

Lee G. Streetman, Delaware State University, Offenders in Transition: Just Trying to do Good (Ingram Book Group, 2007).

Eddy U, University of Sydney, Disorganizing China: Counter-bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism (Stanford University Press, 2007).

Hernán Vera, University of Florida, and Joe R.Feagin, Texas A&M University, eds., Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations (Springer, 2007).

Tony Waters, California State University- Chico, When Killing is a Crime(Lynne Rienner publishers, 2007).

Other Organizations

Georgia Sociological Association. GSA’s official journal, the Journal of Public and Professional Sociology, publishes original works of research and theory focusing on both public and professional sociology. Public sociology aims to inform public debate about social, political, and moral issues while professional sociology serves as the traditional core of the disciplinary field. This publication seeks articles that can inform public debate and knowledge by bringing sociological expertise to the public realm. It is the position of this journal that professional sociology brings legitimacy to public sociology as public sociology brings added relevance to the professional. See www.gsajournal.com for details.

New Publications

European Union (EU) Archives at the University of Pittsburgh. The Delegation of the European Commission to the United States recently donated its entire library/archive collection-containing the complete “government document” collection since the 1950s-to the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. When combined with the electronic collection already online on the EU’s website “Europa” europa.eu, this new collection at the University of Pittsburgh constitutes nearly a full run of “official” EU government documents. This collection includes the official journal, dozens of annual and periodical reports, and literally tens of thousands of monographs. Since the EU has been very involved in providing support for health care initiatives in many third world nations there is a large amount of material pertaining to the health issues in a number of third world countries over the past 50 years. Daily access to the EU Archives will be overseen by Phillip Wilkin of Hillman Library. He can be reached at pwilkin@pitt.edu or (412) 648-7829.

Black Women, Gender & Families: A Women’s Studies and Black Studies Journal, Inaugural Issue/Spring 2007. Black Women, Gender & Families (BWGF) emphasizes the study of Black women, gender, families, and communities. The journal welcomes research and theoretical submissions in history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, education, economics, political science, and English that are framed by Black Women’s Studies perspectives and a policy or social analysis. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational studies of the African Diaspora and other women, families, and communities of color are also encouraged. BWGF is an official journal of the National Council of Black Studies. Contact: bwgf-journal@ uiuc.edu; www.bwgf.uiuc.edu.

Caught in the Web

The Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites visitors to a new website that summarizes the latest science in lay terms and explains the policy implications of that science on a major health issues: alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. At the SAPRP website, www.saprp.org, click on “Knowledge Assets” on the main page. SAPRP developed the Knowledge Assets to focus on the needs of policy makers and the media to have access to the latest policy research and its implications on key topics within the broad field of substance abuse policy. If you have suggestions for topics that you would like to see addressed, contact: Knowledgeassets@saprp.org.

The Media Research Hub is a new online resource for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers working for a more democratic and participatory public sphere. It is a portal to several different services for the media and communications research and advocacy communities. The Data Consortium for Media and Communications Policy works for the principle that public policy should be made with publicly-available data-a condition mostly absent from contemporary media and communications policymaking. The Resource Database is a community-editable field-mapping tool for linking people, institutions, research materials, networks, and projects-and the relationships between them. Contact mediahub@ssrc.org. The Media Research Hub is part of Social Science Research Council’s Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere program, which works to ensure that debates about communications technologies and the media are shaped by high-quality research and a rich understanding of the public interest. For more information, visit www.ssrc.org/programs/media.

New Programs

Bachelor of Science Degree in Community Development and Graduate Certificate in Community Development. The Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University announces two new academic programs. One program is a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Development. This undergraduate major is designed to prepare students to address important social and economic issues in metropolitan centers, urban fringe areas, and rural communities. The program will enhance students’ abilities to: collect and analyze different kinds of data; work with community leaders, groups and publics; identify and mobilize necessary resources for development processes; and assess outcomes and impacts of community development on residents and newcomers. The program is available to students who are pursuing any graduate degree at Texas A&M University and who meet enrollment criteria. Contact: John K. Thomas, Program in Rural Sociology and Community Studies, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2261; www.rpts.tamu.edu/communitydevelopment.

The Sloan Work and Family Research Network is proud to announce the launch of its Early Career Scholars Program. The goal of this project is to develop support for recent doctoral recipients and facilitate their teaching and research scholarship. By offering resources and consultation, the initiative will help move promising young scholars into tenured appointments and secure senior-level positions, as well as keep them firmly embedded within the work-family community. All applicants to the Early Career Scholars Program will receive periodic mailings of opportunities of special interest to junior work-family scholars. A core group of 15 junior scholars will be identified to create a team of emergent work-family leaders. We are keenly interested in providing resources to newer PhDs whose doctoral work had a strong work-family focus. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorates in 2002 or later, and have yet to progress into tenured or secure positions. The application can be found at wfnetwork.bc.edu/template.php?name=earlycareers. Address questions to Stephen Sweet at ssweet@ithaca.edu.

Summer Programs

Bradley University’s Annual Berlin Seminar will be held June 22-28, 2008. This program is intended for academics interested in the history and contemporary culture, society, economy, and politics of Germany and Europe. At the European Academy in Berlin- Grunewald, the seminar activities include discussions with leaders from the realms of academia, culture, and politics. There will also be guided trips to points of historical and contemporary interest. All sessions are conducted in English or with a translator. The cost is $1,900, which includes room and board in Berlin, the seminar program, and trips during the week. Applications are due by January 15, 2008. For further details and an application form, visit www.bradley.edu/academics/las/his/Berlin Contact: John A. Williams at (309) 677-3182; johnw@bradley.edu.

Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute: Broadening Perspectives & Participation, July 7-25, 2008, the Ohio State University. Faculty pursuing tenure and career success in research intensive institutions, academics transitioning from teaching to research institutions, and faculty members carrying out research in teaching contexts will be interested in this Summer Research Institute. 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 institute will culminate in a research symposium where participants present their completed research before a scholarly audience. 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. Contact: cjrcinstitute@osu.edu.

Deaths

Sam Joseph Dennis, 73, a sociologist who taught at several Washington, DC, area universities and did research on civil rights issues, died of respiratory disease September 12.

Ruth Frankenberg, University of Washington and the University of California- Davis, died at the age of 49 from lung cancer.

Gangadharappa Nanjundappa, California State University-Fullerton, died on September 3, 2007, in La Jolla, CA, at the age of 67.

James Ronald Pinkerton, University of Missouri, died July 8, 2007, in Columbia, MO, at the age of 74.

Blasco Sobrinho, University of Cincinnati, died on July 30 in Cincinnati, OH, at the age of 53.

Marvin B. Sussman, University of Delaware, died August 5 at the age of 88. Peter Whalley, Loyola University Chicago, died suddenly on August 16, 2007 at the age of 60.

Wayne Wheeler, University of Nebraska- Omaha, died on Sunday, August 26 after suffering from heart failure.

Jon Kelley Wright, brother of James Wright, University of Central Florida, died in an industrial accident, September 2007.

Obituaries

Peter H. Marris
(1927–2007)

Peter Marris, my friend, colleague, and one of the most creative, wisest, and nicest people I have been fortunate to work with, died of prostate cancer on June 25, 2007. Internationally known as a sociologist and social planner, he was at the time of his death Professor Emeritus of Planning at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and a past Lecturer in Sociology at Yale.

Born in Great Britain and educated at Cambridge University, he was initially a colonial officer in Kenya, becoming disenchanted during the Mau uprising when Kenya’s Kikuyu sought independence from British colonial rule.

In 1955, Peter joined Michael Young at the newly founded Institute for Community Studies in Bethnal Green in London’s working class East End. There he, along with Peter and Phyllis Wilmott, Peter Townsend, and others initiated a “school” of British urban (very broadly defined) and policy-oriented sociological research. They carried out original and mostly ethnographic studies which they turned into widely read books and influential reports. (The Institute still exists and is now known as the Young Foundation.)

Peter was the Institute’s then most prolific author. He wrote four of his nine books at the Institute, beginning with Widows and their Families (1958), the first empirical study of bereavement, and including Family and Social Change in an African City (1962), a study of the deleterious effects of slum clearance in Lagos.

His research on the British working class and the displaced African poor attracted the Ford Foundation, which brought him to America in 1962. For the next 10 years while working in England, he was a regular Ford Foundation consultant on urban renewal and social policy (then known as social planning), also becoming one of a handful of sociologists involved in U.S. anti-poverty policy analysis and critique.

One of the products of his foundation work was the classic Dilemmas of Social Reform (with Martin Rein, 1967); another was a novel, The Dreams of General Jerusalem (1988), which allowed him to write more freely about his research and policyoriented work in Africa and America as well as his experiences in working with and for foundations. It also enabled him to practice his superb writing talent and his gifts as a story teller in an era before “narratives” were acceptable in sociological writing. (His last works, so far unpublished, are a memoir written initially for his daughter, and a children’s book entitled An Experienced Necromancer.)

In 1969, he began teaching in the Department of City Planning at Berkeley; in 1976 he settled permanently in the U.S. and joined the UCLA planning faculty, retiring in 1991. From 1993 until 2004, he taught at Yale.

Peter’s prime scholarly passion, already evident in his study of widows, was the analysis of attachment and loss, his work added the social and political factors of attachment and loss which had been absent in psychological theories. He also sought to show planners and policy-makers how to avoid and ameliorate the pains of loss, particularly as felt by the economically and politically exploited people he studied and worked for here and in Africa. He wrote about these timeless subjects, for which he may be remembered the longest, in his later books: Loss and Change (1974), Community Planning and Conceptions of Change (1982), Meaning and Action (1987), and The Politics of Uncertainty (1996).

Peter is survived by his wife, Dolores Hayden, the author and Yale professor of Architecture, Urbanism and American Studies, and his daughter Laura.

Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University

Jeanne Clare Ridley
(1925–2007)

Jeanne Clare Ridley died July 17, 2007, at her home in Silver Spring, MD, at age 81, of Parkinson’s Disease. She earned a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1947, an MA in Sociology from Columbia University in 1951, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1958. Dr. Ridley was a member of the American Sociological Association, the American Statistical Association, and the Population Association of America. She retired from Georgetown University as Professor Emerita of Demography in 1990.

She came to Georgetown in 1972 as Professor of Sociology and as a Research Associate of the University’s Center for Population Research. Her interest in demography developed early, as evidenced by her service between 1949 and 1952 as a research assistant at the Milbank Memorial Fund (in New York City) analyzing the data from the Indianapolis Study, an important early survey of fertility behavior in the United States. Aside from a study of political attitudes and behavior (1960-61), her research remained focused on demography, with particular attention to fertility issues.

Before Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University (1957-1963), an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Sociology Department and an Associate Professor of Demography in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh (1963-1967), and an Associate Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences in the School of Public Health and Director of the Division of Demography in the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction at Columbia University (1967-1972).

Highlights from her productive career include collaboration with the eminent biostatistician, Mindel C. Sheps, as reported in “An Analytic Simulation Model of Human Reproduction with Demographic and Biological Components”, Population Studies (1966). They also co-edited the oftcited conference report Public Health and Population Change (1965), which contains papers written by more than 20 renowned researchers. At times they were joined by Jane A. Menken and Joan W. Lingner, resulting in several papers, including the influential “The Truncation Effect in Closed and Open Birth Interval Data” (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1970). In 1971, Dr. Ridley wrote a background research paper, “On the Consequences of Demographic Change for the Roles and Status of Women,” for The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.

Perhaps Dr. Ridley’s most significant legacy to the study of American fertility behavior is her survey of the low-fertility cohorts of 1901-10, who mainly gave birth during the 1920s and 1930s. She wanted to ascertain the social, physiological, and psychological factors that enabled these cohorts to achieve a lower level of fertility than succeeding cohorts, especially during the baby boom. It was conducted in 1978, while many of these women were still alive. The data are accessible from the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan (study no. 4698). One of Ridley’s research assistants on this project, Dr. Deborah Dawson, was struck by her “incredible attention to detail” throughout the project. So it is not a surprise that when the ICPSR received the data file, they found it to be “in near perfect condition.”

Another Georgetown colleague, Dr. Maxine Weinstein, said that “it is a testament to her foresight and vision that more than 20 years after the data were collected, they were still (and are still) an important resource.” The two of them collaborated on a paper published in Social Biology in 2001, “Menarcheal Age and Subsequent Patterns of Family Formation.” This was one of 20 papers in which Dr. Ridley and her collaborators reported their findings from the low-fertility-cohorts survey. Thanks to the diligent efforts of her husband, Christy Ridley, who survives her, most of the unpublished papers have been found and sent to the ICPSR so that they may be accessible to interested researchers.

Another notable attribute observed by Dr. Dawson was “her affection for her students.” Dr. Dawson adds that “she really tried to help them become good demographers, and I know that she stayed in touch with many of them for years, even after she left Georgetown.”

Her family, friends, and colleagues are saddened by her passing, but they are consoled by the memory of her devotion to them and to her work.

Murray Gendell, Georgetown University

Marvin Bernard Sussman
(1918–2007)

Dr. Marvin Bernard Sussman, 88, died August 5, 2007. He was born October 27, 1918, in Bronx, New York, NY. For the past 15 years he resided in Sebastian, FL, where he was associated with the Kashi Ashram. Survivors include his brothers Harvey and Jerry Sussman of Fairfield, CT, four children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Professor Sussman received a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1941, master’s degrees from George Williams College (1943) and Yale University (1949), and a doctorate from Yale in 1951. He was UNIDEL Professor of Human Behavior, Emeritus, Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware. Previously he held the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University and was Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. He was on the graduate faculty of Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH, after he retired.

Dr. Sussman served terms as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Ohio Valley Sociological Society, and Ohio Council on Family Relations. He served as editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family, and was the founding editor of Marriage and Family Review. He received a number of honors including the Ernest W. Burgess Award presented by the National Council on Family Relations (1980), Distinguished Scholar Award, Family division (1985) and the Lee Founders Award (1992) both awarded by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He was elected to The National Senior Citizen Hall of Fame (1986).

An extremely productive scholar on the cutting edge of numerous areas in sociology, he debunked the notion that as a result of modernization and geographic mobility, the nuclear family was isolated. His 1951 dissertation, “Family Continuity: A Study of Factors Which Affect Relationships between Families and Generational Levels,” became recognized as a landmark in intergenerational studies, influencing the developing field at the time.

Long before there were affirmative action policies, Sussman was concerned about barriers in academe and vigorously advocated for women, minorities, and older returning students. He accepted them into graduate programs, initiated research and publication opportunities, and wrote countless support letters throughout their careers.

Professor Sussman authored, edited, or co-authored/edited 53 monographs and books, authored 118 chapters in books and monographs, and published 120 articles dealing with the family, community, rehabilitation, organizations, sociology of medicine and aging. He traveled to more than 40 countries around the world to develop cross-national research in the field.

Dr. Sussman was a member of the Sociological Research Association, American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, National Council on Family Relations, National Rehabilitation Association, International Union of Family Organizations, Society for the Study of Social Problems, American Public Health Association, American Statistical Behavioral Science and Medical Education and Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, and he was an honorary affiliate of the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.

An avid sailor and former Commodore of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, Sussman was a long time student of Jean Houston and devoted Chela (student) of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. He endowed the Marvin B. Sussman library at Ma’s Providence Orphan’s Center in Uganda which now serves over 1,500 AIDS orphans. He was a complex and concerned human being whose spiritual journey led him from peace advocate in youth to soul searching sage during the last two decades of his life.

Suzanne Steinmetz and Roma Hanks, University of South Alabama

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