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Annual Meeting Program Corrections Charles Willie was the co-winner of the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2005. The awards program incorrectly stated that there was no DuBois- Johnson-Frazier award given in 2004. The award was given to the Sociology Department at Washington State University. * * * In the In the News section of the July/ August 2006 Footnotes, John R. Taylor’s research on boys and drug use was mistakenly attributed to Patricia Y. Martin. It should have read, John R. Taylor, Florida State University, had his research on feelings of self-derogation in boys at age 11, relative to drug dependence nine years later, cited in the April 25, 2006, edition of the London Times. It was cited also in a number of health newsletters around the United States. Meetings 29th Annual North American Labor History Conference, October 18-20, 2007, Wayne State University. Theme: “Labor and Freedom in Global Perspective.” Proposals for papers and sessions are now being accepted. Sessions are encouraged that address the theme from the perspectives of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Submit panel and paper proposals, including a 1- to 2-page abstract and brief curriculum vitas or biographical statements for all participants by March 1, 2007. Contact: Janine Lanza, Dept. of History, 3094 faculty Administration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202; (313) 577-2525; fax (313) 577- 6987; ao1605@wayne.edu. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS), October 26-28, 2006, Crowne Plaza San Jose Downtown Hotel, San Jose, CA. Theme: “Sociology for What: Building Our World.” The AACS is seeking original research presentations from undergraduate students. Submissions from undergraduate students in any field (including students who have graduated in 2006) should meet the following criteria: (1) original research of new or existing data, (2) hypothesis driven approach with conclusions and findings, (3) applied focus in research process. Contact: Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University, 712 Pray Harrold, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; (734) 487-0012; email jay.weinstein@emich.edu; www.aacsnet.org. Southwestern Sociological Association 8 th Annual Meetings, March 14-17, 2007, Albuquerque, NM. Submissions for paper proposals are invited. Paper proposals may be submitted to the program chair at Robyn_Driskell@Baylor.edu or directly to session chairs available on the SSA website at www.swsociology.org. Deadline: October 15, 2006. Publications American Academic, an annual publication from the American Federation of Teachers, announces a call for proposals to be included in its 2007 issue, “Diversity and Higher Education.” We will also be considering articles not related to diversity, yet still of interest to the higher education community. Proposals should include a cover page with: title of the proposed paper, author and affiliation, and telephone/e-mail contact information. Proposals should be no longer than three double-spaced pages plus references. Please submit proposals to AFT Higher Education at americanacademic@aft.org. For more information, contact the AFT Higher Education staff at (202) 879-4426 or (800) 238-1133 x4426. Applied Social Science is requesting submissions for future issues. Applied Social Science is the official, peer-refereed journal of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS). Following the recent creation of AACS through a merger between the Society for Applied Sociology and the Sociological Practice Association, Applied Social Science supercedes the journals of the two organizations: The Journal of Applied Sociology and Sociological Practice, respectively. Applied Social Science publishes original research articles, essays, research reports, teaching notes, and book reviews on a wide range of topics of interest to the sociological practitioner. All submissions are processed electronically. Send your submission as an email attachment. The attachment should be a word-processed document (not a PDF file) in ASR style for references, notes, headings, etc. Along with the manuscript, include an abstract of no more than 150 words and a brief biographical statement. Tables and figures must be camera-ready. Applied Social Science publishes two issues each year. Submissions should be accompanied by a processing fee of $15.00 sent via postal mail. This fee is waived for AACS members. Send your submission to sac_aacs@emich.edu. Contact: Jay Weinstein, Applied Social Science, Department of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. Child Development Perspectives. The new SRCD journal’s mission is to provide accessible, synthetic reports that summarize emerging trends or conclusions within various domains of developmental research and to encourage multidisciplinary and international dialogue on a variety of topics in the developmental sciences. The journal is designed to serve multiple audiences. The main audience is expected to be SRCD members and other developmental scientists who try to stay abreast of our field’s progress in areas outside their specialties. A second anticipated audience is consumers of research, including policymakers, instructors, and professionals who work with children in clinical or intervention settings who need access to succinct and accessible scientific summaries of developmental research. Submit all manuscripts electronically to the SRCD CDP online submissions and review site at www.srcd.org/CDPsubmit/. Contact the CDP Office with any questions at cdp@srcd.org. Contemporary Justice Review call for film reviews. The editors of Contemporary Justice Review invites all disciplines, activists, practitioners of justice, and others interested in issues of justice to submit film reviews for publication in the journal. Reviewers might select any film that deals with issues of justice defined in the broadest sense. Reviewers should keep in mind that the purpose of the reviews is not primarily to offer pedagogical tools to teachers but simply to clarify and expand upon particular aspects of justice within films. However, reviewers might choose to demonstrate how a particular film could be valuable to teachers for use in a classroom to illustrate a particular aspect of justice. The length of reviews should be between 750 and 1500 words. Longer reviews will be considered from time to time as review essays. Contact: Deborah M. LaFond, University at Albany-State University of New York; (518) 442-3599; dlafonde@albany.edu. Encyclopedia of Earth. The world’s experts on the environment of Earth, and the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth, are forming to produce a single comprehensive and definitive electronic encyclopedia about the Earth. The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) will be free to the public and free of advertising. The scope of the Encyclopedia is the environment of the Earth broadly defined, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth. See the taxonomy and topic areas at earthportal.net/about/eoe/eoetopics/. For more information, send an email to eoe@earthportal.net or visit www.earthportal.net/about/eoe/. The Hastings Women’s Law Journal is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue. As one of the leading women’s law journals in the nation, the Hastings Women’s Law Journal is committed to the highest quality of scholarship. Aside from our interest in traditional legal issues, our journal is dedicated to providing a forum for alternative voices in legal discourse. Among a wide variety of other topics, we particularly welcome articles addressing different viewpoints on the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, and other perspectives traditionally ignored. We also welcome commentaries, essays, personal narratives, and book reviews. We prefer that you email us your manuscript, but you can also submit it by mail. We cannot return manuscripts mailed to us, except upon receipt of a self-addressed postage-paid envelope. For more information, visit www.uchastings.edu/womenslj/. Humanity and Society invites submissions for a Special Issue, “Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Lessons and Legacies of Mass Atrocity,” edited by Ronald J. Berger and Paula Mohan. The editors are seeking a broad range of topics that address the “lessons and legacies” theme, including issues pertaining to collective memory, postwar trauma, postwar prosecutions, and social reconciliation. Articles on genocides other than the Holocaust or articles taking a comparative approach are especially encouraged. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages, plus notes and references, and should follow the ASA Style Guide (2nd ed., 1997). Manuscripts should include both an abstract and a reflexive statement explaining the author(s)’ interest in the topic. A copy of the Manuscript Preparation guidelines may be obtained from Ann Goetting at ann.goetting@wku.edu. Articles using a conventional scholarly format as well as personal essays and policy “think” pieces are welcome. Papers should first be submitted via email to Ann Goetting with “Genocide” in the subject line. Manuscripts must be received no later than December 31, 2006. Contact: Ronald J. Berger at bergerr@uww.edu or Paula Mohan at mohanp@uww.edu. Internationalizing Sociology in the Age of Globalization, 3rd Edition. If you have a syllabus on internationalizing sociology, the global age, the global environment, course unit assignments, film suggestions, electronic resources, or other useful materials you would be willing to share with the profession, send it to us at abdallah.badahdah@und.edu or kathleen.tiemann@und.edu. Include your contact information and attachments of your submission. The Journal of Aging Studies announces a call for papers for a special issue on masculinity and aging. Papers from a variety of disciplines addressing issues of masculinity that face men as they age as well as how men respond to those issues are welcome. Critical, empirical, or theoretical contributions are welcome. Papers should be a maximum of 35 pages long. Deadline: January 31, 2007. See the “Guide for Authors” in the journal or at the journal’s website at www.elsevier.com/locate/jaging for instructions regarding preparation of the text. Submit four copies of your manuscript to Deborah K. van den Hoonaard, Special Issue Editor, Journal of Aging Studies, Gerontology Department, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5G3, Canada; email dkvdh@stu.ca. Research in the Sociology of Health Care. Papers are sought for volume 25 of Research in The Sociology of Health Care, published formerly by JAI Press and now by Elsevier Press. The major theme for this volume is “Inequalities and Disparities in Health Care and Health: Concerns of Patients, Providers and Insurers.” Papers dealing with macro-level system and micro-level issues involving provision of health care and issues related to inequalities and disparities such as race/ethnicity, SES, gender and rural/urban concerns are welcome. The volume will contain 10 to 14 papers, generally between 20 and 40 pages in length. Send completed manuscripts or detailed outlines for review by February 15, 2007. Deadline for an initial indication of interest in outlines or abstracts, January 10, 2007. Contact: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Sociology Program, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Box 873701, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4802; (480) 965-8053; email Jennie.Kronenfeld@asu.edu. Research on Aging announces a call for papers for a special issue on “Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health in Life Course Perspective” to be guest edited by Scott M. Lynch of Princeton University. We invite papers utilizing a life course perspective combined with longitudinal data to assess the changing relationships among race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and health. Any health outcome— ranging from mental health outcomes to physical health and mortality—is appropriate, and we welcome papers using a variety of measures of socioeconomic status and race (including ethnicity) and diverse analytical methods. Inquiries can be directed to Scott M. Lynch, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; email slynch@princeton.edu. Submissions should be sent to: Angela M. O’Rand, Research on Aging, Department of Sociology, Box 90088, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. Deadline: January 15, 2007. Teaching Criminology: A Resource Manual, 5th Edition. Submissions for the next edition of ASA’s Teaching Criminology resource manual are invited, including syllabi, class exercises and assignments, resource lists (e.g., lists of educational films and websites), pedagogical essays, and other instructional materials. Submit all materials in MS Word format to Timothy Brezina at timbrezina@yahoo.com. Deadline: October 31, 2006. Teaching the Sociology of the Body: A Resource Manual. This is a new edition to the ASA collection of teaching materials. We welcome submissions for syllabi, assignments, activities, media materials, and other pedagogical tools related to the teaching of the sociology of the body. Such materials may cover topics including: race/ethnicity; gendered and intersexed bodies; sexuality; illness and disability; medical knowledge and control; body modification and cosmetic surgery; athletics; pregnancy and the body; body objectification, beautification, and mutilation; the commercialization of the body; and the treatment of dead bodies. Contact: Erin K. Anderson at eanderson3@washcoll.edu and Susan J. Ferguson at Grinnell College, fergusos@grinnell.edu. Deadline: December 1, 2006. October 20–21, 2006. National Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, Mt. Washington Conference Center, Baltimore, MD. Contact: Nancy Bernstine at (202) 347- 0333 or nahc@nationalaidshousing.org. October 23–24, 2006. Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Natcher Conference Center (Bldg. 45), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Contact: Ronald P. Abeles at abelesr@ mail.nih.gov or Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts at sheurtin@mail.nih.gov. For more information, visit obssr.od.nih.gov/Health-Disparities/index.html. October 26–28, 2006. 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, Crowne Plaza San Jose Downtown Hotel, San Jose, CA. Theme: “Sociology for What: Building Our World.” Contact: Jay Weinstein or Fonda Martin; (734) 487- 0012; email sac_aacs@emich.edu; www.aacsnet.org. October 26–28, 2006. Rethinking Marxism
Conference, University of Massachusetts-
Amherst. November 29–December 1, 2006. UNESCO
Forum on Higher Education, Research
and Knowledge Colloquium on Research and
Higher Education Policy, UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris, France. Contact: Mary
Rosset at m.rosset@unesco.org.
December 15–18, 2006. International
Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Bangkok, Thailand.
Theme: “Hyper-Traditions.” Contact:
IASTE 2006 Conference, Center for
Environmental Design Reearch, 390
Wurster Hall, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720; (510) 642-6801; fax
(510) 643-5571; email iaste@berkeley.edu; arch.berkeley.edu/research/iaste/2006%20conference.htm.
January 7–9, 2006. 21st Century’s Biennial
Applied Demography Conferences, Crown
Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, TX. Contact:
David A. Swanson, University of Mississippi,
PO Box 1848, University, MS 38677-
1848; (662) 915-7430; fax (662) 915-5372;
email dswanson@olemiss.edu.
March 14–17, 2007. Southwestern Sociological
Association, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Contact: email Robyn_Driskell@Baylor.edu; www.swsociology.org
March 29–April 1, 2007. Biennial Meeting
of the Society for Research in Child Development(SRCD), Boston, MA. www.srcd.org/biennial.html.
March 29–April 1, 2007. Pacific Sociological
Association 78th Annual Meeting, Oakland
Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA.
Theme: “Sociology in the Academy: It’s
Current and Prospective Position.” Contact:
Noel Packard; 2342 Shattuck Ave.
PMB #370, Berkeley, CA 94704; email
packardn@prodigy.net.
April 12–14, 2007. The British Sociological
Association Annual Conference 2007, University
of East London. Theme: “Social
Connections: Identities, Technologies,
Relationships.” Contact: BSAConference@britsoc.org.uk; www.britsoc.co.uk/events/conference.
October 18–20, 2007. 29th Annual North
American Labor History Conference, Wayne
State University. Theme: “Labor and
Freedom in Global Perspective.” Contact:
Janine Lanza, Dept. of History, 3094
Faculty Administration Building, Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI 48202; (313)
577-2525; fax (313) 577-6987; ao1605@wayne.edu.
ACLS Competition for the 2006– 2007
Digital Innovation Fellowships Program.This program invites applications
to pursue digitally based research projects
in all disciplines of the humanities
and humanities-related social sciences.
Each fellowship carries a stipend of up
to $55,000 towards an academic year’s
leave and provides for project costs of up
to $25,000. For further information, visit
www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm.
American Antiquarian Society 2007–2008 Research Fellowship Program. Several
categories of awards are offered for
short- and long-term scholarly research
at AAS. Visit the website listed below for
more information. Contact: American
Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street,
Worcester, MA 04609; (508) 755-5221;
email academicfellowships@mwa.org;
www.americanantiquarian.org.
American Philosophical Society Research
Programs. Franklin Research
Grants. This is a program of small grants
to scholars intended to support the cost of
research leading to publication in all areas
of knowledge. The Franklin program is
particularly designed to help meet the
cost of travel to libraries and archives
for research purposes; the purchase of
microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent
research materials; the costs associated
with fieldwork. Award: $1,000 to $6,000.
Deadlines: October 1, December 1. Sabbatical
Fellowship for the Humanities
and Social Sciences. This program is open
to mid-career faculty of universities and
4-year colleges in the United States who
have been granted a sabbatical/research
year but for whom financial support from
the home institution is available for only
part of the year. Candidates must not
have had a financially supported leave
at any time subsequent to September 1,
2004. The doctoral degree must have been
conferred no later than 1999 and no earlier
than 1986. Stipend: $30,000 to $40,000 for
the second half of an awarded sabbatical
year. Deadline: October 15. All information
and forms for all of the Society’s
programs can be downloaded from our
website, www.amphilsoc.org. Click on
the “Fellowships and Research Grants”
tab. Questions concerning the Franklin,
Lewis and Clark, Phillips, and Sabbatical
programs should be directed to Linda
Musumeci, Research Administrator, at
LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org or (215) 440-
3429. Questions should be directed to J.J.
Ahern, Assistant Manager of Technical
Services and Programs, at jjahern@amphilsoc.org or (215) 440-3443.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2007–2008 at Wesleyan University’s
Center for the Humanities, an
institute devoted to advanced study and
research. The stipend is $45,000. For information
on the criteria of eligibility, the
application procedure, and the Center’s
themes for 2007–2008, visit the Center’s
website: www.wesleyan.edu/chum.
Deadline: November 2, 2006.
Columbia University Society of Fellows
in the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships
2007–2008. The Columbia Society of
Fellows in the Humanities invites applications
from qualified candidates who have
received the PhD between January 1, 2003,
and July 1, 2007. Fellows are appointed
as Lecturers in appropriate departments
at Columbia University and as Mellon
Fellows in the Society of Fellows. The
fellowship is renewable for a second and
third year. In the first year, fellows teach
one course per semester: at least one of
these courses will be in the undergraduate
general education program. In years two
and three, fellows teach one course per
year. Annual stipend: $52,000. Each fellow
receives a research allowance of $3,000
per annum. Application forms available
at www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows.
Deadline: October 2, 2006.
Columbia University is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institutes of Health
Behavioral and Social Research on Disasters
and Health (R03). Visit grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-453.html for more information. Deadline:
Multiple Receipt Dates - See Link to Full
Announcement for details.
The Foundation for Child Development:
Changing Faces of America’s Children
- Young Scholars Program. Eligible researchers
will have earned their doctoral
degrees within the last 15 years, and be Ecofull-
time, faculty members of a college
or university in the United States. Applicants
must hold a PhD or its equivalent in
one of the behavioral and social sciences
or in an allied professional field (e.g.,
public policy, public health, education,
social work, nursing, medicine). Three to
four fellowships of up to $150,000 for use
over one to three years (maximum) will
be awarded competitively. Note: tenure
equivalent positions are not eligible for
the fellowship. Deadline: November 1,
2006. Additional information is available
at www.fcd-us.org/ourwork/y-how.html.
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Graduate Research Fellowship and the
W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship Program. The
Graduate Research Fellowship provides
dissertation research support to outstanding
doctoral students undertaking
independent research on issues related
to crime and justice. Visit www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000747.pdf for
more information. The W.E.B. Dubois
Fellowship Program seeks to advance
knowledge regarding the confluence
of crime, justice, and culture in various
societal contexts. Visit www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000753.pdf for more
information. NIJ is the research, development,
and evaluation agency of the U.S.
Department of Justice and is dedicated
to researching crime control and justice
issues. For more information on NIJ, visit
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij.
The ACLS announces the opening of the
2006–2007 competitions for fellowships
and grants. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/
ACLS Dissertation Completion
Fellowships. These year-long fellowships
in support of PhD dissertation completion
in the humanistic disciplines are the first
part of the Mellon/ACLS Early Career
Fellowships Program. These fellowships
carry a stipend and benefits up to $33,000.
Under this program, ACLS will award 65
Fellowships to graduate students, who
will be expected to complete their dissertations
within the period of their fellowship
tenure or shortly thereafter. Mellon/ACLS
Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients.
This competition—to commence
next year—will provide recent recipients
of the doctorate with a stipend to support
a year of research, within the context of an
academic position (as new hires), in affiliation
with a humanities research center,
or independent of institutional affiliation.
These fellowships are fewer in number
(25), and awardees will be selected from
a pool that includes Fellows in the first
part of the program, other highly ranked
applicants from that earlier competition,
and winners of other, similar awards such
as the Whiting Fellowships. The Central
ACLS Fellowships. Maximum stipends
are $60,000 for full Professors, $40,000 for
Associate Professors, and $30,000 for Assistant
Professors. This program requires a
PhD conferred by September 2004 and the
last supported research leave concluded
by July 1, 2005. ACLS/SSRC/NEH International
and Area Studies Fellowships.
These encourage humanistic research
on the societies and cultures of Asia,
Africa, the Middle East, Latin America
and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and
the former Soviet Union. The Southeast
European Studies Program announces a
newly expanded set of Research Fellowships
in Southeast European Studies for
Postdoctoral and Dissertation Research.
Fellowships will be available for development/
training, research, or writing related
to Southeastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, and
Serbia. Language-Training Grants will be
available for institutions and individuals
in support of intensive summer training in
the languages of Southeastern Europe, and
for advanced-mastery language training
that involves the professional use of language.
The Frederick Burkhardt Residential
Fellowships for Recently Tenured
Scholars. The Burkhardt fellowships this
year will support scholars tenured no earlier
than the fall 2002 semester or quarter,
who are engaged in long-term, unusually
ambitious projects in the humanities
and related social sciences. Stipends will
be $75,000. Burkhardt fellowships may
be used in 2007-2008, or in either of the
two succeeding years. The Charles A.
Ryskamp Research Fellowships. These
fellowships, provide a stipend of $64,000
for an academic year of research, plus
an allowance of $2,500 for research and travel, with the possibility of funding for
an additional summer, if justified. The
fellowships support tenure-track Assistant
Professors and untenured Associate
Professors in the humanities and related
social sciences whose reappointment reviews
have been successfully completed
but whose tenure reviews will not be
completed before February 1, 2007, whose
scholarly contributions have advanced
their fields, and whose plans for new
research are well designed and carefully
developed. The Contemplative Practice
Fellowships. These fellowships—tenable
in summer 2007 or in one semester of the
2007-08 academic year—provide support
up to $10,000 for individual or collaborative
research leading to the development
of courses and teaching materials that
integrate contemplative practices into
courses. For further information, visit
the ACLS Fellowship Competitions site,
www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm.
The Berlin Program for Advanced German
and European Studies offers up to
one-year of research support at the Freie
Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars
in all social science and humanities disciplines,
including historians working on
the period since the mid-19th century. The
program accepts applications from U.S.
and Canadian nationals or permanent
residents. Applicants for a dissertation
fellowship must be full-time graduate
students who have completed all coursework
required for the PhD and must have
achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status
by the time the proposed research stay in
Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and
Canadian PhDs who have received their
doctorates within the past two calendar
years. Awards provide between 10 and
12 months of research support. The
Berlin Program is based at, funded, and
administered by the Freie Universität Berlin,
one of the nation’s leading research
universities. The program’s publicity and
selection process is organized in cooperation
with the German Studies Association
(GSA). Deadline: December 1, 2006. For
more complete information and an application
form, visit userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram or send an email to
bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. The
Association for the Study of Law, Culture,
and the Humanities invites submissions
for its 2007 Julien Mezey Dissertation
Award. This annual prize is awarded
to the dissertation that most promises
to enrich and advance interdisciplinary
scholarship at the intersection of law,
culture, and the humanities. The Association
seeks the submission of outstanding
work from a wide variety of perspectives,
including but not limited to law
and cultural studies, legal hermeneutics
and rhetoric, law and literature, law and
visual studies, legal history, legal geography,
and legal theory and jurisprudence.
Each submission must be accompanied
by a letter of support from a faculty
member. Deadline: October 15, 2006.
Application must include: (1) Three hard
copies of the dissertation and dissertation
abstract; (2) Three hard copies of a letter
of support from a faculty member; (3)
One email version of the dissertation and
abstract (pdf or word format); (4) Contact
information for the nominee. All materials
should be sent to Reginald Oh, Texas
Wesleyan University School of Law, 1515
Commerce Street Fort Worth, Texas 76102;
email Roh@law.txwes.edu.
NCSA Emerging Scholars Award. The
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
(NCSA) announces the creation of the
Emerging Scholars Award. This award
recognizes an outstanding article or essay
published within five years of the
author’s doctorate. Entries can be from
any discipline focusing on any aspect of
the long 19th century (the French Revolution
to World War I), must be published
in English or be accompanied by an English
translation, and must be by a single
author. The winner will receive $500.
Eligibility: (1) Entrants must be within
five years of having received a doctorate
or other terminal professional degree,
and must have less than seven years of
experience either in an academic career,
or as a post-terminal-degree independent
scholar or practicing professional;
(2) Articles published in any scholarly
journals, including online journals, or in
edited volumes of essays are eligible; (3)
Articles submitted to the NCSA Article
Prize are ineligible for the Emerging
Scholars Award; (4) Only articles physically
published in 2005 (even if the citation
date of the journal is different) are
eligible for the 2007 Emerging Scholar
Award. Submission Process: (1) An article
can be submitted by an author or by the
publisher or editor of a journal or essay
collection; (2) In any given year, an applicant
can submit more than one article
for this award.
Jon Agnone, University of Washington,
had his paper “Amplifying Public
Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S.
Environmental Movement” referenced
in “Green Goes Grassroots,” the July 31
cover story of The Nation.
The American Sociological Association was discussed in a July 25 InsideHigherEd.
com article on the results from an ASA
Task Force on General Education. Bruce
Keith, United States Military Academy,
was quoted in the article as head of the
panel. The Association was also noted in
a June 15 InsideHigherEd.com article on the
public access to research policy supported
by many in the federal government.
Algernon Austin, Thora Institute LLC,
wrote a column in the June 4 Hartford
Courant, “Cosby’s Just Plain Wrong on
Black Poverty, Crime.”
Juan Battle, Hunter College & Graduate
Center, appeared on WWRL in New York
City discussing issues regarding Black
America on June 6. He also appeared on
WMBM in Miami on June 27 discussing
race relations in the United States.
Peter Bearman, Columbia University, was
mentioned for his research on abstinence
education in a July 19 New York Times oped
on sex education.
Neil Bennett, Baruch School of Public
Affairs, was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek article, “Marriage by the Numbers,”
on his mid-1980s research with David
Bloom and Patricia Craig that examined
the odds of women getting married in
relation to their age and educational and
career choices.
Monte Bute, Metropolitan State University-
St. Paul and Minneapolis, had an
op-ed published in the June 25 Startribune.
com about the role of social class and other
demographic factors in determining typical
higher education opportunities.
Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University,
was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek article “Marriage by the Numbers” on
the use of “life table” techniques in demographic
studies.
Lee Clarke, Rutgers University, was
quoted in the June 6, 2006, issue of the
University of Chicago Magazine on the
changing nature and severity of disasters
that impact human society.
Jay Coakley, University of Colorado,
was quoted in a July 16 New York Timesarticle about athletes being able to keep
it together.
Mathieu Deflem, University of South
Carolina, was interviewed on the CIA and
the search for Osama Bin Laden in “¿En
dónde está Osama Bin Laden?” in the
Tiempos del Mundo on July 13, 2006.
Thomas diPrete, Columbia University,
was quoted in a July 9 New York Timesfront-page article about recent research
showing growing gaps between the
sexes in terms of college attendance,
educational achievement, and academic
attainments.
Riley Dunlap, Oklahoma State University,
was quoted in an article on “EcoAnxiety” in the August/September, 2006
issue of PLENTY magazine.
Peter Dreier, Occidental College, was
quoted in a Sunday New York Times story
about the growing shortage of affordable
housing in California on May 7 and in
another New York Times story about the
community organizing group, ACORN
on June 26. He was quoted in the Los
Angeles Times on May 11, 2006. He was
quoted about his recent Brooking Institution
report on widening economic
segregation in the United States in the LA
Times on July 23. He authored an op-ed
column in the Sunday Los Angeles Times
on May 21, 2006, calling for stronger
municipal restrictions on condominium
conversions and was interviewed on
KCWR’s “Which Way LA?” radio program
June 12, 2006, on the topic. He and
Richard Appelbaum, UC-Santa Barbara,
coauthored an article in the June 1 issue of
The Nation about student activism against
sweatshops and the growing number of
universities participating in an innovative
anti-sweatshop consortium. He authored
an article in the June 12 issue of The Nationabout the Bush administration’s rollbacks
of mine safety laws and regulations and
was interviewed about this topic on the
syndicated radio program Counter-Spin on
June 2. His article “Act First, Ask Later”
appeared on the TomPaine.Com website
on July 11. He coauthored an appraisal
of LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s first
year in office, “Movement Mayor,” in the
Summer 2006 issue of Dissent magazine.
Dreier coauthored an article on the April
15 on the CommonDreams website, about
former Senator John Edwards’ efforts to
develop an anti-poverty policy agenda as
part of his likely presidential campaign.
He coauthored an op-ed column in the
Pasadena Star-News on June 24 calling on
the Pasadena City Council to focus more
attention and money on the public schools.
He was quoted in the Pasadena Star-News about this topic on July 18, 2006.
Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania,
was quoted in a July 31 New York
Times feature article about the steadily
increasing number of men ages 30 to
54 who have dropped out of the U.S.
workforce.
Jean Elson, University of New Hampshire,
authored an invited article in the
June 7, 2006, issue of Newsday about
Newsweek’s 20-year retrospective of its
June 2, 1986, report on the odds of women
getting married in relation to their age
and educational and career choices.
Morten Ender, United States Military
Academy-West Point, appeared on National
Public Radio’s Open Source program
hosted by Christopher Lydon on June 6.
The topic discussed was war films with
the director of the recently released and
award-winning documentary, “The War
Tapes.”
Kai Erickson, Yale University, was quoted
in the June 6, 2006, issue of the University
of Chicago Magazine on the changing nature
and severity of disasters that impact
human society.
Kerry Ferris, Northern Illinois University,
was quoted in a July 5 Detroit News article
on the decreasing power of individual
movie stars to guarantee box-office success.
William H. Frey, University of Michigan,
was profiled in the July 27 Washington
Post for his demography predictions for
the United States.
Alice Fothergill, University of Vermont,
was a panelist on Vermont Public Radio’s
Switchboard program on how working
women balance the demands of home
and work on May 11 in honor of Mother’s
Day. She was a featured guest on Vermont
Public Radio’s Midday Report on June 5 to
discuss how Hurricane Katrina victims
are coping with the beginning of a new
hurricane season.
Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania,
was quoted in a June 7, 2006,
Newsday article by University of New
Hampshire sociologist Jean Elson in her about Newsweek’s 20-year retrospective
of its June 2, 1986, report on the odds of
women getting married in relation to their
age and educational and career choices.
Norval D. Glenn, University of Texas,
was quoted in a June 27 Washington Post
article on amicable divorces.
Mauro Guillén, University of Pennsylvania,
was quoted in the July 25 New York
Times and in The Economist concerning the
implications of political changes in Latin
America for the operations of Spanish
companies, and in Les Echos regarding
his research on the aesthetic dimensions
of organizational theories.
Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University,
was quoted or interviewed in several
media outlets for her research comparing
women’s and men’s actual versus self-assessed
online Internet skills, which was
co-authored with Steven Shafer and
published in the June 2006 Social Science
Quarterly. Other publications featuring
her research include: July 10 Los Angeles
Times, July 7 Chicago Tribune, July 5 Chicago
Sun Times, and the July 7 Future Tense on
Minnesota Public Radio.
William B. Helmreich, CUNY Graduate
Center, was quoted in a June 9 New York
Times article on the ritual of the prom as
a rite of passage.
Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College,
was cited in an opinion piece in the July
19 InsideHigherEd.com about University
of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff and his moralistic writings and speculation
that a new character, that he called
“psychological man,” had arrived on the
scene in Western culture.
Colin Jerolmack, The Graduate Center-
City University of New York, was quoted
in a June 20 article in the New York Timesand the International Herald-Tribune. The
piece focused on the mayor of London’s
recent ban on pigeon feeding in Trafalgar
Square and its political implications. He
was also quoted in a July 6 AM New York article about the tradition, culture, and decline
of pigeon racing in New York City.
Catherine Kenney, University of Illinois-
Urbana-Champaign, was quoted in the
June 5 Newsweek article “Marriage by
the Numbers” on her 2001 research with
Joshua Goldstein, Princeton University,
which found more education correlated
with a greater likelihood of marriage for
women.
R. John Kinkel wrote an op-ed piece for
the July 3 Wisconsin State Journal on the
pope’s first year.
Eric Klinenberg, New York University,
was interviewed on National Public Radio’s
All Things Considered on July 31 about
his book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of
Disaster in Chicago and cities’ preparedness
to assist vulnerable populations during
the extreme summer heat of 2006.
Kathryn Kopinak, UC-San Diego’s Center
for U.S.-Mexican Studies, was quoted in
a June 12 San Diego Union-Tribune article
on toxic waste.
Gary LaFree, University of Maryland,
was quoted in a May 19 Science magazine
article on terrorism research.
Mark LaGory and Ferris J. Ritchey,University of Alabama-Birmingham, discussed
enumeration of the homeless, and
had their survey of the homeless quoted in
the Birmingham News on July 21, 2006.
Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans,
and Katherine Donato, Rice University,
were quoted in a June 7 Houston Chroniclearticle on the new demographics of New
Orleans and parts of Texas.
Zai Liang, State University of New York-
Albany, was quoted in the June 3 issue of
the National Journal about undocumented
immigrants from China. He was also
interviewed by National Geographic about
recent internal migration in northeastern
China.
John L. Martin’s, University of Wisconsin,
recent American Journal of Sociology article
on perceived sexiness of those in positions
of power was summarized in the June 9,
2006, “Unconventional Wisdom” column
of the Washington Post.
Steven Martin, University of Maryland,
was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek article,
“Marriage by the Numbers,” on the appeal
of waiting to marry.
Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University,
wrote an article on the American border
policy in the June 30 Chronicle of Higher
Education.
Sara S. McLanahan, Princeton University,
was quoted in a July 20 New York Timesarticle on a program aimed at fighting
poverty through family building.
Miller McPherson, University of Arizona
and Duke University, Lynn Smith-Lovin,
Duke University, and Matthew Brashears,
University of Arizona, had their June
2006 American Sociological Review paper
on ‘Social Isolation in America’ covered
in the June 23 Washington Post,
USA Today, LA Times, Boston Globe, the
Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Chicago
Tribune, and wire services Associated
Press, Knight Ridder, Reuters, and referenced
in a Jay Leno joke. It was discussed
on All Things Considered, NPR, on June
24, the BBC and WNYC (NYC CBS affiliate)
on June 25, CJOB, Winnepeg radio,
Charles AdlerSshow, WCBS, New York
CBS affiliate, MSNBC, NBC, Good Morning
America, CBS, The Early Show, KCLW,
Windsor, Ontario/Detroit, and The Ron
Strang Show, CKNW Vancouver, Canada,
on June 26, and in Washington Post by
Sebastian Mallaby on June 26. It was also
mentioned on the Bill Goode Show, Chorus
Network, The State of Things, WUNC, NC
Public Radio, WJBC radio, RC McBride
Show, CHQR, World Tonight Show with
Wayne Nelson, Calgary radio, CBC, and
Canadian public television on June 27.
On June 28, the research was discussed
on On Point, NPR, New 9040, Montreal
radio, Q102, Irish public radio, BBC World
Service, KAHL, The Ron Thulin Show, and
in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It was discussed
in the Boston Globe and on CBS on
June 30. The research was the subject of a
July 2 New York Times “Week in Review”
article and a Chicago Tribune column. The
research was mentioned on the Wisconsin
Public Radio Bill Merens Show on July 3,
Hong Kong radio on July 2, columns by
Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page and the
New York Time’s Maureen Dowd on July
4, as well as WBAL-AM on July 4, WPRO
Rhode Island radio on July 5, KQED, San
Francisco Public Radio on July 6, and Seattle
Public Radio on July 7. Smith-Lovin
wrote an op-ed on her research, which
appeared in the Detroit Free Press, the San
Diego Union Tribune, the Durham Herald-
Sun on July 7, and the Hartford Couranton July 9. On July 10, the research was
discussed on The Conversation with Ross
Reynolds WCPN, Cleveland Public Radio,
and the McClatchy Group cited the study
in an article on race relations and friendships
on July 23. It was also mentioned
on the AARP radio show on August 4.
Two documentaries, “The Greener Side”
(at the Spring ‘07 Cannes Festival) and
“New Dark Age” (Cloud Nine Films,
January ‘07) and “Going Down Kicking”
by Chris Billings, featured the study. Also,
magazines Glamour, Elle, Harper’s, and
Time will have future articles. Overall,
more than 250 media sources covered
the ASR research and almost 800 blogs
have mentioned the ASR study.
Calvin Morrill, University of California-
Irvine, was quoted in a June 25 New
York Times article on women as leaders
or bosses.
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University,
was quoted in the June 25 New York
Times saying that this is the era of “patriotism
lite” on Capitol Hill. He was also
quoted in a June 4 New York Times article
about training values during war time.
Timothy J. Owens, Purdue University,
was quoted in a July 28 Indianapolis Star article about single young adults’ harried
work lives.
Victoria Pitts, City University of New
York, was quoted in a June 15 New York
Times article on the pressure women feel
to constantly perfect their looks and lose
weight.
Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University,
was mentioned in Ruth Marcus’ July 19
Washington Post op-ed for his 2000 book
Bowling Alone.
Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-
Los Angeles, had her research on public
debates over the “obesity epidemic”
cited in a front page essay of the May 30
New York Times entitled “Well-Intentioned
Food Police May Create Havoc with
Children’s Diets.”
Theodore Sasson, Middlebury College,
and William Domhoff, University of
California-Santa Cruz, were quoted in
a June 5 Washington Post article about
conspiracy theories.
Greg Scott, DePaul University, was
quoted in a June 4 Washington Post article
about a deadly additive in heroin.
David R. Segal, University of Maryland-
College Park, was quoted in a July 30
Washington Post article about possible
causes of former U.S. Army Pfc. Steven
Green’s alleged criminal conduct in the
“Triangle of Death” area of Iraq and
implications for the quality of recent
military recruits. He was also quoted
in the Christian Science Monitor on April
12 regarding the recruiting implications
of the National Guard being converted
from a strategic reserve to an operational
reserve, and on April 18 on the spending
habits of American soldiers returning
from war zones. He was quoted in the
San Antonio Express-News on May 5 on
patterns of Hispanic military recruitment.
He was interviewed on May 10 in the Fort
Worth Weekly in an article on military
recruiting in secondary schools, and on
May 19 in the Wilmington News Journal regarding the impact of combat deaths
on small communities. He was quoted in
the Baltimore Sun on May 25 regarding a
dismissal from the U.S. Naval Academy
for failure on a physical fitness test. His
research with colleague Mady W. Segal on the demography of the American military
was quoted in an article on minority
recruitment in the New Jersey Courier-Poston May 28.
Sandra Susan Smith, University of
California-Berkeley, had her research
on African Americans not using their
social connections to help their friends
find work from the Spring 2006 issue of
Contexts featured in a June 15 Washington
Post article.
Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University,
was interviewed on New England Cable
News on June 23 about interpersonal
relationships and the Internet.
Jeremy Straughn, Purdue University, was
quoted in a June 25 editorial in the Chicago
Tribune on the likely political impact of
recent threats to the Sears Tower. He was
a principal source for a feature article
on national identity in America that appeared
in the July 2 issue of the Lincoln,
NE Journal Star.
Murray A. Straus, University of New
Hampshire, had his research on capital
punishment and student assaults profiled
in a June 30 Chronicle of Higher Education
article.
E. Kay Trimberger, Sonoma State University,
was quoted in the June 5 Newsweek article, “Marriage by the Numbers,” on
the usefulness of the trends identified in
the original June 2, 1986, Newsweek report
on the odds of women getting married,
such as an increase in cohabitation and
single mothers.
Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota,
was quoted in a May 31 USA Todayarticle about laws restricting ex-felons
from voting.
Rose Weitz, Arizona State University, was
quoted in an April 2006 Health magazine
article on the connection between hair
color and style and personality.
W. Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia,
was interviewed on NBC’s the Today Showon July 7 for his work on male versus female
breadwinners in a relationship.
Don A. Dillman, Washington State University,
received the 2006 Helen Dinerman
Award for career contributions to survey
research methodology from the World Association
for Public Opinion Research.
Pyong Gap Min, Queens College and the
Graduate Center-CUNY, has been selected
as one of the Russell Sage Foundation
Visiting Scholar Fellows for the 2006-2007
year. His book, Encyclopedia of Racism in the
United States (2005), 3 Volumes, has been
selected by Booklist as one of the best (23)
books published in 2005 in the reference
category.
Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware,
was recently awarded a grant from the
National Science Foundation, Law & Social
Sciences Division, for his project, School
Discipline and Security: Maintaining
Safety and Legitimacy. LaDawn Haglund, Arizona State University, was awarded a
subcontract from the same grant.
Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Florida International
University, received a 2006 Faculty Award
for Excellence in Research.
Valentine Moghadam, Social and Human
Sciences, UNESCO, has won the American
Political Science Association’s Victoria
Schuck Prize for the best book on women
and politics published in 2005, for her book Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist
Networks.
Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University,
received the 2006-07 Distinguished Faculty
Award from Indiana University.
Erika Laine Austin has joined the faculty of
the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Shelia Cotten joined the faculty of the
University of Alabama-Birmingham and
is the Co-Director of the Center of Social
Medicine.
Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania,
has been promoted to the rank of
Professor.
R. John Kinkel will be joining the sociology
faculty of Miami University (Oxford,
OH) this fall.
William Lane has retired from the State
University of New York-Cortland to become
a managing partner in GoldenLane
Assoc., Inc., a gerontological consulting
firm located in Albany, NY.
Katrina Bell McDonald was awarded
tenure at the Johns Hopkins University
on May 10, 2006. McDonald is the second
African-American woman to be awarded
tenure in history of that university’s arts
and sciences and engineering schools.
Valentine Moghadam, Social and Human
Sciences, UNESCO, will join Purdue
University in January 2007 as Professor
of Sociology and Women’s Studies and
as Director of the Women’s Studies
Program.
Toby Parcel, North Carolina State University,
has been appointed as Dean of
the College of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois-
Chicago, was promoted to Associate
Professor with tenure in August 2006.
Vicki Smith, University of California-
Davis, has been appointed to a threeyear
term as Chair of the Department of
Sociology.
Susan L. Smith-Cunnien has been promoted
to Professor at the University of St.
Thomas-St. Paul.
Lisa K. Waldner has been promoted to
Professor at the University of St. Thomas-
St. Paul.
James Zuiches, formerly a dean at Washington
State University, has joined North
Carolina State University this spring as
the Vice Chancellor for Extension, Engagement,
and Economic Development.
Ron Aminzade, University of Minnesota,
has been invited to be a residential fellow
at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy
in spring 2007.
Judith Auerbach is now the Deputy
Executive Director for Science and
Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS
Foundation.
John B. Diamond, Harvard University,
has been named a 2006-2007 fellow of the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
at Harvard.
Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University,
has been named a 2006-2007 fellow
at the Radcliffe Institute.
Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of
Technology, was a plenary speaker on
“Advancing women in technical fields
within higher education,” at the national
meetings of the Women in Engineering
Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN),
June 2006.
Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt University, has
been elected president of the Southern
Sociological Society. He will serve this
year, 2006-07, as President-Elect and 2007-
08 as President.
Gale Largey was invited to discuss his
documentary film on the founder of
American sociology, Lester Ward: A Life’s
Journey, at The Fourth International
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference. A
shortened 58-minute version of the documentary
will be aired on several regional
Public Broadcasting Service stations in
the fall of 2006.
Martin Malone, Mount Saint Mary’s
University, delivered the annual Distinguished
Faculty Lecture, “A world
without borders: The curse of living in
interesting times,” at the university’s
Honors Convocation in April.
Gordon Morgan, University of Arkansas,
has been named a Fulbright College distinguished
alumni for 2006.
Yanick St. Jean, University of Wisconsin-
Eau Claire, has received a Fulbright
Scholar Program award to lecture and
conduct research in the West African
country of Benin beginning this fall.
Deborah Shatin, University of Minnesota,
has been serving on the Medicare
Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC)
of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS). She was also recently
appointed as a consultant to the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) Drug
Safety and Risk Management (DSaRM)
Advisory Committee.
Maureen Sperrazza, Southern Connecticut
State University, presented her paper,
“Realtors Define Success: A Symbolic
Interactionist Study” at the Symbolic Interactionism
and Ethnographic Research
conference in May in Niagara Falls,
Canada.
Ari Antikainen, Päivi Harinen, and
Carlos Alberto Torres (eds.) In from the
Margins: Adult Education, Work and Civil
Society (Sense Publishers, 2006).
Algernon Austin, Thora Institute LLC,
Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism,
and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century(New York University Press, 2006)
and Getting It Wrong: How Black Public
Intellectuals Are Failing Black America(iUniverse, Inc., 2006).
Suzanne Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and
Melissa A. Milkie, University of Maryland
and ASA Rose Series in Sociology,
Changing Rhythms of American Family Life(Russell Sage Foundation, 2006).
Francine D. Blau, Cornell University,
Mary C. Brinton, Harvard University,
David B. Grusky, Stanford University,
The Declining Significance of Gender? (Russell
Sage Foundation, 2006).
Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, Indiana University Southeast, Gender
and the Local-Global Nexus:Theory, Research,
and Action, Volume 10, Advances in Gender
Research Series (Elsevier, 2006).
Bella DePaulo, University of California-
Santa Barbara, Singled Out: How Singles
Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored,
and Still Live Happily Ever After (St.
Martin’s Press, 2006).
Laura Fingerson, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Girls in Power: Gender,
Body, and Menstruation in Adolescence(SUNY Press, 2006).
David John Frank, University of California-
Irvine, and Jay Gabler, Harvard
University, Reconstructing the University:
Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th
Century (Stanford University Press,
2006).
Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Deborah G. Johnson, University
of Virginia, and Sue V. Rosser,Georgia Institute of Technology, Women,
Gender, and Technology (University of Illinois
Press, 2006).
Mauro Guillén, University of Pennsylvania,
The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical:
Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist
Architecture (Princeton University
Press, 2006).
Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray, Looking through Taiwan (University of
Nebraska Press, 2005).
Victoria Kaplan, Writing for Change,
Structural Inequality: Black Architects in
the United States (Rowman & Littlefield,
2006).
Samantha King, Queen’s University, Pink
Ribbons Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics
of Philanthropy (University of Minnesota
Press, 2006).
Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University,
Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to
Resolution, 3rd edition (Rowman & Little-
field, 2006).
Simon Langlois, Université Laval,
Consumer en France (Editions de L’Aube,
2006).
Judith Lorber, Brooklyn College and the
Graduate School, Mary Evans, and Kathy
Davis, Handbook of Gender Studies and
Women Studies (Sage Publications, 2006).
Judith Lorber, Brooklyn College and
the Graduate School, Lisa Jean Moore, Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives(Roxbury, 2007).
Coramae Richey Mann, Indiana University,
Marjorie S. Zatz, Arizona State
University, Nancy Rodriguez, Arizona
State University, Images of Color, Images
of Crime (Roxbury Publishing Company,
2006).
Steve McKay, Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?
The Politics of High-Tech Production
in the Philippines (Cornell University/ILR
Press, 2006).
Steven Pfaff, University of Washington,
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of
East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and
the Revolution of 1989 (Duke University
Press, 2006).
Harland Prechel, Texas A&M University,
(ed.) Politics and the Corporation, Research
in Political Sociology, Volume 14 (Elsevier/
JAI Press, 2005).
Claire M. Renzetti, University of Dayton,
Lynne Goodstein, University of Connecticut, Susan L. Miller, University of
Delaware, Rethinking Gender, Crime, and
Justice: Feminist Readings (Roxbury Publishing
Company, 2006).
Susan M. Ross, Lycoming College,
American Families Past and Present: Social
Perspectives on Transformations (Rutgers
University Press, 2006).
Kent Sandstrom, University of Northern
Iowa, Dan Martin, University of Minnesota-
Duluth, Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern
University, Symbols, Selves, and Social
Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
to Social Psychology and Sociology (Roxbury
Publishing Company, 2006).
Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, Territory,
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to
Global Assemblages (Princeton, 2006).
Tom Scheff, University of California-
Santa Barbara, Goffman Unbound! Toward
a New Paradigm in Social Science (Paradigm
Publishers, 2006).
David A. Sonnenfeld, Washington State
University, and David Naguib Pellow, University of California-San Diego, Ted
Smith, (eds.) Challenging the Chip: Labor
Rights and Environmental Justice in the
Global Electronics Industry (Temple University
Press, 2006).
Karen Sternheimer, University of Southern
California, Kids These Days: Facts and
Fictions About Today’s Youth (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2006).
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University,
European Universalism (The New Press:
June 2006).
Vernetta D.Young and Rebecca Reviere,
Howard University, Women Behind Bars:
Gender and Race in US Prisons (Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2006).
Humanity & Society, Journal of the
Association for Humanist Sociology,
is seeking manuscript reviewers. The
journal focuses on controversial issues
of domination, oppression, and injustice
and favors pieces that reflect qualitative
inquiry. The authors must demonstrate
their personal commitment to and
involvement in their topic in a short
“Reflexive Statement” that appears below
the abstract. If you have an abundance of
experience with the peer-review process
and if this particular journal appeals
to you, please volunteer to serve as a
reviewer. Send a statement of interest
with a list of areas of interest (you may
note that you will consider any topic)
to the Executive Editor Ann Goetting at
ann.goetting@wku.edu. Also attach your
Curriculum Vitae.
The 2006 General Social Survey (GSS)
has been completed and will be archived
in the fall. The topical modules are on (1)
the quality of working life, replicating a
module in 2002, (2) attitudes towards
firearms, (3) shared capitalism, expanding
on a module in 2002, (4) level of disability,
(5) use of foreign languages, (6)
mental health attitudes and experiences
drawing on modules in the 1996-2000,
(7) number of people known, (8) participation
in congregations, (9) knowledge
about and attitudes towards science, (10)
religious trends, repeating a number of
items from earlier GSSs, and (11) sexual
behavior (continuing the series started
in 1988). The ISSP modules are on the
role of government and work orientation.
As is usual, about two-thirds of the
items are replications and one-third new
content. Topics include social-welfare
and economic regulation, civil liberties,
spending priorities, and political ef-
ficacy. The work orientation module is
the second replication with earlier rounds
in 1989 and 1997. Besides the questions
asked of all respondents there are special
sections for the employed asking about
their specific job and workplace and for
the unemployed. In addition, there is
another cross-national collaboration on
the 2006 GSS. The International Mental
Health Stigma Study will be conducted
in the US and 15 other countries. The
1972-2006 GSS data be will available
from (1) The Roper Center, Box 440,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
06268; (860) 486-4882; fax (860) 486-4882;
email lois@ropercenter.uconn.edu and (2)
Interuniversity Consortium for Political
and Social Research (ICPSR), Box 1248,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
48106; (313) 763-5010; email netmail@icpsr.umich.edu. The Zentralarchiv
fuer Empirische Sozialforschung at the
University of Cologne has released a
merged file for the 2003/04 ISSP module
on National Identity II. The next module
to be released will be the 2004 Citizenship
module. It should be available in
the second half of 2006, www.gesis.org/issp. For other information contact
Tom W. Smith, NORC, 1155 East 60th
Street, Chicago, IL 60637; email smitht@norc.uchicago.edu.
International Journal for the Scholarship
of Teaching & Learning. A new,
international, peer-reviewed, open access
eJournal, titled International Journal
for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning(IJ-SoTL) at www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl will be published by the
Center for Excellence in Teaching at
Georgia Southern University with the
inaugural issue scheduled for January
2007. The deadline for submissions
for the first issue is November 1, 2006.
IJ-SoTL focuses upon higher/tertiary
education and emphasizes that effective
teaching is measured by the quality
and depth of student learning, that it is
serious intellectual work that requires
sustained and complex work, that it can
be opened for conversations and collaborations
among colleagues, and that it can
be evidence-based through pedagogical
research. IJ-SoTL has the vision of being
the premier international SoTL journal by
being an advocate, agent and crucible for
international conversations, contacts and
work on SoTL. You can join our IJ-SoTL
discussion list for any and all things connected
with SoTL and the improvement
of student learning at www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/dl.htm.
Mary Starke Harper, a primary force
in organizing the National Institutes of
Health’s minority fellowship program,
died July 27 of cancer at the age of 86. She
was one of the nation’s leading advocates
for improving health care for minorities,
the elderly, and the mentally ill.
Harry V. Ball Harry V. Ball, Professor Emeritus of
Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at
Manoa, died on May 16, 2006. He was 79
and succumbed to cancer.
Ball was born in Wellston, Missouri.
Beginning his undergraduate studies at
Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri,
with a BA in sociology, in 1944, he
completed an MA at Washington University
in 1950 and a PhD at the University
of Minnesota in 1956.
During his 56 plus years of scholarship,
Ball made a significant contribution to
sociological and social science research
on law and society and to teaching and
mentorship. Early on, Ball was involved
directly and indirectly in matters of race
and the law in employment, the community,
and the capacity of the law to
deter or improve equality and equity
under changing social contexts. In the
summer of 1948, Ball served as Chief Field
Investigator for the St. Louis Mayor’s
Commission on the Fairgrounds Park
Race Riot. At Washington University and
at the University of Minnesota, he served
as Research Assistant to Arnold M. Rose
and completed his PhD under Rose on
“A Sociological Study of Rent Control
and Rent Control Violations in Honolulu:
1940-1954.”
His standing in the law and society
community is indicated by becoming the
first President of the Law and Society Association
in 1964-66, elected as a member
of the Board of Trustees from 1966-84,
as a member of Board of Editors of the Law and Society Review from 1966-74. His
contributions to scholarly research and
teaching on law and society began as a
Fellow in SSRC (Social Science Research
Council) Summer Research Training Institutes
on Legal Process in 1958, in the Ford
Foundation Summer Institute on Law and
Desegregation in 1959, and as a Fellow
in the Ford Law and Behavioral Sciences
Program in the University of Chicago Law
School in 1959-60. He was a Research Associate
in The American Bar Foundation
Study of the Administration of Criminal
Justice in the United States in 1960-61 and
as Lecturer in the University of Wisconsin
Law School from 1961-62. From 1962-64,
he served as Program Coordinator of the
Russell Sage Foundation Sociology of
Law Program at Madison.
Ball laid the basis for scholarly work in
law and society at Madison with the faculty
at the Law School and faculty in the
Sociology Department. Stuart Macaulay
notes: “Many played a role in the creation
of the Law and Society Association, but
Ball provided much of the energy and
vision. Without Ball, something such as
the Law and Society Association would
have come, if at all, later and perhaps in
a different form.”
Over a lifetime, Ball fostered ties for
law and society programs in universities
and colleges involving faculty and staff
in the law schools, the social sciences,
and sociology. Besides recognition for his
services in the Law and Society Association,
Ball served in regional, national, and
international associations as a reader of
journals and on national panels.
Ball’s lifetime scholarly research sought
to examine promising theoretical frames
and to collate, organize, and assess materials
on the changes in social processes
and the legal system on substantive law
and cases. He made lasting contributions
to the collation and organization
of legal materials and associated community
materials on the transformation
of Native Hawaiian law from the early
1800s to more Western forms in the later
1900s. The coded legal materials are being
digitized to aid researchers and scholars
to explore major continuities and transformations
in matters relating to land use
and tenure, criminal, civil, administrative,
and allied matters within court records.
The materials permit both quantitative
and qualitative analyses about events,
individuals, and serve as critical masses
in the judiciary and in the community on
the evolution of the law in response to
diverse local and global processes. The
organization of available materials on the
shifting relations between legal structures
and processes in mediating old and new
“grievances and disputes” and “routines”
is a remarkable feat. Students and scholars
will be able to reexamine materials
with available and new materials.
Besides national, international, and
regional professional services and recognition,
exceptional professional services
within the community and institution
marked Ball’s contributions. This work
was grounded in active teaching, scholarship,
and research in and around
Hawai’i. Professional services to the community
were numerous over his lifetime.
As Interim Director of the University of
Hawai’i Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
and Control Center and participant
in numerous panels and meetings, Ball
engaged others to develop research,
planning, and program oversight in
proficient and competent ways. He was
a founding member of the Friends of the
Hawai’i Judiciary History Center where
his thorough research paved the way for
its exhibits.
His institutional service was remarkable
within the department, the College
of Arts and Sciences, and the Faculty Senate.
He worked on assessment of student
outcomes, developing post-baccalaureate
bridge programs, and search committees
for Chancellors and Deans. He was able
to set the overall framework of a viable
and vibrant research university with
a liberal arts program involving local,
national, and international students at
the undergraduate and graduate levels.
His Sociology of Law and Law and Social
Change courses were demanding and
required students to express themselves
in scholarly and public ways. As program
and agency developments under his oversight
proceeded, he worked with faculty
and staff to produce students who learned
to perform at high levels in legal practice
and research, in law-related service, and
on executive assignments in prevention,
correction, and in visionary approaches to
improving the lives of youths and adults
involved with the law.
He is survived by spouse, Benna Lou,
sons James and Jeff, daughter Christine
Patterson, and grandchildren Jensen and
Kelsea Ball, Taharqa, Xavier, Tabara, and
Keoni Patterson, and Emily, Elyssa, and
Dylan Ball.
Kiyoshi Ikeda, University of Hawaii at
Manoa
Terry Boswell Terry Boswell passed away of complications
due to ALS on June 1, 2006, leaving
behind an influential body of work in the
areas of stratification and labor markets,
revolutions, and the political economy
of the world system. Born on October 30,
1955, in Eureka, California, Terry grew up
in Kentucky and Arizona mining country,
which would leave a stamp on his
sociological and political concerns. He attended
the University of Arizona-Tucson,
where he stayed for his PhD, organized a
Marxist study group (with Edgar Kiser),
and was at the center of intellectual ferment
that characterized the early years of
the Arizona Department.
As a student of societal stratification
and labor markets, Terry worked, often
with present and former graduate students,
to understand the absolute and
relative importance of race and class
in labor markets and in labor movement
politics. In a number of articles
and books addressing these questions,
Terry and collaborators cast light on the
parts played by paternalism, migration,
union strength, minority strikebreaking,
and institutionalized racial inclusion in
worker and union fortunes. Work done
here stretches from the 1986 “A Split
Labor Market Analysis of Discrimination
against Chinese Immigrants, 1850-1880”
(in the American Sociological Review (ASR))
to the 2006 Racial Conflict and Class Solidarity(from SUNY Press) with Cliff Brown,
John Brueggemann, and Ralph Peters.
As a student of inequality and exploitation,
labor organization and revolution,
Terry wrote important works with, Linda
Beer, William Dixon, Jeffrey Kantor, and
Dimitris Stevis stretching from the 1990
“Dependency and Rebellion” (with
William Dixon in the ASR) to a major
work in progress with Dimitri Stevis on
globalization and labor unions. And another
research project with April Linton
on international clusters of revolutionary
activity and social movements that have
affected global history.
Indeed, as a student of the world
system, Terry investigated long-term,
global-level system dynamics in a series
of papers extending from the 1989
“Colonial Empires and the Capitalist
World-System” (ASR) to the 1997 “Dutch
Hegemony: Global Leadership during the Age of Mercantilism” (with Joya
Misra in Acta Politica). This work found
perhaps its fullest expression in The Spiral
of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global
Democracy (with Christopher Chase-Dunn
and winner of the Outstanding Book
Award for 2001, Political Economy of the
World-System Section of the American
Sociological Association).
Terry Boswell’s extraordinary productive
accomplishment—over 40 published
paper (7 in the ASR or American Journal
of Sociology) and too many books to yet
count—one might think that Terry spent
all of his time working. Terry was amazingly
committed to his work (frequently
working long past midnight). He was
public sociologist long before the term
was common. He was a great colleague,
leader, and example during his 22 years
at Emory. However, he always found time
for his family, his friends, his students,
and his many hobbies.
Terry was a sculptor, working mainly
with metal and found objects, loved
baseball (ASA meetings always included
a trip to the baseball stadium), Mexican
food, cheap beer and expensive champagne,
and travel (especially to the
Mexico, London, and the beach). He was
loving father to Kate and Nick Boswell.
He will be missed, and his presence will
remain felt.
Al Bergesen, Cliff Brown, John Brueggemann,
Alex Hicks, Edgar Kiser, April Linton, Joya
Misra, and Ralph Peters
Janet Saltzman Chafetz Janet Saltzman Chafetz, a member of
the Sociology Department, the University
of Houston since 1973 passed away July
6, 2006, after a seven-year struggle with
cancer. She served as department chair
over four terms, most recently, between
1994 and 2002. As a leading feminist theorist
in sociology, Janet served on the ASA
council from 1991-94, was active in the
ASA Theory Section for many years and
was a founding member of Sociologists
for Women in Society (SWS). She served
as president of both as well as serving as
president of the Southwest Sociological
Association in the 1980s.
Chafetz authored 11 books, among
them four that helped shape the field
of gender roles: Masculine/Feminine or
Human: An Overview of the Sociology of
Gender Roles (1974), a book that was used
in many of the early gender classes in
Sociology departments; her highly respected Sex and Advantage: A Comparative,
Macro-Structural Theory of Sex Stratification (1984); Female Revolt: Women’s Movements
in World and Historical Perspective (1986,
with Gary Dworkin); and Gender Equity:
An Integrated Theory of Stability and Change (1990). She wrote an invited chapter on
feminist theory for The Annual Review of
Sociology (1997) and edited the Handbook
of the Sociology and Gender (1999), both
of which are indicators of the esteem in
which she was held in the field of gender
studies. Janet’s strong conviction that gender
must be incorporated into the mainstream
of sociological theory is evident in
all of her later work. Her earlier involvement
in feminist social activism gave way
to a commitment to bring gender studies
from their marginalized status on the
sidelines of sociology into the theoretical
mainstream of the discipline.
For many sociologists, Chafetz was
first and foremost a theorist. As such,
she championed and advanced developments
in formal theory construction and
authored A Primer on the Construction and
Testing of Theories in Sociology (1978) and a
chapter in the Annual Review of Sociology(1997 on formal feminist theory). She was
among an elite group of theorists invited
by Jerald Hage to contribute to a volume
entitled Formal Theory in Sociology: Opportunity
or Pitfall? (1994). At the recent
ASA meeting, several people remarked
that they still use excerpts from her Primer
in theory classes and would like to see it
reissued in a new edition.
Chafetz was one of a group of widely
cited feminist theorists, especially in the
area of gender stratification and the role
of sex segregation cross nationally. Joan
Huber, in remarks following Janet’s
death, summarized very well what many
of us respected in her work: “Janet had a superb intuitive sense about causality that
illuminated all of her work. She combined
this with a work ethic that simply could
not be surpassed. She produced a lot of
first-rate scholarship within a relatively
brief period. Her leaving us is a loss to
us all.”
In her last decade, she pursued a lifelong
interest in immigration and together
with Helen Rose Ebaugh focused on
the role of religious institutions in the
adaptation of immigrants in the United
States (Religion and the New Immigrants:
Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant
Congregations, 2000). In particular, she
applied gender theory to changes in
the status of immigrant women as they
began to get involved with immigrant
congregations.
Janet had an enviable ability to produce
propositional inventories, formal theory,
and tightly conceptualized first-draft
papers in an exceedingly short time. We
often joked that she could produce from
scratch a publishable article in a few
hours. She willingly edited manuscripts
offered by colleagues and students, but
we had to be prepared to have our work
thoroughly marked-up in red pen. Nevertheless,
the manuscripts were so much
the better.
The same tightness of her logical
arguments and sense of pragmatism
that permeated her theory construction,
research, and teaching influenced the
manner in which she helped prepare her
family and her colleagues for her coming
death. Five months before she died,
in the course of our 25 year old ritual of
celebrating one another’s birthdays (we
all were born in 1942), she announced
that this would be the last birthday lunch
she would share with us. She said “thank
you” for 33 years of close camaraderie
in the department and then proceeded
to give instructions regarding the type
of memorial she wanted. She had little
patience for people who belabored their
health problems and, despite her pain, we
seldom heard her complain.
Chafetz loved intellectual discussions,
heated arguments over issues, Russian
novels, the New York Times crossword
puzzles, writing scholarly articles, and
especially her husband, Hank, a professor
of geosciences at the University of
Houston, and her son, Josh, a former
Rhodes Scholar at Yale Law School. She
will be missed, both professionally and
personally, by those of us who knew and
respected her.
Helen Rose Ebaugh and A. Gary Dworkin,
University of Houston.
Betty Frankel Kirschner Betty Frankel Kirschner, an emeritus
Associate Professor in the Sociology Department
at Kent State University, died
on June 15, 2006. She is survived by her
daughter, Cindy Kirschner Grygo, and
grandchild Mackenzie Ware. A devoted
teacher, Betty began her career by teaching
social studies at West Kinney High
School in Newark. In 1969, she became
a member of the faculty at the Trumbull
Regional Campus of Kent State, where
for 30 years she taught courses in social
problems, social stratification, gender,
and family.
Betty was the epitome of a politically
concerned activist-scholar. While a
teaching assistant in graduate sociology
program at the University of Alabama
(1965-67), Betty participated in the civil
rights movement and received the Citizenship
Award from the National Council
of Negro Women (1965). At Kent State,
Betty was deeply interested in the events
of May 4, 1970, where the Ohio National
Guard fired into a protesting crowd killing
four students and wounding nine
others. She participated in jury selection
studies associated with the civil cases
brought by families of the May 4 victims;
as part of the protest against building a
gym near the sight of the shootings in
the late 1970s, Betty conducted a survey
of the “Tent City Protestors” resulting in
a professional paper at the 1978 Southern
Sociological Society conference. Betty
regularly attended and provided a “home
base” for others to attend the annual
vigils and programs associated with the
remembrance of May 4. Throughout her
career, Betty was an active member and
a national, state, and local officer of the
American Association of University Professors.
Whether helping to organize a
second bargaining unit for NTT faculty or
supporting research about gender equity,
Betty enthusiastically worker to better the
working conditions of all faculty.
For many of her dearest friends, Betty’s
greatest legacy is as a feminist sociologist
who was a powerful and articulate
defender of women’s rights in national
organizations and at Kent State. As a
founding mother of Sociologists for
Women in Society (SWS), Betty served on
the Steering Committee (1971-73), was an
SWS secretary (1972-74), and organized
the first two annual conferences (Denver
1971; New Orleans 1972). She was an
active member of various committees of
the Sex and Gender section of the ASA
when it was the section on Sex Roles. At
Kent State, she was one of the first teachers
of the Sociology of Women, and an
early researcher about “The Invisibility
of Women” in introductory textbooks
(AJS 1973). She help to develop both
the Women’s Studies program and the
Women’s Center at Kent State. She was
an invaluable mentor to women students
and faculty alike—willing to support
our individual struggles, to share her
knowledge and experiences, to gently
nudge us to stay true to the vision of an
empowering feminist scholarship.
Elaine J. Hall and Jerry M. Lewis, Department
of Sociology, Kent State University
Philip Rieff Philip Rieff, Benjamin Franklin Professor
of Sociology and University Professor,
Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania,
died at his home in Philadelphia on July
1, 2006, at the age of 83. Rieff received his
BA and PhD at the University of Chicago
and began his teaching career there and
then at Brandeis University. From 1961
until his retirement in 1993, he taught
sociological theory at the University of
Pennsylvania. He was a sometime Visiting
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford,
and also taught for one year at the University
of California-Berkeley. In 1957-58 he
was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
and was a Guggenheim Fellow in
1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was
invited to deliver the Gauss Lectures at
Princeton University, the Terry Lectures at
Yale University, and the Trilling Lectures
at Columbia University. He served as
an editor at Beacon Press and Schocken
Books and was a contributing editor at
Harper & Row.
Rieff is best known for two acclaimed
books on Freud and his influence on
twentieth-century culture, Freud: The
Mind of the Moralist (1959; 3rd ed., 1979)
and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses
of Faith after Freud (1966; 2nd ed., 1987),
and as the editor of the 10 volume, The
Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud (1963).
As a wide-ranging theorist who focused
on developing a concept of culture that
draws heavily from the humanities and
religious sources, Rieff explored the
implications of the rise of psychology
for Western culture and the decline of
cultures of faith. More specifically, Rieff
can fairly lay claim to having originated
the concept of “therapeutic culture” and
tracing its emergence in Western societies.
In his later writings, he attempted to
advance a moral theory of culture that is
notable for its uncompromising critique
of therapeutic culture and that is closely
linked to his efforts to clarify a concept
of the sacred.
Rieff’s early work, which culminated
with the publication of Freud: the Mind
of the Moralist, argued that Freud, more
than any other modern intellectual figure,
charted the spiritual course of the 20th
century for America and Europe because
he was “the first completely irreligious
moralist…without even a moralizing
message.” As a secular guide to the conduct
of life, Freud exemplified the strange
new ideal of “psychological man” who
has nothing left to affirm except the self.
According to Rieff, the Freudian ethic
demanded lucid insight rather than sincere
action, self-awareness rather than
heroic commitment, in order to escape
the dialectic of hope and despair, illusion
and disillusion, to which human beings
are prone. In practice, however, Freud’s
cautious, stoic ethic became popularized
into therapeutic doctrines of liberation
from normative constraints—sexual,
political, and otherwise—which Freud
never intended.
In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Rieff
proceeded to clarify how “the analytic
attitude” of Freud was corrupted and
abandoned by seminal cultural figures
directly influenced by Freud, such as
C.G. Jung, Wilhelm Reich, and D.H.
Lawrence, who were the predecessors of
a full-blown therapeutic culture which
Rieff saw emerge in the 1960s. Although
Rieff wrote largely in defense of Freud’s
analytic attitude against those who
advocated some variety of therapeutic
liberation, the ironic and irenic style of
The Triumph of the Therapeutic sometimes
leaves readers in doubt as to where the
author stands. In subsequent writings,
Rieff left little doubt that he rejected not
only the triumphant therapeutic culture
but also Freud’s analytic attitude which
he held at least partially responsible for
the therapeutic revolution.
Fellow Teachers (1973) and other central
works of the 1970s, such as “The Impossible
Culture: Wilde as Modern Prophet”
(1970; expanded 1982-83) and the 1978
Epilogue to the third edition of Freud: The
Mind of the Moralist, exhibited much more
explicit condemnations of therapeutic
culture and (especially in the latter work)
even Freud himself. A collection of his essays
and reviews was published in 1990
under the title, The Feeling Intellect: Selected
Writings, published by the University of
Chicago Press. During the final year of his
life, his magnum opus, Sacred Order/Social
Order, appeared with the first volume,
My Life among the Deathworks: Illustration
of the Aesthetics of Authority, published in
February, 2006. Two further volumes are
expected, along with an earlier written
work on charisma.
At present, Rieff’s influence on social
theory and the discipline of sociology
is restricted to a relatively small group
of scholars who are familiar with his
work, within sociology probably most
significantly represented by James Davison
Hunter and his students. Outside
the discipline, Rieff’s influence has been
more widespread as is evidenced in
works by such figures as historian Christopher
Lasch (The Culture of Narcissism),
philosopher Alasdair MacIntrye (After
Virtue), and others who explore the relations
between morality and society. As
an intellectual, Rieff consistently adopted
a stance of opposition towards the very
model of the public intellectual in the 20th
century, because of the intellectual’s close
affiliation with the “remissive” world of
public celebrity and political power. In
its dual opposition to narrow academic
specialization and intellectual celebrity,
Rieff’s scholarly work and his devotion
to students stand out as an unusual effort
to employ social theory in defense
of a constructive culture of teaching and
learning.
Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College and Alan
Woolfolk, Oglethorpe University
Lyle Shannon Emeritus Professor, Lyle W. Shannon,
85, died December 20, 2005. Professor
Shannon received a BA in Sociology from
Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and
a MA and PhD from the University of
Washington in Seattle. He taught at the
University of Washington, the University
of Wyoming, the University of Colorado,
Wayne State University, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and the University
of Iowa. He was Chair of the Department
of Sociology at the University of
Iowa from 1962-70. From 1970 to his
retirement, he was Director of the Iowa
Urban Community Research Center at
the University of Iowa.
Shannon’s research began in the 1950s
with studies of the relationship between
economic and social development and
the political status of 200 self-governing
countries and non-self-governing
colonies. His 1957 volume, Underdeveloped
Areas: A Book of Readings and Research presaged a generation of research and
publications on development and nationbuilding.
In the 1970s, Shannon’s research
interest turned to studies of delinquency
and early adult crime. He is best known
for his research on three birth cohorts
from Racine, Wisconsin (1942, 1949, and
1955) using official police and court data.
A stream of publications by Shannon
and his associates established that many
factors contribute to the development of
adult criminal careers.
His last four books represent varied
interest. Two were based on the Racine
birth cohorts— Criminal Career Continuity:
Its Social Context (1988) and Alcohol and
Drugs, Delinquency and Crime (1998). His
book, Developing Areas: A Book of Readings
and Research (1995) co-authored with Vijayan
K. Pillai was a complete revision of
his 1957 volume. In 1995, Professor Shannon
published a ‘fun book’ filled with political
wisdom from two cats. In Socks and
Cretin: Two Democrats Helping Bill with the
Presidency, he created a dialogue of correspondence
between President Clinton’s
cat, Socks, and Lyle’s cat, Cretin.
Although Lyle was officially retired, he
continued to have a daily presence in the
Department of Sociology at the University
of Iowa. Lyle was busy writing a history of
the Department. His memories of the “old
days” were always amusing—especially
as told through the eyes of someone who
remembered even the smallest of details.
He generously supported the Center
for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
through financial contributions and his
presence at brown bag colloquiums and
the Center’s guest speaker series. Lyle is
greatly missed by all the faculty and staff
that had grown accustomed to his everpresent
good humor and devotion to all
things sociology.
Lyle was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, in
1920. He is preceded in death by his historian
spouse, Magdeline. He is survived
by his four children, artist Mary Shannon
Will of Calgary, Alberta, and Albuquerque,
New Mexico, a Hollywood film
technician, Susan Michelle Shannon of
Mission Hills, California, Robert William
of Seattle, Washington, and John Thomas
of Missoula, Montana.
Celesta A. Albonetti, University of Iowa
Lynn Zimmer Queens College sociologist, Lynn Zimmer,
died at home in New York City on
July 2, 2006, of complications related to
multiple sclerosis. She was 59.
Lynn taught at Queens from 1989 until
she retired in 2004. Before that she taught
at SUNY Geneseo. She received her doctorate
in sociology from Cornell.
Her book Women Guarding Men (University
of Chicago Press 1986) was the first
major study of women prison guards and
an important contribution to our understanding
of the experience of integration
in “men only” workplaces.
Several publications on policing and
street-level drug enforcement brought
Lynn to the attention of drug policy researchers.
She became a prominent and
widely respected researcher in the areas
of drug use and drug control, and had numerous
professional and popular publications
on a broad range of issues including
the social analysis of pharmacology and
addiction, the nature of social control and
law, and drug testing.
She was also an expert on marijuana and
with John Morgan, MD, Emeritus Professor
of Pharmacology at City College,
wrote Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts.
Published in 1997, the book is the most
comprehensive review of international
marijuana research to date and has been
translated into seven languages.
In 2000, Lynn received the Lester Grinspoon
Award for Achievement in the
Field of Marijuana Law Reform from the
National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws. That year she also received
The Lindesmith Award for Scholarship
from the Drug Policy Foundation.
She is survived by two sons, Joseph and
Mark Zimmer.
John Levinson, Hunter College of the City
University of New York
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