In the article on the new Contexts editors, James M. Jasper’s affiliation is incorrect. He is actually affiliated with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Call for Papers

Meetings

22nd Global Conference of the International Peace Research Association, July 15-19, 2008, Leuven, Belgium. Theme: “Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development.” The conference focuses on the interaction between economic development, environmental change and conflict prevention, and peace building efforts in the 21st century. Participate in the upcoming conference by proposing a panel, roundtable, or paper to a Commission or Working Group. For more information and online application, go to www.ipra2008.org. Deadline: October 1, 2007.

First ISA World Forum Research Committee 32. Theme: “Weaving Spheres of Knowledge and Action: Sociological Research and Women in Society.” The RC32 program is dedicated to examining the intricately interwoven relationships between theory and methodology, between research and action, and between structure and agency, on issues relating to women/gender and society. If you are interested in participating in these sessions, contact: Esther Ngan-ling Chow at echow@american.edu and Margaret Abraham at margaret.abraham@hofstra.edu. Abstract deadline: December 1, 2007.

First ISA Forum of Sociology, Sociological Research and Public Debate, September 5-8, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Theme: “The sociology of the arts and culture: Towards a public sociology.” Send abstracts with full name, title, address and email by November 15, 2007, to: Jeffrey A. Halley, Program Coordinator, at jeffrey.halley@utsa.edu. For more information, visit the ISA RC 37 website at www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/rc/rc37.htm.

Pacific Sociological Association’s (PSA) 9th Annual Meeting, April 10-13 2008, Portland Marriott. Theme: “The Messiness of Human Social Life: Complexity, Contradiction, Tension and Ambiguity.” Submissions should be made online at www.pacificsoc.org. Deadline for submission is October 15, 2007. Contact: Mako Fitts at fittsm@seattleu.edu, Gary Kinte Perry at perryg@seattleu.edu, or Jodi O’Brien at jobrienj@seattleu.edu.

Publications

Humanity & Society invites submissions for a Special Issue, “Civil Society and the State: Katrina Evacuees and Services,” dedicated to the study of the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina-related evacuation for both evacuees and service providers in New Orleans and in the cities where many evacuees have remained. It will examine (1) the ways in which our attitudes toward those in poverty and of those attitudes in public policy affect the lives of those in need and (2) the service workers in an increasingly complex array of agencies and organizations who deliver services. Papers are invited that examine the experiences of Katrina evacuees and the service providers working with them and also the implications of their experiences for understanding the ramifications of U. S. poverty and disaster policy. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages, plus notes and references, and should follow the guidelines at www.humanistsociology.org. Articles using a conventional scholarly format as well as policy “think” pieces are welcome. Papers should be submitted to Ann Goetting at humanityandsociety@wku.edu. Identify submissions with the keyword: Katrina. Address queries to Laura Lein at lein@mail.utexas.edu. Deadline: January 2, 2008.

Journal of Global Mass Communication, Special Issue on “Comparing Media Systems Reconsidered.” In more than 50 years, when the Four Theories of the Press paved the way for a new generation of researchers, scholars have sought to describe, compare, and classify national media systems across cultures and over periods of time. The Journal seeks innovative research papers that focus on comparative media systems research, including articles from a historical and critical perspective, meta-analyses of existing research, as well as new empirical studies and work on theory building. Send all submissions to the Guest Editor, Thomas Hanitzsch, at h.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch. Deadline: January 1, 2008. For more information, visit www.marquettejournals.org/globalmasscommunication.html.

The Journal of the International Ombudsman Association (JIOA) is a new peerreviewed, online journal that provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for issues and research relevant to the ombuds profession. Relevant issues include the study of practicing ombuds, their careers and their work; conflict management and resolution research, theory and practice; alternative dispute resolution; recommendations for best practices; social, legal, technological and other factors that impact ombuds; risk management and the ombuds; resolving problems in complex organizations; and other areas of interest. JIOA is seeking full-length manuscripts (typically 1,500-6,000 words), shorter essays about issues and ombuds practices, and book reviews (typically 500-1,000 words). For more information contact: Alan Lincoln, at jioa@ombudsassociation.org; www.ombudsassociation.org.

Research in the Sociology of Health Care. The theme for this volume is “Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy.” Papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro- level issues involving provision of health care and issues related to major health problems or population health concerns are welcome. This includes examination of social, demographic and structural problems and a wide variety of major health problems including chronic illnesses, serious acute health problems, and disabilities that require health care. The volume will contain 10 to 14 papers, between 20 and 40 pages in length. Send manuscripts or detailed outlines for review by February 15, 2008. Contact: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Sociology Program, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Box 873701, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4802; (480) 965-8053; Jennie.Kronenfeld@asu.edu.

Research in the Sociology of Work is accepting manuscripts for Volume 19, focusing on the “Economic Sociology of Work.” We invite manuscripts that address issues of work, such as paid and non-paid activities in business and non-profit organizations, in formal and informal economies, entrepreneurship, labor markets, income inequality, social organization of work in cross-national and global contexts. In particular, we welcome articles from sociologists that analyze these substantive topics by employing conceptual tools of economic sociology and highlight the network, institutional, political, and cultural embeddedness of economic activity. Deadline for manuscripts: May 1, 2008. Submit manuscripts/inquiries to Nina Bandelj, University of California-Irvine, Department of Sociology, 3151 Social Science Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697; nbandelj@uci.edu; www.soc.duke.edu/~lkeister/RSW/.

Meetings

September 26-28, 2007. AHRQ’s 2007 Annual Conference: Improving Health Care, Improving Lives, Bethesda, MD. The conference will offer opportunities to learn about the latest AHRQ research ready for use in addressing a variety of clinical and health policy issues. Registration is free but space is limited. Visit www.blsmeetings.net/2007ahrqannual/ for more details.

October 4-6, 2007. Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti, MI. Contact: Beverly Gartland at profgartland@yahoo.com or blgartland@ysu.edu; www.aacsnet.org.

October 5-6, 2007. The 55th Annual Meeting of the New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA), St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY . Theme: “Sociology and the Real World: Activism, Advocacy, Research, and Social Policy.” Visit www.stfranciscollege.edu and www.newyorksociologist.org for more details.

October 27, 2007. Michigan Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Kellogg Center of Michigan State University. Theme: “Education and Social Justice.” For more information, visit users.tm.net/aghill/MSA/msa07.html.

November 7-9, 2007. ICT, Transparency and Social Responsibility Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Further information can be found at www.cmu.edu/transparency2007.

November 12-16, 2007. 2007 Leadership Seminar in Science and Technology Policy, AAAS, Washington, DC. The seminar will include sessions on how policy is made in areas ranging from stem cell research to climate change, on federal budgeting for R&D, on how scientists can be effective in interacting with Congress, on integrity in science, etc. See www.aaas.org/spp/leadership/.

November 16-17, 2007. 18th Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association, Berkeley, CA. Theme: “Building Communities: Global and Local Landscapes.” Contact: ednelson@csufresno.edu; www.csufresno.edu/csa.

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

March 28-30, 2008. The British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2008, University of Warwick. Theme: “Social Worlds, Natural Worlds.” This conference aims to generate a conversation between different substantive areas of sociology and across disciplinary boundaries in order to illuminate the special contribution of sociologists both to how we understand human societies and to the complex questions facing them in the 21st century. Contact: BSAConference@britsoc.org.uk; www.britsoc.co.uk/events/Conference.

July 3-4, 2008. BSA Theory Study Group Conference, Birkbeck, University of London. In collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. This conference seeks to provide a forum for reflecting back on the events of May 1968 as well as thinking about their implications for current and future endeavors. For more information, contact: Debbie.Brown@britsoc.org.uk.

Funding

2008 Contemplative Practice Fellowships. Ten fellowships of up to $10,000 each are offered to support individual or collaborative research leading to the development of courses that employ contemplative practices to address issues of social conflict and injustice, the amelioration of suffering, and the promotion of peace. Fellowships are limited to U.S. and Canadian full-time faculty. Applications must be postmarked no later than November 15, 2007. Contact: Program Coordinator, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 199 Main Street, Suite 3, Northampton, MA 01060; (413) 582-0071; fellowships@contemplativemind.org; www.contemplativemind.org/programs/academic/fellowships.

American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Visiting Scholars Program 2008-2009. The Academy welcomes fellowship applications from untenured junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in pursuing research related to one of the Academy’s four core program areas: Humanities and Culture, Social Policy and American Institutions, Science and Global Security, and Education. The Visiting Scholars Program offers an opportunity to combine independent research with active involvement in varied projects, conferences, and meetings. A stipend of up to $60,000 for junior faculty and up to $40,000 for postdoctoral scholars accompanies the award. Guidelines and application materials for the 2008-2009 fellowship year are available at www.amacad.org. Application deadline: October 15, 2007. Contact: Alexandra Oleson, Director of the Visiting Scholars Program, at (617) 576-5014; aoleson@amacad.org

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 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 achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. The program’s publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA). Deadline: December 1, 2007. For more complete information, visit userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/ or contact bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de.

Fellowships for Threatened Scholars from Iraq. The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) has received special funding for the Iraq Scholar Rescue Project to provide fellowships to scholars in Iraq whose lives and work are threatened. Preference will be given to scholars with a PhD or other highest degree in their field; who have been employed in scholarly activities at a university, college, or other institution of higher learning during the last four years (excluding displacement or prohibition); who demonstrate superior academic accomplishment or promise; and whose selection is likely to benefit the academic community in Iraq and/or host country or region. Fellowship recipients will be expected to resume their teaching, lecturing, research, writing, and publishing at a host academic institution. Fellowship recipients will also be expected to participate in the Fund’s efforts to continue the education of Iraqi students. Fellowships will be awarded for visiting academic positions of up to two years. A living stipend and relocation expenses for scholars and their families will be included in the fellowship. To apply or to learn more, send an email to SRFIraq@iie.org with “SRF Iraq Project” in the subject. For universities and colleges interested in potentially hosting an SRF Iraq fellow, contact SRFIraq@iie.org. Contact: IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships, 809 U.N. Plaza, Second Floor, New York, NY 10017; SRFIraq@iie.org; www.iie.org/SRF.

The Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of America’s Children - Young Scholars Program. This program is designed to stimulate both basic and policy-relevant research about the early education, health, and well-being of immigrant children from birth to age 10, particularly those who are living in lowincome families. Eligible researchers will have earned their doctoral degrees within the last 15 years, and be full-time faculty members of a college or university in the U.S. Applicants must hold a PhD or its equivalent in one of the behavioral and social sciences or in an allied professional field. Three to four fellowships of up to $150,000 for use over one to three years (maximum) will be awarded competitively. Deadline: November 1, 2007. Additional information is available at www.fcd-us.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=447982. Contact: ysp@fcdus.org; www.fcd-us.org.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces a new program to fund exceptionally innovative research that, if successful, will have an unusually high impact. The program, called EUREKA (Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration), targets investigators who are testing novel, unconventional hypotheses or are pursuing major methodological or technical challenges. The potential impact of the proposed research must be substantial in terms of both the size of the scientific community affected and the magnitude of its impact on the community. Highlights of the EUREKA program include direct costs of up to $800,000 over 4 years and a specialized R01 application focusing on significance and innovation. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences anticipates making between 13-17 awards under this program in Fiscal Year 2008. The application receipt date is October 24, 2007. To view the full funding opportunity announcement, visit grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFAGM-08-002.html.

Princeton University Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. During the academic years 2008/09 and 2009/10 the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies will focus on the problem of cultures and institutions in motion. Problems could include the diffusion of religious and cultural practices, the migration of technologies and objects, the circulation of ideas, traditions, and aesthetic forms, the transfer of policies and legal practices, the dynamics of traveling social movements, histories of reception, appropriation, and encounter, and the creation of translocal networks and intermediaries. The Center will offer research fellowships for one or two semesters designed for senior scholars and for highly recommended younger scholars who have finished their dissertations by the application deadlines. Contact: Manager, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, 136 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017. Deadline for applications: December 1, 2007. Applications can be made online at dav.princeton.edu/program/e14/fellowship_informati.html.

The Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts invites applications for three-year postdoctoral fellowships (2008-2011) for recent PhDs (from Jan. 2005) in humanities or social sciences. Five appointments to pursue research and teach half-time include: Open discipline (two fellowships); Judaic Studies; LGBT Studies; Race and/or Ethnicity Studies. Stipend: approx. $66,500. Application deadline: October 8, 2007. For details, visit www.princeton.edu/~sf.

The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program supports scientists, scholars, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to focus on their work for an academic year. Stipends are funded up to $70,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. The fellowship year extends from early September 2008 through June 2009. Deadline: October 1, 2007 (postmarked). Contact: Radcliffe Institute Fellowships Office, 34 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; (617) 496-1324; fellowships@radcliffe.edu; or (617) 496-3048 (Science Office); science@radcliffe.edu; www.radcliffe.edu.

SRCD Fellowships in Public Policy. Policy Fellowships with the Society for Research in Child Development will be available for 2008-09. Work as resident scholars in Congressional and Executive Branch placements at the interface of science and policy. The goals of these fellowships are: (1) to contribute to the effective use of scientific knowledge in developing public policy, (2) to educate the scientific community about the formation of public policy, and (3) 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 http://www.SRCD.org/policyfellowships.html. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2007.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering an early look at its 2008 grant opportunities in a new funding forecast and help developing applications in an updated manual. SAMHSA Anticipated FY 2008 Funding Opportunities “At a Glance” provides potential grant applicants with a list of the programs. The information is based on the President’s FY 2008 budget request, so it is tentative and preliminary. Available at www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/fy2008opps.aspx. Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications are available at ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/productDetails.aspx?ProductID=17670. Copies of the manual may be obtained free of charge by calling SAMHSA’s Health Information Network at (877) 726-4727. Request inventory number SMA 07-4274. For related publications and information, visit the SAMHSA Grants website at www.samhsa.gov/grants/index.aspx or www.samhsa.gov/.

University of California-Los Angeles Post Doctoral Program in Population- Based Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Term: One-Three years, $55,000 annually plus benefits. For more information visit our website www.ph.ucla.edu/cancerpreventiontraining.

University of Michigan’s Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2008-2010. The University of Michigan’s Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy at the National Poverty Center offers one- and two-year postdoctoral fellowships to American scholars who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the social sciences. Fellows will conduct their own research on a poverty-related topic. Funds are provided by the Ford Foundation. Applicants must have completed their PhDs by August 31, 2008. Preference is given to those who have received their degree after 2002. Application deadline: January 11, 2008. Contact: Program on Poverty and Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 735 South State St., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Applications can be downloaded from: www.fordschool.umich.edu/research/poverty/fellowship_opps.html.

U.S.-India Bilateral Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS (R21). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits Exploratory/Developmental (R21) applications from U.S. funded institutions with an Indian-institution partner to establish Collaborative Research Partnerships (CRP) in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention with an emphasis on topical microbicides as well as other modes of HIV/AIDS prevention. This FOA will utilize the research capacity of the institutions and scientists in both countries to advance the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and develop preliminary data that may support a research proposal to test an HIV/AIDS prevention program with public health significance. Deadline: October 18, 2007. For more information, visit grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-07-031.html.

Competitions

Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies. The Gypsy Lore Society Young Scholar’s Prize in Romani Studies is for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Gypsy and Traveler Studies. The prize is a cash award of $500. The winning paper will be published, after any necessary revisions, in an issue of the journal Romani Studies. Any topic that would be deemed appropriate for the journal Romani Studies will be considered. Deadline: October 30, 2007. Interested scholars should submit their papers along with an abstract (no longer than 250 words) to Katalin Kovalcsik, Gypsy Lore Society Prize Competition, Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf 28, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary; kovalcsik@zti.hu.

International Essay Competition and Workshop organized by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center Berlin, and the Hum-boldt-University Berlin. Fifty successful applicants to the essay competition will be invited to discuss their research with prominent scholars at some of Europe’s leading research institutions. The workshop will take place at the Social Science Research Center Berlin on June 11-16, 2008. Deadline for essay submission: December, 15 2007. A three-month fellowship will be awarded to three participants to be used for research at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the Humboldt-University Berlin, and the State Library Berlin. The Grant includes a monthly stipend of EUR 1,000 plus accommodation. For details, visit www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=117. Contact: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de. North Central Sociological Association 008 Student Paper Competition. Two Divisional Awards: Graduate Student Division and Undergraduate Division open to all students at 2-year and 4-year colleges, universities, and community colleges. Awards: Up to three awards will be given in each category. The maximum length of a paper is 5,000 words (approximately 18-20 pages). Submit entries by January 7, 2008. Contact: Fayyaz Hussain, Student Paper Awards Committee, Center for Integrative Studies in Social Sciences, 5-H Berkey Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.

In the News

Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, both from Purdue University-West Lafayette, were interviewed on Worldview with Jerome McDonnell, WBEZ Chicago on June 1 and as part of program on the Marc Steiner Show, WYPR Baltimore on July 23.

Richard Alba, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis & Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, had an op-ed on immigration reform published in the Los Angeles Times on June 19, 2007.

Julie Albright, University of Southern California, was interviewed by MSNBC on July 23, 2007, in a report on how much personal information co-workers should share about each other at work.

Karl L. Alexander, Johns Hopkins University, had his April 2007 American Sociological Review article featured in a July 12 Education Week article about high school achievement differences between low and high socioeconomic public school students as a function of summer vacation.

Rene Almeling, University of California- Los Angeles, had her study, “Selling Genes, Selling Gender,” covered by the online magazine Health News Digest and The Huffington Post.

Sigal Alon, Tel Aviv University, and Marta Tienda, Princeton University, had their study on lowering the weight of SAT scores in order to decrease the need for affirmative action cited on July 28, 2007, in The Boston Globe, in an article on whether it is time to get rid of the SATs. The study was also covered by Inside- HigherEd.com.

Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin, CUNY-Graduate Center, had their book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations, featured in a June 15, 2007, InsideHigherEd.com article.

Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland, was quoted on June 3, 2007, in a Washington Post article on how, because of recent advances in technology, 80% of Americans now work during their vacations.

Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council, had a letter to the editor published in the July 10, 2007, New York Times addressing David Brooks’ July 6 op-ed on the recent Supreme Court decision on public school racial integration.

Camille Z. Charles, University of Pennsylvania, was quoted in Diverse Education on July 18, 2007, in an article on the decline of black student enrollment at Temple University.

Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman, both of the University of Toronto, appeared on several Chinese-language Canadian TV stations in conjunction with their Conference, “Transnational Immigrant Enterprises: The Chinese-Canadian Experience,” including OMNI-TV News and Fairchild TV on July 19, 2007, and on CCTV. They were also mentioned on July 19 in Ming Pao, Sing Tao, and Today.

Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in a July 1 Washington Post article about marriage and how people view having children as an important aspect of a happy marriage.

Brian Colwell, University of Missouri, was quoted by several news outlets, including CBS News, USA Today, and The Washington Post on what might have provoked Michael Vick to allegedly participate in an illegal dog fighting ring.

Dalton Conley, New York University, was quoted in the June 24 New York Times “Ethicist” column on unknowingly filming people.

William A. Corsaro, Indiana University- Bloomington, held a live web chat for readers of The Washington Post on June 26, 2007, to discuss an article on the changing nature of how children pretend, the power of imagination, and the need for unstructured play.

Ailsa Craig, Memorial University of Newfoundland, was interviewed by The Scope about the importance of Lesbian and Gay Pride Day. She was also interviewed on CBC’s Here and Now about community response to violent sexual assault.

Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas- Austin, had his study on obese girls and college, appearing in the Sociology of Education covered by over 100 news outlets, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, InsideHigherEd.com, United Press International, the Houston Chronicle, CBC News, Canada, and 45 local news shows.

Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, and Gary LaFree, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, were interviewed on the National Public Radio show On Point on July 12 about surveillance cameras as a terrorism and crime deterrent.

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, and Alexandra Kalev, University of California- Berkeley, and Erin Kelly, University of Minnesota, were mentioned in an April 26 Time magazine article about their research on workplace diversity, which was published in the August 2006 American Sociological Review.

Andrea Doucet, Carleton University, was quoted in the Washington Post on June 17, 2007, on the rise of stay-at-home dads.

Peter Dreier, Occidental College, wrote an article for TomPaine.com on July 26 and an op-ed column in the Los Angeles Daily News about media coverage of John Edwards’ poverty tour. On July 26, his op-ed column about the grocery workers contract settlement with the supermarket chains appeared in the LA Daily News. He wrote an essay, “Riot and Reunion: 40 Years Later,” for The Nation magazine on July 17, 2007. His articles about the Employee Free Choice Act were published in the Chronicle of Higher Education on May 11 and TomPaine.Com on May 10. He was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on July 10 and interviewed on KTLA-TV on July 9 about LA City Controller’s audit of city housing programs. He was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio on July 17 and on Minnesota Public Radio on July 19 about John Edwards’ anti-poverty tour. He was quoted in the Charlotte Observer on July 19 about Democrats’ efforts to pass an affordable housing trust fund in Congress. He was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on May 5 about a court ruling against extending LA’s living wage law to LAX hotels, in LA City Beat on May 10 about the Mayor of Los Angeles’ housing policy proposals, and in City Limits magazine on May 29 about whether urban issues will play a role in the presidential campaign.

Elaine Howard Ecklund, State University of New York-Buffalo, and Christopher P. Scheitle, Pennsylvania State University, were interviewed by ABC News on their study that finds most scientists do not believe in God.

Christopher Einolf, University of Virginia, was interviewed by the Washington Post, on June 10, 2007, on his study in the June 2007 issue of Sociological Theory, titled “The Fall and Rise of Torture.”

David Elesh, Temple University, was quoted on July 23, 2007, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an article on job growth in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Morten Ender, United States Military Academy, was quoted in a front-page Kansas City Star article on July 9 and in other regional newspapers focusing on U.S. Army soldiers in the Kansas City region who had been recently convicted of desertion from the Army. He was interviewed in June on Weekend America, which aired on 150 National Public Radio stations. He was also interviewed for and quoted in “The War Within,” a story in the May issue of Boston Magazine on conscientious objection and reasons for why service members might claim conscientious objector status relative to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Adrienne Frech, and Kristi Williams, Ohio State University, had their article in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, “Depression and the Psychological Benefits of Entering Marriage,” covered by numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel on June 4, 2007.

William Frey, Brookings Institute, was quoted in a June 29, 2007, Washington Post article.

Frank F. Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania, was quoted in a June 28 New York Times article about the closeness between grown-up daughters and mothers.

Anita Garey, University of Connecticut, had her Pew Research Center research on trends in work-related attitudes of employed mothers featured in a front-page Washington Post article on July 12, 2007.

Kathleen Gerson, New York University, was quoted in a July 12, 2007, Washington Post article on a recent Pew Research Center study of trends in work-related attitudes of employed mothers.

Joseph Gerteis, University of Minnesota, was quoted in a July 8, 2007, Atlanta Journal- Constitution article about his research at the American Mosaic Project, which is probing what Americans think about racial/ethnic diversity and community solidarity.

W. Richard Goe, Kansas State University, was interviewed and quoted for a May 14, 2007, front-page article in USA Today concerning the reconstruction of Greensburg, KS, following its destruction by a tornado.

Janet Gornick, City University of New York-Baruch College, was quoted on July 25, 2007, in a Dallas Morning News article on how even though 60% of women would prefer to work part time, they cannot because they can not afford it.

Kenneth Gould, City University of New York, and Steve Matthewman, University of New Zealand, were quoted in the USA Today on June 5, 2007, in an article on why people are obsessed with the weather.

Herman S. Gray, University of California- Santa Cruz, was quoted on May 29, 2007, in a New York Times article on the struggles BET faces in marketing original programming to the African-American community.

Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune on October 8 regarding people’s use of the popular website MySpace. She was also quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education on October 6 about the extent to which college students are using email as a communication medium.

Max Herman, Rutgers University, was quoted in The Broward Times, on July 25, 2007, in an article on Detroit’s recovery process after the 1967 riots.

Dean Hoge, Catholic University, was quoted by the Associated Press on July 29, 2007, in an article on the shortage of Catholic priests.

Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, University of California-Berkeley, had their April 2002 American Sociological Review article on religious affiliation preference discussed in the July/August 2007 At-lantic Monthly in an article titled “Crisis of Faith.”

Richard Ingersoll, University of Pennsylvania, was quoted in a June 24 Wall Street Journal article on mainstreaming special needs education students and a June 27 Associated Press article on teacher evaluation policies that appeared in a number of media sources, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

William Kandel, U.S. Department of Agriculture, was quoted by Reuters on July 23, 2007, in an article on how dependent the agriculture industry is on migrant workers.

Andrew Karmen, John Jay College, was quoted by the Associated Press on June 13, 2007, in an article on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s strategy to use statistics to win the Republican nomination for President.

Stephen Klineberg, Rice University, was quoted on July 24, 2007, in The Houston Chronicle, in an article on the decline of capital punishment in Harris County, an area of Houston.

Patricia Leavy, Stonehill College, made an appearance on CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck Show on January 18, 2007, to discuss trends in popular culture and reality television. She was also quoted in the Brockton Enterprise on April 18 in response to the Virgina Tech killings and on June 28 in the Arizona Republic in a story about young girls and consumer culture. Leavy was also recently quoted in a Can- West News article about fans and celebrity culture, which ran in a dozen newspapers in Canada.

Min-Ah Lee, Cornell University, had her article in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Neighborhood Residential Segregation and Physical Health among Hispanic Americans: Good, Bad, or Benign,” covered by Forbes magazine and CBC News on June 3, 2007.

Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University, was quoted in The Chicago Tribune on July 29, 2007, in an article on how more and more parents are choosing non-traditional names for their children.

Michael Lovaglia, University of Iowa, was profiled in the Daily Iowan on July 17, 2007, on his research on the correlation between athletic and academic performance in college programs.

Elizabeth L. Malone, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Antoinette L. Brenkert, had their data used to draw maps of adaptive capacity in the April 16/23 issue of Newsweek and in a special supplement to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on June 17.

James Mathieson, Wheaton College, was quoted on July 29, 2007, by the Daily Herald on the growing popularity of “mega churches.”

Philip May, University of New Mexico, was quoted in the New York Times on June 9, 2007, in an article on the rise in suicide rates among Native American youth.

Tom Mayer, University of Colorado- Boulder, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on July 25, 2007, in an article about the firing of Professor Ward L. Churchill who made controversial comments about the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks.

Ann M. Meier, University of Minnesota, had her study on early teen sex profiled on June 5, 2007, in the New York Times.

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, was quoted in a July 16 New York Times article about the use of socioencomic status to generate diversity in public schools and in a June 29 Folho de São Paulo article about the Supreme Court’s new limitations on the use of race for fostering public school diversity.

Charles Moskos, Northwestern University, was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition on July 10, 2007, about military personnel sacrifices and associated public opinion relative to the Iraq war.

Kelly Musick, University of Southern California, was interviewed by The Today Show on July 13, 2007, on her marriage study that shows people are losing interest in marriage at a faster rate. Musick and Larry Bumpass, University of Wisconsin- Madison, were quoted in a July 1 New York Times article about their research on married and cohabiting couples and marital bliss.

Sari Nasser, University of Jordan, was quoted in the July 14, 2007, New York Times about possible motivations of a small minority of Islamic medical doctors to engage in extremist terrorism against Western targets.

Stephanie J. Nawyn, Michigan State University, appeared on the public television program The Andy Rapp Show, broadcasted by WDCQ in Bay City, MI, to discuss comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Katherine Newman, Princeton University, was quoted on July 23, 2007, in InsideHigherEd.com, in an article on gun violence in college fraternities.

Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, wrote a review of the book, Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas on June 17, 2007, for the New York Times.

Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University, had her book Black on the Block reviewed by the Chicago Tribune on July 14, 2007. Robert Putnam, Harvard University, had his research on Americans’ attitudes toward community racial/ethnic diversity featured in a July 8, 2007, Atlanta Journal- Constitution article.

Mark Regnerus, University of Texas- Austin, was quoted in a June 30 New York Times article on religion and online social networking. Regnerus and his graduate students Jeremy E. Uecker and Margaret Vaaler had their research on the relation between religiousity and level of higher education featured in the June 14, 2007, InsideHigherEd.com.

Barbara Risman, University of Illinois, Molly Monahan Lang, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and Kathleen Gerson, New York University, were all quoted in a May 31, 2007, New York Times article on how women and men are becoming more alike in their attitudes toward balancing life at home and at work.

Michael Rosenfeld, Stanford University, received extensive press coverage for his book, The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions and the Changing American Family. He was quoted on the rise of interracial marriage in the United States by the Washington Post on June 9, the Chicago Tribune on March 11, NBC Nightly News on March 29, and the Associated Press on April 13. Rosenfeld’s argument about the rising independence of young adults was covered in USA Today on March 14 and April 12.

Virginia Rutter, Framingham State College, was quoted by the Associated Press in an article on survey results by the Pew Research Center showing the percentage of Americans who consider children “very important” to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990. The story ran in the Washington Post.

Daniel Santoro, University of Pittsburgh- Johnstown, was quoted in The Philadelphia Daily News, on July 23, 2007, in an article on why The Simpsons has remained a popular show in American culture.

Tom Scheff, University of California- Santa Barbara, had his film, A Wake on the Pier, broadcast nationally in June and July on UCTV. A shorter version is now accessible on Google Video at tinyurl.com/25rej7.

Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College, was quoted on June 4, 2007, in the New York Times, in an article on the rise of Mexican births in New York City.

Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University, wrote an op-ed “Looking at Chief Justice Roberts: Is He Ignorant or Racist” for the Louisville Courier-Journal on July 22, 2007. He also wrote an op-ed titled “Enforce Fair Housing Laws” for the Seattle Post Intelligencer on July 4, 2007, and he wrote an op-ed, “Subprime Lending Abuse Hurts Poor Families Most” in the May 27, 2007, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington, was quoted in Self Magazine in an article on tips for a healthy sex life on July 23, 2007.

David R. Segal, University of Maryland, was interviewed in the Boston Globe on May 9 and in the Austin American-Statesman on May 14 regarding the decline in military enlistment among African Americans. He was quoted in the North Jersey Herald-News on June 5 regarding a Marine recruiter who was being courtmartialed after he left his job to attend to family problems. He served as an advisor for the PBS documentary film, Kansas to Kandehar, which followed an Army Reserve aviation unit to Pakistan for humanitarian relief and then to Afghanistan for combat, which aired nationally on June 11 on America at a Crossroads. He was quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on June 23 and in the Winston-Salem Journal on June 24 regarding changes in the racial and ethnic diversity of the armed forces. He was also quoted by the AFP News Service and Yahoo News on July 25, 2007, on how the United States has naturalized 32,500 immigrant soldiers since the start of the Iraq War.

Richard Sennett, London School of Economics, was quoted on July 10, 2007, on the FinancialTimes.com website about which professional and managerial worker traits are considered important in the current fast-paced capitalistic economies.

Audrey Springer, SUNY-Potsdam, is mentioned in a July 10, 2007, podcastrelated Chronicle of Higher Education audio file about a recording project, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to teach students intentional observation.

Karen Sternheimer, University of Southern California, was quoted in a June 17 Associated Press article on pop culture fathers. She also appeared on MSNBC on June 23, 2007, to discuss the problem of labeling frequent video game players “addicts.”

Pamela Stone, Hunter College, was quoted by the Gannet News Service, on July 30, 2007, in an article on how more women who are mothers prefer to work part time.

Scott Thumma, Hartford Institute of Religion Research, was quoted on July 29, 2007, by The Courier Post in an article on the growing popularity of “mega churches.”

Frank Trovato, University of Alberta, was quoted in The Edmonton Journal on July 16, 2007, in an article on Alberta’s recent baby boom.

Lynn Weber, University of South Carolina, was quoted on July 29, 2007, by The Post and Courier in an article on how high school students who are high achievers in school balance their grades and extra-curricular activities.

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, directed by Robert M. Hauser at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been featured in several news articles recently, including in the Wisconsin State Journal and abcnews.com.

Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania, will serve as an expert on the fifth season of the PBS series History Detectives, which began in August.

Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, was mentioned in a May 21 New Yorker article on atheism.

Awards

Maxine Atkinson, North Carolina State University, was awarded the Hans O. Mauksch Award by the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology.

Jennifer Barrett was awarded a University of Texas-Austin Co-Op/George H. Mitchell Fellowship for excellence in graduate research. The award was based on preliminary findings from her dissertation research, “Doctors, Clerics, Healers and Neighbors: Religious influences on Maternal and Child Heath in Uzbekistan.”

Clifford Bob, Duquesne University, won a 2007 American Council of Learned Societies sabbatical fellowship for his new book project, Globalizing the Right-Wing: Conservative Activism and World Politics.

Carrie Foote, Indiana University-Purdue University, has been awarded an NIH R03 grant titled, “Intentional Childbearing & HIV Risk among Men & Women with HIV/AIDS.” This is a two-year study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Justin Goodman, University of Connecticut, was selected by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to receive the 2007 Nanci Alexander Activist of the Year Award in recognition of his grassroots animal rights activism work that lead to the exposure and termination of a nonhuman primate vivisection lab at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University, received a $309,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a study on adolescents’ Internet uses. She also received a $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a timediary study of these adolescents using text-messaging.

Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was awarded a “Laurea Honoris Causa” at the La Sapienza University of Rome in May 2007.

Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, will receive the American Society of Criminology Ruth Shonle-Cavan Young Award at the November 2007 convention.

Becky Lentz, Ford Foundation and New York University, received the Media Justice Fund’s (MJF) first leadership award at an annual gathering of MJF grantees at the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis, TN, earlier this year.

Bruce G. Link, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, has been awarded the American Public Health Association’s Rema Lapouse Award for 2007.

Robert G. Newby, Central Michigan University, received the Charles H. Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

Lori Peek, Colorado State University, was named as a recipient of the 2007 Best Teacher Award by the Colorado State University Alumni Association and Student Alumni Connection.

Larry Reynolds, Central Michigan University, received the first annual award for distinguished teaching of sociology from the Michigan Sociological Association. The award in the future will be named The Larry Reynolds Award for the Distinguished Teaching of Sociology in Michigan. This is the first time an MSA award has been named for a living person.

Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University, has been named the Sociologists for Women in Society 2008 Feminist Lecturer.

Michael Schulman, North Carolina State University, was named a William Neal Reynolds Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Russell K. Schutt, University of Massachusetts- Boston, has received the 2007 Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award.

Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, Washington State University, and David Naguib Pellow, University of California-San Diego, have had their book, Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, selected by the American Association of School Librarians as a 2007 Recommended Book for public and secondary school libraries.

Thomas Van Valey, Western Michigan University, was given the Marvin Olsen Award for outstanding service to sociology in Michigan by the Michigan Sociological Association.

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, has just been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Transitions

Elijah Anderson, formerly at the University of Pennsylvania, has moved to Yale University.

Elizabeth Aranda has taken a position as Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.

Jason Beckfield, University of Chicago, has joined Harvard University as an Assistant Professor.

Cara Bergstrom-Lynch is joining the faculty at Eastern Connecticut State University as Assistant Professor beginning fall 2007.

Diana K. Davis is now with the Survey Research Center at ICF International in Fairfax, VA.

Michael DeCesare has joined the Department of Sociology at Merrimack College as an Assistant Professor

Kathryn Edin has been named a Full Professor at Harvard University.

R. Frank Falk is now Director of Research at The Institute for the Study of Advanced Development in Denver, CO.

Lara Foley was granted tenure and promotion at the University of Tulsa.

Scott Frickel has been named an Assistant Professor at Washington State University, Department of Sociology.

Jill E. Fuller will become Project Manager for The National Children’s Study, National Institute of Health, funded research being conducted out of the Carolina Population Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

Elizabeth Fussell has been named an Assistant Professor at Washington State University, Department of Sociology.

Filiz Garip has joined Harvard University as an Assistant Professor.

Len Gordon was named Dean of the Arizona State University Emeritus College.

John Holian will be a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania for the 2007-08 school year.

Hayward Derrick Horton has been appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at SUNY-Albany, where he will also continue his duties as Professor of Sociology.

Chrys Ingraham has accepted a position as Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the SUNY-Purchase beginning September 2007.

Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt University, was recently named Distinguished Professor of Sociology.

Laurie Joyner has been named the new Dean of Faculty at Rollins College.

Akil Kokayi Khalfani, Africana Institute at Essex County College, was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in June 2007.

Shamus Khan recently joined the Columbia University Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor.

Allen J. LeBlanc has been appointed Full Professor in sociology at San Francisco State University. He has also been named to the core faculty of the university-wide Health Equity Initiatives.

Sharon M. Lee has joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

Siobhan O’Mahony has joined the faculty the Graduate School of Management at the University of California-Davis.

Danielle Payne joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University in August 2007.

Silvia Pedraza was promoted to Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Stephen T. Russell, University of Arizona, has been promoted to Professor and named the Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair in Family and Consumer Sciences. He has also been appointed the Director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families.

Saskia Sassen recently joined the Columbia University Department of Sociology as a Professor with a joint appointment with the Committee on Global Thought.

Carla Shedd recently joined the Columbia University Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor.

Peter J. Stein is joining the Institute on Aging at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.

Heike Trappe has been named Professor of Sociology and Family Demography at the Universität Rostock.

Aimee Van Wagenen received a tenuretrack position as Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University.

Jocelyn Viterna, Tulane University and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been named an Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

Bruce Western is now a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

People

Rabel J. Burdge, Western Washington University, gave the keynote address for the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) in Seoul, Korea on June 5, 2007.

Amitai Etzioni gave a lecture at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce in London on June 4, 2007, testified before the Iraq Commission in London on June 5, 2007, and presented a paper on federalism at the United Nations Reform Conference hosted by the Centre for Studies on Federalism in Turin, Italy, on June 7, 2007.

David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire, is one of four new American Society of Criminology Fellows.

Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern University, was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2006-07. In June 2007, she spent a week as a Fellow of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.

Corey Keyes, Emory University, has been invited by the National Academy of Science to the 5th Annual Academies Keck Futures Initiatives (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, CA, in November, 2007. Attendance is competitive, and Keyes’ application was based on his work on flourishing as a measure of mental health, mental health as a complete state, and its role in aging. He also keynoted a conference in Sydney, Australia, in June titled “Happiness and Its Causes.” Keyes has been invited by the Scottish Executives Government, Health Division to give a seminar in Glasgow on October 11, 2007.

Lee Maril, East Carolina University, was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in Dallas in April 2007.

Kyriakos S. Markides, University of Texas Medical Branch, is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Health and Aging.

Joseph Molnar, Auburn University, was voted President-Elect of the Rural Sociological Society.

Patrick Mooney, University of Kentucky, was voted Secretary of the Rural Sociological Society.

Vijayan K. Pillai, University of Texas- Arlington, was awarded a fellowship from the Conference on NGOs in consultative relationship with the United Nations to present his paper, “Reproductive Health and Millennium Development Goals,” June 28-30, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland.

Michael Schulman, North Carolina State University, was selected by the Rural Sociology Society Council as the 2009-12 Rural Sociology Editor.

Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University, was elected to a three-year term on the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association starting in 2007.

New Books

Daniel Béland, University of Calgary, States of Global Insecurity: Policy, Politics, and Society (Worth Publishers, 2007).

Phil Brown, Brown University, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Daniel Chernilo, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, A Social Theory of the Nation-State: The Political Forms of Modernity beyond Methodological Nationalism (Routledge, 2007).

Peter Conrad, Brandeis University, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

Sara Crawley, University of South Florida, Lara Foley, University of Tulsa, Constance Lee Shehan, University of Florida, Gendering Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

John C. Cross, University of Mary Washington, and Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin, eds., Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place and Politics in Local and Global Perspective (Routledge Press, 2007).

William V. D’Antonio and Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America,

James D. Davidson, Purdue University, and Mary L. Gautier, Georgetown University, American Catholic Laity: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church(Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

Michael DeCesare, Merrimack College, A Discipline Divided: Sociology in American High Schools (Lexington Books, 2007).

Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign, Flags in the Window: Dispatches from the American War Zone (Peter Lang, 2007).

Larry DeWitt, Daniel Béland, and Edward D. Berkowitz, Social Security: A Documentary History (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007).

William T. Gallagher, Golden Gate University School of Law, Intellectual Property: The International Library of Essays in Law and Society (Ashgate Press, 2007).

Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy, both of Boston College, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (Sage Publications, 2007).

John Hoffmann, Brigham Young University, Japanese Saints (Lexington Books, 2007).

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, ed. Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants (Rutgers University Press, 2007).

Gabriel Ignatow, University of North Texas, Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

Patricia Leavy, Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History (Lexington Books, 2007).

Linda M. Lobao, Ohio State University, Gregory Hooks, Washington State University, and Ann R. Tickamyer, Ohio University, eds., The Sociology of Spatial Inequality (The State University of New York Press, 2007).

Nicole P. Marwell, Columbia University and CUNY, Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California, Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport (State University of New York Press, 2007).

Robert M. Moore III, Frostburg State University, They Always Said I Would Marry A White Girl: Coming to Grips with Race in America (Hamilton Books, 2007).

Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Political Disaffection in Cuba’s Revolution and Exodus (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Timothy D. Pippert, Augsburg College, Road Dogs and Loners: Family Relationships Among Homeless Men (Lexington Books, 2007).

Joel Nathan Rosen, Moravian College, The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes Toward Competition (Mc- Farland & Company, Inc., 2007).

Beth A. Rubin, University of North Caroline- Charlotte, ed., Research in the Sociology of Work Volume 17: Workplace Temporalities (JAI Press, 2007).

Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University, Martin Carnoy, Jeremy Kilpatrick, William H. Schmidt, and Richard J. Shavelson, Estimating Causal Effects: Using Experimental and Observational Designs (American Educational Research Association, 2007).

David Smilde, University of Georgia, Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (University of California Press, 2007).

Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, Washington State University, and David Naguib Pellow, University of California- San Diego, eds., Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Temple University Press, 2006).

James P. Spillane, Northwestern University, and John B. Diamond, Harvard University, eds., Distributed Leadership in Practice (Teachers College Press, 2007).

Stephen Steinberg, Queens College, Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, 2007).

Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (Paradigm Publishers, 2007).

Elaine Weiner, McGill University, Market Dreams: Gender, Class and Capitalism in the Czech Republic (University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Other Organizations

Gender & Society saw its journal impact factor increase by 50% from 2005 to 2006, from 0.658 to 0.986, according to the 2006 journal impact factor report. Gender & Society is now ranked 22nd among all 94 sociology journals on this metric (up 13 on the charts from last year) and sixth among 26 women’s studies journals. For more details, contact: Dana M. Britton, Editor, Gender & Society, (785) 532-4968; fax (785) 532-6978; www-personal.ksu.edu/~brittn.

The International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) is seeking nominations for the editorship of the journal Personal Relationships (PR). PR is an international, interdisciplinary journal that aims to promote scholarship in the field of personal relationships throughout a broad range of methodologies and disciplines. The editor should be an internationally recognized scholar/researcher who is a leader in the field of personal relationships. The incoming editor will begin processing new submissions on June 1, 2008. A complete application package should include (1) the candidate’s CV, (2) a 2- to 3-page letter from the candidate describing his or her views on editing the journal, (3) names of three references, and (4) examples of three reviews (or action letters) the candidate has completed in the past two to three years. Queries may be directed to any member of the Publications Committee: Duncan Cramer at d.cramer@lboro.ac.uk, Kathryn Dindia at dindia@uwm.edu, Julie Fitness at jfitness@psy.mq.edu.au, or Dan Perlman (Chair) at d.perlman@ubc.ca. All nomination materials should be submitted to Dan Perlman by October 1, 2007.

Caught in the Web

The Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (AIS), in collaboration with the Faculty of Sociology, at the Federico II University of Naples has carried out a project for the online publication of abstracts pertaining to the scientific work written by members of the AIS: ItalSoL (Italian Sociology on Line) in English. The project, begun in 2004, updates its database every year. At present, almost 600 abstracts of printed works written by AIS members are included in the database. The next update will bring the total of abstracts from 2003 to 2007 up to approximately 1,000. The online database permits bibliographical research by author, title, or word in the abstract, and keyword. Visit the database at www.ais-sociologia.it/modules/italsol/index.php.

Democratic Piece. Students in Georgetown University’s Democracy Studies MA program launched Democratic Piece, www.democraticpiece.com, the of- ficial blog of the Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy, the recently created student organization. The Democratic Piece will serve as an online area for Democracy Studies students to actively participate in the Forum’s mission to further the study of democracy, autocracy, political change, and democracy promotion. The website will include regular content featuring news and commentary on worldwide current events, updates regarding research and academic work in the field, and coverage of relevant conferences and events. The Democratic Piece welcomes commentary and contributions from outside sources. If you are interested in submitting content, contact: democraticpiece@gmail.com.

New Programs

Texas A&M University announces the re-launch of its Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), retooled with a renewed focus on scholarly research and a commitment to engaging and establishing an interdisciplinary community of faculty and scholars. With its new mission, the institute will work to showcase and foster race and ethnicity research through small grants, workshops, working groups and symposia. RESI will also strive to attract professors and graduate students from a variety of Texas A&M departments and programs, including Sociology, History, Anthropology, Women’s Studies and Psychology, where race and ethnicity are recognized as salient research themes. RESI hopes to create supportive mentoring relationships between graduate students and faculty. Further, the institute hopes to engage scholars both within the Texas A&M community as well as outside the university. The major purpose of this campaign will be to generate funding to (1) sustain new researchers as faculty fellows or scholars in residence; (2) increase student support and involvement in RESI as graduate student fellows, (3) enable the Director to devote full time to the institute and to hire an Assistant Director; and (4) support the institute’s infrastructure and operating expenses. RESI, which is re-launching with an annual base budget of $200,000, will now be a part of the university’s College of Liberal Arts and housed in the Sociology department. Contact the RESI office at (979) 845-0966; resi.tamu.edu.

The Monterey Institute of International Studies, an affiliate of Middlebury College, located in Monterey, CA, announces a new Master of Arts in International Policy Studies with a specialization in International Migration Policy Studies. The multidisciplinary specialization trains professionals to analyze, advocate, and administer appropriate and effective migration policies. The focus of the twoyear program includes labor migration, human trafficking, refugees, irregular migration, and internally displaced persons. The specialization offers internship and other experiential opportunities for students to gain practical training in policy analysis and development in this field. For more information about the program, contact: Tsuneo Akaha at takaha@miis.edu; www.miis.edu. For information on how to apply, call (831) 647-4123; admit@miis.edu.

Deaths

Helen Gouldner, University of Delaware, died on July 24.

Peter Lyman, University of California and partner of Barrie Thorne, died July 2. He was 66 and had battled brain cancer.

Peter Marris, University of California and Yale University, died on June 25, 2007.

Parren Mitchell, Maryland’s first black member of Congress and a former Sociology Professor, died at the age of 85 from complications from pneumonia.

Jeanne Clare Ridley, Georgetown University, died July 17 in Silver Spring, MD. She suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

Obituaries

Brenda M. Derby
(1951–2007)

Brenda M. Derby, a research social scientist with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), died of heart disease at her home in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2007, at age 55.

Brenda was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned her PhD in applied social psychology from Claremont Graduate University in 1987. Her professional life began as a human resources research specialist for Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles. She joined the Consumer Studies Team of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in 1991.

Specializing in consumer interface with food labels, Brenda examined how consumers use different parts of the food label, the effectiveness of warning labels, the effect of various types of nutrient content and health claims on labels, and the association between food label use and factors such as obesity and knowledge of diet-disease relationships. She was widely known in government and industry for her food label research and received many awards. She published book chapters and articles in nutrition and marketing journals. In 2002, she was the recipient with two co-authors of the Thomas C. Kinnear Journal of Public Policy and Marketing Best Article Award 1998-2000 for her paper, “The Impact of Health Claims on Consumer Search and Product Valuation Outcomes: Results from FDA Experimental Data.”

Brenda was an expert in experimental and survey design and participated in the development of nearly all of the studies conducted by the Consumer Studies Team. She provided technical support for food label regulations and food label outreach efforts, and she served three two-month terms as Acting Team Leader for the Consumer Studies Team. Although many of her professional activities were in the nutrition and marketing areas, she was an active member of the District of Columbia Sociological Society and served as its newsletter editor for two years. She reviewed manuscripts for the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, American Journal of Public Health, and other publications as requested.

An enthusiastic transplant to the Washington, DC area, Brenda volunteered at the National Building Museum, supported the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and enrolled in classes at the Smithsonian Institution. Her friends could count on her to attend nearly any event or exhibit with them and to appreciate it fully.

Brenda needed community in her life. Her family was far away, so she created a circle of friends drawn from all parts of her life in the Washington area. She wanted her life, her work, and her friends to be a seamless whole, and she worked to make that happen. She shared herself with everyone, not just her professional views, but what she thought about life, art, commerce, and current events. By sharing herself, by being generous with her time, by being thoughtful about the needs of others, she built community.

She is survived by her father and stepmother, Kenneth Derby and Irene Zilinski of Vancouver, and by four siblings. Her husband, Jeffrey Wilde, died in 2000. She will be remembered not only for her professional accomplishments, but mostly for her fun-loving, gentle disposition and her extraordinary curiosity about the world around her.

Brenda was a founding advisory board member of Villanova University’s Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research. To honor her memory, the Center and Brenda’s friends and colleagues are sponsoring the Brenda M. Derby Memorial Award to be given to a deserving doctoral student participating in the annual Marketing and Public Policy Conference. Contributions to the award should be made out to “Villanova School of Business” and sent to: John Kozup; Attention: Brenda M. Derby Memorial Award; Director, Center for Marketing and Public Policy Research; Villanova University; 800 Lancaster Ave.; Villanova, PA 19085-1678

Sara Beck Fein, Food and Drug Administration

Mary Douglas
(1921–2007)

Mary Douglas, a British anthropologist known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, died May 16, 2007, at the age of 86.

She was a great social anthropologist and a great and lovely lady. I believe it was Ted Caplow’s suggestion (Ted was ASA Secretary at the time) that she be invited to speak at the 1984 ASA Annual Meeting in San Antonio. She accepted the invitation to address a plenary session titled “How Is Social Order Possible?” The all-star panel for the session was chaired by Neil Smelser, with papers by Mary Douglas, Sy Goode, and Peter Rossi. Douglas’ paper, “Institutionalized Public Memory,” was later expanded to two chapters in her brilliant book, How Institutions Think (Syracuse University Press, 1986). In her preface to the book she identified the year of her ASA appearance as 1983 and thanked the ASA “Chairman, James Shorter, for permission to publish this lengthier study of public memory.” Her lapse in “short-term memory” notwithstanding, we are much in her debt for her many scholarly contributions and I am personally grateful that she favored us with her presence.

She is survived by her three children, Janet, James and Philip.

James Short, Washington State University

Helen Gouldner
(1923–2007)

Helen Gouldner, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, died on July 24, 2007. At Delaware, she also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1974-90.

Dr. Gouldner joined the Delaware faculty in 1973 as professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, and one year later became the first woman dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. As an administrator, she was well-liked by the faculty and served an unusually long time in a demanding—and expanding—role. She led the College of Arts and Sciences through a time of enormous expansion and was widely recognized for her intellectual curiosity and indomitable spirit. For many of us, she was one of the first women we saw in a major role of institutional leadership. She was a strong mentor—one who knew the importance of establishing professional networks and being very active in one’s field. At the same time, she valued friendship—a topic about which she also wrote. She is attributed by the University’s leadership with playing a major role in shaping the College and the University.

Raised in Kirkland, WA, she was a graduate of the University of Puget Sound, received her master’s degree from the University of Washington, and her doctorate in sociology from the University of California-Los Angeles. Prior to joining the University of Delaware faculty, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Illinois, Lindenwood College, Stanford University, and San Jose State College.

She co-authored two books, Speaking of Friendship and Modern Sociology and was the author of Teacher’s Pets, Troublemakers and Nobodies: Black Children in Elementary School, which won the Educator’s Award of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International in 1979. She served as a member of the board of the World Affairs Council of Wilmington and Common Cause of Delaware. In recognition of her many contributions to the University, she was awarded the Medal of Distinction in 2000, given to those who have made significant contributions to the community, state, or region.

After she retired in 1990, she continued to play a strong role in the Delaware community. She was active as a reading mentor for young children and was deeply dedicated to supporting the arts and music. She and her late-life partner, Burt Pratt, frequently hosted small jazz parties featuring local groups. She was a woman well ahead of her time—strong and independent with a very sharp mind, clever wit, and enormous generosity and kindness. For many of us who were coming along as scholars and teachers, she was a strong role model and a source of great support.

Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware

David M. Heer
(1930–2007)

David M. Heer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and Senior Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego, died on March 14, 2007. He was 76 years old. David was an internationally recognized sociologist-demographer on the cutting edge of a number of important inquiries. His independence and discipline led to significant contributions to sociology and social demography, through his research on marriage and the family, the population of the Soviet Union, fertility, mortality, child health, national security, migration, spatial distributions of population, and ethnic relations. He described links between these phenomena as his career progressed. His publications include 10 books and more than 85 scientific articles and reports.

David was committed to a better world for all. He showed colleagues, students, and representatives of governments, in the United States, Taiwan, China, Mexico and elsewhere how his research findings could be the basis from which to develop effective public policies. David wrote textbooks, chaired and served on many MA and PhD committees, published with his students, and performed extensive professional service, including editorial work for a number of scientific journals.

After receiving the AB in Social Relations from Harvard College in 1950, David began his career as a demographic statistician with the Population and Housing Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. He returned to Harvard University in 1951, where he earned his AM (1954) and PhD in Sociology (1958). From 1957 to 1961, David was a demographic statistician in the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. During this time, he honed his interests in the demography of the family, focusing on family power structure, male and female occupations, interfaith marriages, and then on interethnic relations.

In 1961, David joined the Department of Sociology at University of California- Berkeley where he served as Lecturer in Sociology and Assistant and Research Sociologist until 1964. He carried out a seminal study of the demographic consequences of nuclear attack on the United States, After Nuclear Attack: A Demographic Inquiry (1965). At Berkeley, he also initiated a series of studies on the impact of the level of infant and child mortality on family planning behaviors, including preferences for sons, which he continued throughout his career.

In 1968, David’s Society and Population was published as well as his edited works, Readings in Population and Social Statistics and the City. David returned to Harvard in 1968 as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Demography and then served as Associate Professor of Demography.

David joined the University of Southern California (USC) in 1972 as Professor of Sociology and Population Research Laboratory Faculty Research Associate, and remained until his retirement in 2000. David was Associate Director of the Laboratory (1975-95) and Director (1995-2000). He engaged in research on population policies of the Soviet Union, and expanded work on topics that he had staked out in earlier years. He made contributions to the teaching of social demography, including revisions of Society and Population (2nd edition 1975, and 3rd edition with Jill Grigsby, 1992), and to research informing policy regarding fertility, population settlement, and migration. His A Human Mosaic: An Atlas of Ethnicity in Los Angeles County, 1980-86, (with Pini Herman, 1990) remains a useful guide to Los Angeles ethnicity prior to the upheavals of 1992.

In his later years, David was perhaps best known for his policy research on Hispanic migration to the United States. Journal articles resulted from these activities as did two books, Undocumented Migrants in the United States (1990) and Immigration in America’s Future, Social Science Findings and the Policy Debate (1996), which summarized the history of migration to the United States and considered the consequences of migration policy alternatives.

After retiring from USC in 2000, David joined the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California- San Diego, where he examined the links between job opportunities for U.S. Hispanics and changes in Hispanic population in the 1990s. During his retirement Heer made a signal contribution to the history of sociology with his Kingsley Davis: A Biography and Selection from His Writings (2005), a summary of his Berkeley and USC colleague’s work.

Throughout his career David engaged in consultative, professional service, and editorial activities. He consulted with the National Institutes of Health, the Census, and the U.S. General Accounting Office. He was active in the Population Association of America and was the founder of the Los Angeles Demographic Forum and the Annual Demographic Workshop. His editorial positions included editor, Sociology and Social Research, associate editor of Demography, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Human Ecology, and member of the editorial board of Sociological Perspectives.

David was devoted to his family and to the USC Population Research Laboratory, and its faculty, staff and students. Students loomed particularly large in his life. Always ready to help students surmount seemingly impossible intellectual hurdles, he assisted them in many other ways, often entertained them in his home, and took great pride in their accomplishments. His contributions will continue through the activities of his colleagues, students, and friends.

In addition to his many colleagues, students, and friends, David M. Heer is survived by his daughters, Laura Carle and Cathy Dowd, and his granddaughters Olivia and Claudia Carle, and Elizabeth and Eva Dowd.

Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Monterey Institute of International Studies

Bernard Karsh
(1921–2007)

Bernard Karsh, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Illinois- Urbana, died in his sleep March 7, 2007, in Urbana, IL. He was age 86. Almost his entire career was spent at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Professor Karsh was well-known for his research on American unions and his studies of industrial relations in Asia, especially Japan.

Bernard Karsh received his PhD in Sociology in 1954 from the University of Chicago where he was also a member of research groups on industrial relations. He joined the University of Illinois in 1954 and retired in 1990. He served on many university committees and was chair of the department 1973-79. He also served for a short term as Assistant Director of the University’s School of Aviation.

Professor Karsh is best known for his observational study, “Diary of a Strike.” Published originally in 1958 with a second edition in 1982, it is still in use in courses on labor and industrial relations. In 1958 he also published, with three others, the important book The Worker Views His Union. In succeeding years he published many research papers on topics as diverse as automation and labor management in the United States.

In the 1960s he developed an interest in Japan and industrial relations in that country. His research was reported in a number of papers and chapters in books.

Bernard Karsh was a person of many interests and enthusiasms. An articulate and knowledgeable person, he enlivened any discussion in which he took part.

Bernie was born in Chicago but spent 13 years of his early life in Oswego, NY. He developed an interest, if not an obsession, with flying and after his familly¹s return to Chicago, he enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1939. He was severely wounded in North Africa during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1943.

Throughout his life, he had a commanding interest in flying. At one time he owned and flew antique planes, some with open cockpit. He served for 12 summers as a volunteer flight instructor for the State of Illinois. He was also an avid skier until the age of 82.

He is survived by his wife, Annette Shier Karsh, and two sons—Paul of St.Paul, MN, and Aaron of Arlington, VA—and one grandchild. A memorial service for him is planned for the near future.

His many friends, including students, will miss Bernard Karsh’s enthusiasm for debate and his eagerness for the play of ideas. He loved to be part of the clash of opinions and gave us many memories of its joyfulness.

Joe Gusfield, University of California-San Diego

Otto Larsen
(1922–2007)

Otto Larsen was most at home when surrounded by people. He was gregarious, fun-loving, intelligent, sometimes irreverent and always fully engaged with the world around him. He loved travel, books, pictures, kids, grandkids, Greta, and family in all forms. As a sociologist, he was a keen observer of society, of interpersonal relations, of organizational successes and failures, of politics and of science.

While at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the 1980s, as Director of the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, he was the key defender of the social sciences while ignorance and the rampant budget-cutting mentality was in vogue. Otto could be eloquent about sociology and the social sciences more broadly as his final writings clearly convey.

A strong proponent of the scientific study of society (from the time he was a student and research assistant for George Lundberg), he was catholic in his view of method. He loved social science in all of its forms and delighted at cocktail parties in telling of the latest article he had read or interesting piece of data he had run across. With drink in hand, he would hold forth about recent developments in sociology and inquire of all those nearby as to the nature of their latest projects. He was always looking for whatever next “new thing” in the social sciences deserved support. This is what made him a great division director at the NSF. It is also what made him a superb colleague, mentor, teacher, department chair, and friend.

As much as sociology was at the core of his work life, there was never any doubt where Otto Larsen’s heart was. At the core of his life with Greta was family—their children, their parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and later grandchildren. Those who knew Otto, especially after his retirement, often received missives from Otto in poetry form, in political cartoons, in beautiful or funny photos. He could always find something to laugh about and his laughter was infectious.

Appreciated by colleagues for his unique ability to combine a dedication to the rigorous pursuit of knowledge with a “let’s not take ourselves too seriously” attitude, Otto encouraged this blend of attitudes in various contexts, notably at annual sociology faculty vs. graduate student softball games and at the sociology department’s annual “Monster Rallies,” when graduate students enjoyed mercilessly spoofing themselves and their mentors.

The University of Washington was his home. He entered as an undergraduate after World War II to complete his education, stayed on for graduate work, becoming a teaching fellow, lecturer, and subsequently entered the tenure track in the same department. He later became the standard bearer of the department’s social scientific origins. He chaired the department in the early 1970s during a period of expansion. In the year one of us joined his department (1972) as a newly minted PhD, there were six hires. Otto left town for Washington, DC, the week they all arrived. He was clearly a successful department builder who continued to exercise his capacity for institution building first at the American Sociological Association (as executive officer), then at the NSF (serving twice in different roles). He served as chair of the board of the Social Science Research Council and as a key figure in the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (during Nixon’s presidency), which he delighted in referring to as his “COP” duty. He also traveled and lectured around the world.

His expertise ranged broadly over the social sciences, but centered on mass communication, media, and violence. He was a strong defender of freedom of speech and critic of the media. His legendary collection of pornography at the University of Washington was a testimony to his liberal orientation to the role of government in the private lives of its citizens. Here, as in many other places, his Scandinavian roots prevailed. His family had moved from a small town in Minnesota (where Otto was born to Danish parents) to Junction City, OR, where he graduated from high school. He later attended a small college (Grand View in Iowa) before moving again and subsequently serving during WWI in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Otto’s compassion, love of life, ability to connect with people of all ages and cultures will be missed. There are few people who go through life with as many loving friends and family members. Otto was at the center of a very large concentric circle of friends and family. But we can be happy that he left so much of himself with us in his writings, poems, pictures, and emails.

Sociology will miss one of the most effective spokespersons for the social sciences of the past quarter century. He communicated his passion for social science so well. We can credit him with turning the tide in our favor when Sen. Proxmire and others went witch-hunting. At a time when federal budgetary trends were seriously slanted against the social sciences, a skeptic about social science—physicist Edward A. Knapp—became director of the National Science Foundation. Otto’s insistence that we in “the soft sciences . . . have the hard problems” helped to persuade Knapp that “if, in fact, the social sciences could be quantitative and accurate, then the kinds of questions that could be asked and the kinds of answers that could be given are extremely important.”

Robert Merton referred to Otto as “our ambassador plenipotentiary to both government and the larger world of science and learning.” He was a public sociologist.

For the discipline and for the many sociologists who had the good fortune to know Otto Larsen, his life made a difference. And, that is what his life was all about . . . making a difference.

Karen Cook, Stanford University, Bill Catton and Jim Short, Washington State University