Advocacy | American Sociological Association

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Below please find our most recent advocacy efforts and some selected older efforts that remain relevant in today’s context.

Letter to Congressional leadership urging strong financial support for the Bureau of Economic Analysis in FY25 (May 2024).
Letter to Congressional leaders urging them to provide robust funding for the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (April 2024)
Letter to Congressional appropriators urging robust funding for the Census Bureau. (April 2024)
Letter to Congressional appropriators requesting support for the National Center for Health Statistics. (March 2024)
A statement condemning unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross. (March 2024)
Written testimony opposing Florida SB 1372/HB 1291 which restricts content in educator preparation programs. (February 2024)
Statement on academic freedom in the face of global and national crises. (February 2024)
Article in The Conversation on what sociology is and why Florida’s college students should get the chance to learn how social forces affect everyone’s lives. (February 2024)
Op-ed in Tampa Bay Times on how removing sociology as a core course option in Florida demonstrates the danger of politicizing education. (January 2024)
Letter to Senate HELP Committee members encouraging a reauthorized Education Sciences Reform Act that supports NCES’s ability to produce trustworthy education statistics. (December 2023)
Comment to the Florida Board of Governors objecting to the removal of sociology from the state’s general education core course options. (November 2023)
Letter to Dr. Monica Bertagnolli congratulating her on confirmation to serve as Director of the NIH. (November 2023)
Statement reiterating the importance of fostering an environment where the free exchange of ideas, diverse perspectives, and open discourse can thrive. (October 2023)
Letter to Congressional leaders urging them to provide robust funding to federal statistics programs and keep the federal government open. (September 2023)
Statement on fighting for an ambitious vision of public higher education in America. (September 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators asking to provide the Census Bureau with robust funding in FY24. (September 2023)
Statement opposing Supreme Court decision on affirmative action. (June 2023)
Statement advocating for continued race-conscious admissions. (June 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators requesting robust funding for the Bureau of Economic Analysis in FY24. (April 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators asking for robust funding for the Office of Justice Programs in FY2024. (March 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators encouraging the inclusion of robust funding for the Institute of Education Sciences. (March 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators encouraging robust funding for the National Center for Health Statistics. (March 2023)
Three statements condemning the introduction of Florida HB 999 (March 2023): statement, another statement, and another statement.
Letter to Notre Dame administration asking them to defend academic freedom and protect their faculty from related attacks. (February 2023)
Statement in support of academic freedom and New College of Florida faculty and students. (February 2023)
Statement encouraging Hamline University to uphold the tenets of academic freedom. (January 2023)
Statement on the importance of teaching and learning about race and racism. (January 2023)
Letter to Congressional appropriators encouraging the inclusion of robust funding for the Institute for Education Sciences top line in a final FY23 bill. (November 2022)
Letter to OMB encouraging the highest possible level of funding above final FY23 appropriations in the FY24 request. (November 2022)
Letter to Mary Wakefield highlighting NCHS’ importance and urging that its role figure prominently in the CDC reorganization. (November 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership urging completion of appropriations for FY23 before the end of the calendar year and funding NSF at the highest level possible. (October 2022)
Letter to OMB and OSTP urging the Administration to request $15.65b in NSF research and education investments in FY24 at the level authorized in the CHIPS and Science Act. (October 2022)
Letter to Congressional appropriators urging them to provide the Census Bureau with the highest level of funding in the final FY 2023 CJS bill. (September 2022)
Amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of narrowly tailored race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. (August 2022)
Letter to members of the Senate encouraging increased availability of data and funding to help inform and evaluate policies designed to reduce gun violence. (June 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership in support of the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act (June 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership requesting strong funding for the Bureau of Economic Analysis in FY23. (May 2022)
Statement on the white supremacist murders in Buffalo. (May 2022)
Letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to provide a robust FY23 spending allocation to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittees. (May 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership in support of gun violence prevention research funding for the CDC and NIH. (April 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership encouraging robust funding for the Institute of Education Sciences for FY2023. (April 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership requesting robust funding for the National Science Foundation for FY2023. (April 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership in support of policy that would make it easier for international STEM graduates to stay in the US after graduation. (March 2022)
Statement supporting Ukrainian scholars who are under attack and Russian scholars being persecuted for protesting the invasion of Ukraine. (March 2022)
Statement condemning discriminatory treatment of Africans, including scholars and students, fleeing the war in Ukraine. (March 2022)
Statement against India’s national overseas scholarship restrictions. (March 2022)
Statement contextualizing and condemning bomb threats received by HBCUs. (February 2022)
Letter to Congressional leadership urging them to finalize FY 2022 appropriations to avoid a long-term continuing resolution. (February 2022)
Letter to President Biden, Secretary Blinken and Secretary Mayorkas urging action to enable the safe and speedy relocation of Afghanistan’s students and scholars. (February 2022)
Letter to state legislators in Florida urging them to vote against the “Parental Rights Bill” that seeks to limit discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools. (February 2022)
Letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting that sociology be classified as a STEM discipline for the purposes of Optional Practical Training for international students graduating from U.S. institutions of higher education. (December 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership asking that the final conference report on the Senate USICA and related House measures includes robust sustainable growth in authorized funding for NSF. (November 2021)
Letter to the Inter-university Board of Turkey asking them to overturn a decision to reject an American thesis for Turkish equivalence on the basis of “content,” an affront to academic freedom in Turkey. (November 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership supporting robust appropriations for the Institute of Education Sciences. (November 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership expressing support for providing the Census Bureau with robust funding in FY2022. (November 2021)
Statement condemning the University of Florida’s decision to deny scholars the opportunity to provide expert testimony on a new restrictive Florida election law. (November 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership supporting a robust FY2022 funding level for the National Science Foundation. (November 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership in support of a significant funding level for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Letter with Coalition for National Science Funding in response to the Biden Administration’s FY2023 multi-agency R&D priorities. (November 2021)
Letter to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia urging them to reconsider recent proposals to change the process of post-tenure review. (October 2021)
Statement condemning attacks that seek to limit conference presentations and participation. (September 2021)
Letter to Secretary of State Blinken requesting several policy actions to protect Afghans who are most vulnerable under Taliban rule, including women seeking educational opportunities and scholars advocating for democracy and civil and human rights (August 2021)
Endorsement of the Improving Justice Programs through Science Act. (July 2021)
Letter to Dr. Eric Lander congratulating him on his confirmation to the position of Director of OSTP and affirming that we are glad to be involved in the changes which will be happening to the scientific enterprise during this Administration. (July 2021)
Letter urging prompt confirmation of Robert Santos as the Census Bureau director. (July 2021)
Statement against the designation of Bard College as an “undesirable organization” by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. (June 2021)
Statement against legislative efforts to restrict education about racism in American history. (June 2021)
Letter to senators urging co-sponsorship of the bipartisan 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act. (May 2021)
Statement rejecting efforts by state legislators to undermine open inquiry about race and racism on college campuses and beyond. (May 2021)
Letter to legislators expressing support for the National Science Foundation. (May 2021)
Statement opposing Florida bill HB233 which allows students to record in classrooms without the consent of their professors and mandates the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors to conduct an assessment of the “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” at every institution in the Florida College System. (May 2021)
Letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees urging them to provide the Census Bureau with $2 billion in FY2022. (April 2021)
Letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees articulating the importance of the peer review process for research awards. (April 2021)
Endorsement of the 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act. (April 2021)
Letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees supporting a $250 million investment in the Centers for Disease Control’s Data Modernization Initiative for FY2022. (April 2021)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees urging them to provide a robust allocation for the FY22 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) spending bills in order to support research and education programs in the CJS portfolio. (April 2021)
Letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees urging continued support of The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in FY2022. (April 2021)
Statement requesting immediate release of the Bhima Koregaon 16 in India. (March 2021)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees in support of $50 million in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health in FY2022 to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. (March 2021)
Letter to President Biden in support of the Research Investment to Spark the Economy (RISE) Act. (March 2021)
Statement encouraging reconsideration of the use of the GRE in graduate school admissions decisions. (March 2021)
Endorsement of op-ed opposing legislation advancing in Florida which would limit state-funded financial aid to majors that “lead directly to employment” and which would survey political values of faculty at state schools and allow the state to decide who could be invited to speak on state campuses. (March 2021)
Letter to Senate appropriations committee requesting at least $10 billion for the National Science Foundation in FY2022. (March 2021)
Statement condemning anti-Asian racism. (March 2021)
Letter to Iowa lawmakers opposing legislation to end tenure at public universities. (March 2021)
Statement in solidarity with protests at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. (February 2021)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees seeking $200 million for the Institute of Education Sciences in the next emergency COVID-19 relief package. (February 2021)
Statement opposing new policy on virtual scholarly exchanges in India. (February 2021)
Endorsement of the Science and Technology Action Committee plan. (February 2021)
Letter to Congressional leadership requesting money be allocated to the National Center for Education Statistics for a School Pulse Survey. (February 2021)
Letter to House and Senate leadership advocating for Congress to include $3 billion for the National Science Foundation in the COVID-19 relief package. (January 2021)
Statement urging the Kansas Board of Regents to reconsider their decision to temporarily allow public institutions of higher education to terminate or suspend employees without declaring financial exigency. (January 2021)
Statement urging Kansas Board of Regents to uphold employment protections for faculty. (January 2021)
Endorsement of the Census IDEA Act. (January 2021)
Statement condemning the report from the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. (January 2021)
Call to higher education administrators to support caregivers during COVID-19. (December 2020)
Letter to House and Senate leadership urging swift action to complete work on the FY2021 appropriations bill with meaningful increases for federal science agencies. (December 2020)
Endorsement of “A Call to Action: Marshalling Science for Society” urging policymakers to act on the best information that scientists provide. (November 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees in support of FY2021 Bureau of Economic Analysis appropriations. (November 2020)
Document for the Commerce Department transition agency review team with priorities for the Bureau of Economic Analysis. (November 2020)
Letter asking Senators to allow sufficient time for data processing and quality assurance for the 2020 Census. (October 2020)
Letter from presidents of professional sociological organizations in support of scholars threatened with termination and/or financial penalty for their participation in #scholarstrike. (October 2020)
Letter to the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy opposing the executive order on combating race and sex stereotyping. (September 2020)
Statement in support of anti-racist education. (September 2020)
Statement on the White House Conference on American History deploring the tendentious use of history and history education to stoke politically motivated culture wars. (September 2020)
Endorsement of 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act. (September 2020)
Letter to the National Science Foundation encouraging support for society activity. (September 2020)
Statement supporting sociologists who participate in #ScholarStrike. (September 2020)
Letter supporting Congresswoman Bernice Johnson’s call for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to undertake a study to acknowledge and assess systemic racism in academia. (September 2020)
Statement on COVID-19 and the key role of the humanities and social sciences in the United States. (September 2020)
Letter to Senate leadership urging them to include language in the next Senate COVID-19 relief package that would extend the statutory reporting deadlines for the 2020 Census. (August 2020)
Letter urging the administration not to bypass the Centers for Disease Control in the collection of COVID-19 patient data. (July 2020)
Letter to Vice President Pence supporting science and public health experts who are leading our efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. (July 2020)
Statement expressing concern about the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law. (July 2020)
Statement on ethics and Black Lives Matter research. (July 2020)
Letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement urging reversal of decision to end temporary visa exemptions for international students whose upcoming coursework will be entirely online. (July 2020)
Letter to House appropriations committee in support of providing the Census Bureau with additional funding in the next COVID relief package. (June 2020)
Letter to Senate leadership urging swift vote on nominee for Director of the National Science Foundation. (June 2020)
Letter to House and Senate leadership encouraging the provision of substantial additional funding for higher education, with focus on those students and institutions hardest hit by the consequences of the pandemic, in future COVID-19 relief bills. (June 2020)
Statement condemning systemic racism in the criminal justice system. (June 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees recommending funding for International education and Foreign Language Studies, including funds for HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs. For FY2021. (May 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees requesting financial support in FY2021 for the Census Bureau. (May 2020)
Letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator asking to rescind the rule “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.” (May 2020)
Letter to administrators at Ohio University asking them to consider the value of sociology and anthropology as they consider cuts. (May 2020)
Statement condemning racism and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans. (May 2020)
Call to higher education administrators regarding student educational progress during COVID-19. (April 2020)
Endorsement of a Dear College letter from Representatives DeGette and Upton reflecting the request submitted by the higher education community for stimulus funds for research related relief. (April 2020)
Letter to House and Senate leadership supporting Congressional resolutions to denounce anti-Asian discrimination as related to COVID-19. (April 2020)
Statement supporting sociologists around the world during COVID-19. (April 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees requesting increased FY2021 funding for the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (April 2020)
Letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the 30-day comment period on the Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule and ultimately halt implementation of the rule. (April 2020)
Letter to House committee leadership with recommendations for consideration for the economic stimulus package for the National Science Foundation. (April 2020)
Letter to House and Senate leadership requesting that Congress prioritize the need for valid, reliable data about the challenges facing our country in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. (April 2020)
Statement supporting graduate students and faculty during COVID-19. (April 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees supporting the administration’s request of $112 million for the Bureau of Economic Analysis for FY2021. (April 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees asking to provide $50 million in funding shared evenly between the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. (March 2020)
Call to higher education administrators regarding faculty review and reappointment processes during the COVID-19 crisis. (March 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees supporting a funding level of at least $189 million for the National Center for Health Statistics in FY2021. (March 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees requesting at least a $9 billion FY2021 appropriation for the National Science Foundation. (March 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees requesting the highest possible FY2021 allocation for the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittees, sufficient to fully fund the basic and applied research programs in the CJS portfolio. (March 2020)
Statement reaffirming ASA’s commitment to scholarly freedom. (March 2020)
Statement on Human Rights and the Application and Practice of Sociology. (March 2020)
Letter to House and Senate leadership urging completion of the FY2021 appropriations process before current funding expires and requesting robust funding for our nation’s science agencies. (March 2020)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees encouraging support for the Institute of Education Sciences in FY2021. (February 2020)
Statement condemning online harassment. (February 2020)
Letter to President Trump expressing concerns about a possible change in federal policies regarding open access. (December 2019)
Endorsement of the Schatz-Murkowski 2020 Census resolution recognizing the importance and significance of the 2020 Census and encouraging participation from across the country to ensure a complete and accurate count. (November 2019)
Statement on combatting white supremacy: a sociological perspective on current events. (November 2019)
Letter to the congressional committee leadership in advance of the hearing on the proposed Environmental Protection Agency Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule registering ongoing concern. (November 2019)
Comment on a proposed rule by the National Labor Relations Board on student employment. (October 2019)
Letter to the Director of the National Science Foundation expressing support for the agency’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (October 2019)
Statement standing in solidarity with colleagues at Wake Forest University who are under attack for their research and their commitment to diversity and inclusion. (September 2019)
Letter to department of Education officials expressing concern regarding an inquiry a Middle Eastern Studies program that constitutes an intervention into academic curricula that threatens the autonomy of our country’s institutions of higher education. (September 2019)
Statement on reconsidering student evaluations of teaching. (September 2019)
Letter to Turkish judges expressing support for the rights of scholars to sign the Academics for Peace Petition in Turkey (July 2019)
Endorsement of The Improving Justice Programs through Science Act of 2019. (June 2019)
Letter to the President of Turkey to express concern regarding the treatment of scholars who were signatories to the 2016 Academics for Peace petition and request reversal of conviction of sociologist. (June 2019)
Letter commenting on the Proposed Priorities for the Institute of Education Sciences. (May 2019)
Letter to the Stanford University administration requesting the long-term sustainability of Stanford University Press. (May 2019)
Letter to Brazilian government leadership asking them to reconsider defunding sociology and philosophy. (May 2019)
Letter to Stanford University administration encouraging them to reconsider the decision to discontinue providing financial support to the Stanford University Press. (April 2019)
Letter to government officials in Alaska expressing concern about proposed funding cuts for higher education in the state. (March 2019)
Letter to House and Senate leadership thanking them for passing the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019. (February 2019)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committee requesting $175 million in budget authority in FY2020 for the National Center for Health Statistics. (February 2019)
Letter to the US Ambassador to Hungary expressing opposition to the proposed changes in governance to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences which put research institutes under political control. (February 2019)
Letter to House and Senate appropriations committees thanking them for the language accompanying the FY2019 spending bills that slows down the proposed moves of the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture outside of the Capital region. (February 2019)
Comments on proposed amendments to Title IX implementing regulations for the Department of Education. (January 2019)
Letter to President Trump and Congressional leaders urging them to end the government shutdown and enact a FY2019 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill with at least $8.175 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation. (January 2019)
Letter to Chinese government officials encouraging China to drop charges against leaders of Occupy Central and Umbrella Movement, including sociologists. (December 2018)
Letter to Secretary of Commerce Ross regarding the importance of ensuring data confidentiality protections for the Census. (December 2018)
Letter to National Institutes of Health leadership commenting on the registration and results reporting standards for prospective basic science studies involving human participants. (November 2018)
Letter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services objecting to the new proposed definition of sex. (October 2018)
Letter to National Institutes of Health leadership expressing concern with the expanded definition of clinical trails and supporting a registration and reporting system appropriately tailored to basic science. (October 2018)
Amicus brief objecting to inclusion of citizenship question in the 2020 Census. (October 2018)
Statement on the importance of free movement of scholars across borders. (September 2018)
Mobilization of action to ensure continued access to the data products that are important to sociologists’ work. (September 2018)
Letter to Senate appropriations committee on preserving the Economic Research Service effectiveness as a research agency in the Capital vicinity. (August 2018)
Statement on fair labor practices. (August 2018)
Comment for the federal register to the Department of Commerce opposing inclusion of citizenship question in the 2020 Census. (August 2018)
Endorsement of International Pronouns Day. (August 2018)
Endorsement of the 2020 Census IDEA Act. (May 2018)
Letter to the Department of State expressing concerns regarding the Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for Nonimmigrant Visa. (May 2018)
Letter to the Governor of Puerto Rico urging him to keep Puerto Rico’s statistical agency and its board of directors fully independent. (May 2018)
Letter to the State Secretary for Education in Hungary imploring him to reject a draft decree from the Ministry of Human Resources and the Ministry of Justice that calls for the abolishment of Gender Studies programs. (April 2018)
Support the Scientific Integrity Act. (April 2018)
Mobilization of members to fight against adding citizenship question to the 2020 Census. (March 2018)
Letter to the Prime Minister of Denmark asking him to change the law which compromises the right to free expression under which several scholars, including a sociologist, were charged and to drop the charges. (March 2018)
Mobilization of participation in the March for Science. (March 2018)
Letter urging the administration at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to reconsider the recommended elimination of 13 undergraduate majors, including sociology. (March 2018)
Letter asking Congress to provide dedicated federal funding for research into gun violence. (March 2018)
Letter to Canadian and American governments asking them to call for an international human rights investigation of sociologist Seyed Emami’s death in an Iranian prison. (February 2018)
Statement condemning Polish law criminalizing public discussion of Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes as an affront to freedom of expression. (February 2018)
Letter to Commerce Secretary Ross opposing the Department of Justice request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. (January 2018)
Statement expressing concern with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the American territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Maria. (October 2017)
Statement calling on President Trump to reverse his decision to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals Program. (September 2017)
Statement opposing the Justice Department’s plan to begin “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.” (August 2017)
Statement on communicating across difference: free and responsible speech. (August 2017)
Letter to the Office of Management and Budget and Department of State expressing concerns regarding the Notice of Information Collection under OMB Emergency Review: Supplemental Questions for Visa Applicants. (May 2017)
Letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees encouraging them to reflect on the importance of the Federal statistical system during policy, legislative, budget, and appropriations deliberations to ensure we have the necessary data to make evidence-based decisions. (April 2017)
Letter to Hungary’s Minister of Human Capacities expressing concern about proposed legislative changes to the status of Central European University. (April 2017)
Letter to President Trump expressing support for administrative policies on sex segregation that treat transgender students as members of their professed gender for all school-sponsored activities. (March 2017)
Two letters to Congress opposing restrictions on geospatial and racial disparities data. (February/March, 2017)
Letter to President Trump urging him to rescind the Executive Order regarding entry into the United States for people from seven majority Muslim countries. (February 2017)
Letter to the President of Poland criticizing a new law that punishes those who study Poland’s past and reach a well-researched conclusion that is opposite to the Polish government’s narrative. (December 2016)
Letter to the Prime Minister of Turkey expressing concern about actions the Turkish government has taken against signatories to the Academics for Peace statement. (January 2016)
Amicus brief in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin et al. (December 2015)
Amicus brief supporting marriage equality with social science consensus that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by different-sex parents. (March 2015)
Amicus brief on Kitchen et al. v. Herbert et al. (January 2014)
Amicus brief on Hollingsworth et al. v. Perry et al. and U.S. v. Windsor and Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the US House of Representatives. (January 2013)
Statement expressing concern about the U.S. government’s declining support for the study of foreign languages as well as prominent policy leaders’ public statements downplaying the importance of American students learning languages other than English. (February 2012)
Statement calling upon the U.S. Court of Appeals to acknowledge the importance to a free society of protecting from subpoena confidential research information. (February 2012)
Statement opposing the State of Arizona’s anti-ethnic studies law. (January 2012)
Amicus brief on Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin et al. (January 2012)
Statement condemning recent escalation of violent rhetoric against sociologist. (February 2011)
Amicus brief on Wal-mart Stores Inc v. Betty Dukes. (January 2011)
Statement supporting sociologists worldwide who are endangered by their sociological writings and ideas. (September 2010)
Statement affirming and expanding the commitment of the ASA to human rights. (August 2009)
Statement on the Employee Free Choice Act. (August 2009)
Statement affirming commitment to the independence, transparency, and scientific leadership of federal agencies that conduct and support research and collect statistical data that are vital to the well-being of American society. (February 2009)
Statement on free movement of scholars and scholarship across national borders. (August 2007)
Statement on the uses of social science research. (August 2007)
Statement calling for discontinuing the use of Native American nicknames, logos and mascots in sport. (March 2007)
Statement on academic freedom and Cuba. (February 2007)
Statement on creationism and related religious doctrines in U.S. science education. (October 2006)
Statement on academic independence and scientific integrity. (September 2006)
Amicus brief on Cook et al. v. Rumsfeld and Ridge. (January 2006)
Statement on human rights. (August 2005)
Statement on the causes of gender differences in science and math career achievement. (February 2005)
Statement urging the President of the United States to consider scientific expertise as the primary basis for soliciting and nominating or appointing advisors to scientific, technological, and health-related posts or governmental advisory committees. (August 2004)
Statement on government vetting of scientists. (August 2004)
Statement against the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. (June 2004)
Statement on the importance of collecting data and doing social scientific research on race. (January 2003)
Amicus brief on Barbara Grutter v. Lee Bollinger et al. (January 2003)