November 2021 Issue
- Calls for Papers: Publications
- Calls for Papers: Conferences
- Call for Proposals
- Funding
- Calls for Summer School, Presidential Scholars
- Accomplishments
- In the News
- New Books
- Obituaries
Calls for Papers: Publications
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal providing a central space for cross-disciplinary, scholarly exchanges aimed at advancing the field of citizen science, is producing a special collection that will explore how citizen scientists facilitate biomedical discovery and the practical, social, legal, and ethical dimensions of their work. The broad goal of the special collection is to increase awareness of citizen science engagement in the biomedical sciences and promote dialogue among its global stakeholders. Abstracts are due before December 1, 2021. Find out more here. Questions can be directed to Whitney Bash-Brooks.
The Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship, a new edited volume on theories and practices of the publicly engaged humanities to be published in 2023 is seeking proposals. The core of this companion will consist of 25 wide-ranging, practice-based essays, exploring the history, concepts, and possible futures of publicly engaged humanities scholarship in the U.S. More information is available here, including a list of materials to email to editors by December 1, 2021.
Debates en Sociología, a peer-reviewed journal of sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), is seeking multidisciplinary articles for a special issue titled “A Social Contract for Conservation? Unpacking Struggles over Legitimacy in Latin America’s Protected Areas.” The deadline is December 12, 2021. Additional information, including about preferred themes, can be found here.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is seeking submissions for an issue on “Building an Open Qualitative Science.” The purpose of this call is to roll out American Voices Project (AVP)-based qualitative analysis by opening up the AVP dataset to qualified scholars and analysts. Research on the many topics is welcome—including health, poverty, politics, protest, employment, coping, and anomie—that the AVP interviews can assist in understanding. The submission deadline is January 5, 2022. For more information on the topics covered in this call for articles and the submission instructions and timeline, click here.
Gender & Society is seeking submissions for a special issue on race, gender, and violence in the U.S. that address a wide range of gendered racialized violences. All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the study of gender. Find more information about this issue on the journal’s website. Submit manuscripts by January 15, 2022, through this website and specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue. For additional information, contact the Corresponding Special Issue Editor Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
The new book series Higher Education and the City, from Johns Hopkins University Press, is seeking scholarly, book-length manuscript submissions that examine higher education ecosystems through the lens of urban change, with an emphasis on the past and future of cities and metropolitan areas. Contribute to ongoing dialogues about relevant cultural and social issues, the pursuit of innovation, and the relationship between higher education and economic and community development. For more information, visit the website or contact book series editor Costas Spirou.
The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers, a new reference work currently under development, represents an opportunity for publication for seasoned veterans to undergraduate students who work with a suitable mentor. The compendium will introduce readers to an assemblage of thought about educational concepts from antiquity through modernity, providing a clear and concise overview of key developments in the field by featuring profiles of seminal thinkers from Aristotle to Diane Ravitch. An emphasis has been placed on diverse thinkers who come from non-Western and Western areas. More information, including author guidelines, can be found on the website. The deadline is rolling.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Information, Medium, and Society: 20th International Conference on Publishing Studies, will explore the theme “Is Publishing a Critical Infrastructure? Innovation, Creativity, and Resilience in an Age of Artificial Intelligence,” and will take place at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece, June 21–22, 2022. Brought together by a shared interest in investigating publishing practices as distinctive modes of social knowledge production, the Publishing Studies Research Network invites proposals on several themes, which you can read more about here. The deadline is November 21, 2021.
The 17th International Conference on the Arts in Society, on the theme “History/Histories: From the Limits of Representation to the Boundaries of Narrative,” will be held at San Jorge University in Zaragoza, Spain, July 4–6, 2022. The Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society and is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, and developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world. It invites proposals on one of the themes listed here. The deadline is December 4, 2021.
The 22nd International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations will be on the theme “Organizational Memetics: Nature-Centered Perspectives on Organizations,” and will take place at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, January 14–15, 2022. The conference will explore new possibilities in knowledge, culture, and change management within the broader context of the nature and future of organizations and their impact on society. It invites proposals on several themes. The deadline is December 14, 2021. For more information, visit the website.
The VI International Conference of Development Studies (VI CIED) is an initiative of the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES- Red Española de Estudios del Desarrollo) and it is organized by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The conference will be held on June 8–10, 2022, at the IBEI facilities and at the Ciutadella campus of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. It is open to researchers, practitioners, and social organizations from different countries, particularly REEDES members, who wish to present their recent research related to the field of development studies. For more information on the conference, visit the website. Abstracts are due by December 30, 2021, and information on submission can be found here.
The South Carolina Sociological Association (SCSA) seeks proposals for thematic papers, research papers, panel sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and author-meets-critic sessions for its 2022 annual meeting at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, February 25–26, 2022, on the theme of “Paying Sociology Forward: Lessons We Want Others to (Un)Learn.” Preference given to proposals received prior to December 31, 2021. Find more information on the SCSA website.
The 18th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society will be on the theme “Trust, Surveillance, Democracy,” and will take place at the National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan, April 15–16, 2022. The conference will explore the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge, and society and invites proposals on several themes. The proposal deadline is January 15, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
The 17th International Conference on Social Stress Research is now accepting submissions of full papers or extended abstracts. For more information, visit the website. Email submissions by January 21, 2022, to [email protected].
The 12th International Conference on the Constructed Environment will be held on the theme “Design Reset: Constructing New Environments for Living, Work and Play,” at the University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, April 28–29, 2022. The Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social, and natural environments, and seeks to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. It invites proposals addressing one of the themes listed here. The deadline is January 28, 2022.
The 22nd International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations on the theme of “Rethinking the Local: Who, How, Why?” will be held at the University of Curaçao, Willemstad, Curaçao, June 2–4, 2022. Brought together by a shared interest in human differences and diversity, and their varied manifestations in organizations, communities, and nations, the Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations Research Network invites proposals on one of the themes listed here. The deadline is March 2, 2021.
Call for Proposals
The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging, funded by the National Institute on Aging, invites investigators to submit proposals for pilot research related to U.S. rural population health and aging trends and disparities. Projects will begin as early as March 15, 2022. Grant proposals are due December 10, 2021. Find out more in the RFP here.
Funding
The Social Science Research Council/National Endowment for the Humanities’ Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) invites applications for grants of up to $100,000 from U.S. colleges, universities, and nonprofit humanities research or educational organizations to help restore, sustain, and recover from the pandemic, with an emphasis on applications with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Find out more about the award and application process here. The deadline for submission is December 7, 2021.
The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association has established the BIPOC Scholar Travel Award to recognize the excellent work of scholars who identify as Black, Indigenous, or other underrepresented people of color. This award is given to a BIPOC scholar whose conference paper demonstrates significant ingenuity, intervention, or promise in the field of nineteenth-century studies. The winner will receive $500 to defray the cost of attending the 2022 conference on radicalism and reform on March 16–19, 2022, in Rochester, NY, at which scholars will present their work. You can find more information about the BIPOC Travel Award here. The association also offers the Faculty Development Travel Award, the Student Travel Grant, and the Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award. The application deadline for these awards is January 15, 2022.
Calls for Summer School, Presidential Scholars
The Orient-Institut Beirut, in collaboration with the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre, invites doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to apply for an international summer school, entitled “Moving Biography,” that will take place in Beirut, Lebanon, June 1–8, 2022. Application information can be found here. The deadline is November 30, 2021.
The Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University invites applications for interdisciplinary postdoctoral positions to begin on July 1, 2022. Selected applicants will join our existing Presidential Scholars and a large group of mentors and affiliated faculty from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The application deadline is December 13, 2021. For more information, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Chloe Bird, RAND Corporation, was the opening speaker at the National Institute of Health’s congressionally requested virtual conference “Advancing NIH Research on the Health of Women.”
Kenneth Ferraro, Purdue University, was awarded the Robert W. Kleemeier Award from the Gerontological Society of America, in recognition of outstanding research in the field of gerontology.
Mary Frank Fox has been named Dean’s Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Rachel Gordon has become Executive Director of the Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a leading university-level research center that produces rigorous, innovative, and actionable knowledge in order to ensure that all children get a strong start and continuous support for excelling in school and life.
Reuben Jonathan Miller, University of Chicago, has been appointed as research professor at the American Bar Association, where he will serve the legal profession, the academy, and the public through empirical research and programs that advance justice and understanding of the law.
Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University, has been appointed University Professor, a prestigious distinction granted to faculty who excel in their fields and who have made extraordinary scholarly contributions as judged by their peers nationally and internationally.
Lori Peek, University of Colorado Boulder, testified October 27, 2021, on “Ensuring Equity in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery” for the House Homeland Security Committee.
Elizabeth Ziff, University of Indianapolis, was recognized as a best paper finalist at the 128th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for “An Exploration of Social and Educational Influences on User-Centered Design: Revisiting a Compatibility Questionnaire,” a paper she coauthored with Megan Hammond and Joan Martinez.
In the News
Michael Bader, American University, authored the opinion piece “Trump Fixed One Racially Unfair Tax Policy. Now the Democrats Want to Bring It Back,” in the September 29, 2021, issue of Politico.
Liz Chiarello, Saint Louis University, was quoted in the article “Walmart, CVS Face Billions in Claims They Fueled Opioid Woes,” in Bloomberg News on October 4, 2021, and was interviewed on Bloomberg’s Quicktake Charge show on October 6, 2021, about the opioid crisis.
Caitlyn Collins, Washington University in St. Louis; William Scarborough, University of North Texas; and Richard Petts, Ball State University, were quoted in the article “The Gender Researcher’s Guide to an Equal Marriage,” on October 6, 2021, in The Atlantic.
Chris Knoester and James Tompsett, both from Ohio State University, and Kirsten Hextrum, University of Oklahoma, looked at how family socioeconomic status affects the likelihood of becoming a college athlete in their article “Why Some College Sports Are Often Out of Reach for Students from Low-Income Families,” from the October 4, 2021, edition of The Conversation.
Nancy López, University of New Mexico; Cristina G. Mora, University of California-Berkeley; and Clara Rodriquez, Fordham University were quoted in the piece “1 in 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ on the U.S. Census. That’s a Big Data Problem,” reported by Hansi Lo Wang on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday on September 30, 2021.
Marya T. Mtshali, Harvard University, recently authored the opinion pieces “The Great Outdoors Was Made for White People,” in the May 28, 2021, edition of The Nation, and “White People in Interracial Relationships Understand Racism Better, Sure, but at What Cost to Black Partners?” on March 11, 2021, in Cosmopolitan. Mtshali was also recently quoted in the articles “How Bots and Dead Accounts Helped Drive One Ma’Khia Bryant Narrative,” in Columbus Alive on April 30, 2021; “Why Marriage is Still a Sexist Institution—and What We Can Do about It,” in the August 4, 2021, edition of USA Today; and “A Quarter of Americans Have Recently Witnessed Someone Blame Asians for COVID-19,” on March 22, 2021, in MarketWatch.
Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, authored the opinion piece, “Why the Federal Poverty Line Doesn’t Begin to Tell the Story of Poverty in the U.S.,” in the September 24, 2021, edition of the Los Angeles Times.
David Pettinicchio, University of Toronto, and Michelle Maroto, University of Alberta, were quoted in the article “Studies Show that Pandemics Have an Imbalanced Effect on People with Disabilities and Chronic Health,” in the April 21, 2021, edition of Florida News Times.
Gregory D. Squires and Antwan Jones, both of George Washington University, authored the opinion piece “Housing Policy Affects Population Health, Research Shows,” in the October 20, 2021, edition of the Baltimore Sun.
New Books
Katie L. Acosta, Georgia State University, Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition (New York University Press, 2021).
Maxine Leeds Craig, University of California-Davis, Ed., The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics (Routledge, 2021).
Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College and University of South Florida, The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Columbia University Press, 2022).
Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Loughborough University, Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press, 2020); Social Movements in a Globalized World (Red Globe Press, 2020); and with Ramón Feenstra, Eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Routledge, 2020).
Nicole Fox, California State University-Sacramento, After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021).
Jeffrey Guhin, University of California-Los Angeles, Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Joseph C. Hermanowicz, University of Georgia, Ed., Challenges to Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Purdue University, Lactation at Work: Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Jennifer L. Johnson, Kenyon College, Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border (University of Texas Press, 2021).
Stephen Kalberg, Boston University, Max Weber’s Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction (Routledge, 2021).
Marina Karides, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Sappho’s Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle (SUNY Press, 2021).
Katrina Kimport, University of California-San Francisco, No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Joan Liebmann-Smith with Mikhail Kogan, George Washington University, Medical Marijuana: Dr. Kogan’s Evidence-Based Guide to Medical Cannabis and CBD (Avery, 2021).
Judith Lorber, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary (Polity, 2021).
Dana M. Moss, University of Notre Dame, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California, Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Oliver Rollins, University of Washington, Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Patricia Widener, Florida Atlantic University, Toxic and Intoxicating Oil: Discovery, Resistance, and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Christine Williams, University of Texas-Austin, Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists (University of California Press, 2021).
Obituaries
1937–2021
David R. Heise, Rudy Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, died on September 28, 2021, after a brief illness.
Heise began his higher education in engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1954–56), transferring to the University of Missouri where he completed undergraduate degrees in journalism (1958) and mathematics (1959). He joined the Laboratories for Applied Sciences at the University of Chicago as a technical writer and analyst in 1959, and his first publication was a full-page report in the Chicago Sun-Times on a 1960 high-temperature physics conference. Heise began his graduate work in communications at Chicago, but soon transferred to work with Fred Strodtbeck in a NIMH training program in sociology. While a graduate student, he studied with Elihu Katz, James A. Davis, Peter Blau, Edward Shils, Otis Dudley Duncan, Peter Rossi, and Leo Goodman. He received his MA in sociology in 1962 and his PhD in sociology in 1964, both from the University of Chicago.
Before joining the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill as a full professor in 1971, Heise taught sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1963–1969) and was an associate professor of sociology at Queens College City University of New York (1969–1971). He focused his early career on methods, editing Sociological Methodology (1974–76) and Sociological Methods and Research (1980-843); publishing the book Causal Analysis (Wiley Interscience, 1975); and directing a NIMH training program. During that time, Heise also continued thinking about the core idea that motivated him in graduate school: how sociological-level phenomena can be generated by the cultural understandings and actions of individual actors. His paradigmatic statement of Affect Control Theory that addresses this question, Understanding Events: Affect and the Construction of Social Action (Cambridge University Press, 1979), was published as part of the ASA Rose Series in Sociology.
Moving from UNC to Indiana University in 1981, Heise directed another NIMH training program, joining a vibrant group of structural symbolic interactionists that trained many cohorts of prominent social psychologists. He was known as an exceptionally kind mentor to graduate students, even those working far from his own interests, and was awarded a James H. Rudy Endowed Professorship in 1990.
Following his retirement from Indiana University in 2002, Heise published four books: an updated summary of Affect Control Theory, Expressive Order: Confirming Sentiments in Social Actions (Springer, 2007); a methodological tour de force on the study of consensual meanings, Surveying Cultures: Discovering Shared Conceptions and Sentiments (Wiley, 2010); with Neil MacKinnon, a new theory of the Affect Control Theory of Self, Self, Identity, and Social Institutions (Palgrave, 2010); and an empirical analysis of the meanings of social identities and their coalescence into clusters defining social institutions, Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions: Social Organization through Language (Palgrave Pivot, 2019).
An impressively generous scholar, Heise made his data and programs freely available to the scholarly community. When someone scooped an idea, he said, “that’s great…now I know the answer, and don’t have to do that study.” He didn’t work to promote his ideas because he thought that, if they were important, they would take off on their own.
As befits an extraordinary career of productivity, Heise received four lifetime achievement awards from the American Sociological Association: the Section on Social Psychology’s Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1998, the Sociology of Emotions Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, the Section on Mathematical Sociology’s James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Achievement Award in 2010, and the Section on Methodology’s Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award in 2017. In addition, he received the International Academy for Intercultural Research’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Heise’s last professional appearance was in October 2019 at Indiana University, where he was honored by his colleagues, former students, and their current students who had gathered to celebrate his career and present new advances to the research program he established. A special double issue of American Behavioral Scientist that emerged from that conference will be published in 2022. His final article, which builds on his work on event structure analysis, will appear in that issue.
Heise is survived by his wife, Elsa Lewis; his son, Stephen, who is a director and board member of the Monroe County Civic Theater in Bloomington; and a grandson.
Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University; Neil MacKinnon, University of Guelph; and Brian Powell, Indiana University
Seymour Michael “S.M.” “Mike” Miller
1922–2021
Seymour Michael “S.M.” “Mike” Miller—sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University—passed away on October 26, 2021.
Mike grew up poor and occasionally homeless in New York, earned a BA from Brooklyn College (1943), an MA from Columbia University (1945), and an MA (1946) and a PhD (1951) from Princeton University—all in economics. From 1973 to 1988, Mike taught in (and often chaired) the sociology department at Boston University, with shorter stints at Boston College, New York University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Cornell University, and Syracuse University.
Mike was an activist-scholar from the start. In the late 1940s, Mike cofounded the magazine Ideas for Action, sharing social science tools with union and community activists. He also cofounded, and for 30 years contributed to, the magazine Social Policy, focusing on labor and community organizing around the world. For many years he brought together in his Brookline, MA, home progressive academics, activists, and policy practitioners to craft solutions to poverty, racism, and class inequalities. Fittingly, in 2009 he received ASA’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.
Former ASA President Frances Fox Piven observed that “Mike’s life reminds us of a time when a good number of sociologists took for granted that the purpose of the academic enterprise was to join in the active pursuit of a more just society.” Pamela Roby, Mike’s former graduate student and coauthor, added that “Mike presented an ongoing challenge to incorporate activism into our lives as professional sociologists—to initiate and work toward progressive change.”
Mike played key roles during the Civil Rights Movement, writing speeches for Martin Luther King Jr. and ghostwriting the economic policy appendix in King’s last book Where Do We Go from Here? Chaos or Community (Harper & Row, 1967). He organized and chaired the social science advisory committee to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Working at the Ford Foundation, he initiated grants to Latino advocacy groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and CORE.
Mike’s work was foundational in the areas of welfare rights and anti-poverty policy. He was a consultant to numerous international organizations, including the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, the International Social Science Council, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He was particularly instrumental in getting the European Union countries to adopt the idea of “relative poverty” and “social inclusion” as part of their anti-poverty efforts.
Longtime colleague Peter Dreier noted that Mike “influenced several generations of academics and activists on at least four continents. Because of his influence in helping advocacy groups and governments fight poverty, tens of millions of people around the world, who will never know Mike’s name, owe him a debt of gratitude.”
Mike was a Guggenheim Fellow; senior fellow of the Commonwealth Institute; cofounder of United for a Fair Economy; first president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Group on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy; board member of the Field Foundation; president and founder of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; president of the Eastern Sociological Society; and board member of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council.
Mike authored or coauthored more than 300 articles published in outlets ranging from the Steelworkers Bulletin to the American Sociological Review. His many books included Social Class and Social Policy (Basic Books, 1968), coauthored with Frank Riessman; The Future of Inequality (Basic Books, 1970), coauthored with Pamela Roby; Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1983), coauthored with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey; and Respect and Rights: Class, Race and Gender Today (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), coauthored with Anthony Savoie. He also coedited several books, including Applied Sociology Opportunities and Problems (Free Press, 1966), Poverty—A Global Review (Bernan Assoc.,1996), and Dynamics of Deprivation (Gower Pub. Co., 1987). His contributions to academic sociology included the concepts of fieldwork over-rapport, educational credentialism, and identifying the birth of neoliberal ideology.
He was married to feminist psychiatrist and author Jean Baker Miller, who died in 2006. They had two sons, Dr. Edward D. Miller, professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and coordinator of film studies at the Graduate Center/CUNY; and Jonathan F. Miller, CEO of Integrated Media.
Peter Dreier, Occidental College; Frances Fox Piven, the Graduate Center/CUNY; Pamela Roby, University of California-Santa Cruz; and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst