September 2021 Issue
- Calls for Papers
- Fellowship
- Editorship
- Events
- Awards
- Accomplishments
- In the News
- New Books
- Deaths
- Obituaries
Calls for Papers
The 12th Annual International Conference on Stigma seeks abstracts for its upcoming conference on the theme of “Trauma, Recovery, and Healing,” a hybrid conference hosted by Howard University, Washington, DC, November 15–November 19, 2021. Send an abstract, with a maximum of 300 words, to Victoria Hoverman at [email protected] by 5 p.m. Eastern, October 1, 2021. Find additional information here.
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, and videos) for the program of the 82nd Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, March 22–26, 2022. The theme of the program is “The Revolutionary Potential of the Social Sciences: Transforming Possibilities.” The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2021. Additional information is available on the SfAA website.
The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) seeks submissions to present at its 93rd Annual Meeting/Conference on April 7–10, 2022 in Sacramento, CA. The theme of the meeting is “Telling Our Stories: Collective Memory and Narratives of Race, Gender, and Community Identity.” Pending status of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference is planned to have both onsite/in-person and virtual components. Submissions to present open until November 1, 2021 (December 3 for undergraduate students); indicate your preference for in person or virtual. For more information, visit the PSA website.
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–February 26, 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.
Fellowship
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announces a call for applications for the 2022 Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF) program. Open to tenured, or similarly ranked, faculty from U.S. institutions of higher learning who are U.S. citizens, the JSF program serves as an innovative model for engaging the American academic science, technology, engineering, and medical communities in U.S. foreign policy and international development. Fellows spend one year on assignment at the U.S. Department of State or USAID contributing to the work of foreign policy or international development issues. Online applications will be accepted August 2–October 15, 2021. Learn more about the JSF program and apply here.
Editorship
The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) is seeking new editor(s) for its official journal, Sociological Perspectives, for a three-year term (2023–2025). The journal publishes six issues per year on the breadth of sociological inquiry; special issues are also encouraged. Applicants should reside in the PSA region, have a strong publishing record, organizational and management experience, and be committed to PSA’s mission. Read full information here. Letters of interest due by November 1, 2021.
Events
Penn State’s Population Research Institute (PRI) will host the 16th Annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography on October 1, 2021. Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Population Aging Research Center at University of Pennsylvania, will present findings on how respondents in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) have been affected by HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, and how they have managed to survive through challenging times. The event is free and open to everyone. Registration is required. For more information on the lecture, visit the PRI website.
Environmental Impacts on Families: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation is Penn State PRI’s 29th Annual Symposium on Family Issues, October 25–26, 2021. Toward stimulating novel interdisciplinary and translational research on families, the 2021 symposium will interrogate the role of the physical environment in family relationships, behaviors, and well-being, with a focus on three key dimensions: environmental disasters, climate change, and the built environment. Registration is required. More information about the symposium is available here.
The South Carolina Sociological Association 2022 Annual Meeting, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, will be held February 25–26, 2022. The theme is “Paying Sociology Forward: Lessons We Want Others to (Un)Learn.” For more information, visit the SCSA website.
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) will hold its 82nd Annual Meeting March 22–26, 2022, in Salt Lake City, UT. The meeting offers researchers, practitioners, and students from diverse disciplines and organizations the opportunity to discuss their work and consider how it can contribute to a better future. SfAA members come from a host of disciplines—anthropology, geography, sociology, economics, business, planning, medicine, nursing, law, and more. The annual meeting provides a fertile venue in which to trade ideas, methods, and practical solutions, as well as an opportunity to enter the lifeworlds of other professionals. For information, visit the SfAA website.
The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) will hold its 93rd Annual Meeting/Conference April 7–10, 2022, in Sacramento, CA. The theme of the meeting is “Telling Our Stories: Collective Memory and Narratives of Race, Gender, and Community Identity.” The study of collective memory is an interdisciplinary and intersectional nexus of several disciplines. As sociologists how do we use the canon of our discipline, the theories that engage our discipline into that of memory, and the collective consciousness of our society?Pending status of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference is planned to have both in-person and virtual components. For more information, visit PSA website.
Awards
Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University, received the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s 2020 Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement, its highest honor. Bobo was named the winner for advancing theory, methods, and data infrastructure on public opinion research and promoting understanding of racial attitudes among the public, the media, and policymakers. Bobo was also named recipient of the 2021 Warren Mitofsky Award from The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. The award recognizes Bobo’s scholarly contributions to understanding public opinion, in particular the opinions of and about African Americans.
Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, and Darina Lepadatu, Kennesaw State University, received the International Lean Six Sigma Institute’s Best Book Award for 2021 for The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Accomplishments
Selina Gallo-Cruz, College of the Holy Cross, has been selected as a 2021 Tampere University Fulbright Scholar (Finland) and as Visiting Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance at Harvard University for her developing research project on city climate planning.
In the News
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, California State University-Long Beach, Charmaine Chua, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Spencer Louis Potiker, University of California-Irvine authored the article “Amazon’s Investments in Israel Reveal Complicity in Settlements and Military Operations: Before you click buy on Prime Day, consider Amazon’s role in terrorizing Palestinians,” in June 22, 2021, edition of The Nation.
Chloe E. Bird, Pardee RAND Graduate School, had her work profiled in the article “Chole Bird ’86 Minds the Gap,” in the Spring 2021 issue of Oberlin, the Oberlin alumni magazine.
Pawan H. Dhingra, Amherst College, had an op-ed on education and inequality published in Time magazine on July 28, 2021. A review of his book Hyper Education appeared in the July 26, 2021 issue of The Wall Street Journal.
Ellis P. Monk, Harvard University, and Nancy López, University of New Mexico, were quoted in the June 19, 2021, Associated Press article “Beyond ‘In the Heights,’ Colorism Persists, Rarely Addressed.”
New Books
Rene Almeling, Yale University, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020).
Patricia Anderson, University of the West Indies, Masculinity and Fathering in Jamaica (The University of the West Indies Press, 2021).
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, and David R. Johnson, PennState, Varieties of Atheism in Science (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Christina Ergas, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Emily Erikson, Yale University, Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Columbia University Press, 2021).
Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University, The White Racial Frame (Routledge, 2020).
Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University, and Edna Chun, Columbia University, Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020) and Who Killed Higher Education (Routledge, 2021).
Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University, and Kimberly Ducey, University of Winnipeg, Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family (Routledge, 2021).
Selina Gallo-Cruz, College of the Holy Cross, Political Invisibility and Mobilization: Women against State Violence in Argentina, Yugoslavia, and Liberia (Routledge, 2021).
Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Isaac William Martin, University of California-San Diego, Eds. The New Handbook of Political Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, and Darina Lepadatu, Kennesaw State University, Eds. The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production: Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Darina Lepadatu, Kennesaw State University, and Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, Framing and Managing Lean Organizations in the New Economy (Routledge, 2020).
Beverly Lindsay, University of California, Comparative and International Education: Leading Perspectives from the Field (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California-Santa Cruz, Contextual Social Psychology: Reanalyzing Prejudice, Voting, and Intergroup Contact (American Psychological Association, 2021).
Salvador Santino F. Regilme, Jr., Leiden University, Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia (University of Michigan Press, 2021).
Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Society and the Death of God (Routledge, 2021).
Jack Rothman, University of California- Los Angeles, Delayed Harvest (2021).
Hermann Strasser, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Amelie Duckwitz, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Promis im Wandel: Von den Celebritys zu den Influencern (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021).
A. Javier Treviño, Wheaton College, The Emerald Guide to C. Wright Mills (Emerald, 2021).
Hannah Wohl, University of California-Santa Barbara, How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Deaths
James Loewen, author of the best-selling book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Simon and Schuster, 1996) and recognized by ASA in 2012 with its Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, passed away on August 19, 2021. Loewen’s research, teaching, publishing, and testifying helped to turn the careful, rigorous practice of sociology into an instrument for pursuing social justice. His passing is a loss suffered by his friends and colleagues.
Katherine J. Rosich, who served in several consulting roles for the ASA over time, passed away in Washington, DC, after a short illness on July 5, 2021. Born in 1942 in Ellscott, Alberta, Canada, Rosich’s career also included 20 years as technical services director at the American Bar Foundation; information systems manager at Chicago Legal Aid Bureau; and, from 1988 until her death, a senior policy analyst at the American Educational Research Association. Everything Rosich did reflected her love of family, friends, cultures, and a continuing need to learn; she will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
Obituaries
1942–2021
Gordon Clanton, professor of sociology at San Diego State University, died July 13, 2021, at age 79. From Baton Rouge, LA, Clanton was the first of his family to go to college. He received a BA in chemistry from Louisiana State University (1964), a MDiv from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1967), and a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California-Berkeley (1973). Clanton taught for a short while in the religion department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In 1975, Clanton took a position in the sociology department at San Diego State University (SDSU), where he taught until his retirement in 2008.
Clanton always said he was lucky in his teachers. He was a student of Robert N. Bellah (at Berkeley) and of Peter L. Berger (with whom he taught at Rutgers). Clanton wrote his doctoral thesis on Berger and the reconstruction of the sociology of religion. Both mentors encouraged and informed his career-long interest in social aspects of religion, which culminated in his book American Religious Diversity: Religious Literacy in a Secular Age.
A pioneer in the sociology of emotions, Clanton was a founding member of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotions. His 1977 book Jealousy (Prentice-Hall, 1977), with Lynn G. Smith, is still in print and remains a standard reference work on this topic. His 2006 article “Jealousy and Envy” in the Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions demonstrated the social usefulness of these emotions, their cross-cultural variations, and their changes over time.
Clanton was active in the American Sociological Association and the Pacific Sociological Association. He was a founding member of the California Sociological Association, serving as president in 1999. He also was president in 1980 of the San Diego Society for Sex Therapy and Education and a fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education (now known as Society for the Future of Education) since 1971.
Clanton was a committed teacher who loved his job. He put his own stamp on courses including Sociology of Religion, American Society and Institutions, Minority Group Relations, and his pioneering signature course—Love, Jealousy, and Envy: The Sociology of Emotions. He stirred and engaged his students, and he enjoyed and learned from them. He won the SDSU sociology department’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2004.
Clanton also wrote about issues of higher education including the articles “A Semi-Painless Way to Improve Student Writing” (Thought & Action, Spring 1997) and “The Scandalous Cost of Textbooks” (NEA Advocate, November 2011). After his retirement, Clanton worked on a book, Teaching and Learning at College Level, a handbook for college and university teachers that calls for higher standards and more challenging writing assignments.
Clanton was also deeply engaged in the politics and community affairs of San Diego and Del Mar. Since the 1980s he wrote hundreds of opinion pieces for local newspapers including the Del Mar Times. After retiring from SDSU, Clanton devoted himself to his scholarly writing, to his column for local newspapers, and to the occasional op-ed. He liked to quote his mentor Robert Bellah, who told him, “Gordon, when you are retired you will be busier than ever.”
Clanton was a member of the City Club of San Diego, the Del Mar Historical Society, and the LSU Alumni of San Diego. He was vice president for programs for the Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club and board member of Del Mar Community Connections, a local nonprofit.
Charles R. Tittle
1939–2021
Charles R. Tittle passed away on May 6, 2021, at the age of 82. He is survived by his beloved partner, Mabe; his son, Mark; and his faithful service dog, Kota. He will be remembered as a passionate scholar, devoted mentor, and loyal friend.
Always the scholar, Tittle was high school valedictorian, received a BA in sociology and history from Ouachita Baptist College in 1961 and completed an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1963 and 1965, respectively. His career included positions at Indiana University, Florida Atlantic University, Washington State University, and NC State University, where he was the Goodnight-Glaxo Wellcome Endowed Chair of Social Science at NC State. He retired in 2015 and since then spent his time reading, writing, and enjoying the outdoors from his cabin in the mountains of East Tennessee.
Tittle spent his career illuminating the theoretical intricacies and empirical properties of social control. His early work focused on deterrence and the mechanisms through which sanctions affect behavior. This work—coupled with his interests in theory testing, measurement, and integration—inspired Tittle’s control-balance theory. The resulting book, Control Balance: Toward a General Theory of Deviance (Routledge, 1995), won the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award and the American Sociological Association’s Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award, both in 1997. In the following years, Tittle made significant contributions to cross-national research on causes of crime in understudied sociocultural contexts around the globe.
Tittle published several books, and his many articles (often coauthored with graduate students and junior faculty whom he mentored over the years) appeared in top journals, including Criminology, a journal for which he served five years as editor (1992–1997). In this role, he helped to cement Criminology as the premier outlet for cutting-edge, theory-driven criminological scholarship. In recognition of his contributions, he was inducted as a fellow of the ASC and received its Edwin H. Sutherland Award in 1998 for a career of distinguished scholarship.
Tittle had high expectations of himself, his students, and those he cared about. He showed a fierce loyalty to those he was close with, fostering enduring friendships. Tittle also loved to entertain. He was an excellent chef and a consummate host. He valued intellectual exchange, but also appreciated light-hearted conversation and a good laugh. The sociology and criminology communities are mourning the loss of an intellectual giant, and those of us lucky enough to be close to him are mourning the loss of an influential mentor and loyal friend.
Lisa Broidy, University of New Mexico; Olena Antonaccio, University of Miami; and Ekaterina Botchkovar, Northeastern University
Michele “Mike” Wilson
1942–2021
Michele “Mike” Wilson passed away May 30, 2021. She was born December 8, 1942, in Puerto Rico to a military family. Her parents were politically active and passed on their activist genes to Wilson, who earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Connecticut in 1978.
Wilson retired as associate professor of sociology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2008 and continued teaching for the university for several years afterward. She taught Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, the Sociology of Gender, and Deviance and had a large following of students, receiving the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. Wilson was a scholar/activist. She founded and directed the Women’s Studies Program at UAB and also studied government leaders and activism in government, the civil rights movement, and abortion rights. In 2006, she received the UAB President’s Diversity Champion Award for her tireless work in equality.
Wilson enjoyed attending conferences and bringing groups of undergraduates to them. She also advocated for female graduate students in the 1980s through the 2000s—a period of time during which she went from being the only female professor in the sociology department, to retiring alongside equal numbers of male and female professors in the department.
She was committed and steadfast in her activism and courageous in her fight for equality for women. She headed the local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and escorted women to and from Planned Parenthood and across protest lines. Also, she was instrumental in setting up Birmingham’s suicide prevention call center. She worked tirelessly for the civil rights movement and promoting racial equality in Birmingham with her beloved husband, Jack Zylman, III (deceased 2013).
The sociology department mourns her death. She was brave and ahead of her time. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests any memorial gifts be made to the Dr. Mike Wilson and Professor Becky Trigg Endowed Award at UAB, which gives a scholarship to a deserving undergraduate who is academically successful and dedicated to activism and/or gender equity. Gifts can be mailed to UAB Gift Records, AB 1230, 1720 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0112, or online.
Patricia Drentea, The University of Alabama at Birmingham