Calls for Papers: Publications
American Journal of Education invites extended abstracts for the special issue, “Relational Possibilities in Education: Social Network Analysis Illuminating Solidarity and Agency Amid Challenging Times.” This special issue seeks to highlight scholarly and methodological developments in social network analysis (SNA), further positioning SNA as a powerful conceptual and analytical lens for examining how individuals and communities cultivate solidarity, exercise agency, and build resilience across diverse learning environments. Editors especially encourage submissions from early-career scholars and individuals publishing from their dissertations. You can find more details here. The deadline for extended abstracts is November 15, 2025.
Social Science Research invites abstracts for an upcoming special issue on the theme “AI and Inequality” that seeks to test and deepen theoretical perspectives from a variety of social science traditions, including interdisciplinary science and technology studies. In doing so, editors aim to move beyond abstract debates and offer concrete, evidence-based insights to better understand how AI is shaping inequality today, and how we can all share in the benefits of new technologies. Abstracts of 500 words are due by November 17, 2025. Final paper submission deadline is July 31, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
The Journal of Elder Policy invites manuscripts that examine policies that directly impact older adults for a special issue on the theme “Elder Policy and the Life Course.” This issue will explore the meaning and impact of policies in the present and how these policies may shape outcomes in later life across contexts. Editors welcome papers that analyze policies not specifically targeted at older populations, but that have the potential to shape experiences of aging over time. Editors encourage contributions that adopt international and comparative perspectives and welcome both empirical and conceptual papers. Abstracts of 500 words are due by December 1, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences seeks submissions for an upcoming issue on “The New Asylum Seekers: Subnational Dynamics of Migration Governance in the United States.” The issue will issue examine the ways in which contemporary asylum seekers to the United States resemble and differ from other immigrants, past and present; consider how rising asylum-seeking shapes subnational responses among diverse state and non-state actors; compare the experiences of asylum-seeking newcomers with long-term unauthorized immigrants; analyzes the relationships of these groups with the U.S.-born population; and, in turn, assesses their influence on broader U.S. immigration policies. Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract by January 7, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Population Research and Policy Review seeks submissions for an upcoming issue on “Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context,” providing an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. Editors welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism that further research on the evidentiary base upon which pronatalism rests; the social, political, and cultural inspirations and implications of pronatalism; and the support for, and effects of, pronatalist policies. The submission deadline is March 1, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Gender & Society seeks papers for an issue on “Global Fault Lines: Gender, Religion, and Nationalism,” focused on exploring the urgent intersections of gender, religion, and nationalism in a time of resurgent nationalisms, right-wing religious mobilizations, and global backlash against feminism. Editors invite empirical and theoretical work that examines how these forces interact—whether through pronatalist and anti-gender ideologies, authoritarian politics, or resistances and solidarities that contest them—and are especially interested in transnational perspectives. Details and the full call are available here. Completed manuscripts, due April 11, 2026.
NPJ Climate Action invites submissions for the collection “Climate Activism: Bridging Science, Advocacy, and Public Engagement.” This collection aims to examine the evolving role of scientists in climate advocacy, tensions between objectivity and activism, and public engagement strategies (e.g., protests, media campaigns). It analyzes ethical dilemmas, policy influence, and societal perceptions of climate activism. Of interest are original research, reviews, perspectives, and case studies that address scientists as advocates, scientists as allies, policy influence, public engagement, and justice and equity. The submission deadline is May 28, 2026. To read the full call for papers, including more details on each topic, visit the website.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The 37th REVES conference will be held at Sophia University’s Yotsuya Campus in Tokyo, Japan, from March 11–13, 2026, with a workshop on March 10. This event provides a valuable opportunity for professionals engaged in the scientific study of population health to exchange knowledge, explore new research directions, and foster future collaborations. Conference themes re: cross-country comparisons of health expectancy; mortality and morbidity; social inequalities in health and mortality; population aging; and longevity and centenarians. Abstract submissions are due November 30, 2025. Read more about the conference here.
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 2026 Conference will be held on the theme “Fighting Divisions: Conflict and Power in a Post Globalisation Order,” with virtual events on June 22024, 2026, and in-person meetings in Bordeaux on July 1-3, 2026. The SASE community brings together diverse disciplines and methods, making it uniquely positioned to investigate how conflict and power operate in this changing environment. The 2026 Annual Meeting will offer a space to advance understanding of the forces shaping national and global systems today. The submission deadline is December 16, 2025. Find out more about the conference here.
The Lifespan, Policy, and Health Lab and the Center for Research on Inequality and Health invite submissions for the interdisciplinary conference “Cognitive Aging and Dementia in Policy Contexts: Life Course Perspectives,” to be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, May 28-29, 2026. This event will bring together scholars from sociology, public health, medicine, economics, demography, and related disciplines to examine how structural and policy contexts shape cognitive aging across the life course. Research is invited from diverse disciplines and methodological approaches. Submit your extended abstracts or full papers using this form. Submissions are due December 31, 2025. For questions, please email: [email protected].
Calls for Applications
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century, is a workshop for early-career researchers to be held April 16-17, 2026, at Yale University in New Haven, CT. Inspired by rapidly emerging developments in the science and politics of fertility and by the rise of gametocentric definitions of sex, as well as a decades-long tradition of gender scholarship about gametes in relation to sex, race, sexuality, and health, organizers invite contributions to a workshop for early-career researchers in the social sciences and humanities who are developing the next generation of scholarship about eggs and sperm. The aim of the workshop is to provide mentorship for further development of works-in-progress, either in the form of dissertation chapters or publishable articles. Applications are due December 1, 2025. For more information, visit the website.
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites applications to fellowships in its African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) program. APDD supports African scholars and practitioners conducting innovative, Africa-centered research on peacebuilding, governance, and developmental dynamics in conflict-affected contexts in Africa and continues to advance African-led knowledge production, foster collaborative networks, and bridge research, advocacy, and policy for sustainable peace and transformations across the continent. Learn more about eligibility criteria and application guidelines on the website. The application deadline for Individual Research Fellowships, Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowships; Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships; and Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowships is January 16, 2026.
Calls for Nominations
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) invites applications to its Visiting Scholars Program. Selected through a competitive process from among a highly qualified pool of post-doctoral social scientists working on modern Europe, CES Visiting Scholars undertake research at Harvard, participate in seminars and conferences on campus, and intellectually engage with members of our university community. Applications for the 2026-2027 academic year close on December 14, 2025. Read more about the program and how to apply here.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University and Sage are now accepting nominations for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award. Established in 2013, the Sage-CASBS Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advances our understanding of pressing social issues. The award underscores the role of the social and behavioral sciences in enriching and enhancing public discourse and good governance. The deadline for nominations is December 19, 2025. Please note that no self-nominations will be accepted. Read more about the award here.
Grant
The Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD), a National Institute on Aging funded Alzheimer’s Disease-related Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR), invites applications for its 2026 research career enrichment program. Funds are available for investigator-initiated research projects that support the development of independent NIH-funded projects. Proposals with high likelihood of advancing research on ADRD disparities, especially among Middle Eastern/Arab Americans and Latinos, are particularly encouraged. Three proposals will be selected to receive funds of up to $30,000 for one year with the grant period beginning on July 1, 2026. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please distribute this announcement within your department and/or program. Applications are due January 20, 2026. Read more about this funding opportunity here.
Event
The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting will be held on the theme “Sanctuary” in San Francisco, May 28-31, 2026, and will be an entirely in-person meeting. Today, the field of law and society offers a sanctuary for scholars searching beyond any single discipline to answer urgent questions about the legal, political, and social world. How is law and society a scholarly sanctuary, and what are the results of this? More generally, what does it mean to offer sanctuary in this political climate? Participants will discuss these questions and more. Register here
Accomplishments
Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University (retired); Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John B. Diamond, Brown University; Charles M. Payne, Rutgers University Newark; Walter W. Powell, Stanford University; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor were elected to the 2023 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductees.
Ruth Braunstein, Johns Hopkins University, delivered the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Presidential Address on November 1, 2025, titled “Religion and the Restructuring of American Politics.”
Karida Brown, Emory University, presented the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Libraries’ 30th Annual W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture on October 31, 2025, titled “Whoopty Doo: W. E. B. Du Bois on Do It Anyways.”
Laura Chávez-Moreno received the 2025 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award for her 2025 book, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press 2025).
William Corsaro, Indiana University-Bloomington, received the university’s inaugural Distinguished Scholar Award on October 8, 2025, in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to sociology and education at Indiana University. He delivered a lecture titles, “Big Ideas from Little Kids: What Research with Children Contributes to the Social Sciences and Education.”
Bo-Wei Hu and Paola Langer, Princeton University, were named Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows by the university. The fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding scholars primed to make important contributions in their fields.
Johanne Jean-Pierre received the 2025 Canadian Sociological Association Outstanding Service Award.
Veronica Elizabeth Medina, Indiana University Southeast, received a course-planning grant from Sustaining Hoosier Communities to help nearly a dozen IU Southeast sociology students hone their research skills.
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, received the Distinguished Career Award in Cuban Studies from the Latin American Studies Association’s Cuba Section at their May 2025 meeting in San Francisco.
Bernice A. Pescosolido, Indiana University-Bloomington, was named the inaugural Jim Irsay Mental Health Champion by the Indianapolis Colts and its “Kicking the Stigma” initiative.
Tia Noelle Pratt, Villanova University, delivered the keynote address for the university’s Fifth Annual Mother Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic Studies on November 10, 2025.
Yvonne Vissing, Salem State University, received a grant from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation to study homelessness encampment policy in New Hampshire. She is also a recipient of the Whiting Foundation award, travelling to Wales to meet with human rights scholars, the government, and colleagues at Swansea University. She worked in collaboration with them and the City of Salem to create a UNICEF Child Friendly Community Initiative application.
In the News
Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California, was featured in the October 25, 2025, article “Indivisible Hosts Update on Immigration Issues in OC” in the Fullerton Observer.
Kevin B. Anderson, University of California-Santa Barbara, authored the October 16, 2025, article “Trump’s ‘Peace’ Plan in Gaza a Loss for Human Liberation” in the LA Progressive.
Johanna Bockman, George Mason University, was quoted in the October 12, 2025, article “A Group of Us Ditched Our Smartphones for a Month. It Changed Us” in the Washington Post.
Bailey A. Brown, Spelman College, was profiled for the October 24, 2025, article “Why ‘School Choice’ Doesn’t Feel Empowering to Many Families” in EdSurge.
Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University, was quoted in the October 18, 2025, article “Gen Z Can’t Afford to Move Out of Their Parents’ House, & An Economist Says That’s Bad News for Everyone” on Your Tango.
Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University, commented on research completed with I-Fen Lin, Bowling Green State University, in the October 21, 2025, article “‘Gray Divorce’ Bucks National Trend” in Newsweek, which also included comments from Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University (retired).
Louise Cainkar, Marquette University, was profiled in the October 17, 2025, article “Louise Cainkar, Ph.D.—Leading Scholar of the Arab/Muslim American Experience” on the Wisconsin Muslim Journal website.
Elizabeth Chiarello, Washington University in St. Louis, authored the October 6, 2025, article “Conflict at the Drugstore: When Pharmacists’ and Patients’ Values Collide” in the Conversation.
Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland-College Park, was quoted in the October 17, 2025, article “Divorce Rate Reaches Lowest Point Since Peaking in 1980” in the Washington Examiner.
Christopher T. Conner, University of Missouri-Columbia, was quoted in the October 6, 2025, article “Experts Say a Sense of Belonging Is Key to the College Experience” in the Columbia Missourian.
Alissa Cordner, Whitman College, was quoted in the October 9, 2025, article “How to Reduce Your Exposure to PFAS in Your Daily Routines” in Everyday Health.
Georgiann Davis, University of New Mexico, authored the October 9, 2025, article “When the American Dream Goes Sideways; Or, Why I Am Not Like JD Vance” on Literary Hub.
Vanessa Delgado, Washington State University, was interviewed for the October 6, 2025, article “A Fragmented Legal System and Threat of Deportation Are Pushing Higher Education Out of Reach for Many Undocumented Students” in the Conversation.
Daniel DellaPosta, Pennsylvania State University, was quoted in the October 24, 2025, article “NYC’s Notorious Mafia Families Are Alive and Caught Up in the NBA Gambling Scandal. Here’s What to Know” in TIME.
Bernard DiGregorio, Katie E. Corcoran, and Christopher P. Scheitle, West Virginia University, authored the October 27, 2025, article “What Belief in Angels, Witches, Crystals, and Black Cats Reveals About Culture and Identity in America” in the Milwaukee Independent.
Emine Fidan Elcioglu, University of Toronto, authored the October 5, 2025, article “YouTube Shapes Young People’s Political Education, But the Site Simplifies Complex Issues” in the Conversation.
James R. Elliott and Debolina Banerjee, Rice University, authored the October 17, 2025, article “FEMA Property Buyouts Protect Homeowners, Communities” in Finance and Commerce.
Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley, authored the August 21, 2025, essay “Authenticate thyself” in Aeon.
Karen Guzzo, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was a guest on the October 30, 2025, episode of NPR’s Here & Now, for the segment titled “The State of the Pronatalist Movement.”
Ashley Harrell, Duke University, was quoted in the October 18, 2025, article “She Was Laid Off While Pregnant, Then Got Cancer. Here’s What Restored Her Faith in Humanity” in USA Today.
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, was featured in an interview titled “Carolette Norwood and Gay Young in Conversation with Adia Harvey Wingfield” in the October 2025 issue of the Sociologist, a publication of the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
Hilary J. Holbrow, Indiana University-Bloomington, was quoted in the October 15, 2025, article “In Search of the Yakult Lady” on Eater.com.
Andrew Jolivétte, University of California-Santa Barbara, authored the November 1, 2025, article “Charlie Kirk’s White Christian Nationalism Tent Wasn’t Big Enough for Gays” in the Fulcrum.
Grace Kao, Yale University, authored the October 14, 2025, article ” Young Adults and Financial Literacy” in the Korea Herald.
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was quoted in the October 3, 2025, article “No Houston Bayou Serial Killer? We Still Must Face Old Ghosts” in the Houston Chronicle.
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, Hamilton College, and Yvonne Zylan, University of Calgary, authored the September 4, 2025, article “Civil Servant Exodus: How Employees Wrestle with Whether to Stay, Speak Up or Go” in the Conversation.
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, authored the October 10, 2025, opinion piece “Curators of Knowledge, Not Chaos” in Inside Higher Ed.
Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, was interviewed for the October 24, 2025, piece “Douglas Massey, Princess of Asturias Award in Social Sciences: ‘Trump Doesn’t Hate All Immigrants, He Likes Norwegians’” in El Mundo America.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, was a guest on the October 27, 2025, episode of NPR’s 1A titled “If You Can Keep It: Trump, Hate Speech, and Free Speech.”
Annette M. Nierobisz, Carleton College, and Dana Sawchuk, Wilfrid Laurier University, authored the October 5, 2025, article “Gen X May Be the First to Need a Universal Basic Income After Late-Career Job Loss” in the Hill.
Jake Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis, was quoted in the October 9, 2025, piece “Could Air Traffic Controllers Help End the Government Shutdown?” from ABC News; the October 27, 2025, article “Air Traffic Control Staffing Problems Spiked Over the Weekend, Raising Concerns About Growing Disruption” on CNN; and the October 31, 2025, article “80% of NYC-Area Air Traffic Controllers Absent Amid ‘Surge’ in Callouts: FAA” from ABC News.
David A. Smilde, Tulane University, authored the October 10, 2025, article “María Corina Machado’s Peace Prize Follows Nobel Tradition of Awarding Recipients for Complex Reasons” in the Conversation.
Megan Thiele Strong, San Jose State University, authored the October 17, 2025, article “Teachers Are on the Front Lines of Public Health. Let’s Pay Them Like They Matter.” on EdSurge.
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, was quoted in the October 23, 2025, article “‘Their History Is Just Erased’: Google Drops a Key Program for Boosting Women in Tech” from CNN.
Stacy Torres, University of California-San Francisco, authored the October 29, 2025, article “RAD Plan in Chelsea Will Build in Mixed-Income Housing—But Disrupt Low-Income Seniors” in Shelterforce.
Yolanda Wiggins and Megan Thiele Strong, San Jose State University, authored the October 20, 2025, opinion piece “The Ivory Tower is a Persisting Legacy of White Supremacy” in the Fulcrum and the October 11, 2025, article “Social Impact Majors Deserve Better Careers: Universities Know It and the Public Needs It” in Local News Matters: Bay Area.
New Books
Julie C. Abril, research services/independent scholar, Cultural Efficacy: A Native American Indian Criminological Paradigm (KDP Amazon 2025).
Tuba I. Agartan, Providence College, Universal Health Coverage: Foundations and Horizons (Policy Press 2025).
Anaheed Al-Hardan, Howard University, and Julian Go, University of Chicago, Eds., Anticolonialism and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press 2025).
Paul Almeida, University of California-Merced, Ed., The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (Oxford Academic 2025).
Shyon Baumann, University of Toronto; Emily Huddart, University of British Colombia; Josee Johnston, University of Toronto; and Merin Oleschuk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea (Stanford University Press 2025).
Jacinto Cuvi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in Sao Paulo (University of Chicago Press 2025).
Paul Dean, Ohio Wesleyan University, Class Cultures and Social Mobility: The Hidden Strengths of Working-Class First-Generation Graduates (Rutgers University Press 2025).
Robert J. Durán, Texas A&M University-College Station, and Oralia Loza, University of Texas, El Paso, Justice Required: Police Shootings as Legalized Violence (Columbia University Press 2025).
Kylan Mattias de Vries and Carey Sojka, Southern Oregon University, Transgender Intersections: Race and Gender through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power (Polity Press 2025).
Angela Frederick, University of Texas at El Paso, Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster (NYU Press 2025).
Eric Gamino, California State University-Northridge, Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas (University of Georgia Press 2025).
Sabrina Gatti, Selinus University, Quando Tutto Cambia (YCP Edizioni 2025) and Persi Tra Le Onde Dell’Essere” (YCP Edizioni 2025).
Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin, Syracuse University, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adult Food Insecurity (Russell Sage Foundation 2025).
Thomas E. Janoski, University of Kentucky, Rethinking Symbolic Interactionism (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025).
Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Kath Browne, University College-Dublin, Eds., Polarising Sexualities and Genders: Divisions, Differences and LGBTQIA+ Equalities (Bloomsbury 2025).
Lane Kenworthy, University of California-San Diego, Is Inequality the Problem? (Oxford University Press 2025).
Katrina E. Kimport, University of California-San Francisco, Ed. When Roe Fell: How Barriers, Inequities, and Systemic Failures of Justice in Abortion Became Visible (Rutgers University Press 2025).
Shannon Malone Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence (Princeton University Press 2025).
Janice McCabe Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks (University of Chicago Press 2025).
Sanyu A. Mojola, Princeton University, Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol (University of California Press 2025).
Sarah Mosseri, independent researcher, Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us (University of California Press 2025).
Verta A. Taylor and Leila J. Rupp, University of California-Santa Barbara, Alison Dahl Crossley, Stanford University, and Nancy E. Whittier, Smith College, Eds., Feminist Frontiers: Readings on Gender, Sexuality, and Society, 11th Edition (Bloomsbury 2025).
Yvonne M. Vissing, Salem State University, Human Rights Around the World (Bloomsbury 2025).
Tamara Wattnem, Trinity University, Indigenous Rights to Land Versus Extractivism: The Promise and Limits of ILO Convention No. 169 in Mexico (Cambridge University Press 2025).
In Memoriam: Greg Prieto
Greg Prieto, a sociology professor at the University of San Diego (USD) since 2013, passed away after a year-long battle with cancer on October 13, 2025. Prieto earned his undergraduate degree from Whittier College and his master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology from the University of California-Santa Barbara. Prieto was a dedicated professor who received the 2017 Most Inspirational USD Professor award. Read the family’s obituary here. A reembrace of Pietro as a sociology professor is featured on the USD website here.