- Annual Meeting Updates
- NEW! Become a TRAILS Editor
- NEW! The 2026 Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Recipients
- NEW! Honors Program Cohort for 2026
- NEW! Update Your JHSB Contact Info
- CARI Grant Applications Due at the End of August
- Call for Proposals: Start an ASA Community
Annual Meeting Updates
Access the Online Program
The Annual Meeting online program is now available. To view the program, log in to the online portal using your ASA username and password, then select “View the Online Program.” The “Browse/Search Program” menu allows you to easily navigate the program by day or session type, search for people or keywords, and create your personal schedule.
Register for the Annual Meeting
We look forward to welcoming you to New York City in August. All participants listed on the program must register, as registration is required to attend any session or event. Participants who are not registered by June 1 will be removed from the program.
Share the Annual Meeting with a Plus-One
We invite attendees to share the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting experience with a spouse, partner, friend, or family member. Guest registration is available for companions who are not students of sociology, ASA members, individuals in the discipline, or on the meeting program. Learn more.
Attend a Preconference or Course
Preconferences and courses offer an opportunity for disciplinary peers to gather and discuss their work related to specific fields of study, theories, perspectives, questions, or professional contexts. All preconceferences and courses will be held on Friday, August 7.
Preconferences
- Adapting to Survive or Back to Core Values? Teaching Sociology in Times of Political Upheaval, Technological Change, and Public Distrust
- AI and the Future of Extremism
- Antisemitism and the Struggle for an Equitable Society: Disrupting the Old-New Exclusions of a Changing Status Quo
- Group Processes Conference
- Pursuing Impact Scholarship: Approaches in Disrupting Authoritarianism, Disinformation, and Male Supremacism
- Sociology of Food Pre-Conference
- The Sociology of Race and Space
Courses
- Causal Mediation Analysis
- Getting the Literature Review Right
- State-of-the-Art Methods for Measuring the Degree of Assortative Mating
Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to participate. If you have already registered for the Annual Meeting and wish to add a preconference, simply return to your online registration and add your selection. Once logged in, click on the pencil icon next to your upcoming event registration. Click on “View/Update Registration.” Add the preconference or course under the “Available Functions” header. Learn more about preconferences and courses.
| ASA President Shelley Correll will be in conversation with comedian, humor writer, and author, Blythe Roberson, about her recent book “America the Beautiful? One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled.” Roberson’s book is a sharp, funny, and deeply perceptive travel narrative about visiting America’s national parks—made all the more striking by how rare it still is for women to write in this genre. Her book offers incisive sociological insights into racism, sexism, colonization, and climate change, all while making you laugh (sometimes uncomfortably so). Joining the conversation, Professor Lauren Feldman—co-author (with Caty Borum) of A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice—will reflect on the unique role of humor and comedy in illuminating injustices and offering vehicles for social change. Set in New York City, a legendary home of comedy, this session embraces the idea that humor is not a distraction from serious analysis, but one of its most effective tools. Free copies of the book, “America the Beautiful?” will be available for the first 80 attendees.Presider: Shelley Correll, Stanford University
Panelists: Blythe Roberson, comedian, humor writer, author; and Lauren Feldman, Professor and Chair of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University Read all about the Plenary Sessions here. |
The NYC Experience on Your Doorstep
Not only are the Hilton New York Midtown and the Sheraton New York Times Square offering discounted rates exclusively for ASA attendees, but our Annual Meeting hotels are also centrally located near so many attractions. Whether you are traveling with family, friends, or flying solo, Midtown has something to suit your interests! Take a look at this sampling of attractions located within a few blocks of our hotels and start planning your trip by visiting the Hotels and Travel page for more helpful information.
- Top of the Rock Observation Deck
- RiseNY
- Madame Tussauds New York
- One Times Square
- Museum of Modern Art-MoMA
- The Paley Museum
- Museum of Arts and Design
- The Museum of Broadway
- TDF’s TKTS Steps
- Discounted Broadway Tickets for Students
Making the Annual Meeting More Inclusive
When you present your work at the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting, you are not only sharing ideas and connecting with colleagues, but you’re also shaping the degree to which the conversation is welcoming and accessible. Presenters are responsible for making sure all audience members can fully engage in the discussion. Scholars with disabilities often report feeling excluded at professional meetings. Presenters and presiders, please review these practical steps to make your presentation as inclusive and as accessible as possible!
Advertising and Sponsorship Opportunities for Organizations Serving the Sociological Community
The ASA Annual Meeting offers prime exposure for organizations whose work supports sociological research, education, and practice. Options include displaying in the Exhibit Hall, sponsoring selected meeting activities, and advertising through meeting materials and digital channels. Learn more about how you can reach the sociological community in the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting Prospectus or contact ASA Meeting Services for additional information.
Department Leaders Preconference
“Thriving Together: Building Strong, Future-Facing Departments” is the focus of this year’s ASA Department Leaders Preconference. Designed as a day of engagement and peer support for chairs and directors of undergraduate and graduate studies, participants will get practical takeaways and evidence-informed strategies to cultivate flourishing programs.
Join us in advance of the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting in New York City on August 7, 2026, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern, as we reimagine what it means to lead thriving departments in today’s academic climate. For more information and registration information visit the preconference page.
| ASA Annual Meeting T-shirt Day is August 9!
Love the look? You can get it on a t-shirt! Show off your sociology pride with the official ASA 2026 Annual Meeting t-shirt. For a limited time, order yours at a special price of $23.87 through June 15, 2026. Visit the ASA Café Press store and select the 2026 Annual Meeting Collection to view the design and order your shirt today. All attendees are encouraged to show their sociology spirit by wearing their shirts at the Annual Meeting on August 9. |
NEW! Become a TRAILS Editor
The TRAILS Editorial Board is seeking new members. Editors will join a dynamic community of educators dedicated to advancing excellence in the teaching and learning of sociology and play an essential role in reviewing submissions and mentoring authors throughout the publication process. Editors with expertise in any subject area are encouraged to apply, as well as editors who have expertise in the evolving use of AI in teaching and learning. Find out more about this opportunity here.
NEW! The 2026 Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Recipients
Lisa-Marie Wright and Tracey A. LaPierre from the University of Kansas are the recipients of the 2026 Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Grant. Their project, “Training Future Faculty: A Multi-level Use of the Benchmarks Framework for Holistic Graduate Student Pedagogical Training,” will implement holistic evaluation practices into their department’s pedagogical training of future faculty.
NEW! Honors Program Cohort for 2026
ASA is happy to announce the 2026 Honors Program Cohort. The Honors Program provides exceptional undergraduate sociology students with a rich introduction to the professional life of the discipline through participation in special activities at the ASA Annual Meeting. These students have been selected to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting in New York City, where they will present their research and learn firsthand about ASA’s programs, initiatives, resources, special interest sections, elected leadership, and governance.
NEW! Update Your JHSB Contact Info
All correspondence about new manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior on or after August 1, 2026, should be sent to the incoming editor, Jennifer Karas Montez, at [email protected]. Manuscripts should be submitted through https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhsb. All correspondence about manuscripts submitted before August 1, 2026, should be sent to the outgoing editor, Deborah Carr, at [email protected].
CARI Grant Applications Due at the End of August
Look to the future this summer. Take some time to prepare your materials and apply for ASA’s Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) grants. CARI grants are for projects that bring social science knowledge and methods to bear in addressing community-based problems and provide up to $3,000 in direct costs for sociologists and sociology PhD students working in partnership with community organizations or action initiatives. Applications are encouraged from individuals working in a variety of settings, including academic institutions, research institutes, private and nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.
Visit the CARI grant page for detailed information. Deadline to apply: August 28, 2026, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern.
Call for Proposals: Start an ASA Community
ASA Communities are a member-generated organizational structure approved by the Council on the recommendation of the ASA Task Force on Membership. Communities differ from Sections and other ASA groups in three ways:
- Communities create new spaces for connection, belonging, and networking that transcend research foci, and also help members more easily answer the question “Where are the people like me in ASA?”
- Communities provide new avenues for professional development and mentoring that reflect the wide range of employment contexts and lived experiences of the many diverse groups within our membership
- Communities provide a broader range of opportunities for engagement and leadership in ASA.
Communities can be proposed by groups of members with common professional backgrounds, such as sociologists employed outside the U.S., in community colleges, or sociology faculty in high schools. Communities might also be proposed by groups of members who share an identity, such as Black or LGBTQ sociologists. The next deadline for proposals is June 1, 2026. Learn how to submit a proposal for a new Community here.