Candidates for 2022 ASA Election

In accordance with election policies established by the ASA Council, biographical sketches of the candi­dates for leadership positions in the ASA election appear in alphabetical order by office below.

Candidates for President-Elect

Joya Misra

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Personal Statement:
I am deeply honored to have been nominated. ASA has provided me with many opportunities, and the potential to give back is quite meaningful. My research spans gender, race, class, politics and movements, labor and work, family, global and transnational sociology, and higher education, using qualitative, quantitative, and comparative historical methods. I am deeply committed to public sociology, and think sociology is critical to efforts to craft a better world. My goal, if elected, would be to see the ASA reflect all of its members in our collective vision and work: those doing applied work, as well as those working in community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities, whether in sociology or in interdisciplinary programs. I believe the association should include, value, recognize, and support all sociologists, while creatively engaging with wider publics to create more equitable societies.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2019-
• Assistant & Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999-2009
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia, 1994-1999

Education

• PhD, Emory University, 1994
• MA, Emory University, 1991
• BA, Centenary College, 1988

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair Sex & Gender Section of the ASA, 2020-2023
• Vice President Elect, Vice President, and Past Vice President, American Sociological Association, 2018-2021
• Member & Chair, Distinguished Book Committee, American Sociological Association, 2016-2019
• Council Member, American Sociological Association, 2010-2013
• Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair Race, Gender & Class Section of the ASA, 2009-2012

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Member, Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2022
• Editor, Gender & Society, 2011-2015
• Member, Executive Office & Budgets, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2011-2014
• Member & Chair, Feminist Mentoring Award, Sociologists for Women in Society 2010-2013
• Chair, Career Development Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2009-2011

Publications

• Misra, Joya, Ethel Mickey, Ember Kanelee, Laurel Smith-Doerr. 2022. “Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields.” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Forthcoming.
• Misra, Joya and Kyla Walters. 2022. Walking Mannequins:  How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Misra, Joya, KerryAnn O’Meara, Alexandra Kuvaeva, Dawn Kiyoe Culpepper, and Audrey Jaeger. 2021. “Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workload.” Gender & Society. 35: 358-394.
• Misra, Joya, Celeste Vaughan Curington, and Venus Mary Green. 2021. “Methods of Intersectional Research.” Sociological Spectrum. 4: 9-28.
• Janoski, Thomas, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. (Eds.) 2020. The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brian Powell

Present Professional Position
James Rudy Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, 2008-present

Personal Statement
If you asked sociologists what they think about the ASA, you would hear some positive comments, but you mostly would hear a litany of serious concerns: among them, the high costs of membership and conferences, its inattention to the challenges faced by so many members and in particular its graduate students and recent PhDs, its incomplete approach to inclusion and equity, and the disconnect between the ASA and the daily lives of its members. I am sympathetic to these concerns and am convinced that the ASA can and must reassess its goals and practices. Change, however, requires not only a vision but also a good understanding of the organization. Having served in multiple leadership roles both in and out of the ASA, I am well positioned and fully committed to collaborating with the ASA and its members to identify and implement creative and resourceful solutions for its many challenges.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Chair of Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 2014-2017
• Co-Director of Preparing Future Faculty Program, Indiana University, 1995-present
• Affiliated Faculty of Kinsey Institute and Gender Studies, Indiana University, 1986-present

Education

• PhD, Emory University, 1984
• MA, Emory University, 1980
• BA, Hobart and William Smith College, 1976

Positions Held in ASA

• Vice-President, American Sociological Association, 2013-2014
• Council Member, American Sociological Association, 2012-2015
• Chair, ASA Social Psychology Section, 2011-2012
• Chair, ASA Sociology of Education Section, 2009-2010
• Member, ASA Publications Committee, 2002-2005

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Chair, General Social Survey Scientific Advisory Board, 2020-present
• President, Sociological Research Association, 2019-2021
• Panelist, National Science Foundation Sociology Advisory Board/Committee of Visitors, 2002-2004, 2006-2010, 2016
• Member, Council on Contemporary Families Board of Directors, 2011-2012
• Founding Member, Teaching and Learning Introductory Sociology (TLIS) Network, 2010

Publications

• Quadlin, Natasha and Powell, Brian. 2022. Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Powell, Brian, Landon Schnabel, and Lauren Apgar. 2017. “Denial of Service to Same-Sex and Interracial Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.” Science Advances 3:1-8, s1-s17.
• Cheng, Simon and Brian Powell. 2015. “Measurement, Methods, and Divergent Patterns: Reassessing the Effects of Same-Sex Parenting.” Social Science Research 52:615-626.
• Powell, Brian, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman. 2010. Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family. American Sociological Association Rose Series. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (Paperback edition, 2012).
• Cheng, Simon and Brian Powell. 2007. “Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families.” American Journal of Sociology 112(4):1044-1094.

Candidates for Vice President-Elect

Michael D. Kennedy

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and of International and Public Affairs, Brown University, 2009-present.

Personal Statement
Sociology’s contributions to the public good are more critical than ever. While we vary in our emphases, we all can identify sociology’s intellectual distinctions. As an association, however, we need to face our organizational, material, and cultural challenges in thoughtful solidarity. Whether addressing pandemic-magnified digital transformations of belonging, or confronting the crisis framed by climate change and escalated by authoritarian practices, it is crucial that we as an association develop a collective response that is transformative and resilient. My engagements range broadly across, and beyond, our discipline. I appreciate different knowledge culture vernaculars, including Twitter @Prof_Kennedy. I work globally too, recognizing how we are, and can be better, connected. I’ve had many administrative responsibilities within my employing universities and on governing boards of other knowledge networks. I have experience translating good intentions into effective organizational work. I run for ASA VP to extend the meaningfulness and consequence of our assembly.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Swearer Director, Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University, 2009-11
• Assistant Professor to Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, 1986-2009
• Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director of the International Institute, University of Michigan, 1999-2004.

Education

• PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985
• MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil, 1981
• AB in Sociology and Anthropology, Davidson College, 1979

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2019-20
• Chair, Theda Skocpol Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Comparative and Historical Sociology, 2019
• Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2014-16
• Chair, Nominating Committee, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology 2012
• Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 1994-98

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Committee Member and (Co)Chair, Open Society Foundations’ Higher Education Support Program and Education Program 2015-21
• Member, Governing Board, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017-19
• Member, International Academic Advisers Panel, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University 2015-17
• Member and Executive Committee Chair, Board of Directors, Social Science Research Council, 2006-15
• Member, Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2004-06

Publications

• kehal, prabhdeep singh, Laura Garbes and Michael D. Kennedy. 2021.  “Critical Sociology of Knowledge.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press
• Kennedy, Michael D. 2020.  “Normative Frames and Systemic Imperatives: Gouldner, Szelényi and New Class Fracture” pp 25-51 in Tamás Demeter (eds.), Intellectuals, Inequalities and Transitions: Prospects for a Critical Sociology  Leiden-Boston: Brill.
• Kennedy, Michael D. 2019. “National Cultures and Racial Formations: Articulating the Knowledge Cultures of Kloskowska and Du Bois” Kultura i Spoleczenstwo 63:3:7-30.
• Kennedy, Michael D. and Merone Tadesse. 2019.  “Towards a Theory and Practice of Diversity and Inclusiveness in Globalizing US Universities: The Transformational Solidarity of Knowledge Activism” Youth and Globalization 1: 254-281
• Kennedy, Michael D. 2015. Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Jennifer A. Reich

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver, 2014-present and Director of University Honors and Leadership, 2019-present

Personal Statement
I have served as an ASA Council member and a leader in sections, committees, and organizations within and beyond ASA because I value and want to invest in the diverse work sociologists do to teach, mentor, research, and affect change. I have been faculty at a small private institution, a public university that serves high numbers of first generation students and students of color, and a medical school. I work hard to mentor and support students and faculty around the country, bring sociology to public conversations in policy and media, and address inequality, particularly in support of families and communities. As Vice President, I will use my expertise and experience to ensure that as we build the next phase of engagement since the covid pandemic began, ASA serves all sociologists—in the range of positions and kinds of work we do—with commitment to equity, accessibility, transparency, and accountability.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Co-Director and Qualitative Methods Mentor, Clinical Faculty Scholars Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2014-2019
• Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver, 2014-2017
• Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver, 2004-2014

Education

• PhD, University of California, Davis, 2002
• MA, University of California, Davis, 1997
• BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

Positions Held in ASA

• Council member, 2018-2021
• Nominations committee member, Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, 2020-2021
• Member, Committee on Sections, 2018-2021
• Chair, Sex and Gender section, 2015-2017
• Chair, Teaching Committee, Medical Sociology section, 2013-2015

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Program committee member, Pacific Sociological Association, 2019-2021
• Editorial Board member, Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013-2020
• Panel member, Fellowships and grants selection panel, American Association of University Women, 2018-2020
• Program co-chair, Law and Society CRN 9: Law and Health. Annual meeting, 2018
• Chair, Publications committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2013-2015

Publications

• Thornton, Courtney and Jennifer Reich. Forthcoming. “Black Mothers and Vaccine Refusal: Gendered Racism, Healthcare, and the State” Gender & Society
• Reich, Jennifer. 2021. “Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research” Qualitative Sociology 44(4):575-581
• Reich, Jennifer. 2020. “Vaccine Refusal and Pharmaceutical Acquiescence: Parental Control and Ambivalence in Managing Children’s Health” American Sociological Review Vol 85(1): 106–127
• Reich, Jennifer. 2016. Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines. NY: New York University Press
• Reich, Jennifer. 2005. Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System NY: Routledge.

Candidates for Council Members-at-Large

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor & Senior Research Faculty, School of Information & Center for Information, Tech, and Public Life, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2020-present.

Personal Statement
I seek office to serve the organization during a moment of critical social change. My public and academic work demonstrates my commitment to broadening sociology’s impact by applying them to emerging social issues. As an officer, I would represent the membership’s interest in doing that work at multiple levels.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017-2020
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015-2017

Education

• PhD, Emory University, 2015

Positions Held in ASA

• Public Understanding of Sociology Award, 2020
• ASA Executive Committee on Digital Media Taskforce
• Robert Dentler Award for Outstanding Student Achievement from ASA: Honorable. Mention

Publications

• McMillan Cottom, Tressie. 2019. THICK: And Other Essays. New York: The New Press.
• McMillan Cottom, Tressie. 2017. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profits. New York: The New Press.
• McMillan Cottom, Tressie. 2019. “Foreword” in The Credential Society Reprint edition by Randall Collins. Columbia University Press.
• McMillan Cottom, Tressie. 2020. “Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society” Journal of Race and Ethnicity. 6(4) 441–449.
• Siddiqi, Arjumand, Odmaa Sod-Erdene, Darrick Hamilton, and Tressie McMillan Cottom. 2019. “Growing Sense of Social Status Threat and Concomitant Deaths of Despair Among Whites.” SSM Journal of Population Health 9(2019):100449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100449

Robert Crosnoe

Present Professional Position
Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Rapoport Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2019-present

Personal Statement
Professional organizations face numerous challenges as the social and economic landscape of social science research changes, and the ASA leadership is tasked with navigating these challenges in ways that elevate the association while also demonstrating to other organizations a path forward. I have leadership experience in ASA and other organizations that speak to my willingness and readiness for effectively participating on the ASA Council in these ways, and that professional experience is coupled with a strong personal sense of identity with and commitment to ASA. If elected, I will be especially invested in charting a post-pandemic course for ASA and the members it serves, more broadly diversifying ASA’s membership while fostering more inclusivity, strengthening supports for students and early career scholars and easing financial barriers to participation, and increasing the visibility of ASA in public debates on pressing issues that sociologists are uniquely positioned to address.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2014-2019
• Endowed Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2001-present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center and Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2001

Education

• PhD, Sociology, Stanford University, 1999
• MA, Sociology, Stanford University, 1995
• BA, Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, Section on Family Sociology, American Sociological Association
• Chair, W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee, American Sociological Association
• Chair, Dissertation Award Committee, American Sociological Association
• Council, Section on Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association
• Chair, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• President, Society for Research on Adolescence
• Board of Directors, Council on Contemporary Families
• Board of Trustees, Population Reference Bureau
• Governing Council, Society for Research in Child Development
• Advisory Board, National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families

Publications

• Crosnoe, Robert. 2020. The Starting Line: Latinx Families, Texas Schools, and National Debates on Early Education. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Crosnoe, Robert. 2018. Families Now: Demography, Diversity, and Development. New York: Worth.
• Crosnoe, Robert. 2011. Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Crosnoe, Robert and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. 2011. “Research on Adolescence in the 21st Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 37: 439-460.
• Crosnoe, Robert. 2009. “Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools.” American Sociological Review 74: 709-730.

Georgiann Davis

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, 2021-present.

Personal Statement
I’m committed to the advancement of minoritized sociologists in our discipline at all levels and at all institutions. I’ve accepted the nomination to run as a Council Member-at-Large in order to advance this commitment.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Fall 2021-present
• Assistant to Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Fall 2014-Summer 2021
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Education

• PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011
• MA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2006
• BA, Northeastern Illinois University, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair-Elect/Chair/Past-Chair, ASA Section on the Soc. of Body and Embodiment, 2019-current
• Secretary/Treasurer, ASA Section on Sexualities, 2016-19
• Council Member, ASA Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender, 2018-21
• Member, ASA Excellence in Reporting on Social Issues Award Selection Committee, 2018-21
• Graduate Student Representative, ASA Sexualities Section, 2010-11

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Board President, interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, 2017-20
• President, InterConnect Support Group (formerly AIS-DSD Support Group, one of the largest intersex support groups in the world), 2014-15

Publications

• Davis, Georgiann. 2015. Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis. New York University Press.

Lorena Garcia

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2013-Present

Personal Statement
I am honored to be nominated for a Member-at-Large position on the ASA Council. I have been consistently active in ASA, including serving in leadership roles in various ASA sections which has deepened my appreciation for the importance of ensuring that ASA is responsive to the needs and concerns of all its members. My ASA service work has always been guided by my commitment to using an intersectional feminist approach to advance inclusion and social justice in meaningful ways. The myriad challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the social unrest in response to the persistence of racial injustice, are issues that have impacted ASA members both personally and professionally. It will be critical for ASA to take this into consideration if it is to remain an impactful organization. I welcome the opportunity to join ASA Council and participate in these efforts.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Head, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017-2021
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017-2021
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007-2013

Education

• PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006
• MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
• BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology, Fall 2021-Present
• Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Sociology, January 2019-December 2021
• Committee Member, American Sociological Association Committee on Nominations, June 2018-August 2019
• Council Member, ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology, Fall 2015-Fall 2018
• Chair, ASA Section on Sociology of Sexualities, Summer 2015-August 2016

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Editorial Board Member, Gender & Society, January 2020-Present
• Reviewer, Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship, November 2018-January 2019
• Editorial Board Member, Social Problems, Fall 2014-Fall 2017
• Co-Chair, Sister to Sister Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, February 2014-February 2016
• Co-Chair, Latino Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, Fall 2007-Summer 2009

Publications

• Garcia, Lorena. 2021. Expert Commentary: “Falling Short of Fair Opportunities for Upward Mobility.” Pp. 87-90 in Chicago’s Racial Wealth Gap: Legacies of the Past, Challenges in the Present, Uncertain Futures authored by Fructoso M. Basaldua Jr., Maximilian Cuddy, Amanda E. Lewis, & Iván Arenas.UIC-Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, February 24, 2021.
• Garcia, Lorena. 2020. Language and (Re)Negotiations of Latinx Identity: Latinx Parents’ Approaches to Spanish and Bilingualism. Social Problems 67(1): 40-55.
• Fields, Jessica and Lorena Garcia. 2019. “Loving Possibilities in the Studies of Sexualities and Youth.” Pp. 300-314 in The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and Adolescence, edited by Sharon Lamb and Jen Gilbert. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Garcia, Lorena. 2016. “Intersectionality.” Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 3(1): 102-106.
• Garcia, Lorena. 2015. “ ‘This is Your Job Now’:Latina Mothers and Daughters and Family Work.”Pp. 411-425 in Families As They Really Are [2nd edition], edited by Barbara J. Risman and Virginia Rutter. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Zakiya Luna

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2021-present.

Personal Statement
I have been active in the ASA since I presented at my first conference in 2006. I have served in various service roles in my departments, campuses, Sociologists for Women in Society and the ASA. Further, I helped found a research center at Berkeley, engaged in movement work focused on applying practices of innovation to movement spaces, served as the Board co-chair of reproductive justice-oriented abortion fund (including during first months of the pandemic/when the organization was hiring a new Executive Director) and currently serve on a national Board of Directors. Throughout this, I have brought to bear my commitment to praxis and process—I am not afraid to step back to ask (uncomfortable) questions. If elected, I aim to use my skills and varied experiences to help the Council further build an Association that represents not only the present but the *future* of our vibrant discipline.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate (from Asst) Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (Faculty Affiliate in Feminist Studies), 2014-
• Changemaker in Family Planning Fellow, Society of Family Planning, 2019-present (Mentors: Alondra Nelson and Lynn Roberts)
• Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow, 2017-2018 (Mentor: Dorothy Roberts)

Education

• PhD, Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 2011.
• MSW, Community Organization/Community Social Systems, University of Michigan, 2009.
• MA, Sociology, University of Michigan, 2008.

Positions Held in ASA

• American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of Human Rights, Chair-Elect, Present
• American Sociological Association, Jessie Bernard Award selection committee, 2021-present
• American Sociological Association, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Nominations Committee, 2019-2022
• American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of Human Rights, Book Award Committee, 2019
• American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award Selection Committee, 2014-2017.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2020-present
• Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2020-present
• Conference Program Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, Winter 2021 meeting, 2020-2021.
• Editorial Board member, Contexts, 2021-current
• Series co-editor and co-creator, University of California Press series, Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century, 2013-2021.

Publications

• Luna, Zakiya. 2022. “How Bell Hooks Raised a Generation of Radical Feminists Leading with Love.” Refinery 29. February 1, 2022 (https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/02/10823875/bell-hooks-legacy-black-feminists).
• Luna, Zakiya, and Whitney Pirtle. 2021. Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis. Routledge.
• Luna, Zakiya. 2020. Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice. NYU Press.
• Luna, Zakiya. 2019a. “Location Matters: The 2017 Women’s Marches as Intersectional Imaginary.” Pp. 46–63 in Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges, edited by E. Evans and É. Lépinard. Routledge.
• Luna, Zakiya. 2019b. “Black Celebrities, Reproductive Justice and Queering Family: An Exploration” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 7:91–100.

Neda Maghbouleh

Present Professional Position
Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity & Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2020-present

Personal Statement
Before my current position at the University of Toronto, I worked (at the University of Toronto and Smith College) as a non-tenure track instructor of Sociology. This experience informs my commitment to serve our diverse membership. I have previously served a two-year term as an elected member of the ASA Committee on Committees (2020-2021) and I am an appointed member of the 2022 and 2023 Annual Meeting Program Committees. In these capacities, I have worked to enhance our organization’s inclusivity and its vitality. Issues that continue to motivate my service to ASA are reducing structural barriers to annual meeting participation and attendance; strengthening how sociological knowledge is communicated in order to improve public life; and encouraging continued discussion about the ASA’s position on and relationship to research transparency and Open Science.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2015-2020
• CLTA (Contractually Limited Term Appointment) in Sociology, University of Toronto, 2013-2015
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Muhlenberg College, Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges, 2012-2013

Education

• PhD, UC Santa Barbara, 2012
• MA, UC Santa Barbara, 2008
• BA, Smith College, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

• ASA Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2022 and 2023
• ASA Committee on Committees, 2020 and 2021
• Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2020 to present
• Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2020
• Book Award Prize Committee, ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class, 2017

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Presidential Committee on Antiracism and Antidiscrimination, Middle East Studies Association, 2021-present
• Annual Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 2021
• Research Advisory Subcommittee, Canadian Sociological Association, 2021-present
• Editorial Board Member, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies, 2021-present
• Editorial Board Member, American Behavioral Scientist, 2020-present

Publications

• Maghbouleh, Neda, Ariela Schachter, and Rene D. Flores. 2022. “Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans may not be perceive, nor perceive themselves, to be white.” PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Embargo released Monday, February 8.
• Schachter, Ariela, Rene D. Flores, and Neda Maghbouleh. 2021. “Ancestry, Color, or Culture? How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S.” American Journal of Sociology 126(5): 1220-1263.
• Maghbouleh, Neda. “From White to What? MENA and Iranian American non-white reflected race,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(4): 613-31.
• Maghbouleh, Neda, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, and Ito Peng. 2019. “Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 18(2): 482-507.
• Maghbouleh, Neda. 2017. The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, Stanford University Press.

Victoria Reyes

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside (July 2021-present)

Personal Statement
It is an honor to run for this incredibly important position. The association, as the rest of society, is facing a multitude of interrelated issues that cannot be disentangled, whether that be reckoning with the continued and historically rooted gendered racism of the discipline, our communities, the US, and the world, impacts of COVID-19, Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, climate change, attacks on academic freedom, attacks on a multitude of rights (voting, LGBTQ+, reproductive), publishing and data norms, declining membership, competition with other professional associations, among so many others. ASA needs leadership with a vision. My vision is one of a discipline that is truly inclusive, embraces theoretical and methodological plurality, takes measurable steps toward equity in the discipline and society, pursues public engagement, alongside the hard work of consensus-building, having hard conversations and making difficult decisions.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside (2016-2021)
• Postdoctoral American Fellow, American Association of University Women, UCLA (2019-2020)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan (2016-2017)

Education

• PhD, Sociology, Princeton University, January 2015
• MA, Sociology, Princeton University, November 2010
• BA, International Studies, Psychology, The Ohio State University, June 2006

Positions Held in ASA

• 2021-2023, Member-at-large, Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association
• 2020-2022, Editorial board member, American Sociological Review
• 2019-2022, Council member, ASA’s Global and Transnational Sociology section
• 2019-2022, Council member, ASA’s Sociology of Development section
• 2018-2021, Council member, ASA’s Sociology of Culture section

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• 2021-2023, Member (elected), Publications committee, Pacific Sociological Association
• 2020-2023, Member (elected), Publications committee, Sociologists for Women in Society
• 2019-2020, Member (elected), Awards committee, Sociologists for Women in Society
• 2022, Member (invited), Social Science Caucus Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee (inaugural year), Association for Asian American Studies
• 2022, Member (invited), Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Sciences Subcommittee, Association for Asian American Studies

Publications

• Reyes, Victoria and Marco Garrido (Editors). Winter 2021. New Ethnographies of the Global South [special issue] Contexts 20(1)
• Reyes, Victoria, Elizabeth Bogumil,* and Levin Elias Welch.* “The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis,” Sociological Methods & Research, (published online first February 8, 2021, https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/EWJFINIZRJMGS5SMFBVE/full)
• Reyes, Victoria. 2020. “Ethnographic Toolkit: Strategic Positionality and Researchers’ Visible and Invisible Tools in Field Research” Ethnography 21(2):220-240 (published online first October 25, 2018)
• Reyes, Victoria. 2019. Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
• Reyes, Victoria. 2018. “Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters” Social Forces 96(3):1097-118

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Candidates for Committee on Committees, Members-at-Large

R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor

Personal Statement
The American Sociological Association is a powerful association, but it is only as powerful and useful as its membership and leadership. As a candidate for the Committee on Committees, my goal will be to assure that the leadership of ASA better reflects the range of identities that we possess. From institutional affiliation to gender diversity, we have a lot of growing to do. I hope that by helping identify the new crop of potential leaders, we can bring about a more inclusive and anti-racist organization.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Interim Program Chair – Sociology of Education New York University
• Editorial Board – Contexts
• Editorial Board – Sociology of Education Journal

Education

• PhD, University of Michigan, 2008
• BA, Morehouse College, 2000

Positions Held in ASA

• Contexts – Editorial Board
• Sociology of Education Section – Nominations Committee
• Public Engagement Advisory Committee
• Sociology of Education – Editorial Board

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Local Arrangments Committee – Association of Black Sociologists
• Social Problems – Advisory Board
• Morehouse Faces of Manhood – Advisory Panel

Publications

• Lewis-McCoy, R. L., Natasha Warikoo, Stephen A. Matthews, Nadirah Farah Foley. Forthcoming. “Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality.” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.
• Douds, Kiara Wyndham, R. L. Lewis-McCoy, Kimberley Johnson. 2021. “Visualizing Variation in Black Suburbs.” Socius. 7: 1-3.
• Lewis-McCoy, R. L.  and Pamela D’Andrea Martinez. 2020. “Suburban Struggles Muted During COVID-19.” Contexts 19(4) 10-13.
• Lewis-McCoy, R. L. 2018. “Suburban Black Lives Matter.” Urban Education 53(2) 145-161.
• Lewis-McCoy, R. L. 2014. Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources and Suburban Schooling. Stanford University Press

Tianna Paschel

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2015-Present

Personal Statement
I am excited about the possibility of being elected to this committee, which has a great deal of power and responsibility in shaping ASA. I have a great deal of experience serving on nominations committees in ASA and other national associations. In those, and in my work more generally, I aim to make sure we widen our lens and think more capaciously about who the best candidates for a position might be. I am just as interested in the names of candidates who I have to research, as the ones that come easily to mind. Additionally, we are living through unprecedented times and our discipline has a real opportunity to contribute to our deeper understanding of everything from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic to racial justice. This is one of the many reasons why I am honored to stand for election for this committee at this moment.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Neubauer Familiy Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2011-2015

Education

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 2011
• MA, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 2007
• MA, University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies, 2002

Positions Held in ASA

• Council, Section on the Sociology of Human Rights, 2019-2021
• Council, Section on the Sociology of Law, 2017-2019
• Nominations Committee, Section on Political Sociology, 2017

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Nominations Committee, Latin American Studies Association, Present
• Executive Council, Brazilian Studies Association, 2018-Present
• Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Social Inquiry, 2015-present
• Council Member, Latin American Studies Association Section on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples, 2014-2016
• Member, American Political Science Association Task Force on Race, Class & Inequality, 2015-2016

Publications

• Mora, G. Cristina and Tianna S. Paschel. 2020. “Anti-Blackness as a Logic for Anti-Immigrant Resentment: Evidence from California,” Sociological Forum, 35, 918-940.
• Paschel, Tianna S. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Telles, Edward and Tianna S. Paschel. 2014. “Who is Black, White or Mixed-Race? How Skin Color, Status and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America”, American Journal of Sociology, 120:3, 864-907.
• Paschel, Tianna S. 2013 “‘The Beautiful Faces of My Black People’: Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Colombia’s 2005 Census.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1544-1563.
• Paschel, Tianna S. 2010 “The Right to Difference: Explaining Colombia’s Shift from Color-Blindness to the Law of Black Communities,” American Journal of Sociology, 116:3, 729-769, Lead Article

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Present Professional Position
LuElla LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies, Professor of Sociology

Personal Statement
I look forward to the opportunity to serve on the Committee on Committees to expand the representation of diverse institutions on ASA committees. I am committed to connecting colleagues employed at community colleges, small liberal arts college and large state universities to service opportunities within ASA.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA International Institute, 2006-2007

Education

• PhD, UC Berkeley, 2006

Positions Held in ASA

• Global and Transnational Sociology Council Member (2018-2021)
• Chair, GATS Book prize committee (2018-2019)
• Chair, GATS International Scholar Prize Committee, (2020-2021)
• Feminist Scholar-Activist Award Committee, Sex and Gender Section (2016-17)
• Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Sociology of Development Section (2016-17)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Deputy Editor, Gender and Society (2019-2023)
• Eastern Sociological Society, Executive Committee Member (2018-2021)

Publications

• Radhakrishnan, Smitha and Gowri Vijayakumar. Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries. Palgrave-Macmillan. In production.
• Radhakrishnan, Smitha. 2022. Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India. Duke University Press.
• Radhakrishnan, Smitha. 2019 “Dancing the Rainbow Nation as it Bleeds: Surialanga Dance Company in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” South Asian Diasporas. Volume 11(2) 127-144.
• Radhakrishnan, Smitha. 2018. “Empowerment, Declined: Paradoxes of Microfinance and Gendered Subjectivity in Urban India.” Signs: Journal for Women in Culture and Society. Vol 44(1) 83-105.
• Radhakrishnan, Smitha. 2018. “Of Loans and Livelihoods: Gendered ‘Social Work’ in Urban India.” Economic Anthropology. Vol 5(2): 235-246.

Myron T. Strong

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Community College of Baltimore County

Personal Statement
I really appreciate the support for nomination for the committee on committees. As I write this statement, I think of Ytasha Womack’s book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture. In it she posits, that if we want a better world we have to be able to imagine it. Because if we can imagine it, we can begin to make change. This statement has always resonated with me. It is indeed, if we are to make a change it is imagination that will guide us. I imagine a better world free of the social inequalities and oppressions. If I am selected, I promise and whoever is in need. Since graduating with my Ph.D. I am eager to learn more ways to encourage social change by not only imagining a better future, but by working with others and dismantling oppressive structures.

Education

• PhD, University of North Texas, 2014
• MEd, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2004,
• BA, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2001

Positions Held in ASA

• Council Member, ASA Race, Class and Gender section, 2019- 2022
• Associate Editor, Teaching Sociology 2019- 2022
• Council Member, ASA Sex and Gender section, 2019- 2020
• ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Committee, 2022- 2025
• Co-Chair, ASA Teaching Learning Section Pre-Conference Planning Committee, 2021-2024

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Division Chair, Educational Problems division. SSSP, 2021-2023
• Executive Council, Eastern Sociological Society 2020-2022

Publications

• Strong, Myron T, K. Sean Chaplin and Giselle Greenidge. 2021. “The Dora Milaje in Real Life: A Continuing Legacy of African Warriors.” pp.203-214 in Afrofuturism and Black Panther: Gender Identity and Re-Making of Blackness Edited by Renee T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff. Lantham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Strong, Myron. 2021. “Race and Reality TV.” Pp. 541-550. in Race in American Television: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation Leonard, D. & Robbins, S. (Eds.). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
• Schoepflin, Todd, Myron T. Strong, Nelda Nix McCray and Amy Pucino. 2019. Sociology in Stories: A Creative Introduction to a Fascinating Perspective. Customized version for the Community College of Baltimore County 2nd edition. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
• Strong, Myron T. 2019. “The Emperor Has New Clothes: How Outsider Sociology Can Shift the Discipline.” Sociological Forum 34(1): 245-252.

Candidates Committee on Committees, PhD-granting Institution

Tey Meadow

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, 2018-present

Personal Statement
ASA serves many important functions for the discipline, socializing new scholars into the field, cultivating collaborative relationships, and scaffolding important research on a brad range of issues. I have benefitted from it on all these dimensions, and would be happy to contribute to keeping it running smoothly and with committees that fully represent the personal and intellectual diversity it represents.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Sociology , Columbia University, 2016-2018
• Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University, 2014-2016
• Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBT Studies, Princeton University, 2011-2014

Education

• PhD, New York University, 2011
• MA, New York University, 2008
• JD, Fordham University School of Law, 2003

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, Section on Sexualities, American Sociological Association, 2018-2021.
• Committee for the Status of LGBT Persons in Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2013-2016.
• Member, ASA Sexualities Section Council, 2014-2016.
• Student Representative, ASA Sexualities Section Council, 2009-2010
• Martin P. Levine Dissertation Award Committee (chair), 2020

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Eastern Sociological Society, Program Committee, 2020-2021
• Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 2019-2022.
• Editorial Board, Gender & Society, 2018-2021.
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology, 2016-2018.
• Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2014-2016.

Publications

• Tey Meadow. 2018. Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: The University of California Press.
• D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow and Kristen Schilt Eds. 2018.  Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology. Berkeley: The University of California Press.
• Tey Meadow. 2013. “Studying Each Other: On Agency, Constraint and Positionality in the Field.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 42(4): 466-481.
• Tey Meadow. 2011. “Deep Down Where the Music Plays: How Parents Account for Childhood Gender Variance” Sexualities, 14(6): 725-747.
• Tey Meadow. 2010. “’A Rose is a Rose’: On the Production of Legal Gender Classifications” Gender & Society, 24(6): 814-837.

stef shuster

Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2018-present

Personal Statement
It would be an honor to serve on the Committee on Committees (COC) and offer recommendations for appointments to the standing and award selection committees of ASA. Over the last several years I have become more involved in ASA section committees, recruitment efforts, conference organizing, and serving on editorial boards. From my vantage point, I think it is important for committees to reflect the membership of ASA and encourage underrepresented scholars to be involved with ASA. This is an opportunity to advocate for such representation as well as work alongside an excellent group of sociologists.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, 2016-2018
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, 2014-2016

Education

• PhD, University of Iowa, 2014
• MA, University of Iowa, 2009
• BA, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

• Committee member, Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, Section on Medical Sociology, 2022
• Editorial board member, Contemporary Sociology, 2022-2024
• Membership committee member, Section on Social Psychology, 2020-2021
• Committee member, Best Article Award, Section on Sex and Gender, 2020
• Editorial board member, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2019-2021

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Committee member, Winter Conference Program, SWS, 2021-2022
• Editorial board member, Social Science & Medicine, 2021-2023
• Editorial board member, Gender & Society, 2019-2021

Publications

• shuster, stef. 2021. Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender. New York: New York University Press.
• Hsieh, Ning and stef shuster. 2021. “Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities.”Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62(3): 318-333.
• Campos-Castillo, Celeste, stef shuster, Denise Anthony, and Sarah Groh. 2020. “Warning: Hegemonic Masculinity May Not Matter as Much as You Think for Confidant Patterns among Older Men.” Sex Roles 83: 609-621.
• shuster, stef. 2019. “Performing Informed Consent in Transgender Medicine.” Social Science & Medicine 226: 190-197.
• shuster, stef. 2017. “Punctuating Accountability: How Discursive Aggression Regulates Transgender People.” Gender & Society 31(4): 481-502.

Candidates for Committee on Committees, Non-Teaching Institution/Self-Employment

Barret Katuna

Present Professional Position
Executive Officer of Sociologists for Women in Society 2017-Present

Personal Statement
I am seeking this office for the opportunity to contribute to the diversity in ASA’s leadership. In my role as Executive Officer for Sociologists for Women in Society, I see how structural inequalities impact those marginalized by their identities. This lens contributes to my ability to create inclusive spaces for marginalized scholars. Because of my role as Executive Officer of Sociologists for Women in Society, I have a broad network of colleagues in a variety of institutions and professional organizations. I have solid organizational skills as a liaison to the SWS Committees that I believe will help me to work with other Committee on Committee Members to develop recommendations for ASA Council.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2014-2016
• Graduate Assistant/Graduate Instructor, Sociology, University of Connecticut 2008-2014
• Associate Director, Lehigh Fund, Lehigh University, 2005-2008

Education

• PhD, Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2014
• MA, Sociology, University of Connecticut, 2010
• MA, Political Science, Lehigh University, 2005

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Pacific Sociological Association, Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Clinical Sociology, Member, 2021-2023
• Racial Justice and Equity Commission, Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, Member, 2021-2022
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, Graduate Student Delegate to Science and Human Rights Coalition, Sociologists Without Borders, 2013-2014
• United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Lead Representative for Sociologists for Women in Society, 2011-2013

Publications

• Katuna, Barret, 2019. Degendering Leadership in Higher Education, Bingley, UK, Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Katuna, Barret and Elizabeth Holzer. 2015. “Unobtrusively Stretching Law: Legal Education, Activism, and Reclaiming Title IX.” Social Movement Studies. 15:80-96.
• Katuna, Barret and Davita Silfen Glasberg. 2014. “Rules vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, and the Right to Housing in the Shelter System.” Societies Without Borders. 9:25-47.
• Katuna, Barret. 2014. “Perpetuating Inequality Through the Canons of Disciplinary Knowledge.” in Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Women Navigating Hostility and Making Change in the Academy, edited by Kris De Welde and Andi Stepnick. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
• Katuna, Barret. 2011. “Hurricane Katrina and the Right to Food and Shelter.” in In Our Own Backyard: Human Rights, Injustice, and Resistance in the United States, edited by William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Matt Rafalow

Present Professional Position
Research Lead at Google (2017-Present) and Senior Researcher at Stanford University (2021-Present)

Personal Statement
I am humbled to be considered for this position as a member of the Committee on Committees, our association’s central force in nominating key appointees for some of our most important committees and organizational efforts. As a nominee – I bring a unique lens. I’m a sociologist working with feet firmly embedded in two intersecting professional and social worlds: one in the tech sector, and one in academia. I work closely with social scientists who traverse academic and non-academic career paths, and who advocate for change by leveraging social scientific theory to bear on important choices presented to decision-makers in technology, policy, and to public media. Thank you for considering my candidacy!

Former Professional Positions Held

• Research Lead, Google (2016-Present)
• Senior Researcher, Stanford University Ethnography Lab (2021-Present)
• Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (2019 – 2021)

Education

• PhD, University of California-Irvine, 2016
• MA, University of California-Irvine, 2012
• MA, Columbia University Teachers College, 2010

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, Best Book Award Committee, American Sociological Association Communications, Information and Media Technology Section (2021 – Present)
• Council, American Sociological Association Communications, Information and Media Technology Section (2019 – 2021)
• Best Student Paper Award Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth (2018 – 2019)
• Council, American Sociological Association Section on Children & Youth (2018 – 2019)
• Communications Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Children & Youth (2016 – 2018)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Communications Officer, Sociology of Education Association (2021 – Present)
• Community Manager, TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Things (2020 – Present)
• Board of Directors, Sociology of Education Association (2017 – 2019)
• Program Committee, Media & Communication, Pacific Sociological Association (2017 – 2018)

Publications

• Rafalow, Matthew H.. 2022. “Reliving, and Relearning, Middle School.” In The How To of Qualitative Research: Second Edition, edited by Janice D. Aurini, Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells. London: Sage.
• Rafalow, Matthew H., and Cassidy Puckett. 2022. “Sorting Machines: Digital Technology and Categorical Inequality in Education.” Educational Researcher.
• Rafalow, Matthew H. 2020. Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Rafalow, Matthew H. 2018. “Disciplining Play: Digital Youth Culture as Capital at School.” American  Journal of Sociology 123(5): 1416-1452.
• Ito, Mizuko, Crystle Martin, Rachel Cody Pfister, Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen and Amanda Wortman. 2018. Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning. New York: NYU Press.

Candidates for Nominating Committee

Latrica Best

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Graduate Education, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2022-Present

Personal Statement
It is an honor to be nominated for this position, and I enthusiastically look forward to contributing to the Nominating committee, if elected. I attended my first ASA meetings in 2004, and I have enjoyed watching its evolution over the years. My interdisciplinary work in race, health, and aging as well as my membership in an array of professional organizations provides a diverse perspective on scholars. If elected, I will work diligently to pursue equitable and fair representation within the committee’s endeavors.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2010-2016
• Associate Professor of Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2016-2018
• Assistant Professor of Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2010-2016

Education

• PhD, Penn State University, 2008
• MA, Penn State University, 2004
• BA, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2001

Positions Held in ASA

• Editorial Board Member, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2021-2024

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• The Society for the Study of Social Problems, Editorial Board Member for Social Problems, 2021-2024
• Program Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, 2021-2022
• Awards Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, 2021-2022
• National Science Foundation Sociology Advisory Panel, 2019

Publications

• McCutcheon, Priscilla, Latrica E. Best, and Theresa Rajack-Talley, eds. Under contract. Beyond the Kitchen Table: Exploring the Role of Black Women in Global Food Systems. University of North Carolina Press.
• Best, Latrica E. Under contract. “Black Women, Food, and Health: Exploring the Importance of Intersectionality in Population-Based Health Studies. In Beyond the Kitchen Table: Exploring the Role of Black Women in Global Food Systems, edited by P. McCutcheon, L. Best, and T. Rajack-Talley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Best, Latrica E. 2017. “The Impact of Personality Change on Health among Older Americans: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study.” Pp. 51-68 in Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century, edited by M.N. Hoque, B. Pecotte, and M.A. McGehee. Switzerland: Springer International.
• Rajack-Talley, Theresa, Siobhan Smith, Latrica E. Best, Lindsay Della, Margaret D’Silva, Deborah Potter, and Quaniqua Carthan. 2017. “Epistemological Inclusiveness in Researching the African American Community.” International Journal of Social Science Methodology 20(4): 411-423.
• Byrd, W. Carson & Latrica E. Best. 2016. “Between (Racial) Groups and a Hard Place: An Exploration of Social Science Approaches to Race and Genetics, 2000-2014.” Biodemography and Social Biology 62(3): 281-299.

Julie Dowling

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Personal Statement
I would be honored to serve on this committee and help ensure we get nominations to reflect a range of diverse communities.

Former Professional Positions Held

• 2013-2021, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2005-2013, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Education

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
• MA, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
• BA, Southwestern University, 1997

Positions Held in ASA

• Member, ASA Committee on Sections (2018-2020)
• Member, ASA Public Understanding of Sociology Award Committee (2017-2019)
• Member, ASA Distinguished Book Award Committee (2016-2018)
• Chair, ASA Latino/a Sociology Section (2015-2016)
• Secretary-Treasurer, ASA Latino/a Sociology Section (2005-2008)

Publications

• Mora, G. Cristina, Julie A. Dowling, and Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz. 2021. “ ‘Mostly Rich White Men, Nothing in Common’: Latino Views on Political (Under) Representation in the Trump Era” American Behavioral Scientist
• Dowling, Julie A. . 2018. “What I Want to Pass onto the Children: How Latinos Talk about Race and Culture” in Jose´ A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado, and Maria Chavez (eds.) Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance. Routledge Press.
• Dowling, Julie A. 2014. Mexican Americans and the Question of Race. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Dowling, Julie A. and Jonathan Xavier Inda. 2013. Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Lisette Garcia

Present Professional Position
Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2020-present

Personal Statement
The success of the American Sociological Association (ASA) depends on those who serve. As a member of the nominating committee, I commit to thoughtfully and carefully recruiting the best-qualified candidates for open positions and working diligently and collaboratively with the members of the committee to ensure we follow the best processes for recruiting and nominating candidates. As a sociologist in practice, my network is vast and diverse, and I have always maintained my commitment to the discipline. Serving on the nominating committee allows me to further that commitment and continue to give back to ASA.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility 2019-2020
• Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility 2016-2019
• Director of Research, the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility 2012-2016

Education

• PhD, The Ohio State University, 2009
• MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002
• BA, BS, Penn State University, 1996

Positions Held in ASA

• American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Panel, Member, 2019-current
• American Sociological Association, The Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy Advisory Panel, Member, 2017-2019
• Offices Held in Other Organizations
• National Academy of the Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Quality of Compensation Data Collected from U.S. Employers by the EEOC Advisory Panel, Member, 2021-present
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) National Board, Member, 2021-present
• Collegiate Directions Inc. National Board, Member, 2021-present
• Southern Sociological Society, Executive Committee, Member, 2019-present
• Southern Sociological Society, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Chair, 2019-present

Saida Grundy

Present Professional Position
Assistant Prof of Sociology and African American Studies, Boston University

Education

• Ph.D., University of Michigan (Joint: Sociology, Women’s Studies)
• BA, Spelman College, Cum Laude

Positions Held in ASA

• Council Member, ASA Section on Race, Gender and Class

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Awards Committee; Sociologists for Women in Society
• Program Committee; Society for the Study of Social Problems
• Editorial Board; Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society
• Editorial Board; Social Problems (Journal)
• Editorial Board; Men and Masculinities (Journal)

Doug Hartmann

Present Professional Position
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1997-present

Personal Statement
In an increasingly broken and dysfunctional world, sociology is needed now more than ever; yet, our discipline is an incredibly big, multifaceted tent that is constantly challenged to properly include and represent all of its various areas and approaches, types of jobs, and community members. I want to serve on the Nominations Committee in order to help ensure that ASA—the single most prominent and important membership organization in our field—has representation, input, and leadership from all contributors to and corners of the discipline. Having served in a range of capacities in regional, national, and state organizations, I believe I would bring experience, understanding, relationships, and connections that would help us identify, nominate, and recruit a diverse range of leaders and new voices into the association in the years ahead.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Department Chair, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2017-2021
• Associate Chair, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2016-2017; 2007-2011

Education

• PhD (Sociology), University of California, San Diego, 1997
• MA (Social Sciences), University of Chicago, 1990
• BA (History), University of Chicago, 1989

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair, Sociology Action Network (SAN), 2020-present
• Chair, Excellence in Reporting of Social Issues, Award Selection Committee, 2019
• Committee Member, Ad Hoc Task Force on Engaging Sociology, 2013-2016
• Elected Representative, Publications Committee, 2014-2017
• Journal Editor, Contexts (with Chris Uggen), 2008-2011

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Faculty Director, Public Life Project, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2019-present
• President (elected), Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), 2015-2016
• Publisher and Editor (with Chris Uggen), The Society Pages.org, 2010-present
• Series Editor (with Mike Messner & Jeffrey Montez de Oca), Rutgers University Press,
• President, Sociologists of Minnesota (SOM), 2006-2007

Publications

• Stewart, Evan and Douglas Hartmann. 2020. “The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.” Sociological Theory, 38(2): 170-191.
• Gerteis, Joseph, Penny Edgell, and Douglas Hartmann. 2020. “Racial, Religious, and Civic Dimensions of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America.” Social Problems, 67(4): 719-740.
• Hartmann, Douglas. 2017. “Sociology and its Publics: Reframing Engagement and Revitalizing the Field.” The Sociological Quarterly, 58(1): 3-18.
• Hartmann, Douglas. 2016. Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Ali, Syed and Douglas Hartmann. 2015. Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World. New York: Routledge / Taylor-Francis.

Alexandra Kalev

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014-present.

Former Professional Positions Held

• 2014-Present Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
• 2010-2014 Senior Lecturer Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
• 2007-2010 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona

Education

• PhD, Princeton University, 2005
• MA, Princeton University, 2001
• MA, Tel Aviv University, 1998

Positions Held in ASA

• 2019-2022 Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair, Organization, Occupation and Work section of the American Sociological Association.
• 2017-2019 Council Member, section on Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association
• 2015 – 2018 Editorial Board: American Review of Sociology
• 2015 Chair, Distinguished Paper Award Committee, Sociology of Law section of the ASA.
• 2012-2014 Council Member, Organization Occupation and Work, section of the American Sociological Association

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• 2020- Member, the Committee on Gender Equity in the Social Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University
• 2020- Member, University Ph.D. Committee, Tel Aviv University
• 2017- Editor, Israeli Sociology (in Hebrew)
• 2014- Member, Advisory Committee to the Israeli Equal Employment Opportunity Committee
• 2012-2017 Committee Member, Approving Undergraduate Programs in Sociology, The Israeli Committee for Higher Education (Malag).

Publications

• 2022  Dobbin, Frank and Alexandra Kalev “Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t”. Harvard University Press (forthcoming in the Fall catalog).
• 2022 Knight Carly, Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. Forthcoming. “The Limits of Litigation: Discrimination Lawsuits, Organizational Backlash, and Visibility in Small and Large Firms”. American Sociological Review (forthcoming).
• 2021 Kim Kwan Woo, Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin and Deutsch Gal. “Effects of the Great Recession on the Diversity of New Faculty”. Sociological Science 8: 308-324.
• 2019 Dobbin, Frank and Alexandra Kalev. “The Promise and Peril of Sexual Harassment Programs.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(25):12255-12260.
• 2017 Abendroth, Anja-Kristin, Silvia Maja Melzer, Alexandra Kalev, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. “Women at Work: Women’s Access to Power and the Gender Earning Gap.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 70(1): 190-222.

José A. Muñoz

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, CSU San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, 2011-present.

Personal Statement
I enjoy being part of the American Sociological Association. It would be my honor to serve on the nomination committee. My hope is to make the ASA more inclusive and friendlier to a wider group of scholars. This desire has motivated my participation on the ASA Task Force on First Generation and Working Class Persons in Sociology (three year appointment). I have ample experience collaborating with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in service and research settings within sociology and across several disciplines.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Visiting Researcher, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, summer 2021.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Institute for American Cultures, 2020-2021.
• Sociology Lecturer, CSU Dominguez Hills, 2009-2011.

Education

• PhD, Stony Brook University, 2008
• MA, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998
• BA, University of California, Irvine, 1995

Positions Held in ASA

• ASA Task Force on First Generation and Working Class Persons in Sociology, 2019-2022.
• Chair, Mentoring Committee, CBSM Section, 2012-2014.
• Offices Held in Other Organizations
• Chair, Endowment Committee, Pacific Sociological Association, 2021-present.
• Program Committee, Pacific Sociological Association, 2019-2021.
• Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity Liaison, Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2016.
• Minority Serving Institution Fellowship Selection Committee, American Evaluation Association, 2016

Publications

• Lanesskog, Deirdre, José Muñoz, and Koressa Castillo. 2020. “Language is not enough: institutional supports for Spanish speaking client-worker engagement in child welfare.” Journal of Public Child Welfare 4:435–457
• Muñoz, José and Idalis Villanueva. 2019. “Latino STEM Scholars, Barriers, and Mental Health: A Review of the Literature.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. (21):1–14.
• Muñoz, José and José Collazo. 2019. “Promoting Health from Outside the State: La Comunidad, Migrants, and Hometown Associations.” Migration Letters 16:155 –164.
• Muñoz, José A., Anahi Reynoso-Franco, Lydia Perez, and Sarai Tovar. 2022. “Latinos in Primetime: A Look at Television Mental Health Portrayals.” In, LatinxTV in the 21st Century, edited by Frederick Aldama. Tucson, AZ:University of Arizona Press.
• Culton, Kenneth and José Muñoz. 2018. “Breaking the Carnival Mirror: A Classroom Exercise to Reassess Criminality.” Humanity & Society. 42:367–379.

Yung-Yi Diana Pan

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, City University of New York – Brooklyn College, 2019-present

Personal Statement
Colleagues, I am humbled to have been nominated for the Nominating Committee. We are two years into a global pandemic and the value of sociology is apparent more than ever. From examining racial disparities in health, effects of climate crisis, to divergences in policing and more, our discipline has been, and continues to be at the forefront. I believe in sociology. My own sociological imagination is anchored by active community practice – within the discipline and beyond. I have held different positions within ASA, but I am also active beyond formal sociology or academic organizations, embracing our discipline as a true vocation. I believe my intersectional practice of, service and commitment to the discipline make me an ideal candidate for the Nominating Committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Sociology, City University of New York – Brooklyn College, 2012-2018

Education

• PhD, Sociology, University of California – Irvine, 2012
• MA, Ethnic Studies, California State University – San Francisco, 2005
• BA, Ethnic Studies and Political Science, Oregon State University, 2002

Positions Held in ASA

• Member, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Diversity Committee (2021-2022)
• Member, Section on Asia/Asian America Book Award Committee (2021-2022)
• Member, Dissertation Award Committee, (2019-2021)
• Panel Organizer, Regular Session on Race, Class and Gender (2019-2020)
• Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award Committee (2018-2019)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Board Member, Asian American Advisory Board, Westchester County, NY (2021-present)
• Board Member, Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York (2013-present)
• Member, Membership and Professional Issues Committee, Law and Society Association (2014-2015)
• Senior Editorial Board Member, Journal of Undergraduate Ethnography (2015-present)
• Member, Mapping Asian Americans in New York (MAANY) – City University of New York (2014 – present)

Publications

• Pan, Yung-Yi Diana and Daisy Verduzco Reyes. 2021. “The Norm among the Exceptional? Latino Student Experiences in Elite Institutions.” Sociological Inquiry 91(1): 207-230
• Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. 2017. Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School, Philadlphia, PA: Temple University Press
• Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. 2016. “To Work or Not to Work…Before Law School: Apprehension, Confidence, and Cynicism among Law Students.” International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 23(3): 5-51
• Megan T. Thiele, Yung-Yi Diana Pan, and Devin Molina. 2016. “Alienating Students: Marxist Theory in Action.” LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 9(1): 4-28.
• Pan, Yung-Yi Diana. 2015.  “Becoming a (Pan)ethnic Attorney: How Asian American and Latino Law Students Negotiate Identities.” Sociological Forum 30(1): 148-169

Veronica Terriquez

Present Professional Position
Professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles 2021-present

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
• Associate Professor of Sociology, USC
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC

Education

• PhD Sociology, UCLA
• MA Education, UC Berkeley
• BA Sociology, Harvard

Positions Held in ASA

• Committee on Professional Ethics
• Awards Committee
• Publications Committee
• Latino Sociology Council member

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• PSA Publications Committee

Publications

• Terriquez, Veronica and Ruth Milkman. 2021. “Immigrant and Refugee Youth Organizing in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives.”  Gender & Society, 35(4): 577-587.
• Terriquez, Veronica, Randy Villegas, Roxanna Villalobos, and Jiayi Xu.2020. “The Political Socialization of Latinx Youth in a Conservative Political Context.” Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 70:10188.
• Terriquez, Veronica, Randy Villegas, and Roxanna Villalobos. 2019. “Central Valley Freedom Summer.” Contexts: Sociology for the Public 18(3): 54-57.
• Terriquez, Veronica and May Lin. 2019. “Yesterday they Marched, Today they Mobilized the Vote: A Developmental Model for Civic Leadership Among the Children of Immigrants.”  Online.  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46:(4) 747-769.
• Terriquez, Veronica, Tizoc Brenes, and Abdiel Lopez. 2018. “Intersectionality as a multipurpose collective action frame: the case of the undocumented youth movement.” Ethnicities 18(2): 260-276.

Simón Weffer-Elizondo

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, July 2017-present

Personal Statement
As someone that works in the DEI space, both on my campus, and with the ACLU of Illinois, diversity of representation on committees is something I advocate in both venues. Nominations committees are the first point where there is an opportunity to diversify an organizations make up by ensuring as diverse a slate of candidates as possible. As a Latinx faculty member at a mid-major/non-R1 institution, I would bring a different viewpoint to the nominating committee because of both my lived experience in my faculty career (being at a ‘Start-up” in UC Merced, and a regional university today), as well as my lived experience in the academy as a Latinx scholar. I would also bring a unique social network that could help in filling a slate of candidates.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, July 2012-June 2017
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced, July 2006-July 2012

Education

• PhD, Stanford University, 2004
• MA, Stanford University, 1997
• AB, University of Chicago, 1996

Positions Held in ASA

• Latino Sociology Section Book Award Committee, 2021-Present
• SREM Mentoring Committee Member, 2020-2021
• Latina/o Sociology Section Nominations Committee 2018-19
• Latina/o Sociology Section Nominations Commitee Chair 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18
• Normal Williams Wokshop Organizing Committee Member

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• ACLU of Illinois Board of Directors, Co-Chair, DEI Committee, 2021-Present
• ACLU of Illinois Board of Directors, Chair, Ad-hoc Committe on Board Development, 2020-2021
• ACLU of Illinois Board of Directors, 2016-Present

Publications

• Weffer, Simón E.. 2020 “Sheltering in Masks at Work” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social World. 19(2).
• Dominguez, Silvia, David G. Embrick, and Simón Weffer. 2020 “White Supremacy: Racism, Space, and Fine Arts in Two Metropolitan Cities.” American Behavioral Scientist, 64(14):2028-2043.
• Simón E. Weffer, Embrick, David G. Dominguez, Silvia.  2020 “Colorful Art, White Spaces: How Art Museums are Maintained as White Spaces.” Pp 179-193, in Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality, edited by Cameron D. Lippard, J. Scott Carter. University of Washington Press.
• David G. Embrick, Weffer, Simón E., and Silvia Dominguez. 2019 “White Sanctuaries: Race and Place in Art Museums”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39 (11/12), pp. 995-1009. *Winner Southwestern Sociological Association Award for Best Published Paper, 2019*
• Simón E. Weffer, Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez, and Raymond Jenkins. 2018 “Taking a Knee” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social World. 17(3), 66–68

Candidates or Publications Committee

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Present Professional Position
Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019-present.

Personal Statement
I am honored to be asked to be a candidate for the ASA Publications Committee. Equitable access to high quality publication outlets is crucial for the health of our discipline and social science more generally. Continuing to diversify the substantive and methodological content of ASA journals is crucial. If selected for this position, I look forward to working collaboratively with the committee to maintain and expand ASA sponsored publication opportunities for sociologists.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Professor of Sociology & Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014-19.
• Associate Professor of Sociology & Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009-14.
• Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2007-09.

Education

• PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1998.
• MA, University of California Berkeley, 1990.
• BA, University of Michigan, 1988.

Positions Held in ASA

• Race, Gender, and Class Section Chair, 2018-19.
• Distinguished Career for the Practice of Sociology Award Selection Committee, 2016-18 (Chair 2017-18).
• Committee on Sections, 2015-17.
• Program Committee for the 2015, 2012, and 2011 Annual Meetings.
• Nominations Committee, 2011-12, 2013-14.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• American Sociological Review, Deputy Editor, 2016-18, 2021-23
• Gender & Society Editorial Board, 2015-17
• Sociology of Education Editorial Board, 2015
• Social Psychology Quarterly Editorial Board, 2011-13
• Sociological Theory Editorial Board, 2007-09

Publications

• Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Laura T. Hamilton. 2013. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Hamilton, Laura T. and Elizabeth A. Armstrong. 2021. “Parents, Partners, and Professions: Reproduction and Mobility in a Cohort of College Women.” American Journal of Sociology. 127(1):102-151.
• Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Laura T. Hamilton. 2021. “Classed Pathways to Marriage: Hometown Ties, College Networks, and Life after Graduation.” Journal of Marriage and the Family. 83: 1004–1019. DOI:10.1111/jomf.12747.
• Hamilton, Laura, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Lotus Seeley, and Elizabeth M. Armstrong. 2019. “Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination.” Sociological Theory. 37(4):315–341.
• Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Miriam Gleckman-Krut, and Lanora Johnson. 2018. “Silence, Power, and Inequality: An Intersectional Approach to Sexual Violence.” Annual Review of Sociology 44:99-122.

Angela Jones

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York, 2011-present

Personal Statement
ASA’s journals are a critical space for disseminating cutting-edge sociological research. I am excited to potentially play a role in the process of selecting editorial leaders and weighing in on vital matters related to ASA publications policy. Given my commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, I am interested in pushing our organization to ensure that our journal editorships and the scholarship published in our journals reflect the full range of our members’ identities, intellectual commitments, and institutional contexts.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, 2021-
• Associate Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, 2017-2021
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, 2011-2017

Education

• PhD, New School for Social Research, 2010
• MA, New School for Social Research, 2006
• BA, Queens College, CUNY, 2005

Positions Held in ASA

• ASA, Section on Sexualities, Chair
• ASA, Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology
• ASA, Section on Sexualities, Levine Dissertation Award Committee, Chair
• ASA, Section on Sexualities, Distinguished Book Award Committee, Chair
• ASA, Section on Sexualities, DEI Taskforce, Chair

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Editor, Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Research Series
• Law and Society, CRN6: Sex Work and Law Section, Co-chair
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Youth/College Chapter Leadership

Publications

• Jones, Angela. 2022. ‘People need to know we exist!’: an exploratory study of the labour experiences of transmasculine and non-binary sex workers and implications for harm reduction, Culture, Health & Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2021.2018500
• Jones, Angela. 2021. “Cumming to a Screen Near You: Transmasculine and Non-binary People in the Camming Industry.” Porn Studies, Volume 8, issue, 2, pgs. 239-254.
• Jones, Angela. 2020 “It’s Hard Out Here For a Unicorn:” Transmasculine and Non-binary Escorts, Cissexism, Embodiment, and Workplace Inequalities.” Gender & Society, 36(4).
• Jones, Angela. 2020. Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York: New York University Press.
• Jones, Angela. 2019. “Sex is Not a Problem: The Erasure of Pleasure in Sexual Science Research.” Sexualities, Vol. 22(4): 643–668.

ChangHwan Kim

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS. 2018-present

Personal Statement
Like any other sociologist, I am well aware of the importance of publication. As a student, I learn from ASA publications and as a researcher, I try to be a part of the knowledge production. I believe one of the common concerns of our research is to contribute to the generation of the critical knowledge and scientific information that will ultimately help policymakers to understand and eventually ameliorate the undesirable sources of increasing socioeconomic polarization in our society. I have served and am currently serving on the editorial boards of Sociology of Education, Korean Journal of Sociology, and Asian Journal of Sociology. I would be humbly honored to serve on the Publications Committee.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-2018
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2008-2013
• Postdoctoral Associate, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2006-2008

Education

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
• MA, Sogang University, South Korea, 1993
• MA, Sogang University, South Korea, 1990

Positions Held in ASA

• Chair-elect, ASA Section-IPM (2021-2022)
• Career Award Committee, ASA Section-IPM (2020-2021)
• James Coleman Award Committee (Chair), ASA Section-Education (2019-2020)
• Research Paper Award Committee (co-Chair), ASA Section-Asia and Asian America (2017-2018)
• Outstanding Article Award Committee, ASA Section-IPM (2012-2013)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Program Committee, ISA-RC28 (2017-2018)
• President, Association of Korean Sociologists in America (2014-2015)
• Council Member, Korean Sociological Association (2014-2015)
• Preparatory Committee, Conference on Social Stratification and Inequality in South Korea (2013-present)

Publications

• Erickson, Matt and ChangHwan Kim. (forthcoming) “Tied Staying on the Rise? Declining Migration Among Co-Breadwinner Couples in the United States, 1990s to 2010s.” Social Forces.
• Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. 2017. “Women’s Progress for Men’s Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard-of-Living, 1990 to 2009-11.” Demography 54(5): 1743-1772.
• Kim, ChangHwan, Christopher R. Tamborini, and Arthur Sakamoto. 2015. “Field of Study in College and Lifetime Earnings in the United States.” Sociology of Education 88(4): 320-339.
• Kim, ChangHwan. 2013. “Detailed Wage Decompositions: Revisiting the Identification Problem.” Sociological Methodology 43:346-63.
• Kim, ChangHwan and Arthur Sakamoto. 2010. “Have Asian American Men Achieved Labor Market Parity with Whites?” American Sociological Review 75:934-57.

Brandon Andrew Robinson

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2021-present

Personal Statement
I am seeking election to the Publications Committee to continue the work and discussion of making research open access, especially for ASA journals. Finding a model where authors do not have to pay for open access is crucial to one of my goals. Moreover, I want to advocate for a streamlining process in people being able to change their name on previous publications in ASA journals, as name change is important to certain scholars, including certain trans and non-binary scholars. Lastly, I am committed to further working to diversify the editorial positions on ASA journals, including pushing for more women and femmes of color, including Black and Indigenous women and femmes, to be editors of ASA journals and providing the resources to support them as editors.

Former Professional Positions Held

• Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2019-2021
• University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 2017-2019

Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2017
• M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 2013
• B.A., American University, 2009

Positions Held in ASA

• Council Member, ASA Sociology of Sexualities Section
• Committee Member, ASA Sociology of Sexualities Best Article Award Committee
• Committee Member, ASA Sociology of Sexualities Section Graduate Student Paper Award Committee
• Committee Member, ASA Sociology of Sexualities Section Nominations Committee
• Chair, Task Force for ASA Sexualities Author-Meets-Critics

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marriage & Family, 2020-present
• Fellow, Time For Homes, 2020-2021
• Committee Member, Advancing Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Scholarship, Sociologists for Trans Justice, 2018-2019
• Committee Member, Advancing Trans Studies at Sociology Conferences, Sociologists for Trans Justice, 2017-2018

Publications

• Robinson, Brandon Andrew. 2020. Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Oakland: University of California Press.
• Robinson, Brandon Andrew. 2020. “The Lavender Scare in Homonormative Times: Policing, Hyper-incarceration, and LGBTQ Youth Homelessness.” Gender & Society 34(2): 210-232.
• Robinson, Brandon Andrew. 2018. “Conditional Families and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth Homelessness: Gender, Sexuality, Family Instability, and Rejection.” Journal of Marriage & Family 80(2): 383-396.
• Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador, Brandon Andrew Robinson, and Cristina Khan. 2018. Race & Sexuality. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Robinson, Brandon Andrew. 2015. “‘Personal Preference’ as the New Racism: Gay Desire and Racial Cleansing in Cyberspace.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity 1(2): 317-330.

Elizabeth Vaquera

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University, Washington DC, 2016-present

Former Professional Positions Held

• Associate Professor Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, 2013-2016
• Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, 2007-2013

Education

• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Positions Held in ASA

• Editorial Board, Society and Mental Health, 2021-2024
• Secretary and Treasurer, Section on Latino Sociology, 2017-2020
• Committee Member for the James Coleman Award for best article of the Sociology of Education section, 2020
• Organizer of Regular Session on “Education” for Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2019

Offices Held in Other Organizations

• US-Spain Council (USSC) Advisory Council Member, 2018-present
• Believe in Students (BIS) Board Member, 2020-present
• Organizer of session “Education and Immigration: Borders, Politics, and Culture” for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2018
• Chair, Social Sciences, First Joint meeting of Spanish Scientists in the U.S., 2015

Publications
*Indicates student co-author

• *Chavez, Berta, Robert Lucio, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elizabeth Vaquera (2021). “The Reality of a Journey: What School Social Workers Need to Know about the Experiences of Latinx Undocumented Youth.” Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work (2021): 1-12.
• Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, and Heide Castaneda (2021). “Shifting Roles in Families of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Implications for the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Family Issues. 42(9): 2111-2132.
• Roche, Kathleen M., Elizabeth Vaquera, Claudia A. Delbasso, Gabriel Kuperminc, Marisa Cordon, and Maria Ivonne Rivera (2020). “Worry, Behavior Change, and Daily Adversity: How U.S. Latino/a Parents Experience Contemporary Immigration Actions and News.” Journal of Family Issues: 1-23.
• Vaquera, Elizabeth, *Rebecca Jones, Pau Marí-Klose, Marga Marí-Klose, and Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham (2018). “Unhealthy weight among children in Spain and the role of the home environment.” BMC Research Notes 11(1): 591-599.
• Aranda, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Vaquera (2018). “Immigrant Family Separation, Fear, and the U.S. Deportation Regime.”  Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes Journal, 5 (147): 204-2012.