Below are the 2026 candidates for American Sociological Association (ASA) officers and members of Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, and Publications Committee.

President-Elect
Vote for one; Elected will be President-Elect in September 2026; President in September 2027; and Immediate Past President in September 2028.

Rory M. McVeigh, University of Notre Dame
Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania

Vice President-Elect
Vote for one; Elected will be Vice President-Elect in September 2026; Vice President in September 2027; and Immediate Past Vice President in September 2028.

Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University
Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University Bloomington

Council Member-at-Large
Vote for four; Elected will serve from September 2026 to August 2029.

Sarah Bowen, North Carolina State University
Jennifer L. Glass, University of Texas
Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia
David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine
Richard E. Ocejo, CUNY, John Jay College and Graduate Center
Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County
Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University
Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California

Committee on Committees: Member-at-Large
Vote for two; Elected will serve from September 2026 to August 2028.

Tania M. Jenkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael Sauder, University of Iowa
stef m. shuster, Michigan State University

Committee on Committees (MA or 4-year Institution)
Vote for one; Elected will serve from September 2026 to August 2028.

Bart Stykes, Sam Houston State University
Karletta White, Grambling State University

Committee on Committees (2-year institution)
Vote for one; Elected will serve from September 2026 to August 2028.

Rebecca L. Durkee, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Sarah L. Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College

Nominating Committee
Vote for five; Elected will serve September 2026 – August 2028.

Patricia A. Banks, Mount Holyoke College
Monica C. Bell, Yale University
David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech
Daniel Hirschman, Cornell University
SunAh Marie Laybourn, University of Memphis
Stephanie Medley-Rath, Indiana University Kokomo
José A. Muñoz, California State University, San Bernardino
Ranita Ray, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Derron O. Wallace, Brown University

Publications Committee
Vote for three; Elected will serve from September 2026 to August 2029.

Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine
Kyle Crowder, University of Washington
Prentiss A. Dantzler, University of Toronto
Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa
Ali Meghji, University of Cambridge
Miranda R. Waggoner, Rice University

President-Elect

Rory M. McVeigh, University of Notre Dame

Present Professional Position
Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame, 2017 to present.

Personal Statement
The ASA has a vital role to play in continuing its extraordinary defense of sociology against unprecedented political attacks. In the coming years, I see a need and an opportunity for the ASA to shift from defense to recovery mode. We must make a bold and unapologetic case for the importance of sociological research and teaching to chart a better course for the nation and the world. It will be essential to attract more students to our courses, to our graduate programs, and to press for more faculty lines. Our success will hinge on our ability to unify under a broad tent that celebrates diversity among our members, including diversity in methodological approaches and orientations toward activism, public sociology, and sociology as science. This unity can be achieved by highlighting the rigor of our work and its societal impact. My 35 years studying right-wing politics puts me in a unique position to lead these efforts. I know what we are up against and I am ready to work.

Former Professional Positions Held
Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2009-2017.

Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2007-2016.

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2005-2009.

Education
Ph.D. The University of North Carolina, 1996.

M.A. The University of North Carolina, 1993.

B.A. The University of Arizona, 1991.

Positions Held in ASA
ASA Nominating Committee, 2023-2025

Chair elect, Chair, and Past Chair of ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2020-2023.

Co-editor, American Sociological Review, 2016-2020.

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications
McVeigh, Rory, William Carbonaro, Chang Liu, and Kenadi Silcox. 2025. Politics and Privilege: How the Status Wars Sustain Inequality. New York: Columbia University Press.

McVeigh, Rory, and Kevin Estep. 2019. The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Political Resentment. New York: Columbia University Press.

McVeigh, Rory, Bryant Crubaugh, and Kevin Estep. 2017. “Plausibility Structures, Status Threats, and the Establishment of Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers.” American Journal of Sociology 122: 1533-1571.

McVeigh, Rory, David Cunningham, and Justin Farrell. 2014. “Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome: 1960s Klan Activism and its Impact on Political Realignment in Southern Counties. American Sociological Review 79: 1144-1171.

McVeigh, Rory and Maria Diaz. 2009. “Voting to Ban Same-Sex Marriage: Social Structure and Threats to Interests, Values, and Communities.” American Sociological Review 74: 891-915.

Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania

Present Professional Position
2024–Present — Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College, University of Pennsylvania

Personal Statement
Sociology is at a pivotal moment. We face public scrutiny, constrained resources, threats to tenure, academic freedom and higher education itself, and deep uncertainty about AI in research and teaching. ASA has a vital role to play in this future; yet faces declining membership, the growth of competitors, fractious debates and crises of trust and disinvestment.

Over the past six months, I have interviewed sociologists across subfields, institutions and perspectives. We have real disagreements, but also common goals. We are stronger because of our diversity, in substance, method, background and political views; but we need to ensure that all voices are heard. There is much hard work to do.

If elected, I will convene working groups on critical issues such as: objectivity, positionality, causality, public policy, public sociology, political statements and activism. I will use the conference to help us engage each other productively and chart the future of the discipline, together.

Former Professional Positions Held
2020–Present — Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

2022–2025 — Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

2010–2020 — Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Education
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
BA, Sociology, with honors, New York University, 1996

Positions Held in ASA
Sociology of Religion Section Chair, 2018.

Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Council Member, 2016-2018.

Culture Section Council Member, 2007-2010.

Sociology of Religion Section Council Member, 2005-2008.

Sociology of Religion Section Student Representative, 2002.

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Sociological Research Association, 2025 – Present.

General Social Survey Board of Scientific Advisors, 2019-2023.

Association for the Sociology of Religion, President, 2014-2015.

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Executive Council, 2012-2015.

Religious Research Association, Board of Directors, 2013-2015.

Publications
Garrity, Meghan and Melissa J. Wilde. 2023. “Race, Risk, and American Religious Groups’ Views of Nazi Germany in 1935.” The British Journal of Sociology 74(4): 598–623. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13020.

Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion. University of California Press, 2020.

Wilde, Melissa J. and Lindsay Wood Glassman. 2016. “How Complex Religion Can Improve Our Understanding of American Politics.” Annual Review of Sociology 42: 407–425.

Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change. Princeton University Press, 2007.

Hout, Michael, Andrew M. Greeley, and Melissa J. Wilde. 2001. “The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change.” American Journal of Sociology 107(2): 468–500

Vice President-Elect

Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University, 2022-present (Professor of Sociology and Department Chair 2022-2025)

Personal Statement
I believe we become our best selves not in isolation but in community. I am seeking office to be a more engaged member of our community AND to provide community for our thousands of members in the various roles and places where they serve. I discovered sociology later in life, but once I did, I fell in love. Sociology has much to offer, and I want to contribute to supporting those who are doing this important work. These are difficult times we are living in. This is especially true for those of us who care about matters related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It filled me with pride to know that ASA led the way in the lawsuit against the Department of Education. Amid these challenges, it is imperative that our discipline thrives. In the role of Vice-President I believe I can contribute to this, especially through my service in rotating duties like planning the first-time attendee’s session and chairing groups like the Council Members at Large and the Committee on Committees.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Clark Atlanta University, 2015-2022 (on leave 2020-2021; interim chair 2017-2022)

UNCF/Mellon Visiting Associate Professor, James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, 2020-2021

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology and Southern Studies (joint appointment), University of Mississippi, 2011-2015

Education
PhD, Georgia State University, 2010

JD, The Ohio State University College of Law, 1993

MA, Xavier University (Ohio), 1990

Positions Held in ASA
ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) Past Chair

ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) Chair

ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) Chair Elect

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Reviewer

ASA Task Force on the State of the Art in Sociological Scholarship on Race

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Elections Committee

Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Antiharassment Committee

Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Antiharassment Taskforce

Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Executive Committee

Publications
Combs, Barbara Harris. 2025. “Push ‘Em Back, Push ‘Em Back . . . Way Back.” Contemporary Sociology, 54(5):365-370.

Combs, Barbara Harris. 2023.“Finding Black Joy in a World Where We Are Not Safe.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 9(4):444-450.

Combs, Barbara Harris. 2022. Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U. S. Society. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Combs, Barbara Harris. 2021. “A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident.” American Behavioral Scientist, 65(8):1027-1048.

Combs, Barbara Harris. 2017. “No Rest for the Weary: The Weight of Race, Gender, and Place Inside and Outside a Southern Classroom. “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(4):491-505.

Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University Bloomington

Present Professional Position
Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Professor, Indiana University, 2017-present

Personal Statement
I have tremendously benefited from the ASA over the years and would like to use my experience and knowledge to address key challenges facing the discipline. Serving in several roles at ASA, including journal editor, section chair, and committee member, I have helped to develop ASA policies, build the annual program, nominate our fellow members for committees and leadership positions, and work with section leaders to address their members’ needs. In addition, I bring my experience as a faculty member at a large public university, and administrative and leadership skills that I honed as a center director. I am ready to serve as ASA VP and would work with leadership and members to strengthen the organization and discipline, build and support a broad and inclusive community of sociologists, promote our research in public debates and policy discussions, and address challenges, such as attacks on science and academic freedom, facing sociology within higher education and in applied settings.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 2016-17

Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, 2014-2022

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 2013-16

Education

PhD, University of Arizona, 2001

MA, University of Arizona, 1995

BA, University of California-San Diego, 1992

Positions Held in ASA

Co-Editor, American Sociological Review, 2021-23

Member, Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section Council, 2018-20

Member, ASA Nominations Committee, 2018-19

Chair, Asia and Asian America Section, 2014-16

Member-at-Large, ASA Council, 2012-15

Office Held in Other Organizations

Member, Executive Committee, Sociological Research Association, 2025-30

Member, Selection Committee, Sociological Research Association, 2024

Publications

Okamoto, Dina and Muna Adem. 2024. “Immigrants and Processes of De-Stigmatization.” Pp. 201-11 in Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion, Ernst Strungmann Forum, edited by L. Yang, M. Eger, and B. Link. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gast, Melanie, Dina Okamoto, and Emerald Nguyen. 2021. “Making Requests: Filipino/a and Latino/a Claims-Making and Racialization.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 44(7): 1211-1230.

Okamoto, Dina, Linda Tropp, Helen Marrow, and Michael Jones-Correa. 2020. “Welcoming, Trust, and Civic Engagement: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan America.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 690(1): 61-81.

Mora, G. Cristina and Dina Okamoto. 2019. “Boundary Articulation and Emergent Identities: Asian and Hispanic Panethnicity in Comparison, 1970-1980.” Social Problems 67(1): 56-76.

Okamoto, Dina. 2014. Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Council Member-at-Large

Sarah Bowen, North Carolina State University

Present Professional Position
Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2025 – present, and Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2020 – present

Personal Statement
As a discipline and an approach, sociology is both more threatened and urgent than ever. I am honored to be considered for a council position because I am committed to strengthening sociologists’ collective ability to respond in the face of funding cuts, attacks on academic freedom, and a host of social issues that call out for a sociological perspective. I draw on my experiences as a student and professor at land-grant institutions with strong traditions of doing research that benefits the public and as an administrator who works across the university to support faculty research and engagement. These roles have taught me how to facilitate connections between people and opportunities, use creative approaches to incorporate diverse perspectives, and provide the scaffolding needed to reduce barriers to participation. If elected, I will work with ASA leadership to expand our reach, preserve our core values, and widen the circle of people who see themselves as part of this organization.

Former Professional Positions Held
Director of Graduate Program in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2021-2023

Assistant Head and Director of Undergraduate Programs, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2019-2021

Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, 2008-2020

Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008

MS, Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004

BS, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000

Positions Held in ASA
Council Member, Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, 2019-2021

Member, Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, 2021

Session Organizer, “Food As Struggle, Food as Resistance,” Section on Sociology of Development, 2021

Session Organizer, “Cultures of Classification: Race, Gender, and Class,” Sections on Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, and Race, Gender, and Class, 2020

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Member, Best Graduate Student Research Paper Selection Committee, Research Interest Group on Agriculture and Food Systems, Rural Sociological Society, 2017

Chair, Nominations Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2014-2015

Member, Best Paper in Social Sciences Selection Committee, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2014

Member, Nominations Committee, Rural Sociological Society, 2012-2013

Editorial Board Member, Rural Sociology, 2008-2011

Publications
Bowen, Sarah, Annie Hardison-Moody, Emilia Cordero Oceguera, and Sinikka Elliott. 2025. “Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families.” Social Problems 72(3): 819-840.

Bowen, Sarah, Sinikka Elliott, and Annie Hardison-Moody. 2021. “The Structural Roots of Food Insecurity: How Racism Is a Fundamental Cause of Food Insecurity.” Sociology Compass 15(7): e12846

Bowen, Sarah, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott. 2019. Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press.

Elliott, Sinikka, and Sarah Bowen. 2018. “Defending Motherhood: Morality, Responsibility, and Double Binds in Feeding Children.” Journal of Marriage and Family 80(2): 499-520.

Bowen, Sarah. 2015. Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jennifer L. Glass, University of Texas

Present Professional Position
2017-2026 Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Sociology, Univ of Texas, Austin

2012-2017 Barbara Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Sociology, Univ of Texas, Austin

Personal Statement
Strengthening the role of sociology within the academy, and as a source of knowledge for policy-making and public opinion, has never been more radically challenging yet necessary for any association claiming to represent the discipline in all its diversity. I have been around long enough to see our discipline flourish in better times and survive in darker ones such as the present. Right now I see hints of what might be possible for our discipline in a renewed era of civic engagement in which we rebuild institutions that protect human rights, the environment, and health. If elected to council, my goal would be to support initiatives that increase membership engagement within and outside ASA, and train us on ways to impact the public square through sociological knowledge and analysis.

Former Professional Positions Held
2009-2011 Chair, Dept. of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa

2009-2011 Professor, Depts. of Sociology and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, Univ. of Iowa.

2008-2009 Professor, Policy Analysis & Management and Sociology, Cornell Univ.

Education
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983

M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979

B.A. Social Science New College of Florida, 1977

Positions Held in ASA
2011-2014 Vice-President, American Sociological Association

2008-2010 At-Large Member, Executive Office and Budget Committee, American Sociological Association

2007-2008 Chair, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, American Sociological Association

2005-2006 Chair, Family Section, American Sociological Association

Offices Held in Other Organizations
2023-25 President-Elect and President, Population Association of America

2015-2025 Executive Director, Council on Contemporary Families

2017-2019 Chair, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Social Sciences and Population Program [Study Section B]

Publications
Glass, Jennifer. Forthcoming 2026. The Motherlode: Why Most American Mothers End Up Financially Supporting Their Children. New York: Russell Sage.

Glass, Jennifer. Forthcoming 2026. “The Expansion of Mothers’ Provisioning Work as Income Inequality Grows and the Welfare State Contracts.” In K. Swinth and S. Knott (Eds.) Capitalism and Carework, New York: Oxford.

Gonalons-Pons, Pilar, Kelly Musick, Jennifer Glass, and Aida Villanueva. 2026. “Trends in Income Dynamics and Income Inadequacy Following Parenthood, 1983-2019” forthcoming, Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences.

Dominguez-Garcia, Guillermo and Jennifer Glass. 2025. “What Do STEM Clubs Do? The Effect of College Club Participation on Career Confidence and Gender Inclusion.” J. of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering31:55–85.

Pepin, Joanna, Kim McErlean, Kelly Raley, and Jennifer Glass. 2024. “Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family’s Primary Economic Support?” Demography 61(6): 1793–1817.

Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia

Present Professional Position
2017-present: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia (2017-2022, Assistant Professor; 2022- present, Associate Professor with tenure)

2025-present: Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

Personal Statement
I’m honored to be nominated for Member-at-Large, and excited to serve the ASA membership in this role. In light of profound social inequality and sustained attacks on the discipline, our capacity to generate knowledge, convene critical conversations, and inform public life is more vital than ever. ASA plays a central role in nurturing that capacity. I’ve participated in section-level work since 2010, as elected council member, student rep, officer, and committee volunteer. If elected as Member-at-Large, I’ll build on this experience to address current issues and opportunities in front of us. I am especially invested in strengthening the profession’s ability to train and mentor emerging scholars and to foster the conversations and working conditions that allow all of us to thrive as sociologists. My research examines life in conflict zones and the cultural processes that generate social cohesion, so I’m thinking a lot these days about community-building closer to home.

Former Professional Positions Held
2023-2025: Lead Investigator, Cultural Atrocities team, Conflict Observatory Ukraine

2014-2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago

Education
PhD, University of Michigan, Sociology, 2014

DPhil, Oxford University, Classical Archaeology 2003

BA, University of Michigan, Classical Archaeology 1998

Positions Held in ASA
2023-2026: Secretary/Treasurer, Theory Section

2025-2026: Chair, Richard Peterson Best Student Paper Award, Section on Culture

2017-2019: Council Member, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology

2014-2016: Graduate Student Representative, Theory Section

2012-2014: Graduate Student Representative, Section on Culture

Offices Held in Other Organizations
2022-2025: Publications Committee Member, Social Science History Association

2025-present: Roster Member, Justice Rapid Response, Geneva

2024-present: Editorial Board Member, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

2021-present: Co-Director, CURIA Lab (Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis)

Publications
Greenland, Fiona (forthcoming). “War Ruination and Artifact Sacrifice in Simmel’s Late Writings on Culture.” In Broćić, M. and D. Silver (eds.), Elgar Companion to Georg Simmel.

Greenland, Fiona (2026). “How New Pro-Russian Monuments Exploit Cultural Heritage.” EUvsDisinfo, East Stratcom Task Force, European External Action Service.

Greenland, Fiona and M.R.D. Fabiani. (2023). “Images as Data in the Study of Conflict: Methodological and ethical considerations.” Schoon, E. and T. Maher (eds.), Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change (RSMCC Series: Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change).

Greenland, Fiona (2023). “Pixel Politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war,” Media, Culture, and Society 45(1), 19-35.

Greenland, Fiona (2021). Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, Associate to Professor: 1999-*

Personal Statement
I fell into graduate school in political science wanting to change the world–and to understand it. (Whoops!) Sociology welcomed me from a neighbor discipline long ago, and I appreciated the diversity of topics, methods, and colleagues immediately. I was grateful because it was a very difficult time for young scholars. It’s clearly much worse now. The discipline, higher education, and the country are all in various stages of crisis. I want to help the ASA and its constituencies navigate the difficult challenges ahead. ASA needs to find ways to support a constituency that is increasingly diverse in background and employment, without shrinking from larger public debates we might influence. We need to advocate effectively for ourselves and for higher education more generally. I’m eager to work with our community to advocate for ourselves and our future, building support for research, scholarship, and for providing students stable support for accessible and meaningful college educations.

Former Professional Positions Held
University of California-Irvine, Professor (2004- )

Associate Professor Sociology, 1999-2004

CUNY, City College, Political Science, Assistant to Associate Professor, 1999-2004

Education
Ph.D. 1988, Political Science (American Politics; Comparative Politics), Boston University.

M.A. 1984, Political Science (Political Theory; American Politics), Boston University.

B.A. 1980, Hampshire College, Concentration: Literature and Social Theory.

Positions Held in ASA

- American Sociological Association Nominations Committee, 2018-2019.
- Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section Social Movements Sessions Organizer, 2009.
- Collective Behavior and Social movements Chair, 2003-04.
- Council, 2000-2002. Awards Committee, 1998. Nominations Committee, 1996-1999. Membership Committee, 1995-1998. Open Sessions Program Committee, 1994.
- Peace and War Section: Regular Sessions Organizer, 2015. Chair, 2008-09. Awards Committee, 1997. Nominating Committee, 1994. Annual Meeting Program Committee, 1993.

Offices Held in Other Organizations

- Union of Concerned Scientists Science Advocacy Group, 2020-
- American Political Science Association Public Policy Section Council, 2008-11.
- Cambridge University Press, Editor, Series on Contentious Politics, 2016-
- Cambridge University Press, co-editor, Elements Series on Contentious Politics, 2019-2025
- University of California Press, Editorial Committee, 2023-

Publications

- Meyer, David S. 2021. How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter. Cambridge, England: Polity.
- Meyer, David S. The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Meyer, David S. and Kaylin Bourdon, “Social Movements and Standing in the American Gun Debate,” 69 Emory Law Journal (2020) 5: 915-1008.
- Meyer, David S. and Debra C. Minkoff, “Conceptualizing Political Opportunity,” Social Forces 82 (June 2004) 4: 1457-1492.
- DSM and Suzanne Staggenborg, “Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity,” American Journal of Sociology 101 (May 1996) 6: 1628-1660.

Richard E. Ocejo, CUNY, John Jay College and Graduate Center

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, John Jay College and the Graduate Center – City University of New York (CUNY), 2009-current

Personal Statement
It’s an honor to be nominated for a member-at-large position on ASA Council. I accepted and am seeking office because I want to help make ASA a stronger and more impactful association for its members. My experience in leadership positions has prepared me for this important service role. For instance, I recently finished a five-year term as editor of City & Community (2021-25), an official ASA journal. Under my editorship, we used the journal as an engine of professional development for students and junior faculty and a platform for underrepresented voices in our discipline. As a council member, my goals would be to build and expand sustainable programs and opportunities for ASA members, and to make the annual conference more accessible to members from under-resourced institutions.

Former Professional Positions Held
Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2021-current

Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2016-21

Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2009-16

Education
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009

MA, Queens College, CUNY, 2005

BA, Fordham University, 2002

Positions Held in ASA
Editor, City & Community, 2021-25

Member, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Selection Committee, 2022-24 (Chair, 2023-24)

Council Member, Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2019-22

Chair, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award Committee, Consumers and Consumption Section, 2020-21

Chair, Consumers and Consumption Section, 2019-20

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Vice President, Eastern Sociological Society, 2025-present

Chair, Robin M. Williams, Jr. Distinguished Lecturer Award Committee, Eastern Sociology Society, 2025

Member, Program Committee, 2025 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, 2024-25

Chair, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2018-19

Member, Executive Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2017-20

Publications
Ocejo, Richard E. 2025. “Gentrification in Small Cities: Growth Coalitions, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation.” Social Forces. 104(2): 558–575.

Ocejo, Richard E. 2024. Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City. Princeton University Press.

Maguire, Jennifer Smith, Richard E. Ocejo, and Michaela DeSoucey. 2023. “Mobile Trust Regimes: Modes of Attachment in an Age of Banal Omnivorousness.” Journal of Consumer Culture. 23(3): 597-616.

Ocejo, Richard E. 2023. “The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification.” Social Problems. 70(2): 416-34.

Ocejo, Richard E. 2021. “The Precarious Project and the Wasted Opportunity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Conflict over Urban Development.” Urban Affairs Review. 57(4): 952-83.

Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County

Present Professional Position
Community College of Baltimore County, Associate Professor of Sociology 2014- Present

Personal Statement
I have honored to be nominated for the ASA council position. I am excited because its both a learning opportunity for me and opportunity to share what I learned with others. As I get older, I am more focused on the future and how we create a sustainible organization that will allow creativity to allow new ways and perspectives to address social needs and problems. To me, leadership is a broad concept that is the intersection of position, addressing issues and owning the responsibility to support others. Let’s work together and create a better world.

Former Professional Positions Held
Goucher College, Goucher Prison Education Program, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Professor, 2025 – Present

Education
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
PhD in Sociology 2014
Dissertation: “The Exploration of Gender Role Ideology between Black and White Men between ages of 18-30”

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
MEd Secondary Education 2004
Emphasis: English and African American Literature

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
BA in English 2001
Areas of Concentration: African American Literature and Journalism
Minor: Chemistry

Positions Held in ASA
ASA Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Selection Committee 2025-2028

ASA Community for Community Colleges – Advisory Committee Member 2024 -2026

ASA Program Committee 2024

ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Committee 2022-2024

Co-Chair, ASA Teaching Learning Section Pre-Conference Planning Committee, 2020-2023

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Eastern Sociological Society, Program Committee 2024

SSSP, Chair, Educational Problems division. 2021-2023

Executive Council, Eastern Sociological Society 2020-2023

Co-Chair, Eastern Sociological Society Committee on Community Colleges 2018 -2021

Publications
Lê, Jennifer and Myron T. Strong. 2025. “Using Asian Futurism as a Pedagogical Framework: Opportunities with 3 Body Problem.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 11(2), 253-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492251327346.

Strong, Myron T., Jennifer Lê, Kyle C. Echeverria, Zainab Daugherty, Ayanna Hasselberger, Francis Phillip, Calise Harper, and Yakhare Gueye. 2024. “Wakanda Forever: Afrofuturism, Healing, and Creating a New Diaspora.” Contexts, 23(4), 51-53.

Strong, Myron T. and Wonmai Punksungka. 2024. “Honor Your Contract: Finding Sensibility in Community Colleges.” Teachers College Record, 126 (6-7):118-134.

Strong, Myron T. 2024. What The Civil Rights Legacy Means for the Future. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 10(2).

Warikoo, Natasha, Myron T. Strong, Dave Stovall, and Victor Ray. 2023. “Sitting Around Grandma’s Table: Scholars Discuss the State of Education.” Humanity & Society, 48(1): 89-99.

Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University

Present Professional Position
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University, 2022-Present

Personal Statement
I am seeking a role on council to serve the ASA and contribute to the strengthening of our professional organization. I want to ensure that it continues to strive to meet the needs of all members and is well positioned to address the challenges that currently confront us as a discipline and organization. I am also particularly interested in working on initiatives that aim to increase the participation of undergraduate sociology majors in ASA.

I would bring to the council over 25 years of professional experience. Additionally, I bring a diverse set of experiences from my roles as both a student and a professor at various types of institutions. I have experience in both public and private institutions, including an HBCU and community college. I have also worked in departments with and without graduate programs. Because of my diverse experiences, I am attuned to the many challenges that sociology departments and faculty face as well as the opportunities that lie ahead for us.

Former Professional Positions Held
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2014-2022

Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2016-2019, 2021-2022

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007-2014

Education
PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1999

MA University of California, Berkeley 1994

BA Spelman College, 1991

Positions Held in ASA
Chair, ASA Section, Sociology of Education, 2019-2020

ASA Committee on Nominations, 2018-2020

Secretary-Treasurer, ASA Section, Sociology of Education, 2010-2011

Council Member, ASA Section, Sociology of Education, 2006-2008

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications

Edelman, Lauren, Allen Michael Wright, Calvin Morrill, Karolyn Tyson, and Richard Arum. 2024. “The Power of the Accused: Rights Mobilization and Gender Inequality in School Workplaces.” Law and Society Review 58: 415-451.
Tyson, Karolyn. 2024. “‘It’s a Battle You Can’t Win’: Domination and Class Differences in Trust Decision-Making among Black Parents.” American Sociological Review 89(5): 937-969.
Tyson, Karolyn and Amanda E. Lewis. 2021. “The ‘Burden’ of Oppositional Culture among Black Youth in America.” Annual Review of Sociology 47: 459-477.
Boen, Courtney, Karen Kozlowski, and Karolyn Tyson. 2020. “Toxic Schools? How School Exposures during Adolescence Influence Trajectories of Health through Young Adulthood.” SSM-population health 11, 100623
Tyson, Karolyn. 2011. Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and Associate Director, USC Equity Research Institute

Personal Statement
I seek election to the ASA Council to help steward a vibrant, inclusive, and publicly engaged professional association that advances and protects our discipline. I bring extensive ASA leadership experience, including Chair of the International Migration Section, prior service as a Council Member, and an appointment as Co-Chair of the local organizing committee for the 2022 ASA Annual Meeting in LA. I have also served on numerous committees across ASA sections. Combined with significant administrative experience and research institute leadership at USC, I am prepared to help strengthen ASA’s strategic vision, oversee budgets, and increase support for sections and members. I will defend academic freedom and access to data, work to expand leadership and mentorship pipelines, and ensure that ASA speaks clearly, courageously, and collectively at this critical political moment in defense of rigorous scholarship, democratic values, and our shared humanity.

Former Professional Positions Held
Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2014

Associate Director, USC Equity Research Institute, 2020-

Director of Graduate Studies, University of Southern California 2018-2021 and 2024-2026

Education
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2008

MA, Sociology, University of California, Irvine, 2006

MA, Demographic and Social Analysis, University of California, Irvine, 2003

Positions Held in ASA
2024-26 Committee Member, ASA Dissertation Award (Appointed)

2023-24 Chair, International Migration Section

2021-22 Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee, ASA Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (appointed)

2017-2019 Council Member, International Migration Section, ASA

2017 Best Book Award Committee, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications
Vallejo, Jody Agius, and Lisa Keister. Forthcoming. “Betting on Business: The Entrepreneurial Pathways and Experiences of the Chinese American Second Generation.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Vallejo, Jody Agius. 2025. “Racist Policy Shocks in the U.S. and Latino Elites’ Identities and Actions: Prop 187, SB 1070, and Trump’s Racism.” American Behavioral Scientist.

Vallejo, Jody Agius, and Jessica Vasquez. 2024. “The Latino Middle Class .” Annual Review of Sociology. 50:521-546

Vallejo, Jody Agius, and Stephanie Canizales*. 2023. “Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity.” Social Problems 70(4):961-80.

Canizales, Stephanie*, and Jody Agius Vallejo. 2021. “Latinos and Racism in the Trump Era .” Dædalus 150(2):150-64.

Committee on Committees: Member-at-Large

Tania M. Jenkins, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Scholarship, Sociology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025-present

Personal Statement
I feel strongly that a professional association should reflect the goals and values of its members. An important way to do that is by ensuring the representation of a wide range of members in key roles and opportunities. I am, therefore, honored to be nominated to serve on the Committee on Committees (CoC) and will work to make sure that our association remains relevant and responsive to its constituents.

Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant professor of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019-2025

Assistant professor of Sociology, Temple University, 2017-2019

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology and Center for Health and Social Sciences (CHeSS), University of Chicago, 2016-2017

Education
PhD (Sociology), Brown University, 2016

MA (Sociology), McGill University, 2009

BA (Latin American and Caribbean Studies), McGill University, 2007

Positions Held in ASA
Career and Employment Committee Chair, Medical Sociology Section, 2021-2023

Light Book Award committee member, Medical Sociology Section, 2023

Program committee member, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section, 2019

Nominations committee member, Medical Sociology Section, 2018

Student Representative, Medical Sociology Section, 2014-2016

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Executive board member, Sociology of Health Professions Education Collaborative, 2016-present

Editorial Board Member, Social Science & Medicine, 2025-present

Editorial Board Member, Sociological Forum, 2024-2027

Executive Council Member (elected), Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), 2024-2026

Mini-Conference Coordinator, ESS, 2024-2026

Publications
Jenkins, Tania M. and Alyssa Browne. In press. “The Limits of Feminization: Gender Composition and Mental Wellbeing in the Medical Profession.” Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf039

Jenkins, Tania M., Mara Buchbinder, Liza Buchbinder. 2025. “Forces to be Reckoned With: Countervailing Powers and Physician Emotional Distress during COVID-19.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 66(4):531-546

Jenkins, Tania M. 2023. “Making the Cut: Status, Credentials, and Hiring in Medicine.” Social Problems 70(2):435-55.

Jenkins, Tania M., Kelly Underman, Alexandra H. Vinson, Lauren D. Olsen, and Laura Hirshfield. 2021. “The Resurgence of Medical Education in Sociology: A Return to our Roots and an Agenda for the Future.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 62(3):255-70.

Jenkins, Tania M. 2020. Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession. New York: Columbia University Press.

Michael Sauder, University of Iowa

Present Professional Position
Professor and Chair, University of Iowa

Personal Statement
This committee serves a critical function for the organization, and I would be honored to serve on it. I believe that my wide range of service experience within ASA — across different sections and roles (especially my experience as editor of Contemporary Sociology) — would allow me to make valuable contributions to this work.

Former Professional Positions Held
2022-present Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Iowa

2017-present Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa

2019-2021 COFUND Fellow, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany

Education
2005 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Sociology

1997 M.A., Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology

1993 B.A., Truman State University, Psychology (Minor: Philosophy)

Positions Held in ASA
2022-2023 Review Panel, American Sociological Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Program

2021-2022 Chair, Theory Prize Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association

2019-2020 Chair, Organizations, Occupations and Work Section, American Sociological Association

2014-2019 Editor, Contemporary Sociology

2014 Member, Nominations Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications
Sauder, Michael, Yongren Shi, and Freda Lynn. 2024. “Multiple Meritocracies: Luck, Language Use, and Success Narratives.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Accominotti, Fabien, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder. 2022. “The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8:87-102.

Sauder, Michael. 2020. “A Sociology of Luck.” Sociological Theory 38(3): 193-216.

Hallett, Tim, Orla Stapleton, and Michael Sauder. 2019. “Public Ideas: Their Varieties and Careers.” American Sociological Review 84(3): 545-576.

Espeland, Wendy and Michael Sauder. 2016. Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability (Russell Sage Foundation)

stef m. shuster, Michigan State University

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Michigan State University, 2023-present

Personal Statement
I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University and an active member of ASA through service on section award committees, as past membership chair for the section on medical sociology, and as a member of the sociology of emotions council. Through this work, I have seen how thoughtful committee appointments sustain the intellectual and professional life of ASA. If elected to the Committee on Committees, I would prioritize equitable and transparent practices in recommending appointments to the Awards Committee, Committee on Professional Ethics, and the at-large portion of the Sections Committee. I would welcome the opportunity to help ensure ASA’s committees reflect the diversity, expertise, and intellectual breadth of our discipline.

Former Professional Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, 2018-2023
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

Council Member, sociology of emotions section, 2024-2027
Leo G. Reeder Award committee member, section on medical sociology, 2023-2024
Membership Committee Chair, section on medical sociology, 2022-2024
Donald W. Light Award committee member, section on medical sociology, 2022
Graduate Student Paper Award committee member, sociology of emotions section, 2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Editorial Board Member, American Sociological Review, 2026-2028
Editorial Board Member, Social Problems, 2024-2026
Deputy Editor, Gender & Society, 2023-2027
Editorial Board Member, Social Science & Medicine, 2021-2024
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2019-2021

Publications

Becker, Andréa, stef shuster, Leah R. Koenig, Jennifer Ko, Ushma D. Upadhyay. 2026. “Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Experiences with Telehealth Medication Abortion and Implications for Health Equity in the US.” Contraception 153:111212.

shuster, stef, Nicole Wonderlin, and Shahnaz Masani. 2025. “Plant Sex: A Cultural Analysis of the Gendering of Plant Reproduction Processes.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 50(30):707-32.

shuster, stef. “The Assertion of Reproductive and Social Control in Mid-twentieth Century US Transgender Medicine.” Gender & History 36(1):208-23.

shuster, stef and Laurel Westbrook. 2024. “Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy.” Social Problems 71(3):791-809.

shuster, stef. 2021. Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender. New York: New York University Press.

Committee on Committees (MA or 4-year Institution)

Bart Stykes, Sam Houston State University

Present Professional Position
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University (SHSU)

Chair: 2024 – present (Serving as Interim 2024-25)

Associate Professor: 2021 – present (Serving as Assistant 2015-21)

Personal Statement
To this point in my career, my service to our discipline has primarily involved my role in the peer-review process or as a session organizer/discussant. In addition, I have taken on multiple opportunities to serve my department, college, and university in the last 10 years at a regional comprehensive public institution with a terminal MA in Sociology.

I welcome the opportunity to serve the American Sociological Association on its Committee on Committees as this position plays to my prior experience and strengths. Collectively speaking, my service has consistently involved identifying and developing the talent in others. If elected to serve on this committee, I anticipate drawing on those values and experiences when collaborating with colleagues to determine which candidates are ideally-suited to serve our association in varied capacities.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Editor for Population Research and Policy Review. 2026 – .

Editorial Board Member for Journal of Marriage and Family. 2019 – 2025.

Graduate Director of Sociology, Sam Houston State University. 2018 – 2022.

Education
PhD in Sociology, Bowling Green State University, 2015.

MA in Sociology, Bowling Green State University, 2012.

BS in Sociology, Austin Peay State University, 2009.

Positions Held in ASA
Nomination Committee Member, Family Section of ASA (2016)

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications
Stykes, J. Bart. 2024. Seeing Invisible Student Parents. TEDxSHSU Talk.

Stykes, J. Bart and Karen Benjamin Guzzo. 2023. “Unintended Higher-Order Births and Union Stability: Variation by Union Characteristics.” Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research 22(11): 213-231.

Stykes, J. Bart. 2023. “Raising Children in Stepfamilies: Policy Issues.” In Mary Daly, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Neil Gilbert, and Douglas Besharov’s (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy over the Life Course, published by Oxford University Press.

Stykes, J. Bart and Karen Benjamin Guzzo. 2020. “Unintended Childbearing and Marital Instability: An Emphasis on Couples’ Intentions. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 61(7): 504-524.

Stykes, J. Bart. 2020. “What we Really Know about Stepfamilies: An Elaboration on White, Middle Class Biases in Stepfamily Research.” In Susan Stewart’s and Gordon Limb’s (Eds.) Stepfamilies: Multicultural Perspectives published by Cognella.

Karletta White, Grambling State University

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Committee on Committees (2-year Institution)

Rebecca L. Durkee, Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Present Professional Position
2019-Present Tenured Faculty, Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI

Personal Statement
I am honored to be nominated to serve as a representative of 2-year institutions on the ASA Committee on Committees. I began college at the age of 26 as a first-generation college student with a 9^th grade education. Though I did not receive support in my personal life, the faculty at my local community college were steadfast in their dedication to my education. I work today as one of those professors, motivating and connecting with students who are poor, working full-time, utterly confused about how to navigate higher education, but determined. Within my department, I am the only faculty member who teaches courses on gender and race and ethnicity. I believe that my personal background and teaching experience in these deeply fraught subjects provides me with a perspective that enriches all of the roles I occupy in this time of chaos, and will serve me well in this position.

Former Professional Positions Held
2018-2019 Tenure-track faculty at Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI

2017-2018 Adjunct faculty at Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI

2017 Adjunct faculty at Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City, IA

Education
2025 Graduate Certificate in History. Western Michigan University, Department of History, Kalamazoo

2017 Graduate Certificate in College Teaching. Office of Graduate Teaching Excellence, College of Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City

2013 Master of Arts. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Department of Sociology

Positions Held in ASA
N/A

Offices Held in Other Organizations
2026 Collective Bargaining Committee, KVCC Faculty Association

2020-present Faculty Association Area Representative, KVCC Faculty Association

2022 Collective Bargaining Committee, KVCC Faculty Association

Publications
Durkee, Rebecca L. 2017. “The Maintenance of Untenable Values: an Ethnographic Study of Group-Level Strategies to Manage Conflict.” Qualitative Sociology 40.4: 493-509.

Sarah L. Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Hostos Community College, 2013-present

Personal Statement
I am honored to seek the Committee on Committees Two-Year Institution representative position because it presents a unique opportunity to recommend members to ASA’s Standing Committees. I am passionate about community colleges and college-in-prison programs, and my ASA service to date reflects both commitments. I am the Principal Investigator of two NSF research grants, which give me unique insight and access to sociologists active in STEM research and funding, as well as experience in project management and administration. In 2019, I was awarded the ACLS/Mellon Fellowship for Community College Faculty, which connected me with awardees nationwide and over the years of the fellowship. This versatility in working across STEM and the humanities has broadened my national networks. I believe ASA will be even stronger with more new voices that represent the wide-range of ASA membership, and I will work to broaden participation in ASA’s Standing Committees.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Sociology, Hostos Community College, 2020-2025

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hostos Community College, 2013-2020

Professor, Polk State College, 2008-2013

Education
PhD, The New School for Social Research, 2012.

MA, The New School for Social Research, 2007.

BA, Gonzaga University, 2001.

Positions Held in ASA
ASA Community on Community Colleges, founding board member, 2024-present

ASA Community on Sociologists Teaching in Carceral Settings, founding advisory committee member, 2024-2025

ASA Teaching and Learning Pre-conference Co-Chair, 2020-2024

Section on Teaching and Learning, 2-Year Representative, 2019-2022

Teaching and Learning Symposium Committee Member, 2019-2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Eastern Sociological Society, Committee on Community Colleges Co-Chair, 2021-2024

Eastern Sociological Society, Barbara R. Walters Award Chair, 2021-2025

Roots and Action/ Raíces y Acción, Secretary of the Board, 2019-present

Publications
Hoiland, Sarah. 2025. Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women’s Motorcycle Club. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Hoiland, Sarah L., JungHang Lee, and Norberto Michel Hernández Valdés-Portela. 2024. “Creating HOPE: A Holistic Model to Increase Belonging Among Parenting Students.” Teachers College Record 126.6-7: 24-45.

Jiang, Biao, Norberto Michel Hernandez Valdes-Portela, JungHang Lee and Sarah L. Hoiland. 2024 “WIP: A Two-Generation Model to Support STEM Education in Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Washington, DC, USA, 2024, pp. 1-5,

Hoiland, Sarah. L. 2024. Review of Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope by Victoria Reyes. Teaching Sociology, 52(4), 416-420.

Hoiland, Sarah L., Silvia Reyes, and Antonios Varelas. 2020. “The Impact of a Supplemental Instruction Program on Diverse Peer Leaders at a Two-Year Institution.” Journal of Peer Learning 13.1.

Nominating Committee

Patricia A. Banks, Mount Holyoke College

Present Professional Position
Chair & Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College, 2006-present

Personal Statement
I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ASA Nominating Committee. As a cultural sociologist my research elucidates how group boundaries, shape and are shaped by, consumption and consumption-related processes. Currently, I serve as Co-Editor-In-Chief of Poetics and as an editorial board member of the American Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Cultural Sociology. In the ASA I’ve served in positions such as such as Chair of the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Section, Secretary-Treasurer of the Race, Gender, and Class Section, a Council Member in the Section on the Sociology of Culture, and a member of the national Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award committee. Through these roles, along with my experiences as a graduate student at Harvard University, an undergraduate at Spelman College, and a faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, I have gained insight on the experiences and needs of sociologists from a wide range of backgrounds.

Former Professional Positions Held

Poetics, Co-Editor-In-Chief, 2020-present
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, CA, 2018-2019
Fellow, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, MA, 2009- 2010

Education

PhD, Harvard University, 2006
AM, Harvard University, 2003
BA, Spelman College, 1998

Positions Held in ASA

Chair, ASA Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption (2023-2024)
Secretary-Treasurer, ASA Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption (2019-2022)
Council Member, ASA Section on Sociology of Culture (2017-2020)
Committee Member, ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Committee (2015-2017)
Secretary-Treasurer, ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class, American Sociological Association (2011-2014)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Co-Editor-In-Chief, Poetics
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Editorial Board, Cultural Sociology
Editorial Board, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Hewlett Advisory Council, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
Research Advisory Committee, Giving Compass

Publications

Banks, Patricia A. 2022. Black Culture, Inc. How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA.
Banks, Patricia A. 2021. Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View. New York: Routledge.
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums. New York, NY: Routledge (Research in Museum Studies).
Banks, Patricia A. 2012. “Cultural Socialization in Black Middle-Class Families.” Cultural Sociology 6 (1): 61-73.
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class. New York, NY: Routledge.

Monica C. Bell, Yale University

Present Professional Position
Professor of Law & Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University, 2021-present

Personal Statement
I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ASA Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee is a unique space of visioning for the organization and for our discipline as a whole. I am seeking office because I am passionate about supporting the future of ASA and am willing to put in the legwork to help build that future in community with a diverse group of sociologists. As a first-generation college graduate, a queer scholar, and a Black scholar in these precarious times, I believe it is especially important to continue to broaden the range of individuals with an array of life experiences and identities who are involved in ASA leadership. This is a goal I will prioritize if I have the opportunity to serve.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Law, Yale University, 2017-21

Climenko Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2014-17

Education
PhD, Harvard University, 2018

JD, Yale University, 2009

MSc, University College Dublin, 2006

Positions Held in ASA
Section on Sociology of Law, Chair, 2025-26

ASA Nominating Committee, 2023-24

Section on Crime, Law & Deviance, Council, 2020-23

ASA Program Committee, 2020-22

Section on Sociology of Law, Council, 2020-22

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Law & Society Association, Board of Trustees, Class Representative, 2025-28

City & Community, Editorial Board, 2024-present

Just Security, Board of Editors, 2021-present

American Sociological Review, Deputy Editor (2021-23); Editorial Board (2020-21)

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, National Finalist Selection Committee, 2011-present

Publications
Bell, Monica C. “Black Security and the Conundrum of Policing,” in Race and National Security 73 (Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf ed., 2023).

Bell, Monica C. “Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions,” 35 Journal of Economic Perspectives 29 (2021).

Bell, Monica C., Katherine Beckett & Forrest Stuart. “Investing in Alternatives: Three Logics of Criminal System Replacement,” 11 U.C. Irvine Law Review 1291 (2021)

Bell, Monica C. “Anti-Segregation Policing,” 95 N.Y.U. Law Review 650 (2020).

Bell, Monica C. “Located Institutions: Neighborhood Frames, Residential Preferences, and the Case of Policing,” 125 American Journal of Sociology 917 (2020).

David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech

Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 2011-present

Personal Statement
I am excited for the opportunity to bring my experience and passion for the discipline to bear in a professional and humanistic way to ASA’s slate of candidates for elected office. The future of the organization begins with responsible and dedicated service toward our nominations. I am honored to stand for election for this important position.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri, 2004-2011

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama-Huntsville, 1998-2004

Education
PhD in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 1998

MA in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 1995

BA in Sociology, Goshen College, 1992

Positions Held in ASA
Founding Co-Editor, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Section of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2014-2022

Chair, Nominations Committee, Section of Human Rights, 2014-2015

Member, Council, Section of Human Rights, 2014-2016

Chair, Nominations Committee, Section of Human Rights, 2014-2015

Member, Council-At-Large, American Sociological Association, 2010-2012

Chair, Section of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2010-2011

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Chair of Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2024-2025

Executive Officer, Southern Sociological Society, 2012-2025

Recording Secretary, Southern Sociological Society, 2010-2012

Member, Executive Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2007-2010

Program Committee Chair, Southern Sociological Society, 2005-2006

Publications
Coates, Rodney, Abby Ferber, and David L. Brunsma. 2021. The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality. Second Edition. Sage Publications, Inc.

Brunsma, David L., Keri E. Iyall Smith and Brian K. Gran. 2019. Sociology for Human Rights: Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods. Routledge.

Nanney, Megan And David L. Brunsma. 2017. “Moving Beyond Cis-terhood: Determining Gender Through Transgender Admittance Policies at Women’s Colleges.” Gender & Society.

Brunsma, David L., David G. Embrick, and Jean H. Shin. 2017. ““Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Brunsma, David L. 2010. “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Human Rights and Us/U.S.” Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences.

Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma. 2008. Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America, Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

Daniel Hirschman, Cornell University

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, 2023-Present

Personal Statement
I am honored to be nominated for the ASA Nominating Committee. If elected, I will endeavor to help identify and recruit a diverse pool of candidates for ASA positions. In particular, I hope to recruit committed advocates for both public sociology and open science (especially open access publications) to run for relevant ASA positions.

Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, 2022-2023

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University, 2016-2022

Education
PhD, University of Michigan, 2016

MA, University of Michigan, 2010

BS, University of Michigan, 2006

Positions Held in ASA
2024 – 2026. Editorial Board Member, Sociological Theory.

2019 – 2022. Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

2018 – 2021. Editorial Board Member, Contexts.

2011 – 2013. Elected Student Council Representative, ASA Section on Economic Sociology.

Offices Held in Other Organizations
2025-Present, Executive Committee Member, Cornell University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Publications
Hirschman, Daniel. 2022. “Controlling for What? Movements, Measures, and Meanings in the U.S. Gender Wage Gap Debate.” History of Political Economy, 54 (S1): 221-257.

Hirschman, Daniel. 2021. “Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology, 127(3): 739-786.

Hirschman, Daniel and Laura Garbes. 2021. “Toward an Economic Sociology of Race.” Socio-Economic Review, 19(3):1171-1199.

Hirschman, Daniel and Elizabeth Popp Berman. 2014. “Do Economists Make Policies? On the Political Effects of Economics.” Socio-Economic Review, 12: 779-811.

Hirschman, Daniel and Isaac Reed. 2014. “On the Formation of Social Kinds: Expanding the Causal Repertoire of Sociological Research.” Sociological Theory 32: 259-282.

SunAh Marie Laybourn, University of Memphis

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, University of Memphis, 2024-present

Personal Statement
I am seeking a position on the ASA Nominating Committee because I am committed to fostering diverse, equitable, and rigorous leadership within the Association. My background in program development, mentoring, and facilitating collaborative projects equips me to identify and support candidates who will strengthen ASA’s leadership and advance its mission. I am eager to contribute my perspective and organizational skills to ensure the Nominating Committee promotes fair, transparent, and thoughtful elections for the benefit of the membership.

Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor, University of Memphis, 2018-2024

Education
PhD, University of Maryland, 2018

MA, University of Maryland, 2014

BA, University of Memphis, 2005

Positions Held in ASA
Section Session Co-Organizer, Section on Asia and Asian America, 2024

Award Committee Member, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2023

Regular Session Organizer, Theory, Critical, 2022

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Publications Committee, Southern Sociological Society, 2024-2027

Award Committee, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Association of Asian American Studies, Social Science Caucus, 2023

Program Committee Member, Southern Sociological Society, 2022-2023

Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal, 2021-2023

Publications
Laybourn, SunAh M. 2024. Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants. NY: New York University Press.

Laybourn, SunAh Marie. 2024. “Critical Adoptee Standpoint: Transnational Transracial Adoptees as Knowledge Producers.” Genealogy 8(2):71. Special Issue – The Manifestation and Contestation of White Privilege in Multiracial Families.

Laybourn, SunAh M. 2022. “‘I don’t say that I’m a who’s who’: Negotiating Identity through Humility Work.” Symbolic Interaction 45(2):237-256.

Laybourn, SunAh M. and Carla Goar. 2022. “‘In My Heart, I Am Cambodian’: Symbolic Ethnicity among Parents who Adopt Transracially.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8(1):145-159.

Laybourn, SunAh M. 2021. “Adopting the Model Minority Myth: Korean Adoption as a Racial Project.” Social Problems 68(1):118-135.

Stephanie Medley-Rath, Indiana University Kokomo

Present Professional Position
Professor, Indiana University Kokomo (2024 – present)

Personal Statement
I am running for the Nominating Committee because who is nominated to Council and the Committees matters. They shape the future of the organization and we are in a critical point in the discipline where bold and careful leadership that meets the moment matters.

As past-chair of the Section on Teaching, I gained experience thinking about diversity very broadly and not only based on the sociodemographic data already collected by the ASA. Diversity extends to the types of places we work and the people we serve: colleges (2-year, 4-year, research institutions, MSI, HBCU, regional comprehensive), think tanks, government, and so on.

It is also increasingly difficult to find enough qualified people who are motivated to run for anything. However, the future of this organization depends on bringing in more people representing a broader range of the ASA membership into leadership on Council and the Committees.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor, Indiana University Kokomo (2020-2024)

Assistant Professor, Indiana University Kokomo (2014-2020)

Instructor with tenure, Lake Land College (2010-2014)

Education
PhD, Georgia State University, 2011

MA, Georgia State University, 2004

BA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2002

Positions Held in ASA
Chair, ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee (2026)

Editor, TRAILS (2022 – present)

Chair, Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology (2020-2021)

Council Member, Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology (2015-2018)

Editorial Board Member, Teaching Sociology (2014-2016)

Offices Held in Other Organizations
President, North Central Sociological Association, 2026-2027

Member-at-Large, North Central Sociological Association, 2023-2025

Publications
Medley-Rath, Stephanie, Ed. Forthcoming. Teaching Introduction to Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Medley-Rath, Stephanie. 2026. Introduction to Sociology. The Sociology Coach.

Medley-Rath, Stephanie, Michael D. Gillespie, Nicholas Novosel, Sydnye Combs, and Drew Fearnow. 2024. “Figures, and Charts, and Tables, Oh My!: A Content Analysis of Textbook Data Visualizations.” Teaching Sociology. 52(3): 257-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X23121400

Medley-Rath, Stephanie. 2022. “How Do Sociologists Know What They Know? An Examination of Sociology Textbooks for Evidence of Sociological and Scientific Thinking.” Socius. 8:1-12.

Medley-Rath, Stephanie and Rebekah Morgan. 2022. “Gaining Confidence, Experience, and Knowledge Doing Sociological Research.” Teaching Sociology. 50(1):28-38.

José A. Muñoz, California State University, San Bernardino

Present Professional Position
Assistant Dean of Student Success, CSUSB, 2023-present

Professor of Sociology, CSUSB, 2016-2026

Interim Chair of Geography and Environmental Studies, CSUSB, 2023-present

Core Faculty of Education Leadership, CSUSB, 2024-present

Personal Statement
I would be honored to serve on the Nomination Committee and participate in a collaborative effort to create an association that is representative and welcoming to a wide group of scholars. I take seriously the potential task of working with my colleagues to select an inclusive list of candidates for future ASA elections.

I have gained so much through the various avenues available to me through the American Sociological Association such as the Latina/o Sociology section, my time on the ASA Task Force on First Generation and Working Class Scholars in Sociology, and other conference related engagements and spaces. These past experiences would inform my contributions to committee deliberations, and I welcome the chance to learn from colleagues about the abundance of steely-eyed sociologists who hope to serve the ASA.

Thank you.

Former Professional Positions Held
Institute for American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, 2020-2021

Lecturer of Sociology, CSUDH, 2009-2011

Education
PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008

MA, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998

BA, University of California, Irvine, 1995

Positions Held in ASA
Latina/o Sociology Section, Chair-Elect, 2025-2026.

ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Committee, 2023-2025

ASA Nominations Committee, 2022-2024

Outreach Coordinator, ASA First Generation and Working-Class Person in Sociology Community, 2022–2026.

Committee member, ASA Task Force on First-Generation and Working Class Persons in Sociology, 2019-2021.

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Vice President, Pacific Sociology Association, 2025-2026

Vice President-Elect, Pacific Sociology Association, 2025-2026

Chair -Endowment Committee, Pacific Sociology Association, 2021- present

CSUSB Representative, California State University Hispanic Serving Institutions Network, 2025 – present

Publications
2024, Hurst, A. L., Roscigno, V. J., Jack, A. A., McDermott, M., Warnock, D. M., Muñoz, J. A., Johnson, W., Lee, E. M. King, C.R., Brady, D., Francis, R. D., Delaney, K. J., & Vitullo, M. W. “The Graduate School Pipeline and First Generation/Working-Class Inequalities.” Sociology of Education,97(2),148-173.

2024, Rowe-Nicholls, I., Lee, E. M., Hurst, A. L., & Muñoz, J. A. (2024). “I Don’t Even Talk About It”: Applying Ray’s Theory of Racialized Organizations to Class Stratification in Academia. Sociological Focus,1-19.

2023 , Roscigno, V. J., Lee, E.M., Hurst, A.L., Brady, D., King, C.R., A. Jack, A., Delaney, K. J., McDermott, M., Muñoz, J., Johnson, W., Francis, R. D., Warnock, D., & Vitullo, M. “Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter.” Socius, 9:1-30.

Ranita Ray, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Baca-Zinn Professor, University of New Mexico (2021–present).

Personal Statement
Ranita Ray is Assoc. Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, where she holds an endowed chair. For 15 years, her research program has centered on children & youth, education, and gender and racial injustice. Ray is a 2019 National Academy of Education/Spencer fellow, and a 2018 Racial Democracy and Criminal Justice Network fellow. Ray’s first book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class, won four prizes including the C. Wright Mills Award. Her latest book, Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom, is an untold story of what happens behind closed classroom doors inside American public schools. Slow Violence was shortlisted for the 2024 Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize. Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Sun, and the Las Vegas Weekly have featured Ray’s research and original writing. Ray has served in various leadership roles in SSSP, SWS, and ASA, including the chair of ASA’s RGC section.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Sociology and Baca-Zinn Professor, University of New Mexico (2021–present).

Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2013-2021).

Education
Ph,D, University of Connecticut, 2013.

Positions Held in ASA

Chair-Elect, Chair, Past Chair, 2022-2025, ASA Race, Gender, and Class Section
Council Member, 2021-2024, ASA, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section
Council Member, 2020-2023, ASA Children & Youth Section
Chair, 2023, ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section Book Award
Member, 2024-2026, ASA, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Member, 2022-2023, Pacific Sociological Association Publications Committee
Co-Chair, 2017-2019 , Sister to Sister Committee, Sociologists for Women in society
Section Chair, 2017-2019, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division
Member, 2025 , American Society of Criminology, Annual Meeting Program Committee
Member, 2025 &2021, C Wright Mills Book Award Committee

Publications

Ray, Ranita. 2025. Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom. Martin’s Press/Macmillan.
Ray, Ranita. 2018/ The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ray, Ranita. 2023. “Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom.” Social Problems 70 (3): 682–697. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac009
Ray, Ranita.2022. “School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom.” Gender & Society 36(1): 88-111. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08912432211057916
Ray, Ranita. 2018. “’Identity of Distance’: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals.” Social Problems 65(4): 456–472. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx025

Derron O. Wallace, Brown University

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Brown University, 2025-present

Personal Statement
I would be delighted to serve on the ASA Nominating Committee. I am eager to facilitate the identification, innovation and inclusion of new leaders in the ASA through the nomination process. I have been an enthusiastic member of the ASA and several of its sections for over a decade, including participating in various leadership and service roles in the sections on Culture, Children & Youth, Education, Racial & Ethnic Minorities, and Race, Gender & Class. I now wish to serve on the ASA-wide Nominating Committee to support the governance of the ASA and facilitate greater participation of members in leadership roles, particularly ones that support the recognition and development of early career scholars. Finally, due to my engagement in British and international sociology, participating on the ASA’s Nominating Committee would allow me to facilitate connections between US and international sociologists committed to using sociology for the public good.

Former Professional Positions Held
Jacob S. Potofsky Chair in Sociology, Brandeis University, 2023-2025

Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, Brandeis University, 2023-2025

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, Brandeis University, 2015-2013

Education
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2015

MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2010

BA, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), 2007

Positions Held in ASA
Deputy Editor, Sociology of Education journal, 2026-present

Chair, Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities’ Publications Committee, 2025-present

Secretary/Treasurer, Children & Youth Section, 2024-present

Member, Nominating Committee, Sociology of Education, 2022-2023

Organizer, Joint Sessions on “Comparative and International Perspectives on Race and Culture,” ASA Culture Section and the Race, Gender, and Class Section, 2021-2023

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Vice Chair of the Board, National Education Association Foundation, 2025-present

Member, C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, SSSP, 2025-present

Associate Board Member, Stuart Hall Foundation, 2021-present

Co-Chair, Sociology of Education, British Sociological Association, 2021-2024

Co-Chair, Section on the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, British Sociological Association, 2019-2024

Publications
Wallace, Derron. 2023. The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Richards, Bedelia, Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Susan Dumais, Jennifer Mueller, Patricia Sanchez-Connally, and Derron Wallace. 2023. “Exposing Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research,” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, 10 (3): 21-36.

Wallace, Derron. 2018. “Safe Routes to School? Black Caribbean Youth Negotiating Police Surveillance in London and New York City.” Harvard Educational Review, 88 (3): 261-288.

Wallace, Derron. 2018. “Cultural Capital as Whiteness? Examining Logics of Ethno-Racial Representation and Resistance,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39 (4): 466-482.

Wallace, Derron. 2017. “Reading ‘Race’ in Bourdieu? Examining Black Cultural Capital Among Black Caribbean Youth in South London.” Sociology: The Journal of the British Sociological Association, 51 (5): 907-923.

Publications Committee

Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine

Present Professional Position
Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine (2021-present)

Personal Statement
Thank you for considering my candidacy for the Publications Committee. The publishing world is quickly changing, and I have extensive experience to bring to the role as former and long-term editor of Socio-Economic Review, on boards of several American and international journals and book series, such as those by Princeton University Press and Stanford University Press. Given that I served as ASA vice president and on ASA Council-at-large, I am closely familiar with the governance structure, organizational issues and need to be responsive to our membership. I will also bring to bear learning lessons from serving as President of the international Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and as inaugural associate vice provost for faculty development and current equity advisor at UC Irvine. I’m grateful to you for taking an active part in the ASA governance and casting your vote.

Former Professional Positions Held

Professor, Sociology, University of California, Irvine (2014-2021)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (2019-20)
Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University (2014-present)

Education

PhD, Princeton University, 2003
MA, Princeton University, 2000
BA, Augsburg College, 1997

Positions Held in ASA

Program Committee Member for the 2026 ASA meeting (2024-2026)
Vice President (elect, current, past) (2020-2023)
Council member, Organizations, Occupations and Work section (2018-21)
Council-at-large Member (2016-2019)
Chair, Economic Sociology section (2012-2015)

Offices Held in Other Organizations

Campus Equity Advisor, Office of Inclusive Excellence, University of California, Irvine (2025-present)
President, Sociological Research Association (2025-26)
President (elect, current, past), Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2022-25)
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, University of California, Irvine (2019-24)
Co-editor, Socio-Economic Review (2011-2022)

Publications

Bandelj, Nina. 2026. Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bandelj, Nina. 2025. “On Emotional Economies of Late Capitalism.” Socio-Economic Review. Advance access: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf071
Bandelj, Nina. 2025. “The Social Life of Money for Children.” The British Journal of Sociology. Advance access: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13176_1
Bandelj, Nina. 2020. “Relational Work in the Economy.” Annual Review of Sociology 46: 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054719
Bandelj, Nina, Frederick Wherry and Viviana Zelizer. 2017. Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Work. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Kyle Crowder, University of Washington

Present Professional Position
Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Washington (2022-present)

Blumstein-Jordan Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington (2015-present)

Personal Statement
I have a longstanding commitment to fostering transparent and inclusive pipelines for innovative research, and a strong record of service in administrative roles. ASA has been instrumental in my own professional development, and I view my service to the organization as an opportunity to give back to the scholarly community. This call to service is especially loud in the context of significant challenges to scientific research posed by AI and changes in the research funding. I look forward to contributing to the development of plans to address these challenges in proactive ways that maintain the high quality of ASA publications.

Former Professional Positions Held
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Washington (2020-2022)

Scientific Core Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington (2019-2020)

Development Core Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington (2018-2019)

Education
PhD, State University of New York at Albany, 1997

BA, University of Washington, 1990

Positions Held in ASA
Chair, Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award Committee, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2021-2023

Chair, Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award Committee, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2017

Member, American Sociological Association Federal Statistics Working Group, 2017-2021

Chair, Robert and Helen Lynd Career Lifetime Achievement Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2019-2020

Chair, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Vice-President, Population Association of America, 2025

Board Liaison to the Publications Committee, Population Association of America, 2024-2025

Deputy Editor, Demography, 2016-present

Member and Chair, Harriett Presser Award Committee, Population Association of America, 2021-2023

Member and Chair, Selection Committee for Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early-Career Achievement, Population Association of America, 2014-2018

Publications
Resosti, Anna, Chris Hess, Courtney Allen, and Kyle Crowder. 2024 “’Mom-and-pop’ Landlords and Regulatory Backlash: A Seattle Case Study.” Socius 10: 23780231241296169.

Krysan, Maria, and Kyle Crowder. 2017. Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification. New York: Russell Sage.

Crowder, Kyle and Maria Krysan. 2016. “Moving Beyond the Big Three: A Call for New Approaches to Studying Racial Residential Segregation.” City & Community 15(1):18-22.

Hall, Matthew, Kyle Crowder, and Amy Spring. 2015. “Neighborhood Foreclosures, Racial/Ethnic Transitions, and Residential Segregation.” American Sociological Review 80(3): 526-549.

Crowder, Kyle, Jeremy Pais, and Scott J. South. 2012. “Metropolitan Constraints, Neighborhood Diversity, and Household Migration.” American Sociological Review 77(3): 325-353.

Prentiss A. Dantzler, University of Toronto

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Housing Justice Lab, University of Toronto, June 2021 – Present

Personal Statement
I am seeking election to the ASA Publications Committee because I care deeply about the quality, accessibility, and integrity of our association’s publications. I would value the opportunity to help guide their continued evolution. I have extensive experiences on editorial boards across disciplines. As such, I bring experience as an author, reviewer, and reader of ASA journals, along with a strong appreciation for rigorous peer review, clear exposition, and ethical publishing practices. My background allows me to evaluate publications from both scholarly and practitioner perspectives. I am particularly interested in supporting transparency and inclusive representation in ASA publications such as through intentional engagement with more international scholars and under-represented groups. Moreover, I hope that our work is translatable to more applied settings while situating ASA journals more prominently within other cognate disciplines.

Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Georgia State University, July 2019 – June 2021

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Mellon Faculty Fellow, Colorado College, July 2015 – June 2019

Education
PhD, Rutgers University – Camden, 2016

MS, Rutgers University – Camden, 2015

MPA, West Chester University, 2011

Positions Held in ASA
2023 – 2026 Community and Urban Section Secretary/Treasurer

2024 Co-Chair of City and Community Sociology Section Best Paper Award

2021 – 2024 City and Community Deputy Editor

2018 – 2021 City and Community Editorial Board Member

2018 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement Committee Member

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Urban Affairs Association, 2021 – 2026 Governing Board Member

Urban Affairs Association, 2024 – 2026 International Committee – Co-Chair

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2024 Housing & Community Development Programming Committee Member

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2024 Co-Chair – Social Equity & Race Subcommittee

Urban Affairs Association, 2023 – 2024 Executive Committee Member – Treasurer

Publications
Dantzler, Prentiss A., and Jason Hackworth. 2025. “Racial Capitalism and the Propaganda of Conservative Economics.” Journal of Black Studies. DOI:10.177/00219347251350966.

Silver, Dan, Prentiss A. Dantzler, and Kofi Hope. 2025. “Residential Preferences, Place Alienation, and Neighborhood Satisfaction: A Conjoint Survey Experiment in Toronto’s Inner Suburbs.” Journal of Urban Affairs 47(6):2023–2047.

Rodriguez, Akira Drake & Prentiss A. Dantzler. 2024. ““Broken Home”: (De)constructing the Moral Standards of Mobility for Atlanta’s Early Black Public Housing Families.” City and Community, 23(4): 296 – 319.

Dantzler, Prentiss A., Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, & Junia Howell. 2022. “What Does Racial Capitalism Have To Do With Cities and Communities?” City and Community, 21(3): 163 – 172.

Dantzler, Prentiss A. 2021. “The Urban Process Under Racial Capitalism: Race, Anti-Blackness, and Capital Accumulation.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, 2(2): 113 – 134.

Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa

Present Professional Position
Professor, University of Iowa, 2016-

Personal Statement
Being nominated to run for the Publication Committee is an honor, and I hope my specialties across sociological social psychology, morality, theory and the life course signal my interdisciplinary, cross-subfield approach to research. I’ve helped establish “the new sociology of morality” as a legitimate field, offering insight into how publications serve as catalysts for intellectual development. My work spans diverse methodologies—quantitative, qualitative, cross-cultural, neuroscientific—providing broad perspective on rigorous sociological inquiry.

I bring extensive peer review and mentoring experience. I am committed to theoretical and methodological pluralism, equitable editorial processeses, and ensuring ASA publications remain accessible while maintaining excellence.

Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 2011-2016

Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 2005-2011

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003-2005

Education
2003 Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1999 M.S. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1996 B.A. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Positions Held in ASA
Member, ASA Code of Ethics Revision Task Force

Chair, Social Psychology Section,

Chair, ASA Section on Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity

Offices Held in Other Organizations
N/A

Publications

Shi, Youngren, Regan Smock and Steven Hitlin. (2025) “Moral Disagreement in Everyday Life: An Inductive Framework for Capturing ‘Moral Order’. Social Science Research. 127: (103139
Hitlin, Steven and Matthew Andersson. (2023). The Science of Dignity: Measuring Personhood and Well-Being in the United States. New York, Oxford University Press. 224 pages.
Hitlin, Steven, Aliza Luft and Shai Dromi (Eds.). (2023). Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2. New York: Springer. 467 pages.
Hitlin, Steven and Sarah Harkness. (2018). Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality and Emotions Across Cultures. Oxford University Press. 229 pages.
Hitlin, Steven and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. (2015). “Reconceptualizing Agency within the LifeCourse: The Power of Looking Ahead.” American Journal of Sociology 120(5): 1429-1472

Ali Meghji, University of Cambridge

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (2018+)

Personal Statement
I am an historical sociologist of race and empire, currently finishing a book on Du Boisian sociology and researching the Pan-African movement. I have extensive experience in the world of publications – I currently work as an editor at the British Journal of Sociology, and have previously edited Sociology Compass. I am on the editorial board for Sociological Theory, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

As a member of the publications committee, I would help create pipelines for sociologists of all career stages to effectively move into editorial work – labor that is crucial to the development of sociology, but which is often overlooked in day-to-day considerations of academic life.

I have a strong commitment to social equality, and would bring this ethos to the ASA journals – the premier journals of sociology broadly. Effective editorial teams have the capacity to shape the future of sociology, and I would labor to ensure that the future of sociology is going in the right direction.

Former Professional Positions Held
Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po (Fall 2026)

Visiting Fellow, U Chicago Black Metropolis Research Consortium (2025)

Visiting Fellow and ongoing affiliate: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Centre for European Studies, Harvard University (2018+)

Education
PhD in Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2018

MPhil in Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2015

BA in Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2014

Positions Held in ASA
Chair-elect, Theory section (American Sociological Association) (Chair term: Sep. 2026-7)

Chair, Marxist teaching and praxis award committee (2026)

Council member: Theory section (2025-2028)

Council Member: Marxist section (2025-2028)

Organising committee, CHS mini conference (2025)

Offices Held in Other Organizations
Publications Committee, SSSP (2025-2027)

Co-editor, British Journal of Sociology (2023+)

Editor, Sociology Compass (2020-2024)

Co-founder and director, Postcolonial and decolonial transformations working group, British Sociological Association (2019+)

Publications
Meghji, Ali. (Forthcoming, 2026) Du Bois and after: along the colorline. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Meghji A (2026) Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists. Sociology Lens 39(1): 8–20.

Meghji Ali. (2026) Rethinking racism again? Assessing conceptual deadlocks and innovations in race theory. Critical Sociology. (online first)

Meghji A (2024) Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire. Sociological Forum 39(4): 361–372.

Meghji A (2024) From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory. Sociological Theory 42(2): 114–136.

Miranda R. Waggoner, Rice University

Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Rice University, 2023–present

Personal Statement
I would be honored to serve on the ASA Publications Committee. Previously, I served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2020–2022). More recently, I served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review (2023–2026). ASA publications are vital to the field, and I am excited about the prospect of being part of crucial discussions about their leadership and direction.

Former Professional Positions Held

Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University, 2020–2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida State University, 2015–2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of Virginia, 2014–2015

Education

PhD, Brandeis University, 2011
MA, Brandeis University, 2008
BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2004

Positions Held in ASA

Council Member, ASA Section on Body & Embodiment, 2021–2024
Secretary/Treasurer, ASA Section on Medical Sociology, 2019–2021
Council Member, ASA Section on Body & Embodiment, 2016–2017
Career and Employment Chair, ASA Section on Medical Sociology, 2015–2017
Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Medical Sociology, 2013–2014

Offices Held in Other Organizations

C. Wright Mills Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2023–2024

Publications

D’Amours, Jason V. and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2026. “Exclusionary Data, Inclusionary Appeals: Gender and Equity in an HIV-Prevention Clinical Trial.” Social Studies of Science. 56(1): 96–118.
Waggoner, Miranda R. and Michelle Pentecost. 2025. “The Limits of Preconception Care for Global Health.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 33(1): 2499329.
Waggoner, Miranda R. and Anne Drapkin Lyerly. 2022. “Clinical Trials in Pregnancy and the ‘Shadows of Thalidomide’: Revisiting the Legacy of Frances Kelsey.” Contemporary Clinical Trials 119: 106806.
DeSoucey, Michaela and Miranda R. Waggoner. “Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality.” American Sociological Review 87(1): 50–79.
Waggoner, Miranda R. The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk. University of California Press.

Candidates for the 2026 Election

President-Elect

Vice President-Elect

Council Member-at-Large

Sarah Bowen, North Carolina State University

Jennifer L. Glass, University of Texas

David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

Richard E. Ocejo, CUNY, John Jay College and Graduate Center

Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County

Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University

Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California

Committee on Committees: Member-at-Large

Tania M. Jenkins, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Michael Sauder, University of Iowa

stef m. shuster, Michigan State University

Committee on Committees (MA or 4-year Institution)

Bart Stykes, Sam Houston State University

Karletta White, Grambling State University

Committee on Committees (2-year Institution)

Rebecca L. Durkee, Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Sarah L. Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College

Nominating Committee

Patricia A. Banks, Mount Holyoke College

Monica C. Bell, Yale University

David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech

Daniel Hirschman, Cornell University

SunAh Marie Laybourn, University of Memphis

Stephanie Medley-Rath, Indiana University Kokomo

José A. Muñoz, California State University, San Bernardino

Ranita Ray, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Derron O. Wallace, Brown University

Publications Committee

Nina Bandelj, University of California, Irvine

Kyle Crowder, University of Washington

Prentiss A. Dantzler, University of Toronto

Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa

Ali Meghji, University of Cambridge

Miranda R. Waggoner, Rice University