2025 ASA Election
We are pleased to announce the 2025 candidates for American Sociological Association (ASA) officers and members of Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, and Publications Committee. Ballots for the 2025 ASA elections will be distributed on April 16, 2025. All members whose membership is, and will remain, active between April 1 and June 1, 2025, with the exception of affiliate members, will receive a ballot for the ASA-wide elections and elections for the Sections and Communities in which they have membership. If your membership is set to expire between April 1 and June 1, 2025, please make sure to renew or rejoin so that you can vote.
President-Elect
Vote for 1; the elected will be President-Elect in September 2025; President in September 2026; and Immediate Past President in September 2027
Enobong (Anna) Branch, Rutgers University
Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan
Vice President-Elect
Vote for 1; the elected will be Vice President-Elect in September 2025; Vice President in September 2026; and Immediate Past Vice President in September 2027.
Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced
Council Member-at-Large
Vote for 4; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2028.
Amy L. Best, George Mason University
Jessica Halliday Hardie, Hunter College, CUNY
James R. Jones, Rutgers University-Newark
Anthony A. Peguero, Arizona State University
katrina quisumbing king, Northwestern University
Jennifer Randles, California State University, Fresno
Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland
Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Committee on Committees: Member-at-Large
Vote for 2; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2027.
Long Doan, University of Maryland
Saida Grundy, Boston University
Elena Shih, Brown University
Quincy Thomas Stewart, Northwestern University
Committee on Committees (PhD Granting Institution)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2027.
Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Glenda M. Flores, University of California, Irvine
Committee on Committees (Non-Teaching Institution or in Self-Employment)
Vote for 1; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2027.
Lisette M. Garcia, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility
Jessica Welburn Paige, RAND Corporation
Nominating Committee
Vote for 5; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2027.
Carolina Bank Muñoz, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University
Andy Clarno, University of Illinois Chicago
Jeffrey Guhin, University of California, Los Angeles
SunAh Marie Laybourn, University of Memphis
Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, University of California, Berkeley
C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon
Sadia Saeed, University of San Francisco
Publications Committee
Vote for 3; the elected will serve from September 2025 to August 2028.
Courtney E. Boen, Brown University
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony S. Chen, Northwestern University
Jordan Conwell, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley A. Jackson, Portland State University
Theresa Rocha Beardall, University of Washington
President-Elect
Present Professional Position
Senior Vice President for Equity and Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, 2021-present
Personal Statement:
I am thrilled to serve as a candidate for President-Elect. What sociology offers the world is a chance to understand society and human behavior in the context of social structures and institutions. We go about that work intellectually in many ways, but that process of differential meaning-making, unpacking when change happens, and why is critical for students in secondary and post-secondary institutions and informs the approach taken by the many sociologists working in applied settings. ASA has been a vital part of my academic life, and, in this national moment, ASA has an important role to play. It would be my profound pleasure to work to ensure the vibrancy of our field and its relevance to grand societal challenges and to defend our intellectual breadth from racism to gender identity and environmental justice at a moment when those ideas are increasingly censored, and academic freedom itself is being attacked.
Former Professional Positions Held
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2018-2019
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2013-2018
Faculty Associate, Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2009-2019
Education
PhD, University at Albany-State University of New York, 2007
BS, Howard University, 2002
Positions Held in ASA
Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 2019- 2022
Member, Committee on Committees, 2017-2018
Council Member, Sex & Gender & Section, 2017- 2018
Chair, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Selection Committee, 2014-2016
Council Member, Race, Gender & Class Section, 2011-2014
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Chair, National Academies Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Leadership Group, August 2023-present.
Vice President and Executive Committee Member, Eastern Sociological Society, 2018-2020.
Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Sociology, American Sociological Association Journal, 2017-2020.
Founding Book Series Editor, Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor, Rutgers University Press, 2017-present.
Co-Chair, National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), Social Science Advisory Board, 2013-2015.
Publications
Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2024. “The Praxis of Being Black in America: Grounding the Intellectual Project.” in Moving from the Margins: Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism. Margaret Andersen and Maxine Baca Zinn, editors. CA: Stanford University Press.
Hanley, Caroline and Enobong Hannah Branch. 2024. Essential Workers in the United States: An Intersectional Perspective. Research in the Sociology of Work 36: 109-141.
Branch, Enobong Hannah and Caroline Hanley. 2022. Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Branch, Enobong Hannah and Christina Jackson. 2020. Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line. London: Polity Press.
Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2011. Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Present Professional Position
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2023-Present
Personal Statement:
It is an honor to be on this ballot. I joined ASA in 1991 and have attended every annual conference since then. ASA, then, has been a mainstay of my professional life. If elected, my pledge to service rests in the words of Audre Lorde, who proclaimed, “What is my power in this moment? What is our power in this moment?” I suggest that our power rests in determining a contemporary platform for engaging American sociology’s standing in encountering policy, politicians, social service providers, community organizers, philanthropy, and media (electronic, print, and visual). I feel equipped to help the ASA recognize and amplify its relationship to each. I also recognize that promoting the value of science and scholarly inquiry requires that the ASA intensify its alignments and engagements with peer scholarly associations. I will support such a collective effort, while highlighting the unique contributions sociology can make to it.
Former Professional Positions Held
Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, September 2020 – Present
Professor, Departments of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 2010 – Present
Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, 2010-2017 and 2021-2023
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago, 1996
MA, Sociology, University of Chicago, 1992
BA, Sociology-Psychology and Afro-American Studies, Wesleyan University, 1988
Positions Held in ASA
Chair-Elect, Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities, 2024 – Present
Chair, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Selection Committee, 2021- 2022
2019 and 2018 Annual Meeting Program Committees, 2017 – 2019
Committee on Committees, 2006 — 2008
Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2005 — 2008
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Board of Directors, Ann Arbor (Michigan) YMCA, 2007 – Present
Founding Director, Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Well-Being of African American Men, 2008 – Present
Chair, Board of Directors, Ann Arbor YMCA, Ann Arbor, MI, 2015-2017
President, Association of Black Sociologists, 2022 – 2023
Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University, 1998 – June 2001 and 2014 – 2020
Publications
Young, Alford Jr., “Black Men and Black Masculinities.” Annual Review of Sociology, 2021, 47, pp. 437-457.
Young, Alford Jr., From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.
Young, Alford Jr., Are Black Men Doomed? London, UK: Polity Press, 2018.
Young, Alford Jr., Elizabeth Higginbotham, Charles Lemert, Manning Marable, and Jerry Gafio Watts. The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
Young, Alford Jr., The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Vice President-Elect
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024-present
Personal Statement:
It is an honor to be nominated to help lead ASA in this moment where Sociology is needed more than ever and where research and higher education are confronting political and ideological attacks. As a former ASA Council member, a public university employee, and an active public scholar whose research interrogates systems of power and privilege, I recognize the risks that our members are facing and how those risks are amplified by systematic marginalization and structural precarity. As an expert on care, I also understand that we are stronger together than on our own and that organizations like ASA can be a key source of solidarity. To that end, my aim as ASA Vice-President would be to support the organization in helping members to navigate risks and build connections while continuing to carry out and champion the essential work of Sociology.
Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-2024
Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2019-2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2012-2019
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
MA, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
BA, Brown University, 2006
Positions Held in ASA
Deputy Editor, Sociology of Education, 2025-present
Secretary/Treasurer, Methodology Section, 2023-present
ASA Council Member, 2020-2023
Chair, ASA Best Dissertation Award Committee, 2021-2022
Council Member, Sociology of Family Section, 2019-2022
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Fellow, Roosevelt Institute, 2025-present
Board of Directors, Council on Contemporary Families, 2020-present
Editorial Board Member, Social Problems, 2021-2024
Session Organizer, Eastern Sociological Society, 2023-2024
Editorial Board Member, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020-2023
Publications
Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2024. Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net. Penguin Random House, Portfolio Press.
Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2022. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. University of California Press.
Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. Princeton University Press.
Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. “Avoiding Us versus Them: How Schools’ Dependence on Privileged ‘Helicopter’ Parents Influences Enforcement of Rules,” American Sociological Review 85(2): 223-246.
Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2018. Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School. Oxford University Press.
Present Professional Position
Executive Director, University of California Washington Center 2023-present.
Personal Statement:
As Vice President, my primary focus would be to help organize an engaging and impactful annual meeting while ensuring ASA leadership remains transparent and accountable. I have significant strengths in both areas. I have decades of experience building meaningful connections. I currently serve as Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society. I have also organized initiatives such as an annual writing retreat for women since 2012 and co-organized conferences on citizenship and denizenship at UC Merced with Zulema Valdez and on Abolitions with Whitney Pirtle at UCDC in 2023. I have significant leadership experience, and my leadership is grounded in values of transparency, equity, and community. As Vice President, I would work to ensure that ASA decision-making processes are transparent and that leadership is accountable to membership. I would prioritize equity in all decisions and foster a space where all members feel a strong sense of belonging and inclusion.
Former Professional Positions Held
Professor of Sociology, University of California Merced, 2012 to present.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2005 to 2012.
Education
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005.
Certificat d’Anthropologie, L’Ecole d’Anthropologie, Paris, France, 1996.
BA, Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995.
Positions Held in ASA
Chair, Section on Political Economy and World Systems, American Sociological Association, 2019-2020
Member, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, 2017-2020
Member-at-Large, Council, American Sociological Association, 2014-2017
Council Member, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association, 2014-2017
Chair, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association, 2012-2013
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Vice-President, Eastern Sociological Society, 2025-2026
Vice-Chair, Editorial Committee, University of California Press, 2022-23
Chair, Reserve Committee on Academic Promotions, UC Merced, 2021
Chair, Public Health Department, UC Merced, 2019-2020
Chair, UC Systemwide Committee on Affirmative Action, Diversity, & Equity, 2017-2018
Publications
Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2023. Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap. University of California Press.
Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2016. Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach. Oxford University Press: New York. (Fourth edition currently under contract)
Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2015. Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism. New York University Press: New York.
Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2012. Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions and Deportations in Post-911 America. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO. (Reissued by Routledge: New York in 2015.)
Golash-Boza, Tanya. 2011. Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru. University Press of Florida: Gainesville.
Council Member-at-Large
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, 2013-present & Director, Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University, 2022-present.
Personal Statement:
Our task is to marshal sociology’s conceptual and methodological tools to understand and effect change, promote dignity and humanity, thicken democracy, and address intensifying inequalities. This work occurs in the classroom, in research discovery, in applied settings in private and public sectors, and in collaboration with civil society. As a professional organization, ASA has supported and advanced these disciplinary commitments, ensuring sociologists have a seat at the tables where public problems are defined, solutions are scaffolded, and decisions are made. If elected ASA Council Member-at-Large, I will do my part to amplify the distinctive skills sociology brings to bear on pressing problems, to both protect and enlarge spaces for the types of inquiry that can translate into practical actions and outcomes, strengthening sociology’s civic role, our professional networks, and promoting conceptual, methodological and pedagogical innovations within the discipline. I hope you will trust me with that responsibility.
Former Professional Positions Held
Department Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, 2014-2022
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, 2004-2013
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, San Jose State University, 1999-2004
Education
PhD, Sociology, Syracuse University, 1998
MA, Sociology, Syracuse, University, 1995
BA, Sociology, Ithaca College, 1992
Positions Held in ASA
Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, 2017-2019
American Sociological Association Task Force Engaging Sociology, 2015
Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, 2009-2011 (Chair, 2011)
Secretary and Treasurer, Sex and Gender section, American Sociological Association, 2008-2010
Council Member, Children and Youth section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2005
Offices Held in Other Organizations
President-elect, Eastern Sociological Society, 2024-2025
Co-director, Youth Research Council, Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University, 2021-present
Community Service and Activism Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2021
Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2019
Editor, Sociology Compass a Blackwell on-line journal, Section: Culture, 2006-2010
Publications
Call-Cummings, Meagan, Amy L. Best, Natale Gray, Widad Khalid, Oaken Kalinichenko, Sara Berhe-Abraha, M. Kodwo, Sara Martah, S, Liz Rotherham, Jeff Keller, Khaseem Davis, & Giovanni P. Dazzo, (2025). “Community-Based Research as Civic Action: An Example from the Youth Research Council.” Humanity & Society, 0(0). https://doi-org.mutex.gmu.edu/10.1177/01605976251314417
Spalter-Roth, Roberta, Patricia White & Amy L. Best. 2018. “Bringing Sociology into the Public Policy Process: A Relational Network Approach” American Sociologist 49:3 (434-447).
Best, Amy L. 2017. Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social Ties in Critical Perspectives on Youth Book Series, New York: NYU Press.
Best, Amy L. 2006. Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars. New York: NYU Press.
Best, Amy L. 2000. Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2023-Present
Personal Statement:
I am honored to be considered for an ASA Council Member-at-Large position. It is important to me to be a strong voice for sociology, to defend academic freedom, and to create a space for junior scholars to feel welcome and supported. This is especially true now, as we are facing the rise of authoritarianism and its concomitant attacks on academia. My experience in leadership, both as Family Section Chair at ASA and in my roles at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, have prepared me to think creatively and organize effectively. If elected, I look forward to working with council and elected leadership to not only defend but continue to build a strong ASA.
Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY 2018-2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York, 2014-2018
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2012-2014
Education
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
BA, Wellesley College, 2000
Positions Held in ASA
Chair, ASA Family Section, 2023-2024
James Coleman Paper Award Committee, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association, 2021-2022
Council member, Family Section of the American Sociological Association, 2019-2021
Bourdieu Best Book Award committee, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association, 2019-2020
Membership Committee, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2018-2019
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 2024-Present
Editorial Board, Rose Series in Sociology, 2020-2023
Editorial Board, Emerging Adulthood, 2016-2021
Governance Working Group member, SocArXiv, Open archive for the social sciences, 2016-2017
Publications
Pearce, Lisa D. and Jessica Halliday Hardie. 2024. Approaches to Mixed Methods. Sage Publications.
Hardie, Jessica Halliday, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Judith A. Seltzer, and Jacob G. Foster. 2024. “Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-related Discourse across Social Class.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(5): 165-87.
Hardie, Jessica Halliday. 2022. Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times. University of California Press.
Ju, Daeshin Hayden, Karen Amaka Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie. 2022. “Ethnic and Generational Differences in Partnership Patterns among Asian Americans.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(15): 3789-3809.
Hardie, Jessica Halliday, Jonathan Daw, and S. Michael Gaddis. 2019. “Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Physical and Mental Health in Later Life.” Socius 5:1-18.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology, 2024- Present
Personal Statement:
I am honored to be considered for Member-at-Large on the ASA Executive Council. We are navigating a turbulent time when higher education, our discipline, and the values that define us are under threat. Now more than ever, we need a strong national organization and a unified membership to demonstrate sociology’s vital contributions to students, research, and public understanding. Throughout my career, I have been dedicated to advancing sociology both through scholarly work and public engagement. My experiences have equipped me with the insight and commitment necessary to help guide ASA during this pivotal moment of social change. If elected, I will advocate for our members, uplift diverse perspectives, and ensure that ASA remains a leading force in shaping the future of our discipline. Together, we can promote sociology’s relevance and reaffirm its essential role in addressing society’s most pressing challenges.
Former Professional Positions Held
Director of Sheila Y Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America, 2023-
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology, 2017-2024
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2019-2020
Education
PhD, Columbia University, 2017
MPhil, Columbia University, 2013
BA, George Washington University, 2009
Positions Held in ASA
Editorial board, Contexts, 2025-2028
Editorial board, Sociological Theory, 2021-2023
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Executive Board Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2024-2027
Program Committee, Association of Black Sociologists
Student Representative, Association of Black Sociologists
Publications
Jones, James R. 2020. The Last Plantation: Racism in the Halls of Congress. Princeton University Press
Jones, James R. “Racism and Inequality in Congress.” PS: Political Science & Politics 55.2 (2022): 283-285
Jones, R. James, Tiffany Win, and Carlos M. Vera. 2021. “Who Congress Pays: Analysis of Lawmakers’ Use of Intern Allowances in the 116th Congress.” Policy paper for Pay Your Interns.
Jones, James R. 2020 “The Color of Congress: Racial Diversity Amongst Interns in the U.S of Representatives.” Policy paper for Pay Your Interns.
Jones, James R. 2019. “Congress as a Racialized Social System” Race, Organizations, and the Organizing Process (Research in the Sociology of Organizations). Melissa Wooten, ed. Emerald Insight Limited, 171-191.
Present Professional Position
Foundation Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Personal Statement:
I am humbled and honored to be nominated for the position of Council Members-at-Large for ASA. If elected, I will serve diligently in collaboration with others to fulfill the expectations of this role. I will be committed to looking for ways to capitalize on the opportunity to ensure that ASA strives to represent the broad and varied interests of all its members. I will also work towards ensuring ASA growth by fostering the development of undergraduate and graduate students who are aspiring to be professional, insightful, and strong scholars. Finally, if elected as Council Members-at-Large for ASA, I will pursue, with other ASA officers and members, to further ASA efforts to be an association that is fair, equitable, and representative.
Former Professional Positions Held
Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Virginia Tech, 2020
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Virginia Tech, 2014–2020
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Virginia Tech, 2011–2014
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Miami, 2006
MS, Criminal Justice, Florida International University, 2002
MA, Comparative Sociology, Florida International University, 2001
Positions Held in ASA
Deputy Editor, Sociology of Education, 2022-2024
Chair, James F. Short Distinguished Article Award Committee, Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, 2023-2024
Member, Anna Julia Cooper Award Committee, Section on Sociology of Education, 2023-2024
Chair, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Relations, 2021–2022
Council Members-at-Large, Section on Racial and Ethnic Relations, 2019-2022
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Incoming Vice-President, American Society of Criminology, 2024-2025
Vice-President, Southern Sociological Society, 2024-2025
President, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2023-2024
Vice-President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2023-2024
Executive Board Member, Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network, 2019–2025
Publications
Iwama, Janice, Yasmiyn Irizarry, Amy Ernstes, Melissa Ripepi, Anthony A. Peguero, Jennifer M. Bondy, and Jun Sung Hong. 2024. “Segregation, Securitization, and Bullying: Investigating the Connections Between Policing, Surveillance, Punishment, and Violence.” Race and Justice, 14(3): 314-344.
Vélez, María B. and Anthony A. Peguero. 2023. “LatCrit and Criminology: Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Latino/a Crime and Criminal Legal System Involvement.” Annual Review of Criminology, 6: 307–308.
Irwin, Katherine, Kay S. Varela, and Anthony A. Peguero. 2022. “Punishment and Racial Segregation of Schools: Against Racial Threat and Toward a Racial Control Perspective.” Critical Criminology, 30 (4), 1075-1090.
Hong, Jun Sung, Jin Won Kim, Maha Albdour, Anthony A. Peguero, Joanne P. Smith-Darden, Shantalea Johns, and Dexter R. Voisin. 2021. “Social Disadvantages and Peer Victimization: Exploring Potential Pathways.” Sociological Inquiry, 91(4), 802-823.
Varela, Kay S., Sanna King, Anthony A. Peguero, and Alicia Rujosa. 2020. “School Procedural Justice and Being Pushed Out: Examining the Significance of Sex, Race, and Ethnicity.” Sociological Spectrum, 40(4): 247-268.
Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2020- present
Personal Statement
N/A
Former Professional Positions Held
Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar for Faculty Diversity, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2018-2020
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Positions Held in ASA
Council Member, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2022-2025
Organizer, Comparative Historical Sociology Section’s Mini-Conference, American Sociological Association, 2022
Committee Member, Junior Theorist Award, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2021
Committee Member, Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2019
Elected Student Representative, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2017
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Executive Committee Member, Social Science History Association, 2024-2027
Publications
quisumbing king, katrina. 2025. Enduring Empire: U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines. Stanford University Press.
quisumbing king, katrina. 2024. “Dismantling Rights: Forthcoming Independence and the Revocation of US Military Benefits from Filipino WWII Veterans.” Law & Social Inquiry 49(2):1004–35.
quisumbing king, katrina. 2022. “The Structural Sources of Ambiguity in the Modern State: Race, Empire, and Conflicts over Membership.” American Journal of Sociology 128(3):768–819.
quisumbing king, katrina and Alexandre I. R. White. 2021. “Introduction: Toward a Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism.” Pp. 1–21 in Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism. Vol. 38, Political Power and Social Theory, edited by A. I.R. White and k. quisumbing king. Emerald Publishing Limited.
quisumbing king, katrina. 2019. “Recentering U.S. Empire: A Structural Perspective on the Color Line.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5(1):11–25.
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology and Interim Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences, California State University, Fresno; 2013-current.
Personal Statement:
I am seeking office to support the ASA’s work to advance sociology as a science, profession, and framework for positive social change. This mission is especially important given current attacks on social science, research funding, DEI initiatives, and sociological understandings of human behavior and inequalities. I am eager to contribute to the Association’s growing efforts to support our graduate student, early career faculty, and non-academic members, as well as those at less-resourced institutions. I have been an active member of ASA for nearly two decades, first as a graduate student, then as faculty/department chair, and now as an administrator. During that time, I have served in many capacities, including on two section councils (Sex & Gender and Race/Gender/Class), as section chair (Sex & Gender), on numerous awards committees, and on the Publications and Program Committees. I greatly appreciate your consideration and look forward to serving if elected.
Former Professional Positions Held
California State University, Fresno, Department Chair of Sociology (2019-2023).
California State University, Fresno, Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology (2013-2021).
Austin College, Assistant Professor of Sociology (2011-2013).
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
BA, Austin College, 2003.
Positions Held in ASA
Member, Program Committee, 2025.
Chair, Sociology of Sex & Gender Section, 2023-2024.
Member, Publications Committee (and DEI Sub-Committee), 2021-2024.
Chair, Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee, 2022-2025.
Member, Public Understanding of Sociology Award Committee, 2022-2025.
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Member, Board of Directors, Council on Contemporary Families, 2021-present.
Chair, Board of Directors, Exceptional Parents Unlimited, 2021-present.
Publications
Randles, Jennifer, and Kerry Woodward (eds.) 2025. Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance. New York: New York University Press.
Randles, Jennifer, and Jennifer Sherman. 2023. “Diaper Despair and Deflecting Inequalities.” Contexts 22(1): 12-17.
Randles, Jennifer. 2021. “‘Willing to Do Anything for My Kids’: Inventive Mothering, Diapers, and the Invisible Inequalities of Carework.” American Sociological Review 86(1): 35-59.
Randles, Jennifer. 2020. Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering. Oakland: University of California Press.
Randles, Jennifer. 2017. Proposing Prosperity: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America. New York: Columbia University Press.
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland at College Park, 2012-present
Personal Statement:
I am a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland and lead the Social Justice Alliance at the university level and Anti-Black Racism Initiative at the college level. I have led the develop of a master’s program, anti-Black racism minor, and a virtual reality program to decrease bias and increase accountability among police. Additionally, I am a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and testify at the federal/state levels. I also help lead a grant fund to expand opportunity in local communities. Recently, I served on a state of Maryland committee to address bias in home appraisals and federal committee on AI in law enforcement that reported to the President. Within ASA, I have served in many roles including co-editor, section council member, award committee member, and conference planning committee member. As a Council Member, I will work to elevate sociological research in the policy and public spheres.
Former Professional Positions Held
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution (2021-present)
Founding Executive Director, Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR), University of Maryland (2017-2023)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley/UCSF (2010-2012)
Education
PhD, Indiana University, 2010
MA, Indiana University, 2005
BA, University of Memphis, 2003
Positions Held in ASA
Member, American Sociological Association Conference Planning Committee, (2020-2022, 2025-present)
Member, American Sociological Association, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology Selection Committee (2022-2024)
Co-Editor, Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public (2018-2022)
Council Member, Race, Gender, Class Section of the American Sociological Association, 2016-2018
Council Member, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) of the American Sociological Association, 2011-2014
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Advisory Board, National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council-Law Enforcement, NIST, 2023-2025 (reports to the President of the United States)
Member, Appraisal Equity Task Force, State of Maryland, 2023-2024
Chair, Ford Foundation Sociology Fellowships, 2020-2023
Member, National Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Program, Johns Hopkins University (2020-2023)
Advisory Board, State of California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (2021)
Publications
Ray, Rashawn and Hoda Mahmoudi (Eds.). 2022. Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change. Routledge Press.
Ray, Rashawn, Connor Powelson*, Genesis Fuentes*, and Long Doan. 2024. “The Sociology of Police Behavior.” Annual Review of Sociology, 50:565-579
Foy, Steven and Rashawn Ray. 2019. “Skin in the Game: Colorism and the Subtle Operation of Racial Stereotypes in Men’s College Basketball.” American Journal of Sociology 125(3): 730-785.
Jackson, Pamela Braboy and Rashawn Ray. 2018. How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD.
Ray, Rashawn. 2017. “Black People Don’t Exercise in my Neighborhood: Perceptions of the Built Environment on the Physical Activity of Middle Class Blacks and Whites.” Social Science Research 66:42-57.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 2021-present
Personal Statement:
Many sociologists need ASA for professional development, career advancement, and community, but do not find that support because they fail to fit the increasingly one-size-fits-all vision of sociology characterizing the ASA today. Somehow it is controversial to say the ASA (and the field) have become ideological: making unnecessary political statements, adopting performative policies without clear supportive evidence, and generally rushing to do all of this with little discussion and debate, making it difficult for anyone not already convinced to get on board and overlooking many who have varied good reasons to oppose these actions. Ultimately, ASA has done a good job of alienating many sociologists. I am standing for election to see if I can help reverse that trend. As individuals, we have our own visions of sociology and what it means to be a sociologist; a strong field can accommodate and support multiple such visions.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 2019-2021
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 2013-2016
Education
PhD, UC Berkeley, 2013
Positions Held in ASA
Sociology of Law Communications and Publications Committee, Chair, and Law in Action Blog Editor (January 2022–2023)
Sociology of Law Section Secretary/Treasurer (2021–2023)
Session Organizer, Qualitative Methodology Regular Session for the August 2023 Annual Meeting (2022–2023)
Crime, Law, and Deviance Section Council Member (2019–2022)
Session Organizer, Deviance and Social Control Regular Session for the August 2021 Annual Meeting (2020–2021)
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Co-Editor (with Katharina Heyer and Shauhin Talesh), Law & Society Review, 2023–2026 (January to January; Volumes 57–59)
Member, Publications Committee, Law and Society Association 2024–2025
Editorial Board Member, Punishment & Society, 2019 to Present
Program Committee for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Sub-Area Chair: Law Making and Legal Change (2024–2025)
CRN 27 (Punishment & Society) Co-Organizer, Law and Society Association (2015 to present)
Publications
Rubin, Ashley T. 2025 (forthcoming). “Penal Policy and Penal Change.” In Alessandro Corda (Ed.), Research Handbook on Penal Policy. Edward Elgar.
Rubin, Ashley T., Paige E. Vaughn, and Danielle S. Rudes. 2024. “Neo-Institutional Analyses of Criminal Legal Organizations and Policies.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 20, pp. 331–352.
Rubin, Ashley T. 2023. “The Promises and Pitfalls of Path Dependence for Analyzing Penal Change.” Punishment & Society, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 264–284.
Rubin, Ashley T. 2021. Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research. Stanford University Press
Rubin, Ashley T. 2021. The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913. Cambridge University Press (Series: Historical Studies in Law and Society, Series Editor: Chris Tomlins)
Committee on Committees: Member-at-Large
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, 2022-present
Personal Statement:
I would be honored to serve on committee on committees, which nominates members to other ASA committees. I’ve been involved in various ASA sections’ governance throughout my career. Through these roles, I’ve worked with ASA staff and other sociologists and feel like I would be able to make useful recommendations to council on staffing the association’s various committees.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 2016-2022
Education
PhD, Sociology, Indiana University, 2016
MS, Applied Statistics, Indiana University, 2013
MA, Sociology, Indiana University, 2010
Positions Held in ASA
Graduate Student Investigator Award Committee, Social Psychology Section, 2024-2025
Secretary/Treasurer, Emotions Section, 2020-2023
Council Member, Social Psychology Section, 2019-2021
Membership Committee, Social Psychology Section, 2019-2021 (chair: 2020-2021)
Graduate Affairs Committee, Social Psychology Section, 2018-2019
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Journal of Marriage and Family Editorial Board, 2020-Present
Sociological Methodology Editorial Board, 2023-2025
Social Psychology Quarterly Editorial Board, 2019-2022
Publications
Stets, Jan E., Karen A. Hegtvedt, and Long Doan (Eds.). 2025. Handbook of Social Psychology, Volumes 1 and 2: Micro, Meso, and Macro Perspectives. New York: Springer.
Doan, Long, Natasha Quadlin, Katharine Khanna. 2024. “Using Experiments to Study Families and Intimate Relationships.” Journal of Marriage and Family 86(5):1251–71. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12959.
Drotning, Kelsey J., Long Doan, Liana C. Sayer, Jessica N. Fish, and R. Gordon Rinderknecht. 2023. “Not all Homes are Safe: Family Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Family Violence 38(2):189–201.doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00372-y.
Rinderknecht, R. Gordon, Long Doan, and Liana C. Sayer. 2023. “Loneliness Loves Company, Some More Than Others: Tie Strength, Interaction Form, and Their Relation to Loneliness.” Social Problems 70(2):378–95. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spab049.
Doan, Long, and Matthew K. Grace. 2022. “Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons.” American Sociological Review 87(2):275–302. doi: 10.1177/00031224221082233.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, African American & Black Diasporic Studies; Women’s & Gender Studies
Personal Statement:
A “Committee on Committees” may sound like a pun about bureaucracy, but in the CoC provides vital counsel for filling the appointments that decide who is represented in our organization’s council, awards, and governance. In 15+ active years in ASA, I have amassed a wealth of friends and colleagues from vast reaches of this organization that has informed my service to date including elected section councils and numerous awards committees. Because I consistently engage a cross-section of our membership, I feel well positioned to serve in an office requires knowing and best reflecting our makeup. I pride myself in holding a vision for our organization that represents students and two-year college faculty, as well as independent and applied sociologists. My collegiality is routed within a belief that ASA can be both a safeguard and vanguard for the values of sociology itself, alongside providing resources for the careers of individual sociologists.
Former Professional Positions Held
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Education
PhD University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Sociology & Women’s Studies, 2014
MA University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Sociology & Women’s Studies, 2014
BA Spelman College, cum laude, Departmental Honors, Sociology & Anthropology, Comparative Women’s Studies, 2004
Positions Held in ASA
2020-present Council Member-at-Large, Section on Race Gender and Class, ASA (three-year term)
2024-present Chair, ASA Committee for the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (elected three-year term)
2017-2018 American Sociological Association Section on Ethnic and Racial Minorities Founder’s Award Committee
2016-2017 Section on Race Gender and Class Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Committee
2017-2018 Section on Race Gender and Class Distinguished Scholarly Article Award Committee
Offices Held in Other Organizations
2022-2024 Chair, Feminist Mentoring Award Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society (elected, two-year term)
2019-2021 Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2020-present Chair, Awards Committee, Student Paper Awards Committee, Association of Black Sociologists
2017-2018 Member, Komarovsky Book Award Selection Committee, Eastern Sociological Society
2021-2024 Editorial Board Member, Social Problems
Publications
Grundy, Saida. August 2022. Respectable: Politics and Paradox in the Making of the Morehouse Man. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press.
2024 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender and Class
Selected Author Meets Critic Sessions: 2024 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting; 2023 Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting; 2023 Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting; 2023 Association of Black Sociologists Annual Meeting; Featured Book, Feminist Majority Foundation Ms. Magazine Featured Author Evening (2022)
Eschmann, Rob, Saida Grundy, Allen G. Harbaugh, Lei Guo, Noor Toraif and Jacob Groshek. 2023. “Digital Rage: Testing ‘the Obama Effect’ on Internet-based Expressions of Racism.” Social Media & Society (9)4: 1-15.
Grundy, Saida. 2021. “Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture Through the Du Boisian Lens.” Social Problems 68(2): 226-249.
2024 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
2024 Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Article Award Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Race Gender and Class
Grundy, Saida. 2017. “A History of White Violence Tells Us Attacks on Black Academics Are Not Ending (I Know Because It Happened to Me).” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(11): 1864-1871.
Reprinted in The New Black Sociologist. 2019. Marcus Hunter (ed.). New York: Routledge.
Reprinted as “The White Violence of Attacking Black Academics” in Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Ed: Faculty on the Margins. 2020. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt (ed.). New York: Routledge.
Grundy, Saida. 2012. “‘An Air of Expectancy’: Class, Crisis, and the Making of Manhood at a Historically Black College for Men.” In “Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research.” Elijah Anderson (ed.). The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 642(1): 43–60.
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Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2011-present.
Personal Statement:
My interest in this position stems from my larger goal to serve the discipline in ways that advance the well-being of marginalized actors and groups. Specifically, I am eager to serve on the Committee on Committees to further expand the diversity of opinions, approaches, methodologies and identities of sociologists participating in ASA Committees. Through my participation in this committee, I intend to advocate and create space for marginalized voices to be heard as we collectively enact the processes which shape our discipline of sociology. Thank you for your attention and support!
Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2009-11.
Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006-08
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2002-09.
Education
PhD, Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 2001.
AM, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 1999.
BS, Interdisciplinary Studies, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA. 1996.
Positions Held in ASA
Editorial Board Member, Rose Series in Sociology, 2020-22
Publications Committee, American Sociological Association, 2016-2018
Editorial Board Member, American Sociological Review, 2014-16
Chair, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2013-14.
Offices Held in Other Organizations
External Member, Advisory Board, Center for Research for Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2011-18
Advisory Editor, Social Problems, 2011-14
Publications
Stewart, Quincy Thomas. 2023. Race in the Machine: A Novel Account. Stanford, CA: Redwood Press.
Stewart, Quincy Thomas, Ryon J. Cobb, and Verna Keith. 2021. “The Color of Death: Race, Skin Tone, and All-Cause Mortality in the United States,” Ethnicity and Health 25(7): 1018-1040.
Zuberi, Tukufu, Evelyn J. Patterson, and Quincy Thomas Stewart. 2015. “Race, Methodology and Social Construction in the Genomic Era,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 661: 109-127.
Stewart, Quincy Thomas. 2011. “The Cause Deleted Index: Estimating the Role of Underlying Causes in Mortality,” Mathematical Population Studies 18(4): 234-257.
Stewart, Quincy Thomas and Jeffrey C. Dixon. 2010. “Is it Race, Immigrant Status or Both? An Analysis of Wage Disparities among Men in the United States,” International Migration Review 44(1): 173-201.
Committee on Committees (PhD Granting Institution)
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Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, UC, Irvine, California, 2011-present
Personal Statement:
I’ve been elected or invited to join other ASA committees but have never served on the committee on committees. I am honored to be nominated.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC, Irvine, California, 2012-2017
Education
PhD, University of Southern California, 2011
MA, University of Southern California, 2008
BA, University of California, Irvine, 2005
Positions Held in ASA
Co-Chair, Latina/o Sociology Section Distinguished Article Award, ASA
Invited, Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), ASA
Elected Council Member for the Latina/o Sociology Section of the ASA
Race, Gender, Class Best Graduate Student Paper Awards Committee, ASA
Sociology of Education, Journal Editorial Board
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Acting Chair, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI, 2024
Gender and Society, Journal Editorial Board (2022-2024)
NAEd/Spencer External Reviewer, Dissertation Fellowship
Conference Planning Committee, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2020
Latinx Resource Center, Advisory Committee, UCI, 2018
Publications
Flores, Glenda M. 2025. The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine. UC Press.
Cabrera, Jennifer, Flores, Glenda M. and Reich, Stephanie. 2024. “Gendered Cultural Tightropes: Bicultural Latinas Navigating and Negotiating Familismo in American Doctoral Programs.” Gender and Education 36: 564-580.
Flores, Glenda M. and Bañuelos, Maricela. 2021. “Gendered Deference: Perceptions of Authority and Competence Among Latina/o Physicians in Medicine. Gender & Society 35: 111-135.
Flores, Glenda M. 2019. “Pursuing Medicina [Medicine]: Latina Physicians and Parental Messages on Gendered Career Choices” Sex Roles 81: 59-73.
Flores, Glenda M. 2017. Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture. NYU Press.
Committee on Committees (Non-Teaching Institution or in Self-Employment)
Present Professional Position
Chief Operating Officer, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility; August 2024-present
Personal Statement:
As an active member of ASA who has served the association in multiple capacities in the past, I believe it is important for individuals from all sectors of the workforce to be represented in the leadership of the association. Throughout my career, I have sought to bridge scholarly research with public engagement, ensuring that sociological insights contribute to both academic discourse and real-world solutions. Whether through research, teaching, or service, I have been dedicated to advancing the sociological imagination by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, mentoring emerging scholars, and advocating for equity within our profession. I am eager to continue to contribute to the continued success of ASA in these efforts. I appreciate your consideration and look forward to the opportunity to serve.
Former Professional Positions Held
Chief Research Officer, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility; March 2023-present
Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Penn State University November 2020-March 2023
Chief Operating Officer, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility; July 2011-November 2020
Education
PhD, Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2009.
MS, Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002.
BA, Sociology & BS, Labor Industrial Relations, Penn State University, 1996.
Positions Held in ASA
ASA MFP fundraising campaign co-chair
MFP advisory committee
Nominating committee member
Carla Howery award review committee
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Current Board Member: The Penn State Alumni Association Council
Current Board Member: Trickle Up
Current Board Member: Collegiate Directions
Former National Board Member: The American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Former Board Member: The Southern Sociological Society
Publications
N/A
Present Professional Position
Social Scientist, RAND Corporation, 2021-present
Personal Statement:
I am running for a position on ASA’s Committee on Committees because I believe it is important that non-teaching institutions continue to play a central role in guiding the direction of the organization. I transitioned to my current role at RAND in 2021 to engage in more policy-focused work. Since starting at RAND, my research has focused on a range of topics including equity and the distribution of resources, resilience and critical infrastructure, and evaluation of government programs. I regularly partner with departments across the federal government on projects designed to ensure that programs are functional and accessible to people from all backgrounds. I believe my perspective is particularly important in our current climate because applied policy research is critical to maintaining functional, stable government institutions. As a member of the committee on committees I will ensure that the importance of applied policy research remains centered in ASA’s work.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Iowa, 2014-2021
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, 2011-2012
Education
PhD, Harvard University, 2011
MA, Harvard University, 2008
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Positions Held in ASA
Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2018-2024
Member, Junior Faculty Mentoring Committee, Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, 2018-2019
Chair, Adhoc Committee on Diversity Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility American Sociological Association, 2017-2018
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Member, Editorial Board Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2018-present
Member, Editorial Board The Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2017-present
Member, Elections Committee Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2018-2019
Member, Lee Founders Award Committee Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2017-2018
Publications
Paige, Jessica Welburn and Shawn Bushway. “The Role and Impact of School Resource Officers: A Brief Discussion.” 2024. RAND Corporation: Santa Monica.
Zaber, Melanie, Peter Schirmer, Christine Mulhern, Jessica Welburn Paige, Tobias Sytsma, Yael Katz, Peggy Wilcox, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Stephani L. Wrabel, Christina Panis et al. 2024. “Expanding the Geographic Footprint of Army JROTC. RAND Corporation: Santa Monica.
Finucane, Melissa L., Jessica Welburn Paige, Andrew M. Parker, Anu Narayanan, Peggy Wilcox, David DeSmet, Jhacova Williams and Kristin Van Abel. 2023. “The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Community Recovery after Nondeclared Disasters.” RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, CA.
Clancy, Noreen, Lloyd Dixon, Jessica Welburn Paige, Sam Morales, Brian Wong, Andrew M. Parker and Katherine Grace Carman. 2023. “Improving the Financial Resilience of Public Entities and Individuals for Natural Disasters: A Resource Guide for State and Local Government. RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, CA.
Ayer, Lynsay, Benjamin Boudreaux, Jessica Welburn Paige, Pierrce Holmes, Tara Laila Blagg and Sapna J. Mendon-Plasek. 2023. “Artificial Intelligence-Based Student Activity Monitoring for Suicide Risk: Considerations for K-12 Schools, Caregivers, Government, and Technology Developers.” RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, CA.
Nominating Committee
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024-present
Personal Statement:
Colleagues, I am pleased to be running for the ASA nominating committee. I have been a member of the ASA for nearly thirty years and have served on a number of section councils, as Chair of the Labor and Labor Movements section, and most recently on the Committee on Committees. I believe that my experience on both the section level and ASA-wide level gives me a unique perspective, one that I hope will be useful on the nominating committee.
Former Professional Positions Held
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024-present
Professor, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, 2018-2024
Associate Professor, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, 2010-2018
Education
PhD, University of California Riverside, 2004
MA, University of California, Riverside, 1999
BA, University of California, Riverside, 1996
Positions Held in ASA
ASA Committee on Committees
Global and Transnational Sociology Section Council
ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Labor and Labor Movements Section, Past Chair
Labor and Labor Movements Section, Chair
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Temas Sociológicos, Editorial Board, 2017-2021
Labor Studies Journal, Editorial Board, 2006-2009
Publications
Castillo, Marco and Carolina Bank Muñoz. 2024. “Media Tropes and the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Chile’s Constitutional Reform Process.” Critical Sociology. (online first).
Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Penny Lewis, and Emily Tumpson Molina 2022.. A People’s Guide to New York City. Oakland, University of California Press.
Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Antonio Stecher, and Bridget Kenny (eds).2018. Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains. Austin, University of Texas Press.
Bank Muñoz, Carolina. 2017. Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take On Walmart. Ithaca, Cornell University Press. 2017.
Bank Muñoz, Carolina. 2008. Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in the U.S. and Mexico. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2018-present.
Personal Statement:
I am honored to be running for ASA Nominating Committee. Having served on and chaired several ASA committees, I have had the chance to learn about and meet many of our wonderful colleagues. I would hope to use these experiences to help the Nominating Committee to create ballots that represent the full range of interests, backgrounds, and institutions across our discipline. Thank you.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2014-2018.
Assistant Professor of Education, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2012-2014.
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2012.
MS, Saint Joseph’s University, 2005.
BA, Williams College, 2003.
Positions Held in ASA
Council Member, Sex and Gender Section (2023-2026).
Member and Chair, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Selection Committee (2023-2025).
Book Review Editor and Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2022-2025).
Member and Chair, Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee (2022-2024).
Council Member, Children and Youth Section (2020-2023).
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Professional Advisory Committee Member, The Boys’ Club of New York (2021-2023).
Associate Editor, Critical Perspectives on Youth Book Series, NYU Press (2018-present).
Book Review Editor and Associate Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Society & Culture (2018-2021).
Co-Chair, Board of Representatives, Boston Graduate Consortium in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (2017-2020).
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Critical Studies in Gender & Sexuality in Education Book Series, Routledge Press (2014-present).
Publications
Blume Oeur, Freeden, and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana (Guest Editors). 2024. “The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration.” City & Community 23(4).
Blume Oeur, Freeden. 2024. “Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda.” Teaching Sociology 52(4):385-399.
Blume Oeur, Freeden, and C.J. Pascoe, eds. 2023. Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism. New York: NYU Press.
Blume Oeur, Freeden. 2022. “Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology.’” Critical Sociology 48(4-5):559-569.
Blume Oeur, Freeden. 2018. Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, 2017-Present
Personal Statement:
My research, teaching, and organizing focus on racism, capitalism, colonialism, and empire in the early 21st century, with an emphasis on policing and struggles for social justice. My first book, Neoliberal Apartheid, analyzes racial capitalism and settler colonialism in South Africa and Palestine/Israel after 1994. My second book, Imperial Policing, was collectively authored with my colleagues in the Policing in Chicago Research Group. We examine the production, circulation, and deployment of “data” as a weapon of war by local police, federal immigration authorities, national security agencies, and partners of the US empire. As a member of the ASA nominations committee, I would support efforts to ensure that ASA remains a brave space with principled commitments in the face of reaction and crisis, including commitments to public sociology, community engagement, movement-led research, democratic participation, ethical investment, and intersectional solidarity.
Former Professional Positions Held
Associate Head, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago, 2021-2023, 2024-Present
Interim Head, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago, Summer 2023
Acting Director, Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois Chicago, 2017-2018
Education
PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2009
MA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
BA, University of Texas, Austin, 1997
Positions Held in ASA
Treasurer, ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section, 2024-Present
Best Scholarly Book Award Committee, ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section, 2024
Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award Committee, ASA Political Economy of the World System Section, 2020
Chair of the ASA Global and Transnational Sociology nominations committee, 2017
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Board of Directors, Palestinian American Research Center, 2020-Present
Board of Directors, Organized Communities Against Deportations, 2020-Present
C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020
Publications
Clarno, Andy. 2024. “Israel’s Lavender Kill List: A Joint Imperial Production.” Spectre: A Marxist Journal 10 (Fall): 18-32.
Clarno, Andy, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ila Ravichandran, and Haley Volpintesta. 2024. Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Clarno, Andy and Salim Vally. 2023. “The Context of Struggle: Racial Capitalism and Political Praxis in South Africa.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 46.16: 3425-3447.
de Leon, Cedric and Andy Clarno. 2020. “Power.” In T. Janoski, C. de Leon, J. Misra, and I. Martin (Eds.), The New Handbook of Political Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Clarno, Andy. 2017. Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jeffrey Guhin
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (2022-present)
Personal Statement:
Both Georg Simmel and Patricia Hill Collins argue that the best sociology comes from strangers and outsiders. These marginal figures bring additional perspectives to sociology’s typical business, shifting the view of a puzzle and introducing previously unconsidered problems. Of course, we’ve all heard that it’s up to the author to make the case why a new perspective matters (something I keep trying to do myself when yet another paper gets rejected for not fitting into pre-established problems). Yet I would be thrilled to use my position in the ASA nominating committee to better recognize strangers and outsiders on their own terms, especially those strangers and outsiders who bring their personal and research experience of marginalized communities and identities to our common work. I am both grateful for and humbled by this nomination, and I thank you (and those who nominated me) for considering me.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (2016-2022)
Abd El-Kader Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia (2013-2016)
Education
PhD, Yale University, 2013
MA, Yale University, 2008
BA, Loyola University New Orleans, 2003
Positions Held in ASA
Council Member, Morality, Altruism, and Social Solidarity (2023-present)
Council Member, Sociology of Religion (2020-2023)
Awards Committee Chair for best article award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity (2024)
Awards Committee Member for best book award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section (2020)
Awards Committee Member for best book award, Sociology of Education Section (2019)
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Board Member of the Sociology of Education Association (2019-2022)
Council Member of the Social Science and Religion Unit at the American Academy of Religion (2017-2021)
Culture Network Co-Chair at the Social Science History Network (2016-2018)
Publications
Guhin, Jeffrey, Mirya Holman, Travis Coan, and Constantine Boussalis. 2023. “When to Preach about Poverty and Race: How Location, Race, and Ideology Shape White Evangelical Sermons” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 62(2): 312-335.
Guhin, Jeffrey and Joseph Klett. 2022. “School Beyond Stratification: Internal Goods, Alienation, and an Expanded Sociology of Education.” Theory and Society 51: 371-398.
Rinaldo, Rachel and Jeffrey Guhin. 2022. “How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture” Sociological Methods and Research 51(1): 34-67.
Guhin, Jeffrey, Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. 2021. “Whatever Happened to Socialization?” Annual Review of Sociology 47: 109-129.
Guhin, Jeffrey. 2021. Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools. New York: Oxford University Press.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2018-present
Personal Statement:
As an active member of the American Sociology Association and a dedicated scholar at the University of Memphis, I am seeking election to the Nominating Committee to contribute significantly to shaping our association’s future. Through my involvement in various academic and community initiatives, I have cultivated a deep commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within sociology. If elected, I aim to ensure that the Nominating Committee reflects our diverse membership and values, thus fostering a more representative leadership pipeline. My leadership experiences and collaborative approach will enable me to effectively contribute to developing fair and inclusive election processes, vital for advancing our association’s mission. I am eager to leverage my skills and insights to serve our community.
Former Professional Positions Held
N/A
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)
Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award Committee, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2023)
Regular Session Organizer, Theory, Critical (2022)
Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2021-2023)
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Committee Member, Southern Sociological Society Publications Committee (2024-2027)
Founder, API Hour Memphis (monthly Asian American networking social) (2025)
Advisory Board Member, BRIDGES (2025-2027)
Organizer, Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Memphis (2023-2025)
Conference Co-Chair, Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (2022-2025)
Publications
Laybourn, SunAh. 2024. Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants. New York: New York University Press.
Laybourn, SunAh. 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., editor. 2022. “Anti-Asian and Asian American Violence and Discrimination.” Social Problems Virtual Issue.
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.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, 2023-present
Personal Statement:
I would be honored to serve the ASA as a member of the Nominating Committee, which I view as pivotal to shaping this association. I have extensive prior service from across the ASA which has given me familiarity with a diversity of scholars and respect for a wide range of intellectual projects. This positions me well to seek qualified nominees beyond sub-disciplinary siloes. My prior ASA service includes: chair-elect of Marxist Sociology; council member of Comparative-Historical, Race, Gender, and Class, Sociology of Development, and Political Economy of the World-System; member of the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting; nominations committees for Theory and Global and Transnational Sociology; and eleven article and book award committees. Thank you for your consideration.
Former Professional Positions Held
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France (2023-2024)
Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC (2015-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France (2012-2015)
Education
PhD, UC Berkeley, 2012
MA, UC Berkeley, 2007
BA, Columbia University, 2002
Positions Held in ASA
Chair-Elect, Marxist Sociology Section
Council Member, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section
Council Member, Race, Gender, and Class Section
Council Member, Sociology of Development Section
Council Member, Political Economy of the World-System Section
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Editorial Review Board Member, African Studies Review (African Studies Association), 2025–2027
Associate Editorial Board Member, Theory and Social Inquiry Journal, 2024–Present
Associate Editorial Board Member, Critical Sociology Journal, 2024–Present
Faculty Advisory Committee – Public Engagement and Events, Antiracist Research and Policy Center, American University, 2022-Present
Editorial Board Member, Gender & Society Journal, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2021-2024
Publications
2024. “Ten theses on racial capitalism.” Critical Sociology.50(7-8):1151-1166.
2024. “Tapping imaginaries: Guinness, masculinity, and the promise of Africa Rising.” International Review of Sociology, 1-18. Online First.
Matlon, Jordanna. 2022. A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Matlon, Jordanna. 2022. “Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary of Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois.’” Critical Sociology 48(4-5):553-557.
Matlon, Jordanna. 2016. “Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity.” American Sociological Review 81(5):1014-1038.
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Present Professional Position
N/A
Personal Statement:
I have been a member of ASA for almost twenty years, first as a graduate student and now as a faculty member. Throughout this time, I have worked in various capacities to support the organization and several of its sections (Theory, Latinx Sociology, SREM, and SKAT). I am running to join the Nominating Committee to continue these efforts. I look forward to working closely with colleagues to nominate committed candidates for ASA positions. I am especially motivated to assume this role in light of concerted attacks on sociology and many of our topics of concern. At the moment, strengthening the organizational, scholarly, and public work of ASA is paramount. Thank you for considering my candidacy.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, 2016-2022
Education
PhD, Brown University, 2015
MA, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008
BA, Northeastern Illinois University, 2003
Positions Held in ASA
Programming Committee, 2023 Annual Conference, President Prudence Carter, American Sociological Association
Council, Section on Latino/a Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2023-2026
Council, Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology, American Sociological Association, 2021-2024
30th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, Section on Latinos, American Sociological Association, 2020-2021
Nominations Committee, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association, 2018
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Co-Director, Digitizing the Barrio Archival Project, Chicago, 2018-Present
Board Member, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago, 2017-Present
Publications
Rodríguez-Muñiz, Michael. 2024(2021). Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Paperback Edition.
de Leon, Cedric and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2024. “The Political Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois.” in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois, edited by Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Karida Brown, Dan Green, Marcus Anthony Hunter, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, and Michael Schwartz. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (equal authorship)
Diaz McConnell, Eileen and Rodríguez-Muñiz, Michael. 2023. “Between Demographic Optimism and Pessimism? Exploring ‘Neither Good nor Bad’ Responses about Future Ethnoracial Diversification Among U.S. Whites.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 20(1): 163- 190.
Mora, G. Cristina, Julie Dowling, and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2021. “‘Mostly Rich White Men, Nothing in Common’: Latino Views on Political (Under)Representation in the Trump Era.” American Behavioral Scientist 65(1): 1180-1192. (equal authorship)
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco, 2021-present
Personal Statement:
I am seeking a position on the Nominations Committee because I want to contribute to selecting a strong and diverse leadership for ASA. I have previously served on the Nominations Committee at the Social Science History Association (2023-2024) and have been on the selection committee for the annual S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies since 2017. In these roles, I have sought to evaluate candidates fairly and thoughtfully. As an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco, I also bring extensive experience in academic governance, curriculum development, and faculty leadership. Additionally, my academic work on issues like religious minorities, international human rights, and global inequalities demonstrates my commitment to social justice and equity. These experiences, combined with my commitment to fostering inclusive leadership, make me well-equipped to contribute meaningfully to the Nominations Committee of the ASA.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco, 2016-2021
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University, 2011-2013
Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington, Maurer School of Law, 2010-2011
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2010
MA, Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2003
B.Sc., Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, 2001
Positions Held in ASA
Program Committee, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2013-2014
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Member, Nominations Committee, Social Science History Association, 2023-2024
Council Member, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2023-present
Member, S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan housed at University of California at Berkeley, 2018- Present
Network Representative, Critical Studies, Social Science History Association, 2023-present
Network Representative, Religion, Social Science History Association, 2017-2023
Publications
“Religion, Social Transformations, and the Politics of Comparison,” in Rebecca Jean Emigh and David McCourt (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.
“Ritual Cursing as an Oath of Submission: The Problem of Religious Difference across Safavid Iran and Modern Pakistan,” Modern Asian Studies 56, 3 (2022): 993-1021.
“Decolonization Struggles at the United Nations: The Question of Algeria, 1955-1961,” European Journal of Sociology 62, 3 (2021): 421-55.
“Religion, Classification Struggles, and the State’s Exercise of Symbolic Power,” Theory & Society 50, 2 (2021): 255-81.
Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Publications Committee
Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University
Personal Statement:
Sociology and sociological research are critical for understanding and redressing the world’s most pressing social problems. Ensuring that sociology remains relevant to and credible in political and policy discourse and debate requires sociologists to commit to publishing standards that promote scientific integrity, accessibility, transparency, and openness. As a member of the Publication’s Committee, I will work to align ASA publishing practices with the principles of open science, in an effort of making sociology more relevant, engaged, rigorous, and trustworthy. As a sociologist and researcher, I am personally committed to making my own research more open, accessible, transparent, and relevant to the social issues facing us today. My experience publishing in several ASA journals—including the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Society and Mental Health—as well as serving on the editorial boards of several top sociological journals prepares me for this role.
Former Professional Positions Held
2017 – 2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2017
MA, Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2013
MPH, Health Services Management and Policy, Tufts University, 2007
Positions Held in ASA
2024 – 2027 Treasurer, ASA Section on Population
2024 Program Committee, ASA Section on Population
2018 – 2020 Nominations Committee, ASA Section on Medical Sociology
Offices Held in Other Organizations
2025 – 2027 DuBois Award Selection Committee, Population Association of America
2024 – 2025 Program Committee, Population Association of America
2024 Nominations Committee, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
2018 – 2023 Communication Committee, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science
2020 – 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee, Population Association of America
Publications
Boen, Courtney, Rebecca Schut, and Nick Graetz. 2024. “The Painful and Chilling Effects of Legal Violence: Immigration Enforcement and Racialized Legal Status Inequities in Worker Well-Being.” Population Research and Policy Review 43(20).
Boen, Courtney, Y. Claire Yang, Allison E. Aiello, Alexis C. Dennis, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Dayoon Kwon, and Daniel Belsky. 2023. “Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black-White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis.” Demography 60(6): 1815-1841.
Boen, Courtney, Lisa Keister, Christina Gibson-Davis, and Anneliese Luck. 2023. “The Buffering Role of State Eviction Bans for Mental Health: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.” Forthcoming. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Boen, Courtney, Hannah Olson, and Hedwig Lee. 2022. “Vicarious Exposure to the Criminal Legal System Among Parents and Siblings.” Journal of Marriage and Family 84(5):1446-1468.
Boen, Courtney, Nick Graetz, Hannah Olson, Zohra Ansari-Thomas, Laurin Bixby, Rebecca Schut, and Hedwig Lee. 2022. “Early Life Patterns of Criminal Legal System Involvement: Inequalities by Race-Ethnicity, Gender, and Parental Education.” Demographic Research 46(5): 131-146.
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 2017-present.
Personal Statement:
I am honored to submit my candidacy for the Publications Committee of the American Sociological Association. As a Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and Interim Director of The Pahl Center for the Study of Critical Social Issues, my research focuses on gender, masculinities, and social inequality. My editorial experience includes serving as Editor of Men and Masculinities (2020-2025) and as co-editor of Exploring Masculinities (Oxford UP, 2016). I have contributed to editorial boards of journals such as Gender & Society, Contexts, and Sociological Perspectives. I have chaired the Publications Committee for the ASA’s Section on Sex and Gender (2014-2016) and served on the Publications Committee for Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) (2016-2019). I am committed to promoting rigorous and diverse sociological scholarship and supporting initiatives that enhance the accessibility and visibility of research. I would bring a collaborative and forward-thinking perspective to the Publications Committee.
Former Professional Positions Held
Co-Editor, Men and Masculinities (Sage journal), 2020-present
Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2016-2019
Chair, Publications Committee, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association, 2014-2016
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Virginia, 2011
MA, Sociology, University of Virginia, 2005
BA, Sociology, Colorado College, 2003
Positions Held in ASA
Member, Awards Committee, American Sociological Association, 2024-2026
Member, Committee on the Status of LGBTQ People in Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2017-2020
Member, Section Council (Sex and Gender Section), American Sociological Association, 2014-2016
Member, Section Council (Sexualities Section), American Sociological Association, 2017-2019
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Co-Editor, Men and Masculinities (Sage journal), 2020-present
Global Technical Advisory Group Member, Equimundo, 2024-present
Soc ArXiv moderator, 2021-present
Book Review Editor, Men and Masculinities (Sage journal), 2012-2020
Publications
James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges. 2024. ”Legitimation as Linchpin: On Raewyn Connell’s Changing Conceptualization of ’Hegemonic Masculinity’.” International Review of Sociology 34(2): 211-239.
Tristan Bridges, Tara Leigh Tober, and Melanie Brazzell. 2023. “Database Discrepancies in Understanding the Burden of Mass Shootings in the United States, 2013-2020.” The Lancet Regional Health—Americas 22: 1-8.
Tristan Bridges. 2021. “Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men’s Disadvantage.” Signs 46(3): 663-688.
Tristan Bridges. 2014. “A Very ‘Gay’ Straight?: Hybrid Masculinities, Sexual Aesthetics, and the Changing Relationship between Masculinity and Homophobia.” Gender & Society 28(1): 58-82.
Tristan Bridges and C.J. Pascoe. 2014. “Hybrid Masculinities: New Directions in the Sociology of Men and Masculinities.” Sociology Compass 8/3: 246-258.
Present Professional Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern, 2010-present
Personal Statement:
I’m running for the Publications Committee because it’s a rewarding and important opportunity to help to showcase the quality and range of work being done in our discipline.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2002-2008
Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, 2008-2010
Education
BA, Rice University, 1994
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Positions Held in ASA
Chair, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section, 2019-2020
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Co-Editor, Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology, 2022-present
Co-Editor, Studies in American Political Development, 2013-2019
Publications
Chen, Anthony S. and Lisa M. Stulberg, “Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity Rationale,” University of Chicago Law Review Online, October 30, 2020.
Anthony S. Chen, The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 (Princeton, 2009).
Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Personal Statement:
If elected to the Publications Committee, I would be thrilled to have the opportunity to help our ASA publications build on longstanding strengths within the context of new challenges and opportunities. I will strive to help ASA journals continue to publish and disseminate scholarship that systematically applies our qualitative, quantitative, and theoretical tools to speak scientific truth to power, while bringing continued attention to the changing context for our science that includes skepticism about academia in general and social science in particular. In terms of publications, our collective solutions to this moment should include encouraging more research that involves non-academic stakeholders as collaborators and authors, continuing to raise standards for data-sharing and replication, and seeking to have our research understood and utilized across a wide range of political viewpoints. Thank you for your consideration.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017-2021)
Education
PhD, Sociology, Northwestern University, 2017
MA, Sociology, Northwestern University, 2014
BA, Sociology and Rhetoric, Bates College, 2012
Positions Held in ASA
Editorial Board, Sociology of Education (2021-present)
Program Committee, Section on Sex & Gender (2023-2024)
Council Member, Section on Sociology of Education (2021-2024)
Committee Chair, James Coleman Award for Best Article, Section on Sociology of Education (2023)
Committee Member, Best Graduate Student Paper, Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (2022)
Offices Held in Other Organizations
Review Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Research on Learning (EDU/DRL)
Annual Meeting Program Committee, Sub-Committee on Education, Work, and Economic Inequality, Population Association of America (2024)
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2023-2025)
Publications
Conwell, Jordan A., and Kevin Loughran. 2024. “Quantitative Inquiry in the Early Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 21(2):368-390.
Conwell, Jordan A., and Natasha Quadlin. 2022. “Race, Gender, Higher Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Baby Boomers at Midlife.” Social Forces 100(3):990–1024.
Conwell, Jordan A. 2021. “Diverging Disparities: Race, Parental Income, and Children’s Math Scores, 1960 to 2009.” Sociology of Education 94(2):124–42.
Conwell, Jordan A., and Leafia Zi Ye. 2021. “All Wealth Is Not Created Equal: Race, Parental Net Worth, and Children’s Achievement.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(3):101–21.
Conwell, Jordan A., and Catherine Doren. 2021. “Maternal Education, Family Formation, and Child Development: The Continuing Significance of Race.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83(2):563–83.
Shirley A. Jackson
Present Professional Position
Professor of Sociology, Portland State University, 2016-present
Personal Statement:
I believe I am a strong candidate for a position on the Publications Committee. I have earned a reputation for stepping up to support my colleagues and the professional associations to which I belong. I have had the pleasure of serving as a reviewer for journals and books and as a book award committee member for many years. I have participated in searches for journal editors and worked with editorial teams during my involvement as a Council member and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Pacific Sociological Association, and during my tenure as interim executive director of Sociologists for Women in Society. Searching for new editors is never easy, even when it comes to the highest-ranking journals. Additionally, serving on committees and in roles that involve nominating and appointing individuals to positions is hard work. Nevertheless, I am up to the task.
Former Professional Positions Held
Chair, Department of Black Studies, Portland State University, 2016-2019
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University, 2011-2015
Chair, Department of Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University, 2001-2007
Education
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000
MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990
BA, Wayne State University, 1984
Positions Held in ASA
Chair-Elect, American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, 2024-present
Member, Contemporary Sociology Editorial Board, American Sociological Association, 2022-
Member, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association, 2021-2023
Member, American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class Outstanding Book Award Committee, 2017-2018
Chair, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association, 2002-2003
Offices Held in Other Organizations
President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2022-2023
President, Pacific Sociological Association, 2022-2023
Chair and Member, Editorial and Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2019- 2020
Member, 2018 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2017-2018
Managing Editor, Issues in Race & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Association of Black Sociologists, 2016-2019
Publications
Jackson, Shirley A. 2024. “The 2023 SSSP Presidential Address Recycled: The Emergence and Re-Emergence of Social Problems.” Social Problems. 71(2):309-318.
Jackson, Shirley A. 2023. “A Dystopian Post-Post-Civil Rights Era: Black Lives Matter and the Rhetoric of Change.” Sociological Perspectives 66(5):769-779.
Jackson, Shirley A. 2019. “Oregon’s K-12 Ethnic Studies Bill.” Ethnic Studies Review, 42(2):180-195.
Jackson, Shirley A. and Laurie Gordy, eds. 2018. Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, and Media. London: Routledge/Francis & Taylor.
Jackson, Shirley A., ed. 2014. Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Present Professional Position
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, 2021-Present
Personal Statement:
The Publications Committee plays a vital role in shaping the association’s publishing program, and I am eager to contribute by helping appoint associate editors and recommending new editors for ASA journals. I will work to ensure these appointments reflect the diversity of our discipline and amplify voices from underrepresented groups. Additionally, I am committed to recommending thoughtful enhancements to the association’s publications portfolio that align with the evolving needs of our members and the pressing social issues we face. This could include promoting our high-quality work while expanding the types of scholarship we publish across all areas of the discipline, strengthening efforts toward diversity and equity, supporting junior faculty, and broadening the representation of our members’ scholarship outside of the discipline. I believe these efforts are crucial for broadening the impact of ASA publications and ensuring they truly represent the richness of the academic and on-the-ground communities we serve.
Former Professional Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 2019-2021
Predoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech Department of Sociology, 2018-2019
Education
PhD in Sociology, Cornell University, 2019
MA in Sociology, Cornell University, 2017
JD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
Positions Held in ASA
ASA Past-Chair, Chair, and Chair-Elect of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section (2022-2025)
ASA Sections Committee, Elected Member (2024-2027)
ASA ASA Program Committee Law Session Organizer (2024-2025)
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Editorial Board Member (2021-2024)
Sociology of Law Section Council Member (2022-2024)
Offices Held in Other Organizations
American Society of Criminology, Annual Meeting Program Committee: Police Legitimacy and Community Relations Sub-Area Chair (2024- 2025)
American Society of Criminology, Sellin-Glueck Award Committee Member (2023-2024)
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Local Arrangements Committee Member (2019-2021)
Publications
Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2024. “Legal Reality or Legal Mirage? Examining the Relationship Between Police Violence, Legal Consciousness, and the Promise of Civil Legal Justice.” Punishment and Society, 26(4):629-646.
Rocha Beardall, Theresa, Rahim Kurwa, and Demar Lewis. 2024. “Mended Windows, Not Broken Windows: A Du Boisian Analysis of Urban Policing.” City and Community, 23(4):320-340.
Rocha Beardall, Theresa, Collin Mueller, and Tony Cheng. 2024. “Intersectional Burdens: How Social Location Shapes Interactions with the Administrative State.” Russell Sage Foundation, 10(4):84-102.
Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2023. “Abolition as Praxis and Virtual Community Based Learning.” Teaching Sociology, 51(1):79-91.
Ambo, Theresa Stewart and Theresa Rocha Beardall.† 2023. “Performance or Progress? The Physical and Rhetorical Removal of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Land Acknowledgments at Land-Grab Universities.” American Educational Research Journal, 60(1):103-140.
