Footnotes 1994 | American Sociological Association

January 1994 (Volume 22, Number 1)

Felice J. Levine Meets with Chairs: Core Disciplines at Issue in Kentucky Universities
Federal Science Policy Is the Theme for the 1993 Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Annual Meeting
ASA Department Affiliates Program: Forging a Partnership to Strengthen Sociology (Janet Mancini Billson)
The Open Window: A Foot in the White House Door (Felice J. Levine)
Secretary’s Report: 1993 Marked by Financial Stability, Programmatic Accomplishments (Arlene Kaplan Daniels)
Lessons from Waco (Nancy T. Ammerman)
ASA MOST Program Seeks Departmental Participation (Ramon S. Torrecilha)
Neal Lane and Allan Kornberg Appointed to Key Positions at the National Science Foundation
1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Increases Attention on Accessabilty Issues: 1994 Annual Meeting Site Reviewed (Janet L. Astner)
Teaching: Increased National Attention Focuses on Preparing Graduate Students to Teach (Carla B. Howery)
ASA to Survey Members About Gay and Lesbian Issues
United States Holocaust Institute
Nominations Invited for the Jensen Lectureship
Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Bill Darrow Receives 1993 Award for Sociological Practice; 1993 Cheryl Miller/Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Lecturer
Sociology of Religion Seeks to Become a New ASA Section
Open Forum: “A Bright Future for William and Mary” (Satoshi Ito); “Stealing Books and the Sociological Imagination” (N. Prabha Unnithan); “The Closing of Sociology Departments: Changing Our View, Not the Dean’s View” (Lynn Mulkey and John Wildeman); “Scorned” (Anonymous)
1992 Audit: ASA’s Stable Financial Future
Writing Tips: Verb Tenses (Karen Feinberg)
Obituaries: Henry A. Gordon, Hans O. Mauksh
Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes of the 1992-93 Council Meeting (1993 ASA Annual Meeting)

February 1994 (Volume 22, Number 2)

1994 Annual Meeting: Los Angeles: The City With Zeal for Innovations (Harvey Molotch)
The Open Window: ASA—Moving Forward for Sociology (Felice J. Levine)
Two More Section Award Nominations Sought
National Science Foundation Search: Law and Social Science Program Director
ASA Regional Reps Sought
An Analysis of General Interest Sociology Journals (Richard A. Wright)
Deaths: Earl D.C. Brewer, Werner J. Cahnman, Leo Chall, James W. Gladden, Albert G. Hess, Mervin G. Smith, George J. Vlasak, John Wildeman
Obituaries: Kenneth P. Wilkinson

March 1994 (Volume 22, Number 3)

1994 Annual Meeting: Re-Inventing the Multi-Racial and Multi-Ethnic City of the 21st Century? (Melvin L. Oliver)
Code of Professional Ethics Revision (John Kennedy, Barbara Melber)
1994 Annual Meeting: Documentary Visions of Los Angeles (Barrie Thorne)
The Open Window: Academic Freedom and the Role of ASA (Felice J. Levine)
On the Well-Being of Graduate Departments
ASA MOST Program Seeks Host Sites for Summer 1995 (Ramon Torrecilha)
New Opportunities for Sociologists in HIV/AIDS Prevention Planning (Paula Trubisky)
Candidates for ASA President, Vice President, Secretary
National Science Foundation Search: Sociology Program Director
International News and Notes: On Sociology in Japan and Japanese Sociological Society; Russian Libraries and Archives Available by E-Mail (Carol Erickson); The Russian Businessman: His Leanings and Interests (Vladimir Gubernatorov)
Professional Socialization for What? (David Yamane)
Open Forum: “ASA’s Candidate Slate” (Barbara Katz Rothman); “Some Questions About Confidentiality” (Lee Clarke); “Funding for Sociology” (James L. Wood); “Full Papers in Advance? No.” (Henry J. Steadman); “Contemporary Sociology, New Editor or New Orientation?” (Guy Ankerl); “Can Sociologists Study Personality?” (Russell Eisenman)
Obituaries: Benedict S. Alper, Ruth Shonle Cavan, Leo Chall, Marshall Jones, John Wildeman
Official Reports and Proceedings: 1993-94 Council Minutes (no date listed)

April 1994 (Volume 22, Number 4)

1994 Annual Meeting: Gay in Los Angeles (Peter M. Nardi)
International Sociological Association Travel Grant Applications Due May 13: XIII World Congress of Sociology
1994 Annual Meeting Theme: Explaining and Preventing Genocide (William A. Gamson)
The Open Window: Moving on to Move Forward: Core Programs Reorient the Executive Office (Felice J. Levine)
News from the Minority Affairs Program: Bridging the Diversity Gap (Ramon S. Torrecilha)
MOST Program Seeks Graduate Sites (Ramon S. Torrecilha)
ASA Works to Protect School-Based Research
Sociology and National Health Care Reform (Ronald Manderscheid)
Council Briefs
National Science Foundation Sociology Program Awards for Fiscal Year 1993
Teaching: Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching in U.S. and Canadian Sociology Departments (Bernice A. Pescosolido and Melissa A. Milkie); Using a Computer to Improve Classroom Teaching and (Even) Meeting Presentations: A Footnote to Footnotes Article (William R. Aho)
Neil J. Smelser and Wendy Baldwin Assume Key Posts: Smelser to Head Institute of Advanced Study; Baldwin Named National Institute of Health Deputy Director
Six Receive Small Grant Awards; New Proposals Due
Update on Scarce Case and the Scholar’s Privilege
ASA Aids Sociology at California State University-Northridge
Open Forum: “Support for the Nominations Process” (Denise D. Bielby, et. al.); “The Academic Demand for Sociologists” (Robert J. Stevenson)
Research Program on the Discipline and Profession: Sociology Departments and Their Affinities
Writing Tips: Enough of “That” (Karen Feinberg)
Mady Wechsler Segal, Charles V. Willie Awarded Lectureships: Mady Wechsler Segal 1994 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer on Women and Social Change; Charles Willie Named Eastern Sociological Society Williams Lecturer
Environmental Newsletter Founded and Published by Sociologist (Nina Alesci)
Inside 1722: Monica Joyi is a Special Addition to ASA
Survey Shows Attendees Satisfied with 1993 ASA Annual Meeting
ASA Seeks New Teaching Services Field Coordinator
Deaths: Melvin Tumin
Obituaries: Joseph H. Fichter, James W. Gladden, Phil Campbell

May 1994 (Volume 22, Number 5)

1994 Annual Meeting: The Production of Mass Culture (William Bielby and Denise Bielby)
Winners of Major ASA Awards: Lewis A. Coser, Career of Distinguished Scholarship; Reece McGee, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching; Nelson Foote, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology; Charles V. Willie, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award; Mitchell Duneier for his book Slim’s Table, Distinguished Scholarly Publication
MOST Selects Undergraduate Departments
The Open Window: The Challenge of Democratic Participation Here at Home (Felice J. Levine)
Role of the Chair Workshop to Embrace Three Chair Meetings (Janet Mancini Billson)
A New Means of Communication with ASA
Don’t Miss the 1994 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles!
1994 Annual Meeting: A Different Kind of Business Meeting
Craig Calhoun to Edit Sociological Theory (Michael D. Kennedy)
Expert Witnessing: Memoirs of Beginner (Ann Goetting)
Official Reports and Proceedings: Council Minutes: 1994 Mid-Winter Council Meeting (January 28-30, 1994)
Deaths: Lynn Atwater, George H. Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, A. Wade Smith
Obituaries: Vailes Daka-Mulwanda, Reverend Joseph L. Kerrins, CSSR, Janet Lee Koenigsamen, J. Zvi Namenwirth, Alden Speare, Jr., Gordon G. Wallace, David M. Willems

Summer 1994 (Volume 22, Number 6)

Maureen Hallinan Elected ASA President; Myra Marx Ferree is Vice-President; Teresa Sullivan Secretary
Jill S. Quadagno Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow (Carla B. Howery)
Revitalizing Public Education: Sociologists Speak Out (Paula Trubisky)
The Open Window: Valuing Communication (Felice J. Levine)
Bringing Sociology Back In: A “Little” Big Success Story (Janet Mancini Billson)
1994 Annual Meeting: Looking to Los Angeles ’94
Funding Opportunities for Sociologists in Mental Health
ASA Facilitates International Travel Grants for Sociologists (Janet Mancini Billson)
International Scholars to Visit U.S. on Fulbrights
Sociologists Receive Honors, Awards: Matilda White Riley Honored by National Academy of Sciences and Radcliffe College; Ronald Abeles Named Associate Director at the National Institute on Aging; Sheldon Steinhauser Receives Honorary Degree; Kathleen Blee Named Research Professor; James S. Coleman Honored by Polish Sociological Association; Theda Skocpol Book Selected by Phi Beta Kappa; Joane Nagel New Jensen Lecturer
“Socumentaries” Prove Pictures Worth a Thousand Words (Nina L. Alesci)
Joint Program in Survey Methodology Flourishes (Elizabeth E. Schuster)
Writing Tips: “We met a man with a hairpiece named Melvin”; The Importance of Word Order (Karen Feinberg)
Sociologists Help Rewrite Law on Whistleblowers
American Association for the Advencement of Science and Georgia on My Mind (Phyllis Moen)
Congratulations to Departmental Prize Winning Students
Society for Applied Sociology Annual Meeting Theme: Using Sociology Around the World
Open Forum: “The Vision for Contemporary Sociology” (Craig Calhoun); “MOST II?: A View from the Trenches” (John Kinch); “A Code of Ethics for COPE” (Leonard Broom); “Many Sociologists Do Incorporate Personality Variables into Their Theories and Research” (Michael Klausner); “Cheap Shots at Minorities?” (Irwin Deutscher)
1994 Annual Meeting: An Opportunity to Innovate, Do “The Vision Thing” in Los Angeles (John Angle)
A New Means of Communication with ASA
1993 Audit: ASA’s Solid Financial Picture
Theorizing South Africa (S.M. Miller)
Deaths: Daniel Levinson, Rabbi Samuel Teitelbaum
Obituaries: Lynn Atwater, Marshall H. Becker, Patrick L. Biernacki, Rhoda Lois Blumberg, H. Paul Chalfant, George Henry Gardner, Harry M. Johnson, Leo Meltzer, Ralph Miliband, G. Peter Paulhe, A. Wade Smith
Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

October 1994 (Volume 22, Number 7)

1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Major Award Winners Honored in Los Angeles
1994 Annual Meeting Highlights (Janet L. Astner)
1996 Annual Meeting Theme: “Social Change: Opportunities and Constraints”
The Open Window: American Sociological Foundation: Building for the Future of Sociology (Felice J. Levine)
Ann Petersen Appointed to Key National Science Foundation Post
Profile of the President: Amitai Etzioni: The Active Sociologist (Richard M. Coughlin)
Window on Washington: Clinton Officials Address Sociologists (Paula Trubisky); Institute of Medicine Urges Support of Social and Behavioral Science Research (Paula Trubisky)
Robert K. Merton, William Julius Wilson Wilson Receive Awards: Merton Wins Medal of Science; W.J. Wilson Awarded Seidman Prize
Immanuel Wallerstein Elected International Sociological Association President
Adrian Raftery is New Editor of Sociological Methodology (Michael Hout)
ASA/National Science Foundation Small Grant Proposals Due
Amitai Etzioni Receives Honorary Degrees
ASA Committee Focuses on Graduate Education (Carla B. Howery)
The Sociology Graduate Record Examination: Problems and Prospects (Richard H. Hall)
Two Sections Approved (Rational Choice and Sociology of Religion); One More in Formation (International Migration)
1994 Annual Meeting: Role of the Chair Workshop Tackles Questions at Annual Meeting (Janet Mancini Billson)
The “Lost Generation” Survey: Preliminary Analysis of Qualitative Responses (Margot B. Kempers)
ASA Sections Bestow Awards in Los Angeles
Deaths: Carl Couch, Rose Laub Coser, Albert H. Hobbs, Elliott Liebow, Dick Lopata, Edward S. Weeks, Jr.
Obituaries: Robert H. Barker, Robert Bugoslaw, Chester L. Hunt, Leo Kuper, Melvin M. Tumin, Leslie D. Zeleny

November 1994 (Volume 22, Number 8)

Dan Clawson to Edit Contemporary Sociology (Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman)
Congress Asked to Address National Institutes of Health Social/Behavioral Research
Clinton Names William J. Wilson to Committee on National Medal
The Open Window: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Socio-environmental Lab Under Threat (Felice J. Levine)
Melvin L. Kohn Decries National Institute of Mental Health Lab Closing (Melvin L. Kohn)
James S. Coleman Honored by Johns Hopkins University (Andrew Sherman)
ASA Council Resolution on National Institute of Mental Health Laboratory Closing, August 11, 1994
1994 Annual Meeting: Minority Fellowship Program Celebrates the Past, Anticipates the Future (Ramon S. Torrecilha)
National Insitute of Mental Health Information Via Fax (Andrew Sherman)
National Institute of Mental Health Renews Minority Fellowship Program with Substantial Growth (Paula Trubisky)
New Minroty Fellowship Program Fellows Announced
National Institutes of Health Raises Stipend Levels
Committee to Review ASA Certification Program (John M. Kennedy)
1994 Annual Meeting: Honors Program Celebrates 21st year in Los Angeles (David Bills)
1994 Annual Meeting: Teaching Endowment Fund Benefits from Evening at La Golondria (Janet Mancini Billson)
1994 Annual Meeting: Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop Draws Full House in Los Angeles (Janet Mancini Billson)
International News and Notes: Faculty Cite benefits of International Student Internships: Immersion in Nicaraguan Society (Johannes P. Van Vugt); Rich Collaboration in the Caribbean (Harriet Miller); Changes in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Academic Entrepreneurship During Transformation of the Institutions of Science in Russia (Victor Vornkov and Miles McNall); Democracy and Sociology in Transition: Insight into Croatia and Culture (Nina L. Alesci); Waiting for a Miracle: Sociologists Help Run Underground University in Former Yugoslavia (Janet Mancini Billson); Cultural Divergence and Sociological Fissure: A Tale of Two Countries, or, The Local in the Global (Philip McMichael)
1994 Annual Meeting: ASA Sections Bestow Awards in Los Angeles
Obituaries: Rose Laub Coser, Carl J. Couch, Daniel J. Levinson, Elliot Liebow, Calvin F. Schmid, Gerald W. Simmons

December 1994 (Volume 22, Number 9)

Candidates for ASA Offices, Council, Committees
ASA Meets with Health and Human Services Secretary Shalala (Paula Trubisky)
ASA Adds Four New MOST Sites (Paula Trubisky)
The Open Window: Consortium of Social Science Associations as Key (Felice J. Levine)
Seven Receive Small Grants; New Proposals Due
Sandria Freitag Named American Historical Association Executive Director
National Science Foundation Renews Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Support to ASA
A Conversation with Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Joyce Justus (Ellen Berg)
Clinton Appoints Social Scientists to Science Board
The Internet, E-Journals, and Academia (Carl H.A. Dassbach)
Challenges of the 1980s, Challenges for the 1990s (Reynolds Farley)
Important Changes with the Graduate Record Examinations: Chairs and Departments Need to Act Now! (Carla B. Howery)
New Graduate Record Examination General Test to be Introduced in 1997 (Ann Williard)
International News and Notes: The World Bank’s Sociologists: An Interview with Michael Cernea: Bringing New Knowledge Into the Development Program (Janet Mancini Billson)
Nominations Invited for 1996 Major ASA Awards
Sociologists on the Move: Sociologists Appointed to Key Posts at University of Maryland; Maryland Professor to Indianapolis; Rose M. Brewer 1995 SWS Feminist Lecturer; Featherman to Institute for Social Research
1994 Annual Meeting: More Section Awards from the 1994 Annual Meeting
Deaths: Ralph Miliband
Obituaries: Vernon Boggs, Wallace W. Culver, Zelma George, Marion Langer, Thorsten Sellin

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