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January 2002 (Volume 30, Number 1)

Publishing Innovations for 2002 to Debut Soon
All ASA Members to Get Contexts in February
City & Community Forthcoming in March
New Accrediting Organization for Human Research Protection
The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column. The Annual Meeting: A Learned Place and a Place to Learn
New Developments Concerning Public Use Data Files (Paula Skedsvold)
Public Affairs Update
Seven Projects Receive ASA-NSF Small Grant Awards
Call for NIH Proposals: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
Applications Due March 31: ISA Travel Grant Expected for XV World Congress of Sociology
Tackling Issues of Human Rights and Globalization (Stacey S. Merola)
Indiana Center on Educations Brings Fields Together (Carla B. Howery)
Social and Economic Justice Undergraduate Minor: Experiment in Process (Judith R. Blau)
Teaching Students to Think by Teaching Radical Sociology
Spotlight on Departments: Theory and Research in Sociology Program at JMU (Meghan Rich)
Profile of the 2001 ASA Membership (Stacey S. Merola and Roberta Spalter-Roth)
NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education
SSRC Creates September 11 Website (Craig Calhoun)
NSF Funds Collaborative Project on Exploring U.S. Social Change
Help Shape an Exciting Program for the 2003 Annual Meeting
Sociologists as Expert Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System (Lewis Yablonsky)
Deaths: John Dowling Campbell, Francesco Cordasco, Vassillis C. Economopoulos, Calvin C. Herton, Kenneth Lutterman, Patrick McNamara, Alvin Rudoff, Lore K. Wright
Obituaries: Natalie Allon, Deirdre Mary Boden, Emily Dunn Dale, Esther I. Madriz, Patrick Hayes McNamara, C. Dale Johnson

February 2002 (Volume 30, Number 2)

Council Passes Resolution on Data Access: Environment and Technology Section Provides Expertise
Social Sciences Turn Expertise to Terrorism and 9-11; an ASA Priority for 2002 Annual Meeting, Too
NHRPAC Takes Actions Vital to Social Science
The Open Window, The Executive Officer’s Column. Council Launches ASA Centennial Planning ( Felice J. Levine)
Sociologist Lempert to NSF
John H. D’Arms, ACLS President, Dies
Pubic Affairs Update
Traveling Sociologists: An Ellis Island Survey (A. Gary Dworkin)
Croatian Sociology Steps forward (Keith Doubt)
“Everything is Social”: In Memoriam, Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Travel Grants for ISA Meeting Applications Due March 31
A Sociological Lens on Graduate School Attrition (Carla B. Howery)
Majority of New PhDs have Tenure Track Jobs Four Years Later
World of Opportunity in Community College Teaching (Carla B. Howery)
Spotlight on Departments: Enhancing the Curriculum through the Web at Rutgers-Camden
Call for Applications; Deadline March 1, 2002: ASA Honors Program
The Ideal Suburb Turns 50 (Stacey S. Merola)
Locating the State of High School Sociology on the Academic Map (Michael A. DeCesare)
ASA Statement and Resolution on Access to Pubic Data Adopted by Council
2002 Student Travel Awards Applications Due May 1
New Departments Move to Top (Graduate) Chair-Producing List (Kathleen A. Tiemann and Thomas L. Van Valey)
Deaths: Francesco Cordasco, Nathalie Friedman, Betty Maynard
Obituaries: Melvin Schubert Brooks, Robert Murray Hunter, Natalie Rogoff Ramsoy, John Winchell Riley, Jr.
Official Reports and Proceedings: 2001-2001 Council, August 22, 2001

March 2002 (Volume 30, Number 3)

ASA Co-Sponsors Health Briefing on Capitol Hill
Committee on Committees to be Elected this Spring: Members Urged to Volunteer to serve on ASA Committees
Six Departments Selected for IDA Launch
The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column, What’s Happening in Your Own Backyard! (Felice J. Levin)
Capitol Hill: Will First Impressions be Lasting Ones? (Joyce Iutcovich)
Public Affairs Update
NSF Seek Sociology Program Director, August 2002 Start
Sharing Research Data: NIH Announces Draft Statement on Sharing Research Data
Feds Plan Study of Environmental Impacts on Child Health (Paula Skedsvold)
Sociological Methodology and Sociological Theory Now Available from JSTOR
Update on Sociology Human Rights Cases: Sociologist Released in Egypt and Sociologist Gao Zhan Speaks out.
Sociologists Central to Peace Studies (Meghan Rich)
Nominations Sought for 2003 Major ASA Awards
2002-2003 Candidates Announced for ASA Officers
The International Social Survey Program (Tom W. Smith)
Spotlight on Departments: Learning from Service in the Sociology Major (Kerry Strand and Meghan Rich)
Graduate Poster Session at ASA Annual Meeting
Deaths: Margaret Byrd Rawson
Obituaries: Martin Glabeerman, Alan C. Kerckhoff, Hans Sebald, Robert Bruce Wiegand
Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

April 2002 (Volume 30, Number 4)

Sally T. Hillsman Appointed New ASA Executive Officer
Two Courses Enrich 2002 Annual Meeting
Special Plenary and Reception Opens the 2002 Annual Meeting
Nominations Open for New Films/Videos
The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column Keeping the Window Open (Felice J. Levine)
What is Scientifically Based Research? (Joyce Iutcovich, Congressional Fellow)
IOM Report Highlights Racial Divide in Health Care
Public Affairs Update
Colleagues Remember Peter Blau
ASA Awards Community Action Research Initiative Grants
Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports New Projects
Recovering Community on the Anniversary of Buffalo Creek Disaster (T.P. Schwartz-Barcott)
Recognizing the Nontraditional Student: The Buffalo State Family College Program (Meghan Rich)
Council on Contemporary Families Committed to Public Discourse (Kerry J. Strand)
AAUP Issues Statement on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work (Stacey Merola and Roberta Spalter-Roth)
Departments
Obituaries: Marion Arline Harris; Kenneth G. Lutterman; Frances Cooke MacGregor; Nicos N. Mouratides; Leonard David Savitz;

May/June 2002 (Volume 30, Number 5)

Chicago: A Sociologist’s Kind of Town. Join thousands of your esteemed sociology colleagues for an “intellectual feast like none other” at the 97^th ASA Annual Meeting in August
David Riesman (1909-2002)
Sociologist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The Open Window: The Executive Officer’s Column. Thank You, Felice (Carla B. Howery, Arne Kalleberg, Barbara F. Reskin)
Congressional Fellow Report: The Role of Science in Policy Debates (Joyce Iutcovich, Congressional Fellow)
Public Affairs Update
ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff
Gossard Selected as 2002 ASA/AAAS Media Fellow
Sociologist-Cartoonist Hixson Pokes Fun at Academic Life
Spotlight on Departments: Preparing Future Faculty at Indiana University-South Bend
Nine ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded for 2001-2002
ASA Travel Grants to ISA World Congress Are Awarded
Special 2002 Annual Meeting Supplement
Public Forum: Rejoinder to Article on Graduate School Attrition, Brian R. Buchner; What Does It Mean? Robert J. Stevenson
ASA Student Forum: Past, Present, and Future (Sam Michalowski)
Departments
Deaths: Caroline Bird, Arthur F. Clagett, Roger V. Gould
Obituaries: Lionel Cantu, Jr.; Natalie S. Friedman; Walter T. Martin; Michael Young
ASA Staff Sociologist/Director of Minority Affairs Sought
Ideas Invited for Special Sessions on 2003 Annual Meeting Program

July/August 2002 (Volume 30, Number 6)

Capstone Conference Transports Lessons of MOST: Transforming Higher Education
Burawoy Elected ASA President; Pesconsoido is VP: ASA Election Results
2002 Major ASA Award Winners
2002 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago: Remember to come early…
Vantage Point: The Executive Officer’s Column. Putting Sociological Principles to Work in our Departments
Sociological Work Enhances Recent Congressional Briefings (Lee Herring)
Public Affairs Update
Karl Alexander to Edit Sociology of Education (Aaron Pallas)
Anne Arundel Community College Establishes Letter of Recognition in Applied Sociology
Minnesota’s Department of Sociology Celebrates 100 Years (Ron Aminzade)
Spotlight on Departments: Qualitative Methods Take Hold at St. Olaf (Meghan Rich)
The Politics of Unrealistic Expectations and the Rhetoric of Accountability: Congressional Fellow Report
Dimock Selected as This Year’s Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner)
Call for Nominations for ASA Offices
Public Forum: More of Us Should Become Public Sociologists, Herbert J. Gans; Why Don’t sociologists Subscribe to Journals or Join ASA? Adam S. Weinberg
ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff: Torrey Adroski, Jean Beaman, Les Briggs, Kareem Jenkins, Jean H. Shin
American University in Moscow Seeks Sociologist Graduate Advisors (Lee Herring)
Summer Work Transforms Courses (Carla B. Howery)
Trends in Professional Master’s Degrees in the Social Sciences (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows
Departments
- Deaths: Alexander Vucinich
- Obituaries: Arthur Clagett, Roger Gould, Thomas Ford Hoult, L. Paul Metzger, Marion Levy, Jr., Alvin H. Scaff

September/October 2002 (Volume 30, Number 7)

ASA Issues Official Statement on Importance of Collecting Data on Race (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
Profile of the President: Rock ‘n’ Roll Sociologist: William T. Bielby
2002 Annual Meeting in Chicago Draws Near-Record Attendance
Vantage Point: The Executive Officer’s Column. A Bold and Necessary Stance on Race Data (Sally T. Hillsman)
Upcoming Enhancements for ASA Elections
ASA Editor Applications Invited
Public Affairs Update
Help Shape An Exciting Program for the 2004 Annual Meeting
2004 Annual Meeting Theme: Public Sociologies
Guidelines for Session Proposals
Major Award Recipients Honored in Chicago
Call for Applications, Deadline December 15, 2002. Integrating Census Data Analysis into the Curriculum
List of Scholarly Journals Available on ASA Home Page
Departments
- Deaths: Sherry Corbet
- Obituaries: Theodore R. Anderson, Judith Huggins Balfe, K. Peter Etzkorn, Joseph F. Jones, Ernest Maheim, David J. Pittman, Robert Smart

Official Reports and Proceedings; 2001-2002 Council, January 26-27, 2002

November 2002 (Volume 30, Number 8)

Sociologists Join Board of Social Science Research Council
Sociologists Gather “Down Under” for ISA
Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “Click with ASA” (Sally T. Hillsman)
Joane Nagel Joins NSF Sociology Program Staff
Public Affairs Update
ASA Happenings: For those who can’t get enough theory… Sociological Theory Goes Quarterly
ASA Department Resources Group
ASA Welcomes Newest Section, Embraces Its “Animal Side”
Call for Submissions: ASA Teaching Materials
Call for Applications: Integrating Census Data Analysis into the Cirriculum
Creating the Perfect Sociology Building: Beyond Good Luck and Good Politics (Meghan Rich)
Sociologist Becomes Executive Vice Chancellor for University of Texas System
Congratulations to 2002 ASA Section Award Winners
Economic Sociiology and the Nobel Prize (Arne L. Kalleberg and Ivar Berg)
Teaching with the Case Method: From the Classroom to the Web (John Foran)
New Internet Tool Makes Population Analysis Popular in Classroom (Kerry Strand)
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline: ASA.NSF Small Grants Program
Instituting Systemic Departmental Change to Increase Student Diversity: New Book on MOST Program Released.
Learing from the Past: On the “Etiology” of Sociology
Guiding Principles in MOST’s Systemic Reform Approach
A Ten-year Perspective on the Status of Sociology (Stacey S. Merola)
Post 9/11 Reactions: Public Support for International Education Remains Strong
Other key attitude changes since September 11
Sociologists Involved in Local School (Systems) (Kerry Strand)
2002 ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellow Report: News from Newsweek (Marcia Hill Gossard)
ASA/AAAS Media Fellowship
2003 Regional Meetings
Public Forum: Pax Soziologie, Steve Rice; On Ibrahim, Chandler Davidson; Sociologists, Political Scientists’ Manifesto for International Nonviolence, Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada; Sociological Knowledge and Terrorism Bernice Phillips
Spotlight on Departments: Pacific Lutheran Sociology Department “Goes to the Mat” to Achieve Goals (Jean Beaman)
Community Action Research Initiative
New Publications from ASA
Thank You, ASA Members!
The 2001 ASA Audit: Investment Income Down, but Bottom Line Healthy
2003 Coupon Listing
Departments:
- Obituaries: Norman Paul Hummon, David J. Pratto, Willis A. Sutton, Jr.,

December 2002 (Volume 30, Number 9)

Slate of Candidates for the 2003 ASA Election
Sociology Faculty Salaries Hold the Line in Economic Downturn (Roberta-Spalter-Roth and Stacey S. Merola)
ASA Launches New Link with High School Sociology (Carla B. Howery)
New on the ASA Home Page: Call for Section Award Nominations
Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “A Cornucopia of Post-Election Positives, Potentials, and Possible Pitfalls” (Sally T. Hillsman)
Baldwin Named Vice President for Research at University of Kentucky
Egyptian Sociologist Given a New Trial
Public Affairs Update
Three ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded for Summer 2002 Round
There’s Space for Other Activities at the 2003 Annual Meeting
Submission Deadline: January 154, 2003; 2003 Call for Papers Update
Last Call for 2004 Session Suggestions
Sociological Approaches Hold Promise to Curb Campus Drinking (Kerry J. Strand)
Six Degrees of Separation? Retesting the Small World Phenomenon (Jean Beaman)
Public Forum: Models of Public Sciology (Murray Hausknecht); Happy Rejoinder to Gans, on “Public Sociologists” (Marcelo Afialion)
Early Head Start Yields Positive Results
Community Action Research Initiative
Architectural Sociology (Jean Beaman)
Willigan and Heise Study Navajo Social Interaction and Culture (Jean H. Shin)
Deadline: February 1, 2003; Applications Invited for 2003-2004 Congressional Fellowship
Departments: Deaths: Tamara K. Hareven, Rachel Rosenfeld; Obituaries: Theodore R. Anderson, Barbara Manning Gibbs

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