Footnotes 2003

January 2003 (Volume 31, Number 1) 

• What Do We Know About Postdocs? No “Reserve Army” in Sociology (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• 2003 Annnual Meeting…The Question of Culture: The Changing Face of Atlanta (Charles Gallagher, Karyn Lacy)
• Public Opinion in Islamic Countries: Survey Results (Monsoor Moaddel)
• Vantage Point, the Executive Officer’s Column “Wired for 2003 and the Horizon Beyond” (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Takeuchi Selected for Decade of Behavior Advisory Committee
• Public Affairs Update
• Sociologist Takes “Supporting Role” in Columbine Documentary (Johanna Ebner)
• Kathleen McKinney is Named First Cross Chair (Jean Beaman)
• Sociologist Juergensmeyer Receives Grawemeyer Award
• Things My Mentor Never Told Me (Michael D. Schulman)
• Spotlight On Departments: Lehigh University’s Community Fellowship Program (Torrey Androski)
• More ASA Section Award Winners
• Public Forum: Public Sociologies: Response to Hausknecht (Michael Burawoy); Public Sociologies: Reply to Hausknecht (Herbert J. Gans); Racial Classification: A Wrong Turn (Yehudi Webster); Reply to Webster (Troy Duster)
• Call for Nominations for 2003 ASA Section Awards
• Departments
• Obituaries: Ivan Illich

February 2003 (Volume 31, Number 2)

• Contexts Magazine Wins Publisher’s Award
• Has Sociology Suffered the Declines Predicted Ten Years Ago? (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• 2003 Annual Meeting: Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Obie Clayton)
• Vantage Point, The Executive Officer’s Column: “The Sociology Pipeline Begins in High School” (Sally T. Hillsman)
• AAAS, ASA Honor Saad Ibrahim
• New American Community Survey is in Jeopardy (Torrey Androski)
• Public Affairs Update
• ASA Seeks 2004 Award Nominations
• A Tribute to Patsy Mink, “Mother” of Equal Educational Opportunity (Joyce Chinen)
• Spotlight on Departments: Appalachian State’s “All-for-one” Master’s Degree
• Preparing Future Faculty Project Capstone (Carla B. Howery)
• North Carolina State University Certifies PFF Scholars (Jean Beaman)
• Six More Departments Selected for Integrating Data Analysis Project
• New York to Belarus: Sociology in International Distance-learning (Jean Beaman)
• Educating the “Walking Wounded” (Jean Beaman)
• Sociology News for the Dinner Table: If Felons Could Have Voted, National Election Outcomes Would Have Been Different
• ASA Executive Office Welcomes New Staff: Redante Asuncion-Reed, William Erskine, Kathy Lamb, Glen Grant
• Social Science Has Impact on NSF’s Environmental R&E Plans
• Sociological Issues in Environmental Research and Education
• Public Forum: Binge Drinking Prevention Research; Student Drinking: Reply to Wechsler and Nelson
• Departments
• Deaths: Ruth Murray Brown, Ivan Fahs, Robert Wilson
• Obituaries: B. Meredith Burke, Lewis S. Feurer, Tamara K. Hareven, Rachel A. Rosenfeld
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Third Meeting of the 2001-2002 Council

March 2003 (Volume 31, Number 3)

• ASA Submits Amicus Brief in US Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action in College Admissions (William T. Bielby)
• Robert K. Merton Remembered (Craig Calhoun)
• Bylaws Tune-Up
• 2003 Annual Meeting: Multimedia Portrayals of a Communications Center: Race and Film in Atlanta (Dana White and Alex Hicks)
• Vantage Point: Public Socologies—An Agenda for Collaboration (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Social Science Community Celebrates National Institutes of Health Deputy Appointment (Johanna Ebner)
• Public Affairs Update
• ASA Council in Action: Brief Summary of Recent ASA Council Actions
• Doing Eye-Opening Policy Work in Washington, DC (Susan Halebsky Dimock)
• Spotlight on Departments: Not Just Sociology at U. of Wisonsin-Green Bay (Jean Beaman)
• Ask ASA
• A Supreme Court Challenge to Legal Aid (Douglas Snyder)
• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2003: President-Elect, Richard Alba and Troy Duster; Vice President-Elect, Caroline Hodges Persell, David Snow; Secretary-Elect, William Roy, Franklin D. Wilson
• Council Approves New Task Forces, Seeks Member Involvement
• Sociologists Remember Robert K. Merton
• Supreme Court Matter is Focus of 2003 ASA Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Session in Atlanta
• Departments
• Deaths: Robert Alford, Helena Lopata, Joseph B. Meier, Ruth C. Shaeffer, Marcello Truzzi, Charles Warriner
• Obituaries: Ivan J. Fahs
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the First Meeting of the 2002-2003 Council

April 2003 (Volume 31, Number 4) 

• Egyptian Sociologist Ibrahim is Acquitted
• Social Science is Focus of Cairo Conference: Surveying Worldviews of Islamic Publics (Joanne Nagel and Patricia White)
• 2003 Annual Meeting: The Double-Edged Sword of Gentrification in Atlanta (Lesley Williams Reid and Robert M. Adelman)
• Vantage Point: Sociologists as Scientists Engaged in Civic Discourse (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Mercedes Rubio to Lead Minority Affairs Program (Torrey Androski)
• Proposed ASA Statement Against the War on Iraq
• Jerry A. Jacobs is Appointed Incoming American Sociological Review Editor (Kethleen Gerson)
• Ask ASA: Technical support for statistical software packages
• How Would Sociologists Design a Homeland Security Alert System? (Lee Herring)
• Sociologists’ Tributes to Daniel Patrick Moynihan… (Seymour Martin Lipset and Robert B. Hill)
• Public Forum: A Double Life Stitched: On the Merits of Being an Academic and Activist (Amitai Etzioni); Rejoinder to Burawoy, Gans (Murray Hausknecht); Public Sociologies: Sociology’s Lack of Credibility (Bernard Phillips)
• Departments
• Deaths: Jeffrey K. Hadden, Stanford Morris Lyman, Alan S. Miller
• Obituaries: Robert Alford, Dafna Nundi Izraeli, Helena Lopata, Norma Juliet Wikler
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Editor’s Reports, Table: Summary of Editorial Activity, January 1 – December 31, 2002.

May/June 2003 (Volume 31, Number 5)

• 2003 Annual Meeting: Atlanta: City Without a Sound? (Allen Tullos, Matt Miller and Timothy J. Dowd)
• Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Awards
• Contexts Magazine is Ranked Among Top 10 of “New Magazines of 2002”
• Vantage Point: Electronic Publication and the Health of Scientific Research (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Schaafsma Selected as ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner)
• ASA Executive Officer Joins Justice Institute Trustees
• Public Affairs Update
• The Legislative Challenge of Bioterrorism (Susan Halebsky Dimoc)
• Liz Grauerholz to Edit Teaching Sociology (Dean S. Dorn)
• Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Community Action Research Grants Announced (Johanna Ebner)
• Improving the Teaching of Sociology (Jean Beaman)
• ASA-NSF Small Grants Awarded (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• A Sociological Success Story: 30 years of the General Social Survey (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• Public Forum: Racial Classification: Rejoinder to Duster Reply (Yehudi Webster); ASA Member Resolution on Iraq War (Mark Iutcovich)
• A “Case Study”: Popular Authoring (Jean Beaman)
• Terrorism and Tourism (Erin Higgins)
• Departments
• ASA 2003 Annual Meeting Pullout Section
• Deaths: Odin W. Anderson, George W. Baker, Walter M. Gerson, William Goode, Howard Harrod, Thomas Ktsanes, Bevode C. McCall, Constance Ormsby Verdi, Werner D. von der Ohe, Eugene C. Weiner
• Obituaries: Robert W. Avery, Donna Darden, Beth B. Hess, David Jerome Jackson, Sheldon L. Messinger, Alan S. Miller, J. L. Simmons, Marcello Truzzi
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Second Meeting of the 2002-2003 ASA Council, February 1-2, 2003.

July/August 2003 (Volume 31, Number 6)

• ASA General Election Results: Duster Elected ASA President; Persell Elected Vice President
• ASA Briefs Congress on Policy Role of Racial and Ethnic Data (Susan Halebsky Dimock)
• 2003 Annual Meeting: A Field Study Tour of the City of Atlanta (Isa Williams and Brenda Hoke)
• Si Goode Remembered (Lenore J. Weitzman)
• Vantage Point: Sociologists and IRBs (Sally T. Hillsman)
• AAHRPP is Taking Accreditation Seriously (Johanna Ebner)
• Public Affairs Update
• National Science Foundation Awards Nearly $5.6 Million for Sociology
• Vinita Mehta Selected as 2003 ASA/AAAS Media Fellow (Johanna Ebner)
• Spencer Cahill to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly (Michael Flaherty)
• Sociologists Receive Fulbright Awards
• 2003 Major ASA Award Winners
• Public Forum: Researchers Challenge California Initiative to Ban Racial Data (Andrew L. Barlow and Troy Duster)
• Sociologists Remember William J. Goode
• Departments
• Deaths: Albert Biderman, Nati Cohen, Sandra S. Tangri
• Obituaries: Wilbur B. Brookover, Donna K. Darden, Stanford M. Lyman, Dorothy Nelkin, Edward Louis Rose, Carl H. Simpson
• Call for Nominations for ASA Offices

September/October 2003 (Volume 31, Number 7)

• Many Changes Evident Since Sociologists Last Converged in Atlanta (Johanna Ebner)
• Profile of the President (Jeff Byles)
• Lewis Coser Remembered (Andrew Perrin)
• Vantage Point: NIH Peer Review Survives Political Challenge—for Now (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Sociologists Receive Prestigious Fulbright Awards
• Public Affairs Update
• Suggestions are Invited for the 2005 Annual Meeting Program
• ASA Award Recipients Honored in Atlanta
• Public Sociology: Sociology Needs a Public (Frances Fox Piven)
• Job Openings in Sociology: What is in Demand? (Patricia Drentea and Juan Xi)
• New Resource for Research and Teaching: Child Trends DataBank (Brett Brown and Berkeley Smith)
• Last-minute Legislating in the Senate (Susan Halebsky-Dimock)
• Sociologist Redefines Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Minority Fellowship Program Announces New Fellows (Mercedes Rubio)
• Sociologists Remember Lewis Coser
• Special Public Forum: ASA Member Resolution on the Iraq War; Response to Criticisms (Judith R. Blau); Professional Objectivity (Dick Flacks); Democratic Impulse (Philip B. Gonzales); Idols of the Tribe (Thomas Cushman); Dissent (Joan Huber); Code of Ethics (James Tucker)
• Public Forum: Doing “Racial” Research: A Dissent (Yehudi Webster); Reply to Webster: The Serious Consequences of Banning Racial Data (Andrew L. Barlow)
• Departments
• Deaths: Deborah Franzman, Rob E. Kling, Joseph H. Meyerowitz, Msgr. Philip J. Murnion, Ashakant Nimbark, Ruth Useem, Kurt Wolff
• Obituaries: Albert D. Biderman, Elizabeth Anne Czepiel, John T. Flint, Butler A. Jones, Carl B. Klockars, Ruth C. Shaffer, Robert Neal Wilson, Bette Woody
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Minutes of the Meeting of the ASA Council March 31, 2003

November 2003 (Volume 31, Number 8)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociologies: Public Sociology and the UC’s Institute on Labor and Employment (Sarah Anne Minkin)
• Sociologists are Appointed Sage Fellows
• Are Sociology Programs Downsizing? (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• Vantage Point: The NIH Roadmap: Path to Better Health Research? (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Will Tobacco Ever Be Regulated? (Susan Helebsky Dimock)
• Public Affairs Update
• David Mechanic to Receive Rema Lapouse Award (Anthony C. Kouzis)
• Sociologists Inducted as AAPSS Fellows (Johanna Ebner)
• Mathematical Sociologist’s Angle on Income Makes Its Mark in Inequality Modeling (Lee Herring)
• Council Briefs
• Sociology of Education Section’s Professional Workshop for Young Scholars (Amy G. Langenkamp)
• Public Sociology: How Theory Travels: A Most Public Public Sociology (Diane Vaughan)
• Community in History: Levittown and the Decline of a Postwar American Dream (Chad M. Kimmel)
• “Congratulations!” to the 2003 ASA Section Award Winners
• 2004 Coupon Listing
• Departments
• Obituaries: Harold Taylor Christensen, James Copp, Kurt H.Wolff

December 2003 (Volume 31, Number 9) 

• ASA Congressional Briefing Examines Policy Implications Regarding Disasters (Lee Herring)
• Slate of Candidates for the 2004 ASA Election
• 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociologies: Still Booming: Prisons in California (Megan L. Comfort)
• Vantage Point: Membership as a Public Good (Sally T. Hillsman)
• 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates Use Sociologist’s Research Findings in Speeches and Debates (Johanna Ebner)
• NSF Director is Receptive to Warnings About the Context of Federal Science Support (Lee Herring)
• Public Affairs Update
• NSF Workshop Targets Improving Social Science Education (Caroline Hodges Persell)
• Sociologist Provides Briefing at the United Nations
• Community Reinvestment: Connecting Sociological Findings to Advocacy (Torrey S. Androski)
• Streetwise ASA Minority Fellow Tackles Gang Violence
• Spotlight on Departments: Expanding Understanding: University of Idaho’s Certificate in Diversity and Stratification (Jean Beaman)
• Publlic Sociology: A Labor of Love: Empirical Empowerment for Unions (Arthur B. Shostak)
• Advancing the Discipline Through ASA-NSF Small Grants
• The “Core Influence” of Journals in Sociology Revisited (Michael Patrick Allen)
• Sociology in Cuba (Orlando Rodriguez)
• Learning from the Cuban Health Care Paradox (Mercedes Rubio)
• Disaster Research Center Celebrates 40^th Anniversary
• Public Forum: The End of Admissions Affirmative Action (Charles V. Willie); Renewing Graduate Programs, Overcoming Routinization (Thomas J. Scheff); A More Public Sociology (Paul Lachelier)
• Departments
• Deaths: Sue Dynes, Ruth Simms Hamilton
• Obituaries: Richard Harvey Brown, Ashakant Nimbark, Steven Philip Schacht, Ruth Hill Useem
• Got Something to Include in the 2004 ASA Annual Meeting? Meeting Space for Other Activities

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