Footnotes 2004

January 2004 (Volume 32, Number 1)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: The Transformation of Sexual Commerce and Urban Space in San Francisco (Elizabeth Bernstein)
• The Social Sciences in Britain (Harold Orlans)
• Sociologists Often Need Up-to-date Data on the Profession in a Hurry…So ASA’s Website Now Provides “Today’s Data Yesterday”
• Vantage Point: Membership as a Public Good…Continued (Sally T. Hillsman)
• David R. Williams Receives “Decade of Behavior” Award (Johanna Ebner)
• Public Affairs Update
• Spotlight on Departments: On the Road: Wake Forest University’s Social Stratification in the American South Course (Jean Beaman)
• Public Sociology: Public Sociology…It’s What Teaching-oriented Departments Do
• Thank You, ASA Members!
• Crime Prevention Research Partnerships Aid Criminal Justice (Anthony A. Braga)
• Public Forum: President Profiled (Helen Fein); ON the “Fourth Dimension” of Ethnocentrism; Seeking a Neologist (John M. Plott)
• Departments
• Deaths: Gordon H. Armbruster; Aliza Kolker
• Obituaries: Mary Jo Huth; Dorothy Jones Jessop; Thomas Ktsanes; Erwin K. Scheuch; Ronny Turner

February 2004 (Volume 32, Number 2)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, A Human Rights Voice That Will Not be Silenced (Mona Younis)
• ASA Seeks a Few Good Sociologists…for ASA’s Annual Awards Nominations
• State of the State Sociology Series (Kenneth C. Land)
• Vantage Point: A Full Menu of Public Policy, Science (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Sociologists Receive 2003-2004 Fulbright Awards
• Public Affairs Update
• $3.4 Million Race and Ethnicity Panel Study Gets Under Way (Johanna Ebner)
• Social Sciences are Key to Developing the STEM Workforce (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• New NSF Priority Area Represents Significant Iopportunity for Sociology (Lee Herring)
• Cross-cutting “Human and Social Dynamics” is First NSF Priority Area Led by Behavioral and Social Sciences (Pat White and Joane Nagel)
• 2004 Annual Meeting: The Politics of Homelessness in San Francisco (Darren Noy)
• State of the State Sociology Societies: Sociology Out Front (Ron Wimberley)
• State of the State Sociology Societies: How to Maintain a Positive Cash Flow in a Sluggish Economy…Without Becoming the Next ENRON (Robert A. Wortham)
• State of the State Sociology Societies: A Quick Look at Grassroots Sociology (Catherine T. Harris and Michael Wise)
• State of the State Sociology Societies: Let 50 Flowers Bloom (Monte Bute)
• Public Anger, Politics and the Middle Class (Marjorie Schaafsma)
• ASA’s First Section Journal is Expanding (Johanna Ebner)
• Public Forum: A Cuban Experience (Hannah R. Wartenberg); Public Action and Public Policy (Herbert J. Gans)
• Those Who Can, Teach!
• New Staff Join ASA (Kendra Eastman, Felicia Evans, Donya Williams)
• Departments
• Deaths: Mary Jane Crenshaw Tully
• Obituaries: Ruth Simms Hamilton; Paul Burleigh Horton; Aliza Kolker; John Itsuro Kitsuse

March 2004 (Volume 32, Number 3)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: Former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso: A Most Public Sociologist (Gay Seidman)
• Teaching Sociology in High School: A Pilot Project Begins in Chicago (Caroline Hodges Persell and Carla B. Howery)
• The 2004 World Social Forum: A Movement Rising (Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott)
• Vantage Point: Engineering Better Mileage for Research? (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Task Force to Invigorate “Public Sociology” (Lee Herring)
• Public Affairs Update
• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2004: Glen H. Elder, Jr., Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (President-Elect); Dan Clawson, Lynn Smith-Lovin (Vice President-Elect)
• Developments in Data Sharing in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Duane F. Alwin)
• Four Daylong Courses to Enrich 2004 Annual Meeting
• Council Briefs (Carla B. Howery)
• Mumbai and the Future (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
• Among Women at Mumbai (Patricia Ticineto Clough)
• Spotlight on Departments: Georgetown University’s Social Justice Analysis Concentration Deepens the Curriculum and the Community (Jean Beaman)
• Public Forum: Is Social Forces Still a Core Journal? (Robert M. Marsh); Mere Degrees of Reflected Lunar Light? (Richard Koffler); Reply to Marsh, Koffler (Michael Patrick Allen); Public Sociology Challenges Discipline’s Prestige and Power Structure (Kenneth L. Stewart and D. Stanley Eitzen)
• Departments
• Deaths: Janet Kohn, Egon Mayer, Warren A. Peterson, T. R. Young
• Obituaries: Gordon Hawkins, Margaret Stacey

April 2004 (Volume 32, Number 4)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: Public Sociology Meets Public Intellectual, Activist and Novelist Arundhati Roy (Ben Crow)
• Hill Briefing on Social and Economic Consequences of Job Loss Draws Crowd (Johanna Ebner)
• Vantage Point: Academic Freedom and Publishing in Interesting Times (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Call for Centennial Session Proposals and Participation
• Public Affairs Udpate
• The Status of High School Sociology: Some Recommendations (Michael DeCesare and Jeff Lashbrook)
• James Downton: Awakening Teachers to Creative Teaching (Jean Beaman)
• A Rebel with a Theory (Johanna Ebner)
• Opening 2004 Plenary Session on W.E. B DuBois, a Model for Public Sociology (Jean Beaman)
• Public Sociology: Empowered Participatory Governance: An Unexpected Columbia Venture in Public Sociology (Cesar Rodriguez and Erik Olin Wright)
• ASA Annual Meeting Workshop: Using the University of California Atlas of Global Inequality as a Teaching Tool
• Public Sociology “from the files…” (exchange of letters between Henry Brownstein and Robert K. Merton)
• Public Forum: Public Sociology Challenges Discipline’s Prestige and Power Structure (Kenneth L. Stewart and D. Stanley Eitzen); Reply to Stewart and Eitzen (Murray Hausknecht)
• Sociology Receives the Largest Number of Professional Master’s Planning Grants (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• Departments
• Deaths: Fred B. Silberstein, Frank Robert Westie, Joan McCord
• Obituaries: William Harry “Bill” Howell, Egon Mayer, Norval Morris, Sister Marie Augusta Neal, T.R. Young
• Classified Ad
• Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

May/June 2004 (Volume 32, Number 5)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: Paul Krugman: The Wicked Economist? (Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas)
• Why Did Sociologists Go to Atlanta? Who is Going to San Francisco? (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine)
• ASA Congressional Briefing on Immigration Packs the House (Johanna Ebner)
• Vantage Point: Affirming Action in Higher Education (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Sociologist Named Director of the American Bar Foundation
• Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Awards
• Public Affairs Update
• Weblogging for Public Sociologies (Peter Dixon, Erin Murphy and Nicholas Hoover Wilson)
• Sociologists without Borders (Jean Beaman)
• Goodwin and Jasper are the New Contexts Magazine Editors (Edwin Amenta)
• Personal Essay: Sociologists Behind Bars (Jodi L. Short and Elizabeth Drogin)
• Legislators Warn that Prisoner Census Counts Skew Resource Distribution and Political Representation (Torrey Androski)
• Public Sociology: Community Organizing as Engaged Scholarship (Robert Kleidman)
• Public Forum: Journal Influence (Judith R. Blau)
• Sociologist Elected to the NAS
• Sociologists and Political Scientists Honor Marty Lipset
• Departments
• Obituaries: Fred Bates, Fred B. Silberstein, Frank Robert Westie
• Special Annual Meeting Insert

July/August 2004 (Volume 32, Number 6)

• 2004 Annual Meeting: The Sands of San Francisco (Richard Walker)
• ASA Election Results: Epstein Elected ASA President; Smith-Lovin Vice President
• 2004 Major ASA Award Winners: Jessie Bernard Award, Myra Marx Ferree; Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Arthur Stinchcombe; Distinguished Scholaraly Publication Award, Mounira Maya Charrad; Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, Jeanne Ballantine; Public Understanding of Sociology Award, Jerome Scott and Walda Katz Fishman
• Vantage Point: Annual Meeting Dialogue: Forums for All
• Sociologists Lead 15-nation Study on Attitudes Toward Mental Illness (Jack K. Martin)
• Public Affairs Update
• New ASA-NSF Grantees to Help Advance the Discipline
• Peggy Thoits Assumes Health Journal Editorship in 2005 (Bernice Pescosolido)
• Public Sociology: The Moral Monster: Public Sociology in a Maximum Security Prison (Patricia Fernandez-Kelly)
• ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Four New Projects (Jean Beaman)
• Public Sociology Explored from an International View (Johanna Ebner)
• Group Seeks to Reform Market-driven College Athletics (Redante Asuncion-Reed)
• Open Forums at the 2004 Annual Meeting in San Francisco
• 2004 Regional Award Winners
• Community Action Research Grants (Johanna Ebner)
• Public Forum: There’s the ASA, But Where’s the Sociology (Mathieu Deflem); Democracy in Question: Reply to Deflem (Michael Burawoy); Were We Right? Assessing the Merits of ASA’s Anti-War Resolution (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)
• Departments
• Obituaries: Thomas R. Forrest

September/October 2004 (Volume 32, Number 7)

• Profile of the ASA President: Troy Duster: A Biography in History (Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinerman)
• Public Sociologists Broke Records in San Francisco
• ASA Centennial Will Honor Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues
• Vantage Point: The Power of IDA—The Place of Data (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Tomas Jimenez Selected as 2005 ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Ebner)
• Beth Rubin Joins NSF Sociology Program (Lee Herring)
• Sociologists Among Inductees of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Sociologists Among American Academy of Policital and Social Science Honorees
• Political Science Goes Public…A Lesson for Public Sociology? (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• Should Sociologists Run for Public Office? (Jack Nusan Porter)
• Social Scientists Help Identify Research Agenda to Improve U.S. Voting Process
• Suggestions Are Invited for the 2006 Annual Meeting Program
• No Child Left Behind Act Scrutinized at Sociology of Education Section Policy Conference
• Spotlight on Departments: Using “Advanced Introductory Courses” to Level the Playing Field for Transfer Students
• Yale Group to Edit Sociological Theory (Isaac Reed)
• Applications Invited for ASA Editor Positions
• Faculty Salaries Saw Little Growth in Past 21 Years (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine)
• Small Grants for Integrating Data Analysis in the Sociology Curriculum
• ASA Announces New Minority Fellows (Mercedes Rubio and Felicia Evans)
• Brownstein to Direct Center for Crime, Drugs and Justice (Torrey Androski)
• International Sociology: Nigerian, Cleveland Sociologists Collaborate (Jean Beaman)
• Public Sociology: The Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (Beth Roy)
• Public Forum: Toward an Academically Engaged Academy (Rick Cherwitz); Is Modern Sociology Too “Managerial?” (Nathan Rosseau); Reply to Stewart and Eitzen; Our Time in the Political Wilderness Should End (George C. Klein)
• Departments
• Deaths: Jerry Salomone, William Silverman
• Obituaries: James Ecks, Witold Krassowski, Joel B. Montague, Jr., Harold Lyle Nix, Frank Riessman

November 2004 (Volume 32, Number 8)

• ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco
• Prospects for Change in Saudi Arabia (Mansoor Moaddel)
• ASA Receives $165,000 from Science Foundation to Fund Early Career Scholars
• Vantage Point: Remaining Vigilant for an Essential Survey (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Sociologist Appointed to Defense Task Force Examining Solutions to Harrassment
• Public Affairs Update
• Council Briefs (Michael Murphy)
• Calendar of Regional Sociological Association Meetings
• Seven Years and Seven Journals with JSTOR
• Sociology Departments Can Now Vie for “Seal of Approval” for Gender- and Women-friendliness (Lee Herring)
• New PhD Program at Central Florida (Victoria Hougham)
• Public Sociology: The Engaged Department: Public Sociology in the Twin Cities (Ronald Aminzade)
• “Congratulations!” to the 2004 ASA Section Award Winners
• Departments
• Deaths: Dante Germanotta, Morris Goldman, Witold Krassowski, Tamotsu Shibutani, Norma Williams
• Obituaries: William K. Bunis

December 2004 (Volume 32, Number 9)

• The Costs and Benefits of Temporary Faculty (Roberta Spalter-Roth and William Erskine)
• President’s Science and Technology Appointments Should be Based on Nation’s Interests, Says NAS (Johanna Ebner and Lee Herring)
• 2005 ASA Candidates
• Vantage Point: Opening Access to Pandora’s Box in Science Communication (Sally T. Hillsman)
• American Community Survey Survived Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriations (Lee Herring)
• Public Affairs Update
• Task Force Outlines Goals for the Sociology Major (Carla B. Howery)
• New ASA-NSF Grantees
• Implicit Versus Explicit Professional Training in Sociology (David Shulman and Ira Silver)
• Public Sociology: Wages and Working Conditions at Berkeley (Amy Schalet, Gretchen Purser and Ofer Sharone)
• ASA High School Outreach Initiative Seeks Members in 12 Key States (Carla B. Howery)
• Hesser Honored as CASE Professor for Minnesota
• Sociologists Explore Scientist Demographics at NSF Conference (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• NSF Awarded $6.6 Million to Soiology in ‘03
• Public Forum: Reply to Bonilla-Silva and Smith: Assessing the Anti-war Resolution (Mark Iutcovich); Response to Rousseau, Cherwitz; The Sociology of Sociology (Richard A. Hilbert)
• Thank You ASA Members
• Departments
• Deaths: Otis Dudley Duncan, Matilda White Riley
• Obituaries: Tanis Doe, Charles Gordon, Norma Williams

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