Footnotes 2005 | American Sociological Association

January 2005 (Volume 33, Number 1)

ASA is 100 Years Old
Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005
Soaring: Celebrating Matilda White Riley (1911-2004) (Ronald P. Abeles)
Vantage Point: On Being 100 (Sally T. Hillsman)
National Lecture Named for Lipset
Institutionalizing Public Sociologies (Leslie Hossfeld, Philip Nyden)
Public Affairs Update
What Can You Do with a Sociology BA? (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
Bringing Sociology Into Our High Schools Through Student-to-student Outreach (Victoria Hougham)
NSF Awarded $5.5 Million to Sociology in ‘04
ASA Welcomes New Staff (Carla B. Howery)
Public Sociology: The Global Carbon Project (Penelope Canan)
Sociological Perspectives on International Trends in Mathematics and Science Achievement (Theodore A. Lamb and Rodger Bybee)
Analyzing Adolescent Science and Mathematics Literacy Across the Globe (Theodore A. Lamb and Molly McGarrigle)
Sociologists Selected as Presidents of Colleges
Colleagues Remember Matilda White Riley
Departments
Deaths: Mildred Peacock Crowder, Solomon Poll
Obituaries: Otis Dudley Duncan, William Silverman

February 2005 (Volume 33, Number 2)

Philadelphia: The City (Michael Zuckerman)
Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005
Fighting International Terrorism with Social Science Knowledge (Johanna Ebner)
Vantage Point: On Becoming 200: Looking Forward (Sally T. Hillsman)
Centennial Inspires Expansion of ASA Sorokin Lecture (Carla B. Howery)
Sociology in Action on the Hill
Public Affairs Update
Departments
Deaths: Loren Frankel, Gene Levine, Ellen Mara Rosengarten, John F. Schnabel

March 2005 (Volume 33, Number 3)

Philadelphia: A Metro Area in Transition (David Elesh)
Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005
ASA Weighs in on Gender and Science Careers
Candidates for ASA Offices in 2006
ASA Seeks Major Award Nominations
Vantage Point: A Price for U.S. Science
National Institutes of Health Implements Contested Public Access Policy
Public Affairs Update
ASA’s History in a “Nutshell”
Celebrating Seven Decades of Excellence in ASA’s Flagship Scholarly Journal (ASR editor, Jerry Jacobs)
Putting the Science in Quanlitative Methodology (Roberta Spalter-Roth, ASA)
Inside-Out Program Creates Link Bewteen Higher Education and the Criminal Justice System (Jessica Spickard)
Gaming in Watts: UCLA and Locke Senior High School in Partnership (Victoria Hougham)
ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Seven New Projects
Dennis Rome Will Held ASA Honors Program in 2006
ASA Council Briefs (from February 4-6, 2005)
Recent Status Reports Accepted by Council
ASA Council Statement on the Causes of Gender Differences in Science and Math Career Achievement/Harvard’s Lawrence Summers and the Ensuing Public Debate
Project to Infuse Data Analysis into the Sociology Curriculum Enters Dissemination Phase
On the Merits of Graduate Students as Book Reviewers (Barbara Katz Rothman)
State Representatives Make Inroads with High School Sociology (Carla Howery)
Deaths: Che Fu-Lee, Laure M. Sharp
Obituaries: Robert K. Bain, Frederick Buttel, Robert O. Carlson, William Byrd Hanson, Gene Levine, Ellen Mara Rosengarten, John Schnabel
Member Benefit: Capital for Knowledge
2005 Student Travel Awards

April 2005 (Volume 33, Number 4)

AAAS 2005 Meeting Was Where Science Meets Society, and Sociology was There Too
At 125 Annual Meeting, ASA Exhibits, Sociological Research Reigns, and ASA President Duster Participates in a Press Conference (Johanna Ebner)
Scientists Warn of Conceptual Traps Concerning Genetics and “Race” in New Genetic Map of Human Populations (Lee Herring and Mercedes Rubio)
Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005
“Culture Wars” Explored at Contexts Forum (Johanna Ebner)
Council Approves New ASA Editors
Vantage Point: Rumors of Departmental Decline are Greatly Exaggerated (Sally T. Hillsman)
ASA Returns to San Francisco in 2006
Public Affairs Update
Paradoxes of U.S. Health Care System Have Complex Social Origins (Donald W. Light)
Sociologist Named Director of Vera Institute
New ASA-NSF Grantees
Mapping High School Sociology: Fairfield University Partners with High Schools (Victoria Hougham and Gavin W. Hougham)
Moving Forward with the National Acadmey of Education (Amy Swauger)
Sociologists Present at 2005 AAAS Annual Meeting
First Annual Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Named for Matilda White Riley
Public Forum: Response to Iutcovich; Reply to Bonilla-Silva and Smith: Assessing the Anti-war Resolution (Bradford B. Hepler)
Departments
Deaths: Coramae Richey Mann, Ethel Shanas, Laure M. Sharp
Obituaries: Leonard E. Bloomquist, Che-Fu Lee, Ethel Shanas, Tamotsu Shibutani
Official Reports and Proceedings: Editors’ Reports

May/June 2005 (Volume 33, Number 5)

Dalton Conley Becomes First Sociologist to Receive the National Science Board’s Prestigioous Alan T. Waterman Award (Johanna Ebner, Lee Herring)
Philly Delights: Where to Walk, Look, Take Kids and Do a Little Shopping (Magali Sarfatti Larson)
Reflecting on ASA’s Centennial Year, 2005
Annual Meeting Supplement in this Issue
Vantage Point: What Really Mattered to the Supreme Court
Sociologists Receive Guggenheims
Sociologist Brings Data to Federal Debate on Bankrutpcy Reform Bill
Public Affairs Update
Public Sociology: What Happened When I Took My Sociological Imagination to the Dump (Daniel Knapp)
Sociologists Impact Interpretation of Federal Welfare Legislation (Lee Herring, Johanna Ebner)
On Being in the Minority (Tomas Jimenez)
Teachers Teaching Teachers: An ASA Pre-Conference
Contemporary Sociology Comes to UC-Irvine (Christine Byrd)
Annual Meeting Supplement
The Intersection of Sociology and Bioethics (Joseph E. Davis, Raymond DeVries, John H. Evans)
2005 Regional Sociological Associations’ Award Winners
Public Forum: Whose Science is Behind the Science in Qualitative Methodology (Norman K. Denzin); On the Creation of “Public Interest Sociology” (George C. Klein); Institutionalizing Public Sociology (Paul Lechelier); Another Centennial (Werner Lange); Utilizing the Energy of Interactive Sessions (Scott R. Sernau)
Deaths: Marijean Ferguson
Obituaries: Warren E. Kalbach

July/August 2005 (Volume 33, Number 6)

2005 Annual Meeting: The Philadelphia Sound (Jerome Hodos and David Grazian)
Results of 2005 ASA Election
Recipients of 2004 ASA Awards
Vantage Point: Global Sociology and the ASA Centenary (Sally T. Hillsman)
Sociologists Connect ‘Six Degrees’ on Capitol Hill (Johanna Ebner)
Sociological Skills Used in the Capture of Saddam Hussein (Victoria Hougham)
Full-time Faculty Salaries Sink in Academic Year 2004-2005 (Roberta Spalter-Roth, William Erskine)
The Rise of the Right Discussed at the Annual Meeting (Harry G. Levine)
2005 Annual Meeting: Philly Folk Culture (Karen Bettez Halnon)
Karen Gray Edwards’ 25^th Year at ASA (Carla B. Howery)
Barbara Schneider to Edit Sociology of Education (Chandra Muller)
Teaching Sociology Introduces “Applications” to Help Instructors Integrate Sociological Research into Undergraduate Courses (Liz Grauerholz, Jerry Jacobs)
NIDA Invested $19.5 Million in Sociologist-led Research in FY04 (Anna Stanton)
Two New Task Forces Seated
Deaths: Elizabeth G. Cohen, Samih K. Farsoun
Obituaries: Paul K. Clare, Andre Gunder Frank, Linda Saltzman, Benjamin B. Tregoe

September/October 2005 (Volume 33, Number 7)

The ASA Celebrates its 100^th Birthday in the Nation’s Birthplace
Profile of the ASA President: Pushing Social Boundaries: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (Judith Lorber)
Going to be in Washington, DC in late October?
On Hurricanes and Sociology
Vantage Point: Minority Research Training Milestones (Sally T. Hillsman)
Ameircan Immigration Policy: Toward Integration (Tomas Jimenez)
Sociology Exhibited on Capitol Hill
Public Affairs Update
ASA Announces New Minority Fellows
Council Approves Revised Specialty Areas
UCSD Culture Conference Discussed the Future of Cultural Sociology
Training High School Sociology Teachers at Association Meetings (Victoria Hougham)
ASA’s Member-Get-a-Member Capaign is a Success
Applications Invited for ASA Editor Positions
Departments
Deaths: Michelle Cook, George C. Helling, Henry L. Lennard
Obituaries: Ferris C. Baker, Stephen Bunker, Elizabeth G. Cohen, James Ensign Curtis, Laure M. Sharp, Robert L. Skrabanek, Fred Strodtbeck

November 2005 (Volume 33, Number 8)

A Capitol Hill Party Celebrates 100 Years (Johanna Olexy, Lee Herring)
Sociologist-led Homeland Security Center is Unveiled (David C. Walsh)
Think Ahead to 2007! Session Proposals are Invited for the 102^nd Annual Meeting Program!
Vantage Point: ASA’s Centennial Year: Member Speak, Council Responds
Sociologist to Lead National Children’s Study Center (Sylvia Pociask, Lee Herring)
Proposed Disaster Legislation is Informed by Sociological Research (Lee Herring)
Immigration Reform and the Latino Vote (Tomas R. Jimenez)
Increasing the Visibility of Sociology PhDs Outside the Ivory Tower (Roberta Spalter-Roth)
A Century of Professional Organization in American Sociology (Bruce Keith)
International Workshop on Social Networks Theory and Methodology: Applications for Regional Carbon Management (Penelope Canan)
ASA Council Briefs, August 16-17, 2005
Spotlight on Departments: Kent State and University of Akron Collaborating for More than a Quarter Century (Victoria Hougham)
Community Action Research Grants Awarded (Johanna Olexy)
ASA Statement on Human Rights
Attendance Doubles at Third Math Sociology Conference (Herman Smith, Paul McFarlane)
Sociology Project a Finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search
Major Award Recipients Honored in Philadelphia
Public Forum: Sociology and the Politics of Fear (David L. Altheide); Complications of “Hispanic: Race of Ethnicity? (Amitai Etzioni); New Orleans Hurricane Katrina: Natural or Social Disaster? (Martha K. Huggins)
Call for ASA Award Nominations
Departments
Deaths: Fred Strodtbeck
Obituaries: Samih K. Farsoun, George Clifford Helling, J. Dennis Willigan

December 2005 (Volume 33, Number 9)

Sociologist Testifies at House Hearing on Disasters (Lee Herring)
Multiple Methods in ASR (Jerry A. Jacobs)
Candidates for the 2006 ASA Election
ASA Sections Seek 2006 Award Nominations
Vantage Point: Indicators for a New “Social Science of Science Policy” (Sally T. Hillsman)
Another Texan Goes to Washington: ASA’s 2006 Congressional Fellow
A Call to Transform Black Education (Lavon Rice)
Call for Mateirals on Desegregation and Educational Outcomes
A Salute to Janet Astner
A Century of Motion: Disciplinary Culture and Organizational Drift in American Sociology (Bruce Keith)
Centenary of the First Sociology Doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill)
Departments
Deaths: Leo Bogart, Joseph Gittler, Mary Rose Holley
Obituaries: Henry L. Lennard, John Kenneth Morland

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