Footnotes 2006

January 2006 (Volume 34, Number 1)

• What Research Skills Do Sociology Undergraduates Take Into the Labor Market? (William Erskine and Roberta Spalter-Roth)
• Teresa Sullivan Selected as Provost of the University of Michigan
• Social Science Consortium Hosts U.S. Science Advisor, NSF, and NIH Social Science Leadership
• Vantage Point: Some Congress Members Stirred by Faltering Science and Tech Support (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Rep. Gordon Urges Attention to Social Science Data in Federal Planning for a Potnetial Flu Epidemic
• Public Affairs Update
• The NIH Announces the Matidla White Riley Annual Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Population Health, Challenges for Science and Society
• New Materials on Assessment are Available (Carla B. Howery)
• Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences: Sociologist to Lead $2-million NSF Grant for Social Sciences Web Archive
• SRCD Scholars Bring Sociology to Public Policy (Andrea Browning)
• Assessing Undergraduate Program Efficacy and Outcomes (Patrick Moynihan, James A. Wilson, Laura Backstrom)
• New ASA-NSF Grantees
• Katherine Rowell Honored as Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year (Carla B. Howery)
• Sociologists Receive 2005-2006 Fulbright Awards
• Public Forum: Reply to Altheide, “Politics of Fear” (Gary LaFree)
• Organizational Directions: Setting a Course of Action for the Second Century of American Sociology (Bruce Keith)
• How to Request Meeting Space for Other Activities for the 101^st ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, August 11-14, 2006
• Thank You, ASA Members!
• Public Sociology: Re-Presenting Sociological Research to Prisoners: The Play is the Thing (Elizabeth Dermody Leonard)
• Call for Papers
• Deaths: John Shields Aird, Eliot Freidson
• Obituaries: Bennett Berger, Leo Bogart, Mary Rose Holley, George G. Reader

February 2006 (Volume 34, Number 2) 

• On Science and Society: Science and Politics: The Uneasy Relationship (Howard J. Sliver)
• A Year in the Life of ASA’s Sociology of Education: A View from the Inside (Karl Alexander, Angela Estacion, Christopher Tracy, Yingyi Ma)
• XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006
• Vantage Point: Sociology on a World Stage (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Risky BehaviorsAssociated with Preventable Deaths Have Begun by Adulthood
• 2007 Annual Meeting: Book Nominations Invited for Author Meets Critic Sessions
• Public Affairs Update
• Who Works the Most… (Lee Herring)
• Where Are They Now? Two Scholars Examine Golden Decade’s Imprint on Today’s Sociologists (Stephen Turner, Alan Sica)
• Peer Reviewers of Teaching (Carla B. Howery)
• Departments
• Deaths: Alphonso Pnkney, Karl F. Schuessler
• Obituaries: Kianda Bell, Eliot Freidson, Paul C. Glick, Allen W. Imershein, Douglas Yale Longshore

March 2006 (Volume 34, Number 3)

• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2006
• Betty Friedan: An Appreciation (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein)
• Looking Forward to the ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal… Canada and Quebec: An Update (Simon Langlois)
• Vantage Point: A Fight to Preserve Research and Ensure Government Accountability (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Shin to Direct ASA’s Minority Affairs Program
• Banner Year for Major ASA Award Nominations (Daniel Spar)
• Public Affairs Update
• Who Influences Whom? Mass Communication and Social Networks (Leah Lubin)
• Shedding Light on Sundown Towns (LaVon Rice)
• Editorial Collective at Stony Brook (Tyson Smith)
• International Sociology… UNESCO Launches Palestinian Women’s Research Center (Val Moghadam)
• Public Sociology: The U.S. Border Patrol at a Juncture with Public Sociology (Robert Lee Maril)
• NSF’s 2005 Support for Sociology Totaled $11.6 Million
• Public Forum: Universal Sociological Law (Jason Eastman)
• Departments
• Deaths: Walter Buckley, Valerie Moore, Marshall A. Robinson, Lyle W. Shannon
• Obituaries: William Hart Gulley, Drenan Kelley, Will Charles Kennedy, R. George Kirkpatrick, Wen Lang Li, Alphonso Pinkney

April 2006 (Volume 34, Number 4)

• Albany Sociologist Heads NSF-funded International Study of the Children of Immigrants
• House Science Committee Holds Hearing Featuring Sociologist Expert on Science Education
• New Guidelines on Joint Sociology­-Anthropology Programs
• Vantage Point: 2006 Chair Conference to Focus on Graduate Education (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Disparities Legislation Signals Divergent Health Policy (Erma Lawson)
• Science Board Develops Hurricane Research Agenda with Social Science Component
• All [High School] Politics Are Local: Devoted Professor Helps Enhance High School Sociology Courses (Victoria Hougham)
• N.C. State Department of Sociology and Anthropology Turns 85 
• Departments
• Deaths: Arthur J. Vidich
• Editors’ Reports for 2005

May/June 2006 (Volume 34, Number 5) 

• Exciting Plenaries and Sessions at the 101^st ASA Annual Meeting (Cynthia Fuchs Epstein)
• Yu Xie Is Incoming Editor of Sociological Methodology (Michael Hout)
• Members Propose Resolution to Rename ASA Awards
• Vantage Point: On the Importance of Being Engaged in ASA (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Child Well-being Index Results Reveal Education Levels Still at Standstill
• Call for Nominations for ASA Offices
• Teaching Materials to Go Online (Carla B. Howery and Victoria Hougham)
• Public Affairs Update
• Who’s Been an ASA Member for 70 Years? Ethelyn Davis Celebrates a Membership Milestone (Craig Schaar)
• Beyond the Ivory Tower: Sociologists Working in Applied and Research Settings… Profile of Rita Kirshstein (Stacey Merola)
• Six New Projects Are Sponsored by the Community Action Research Initiative
• Time Travelers: The Commute Between Campus and Community (Carol Wickersham, Charles Westerberg, and Kate Linnenberg)
• O’Donnell Honored with Lynton Award
• New ASA-NSF Grantees
• Program Announcement: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
• Sociologists Are Honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Daniel Spar)
• Background on Proposed Name Change for ASA’s Distinguished Scholarship Award (Aldon Morris, Michael Schwartz, Mary Pattillo, Dan Clawson, Cedric Herring, Howard Winant, and Walter Allen) 
• Sociological Forum Editor Search
• 2006 Regional Sociological Associations Award Winners
• News from the Midwest Sociological Society
• New Staff in the ASA Executive Office
• ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Seven New Projects
• Public Sociology: Reducing vs. Suppressing Campus Crime (Howard Robboy)
• Public Forum: Single-issue Voting Tactic? (Mathieu Deflem)
• Departments
• Deaths: Al Bertrand, Al Reiss
• Obituaries: Albert N. Cousins, Valerie Moore, Arthur Vidich

July/August 2006 (Volume 34, Number 6)

• Human Rights Is Focus of Welcoming Plenary
• 2006 ASA Election Results: Arne Kalleberg is President, Douglas McAdam is Vice President, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is Secretary
• Roscigno, Hodson Are Incoming Editors of American Sociological Review
• Vantage Point: Taking the Pulse of the Nation: Key National Indicators (Sally T. Hillsman)
• Sociologist Informs Senators About Universal Health Insurance
• ASA Award Winners Announced
• Public Affairs Update
• Bread and Circuses: A Regional Session Explores the Politics and Culture of Montréal (Christopher McAll)
• United Nations and Women’s Rights (Mari Simonen)
• The Sociology of Consumption (Daniel Thomas Cook)
• The Rhetoric of Openness to Cultural Diversity in Québec (Michèle Ollivier and Linda Pietrantonio)
• SSRC Task Force Reports on Hurricane Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast (Craig Calhoun and Kai Erikson)
• A House of Refuge (Dana M. Greene and James R. Peacock)
• Retrospectives on the Death and Life of Jane Jacobs (Anthony Orum)
• Public Forum: ASA Candidates: Reply to Deflem (Christine E. Bose and Catherine Zimmer); Response to SWS (Mathieu Deflem)
• Departments
• Deaths: Yung-Teh Chow, Robert Herman Mugge, Bernd Weiler, Robin Williams
• Obituaries: Alvin Lee Bertrand, Thomas R. Ford, Albert Reiss

September/October 2006 (Volume 34, Number 7)

• Gary Alan Fine to Edit Social Psychology Quarterly
• Sociologists Draw Significant Attention in Montréal
• Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1914-2006): A Sociologist for All Seasons (Phyllis Moen)
• Vantage Point: Annual Meeting Venues Past, Present, and Future
• Sociology Exhibited on Capitol Hill
• NIH Celebrates 10 Years of Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
• Public Affairs Update
• From “Technology for Sociology” to “The Sociology of Technology”: A Short History of CITASA (Barry Wellman)
• Sociologists Named American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows
• 2008 ASA Annual Meeting Program Theme Announced
• Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Small Grants Program: ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund
• Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Montréal
• Colleagues Pay Tribute to a Man for All Seasons
• Applications Invited for Editorship of Contexts, JHSB
• Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
• Announcements
• Deaths: Mary Starke Harper
• Obituaries: Harry V. Ball, Terry Boswell, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Betty Frankel Kirschner, Philip Rieff, Lyle Shannon, Lynn Zimmer

November 2006 (Volume 34, Number 8)

• 2008 President is a Defender of the “Poorest of the Poor” (Barbara Ehrenreich)
• NSF Education and Human Resources to be Headed by Marrett
• Name Changes for Two ASA Awards
• Vantage Point: Educating for a Sustainable Future
• Sociologist Testifies on Capitol Hill
• Sociologist Receives the Holberg International Memorial Prize
• Public Affairs Update
• Professor Feliks Gross: Sociological Humanist (Jerome Krase)
• New Annual Meeting Workshops Designed for Practitioner Networking
• The XVI World Congress of the International Sociological Association, South Africa (Val Moghadam)
• Burawoy and Fritz Elected to International Leadershiip Positions
• Sociologists Receive Travel Support tot he ISA Meeting
• Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: Sociologist Establishes Community Research and Learning Network (Amy S. Hubbard)
• Regional Sociological Association Schedules
• Call for ASA Award Nominations
• Introducing New Minority Fellows
• Collaboration Between Librarians and Sociologists Yields Standards for Library Literacy
• Share Your Teaching Materials
• Announcements
• Deaths: Donald H. Bouma, Pencer Cahill, Polly Swift Grimshaw, WIlliam F. Kenkel, Emile Jean Pin, Peter Rossi
• Obituaries: Bernard Barber, Karl F. Schuessler, Daisy Tagliacozzo

December 2006 (Volume 34, Number 9)

• Sociological Research on Health Disparities Is Core of NIH Conference
• Peter H. Rossi (1921-2006)
• Candidates for the 2007 ASA Election
• Vantage Point: Demystifying ASA’s Public Statements
• Loyola COmmunity-engaged Research Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary
• Public Affairs Update
• New ASA-NSF Awardees
• Medical Sociologist Elected to the Institute of Medicine
• Session Proposals are Invited for the 2008 Annual Meeting program
• Academic Branding and Public Sociology at the University of Buffalo-SUNY (Michael Farrell)
• Nominations Being Accepted for the 2007 Section Awards
• Two Regionals to Join Forces for their 2007 Annual Meeting (Bruce Keith)
• Sociologists Contribute to Quantitative Literacy (Bernard Madison)
• Sociology and the Commision on Professionals in Science and Technology
• NSF ADVANCE Informed by SOciological Perspectives and Approaches
• Colleagues Remember the Expansive Interests and Wit of Peter Rossi
• Thank you ASA Members
• Spotlight on Departments: Bergen Community College’s Center for Suburban Crinimal Justice
• Public Forum: How Not to Make a Presentation
• Ruth Simms Hamilton Award
• Announcements
• Deaths: Donald H. Bouma, John H. Burma, Clifford Geertz, Linda Faye Williams, Ellen Willis
• Obituaries: Meyer Barash, SPencer E. Cahill, William F. Kenkel

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