Footnotes 2007

January 2007 (Volume 35, Number 1) 

• Sociology Is Well Represented Among NSF’s Human and Social Dynamics Grantees
• ASA, Professors Submit Brief to U.S. Appeals Court on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy (David Segal)
• What the Iraqi Study Group Missed: The Iraqi People (Mansoor Moaddel)
• Vantage Point: An Assesment of National Social Science Advocacy
• ASA Joins Research!America Alliance
• ASR Publishes the Latest International and Comparative Socological Studies (Jerry A. Jacobs)
• Contexts Magazine as a Teaching Tool (James M. Jasper)
• A Woman of the World: A Spotlight on Dean Johnson’s Globetrotting Sociological Career
• 2007 ASA Congressional Fellow Faces a New Congress
• Changes in the Graduate Record Exam
• Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: Shameless Lackey or Consumer Advocate
• Applied and Clinical Sociology Careers by the Numbers (Mary Gee)
• ASA Deputy Carla Howery Celebrates 25th Year at ASA
• Apply Now for the Sorokin Lecture Series
• Spotlight on Departments: A Vehicle for Enrichment: University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Undergraduate Concentration in Analysis and Research
• How to Request Meeting Space for Other Activities
• Council on Contemporary Families Deisseminates Nonpartisan Knowledge
• Weber’s 1904 Visit to the United States
• New Staff Join ASA (Kyle Murphy, Diego de los Rios, Nicole Van Vooren)
• Public Forum: Suggestions for Encouraging a Satisfying Conference
• Departments
• ASA Position Announcement: Staff Sociologist/Director of Academic and Professional Affairs
• Deaths: Samuel W. Bloom, Bill Borchert Larson, Yuri Levada, Robert Smock
• Obituaries: Feliks Gross, Doris P. Slesinger

February 2007 (Volume 35, Number 2)

• “Without Yesterday There Is No Tomorrow”: Ricardo Lagos and Chile’s Democratic Transition (Peter Winn)
• Four Trends Shaping the Big Apple (Andrew Beveridge)
• Remembering a Giant of Sociology: Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006) (Claude S. Fischer, Ann Swidler)
• Vantage Point: Enhancing the ASA Public Inforamtion Program
• ASA Honors Program Expands Opportunities for Undergraduates
• Phi Beta Kappa Honors Tilly with the 2006 Sidney Hook Memorial Award
• Portrait of the Sociologist as Blogger
• Busboys, Poets, and Sociologists: A Place for Discourse
• Task Force on General Education Issues Report
• Congratulations to the 2007 ASA Award Winners
• Colleagues Pay Tribute to Seymour martin Lipset
• Sociologists Serving as Foreign Ambassadors… From Afganistan to Germany to America and Back
• A Mathematical Sociologist’s Tribute to Comte: Sociology as a Science (John Angle)
• Member Spotlight: Thomas Lief: A Profile of Service to His Community
• Just for Fun: A Sociological Trivial Pursuit
• New Staff at the ASA Executive Office (Robin Licata, Sujata Sinha)
• Public Forum: Thank You, ASA
• Departments
• Deaths: Kurt B. Mayer, Helen Ralston
• Obituaries: Donald D. Bouma, Helen Ralston

March 2007 (Volume 35, Number 3)

• Finding New York City’s Culture Through Shopping (Sharon Zukin)
• The Eroison and Rebirth of American Democracy (Magali Sarfatti Larson)
• Too Few PhDs? The Replacement Rate in Sociology
• Vantage Point: Advancing International Scholary Communication
• Robert Bellah Honored for Career of Scholarship
• New Recipient Announced for the W.E.B. Dubois Award!
• A Better World is a World with Universal Human Rights (Judith Blau)
• Campus Organizing and Today’s Movement Building Moment (Walda Katz-Fishman)
• Paul Ciccantell Joins the NSF Sociology Program
• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2007
• Protest and trust at Gallaudet University (Margaret Weigers Vitullo)
• Public Sociology: A Sociologist in the Hard Science World (Rachel Ivie)
• NSF Awarded $8.7 Million for Sociological Research and Education in 2006
• Council Briefs
• Departments
• Deaths: Brandy Britton, Eric Markusen

April 2007 (Volume 35, Number 4)

• Paradox and the City: Why the Working Class Has Political Power (Dan Cantor & J.W. Mason)
• How Do We Get to ANother World? (Fred Block)
• Council Passes New Resolution
• Vantage Point: ASA’s Engagement in the Teaching of Sociology
• The Faith-Based Initiative (Rebbeca Sager)
• Committee and Executive Office Collaborate to Make Annual Meeting Accessible
• SWS Supports New Orleans’ Rebuilding
• Public Sociology: Public Sociology and Sociology in Public: The Case of Serbia (Aleksej Kisjuhas)
• ASA Tapped for Senate Judiciary Committee Congressional Fellow
• In the Spotlight: Armed with a Camera: Mount St. Mary’s Film and Social Justice Program
• Sociology in America
• Public Forum: Social Science and Iraq; More on Annual Meeting Presentations; Responses to the Mascot Resolution
• Departments
• Deaths: Judith Nelson Cates, Jean Baker Miller, Martin Trow
• Obituaries: Thomas A. Lyson, Martin Trow
• Editors’ Reports for 2006

May/June 2007 (Volume 35, Number 5)

• Down and Out In New York City (Mitchell Duneier & Patrick Markee)
• Eliza Pavalko to Serve as the Next Editor of JHSB
• Plenary Examines Popular Culture as Propaganda and Critique
• Vantage Point: An “Accountability Squeeze” on Higher Education
• Is the Federal Budget a Moral Document (Rebecca Sager)
• Sociologists’ Encyclopedic Impact
• For Conference Presentations, Less Is More
• The Educational Testing Service Retracts Recent Changes to the GRE
• That’s a Lot of Candles: Russell sage Celebrates 100 Years
• ASA Awards Small Grants in Sociology
• The Management and Society Program at UNC-Chapel Hill
• New Program to Increase Diversity of Leadership in Health Policy
• Sociologists Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
• Public Sociology: Enlarging the target: A Sociology of Self-Defense
• 2007 Regional Sociological Associations’ Award Winners
• Winners of the 2007 Community Action Research Initiative Awards
• Public Forum: How Bellah’s Ideas Spread: The Diffusion of a Scholar’s Influence
• ASA’s Teaching Enhancment Fund Supports Four New Projects
• Departments
• Deaths: Jean Baudrillard, Bernhardt Lieberman, Patrick McGuire
• Obituaries: Samuel W. Bloom, Hiram J. Friedsam, David L. Westby

July/August 2007 (Volume 35, Number 6)

• New York: A Unique Immigrant City (Nancy Foner)
• Prospects for Change in American Politics (Bonnie Thornton Dill)
• ASA General Election Results: Patricia Hill Collins is President, Margaret Anderson is Vice President
• Hartman and Uggen are the New Editors of Contexts
• Vantage Point: Advancing the Placement of Sociology
• Sociologists Brief Senate Audience on Social-Cultural Factors Affecting Military Recruitment and Retention
• ASA 2007 Dissertation Award Recipient Announced
• Promoting Sociology to the Media
• Student Protestors Successful at Moscow State University
• The All-Consuming Life of an Encyclopedia Editor (George Ritzer)
• 35 Years Later…Planning for the Future of the General Social Survey
• Introducing MFP Cohort 34
• Vitullo to Direct ASA’s Academic and Professional Affairs Program
• The Labor Section and ABS Celebrate the DuBois Legacy (Michael Schwartz)
• Public Sociology: Sociological Research and Praxis: An Autobiographical and Retrospective Account
• Public Forum: ASA Should Not Support China; I Heart (Alternatives Modes of transportation to) New York
• Departments
• Deaths: Wilma Allen, Ida R. Hoos, David M. Heer, Otto N. Larsen
• Obituaries: John H. Burma, Eric Markusen, Patrick McGuire, Ida R. Hoos, D. Lawrence Wieder

September/October 2007 (Volume 35, Number 7)

• ASA President Arne Kalleberg Prepares for “Worlds of Work” (Peter Marsden)
• The Biggest Meeting Happened in the Big Apple
• Vanatge Point: Tapping Contexts for Teaching
• Hate Crimes Legislation is on the Move (Michelle Van Brakle)
• Sociologists Elected to the Natioanl Academy of Sciences
• The AAPSS Honors Social Scientists and Junior Scholars
• Framingham State College Discovered An Inconvenient Truth (Virginia Rutter & Ira Silver)
• Think Ahead to 2009!
• 2009 Annual Meeting: The New Politics of Community
• ASA’s New International Associate Membership Category
• Sumner’s Tales: Reflections on 133 Years of Sociology at Yale (Nadya Jaworsky)
• Research on SOciology as a Profession: Highlights
• Applications Invited for Editorship of Contemporary Sociology
• Sociologists Named American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows
• A New Kind of Lesson Plan
• Public Forum: Politically Correct; A Response to Leslie Irvine’s Comment on China; Responses to Dan Wang
• Departments
• Deaths: Helen Gouldner, Peter Lyman, Peter Marris, Parren Mitchell, Jeanne Clare Ridley
• Obituaries: Brenda M. Derby, Mary Douglas, Helen Gouldner, David M. Heer, Bernard Karsh, Otto Larsen

November2007 (Volume 35, Number 8)

• British Boycott Threat Sparks ASA Council Action
• ASA Files Complaint Against the U.S. Government for Excluding South African Scholar from the United States
• Federal Funding for Sociology Increases Relative to Other Social Sciences
• Vantage Point: ACLU and ASA File Suit over Academic Freedom
• Sociology on the Hill
• Position Announcement: Research Associate Position
• The Sociology of Human Rights
• ASA Collaborates with Sociology Librarians
• Traditions and Trends in Rural Sociology (Richard S. Krannich & Jess Gilbert)
• A Tool for Surfing the Wake of the Spellings Commission: The Department Resources Group
• The Immigrant Mobilization Research Project at UIC (Michael Rodriguez Muniz)
• Sociologist Joins Yahoo! to Shape Future of the Web
• Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in New York
• 2007 Award Recipients Honored
• Call for ASA Award Nominations
• Public Sociology: Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (Jeffery Broadbent)
• Council Highlights
• Regional Sociological Association Schedules
• Public Forum: Reaction to ASA Council’s Resolution on Israeli Boycott; The Invisible Namesakes: In Recogonition of African American Founders in ASA?; Response to Professor Leslie Irvine
• Departments:
• Deaths: Sam Joseph Dennis, Ruth Frankenberg, Gangadharappa Nanjundappa, James Ronald Pinkerton, Blasco Sobrinho, Marvni B.Sussman, Peter Whalley, Wayne Wheeler, Jon Kelley Wright
• Obituaries: Peter H. Marris, Jeanne Clare Ridley, Marvin Bernard Sussman

December 2007 (Volume 35, Number 9) 

• High School Sociology on the Endangered Species List in Michigan (Denise Reiling & David Kinney)
• Candidates for the 2008 ASA Election
• Plans and Outcomes: Data from Phase II of the BA-and-Beyond Survey
• Vantage Point: To Leave No Child Behind Requires Social Science Discipline
• 2008 Annual Meeting – Space for Other Activities
• Nominate Colleagues for Major ASA Awards Online
• A Perfect Storm: The Jena Six from a Sociohistorical Perspective (Juan Battle)
• Sociology at UNC Wilmington Goes Public
• Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: My Life as a Closet Sociologist
• Coser Theory Award Bestowed upon Three Scholars
• The ASA Governamce and Sections Office Announces the Creation of Two New Sections-in-Formation
• Public Forum: AP or Not AP? That is the Question; Response to DeCesare’s “AP or Not AP: That is the Question;” Erendira in American Sociology
• Departments
• Deaths: Robert L. Carroll
• Obituaries: Barbara H.Kaplan, James Pinkerton; Peter Whalley

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