Footnotes 2009

January 2009 (Volume 37, Number 1)

• MFP Kicks Off 35th Anniversary Year
• Slate of Candidates for the ASA 2009 Election
• Sociology Student Active in the Election of 2008
• Vantage Point: Science Serving Human Rights
• Science Policy
• Sociologist Addresses Issues in Educating the Next Generation of the Scientific Workforce
• Sociology Professors Awarded Grawemeyer Award
• IOM Meeting Focuses on Behavioral/Social Determinants of Health
• International Perspectives: Sociology and Public Arenas: A View from Australia (Raewyn Connell)
• International Perspectives:: American Sociological Association and International Initiatives
• On the Cutting-Edge of Scholarship in Sociology
• ASA Staff Give Back for the Holidays
• Sociology Internal Interest Group Approved by ISSOTL (Kathleen McKinney)
• New Staff at ASA Executive Office: Nortia Bailey, Edward J. Matchett, Tonya VanField
• ASA Seeks Applications for Student Travel to 2009 Annual Meeting
• Sociologists in Research and APplied Settings: Sociologist Explores Workforce Readiness of New Graduates (Henry M. Silvert)
• Update on ASA and the ACLU Academic Freedom Case
• ASA Online Job Bank Going Strong
• Thank You, ASA Members
• Announcements
• Obituaries: John T. Doby, Harold S. Guetzkow, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Richard P. Nadeau

February 2009 (Volume 37, Number 2)

• Sex in the City: A Sociological History of San Francisco (Siobhan Brooks)
• Two New DGG Services to Help Sociology Departments
• Sociology Makes Top-Ten Careers List
• Vantage Point: Social Science’s Role in Building Bridges to an American Recovery
• Science Policy
• BA and Beyond…and to Graduate School
• A Sociologist in a College of Engineering: Stranger in a Strange Land? (Don Winiecki)
• Re-Stating the Significance of the DuBois Distinguished Scholarship Award (Mary Pattillo)
• The Debate on “Neighborhood Pressure” in Turkey (Ates Altinordu)
• More Candidates for the ASA Election
• Putting the Community First through Public Sociology: The Highlander Research and Education Center (Chris Baker, Frank Adams, Lee WIlliams, Randy Stoecker, & Glenn S. Johnson)
• On Meeting a Queen (Thomas J. Scheff)
• Lights, Camera, Answers! (Stefanie Joshua)
• Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows
• ASA Awarded Grant for Travel Support to ISA World Congress 2010
• Public Sociology: Reprise of a Battle Won: Sociologist Monitors Boston Transit System’s Treatment of the Disabled
• Announcements
• Obituaries: Lloyd E. Ohlin

March 2009 (Volume 37, Number 3)

• A New Politics of Community in Action? (Patricia Hill Collins)
• San Francisco 40 Years Later (Edward A. Tiryakian)
• Congratulations to the 2009 ASA Award Winners
• Vantage Point: Economics 101: Investing in ASA
• Science Policy
• Sociologists Headlined Plenary at NIH Summit
• Busy Time for AKD (Jeffery Chin)
• ASA Annouces the 2008-09 Congressional Fellow
• PowerPoint: To Use or Not to Use? (Madeleine Cousineau)
• Delgado to Take on Social Problems
• What Can I Do with a Master’s in Sociology?: The Department as Context
• The First Lady and Princeton Sociology (Howard Taylor)
• Building Global Community for Online Students and Faculty (Darlene A. Smuncy and Katherine Humber)
• The Use of FAD Funds: Expanding Experimental Investigations of Race/Ethnicity in Sociology (Carla Goar and Jane Sell)
• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2009
• The Golden Anniversary of Medical Sociology
• Are Journal Accept Rates as Low as They Look? (Paula England)
• JHSB Research Gets Local AIrtime Nationwide
• ASA Forum
• Announcements
• Deaths: Peter Kollock, G. William Skinner
• Obituaries: David A. Ward, Laura Winterfield, James Rutland Wood

April 2009 (Volume 37, Number 4)

• Bringing Communities Back In? Setting a New Policy Agenda (Patricia Hill Collins)
• Kathleen S. Lowney to Edit Teachng Sociology (Maxine P. Atkinson)
• Vantage Point: Time for a New (or Renewed) Office of Technology Assesment
• Science Policy
• News from ASA’s Research Department
• ASA Council Supports Independence of Federal Statistical and Research Agencies.
• UCSF Doctoral Sociology Program Celebrates its 40th 
• Task Force on Teaching Ethics Completes Its Work
• Beyond the Regular and Dissertation Competitions: Funding Opportunnities at NSF
• ASA’s Teaching Enhancement Fund Supports Three New Projects
• ASA Forum  
• Announcements
• Deaths: Ethelyn C. Davis, John Hope Franklin, Carla B. Howery, Bruce D. Johnson 
• Obituaries: Bruce L. Berg, Patrick G. Feeney, Mohamed Dayee Turay

May/June 2009 (Volume 37, Number 5)

• Local Flavor: Alternative Agriculture and Food Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alison Alkon)
• Brown, Donato, Isaac and McCammon are Incoming Editors of American Sociological Review (Daniel B. Cornfield)
• Vantage Point: Only One Way to Write. Right?
• Science Policy
• Assessing History in the Making (Elizabeth Jacobs)
• Sociologists Take the “Science of Science Policy” to Capitol Hill
• The Undergraduate Sociology Degree’s Real-World Application
• Diverse Research Workforce is Key to Health of Nation’s Science Enterprise
• An Update on Gender-friendly Sociology Departments
• Over 60 Years of Sociology at UMass-Amherst (Randall Stokes)
• Sociologists in Research and Applied Settings: A Sociologist Tackles Homeland Security (John S. Verrico)
• MFP at the Annual Meeting
• East vs. West?
• Between Public and Professional: Chinese Sociology and the Construction of a Harmonious Society (Xiaogang Wu)
• ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology
• Four New Projects are Funded through th ASA Community Action Research Initiative
• Sociologists Receive 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships
• ASA Forum
• Announcements
• Obituaries: Carla Beth Howery

July/August 2009 (Volume 37, Number 6)

• Building Excellent, Diverse, and Just Communities: A Conversation Among Artists, Academics, and Activists (Patricia Hill Collins)
• ASA Partners with Sage for Journal Publishing
• Results of 2009 Election Are In: Randall Collins is President, David Snow is Vice President, Kate Berheide is Secretary
• David Bills to Edit Sociology of Education (James Rosenbaum)
• Vantage Point: Quantitatively Hard Science: Counting Us
• Science Policy
• Data Users Struggle to Prevent Suppression of Race, Ethnic, and Gender Statistics
• ASA’s Rose Series Continues Award-Winning Ways (Matthew Mahler)
• NSF Report Tackles Standards of Evaluation for Qualitative Research (Michèle Lamont)
• Sociology in the Twittersphere
• SWS Targets Healthcare Policy as Action Issue (Jessica Holden Sherwood)
• The Significance of the Jessie Bernard Award (Patrica Yancey Martin)
• TEF Small Grants Renamed to Honor Howery (Patricia Hill Collins)
• Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Sustaining Sociology in a Bad Economy (Maralee Mayberry and Donileen Losske)
• What’s Segregation Got to Do with the Nation’s Subprime Mortgage Lending Fiasco?
• Introducing MFP Cohort 36
• ISA Call for Papers
• International Perspectives: The State of Russian Sociology Today (Mischa Gabowitsch)
• Short-Term Jobs with Long-Term Results with the 2010 Census
• Announcements
• Deaths: Mary Alice Eaton Ericson, Jane Collier Kronick, Ralf Dahrendorf, Robert Thamm
• Obituaries: Timothy McDaniel

September/October 2009 (Volume 37, Number 7)

• Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s Displacements and Connections (Myra Marx Ferree)
• The Subject and Practice of Community Explored at the ASA Annual Meeting
• Neil Gross to Edit Sociological Theory
• Vantage Point: Science Has Returned to the Nation’s Capital, But…
• Science Policy
• ISA Prepares for 2010 World Congress of Sociology (Val Moghadam)
• The XVII World Congress of Sociology Gothenburg, Sweden, July 10-16, 2010 Call for Papers
• Sociologist Delivers Policy-relevant Economic Testimony to Congress
• Successful Research in Small Departments (Vince Bolduc)
• ASA Leadership Campaign Begins by Raising $300,000 for MFP
• Lessons Learned from a Public Controversy (Donald C. Reitzes, Mindy Stombler, Kirk W. Elifson)
• The U.S. Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act (Douglas Snyder)
• Additional Sociologist Receives 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships
• Think Ahead to 2011!
• Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas
• 2009-10 Regional and Aligned Associations Meetings
• Sociology Jobs
• Searching for a Job with an Undergraduate Degree in Sociology
• Johns Hopkins Department of Sociology Celebrates Its Golden Year (greg Rienzi)
• Applications Invited for Editorships
• Announcements
• Deaths: Giovanni Arrighi, Alexander Logie Clark, Donald M. Crider, Helen Miller, Mary Rogers, Neil Alan Weiner, and Jerry Alan Winter
• Obituaries: Bill Devall, Seymour Leventman, Mary F. Rogers, and Allan Schnaiberg

November/December 2009 (Volume 37, Number 8)

• Amos Hawley: A Pioneer in Human Ecology (John D. Kasarda)
• Tim Futing Liao to Edit Sociological Methodology (David B. Grusky)
• Seeking Nominations for ASA Officers and Committees
• Vantage Point: “Adopt a Federal Database”… and Open the Data Highway for Better Research and More Informed Public Policy
• Science Policy
• Dealing with World Hunger (Sada Aksartova)
• NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Sociological Approaches to Studying Morality (Steven Hitlin and Chad Michael)
• Are Students Satisfied with Their Sociology Master’s Degree?
• Recent ASA Research Briefs
• Reflections from a Sociologist of Popular Culture (Oliver Wang)
• The Significance of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (Earl Wright II and Jean Shin)
• Nominations Sought for 2010 Section Awards
• ASA Members and Friends
• Sociologists Spend Summer Briefing, Testifying Before Congressional Audiences
• Footnotes to Focus on Online Website in 2010
• Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco
• Call for Nominations
• A Tribute to Amos Hawley: Mentor, Colleague, and Friend
• Public Sociology: [Not] Moving Along: The Policing and Regulating of the Public Space (Salvador Vidal-Ortiz)
• Call for ASA Award Nominations
• Section-in-Formation Status Approved for Global and Transnational Sociology (George Ritzer)
• 2010 Annual Meeting Space for Other Activities
• The 2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers is Online
• ASA Forum
• Announcements
• Deaths: Thomas P. Imse, Debra Kelley, Lenora Finn Paradis, and Jerry Alan Winter
• Obituaries: Peter Kollock, Katherine Pavelka Luke, Charles R. Snyder, and Frederick L. Whitam
• Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program
• Congratulations to the 2009 ASA Section Award Winners!

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