Footnotes 2011

January 2011 (Volume 39, Number 1)

• Just Announced: ASA to Hold 2011 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas
• Should New Phds Consider Non-Academic Careers?
• How to: Grant Writing in the Discipline: What Makes for a Successful Proposal? (Jan E. Stets)
• Vantage Point: Responding to Crises with Sociological Tools: Thoughts on the Anniversary of the Earthquake in Haiti
• Science Policy
• For-Profit Schools and Underserved Student Populations: Expanding Access or Exploiting Aspirations? (Ashley Rondini)
• Setting Up a Sociology Club on Your Campus
• New PhD Program at the University of Louisville Focuses on Applied Sociology (Patricia Gagne & Cynthia Negrey)
• Teaching Social Statistics Online (Amy Guptill)
• Public Sociology: The Inside-Out Experience: The Training Ground for Future Scholars (Angela Harvey & Brian Chad Starks)
• Same Book, Different Author: Any Similar Stories? (Bonnie Berry)
• Funding: Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy
• Announcements
• Deaths: C. Neil Bull, Kim R. Kihl, Lewis M. Killian, James Salaff
• Obituaries: Katherine Ruth Jensen, Nathan Joseph, Glen T. Nygreen

February 2011 (Volume 39, Number 2)

• Recipients of 2011 ASA Awards
• Segregation and the Windy City (Black Hawk Hancock & Roberta Garner)
• ASA Goes to Vegas
• Vantage Point: The ASA Speaks Out Against Efforts to Intimidate Piven: Why Her? Why Now?
• Science Policy
• A Public Affairs Focus at the ASA Executive Office
• Teaching-The Second Time Around (Cynthia Flynn)
• New Staff at the ASA Executive Office
• Next Generation Work and Family Research Network Awarded Sloan Foundation Grant
• ESS Partners with ASA in MFP Leadership Campaign
• Thank You ASA Members!
• Sheldon Stryker: Influencing Students Even in His Retirement
• Announcements
• Deaths: Peter Carter Dodd
• Obituaries: Elise Boulding, Lewis M. Killian, John Stuart Western

March 2011 (Volume 39, Number 3)

• Intergrating Business with Pleasure in Las Vegas (Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas)
• ASA Council Proposes Revised Dues Structure for Member Approval (Randall Collins, Erik Olin Wright, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Catherine White Berheide, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey)
• Ask the ASA Executive Officer
• Vantage Point: ASA’s Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Walmart v. Dukes, et al.: The Value of Collective
• Science Policy
• Sociological Research Received Extensive Media Coverage
• Candidates for ASA Offices in 2011
• How to … Publish in Trails
• International Perpectives: Lineages, Trajectories and Challenges to Socioloy in India (Sujata Patel)
• Sociological Careers: Finding Your Way Outside the Academy (Paula Chambers)
• Tell me what Democracy looks like
• ASA Forum
• Doing Sociology, Practicing Sociology (Henry H. Brownstein)
• Announcements
• Obituaries: Daniel Bell, C. Neil Bull, Shmuel Noah (S.N. Eisenstadt, Roland J. Pellegrin, Paul Sites, James J. Teevan, and George A. Theodorson

April 2011 (Volume 39, Number 4)

• Racialized Barriers and Social Action in West Las Vegas: The F Street Wall Controversy (Robert McKee and Shannon M. Monnat)
• ASA Revenues and Expenses: A Report from the ASA Secretary (Catherine White Berheide)
• Why Do We Need the Dues Change? Impact of the Proposed Dues Structure on Association Revenues (Catherine White Berheide)
• Vantage Point: Department Under Pressure? How the ASA Can Help During Crises or Normal Times
• Science Policy
• Where are We Now? Are the ASA Dues Higher than Comparable Associations? (Catherine White Berheide)
• Comment on the Continuation of the American Community Survey
• Yes, My Chihuahua Is a Service Dog…and a Reasonable Accommodation (Dana M. Greene)
• Applied Sociology: Forging a Career Outside the Tenure Track (Katrina Kimport)
• ASA Forum: The Unexpected Danger of Conducting Sociological Research (Archibald O. Haller)
• The PROSE Awards: Calling Sociologists! (James M. Jasper)
• Time to Vote!
• Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
• Announcements
• Deaths: Robert J. Stevenson
• Obituaries: Norval D. Glenn

May/June 2011 (Volume 39, Number 5)

• From Chicago to Las Vegas (Michael Ian Borer)
• Welcome the New Contexts Editors: Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein (Peter M. NArdi)
• Chicago or Las Vegas: Anticipate an Intellectual Event (Randall Collins)
• Vantage Point: ASA Council Weighs in on the NRC Doctorate Program Rankings Debate
• Science Policy
• Protection from Rape as a Civil Right: The Evolution of Policy Concerning Sexual Assault on College Campuses (Ashley C. Rondini)
• Danish Sociology: The Fall and Rise of a National Sociology (Kristoffer Kropp)
• Is Rawanda a Success Story? A Sociologist’s View (Jeanne Ballantine)
• Sociologists Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Making Students Count: Fostering Undergraduate Research (Jeneve R. Brooks)
• UMD Graduate Students Go Beyond the Traditional in a Conference Theorizing the Web (Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey)
• Core and Diversity in Sociology Section Membership in 2010
• Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows
• 2011 CARI Winners Announced
• ASA Forum: Help Wanted: The Government Needs Sociologists Too (Phyllis Puffer)
• Moving Forward with High School Sociology: Efforts to Strengthen and Support Teachers (Hayley Lotspiech)
• Annual Meeting Insert
• Announcements
• Deaths: Harold Garfinkel, Warren Kubitschek, & John Francis Michael
• Obituaries: Igor Semenovich Kon

July/August 2011 (Volume 39, Number 6)

• The Results of the 2011 Elections Are In: Cecilia Ridgeway is President, Jennifer Glass is Vice President
• The Rose Series: Still Rising (James M. Jasper)
• The ISA Embraces the Digital World (Michael Burawoy)
• Vantage Point: Dangerous Times For Federal Support of Social Science
• Science Policy
• ASA Research on the Diffusion of New Knowledge Featured on Capitol Hill
• International Perspectives: The Egyptian Revolution: Ethnographic Notes from Tahrir (Atef Said)
• Sociologists Join Forces with the White House to Support Military Families (Mary K. Kniskern)
• ASA Membership Approves New Dues Structure
• ASA Awards Grants for the Advancement of Sociology
• Emeritus Profile: A war Veteran Recounts His Journey to Becoming a Sociologist
• ASA’s Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant Supports Two New Projects
• Nwe Policy Brief Series in JHSB (Debra Umberson)
• 2011-2012 Regional and Aligned Sociology Association Meetings
• ASA Welcomes Five New MFP Fellows
• Council Highlights
• While In Las Vegasm Welcome the New ASA Staff
• Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Announcements
• Deaths: David C. Baldus, Egon Bittner, Richard Daniels
• Obituaries: Egon Bittner, William R. Freudenburg, Sylvia K. Polgar

September/October 2011 (Volume 39, Number 7) 

• 103rd ASA President Erik Olin Wright: Reinventing Sociology (Michael Burawoy)
• Sociologists Explore Conflict at ASA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas
• J. Milton Yinger (1916-2011): A Towering Sociological Figure from a Small College (Stephen J. Cutler)
• Vantage Point: Promoting Transparency and Accountability at the ASA
• The Importance of STEM Education HIghlighted in NRC Report
• Science Policy
• Think Ahead to 2013!
• 2013 Annual Meeting Theme: Interrogating Inequality: Linking Micro and Macro
• International Diversity at the Women’s World Conference (Ann Denis)
• Looking Ahead to 2012: Changes in ASA Membership
• On Reproductive Justice and the Importance of Listening to People with Whom We Disagree (Jeanne Flavin)
• Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program
• Not Everyone is Your “Friend” in an Online World
• Memories of J. Milton Yinger: Friends, Colleagues, and Family Share Their Reflections
• ASA Forum: Another Look at Rwanda; Sociology in Secondary Schools
• ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success
• Announcements
• Deaths: Leon F. Bouvier, Ronald C. Wimberley
• Obituaries: Harold Garfinkel, Allen Day Grimshaw, Warren N. Kubitschek, Roger W. Nett

November 2011 (Volume 39, Number 8)

• A Call to Duty: ASA and the Wikipedia Initiative (Erik Olin Wright)
• Sociological Spring: Human Rights and the Discpline (Bruce Friesen)
• ICPSR Celebrates its Upcoming 50th Anniversary (Dan Meisler)
• Vantage Point: Science Serving Human Rights (From January 2009 Footnotes)
• Science Policy
• A New ASA Congressional Fellow
• Electronic Manuscript Posting Policies Updated
• Participate in New NSF-Funded Survey of Sociology Majors
• Council Highlights
• News on the ASA Sections
• Call for ASA Award Nominations
• Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Las Vegas
• The ASA Seeks Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Announcements
• Deaths: Lawrence Carter, Judith Richie Demerath, Howard B. Kaplan, Raymond

December 2011 (Volume 39, Number 9)

• ASA President Trip to Mid-South’s Sociological Association Meeting
• The Changing Political Landscape: COSSA 1981-2011
• Candidates for 2012 Election
• Vantage Point: Changes in the Common Rule? The Social and Behavioral Sciences at Center Stage
• Science Policy
• The U.S. Census Introduces the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
• 2012 Annual Meeting Space for other Activities
• 2012 Annual Meeting Updates
• PubsComm: Let the Sunsine In (Robert Zussman)
• Nominations Sought for 2012 Section Awards
• Report Shows Sociology’s Competitiveness in Gaining Federal R&D Dollars
• ASA honors Program 2012 Call for Nominations
• A Sociologist’s View of the “Occupy” Camps: Movements in a Shifting Media Landscape (Sarah Sobieraj)
• ASA Forum: The Courage to Publicize One’s Convictions (Alan Sica)
• Announcements
• Deaths: Howard Bernard Kaplan, Pamela L. Tremayne, Harold Wilensky
• Obituaries: Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Joseph B. Perry, Jr., Robert J. Stevenson

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