Footnotes 2014 | American Sociological Association

January 2014 (Volume 42, Number 1)

Yes, Virginia, There Is High School Sociology (Jean Shin)
ASA Awarded Support for Travel Grants for the ISA World Congress (Jordan Robison, ASA Governance and Information Systems Department)
Looking Back at Three Decades at COSSA (Howard Silver)
ASA Assists U.S. Sociologists Collaborate Internationally (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: Dan Gaylin Named President of NORC at the University of Chicago, Social Explorer and Census Bureau Collaborate
COSSA Names Wendy Naus New Executive Director
AS Student Members: What Does ASA Membership Mean to you? A video competition (ASA Academic & Professional Affairs)
Competing Poverty Measures: An Analysis (Diana M. Pearce)
A Scholar with an International Focus (Craig Schaar)
ASA Awards Six Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Maryann Bylander, Jonathan Eastwood, Wendy Roth, Aliya Saperstein, Amy Lianne Stone, James Michael Thomas)
Thank You, ASA Members!
MFP Celebrates 40th Anniversary in 2014 (ASA Minority Affairs Program)
When Buying Peaches or Measuring Learning Complexities Abound (Irving Franke)
Claude Steele Named Provost at Berkeley
Announcements
Deaths: Suzanne Kurth, Clifford Nass
Obituaries: Clifford I. Nass, Eugene A. Rosa
Funding: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program

February 2014 (Volume 42, Number 2)

Hard Times and Inequality San Francisco Bay Area Style (Sheila M. Katz)
Recipients of the 2014 ASA Awards: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award – William Julius Wilson, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology – Harry Perlstadt, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award – Monica Prasad, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award – Kathleen Lowney, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award – Richard O. Hope, Jessie Bernard Award – Christine L. Williams and Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award – Lee Rainie, Public Understanding of Sociology Award – Juliet B. Schor.
FAD Funds: Crossing Boundaries, Workshopping Sexualities (Mary Bernstein)
Consensus on the Common Rule: Proposed Revisions to Human Subjects Regulations Would Benefit Social Sciences (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: OBSSR Enacts Twitter Chats on Career Development, A Updated Census.gov Website, NSF Releases 2012 U.S. Doctoral Degree Recipient Data, NSF Study Shows Declines in Federal Funding for Research and Development
ASA Files Amicus Brief in Support of Suits to Overturn UT, OK Gay Marriage Bans (ASA Public Affairs)
ASA’s CARI Grant: Using Social Science to Help Respond to a Violent Tragedy (Stephanie Hartwell)
UIC Sociology and a Chicago High School Partner to Bring Public Sociology to Students (Emily Ruehs; William “Buddy” Scarborough; Carolina Calvillo; Michael De Anda Muñiz; Jesse Holzman)
2014 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening (Jamie Hecht)
How the ASA’s Section Websites and Listservs Came to Be — Or Not to Be (Barry Wellman)
Getting Back into the Flow with Intro (Melinda Messineo)
Soc Connect: A Peer Mentoring Program (Mridula Udayagiri)
ASA Forum; High School Student Participation in the Association (Nate Breznau)
It’s Here! 21st Century Careers in Sociology 2nd Edition (ASA Publications)
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Now Accepting Submissions (ASA Publications)
Khurana Appointed Harvard College Dean (Johanna Olexy)
Announcements
Deaths: Janet Abu-Lughod, Roderick D. Bush, Stuart Hall, William Anderson, Tess Hauser
Obituaries: Janet Abu-Lughod
Student Forum Travel Grants
For Members Only Individual Health Insurance Plans

March 2014 (Volume 42, Number 3)

Designing and Conducting Research to Make Real Social Change in Abortion Care (Tracy A. Weitz)
Maureen T. Hallinan: A Mentor in the Sociology of Education (Mark Berends)
Candidates for the 2014 ASA Election: Candidates for President-Elect: Ruth Milkman, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Candidates for Vice President-Elect: Mary Bernstein, Barbara J. Risman,
Dismantling the NSF SBE Directorate: House Republicans’ FIRST Act (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: NSF Selects Fay Lomax Cook to Head Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, Fourteen Business, Higher Education, Scientific Organizations Urge Congress to Support Federal Investments in Research
National Trends Push Departments to Focus on Career Advising: ASA Can Help (Margaret Weigers Vitullo)
The Value of Booking within the ASA Hotel Block (ASA Meetings Department)
Annual Meeting 2014 News and Updates (ASA Meetings Department)
Colleagues and Friends Pay Tribute to Maureen Hallinan (Teresa Sullivan)
ASA to Launch Open Access Scholarly Journal (ASA Publications Department)
Announcements
Deaths: F. Ivan Nye
Obituaries: William J. Chambliss, F. Ivan Nye
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
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April 2014 (Volume 42, Number 4)

Understanding Super-Gentrification in San Francisco (John Stover)
ASA’s New Opportunities in Retirement Network Formed
Undergraduate Students as Applied Sociologists: Community-Based Research Addresses Homelessness (Laura Nichols and Norma A. Winston)
Advocating Sociology—You Are Essential to Our Success (Sally T. Hillsman)
Socio-Innovations at SAGE Publications (Sophia Puglisi)
Sociology in Japan: History, Challenges, and the Yokohama World Congress (Koichi Hasegawa)
Sociology, Visually (Douglas Harper)
American Sociological Association Council Highlights
New Report from the National Research Council: Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Summary of Editorial Activity, (January 1-December 31, 2013) (ASA Publications Department)
Announcements
Deaths: Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss, Charles William Mueller, Elva Marie Pees, Lewis Yablonsky
Obituaries: Abbott L. Ferriss

May/June 2014 (Volume 42, Number 5)

Hard Times for Low-Wage Latino Immigrants in San Francisco’s Mission District (Susanne Jonas)
Stephen Sweet to Edit Teaching Sociology (John Zipp)
MFP Thanks Donors Who Completed Their Five-Year Leadership Campaign Pledge (Jean Shin)
The Positive Value of ASA Membership from the Perspective of Those Who Haven’t Renewed (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: Excessive Regulations Turning Scientists into Bureaucrats, Exploring the Future of the Aging Population, Presidential Science Advisors Releases Report on Big Data and Privacy
Elizabeth Wikler Is the 2013-14 ASA Congressional Fellow (Johanna Olexy)
ASA to Offer Social Media Pre-Conference Workshop (Nathan Palmer)
Applications Invited for Inaugural Editor of the New ASA Open Access Journal (ASA Publications)
Dual-Credit Partnership Between a High School and Hawkeye Community College (Chad Van Cleve)
2014 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners: Jesse Holzman, Carolina Calvillo, Michael De Anda Muñiz, William Scarborough, and Barbara Risman, Danielle Kane, James Kitts.
ASA Forum: The Open Access Movement and Activism for the “Knowledge Commons” (Jackie Smith)
Congratulations to the ISA Travel Grant Awardees
Sociologists Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Adam Gamoran, Sherry R. Turkle.
Sociologists Appointed Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars: Richard D. Alba, Zai Liang, Ann Morning, Sean Reardon, Aliya Saperstein, Susan Silbey
Sociologists Receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships: Jack A. Goldstone & Cecilia Menjívar.
It’s Here! 21st Century Careers in Sociology, 2nd Edition (ASA Publications)
Announcements
Deaths: Micheal S. Jarrett, William E. Knox
Obituaries: Rodney M. Coe, James “Jim” McAllister
Call for Nominations for ASA Offices

July/August 2014 (Volume 42, Number 6)

Youth Activism in the Bay Area (Jessica K. Taft & Hava R. Gordon)
Results of the 2014 Election: President-Elect Ruth Milkman, Vice President-Elect Barbara J. Risman, Council Members-at-Large Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Margaret Hunter, Peter Kivisto, Committee on Nominations Grace Kao, Rashawn Ray, Omar A Lizardo, Lyn Spillman, Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University Victor Rios, Committee on Publications Kathleen M. Blee, Douglas Hartmann, Committee on Committees Bandana Purkayastha, Gilda L. Ochoa, Rita Stephan, State Amin Ghaziani
Social Psychology Quarterly Welcomes New Co-Editors (Brian Powel)
The Importance of Statistics within the Discipline (sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: NSF Addressing Transparency and Accountability, Census Bureau Story Maps Illustrate Metro Area and County Population Change, Impact of Behavioral Health Conditions and Treatment on Young Adults, U.S. Teen Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates Reach Historic Lows
Advocating for Social Science Is a Team Sport (Wendy A. Naus)
2014 ASA Dissertation Award Winners: Yan Long, Ya-Wen Lei
Thank You, Bobbie Spalter-Roth! (Mary Scheuer Senter)
Making a Life in Applied Sociology: Working at an Employee-Owned Research Corporation (Margaret Weigers Vitullo)
Evolving Oakland: Five Years Living in a Gentrified, Occupied, and Artified City (Cynthia Ganote and Sheila Katz)
2014 Graduate Poster Session
Seeking Donations: Digitizing Editorial Archives (ASA Executive Office)
Sociologists Tackle Access to Health Care in a Rural Community (Brandn Green, Kristal Jones and Carl Milofsky)
Russian Academia: Building an Information Society and Global Ties (Olga V. Mayorova)
Introducing MFP Cohort 4: Shani Adia Evans (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Ryan Gabriel (MSS/ABS MFP), Jackelyn Hwang (AKD MFP) Yvonne Y. Kwan (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Victoria Reyes (Council/ Leadership Campaign MFP), Sasha Maria Rodriguez (SWS MFP #1), Firuzeh Shokooh Valle (SWS MFP #2), (ASA Minority Fellowship)
Three Sociologists Elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Peter Bearman, Kathryn Edin, Kathleen Mullan Harris.
ASA Awards Six Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Jennifer Karas Montez, Zulema Valdez, Nancy Plankey Videla, Michaela Soyer and Gary Zajac, Sean Kelly, Amanda K. Damarin, Emily Ryo.
The AAPSS Elects Three Sociologists among its 2014 Fellows: Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, and Heidi Hartmann.
ASA Forum: Labeling Theory in Retrospect (Thomas Schef)
Announcements
Deaths: Gary S. Becker, Donald J. Bogue, Mary Cay Sengstock
Obituaries: William Averette Anderson, Roderick Douglas Bush, Mary Cay Sengstock, Austin T. Turk
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline

September/October 2014 (Volume 42, Number 7)

Paula England: No Sense of (Geographic) Direction but a Profound Sense of Academic Direction (Kathryn Edin)
The Contexts Editors Bring Energy and Experience with Public Engagement (Douglas Hartmann)
2014 ASA Annual Meeting Sets Attendance Records (Daniel Fowler)
Why Study Social Science? “Because It Matters.” (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: Census Bureau’s ACS Provides State and Local Income, Poverty, Health Insurance Statistics, PRB’s 2014 World Population Data Sheet Is Online, NICHD Partners with Other Federal Agencies to Support Young Children
New Major Department Affiliate Benefits Launched (ASA Membership)
Think Ahead to 2016! Invited Session Proposals Solicited for the 111th Annual Meeting (ASA Membership)
2016 Annual Meeting Theme: Rethinking Social Movements: Can Changing the Conversation Change the World? (ASA Membership)
The ASA Minority Fellowship Program (Johanna Olexy)
Council Highlights from August 19-20, 2014, meetings in San Francisco
American Sociology in an Era of Rising Inequalities (Herbert J. Gans)
ASA Open Access Journal Editors
Ralph H. Turner: Social Psychologist and Eclectic Symbolic Interactionist 1919-2014 (Robert Emerson and David A. Snow)
Tributes to Turner: A Master Sociological Craftsman
ASA Congratulates Havidán and Gary! (ASA Minority Affairs Program)
ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success
Regional and Aligned 2014–15 Meeting Schedule (ASA Meetings Department)
News from the International Sociological Association Margaret Abraham Elected as ISA President for 2014–2018
Creating Universally Accessible Online Instruction (Mamadi Corra & Tracy E. Ore)
Applications Invited for Editorships (ASA Publications)
Three Years of the ASA Wikipedia Initiative (LiAnna Davis and Jami Mathewson)
Meet a Few ASA Staff
ASA Forum: Why I Value the ASA Meetings (James J. Dowd)
Announcements
Deaths: Elaine M. Brody, JoAnn Carmin, Peter Freund, Harvey H. Marshall, Norman Miller, Lillian B. Rubin
Obituaries: JoAnn Carmin, Peter E.S. Freund, Harvey Huston Marshall
Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline

November 2014 (Volume 42, Number 8)

The Epidemic of Sickness and Death from Prescription Drugs (Donald W. Light)
Contemporary Sociology and Borges’s Total Library (Gabriel Abend)
After Lean In: Research Reflections on Gender Studies (Marianne Cooper)
Creating Standards for High School Sociology (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: Love Data Mining? 2011–2013 American Community Survey Estimates Now Available, The NSF on Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research
ASA Council Establishes Task Force for Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major: Volunteers Sought (ASA Department Resources Group (DRG)
Facing an Unequal World: The 2014 ISA World Congress at Yokohama, Japan (Bandana Purkayastha)
Purkayastha Appointed ASA Representative to the ISA (Johanna Olexy)
ASA Welcomes its Newest Congressional Fellow (Johanna Olexy)
The Spivack Program Awards Eight CARI Grants: Tony Cheng, Gloria Gonzalez, Maryann Mason, Jennifer Randles, Melissa M. Sloan and Jane Roberts, Rebecca L. Som Castellano, Elizabeth L. Sweet and Donna Marie Peters, Leslie K. Wang.
Call for ASA Award Nominations
Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco: W.E.B. Dubois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award William Julius Wilson, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Richard O. Hope, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology Juliet B. Schor,
Vision Statements for ASR, SM, ST Editor Candidates Available Online for Member Comment (ASA Publications)
Call for Submissions: Sociological Lives
American Sociologist Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Award: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
TRAILS Seeks an Editor (ASA APAP)
Announcements
Obituaries: Susan Schwartz Danziger Borchert, Llewellyn Z. Gross, Harvey Huston Marshall, Norman Miller, Leonard I. Pearlin
Call for Applications: The Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy Community Action Research Initiative Grant
ASA Congressional Fellowship

December 2014 (Volume 42, Number 9)

The Committee on Revising the Code of Ethics (Thomas Van Valey)
ASA Partners with Interfolio to Bring Big Benefits to Members, Department Affiliates (Jamie Panzarella)
2015 ASA Election Candidates: President-Elect: Michele Lamont, Min Zhou, Vice President-Elect: Kathleen Gerson, Verta Taylor, Secretary-Elect: Mary Bernstein, David Takeuchi, Council Members At-Large: Mabel Berezin, Daniel F. Chambliss, Cynthia Feliciano, Mignon R. Moore, Wendy Ng, Wanda Rushing, Brent Simpson, Frederick F. Wherry, Committee on Nominations: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Rodney D. Coates, D’Lane Compton, James R. Elliott, David G. Embrick, Brian Gareau, Maria Krysan, Nancy Lopez, Becky Pettit, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Jiannbin Shiao, Tom J. Waidzunas, Committee on Publications: Jessica Collett, Matthew O. Hunt, Jodi O’Brien, Claire M. Renzetti, Committee on Committees: Member at-Large Ben Carrington, Ruth N. Lopez-Turley, Ann J. Morning, Iddo Tavory, University Masters / FourYear Schools: Peter Callero, Charles Gallagher, Two Year Schools: Kira N. Arthurs, James McKeever.
Renewing a Commitment to Sociology and the ASA: Reflections from Members and Staff (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: AAAS Announces Their New CEO Is Representative Holt, IOM: Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Important for Patient Care
Council Bestows its Appreciation for Cora Marrett (ASA Minority Affairs)
Space for Affiliates and Other Group Activities (ASA Meetings Department)
A Poverty and Inequality Course for All (David B. Grusky and Lindsay Owens)
Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in San Francisco, Continued – Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (co-recipient) Monica Prasad, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (co-recipient) Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (honorable mention) Claudio E. Benzecry, Jessie Bernard Award Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Jessie Bernard Major ASA Award Christine Williams, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award Kathleen S. Lowney, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology Harry Perlstadt, Excellence in Reporting on Social Issues Award Lee Rainee, Dissertation Major ASA Award Ya-Wen Lei, Dissertation Major ASA Award Yan Long.
Using Wikipedia in Sociology Courses: the Faculty Perspective (Darcie Vandegrift and Natalie Jolly)
ASA Awards Five Grants for the Advancement of Sociology: Shiri Noy, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Christopher Uggen, Victor Ray, and Matthew Hughey, Kristen Shorette, Nicholas Wilson, Yale University, and Damon Mayrl.
Call for Papers: ASA Student Forum Paper Competition (ASA Student Forum)
Report from the ASA Committee on Publications (Erin L. Kelly)
Announcements
Call for Nominations: ASA Honors Program
Obituaries: Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
Call for Applications: Extended Call for Applications for Sociological Theory Journal Editorship
Call for Applications: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program

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