Footnotes 2015 | American Sociological Association

January 2015 (Volume 43, Number 1)

High School Sociology Front and Center Once Again at NCSS (Jean H. Shin, Beth Floyd, and Margaret Weigers Vitullo)
Sociology and Criminal Justice: Few Differences in Learning and Career Outcomes (Mary S. Senter and Roberta Spalter-Roth)
Teaching Sociology with Wikipedia (Eryk Salvaggio and Jami Mathewson)
The Policy Relevance of Sociology (Sally T. Hillsman)
Science Policy: Discontinuation of the National Children’s Study, Twenty Years of OBSSR: Behavioral and Social Sciences Remain Important to Health Research
The Shifting Landscape: Critically Contextualizing Conversations About Campus Sexual Violence (Ashley C. Rondini)
Producing the Most Valid and Reliable Estimates Possible at the U.S. Census (Johanna Olexy)
Bolstering Confidence and Understanding by Presenting with Undergraduates at Regional Meetings (Rena Zito)
Three Sociologists Elected as AAAS Fellows: Dudley L. Poston, Jr, Barbara Schneider, Michael J. White
Attracting and Retaining Sociology Majors (Julia Nevarez)
Applied Sociology: Starting a Master’s Online (Jeffrey Michael Clair)
Call for 2016 Annual Meeting Workshop Proposals! (ASA Meetings Department)
Earl Babbie to Present Inaugural Lecture in ORN’s “A Life in Sociology” Series, (ASA Meetings Department)
Call for Nominations: 2015 ASA Student Forum Advisory Board
Announcements
Thank You, ASA Members!
Obituaries: Daniel Aaron Foss, Albert K. Cohen,

February 2015 (Volume 43, Number 2)

Back to Sweet Home Chicago (William T. Bielby)
Reflections on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre (Erik Olin Wright)
Recipients of 2015 ASA Awards: W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award: John W. Meyer, Publication Award: Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Eleanor Lyon, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Gwen Sharpe and Lisa Wade, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: Howard Winant, Jessie Bernard Award: Nancy Naples, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award: Bill Moyers, Public Understanding of Sociology Award: Katherine Shelley Newman.
Communicating Social Science
Science Policy: Criminologist Appointed Director of NIJ, Belief in “Raw Brilliance” May Decrease Academic Diversity, New Steps to Enhance Transparency and Accountability at NSF
New Bylaws to Modernize COSSA’s Governance Structure (Wendy Naus)
2015 ASA Annual Meeting Film Screening (Jaime Hecht)
Choosing the Slate of Candidates for ASA Elections (Johanna Olexy)
Helping Students Make the Connection Between Sociology and Careers (Heather Sullivan-Catlin)
Class Activity: Learning Sociology by Updating the U.S. Constitution (Judith Blau)
Review for Contemporary Sociology (ASA Publications Committee)
New ASA Executive Office Staff: Redante Asuncion-Reed, John Curtis, Brandon McCain
Announcements
ASA Forum: Commentary on the Paris Killings at Charlie Hebdo, Google Offers Free Research Assistance
Deaths: Joseph Gusfield, Elizabeth (Liz) Markson, Eugene S. Uyeki, Hernán Vera
Obituaries: Albert K. Cohen, Scott R. Eliason, Linda Majka, Elizabeth Warren Markson, JoAnn L. Miller
Call for Applications: Student Forum Travel Grants

March/April 2015 (Volume 43, Number 3)

The Chicago Craft Brew Scene (Paul-Brian McInerney)
ASA Files Amicus Brief With Supreme Court in Support of Marriage Equality (Daniel Fowler)
Candidates for the 2015 ASA Election: Michele Lamont, Min Zhou, Kathleen Gerson, Verta Taylor, Mary Bernstein, David Takeuchi
Why Standards? (Sally T. Hillsman)
Social Science Research and Public Policy: Context, Networks, and Strategies (Patricia White, Roberta Spalter-Roth, Amy Best and Kelly Joyce)
Global Dialogue: An ISA President’s Reflections (Michael Burawoy)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Posters on the Hill (Jaime Hecht)
American Sociological Association Council Highlights
The Value of Booking Within the ASA Hotel Block (Kareem D. Jenkins)
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Launched Its Inaugural Issue
2014 Top 10 Resources in TRAILS (Jaime Hecht)
Chicago: Windier than Jazz Hands (Jordan Aubry Robison)
Two ASA Presidents Speak at DCSS (President Paula England & Ruth Milkman)
Effective Program Review: The Lessons I Have Learned (Theodore C. Wagenaar)
Congratulations to Janet Astner on Her 40 Years at ASA (Jean Shin)
2015 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Winners: Molly Clever & Karen Miller, Dennis J. Downey, Naomi Spence
Announcements
Deaths: Randy Hodson, Bruce R. Roberts
Obituaries: Ulrich Beck, Homer C. Cooper, Howard J. Ehrlich, Adeline “Addie” Levine
Funding: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (ASA Research and Development Department)

May/June 2015 (Volume 43, Number 4)

Social Inequality, Racial Isolation and the Windy City (Roberta Garner, Black Hawk Hancock and Bryan Sykes)
Keister and Moody to Edit Socius (Mark S. Mizruchi)
Social Media Pre-Conference at the 2015 ASA Annual Meeting
Vantage Point: Socius, Open Access, and the Future of Scholarly Publication
Science Policy: NIH Names Eliseo Perez-Stable Director of the NIMHD; The Census’s American Community Survey Will Keep Questions on Marriage and Major; Federally Funded R&D Center Spending Declined Since One-time Infusion of Funds in 2009; OSTP: Using Behavioral Science Insights to Make Government More Effective, Simpler, and More People-Friendly
Sociologist Present Policy-Relevant Research on Capitol Hill
Looking for a New Position? The ASA Can Help on the Job Hunt
International Perspectives: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences: A Reflection of the Current Arab World (Mohammed A. Bamyeh)
The Comedy of Sociology (Nate Dern)
ASA Awards Six FAD Grants for the Advancement of Sociology
A FAD Grant Update: The Democratizing Inequalities Project (Caroline Lee)
COSSA Host Annual Meeting and Inaugural Cross-Social Science Advocacy Day (Wendy Naus)
Tracing the Trajectory of Federal Initiatives Addressing Campus Sexual Violence (Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin, and Marsha College)
Sociologist Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Three Sociologists Named Carnegie Fellows
There Are at Least 52 Reasons to Join a Section, Here Are a Few
25 years ago what was going on at the ASA?
Three Sociologist Receive 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships
Sociologist Appointed Russell Safe Foundation Visiting Scholars
Announcements
Deaths: Jan Hullum, Donald N. Levine, Richard Suzman

July/August 2015 (Volume 43, Number 5)

Results of the 2015 Election
Notre Dame Scholars to Take Over the Helm at ASR (Jeremy Freese)
Musical Chicago (Deena Weinstein)
Vantage Point: ASA Journal Editorial Records 1991-2009
Tough Months for SBE Sciences in the U.S. House (Brad Smith)
Schedules that Work (Lindsay Owens)
A Dream Come True: Duane Alwin to Edit Sociologist Methodology (Jennifer Barber)
In Our Son’s Name: A Documentary on the Transformation of Tragedy (Matthew T. Lee)
Climate Change and Society ASA Task Force Report Published by Oxford (Riley E. Dunlap)
ASA Welcomes MFP Cohort 42 (Beth Floyd)
ABS Celebrates Its 45^th Annual Conference in Chicago (Jean H. Shin)
The Supreme Court Reognizes Marriage Equality
Reimagining Medicine: Sociology and the MCAT (Natalie A. Jansen)
Working Group Reports on How the Annual Meeting Sites Are Selected
New Stuff Happening at Context (Syed Ali)
The Spivack Program Awards Nine CARI Grants
Announcements
Funding: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Obituaries: Walter Firey
Deaths: Gerald M. Platt, Don C. Gibbons, Jack K Martin, James B. McKee, Robert K. Miller, Jr., Samuel E. Wallace, Hans Zetterberg,

September/October 2015 (Volume 43, Number 6)

Meet the 2016 ASA President: Ruth Milkman (Sarah Jaffe)
Sociological Theory Welcomes New Editor Mustafa Emirbayer (Chad Alan Goldberg)
Executive Officer Hillsman to Retire in May 2016
Vantage Point: Council Approves Disciplinary Standards for High School Sociology
Science Policy: HHS Releases Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule; White House Announces New Steps to Improve Federal Programs by Leveraging for SBS Research Insights; William T. Riley Selected as Next Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
William Julius Wilson says His Arguments on Race and Class Still Apply
Think Ahead to 2017! Invited Session Proposals Are Solicited for the 112^th Annual Meeting
2017 Annual Meeting Theme: Culture, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion across the Globe (Michele Lamont)
Sociologist Take Windy City by Storm (Daniel Fowler and Catherine Turvey)
How Is Your Program Preparing Undergrads for Employment? Liberal Learning Task Force Seeks Examples
Sex and Gender Categories for ASA Membership
The Importance of State and Regional Associations (Douglas Hartmann)
2015-2016 Regional and Aligned Association Meetings
ASA Open Access Journal Socius Is Accepting Manuscripts (Lisa A. Keister and James W. Moody)
The Graduate Teaching Seminar Project Using TRAILS (Diane Pike)
Impactful IDEAS (Christopher Wetzel)
American Sociological Review Ranked #1
ASA Member-Get-A-Member Campaign a Success
Applications Invited for Editorships
Announcements
Funding: American Academy in Berlin; Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
Obituaries: Leonard Gordon, Randy Hodson, Burkart Holzner, Thomas S. Korllos, Suet-ling Pong, Jack Siegman

November 2015 (Volume 43, Number 7)

Sociology Makes a Comeback! The Department Returns to Washington University in St. Louis (Adia Harvey)
Earl Babbie: An [Accidental] Career in Sociology (Craig Schaar)
Major ASA Award Recipients Honored in Chicago
TRAILS Is Now a Core Benefit of ASA Membership
Science Policy: NSF Seeks Candidates for Division Director of Social and Economic Sciences; Census Measuring Race and Ethnicity across The Decades: 1970-2010; PRB Releases World Population Data Sheet
The AAPSS Welcomes a New President and a New Fellow
Invited Session Proposals Solicited for the 2017 Annual Meeting
How Sociology Departments Can Help Pre-Med Students (Elizabeth Borland)
Call for Submissions: Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grants Program
Call for ASA Award Nominations
Council Highlights
2016 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
New Fellowship at the Center for Engaged Scholarship
Send Us Your News
Visionary Sociology and Academic Recognition (Wesley Shrum and Greg Scott)
Announcements
Funding: Ideas 42, International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS REMEP), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 2016 Sakip Sabanci International Research Award
Deaths: Richard Hall, Andrew Kohut
Obituaries: Susan Gonzalez Baker, Timothy J. Gallagher, Gerald M. Platt, Vladimir Shlapentokh, A. Kathryn Stout

December 2015 (Volume 43, Number 8)

Council Establishes Task Force on Contingent Faculty
ASA Joins AERA et al. in Fisher v. UT-Austin Amicus
2016 ASA National Election Candidates
Vantage Point: Sociology is a STEM Discipline
ASA Welcomes its Newest Congressional Fellow
Where Are They Now?
Three Sociologist Elected as AAAS Fellows
Space for Affiliates and Other Group Activities
ASA Executive Officer Job Announcement
ASA Congressional Fellowship
Nominations Sought for 2016 Section Awards
Challenges and Rewards of Community Action Research (Rebecca L. Som Castellano)
TRAILS Welcomes Juilie Pelton as its New Editor (Doug Hartmann)
Top-Cited Articles in Sociology Journals, 2010-2014 (Jerry A. Jacobs)
Student Retention in the Sociology Major: First Generation, Students of Color, and Low-Income Students (Richard Paul Devin)
A Report from PubsComm (Jennifer Barber)
ASA Awards Five GAD Grants to Advance Sociology
ASA Forum for Public Discussion and Debate
Announcements
Funding: Advertising Educational Foundation 2016 Visiting Professor Program, American Council of Learned Socities (ACLS) Digital Extension Grant, Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa, National Institutes of Health Common Fund, National Institute of Nursing Research, Sakip Sabanci International Research Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
Deaths: Jorge Chapa, Viola Lee Hamilton, George Kourvetaris
Obituaries: George A. Kourvetaris

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