Footnotes 2020 | American Sociological Association

January/February 2020 (Volume 48, Number 1)

Announcing the 2020 ASA Award Winners
Socius Welcomes a New Editorial Team from the University of Oregon: Light, Gullickson, and Pascoe
NSF’s REU Program Provides Research Opportunities for Undergraduates
Changes Coming to 2020 Census Data
Invited Session Proposals are Solicited for the 2021 ASA Annual Meeting
Sexual Harassment and the Rationales for Punishment
ASA at the National Council for the Social Studies
ASA is Hiring: Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ASA Research Snapshot: Top 10 Sociology Interest Areas in 2019
ASA Hosts Aldon Morris at DC Sociological Society Event
Student Forum Travel Awards Applications Due April 1
Annual Meeting Travel Fund Applications Due April 1
Deaths: Lawrence Busch, Thomas C. Calhoun, John Churchill, and Murray Milner Jr..
Obituaries: Matthew Curtis Brown, Myron Glazer, Mareyjoyce Green, Marc W. Steinberg

Special Issue: COVID-19, May/June 2020 (Volume 48, Number 3)

Sociologists and Sociology during COVID-19
Personal Narratives:
Remedies in a World Upside Down (Elizabett Sugeiry Baez)
How Am I Doing? (Carol Caronna)
Mentally Returning to Mississippi (Joseph C. Ewoodzie)
Insights on the Pandemic from Abroad (Angel Hoekstra)
Reflections from a Sabbatical during COVID-19 (Timothy Pippert)
Redefining Progress (Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear)
Are We Protected Enough? (Ryan Trettevik)
Views of the Pandemic from Retirement (Theodore C. Wagenaar)
Professional Challenges Facing Sociologists:
International Education and the COVID-19 Crisis (Esther D. Brimmer)
Finding Our Way Forward When the Only Paths Are Rocky: The Case of CSU-Channel Islands (Dennis Downey)
Archival Research during COVID-19 (Shai M. Dromi)
Ethnography in the Time of COVID-19 (Gary Alan Fine)
Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Plight for Graduate Students (Britany Gatewood)
Strategies for Managing Stress during a Storm (Tanya Golash-Boza)
Contingent Faculty Face Added Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Kimberly Hennessee)
Essential Skills for Researchers during COVID-19: Agility and a Quick Pivot (Samantha Jaroszewski)
Graduate Education and Academic Labor for Graduate Students during the Pandemic (prabhdeep singh kehal and Michael D. Kennedy)
Sociological Reflections on the Distance Between Skin and Skin (David L. Levinson)
Challenges for High School Teachers of Sociology during the Pandemic (Chris Salituro and Hayley Lotspeich)
Sociological Insights on COVID-19:
Pervasive Ageism in the Response to the Pandemic (Aging and the Life Course)
What Happens When a Pandemic Intersects With an Epidemic? (Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco)
COVID-19, Animals, and Us: Human Supremacy as an Environmental Pathology (Animals and Society)
The Nativist Fault Line and Precariousness of Race in the Time of Coronavirus (Asia and Asian America)
Coronavirus and the Inequity of Accountability for At-Home Learning (Children and Youth)
Local Politics and Civic Participation during the COVID-19 Crisis (Community and Urban Sociology)
“Condemned to Repeat It”: The U.S. Response to COVID-19 (Comparative-Historical Sociology)
Disability as an Axis of Inequality: A Pandemic Illustration (Disability in Society)
Framing the Pandemic for Students from a Sociological Perspective (Economic Sociology)
Lessons in Finding Consensus (Environmental Sociology)
Social Interaction and Presentation of Self in a Masked World (Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Lesson in Evolution, Biology, and Society (Evolution, Biology, and Society)
Imagining the Public Amidst the Pandemic in China and the United States (Global and Transnational Sociology)
How Might a Study of the History of Sociology Inform the Discipline’s Response to the Pandemic? (History of Sociology)
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Normal Accidents and Cascading System Failures (Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility)
Being an Immigrant with Limited Social Protections Is a Killer during a Pandemic Too (International Migration)
Contributions to COVID-19 Response Efforts (Mathematical Sociology)
Sociology as a Lens on the Pandemic and Responses to It (Medical Sociology)
Modeling the Impact of Collective Action on Coronavirus Containment (Methodology)
COVID-19: A Threat to Jobs and Identities (Organizations, Occupations, and Work)
Theorizing Social Response to COVID-19 in the U.S. (Political Sociology)
Linking Higher Black Mortality Rates from COVID-19 to Racism and Racial Inequality (Racial and Ethnic Minorities)
COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge (Science, Knowledge, and Technology)
Looking Beyond the Sick Body (Sociology of Body and Embodiment)
Culture, Crisis, and Morality (Sociology of Culture)
Development, Global Health, and COVID-19 (Sociology of Development)
COVID-19, Technology, and Implications for Educational Equity (Sociology of Education)
Is it Really Okay to Feel Not Okay? Reflections from Three Scholars of Emotion (Sociology of Emotions)
The Sociology of Human Rights and COVID-19 (Sociology of Human Rights)
Speaking for the Dying (Sociology of Law)
What We Still Need to Know (Sociology of Population)
Why Sociologists of Religion Are Needed to Study COVID-19 Response (Sociology of Religion)
Reproduction during COVID-19: Implications of Physical and Social Isolation (Sociology of Sex and Gender)
Isolating Intervention: Prevention as Citizenship (Sociology of Sexualities)
Three Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19 (Teaching and Learning in Sociology)
ASA News
ASA’s COVID-19 Resources for Sociologists
ASA Advocacy during the Pandemic
2019 Journal Manuscript Summary Report
ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
2020 ASA Community Action Research Initiative Grant
Journals in Transition
References for the Special Issue on COVID-19
Deaths: Allen Martin Fremont, Mark Frezzo, James A. Geschwender
Obituaries: Darrin Adams, James E. Blackwell, Jo Dixon, Johan Goudsblo, Dan C. Lortie

Special Issue: Race, Police Violence, and Justice, July/August 2020 (Volume 48, Number 4)

Sociological Promise in an Age of Crises (Aldon Morris)
George Floyd’s Murder is the Twenty-first Century Emmett Till Moment: How Sociological Research Informs Police Reform (Rashawn Ray)
Police, Culture, and Inequality (Michael Sierra-Arévalo)
Legal Estrangement: A Concept for These Times (Monica C. Bell)
Race, Violence, Justice, and Campus Police (John J. Sloan III)
Who’s Looting Whom? Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket (Joshua Page and Joe Soss)
Eight Bullets, Eight Minutes – What Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Had in Common (Nikki Jones)
The Love Note That Launched a Movement (Carly Jennings)
The Demography of Police-Involved Homicides (Michael Esposito, Frank Edwards, Hedwig Lee)
2020 ASA Election Results
ASA 2020 Award Winners: Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award (Vilna Bashi Treitler), Dissertation Award (Christina Cross), Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (Patricia Fernandez-Kelly), Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, co-winner (Brian Powell and Michael Schwartz), Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, co-winner (Tey Meadow and Héctor Carrillo), Jessie Bernard Award (Jennifer Glass), Public Understanding of Sociology Award (Tressie McMillan Cottom), W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (Aldon Morris)
Congratulations to the New Minority Fellows: Announcing MFP Cohort 47
Iddo Tavory Is the New Editor of Sociological Theory
Research Snapshot: Sociology Department Structure Varies by Institution Type
New ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grantees
Biographical Monuments: Committee on ASA Presidential Biographies Organizes Revision of Online Profiles
Open Call: ASA Online Presidential Biographies
ASA’s Professional Development Videos Provide Members with Deep Dives into Careers in Practice Settings, Article Publishing, and Media Relations
ASA Sections Generously Provide Support to the Minority Fellowship Program
Thank You to ASA’s Generous Member Donors
Deaths: Richard J. Gelles, James A. Geschwender
Obituaries: Harold G. Grasmick, Kenneth L. Wilson

Special Issue: Election Reflections, Fall 2020 (Volume 48, Number 5)

If the Polls Are So Wrong, How Come You’re Paying So Much Attention? (Andrew J. Perrin)
How Will Black Women Shape the 2020 Election? What Will the Outcome Mean for Them? (Adia Harvey Wingfield)
Are We Ready for a Woman of Color as President of the United States? (Caroline Heldman)
Politics and Inequality in Washington (James R. Jones)
Racial Capitalism and the 2020 Election: On the Presentism and Methodological Individualism of American Sociology (Cedric de Leon)
White Racial Projects in the 2020 Election and the American Indian Origins Controversy (Enid Logan)
Where the Sleeping Giant Lies? Latinos, Puerto Ricans, and the 2020 Election (Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino)
Immigration and the 2020 Election (Roger Waldinger)
Why Voters Don’t Get the Policies They Want (Richard Lachmann)
Introducing 2021 ASA President Aldon Morris.
Introducing the New Editors of Social Psychology Quarterly.
New Approach to Dues for 2021: When We Pull Together, We All Win.
Thank You to Everyone Who Made ASA’s 2020 Virtual Engagement Event a Success.
ASA Financial Update.
Congratulations to the 2020 Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund Award Winners: 1) Matthew Archibald and Omar Nagi 2) Pamela Ray Koch, Debra Swanson, and Aaron Franzen
Research Snapshot: Which Concentrations Are Offered in Sociology Departments?
Call for Nominations: ASA Awards.
Call for Applications: Sociology of Education Editorship.
Call for Applications: ASA Minority Fellowship Program.
Call for Nominations: ASA Student Forum Advisory Board.
Call for Applications: TRAILS Area Editors.
Call for Applications: Classes for the TRAILS Teaching Seminar Program.
Deaths: Thomas J. Fararo, James S. Jackson, Charles Bosk
Obituaries: Mark Frezzo, Jack P. Gibbs, Murray Milner, Jr., Joan Willard Moore, Edna Viruell-Fuentes

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