- Featured Recorded Webinar
- ASA Graduate Department Guide
- A Resource You Can Use
- Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Featured Recorded Webinar
Access anytime! ASA has a back catalog of informative webinars available on demand for members. Check out the recording of “Becoming an ASA Journal Editor,” featuring current and past ASA journal editors discussing their perspectives on putting together a successful application packet, negotiating with departments and institutions for support, day-to-day tasks associated with editing a journal, and ASA resources for editors.
ASA Graduate Department Guide
Access to the 2026 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology is a member benefit. The guide provides comprehensive information for academic administrators, advisers, faculty, students, and a host of others seeking information on graduate departments of sociology. Individual ASA members and Department Affiliate members have free access to the digital guide through their member portal and nonmembers can purchase access to the guide here.
Departments offering a sociology graduate degree can purchase a listing and easily reach prospective students and colleagues. Purchase your listing today, and it will appear immediately in the guide.
A Resource You Can Use
TRAILS, ASA’s peer-reviewed digital teaching resources library, is free to ASA members. It features the resource, “Sociology of Food Syllabus,” designed for an upper-division Sociology of Food course. It uses journalism, cultural studies, emotions, media studies, and more to teach topics ranging from food systems, access, and identity to (de)colonization, gentrification, and consumerism. .
Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
ASA invites you to listen to our latest podcasts, featuring engaging interviews with several authors of recently published articles in the ASA journals!
- American Sociological Review (April 2026): “Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence” by Shay O’Brien; listen to the podcast.
- Contexts (Winter 2026): “DIY Faith” by Landon Schnabel, Ilana M. Horwitz, Peyman Hekmatpour, and Cyrus Schleifer; listen to the podcast.
- Sociological Methodology (April 2026): “Joint Text-and-Image Clustering for Social Science Research” by Han Zhang and Ryan Leung; listen to the podcast.
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (April 2026): “Trauma Pouring: The Uses, Costs, and Risks of Retelling Trauma” by Caleb E. Dawson; listen to the podcast.
- Teaching Sociology (April 2026): “Exploring the Impacts of Students’ Characteristics, Pedagogical Activities, and Course Structure on Personal Resonance and Practical Applications of Transformative Pedagogy” by Oral Robinson and Rohil Sharma; listen to the podcast.
Click here to visit the archive of past podcasts from ASA journals.