- Professional Development Opportunities
- A Resource You Can Use: Teaching Statistics
- TRAILS Celebrates 15 Years of Teaching Excellence
- The ASA Graduate Department Guide Has Gone Digital!
- Explore the Sociology Job Market in the ASA Career Center
- Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Professional Development Opportunities
Featured Recorded Webinar
| Access Anytime | Getting to Submit: Advice on Preparing a Paper for Presentation |
Virtual Proseminars for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty
| May 15 | Navigating the Challenges of IRB |
Events for Department Affiliates*
| May 20 | Department Leaders Mentoring Workshop
*For soon-to-be, new, or early department chairs and directors of undergraduate and graduate studies |
*Department Affiliate event links are shared via the listserv. Join today to stay in the loop!
A Resource You Can Use: Teaching Statistics
TRAILS, ASA’s peer-reviewed digital teaching resources library is free to ASA members. It features the resource collection, “Teaching Statistics.” This collection connects students to the empirical basis of the discipline represents a marketable job skill, and demonstrates that teaching statistics can be engaging and fun.
TRAILS Celebrates 15 Years of Teaching Excellence
Since its launch in 2010, TRAILS—ASA’s Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology–has been a trusted, peer-reviewed repository for high-quality resources that support scholarly teaching across the discipline. During this crucial time for the discipline, TRAILS remains a place educators can lean on for reliable and up-to-date assignments, activities, syllabi, and more. We encourage all members to learn more about this unique resource, to use the platform to aid in your own teaching, and to submit your innovative teaching resources that support the sociology of teaching and learning.
NEW! The ASA Graduate Department Guide Has Gone Digital!
Feature your department in front of a broad audience of future scholars and sociologists. Departments offering a sociology graduate degree can purchase a listing and easily reach prospective students and colleagues through the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. If your department has not yet been listed in the 2025 guide, purchase your listing now and it will immediately appear in the guide among the other departments that have listed.
Individual ASA members and Department Affiliate members have free access to the guide through their member portal and nonmembers can purchase access to the guide here (requires account login).
Need help? Contact [email protected].
Explore the Sociology Job Market in the ASA Career Center
Access to the ASA Career Center is free for members! Explore the most comprehensive collection of jobs advertisements for sociologists. Create your profile to browse and compare current job postings in academia, administration, and practice; upload a CV or resume; and read career-focused resources on navigating the job market.
Recent Podcasts from ASA Journals
Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their research. We invite you to listen to the latest podcasts and read the corresponding articles linked below.
- American Sociological Review (April 2025): “Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action” by Ioana Sendroiu, Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea, and Fabian Winter; listen to the podcast.
- Journal of World-Systems Research (Winter/Spring 2025): “Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective” by Roberto J. Ortiz; listen to the podcast.
- Sociology of Education (April 2025): “Sent Out, Kept In: Detainment-Based Discipline in a Public High School” by Karlyn J. Gorski; listen to the podcast.
- Teaching Sociology (April 2025): “Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice” by Matthew Mitchell, Josiah Lulham, Flynn Pervan, and William Arpke-Wales; listen to the podcast.
Visit Podcasts to review more recent podcasts from ASA journals.