The British Journal of Sociology invites abstracts for an upcoming issue on the theme, “The New Sociology of Propaganda.” Editors hope the issue will help set the social scientific agenda on propaganda as we enter the second quarter of the 21st century. They welcome sociological research from all subfields and all methodologies, covering any corner of the globe, which bears on questions of modern propaganda and encourage empirical articles as well as those more historical in focus and those dedicated to building more theoretical understandings of propaganda. The abstract submission deadline is March 16, 2026. Read the full call for submissions here.
The Michigan Sociological Review, the peerreviewed journal of the Michigan Sociological Association, invites manuscripts representing a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches for its upcoming volume. Editors are also accepting essays on teaching and learning, as well as reviews of books and educational software. The submission deadline is May 31, 2026. Read more about how to submit here.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications invites work that explores the cultural dimensions of military life across global contexts for a special issue on the theme “Cultures of Command: Identity, Power, and Belonging in Global Militaries.” Editors are particularly interested in how armed forces (both state and non-state) construct and challenge ideas of gender, race, nationalism, professionalism, and sacrifice. In an era marked by both transnational conflict and rising demands for accountability, understanding military culture requires interdisciplinary approaches that bridge anthropology, sociology, political science, history, gender studies, and cultural theory. This collection seeks to illuminate how military institutions both reflect and shape the societies they serve, and how individuals navigate identity, power and belonging within and around them. The submission deadline is July 21, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Social Psychology Quarterly invites article-length papers or research notes for its upcoming special issue on “Social Status.” Submissions should focus on how status is determined, how it impacts individuals, groups, and society, and how it relates to other social phenomena. Editors invite empirical articles that employ quantitative and/or qualitative methods as well as theoretical articles that make important contributions to the social psychological literature on status and are particularly interested in work that develops new theoretical insights on status, advances or refines existing theoretical models of status, or identifies interventions that mitigate the disadvantaging effects of status. For more information about this issue, including a list of possible topics, click here. The deadline for manuscripts is December 15, 2026.
The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages invites proposals for its second annual international conference on the theme “Global Futures of Higher Education: Autonomy in the Crosshairs,” to be held May 7–9, 2026, at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Participants will examine the future of higher education in an increasingly authoritarian global environment marked by democratic backsliding, political polarization, and intensifying state efforts to control knowledge production. A central concern of this convening will be systemic autonomy in higher education: the capacity of teaching and research to be guided by scholarly standards rather than direct political instruction. Proposals are due March 1, 2026. All selected participants will receive a $500 honorarium to help offset travel and lodging costs. Learn more here.
New Data, Methods, and Theory: Life-Course Cognitive Inequality Workshop will be held on May 11–12, 2026, at Yale University. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together researchers across sociology, epidemiology, psychology, economics, neuroscience, statistics, and data science to drive the next wave of conceptual and methodological breakthroughs in the field, charting a forward-looking agenda for aging and disparities research by integrating rigorous social theory with computational innovation, causal inference, and new measurement strategies. Organizers encourage submissions that advance analytical innovation in modeling cognition, leverage novel or interdisciplinary data sources, and clarify mechanisms of life-course inequality and resilience. Work that addresses disparities across racialized, socioeconomic, gendered, and geographic contexts, or that improves the validity and equity of cognitive assessment tools, will be particularly welcome. The submission deadline is March 1, 2026. Learn more and submit here.
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Social Sciences History Association invites proposals for its meeting in Atlanta, November 19–22, 2026, on the theme “Decentering Modernity.” Organizers invite interdisciplinary papers and panels that address social, political, economic, and cultural processes from a historical perspective, broadly defined, and particularly welcome works that examine the convergence, divergence, and connections among multiple forms of modernity across the world, spanning long, medium, or short historical timeframes. Submissions that connect historical analyses to contemporary issues are also encouraged. The submission deadline is March 1, 2026. Read the full call for proposals here.
Emonet XV—the 15th International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life will be held on the theme "Emotions and Sustainable Horizons," July 6–8, 2026, in Rennes, France. The conference will bring together an international community of scholars interested in emotions, lived experience, embodiment, space, ethics, and sustainability at work, with emotions as a unifying thread. Alongside contributions linked to the 2026 theme, organizers welcome theoretical and empirical papers addressing the broader study of emotions in organizational life. The submission deadline is March 2, 2026. Read the full call for papers and submission details here.
The Fourth World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation will be held on the theme “Religion as a Weapon of War: In the Past, Present and Future” on June 22–26, 2026, in Skopje, North Macedonia. The conference will bring together professors and researchers with expertise in religious studies from a variety of scientific disciplines to present their work on the interdisciplinary, interfaith debate on the connection between religion and war. Organizers will also invite the general public, policymakers, and religious communities to find solutions to these challenges. Abstracts of paper proposals are due April 15, 2026. Read more about the event and how to submit here.
The Pew Research Center invites proposals for research using recent Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures datasets. Pew will provide $3,000 (USD) each for 19 new papers using the recent Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures datasets. This includes the spring 2024 survey on religion and spirituality in 35 countries, the dataset of population estimates for more than 200 countries, and the cumulative dataset of global restrictions on religion. Researchers from around the world at all career stages, including doctoral students, are invited to submit proposals by March 2, 2026. Get more details here.
The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging, with funding from the National Institute on Aging, invites investigators to submit proposals for pilot research that enhances understanding of the multilevel and multidimensional drivers of rural health and aging trends and disparities. Investigators may request up to $35,000. Proposals are due by Friday, April 10, 2026. Read the full request for proposals here.
The Summer Institute on Longitudinal Data Analysis will be held July 12–17, 2026, at Purdue University. This intensive week-long program offers in-depth training on publicly available longitudinal data sources and advanced longitudinal data analysis techniques. Applicants should have a strong background in quantitative methods but a need for additional training in longitudinal data analysis. Applications are invited from graduate students, postdocs, faculty, industry researchers, nonprofit and public sector workers, and more. Scholarships are available that cover the full cost of tuition, travel to Purdue, housing, and food costs. The application deadline is March 15, 2026. Read more about the summer program here.
The 2026 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL)—operated by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—is accepting applications. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive research support, access to library resources, and competitive research awards to graduate and post-graduate scholars developing projects on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies. It is funded by the U.S. Department of State through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). The laboratory will take place on campus from June 8–July 31, 2026, and is open to advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and academic professionals in government and non-governmental organizations. The application deadline is March 16, 2026. Read more about this opportunity here.
The 2026 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is now open for registration and features more than 90 classes ranging from introductory statistics and data analysis to advanced training in cutting-edge and specialized methodological techniques. Running May-August 2026, classes are open to students, faculty, and researchers of all skill levels and backgrounds and are offered both in person and online. To view our schedule and register, click here. Registration is ongoing.
Renewing Development: Connection and Action is an international, transdisciplinary conference commemorating 25 years of the Polson Institute for Global Development to be held in person and virtually on April 8-10, 2026, at Cornell University. For 25 years, the Polson Institute for Global Development has supported critical and innovative work by researchers and practitioners to address challenges in development. At this conference, we will build on this legacy by bringing development practitioners, activists, policymakers, and researchers together to ask how development will be renewed. Through three days of active conversation, we will set a new vision for grounded in practical engagement and critical analysis. Find out more about the conference here.
The Sexual Health Exploration Project, with support from the Humanities Research Center and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will host a virtual symposium on “Authority and Health-Science-Knowledge” on April 17–19, 2026. The symposium will bring together scholars, practitioners, and community leaders sharing our diverse, divergent, and/or historically minoritized health and wellbeing knowledge(s), and demand that health science–and the political systems and structures that support and constrain it–do better for all of us. Find out more about the event here.
The 2026 Conference on Discrimination in the 21st Century: Fostering Conversations Across Fields will be held April 28–29, 2026, in Chicago. This conference will bring together researchers from different fields to discuss crucial themes around discrimination. Experts from economics, sociology, law, behavioral sciences, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and more will interact with each other through presentations and open panel discussions. For more information, click here.
Shaonta' E. Allen, Dartmouth College, delivered the keynote address at the school’s William Jewett Tucker Center’s multifaith celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At the close of her address, Allen asked those gathered to close their eyes and envision what a liberated society would look like and what it would take “to truly believe that we are collectively free.”
Nancy López, University of New Mexico, participated in the inaugural Black History Month Afro-Latino Roundtable held by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. This convening Members of Congress, community leaders, advocates, and scholars was designed to uplift Afro-Latino identity and examine the intersecting impacts of race, immigration policy, and data inequities on Black diaspora communities.
Adam Reich, Columbia University, received a 2026 Award for Excellence and Commitment to Teaching from the university's Division of Social Science.
Zulema Valdez, University of California-Merced, joined the board of the John C. Fremont Hospital Foundation.
Shaonta' E. Allen, Dartmouth College, was covered in the January 24, 2026, article “Dartmouth Honors Martin Luther King Jr. with Multifaith Celebration” in the Valley News.
Linda M. Blum, Northeastern University, was quoted in the January 22, 2026, article "Blaming ‘Wine Moms’ for ICE Protest Violence Is Another Baseless, Misogynist Myth" in the Conversation.
Courtney E. Boen, Brown University, authored the January 30, 2026, opinion piece, "ICE Poses Threat to Our Public Health. Here's Why" in the Providence Journal.
Christina Cross, Harvard University, had her research profiled in the January 16, 2026, piece "The War on Black Fathers" in Compact.
Pepper Glass, Weber State University, was a guest on the January 13, 2026, episode of Utah Public Radio's The Global Bethak: Innovative Ways of Teaching and Learning titled "How Culture Shapes Learning."
Heba Gowayed, CUNY-Hunter College, and Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa, authored the January 18, 2026, article "Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough—It’s Time to Center People’s Humanity" in the Guardian.
Alexandra Killewald, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, authored the February 2, 2026, article "Denmark’s Generous Child Care and Parental Leave Policies Erase 80% Of The ‘Motherhood Penalty’ for Working Moms" in the Conversation.
Jinwon Kim, Smith College, had her upcoming book—Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand (New York University Press 2026)—profiled in the article "What Makes Manhattan’s Koreatown a New Type of Ethnic Enclave?" on the New School's Center of New York City Affairs blog.
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, Texas A&M University-College, was quoted in the January 30, 2026, article "Texas A&M Eliminates Women’s and Gender Studies Degree Program" in the Texas Tribune.
Yingyi Ma, Syracuse University, was quoted in the January 19, 2026, article "“How Trump Made Life Difficult for International Students and Wisconsin" in the New York Times.
Matthew D. Marr, Florida International University, was quoted in the January 22, 2026, piece "Florida Escalates Its Battle on Sociology with New Curriculum, Textbook. Professors Push Back" from WRLN Public Media (South Florida).
Janice McCabe, Dartmouth College, authored the January 5, 2026, article “I Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends” in The New York Times.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, was a guest on the January 12, 2026, episode of the PBS News Hour for the segment titled "Trump Administration's Posts Echo Rhetoric Linked to Extremist Groups."
Kumiko Nemoto, Senshu University, was quoted in the January 25, 2026, article "Why Japan’s Leader Won’t Enter the Male-Dominated Sumo Ring" in the New York Times.
Maria T. Paino, Oakland University, was quoted in the January 19, 2026, story "Why General Education Requirements in College Matter" in Psychology Today.
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, was a guest on the January 7, 2026, episode of Stateside with April Baer to discuss the uncertainty facing Venezuelan asylum seekers in Michigan.
Victor Ray, University of Iowa, was quoted in the January 30, 2026, article "‘Totalitarian Nonsense’: Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents Over Coverage of Church Protest" on Common Dreams.
Abigail Saguy, University of California, was quoted in the January 30, 2026, article "Can an AI Tool Help Students Disagree Better?" in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Patrick Sharkey, Princeton University, was quoted in the January 24, 2026, article "Why Crime Rates Are Falling Across the U.S." in TIME.
Peter Simi, Chapman University, was quoted in the January 16, 2026, article "Some Trump Administration Social Media Posts Mirror Extremist Rhetoric" from NBC News.
Jennifer S. Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the January 8, 2026, article "Illness Is More Than Just Biological—Medical Sociology Shows How Social Factors Get Under the Skin and Cause Disease" in the Conversation.
Brandon Vaidyanathan, Catholic University of America, was a guest on the January 20, 2026, episode of the podcast Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson titled "Unexpected Beauty."
Virginia Adams O'Connell, Moravian University, Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer (Temple University Press 2025).
Dan Cassino, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bitcoin Bros: Masculinity, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Men (Bloomsbury Publishing 2026).
Esther Chan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The Limits of Diversity: How Secular and Evangelical Campuses Reproduce Inequality (New York University Press 2025).
Christina Cross, Harvard University, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families (Harvard University Press 2025).
Katie Christine Gaddini, University College London, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right (W. W. Norton & Company 2026).
Hilary J. Holbrow, Indiana University-Bloomington, The Future is Foreign: Women and Immigrants in Corporate Japan (Cornell University Press 2025).
Arne L. Kalleberg and Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Eds., Challenging Capitalism: Paths Taken, Roads Ahead (Routledge 2025).
Brent Z. Kaup, William & Mary, The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press 2025).
Margaret S. Kelley, University of Kansas, A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot (Routledge 2026).
Jinwon Kim, Smith College, Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand (New York University Press 2026).
Sunmin Kim, Dartmouth College, The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate (University of Chicago Press 2026).
Peter Rose, Smith College (retired), Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, Second Edition (Levellers Press 2026).
Josh Seim, Boston College, Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City (University of California Press 2026).
Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Wayne State University, Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings (New York University 2026).