Calls for Papers: Publications
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy invites submissions for a special issue on the theme “Semiconductor Manufacturing, Occupational Health, and the Environment.” Editors seek papers presenting scientific findings, case studies, worker, union, and activist perspectives, commentary, and policy recommendations on environmental and occupational health hazards and impacts of contemporary semiconductor manufacturing techniques, materials, and/or processes, in one or more locales or countries around the world. The deadline for paper proposals (max. 150 words) is April 15, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Organization Science invites submissions for a special issue on “Organizations in the Global South.” With 85% of the world’s population and some of the fastest-growing economies, the Global South is central to organizational life yet remains underrepresented in leading journals. This special issue seeks research that challenges, expands, and refines management theory by drawing on Global South contexts, including indigenous populations in the Global North. Submissions should be theoretically rigorous, empirically grounded, and relevant to the broad organizational studies community. The deadline to submit papers is April 30, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Second Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference will be held on the theme “Challenges to International Orders: Causes and Consequences” on October 7-9, 2026, at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The conference aims to foster exchange across disciplines and perspectives, and organizers invite submissions of full-length, unpublished papers from interested researchers of all social science disciplines. Papers may consider, but are not limited to, topics such as: changes in international orders across different issue areas such as climate policy, global health, migration, trade, technology, and development cooperation; the causes of these changes, e.g., shifting power dynamics, economic transformations, identity politics, cultural scripts, and developments in world society; and the consequences for peace, economic development, environment, social solidarity, and global inequalities. The submission deadline is April 23, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Vienna Institute of Demography invites contributions from all disciplinary backgrounds and methodological traditions, including demography, economics, sociology, public health, geography, and data science for its upcoming conference on the theme “Demography and Human Capital.” The conference aims to advance theories, data, and multidimensional demographic methods for modelling human capital formation and its dynamics over time, and to connect cutting-edge evidence to policy debates globally. It will be held on December 1-2, 2026, in Vienna, Austria. The submission deadline is April 30, 2026. Read the full call for submissions here.
Events
The Center for Migration and Development and the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University will host the workshop “Queer Migrations: How Global Movement Shapes Gender and Sexuality” on April 17, 2026. This workshop will be held both virtually over Zoom and in person. It will explore how queer individuals have historically led and shaped migration flows and movements. Find out more here.
The Long Covid Science and Society Symposium will take place both virtually and in person on April 20, 2026. The symposium will feature sociologists, historians, anthropologists, patient advocates, clinicians, and scientists working around issues related to Long Covid’s impact on social inequalities. It will also feature researchers from Brazil and France to provide global perspectives on Long Covid. Find out more on the website.
The Third Equitable Opportunity Conference will be held on the theme “Diagnosing and Addressing Inequality Mechanisms” on May 15-16, 2026, at McGill University in Montreal. The conference will focus on how organizations shape socioeconomic opportunities in ways that are more or less consistent with prevailing notions of fairness, justice, and equity. The conference aims to promote equity research, foster the exchange of ideas and practices, facilitate research collaborations, and feature multidisciplinary approaches to equity challenges faced by organizational leaders. Find out more and register here.
The Work and Family Researchers Network conference will take place on the theme “Centering Care Across the Life Course” on June 17-20, 2026, at Concordia University in Montreal. This year’s theme emphasizes care not only as caregiving responsibilities (for children, elders, and others with needs across the life course), but also as relational labor that sustains healthy families, workplaces, and communities. Whether expressed through care work in families, professional care work, informal caregiving, or relationship-building at work, care deeply shapes individual trajectories and well-being, workplace experiences, and organizational cultures. To find out more about the conference and register, visit the website.
The Working-Class Studies Association conference will take place on the theme “The Power of Working-Class Action and Thought” in Laramie, WY, June 18-21, 2026, with an online track on June 27, 2026. The association is an international, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to working-class life, labor, and culture. The conference will include presentations from a wide range of perspectives, disciplinary backgrounds, and experiences, building on the association’s tradition of hosting conferences where academics, activists, artists, educators, thinkers, organizers, and practitioners meet. Find out more and register here.
Accomplishments
Corey M. Abramson, Rice University, was selected for a residential fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Bernadette Barton, Morehead State University, delivered Marshall University’s annual Charlotte Schmidlapp Lecture, dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in academia and beyond, on March 10, 2026, on the topic “The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Society.”
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in Saint Louis, will present her research on how workplace practices and cultures hinder the advancement of Black employees at Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute colloquium.
Tiffany D. Joseph, Northeastern University, was a presenter in the annual TEDxNortheasternU conference, speaking on the intersection of race, immigration, and the health-care system.
Lacey Byram Moore, LaGrange College, graduated the first Inside-Out cohort, which brought college students and inmates from the Troup County Jail together to earn sociology credit while studying crime, punishment, and reentry.
Rianka Roy received the 2025 Sociological Forum Inaugural Author Award from the Eastern Sociological Society for her article “Covert Carcerality for ‘High-Income Cheap Labor’: Indian Tech Workers in the United States” in Sociological Forum.
Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, under the direction of Ruth N. Lopez Turley, has received a $55 million grant from the Kinder Foundation to help the institute in its mission to improve lives, policy, and services in Houston through data, research, engagement, and action.
Laurel Westbrook, University of California-Santa Barbara, was the keynote speaker for the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies Student Research Conference at the University of Mississippi. They delivered its Lucy Somerville Howorth Lecture on May 26, 2026, on “Making More Lives Livable: Rethinking Anti-Violence Activism and Centering Transgender Joy.”
In the News
Michael D. M. Bader, Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in the March 4, 2026, article “4 in 10 Baltimore-Area Residents Struggle with Basic Needs, Hopkins Survey Says” in the Baltimore Sun.
Danielle Bessett, University of Cincinnati, authored the March 25, 2026, opinion piece “Abortion Waiting Period Lawmakers Trying to Force on Ohio Is Deceptive” in the Columbus Dispatch.
Caroline V. Brooks, University of Kentucky, was a guest on the March 11, 2026, television segment “Bracket Bias: How Identity Shapes Our Picks” from WKYT (Kentucky).
Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University, was quoted in the March 23, 2026, article “Can Design Turn Schools into the New Third Space?” in School Construction News.
Dawn Celeste Carr, Florida State University; S. L. Crawley, University of South Florida; and Jukka Savolainen, Wayne State University, were quoted in the March 16, 2026, article “Is Sociology Being Saved—or Debased—in Florida?” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Philip Cohen, University of Maryland-College Park, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University of Utah, were quoted in the March 6, 2026, article “The Top Scientific Reasons Why Marriages Fail” in the List.
Joseph A. Harris, Boston University, was quoted in the March 23, 2026, article “Pride Flags’ Removal from BU Offices Alarms Faculty” in the Boston Globe.
Grace Kao, Yale University, was quoted in the March 23, 2026, article “BTS’ ‘Arirang’ Leans into US Pop While Expanding Artistry” in the Korea Herald.
Evan Wilson Lauteria, University of Florida, was quoted in the March 9, 2026, article “Florida Censors ‘Racism’ References Out of College Textbook” in the Tampa Bay Times.
Byungkyu Lee, New York University, and Brea Perry, Indiana University-Bloomington, had research profiled in the March 11, 2026, article “Spending Time with These Kinds of People Is Literally Aging You Faster” in the New York Post; in the March 11, 2026, article “If You Have This Type of Person in Your Life, It Could Be Aging You Faster” in the San Francisco Chronicle; in the March 16, 2026, article “Are Your Friends and Family Annoying? They May Be Affecting Your Longevity” in the Washington Post, which also featured comments from Debra Umberson, University of Texas-Austin; and in the on March 17, 2026, article “That Difficult Person in Your Life Might Be Aging You Faster” in Verywell Health.
Zachary Levenson, Florida International University, authored the March 6, 2026, article “Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own” in Truthout and was quoted in the March 23, 2026, article “Racist Chat Linked to GOP-Affiliated Students Fuels ‘Chilling Effect’ at Florida University” in the Latin Times.
Zachary Levenson and Anne E. Barrett, Florida International University; and Ruth Milkman, CUNY-Graduate Center, were quoted in the March 18, 2026, article “Florida Professors Quietly Defy Restrictions on Race and Gender: ‘This Is How Authoritarianism Works’” in the Guardian.
Matthew D. Marr, Florida International University, was quoted in the March 10, 2026, article “FIU Professors Weigh Showdown with Desantis Over ‘Censored’ Sociology Course” in the Miami Herald.
Amy D. McDowell, University of Mississippi, had her new book, Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (New York University Press 2026), profiled in the March 18, 2026, article “Amy McDowell ‘Whispers’ Sociological Secrets in New Book” in the Daily Mississippian.
David S. Meyer, University of California-Irvine, was quoted in the March 22, 2026, article “Cesar Chavez Scandal Drives Home Why BLM, Occupy and Indivisible Don’t Rely on Icons” in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study, was quoted in the March 21, 2026, article “Trump’s New AI Framework Raises Red Flags for Experts” in Rolling Stone.
Richard J. Petts, Ball State University, was quoted in the March 6, 2026, article “Will LA City Pull Out of LAHSA?” in the LAist.
Fred L. Pincus, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (retired), authored the March 7, 2026, article “Trump Offered a Restrictive Deal to Universities That Almost All Rejected—But the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education May Not Be Entirely Dead” in the Conversation.
Victor E. Ray, University of Iowa, authored the book review “Why Not for Black People?” in the spring edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver, was quoted in the March 17, 2026, article “Doctors Say Court Ruling Can’t Undo RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Damage” in the New York Times.
Eric W. Schoon, The Ohio State University, was quoted in the March 17, 2026, segment “Ohio State Faculty’s Reaction Remains Mixed at Bellamkonda’s Appointment as President” from WOSU Public Media (Ohio).
Megan Thiele Strong, San José State University, authored the March 16, 2026, opinion piece “America Is Sociologically Ignorant and It Shows” in the Chicago Tribune.
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Wayne State University, was quoted in the March 25, 2026, article “Detroit Latinos Confront Chavez Legacy After Assault Claims” in the Detroit News.
Andrew Whitehead, Indiana University-Indianapolis, was a guest on the March 11, 2026, episode of NPR’s 1A, titled “The Role of Religion in the War on Iran.”
Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University of Utah, was quoted in the March 10, 2026, article “Professors Sound the Alarm on Huge Rise of Students Registering as Disabled to Game the System: ‘A Scam’” in the New York Post.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, had research cited in the March 20, 2026, article “Up to 155,000 COVID Deaths May Not Have Been Counted, Study Finds” from the Associated Press.
New Books
David Michael Arditi, University of Texas-Arlington, Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok (Anthem Press 2026).
Bianca Baldridge, Harvard University, Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work (Stanford University Press 2026).
Christof Brandtner, EM Lyon, Cities in Action: Organizations, Institutions, and Urban Climate Strategies (Columbia University Press 2026).
Susanne Yukping Choi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (University of California Press 2026).
Amy D. McDowell, University of Mississippi, Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (New York University Press 2026).
Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice (Stanford University Press 2026).
Geoffrey Wodtke, University of Chicago, and Xiang Zhou, Harvard University, Causal Mediation Analysis (Cambridge University Press 2026).
Amy Zhou, Barnard College, Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi (University of California Press 2026).
In Memoriam
Friedrich Ernst Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and social theorist, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 96. Habermas wrote in disciplines including social theory, aesthetics, epistemology, sociology, communication studies, psychology, and theology. In his final book, Things Needed to Get Better, he wrote: “I view the attempt to make the world even the tiniest bit better, or even just to be part of the effort to stave off the constant threats of regression that we face, as an utterly admirable motive.” You can read a full, paywall-free obituary in the Guardian here.