February 2023 Issue
- Calls for Papers: Publications
- Calls for Papers: Conferences
- Calls for Books Chapters and Manuscripts
- Calls for Applications: Workshops
- Calls for Prizes
- Miscellaneous Opportunities
- Events
- Accomplishments
- In the News
- New Books
- Obituary
Calls for Papers: Publications
International Studies in Sociology of Education is seeking papers for a special issue on the theme “Racing Class/Classing Race: New Directions in the Sociology of Education.” This special issue will drive fresh conversations around the intersection of race and social class within the global sociology of education and beyond. It encourages submissions from scholars based in the global south and north from all career stages. Submissions should engage with theoretical frameworks that provide critical understanding of class and race, and the intersections between these aspects of identity, to offer new insights into the enactment and experiences of identity in different contexts. The deadline is February 28, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Journal of Elder Policy seeks to explore issues related to autonomy in later life. Older adults are more diverse and active than ever. Despite this, many portrayals and stereotypes of older adults allude to their dependence on others. While later life does tend to come with unique challenges (e.g., health issues, functional impairment), older adults tend to be far more proactive and adaptive than society (and research) gives them credit for. More information about the aims and scope of the journal and previous issues can be found here. Abstracts of 500 words are due by March 1, 2023.
The Journal Forum Sociológico is seeking papers for a special issue on the theme of “Nocturnal Cities: Past, Present, and Future.” Full manuscripts of no more than 40,000 characters including spaces (abstract, footnotes/endnotes, figures, tables, and references included) should be sent by email, in Word (.docx) format, to Forum Sociológico with the title of the special issue in the subject field of the email by March 31, 2023. For more information on submission guidelines for special issues, visit the website.
Applied Computational Social Science at Frontiers invites contributions to a special issue that showcases work on the fringes of the academy and industry, a place where these worlds interact and intersect. Read the complete call for papers here. Abstracts are due May 31, 2023. Contact Topic Editor Kinga Reka Makovi if you have any questions, such as if you have a paper in mind, but not sure if it would be a good fit.
Social Science & Medicine is seeking empirical or theoretical papers from social scientists across a wide array of disciplines for a special issue on the theme of “Unequal Care: Trans Medicine and Health in Dangerous Times.” The deadline is September 1, 2023. Read the full call for papers for more information, including topics of interest and manuscript guidelines.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The 15th Annual International Network of Analytical Sociologists Conference will be hosted by the Department of Sociology at Princeton University June 8–9, 2023. The conference welcomes submissions from any substantive area of sociology using any method (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, experimental, simulation-based) and especially encourages applications that use data or methods in new ways to push theory (and vice versa). The abstract deadline is February 26, 2023. For more information about the conference and the call for abstracts, visit the website.
The Social Science History Association (SSHA) is seeking papers for its 2023 annual meeting. SSHA is an interdisciplinary conference of social scientists and historians who share a common interest in bringing the study of the past to bear on pressing contemporary debates. This year’s meeting, organized around the theme “Pursuits of Wellbeing,” will be held November 16–19, 2023, in Washington, DC. Paper and panel proposals are due March 1, 2023. Read the full call for papers here.
The 2023 International Communication Association (ICA) Postconference will meet in Toronto, Canada, on May 31, 2023. The postconference provides a global tent for the emergent field of media sociology that is growing in the ICA community. It welcomes submissions from any geographic location, theoretical perspective, and/or method. Read the call for abstracts here. Abstract submissions are due March 1, 2023.
The Fourteenth International Conference on Sport & Society will be held on the theme “The Impact of Professional Sport on Community” in Las Vegas and online June 7–8, 2023. The Sport & Society Research Network is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. The submission deadline is March 7, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Protest, Resistance, and Democratic Retreat will be held at San Diego State University June 9–10, 2023. In addition to welcoming papers on the theme, the organizers invite research papers for the open-submission sessions on a variety of topics trending in the field. Abstracts are due March 15, 2023. To read the full call for papers, visit the website.
The Thirteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society will be held on the theme “Religion in the Public Sphere: From the Ancient Years to the Post-Modern Era” in Athens, Greece, and online June 20–22, 2023. The Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality. The submission deadline is March 21, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Twenty-Third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations will be held on the theme “Whose Accountability Revolution? Priorities, Incentive Structures, Organization Cultures” in Toronto, Canada, and online June 22–23, 2023. The Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in human differences and diversity, and their varied manifestations in organizations, communities, and nations. The submission deadline is March 22, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Royal Geographic Society Food Geographies Research Group invites session proposals for the RGS-IBG 2023 Annual International Conference. The conference will be held on the theme “Climate Changed Geographies” and will take place in London and online August 29–September 1, 2023. The society welcomes submissions for the conference program that engage directly with this theme, as well as others focusing on all areas of geography. The submission deadline is March 24, 2023. Read the full call for papers here.
The 2023 Media Sociology Symposium will be held August 16, 2023, in Philadelphia. The symposium welcomes abstracts on any topic related to media sociology, digital sociology, ICTs, information technologies, sociology of communication, ICT4D, tech4good, etc. Work may be empirical, theoretical, applied, etc. Foci may address any geographic location and employ any methodological perspectives. The abstract submission deadline is March 31, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Thirteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness, & Society will be held on the theme “Digitizing Health and Wellbeing” in Vancouver and online September 14–15, 2023. The Health, Wellness, & Society Research Network is brought together by a common concern in the fields of human health and wellness, and in particular their social interconnections and implications. The submission deadline is June 14, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Sixteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will be held on the theme “Museum Transformations: Pathways to Community Engagement” in Vancouver, Canada, and online September 18–20, 2023. The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. The submission deadline is June 18, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The First World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation will be held on the theme “Religious Conflicts in the World: Causes and Possible Solutions” October 4–8, 2023, in Struga, North Macedonia. Please submit a 200- to 300-word abstract of your presentation by August 1, 2023. You can find more information on the website.
The Twentieth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, & Social Sustainability will be held on the theme “Pathways to Sustainability Innovation: Perspectives from Civil Society, Government and Business” in Aveiro, Portugal, and online January 24–26, 2024. The On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability in a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social concerns intersect. The submission deadline is October 24, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
Calls for Book Chapters and Manuscripts
Colleges and Their Communities seeks chapters for an edited volume that will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students. Please submit an abstract no longer than 500 words with a potential title and topic area to Allison Hurst by April 10, 2023. Read the complete call for chapters here.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, an annual series that focuses on cutting-edge topics in family research around the globe, is seeking manuscript submissions for a special volume focusing on the theme of “Indian Families: Contemporary Family Structures and Dynamics.” The deadline for initial submissions is June 15, 2023. Direct questions to the editors Vinod Chandra and Sampson Lee Blair.
Calls for Applications: Workshops
The Network for a New Political Economy at the University of California-Berkeley is hosting a week-long summer workshop for early career sociologists (with a PhD degree date of 2012 or later) to gather, share their work, and think through what political-economy might look like in contemporary sociology. They are hoping to attract those who already work in what they think of as political-economy as well as those who hope to connect their work in related areas. The workshop will take place between June 18–24, 2023, at UC Berkeley and $4,000 will be given to cover expenses while at the workshop. Find more information and the application on the website. The application date is March 1, 2023.
The Migrations Initiative at Cornell University will hold its Summer Pathways Program on June 11–23, 2023. This program is designed to support first-generation students who are interested in studying migration (broadly defined) and pursuing a graduate degree (in any discipline). This two-week in-person program comes with a $4,000 stipend and is intended to provide first-generation students from underrepresented backgrounds both qualitative and quantitative research training, as well as professionalization and mentorship to prepare them to apply to graduate programs. Anyone who is currently enrolled in an undergraduate program or who graduated within the past five years is eligible to apply. The application deadline is April 3, 2023. Find out more on the website.
Calls for Prizes
The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice annually awards the Erik Olin Wright Prize. Named for the center’s founder, the prize is for a paper that exemplifies the concerns that animated his work; graduate/professional students in the social sciences, history, or philosophy, and any professional discipline are eligible to submit a paper for consideration. Read more details on the website. Submissions, in whole or in part, may be sent between March 1 and April 15, 2023.
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana invites submissions for its prize competitions for the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias. Submissions may come from any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to communal groups or utopias. The submission deadline is April 1, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
Miscellaneous Opportunities
Palgrave Macmillan is interested in publishing a handbook on the sociology of families in the Americas and is currently seeking scholars who may be interested in editing the handbook. For more information or to express interest in editing the handbook (or to propose another project in the area), please contact Editor for Youth and Family Studies Linda Braus.
The Beyond Borders Programme of ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius seeks applicants for PhD scholarships. This year’s thematic focus is “Borders, Contestation and Conflict.” Scholars from the social sciences and humanities can apply until March 1, 2023. Read more information on the website.
Sociologists for Women in Society is seeking applications for the Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to an advanced Ph.D. student who began their study in a community college or technical school. It carries a stipend of $18,000. The application deadline is April 1. Visit the website for more information.
Swarthmore College Special Collections is accepting applications for the Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship. The fellowship promotes research during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, providing a stipend of $1,400–$5,600 to support such research. Applications are due April 1, 2023. For more details, visit the website.
The American Psychological Association seeks applications for its Leadership and Education Advancement Program (LEAP) for Diverse Scholars. LEAP is an evidence-informed mentoring and leadership development program for early career social and behavioral scientists from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who show promise in research related to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases mission but who have not yet received R01 funding and have not ascended to a leadership position in their respective disciplines or professional associations. The application deadline is April 3, 2023. For detailed information, visit the website.
The National Institute of Justice within the Department of Justice is seeking applications for the 2023 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System. The research program aims to identify public policy interventions to address racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. Two categories of researchers will be selected: W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars, who are advanced researchers and are eligible for research, evaluation, and mentoring grants; and W.E.B. Du Bois Fellows, who are early-career researchers and are eligible for research and evaluation grants. Applications are due April 24. More information is available on the website.
The Mercury Project invites proposals to evaluate the causal impacts of online or offline interventions designed to increase demand for vaccinations consistent with national priorities—including childhood vaccines, HPV, polio, measles, and COVID-19 vaccinations—in low- and lower-middle income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The submission deadline is May 1, 2023. Read the call for proposals here.
Events
The Summer Institute at Duke University’s Department of Population Health Sciences will be held June 15–30, 2023, and is designed for early to mid-career researchers, health-care professionals, students, and trainees. Attendees can choose from 12 workshops that offer a variety of research methods that can be applied on the job, expand areas of expertise, and grow careers. To learn more and to register, visit the website.
The Toward an Integrative Cognitive Science of Social Inequalities Spring 2023 Seminar Series, will be held online once a month through June 2023. The goal of this seminar series is to discuss research coming out of the fields of cognitive science and sociology, with the hope of articulating the social and cognitive dimensions of inequalities. For more information, visit the website.
The MedHealth Mini-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics brings together scholars working at the intersections of health, medicine, economy, and society. This year the mini-conference will be held on the theme “A Future for Health: Policies, Organizations, and Practices within Market and Social Transformations” on July 20–22, 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more on the website.
The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods consists of three-week courses and short workshops that will be held at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, May–August 2023. World-renowned for its premier quality of instruction, fun learning environment, and unparalleled networking opportunities, the program offers more than 80 courses in-person and online, from introductory statistics and regression analysis to advanced multilevel models and Bayesian analysis to machine learning, among others. For more information, visit the website. Registration is ongoing.
Accomplishments
Of the eighteen Russell Sage Foundation visiting scholars selected for the 2023–2024 academic year, seven are sociologists: Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota; Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University; Leslie McCall, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Alexandrea Ravenelle, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles; Angela Simms, Barnard College; and Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania.
Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland-College Park, joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR), to lead the AIR Equity Initiative as vice president and managing director.
Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii-Manoa; Shauhin Talesh, University of California-Irvine; and Katharina Heyer, University of Hawaii-Manoa, have been selected as the new incoming editors of the Law & Society Review. The editorial team commenced in January and will serve a term of three years (2023–2026) which will cover volumes 57–59.
Rachael Woldoff, West Virginia University, had the second most listened-to segment of the year on Inside Higher Ed‘s “Academic Minute.” The segment on “Digital Nomads” was posted on November 2, 2022.
In the News
Richard D. Alba, CUNY-Graduate Center (retired), authored the December 27, 2022, opinion piece “What about My Right to Live without Violence? Supreme Court Decisions on Guns Harm Survivors” on USA Today online.
Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, was quoted in the January 30, 2023, article “Gwyneth Paltrow Casually Revealed She Did Cocaine. Who Gets to Joke about Past Drug Use?” in USA Today online.
Deborah Carr, Boston University, was quoted in the December 3, 2022, article “Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors” in the New York Times and in the January 24, 2023, article “Here Is Why Hawaii Has the Longest Life Expectancy in the Country” in the Hill.
Tressie McMillan Cottom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, authored the opinion piece “The Enduring, Invisible Power of Blond” in the January 19, 2023, issue of the New York Times. In the piece she also quotes the work of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University.
Jonathan M. Cox and Scott Carter, University of Central Florida; Juan Salinas, University of North Florida; and Shantel Buggs, Florida State University, were featured in the January 3, 2022, article “‘It’s Making Us More Ignorant’ Governor Ron DeSantis’s Anti-Critical-Race-Theory Legislation is Already Changing How Professors in Florida Teach” in the Atlantic.
Laurie F. DeRose, Catholic University of America, authored the January 3, 2023, article “New Evidence from Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility” on the blog for the Institute for Family Studies.
Yige Dong, SUNY-Buffalo, was quoted in the January 18, 2023, article “A Shrinking, Aging China May Have Backed Itself into a Corner” in the New York Times.
Sanjiv Gupta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, launched the podcast Sociology for Dark Times on January 4, 2023. The inaugural guest was Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Dan Hirschman, Cornell University, was quoted in the February 1, 2023, article “Why Is Black History Month in February? How Do You Celebrate? Everything You Need to Know” on USA Today online.
Robin G. Isserles, Borough of Manhattan Community College, was quoted in the January 25, 2023, article “What Makes a Student Withdraw?” in Inside Higher Ed.
Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University, was quoted in the January 11, 2023, article “Why Michelle Yeoh’s ‘Shut Up’ at the Golden Globes was Profound for Asian Women” on NBC News online.
Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, was quoted in the December 28, 2022, article “The Credit Scoring System Has Its Downsides—Here’s What a New Credit Scoring and Reporting System Could Look Like” on CNBC.
Jamie K McCallum, Middlebury College, authored the January 6, 2023, article “Higher Ed Labor Organizing Is Just Getting Started” in the Nation online.
Lacee A. Satcher, Boston College, was quoted in the January 19, 2023, article “‘Environmental Racism’ and the Mysterious Cars Rusting in D.C. Woods” in the Washington Post.
Louise Seamster, University of Iowa, was quoted in the January 12, 2023, article “Student Loan Servicer at the Center of Debt Cancelation Case Hasn’t Paid on One of Its Own Debts in Years” in MarketWatch.
Randa B. Serhan, Barnard College, was quoted in the January 30, 2023, article “‘The Palestinian Exception to Free Speech’: Students and Scholars Feel Muzzled on College Campuses over Tense Topic” in the Boston Globe.
Mariah Warner, Ohio State University, was quoted in the January 7, 2023, article “Damar Hamlin Injury Revives Safety Debate over a Sport Built on Butting Heads” in the Hill.
Mariah Warner and Chris Knoester, Ohio State University, authored the January 6, 2023, opinion column “Nation Thinks Tackles Make Boys Tough. Why Experts Say Hamlin’s Injuries Won’t Change That” in the Columbus Dispatch.
Andrew Whitehead, Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis; and Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma, authored the January 19, 2023, opinion piece “White Christian Nationalism Isn’t Pro-Life. It’s Pro-Order” on Religion News Service.
Terrell James Antonio Winder, University of California-Santa Barbara, was quoted in the December 26, 2022, article “Blue States Want Red States to Face Consequences, but Travel Bans Are Harmful” in the New York Times.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Martin Eiermann, Duke University, authored the December 16, 2022, article “1918 Flu Pandemic Upended Long-Standing Social Inequalities—at Least for a Time, New Study Finds” in the Conversation.
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California-Dornsife, authored the January 12, 2023, article “How the Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Words Enables More, Not Less, Racial Division within American Society” in the Conversation.
Emma Zang, Yale University, was quoted in the January 3, 2023, piece “Work-from-Home Parents Watched Kids More in Covid’s First Year” on the nonprofit site Futurity.
Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University (retired), was interviewed for the January 12, 2023, episode of the BBC News podcast the Forum titled “Why Do We Have a 7-Day Week?”
Yang Zhang, American University, was quoted in the January 1, 2023, article “Xi Jinping Has Abandoned Zero-Covid. What Happens Now?” on Vox.
Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles, was quoted in the January 28, 2023, article “‘Violence Can’t Stop Dance’: How Dance Halls Became a Refuge to the Asian Community” in the Guardian.
Yun Zhou, University of Michigan, was interviewed on January 18, 2023, for the story “China’s Population Drop is Expected to Have Global Economic Consequences” on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and was quoted in the January 20, 2023, article “China’s Women Make a Strong Case with a Birth Strike” in the Financial Times.
New Books
David L. Altheide, Arizona State University, Gonzo Governance: The Media Logic of Donald Trump (Routledge 2023).
Philipp Altmann, Central University of Ecuador, Sociology in Ecuador (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
Barbara H. Chasin, Montclair State University, Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism, 3rd Edition (Lexington Books 2022).
Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, and Ira M. Sheskin, University of Miami, American Jewish Year Book 2020 (Springer Nature 2022) and American Jewish Year Book 2021 (Springer Nature 2022).
Chelsea Johnson, University of Southern California; LaToya Council, Lehigh University; and Carolyn Choi, University of California-Los Angeles, Love without Bounds: An Intersection Allies Book about Families (Dottir Press 2023).
Katherine M. Johnson, Tulane University, Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity (Rutgers University Press 2023).
Lisa McCormick, University of Edinburgh, Ed., The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music New Directions and New Discoveries (Springer International 2022).
Amit Prasad, Georgia Institute of Technology, Science Studies Meets Colonialism (Polity 2022).
Victor Roy, Yale University, Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (University of California Press 2023).
Jason A. Smith and Richard T. Craig, George Mason University, Eds., Racializing Media Policy (Emerald Publishing 2023).
Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State University, Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile (Stanford University Press 2023).
Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University, Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India (Columbia University Press 2023).
Obituary
Jolyon Ticer-Wurr
1959–2022
The University of Chicago community mourns the passing of Jolyon Ticer-Wurr on December 12, 2022. Ticer-Wurr was born on May 2, 1959. He graduated from Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, CA, in 1977, and from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989. Alongside Ticer-Wurr’s California upbringing, the mark made by his British parents was deep and lasting.
Ticer-Wurr entered the PhD Program in Sociology at Chicago in 1992, among an uncharacteristically large cohort. Ticer-Wurr stood out for his spirited critical engagement. There was never a thesis that went uninterrogated, a point that went underconstructed, or a finding that went uninvestigated. He took to the Chicago workshop tradition with singular energy. He was a participant in and coordinator of the Urban Workshop for many years, over which time he gave detailed feedback on likely hundreds of workshop papers that developed new understandings of the social structures and processes within cities and their surrounding areas. The number of urban sociologists who have benefitted from Ticer-Wurr’s generous critique is immeasurable.
Ticer-Wurr got involved in research early in his graduate school career. He worked on the Comparative Neighborhood Study (CNS)—a research project on the social relations and socioeconomic development of four Chicago neighborhoods of varying racial compositions— under the direction of professors William Julius Wilson and the late Richard Taub, and alongside a large team of fellow graduate students. Ticer-Wurr was the organizational glue behind the CNS. Word processing was just becoming commonplace, and Ticer-Wurr kept track of thousands of pages of field notes stored on dozens of floppy disks.
Ticer-Wurr studied “Dover,” a pseudonymous Chicago neighborhood where the Latino population was increasing. His meticulous observational eye and penchant for thoroughness made for unmatchable fieldnotes. The final book from the CNS, There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Knopf 2006), would not have been possible without Ticer-Wurr’s insightful contributions. Dover was the subject of Ticer-Wurr’s dissertation, entitled “Routines, Race, and Social Control: Coordinating Action and Constructing Identity as a Neighborhood Majority Transitions from White-Ethnic to Mexican-American,” which he completed in 2014, under the direction of professors Andrew Abbott, Richard Taub, and Terry Clark. Finishing the degree was hard fought, and it represented Ticer-Wurr’s willingness and ability to battle beyond doubt and setbacks. He never wore the “Dr.” title comfortably, but it was an achievement to be celebrated.
Jolyon participated in many research efforts. He worked on the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy Implementation Evaluation at Northwestern University, on the evaluation of the Fathers at Work Initiative for Public/Private Ventures, on the after-school programming of YMCA of Northwest Indiana, and on several studies for the policy research group Chapin Hall. He also taught courses at Loyola University Chicago, Olive-Harvey College, and the University of Chicago. He also worked for more than a decade as a resident head in the University of Chicago undergraduate housing system. After finishing his PhD, Jolyon did research and consulting in the educational and political spheres.
In the best tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology, Ticer-Wurr immersed himself fully in the City of Chicago, and especially the South Side. He married a South Side native, and they lived in Woodlawn and Grand Boulevard. He and his family were avid community gardeners, and his kids attended South Side schools. Ticer-Wurr was worldly and cosmopolitan, but he lived life on the block and in community with others. Fittingly, Ticer-Wurr coauthored the entry “Chicago Studied: Social Scientists and Their City” for The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of Chicago Press 2004).
Ticer-Wurr was indeed a social scientist in his city. He was formed in the hills and mountains of the Bay Area and cherished the traditions of England, but then he embraced Chicago and built an incredible life of learning and loving, with a fierce commitment to all creation. He is survived by his wife, LaShanda Ticer-Wurr, his mother, a son and daughter, siblings, in-laws, and many friends.
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
