Calls for Papers: Publications
The Journal of Social Issues seeks proposals for a special issue dedicated to examining the complex and multidimensional experiences of aging Asian Americans. Editors invite scholarly submissions from multiple disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, education, public health, neuroscience, and more. Proposed articles can be based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies, as well as conceptual or theoretical contributions. Interested authors should submit a CV and an abstract along with two pages of supporting materials by February 1, 2025. Read the full call for papers, including submission instructions here.
Religions seeks original research articles, theoretical contributions, and reviews for an upcoming special issue on the theme “Breath of Life: Black Spirituality in Everyday Life.” Editors seek to explore how Black people use the power and ancestral legacy of the Black Sacred Cosmos to not only fight and survive a multitude of classist, racist, and sexist ills, but also how they use this collective consciousness to empower, self-realize, and to thrive as a people—both individually and collectively. The submission deadline is May 30, 2025. Read the full call for papers here.
The Michigan Sociological Review, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Michigan Sociological Association, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2025 issue. Editors welcome a broad range of articles from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as essays on teaching methods, as well as reviews of books, films, and educational software. For more information and detailed submission guidelines, visit the website. The deadline is May 31, 2025.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford will hold a conference on the topic “Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond” on June 5-6, 2025, at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles. The event marks the culmination of a research project on judicial activism in Eastern Europe supported by the British Academy, which you can read more about here. Individuals interested in submitting papers should send an extended abstract by January 25, 2025. Read the full call for papers here.
The Social Science History Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting will be held on the theme “Complexity and Its Consequences” on November 20-23, 2025, in Chicago. The 2025 Program Committee welcomes individual papers and panels on all aspects of social science history, and they are especially interested in papers and panels that apply concepts and tools for studying complex processes to history. The submission deadline is March 1, 2025. Read the full call for papers here. All session participants must register for the annual meeting and be members of the association. Click here for more information about the conference and registration rates.
The Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations will be held on the theme “Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity: Navigating Intercultural Leadership” on June 11-13, 2025, in Cyprus and online. The conference invites papers on the following themes: identity and belonging; education and learning in worlds of differences; organizational diversity; and community diversity and governance. The submission deadline is March 11, 2025. For more information, visit the website.
The Twentieth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences will be held on the theme “Minds and Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Ethics, and Order in Global Society” on July 2-4, 2025, in Málaga, Spain and online. The conference invites papers on the following topics: social and community studies; civic and political studies; cultural studies; global studies; environmental studies; organizational studies; educational studies; and communication studies. The conference also features an Emerging Scholar Program. The deadline is April 2, 2025. For more information, visit the website.
Paper Competition
The International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development is offering an award for the best post-graduate student paper related to sociological research on social transformations. The winner(s) will present their paper in a scheduled sessions at the Fifth International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, July 6-11, 2025. The deadline is February 15, 2025. For information on eligibility, how to submit, and award details click here.
Prize
The Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology is accepting applications for the 2025 competition. Recognizing students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis in their work, prize is intended to encourage students to work with photography as a visual medium in their study and understanding of social phenomena. The contest is open worldwide to undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences. The first prize includes $5,000 USD, second prize is $2,500 USD, and third prize is $1,500 USD. The application deadline is February 4, 2025. Click here for more information about Rachel Tanur and the application process.
Summer Program
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism’s Summer School 2025 will take place on June 9-15, 2025, at the University of Zadar in Croatia, and will focus on “Nations and Nationalism in the Contemporary World.” The main aim of this summer school is to explore and analyze the social dynamics of nation-states and nationalisms through time and space. It will be organized as a rigorous academic interdisciplinary program structured around lectures, workshops, and conference-oriented presentations of scholarly research. Summer school participants will engage in active discussions on the theoretical, methodological, and practical issues of research in nationalism studies. The application deadline is January 31, 2025. For more information, click here.
Event
The Population Association of America will hold its annual meeting April 10-13, 2025, in Washington, DC. Demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad at all career stages can engage with new research in oral and poster sessions and network with their peers. The meeting schedule, registration information, and more are available on the website.
Accomplishments
Dana R. Fisher, American University, delivered a TEDTalk about her recently published book Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action (Columbia University Press 2024) in October.
Chiara Galli, University of Chicago, received a presidential grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for an ethnographic study on the reception of Venezuelan asylum-seekers in Chicago.
Óscar F. Gil-García, University at Buffalo, is a 2024-2025 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow.
Alyasah Ali Sewell, Emory University, was appointed as Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology in recognition of their eminence as a scholar and exceptional research accomplishments.
Kevin T. Smiley, Louisiana State University, was named to a committee on Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts-Boston, received the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Oxford University Press 2021).
In the News
Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University, was quoted in the segment “’Damaged Goods’: Being Unemployed for Months Takes a Toll” in the December 10, 2024, episode of Markeplace.
Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of California-Berkeley, and Thea Riofrancos, Providence College, authored the January 7, 2025, opinion piece “Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different” in the New York Times.
Angel Alfonso Escamilla Garcia, Yale University, authored the December 30, 2024, article “Mexico’s Immigration Crackdown Mirrors the United States” in the Progressive Magazine.
Kelley Fong, University of California-Irvine, was quoted in the December 9, 2024, article “Could San Bernardino County Officials Have Saved 1-Year-Old Henry’s Life?” in the San Bernadino Sun.
Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado-Boulder, was quoted in the January 12, 2025, article “Kitty Hot-Stone Massages and Canine Acupuncture: Specialty Vet Teaches Old Dogs New Tricks” in the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Kelsy Kretschmer, Oregon State University, was quoted in the January 6, 2025, article “The Residual Effects of Trump’s Presidency” in the Daily Barometer.
Nancy López, a University of New Mexico, was quoted in the November 26, 2024, article “The Next Census Will Gather More Racial, Ethnic Information” in Stateline.
Margot Moinester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Kaitlyn Stanhope, Emory University, authored the January 7, 2025, article “Providing Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants Improves Birth Outcomes, Research Shows” in the Conversation.
Marya T. Mtshali, Harvard University, authored the November 6, 2024, article “The Racist ‘One-Drop Rule’ Lives On in How Trump Talks about Black Politicians and Whiteness in America” in the Conversation.
Ori Swed, Texas Tech University, and Alessandro Arduino, King’s College London, authored the November 24, 2024, article “Russian Mercenaries Have a Bad Reputation But Some African Regimes Still Employ Them: Study Explores Why” in the Conversation.
New Books
María Luisa Amado, Guilford College, Neoliberalism and Labor Displacement in Panama: Contested Public Space and the Disenfranchisement of Street Vendors (Lexington Books 2024).
José Atiles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico (Stanford University Press 2024).
Benjamin H. Bradlow, Princeton University, Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton University Press 2024).
Ryan Calder, Johns Hopkins University, The Paradox of Islamic Finance (Princeton University Press 2024).
Steve Carlton-Ford, University of Cincinnati, Legacies of Injustice: The African Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Today’s Human Rights (Routledge 2025).
Giampaolo Conte, University of Rome 3, A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms (Routledge 2024).
Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Challenging Inequality: Variation across Post-Industrial Societies (University of Chicago Press 2024).
Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University, A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews (New York University Press 2024).
Dustin Kiskaddon, J.P. Morgan Chase, Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer (Stanford University Press 2024).
Mariam M. Kurtz, George Mason University, Recolonizing Africa: An Ethnography of Land Acquisition, Mining, and Resource Control (Routledge 2024).
Amir Marvasti, Penn State-Altoona, and Jaber Gubrium, University of Missouri (retired), Eds., Interviews as Activated Storytelling: Contexts and Subjectivities (Routledge 2025).
Abigail Ocobock, University of Notre Dame, Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships (University of Chicago Press 2024).
Anthony J. Spires, University of Melbourne, Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle against Authoritarian Culture in China (Columbia University Press 2024).
Nelson Arnaldo Vera Hernández, University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla, Tres Años de Pandemia Productivos (Editorial Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas 2024).
Nicholas H. Wolfinger, University of Utah, and Matthew McKeever, Haverford College, Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (Oxford University Press 2024).
Buford Elijah Farris, Jr. passed away on October 5, 2024, at age 98. Farris completed his PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He was a tenured professor at Saint Louis University, where he also served as chair of the Department of Sociology. Buford’s legacy of love, scholarship, and service will be cherished by all who knew him. You can read his full obituary here.
Benny D. Nefzger passed away on October 18, 2024, at the age of 90. Nefzger earned a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University in 1965 and was an associate professor of sociology at Grinnell College, where he also served as chair of the Sociology Department. Nefzger earned his PhD in 1973 from the University of Iowa and became a professor at Augustana College in 1974, retiring in 2003 as a professor emeritus of sociology. You can read his full obituary here.
