June 2022 Issue
- Calls for Papers: Publications
- Calls for Papers: Conferences
- Summer Workshops
- Accomplishments
- In the News
- New Books
Calls for Papers: Publications
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences seeks articles for a special issue on “Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences.” Editors encourage contributions from across the ideological spectrum, especially on such topics as eligibility for reparations; long-term impacts of racial gaps on wealth; and potential unintended consequences of a black reparations plan. Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract (up to two pages in length, single or double-spaced) of their study along with up to two pages of supporting material (e.g., tables, figures, pictures, references that don’t fit on the proposal pages, etc.) no later than 5:00 p.m. EST on July 15, 2022. Read the complete call for articles here.
Frontiers in Public Health is seeking submissions for its special issue “Geographic Inequalities in Health and Mortality: Factors Contributing to Trends and Differentials,” which is being coedited by Irma Elo (University of Pennsylvania) and Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University). The deadline is July 15, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
The Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion seeks manuscripts for its upcoming issue “Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe,” which aims to focus on religious and social change in multiple and controversial ways, as demonstrated by the social transformation of Central and Eastern European societies since 1989. Please send proposals (400 words) and a brief bio to Siniša Zrinščak by July 31, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
Sociology Compass is seeking papers for a special issue on “Practicing Privilege, Subverting Stigma: Men and Masculinities in Women-Dominated Spaces.” Coeditors invite submissions that explore the presence of men in certain physical, social, or ideological landscapes that may threaten the privilege and dominance associated with masculinity. Send abstracts by August 15, 2022, to Trenton M. Haltom (Baylor College of Medicine) and Zachary Palmer (Texas A&M, Commerce).
SSM—Qualitative Research in Health is seeking submissions for a special issue on “The Sociology of Health Professions Education,” which will include cutting-edge research on the sociology of health professions education. Works will bring core themes in sociology into conversation with the rapidly changing terrain of 21st-century training and education in the health professions. The manuscript deadline is August 15, 2022. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please email Kelly Underman. Read the complete call for papers here.
Volume on gender and the built and natural environment. Editors are seeking proposals for chapters in an edited volume on gender and the built or natural environment and welcome chapters on gender as it relates to climate change, restorative development, environmental sustainability, space, place, and environmental justice. Editors also seek proposals connecting gender and the environment to micro-climates, indigenous communities, workplaces, and health, as well as proposals on gender and environmental movements, environmental precarity, and environmentally induced migration. Qualitative and quantitative approaches are welcome. Proposals must be at least 500 words and include details about the research question, theory, methods, and any findings. All work must be submitted as a Word document. All correspondence should be sent to both editors: Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal. Send proposals by August 15, 2022. Final versions are due February 15, 2023.
Research in the Sociology of Health Care is seeking papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving social factors, health care inequities, and vaccinations. The volume will contain 10–14 papers, generally between 20–35 pages in length. For an initial indication of interest in outlines or abstracts, please email Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld no later than August 25, 2022. Send completed manuscripts or close to completed papers for review by October 1, 2022.
The Journal of Family Theory & Review invites submissions for a special issue about singlehood, broadly defined as unmarried individuals (i.e., legally single) who do not live with a romantic partner. Submissions could review published theoretical work on singlehood, consider how existing family theories can be adapted or expanded to incorporate singlehood, or develop new theoretical approaches to understanding singlehood as a family form. The deadline is September 1, 2022. To read the full call for papers, please visit the website.
The Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research book series is planning a volume on the theme of “Cohabitation and the Evolving Nature of Intimate and Family Relationships” that will delve into a wide variety of topics related to cohabitation. The submission date for manuscripts is September 30, 2022. Click here for the complete call for papers. Questions may be directed to the volume’s coeditors, Yongjun Zhang and Sampson Lee Blair.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Thirteenth International Conference on the Image will be held on the theme “Here Comes the Metaverse: Designing the Virtual and the Real” at the University of Texas at Austin, September 28–29, 2022. The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images and invites proposals addressing several themes, including the form of the image, image work, and the image in society. The deadline is June 28, 2022. For more information, 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,” and hosted by the School of Theology, Laboratory of Pedagogy and Religious Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, June 21–22, 2023. The Religion in Society Research Network explores the relationship between religion in society and the changing nature of spirituality and invites proposals on several themes such as interdisciplinary approaches, human rights and policy, narratives and identity, and culture and education. The proposal deadline is August 21, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
Summer Workshops
2022 ICPSR Summer Program Workshops are open for registration. A fully hybrid format featuring opportunities to connect with instructors, this year’s program includes more than 70 courses in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis, such as courses on machine learning, Bayesian modeling, network analysis, SEM, mixed methods, regression discontinuity designs, racial attitudes and politics, and theoretical modeling. Weekly workshops are offered through August 2022 and registration is ongoing. For more information, visit the website.
The Kempe Center will host its annual one-week, in-person Summer Interdisciplinary Research Institute, August 22–26, 2022, at theUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It is actively recruiting researchers from multiple disciplines who are interested in applying their research and disciplinary expertise to examining topics related to child abuse and neglect to participate in Course 2: Challenges in Child Maltreatment Research. The course will feature intensive teaching and dedicated mentoring by national and international experts in an effort to expand the pool of scholars trained to conduct child maltreatment research. The last day to register is July 11, 2022, for registering not for credit. For more information, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, University of California-Irvine, received a $511,230 National Science Foundation grant to fund a project titled “Diversity and Networking in Law School: Are Law Students from Diverse Backgrounds Disadvantaged?”
Paul J. DiMaggio, New York University; and Mario Small, Columbia University, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Thomas DiPrete, Columbia University; James Mahoney, Northwestern University; and Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles, were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Louis Edgar Esparza, California State University-Los Angeles, has been named Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Brasilia in Brazil for fall 2022.
Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia, received a Visiting Scholar appointment in the sociology department at the London School of Economics and a residential fellowship at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in Amsterdam.
Laura Halcomb, University of California-Santa Barbara, has been selected as a 2022 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow.
Jessica Kelley, Case Western Reserve University, was honored with the 2022 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching.
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan, was elected chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.
Holly E. Reed, CUNY-Queens College, has been appointed editor of the International Migration Review.
In the News
Alex Barnard, New York University, authored the May 18, 2022, opinion piece “Round and Round We Go: Or the Way Services Work for People Who Are Homeless” in Generations Today, the American Society on Aging blog.
Ruth Braunstein, University of Connecticut, was quoted in the May 18, 2022, New York Times opinion piece “The MAGA Formula is Getting Darker and Darker.”
Charlie Eaton and Amber Villalobos, University of California-Merced; and Frederick Wherry, Princeton University, authored the opinion piece “The Government Gave Out Bad Loans. Students Deserve a Bailout” in the May 17, 2022, edition of the New York Times.
Barry Glassner, former president of Lewis and Clark, contributed to the May 3, 2022, piece on WNYC “‘It Stays in Your Mind’: When Crime Goes Viral, Fear of Crime Goes Up.”
Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Bowling Green State University, contributed to the article “The U.S.’s Low Birth Rate Means the Nation is Headed for a Demographic Crisis” in the May 25, 2022, online edition of the Observer.
Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann, University of Notre Dame, authored the opinion piece “Forced Pregnancy and Childbirth are Violence Against Women—and Also Terrible Health Policy” in the May 4, 2022, edition of Salon.com.
Gina Marie Longo, Virginia Commonwealth University, authored the opinion column “Musk Twitter Debate Misses Bigger Issue for Democracy” in the May 9, 2022, issue of the Richmond-Times Dispatch.
Joan Maya Mazelis, Rutgers University-Camden, authored the opinion piece “Paying for Childcare Shouldn’t Be This Hard” in the March 9, 2022, edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma, and Philip S. Gorski, Yale University, authored the opinion piece “With the Buffalo Massacre, White Christian Nationalism Strikes Again” in the May 20, 2022, edition of the Washington Post.
Ashton Verdery, Pennsylvania State University, contributed to the May 16, 2022, article “COVID-19 U.S. Death Toll Reaches 1 Million” in the New York Daily News.
Jenny R. Vermilya, University of Colorado-Denver, was interviewed in Episode 181 of the Knowing Animals podcast about her book Gender, Identity, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students.
New Books
Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary, The Opportunity Trap: High Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program (New York University Press 2022).
Timothy Black, Case Western Reserve University, and Sky Keyes, Homeless Prenatal Program, It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins (Oxford University Press 2021).
Valerie Chepp, Cleveland Clinic, Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism (Rutgers University Press 2022).
Marci D. Cottingham, University of Amsterdam, Practical Feelings: Emotions as Resources in a Dynamic Social World (Oxford University Press 2022).
Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, and Ira Sheskin, University of Miami, Eds., American Jewish Year Book 2020 (Springer 2021).
Nicole Fox, California State University-Sacramento, After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (University of Wisconsin Press 2021).
Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University, and Agnes Lux, Centre for Social Sciences (Hungary), The Roles of Independent Children’s Rights Institutions in Advancing Human Rights of Children, Vol: 28 (Emerald Publishing Limited 2022).
Nazneen Khan, Randolph-Macon College, Ed., COVID-19 and Childhood Inequality (Routledge 2022).
Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City (Oxford University Press 2022).
Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California-Santa Cruz, Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics (Cambridge University Press 2021).
Pyong Gap Min, CUNY-Queens College, The Transnational Cultural Flow from Home: Korean Community in Greater New York (Rutgers University Press 2022).
Anne Nassauerand and Nicolas Legewie, University of Erfurt, Video Data Analysis: How to Use 21st Century Video in the Social Sciences (SAGE Publishing 2022).
Marcel Paret, University of Utah, Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion (Cornell University Press 2022).
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College, Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke University Press 2022).
Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith, Ohio State University, Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents (NYU Press 2022).
Victor Roudometof, University of Cyprus, and Ugo Dessi, University of Leipzig, Eds., Handbook of Culture & Glocalization (Edward Elgar 2022).
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Georgetown University, Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press 2021).
Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University, Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools (University of Chicago Press 2022).
Fang Xu, University of California-Berkley, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China (Lexington 2021).