Calls for Papers: Publications
Community Organizing is a new journal dedicated to advancing the scholarship and practice of community organizing around the globe. Reflecting the core commitments of community organizing at all levels, this journal has a special focus on the importance of democratic and relational work that enables leadership development, community power, and structural change. The newly formed editorial team invites contributions for the first three issues. Issue one will be on the theme “Reimagining the Scholarship and Practice of Community Organizing.” Issue two will be on the theme “Community Organizing and Democratic Visions.” Issue three will be on the theme “Innovations in Community Organizing.” Abstracts up to 750 words for issues one, two, and/or three are due June 15, 2023. Click here for the full call for papers. Read the submission guidelines here.
Law and Society Review seeks submissions for two special issues. To be considered for the special issue on the theme of “Legal Mobilization by the Right against Rights,” the work must engage with theory, offer empirical analysis, and make clear contributions to social movements and socio-legal studies. Read the full call for papers on the website. The deadline for this issue is June 26, 2023. For the special issue on the theme “Law in a Changing Climate,” submissions must be grounded in sociolegal studies and demonstrate a substantial contribution. Read the full call for papers on the website. The deadline for this issue is September 15, 2023.
Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society seeks submissions for a special issue on the theme of “Fat Social Justice Now!” This special issue seeks to encompass a variety of topics around a broad definition of fat social justice. To be considered for inclusion in this special issue, please send a tentative title, 200‒250 word abstract, and current CV by June 30, 2023. Click here for the full call for papers.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal is seeking articles for an upcoming volume on the theme “Three Decades Since Making Ends Meet: What We Know about How Single-Mother Families Survive Today.” Editors are looking for papers that illustrate how research on poor families headed by single parents (and low-income families with children more broadly) and the policies that serve them has dramatically expanded since the 1997 publication of Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. The deadline is July15, 2023. Visit the website for the complete call for papers.
The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion is seeking submissions for a special issue on the theme “Religion and Bodies.” The primary objective of this issue is to highlight new social scientific scholarship on religion and bodies in the contemporary world. It invites submissions from areas across the social science disciplines. The deadline is August 1, 2023. Read the full call for papers here.
Social Science & Medicine is seeking submissions for its special issue on the theme “Unequal Care: Trans Medicine and Health in Dangerous Times.” This special issue will include innovative empirical research on transgender medicine and health care during a moment of hyper-visibility and dangerous times. The submission deadline is September 1, 2023. Read the full call for papers here.
Clinical Sociology Review is an open-access journal with articles available in three languages—English, Spanish, and French. The journal is seeking contributions to its three sections: History of Clinical Sociology, Articles, and Resources. For the complete call for papers, including details on each section, click here. For submission requirements, click here. The deadline is ongoing.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Past, Present, and Future of Nation-States, a multidisciplinary conference organized and hosted by Southern New Hampshire University’s Social Sciences and Liberal Arts Departments, will be held online October 13‒14, 2023, and invites proposals that advance deeper understanding of complex issues surrounding historical nation-state building and its transformation in the 21st century. To find out more about the conference and read the full call for proposals, click here. Proposals are due July 14, 2023.
Aging & Social Change: Thirteenth Interdisciplinary Conference will be held on the theme “Overcoming Inequalities and Promoting Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges for Ageing Societies” in Ancona, Italy, and online September 13‒15, 2023. The process of aging is a concern for individuals, families, communities, and nations. The conference is a forum for discussion of challenges and opportunities for a rapidly growing segment of the population worldwide, and it invites proposals on several themes The deadline is August 14, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Society for Applied Anthropology invites abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, and videos) for the program of the 84th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March 26‒30, 2024. The theme of the program is “Enchantment and Transformation.” The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2023. For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit the website.
The Twentieth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and 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 network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. It invites proposals on several themes. The submission deadline is October 24, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
Fellowship
The Society of Fellows at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, is seeking applications for the 2024‒2027 competition. Four fellowships will be awarded: Open Discipline (2 or 3), Humanistic Studies (1), and Race and Ethnicity Studies (1). The society seeks applications from outstanding graduate students—those now finishing their PhD and those who received their degree after January 1, 2022. Diverse and international applicants and candidates from underrepresented backgrounds are especially welcome. For more information and the online application, please visit the website. The application deadline is August 1, 2023. Read the call for applications here.
Workshop
The National Humanities Alliance is offering a virtual workshop on documenting impact, building off the launch of its new resource, Documenting the Impact of the Public Humanities in Higher Education: A Toolkit. The workshop will provide attendees with the opportunity to consider impact research as it relates to their own work and to the humanities more broadly. While the toolkit focuses on public humanities projects (including internship programs, publicly engaged courses, reading and discussion groups, and oral history projects), the alliance anticipates that it will also be relevant to those carrying out a wide range of humanities work. The workshop will be offered on two dates this summer: June 22, 2023, and July 25, 2023. Read more about the event and register here.
Events
The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research’s 2023 Online KT Conference will be held on the theme “Tailoring Your Knowledge Translation Strategies for Your Intended Users.” The conference will take place entirely online on November 6, 8, and 10, 2023. There is no charge to attend. For more information and to register, visit the website.
The Society for Social Studies of Science will hold its 2023 meeting in Honolulu, HI, November 8‒11, 2023, on the theme “Theme: Sea, Sky, And Land: Engaging In Solidarity In Endangered Ecologies.” The meeting organizers offer sea, sky, and land as metaphors and materialities with which to think and learn about how we care and connect in endangered times. For more information, visit the website.
The 2023 Annual Corruption in the Global South Network Conference will be held on the theme “Critical Approaches to Corruption and Transparency” on November 19‒20, 2023, at the New School for Social Research in New York City. The goal of this symposium is to explore the different ways that corruption and anticorruption have emerged from, and contributed to, the late capitalist world order. For more information, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Tressie McMillan Cottom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was named recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award by the Laney Graduate School at Emory University.
Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland, was appointed by the Population Reference Bureau to its Board of Trustees.
Harland Prechel, Texas A&M University, had his book, Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-Regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality (Stanford University Press 2021), awarded the 2023 Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award.
Emily Rauscher, Brown University, received a 2023 Salomon Award for her project “Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Persistent Inequality.”
Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing in recognition of field-based urban scholarship the dissemination of work by activist urban scholars.
Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, was named the next Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School.
In the News
Gordon Arbuckle, Jr., Iowa State University, was quoted in the May 18, 2023, piece “Purdue-Led USDA Project Aims to Double Impact of Climate-Smart Corn Belt Agriculture” on Seed Today.
Chase Michael Billingham, Wichita State University, was quoted in the May 8, 2023, piece “City to End Use of Costly ‘Eviction Mercenaries’ to Clear Homeless Camps in Wichita Parks” on KMUW in Wichita.
Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University, and Trevor Hoppe, University of North Carolina-Greensboro had the book they edited, Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeTooEra, selected for the list “These Reads Prove That Book Bans Are Regressive Trash” appearing in the May 9, 2023, Cosmopolitan.
Deborah Carr, Boston University, was quoted in the May 10, 2023, article “Zillennials: The Newest Micro-Generation Has a Name” on CNN.
Caitlyn Collins, Washington University-St. Louis, was quoted in the May 14, 2023, article “In Our View: Honor Mothers Every Day with Sound Policies” in the Columbian.
Matthew Desmond, Princeton University, was interviewed for the April 18, 2023, piece “Poverty, by America” on Democracy Now and for the May 14, 2023, article “The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won” in the Atlantic
Shani Adia Evans, Rice University, was quoted in the May 22, 2023, opinion piece “White Parents Say They Want Diverse Schools, But Will They Send Their Kids?” in Education Week.
Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University, was interviewed for the May 18, 2023, piece “How Can We Resist Book Bans? This Banned Author Has Ideas” on Truthout.
Dana Fisher, University of Maryland, was a guest on the May 5, 2023, episode of the Climate One podcast, “Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?”
Simone Ispa-Landa, Northwestern University, was quoted in the May 23, 2023, article “‘Bama Rush’ Takes Us into the World of Southern Sorority Fashion and Hierarchies” on CNN about research conducted with Barbara Jane Risman, University of Illinois-Chicago.
Tomas R. Jimenez, Stanford University; Grace Kao, Yale University; and Nancy López, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, were quoted in the May 30, 2023, article “The Differences Between Race and Ethnicity—and Why They’re So Hard to Define” on CNN.
Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, provided comment for the May 16, 2023, piece “America’s Debt Culture Is a Complicated Journey for Some Immigrants” on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Lei Lei, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was quoted in the May 30, 203, article “Young People Are Having Less Sex Than Their Parents Did at Their Age. Researchers Explore Why” on KFF Health News.
Yao Lu, Columbia University, and Jean Yeung, National University of Singapore, were quoted in the May 29, 2023, article “China’s Youth Unemployment Hits a Record High, Deepening Its Economic Scars” on CNBC.
Norah MacKendrick, Rutgers University, was quoted in the May 9, 2023, article “You Don’t Need to Balance Your Hormones” in TIME.
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, was quoted on the May 7, 2023, article “Why So Many Women Are on the Way Out after Making Historic Gains in N.J. Legislature” in the Times of Trenton.
Sara M. Moorman, Boston College, and Jeffrey E. Stokes, University of Massachusetts-Boston, had their research referenced in the May 22, 2023, article “Here’s How to Help Children Cultivate a Close Relationship with Their Grandparents” in St. George News.
Aaron M. Pallas, Teachers College-Columbia University, was quoted in the May 16, 2023, article, “Debate over Holding Back Third Graders Roils State Legislatures” in the Indiana Capital Chronicle and authored the May 16, 2023, article “Don’t Know Much about History: National Assessment of Educational Progress Test Shows Failing Scores for Eighth-Graders” in the New York Daily News.
Christine Percheski, Northwestern University, was quoted in the May 18, 2023, article “Chicago’s Population Is Declining, but It’s Still the Nation’s Third Most Populous City, New Census Data Shows” in the Chicago Tribune.
Yue Qian, University of British Columbia, and Yang Hu, Lancaster University, authored the May 9, 2023, opinion piece “Mothers’ Education Has a Powerful Role Shaping Their Children’s Futures” in the Conversation.
Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Stanford University, was quoted in the May 8, 2023, article “How to Build (and Destroy) a Social Network” in the Atlantic.
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, was quoted in the May 16, 2023, article “Is a Four-Day Workweek as Good as It Sounds? California Employees Share What It’s Really Like” in the Los Angeles Times.
Desi Small-Rodriguez, University of California-Los Angeles, was quoted in the May 4, 2023, article “‘I Am a White Person:’ UC Berkeley Scholar Says She Realized She Wasn’t Native American Last Year” in the Press-Enterprise.
Amanda Jean Stevenson, University of Colorado-Boulder, was quoted in the May 22, 2023, article “Some Deaths Connected to Mifepristone Were Actually Homicides, Drug Overdoses | Fact Check” in USA Today.
Stefan Timmermans, University of California-Los Angeles, was quoted for the May 29, 2023, piece “A ‘Natural Death’ May Be Preferable for Many To Enduring CPR” on National Public Radio.
Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University, authored the May 29, 2023, article “If Affirmative Action in College Admissions Ends, Here’s Who Will Fill Those Spots” in the Boston Globe.
Andrew Whitehead, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, was quoted in the May 23, 2023, article “Texas Pushes Church into State with Bills on School Chaplains, Ten Commandments” in the Washington Post on research he has conducted with Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma.
Cameron Thomas Whitley, Western Washington University, was quoted in the May 7, 2023, article “The Frenchie Becomes a Favorite—and a Dog-Show Contender” from the Associated Press.
Cary Wu, York University, was quoted in the May 16, 2023, article “Inflation Is Really Stressing Americans Out” from HealthDay News.
Yun Zhou, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, was quoted in the May 11, 2023, article “An Unmarried Woman Fights for Her Right to Freeze Her Eggs in China” on the China Project.
New Books
Sofya Aptekar, City University of New York, Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (MIT Press 2023).
Jeffrey Chin, Le Moyne College, and Michele Lee Kozimor, Elizabethtown College, Emerging Stronger: Pedagogical Lessons from the Pandemic (Routledge 2023).
Angela Cora Garcia, Bentley University, An Introduction to Interaction: Understanding Talk in the Workplace and Everyday Life, 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Academic Press 2023).
Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Whitman College, and Arturo Rodríguez Morató, University of Barcelona, Eds., Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
Calvin John Smiley, Hunter College, Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition (University of California Press 2023).
Barbara Sutton, University at Albany-SUNY, Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress Body (Routledge 2023).
Cynthia Baiqing Zhang, Evergreen Campus, and Meredith Ille, University of Oklahoma, Criminal Careers and Communities in the United States: An Identity Network Perspective (Lexington Books 2023).
