Calls for Papers: Publications
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences invites contributions for an upcoming issue on the theme “Climate Hazards and Their Social, Political, and Economic Consequences.” Editors seek original research pertaining to the social, political, and economic effects of climate-related hazards in the United States; inequalities exacerbated or created by hazards; and how federal, state, local and/or private mitigation, recovery, and resilience policies affect inequalities. Read the full call for articles and submission guidelines here. The deadline is April 2, 2024.
Social Sciences invites submissions for a special issue on the theme of “Understanding Marriage in the Twenty-First Century.” Editors seek contributions from social scientists who are interested in understanding what marriage means today, how it operates, what difference being married makes in family and personal lives, and why the institution still appeals to so many people at a time when marriages are becoming less common and alternatives to marriage are proliferating. Contributors are encouraged to submit original research, reviews of the literature, and theoretical papers. Editors especially welcome work that challenges or complicates declinist narratives about the state of marriage in the 21st century. Submit your proposal by April 15, 2024. Read the full call for proposals here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations will be held on the theme “The Future We Want: Socio-Environmental Challenges in Times of Climate Emergency” on July 3-5, 2024, in Portugal and online. The Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations Research Network aims to traverse a broad terrain, sometimes technically and other times socially oriented, sometimes theoretical and other times practical in its perspective, and sometimes reflecting dispassionate analysis while at other times suggesting strategies for action. It seeks papers on the following themes: identity and belonging; education and learning in worlds of differences; organizational diversity; and community diversity and governance. The deadline is April 2, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
The Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations will be held on the theme “The Future We Want: Organizational Responsibilities for Climate Responses” on July 3-5, 2024, in Portugal and online. The Organization Studies Research Network comes together around a common concern for, and a shared interest to explore new possibilities in knowledge, culture, and change management, within the broader context of the nature and future of organizations and their impact on society. It seeks papers on the following themes: organizational intangibles and tangible value; knowledge economies as the constant; organizations as knowledge makers; and the value of culture and the demand of change. The deadline is April 3, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
The Thirty-First International Conference on Learning will be held on the theme “The Converging Challenges for Inclusive Education: Intercultural Competences and Digital Literacies in Global Contexts” on July 10-12, 2024, in the Netherlands and online. The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood to schools, colleges, and universities, as well as adult, community, and workplace education. It seeks papers on the following themes: pedagogy and curriculum; assessment and evaluation; educational organization and leadership; early childhood learning; learning in higher education; adult, community, and professional learning; learner diversity and identities; technologies in learning; literacies learning; and science, mathematics, and technology learning. The deadline is April 10, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
The Nineteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences will be held on the theme “The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age” on July 17-19, 2024, in Poland and online. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, as well as between the social, natural, and applied sciences. It seeks papers on the following themes: social and community studies; civic and political studies; cultural studies; global studies; environmental studies; organizational studies; educational studies; and communication. The deadline is April 17, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
The Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists will be held on the theme “Interrogating Capitalism” online on October 5-6, 2024. This year’s conference honors the work of Jon Sorenson, a pioneering vegan sociologist whose work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism, and intersectional resistance. Presentations are invited for the 2024 conference that align with these areas of inquiry. Individual presentations will be between 10 and15 minutes. Submissions for panels are also welcome, and papers do not need to be completed to accompany accepted presentations. The submission deadline is June 1, 2024. Complete details are available on the website.
The Tenth International Community, Work, and Family (CWF) Conference will be held on the theme “Community, Work, and Family in Flux: Exploring Changing Structures, Policies, and Practices in a Global Perspective” on March 25-28, 2025, in Germany. The conference will bring together a global multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to contribute to debates on changing structures, policies, and practices of community, work, and family, as well as to stimulate further research in this regard. Abstracts can be submitted to a specific session or to the general topics of the conference: social change and CWF; global perspectives on CWF; agency in CWF; social inequality structures of CWF; or politics and policies of CWF. Ph.D. students are invited to submit an abstract for a workshop on the topic “Gender, Work, and Family Life” or “The Politics and Policies of Community, Work, and Family.” The submission deadline is June 30, 2024. Read the full call for papers here.
The Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness, and Society will be held on the theme “Health for Democracy, Democracy for Health” on October 3-4, 2024, in Sweden and online. The Health, Wellness, and 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. It seeks papers on the following themes: the physiology, kinesiology, and psychology of wellness in its social context; interdisciplinary health sciences; public health policies and practices; and health promotion and education. The deadline is July 3, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
Call for Book Chapters
The editors of an upcoming collection on the theme “Sociological Perspectives on Community Mental Health” seek abstracts of no more than 800 words for theoretical and empirical chapters. Chapters should critically evaluate evidence, show awareness of contemporary theorizing in the sociology of mental health, and contribute to our understandings of community mental health care. Editors are keen to support early-career researchers who are new to writing this sort of publication. Abstracts are due by March 31, 2024. For more details, click here.
Call for Award Nominations
The International Network of Analytical Sociology (INAS) invites nominations for the 2024 Robert K. Merton Award. The award is given by the INAS every year for an outstanding paper in analytical sociology. Nominations, including self-nominations, are encouraged for papers on any topic related to analytical sociology, published in print (or online for online-only journals) during 2022 and 2023. Nominations will be accepted until April 15, 2024. For complete details, click here.
Grants
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for three upcoming funding opportunities:
- The NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes grant will support rigorous research and evaluation projects to inform policy and practice to prevent and respond to hate crimes. Applicants are required to register with the System for Award Management, submit forms in Grants.gov by April 29, 2024, and submit the full application deadline in JustGrants by May 6, 2024. For more information, click here.
- The NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Money Laundering, Firearms, and Human Trafficking grant will support rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. Applicants are required to register with the System for Award Management, submit forms in gov by May 1, 2024, and submit the full application deadline in JustGrants by May 15, 2024. For more information, click here.
- The NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Prosecution Practice, Justice, Case Tracking, and Workforce grant will support rigorous research and evaluation projects examining the impact of court and other criminal justice tools, practices, and policies on the administration of justice and public safety in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions. Applicants are required to register with the System for Award Management, submit forms in gov by May 8, 2024, and submit the full application deadline in JustGrants by May 22, 2024. For more information, click here.
Events
Princeton University is hosting the Queer Demography Summit. This daylong event will be conducted in a hybrid format on March 29, 2024, and will bring together some of the nation and the world’s leading demographers of queer populations to discuss the state of queer demography. It will examine how the field has challenged and advanced general understandings of core demographic methods and research practices, as well as contributed substantive new knowledge on queer people’s health and well-being, family dynamics, migration patterns, experiences of inequality, and much more. Read more and register here.
The Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society will host its Annual Graduate Student Workshop on June 7-8, 2024, at Chapman University. The workshop will provide two days of intensive instruction, interaction, and feedback for a select group of advanced graduate students. More information is forthcoming on the website.
Accomplishments
Stephen J. Morewitz, President, Forensic Social Sciences Association, has joined the faculty of Northeastern University-Oakland, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Dawne M. Mouzon, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, received a Mid-Career Scholar and Career Achievement Award from the Program for Research on Black Americans.
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, testified in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 14, 2024, in support of legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders to establish a standard 32-hour workweek in America with no loss in pay.
In the News
Michael Biggs, University of Oxford, was interviewed for the segment “U.S. Airman Dies of Self-Immolation” on the February 27, 2024, episode of NPR’s Morning Edition.
Melissa Brown, Santa Clara University, was quoted in the March 6, 2024, article “The 4 Rudest Types of Comments You Should Never Make about Someone’s Clothes” in the Huffington Post.
Juanita J. Chinn, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was interviewed for the February 27, 2024, piece “Hispanic Maternal Mortality Rates Remain Unclear in Parts of the Midwest” on Nebraska Public Media.
Charlie Eaton, University of California-Merced, was quoted in the February 26, 2024, article “These Are the Wealthiest Schools in Charlotte, Led by Davidson College” in the Charlotte Business Journal.
Dana R. Fisher, American University, shared key insights from her new book, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action (Columbia University Press 2024) in the March 1, 2024, article “The Climate Crisis Is Heating Up Activism. Here’s Why” in Fast Company.
David Frank, New York University, was quoted in the March 5, 2024, article “How the U.S. Is Sabotaging Its Best Tools to Prevent Deaths in the Opioid Epidemic” in STAT.
Gary D. Jaworski, Fairleigh Dickison University, was interviewed for the February 27, 2024, article “The Whisper Network Electrified: An Interview with ‘Mike Antenna’” in the Cleveland Review of Books.
Eric Klinenberg, New York University, was interviewed for the February 27, 2024, article “Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out—and Why It Matters” in the Ringer.
Danielle Jeanne Lindemann, Lehigh University, was quoted in the March 6, 2024, article “HGTV Star Mina Starsiak Hawk Hits Back after Getting ‘Nasty’ Comments from Fans” in TV Insider.
Martin Lukk, University of Toronto, was cited in the March 12, 2024, article “A TikToker Raised $400K for an Unhoused Man. Then Things Got Messy” in the Washington Post.
Amanda McMillan Lequieu Drexel University, was quoted in the March 5, 2024, article “Buzzkill: Climate Change Could Destroy the Coffee Industry. Here’s How We Can Still Save It” in Salon.
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California, was quoted in the March 2, 2024, article “Poor Voters and Voters Of Color May Be Key on Super Tuesday. Will ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ Hurt?” in USA Today.
Christina Ramón and Darnell M. Hunt, University of California-Los Angeles, had research covered in the March 7, 2024, article “Hollywood Executives Are Deprioritizing Diversity ‘At Their Own Peril,’ Report Warns” in the Huffington Post.
Alexandrea Ravenelle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was quoted in the March 9, 2024, article “Gig Workers Face a Savings Crisis for Retirement” in Business Insider.
James M. Raymo, Princeton University, was quoted in the February 29, 2024, article “Japan’s Population Crisis Was Years in the Making—and Relief May Be Decades Away” on CNN.
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College, was quoted in the February 27, 2024, article “EarthTalk: Trial Suggests 4-Day Workweek Better for Climate” in the Arizona Daily Sun.
Sara N. Shostak, Brandeis University, was quoted in the February 25, 2024, article “Urban Farming Institute Purchases 18th-Century Mattapan Farm” in the Boston Globe.
Felicia Wu Song, Westmont College, was quoted in the February 27, 2024, article “Artificial Intelligence Is Here. Now What?” in the Presbyterian Outlook.
Kristin Surak, London School of Economics, was quoted in the March 7, 2024, article “Portugal Just Killed the Most Popular ‘Golden Visa’ In Europe. Here’s Where Wealthy Americans Are Flocking Instead” in Fortune.
Stefan Timmermans, University of California-Los Angeles, and Pamela Prickett, University of Amsterdam, received coverage of their book The Unclaimed (Penguin Random House 2024) in the March 7, 2024, article “A New Book Fills in the Human Stories Behind Unmarked Graves” in the New York Times.
Andrew Whitehead, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was quoted in the March 7, 2024, article “As Trump Support Merges with Christian Nationalism, Experts Warn of Extremist Risks” in USA Today.
Apryl A. Williams, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, authored the February 14, 2024, article “When Love and the Algorithm Don’t Mix” in TIME.
Terry Williams, New School for Social Research, was interviewed about his book Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York (Columbia University Press 2024) for the February 29, 2024, piece “Sociologist Documents Community inside NYC’s Tunnels in ‘Life Underground'” as part of the Spectrum News “Mornings On 1 Authors Week” series.
New Books
Brian Brown, De Montfort University (UK), and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, Texas A&M International University, Body Art (Arts for Health) (Emerald Publishing 2023).
Francesco Duina and Hermione Xiaoqing Zhou, Bates College, The Populist Logic on the Environment (Routledge 2024).
Dana R. Fisher, American University, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action (Columbia University Press 2024).
Till Hilmar, University of Vienna, Deserved: Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain (Columbia University Press 2023).
Gary D. Jaworski, Fairleigh Dickison University, Erving Goffman and the Cold War (Lexington 2023).
Laura López-Sanders, Brown University, The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market (New York University Press 2024).
Martha A. Martinez, DePaul University, The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates (Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2023).
Douglas L. Murray, Colorado State University, We Can Change the World: Tales from a Generation’s Quest for Peace and Justice (Ideas into Books Westview 2024).
Sharon Quinsaat, Grinnell College, Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (University of Chicago Press 2024).
Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk, University of Toronto, GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding (Stanford University Press 2023).
Giuseppe Sciortino and Martina Cvajner, University of Trento (Italy), and Peter Kivisto, Augustana College (retired) , Eds., Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration (Edward Elgar 2024).
Stefan Timmermans, University of California-Los Angeles, and Pamela Prickett, University of Amsterdam, The Unclaimed (Penguin Random House 2024).
Terry Williams, New School for Social Research, Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York (Columbia University Press 2024).
Death Notices
Peter Conrad passed away on March 3, 2024, at his home in Lincoln, MA. Conrad was a leading scholar in the study of medicalization and illness experience, focusing on the areas of hyperkinesis, epilepsy, ADHD, and genetic determinism, and medical enhancement, among others. He wrote or edited 16 books and monographs, and his approximately 120 articles appeared in the best journals in medical sociology and related fields. Conrad spent nearly his entire career as a professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University, from 1979 to his retirement in 2017. He will be missed.
Mary Jo Deegan, founder and executive director of the Jane Addams Research Center in St. Joseph, Michigan, died unexpectedly in early 2024. An avid feminist and theorist of American culture, she was widely known for studies of Jane Addams, George Herbert Mead, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among others, and was a founding member of the ASA Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought. Deegan earned a B.A. in chemistry and mathematics from Western Michigan University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1975. She taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 40 years, becoming professor emerita in 2015. She was 77.
Obituary
Theodore D. Kemper
1926-2024
Theodore D. (Dave) Kemper died on January 17, 2024, in Westport, CT, at age 97. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1926 and lived and went to school in New York City. He attended Townsend Harris High School and the City College of New York, receiving his degree in English in 1949. He worked for several years as a writer at a photo agency and at Metropolitan Sunday Newspapers before returning to school to obtain his M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1963) in sociology from NYU.
Kemper’s first academic job was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1963-1966). He said often that it was his formative academic experience, and that it taught him the second of the two rules for a successful university career: hard work. (The first rule: get along with your colleagues and the chair). He then moved to Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. While there he began to develop the ideas that led to his first book, A Social Interactional Theory of Emotions (Wiley 1978). This work laid out a new theory of emotions, based on the idea that most human emotions result from outcomes in the fundamental relational dimensions of power and status. This work encompassed all the major emotions, including love.
In 1968, Kemper began working at the University of Toronto and then at Queens College, CUNY in 1970. From 1973 to his retirement in 1994, Kemper taught at St. John’s University-New York. During this time, he published Social Structure and Testosterone: Explorations of the Socio-Bio-Social Chain (Rutgers University Press 1990). In this book, Kemper derived several major theoretical consequences of a body of empirical work that showed that after victory or status elevation testosterone rises in males, while defeat or status demotion led to testosterone decline. He also published an edited volume, Research Agendas in the Sociology of Emotions (SUNY Press 1990).
After retirement, Kemper continued to publish articles and chapters in the field, but by 2007, he was devoting himself exclusively to a third career, namely playwriting. He joked that his ambition was to become “a minor playwright.” A number of his plays received staged readings or full performances. He maintained that it was harder to get a play accepted than to get an article published in a major sociological journal. He had experience of both.
Kemper was a devoted father, brother, uncle, and partner. He is lovingly survived by a daughter, Nadja Streiter; three grandchildren, William, Amanda, and Jason Streiter; a sister, Roslyn Schwartz; a partner Muriel Reid; and niece and nephew, Susan Maya and Steven Schwartz, and their children, Daniel, Daria, and Jonathan.
Authored by Theodore Kemper in advance of his passing.
