May 2022 Issue
- Calls for Papers: Publications
- Calls for Papers: Conferences
- Funding
- Summer Course on PAR
- Accomplishments
- In the News
- New Books
- Deaths
- Obituaries
Calls for Papers: Publications
The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies seeks submissions for its special issue, “Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body.” The editors welcome papers encompassing the work of established scholars, early- and mid-career researchers, independent scholars, artists, and creators, to offer a multifaceted discussion of dancing subjects and their ways of negotiating disability as difference in a variety of contexts. Send abstracts to editors Stefan Sunandan Honisch, University of British Columbia, and Gili Hammer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by June 1, 2022. Read the complete call for papers here.
The Journal of Family and Economic Issues seeks submissions for its upcoming issue, “The Political and Economic Contexts of Families’ Financial Lives.” This special issue invites theoretical and empirical submissions that aim to expand our understandings of the political and economic contexts that constitute the conditions of families’ financial lives. While a robust scholarly literature focuses on well-known political and economic contexts like the Great Recession, this issue encourages new avenues of scholarly inquiry. The deadline is June 3, 2022. For more information, click here.
Feminist Pedagogies invites submissions for its special issue, “Graduate Student Pedagogy: Feminist Approaches to Graduate Level Instruction and Mentorship.” This special issue seeks to address how we can better serve graduate students in our teaching and pedagogical practices. Of interest are critical commentaries on approaches to teaching graduate students, as well as original teaching activities. The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2022. Please send all inquiries and/or abstract submissions to Penny Harvey.
Studies in Comparative International Development is publishing a special issue on the topic of global health that seeks to critically challenge the absence of race and racism in mainstream international relations theory and the “epistemic parochialism” of major social science disciplines by highlighting important new work in the emergent sociologies and political sciences of global health. The deadline for submission is August 25, 2022. Click here for the complete call for papers. Questions about the special issue may be directed to the coeditors, Kim Yi Dionne and Joseph Harris.
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.
Production and Operations Management seeks submissions of research articles, analytical essays, and brief reports for its special issue, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Operations and Supply Chain Management” Guest editors are Charles J. Corbett, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Sriram Narayanan, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management and Michigan State University The deadline is September 30, 2022. For more details, click here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Nineteenth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society will be held on the theme of “Whose Intelligence? The Corporeality of Thinking Machines” at the University of Malta, on April 13–14, 2023. The Technology, Knowledge, and Society Network is brought together by a shared interest in the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge, and society. The network invites papers on several themes, including histories of technology, knowledge makers, and social realities. The submission deadline is June 13, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
The 2022 IUS/Canada Conference will be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, October 21–23, 2022. IUS/Canada is a region of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Organizers welcome papers or organized panels that address the key themes of interest to the IUS Fellows in support of emerging scholarly research dealing with the military establishment and civil-military relations. Papers in all areas touching on defense and security in national and international contexts are eagerly solicited, and organizers encourage submissions representing the full range of academic disciplines, as well as those providing organized presentations on lived experiences in the military and societies. Panel proposals and individual presentation submissions must be received no later than June 30, 2022. For complete submission guidelines, visit the website.
The Thirteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment will be held on the theme “Human Nature: Towards a Reconciliation” at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Honolulu on May 17–19, 2023. The Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social, and natural environments. The network invites papers on several themes, including the design of space and place, constructing the environment, environmental impacts, and social impacts. The submission deadline is July 17, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
Funding
The Foundation for Child Development’s Young Scholars Program supports scholarship for early career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce. The application deadline is June 9, 2022. For more information, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, please visit the website.
The Japan Sociological Society (JSS) is pleased to announce its 16th annual grant competition for early career scholars in its renewed format as the “JSS Travel Award.” JSS will select 10 scholars to present papers in two special sessions on the theme of “COVID-19 and Society” and participate in the JSS Annual Meeting, held at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka November 12–13, 2022. The scholars will receive financial support toward their travel costs. The deadline is June 20, 2022. Please visit the website for more details.
The William T. Grant Foundation’s 2022 Scholars Program Application Guide is now available. The program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. It funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas to address either problems of inequality or improving the use of research evidence. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. The online application is open, and the deadline to submit an application is July 6, 2022. Find out more about the program and access the application guide here.
The Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust in Wayne, PA, offers research grants to nonprofit (501)(c)(3) organizations for research into the causes of alcoholism or substance abuse. Basic, clinical, and social science proposals will be considered. The Trust expects to grant approximately $225,000 this year and will consider proposals that request up to $75,000. Please send a brief summary proposal (2–3 pages), proposed budget, copy of institution’s (501)(c)(3) letter, and investigator’s bio-sketch. Grant moneys may not be used for tuition and no more than 10 percent of amount granted may be used for indirect costs. Applications must be postmarked on or before September 9, 2022. For the complete RFP, email [email protected].
Summer Course on PAR
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University is offering a virtual summer course on conducting participatory action research (PAR) June 27–July 1, 2022. During this one-week course, participants will learn how to employ PAR, engage with different theories about how knowledge is created, learn about the principles of PAR and how to apply them in a range of research projects, and work in small groups to workshop the application of PAR in participants’ own projects. Participants will earn a certificate in “Conducting Participatory Action Research” from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life upon completion. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the course is full. For more information, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Michelle M. Camacho, University of Utah, has been named as the new dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science. She will begin on July 1, 2022.
Mark Granovetter, Stanford University, received the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences for revealing the power of “loose social ties” among individuals for people’s economic and social performance.
Sarah L. Hoiland, with Elys-Vasquez-Iscan, JungHang Lee, Norberto Hernández Valdés-Portela, and Biao Jiang, CUNY Hostos Community College, were awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for “A Holistic Two-Generation Approach to Improving STEM Education Outcomes in the South Bronx,” a five-year $2.3M research grant.
Erin R. Johnson, University of California-San Francisco, has been selected as one of eight 2022 Women’s Studies Fellows from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars to assist with the completion of her dissertation “Access and Advocacy: Examining the Practices, Partnerships and Philosophies of Abortion Funds Under Stress.”
Tiffany Joseph, Northeastern University, received a National Library of Medicine Grant for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health.
Hui (Cathy) Liu, Michigan State University, and Rin Reczek, Institute of Population Research and Ohio State University, have been presented with a 2021 IPUMS Research Award by the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota for her research article “Birth Cohort Trends in Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation.”
Rebecca London, University of California-Santa Cruz, received an Institutional Challenge Grant from the William T. Grant Foundation. She is partnering with her local United Way to conduct youth-led participatory research (yPAR) with local youth and UC-Santa Cruz undergraduates aligned with her partner’s agenda to grow youth empowerment and voice in the community.
Julie J. Park, University of Maryland-College Park; OiYan Poon, Colarado State University; Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Pennsylvania State University; and Dominique Baker, Southern Methodist University, have received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of $1.4 million for a two-year project to assess the equity impacts of test-optional policies in college admissions.
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California Dornsife, received the Raubenheimer Award for Senior Faculty in recognition of outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service within the university.
Walter W. “Woody” Powell, Stanford University, has accepted an appointment as interim director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Powell succeeds Margaret Levi, who steps down in August after more than eight years as CASBS director. He takes office on September 1, 2022.
Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland-College Park, is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows recipient, in support of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. He also received the Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Award from the University of Memphis during its Humanitarian Leadership Summit, where he delivered the Humanitarian Leadership Lecture.
Rogelio Saenz, University of Texas at San Antonio, was appointed as a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Census Scientific Advisory Committee.
Nicole Stokes, St. Joseph’s University, will assume the role of division head for social sciences at Penn State effective June 13, 2022.
Ziyao Tian, Princeton University; Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania; and Yu Xie, Princeton University, have received the 2021 IPUMS Excellence in Research Award for their paper “Intergenerational Social Mobility of Asian Americans Under the Shadow of Asian Exclusion (1882–1943).”
In the News
Joel Best, University of Delaware, was quoted in the recent post “Boycotting Disney Isn’t New. But Does It Work?” on the Disney Food Blog.
Chloe Bird, RAND Corporation, was quoted in the March 28, 2022, article “Women Are Calling Out Medical Gaslighting” in the New York Times.
Ruth Braustein, University of Connecticut, was quoted in the April 27, 2022, National Catholic Reporter article “What Role Will Religion Play in the Midterm Primaries?”
Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, was referenced in the March 30, 2022, New Brunswick News article “Marriage in the U.S. Today.”
John Diamond, Brown University, was quoted in the April 7, 2022, Denver Post article “Why a Denver High School Opened Honors Classes to All Students Despite Pushback from Parents.”
Kenneth Kolb, Furman University, authored the opinion piece “What Academics Focused On Improving Americans’ Diets Got Wrong,” appearing on April 27, 2022, on the Talking Points Memo blog.
Cassidy Puckett, Emory University, was interviewed for the April 26, 2022, PBS News Hour piece “As Colleges and Universities Drop Admission Tests, What’s the Impact on Enrollment?”
William Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara, authored the April 24, 2022, article “Global Capitalism Has Become Dependent on War-Making to Sustain Itself” appearing in the online publication Truthout.
Jamie L. Small, University of Dayton, authored the April 6, 2022, article “Shame and Secrecy Shroud Culture of Sexual Assault in Boys’ High School Sports” online in the Conversation.
Research from Mariah Warner, Ohio State University, was cited in the March 31, 2022, piece “Youth Tackle Football: Americans Differ on Whether Kids Should Play, Survey Finds,” on FOX TV and in the article “Half of Americans Now Think Playing Football ‘Inappropriate’ for Kids: Survey,” in the April 4, 2022, online edition of U.S. News and World Report.
New Books
Monica Casper, San Diego State University, Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z (Rutgers University Press 2022).
Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press 2022).
Hava Rachel Gordon, University of Denver, This Is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (NYU Press 2021).
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester, and Laura Connelly, University of Salford, Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism (Manchester University Press 2022).
Rachel Kimbro, Rice University, In Too Deep: Class and Mothering in a Flooded Community (University of California Press 2021).
Karen Phelan Kozlowski, University of Southern Mississippi, The Hidden Academic Curriculum and Inequality in Early Education: How Class, Race, Teacher Interactions, and Friendship Influence Student Success (Routledge 2002).
Pushpesh Kumar, University of Hyderabad, Ed., Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India (Routledge 2001).
Beverly Lindsay, University of California, Comparative and International Education: Leading Perspectives from the Field (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
Tracy Perkins, Arizona State University, Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism (University of California Press 2022).
Jack Nusan Porter, Harvard University, The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter (Academic Studies Press 2020); Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union During World War II (Academic Studies Press 2021); Can Mathematical Models Predict Genocide? (The Spencer Press 2022); Can Mathematical Models Predict Terrorist Acts, coauthored with Trevor C. Jones (The Spencer Press 2022);a new edition of The Sociology of American Jews (The Spencer Press 2022); and Ukrainian-Jewish Cooking, coauthored with Raya Porter (The Spencer Press 2022), with profits going to the Ukrainian Relief Fund.
Cassidy Puckett, Emory University, Redefining Geek: Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens (University of Chicago Press 2022).
Natasha Quadlin, University of California-Los Angeles, and Brian Powell, Indiana University-Bloomington, with chapter contributions from Emma Cohen, American Institutes for Research, and Oren Pizmony-Levy, Teachers College-Columbia University, Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public (Russell Sage Foundation 2022).
Nilanjan Raghunath, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Shaping the Futures of Work: Proactive Governance and Millennials (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2021).
Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University, A Story of a Marriage through Dementia and Beyond: Love in a Whirlwind (Routledge 2022).
Phi Hong Su, Williams College, The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin (Stanford University Press 2022).
David Tindall, University of British Columbia; Mark Stoddart, Memorial University; and Riley E. Dunlap, Oklahoma State University, Eds., Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism (Edward Elgar Publishing 2022).
Jenny R. Vermilya, University of Colorado-Denver, Gender, Identity, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students (Purdue University Press 2022).
Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Offord University Press 2021).
Deaths
Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, professor emeritus of sociology at American University, passed away in April 2022. Chow grew up in China, and she moved to the United States in 1966 to pursue her PhD in sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. Upon completing her PhD, she joined the faculty at American University, where she taught and researched a range of topics that included the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality; work and family; migration and globalization; feminist methodology and pedagogy; economy and society; and Chinese American studies. She was a pioneer in the intersectional investigation of Asian American women and Asian immigrant communities. Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) has renamed its Women of Color Dissertation Scholarship the 2022 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship. To read more about Chow’s life and the SWS scholarship, visit the website.
Lorraine Giorgio D’Antonio, wife of former American Sociological Association Executive Officer Bill D’Antonio (1982–1991), passed away peacefully on April 6, 2022. She was born Annuziata Lorraine Giorgio in New Haven, CT, on July 10, 1927, and completed a BA in biochemistry from Ohio State University. After returning to New Haven, she fell in love with William (Bill) Vincent D’Antonio. They were married in June 1950 and raised six children together. Always gracious, she will be remembered for her warm hugs, deep emotional connections, and radiant smile that brought joy and comfort to many. To read her complete obituary, please visit this website.
Obituaries
1926–2022
Charles Milton Coughenour, professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky, passed away on January 26, 2022, in Lexington, KY. Born March 9, 1926, he grew up on the family farm in Kansas. After graduating from the University of Kansas, Coughenour earned his PhD in rural sociology from the University of Missouri in 1953. Known as “Milt,” Coughenour broke new ground in rural sociology throughout his career. Guiding the development of countless graduate students, he was a supportive and inspiring advisor to students and a generous mentor to young faculty, including by establishing the Dr. and Mrs. C. Milton Coughenour Professorship of Rural Sociology at the University of Kentucky.
Coughenour’s professional life exemplified that of an engaged applied researcher and teacher. His remarkable scholarly career included the publication of 31 journal articles and book chapters, more than 30 numbered research bulletins and proceedings chapters, and countless papers presented at professional meetings.
Over the years, Coughenour served in numerous professional and university leadership roles. From 1982–1983, he served as president of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS), and he received the RSS Award for Excellence in Research in 1991. In 2012, the RSS awarded Coughenour its highest award, Distinguished Rural Sociologist.
Coughenour’s research was foundational to the sociology of agriculture, and his scholarly work illustrates the interpretive value of a sociological lens on both persistence and change in agricultural systems. As noted by Lois Wright Morton in her history of the study of agriculture and conservation written for the 75th anniversary of the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS), Coughenour was one of the first to ask why and how farmers made their production decisions.
From the beginning, Coughenour’s research explored farmers’ views on soil-building and how these were influenced by characteristics of their operations, their values and beliefs, and the knowledge they constructed with trusted others. He brought new ways to understand and demonstrate the similarities in how farmers approached their decisions. Coughenour’s respect for the practicality of farmers and their families, their commitment to the farm enterprise and the land, was a thread throughout his research in the U.S., the Sudan, and Australia.
As a young rural sociologist, he focused on the diffusion of agricultural innovations, in particular focusing on conservation practices in U.S. agriculture. In the 1960s, Coughenour was a member of the Subcommittee for the Study of Diffusion of Farm Practices, which was part of the North Central Rural Sociology Committee sponsored by the Farm Foundation. Mixing survey research and qualitative skills, Coughenour discovered patterns among Kentucky farmers’ attitudes and behaviors as they struggled to balance business with conserving their most precious natural resource—the soil.
In the 1980s, Coughenour was one of the social scientists participating in the multidisciplinary INTSORMIL Collaborative Research Support Program, a nonprofit international agricultural development organization of the United States Agency for International Development focused on developing new technologies to improve sorghum, pearl millet, and other grains. This initiative produced significant international analyses of the opportunities and challenges of the diffusion of innovations by demonstrating how the innovations must fit within the sociocultural context of the farm family to be fully adopted.
Coughenour guided many of the next generation of rural sociologists. He shared his ideas and patiently supported younger colleagues as their scholarship matured. Quite simply, he was a kind mentor and colleague. He sought every opportunity to share his appreciation for the adaptability and resilience of farm families with others by offering access to his data, interviews, and observations. Rural sociology and the sociology of agriculture owes much to the insights C. Milton Coughenour, and many of us owe a debt to his guidance and support of our own careers.
Lori Garkovich, University of Kentucky; Louis Swanson, Colorado State University; and Julie N. Zimmerman, University of Kentucky
Judith G. Wittner
1939–2022
Professor Judith G. (Ginsburg) Wittner, professor emerita of sociology at Loyola University Chicago passed away on February 16, 2022. She passed peacefully in hospice care in Evanston, Il.
Wittner will be remembered as an extraordinary teacher and mentor, a dedicated and insightful scholar, and a fierce and tireless activist—and for how she wove those three spheres of life together during 40 years in the professorate.
Wittner entered Barnard College at 16 and finished her BA at Brandeis University in 1960. She then moved to Chicago and, as a single mother, continued her education, receiving an MA in political science from Roosevelt University in 1971, where she taught some of the first women’s studies courses offered in Chicago. She went on to earn an MA (1974) and PhD (1977) in sociology from Northwestern University.
Wittner took a position in the Sociology Department at Loyola University Chicago (LUC) in 1976 and dedicated her career to advancing knowledge in the field and empowering students to use scholarship, teaching, and activism to make change in the world. She was a core person in the establishment of the Women’s Studies Program at LUC in 1979, the first such program at a Jesuit university. Wittner served as its director for five years and spent another year as acting director. She also did two terms as graduate program director for the Sociology Department.
Wittner taught courses in qualitative methods, the sociology of families, gender studies, and the politics of food. She was central to getting a qualitative methods course into the required curriculum for LUC PhD students, and was one of the reasons that Loyola sociology has a reputation for graduate students skilled in field methods. She also taught field methods and gender studies in workshops or in visiting professorships in Nigeria, El Salvador, and Lithuania, as well as to local community groups such as Women Employed. Her research was always driven by a commitment to understanding institutions “from the bottom up,” in her words. Her commitment to the voices of marginalized people resonates throughout her work, including projects on dispossessed women workers, foster children, and domestic violence. So many students, former students, and colleagues can still hear Wittner exclaiming to those presenting their fieldwork, “Show me, don’t just tell me—show, don’t tell!”
Among the recognition Wittner received for her teaching was the 2006 Mentor of the Year Award from Sociologists for Women in Society, and a 2006 Sujack Family ‘Master Teacher’ Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University. She spent a year as a Mellon Scholar in Residence at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women in 1984 and in 1978 received a Mellon Foundation Summer Grant for the project “Preparation of a Model Curriculum in Women’s Studies.” She also had syllabi for six different classes published in various American Sociological Association outlets for promoting teaching.
Judy Wittner was a dedicated scholar and did a great deal of community-based research and what is now often called “public sociology.” For example, she coauthored reports for a project that attempted to count and assess the needs of people over 50 experiencing homelessness in Chicago, and she worked with a neighborhood community agency studying domestic violence. In conjunction with Planned Parenthood, Wittner worked on a study of adolescents’ contraceptive needs and the services available to them.
Of Wittner’s many scholarly publications over her long career, two in particular stand out. She coedited with R. Stephen Warner, Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (Temple University Press 1998), a landmark effort in bringing sociological attention to the religious lives of post-1965 immigrant communities in the U.S. She also coauthored, with Judy Root Aulette, Gendered Worlds (Oxford University Press 2009; second edition in 2011; third edition in 2014; and a fourth edition, adding Kristen Barber to Aulette and Wittner, in 2019). The former is a mainstay in any comprehensive exam list for sociology of religion or of immigration, and the latter is one of those rare books that works as a classroom text, an analytic review of the latest in scholarship, and as a work of research. Wittner also wrote on feminist and qualitative methodology, community organizing, and the dynamics of foster care for children.
While Wittner’s teaching and scholarship were themselves forms of activism, beginning in the 1960s she was also engaged directly in civil rights advocacy, the women’s movement, anti-war movements, and workers’ rights actions. She helped establish the Peace and Freedom Party in Evanston, IL, on whose platform she ran for the school board; was deeply involved with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union; and was a central activist in the successful effort to unionize Loyola’s food service workers. Wittner’s name is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975 (University of Illinois Press 2006).
Those who knew Wittner have lost a valued friend, and sociology has lost a passionate teacher and champion.
Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago