Calls for Papers: Publications
Armchair Journal, an independent peer-reviewed social science journal housed within the Boston University Department of Sociology, is currently accepting papers for its premier volume. Armchair seeks to foster a community of undergraduate and graduate scholars interested in social science research and inquiry and to promote intellectual engagement and dialogue among undergraduate students. It invites submissions from any students currently enrolled in sociology or related social science fields such as anthropology, political science, urban studies, and history. The journal is accepting submissions until October 20, 2023. Find out more and submit your paper here.
Demographic Research invites authors to submit papers that explore how COVID mitigation policies shaped and determined fundamental demographic outcomes for possible inclusion in a special collection. This collection will focus on relationship formation and dissolution, quality of family life, and planned and realized fertility. Submissions are due December 15, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The International Journal on Responsibility is seeking papers for an upcoming issue on the theme “The Spanish Language, Language Variations, Cultures, and Responsibility.” The issue will center on the question of responsibility for the cultures and languages of regions where Spanish became the main language (currently or historically) or one of the languages carried across borders. Read the full call for papers on the website. Manuscripts will be accepted until June 1, 2024.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The British Journal of Sociology (BJS) invites abstracts for a major international conference at the London School of Economics, April 15–16, 2024. The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, and will also feature keynotes, plenary sessions curated by the editors, and a series of author-meets-critics sessions debating high-profile new books. There is no predetermined theme for the conference. Abstracts are due October 20, 2023. For more information and to submit, click here.
The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin will hold a symposium on the theme “Black Immigration and Public Policy,” to be held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin, TX, April 3, 2024. It will provide a forum for scholars, practitioners, and other participants to examine the social, economic, and political dimensions of these movements, as well as their implications for public policy. The institute invites submissions from authors exploring various aspects of the relationship between Black immigration and public policy. The submission deadline is October 31, 2023. For more information on how to submit, visit the website.
The Association for the Study of Religion, Economics & Culture Annual Conference will be held at Chapman University, Orange, CA, March 1–2, 2024. The program chair will consider papers on religion and culture from across the social sciences, including economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Abstract submissions are due November 10, 2023. For more information and to submit, visit the website.
The Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness, and Society will be held on the theme “Health for Democracy, Democracy for Health” in Sweden and online, October 3-4, 2024. The Health, Wellness, and Society Research Network is brought together by common concern in the fields of human health and wellness, and in particular their social interconnections and implications and invites research on several themes. The deadline is July 3, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
Call for Book Proposals
Cambridge Scholars Publishing invites proposals for academic books and edited collections in the humanities and social sciences. Visit the website to complete a Book Proposal Form and read the publishing guidelines. The deadline is ongoing.
Call for Applications
Sociological Forum, the journal of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), invites applications to join the Pedagogy Committee. The committee will be composed of graduate students from different universities to further the journal’s development in the area of pedagogy and to increase the visibility of its articles. ESS graduate student members are encouraged to apply, and the journal will be funding ESS conference registration for all Pedagogy Committee members. Committee members will serve a 1-year initial commitment beginning January 2024. For inquiries about this call and the Pedagogy Committee, please email [email protected]. Send a paragraph describing why you are interested in joining the Pedagogy Committee and your unique qualifications for the position, as well as a recent curriculum vitae by December 1, 2023.
Grant
The National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families seeks applications for its professional development grant program for early career faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) or Emerging Hispanic Serving Intuitions (EHSIs). The grant program is aimed at supporting professional development activities that will enhance their professional growth as scholars and educators at HSIs and EHSIs. The center will provide awards of up to $2,500 to cover expenses related to early career scholars’ professional development. Applicants must be an early career investigator (up to seven years post PhD) from a Hispanic Serving Institution or an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. Applications are due October 20, 2023. Read the complete call for applications here.
Fellowships
The Kohli Foundation for Sociology is currently accepting applications for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology. The fellowship offers researchers who have finished their dissertation with excellent success a two-year research stay at a prestigious research institution to engage in a new research project, to advance publications, and to develop research collaborations. Submit your application through the online portal by October 25, 2023. For more details, visit the website.
The United States Institute of Peace seeks applications from PhD candidates at U.S. colleges and universities with high-quality, policy-relevant research that will deepen understanding about conflict management, peacebuilding, and other applicable security-related studies. The 2024–25 Peace Scholar Fellowship awards will support both research and writing stages of work on PhD dissertations. To apply, you must register by November 16, 2023. Applications are then due by November 28, 2023. Visit the website to register and for further information.
Proposals
The National Science Foundation’s newest environmental synthesis center, the Environmental Data Innovation and Inclusion Lab at UC Boulder, seeks proposals for interdisciplinary working groups blending diverse forms of environmental and social data to advance basic scientific understanding and enable informed environmental decision and policymaking. A description of the working group program can be found here. The request for proposals can be found here. The deadline is November 1, 2023.
Events
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University has named Adrian Raftery the 2023 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. Raftery, the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology and an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, will present “Downscaled Probabilistic Climate Change Projections, with Application to Hot Days,” on October 25, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern. Held on the campus of Florida State University, the live talk will also be accessible via Zoom. For more information and to register for the virtual talk, visit the website.
A virtual conference on “College Students of Immigrant Origin: Research, Practice, and Community Engagement” will feature scholarly papers, sessions on policy and practice, and work-in-progress roundtables. Held February 1–2, 2024, this multi-institutional event hosted by George Mason University is open to all participants, including faculty, students, practitioners, and community partners. Find out more on the website.
Accomplishments
Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut, is a 2024 New America National Fellow.
Doug Meyer, University of Virginia, was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Brenda L. Moore, University at Buffalo, has received the 2023 Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award, presented by the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in recognition of senior scholars whose careers have demonstrated excellence in the field of military sociology.
Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, received the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies for her latest publication, Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton University Press 2022).
In the News
Mahzarin Banaji, Yale University, and Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, authored the September 17, 2023, piece “Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It” in the Wall Street Journal.
Kristen Barber, University of Missouri-Kansas City, authored the August 17, 2023, article “What Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s Canceled Cage Match Says About Masculine Anxiety” in the Conversation.
Alexander V. Barnard, New York University, authored the September 22, 2023, opinion piece “California Needs New Rules as It Forces More Mentally Ill People Into Treatment” in the Los Angeles Times.
Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University, was quoted in the September 27, 2023, article “Dating After 60: A Lot of Roses, Some Thorns” in the New York Times.
Michelle J. Budig, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, had research quoted in the September 15, 2023, article “UAW Strikes Back Against the Big Three, The Coming Child Care Cliff and GE’s Kalp Speaks” in Business News.
Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University, was interviewed for the September 18, 2023, piece “Automakers Rely on Temp And “Tiered” Workers. The UAW Wants Them to Stop” on the Marketplace Morning Report.
Kate Choi, Western University, was quoted in the September 27, 2023, article “Canada Just Had Its Lowest Number of Births In 17 Years. What’s Behind It?” in Global News.
Dana R. Fisher, American University, had work referenced in the September 13, 2023, article “Tens of Thousands March in New York City to Kick Off Climate Summit” in the New York Statesman.
Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University, was quoted in the September 15, 2023, article “They Moved to Vermont for Climate Safety. Then Came Floods” in the Christian Science Monitor.
Rosemary Hopcroft (retired), University of North Carolina-Charlotte, was quoted in the September 28, 2023, article “Why Don’t More Women Propose?” in Time.
Junia Howell, University of Illinois-Chicago, had research referenced in the September 22, 2023, article “On a Mission to Eradicate the Devastating Health Disparities Facing Marginalized Women And Women Of Color” on Cleveland.com.
Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was quoted in the September 2, 2023, article “Millennials Didn’t Kill The ‘Organization Man’ After All. Federal Data Reveals It Was the Boomers All Along” in Fortune.
Lisa A. Keister, Duke University, had research referenced in the September 21, 2023, article “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Decamillionaires, But Were Afraid to Ask” on Thousandaire.
Amy Lawton, Brandeis University, authored the September 7, 2023, article “Religious Leaders Without Religion: How Humanist, Atheist, and Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Chaplains Tend to Patients’ Needs” in the Conversation.
Kris Marsh, University of Maryland-College Park, authored the September 13, 2023, opinion piece “Tim Scott’s Bachelorhood Is Not a Defect” on MSNBC.
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California-San Diego, was quoted in the September 20, 2023, article “Claudia Sheinbaum Is on Track to Become Mexico’s First Jewish And Woman President” in Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Janet Vertesi, Princeton University, authored the September 21, 2023, article “NASA’s Mars Rovers Could Inspire a More Ethical Future for AI” in the Conversation.
Steve Viscelli, University of Pennsylvania, had work referenced in the September 14, 2023, article “We’ve Got A Big-Rig Parking Crisis. Who Should Solve It?” in Transport Magazine and was quoted in the September 22, 2023, article “Workers Demand Job Security in the Autonomous, Electrified Future of Transport” in the Star News Today.
New Books
Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University, and C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon, Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism (NYU Press 2023).
Jeffrey Chin, Le Moyne College, and Michele Lee Kozimor, Elizabethtown College, Eds., Emerging Stronger: Pedagogical Lessons from the Pandemic (Routledge 2024).
Katherine M. Johnson, Tulane University, Undoing Motherhood? Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity (Rutgers University Press 2023).
Rusha Latif, researcher and writer, Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press 2022).
David J. Luke, University of Michigan-Flint, Affirmative Action and Black Student Success: The Pursuit of a “Critical Mass” at Historically White Universities (Routledge 2024).
Utsa Mukherjee, Brunel University London, Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families (Bristol University Press 2023) and Childhoods and Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan 2023).
Michael John Murray, City University of New York-Graduate Center, Washington, DC: A Prospice. A Community Study of Political Socialization (Media Arts Productions 2023).
Tony Silva, University of British Columbia, Daddies of a Different Kind: Sex and Romance Between Older and Younger Adult Gay Men (NYU Press 2023).
Obituary
1963‒2023
Frank Kurt Cylke Jr. of Geneseo, NY—beloved husband, father, son, teacher, friend, and community member—died on Saturday, July 29, 2023, a day too rainy to sail. A life lived full speed ahead ended too soon. Cylke is survived by his wife, Anna Kowalchuk; daughter Callaghan Arianna (Mikaela) and son, Thomas Justus; his mother, Mary (Zembroski) Cylke; sisters Mary Amanda Mattingly (Jeff) and Virginia Ann Cylke (Mark Downey); extended family; and many, many friends. He is predeceased by his father, Frank Kurt Cylke Sr.
Born in New Haven, CT, on October 14, 1963, Cylke spent most of his youth in Great Falls, VA. He attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Richmond. He earned his PhD from the University of Delaware, where he met Anna. The two then moved to Geneseo, where they married in 1992.
Cylke joined the SUNY Geneseo faculty in 1990. He was an exemplary teacher, whose dedication and passion influenced generations of students and earned him the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995. A scholar of social movements and environmental sociology, Cylke published an early textbook in the field, The Environment (Harper Collins College Publishers 1993).
In addition to teaching, Cylke served the college as chair of the Department of Sociology, chair of the College Senate, and as a long-serving advocate of international education. He will be remembered as a generous, supportive chair. Levelheaded in the face of administrative demands and equity-minded in distribution of tasks that proved necessary to accomplish, he provided the energy and inspiration to department colleagues that generates good writing, good teaching, and good living.
Cylke inspired both students and colleagues with his commitment to social justice. Sociologists often focus on the bigger picture—and Cylke did, too—but he was also intensely locally minded in terms of making the world a better place. Paralleling his career as a teacher, scholar, and campus leader was a career of local community service, Cylke envisioned and spearheaded numerous community projects and in the process of these projects, brought people together. He did more than serve the community—he created community.
Cylke loved adventure and the outdoors, and he inspired others to enjoy nature and its beauty. Sailing was a joy in Cylke’s life, passed on from his dad. He shared his love of sailing with whomever was game, including with kids on dad’s day-sailing excursions. In the winter, he cross-country skied. And then there was walking, always walking, in Geneseo’s scenic landscapes, regardless of the season or the weather.
Cylke met his cancer diagnosis with courage, hope, and pragmatism. With the unrelenting support of Anna, Cylke “fought the good fight” until he exhausted his options. He died as he had lived, with dignity and in peace. As he was in his life, Cylke will be an inspiration for us in his death. He will be sorely missed.
William Lofquist, Geneseo-The State University of New York
