Calls for Papers: Publications
Research in Social Science and Disability seeks chapters for its upcoming volume, “Constructing Disability, Identities, and Communities through Media.” It will bring together research and theoretical perspectives rooted in the social sciences to examine the changing production, reproduction, representation, and impact of media for disabled people. Editors seek theoretical, methodological, or empirical papers that center disability in the study of media, and that are grounded in the perspectives and literatures of the social sciences. Abstracts are due October 15, 2025. Read the full call for papers here.
The Journal of World-Systems Research seeks abstracts for special issue on “National Sovereignty and the World-System.” The issue will examine the world-scale importance of nationalisms within the world capitalist system. By employing a non- or even anti-nationalist perspective, the issue seeks to advance our understanding of how nationalisms both shape and distort our understanding of the world capitalist system. Read the full call for papers, including a list of possible topics here. Abstracts are due October 15, 2025.
Gender, Place, & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography invites abstracts for a special issue on “Queer Migrants in Transnational Social Spaces: Sexualised Geographies of Power.” Editors seek to bring together scholarship at the intersections of queer migration studies, transnationalism, and spatial theory to advance a critical conversation on the role of space, place, and scale in shaping queer migrants’ lives while foregrounding voices and methodologies that push the boundaries of heteronormative and homonormative migration studies. They seek contributions that explore how LGBTQI+ migrants navigate departure, asylum, integration, and belonging, as well as how their experiences transform sexual and gender identities, communities, and politics across borders. Abstracts are due October 17, 2025. Read the full call for proposal here.
The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies/Workshop for Early Career and Emergent Scholars. Emergent and early career scholars are invited to submit abstracts to present their cutting-edge research to a workshop held jointly by the Center for the Study of International Migration (UCLA) and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) on the theme “Migration Across the Americas: Comparisons and Cross-border Connections.” This new JEMS initiative aims to support the publication of the next generation of migration and immigration scholars. Those selected and presented at the workshop will be published in a Special Issue of JEMS, after supportive steering through the review process. Get more information on the website. The deadline for abstracts is October 31, 2025.
The American Journal of Education invites abstracts for a special issue on the theme “Relational Possibilities in Education: Social Network Analysis Illuminating Solidarity and Agency Amid Challenging Times.” The issue will highlight scholarly and methodological developments in social network analysis (SNA), further positioning SNA as a powerful conceptual and analytical lens for examining how individuals and communities cultivate solidarity, exercise agency, and build resilience across diverse learning environments. We embrace the future of social networks scholarship by especially encouraging submissions from early-career scholars and individuals publishing from their dissertations. Read the full call for papers here. Extended abstract submissions are due November 15, 2025.
Population Research and Policy Review invites submissions for a special issue on the theme “Mortality and Criminal Legal System Contact” that will bring together original research, from academics, justice-involved people, policy advocates, and other stakeholders, to examine how the criminal legal system affects the mortality of people and communities with the highest risk of contact. Editors welcome theoretical insights, policy evaluations, cross-national comparisons of mortality differences, and research on data and methodological challenges to estimating mortality in correctional and detention facilities, as well as personal or experiential insights from people with lived experience. The submission deadline is November 30, 2025. Find out more here.
Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts invites abstracts for an upcoming issue on the theme “Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts.” This issue seeks to advance our understanding of how a broad array of intertwining developments in digital and data-intensive technologies are reshaping cultural production across diverse creative fields. Editors invite submissions that employ robust empirical methods to examine how these technologies are reshaping processes of cultural creation, circulation, and evaluation, with particular attention to their implications for creative labor and social inequalities. A mandatory virtual workshop will be held in late June/early July for participating authors. Abstracts are due December 1, 2025. Read the full call for papers here.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for an upcoming issue on the theme Crisis.” Editors invite contributions that theorize and respond to crisis. Where and how do we locate crisis (or crises)? What enables crisis conditions, and how do we—feminists and feminism—survive them? Feminist, queer, and trans theorists are uniquely positioned to offer critical readings of crisis within the longer temporal frame of slow violence and everyday brutality. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2026. Read the full call for papers here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The ACACIA Project will host an international conference on the theme “Voices and Violences Unheard: Re-imagining LGBTQI+ Relationships in the Global South,” June 15-17, 2026, at the University of Jyväskylä Mattilanniemi campus, on the shore of Lake Jyväsjärvi, Finland. This conference focuses on learning about the lives of gender and/or sexual diverse (GSD) people and how they interact at the everyday street level with local authorities and security actors through interviews and participant observation. The deadline for abstracts is October 15, 2025. Read more about the conference here.
The Sociology of Education Association 2026 Annual Conference will be held on February 20–22, 2026, in Pacific Grove, CA, on the theme “Schools as Microcosms: Mirrors of Society, Engines of Change.” Organizers invite research that not only reflects how schools mirror societal dynamics but also offers a window into schools as sites where new ideas, possibilities, and practices can take root welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and encourage submissions across data sources, levels of analysis, and research traditions. Precis are due October 31, 2025. Read the full call for proposals here.
The Global Political Economy Network will hold a conference at the University of British Columbia, July 21-23, 2026, on the theme “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network.” The goal of this conference is to highlight the global political economy perspective on topics of current interest and study by sociologists and other social scientists, and organizers invite paper submissions that address this theme from various methodological and theoretical approaches. Abstracts are due November 1, 2025. Read the full call here.
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will be held on April 8-10, 2026, at the University of Cambridge (UK). The summit is designed to convene multi-discipline global academic, legislator, regulator, and professional thought leaders to explore and engage interventions on systemic risks from disinformation supported by technology such as AI and online social and search platforms. Organizers invite research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. Papers will be selected by an interdisciplinary scientific committee. The submission deadline is November 15, 2025. Read more about the summit here.
The Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations will be held on the theme “Organization in Uncertain Worlds” on June 25-26, 2026, in Denmark 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 knowledge; institutional structures; publics and collectivities; and organizational design. The proposal deadline is March 25, 2026. Learn more about the conference on the website.
The Sixteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society will be held on the theme “Nourishing Societies: Bridging Nutrition, Wellness, and Sustainability for a Healthier Future” on September 9-11, 2026, in Mexico and online. The Health, Wellness, & 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 proposal deadline is June 9, 2026. Find out more about the conference on the website.
Call for Nominations
The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance invites nominations for its 2027 Senior Scholar Award. The award is given annually to the senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the public understanding of religious pluralism and tolerance, and who most exemplifies Boniuk Institute’s mission to understand the conditions that lead to religious pluralism, conflict, and violence, and help people apply its findings in their lives and communities. Nominations are due October 20, 2025. Read the full call for nominations here.
Event
The Conference on Aging in the Americas will be held December 4-5, 2025, at the University of Miami. The conference supports interdisciplinary research and promotes equitable health outcomes across the Americas by bringing together top scholars, policymakers, and early-career researchers to address the challenges and opportunities of aging among Latino and Latin American populations. For more information and to register, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Stan Capela, Heart Share Human Services of New York (retired), has been recognized as a Council on Accreditation Peer Reviewer of the Year. He will be honored in October 2025 at the Annual Sparks Conference.
Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Villanova University, has been selected as a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Lauren M. Gaydosh, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health at the 2025 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Conference in September.
Kurt W. Kuehne, New York University Abu Dhabi, has received the 2025 IMISCOE Maria Baganha Dissertation Award for his research on South and Southeast Asian migrants in Singapore. The dissertation, Lives in Limbo: Precarity, Control, and Temporary Migrant Workers in the Global City, was completed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer, Wilkes University, received the university’s Outstanding New Faculty Award in recognition of a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching, advising, and service.
Yao Li, Florida State University, has been selected as a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Omar Lizardo, University of California-Los Angeles, is highlighted as a trailblazing scientist in the children’s book Scientists Like Me: Stories, Advice, and Inspiration from 25 Trailblazers with Experiments to Try at Home (Workman Kids 2025).
Rebecca London, University of California-Santa Cruz, testified before the California State Assembly in late August 2025 to share policy recommendations and lessons from local community-led programs on how to boost youth mental health.
Brandon Vaidyanathan, Catholic University of America, received a $3.89 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for an interdisciplinary project that includes a first-of-its-kind, large-scale international study of beauty.
In the News
Amy Adamczyk, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice, authored the September 25, 2025, article “Religion Often Shapes Someone’s View of Abortion – But What About a Woman’s Actual Decision?” in the Conversation.
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University (retired), was a guest on the September 22, 2025, episode of On Point, “Why the Flag Burning Debate Is Still Not Settled.”
Edward Avery-Natale, Mercer County Community College, authored the September 22, 2025, article “How Philly Anarcho-Punks Blended Music, Noise and Social Justice in the 1990s and 2000s” in the Conversation.
Margaret Chin, CUNY-Hunter College, was a guest on the September 11, 2025, news segment on WNYC titled “How 9/11 Still Impacts Chinatown Today.”
Joanna Dreby, SUNY-University at Albany, was interviewed about her recent book, Surviving the ICE Age: Children of Immigrants in New York (Russell Sage 2025), for the September 12, 2025, episode of Fronteras, “‘Surviving the ICE Age’—How Deportations and Detentions Impact U.S. Citizen Children of Immigrants.”
Laura Dugan, The Ohio State University, was a guest on the September 25, 2025, episode of All Sides with Amy Juravich, “How Do People Move Forward after Political Violence.”
Reanne Frank, The Ohio State University, was quoted in the September 20, 2025, article “Immigration Crackdowns to Hurt U.S. Population Growth, Ohio Could Be Among First to Feel It” in the Columbus Dispatch.
Saida Grundy, Boston University, was quoted in the September 15, 2025, article “Charlie Kirk’s Watchlist Made Some Professors’ Lives a ‘Living Hell’” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Alexandra Killewald, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Nino José Cricco, Harvard University, authored the September 16, 2025, article “US Women Narrowed the Pay Gap with Men by Having Fewer Kids” in the Conversation.
Eric Klinenberg, New York University, was quoted in the September 18, 2025, article “Green Spaces Are Key to Combating Record Heat in Marginalized Communities” in the Texarkana Gazette.
Rebecca London, University of California-Santa Cruz, was quoted in the September 26, 2025, article “Recess Can Boost Student Learning. 9 Ways to Make It Matter” in Education
Jane Lilly Lopez, Brigham Young University-Provo, was quoted in the August 19, 2025, article “U.S. Citizenship Reviews Will Sharpen Focus on ‘Moral Character,’ Memo Says” in the Washington Post.
Annette M. Nierobisz, Carleton College, and Dana Sawchuk, Wilfrid Laurier University, authored the August 24, 2025, article “We Interviewed 62 Older Minnesotans Who Lost White-Collar Jobs Later in Life. Nearly 75% Refused to Move, and 3 Big Problems Kept Them Locked in Place” in Fortune.
Emily Rauscher, Brown University, was quoted in the September 11, 2025, article “How Efforts to Fund Schools More Equitably Actually Worsened Racial Inequality” in Education Week.
Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University, was quoted in the August 26, 2025, article “The Pain of Sibling Breakups” in the New York Times.
Bedelia Richards, University of Richmond, authored the September 16, 2025, article “Racist Lies About College “Quotas” Stoke Support for Trump’s War on Higher Ed” in Truthout.
Rogelio Sáenz, University of Texas at San Antonio, authored the August 7, 2025, article “The Folly of Republican Mid-Decade Political Redistricting in Texas and Beyond” in the Latino Newsletter.
Stacy Torres, University of California-San Francisco, authored the September 16, 2025, opinion piece “The David vs. Goliath Battle Over Public Land in Chelsea” in City Limits.
Cristobal Young, Cornell University, was cited in the August 18, 2025, article “Northwell Forges Ahead with Lenox Hill Hospital Rebuild” in Politico.
New Books
Benjamin Abrams, University College London, and Jean-Paul Gagnon, University of Canberra, The Sciences of the Democracies (University College London 2025).
Amy Adamczyk, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion (Oxford University Press 2025).
Joel Best, University of Delaware (retired), Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims (University of California Press 2025).
Georgiann Davis, University of New Mexico, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family (New York University Press 2025).
Rosario de la Luz Rizzo Lara, California State University-San Bernardino, and Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger, Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe, Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences (Springer Nature 2025).
Robert J. Durán, Texas A&M University-College Station, and Oralia Loza, University of Texas-El Paso, Justice Required: Police Shootings as Legalized Violence (Columbia University Press 2025).
Eric Gamino, California State University-Northridge, Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas (University of Georgia Press 2025).
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College, Ed., The Anthem Companion to David Riesman (Anthem Press 2025).
Olena Leipnik, Sam Houston State University, Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies (Routledge 2025).
Qian Liu, University of Calgary, Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness Through Intergenerational Relationships (University of California Press 2025).
Linda M. Lobao, The Ohio State University, and Gregory Hooks, McMaster University, Rethinking Spatial Inequality (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025).
Shannon Malone Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories About Violence (Princeton University Press 2025).
Annette M. Nierobisz, Carleton College, and Dana Sawchuk, Wilfrid Laurier University, American Idle: Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era (Rutgers University Press 2025).
Wornie Reed, Virginia Tech, Ed., Getting Away with Murder: Obstacles to Police Accountability (Virginia Tech Publishing 2025).
Jason Rodriquez, University of Massachusetts-Boston, On the Frontlines of Crisis: Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19 (Rutgers University Press 2025).
Luis L. Schenoni, University College London, Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2024).
Michael Strand, Brandeis University, and Omar Lizardo, University of California-Los Angeles, Orienting to Chance: Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory (University of Chicago Press 2025).