Calls for Papers: Publications
International Migration Review invites scholars and researchers to contribute to a special issue on the occasion of the journal’s 60th anniversary. The special issue seeks to provide a benchmark in international migration studies by examining extant, evolving, and emerging models of international migration research. Extended abstracts of 1,250 words are due September 30, 2023. For more information, and to submit an extended abstract, please contact the Editor-In-Chief Holly E. Reed.
The Journal of Elder Policy seeks papers on disability and aging. The aim of this issue is to explore the complex relationships between aging, disability, and policy. The journal welcomes both empirical and conceptual papers from diverse disciplines. Editors prefer pieces that employ policy approaches. Abstracts are due by October 1, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion has extended the deadline for submissions its special issue on the nexus between religion and bodies. The primary objective of this special issue is to highlight new social scientific scholarship on religion and bodies in the contemporary world; this work should be theoretically driven and methodologically rigorous. The new deadline for submitting papers is October 15, 2023. For more information about topics and manuscript submission instructions, visit the website.
Public Opinion Quarterly invites papers for a cross-disciplinary special issue on qualitative public opinion and social research, including qualitative-only and mixed methods designs where qualitative research forms the dominant component. The emphasis of this special issue is on articles that further the use of qualitative methods to inform and empirically advance substantive issues in the social and behavioral sciences. The deadline for manuscript submissions is December 4, 2023. Read the complete call for papers here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The 14th Annual International Conference on Stigma will be held on the theme “My Story–Who Can I Tell? Disclosure… Harm… Healing…” This hybrid conference will be hosted by Howard University on November 14–17, 2023, and aims to increase awareness of the stigma of HIV and other health conditions and to explore interventions to eradicate this stigma. This conference also serves to educate health-care providers and the general public about stigma as both a major barrier to prevention and treatment of illnesses and a human rights violation. It seeks original research that addresses HIV stigma or other mental or physical health-related stigma to be presented as a virtual poster on November 16, 2023. The submission deadline is September 29, 2023. For more information about the conference and to read the full call for papers, visit the website.
The 2024 Veterans in Society Conference will be held March 14‒15, 2024, at the University of South Carolina on the theme “Tidal Changes in the Sea of Goodwill,” exploring whether and how changes in society mark an inflection point regarding the treatment and experiences of veterans in the U.S. and abroad. It invites scholars and policy professionals at all levels—including students and those outside of academia—to cross national, cultural, historical, and disciplinary boundaries to consider important turning points in a nation’s support for its veterans. The proposal deadline is October 1, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Twentieth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability will be held on the theme “Pathways to Sustainability Innovation: Perspectives from Civil Society, Government, and Business” in Portugal and online January 24‒26, 2024. The On Sustainability Research 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 for paper presentations on several themes. The proposal deadline is October 24, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Aging and Social Change Fourteenth Interdisciplinary Conference will be held on the theme “Diversity over Time: Changes in Individual, Organizational, and Place Contexts” in Ireland and online September 19‒20, 2024. The conference is a forum for discussion about challenges and opportunities for a rapidly growing segment of the population worldwide. It invites proposals for paper presentations on several themes. The proposal deadline is June 19, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
Calls for Book Chapters and Manuscripts
The Research in Social Science and Disability series seeks book chapters for an upcoming volume on the topic “Disability and the Future of Work(ers).” Submissions should be on the future of work for workers with disabilities in the U.S., exploring challenges and possibilities in the changing workplace and employment landscape. For a list of the variety of topics of interest and more information on how to submit, visit the website. Abstracts are due October 15, 2023.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is seeking manuscript submissions for a special volume on the theme “Disability and the Family: Challenges, Coping, Resources, and Resilience.” This volume seeks a broad examination of disability and the family. It welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological submissions which explore the many issues pertaining to how families deal with disability issues. The deadline for initial submissions is January 15, 2024. Read the complete call for papers here.
Book Review Editor
Sociological Forum (SF) is seeking a Book Review Editor. Book reviews are a significant part of SF, and the Book Review Editor would take the lead in soliciting and editing reviews of a wide-ranging selection of books in the field of sociology. This editor should have a strong interest in engaging broadly with sociological and related literatures. The position is a three-year term and the possibility of renewal that begins in January 2024. For more information about responsibilities, how to apply, and other inquiries, email the journal. The application deadline is October 1, 2023.
Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities. Grant activities may include curricular or program development, expert consultations, speakers’ series, student research, creation of teaching resources, or community engagement. Projects may benefit students, faculty, the institution or organization, and/or the community. The application deadline is October 18, 2023. For more information, visit the website.
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy supports policy research by emerging scholars whose work addresses contemporary issues in the social sciences. It will award 20 Ph.D. students $10,000. In addition, two special awards will be issued: an additional $5,000 for the overall most outstanding project, and an additional $3,000 for the most innovative project. Further information and guidelines for application are on the foundation’s website. The deadline to apply is December 1, 2023.
Fellowships
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2024-2025 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community. Fellows receive a 2024 membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $250 to attend an Early Career Fellowship Preconference (June 19, 2024) and the 2024 WFRN Conference (June 20‒24, 2024) in Montreal, Canada. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2019 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior level positions. Work-family scholars with doctorates granted in the last three years are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2023. More information can be found on the website.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University is now accepting applications for residential fellowships for the 2024‒25 academic year. It is looking for scholars and thinkers at all career stages who are tackling big questions with fresh approaches. It especially appreciates scholars who value discussion across fields, unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries. An academic year at the center provides fellows freedom to work on consequential projects, a location that affords them access to research and colleagues at Stanford and Silicon Valley, and a collaborative environment that encourages fellows to broaden their perspectives. The center encourages those from diverse backgrounds, institutions, and countries to apply. Online applications will be accepted through November 3, 2023. For more information, guidelines, and application requirements, visit the website.
Visitorship
The Sociology Group at Nuffield College, Oxford, invites applications for a visitorship at the college between January and June 2025. The visitorship is open to established academics and others who wish to pursue their research in Oxford in the field of sociology, broadly defined to include sociology, social policy, and demography. Please note that the visitorship is not open to doctoral candidates or master’s students. Visitorships normally last between one and six months. The application deadline is October 9, 2023. Further information and application instructions are available here.
Workshop
The Digital Sociology Thematic Group of the International Sociological Association is organizing a workshop for work-in-progress papers. It is open to early-career digital sociology researchers (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers) and will be held remotely and in-person in Belgrade on December 14–15, 2023. The workshop offers participants an excellent opportunity to discuss their papers online or in person with internationally renowned experts with substantial experience in the subject who also serve as journal reviewers and academic editors. The submission deadline for extended abstracts words is October 1, 2023. Click here for more information.
Events
Penn State’s 18th Annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography will be held October 4, 2023, on the topic “Reflections on Necessary, Next Generation Population & Environment Research Agendas” and presented by Sara Curran, Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. Curran will discuss current and future research to catalyze next generation, scientific innovations. Discussants will be Audrey Dorélien and Emily Pakhtigian. To find out more about the lecture, visit the website. The event is free. The lecture will be held in person and will be livestreamed here. A recording will be available for viewing the week after the lecture. Registration is required to attend or livestream the event. Register here.
Southern New Hampshire University’s Social Sciences and Liberal Arts departments will host a multidisciplinary online conference on October 13‒14, 2023, on the theme “The Past, Present, and Future of Nation-States.” More than a dozen scholars in the fields of history, political science, economics, area studies, and others will participate in this conference, representing seven countries on three continents. This conference is open to academics, professionals, students, and the public. Registration for this virtual conference is free. For more information and to register, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Jennifer Lee, Columbia University, is a member of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University’s inaugural 2023 Class of Distinguished Fellows.
Samuel L. Perry, University of Oklahoma, has become a regular contributor for TIME Magazine.
In the News
Jean Beaman, University of California-Santa Barbara, was interviewed on July 3, 2023, by ABC News (Australia) about racial tensions in France. She was also quoted in the July 7, 2023, article “France’s Constitution Is Blind to Race. Does That Make It Racist?” in News Lines Magazine and featured in the July 14, 2023, episode on the magazine’s Lede podcast titled “The Republic Makes No Distinction Among Its Children—with Chahrazade Douah and Jean Beaman.”
Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University, was interviewed for the segment “Americans’ Attitudes toward Marriage are Changing Rapidly” on the July 11, 2023, episode of NPR’s Morning Edition.
Deborah Carr, Boston University, was quoted in the August 9, 2023, article “Well-Meaning Parents’ Mistakes Kill Thousands of Kids Each Year. What Can Be Done?” in USA Today.
Mark Chaves, Duke University, was quote in the August 11, 2023, piece “The Churches Where Clergy and Churchgoers Agree (and Disagree) Politically” in the Washington Post.
Andrew J. Cherlin (retired), Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in the August 31, 2023, article “Take a Wife … Please! Why Are Married People Happier Than the Rest of Us?” in the Atlantic.
Rodney D. Coates, Miami University-Ohio, was quoted in the July 20, 2023, article “When Hope Becomes a Four-Letter Word: What’s Missing from Today’s TV Shows That Deal with Race” on CNN Online.
Kathryn J. Edin and Timothy J. Nelson, Princeton University, were guests on the August 18, 2023, episode of The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY.
Barry Eidlin, McGill University, was quoted in the August 14, 2023, piece “Despite Big Teamster Wins at UPS, Some Expectations Outpace Gains” in Labor Notes.
Morten Ender, United States Military Academy at West Point, authored the March 8, 2023, opinion piece “20 Years After Operation Iraqi Freedom, Military Spouses Persevere Amid Challenging Circumstances” in Stars and Stripes.
Mauro F. Guillen, University of Pennsylvania, was featured in the August 29, 2023, episode of the Next Big Idea Club podcast titled “The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society.”
Junia Howell, University of Illinois-Chicago, was mentioned in the August 18, 2023, piece “Online Posts Spread Misinformation about FEMA Aid Following Maui Wildfires” on WTOP news.
Katrina E. Kimport, University of California-San Francisco, was interviewed for the piece “New Report: Abortion Bans Cause Serious Medical Harm” on the August 28, 2023, episode of Amanpour and Company.
Arielle Kuperberg, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Joan Maya Mazelis, Rutgers University-Camden, authored the August 4, 2023, article “College Students with Loans More Likely to Report Bad Health and Skip Medicine and Care, Study Finds” in the Conversation.
Nancy López, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, was interviewed for the July 15, 2023, segment “AfroLatinos, a Growing Population in U.S., What Do You Know about AfroLatinos?” on Univisión en Los Angeles. She also authored the July 24, 2023, post “What’s Your “Street Race?” The Supreme Court Must Clearly Define Race, Racism and Antiracism Before Ruling on Equal Protection Cases” on the Academy Health blog.
Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University, provided comment for the August 11, 2023, piece “Atlanta Job Market Lures 67K New Residents in One Year, Cost of Housing Continues to Rise” on Fox 5 Atlanta.
Matthew Oware, University of Richmond, was interviewed for the August 11, 2023, piece “Hip-Hop at 50: 7 Essential Listens to Celebrate Rap’s Widespread Influence” in the Conversation.
Rin Reczek, Ohio State University, was quoted in the July 19, 2023, piece “One Quarter of Adult Children Estranged from a Parent” in the Hill.
Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University, authored the July 12, 2023, opinion piece “Supreme Court’s Pursuit of ‘Colorblindness’ Will Perpetuate Racial Inequality” in the Baltimore Sun.
Alex Turvy, Tulane University, was quoted in the August 28, 2023, article “The End of the Googleverse” on the Verge.
Theodore C. Wagenaar, Miami University, authored the opinion article, “Why I Stopped Donating to Your Organization” in the June 27, 2023, issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
New Books
Benjamin Abrams, University College London, The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics (University of Chicago Press 2023).
David Michael Arditi, University of Texas-Arlington, Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism (Emerald Publishing 2023).
Noel A. Cazenave, University of Connecticut, Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring (Routledge 2024).
Asia Friedman, University of Delaware, and Anne Marie Champagne, Yale University, Eds., Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter (Bristol University Press 2024).
Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University, At the Margins of the Global Market Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia (Cambridge University Press 2022).
Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University, and Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College, Disciplinary Futures Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (NYU Press 2023).
Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State University, Music in the Course of Life (Routledge 2023).
Alka Menon, Yale University, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards (University of California Press 2023).
Russell Neuman, New York University, Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter (MIT Pres 2023).
Sal Restivo (retired), New York University, Beyond New Atheism and Theism: A Sociology of Science, Secularlism, and Religiosity (Routledge 2024).
Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times (New York University Press 2023).
Judith Stepan-Norris (retired), University of California-Irvine, and Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Union Booms and Busts the Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press 2023).
Joel Phillip Stillerman, Grand Valley State University, Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile (Stanford University Press 2023).
Obituaries
1953‒2023
Mark A. Fossett, professor of sociology, Texas A&M University, died suddenly in Houston, Texas, on June 21, 2023, from complications following two heart valve surgeries. He was 69 years old.
After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, Mark began his academic career as an assistant professor of sociology at Louisiana State University. In 1986, he returned to the University of Texas, where he served as a research scientist and director of data services at the UT Population Research Center. In 1989, Mark joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He remained there for 34 years, serving as associate head from 1995 to 2000, as graduate advisor from 2000 to 2005, and as department head from 2005 to 2011.
In 2010, Mark and a team of other faculty worked to establish the Texas Research Data Center (TXRDC) at Texas A&M. Mark and his team worked with officials at the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation (NSF), winning an NSF grant that leveraged funding commitments of more than two million dollars from the Texas A&M System, Texas A&M University, and a consortium of universities. Mark was its founding director, serving from 2011 to 2020.
From 1993 to 1999, Mark and several faculty colleagues directed summer programs at Texas A&M, known as Minority Opportunities for Summer Training (MOST) and as Alliances for Minority Participation (AMP), with funding from the American Sociological Association and the Ford Foundation. From 2000 to 2017 Mark directed or codirected four more programs, known as Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), with funding from the National Science Foundation. Many MOST, AMP, and REU students later enrolled in graduate programs at Texas A&M and other universities.
Mark’s research and teaching interests included racial and ethnic segregation and inequality, urban and spatial demography, social demography, computational methods, and quantitative research methods. He directed, codirected, and served on the graduate committees of dozens of graduate students.
Mark was awarded several large grants to support his research on residential segregation, including grants from the NSF and the National Institutes of Health. In 2017, he published the monograph, New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation (Springer 2017), the result of decades of work to address flaws in the measurement of residential segregation. Mark has a forthcoming book, coauthored with Amber Crowell, Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation Across the United States that applies his new methods to residential segregation research questions.
Mark always told us he wanted to retire to the Texas Gulf Coast, where he grew up, and spend time surfing, sampling IPAs, and following his beloved Houston Astros. Sadly, his untimely death has deprived him, his family, and his friends and colleagues of these most pleasurable times.
Mark’s colleagues, students, associates, and friends are all grieving at his early death. We’re grieving for his wife, Betsy, and their children, Lane and Tyler and Kate and their families, and their grandchild, Flora.
Finally, we note the establishment of the Dr. Mark Fossett Memorial Fund, which was created to support Texas A&M graduate students working on projects in the Texas Research Data Center (TXRDC). We know Mark would be pleased to broaden students’ opportunities to participate in the kind of research that meant so much to him.
To contribute online, visit the Texas A&M Foundation. Select “unlisted account” from the drop-down menu on the “Select a Unit or College” line, and enter this Account Name and Number: 02-512709-10000–Dr. Mark Fossett Memorial.
Dudley Poston, Texas A&M University; Jane Sell, Texas A&M University; Amber Crowell, California State University-Fresno; Walter Gillis Peacock, Texas A&M University
Benita Roth
1960‒2023
Benita Roth, a feminist intersectional scholar and valued colleague, labor leader, teacher, and advisor, died on May 27, 2023, after a short struggle with cancer. She was 62. Originally from Los Angeles, she received her BA from Brandeis University and PhD in sociology from the University of California-Los Angeles. A professor of sociology and history at Binghamton University, Roth directed the university’s transdisciplinary program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Building on feminist intersectional scholarship, Roth’s research foregrounds those who fought for women’s liberation and against the ravages of AIDS and opioids, even as it unflinchingly captures the inequalities that fissured their movements. Her book, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave (Cambridge University Press 2003), took on “the mainstream account that claims women of color came late to feminism,” to win the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender’s 2006 Distinguished Book Award. It revealed, as the Awards Committee elaborated, how “Black and Chicana feminism…anticipated the ‘intersectional’ theorizing that has so influenced our field…by incorporating race and class, not just gender, in their analyses.”
The insights offered by Roth’s research are not limited only to the academic. They are also strategic. Her second book, The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA (Cambridge University Press 2017), tells a “largely lost” success story of “the accomplishments of direct-action anti-AIDS protest.” In keeping with her book’s assessment that gender inequalities undermined the group’s momentum, she advises activists to “always be actively conscious of how they construct solidarity, who is included, whose voices are excluded, who gets listened to.” Her most recent project—focused on the fight against the opioid epidemic in Central New York by people involved with the nonprofit Truth Pharm—similarly sought to calibrate strategic implications for activists facing distinct local political contexts.
Roth’s commitment to equity extended beyond her scholarship to praxis. She represented faculty and all other professionals in the Binghamton University chapter of her union, the United University Professions (UUP), as the elected chapter president between 2013‒2017, and vice president for academics (2017‒2023). In recent years, Roth also served as a member of the statewide contract negotiations team and a member of the state UUP Executive Board. As in the case of her early experience of research and activism with ACT UP/LA in the 1990s, her recent work with Truth Pharm also drew her into an immediate fight for justice. In recent years, Roth became a vocal advocate for harm reduction, conducting Narcan trainings in the community.
Roth was a dynamic instructor, loyal colleague, and friend. A champion of sociology as a seed for social change and a committed advisor to the independent research of both undergraduates and graduate students, Roth received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007. She brought a steady hand and witty repartee to deliberations in the Sociology Department and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. To many at the university and many more beyond, she was also a trusted friend: one who might admonish self-doubt just as easily as regale with anecdotes of the absurd and the obscene from Hollywood to politics.
Predeceased by parents Minia and Gerald Roth, she is survived by sister Bella “Dolly” Rizzo; niece Mina Rizzo; uncle Mark Rotblit and extended family; cats Bhuster and Bam Bam; and many close friends.
Donations in her memory can be sent to Truth Pharm or to the BU Foundation , indicating “The Benita Roth Fund, #10351” in the comments. A celebration of life will be held at Binghamton University on Saturday, September 30, at 3:00 pm at Binghamton University.
Leslie C. Gates, Binghamton University
