Calls for Papers: Publications
Women, Gender, and Families of Color seeks submissions for a special issue on the theme “Care Work for Communities of Color in Higher Education: Reimagining Professional Pathways and Well-Being.” Editors seek essays from scholars, professional staff, and administrators across academic disciplinary lines, types of colleges and universities, and the range of university actor categories that can expand a “Care and Well-Being Toolkit” for communities of color in higher education. Editors encourage contributions that reflect on the identities and personal experiences of authors as well as essays that offer guidance on topics related to elements of learning, work, and engagement in higher education. The submission deadline is September 29, 2024. Read the full call for papers here.
The Handbook on the Sociology of Artificial Intelligence from Emerald Publishers seeks submissions that offer an in-depth overview of the major trends in the field, addressing both the societal causes and effects of artificial intelligence. It aims to systematically explore AI’s sociological dimensions, to feature a theory-driven review of recent research, presenting approaches to investigating artificial intelligence as it transforms society, culture, and human relations. Manuscripts that bridge disciplinary divides and foster interdisciplinary collaboration essential for addressing the societal challenges posed by AI are encouraged. Read the full call for papers here. Abstracts are due October 10, 2024. The deadline for submission of full papers is October 15, 2025.
Theory and Social Inquiry is dedicated to analyzing all facets and dimensions of social life, from micro-level interactions between individuals to the durable institutions that organize societies at a macro level. Editors are open to the full range of social scientific methods, including scholarship that draws on new and innovative approaches under the rubric of problem-solving sociology and engaged research. Papers are accepted on an ongoing basis. The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in making content publicly available. For submission guidelines, click here.
Calls for Papers: Conferences
The Im/migrant Well-Scholar Collaborative’s 2025 Conference will take place on February 14-15, 2025, in St. Petersburg, FL. The conference will bring together academics, policymakers, and community partners to engage with scholarship on im/migrants and their well-being, while also providing attendees with the tools to translate that work for greater impact outside the academy. Scholars from across disciplines from the social sciences and humanities are invited to submit their research. The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies will produce a special issue with selected submissions from the conference. The abstract submission deadline is September 15, 2024. Visit the website for more information.
The Fifteenth Annual International Conference on Stigma—a hybrid conference hosted by Howard University, November 19-22, 2024— will be held on the theme “Stigma No More…It’s 2024!” It seeks original research that addresses HIV stigma or other mental or physical health-related stigma to be presented as a virtual poster during the conference virtual poster session on November 21, 2024. The conference aims to increase awareness of the stigma of HIV and other health conditions and to explore interventions to eradicate this stigma. It 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. The deadline for submissions is September 27, 2024. For more information, visit the website.
The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society will be held on the theme “The Art of Hospitality” on May 28-30, 2025, in Pittsburgh and online. The conference will be an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the role of the arts in society and welcomes papers on the following themes: pedagogies of the arts; arts histories and theories; new media, technology, and the arts; and the arts in social, political, and community life. The proposal deadline is February 28, 2025. For more information, visit the website.
The Fifteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness, and Society will be held on the theme “Emotional vs Artificial Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift in Healthcare?” on September 4-5, 2025, in Spain and online. The network is brought together by a common concern in the fields of human health and wellness, and in particular their social interconnections and implications. Is 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 submission deadline is June 4, 2025. For more information, visit the website.
Fellowship
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) invites applications for its class of residential fellows for the 2025-26 academic year. CASBS is a collaborative environment that fosters the serendipity arising from unexpected intellectual encounters. It seeks fellows who will be influential with, and open to influence by, their colleagues in the diverse multidisciplinary cohort it assembles for a given year. Applications for the 2025-26 year are now being accepted through November 1, 2024. Read more about the fellowship and submission guidelines on the website.
Event
The 2024 National Humanities Conference will take place in Providence, RI, November 13–17, 2024. The National Humanities Conference is produced by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance and hosted by Rhode Island Humanities. The conference brings together scholars with representatives from state humanities councils, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions to explore approaches to deepening public engagement with the humanities. Scholars at all phases of their careers are welcome. To learn more about the program, featured speakers, and offsite events, and to register, visit the website.
Accomplishments
Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota, was invited to a White House workshop, themed “Advancing Understanding of Hate and Bias-Related Incidents,” and organized by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, May 29-30, 2024.
In the News
Ruth Braunstein, University of Connecticut, was interviewed for the August 6, 2024, piece “Ruth Braunstein: More Organizations Are Recognizing the Threat of Christian Nationalism” in Faith and Leadership.
Deborah Carr and Sue Wing, Boston University, were quoted about their recent research in the August 7, 2024, article “More Heat Waves Will Put More Older Adults in Danger” in Futurity.
Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan, authored the August 7, 2024, article “White Men Who Have Been Mistreated at Work Are More Likely to Notice and Report Harassment—New Research” in the Conversation.
Laura Doering, University of Toronto, was quoted in the April 3, 2024, article “What Just Happened? The Problem of Ambiguous Discrimination at Work” in The Globe and Mail on research she coauthored with Jan Doering and Adrás Tilcsik, University of Toronto.
Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia, authored the July 27, 2024, op-ed “Gay Bars Are Closing, But Queer Nightlife Is Still Thriving” in The Globe and Mail.
Amy Hanser, University of British Columbia, was quoted in the August 12, 2024, article “‘Out of Control’: How Tipping Culture Has Evolved Since the Pandemic” in Guelph Today.
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, was quoted in the July 22, 2024, article “VP Harris Could Be a Prime Example of the ‘Glass Cliff Effect’—Here’s What It Is” in Pop Sugar.
Jen Heerwig, Stony Brook University, was quoted in the August 6, 2024, article “5 Things to Know Before You Make a Political Donation” in Money.
Sarah Hernandez, New College of Florida, was quoted in the August 5, 2024, article “Florida Professors Challenge Tenure Changes” in the Jacksonville Business Journal.
Amy Hsin, CUNY-Queens College, was quoted in the August 9, 2024, piece “What Drove Last Year’s Surge in Chinese Migrants at the Southern Border?” from NPR News.
Sunmin Kim, Dartmouth College, was quoted in the August 11, 2024, article “She Once Stormed the Capitol for Trump. Now, She’ll Be Supporting Kamala Harris in November” in USA Today.
Michele Lamont, Harvard University, authored the August 4, 2024, article “Kamala Harris Must Lean In: The Left Doesn’t Have to Pick Between Woke and Working Class” in Salon.
Francisco Lara-Garcia, Hofstra University, was quoted in the August 10, 2024, article “The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border” in the Markup.
Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University, was quoted in the August 9, 2024, article “What Happens When a So-Called Climate Solution Risks Your Community’s Safety?” on Vox.
Nancy Lopez, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, appeared on CNN on July 16, 2024, for the segment “Census Changes: What’s the Potential Impact of Asking ‘What’s Your Street Race?”
David B. Monaghan, Shippensburg University, was quoted about his recent research in the August 9, 2024, article “Not All ‘Free College’ Programs Spark Increased Enrollments or More Degrees” in EdSurge.
Marya T. Mtshali, Northeastern University, and Katharine McCabe, Bucknell University, authored the August 1, 2024, opinion piece “While JD Vance Rails Against ‘Cat Ladies,’ GOP Policies Are Making Parents Miserable” in Ms. Magazine.
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, was quoted in the August 10, 2024, article “Congress Aims to Boost Enforcement at the Border—with Canada” in the Georgia Recorder.
Allison Pugh, Johns Hopkins University, authored the August 14, 2024, article “When AI Automates Relationships” in Time.
Fernando I. Rivera, University of Central Florida, was quoted in the July 30, 2024, article “‘A Matter of Life and Death’: How Disaster Response Endangers U.S. Farmworkers” in Grist.
Lydia Rose, Kent State University at East Liverpool, was quoted in the August 9, 2024, article “Voices of Faith: Study of Sociology Should Be Protected” in the Record-Courier.
Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles, was quoted in the August 4, 2024, article “Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro: The Dark Side of Weight-Loss Drugs” in Newsweek.
Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota, had his essay, “Wie Jura die Literatur Franz Kafkas Beeinflusst Hat,” published in the July 1, 2024, edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Einspruch Magazin.
Patrick Sharkey, Princeton University, was quoted in the August 5, 2024, article “What Happens When Everyone Decides They Need a Gun?” in Vox.
Benjamin Shestakofsky, University of Pennsylvania, was quoted in the June 24, 2024, article “The ACT’s New Ties to a Private Equity Firm Are Raising Eyebrows” in USA Today.
Emily Smith-Greenaway and Shengjie Liu, University of Southern California, authored the August 7, 2024, article “Heat Risk Isn’t Just About the Highs: Large Daily Temperature Swings Can Harm Human Health—Maps Show Who Is Affected Most” in the Conversation.
Amanda Stevenson, University of Colorado-Boulder, was quoted in the July 25, 2024, article “U.S. Infant Deaths Rise for First Time in Decades” from HealthDay News and the August 7, 2024, article “Telehealth Helps Drive Rise in U.S. Abortions Despite Proliferation of Bans” in the Guardian.
Jennifer Sims, University of Alabama-Huntsville, was quoted in the August 1, 2024, article “Who Donald Trump Was Really Speaking to With His Vile Comments on Kamala Harris’ Blackness” in Slate.
Megan Thiele Strong and Paul Fong, San Jose State University, authored the August 16, 2024, article “A New Postsecondary-to-Political Pipeline” in Inside Higher Ed.
Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University, was quoted in the July 21, 2024, article “JD Vance, D.E.I. Candidate” in the New York Times.
New Books
Stephanie Canizales, University of California-Berkeley, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (University of California Press 2024).
Emily K. Carian, University of California-Irvine, Good Guy, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism (NYU Press 2024).
William Corsaro, Indiana University (retired) and Judson Everitt, Loyola University-Chicago, The Sociology of Childhood, 6th Edition (Sage 2024).
Derek Hyra, American University, Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur (University of California Press 2024).
Anthony Abraham Jack, Boston University, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price (Princeton University Press 2024).
Joanna Kempner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine (Hachette Books 2024).
Prema A. Kurien, Syracuse University, Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans (Oxford University Press 2024).
Ellen T. Meiser, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen (Rutgers University Press 2024).
Prabhakara Narasandra, researcher, Internal Migration and Socio-Economic Development: Implications and Development (Quantum Discovery 2024).
Kim Pernell, University of Texas at Austin, Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation (Princeton University Press 2024).
Hatim Rahman, Northwestern University, Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers (University of California Press 2024).
Calvin John Smiley, CUNY-Hunter College, Defund: Conversations Towards Abolition (Haymarket Books 2024).
Amanda Udis-Kessler, Colorado College, Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective (Anthem Press 2024).
Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Memorial University, Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls (Rowman & Littlefield 2024).
David Greenberg
1942–2024
The Department of Sociology at New York University mourns the passing of our longtime colleague David Greenberg, who passed away on Tuesday July 9, 2024, from heart failure. Greenberg taught in the Sociology Department for 49 years, from 1973 to 2022, when he retired. He was 82 years old.
Greenberg was born in 1942 in Evanston, IL, the eldest of Louis and Mina Greenberg’s three children. A gifted student, Greenberg received his BA (1962), MA (1963), and PhD (1969) in physics, all from the University of Chicago. He specialized in theoretical physics, a mathematically demanding subfield in which his lifelong interest in math found an outlet. As a graduate student, and then a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon (1968-70), Greenberg published a number of papers in physics, including a remarkable four papers in the Physical Review, one of the field’s top journals.
While in graduate school and during his postdoctoral work, however, Greenberg’s promising career in academic physics was stunted by a difficult job market and his growing involvement in the social and political movements of that era. In particular, he became heavily involved in in the anti-prison movement of the late 1960s. His first publication on this topic appeared as a report for the American Friends Service Committee in 1970, entitled The Problem with Prisons. Greenberg’s early essays on prisons established him as a rising young scholar in a field for which he had no formal training, and, after a year teaching criminology at Columbia College in Chicago, he came to the attention of the New York University (NYU) Department of Sociology, where he was hired as an assistant professor in 1973. Greenberg was fond of saying that the first sociology course he attended was one that he taught!
During his long academic career at NYU, Greenberg’s restless mind drove him to explore many topics. At one point, he listed his scholarly interests as “criminology, deviance and social control, sociology of law, human sexuality, historical sociology, evolutionary psychology, mathematical modeling, and statistical methods in the social sciences.” But this only captures a slice of his intellectual interests. His sophisticated background in mathematics helped to make him a highly respected figure in quantitative methods in criminology, and he published extensively on this topic.
In addition to his methodological writings and research on prisons, he was also well-known for research on criminal careers, empirical studies of capital punishment, and many and varied contributions to Marxist and radical criminology. One of Greenberg’s major contributions was to subject the assumed “incapacitative” crime-reduction effects of imprisonment to empirical analysis and critique. He had already published a major article on this topic in Law & Society Review in 1975 and made important contributions to the high-profile debate in the 1990s. Among the many honors and awards he received for his scholarly work, Greenberg received the American Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 1983 for a lifetime of outstanding scholarship on the sociological understanding of crime, law, and deviance and was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 1994.
Beyond his research and writing in the field of criminology, in 1988, after many years of research, Greenberg published The Construction of Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press 1988), a 635-page work of deep scholarship that traced the treatment of same-sex relationships from the ancient world to the present. This work was selected by the Publishing Triangle in 2004 as one of the “100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books. A review in the New York Times by the historian Nicholas B. Dirks described the book as “careful, encyclopedic and important,” breaking new ground in arguing that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed, or defined, it as such.
Greenberg was a dedicated mentor and teacher to his graduate students, teaching classes in criminology and law and society to decades of undergraduate students at NYU. His undergraduates often enjoyed the quirky personal stories he frequently told to illuminate points in the readings. He was particularly known among the graduate students as someone who would very carefully read students’ papers, especially those employing varying types of quantitative methods, in which he took a sharp interest and on which he stayed up to date.
Greenberg is survived by his nephews Richard Hecht, Martin (Marty) Hecht, Brian Karzen, Todd Karzen; and his brother-in-law Alan Karzen. Never married, his two sisters both passed before him, and he left no heirs—except for his many students. A memorial service will be held at NYU on September 11; anyone wishing more information should contact Brason Jones at [email protected].
Jeff Manza, New York University
Shirley Nuss
1944–2023
Shirley Nuss passed away on November 23, 2023, at a hospital in Denver, CO. She was 79 years old. Nuss was a culturally rich, multifaceted, and gifted person. During her life, she assumed many roles, occupied multiple positions, and was involved in numerous projects. At various stages in her life, she was an academic, a methodologist, a research consultant, a visiting fellow, an international professional, an advocate, an activist, and a humanitarian. She resided and worked in various locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She was a kind, compassionate, caring, generous, and empathetic person. She had strong convictions, no tolerance for social injustice, and a deep commitment to social change. She also was a determined woman who wanted to make the world a better place for everyone, especially for disenfranchised, marginalized, and vulnerable members of societies that often were not allowed to have a voice.
Nuss was born in Colorado in 1944. She received a BA in 1969, an MA in 1975, and a PhD in 1975 in sociology from the University of Colorado. At this time, she concentrated on women’s studies, especially women’s empowerment, and gender equity. Nuss led a complex professional life that included teaching in the women’s studies program at the University of Colorado in the 1970s. She taught women’s and family studies from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University, where she and I also taught in the Labor School, co-offered with the University of Michigan. While at Wayne State University, Nuss was an active member of, had a lead role in, and was a contributor to, numerous committees and conferences offered by the American Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association, and Sociologists for Women in Society. She and I also published articles on women’s issues and the constraints that women encountered in often unequal global societies. Later she became involved in a case to retain her position that was supported by the American Association of University Professors and Sociologists for Women in Society.
Both before and during her time at the university, Nuss worked with major international organizations. She was a research consultant for the United Nations (UN) in 1974 and 1975 and served as a lead consultant for the World Conference of the UN’s Decade for Women in New York, 1979–1980. Nuss brought me to the UN to assist with this research effort, and under her direction, our team assembled a global data bank on multiple topics, including women’s employment, education, political participation, and literacy. The data were used as input for the United Nations Decade for Women (1975–1985), which helped to bring the many inequalities women face in education, health care, and work to the attention of national leaders and the general public.
After Nuss left Wayne State University, she worked on projects in several international locations. In the 1980s, her work at the UN brought Nuss to Switzerland, and she contributed to a program on and for vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. In the 1990s, among other positions, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Oxford in England. For many years, she also worked with UN agencies and governments in South Asia to design, evaluate, and implement national survey programs to gather data on women.
In 2002, Nuss returned to Colorado to assist her elderly parents, during which time she expanded her research interests to analyze the obstacles, inequities, exploitation, corruption, and abuse faced by the elderly, including in rural America. She continued to engage with professional organizations as an active member, by taking a lead role, or contributing to meetings, particularly the International Sociological Association’s research committees on women, social indicators, and the sociology of aging.
Nuss leaves behind a rich legacy. She was the author of numerous papers, publications, and several books on indicator construction, women, and the world of work. A collection of some of her work resides at the University of Colorado Boulder’s University Libraries. She will be remembered as a champion for social and economic change, and a person who stood for justice, equality, and humanity. During her last days, she was assisted by attentive, kind, and generous neighbors. As her last humanitarian act, she left all her assets to children of the world in order that children could have a better life. She is a hard act to follow.
Lorraine Majka, formerly of the University of Oxford
