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ASA releases statement with 17 other scholarly organizations. The ASA provides a brief summary of the current research and notes that Student Evaluations Teaching systematically disadvantage faculty from marginalized groups.
ASA is pleased to announce Aldon Morris, Northwestern University, has been elected the 112th President of the American Sociological Association.
#ASAelection
Sociologist
@just_shelter
tells us what we may not want to hear: millions can't work their way out of poverty.
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
ASA is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 ASA election. Join us in congratulating 2022 President Cecilia Menjívar
@menjivar_ceci
, UCLA, and Vice President Nina Bandelj
@BandeljNina
,
@UCIsociology
We are pleased to announce that Adia Harvey Wingfield
@AdiaHWingfield
@WUSTL
has been elected the 2024-2025 ASA President, and Allison J. Pugh
@allison_pugh
@UVA
has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: .
Viviana A. Zelizer
@VivianaZelizer
receives the 2023 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. This award recognizes work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others;
ASA supports sociologists who participate in
#ScholarStrike
. This effort to “make a collective stand against police violence (particularly against communities of color) in the United States” aligns with our organizational values...
ASA condemns unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross and expresses concern about political actors misrepresenting the scientific process. Read our statement:
She is a sociologist, poet, Twitter maven, Chicago cultural celebrity and newly minted Marvel Comics writer. But don’t ask Eve Ewing about her superpowers.
In the midst of a difficult year, a moment to celebrate. Meet the 2020 MacArthur Fellows, 21 remarkably creative and inspiring individuals.
#MacFellow
📈📱⚙️🧼🧬🧠🎭🚰🩺🖥️✍️🖼️🦠🧫⚖️🏠📜📖💭📚🗣️🎵🎶🔬🧲🧪⚗️🔍🎥📕
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
@DukeU
wins the 2021 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award that honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology & whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to advancement of discipline.
We are pleased to announce that Shelley J. Correll
@StanfordSoc
@Stanford
has been elected the 2025-2026 ASA President, and Victor E. Ray
@victorerikray
@uiowa
has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: .
Congrats to former ASA Pres. & MFP Fellow Patricia Hill Collins
@socyumd
, who received the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture
@berggruenInst
, a $1-million award for her pivotal contributions to understanding intersectionality & social justice.
Laura Garbes
@LauraGarbes
receives the 2023 Dissertation Award for Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
#ASA2023
Bernice A. Pescosolido
@pescosol
& Rashawn Ray
@SociologistRay
receive the 2021 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among general public.
"...academia doesn't reward faculty for being the kinds of teachers and mentors who help their students develop key knowledge and skills. Meanwhile, the mentors who do make that time for students are disproportionately scholars from groups historically marginalized in academia"
ASA is pleased to announce that
@johndiamondphd
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) and
@NEqualityMatrix
(Johns Hopkins University) are the next editors of Sociology of Education for 2022-2024.
ASA extends heartfelt congratulations to Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd
, 2020 recipient of the Public Understanding of Sociology Award who "was selected for her impressive and inspiring commitment to...creatively using sociology for the public good"
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco has been cancelled. For more information, read the letter from the ASA Executive Director
ASA webinar
What's Settler Colonialism and Why Should You Teach About It in Intro to Soc?, November 5, 3 pm Eastern/12 pm Pacific
Presenters: Michelle Jacob,
@sofia_locklear
,
@native4data
, and Yvonne Sherwood.
ASA is committed to fostering engaged and productive intellectual communities in graduate programs. We urge graduate programs to reconsider their GRE use in decisions about admissions and graduate student funding. Read the statement.
Christopher Uggen
@chrisuggen
& Douglas Hartmann
@hartm021
receive the 2023 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among the general public.
#ASA2023
Adia Harvey Wingfield
@AdiaHWingfield
receives the 2022 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, given to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier.
#ASA2022
Congratulations! James M. Thomas (JT)
@Insurgent_Prof
and Brian Foster
@BBrianFoster
of the University Mississippi are the new co-editors of the SREM journal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
@SREJournal
.
We are grateful to everyone who helped make
#ASA2020
a success - whether working to organize a virtual session, braving zoom to present in a session, or attending and supporting your colleagues.
"Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing 'We Shall Overcome'" -Aldon Morris, 2021 ASA President
Left-leaning protesters are significantly more likely to be arrested than right-leaning ones, according to a 2020 study from Lesley Wood, an associate professor of sociology at York University in Toronto.
ASA congratulates the recipients of the 2022–2023 (Cohort 49) of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). These talented PhD candidates were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive support while writing their dissertations.
Social scientist
@alondra
— Biden’s deputy science policy chief — says COVID-19 has “held up a mirror" to society: “Never before in living memory have the connections between our scientific world and our social world been quite so stark as they are today”
"Grace Kao may be the first Asian American woman to hold tenure in sociology departments at two Ivy League universities: the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, where she became the first woman of color to hold tenure in the Sociology Department.
Michael Burawoy
@UCBerkeley
is the recipient of the 2024 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, which honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology & whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to advancement of discipline.
Hey
#soctwitter
, the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting submission deadline is January 29, a few weeks later than in the past. Members told us this was a small change that would make a big difference.
#ASAislistening
Check out ASA's curated collection of videos. The videos cover topics from racism to poverty, from religion to immigration, and from health care to criminal justice. They are great for teaching, media, and policy.
It is day 1 of the
#ASA2020
virtual engagement event. While it is unfortunate that we are unable to engage face to face it is great to learn about emerging research in between laundry cycles.
Renée C. Fox, Founding Figure of Medical Sociology, Dies at 92. She is credited with helping to create the field of bioethics and applying the methods of sociology to medical care.
Congratulations to MFP Fellows (Cohort 47): Uriel Serrano
@its_Serrano
received
@FordFoundation
grant;
@sofia_locklear
accepted a tenure track position at Western University; Shannon Malone Gonzalez accepted a tenure track position at UNC Chapel Hill
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
@watkinshayes
receives the 2021 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality. The award is given to the single best book published in the three preceding calendar years.
ASA has received a grant from NSF to manage Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the next 4 years. 25 awards up to $16,000 annually. Deadline 11/1.
Ricarda Hammer
@ricarda_hammer
receives the 2022 Dissertation Award for “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule Across the Black Atlantic,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
#ASA2022
ASA strongly recommends that attendees use masks while we are together in Philadelphia for
#ASA2023
. As you navigate the meeting space, please do your best to help protect all of our colleagues.
The deadline for submissions to the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting is now less than one month away. The deadline is February 3 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Submit now!
ASA is pleased to announce that Seth Abrutyn
@seth_abrutyn
and Amin Ghaziani
@Amin_Ghaziani
, University of British Columbia
@UBCSociology
, are the next editors of Contexts magazine
@contextsmag
. Their term officially starts January 1, 2023.
Upcoming ASA Member Webinar
Qualitative and Quarantined: Techniques and Ethics of Online Interview Research, Sept 22, 1 pm EST
Presenters: Erin Cech, Brooke Dinsmore, Angela Jones, and Allison Pugh.
The top 50 articles (out of 29663 papers) published in 2019 in the category ‘Sociology’ with their respective Altmetric Attention Scores.
#3
is 2019's "The Sociology of Gaslighting" by Paige L. Sweet
@asr_journal
"Mama was right. Some 35-plus years later, McAllister’s baby girl is a Twitter-quipping public intellectual moonlighting as a celebrity podcast host between her day jobs as a writer and sociologist."
@tressiemcphd
And it’s a wrap for
#ASA2022
Annual Meeting. Thank you for attending!
#ASA2023
is based on ASA President Prudence Carter’s
@prudencelcarter
theme “The Educative Power of Sociology.”
According to [sociologist Frank] Dobbin, the best way to address stereotyping and change biased thinking long-term is to make the workforce as diverse as possible on every level.
Ready for some exciting news before you start your weekend? Alondra Nelson (
@sociallifeofdna
) will serve as the OSTP Deputy Director for Science and Society.
@ssrc_org
ASA congratulates the 2024–2025 (Cohort 51) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Fellows. These talented PhD candidates were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive support while writing their dissertations.
Raka Ray
@UCBerkeley
receives the 2023 Jessie Bernard Award, which recognizes scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society & honors those who have demonstrated significant cumulative work.
#ASA2023
Reminder
#asa19
: According to TripAdvisor, 31% of guests don't tip hotel housekeepers at all, despite their annual income estimating around a low $21,800 a year. By tipping correctly, you show appreciation for housekeeping work.
Hajar Yazdiha
@HajYazdiha
is the recipient of a 2024 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Honorable Mention for “The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Today, we kick off
#ASA2021
with more than 600 informative & topical sessions. Based on President Aldon Morris’s theme “Emancipatory Sociology: Rising to the Du Boisian Challenge,” sociologists will share knowledge & new directions in research & practice.
John B. Diamond
@johndiamondphd
is the recipient of 2024 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, given to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier.
“I am struck by how many people still think that racism always has to be intentional and fueled by malice. They don’t want to admit the racist effects of technology unless they can pinpoint the bigoted boogeyman behind the screen,”
@ruha9
on
#AI
ASA is deeply concerned and outraged about the rise of attacks and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans. Read the statement condemning anti-Asian racism: .
Luis Flores
@jrluisf
@Harvard
receives the 2024 Dissertation Award for “The Regulatory Politics of Home-Based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage,” completed at University of Michigan
@UMich
, at
#ASA2024
.
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of
@devah_pager
this past weekend. She made many important contributions to sociology, was a wonderful colleague and friend, and will be greatly missed. Find her piece in
@contextsmag
from 2003 here:
The findings reveal that white
#admissions
counselors are more responsive to black students who present as deracialized and racially apolitical than they are to those who evince a commitment to antiracism and racial justice.
#highered
We are pleased to announce that David Cort, Laurel Smith-Doerr, & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
@DonTD_tweets
@UMassAmherst
will be the next editors of American Sociological Review
@ASR_Journal
starting January 1, 2024.
Using longitudinal data from the Netherlands, the results
@asr_journal
study indicate that children raised by same-sex parents from birth perform better than children raised by different-sex parents in both primary and secondary education.
2017 Dissertation Ford Fellow Christina Cross' (
@christinajcross
) dissertation has been awarded the
@ASAnews
Dissertation Award and the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Douglas Hartmann
@hartm021
and Christopher Uggen
@chrisuggen
are the recipients of the 2023 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among the general public.
Sociologists Junia Howell and James R. Elliott have published multiple studies that find a pattern in who wins and who loses after floods and other
#disasters
: Rich people get richer after a storm, and poor people get poorer.
Research by sociologists, climate scientists, urban planners, & economists show that disasters & the federal aid to recover disproportionately benefit whiter, wealthier neighborhoods.
@ASAnews
"The history of sociology demonstrates that the discipline can be a rigorous science while simultaneously acting as a catalyst for social change." Aldon Morris, 2021 ASA Annual Meeting theme
ASA submitted a comment to the Florida Board of Governors objecting to the removal of sociology from the state’s general education core course options. Read here:
We are pleased to announce that Tim Liao
@tfliao
@SBU_Sociology
will be the next editor of the ASA journal Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
@SociusJournal
.
Laura Garbes
@LauraGarbes
is the recipient of the 2023 Dissertation Award for “Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
ASA is excited to announce the latest cohort of MFP Fellows (2021-2022): Asia Bento; Evelyn Pruneda
@pruneda_evelyn
; Alejandro Zermeño; Maretta McDonald
@DrMcinthemaking
; and Philip Pettis
Welcome Cohort 48!
#asamfp
Congratulations to sociologists Kathryn Edin, Princeton University, Kathleen M. Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Sara McLanahan, Princeton University
Congratulations to the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Today we are honored to welcome 214 scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators into the Academy.