Dear CUSSniks,
To the extent that you have bandwidth to focus on CUSS matters (and with all that is happening in our country and world, I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t), I wanted to report on a few happening in the section, express some gratitude, and share with you some thoughts about how we collectively can strengthen the section over the coming months.
Read moreThis award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the previous 2 years (2023/24). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here. Also, mail a hard copy of the book to each committee member (addresses will appear in the nomination form).
Book Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Tanya Golash Boza, tanyaboza@gmail.com
Robert Durán, rjduran@tamu.edu
Nate Ela, nate.ela@temple.edu
Janini Selzer, jselzer@hamilton.edu
Jane Addams Article Award
The Jane Addams Award goes to the author(s) of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the previous 2 years (2023/2024). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.
Jane Addams Article Award Committee:
Committee Co-Chair: Christof Brandtner, brandtner@em-lyon.com
Committee Co-Chair: Jan Doering, jan.doering@utoronto.ca
Luis Nuño, lnuno3@calstatela.edu
Emily Walton, Emily.C.Walton@dartmouth.edu
Kasey Zapatka, kaseyzapatka@berkeley.edu
Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
The CUSS Student Paper award goes to the student author of the paper the committee regards as the best graduate student paper in community and urban sociology. The award is granted to current graduate students for papers completed, published or forthcoming in 2023-2024 . Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.
Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeremy Levine, levinejr@umich.edu
Anna Fox, annafox@uchicago.edu
Whitney Gecker, whitney.gecker@mcla.edu
Jaleh Jalili, jj70@rice.edu
Lacee Satcher, satcher@bc.edu
CUSS Early Career Award
The Early Career Award recognizes members, who are within 10 years of their PhD,for interdisciplinary contributions, innovation and creativity, and mentorship. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.
CUSS Early Career Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Elena Vesselinov, elena.vesselinov@gmail.com
Jerome Hodos, jerome.hodos@fandm.edu
Mervyn Horgan, mhorgan@uoguelph.ca
Ian Kennedy, ikennedy@uic.edu
CUSS Publicly Engaged Research Award
This award recognizes community and urban sociologists who use their research to make significant and meaningful contributions to public debates, public policy, and/or communities. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.
CUSS Publicly Engaged Scholar Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeni Cross, jeni@innosphere.org
Brandon Alston, alston.113@osu.edu
JoAnne DeRouen, jo.derouen@louisiana.edu
Derek Hyra, hyra@american.edu
Click here to access Community and Urban Sociology’s page for award submissions. Nominations are open through March 1, 2025
City and Community launched a new Graduate Editorial Assistants Program this year. The aim has been to expose doctoral students to academic publishing, help them to become professional evaluators of academic writing, and support them in their own work. They also received a $250 stipend for their participation.
This year, there were four doctoral students. As part of the editorial team, students have been learning how academic publishing works through seminar-like sessions with the editor and managing editor. They have helped evaluate new submissions to determine their fit and look for potential reviewers. They also meet regularly as a group to discuss academic publishing and workshop drafts of their papers.
Here are the four students and a little blurb from each one about themselves and what they’re getting out of the program:
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1. Interdisciplinarity and Urban Sociology
Session Organizers: Xuefei Ren and Claire Herbert
Presider: TBD
Individual Presentations:
“Challenging the Ecology of Social Disorganization,” Matthew J. DelSesto.
“Reclaiming Spaces, Shifting Safety: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Brownfield Redevelopment and Crime Trends in Chicago,” Marisol Becerra and Agustina Laurito.
“The Sociology of Drywall: Labor, Monopoly Capitalism, and Environmental Hazards,” Albert S. Fu.
“‘Urban-Rural Politics’: The Social Dynamics of Spatial Planning in Urbanizing China,” Bingzhe Lu.
2. Racial Capitalism and the Financialization of the City
Session Organizer: Luana Pinto Coelho
Presider: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Individual Presentations:
“A Racial Capitalist Perspective on Debt Blocks,” Ian Kennedy, Kate Krushinski O’Neill, Ryan Paul Larson, Sarah K.S. Shannon, and Alexes Harris.
“Boomtown Landlording: Real Estate Speculation, Racialized Displacement and the Persistence of Small Landlords in Austin, Texas,” Andrew Ford Messamore.
“’It’s a Land Grab:’ Financialized Development Under Racial Capitalism,” Matthew Atwell.
“Reflecting on the Pandemic: Is Using Big Data Another Tool of Racial Capitalism?” Tabitha R. Ingle.
“Using the Master’s Tools: How CLTs’ Legal Models Enable and Constrain Their Work,” Victoria F. Sisk.
3. Suburbs, Small Towns, and Midsize Cities
Session Organizer: Kiara Wyndham-Douds
Presider: Thalia Tom
Individual Presentations:
“Brokering Time: The Impact of Circulating Experts in Suburban Housing Policy,” Jennifer Girouard.
“Bubble vs Real World: Narratives of Place and Privilege in Suburbia,” Whitney Gecker.
“Gentrification and The Social Disruption of Neighborhoods,” Payton Johnson.
“Huesos Ganadores: Domino Play and Parks as Sites of Latinx Pla(y)cemaking,” Teresa Irene Gonzales and Lilian Wynne Platten.
“New Immigrants in Local Politics,” Jonathan Acosta.
4. Urban Inequalities Across Canada
Session Organizer: Prentiss Dantzler
Presider: Jan Doering
Individual Presentations:
“Assessing diversity among urban mobile home residents in Canada,” Lora A. Phillips.
“A Tale of Two Cities: Heterogeneity in Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in the Canadian Housing Market,” S. Michael Gaddis.
“Subsidized housing: The solution to housing affordability issues?” Kate Hee Choi and Arabella Soave.
“Toronto’s Drug Policy Paradox: Harm Reduction Sites versus Drug Arrests in Toronto Neighborhoods (1992-2020),” Taylor Domingos.
5. Community and Urban Sociology Section Refereed Roundtables
Session Organizer: Thalia Tom
Congratulations to all award winners and honorable mentions! The awards ceremony will be held at the section’s reception at the ASA meeting in Montreal.
Read moreThe Community and Urban Sociology Section invites nominations for the Section’s five awards. The deadline for submitting all nominations is March 1, 2024.
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ASA Online Portal is open for submissions:
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa24/
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Building Communities in Research and Practice
We are excited to announce a virtual mini-conference giving an opportunity to graduate and postdoctoral students to present their recent scholarly research, network with mentors and each other. There will be one session of concurrent paper presentations, where invited mentors will give feedback to the student presenters. Each paper session will have 4 student presenters at maximum and one invited mentor, who will serve as a presider/discussant. There will also be three professional workshops: (1) Dissertation Workshop, (2) Navigating the Job Market and (3) Publishing, Fellowships, and Grants Workshop.
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024, 12:00 pm – 4:45 pm EST (to accommodate attendees from different time zones).
Registration: Interested students should submit an extended abstract of two pages, with the following clearly marked sections: (1) Introduction to the topic; (2) Hypotheses/Research Questions; (3) Methodology; and (4) Preliminary Results.
Read moreDear CUSS Members,
I hope everyone is enjoying summer. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our meetings in Philadelphia this week. We have been busily planning our section events, starting with our reception which will take place on Thursday evening at the Post. We have an exciting slate of section sessions that start the next morning with “Reimagining Urban and Community Sociology through Data Science”, followed by “Education and Urban Inequality”, “Climate Change, Urban Inequality, and the Future of Cities”, and “Critical Approaches to the Study of Policing of Urban Spaces”. Our roundtable sessions cover the following themes: Contesting Urban Governance, Education in the Urban Context, Framing Diversity and Contestation, Gentrification, Getting Housed, Losing Shelter, Housing, Planning, and Politics, Neighboring and Community, Police and Spatial Surveillance, Race and Place, Urban Business and Property, and Urban Theory. I would like to thank the session organizers for putting together a stellar group of papers. Our business meeting will immediately follow the roundtables and will include our awards presentations.
This has been a busy year for CUSS. Many of the discussions that have taken place during my term have centered on ways to improve the section to foster broader involvement and inclusivity, particularly in both elected and volunteer leadership roles. One of the most visible steps that has been taken towards this end has been in revamping our awards process, including in the constitution of committees, awards submissions, and evaluations. We now have a portal for awards submissions that allows collects the same information from all applicants, as well as requiring text based only submission of articles aimed at mitigating some sources of potential bias in the review process. We are open to suggestions about how to improve these processes moving forward.
As my term concludes in August, I wanted to express how much of a pleasure it has been to serve CUSS as your chair. I am excited to welcome in the new leadership and opportunities to contribute to the continued growth and success of our section.
Best,
Mary J. Fischer
Congratulations to our 2023 award winners, and sincere thanks to the award committees. Award recipients will be honored at our Section Business Meeting at the ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
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