CUSS Digest (February 2020)

Please find below the February Community & Urban Sociology Section Digest. Content includes:
- Call for Applications for Editor(s) of City & Community
- New Book Announcement
- Calls for Papers
- Conference Announcement
Please find below the February Community & Urban Sociology Section Digest. Content includes:
Please find the Community and Urban Sociology Section January Digest below. Items include:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Please find attached a call for papers on the Sociology of Housing.
In this edited volume, we seek to take stock of the current field of scholarship and provide new directions for the sociological study of housing. The collection of essays aims to both organize current research, highlight important aspects of the subfield, and provide a roadmap for sociological studies of housing. We expect authors to draw on diverse methodological approaches, present unique field sites and data sources, and foreground sociological theory to understanding contemporary housing issues. Chapter by chapter, we anticipate that the volume will generate promising directions for the sociological analysis of housing.
Proposals are due on March 13th. Additional submission details are in the attached flyer.
Department of Sociology, Boston University
April 17, 2020
The Department of Sociology at Boston University invites research presentations on the topic of race and ethnicity in global perspectives. Presentations will be part of a day-long junior scholar symposium showcasing the work of doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, or assistant professors from historically underrepresented groups in the academy.
Read moreA. Call for Nominations for CUSS Positions
Section leadership is a great way to get involved in shaping the section’s makeup and direction. The nominations committee is accepting nominations (including self-nominations) for the following positions:
1 Chair (2 candidates, 1-year term)
1 Secretary/treasurer (2 candidates, 3-year term)
2 Council members (4 candidates, 3-year term)
1 Student representation (2 candidates, 1-year term)
2 Publications committee members (4 candidates, 3-year term)
Membership committee chair (2 candidates, 3-year term)
If interested in nominating others or yourself to any of these positions, please contact Zaire Dinzey at zdinzey@lcs.rutgers.edu. Thanks.
B. Call for Submissions, Section Awards
Please see below for calls for four section awards, including updated submission instructions.Community and Urban Sociology Section’s Robert E. Park Book Award
The Park Award (formerly the Park Book Award) goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past two years (2018 and 2019). To nominate a book for this award: 1) By March 1 send an email nominating the book to Committee Co-Chair Evelyn Perry (perrye@rhodes.edu); and 2) When you nominate the book, you will receive an email with committee members’ addresses and additional instructions for the publisher. Using those addresses and instructions, books should arrive to committee members by April 1.
Bruce Haynes (UC Davis) – Co-Chair
bdhaynes@ucdavis.edu
Evelyn Perry (Rhodes College) — Co-Chair
perrye@rhodes.edu
Esther Sullivan (University of Colorado, Denver)
ESTHER.SULLIVAN@UCDENVER.EDU
Max Besbris (Rice University)
mb89@rice.edu
Junia Howell (University of Pittsburgh)
juniahowell@pitt.edu
Community and Urban Sociology Section’s Jane Addams Article Award
The Jane Addams Award (formerly the Park Article Award) goes to authors of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the past two years (2018 or 2019). Please send electronic copies of the paper via email to all four members of the committee by April 1, 2020. Email addresses are listed below.
Andrew Papachristos (Northwestern University) – Chair
avp@northwestern.edu
Sara Bastomski (Urban Institute)
SBastomski@urban.org
Meaghan Stiman (College of William & Mary)
mlstiman@wm.edu
Ana Villarreal (Boston University)
anav@bu.edu
Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
The CUSS Student Paper Award goes to the student author of the paper the award committee regards as the best graduate student paper in community and urban sociology. Please send electronic copies to all three members of the committee by April 1, 2020. Email addresses are listed below.
Anna Rhodes (Rice University) – Chair
anna.rhodes@rice.edu
Zachary Hyde (University of British Columbia)
Zachary.hyde@alumni.ubc.ca
Watoii Rabii (Oakland University)
wrabii@oakland.edu
Community and Urban Sociology Section’s Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes distinguished career achievement in community and urban sociology. Nominations are due by April 1, 2020. Please send nominations to all five members of the committee. Email addresses are below.
Kevin Gotham (Tulane University) – Chair
kgotham@tulane.edu
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo (UMASS Boston)
Sarah.MayorgaGallo@umb.edu
Kristin Perkins (Georgetown University)
Kristin.perkins@georgetown.edu
Jaleh Jalili (Oberlin College)
jjalili@oberlin.edu
John Eason (University of Wisconsin)
jeason2@wisc.edu
C. Section Sessions at ASA 2020
Thanks to our Conference Planning Committee (Jean Beaman, Maggie Kusenbach and Jessica Simes) for selecting four terrific sessions for the 2020 ASA Conference: “Power, Inequality and Resistance at Work”. All sessions are open. See the ASA website for submission deadlines and instructions.
Session 1: Cities and Big Data
Session Organizers: Daniel Silver and Fernando Calderón Figueroa
Session 2: Work, Community, and City
Session Organizer: Rachael Woldoff
Session 3: Theorizing the Renters and Rental Housing in the United States
Session Organizers: Christine Jang, Robin Bartram, and Steven Schmidt
Session 4: New forms of precarious urban labor
Session Organizers: Alexandrea Ravenelle and Sofya Aptekar
Community and Urban Sociology Section Roundtables
Session Organizers: Jennifer Candipan and Alfredo Huante
D. News and Announcements
Orly Clergé announces the publication of her book: The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia (UC Press, October 2019).
Doctoral students in departments of sociology who have not yet defended their dissertation proposals are invited to apply to a dissertation proposal development workshop on “problem solving sociology.” Northwestern University will pay for economy-class airfare and accommodation in Evanston, IL, plus meals and transportation expenses, for a one-day workshop to be held on May 21, 2020. This workshop is made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Read moreJaponica Brown-Saracino‘s work is the New York Times article “How to Find Your Happily-Ever-After City.” Specifically, it references her book How Places Make Us.
Max Holleran has an article in The Atlantic called “The Water Wars are Here.” It looks at the ideological battles regarding water in the United States.
Victoria Reyes has a piece on The Conversation “For some children born abroad, US citizenship has never been a guarantee.” Reyes looks at the history of granting citizenship to some children of parents stationed abroad as employees or members of the U.S. armed forces.