Announcements – December 2023

Dear Colleagues,  Please find enclosed: My best wishes to all  Monika  ———  Call for Contributions: The editors of the Culture Section Newsletter invite you to submit content for inclusion in our upcoming winter issue. Please send us your book, article, job, conference, and other general announcements. The deadline to submit announcements for the Winter Newsletter is Jan 15, 2024. Please email your contributions to asaculturenews@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!  … Continue reading Announcements – December 2023

Submit Your Work for ASA 2024!

Dear Section Members,  Chair-Elect Clayton Childress has put together a terrific set of sessions for open submission, which you’ll find outlined below.  Thanks to everyone who has contributed on the programme committee and as organizers.  We look forward to your submissions.   The deadline is February 26, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Before the session info, I include below a call for graduate student participants … Continue reading Submit Your Work for ASA 2024!

Announcements — November 2023

The Wuhan Lockdown: A Discussion about COVID-19 in China and the US  Theory, History, Society (THiS) Book Boom Series via Yan Long: The COVID-19 pandemic had brought many countries—including the first and second most powerful economies in the world—to their knees. In this online panel, five sociologists will discuss Guobin Yang’s book The Wuhan Lockdown and reflect on what has happened, what has changed, and what we … Continue reading Announcements — November 2023

Submissions and Nominations for 2024 Section Awards

I am very pleased to share with you our section’s calls for submissions for its annual awards. Please consider nominating your work! We look forward to your submissions.  May I highlight especially our newest awards:   The Stuart Hall Award in Cultural Sociology for “a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for advancing the cultural study of racial or ethnic inequality”  and the John Mohr Dissertation Improvement … Continue reading Submissions and Nominations for 2024 Section Awards

Announcements

Announcements Job Postings The University of Oregon, Department of Sociology, seeks to hire an assistant professor of sociology with expertise in culture, digital media and/or technology, broadly defined. The ideal candidate will have a record of methodologically rigorous scholarship, a commitment to institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a dedication to inclusive teaching. Find more information about the position here: https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/531916/assistant-professor-of-sociology      The Department … Continue reading Announcements

Report on the Culture Section Mentoring Program – Marshall A. Taylor

We are well under way with the fourth annual ASA Culture Section Mentor Program. The best way I can think of to summarize the program so far is this: consistent, but a little down. Before I elaborate on that summary, though, I’ll quickly recap the structure of the program. The program is following the same structure as it has in previous years, with multiple mentees … Continue reading Report on the Culture Section Mentoring Program – Marshall A. Taylor