ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities: SREM

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This Friday! Join Stacy Torres, University of California-San Francisco, for a 2-hour interactive Op-Ed Writing Workshop, 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern. Learn the basics of op-ed writing and how to draft your own piece. You will receive feedback on translating your scholarly work for broader audiences. By the end of the session, you should feel more prepared to complete your op-ed and pitch it for publication. Register today: https://bit.ly/4bXFoSp

Submissions for are due today! Be sure to submit your paper, extended abstract, or proposal through the online portal by 11:59 p.m. Eastern. To review submission guidelines, click here: https://bit.ly/3LKaH7K. Access the online portal here: https://bit.ly/3Yt7tdY.

Early bird registration is now open! Find out more about rates and how to register here: https://bit.ly/45lI6wr.

Have you considered engaging more with the community to co-design research studies that address community challenges? Are you looking for ways to deepen students’ learning through community engagement? Join ASA Sociology Action Network (SAN) advisory board members Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University; Carol Glasser, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Rebecca London, University of California-Santa Cruz; and Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University, for the “Community Engaged Research and Teaching” webinar on February 7 at 1 p.m. Eastern.

They will discuss:
- methodologies and best practices for community-engaged research
- project-based pedagogies for experiential learning in the classroom, and
- ASA resources for sociologists interested in community-engaged research and teaching.

Closed captioning available. Find out more & register here: https://bit.ly/3HpwuPi

To learn more about ASA’s Sociology Action Network, visit: https://bit.ly/422aUdk.

A new publication from section member Matthew Ward:

Ward, Matthew. 2023 (online first). "Slavery's Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South," Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South - Matthew Ward, 2023 Legacy of slavery scholarship has experienced a renaissance as of late, with researchers across numerous disciplines focusing increased attention on the long-te...

How can we better engage our students in reading, writing, and class discussion? How do we build enthusiasm for the subject matter we’re teaching? These are increasingly difficult challenges as we shift to more online teaching, introduce AI into classroom, and face continuing effects of COVID-19 on student well-being. Join the ASA webinar, Fostering Student Engagement in the Classroom, October 26, 4:30–5:30 p.m. Eastern advice on how to energize your courses with tested approaches from panelists who are top teachers in our discipline.

This event is free for ASA members. Closed captions available. Once purchased, you will receive an email with instructions to complete your webinar registration. https://bit.ly/45T2bdT

Each year, ASA recognizes a wide range of contributions to the discipline of sociology. ASA acknowledges and honors individuals’ outstanding work in scholarship, teaching, practice, and public understanding of sociology. The deadline for nominations for the following awards is January 1, 2024. Learn about each award and corresponding nomination procedures here: https://bit.ly/3UUkuK3.

• Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award
• Dissertation Award
• Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
• Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
• Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
• Jessie Bernard Award
• Public Understanding of Sociology Award
• W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

ASA Annual Meeting Video Archive | American Sociological Association Click to view video recordings from the following years: 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |

The SREM reception is on Sun 6:30 to 8:30pm in Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon H

The business meeting is Mon, 12:00 to 1:30pm in Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Grand Ballroom Salon E

The 2023 ASA Annual Meeting’s Special Sessions focus on some of the most pressing issues of our times, from Higher Ed to Voting Rights to COVID-19. Find out more & access the program: https://bit.ly/3pEPIuE. Register today at https://bit.ly/3KLJm3F.

New paper out by section member Matthew Ward: Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South,

Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South Abstract. Scholarship on slavery's legacy and enduring consequences has largely been limited to the South under the assumption that this region continues to be

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The ASA Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities is pleased to announce our 2023 award winners.

Patricia A. Banks' book Black Culture Inc. How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America is the winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award for Anti-Racist Scholarship.

The winner(s) of the 2023 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award are Jody Agius Vallejo and Stephanie Canizalez for their article “Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity” (Social Problems, 2021).

The committee also awarded an Honorable Mention to Jennifer Jones for her article: “They Are There with Us”: Theorizing Racial Status and Intergroup Relations” (American Journal of Sociology, 2022).

Dr. Anthony Ocampo has been awarded the 2023-2024 SREM Founder's Award. The nominators and committee note that along with Ocampo’s meaningful leadership and service to the discipline, Dr. Ocampo is a path-breaking intersectional scholar who has made and is making enormous contributions to several fields of Sociology and Ethnic Studies. Ocampo’s professional and academic accomplishments exemplify how his key commitment is to conduct research to understand and reimagine a more just society. The committee unanimously and enthusiastically endorses Dr. Ocampo.

The SREM Joe Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award has been awarded to “Policing of Black Woman’s Hair in the Military” by Taylor Holden, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Advisor: Dr. Candice Robinson

The James Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award has been awarded to Katie Kaufman Rogers at The University of Texas at Austin for their paper "WEEDED OUT: An Intersectional Analysis of Inequity in the U.S. Cannabis Industry."

The committee also awarded an honorable mention to "Racialized Romance: Rethinking Preferences and Opportunities in a Comparative Analysis of East Asian Women’s Mating Outcomes by Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania.

ASA congratulates the 2023–2024 (Cohort 50) 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. https://bit.ly/3J8jD5q

We are pleased to announce that Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected the 2024-2025 ASA President, and Allison J. Pugh, University of Virginia, has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: https://bit.ly/3mFBhFz.

The ASA 2023 Annual Meeting Thematic Sessions explore and enliven the meeting’s theme, “The Educative Power of Sociology,” through sessions that are broad in scope. To learn more about the meeting and access the entire program, including more thematic sessions, visit https://bit.ly/3pEPIuE. Register for the ASA 2023 Annual Meeting here: https://bit.ly/3KLJm3F.

Have you checked out the ASA 2023 Annual Meeting's Special Sessions, which will spotlight some of today’s most important matters, from Climate Change to CRT to School Safety? Be sure to register for here: https://bit.ly/3KLJm3F.

Hear Prudence L. Carter, Brown University, deliver her Presidential Address, “Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society” at the ASA 2023 Annual Meeting. Find out more about the address here: https://bit.ly/3iwHaTv and register here: https://bit.ly/3KLJm3F.

The ASA 2023 Annual Meeting's Special Sessions focus on some of the most pressing issues of our times, from Housing Insecurity to LGBTQIA Rights to Immigration. Be sure to register here: https://bit.ly/3KLJm3F.

In this exercise, Courtney Ross explains how to allow students to decompress after difficult conversations in class.
https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/contemplative-visualization-exercise

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/the-suit-against-student-debt-relief-doesnt-add-up/

The Suit against Student Debt Relief Doesn't Add Up: Flawed Claims of Legal Standing in Biden v. Nebraska - Roosevelt Institute Last August, Pres. Biden announced his decision to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt. In February, six Rep. attorneys general sued to block this cancellation arguing that Missouri’s loan servicing company (MOHELA) would suffer financial revenue losses if enacted. A new analysis, published by th...

Viral tweet about NSF grad fellowship prompts calls for change, again Students and faculty members are calling on the National Science Foundation to re-evaluate its Graduate Research Fellowship Program after yet another student received an inappropriate comment on his application.

Are you a graduate student and are planning to attend the Norma Williams Mentoring Workshop in Philadelphia on 8/17? Apply for a travel grant: http://bit.ly/3njFBdE

Deadline for the ASA 2023 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is in one week! Submit a paper/extended abstract or a proposal for a course, workshop, preconference, or symposium through the online portal by Feb. 22. Read the detailed call here: http://bit.ly/3PDjb12.