January 12th, 2008

Student Link 01.11.08

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
STUDENT_LINK

Friday, January 11, 2008

 

CONTENTS FOR THIS EDITION:

1) NEW: SFAB NOMINATIONS!

2) CALL FOR PAPERS for UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE! 

3) ASA SFAB RESOURCES

4) MEETING STUDENT NEEDS

5) IMPROVING OUR WEBSITES

1) SFAB Nominations!: The ASA Student Forum Advisory Board is seeking nominations for six (6) Board members. The term of commitment is two years beginning at the end of the 2008 ASA Annual Meeting in Boston in August and continuing through the 2010 Annual Meeting. Nominees must be Student Members of the ASA at the time of nomination and during their two-year term. They also should commit to attending the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Annual Meetings. Self-nominations are welcomed.

The nominations committee of the Student Forum Advisory Board will review nominations, select nominees and oversee the election of candidates through the 2008 ASA Annual Election to be held in the spring of 2008. To be considered, please send four (4) copies of your vitae including a current e-mail address and four (4) copies of a brief statement of intent (exactly why you want to be a member of the Student Forum Advisory Board, years of graduate school experience, experience with other professional groups, etc.) to the Student Forum Advisory Board Nominations Committee via email (cati.connell@gmail.com) or at the address below:

Catherine Connell
Department of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Place A1700
Austin, TX 78712

Deadline:  February 10, 2008

2) CALL FOR PAPERS for Upcoming Annual Conference: The American Sociological Association welcomes the participation of graduate and undergraduate students at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston. Special arrangements for students include discounted registration fees and sessions co-sponsored by the ASA Student Forum and the 2008 Program Committee. While all sessions listed in the 2008 Call for Papers are open to submissions from students, there are three paper sessions, one roundtable session, and a professional workshop sponsored by the ASA Student Forum and geared specifically towards students. Interested student authors should note that ASA Student Forum sessions operate under the same guidelines as regular sessions and are subject to the submission criteria, deadlines, and program policies listed in the 2008 Call for Papers.Thus, for the 2008 Annual Meeting, the Student Forum Advisory Board (SFAB) is calling for papers to fill three (3) Student Forum Paper Sessions and one (1) Student Forum Roundtable Session. All sessions are open, and the topics of the final sessions will be based on any themes that emerge from the more developed student submissions. Student papers not included in one of the above three Student Forum Paper Sessions will be considered for inclusion in the Student Forum Roundtable Session. To submit a paper to any of the Student Forum Sessions, go to the online Call for Papers on the ASA website, enter the online submission system, and select Student Forum Sessions when presented with the option to select a submission destination. All student papers must be submitted via the online submission system by January 16, 2008.Student Forum Session participants should note that: 1) only completed papers are eligible for full consideration; 2) authors may present in only one Student Forum Session; and 3) authors/co-authors who decline to present their papers must notify the chairs of the SFAB’s Program Committee, Catherine Connell, University of Texas-Austin and Audrey Devine-Eller, Rutgers University.There will be other student-oriented sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston in addition to the Student Forum sessions. There will be several sessions devoted to presentations by students involved with two long-standing ASA programs, the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) and the Honors Program (HP). Current MFP Fellows may submit their papers for the two MFP research sessions by using the same guidelines and deadlines as above. Inquiries about the MFP sessions may be sent to the ASA Minority Affairs Program. The ASA Honors Program has a separate programming process for its own roundtables at the 2008 Annual Meeting. The application deadline to participate in the 2008 Honors Program is February 25, 2008. Undergraduate students interested in applying for participation in the Honors Program may find more details on the ASA website by clicking on Students at the top.

3) ASA SFAB Resources: The ASA’s Student Forum provides resources for graduate and undergraduate sociology students, helps develop networks among student members, and facilitates student participation in the ASA by encouraging professional development and service.  All student members of ASA are automatically Student Forum members and eligible to take advantage of Student Forum’s resources, such as travel grants, professionalization workshops, and information and advice regarding academic careers.

To find out more about Student Forum please visit our:

website: http://socstudentforum.org/
wiki page: http://wiki.socstudentforum.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
ASA page: http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/topnav/students/student_forum

4) Meeting Student Needs: The Student Forum is here to meet your needs as student members of the ASA.  We’d love to hear more about how we can be more effective in this regard!  As a student-run organization, one of our most significant resources is information-sharing among fellow students. If you have ideas, expertise, or career advice you’d like to share with the membership, please contact us with your thoughts.

5) Improving Our Websites: If you have questions and/or suggestions regarding how to improve our sites, please contact us and let us know (contact Danielle at daniellehidalgo@mac.com). Also, get involved! Please feel free to add comments, suggestions, and any other relevant issues to our wikipedia site at http://wiki.socstudentforum.org/index.php?title=Main_Page This web site is for you and other graduate students, so please feel free to use it!

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December 11th, 2007

Student Link 12.06.07

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
STUDENT_LINK

Thursday, December 6, 2007

CONTENTS FOR THIS EDITION:

1) ASA ANNUAL MEETING RECAP and 2008 ASA ANNUAL MEETING PLANS

2) CALL FOR PAPERS for UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE!

3) ASA SFAB RESOURCES

4) MEETING STUDENT NEEDS

5) IMPROVING OUR WEBSITES

1) 2007 ASA Annual Meeting Recap & 2008 ASA Annual Meeting Plans: Last year’s ASA Meetings in New York featured an extremely successful Professional Workshop, titled, “Demystifying the Publication Process: Editors of Sociology Journals Speak With Students.” At this workshop, Karen Cerulo (Sociological Forum), Dana Britton (Gender and Society), and Gary Alan Fine (Social Psychology Quarterly) provided graduate students with an inside look at the publication process. The editors discussed what first-time submitters should anticipate when submitting manuscripts, common problems with student submissions, common misconceptions about the actual process of publishing, and a full range of helpful topics that those present could benefit from as they navigate publication during and after graduate school. As a result of its success and back by popular demand the SFAB will host this Professional Workshop again! At this year’s meeting in Boston we will be holding “Demystifying the Publication Process Part II: Editors of Sociology Speak with Students”. We are very excited about this year’s guests who include Jim Wright (Social Science Research), Peter Kivisto (The Sociological Quarterly), John Lynxwiler (Sociological Spectrum), Rhys H. Williams (worked with Social Problems and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion) and David Yamane (Sociology of Religion). Additionally, we may also have Vincent J. Roscigno (ASR Co-editor) join us. We are also looking forward to seeing you at our Graduate Student Roundtable Sessions and Graduate Student Reception. Thank you to SFAB members and students who participated in these events last year, we look forward to seeing you again.

2) CALL FOR PAPERS for Upcoming Annual Conference: The American Sociological Association welcomes the participation of graduate and undergraduate students at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston. Special arrangements for students include discounted registration fees and sessions co-sponsored by the ASA Student Forum and the 2008 Program Committee. 

While all sessions listed in the 2008 Call for Papers are open to submissions from students, there are three paper sessions, one roundtable session, and a professional workshop sponsored by the ASA Student Forum and geared specifically towards students. Interested student authors should note that ASA Student Forum sessions operate under the same guidelines as regular sessions and are subject to the submission criteria, deadlines, and program policies listed in the 2008 Call for Papers.

Thus, for the 2008 Annual Meeting, the Student Forum Advisory Board (SFAB) is calling for papers to fill three (3) Student Forum Paper Sessions and one (1) Student Forum Roundtable Session. All sessions are open, and the topics of the final sessions will be based on any themes that emerge from the more developed student submissions. Student papers not included in one of the above three Student Forum Paper Sessions will be considered for inclusion in the Student Forum Roundtable Session. 

To submit a paper to any of the Student Forum Sessions, go to the online Call for Papers on the ASA website, enter the online submission system, and select “Student Forum Sessions” when presented with the option to select a submission destination. All student papers must be submitted via the online submission system by January 16, 2008.

Student Forum Session participants should note that: 1) only completed papers are eligible for full consideration; 2) authors may present in only one Student Forum Session; and 3) authors/co-authors who decline to present their papers must notify the chairs of the SFAB’s Program Committee, Catherine Connell, University of Texas-Austin and Audrey Devine-Eller, Rutgers University.

There will be other student-oriented sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston in addition to the Student Forum sessions. There will be several sessions devoted to presentations by students involved with two long-standing ASA programs, the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) and the Honors Program (HP). Current MFP Fellows may submit their papers for the two MFP research sessions by using the same guidelines and deadlines as above. Inquiries about the MFP sessions may be sent to the ASA Minority Affairs Program. The ASA Honors Program has a separate programming process for its own roundtables at the 2008 Annual Meeting. The application deadline to participate in the 2008 Honors Program is February 25, 2008. Undergraduate students interested in applying for participation in the Honors Program may find more details on the ASA website by clicking on “Students” at the top.

2) ASA SFAB Resources: The ASA’s Student Forum provides resources for graduate and
undergraduate sociology students, helps develop networks among student members, and facilitates student participation in the ASA by encouraging professional development and service. All student members of ASA are automatically Student Forum members and eligible to take advantage of Student Forum’s resources, such as travel grants, professionalization workshops, and information and advice regarding academic careers.

To find out more about Student Forum please visit our:

website: http://socstudentforum.org/

wiki page: http://wiki.socstudentforum.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

ASA page: http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/topnav/students/student_forum

3) Meeting Student Needs: The Student Forum is here to meet your needs as student members of the ASA. We’d love to hear more about how we can be more effective in this regard! As a student-run organization, one of our most significant resources is information-sharing among fellow students. If you have ideas, expertise, or career advice you’d like to share with the membership, please contact us with your thoughts.

4) Improving Our Websites
If you have questions and/or suggestions regarding how to improve our sites, please contact us and let us know (contact Danielle at daniellehidalgo@mac.com).
Also, get involved! Please feel free to add comments, suggestions, and any other relevant issues to our wikipedia site at http://wiki.socstudentforum.org/index.php?title=Main_Page This web site is for you and other graduate students, so please feel free to use it!

The Student Forum Advisory Board is a student run committee comprised of elected members. If you would like to know more about the members and the activities of the Student Forum please visit http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Students&name=Student+Forum and http://socstudentforum.org
We apologize if this has reached you in error. To unsubscribe to this list, email Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo at daniellehidalgo@mac.com and write unsubscribe in the subject line. Also, for content corrections or correspondence, please contact Danielle, and write student link in the subject line.

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May 10th, 2007

Student Link 04.22.07

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
STUDENT_LINK
 

Thursday, March 22, 2007
 

CONTENTS FOR THIS EDITION:
 

1)  STUDENT FORUM NOMINEES
 

2)  STUDENT FORUM EVENTS AT ASA 2007
 

3)  TRAVEL AWARDS 
 

4)  THINGS TO DO and PLACES TO STAY in NYC
 

5)  IMPROVING OUR WEBSITES
 

1) Student Forum Nominees!
We have an impressive number of terrific Student Forum nominees for the upcoming election!  Please stay tuned for more information about our nominees: Erica Carlino (Anglo-American College), Catherine Connell (University of Texas at Austin), Audrey Devine-Eller (Rutgers University), Michael S. Evans (University of California, San Diego), Camonia Long (Howard University), Lisa M. Nunn (University of California, San Diego), Josh Packard (Vanderbilt University), Judith Perez (Fordham University), and Bin Xu (Northwestern University).
 

2) Student Forum events at the ASA 2007 Meetings in New York:
This year, the SFAB is organizing a number of exciting events: a publishing workshop, Graduate Student Roundtable Session, and three paper sessions.  We are very excited about our Professional Workshop, titled, Demystifying the Publication Process: Editors of Sociology Journals Speak With Students. At this workshop, Karen Cerulo (Sociological Forum), Dana Britton (Gender and Society), Gary Alan Fine (Social Psychology Quarterly), and Simon Gottschalk (Symbolic Interaction) will provide graduate students with an inside look at the publication process. The editors will discuss what first-time submitters should anticipate when submitting manuscripts and common problems with student submissions. The panel will describe, in general, what students can do to increase their chances for publication and answer questions from workshop attendees.
 

3) ASA seeks applications for student travel to 2007 Annual Meeting
The American Sociological Association (ASA) Student Forum is pleased to announce that the ASA Council is making funds available to support student travel awards to the ASA Annual Meeting. ASA anticipates granting approximately 25 travel awards in the amount of $200 each. These awards will be made on a competitive basis and are meant to assist students by defraying expenses associated with attending the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting in New York. All applicants are encouraged to seek additional sources of funding to cover expenses associated with attending the Annual Meeting.  To apply, complete and submit four (4) copies of the 2007 Student Forum Travel Award Application form no later than April 1, 2007.  Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2007. No part of the application may be submitted by fax, and only applications from individuals on their own behalf will be accepted.  Applicants must be students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate sociology degree in an academic institution and a current student member of ASA at the time of application. Participation in the Annual Meeting program (e.g., paper sessions, roundtables), purpose for attending (e.g., workshop training, Honors Program participation), student financial need, availability of other forms of support, matching funds, and potential benefit to the student are among the factors taken into account in making awards. A travel award committee of the ASA Student Forum convened especially for this purpose will select awardees.  For more information, and an application for the 2007 Student Forum Travel Award, please contact the ASA Executive office at studentforum@asanet.org or (202) 383-9005, ext. 322. The award application form can also be found both on the ASA website (here) (you can also apply on-line) and on the Student Forum website (www.socstudentforum.org). 
 

4)Things to do and places to stay in NYC
Have any ideas about cheap places to stay and fun things to do in NYC?  If so, send your advice and ideas to Danielle Hidalgo at daniellehidalgo@mac.com.  Please look for NYC updates on our website: http://socstudentforum.org.
 

5)Improving Our Websites
If you have questions and/or suggestions regarding how to improve our sites, please contact us and let us know (again, contact Danielle at daniellehidalgo@mac.com). 
Also, get involved!  Please feel free to add comments, suggestions, and any other relevant issues to our wikipedia site at http://wiki.socstudentforum.org/index.php?title=Main_Page.  This web site is for you and other graduate students, so please feel free to use it!
 

The Student Forum Advisory Board is a student run committee comprised of nine elected members.  If you would like to know more about the members and the activities of the Student Forum please visit http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Students&name=Student+Forum and http://socstudentforum.org.
 

We apologize if this has reached you in error. To unsubscribe to this list, email daina cheyenne harvey at dharvey@rutgers.edu and write unsubscribe in the subject line. For content corrections or correspondence, please contact Danielle Hidalgo at daniellehidalgo@mac.com and write student link in the subject line.

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April 2nd, 2007

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Rutgers

Constructing Knowledge: Creating a Graduate Network
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference
Call for Papers
October 26, 27, 2007
Rutgers University
As graduate students we work in a liminal space of knowledge, constantly working with ideas on the cusp of various paradigms and bringing together disparate fields. We are constantly constructing knowledge. The aim of this two day conference is primarily to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and find commonalities among our work and interests. As we look forward to panels and presentations from a wide range of disciplines, we will consider abstracts on any topic. To ensure cohesiveness within sessions, however, we would especially like to target panels and papers that center on:
culture /media     inequalities/power      science      technology/media
labor/globalization/consumerism     spatialities/mobilities
ideology/boundaries/knowledge      memory/time     politics
social movements      identities

James M. Jasper will give the plenary address, “Strategy and Rhetoric in Social Research”, on the 26th at 7:00 in Vorhees Hall adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum. Dr. Jasper is an independent scholar, editor of Contexts, and the author of several books, including most recently Getting Your Way: Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World. He has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, NYU, and the New School.

How to submit an abstract:
Please email abstracts (approximately 250 words) and contact information to dharvey@rutgers.edu by May 2, 2007. Please do not send attachments. Participants will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2007. Participants must provide a full paper by September 1, 2007. Failure to provide a paper by the deadline will result in removal from the program. Papers should be no more than twenty pages (excluding notes and references).

Look for the program and additional information at: http://sociology.rutgers.edu/
For more information please contact daina cheyenne harvey at dharvey@rutgers.edu
Please Note: Rutgers University and our other sponsors cannot, unfortunately, cover the cost of traveling or accommodation. Any person submitting an abstract should consider that they (or their department) are responsible for covering their expenses. A few presenters may be able to arrange to stay with conference organizers.

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February 8th, 2007

2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association

Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public                                                                                                                                 2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association August 10, 11, 12
New York University
New York, New York, UCameras record our lives from the intimate family realm of baby pictures through required driver’s license and passport photos, to the now ubiquitous video surveillance on highways and city sidewalks. In effect each person leaves a visual trail from birth to death. The theme for the 2007 IV conference is the multi-faceted relationship between public and private realms and how they are shaped by human action while at the same time condition our lives. The aim of the conference is to visually examine the various layers of the public/private relationship. Presenters and panelists are invited to explore how the social is embodied in the built environment, how visual media challenge and/or reinforce the traditional divide between public and private; and alternative frameworks that visual sociology offers for reconstructing this relationship. 

Cultural forms, social institutions, and power structures always frame private and public realms. Recent research suggests that the relations and borders between public and private are rapidly changing. Technological developments, changing social mores and folkways, cross-cultural perspectives, urban conditions, and advancing communication media seem to be breaking down borders or making them more permeable. Visual Sociology provides useful tools for investigating and interpreting the complexity and interpenetration of public and private realms; making visible intersections, historical legacies, and cross-cultural processes. Art, photography, film and video as well as careful observation can depict local communities and global society and elucidate social cohesion and social conflict. Visual researchers also construct their own images and interpretive narratives elucidating and questioning ?the image? of public views and private views. We welcome a wide variety of formats including video, poster sessions, installations, performances, photo exhibits, and multimedia presentations as well as traditional papers. 

Focusing on public and private views draws attention to the physical dimension of human interaction and to the spatial ground that gives rise to social phenomena. It also allows researchers to consider dialectics between home and community, front stage and backstage, local communities and the global society. In order to address these issues, papers and sessions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:   

 

  • Visual media in public and private 
  • Changing borders between the public and private 
  • Social Conflict and Fear 
  • Terrorism as a public catastrophe 
  • Gender and sexuality 
  • Surveillance and invasion of private and public space 
  • Built environments 
  • Neighborhoods, localities, and semi-public realms 
  • Public/Private: theories and methods 
  • The body in the arts and science 
  • Cinematic representations 
  • Public/Private narratives: home made videos to ‘Reality’ TV 

     

Those interested in organizing sessions on the topics listed above, or other related topics, should submit proposals to IVSA2007@gmail.com Deadline for submission of session proposals is March 15,2007. Please submit an abstract of about 50-100 words on the session’s theme to be used as guidelines for presenters.  

 

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January 18th, 2007

Stanford University Post Docs

The new Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University will be filling two postdoctoral positions for the 2007-08 academic year (and possibly beyond). The announcements are attached. Could you please let your students know about the positions and, if possible, post the announcements? Much thanks!

David B. Grusky
Director, Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality
Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Stanford University
450 Serra Mall
Bldg. 120, McClatchy Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2047

grusky@stanford.edu
Telephone (Ctr. for the Study of Poverty & Inequality): 650-724-6912
Direct line: 650-725-9150
Fax: 650-725-6471
www.grusky.org

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January 17th, 2007

U.S. Department of Energy DOE Scholars Internship Program

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is currently recruiting students for the new U.S. Department of Energy DOE scholars Internship Program. Please forward this message to any students you think might be interested. Benefits to student interns will include:

  • Ten-week appointments at DOE offices, laboratories, or facilities
  • Weekly stipend payments of $550 for undergraduates or $600 for graduate students
  • Round-trip travel from home or institution to the appointment site
  • Opportunities to apply academic studies to DOE programs in science, engineering, safety, finance, project management, policy, planning, and other professional areas. Full details and an application can be found at the program website at http://orise.orau.gov/doescholars

The dead line for the internship application is January 31, 2007.

Barbara Dunkin
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Science Education Programs - MS-36
P.O. Box 117
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Phone 865-574-6440
Fax 865-576-0734
Email: barbara.dunkin@orau.org

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January 16th, 2007

CBSM Workshop

The Collective Behavior and Social Movement (CBSM) Section of the ASA is organizing a workshop on social movements this summer.  We are eager to have extensive graduate student participation.  The workshop will be held at Hofstra University Thursday August 9th and Friday August 10th, 2007. The theme of the workshop is “Movement Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes.” Graduate students at all stages of their education are encouraged to participate in the workshop as volunteers and presenters. Graduate students are highly encouraged to submit abstracts to participate in the program.  We welcome the submission of papers presented at other conferences (including the upcoming ASA national conference in New York City) so long as they are consistent with the workshop’s theme of “Movement Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes.”Submit your abstract and/or paper to cbsm2007@hotmail.com by February 15, 2007. Please attach a Microsoft Word document containing an abstract of no more than 250 words. For full information on the workshop’s call for papers and schedule of panels, visit our website: www.hofstra.edu/CBSM.We also need volunteers for a range of activities including: planning elements of the workshop staffing registration tables, and taking minutes at the sessions. Volunteering at the event offers an excellent opportunity to learn more about the CBSM section as well as to meet other social movement scholars at all stages in their careers.To learn more about being a volunteer at the workshop or to help plan the event, please email Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum at rflamenb@ic.sunysb.edu.

 

 

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January 16th, 2007

2007 Student Forum Travel Award Application

Please download the document and send four (4) copies to:

Student Forum Travel Award

C/O Karina Havrilla

American Sociological Association

1307 New York Ave, NW Suite 700

Washington, DC 20005

                                                                     

travel-application.pdf

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January 16th, 2007

2007 Student Forum Travel Awards

ASA seeks applications for student travel to 2007 Annual Meeting
The American Sociological Association (ASA) Student Forum is pleased to announce that the ASA Council is making funds available to support student travel awards to the ASA Annual Meeting. ASA anticipates granting approximately 25 travel awards in the amount of $200 each. These awards will be made on a competitive basis and are meant to assist students by defraying expenses associated with attending the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting in New York. All applicants are encouraged to seek additional sources of funding to cover expenses associated with attending the Annual Meeting.
To apply, complete and submit four (4) copies of the 2007 Student Forum Travel Award Application form no later than April 1, 2007.  Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2007. No part of the application may be submitted by fax, and only applications from individuals on their own behalf will be accepted.
Applicants must be students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate sociology degree in an academic institution and a current student member of ASA at the time of application. Participation in the Annual Meeting program (e.g., paper sessions, roundtables), purpose for attending (e.g., workshop training, Honors Program participation), student financial need, availability of other forms of support, matching funds, and potential benefit to the student are among the factors taken into account in making awards. A travel award committee of the ASA Student Forum convened especially for this purpose will select awardees.
For more information, and an application for the 2007 Student Forum Travel Award, please contact the ASA Executive office at studentforum@asanet.org or (202) 383-9005, ext. 322. The award application form can also be found both on the ASA website (here) (you can also apply on-line) and on the Student Forum website (www.socstudentforum.org). 

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