Presidential Address
Helen Moore’s presidential address, “Splitting the Academy: Labor Market Theory and Praxis on Campus,” co-authored with former graduate students, Katherine Acosta (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Gary Perry (Seattle University), and Crystal Edwards (Wesleyan
University), is scheduled for Friday. A reception follows.
Peter M. Hall Lecture
David L. Altheide will speak in the Peter M. Hall Lecture Series during the 2008 MSS annual meeting in St. Louis. Altheide is Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 34 years. A sociologist who uses qualitative methods, his work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contribution from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). He is also a three-time recipient of the SSSI’s Cooley Award for the best book of the year: for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear in 2007(AltaMira, 2006); for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis in 2004 (Aldine de Gruyter/Transaction; 2002); and for Media Power in 1986 (Sage). His teaching efforts were recognized with the SSSI’s Mentor Excellence Award in 2007. This event is organized and sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research at the University of Northern Iowa.
Mario Luis Small will speak
Mario Luis Small is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago; and a research associate for the National Opinion Research Center and the Population Research Center. His book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, received the 2005 Robert E. Park Best Book Award, the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book of 2004, Honorable Mention for the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award, 2005, and Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, 2005.
Dr. Small received his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, and was granted tenure there in 2006.
Descriptions of Some Selected Workshops and Panels:
Session 34 Teaching and Learning About American Rural Life
Organizer / Presenter:
Carol A. Jenkins (Glendale Community College – Arizona_)
This teaching and learning workshop will (1) review how contemporary American rural life tends to be communicated in undergraduate instruction and textbook presentations;
(2) provide suggestions for re-conceptualizing the complexities and diversities of American rural life; and (3) demonstrate instructional strategies for preparing a more representative analysis of American societal life, especially rural poverty, rural crime, and the intersection of race-class-gender experienced in American rural life.
Sample resource materials, data sets, annotated bibliographies, internet exercises and multi-media recommendations for immediate infusion into coursework will be provided. Session participant interaction is desired and expected.
Session 36: What You Can Do With a Sociology Degree
Organizer/Presenter: Jean H. Shin, American Sociological Association
This workshop is geared toward both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as their faculty advisors. It will cover a range of career options with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in sociology, places to search for sociology-related jobs, skills to emphasize with a sociology background on a resume or CV, the value of internships and similar experiences, and an update on current ASA resources and initiatives.
Session 95
Workshop: Teaching Criminological Theory through Classroom Simulations
During the workshop, attendees will be introduced to and participate in a number of course activities that can be used to illustrate basic theroetical and methodolgocical principles to students. Computer simulations will be used to introduce students to the concepts of mapping in crime analysis, and hands-on activities (e.g., board games) will be used to introduce students to basic theoretical principals.
Session 150
"Hits Too Close to Home:" Talking About Violence in the College Classroom
Organizer/Presenter: Martha E. Thompson, IMPACT, Northeastern Illinois University
When you assign readings or have discussions on violence are students apathetic? Dispirited? Do they act out? Make jokes? Treat the class as a therapy session? Discount personal stories? Do they shrug, look at the floor, or project physical discomfort? Are class discussions of violence unpredictable--sometimes engaging but other times superficial or tangential?
The purpose of the workshop is to explore strategies and exercises for enhancing students' understanding of scholarly work on violence while also effectively addressing their feelings and physical reactions to the material. We will discuss criteria for selecting reading and support materials (e.g. films, websites) and consider various approaches to acknowledging and engaging students' feelings and physical responses.
Session 186
NSF Proposal Preparation and Merit Review Criteria.
Organizer/Presenter: Kevin Fox Gotham, Sociology, Political Science, and Law and Social Science Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
This workshop will be about preparing and submitting proposals to the NSF. Professor Kevin Gotham (Sociology, Tulane University) will describe the process and criteria by which proposals are reviewed at the NSF, the basic sections of a NSF proposal, proposal development strategies for individual investigators, and the qualities and merits of an award winning proposal. The session will be relevant to both graduate students and professional academics. The format will be interactive, allowing for audience questions and participation.
Session 46
Advice for Junior Female Faculty: Surviving the Rites of Passage
Co-Sponsored by MSWS and the Committee on Teaching and Learning
Presider: Jenny Kosinski, Rock Valley College
This panel will address issues especially relevant for junior faculty women, including job interview strategies, assessing departmental culture, and successfully passing reviews toward tenure. An open discussion will follow formal comments by the panelists.
Session 117
Panel Title: It Ain't Public if No One Knows About It: Sociology in the News
Organizer/Presider:
This panel will provide both an overview of the state of sociology's portrayal in the news, as well as opportunities for advice from several experts including one sociologist who has been extremely successful at getting sociological research into the public forum; and a representative from the American Sociological Association who will discuss the institutional support that our discipline provides its members. After brief presentations, the floor will open for questions and discussion.
Session 167
Panel: Using the Media to Take Sociology Public
Organizer/Presider: Heather Laube (University of Michigan-Flint)
Journalists/news writers will explain: how sociologists can translate their knowledge/expertise into ways valuable for reporters/media; how to build a relationship with a local journalist; what we should know about deadlines, space/time, topics to understand the possibilities and constraints. What do they want in a 7 second soundbite or an inch of print?
Session 170
Rethinking Method: Subjectivity, Body and Affect
Organizer and Presider: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri-Columbia
This panel will discuss the ideas presented in Patricia Cough's new edited book, The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social.
Janice Milner Workshop (will finish_
Please bring essay exam questions, paper topics, and other writing
assignments with you so that we can "workshop" them together.
Session 173
Gender and Feminism in the Classroom: Creative Classroom Techniques
Description:
Gender and its related concepts can be exciting to teaching, but at the
same time, can be complicated and leave us feeling frustrated. Whether
your teaching courses in gender and feminism, incorporate gender and
related ideas into your courses, or teach from a feminist perspective,
this workshop is for you! In this workshop, we will cover various
pedagogical topics ranging from structure of a course and syllabus
construction, to various activities, assignments, and lectures you can
incorporate into the feminist/gender enlightened classroom. Furthermore,
we will have an interactive discussion amongst the presenters and
audience members on facilitating classroom discussions, classroom
management, and emotional labor as it relates to feminist pedagogy.
