SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES SBPC: a division of the SSSP FALL 2014 Notes from the desk of: DAWN MICHELLE BAUNACH Division Chair Happy Autumn to All! This column is my first one as your newly elected division chair, and it fills me with joy to do so as the weather has finally started turning fall-like. This is my favorite time of year, with its changing leaves and the cool, crisp air. Before I turn to the topics I want to discuss in this column, I want to thank Elroi Windsor, our esteemed previous chair, for setting a high bar of leadership and scholarship. I also want to thank Karen Macke, our previous newsletter editor, for years of outstanding issues. Finally, I want to welcome Bethany Coston, our new newsletter editor. I know that Bethany has great plans for future issues, and I look forward to them as I am sure that you all do too. As the Fall newsletter, this issue follows our summer annual meeting in San Francisco. I had not been to San Francisco before and had a marvelous time. What a perfect setting for members of our division! Next yearÕs meetings in Chicago are going to be similarly great. The theme for the SSSP meetings is ÒRemoving the Mask, Lifting the Veil: Race, Class, and Gender in the 21st Century,Ó and we have a number of exciting sessions planned. Two thematic sessions are planned: ¥ Lifting the Veil on Genders and Sexualities ¥ LGBT+ Health, cosponsored with the Health, Health Policy, and Health Services division Other planned sessions include: ¥ Sexualities on the Edge ¥ Sexualities and Families, cosponsored with the Family division ¥ Sexuality Across the Life Course, cosponsored with the Youth, Aging, and the Life Course division ¥ Law, Sexuality, and Gender, cosponsored with the Law and Society division continued on the next page IN THIS ISSUE: Chair's letter cont......................2 Graduate Student Paper Award..2 Division news and notes............3 Jobs & Opportunities..................4 Conferences...............................5 Graduate Student information.....6 Editor's Notes.............................6 Continued Notes from the Chair ¥ Teaching Sexualities, cosponsored with the Teaching Social Problems division and the Educational Problems division ¥ Intersections of Race, Gender, and Crime, cosponsored with the Race and Ethnic Minorities division and the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency division ¥ Critical Dialogues on Gendered Embodiment and Health ¥ Critical Dialogues on Genders, Sexualities, and Bodies, cosponsored with the Disabilities division and the Sport, Leisure, and Body division Start planning your submissions now! I look forward to a stimulating slate of presentations from our members in Chicago. The 2015 CFP and submission portal can be found here: http://sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/611/fuseaction/ssspsession2.publicView Graduate students, please consider submitting a manuscript to the Graduate Student Paper Award competition. And faculty, please encourage your graduate students to submit manuscripts to the competition. Lloyd Klein is this yearÕs chair of the Graduate Student Paper Award committee, and the deadline for submission is January 31, 2015. See the announcement below for additional information. There was some discussion at our business meeting in August to add a lifetime achievement award for our division. Like other divisions we could name the award for a long-serving division member. If you have ideas on this topic, please email me (at dbaunach@gsu.edu) and let me know. Currently our division only has one award, the Graduate Student Paper Award mentioned above, and I think we are a strong and vibrant enough division that we could support a second award. Let me close my inaugural column with a big acknowledgement to all of you Ð our fabulous division members! The SBPC would literally be nothing and nowhere without you. Even so, please encourage your colleagues Ð and faculty, think about sponsoring some of your graduate students Ð to join our division. Additional division memberships cost only $10! Cheers! Dawn 2015 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD Deadline: January 31, 2015 The Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) announces the 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be empirical and/or theoretical, and they may be on any aspect of sexuality, including sexual behavior, sexual identity, sexual politics, sex law, political activism, and sexual communities. The winner will receive a plaque of recognition, one-year membership to SSSP, a waived conference registration fee to attend the 2015 meeting, and an additional cash prize of $100. To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria: 1) The paper must have been written between January 2014 and January 2015; 2) The paper may not have been submitted or accepted for publication (papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible); 3) The paper must be authored by one or more students, and not co-authored with a faculty member or colleague who is not a student; 4) The paper must not exceed 30 pages including notes, references, and tables; 5) The paper must be double-spaced and typed using 12 point font; 6) The paper must be accompanied by a letter from a faculty member at the student's college or university nominating the paper for the SBPC Division Student Paper Competition; AND 7) The paper may only be submitted to one division's graduate student paper competition. In addition, authors are required to submit their papers through the annual meeting Call for Papers online system. Winners are expected to present their winning paper at the 2015 meeting. Students should submit the paper via email, with no identifying information on any part of the paper, and the letter of nomination from a faculty member to: Lloyd Klein, Ph.D., Email: lklein@hostos.cuny.edu, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Hostos Community College, CUNY. DIVISION NEWS & NOTES Publications of interest Hoefinger, Heidi. 2014. ÔItÕs All OursÕ - Race, Space and Place in the LGBTQ British-ÔAsianÕ clubbing scene in London. Book chapter in Post-Migrant Socialities: Ethnic Club Cultures in Urban Europe, Kira Kosnick (ed.), Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Epstein, Steven & HŽctor Carrillo. 2014. Immigrant Sexual citizenship: intersectional templates among Mexican gay immigrants to the USA. Citizenship Studies, 18(3-4): 259-276. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2014.905266 Coley, Jonathan S. 2014. ÒSocial Movements and Bridge Building: Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts.Ó Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 37 (1): 125-151. Book of Interest A book by SPBC Division member Robert A. Brooks (associate professor, criminal justice, Worcester State University) and Jeffrey Cohen (assistant professor, University of Washington- Tacoma) was published in September by Lynn Rienner. The book is entitled ÒConfronting School Bullying: Kids, Culture, and the Making of a Social Problem,Ó and is an analysis of how the media came to construct school bullying as a national social problem. One theme of the book is how school bullying mirrors larger institutional and cultural discourses around gender and sexuality; youth continually police one anotherÕs behavior in order to delimit what constitutes acceptable ÒmaleÓ and ÒfemaleÓ behavior. Vincent Sacco of QueenÕs University writes: ÒStrongly recommended.... Any attempt to make sense of the current debates around bullying requires the kind of incisive and detailed analysis that the authors provide.Ó And Joshua R. Klein, Iona College, opines: ÒA major contribution to understanding the social and ideological construction of bullying. É Compelling throughout. The overview of the antibullying movement alone is worth the price of the book.Ó Visit: https://www.rienner.com/title/ Confronting_School_Bullying_Kids_Culture_and_the_Makin g_of_a_Social_Problem JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES Journal Editor, Midwest Sociological Society Contact: Lauren Tiffany (mwsocsoc@centurylink.net) Job Description: Midwest Sociological Society Seeks Editor for The Sociological Quarterly The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) seeks an individual with a distinguished scholarly record and editorial experience to be the next editor of The Sociological Quarterly (TSQ). Since 1960, TSQÕs contributors, peer-reviewers, advisory editors, and readers have made it one of the leading generalist journals in the field. Editing TSQ is a unique, rewarding professional responsibility that brings visibility and distinction to a department and university. During his/her four-year appointment, the editor solicits, reviews, and makes decisions about all manuscript submissions. The editorial office employs an efficient, productive web-based submission and peer review system, ScholarOne Manuscripts. The new editor will be open an office no later than March 1, 2016, and will edit volumes published in 2017-2020. MSS provides generous support to the editor, including ¥ $10,000 annual stipend ¥ $2,500 travel fund ¥ One course release "buy-out" ¥ Half-time managing editor The precise scope of editorial office support will be negotiated by the finalist, his/her institution, and the Publications Committee. The review process begins Feb. 1, 2015. Finalists will be interviewed during the MSS Annual Meeting, March 26-29, 2015, in Kansas City. Read more about the position and application procedure at www.TheMSS.org. Questions? Contact MSS at (319)-338-5247 or by emaill. *** Salem College, a liberal arts college for women in Winston-Salem, NC, seeks an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. Position begins August 2015, but an earlier appointment may be possible. The candidate should be able to teach core courses in sociology, including social statistics. Other areas of specialization are open. A Ph.D. in sociology, evidence of teaching excellence and a promising scholarly agenda are required. ABD considered but doctoral degree must be in hand by August 2015. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, CV, teaching portfolio (philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, sample syllabi), unofficial graduate transcripts and three letters of reference to gerry.hayes@salem.edu. Electronic submission is preferred. Letters should be addressed to Professor Teresa Rust Smith, chair, Sociology Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Criminal Studies, Salem College, 601 South Church St., Winston Salem, NC 27101. Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. To receive full consideration, applications should be received before October 31, 2014. Salem College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and underrepresented minorities to apply. Founded in 1772 by Moravian settlers, Salem College is ranked as the oldest womenÕs institution in the nation by founding date and the 13th oldest college overall by the American Council on Education. It provides a four-year liberal arts experience to a diverse and vibrant undergraduate student body. The student to faculty ratio is 12 to 1, average class size is twelve, and full- and part-time faculty number approximately one hundred. The college offers a number of special programs including a January term featuring study trips and experimental courses, the Women in Science and Mathematics Program, the Center for Women Writers, the Center for Women in Business, graduate programs in education and the Martha H. Fleer Center for Adult Education. SalemÕs beautiful 64-acre campus is located in the Old Salem historic district in the heart of Winston-Salem. For more information on Salem College, see www.salem.edu. CONFERENCES Calling All Feminists! ItÕs Time to Submit Proposals for the 2015 SWS Winter Meeting: FEMINISM IN THEORY, PRACTICE, AND POLICY Thursday, February 19 Ð Sunday, February 22 Washington Marriott Georgetown Washington, DC In keeping with SWSÕs historic mission to contribute to positive change for women in both the academy and society, this yearÕs meeting will focus on assessing the current state of gender inequality Ð nationally and globally Ð and exploring future possibilities and challenges for melding sociological insight with real-world activism to achieve a more equal world. We invite you to submit a 250-word abstract on issues of relevance to this broad theme for: Ð Workshops Ð Panels Ð Papers Ð Roundtable Presentation Ð Posters Please submit your requests by clicking on this link and following the instructions: http://www.mymeetingsavvy.com/sws-winter/login.aspx The deadline for submissions is November 3, 2014 at 5:00pm. We look forward to a lively meeting and hope to see you in Washington in February! Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs Co-Presidents Elect Graduate Students! Check out the current list of SSSP Awards, Scholarships and Division Competitions here: <> <> Also check out the growing number of non-SSSP fellowships and scholarships here: <> EDITORÕS NOTES My first fall back in MI in over six years and it isn't disappointing. The leaves are beautiful and the weather has been superb! I hope everyone is enjoying their fall as much as I am.. and, of course, being super productive and not at all overwhelmed with the job market and/or teaching and/or research. ***If you would like to be featured as a ÒGraduate Student on the Market,Ó please send me your name, affiliation, a short description of your work (300 words or less), and picture of yourself. ***We are looking for volunteers to help us continue our "featured members" page, where a member of the section is profiled in a short Q&A format. Volunteers are needed for both interviewers and interviewees. 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