Summer 2023 Business Meeting Minutes
Monday, July 17, 1:00PM EST via Zoom

Present: Amani Awaad, Meghna Bhat, Shannon Carter, Melinda Chen, Raphia Mallick, Alan Martino, stef shuster, Laurel Westbrook

1) Introductions

2) Announcement of New Gender Division Leadership 
Incoming Division Chair: Pallavi Banerjee
Division Vice-Chair: Meghna Bhat

3) Announcement of Gender Division Award Winners
Student Paper Award: "Gendered Money and Relational Work: Women’s Money and Labor in Matrimonial Disputes in India" Upasana Garnaik (ugarnaik@utexas.edu),  University of Texas at Austin
Outstanding Article Award: Shuster, Stef M. (sshuster@msu.edu), and Laurel Westbrook (westbrol@gvsu.edu). 2022. “Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy.” Social Problems 
Discussion of the Outstanding Article Award, including importance of the project and the story of its conceptualization.

4) Budget – 2024 Division Budget
Budget Items Requested
Amount
1. Stipend to Division Newsletter Editor
$200
2. Cash graduate student paper award winner
$150
3. Student paper honorable mention 
$50
4. Cash award to the Division’s Outstanding Article Award Winner
$100
5. Co-sponsorship of division reception
$100
Total
$600


5) SSSP Resolution Proposals – Gender Division Submitted two proposals. Open for comments and then will be discussed at annual meeting; vote to follow if brought forward.
SSSP Resolution to Oppose State Interference with Academic Freedom
Submitted by: Shannon Carter, Gender Division; Dana Moss, Conflict, Social Action and Change Division; Janelle Pham, Sexual Behavior, Politics and Communities Division; Myron Strong, Educational Problems Division
SSSP Resolution to Support Gender-Affirming Healthcare
Submitted by: Shannon Carter, Gender Division; Jennifer Bulanda, Virginia Berndt, and Yuying Shen, Division of Health, Health Policy, & Health Services 

6) 2024 Division Session Ideas – Conference Theme: Toward a Sociology of Violence
Can organize up to 10 total sessions: 3 Division-Sponsored Sessions (1 thematic); 7 Co-Sponsored Sessions
Types of Sessions: Regular Paper Sessions, Tables in the Round, Critical Dialogue

Session ideas generated from discussion:
- Immigration and Gender Violence – Raphia Mallick
- Gender, Race and Censorship (and its consequences) – Amani Awaad (Chair of Race/Ethnic Studies Division; potential collaboration)
- Indigenous Communities and Violence – Melinda Chen
- Gender, Religion, and Incarceration – Raphia Mallick (potential collaboration with Crime Division)
- Critical Dialogue regarding Anti-Harassment Work – Meghna Bhat (Amplify work of SSSP Anti-harassment committee and other similar initiatives)
- Gender and Pedagogy in Various Social Spaces/How to Teach about Gender to Different Audiences – Meghna Bhat (Pedagogy focused sessions are also helpful for including teaching-oriented faculty and graduate students) 

7) Closing comments. 

Meeting adjourned at 1:48pm.