Division of Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Society for the Study of Social Problems Fall 2022 Newsletter CONTENTS Letter from the Chair Student Paper Competition Winners Member Accomplishments and Highlights Connect with YALC LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Dear Members of the Youth, Aging, and Life Course Division, Hello! I hope this newsletter finds you well this fall semester. Plans for the SSSP Annual Meeting (August 18-20, 2023) are well underway with the theme “Same Problem, Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems.” I am excited for the TEN (10!) sessions that YALC will be sponsoring and co-sponsoring. Details on these and other sessions are available online (link: https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/873/fuseaction/ssspsession2.publicView). In addition to submitting abstracts for the meeting, please consider submitting nominations for YALC’s two awards— 1) the Graduate Student Paper Award Competition (committee: Chris Wellin, Ann M. Beutel, and Valerie Leiter (chair)), and 2) the Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists (committee: Jennifer Bulanda and Christina Barmon (chair)). Thank you to those who volunteered to serve on the committees! Details on the awards and nomination processes can be found here (link: https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1724/). Deadlines for all of the above are January 15, 2023. We have some changes in YALC leadership— First, please welcome our new newsletter editor Pat Barrett! Second, we are looking for a new social media manager! Our current manager, Lea Marzo, is stepping down (Thanks for your work!). If you are interested in this job (with a ~$75 stipend per year), please let me (julia.wolf@utsa.edu) know. Third, we are transitioning from a single chair model to a co-chair model for YALC. Please let me (julia.wolf@utsa.edu) know if you are interested in nominating yourself for the role! Please continue to send us your important news, announcements, and accomplishments! YALC has a newsletter we distribute three times a year and active Facebook page and Twitter accounts. Send your information to Pat Barrett (pbarrett4@gsu.edu) and/or myself (julia.wolf@utsa.edu). Cheers, Julia Kay Wolf STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION WINNERS Congratulations to the 2022 student paper competition winners and honorable mentions! We would like to highlight the YALC division winner, Vanessa Delgado, and honorable mention author, Annaliese Grant. Vanessa Delgado, PhD University of California Irvine, Class of 2022 Vanessa’s winning paper, “Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families” examines how adult children of undocumented immigrants manage parental illegality in Latinx immigrant families. Annaliese Grant, MS University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD Candidate Annaliese’s paper, “Growing Into Unequal Adulthoods: Daughters’ Responsibilities in Financially Struggling and Stable White Families", investigates classed differences in daughters’ responsibilities in white families, and how these facilitate different experiences in young adulthood. You can read the winning paper abstracts and see the full list of division competition winners on the SSSP website, here. (link: https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/2428). MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS Lisa Covington Congratulations to YALC Division member Lisa Covington for being chosen for the University of Arizona inaugural President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (link: https://presidentspostdoc.arizona.edu/person/lisa-covington)! Additionally, Lisa would like to announce the ArtCenter College of Design has established The Global Institute for Black Girls in Film & Media (link: https://www.artcenterdei.org/global-institute-black-girls-in-film-media), for which she is the Lead Cultural Consultant and Scholar in Residence, focusing on specialization research and youth inclusivity. This research collective designed to help scholars, artists, filmmakers and visual storytellers shine a light on how Black girls are represented in film, television and across other mediums. Erica Jablonski YALC Division member and University of New Hampshire Postdoctoral Research Associate, Erica Jablonski, has been accepted into the Spring 2023 cohort of the University of New Hampshire Research Communications Academy (link: https://www.unh.edu/research/about/research-outreach-communications/research-communications-academy). As a member of the 2023 Research Communications Academy cohort, Erica will learn alongside UNH faculty, graduate students, and other postdoctoral researchers to effectively communicate the power and impact of their scholarship with a broad audience. Congratulations, Erica! Yu-Ri Kim Congratulations to YALC Division member and Vanderbilt University PhD Candidate, Yu-Ri Kim, for earning an Honorable Mention in the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course Margaret Clark Award Competition (link: http://anthropologyandgerontology.com/about-aage/awards/) for her submission. Yu-Ri’s paper “Partner Dance Businesses, Demographic Aging, and the Urban Revival in South Korea” also won the 2022 Student Paper Competition for the Sport, Leisure, and the Body Division of SSSP. Julia Kay Wolf YALC Chair and University of Texas San Antonio Postdoctoral Researcher, Julia Kay Wolf, has two new publications to announce! Julia Kay Wolf and Lisa Platt. In Press. “Religion and Sexual Identity.” Current Opinion in Psychology 101495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101495 Brown, Denver M. Y., Ryan M. Hill, and Julia K. Wolf. 2022. “Cross-sectional associations between 24-hour movement guideline adherence and suicidal thoughts among Canadian post-secondary students.” Mental Health and Physical Activity 23:100484. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2022.100484 CONNECT WITH YALC! facebook.com/SSSPYalc twitter.com/ssspYALC