Newsletter Summer 2026 Follow us for updates INSIDE THE ISSUE Message from Co-Chairs Chair Introductions Division-SponsoredConference Sessions Announcements Awards Publications Member News Call for Papers Job Market Candidates Message from Co-Chairs (from Kat Fuller & Hannah Regan) We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! As many of our members prepare for the upcoming SSSP 2026 conference in NewYork City, New York, we recognize that the current political climate in the UnitedStates continues to pose challenges and uncertainties for many scholars. Asmentioned in our previous newsletter, we fully understand why internationalscholars and/or trans or non-binary individuals, in particular, might choose not toattend this year's conference. We encourage everyone to prioritize their safety andwell-being and to carefully consider any potential risks associated with traveling toand leaving the US. For those of you who are unable to attend the conference,consider attending the Virtual Town Hall on 7/28, and keep an eye out for otherupcoming virtual opportunities. For those who are able to participate in New York, we hope you all enjoy buildingcommunity and engaging with the flourishing work in our area and beyond. Weencourage you to attend the divisional sessions, which are listed below, as well as Summer 2026 the Division-Sponsored Reception. Safe travels to you all, and we hope youare able to enjoy the rich life of NYC alongside the conference. At a time when anti-intellectualism and attacks on higher education continueto intensify, disciplines such as sociology, gender studies, racial/ethnic studies,history, and other fields that critically examine political power and socialinequality are increasingly facing political scrutiny. Efforts to restrict DEIprograms and to frame scholarly inquiry as “woke” or part of “genderideology” remind us that protecting both our research and ourselves isessential to sustaining academic communities. The work by members of GSPBC, or the entire SSSP organization, remainsvital. As the movement within and outside of the US continues to censor,silence or even punish critical studies, it becomes more important forscholars, educators, and students to support one another and to cultivatespaces where research and dialogues can flourish. We will continue to publish, collaborate, and communicate whenever it is safeand possible to do so, as part of resistance. At the same time, we are inspired by remarkable work our members haveaccomplished over the past year. Your research, teaching, mentorships,activism, and involvement remind us why intellectual pursuit and socialchange are made possible through our efforts and mutual support. Duringuncertain times, these contributions provide hope for a radical transformationregarding human rights. Please remember that we have an upcoming annual GSPBC meeting on July23, 2026 at 1 pm (EST). We would like to close with the words of Angela Y. Davis regarding scholar-activism and resistance: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing thethings I cannot accept.” We hope you have a refreshing and safe summer, and we are eager to see theimpactful contributions you will continue to make in the years ahead! Hannah and Kat, Division Co-Chairs Summer 2026 Introductions Co-Chair (2025-2027) Hannah Regan (she/her) is the Associate Director forResearch and Evaluation in the Flora Stone Mather Centerfor Women and Adjunct Faculty in Sociology at CaseWestern Reserve University. Her research interests includeromantic and sexual relationships, especially as theyinteract with media and technology. Her book, DatingApps, Modern Romance, and Social Inequality is nowavailable from Bloomsbury Academic. Her next project isconsidering how young couples are handling the division offinances in their relationships. Her other work looks atgender in higher education, sexuality education, and theintersections of identity with mental health. Co-Chair (2025-2027) Kat Fuller (they/he) is a PhD student in sociology at theUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas. They are also the co-founder of the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies(CIFRS). Fuller served as a co-guest editor for the recentspecial issue of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies(BATS) focused on transphobic online disinformation.Currently, he is the guest co-editor for an upcoming specialissue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies on techno-authoritarianism. Fuller's research interests include far-right radicalization,disinformation, and online spaces, especially in the contextof anti-gender movement. Fuller is also co-editing a volumethat critically examines how both alternative media (alsoknown as alt-tech) and mainstream platforms are utilizedby the far-right movement to spread disinformation andpromote acceptance of fascism. Summer 2026 Division-Sponsored Conference Sessionsat Annual Meeting Friday, August 7 8:30-10:10 AM: The Biopolitics of LGBTQ+ Lives in the Age of Disinformation -Ambassador I 12:30-2:10 PM: GSPBC Works in Progress - Ambassador III 2:30-4:10 PM: Masculinities & Political Power - Ambassador I 4:30-6:10 PM: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives - Plymouth Saturday, August 8 8:30-10:10 AM: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance and Joy - Melville 10:30 AM -12:10 PM: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance ofGender and Sex (Thematic Session) - Melville 2:30-4:10 PM: The Politics of Disinformation and Gender - Manhattan Sunday, August 9 8:30-10:10 AM: Resisting Colonization of the Family - Broadway I 12:30-2:10 PM: Gender and Violence: Structural Issues - Plymouth 2:30-4:10 PM: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives - Plymouth Summer 2026 Announcements Help needed! Neither Hannah nor Kat can attend the Division Chair Meeting at theannual conference. We need to select a representative to attend in ourplace. The meeting is on Sunday, August 9, 2:30-4:10 PM. Please emailHannah or Kat if you are able to attend. Due to personal circumstances, as well as to help the division get back onits normal election cycle following an off-cycle election, Hannah will bestepping down as chair following the annual meeting. More informationabout an election for the new co-chair will be provided at the divisionalbusiness meeting. (If you are interested in running, consider volunteeringto attend the chair meeting at the conference, to get a sense of theresponsibilities!) Summer 2026 Awards Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): “Strategizing Gender: Experiences of Transmasculine Folk with Police andSecurity Forces in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires,” Francis J. Fabre, TheUniversity of Chicago Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention (formerly GenderDivision): “Codifying Binaries: Moral Entrepreneurs and Anti-Transgender Legislation inU.S. State Legislatures Between 2018-2024,” Anneliese M. Schenk-Day and JackG.R. Wippell, The Ohio State University Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics,and Communities Division): “Bounded Desirability: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Interracial Intimacy amongand between Queer Men of Color,” Jyun-Jie Yang, University of California, Davis Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention (formerly SexualBehavior, Politics, and Communities Division): “‘Comphet Is Ableism’s Next-Door Neighbor’: #Neuroqueer Counterdiscourseson TikTok,” Jules Vivid, Rutgers University Article Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): Yuchen Yang, (2025). Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)DoingGender. Sociological Theory, 43(4), 360-384.https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751251368897 Article Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and CommunitiesDivision): Jonathan S. Coley, Gabby Gomez, Transmorphic Organizations: RacialSegregation and Discrimination against LGBTQ Students at Christian Collegesand Universities, Social Forces, 2025; soaf175, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf175 Summer 2026 Publications Winder, Terrell J. A. (2026). Shameless: The Making of Black GayIdentities in LA. NYU Press. Vivid, J. (2026), Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through theIntersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical. Symbolic Interaction.https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70061 Mallick, Rafia, and Deirdre Oakley. 2026. “Beyond the British Raj: Coloniality,Caste, and Race in South Asia” in The Handbook for the Geographies of Race, AMultidisciplinary Global Perspective, De Gruyter Mallick, R. (2026). Book Review: The Other Side of Assimilation: How ImmigrantsAre Changing American Life. Teaching Sociology, 54(3), 282-284. shuster, stef and Andrew Kirks-Cler. 2026. “Identity Impermanence as a GenericSocial Process: The Malleability of Gender in the Lives of Trans and NonbinaryPeople.” Symbolic Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70059. Kirks-Cler, Andrew, stef shuster, Mark H. Walker, and Ning Hsieh. 2026. “HowIdentity Nonrecognition Shapes the Health Experiences of LGBTQ+ People.” SocialPsychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725261436857. Hsieh, Ning, and stef shuster. 2026. “Bargaining and Calibration: How SGM PeopleNavigate Intersectional Oppression in Healthcare.” Social Science & Medicine.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119384 Baboolal, A. A. (2025). “Harassment and Violence against Muslim Women: TwiceRacialized Intersectional Victimization” In Victims & Offenders Special IssueTheoretical Approaches in Victimology Research. Hormel, L. (2024). Social reproduction, manufactured home parks, and the crisisof housing affordability. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251388767 Summer 2026 Member News Leontina Hormel was awarded Fulbright Scholar grant for Fall 2026, MasarykUniversity in Brno, Czech Republic. Research "Informal Work During War in Ukraine:A Study of Brno, Czechia, and Ukrainian Refugees and Immigrants" Jules Vivid was awarded Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, RutgersUniversity Department of Sociology Meredith Worthen was recently awarded the Edith Kinney Gaylord PresidentialProfessorship Andrew J. Shapiro presented “"Elitism, Exclusion, and Mutual Antagonism in theHomosexual Politics of Pre-Nazi Germany,” Session on “Dictators, Capitalists, AndEconomies Of Queer Resistance,” at the CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Queer-Class Relations Conference, New York, NY, April 17–18, 2026 On The Social Eye Podcast, sociologists Winona Wood, Wynn Strange, and MichelleFretwell talk with a variety of guests to explore the complex relationships betweenthe personal and the political. We use a sociological lens to explore big ideas and thetaken-for-granted in everyday life. With our guests, we break down the complexity ofinstitutionalized issues and inequality through research and lived experiences. Ourguests have included recent PhD graduates Rina James and Yasi Shaker, AkronNAACP chapter President Judi Hill, and professor of Sociology Arthur Scarrritt. Pleasetake a listen! Let us know what you would like to hear next, and if you want to be aguest! Check out our website here: Find us on all majorpodcast platforms as The Social Eye Podcast. Email us here: Andrew J. Shapiro presented “(De-)Zionizing Jewishness, (De)colonizing Palestine,”Session on “Dictators, Capitalists, And Economies Of Queer Resistance,” DecolonialSociology in Times of Resistance Mini-Conference: Ethics, Moral Accountability, andDecolonizing Dominant and Subaltern Subjectivities, Eastern Sociological Society96th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 5-8, 2026 Andrew J. Shapiro was awarded GC Center for Jewish Studies Bloch Award onGender and the Jewish Experience in Global Perspective; GC Mina Rees LibraryLGBTQIA+ Consortium Fellowship; Center for Jewish History Archival ResearchFellowship Summer 2026 Call for Proposals Summer 2026 Summer 2026 Summer 2026 Summer 2026 to access the call for submissions Summer 2026 Job Market Candidates Rafia Javaid Mallick is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Georgia StateUniversity, graduating May 2026. With extensive research experience in urbanstudies, immigration, race, and inequality, she has contributed to multipleuniversity and community-based projects, including work with the SouthernPoverty Law Center and the City of Atlanta. Her scholarship includes peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging frompolicing alternatives to immigrant integration. She is skilled in qualitative,quantitative, and geospatial methods and has held leadership roles inprofessional organizations such as ASA and SSSP. Rafia is prepared for roles inacademia, research, or policy analysis. Dissertation/project title: Tangled Threads of Belonging: Racial Discriminationand Segmented Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants in the UnitedStates Research specialization: Diasporic Belonging and Decolonization. PatriarchalSystems and Gender Violence. Urban Inequities and Performative Governance. Website: Email: rmallick1@gsu.edu Andrew J. Shapiro is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the City University of NewYork. His work explores why and how movements against oppression becomecomplicit in oppression and how they might do otherwise. Through acomparative-historical case study of twentieth-century Jewish and LGBTQmovements in the US, Europe, and Palestine, he traces the complicity processesthrough which relatively advantaged movement actors prioritize narrowadvancement over collective change. His work has been published in Men andMasculinities.