Social Problems and Global Issues SSSP Global Division Newsletter Fall 2017 Table of Contents Member News 2 Member Publications 2 New Books By Members 3 Call for Papers 3 2018 Annual Meeting 8 Global Division Graduate Student Paper and Book Award 9 Global Division Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions for 2018 10 SSSP Awards 12 Additional Opportunities 13 Dear Global Division Members, Thank you all for the emails welcoming me as Chair of our Division. I am inspired by the scholarship and activism of Global Division members. Our collective work is certainly needed in the current climate and I would like to highlight even more of that great work in future editions of this newsletter. Please go ahead and mark your calendars to share your work at the 2018 SSSP Annual Meetings in Philadelphia (August 10-12). The theme of this year’s conference is “Abolitionist Approaches to Social Problems” and the CFP has already opened. It will remain open for papers or extended abstracts through January 31st.  The Division is sponsoring and co-sponsoring 10 sessions at the conference. Please see more details in this newsletter about our Division sessions. We will once again be sponsoring our Division’s Graduate Student Paper Award and an Outstanding Book Award. These are competitive and receive many excellent submissions each award cycle. After reading the full details of the awards and submission process in this newsletter, I encourage you to consider submitting your work for consideration. Finally, I’d like to send a note of gratitude to all of the Division members who have volunteered their time and energy to serve our Division. I am grateful to those organizing sessions for next year’s conference, for all who serve on the Award Committees, and to Bradley Williams our newsletter editor. Warmly, Beth Williford Associate Professor of Sociology Program Director of Women's and Gender Studies Manhattanville College Beth.Williford@mville.edu Social Problems and Global Issues Fall 2017 # MEMBER NEWS Mangala Subramaniam, Professor of Sociology, has been named the Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University. http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2017/Q3/subramaniam-to-lead-butler-center.html.   Joachim J. Savelsberg is the recipient of the 2017 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award, ASA Section for Crime, Law and Deviance and of the 2017 William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award, SSSP Law & Society Division. In summer 2017 he was a visiting fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Belfast. He was awarded fellowships at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (fall 2018) and at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (spring 2019). Chakraborty, Shaonli, Shiv Kumar, and Mangala Subramaniam (equal authors). 2017. “Safe city: Analysis of services for gender-based violence in Bengaluru, India.” International Sociology 32(3): 299-322. Ciccantell, Paul S. and Paul K. Gellert. 2018. “The Longue Durée and Raw Materialism of Coal: Against the So-called ‘Death of Coal’.” The World-System as Unit of Analysis: Past Contributions and Future Advances, edited by Patricio Korzeniewicz. Routledge Press. Frey, R. Scott, Paul K. Gellert, and Harry F. Dahms, eds. 2017. Special Issue on Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Comparative Perspective. Journal of World-Systems Research 23(2). [NB: In 2008, the JWSR became the official journal of the American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World-System. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal accessible at jwsr.pitt.edu  Kaup, Brent Z. and Paul K. Gellert. 2017. Cycles of Resource Nationalism: Hegemonic Struggle and the Incorporation of Bolivia and Indonesia. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 58(4): 275-303. DOI: 10.1177/0020715217714298.  Lasker, Judith. 2017. “5 Ways to Actually Help a Community Recover from Disaster.” Salon.com. Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 2017. “Globalising Service-Learning in the Social Sciences.” Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences10(2):25-40. Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 2017. “The Global Development of Contemporary Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy.”  International Sociology 32(6):814-834. Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2017. “Formal and Substantive Rationality in Max Weber’s Sociology of Law: Tensions in International Criminal Law.” Law as Culture: Max Weber’s Comparative Sociology of Law, edited by W. Gephart. Vittorio Klostermann. Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2017. “International Criminal Law as One Response to World Suffering: General Observations and the Case of Darfur.” Alleviating World Suffering, edited by R. E. Anderson. Springer. Savelsberg, Joachim J., and Wahutu Siguru. 2017. “Media Reports and African Genocide.” Vol. on Crime in Media within Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology (online). Subramaniam, Mangala and Preethi Krishnan. 2016. “Stranded between the Law, Family, and Society: Women in Domestic Violence and Rulings of India’s Supreme Court.” Current Sociology 64(4): 603-619. Young Lisa J. and Mangala Subramaniam. 2017. “Eco-critical Consciousness Meets Oppositional Consciousness: Reading Early Chicago Housing Activism Through an Environmental Lens.” Sociological Focus 50(2):198-212.  Newsletter Editor: Bradley W. Williams, PhD Student—George Mason University, bwilli24@gmu.edu Introducing the new Global Division newsletter editor: Bradley W. Williams is a PhD student in sociology at George Mason University. His dissertation research looks concerns transnational advocacy, social movements, institutions, and professions. NEW BOOKS BY MEMBERS Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans (Routlege Press, 2018) By Lisa Martino-Taylor The first in-depth investigation of its kind, this book explores the governmental testing of radioactive materials that exposed US civilians to hazardous substances without their knowledge. Based on extensive research, this book reveals social linkages and coordinated efforts by military scientists who conducted a secret program of human-subject studies targeting unsuspecting Americans. Officials advanced such projects through layers of secrecy, embedding secret actions in other studies. Behind the Fog uncovers a racialized chapter of government secrecy within its own military-industrial-academic complex and the mechanisms that allow large-scale elite deviance to take place in modern society. Divided Nations: Democracy in an Age of Populism A special collection of articles for The Sociological Quarterly Guest Editor: Dr Alexander Smith (Sociology, Universities of Warwick and Kansas) This collection of articles examnes the factors that contributed to –as well as the aftermath and consequences of –the cultural, political andsocial upheavals that manifested as thetwo electoral convulsions of 2016: (1) the narrow victory for the Leave campaign in the UK’s referendum on EU membership, held in June and pejoratively known as ‘Brexit’; and (2) the election of the Republican billionaire Donald Trump over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the 45thPresident of the United States. Both electoral results had been politically unimaginable in the months beforehand and have been experienced, on both sides of the North Atlantic, as politically tumultuous. Many in the media and the social sciences have characterised these two events as moments of crisis for liberal democracy, which some suggest has been found wanting in the face of a seemingly growing anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation populism. In a world of Brexit andTrump –that is, in a world where what was previously unthinkable politically has become possible and where a radical-yet-reactionary populist insurgency may now seem in the ascendant –liberal Western nations have been working through the cultural, economic and political shockwaves. The consequences of this new age of politics–for citizens, institutions, democratic publics and their minorities throughout the West –are only just beginning to be understood, as are the political and social divisions that made these events possible. How might Sociology–and the social sciences in general –explain, narrate and respond to these events? Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcomed, from all branches of qualitative and quantitative sociology and allied cognate disciplines, along with those that draw on interdisciplinary perspectives. Articles accepted for this collection will be published in a series of special sections of The Sociological Quarterly. Our aim is to publish the first of these in the Summer 2018 issue. Each article should conform to the journal’s guidelines on length and style and will be peer reviewed. Shorter pieces, such as commentaries and responses to individual articles, will also be considered. Topics articles might consider include: Populism, Trump and the media Post-industrial Societies and the ‘Left Behind’ Nationalism, Whiteness and the Politics of Protest Class, Race and Brexit Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Brexit and Trump Each section, along with comments and responses, will be brought together in 2019 as a standalone, online special issue of The Sociological Quarterly. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, 2018, “Sociology for Whom? Real Conversations andCritical Engagements in Amerikkka” The theme for the 2018 AHS meetings in Detroit, Michigan addresses the need to ensure sociology is at society’s table, to assert our voices as scholar activists who are concerned with a discipline that has long been overshadowed by psychology, economics, or political science, for example. Further, we need to reaffirm our commitment to dismantling racism, sexism, homophobia, elitism, and all forms of inequality both inside and outside the sociological house. In doing so, our challenges are: 1) how to engage and commit to a sociology that is not relegated to a subspecialty labeled as “public” sociology, but how to make all sociology public sociology; and 2) how to best address and engage in research, dialogue, and action regarding inequalities and the intersections of inequalities in our society, our institutions, and amongst ourselves. Questions? Email: AHSDetroit2018@gmail.com CALL FOR PROPOSALS Microhistory—Routledge The book series is open to books employing different microhistorical approaches. Global microhistories aimed at grasping world-wide connections in local research, social history trying to find determining historical structures through a micro-analysis, and cultural history in the form of microhistories that relate directly to large or small scale historical contexts are equally welcome. The series is open to publishing both theoretical and empirical works. It is, indeed, often hard to separate the two, especially in microhistory. The geographical scope of the series is global and so non-European works or those which cross territorial boundaries are welcome. For more information about the series and the proposal process, please contact the series editors, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (sgm@hi.is) and István M. Szijártó (szijarto@elte.hu). CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Transnational Networks Amid Global Crisis and Change Proposals are sought for research papers to be presented at a workshop at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 2018. We invite researchers -- particularly junior scholars, scholars from under-represented groups, and scholars from countries of the global South -- to propose research papers that employ data we have collected in the Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Inter-Organizational Network Databases. These data are centered on transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs), a subset of international organizations with explicit aims to promote social or political change, but also consider how these groups are connected to international governmental organizations (IGOs) and other international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). Transnational social movement organizations have played significant roles in bringing diverse actors—including activists from the global South, indigenous peoples, peasants, and LGBTQ activists—into the global public arena and enhancing their political impacts. They have been linked to movements against the global trade system, rising inequality, environmental degradation, and government austerity. They have been instrumental in defending human rights and promoting equity and justice in the global political and economic order. We seek proposals for papers that will use elements of these databases to explore what these data tell us about the relationship between transnational activism and processes of global change. How have changes in the relative power of key states impacted the networks of social movement actors and their relationships with the inter-state system? The conference will generate critical feedback on the draft papers, which will be edited for publication. Participants will contribute to our work to review and prepare the dataset for public distribution through the World Historical Dataverse at the University of Pittsburgh. Abstracts of paper proposals are due on February 15, 2018. Please send to tsmoworkshop@riseup.net. Abstracts must specify the main research question/s the author/s will address as well as the primary variables and years of data author/s hope to employ in their investigations. Codebooks describing the data are linked from the main website page. We also provide references and links to our own work that are based on these and related data, and we encourage those submitting proposals to review this work to gain an understanding of how the data may be used. In your application, please include author/s' names, institutional affiliation and rank (graduate student submissions are welcome). Also, please indicate if you have access to other sources of funding to support your travel to Pittsburgh for this workshop. We are working to raise funds to provide travel stipends and expect to be able to provide lodging and meals during the workshop for participants. Project Organizers: Jackie Smith, Melanie Hughes, Samantha Plummer, and Basak Gemici, University of Pittsburgh For further information about the project, please visit http://tsmoworkshop.wikispaces.com/ CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Race and Ethnicity: Moving from Sociological Imagination to Sociological Mindfulness California State University  Call for Chapters for New Undergraduate Reader Full Submissions Due January 5, 2018 California State University, Sacramento professors Jacqueline Brooks, Heidy Sarabia, and Aya K. Ida invite authors to submit a chapter to their new undergraduate reader Race and Ethnicity: Moving from Sociological Imagination to Sociological Mindfulness. This work is under contract with Cognella Academic Publishing. The reader is designed for students in undergraduate race and ethnic inequalities courses, with the goal of enhancing critical discussions through sociological mindfulness[1]. The sociological mindful framework engages readers, holding them accountable for the development of her or his sociological consciousness. We hope to encourage students to become problem solvers in the arena of race discourse, rather than passive observers or casual critics. The overall approach employs four unique angles: fresh narratives on current issues of race and ethnic inequality; the bridging of larger macro-level explanations with smaller micro-level experiences; the connection of sociological theory with sociological research; and the development of critical debate and analysis with an emphasis on self-reflection.  We are soliciting powerful, engaging works that offer a healthy discussion of specific topics within the arena of race and ethnic inequalities.  Submitted chapters should help students define, understand, and apply important concepts, theories, and perspectives within the field.  Each work should prepare students for higher levels of learning, such as analysis, evaluation, and creativity. Selected works should fit into one of the following categories:  Theoretical Perspectives Popular Culture & the Media (This section is filled). Identity and Society Education Work & the Economy Health & Medicine The Environment Family & Partnerships Please click here for detailed descriptions of each section including potential topics. Each chapter submission should contain the following features: 12 – 15 double-spaced manuscript pages, an opening title, list of authors, abstract, opening quote or illustration, goals of the chapter, introduction, two – three levels of heading within the body of the manuscript, and illustrations and/or vignettes (as necessary). In addition, provide a strong conclusion with key words, discussion questions, exploratory research questions and suggestions for further readings. All full submissions are due January 5, 2018. Please e-mail your submission or questions to socmind@csus.edu. Religion Criminal Justice Politics Immigration Global Perspectives (This section is filled). Social Change (This section is filled). MEMBER PUBLICATIONS CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Justice 21 Committee of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Justice 21 Global Project 2018 Proposals Due October 27, 2017 Chapters Due January 2, 2018 In 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the Justice 21 Committee published volumes of the Agenda for Social Justice. We are now beginning our work on the fifth such publication--Agenda for Social Justice: Global Solutions, which is designed to inform the public-at-large about the world’s most pressing social problems and to propose public policy responses to those problems. This project affirms the commitment of the SSSP to social justice scholarship, and enables members of the SSSP to communicate publicly on global/international issues. This report will be a “global agenda for social justice,” in that it will contain recommendations for action worldwide by elected officials, policy makers, and the public.  The volume is to be published in paperback and electronic formats by Policy Press, an academic publisher affiliated with the University of Bristol, UK (http://www.policypress.co.uk/). The volume is a project in public sociology, and will cover important global and international social problems currently on the public agenda. This volume will convey the most valid and reliable knowledge available about global/international social problems, and the Justice 21 Committee enthusiastically welcomes the collaboration of individual SSSP members and SSSP Divisions. Please consider preparing a chapter for the 2018 publication. We ask you, individually or with colleagues, to consider submitting a brief proposal (1-2 pages) identifying a global social problem of concern to members of SSSP, and respond to the following items:  Identify and define a concrete social problem of global or international scope. Clarify answers to these three questions: 1. What do we know about the problem (i.e., what is the definition and scope of the problem)?  2. How do we know this information (i.e., what are the sources of data about this problem)? 3. What should be done, in terms of policy and social action to alleviate the problem (i.e., what are viable solutions for reducing, mitigating, solving, or abolishing the problem)? As the Justice 21 Committee of the SSSP, we invite members to prepare draft statements for proposed contributions to the 2018 publication. Please submit a copy of your 1 to 2 page proposal via email to each of the members of the committee by October 27, 2017, and contact us if you have questions or would like additional information. Final contributions are limited to 3000 words (or roughly ten double-spaced manuscript pages). Chapter drafts will be due January 2, 2018, and final manuscripts will be due March 15, 2018. The volume will appear in print for the 2018 SSSP annual meetings in Philadelphia. Glenn Muschert (chair), Miami University, muschegw@miamioh.edu Kristen Budd, Miami University, buddkm@miamioh.edu Michelle Christian, University of Tennessee, mchris20@utk.edu Brian Klocke, Washington College, bklocke@gmail.com Robert Perrucci, Purdue University, perruccir@purdue.edu Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, jshefner@utk.edu For an expanded discussion of Justice 21, see Robert Perrucci’s presidential address in the May 2001 issue of Social Problems (“Inventing Social Justice”). To see electronic copies of the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 publications, see http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/323/locationSectionId/0/Agenda_For_Social_Justice CALL FOR PAPERS Social Justice Research Call for Papers on: "Justice and Health" Guest Editors: Yukiko Asada (Dalhousie University)  and Erik Schokkaert (KU Leuven) Deadline: November 30, 2017 The submission deadline for one-page abstracts is November 30, 2017. Please e-mail submissions to Yukiko.Asada@Dal.Ca and erik.schokkaert@kuleuven.be . Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal before December 31, 2017. Based on accepted abstracts the submission deadline for papers is June 30, 2018. We expect that the special issue will appear in 2019. Social Justice Research plans a special issue in “Justice and Health”, to appear in 2019. This issue will be multidisciplinarily oriented, and will be open to contributions from psychology, sociology, economics, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, political science, public administration etc, as long as the research makes a contribution to the theoretical and/or empirical state of the art. Guest editors are Yukiko Asada and Erik Schokkaert. The editors will consider contributions related to the following contexts: (a) Priority setting: how to decide equitably about which treatments should be included in the insurance package – or provided by the public system? (b) Inequality and inequity in health outcomes. (c) Inequity in access to the health care system (e.g., who pays? Is there equality of access based on need?). These topics can be approached in different ways: (a) Conceptual questions about how to define “justice” in the contexts above. (b) Empirical work on how people think about justice. (c) Empirical work on actual systems, i.e., on how equitable is the existing situation. It is important that authors make sure to clarify and define whatever ‘fairness concept’ they use, whether or not they focus on equity, equality or the umbrella notion of justice. All submissions will go through the usual SJR peer-review process. Conditional on acceptance of the proposal, full papers should be submitted using the online system, specifying that the submission is for the special issue on the “Justice and Health”. Instructions for authors are available at www.springer.com/11211 African Journal of History and Culture  is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject.The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one month after acceptance. All articles published in AJHC will be peer-reviewed.  The mission of Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum is to bring together research and multimedia from multiple disciplines that is oriented toward the understanding and practice of social justice, broadly defined. By offering an innovative, peer-reviewed space that is open to rigorous research from all disciplines, as well as offerings from outside of academia, we hope to push the ideals of social justice to new levels. Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum runs on a rolling submission deadline for its general issues. Please see the Call for Submissions page for details and click the Submit Article link on the left to submit manuscripts or media files. The Journal of Applied Social Science publishes original research articles, project reports, teaching notes, and book reviews on a wide range of topics of interest to social scientists in applied, public, clinical, and practice contexts.  All submissions are processed electronically. Send your submission to our editor at  jammieprice@gmail.com. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing, is inviting submissions for Volume 41 of the series. This RSMCC volume has a special focus on non-state actors and political conflicts but it will also attend to the broader themes of the series. Volume editor Julie Mazzei (Kent State University) welcomes submissions that fall within one of two areas: (1) research focused on the roles and motivations of non-state actors in conflicts or post-conflict situations in the post-Cold War era; or (2) research generally relevant to understanding the dynamics of social movements, conflicts, or change. We are particularly interested in research focusing on the motivations and interests of non-state violent actors (NSVAs) in the post-Cold War era; the role of identity and/or ideology in the conflicts or resolutions of so-called “new wars;” the impact of NSVAs in conflict and/or peace-making; and the ways in which IGOs and NGOs interact with NSVAs in conflicts or post-conflict zones. RSMCC boasts quick turn-around times, generally communicating peer review-informed decisions within 10-12 weeks. For more information, please visit the RSMCC website:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=0163-786X As we face modern social problems, we can find inspiration in the Abolitionist Movement.  As we see Latino, Black, and Indigenous youth killed and imprisoned at disproportionate rates, we need strategies to stop racial subjugation.  As we witness the call for larger walls at our borders, we need new thoughts of liberation.  As we confront patriarchy and economic inequality, we require stronger practices.  To that end, the theme for the 2018 SSSP Annual Meeting is Abolitionist Approaches to Social Problems.  The SSSP has a long history of experimentation, inviting critique of ideas and concepts as it pushes towards a continual reimagining of social justice.  In the current incarnation, we invite participants to help us develop ways to abolish social problems entirely, to think through what is required to eliminate systems of subjugation, and to document the current struggles that are already leading the way in these efforts.  This will require not just a rethinking of how to confront social problems, but also a rediscovering of buried histories, of hidden struggles, and of ideas that are submerged below the surface.  It is time, once again, to remember that what is right is practical and to be unafraid of principles that are unpopular. To this end, the program committee will be inviting speakers, organizing thematic sessions, and assembling panels of scholars-activist who are confronting capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other forms of subjugation.  We also invite you to submit proposals that match the theme. It is our hope that this year’s theme provides us with an opportunity to have an earnest discussion on the possibilities of developing and implementing strategies that eradicate subjugation.  We invite you to engage in our efforts.  We hope to see you in Philadelphia, a city steeped in an abolitionist tradition.  Luis A. Fernandez, SSSP President Northern Arizona University  STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION Deadline January 31, 2018 The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in cooperation with the Sage journal Critical Sociology announces its 2018 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The goal is to encourage critical scholarship in the areas of global or transnational studies and social problems. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to the following themes: See Next Page The audience will have an opportunity to participate in the dialogue as well. Emphasis is placed on exploring interesting connections between papers with a broadly similar theme. The hope is that both presenters and the audience will have an opportunity to make new and deeper connections from their unique insights and presented ideas. Critical Dialogue sessions will not have audio-visual equipment. Click here to submit an extended abstract (required) and paper (optional) or to view your added or submitted abstracts/papers. NOTE: if you are already a SSSP member, please use your SSSP login information. If you are not a SSSP member, you will be asked to create an account. Your personal information will not be shared with any other organization without your consent. Please see the SSSP Privacy Policy for more information. All papers must be submitted by midnight (EST) on January 31, 2018 in order to be considered. Session Session Title Sponsor(s) Organizer(s) Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award Arlene Kaplan Daniels was the first female editor of Social Problems (1975-1978) and became the Society’s President in 1986. She supported other women sociologists across the discipline and professional associations through mentoring, preparing references, and editing papers. Her scholarship has made an important contribution to the discipline through its unparalleled awareness of women’s contribution to society. C. Wright Mills Award SSSP annually gives its prestigious C. Wright Mills Award to the author of what the committee considers to be the most outstanding book written in the tradition of C. Wright Mills and his dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society. Past winners have included Patricia Hill Collins, William Julius Wilson, Pun Ngai, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Charles Tilly, Theda Skocpol, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harry Braverman, Frances Fox Piven-Richard Cloward, Jacqueline P. Wiseman, Laud Humphreys, and Jerome H. Skolnick. Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award will be given annually to an outstanding faculty member who has exercised an extensive leadership role within the SSSP and other professional societies and within the larger community. The award was established in 2016 and was named in honor of Doris Wilkinson, who turned observation into action and became one of the leading voices in bringing change to the society and sociology as a discipline. Joseph B. Gittler Award In 2007, a bequest by Joseph B. Gittler was made to the association establishing an award given to a SSSP member for significant scholarly achievements on the ethical resolution of social problems. Past recipients have included Valerie Jenness, Gregory D. Squires, Ellen Pence, Frances Fox Piven, and Nancy A. Wonders.  Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award will be given annually to an outstanding faculty member or community activist. The award is established to recognize the value of quality mentoring relationships between mentor and mentee and/or mentoring programs especially those for undergraduate or graduate students and/or for social activists, particularly for younger scholars and activists. Lee Founders Award Established in 1981, this award is made in recognition of significant lifetime achievements demonstrating a devotion to the ideals of the founders of the Society and especially to the humanist tradition of Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee. Past winners have included Thomas C. Hood, Irving Kenneth Zola, David A. Snow, and Elliot Liebow. Thomas C. Hood Social Action Award Since 1991 the SSSP has given an award to an organization in the city hosting the annual meeting for its social justice work. In 2009, the award was named in honor of Thomas C. Hood, who retired as Executive Officer in 2009 after serving the Society in that capacity for 19 years. Past winners have included Atlanta’s Youth Speak Truth and the Coalition for Human Immigration Rights of Los Angeles.   Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards The Divisions hold annual Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards. Please note each division has a unique deadline and submission process. Travel Fund Awards Lee Scholar Support Fund The SSSP established the Lee Scholar Support Fund to help bring non-US based foreign scholars to the Annual Meeting. The specific purpose is to facilitate scholarly participation by persons engaged in research related to social problems and social struggles.  More generally, the purpose of this fund is to help globalize cooperative relations among persons and organizations engaged in applying social scientific findings to confront social problems and create social change. ? Transnational Public Sociology Knowledge Production about Globalization Democratizing Globalization The Politics of Human Rights Re-imagining Community Critical and/or Institutional Ethnography and Global Governance Transnational Corporate Accountability Immigration, Citizenship, and Global Justice Globalization and Environmental Justice Transnational Movements Transnational Organizing within the Global South Gender Issues in Globalization Transnational Families. 2018 ANNUAL MEETING Jointly-authored papers are accepted, but all contributing authors must be current graduate students or have graduated not prior to September 1, 2018. Published papers are also accepted but must have first been published after January 1, 2017. The award recipient will receive student membership in the SSSP, conference registration at the 2018 Annual SSSP Meeting in Chicago, be recognized with a plaque at the conference awards ceremony, and a $400 prize (this award has been made possible in part by support from the Sage Journal Critical Sociology). Award recipients are expected to present their paper at the 2018 Annual Meeting. Winning papers will be invited to submit their paper for publication in Critical Sociology. Papers must be submitted electronically in a format compatible with MS WORD and authors should ensure that they receive a confirmation of receipt for their submission. Although faculty sponsorship is not formally required to enter the competition, participants are invited to request a note from a faculty member or independent scholar that speaks to the academic quality of the submission and they should be emailed directly to the address below. Note: Previous winners of this award are ineligible to compete and students may only submit their paper to one division competition. Papers should be double-spaced and not exceed 10,000 words including citations. To be eligible for consideration, submissions must be uploaded to the online submission system for the SSSP Annual Meeting and must also be sent to Heather Gifford at hgiffo2@illinois.edu by January 31, 2018. OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD Deadline March 1, 2018 The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems is pleased to announce its 2018 Outstanding Book Award. Given the massive growth of interest and research in the areas of global studies and social problems over the last decade, the Award is intended to recognize published work of exceptional quality in these areas and to encourage further critical scholarship about them. Accordingly, books on a variety of topics and themes will be considered for the Award, including but not limited to the following: alternative models of globalization; global dynamics and forms of resistance to neoliberalism (including the post-Washington Consensus era in Latin America, Asia, Africa, or the Middle East); transnational social movements; human rights struggles and global activism (around gender, indigeneity, migration, peace, social justice, etc.); transnational communities and cultural politics; global cities. We are particularly interested in books that link critical politics and activism with analytical and theoretical rigor. To be eligible for consideration, books must have been published within 3 years of the meeting (2015-2018 for this year’s award). Single or multiple-authored books will be accepted. At least one of the authors must be a member of the SSSP in order to qualify for the Award, although they will not be required to present a paper at the 2018 Annual Meeting. The award recipient(s) will be recognized at the Global Division business meeting. Nominations can be made by members of the Global Division as well as by publishers; self-nominations are also welcomed. Nominees should send full publication information and a paragraph explaining why this book is recommended. If available, contact information for the author should be included. Authors will be requested to facilitate with their publishers that three copies of the nominated book be sent to the Award Committee as close to the nomination deadline as possible. Nominations must be received no later than March 1, 2018. To nominate a book for this award and to arrange sending copies of the nominated book, please send your message to the Chair of the 2015 Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. Tianna Paschel at tpaschel@berkeley.edu Listed below are the 2018 Annual Meeting Sessions. Each participant is permitted to submit one sole-authored paper and one sole-authored critical dialogue paper, but additional co-authored papers may be submitted. Critical Dialogue sessions include short (5 minute) presentations by up to 8 authors followed by facilitated dialogue that critically explores connections among the papers. 30 Global Migrations of Sexualities and Disability 1. Disability 2. Global 3. Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Welch, Melissa Jane [ mjwelch@mail.usf.edu ] Kao, Ying-Chao [ yckao0512@gmail.com ] (co-organizers) 53 Environmental Injustice in the World-System 1. Environment and Technology 2. Global Deb, Nikhilendu [ ndeb@vols.utk.edu ] 60 Mixed-Status Families in the U.S. and Across Borders 1. Family 2. Global Rodriguez, Cassaundra [ cassaundra.rodriguez@unlv.edu ] 65 PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Global 1. Global Ghosh, Apoorva [ apoorva.ghosh@uci.edu ] 66 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Race and Gender in the Global Context 1. Global Sugrue, Noreen M. [ nsugrue@illinois.edu ] 67 Global Movements for Social Justice 1. Global Morosin, Alessandro [ amoro001@ucr.edu ] Rodriguez Fernandez, Gisela V. [ rgisela@pdx.edu ] (co-organizers) 68 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Race, Colonization, and Decolonization 1. Global 2. Institutional Ethnography 3. Racial and Ethnic Minorities Parada, Henry [ HPARADA@RYERSON.CA ] 69 Law, Human Rights, and Genocide 1. Global 2. Law and Society Kinney, Edith [ edith.kinney@sjsu.edu ] 70 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Uncertainty in Political Discourse 1. Global 2. Social Problems 3. Theory Smith, Jason A. [ jasonsm55@gmail.com ] 71 International Migration Across the Life Course 1. Global 2. Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Erdmans, Mary Patrice [ mary.erdmans@case.edu ] Lee Student Support Fund In recognition of Al Lee’s commitment to social justice and contributions to the SSSP, the Society established the Lee Student Support Fund to help defray the cost of conference attendance and participation by student members. Erwin O. Smigel Award The SSSP established the Erwin O. Smigel Award in 1975 to provide assistance to unemployed and underemployed sociologists to help them participate in the Annual Meeting. Applicants should be sociologists with an advanced degree who are not full-time students and who are not fully employed. Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship Since 1995 the SSSP has given an annual Minority Graduate Scholarship to a recipient who demonstrates significant achievements through active engagement with social problems and the advancement of knowledge through study, service, and critical analysis. At the 2017 Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors voted to change the scholarship to a fellowship. Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship The SSSP is committed to supporting young scholars and awards several scholarships as a part of that commitment. The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship is awarded to an advanced sociology Ph.D. student who began his or her study in a community college or technical school. ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS/OPPORTUNITIES CALLS FOR PUBLICATIONS This is a rolling collection and as such submissions/proposals will be welcome throughout 2017 and early 2018. However, full submissions received by 1st of December 2017 will considered as part of the collection’s formal launch. Any queries about this special collection should be directed to the guest editor, Alexander Smith: alexander. Smith@warwick.ac.uk. CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue CFP on India - Journal of Global Initiatives Event: Date May 31, 2018 Submission Deadline: May 31, 2018 The Journal of Global Initiatives is pleased to announce a Call for Papers (CFP) for its special edition on India, scheduled to be published in the Winter of 2018. The JGI is a refereed interdisciplinary journal of international policy, pedagogy and perspectives, published twice-yearly by Kennesaw State University. We solicit contributions from all disciplines related to any aspect of life and culture, past and present, related to the study of India. We are particularly interested in papers that address the complexity of India’s urbanization with its paradoxical mix of globalization, modernity, and technology with regionalism, tradition, poverty and inequality. Urbanization is not an independent variable of development, but an integral part and product of the development process itself. Therefore, there is a need to understand urban issues as part of a larger development process affecting both rural and urban communities and livelihoods, employing historical and contemporary perspectives. Potential topics include: Colonial and Postcolonial Cities Conservation and Innovation in Historic Cities Rural Urbanization and Urban Planning Dispersed Cities Balancing Growth and Development Global/Smart City Development in India and its Implications E-governance and Technology Green Cities and Sustainability Current Trends, Future Projections, and Key Challenges for Sustainability Inclusive Growth: Slums, Urban Villages, and the Challenge of Urbanism Value Struggles: Waste, Work and Ecology Agrarian Crisis and Land Acquisition Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship Impacts of Urbanization on the Environment Urban Health and Quality of Life Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Degradation Infrastructure & Industrialization: Impact on Air, Water, Sanitation & Pollution All submissions should be original, previously unpublished works in English. Feature articles should range from 5,000 to 7,500 words; book reviews, from 750 to 1,000 words. To facilitate the blind-review process do not include your name or institutional affiliation in the article itself. The editorial style of the JGI is the APA Style. Please prepare your manuscripts in the APA Style. For complete information about journal submissions, please see the JGI website at http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jgi/ To be considered for the Special Edition on India, all articles must be submitted electronically as an attachment through the above Digital Commons website on or before May 31, 2018. GLOBAL DIVISION GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AND BOOK AWARD Congratulations to the Global Division award winners this year! Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: Caitlin H. Schroering, University of Pittsburgh, for “La Vía Campesina and Standing Rock: Possibilities for Food, Water, and Climate Justice Amidst Global Expulsions?” Outstanding Book Award Winner: Tianna S. Paschel for Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil, Princeton University Press, 2016