Society for the Study of Social Problems Poverty, Class, Inequality Division Fall 2017/Winter 2018 Note from the Chair, Ranita Ray Hello PCID members! I hope your semester is wrapping up nicely! As the new chair, I would like to thank outgoing chair Jennifer Sherman for all her work! Thanks also to everyone who contributed to this fall/winter’s updates and all those who volunteered to serve on different committees! Don’t forget to visit, like, and post to our Facebook and Twitter pages at: https://www.facebook.com/sssppcid/ and https://twitter.com/sssppci ! We appreciate your participation in the Division! Ranita Ray, Chair, PCID Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ranita.ray@unlv.edu Call for Papers The Division is sponsoring/co-sponsoring an exciting range of panels in Philadelphia August 2018. Please share the call for papers! CADBI Prison Abolition Activism Workshop—Thematic Session. Organizer: Deb Little, little@adelphi.edu Education in the Age of Re-segregation—Thematic Session. Organizer: TBD. Education and Social Mobility Pathways—Regular Session. Organizer: Linda Waldron, lwaldron@cnu.edu Examining Social Systems on Child Well-Being and Delinquency—Critical Dialogue Session. Organizer: Matthew Le Claire, leclam1@unlv.nevada.edu The Working Poor—Critical Dialogue Session. Organizer: Tracy Lynn Vargas, tlpeterc@syr.edu Family and mass incarceration—Regular Session. Organizer: Rachel Macfarlane, macfarla@unlv.nevada.edu Voter ID and Jim Crow—Critical Dialogue. Organizer: Emily Coombes, coombes@unlv.nevada.edu The changing face of Poverty— Critical Dialogue Session. Organizer: Patricia Chen, pmpan22@gmail.com Rural/urban interface of Poverty—Thematic Session, Critical Dialogue. Organizer: Robert Francis, rfranc15@jhu.edu Member News New Articles and Book Chapters Michael D. Sousa, Debt Stigma and Socioeconomic Status, 41 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW ___ (forthcoming 2018). Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong, Deep Inequality: Confronting the New Normal, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Wilson, Tamar Diana. 2018 "A Note on the Capitalist Commodification of the Homeless." Review of Radical Political Economics. Forthcoming. Halpin, Brian W. and Vicki Smith. 2017. “Employment Management Work: A Case Study and Theoretical Framework.” Work and Occupations 44 (4): 339 – 375. Michelle Meyer. 2017. “Nonprofit Coordination and Managing Donations: Hidden Keys to Recovery.” Research Counts blog from the Natural Hazards Center: Boulder, Colorado. https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/research/nonprofit-coordination-and-managing- donations-hidden-keys-to-recovery Meyer, Michelle. 2017 “Elderly Perceptions of Social Capital and Disaster Vulnerability.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 11(1): 48-55. Gross, Christi L, Jacob Church, Tiffany Taylor, and Jackuelyn Towne-Roese. (Forthcoming 2018). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: The Constraints of Welfare-to-Work Bureaucracies.” Poverty & Public Policy. Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi L. Gross. (online first). “Helpers ‘Here on the Frontlines’: Welfare-to-Work Managers’ Moral Identity Work.” Symbolic Interaction. Taylor, Tiffany, Christi L. Gross , and Brianna Turgeon. (Forthcoming 2018). “Becoming a Good Welfare Manager: Paternalistic Oppressive Othering and Neoliberal Boundary Maintenance.” Sociological Focus 51(4). Walters, Suzan M, Kathleen H Reilly, Alan Neaigus, and Sarah Braunstein. 2017a. "Awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among women who inject drugs in NYC: the importance of networks and syringe exchange programs for HIV prevention." Harm Reduction Journal 14(1):40. You can find the article here Walters, Suzan M, Alexis V Rivera, Lila Starbuck, Kathleen H Reilly, Nyasha Boldon, Bridget J Anderson, and Sarah Braunstein. 2017b. "Differences in Awareness of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and Post-exposure Prophylaxis Among Groups At-Risk for HIV in New York State: New York City and Long Island, NY, 2011–2013." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes75:S383-S91. You can find the article here. Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. Forthcoming. "Brokering Ties and Inequality: How White Real Estate Agents Recreate Advantage and Exclusion in Urban Housing Markets." Social Currents. Books Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor (NYU Press 2017). You can read about it (and download the introduction) at http://nyupress.org/books/9781479870080/. Tickamyer, Ann, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer Warlick, editors. 2017. Rural Poverty in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press. Barany, Darren. 2018. The New Welfare Consensus: Ideological, Political, and Social Origins. SUNY Press. The Fight for Fair Housing Causes, Consequences and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act. 2018. Edited by Gregory D. Squires. Routledge. Grants, Awards, and Honors Mary Erdmans and Tim Black received Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award from the ASA Race, Class and Gender Section for their book On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy. Courtney A. Waid-Lindberg was named Northern State University’s Outstanding Faculty Member, 2017. “RAPID: The Cajun Navy: Understanding Integration of Emergent Volunteer Groups into Disaster Response.” National Science Foundation. PI: Michelle Meyer, LSU; Co-PI: Brant Mitchell, Stephenson Disaster Management Institute. $49,700. “RAPID: The Changing Roles of Social Media in Disaster Resilience: The Case of Hurricane Harvey” National Science Foundation. PI: Nina Lam; CO-PIs: Michelle Meyer, Margaret Reams, Seungwon Yang, Seung-Jong Park, Kisung Lee, LSU. $200,000 Michelle Meyer, 2017, LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Tenure and Promotion Joan Maya Mazelis earned tenure this year and was promoted to Associate Professor! Courtney A. Waid-Lindberg was promoted to associate professor! Xiaoli Tian was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Xiaoli Tian is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. from Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago. Her research interests include how preexisting knowledge paradigms and cultural norms influence the way people respond to unexpected transformations of their everyday routines. This interest is reflected in her two main lines of research: medical knowledge as situated practices and social interaction. She has written extensively on various forms of online interactions, including emails, blogs, online literature websites in China, social media, etc. Her writings have been published in American Journal of Sociology; Modern China; Information, Communication and Society; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Media, Culture and Society; Studies in Media and Communications; Chinese Sociological Review, Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, among others. Members in the media! Joan Maya Mazelis Guest on The 1a on National Public Radio: http://the1a.org/shows/2017-06-26-helping-the-poor- put-dinner-on-the-table-without-giving-them-a-seat-at-the-table The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/20/poverty-really-is-the- result-of-a-state-of-mind-among-rich-people/ The Philadelphia Inquirer: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/the-joyful-urban- ballet-increases-public-safety-20170614.html Call for Papers Race and Ethnicity: Moving from Sociological Imagination to Sociological Mindfulness CALL FOR PAPERS 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. Please click the following link for detailed descriptions of each section including potential topics: http://sarabiastudio.com/hsarabia/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Book_sections.pdf 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. Please click the following link for further details: http://sarabiastudio.com/hsarabia/wp- content/uploads/2017/02/Substantive_chapter_guidelines.pdf All full submissions are due January 5, 2018. Please e-mail your submission to socmind@csus.edu. Please direct all questions and concerns to the editors (Jacqueline Brooks, Heidy Sarabia, and Aya K. Ida) at socmind@csus.edu. Important Resources for PCID members PCID members are also encouraged to visit the SSSP website, updated daily, that contains information related to conferences and meetings, calls for papers, awards, fellowships, and scholarships, as well as job opportunities. Please take advantage of these resources! PCID members are also encouraged to share their recent publications including books, articles and papers, award nominations and other items of interest with the administrative office so that it may be posted on the website. Please send an e-mail to Caitlin Mize, GRA & Webmaster at ssspgra@utk.edu with the announcement attached and she will post them on our website. In addition, SSSP provides complimentary job postings. Please click here to fill out job posting form. Note: Job postings are done each Friday. Below are several SSSP webpages you can use as resources: SSSP 2018 Annual Meeting SSSP 2018 Call for Papers SSSP Awards SSSP Fellowship SSSP Scholarship SSSP Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards Job Opportunities Affiliated Call for Submissions and Conferences 1