Society for the Study of Social Problems

Poverty, Class, Inequality Division

Spring 2018/Summer2018

Note from the Chair, Ranita Ray

Dear PCID members,

I hope your spring semester wrapped up nicely, and your summer is off to a great start! Thank you for contributing to this yearÕs Spring/Summer updates, and thanks also to those who volunteered to serve on different committees! I hope you are excited about the upcoming meeting in Philly! We have an exciting list of presentationsÑI hope you will be able to attend them!

I also look forward to seeing you at our division meeting to be held on Friday, August 10th 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM in Liberty Ballroom A, Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel 201 N. 17th Street Philadelphia, PA. It would truly be great to see you all there! This would be a great space to discuss affairs related to the division. 

DonÕt forget to visit, like, and post to our Facebook and Twitter pages at: https://www.facebook.com/sssppcid/ and https://twitter.com/sssppci !

As always, please feel free to email me with comments and thoughts! We appreciate your participation in the Division!

Ranita Ray, Chair, PCID
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ranita.ray@unlv.edu















UPCOMING PANELS/WORKSHOPS/CRITICAL DIALOGUES SPONSORED/CO-SPONSORED BY PCID IN PHILADEPHIA, AUGUST 10-12, 2018

PANELS/WORKSHOPS
LOCATION
DATE AND TIME
CADBI Workshop: Inside/Outside Community Organizing for Prison Reform
Independence C
Sunday, August 12, 10:30am Ð 12:10pm.

Education in the Age of Resegregation
Salon 5 & 6
Sunday, August 12, 8:30am.
Education and Social Mobility Pathways I Room
Salon 3 & 4
Saturday, August 11, 8:30am.

Education and Social Mobility Pathways II
Salon 3 & 4
Saturday, August 11, 10:30am.
Examining Social Systems
on Child Well-being and Delinquency
Independence B
Friday, August 10, 8:30am
The Working Poor
Independence A
Sunday, August 12, 4:30pm Ð 6:10pm
Families and Mass Incarceration
Freedom G
Friday, August 10, 12:30pm
The Changing Face of
Poverty
Freedom E
Friday, August 10, 10:30am
Rural/Urban Interface of
Poverty
Independence A
Sunday, August 12, 2:30pm Ð 4:10pm






MEMBER NEWS

Books

Sims, Christo. 2017. Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism. Princeton University Press. 

Squires, Gregory D. (editor). 2018. The Fight for Fair Housing: Causes, Consequences, and Future Implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act. Routledge.


New Articles and Book Chapters 

Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson. 2018. ÒFitting Stories: Outreach Worker Strategies for Housing Homeless Clients.Ó Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Online First at:
DOI: 10.1177/0891241618760982.

Sherman, Jennifer. 2018. ÒÔNot Allowed to Inherit My KingdomÕ: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West.Ó Rural Sociology 83(1): 174-207.

Terrana, S. E. 2017. ÒMinority Founders of Community-Based Organizations in a Neighborhood of Concentrated Disadvantage: Motivations, Barriers, and Strategies.Ó Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 41(4): 359Ð375.

Terrana, S. E., & Wells, R. 2018. ÒFinancial Struggles of a Small Community-Based Organization: A Teaching Case of the Capacity Paradox.Ó Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 42(1): 105Ð111.

William Cabin. 2018. ÒWho Rules Home Care? The Impacts of Privatization of Profitability, Cost, and qualityÓ in Critical Gerontology Comes of Age: Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century, edited by Christopher Wellin. Routledge.


Presentations

Dr. William Cabin presented his research on Medicare impediments to home care of persons with Alzheimer's and their caregivers at the 2018 American Society on Aging conference in San Francisco. He will be presenting on the same topic at the ISA Congress in Toronto in July, and Social Work and Social Development Conference in Dublin in July.


Grants, Awards, and Honors

Michelle A. Meyer, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University received the 2018 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award. The award is competitive across all departments in the university. This award Òrecognizes faculty at the rank of assistant professor who have outstanding records of scholarship and published research.Ó Dr. MeyerÕs research focuses on disaster recovery, environmental justice, emergent groups, and social stratification in disasters. 


New Jobs, Tenure, and Promotion

Daniel Olmos will start as Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge in Fall 2018! 

Ainsley E. Lambert-Swain has accepted a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY!

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.Ê 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 atÊssspgra@utk.eduÊwith the announcement attached and she will post them on ourÊwebsite.Ê In addition, SSSP provides complimentary job postings.Ê PleaseÊclick hereÊto fill out job posting form.Ê Note: Job postings are done each Friday.
ÊBelow are several SSSP webpages you can use as resources: 
SSSP 2018 Annual Meeting
SSSP 2018 Call for Papers
SSSP Awards

SSSP Fellowship
Ê
SSSP Scholarship

SSSP Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards

Job Opportunities

Affiliated Call for Submissions and Conferences



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