SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION NEWS SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS – FALL 2018, Issue One DIVISION CHAIR: William Cabin, CHAIR: (2017-2019), Assistant Professor, Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Email: tuf34901@temple.edu AND wcabin@umich.edu Inside this issue: Note from the Chair Student Paper Competition Book Review Participation New Division Chair Elections Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare New Editor Newsletter Contributions Invited 2019 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION: We will be issuing the formal Call for Student Paper Award submissions soon. For now please use the 2018 notice below as a resource. The 2019 Call will be the same except for date changes. If you are a qualifying student we encourage you to submit. If you are a faculty member, we encourage you to have any appropriate students to submit. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION Deadline: 1/31/18 The Sociology and Social Welfare Division (SSWD) announces its 2018 Graduate Student Paper Competition for papers that advance our understanding of issues related to sociology and social welfare.  Papers may explore and analyze any social welfare policy or institution along any dimension of interest.  Qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses and theoretical papers are welcome. To be eligible for submission, papers must be: 1) written between January 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 and not yet published or submitted for scholarly review; 2) authored by one or more graduate students and not co-authored by any faculty or non-student colleagues; 3) 25 pages or less, including references and tables; and 4) accompanied by a letter/email from a faculty member at the student’s university nominating the paper for the competition; and received by the deadline of JANUARY 31, 2018. In addition to submitting the above materials, to be considered for the award, students are required to submit their papers to the 2018 SSSP conference, preferably to a Sociology & Social Welfare Division sponsored paper session, through the annual meeting Call for Papers by 1/31/18.  The author must make a commitment to present the paper during SSSP annual meeting in August 2018 in Philadelphia.  Submission of the same paper to other SSSP award competitions will disqualify the submission. Send a copy of your paper and the faculty nomination letter as email attachments to: Dr. William Cabin  ( wcabin@umich.edu ), Division Chair, Sociology & Social Welfare Division, Temple University.  The 2018 SSWD competition winner will receive a cash prize of $150 from the Division, one honorary plaque, and payment of one 2018 SSSP membership dues and conference registration. Book Review Participation If you want to do a book review for this newsletter, please contact our book review editor: Ethan Evans at ethan.evans@csus.edu New Division Chair Elections It is that time again. My Division chair term ends at the 2019 annual meeting so we need to elect a new chair. Two excellent candidates already have come forward so you can expect a ballot notice sometime this Fall. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare New Editor Dr. Hector Diaz of Western Michigan University is the new editor. We encourage you to contact him if you have any questions about the Journal: hector.diaz@wmich.edu We also thank Dr. Robert Leighninger for his many years of service as Journal editor. Newsletter Contributions Invited We encourage members to submit news such as publications, new appointments, and other professional accomplishments for inclusion in a future newsletter. Suggestions and inquiries about less conventional content are also welcome— consider editorials, book reviews, teaching notes, department/program profiles, calls for contributions to journals and edited books, obituaries… Please direct such inquires to the current Division Chair, Bill Cabin at: wcabin@umich.edu 3