Congratulations to our members who have chosen to share their recent accomplishments!  This page provides space for SSSP members to share news of recent publications, interviews, awards, fellowships, nominations, grants, promotions/tenure, new jobs, retirement, social activist work, and other personal accomplishments. If you wish to post your recent accomplishments, please email ssspgra@utk.edu. News and Announcements will remain posted for six months.

Jennifer Hites-Thomas published “Gatekeeping ‘Authentic’ Gender: The Somatechnics of Transition Surgery and ‘Male Enhancement.’” In Jill Fellows & Lisa A. Smith (Eds.) Gender, Sex and Tech: An Intersectional Feminist Guide. Canadian Scholars Press.  
09/14/2023

Kristen M. Budd, Glenn W. Muschert, David C. Lane, and Jason A. Smith co-edited Beyond Bars: A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States. Policy Press. 
09/14/2023

Jason A. Smith and Richard T. Craig co-edited Racializing Media Policy. Emerald Publishing. 
09/14/2023

Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan co-edited Critical Commentary on Institutional Ethnography: IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise. Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan. 
09/14/2023

Melinda Chen recently published “Are you—?” “Are you?” Queer Advocacy at Contemporary Neoliberal Rape Crisis Centers. Violence Against Women 0(0): 1-29. 
09/14/2023

Erich Goode recently published Drugs in American Society, 11th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.
09/11/2023

Erich Goode recently published Celluloid Mischief: Deviance and Crime on the Silver Screen. New York: Routledge.
09/11/2023

Erich Goode recently published Deviant Behavior, 13th Edition. New York: Routledge.
09/11/2023

Kathleen Fitzgerald recently published Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality, 4th Edition. New York: Routledge.
09/11/2023

Kathleen A. Bogle recently published Gender-Based Crime: Learning through Experts and Cases (Cognella).
09/11/2023

Shaonta’ E. Allen recently published an article, “Is the Black Church Dead? Religious Resilience and the Contemporary Functions of Black Christianity.” Religions 14(4):1-21. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14040460).
05/22/2023

Shaonta’ E. Allen recently published “From “We Shall Overcome” to “We Gon Be Alright:” Assessing Black Liberation Movements Through Music” in Theology and Protest Music, edited by Jonathan Harwell and Heidi Altman. MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.
05/22/2023

Sofya Aptekar recently published, Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (MIT Press). 
05/10/2023

Matt DelSesto recently published the book Design and the Social Imagination (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), which explores how design, theory and research can be combined to address contemporary social problems
05/10/2023

Kat Fuller recently published a review of the book Picciolini’s White American Youth in the Journal for Deradicalization. 
05/10/2023

Chiara Galli published a new book entitled Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (Oakland University of California Press). 
05/10/2023

Chiara Galli published a new article “Wolves in sheep’s clothing? What unaccompanied minors know about crossing the U.S.- Mexico border" in the Journal of Borderlands Studies.  
05/10/2023

Tanya Nieri and Justin Huft. 2023. "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States.” Societies 13(5):114. 
05/11/2023

Shiv Issar (2023) The Social Construction of Algorithms in Everyday Life: Examining TikTok Users' Understanding of the Platform's Algorithm, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2233138
07/11/2023

Shiv Issar (2022) Walking simulators and an ethics of care: An essay. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 14(3), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00064_3 
07/11/2023

Shiv Issar & Aneesh, A. (2022) What is algorithmic governance?. Sociology Compass, 16(1), e12955. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12955 
07/11/2023

Faryal Razzaq recently published an article, ‘Enhancing Children’s Awareness of Sexual Abuse in Pakistan with Video Literacy Interventional Cartoons' in the Journal of Public Health Policy. 
05/11/2023

Andrew J. Shapiro 2022. “On Power’s Doorstep: Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity in Reproducing Masculine Domination. Men and Masculinities 25(5):743–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221098365. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zef59/.
05/14/2023

Gregory D. Squires was recently recognized as the 2023 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award receipient (Sponsored by UAA & SAGE Publishing).
05/10/2023

Derron Wallace recently published The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford University Press). Please find more information and a discount offer here.
03/29/2023

Matthew Ward recently published "Legacies of Resistance and Resilience: Antebellum Free African Americans and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the Northeast" Social Forces

05/17/2023

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille published a new book that will be released July 15, 23 Criminal Careers and Communities in the United States: An Identity Network Perspective (Lexington Books). Learn more here (page 43/56).
05/10/2023