SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Program Committee, 2025-26
Room: Minetta
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 002: The Biopolitics of LGBTQ+ Lives in the Age of Disinformation
Room: Ambassador I
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presider: Michelle L. Estes, Rowan University
Description: This session examines how transgender, nonbinary, and intersex communities are governed through the overlapping forces of state power, medical authority, and disinformation. Presenters analyze how contemporary political actors increasingly rely on distorted narratives, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and media-driven fear to justify surveillance, restriction, and exclusion. Across national and institutional contexts, the papers demonstrate how transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals are constructed as threats to be managed through law, policy, and bureaucratic classification, resulting in dehumanization and material harm.
Papers:
“Anti-Trans Legislation: Illegible Harm, Impossible Truths, and Discrimination by Disbelief,” Caro A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine
“Codifying Binaries: Moral Entrepreneurs and Anti-Transgender Legislation in U.S. State Legislatures Between 2018-2024,” Anneliese M. Schenk-Day and Jack G.R. Wippell, The Ohio State University
“Executive Order Declares Intersex People Do Not Exist! Federal Efforts to Recapitulate Victorian Misunderstandings of Sex,” Cary Gabriel Costello, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’: What Does This Mean for Incarcerated Transgender Individuals?” Michelle L. Estes, Rowan University, Rachel Schmitz, Oklahoma State University and Zachary T. Carlisle, St. Ambrose University
“‘Gender’ and the Triumph of the MAGA Right in the Heritage Foundation Projects 2025 and 2026 and the First Year of the Trump Administration,” Gillian Niebrugge Brantley and Patricia Lengermann, The George Washington University
“The Glocal Right Circuits: Mapping the Transnational Flows of Anti-LGBTQ Conservatism between Taiwan and the United States,” Ying-Chao Kao, Virginia Commonwealth University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 003: Advocacy and Change
Room: Ambassador II
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Lauren Eastwood, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Presider: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Description: This session features presentations that broadly address advocacy and social change. Institutional ethnographers begin from the “everyday,” with the premise that people’s experiences are organized by larger ruling relations. However, to paraphrase Marx, the goal is not simply to analyze these phenomena but to change them, as “ruling relations” refer to power dynamics that generate disjunctures, inequalities, and marginalization. The papers in this session take up this dynamic through research, activism, or both.
Papers:
“At All Costs: Testifying for Housing Justice through Canada’s Federal Human Rights Review Panels,” Alex Nelson, Western University, Honorable Mention of the Institutional Ethnography Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Call It Power and Resistance: Naming and Conceptualizing, Carefully, in Institutional Ethnography,” Brenda Solomon, University of Vermont
“Layered Youth: How a South Korean Housing Movement Made ‘Youth’ Politically Usable,” Eunchong Cho, University of California, San Diego
“Playing Their Game(s): Legible Contention through Strategic Mirroring at the Paris 2024 Olympics,” Sara Lancieri, Sapienza University of Rome
“The Role of Women in the Promotion of Peace and Social Justice in the Philippines: Lived Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons,” Diana Therese M. Veloso, De La Salle University
“The Social Organization of Health Work among Women with Autoimmune Diseases,” Dara Gordon, University of Toronto
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 004: Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
Room: Minskoff
Sponsor: Global
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Angela Vergara, University of Central Florida
Description: This session explores the methodological and epistemological challenges of conducting research in global and transnational contexts through critical decolonial lenses. Presenters will engage with innovative tools and approaches that disrupt dominant knowledge hierarchies, foreground community voices, and center relationality, reciprocity, and justice in the research process. By highlighting diverse case studies and reflexive practices, the session aims to foster dialogue on decolonizing methodologies, ethical collaboration across borders, and reimagining knowledge production beyond Eurocentric frameworks.
Papers:
“Am I (Theoretically Speaking) the Drama? A Reflexive Examination of Anti-Blackness Research and Its Potential to Reify Coloniality and Hegemony,” Bryan L. Greene, Morris College
“Community Ethnography in Central America’s Gang Territories,” Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University
“Denaturalizing Borders through ‘Community-Engaged Scholarship’: Maya-Mam Articulations of Indigenous Resistance across the Guatemala–Mexico Border,” Jeffrey A. Gardner, Sam Houston State University
“Studying Elite but Racialized Immigrants in the United States: How Transnational and Decolonial Methodologies Unpack the Paradox of Privilege and Precarity,” Rianka Roy, Wake Forest University
“‘Play This Song Next!’: Becoming More Than an Objective Interviewer as a Researcher of Sexual Violence,” Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 005: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Contingency and the Professions
Room: Palace
Sponsor: Labor Studies
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Description: This session explores how contingency shapes professional identities and practices across diverse fields. Presenters examine the rise of precarious employment and shifting expectations within their professions. Talks address academic contingency and its implications for professionals navigating precarious structures. These papers highlight how contingency destabilizes traditional notions of professionalism while raising new questions about labor, legitimacy, and the future of work.
Papers:
“‘We’re All Gig Workers Now’: Perspectives of Professional Human Service Workers on Workplace Precarity,” Cheryl A. Hyde, Temple University
“Financial Precarity and Professional Distress: The Impact of the Gig Economy in Social Work,” Alison Fedoris Leslie, Widener University
“From ‘Professor Staff’ to ‘Professional Staff’: Contingency, Solidarity, and the Mission of Higher Education,” Maria C. Maisto, Independent Scholar
“Organizational Tacitness and Gendered Risks: Cultural Matching Reexamined,” Yinan Wang and Zehra Yildirim, Harvard University
“Resisting the Trope of ‘De-Professionalizing’ Higher Education,” Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
“Digitalization of the Economy and the Changing Landscape of Informal Work,” Debarashmi Mitra, Central New Mexico Community College
“How the Rise in Nonstandard Work Changes ‘Good Jobs’ in Creative Industries,” Erica Mildner, University of British Columbia
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 006: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Inventing Criminality across the Globe
Room: Pearl
Sponsor: Crime and Justice
Organizer: Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University
Presider/Discussant: Jennifer Carpenter, Georgia State University
Description: This session critically examines the social, political, and legal construction of “criminality” as a transnational phenomenon. We interrogate how laws, state policies, and media discourses across the globe invent and racialize categories of crime and deviance to control marginalized populations. Presentations explore the exportation of carceral logics, the criminalization of migration and poverty, and the governance of bodies through globalized “wars” on drugs and terror. By analyzing these processes, the session seeks to uncover how power operates to designate threats, legitimize inequality, and expand punitive systems, challenging the naturalized assumptions about who and what are deemed criminal.
Papers:
“Colorblind Crimmigration: Anti-Blackness and the Hart-Celler Act of 1965,” Nicolas R. Howard, Old Dominion University
“State Data and the Production of Quantitative Knowledge: The Case of Police Stops in the United States and France,” Michael Zanger-Tishler, Harvard University, Winner of the Crime and Justice Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Economic Connectedness or Social Exposure? Reassessing Cross-National Homicide Rates Using Social Dimensions of the KOF Globalization Index,” Ali O. Shodunke, The Pennsylvania State University
“Martyrdom, Masculinity, and Ideological Worldmaking: A Textual Analysis of Islamic State Nasheeds,” Obydullah Al Marjuk, University of South Florida
“Scare Tactics as Communicative Performance in Low-Budget Scams: Why People Still Fall for Them in the 21st Century,” Essien Oku Essien, Drexel University
“‘Now I’m Older So I Really Try Not to Fight’: Adolescence, Criminality, and Black Youth Advocacy in Post-2020 Philadelphia,” Sophia Lindner, Yale University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 007: Colonial Racial Capitalism Today: Spectacularization, Dispossession, and Resistance
Room: Plymouth
Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizers &
Presiders: Nicolas Juarez, University of Michigan
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University
Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University
Description: Overt and spectacularized forms of colonial and racial dispossession have become increasingly common in the United States (e.g., the White House’s use of AI imagery to depict alligators in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uniforms; federal agents deployed into cities to “hunt down” immigrants). These acts have gone hand in hand with new forms of dispossession and privatization, such as the expansion of drilling on federal land and increased disinvestment in public institutions. This session invites work that examines the connections between spectacularized forms of extra-economic violence and dispossession in the current era of colonial racial capitalism. It also invites work that examines and/or implements innovative resistance strategies and possibilities.
Papers:
“World-Economy and Global Supply Chains: Theoretical Background,” David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
“‘Were They Coming Back For Revenge?’: State Violence and Indigenous Stereotypes in Minnesota Ghost Stories,” Kevin Revier, SUNY Cortland
“Alienation in the Colonial Context of Palestine: The Occupied Laborers in Israel as a Case Study,” Viletcia Barghouti, Michigan State University
“Children’s Perceptions of Conflict after October 7, 2023: An Analysis of Drawings Collected from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme between 2024–2025,” Uzma H. Chowdhury, Teachers College, Columbia University
“Infrastructures of Pain, Disorientation, and Dispersal: How the Unhoused Navigate Hostile Architecture in Washington, DC,” Ganesh A. Bhojwani, Denison University
“Freedom Doing: Abolitionist Movement Narratives in the U.S., 1820–2023,” Jadelynn C. Zhang, Emory University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
SSSP Business Meeting
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
PLENARY
Session 008: SSSP Business Meeting
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsor: Program Committee
Facilitator: Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
All members are invited to attend the SSSP Business Meeting for an update on the status and future of SSSP. Summary reports on the Society and its key activities this year will be given. In addition, thirty minutes will be allocated to a discussion in favor of or in opposition to all proposed resolutions. The meeting concludes with the traditional transfer of the gavel, marking the transition of duties from President Sarah Jane Brubaker to incoming President David G. Embrick.
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
PLENARY
Session 009: Town Hall: An Open Forum
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
Description: This year’s town hall continues the tradition of inviting all SSSP members – new and established - to join us for an open discussion of the current state of our organization. We want to hear from you about your experiences with SSSP and welcome your innovative ideas for moving us forward as a welcoming, inclusive space where academics, activists, and practitioners working together for social justice can thrive in community. Help us re-envision and recreate what SSSP can be!
Panelists:
Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant
Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College
Michele Smith Koontz, The Society for the Study of Social Problems
Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University
Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Editorial and Publications Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
Room: Minetta
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Social Problems Theory
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 010: Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
Room: Ambassador I
Sponsor: Law and Society
Organizers: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College
Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University
Presider: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College
Description: This thematic session on law and its (dis)contents examines how law operates through space to produce and manage crisis. Panelists will trace how legal regimes shape access to housing, public space, neighborhood belonging, and basic survival. Panelists will address the ways in which law structures precarity spatially, transforming the contexts of daily life into contested terrains of control and resistance.
Papers:
“Sacred Spaces and Queer Geographies: Spatial Violence in Homeless Services,” Taylor June and Madeline Yu Carrola, The Ohio State University
“Against Evictability: How Tenants Experience and Resist Precarity in the Chicago Housing Authority,” Rahim Kurwa, Almethia Franklin, Ronikia Beane and Sally Schmisek, University of Illinois Chicago
“Predatory Opacity: Bureaucratic Exclusion and Street Vendor Crackdowns in New Orleans,” AJ Golio, Tulane University
“Symbolic Violence in the Privatization of U.S. Public Housing,” Grace C. Sementilli, University at Buffalo, Winner of the Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Division’s Student Paper Competition
“The Digitally Defended Neighborhood: Suburban Neighborhood Change, Racial Threat, and Surveillance,” Max Lubell, The University of Texas at Austin
“Waiting for Housing: The Supply-Side Origin of Administrative Burden in Affordable Housing Provision,” Katherine Smock, University of California, Los Angeles
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 011: On Palestine
Room: Ambassador II
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College
Presiders: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College
hephzibah v. v. strmic-pawl, LaGuardia Community College
Discussant: hephzibah v. v. strmic-pawl, LaGuardia Community College
Description: This panel examines the history and contemporary dynamics of colonialism in Palestine and the broader Southwest Asia and North Africa region. Drawing on theoretical frameworks ranging from bare life to necropolitics, presenters analyze how colonial technologies converge to produce spatial and representational displacement of Palestinians. Amid ongoing violence and global political debate over rights to defense, sovereignty, and resistance, the session engages critical inquiry into these urgent questions. It also explores the rise of grassroots solidarity movements in the face of state-level denial and repression, asking whether a postcolonial future is possible and what pathways forward might look like.
Panelists:
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
Heba Gowayed, Hunter College, CUNY; The Graduate Center, CUNY
Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette University
Lila Sharif, Arizona State University
Max Ajl, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 012: GSBPC Works in Progress
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizers: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Hannah R. Regan, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Case Western Reserve University
Description: This roundtable is open to all topics related to gender and sexuality and their many intersections, especially projects that are early in the research process and seeking feedback or input.
Roundtable #1 Title: GSPCP Works in Progress
Presiders:
Ronald E. Bulanda, Miami University
Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant
Papers:
“Feminist Methods? Virtual Intimacy, Positionality, and Qualitative Methods in the Field,” Lauren Nicole Danielowski, University of Connecticut
“Fempathy? Femme Attitudes toward LGBTQ Individuals,” Meredith G. F. Worthen, The University of Oklahoma
“Negotiating Patriarchy in Public: Women-Only Spaces as Sites of Resistance and Reproduction in Pakistan,” Mahnoor Ahmed and Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon
“Intimacy, Gender, and Power in Contemporary Bollywood: Representations, Violence, and Community Implications (2017–2023),” Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant
“Marital Pressures and Well-Being among LGBTQ+ South Asians in the U.S.,” Ronald E. Bulanda, Miami University, Debarun Majumdar, Texas State University and Akshay Sharma, University of Michigan
“Negotiating Queer Identity in Intercultural Host Families: Agency and Belonging Abroad,” Michael Andres Cook, University of Oregon
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 013: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Problems and Issues in Medical Education, Policy, and the Health Professions in a Time of Social Backlash
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsors: Educational Problems
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizers: Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami University
Christine A. Beach, University of Arizona
Description: Many current and prospective educators and learners in academic medical and higher education are excluded from full participation based on race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, ableism, sexual orientation, and related characteristics. Yet many employ strategies such as leaning on epistemic communities, drawing on cultural connections, contributing expert knowledge, and resisting and persisting despite historical exclusion. This session explores how marginalized educators and learners participate in medical and health education. We also welcome works in progress highlighting innovative research designs and decolonizing methodologies that examine how members exert agency as they navigate their worlds. We are interested in the potential futures of medical and health education and broader institutions during this period of backlash against the participation of minoritized communities and the implications this has for society.
Roundtable #1 Title: Problems & Issues in Medical Education & Health Professions
Presider:
Christine A. Beach, University of Arizona
Papers:
“Building a Theoretical Framework of the U.S. Academic Medical Center as a Premier Institution and Site of Power: An Integrated Model Drawing from Neo-Institutional Theory and Foucauldian Governmentality, Normalization, and Discipline,” Christine A. Beach, University of Arizona
“Complicating the Health Professional Pathway: The Intersectional Lives of Transfer Students Interested in Health Professional Careers,” Monserat Rodriguez Rico and Nicole Perez, University of Illinois Chicago
“Changing Hearts at Risk Today (C.H.A.R.T.) Study: Examining Social, Cultural and Institutional Factors that Influence Black Males Receiving Health Recommendations for Cardiovascular Disease,” Carlos N. Chapman II and Junior R. Hopwood, Grambling State University
“Cut Open, Shut Out: Black Women’s Cesarean Birth Experiences, 1970–1990s,” Jonzelle Bell, University of Central Florida
“Preparing for Failure: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Preparedness to Care for LGBTQ+ Patients by Healthcare Students and Trainees Learning in the United States,” Atticus M. Wolfe, Agnes Scott College, Lexie Wille, Columbia University and Irving Medical Center and Tess Jewell, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
“‘I Want People to Know That I Am Here’: A Grounded Theory Analysis of International Medical Students in U.S. Academic Medical Centers,” Christine A. Beach, University of Arizona
Roundtable #2 Title: Policy in a Time of Social Backlash
Presider & Discussant:
Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami University
Papers:
“Health Insurance Patterns and the Transition to Adulthood in the United States,” Kathleen D'Alfonso, University at Buffalo, Honorable Mention of the Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Racial, Gendered, and Income-Based Inequalities in Health Care Access and Health Status: An Intersectional Analysis of U.S. Adults,” Syeda Erena Alam Dola, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Health Care Policy Knowledge and Education among Future Health Care Providers,” Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami University
“From Policy to Praxis: Health Institutions, Structural Inequality, and Lifeworlds in Jharkhand,” Keshav Sawarn, Indian Statistical Institute
“Breaking Cycles, Building Capacity: Understanding ACEs and Trauma-Informed Practices in Higher Education,” Jill Manuel, George Mason University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 014: Teaching Research Methods and Sociology Fundamentals: A Workshop for Learning about Open-Access Resources and Crowdsourcing Tips for Teaching
Room: Minskoff
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Presenter/Facilitators: Gabriela León-Pérez, Virginia Commonwealth University
Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Description: Do you teach research methods, introduction to sociology, or other courses on sociology fundamentals? Join us to discuss tips for teaching these classes in an engaging, accessible way. The authors of an open-access research methods textbook, The Craft of Sociological Research (https://viva.pressbooks.pub/sociology-research-methods), will introduce you to the wide world of open educational resources (OER), course materials that anyone is free to use and customize. We’ll discuss our methods textbook, how to find other open-access materials, and how to integrate them into your teaching. Then we’ll crowdsource ideas for what course structures, assignments, etc., work in teaching methods and other fundamentals. At the end, we’ll distribute the crowdsourced list—and raffle off a print copy of our textbook!
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 015: Building Community at SSSP
Room: Palace
Sponsor: Membership & Outreach Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Rin Ferraro, Sam Houston State University
Description: This session is designed to build community at SSSP. We welcome new and seasoned participants to dialogue about how to get the most out of this unique professional experience. The Membership and Outreach Committee and Executive Officer will share insights into organizational benefits, and your engagement will help SSSP cultivate the relationships our academic networks seek.
Panelists:
Jasmine S. Buenviaje, SUNY Oneonta
Rin Ferraro, Sam Houston State University
Samantha M. Frisk, University of Connecticut
Teresa Irene Gonzales, Loyola University Chicago
Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Jalia L. Joseph, James Madison University
Kayla M. Martensen, University of New Mexico
Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware
Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 016: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Institutional Inequalities: Constraints on Communication, Research, Organizing, and Action
Room: Pearl
Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Nicole Kraus, West Texas A&M University
Description: This session invites research addressing institutional stratification in the capacity to conduct research, organize social action, and communicate both internally and with the broader public. How are institutions weathering political and economic challenges, and what strategies have proven successful in retaining independence of thought and action both on and off campus?
Papers:
“The United States Supreme Court’s Ending of ‘Diversity’ as a Compelling State Interest in SFFA v. Harvard (2023): And the Recent Reemergence of the Contested Public Discourse on Racial Inclusion,” Gunercindo Antoneo Espinoza, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Higher Education Faculty and Students-Part of Today’s Working Class Struggle,” Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Howard University
“Racist Bullying and Betrayal in Higher Education,” Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY
“Platforms against the State,” Isak Ladegaard, University of Hong Kong
“Fighting Fascism is the Only Education That Matters,” Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College
“TBD,” Loren Henderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 017: Algorithmic Injustices: Effect of AI on Vulnerable (Marginalized) Communities
Room: Plymouth
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Environment and Technology
Organizers: Miltonette Olivia Craig, Sam Houston State University
Marko Salvaggio, Tulane University
Presider: Marko Salvaggio, Tulane University
Description: This session explores how AI technologies affect marginalized communities and the environment. Contributions may examine how algorithmic bias emerges in the criminal legal system—such as in predictive policing, crime risk assessments, and surveillance monitoring—as well as in environmental injustices, including biased resource management and inadequate allocation of environmental resources in low-income areas. Drawing on sociological theory, social research methodologies, and case studies, papers analyze the connections between AI technologies, marginalized groups, and environmental issues while proposing solutions for algorithmic accountability.
Papers:
“(Re)assembling Algorithmic Resistance: An Integrative Review of Research-Machines,” Thomas Zenkl, University of Graz
“Algorithmic Fraud Detection as Digital Redlining,” Mahir Takak, University of Connecticut
“Data Center Development, Community Organizing, and the Perception of Environmental Harm,” Sophia Cimino, University of Delaware
“Lean Start-Up for Data Justice: An Ethnography into the Design of a Community Data Coalition Seeking to Ground Homelessness Policy,” Maxime Goulet-Langlois, McGill University
“Silence in the Summary: Algorithmic Memory and the Public Imagination of the Montgomery Bus Boycott,” Joshua B. Blount, Tulane University
“Unsound Science in Policing Technology: Corporate Resistance to Social Movement Activism,” Gabriel Rojas, The University of Chicago
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Program Chair(s), 2025-26 & 2026-27 (Closed Meeting)
Room: Minetta
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Educational Problems
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Family, Aging, and Youth
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Global
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Room: Ambassador III
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 018: Masculinities & Political Power
Room: Ambassador I
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presider: Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto
Description: This session explores the dynamic interplay among masculinities, male supremacy, politics, and social structures, highlighting how gender norms both shape and are shaped by contemporary social issues. Presentations examine how constructions of masculinity intersect with political ideology, expertise, health discourse, and institutional power.
Papers:
“Masculinity after Hegemony: Gender in the Interregnum,” Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto
“Disorganized Loneliness: A Technofascist Framework,” Liz Wilcox, Boston College
“Illegitimate Expertise: Stigmatized Knowledge and Masculinity among Doomsday Preppers,” Jonathan Nathaniel Redman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Saverio Michael Roscigno, University of California, Irvine
“‘It’s Misogyny, Not a Diagnosis’: Reddit Discourse on Boys’ Mental Health and Masculinity in Netflix’s Adolescence,” Esmeralda Ramirez and Spenser Dill, The University of Texas at Austin, Jessica Frankeberger, Arizone State University and Manuel A. Ocasio, Tulane University School of Medicine
“Why Would I? Men’s Views of Novel Male Contraception,” Isaac E. Montalvo, University of Central Florida
“Women in Policing: The Trinidad and Tobago Gender Experience,” Karen Lancaster-Ellis, The University of the West Indies
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 019: All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance
Room: Ambassador II
Sponsors: Social Problems Theory
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Organizers: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University
Presider: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Discussant: Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University
Description: Emotions in sport, leisure, and bodily performance are more than entertainment. They are social forces that challenge domination, subvert authority, and reclaim joy. From locker rooms to stadiums, emotions have long resisted the corporatization and bureaucratization of play. Athletes, fans, comedians, and participants use feeling to confront racism, sexism, ableism, and political control. This session invites papers exploring emotions as lifeworld practices that resist colonization, whether through stand-up, memes, digital critique, community theater, or parody leagues that disrupt gender norms. We welcome work that examines feeling and performance as embodied resistance, a tool for solidarity, and a medium for reimagining the social, political, and economic conditions of sport and leisure.
Papers:
“A ‘Spoonful of Sugar’: Comedy, Connection, and LGBTQ+ Social Change,” Lisa M. Stulberg, New York University
“Doing the Work: How Frontline Mental Health Social Workers Make Meaning of Their Roles and Effectiveness in NYC Nonprofit Agencies,” Sabrina Hathweh-Stellwag, Adelphi University
“Social Exclusion and Institutional Management of Marginalized Athletes,” Vanchna Singh Parihar, Women and Child Development Department (WCD), Government of Madhya Pradesh and Mahesh Shukla, Government Thakur Ranmat Singh College of Excellence
“Sociological Perspectives of Sports and Politics,” Sanjay Tewari, Indian Sociological Society and Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
“Sportive Spirit: A Way of Life for Encountering Social Problems in Contemporary Society,” gurusamy sellamuthu, Gandhigram Rural University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 020: Caregivers, Care Recipients, and Health
Room: Minskoff
Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizers: William D. Cabin, New York University School of Social Work
Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire
Presider: Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire
Description: This session focuses on research examining the nature of, or alternatives to, current policies and practices governing formal and informal caregiving for individuals with health concerns. Presentations may address any jurisdictional level (national, state, or local) and may either analyze the impact of existing policies or practices on health outcomes or evaluate alternative approaches aimed at improving caregiving and health.
Papers:
“Care as a Gift: The Double Grammar of Interdependence in Personal Assistance Services in Korea,” Junghun Oh, Kyung Hee University
“Disruptive Illness, Care, and Coping in Cities of the Global South,” Sanjana Santosh, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
“Diverse Forms of Caregiving through Homeshare Programs with Older Adults,” Angela K. Perone, University of California Berkeley, Molly Calhoun, California State University, Chico, Susanna R. Curry, California State University, Sacramento, Leyi Zhou, Army Kieu Vi Ton Nu and Caitlin Subijanto, University of California Berkeley School of Social Welfare
“The Policies, Politics, and Contradictions of the Financialization of Care,” Robyn R. Rowe, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Hunter College, CUNY
“Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care among Older Immigrants: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 2020–2023,” Momna Rani, University of North Texas
“Caregiving Datasets and Access Issues for an Independent Scholar,” Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 021: Navigating Graduate School: Stress, Support, and Student Well-Being
Room: Palace
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Description: This panel brings together graduate students from diverse backgrounds to explore the unique challenges and stressors they encounter during their academic journey. Panelists will discuss a range of factors that contribute to graduate student stress, including navigating relationships with supervisors, maintaining work-life balance, overcoming cultural and institutional barriers, and managing financial pressures. By sharing personal experiences and strategies for self-care, this panel aims to foster a supportive dialogue and provide practical insights for sustaining well-being throughout graduate education.
Panelists:
Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University
Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Anna K. Wood, University of Michigan
Stephen Silva-Brave, The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 022: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching and Engaging with Reparations and Restorative Justice
Room: Pearl
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizers &
Presiders/Discussants: Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University
Description: In the current political context, pressures to erase marginalized histories and to ban the teaching of colonial, racialized, gendered, and classed histories—and their profound legacies and ongoing consequences—continue to mount. This session invites critical pedagogical interventions, analytical works, and case studies that center reparations as an ongoing political and practical necessity for reckoning with and addressing the impacts of historical and systemic harms.
Papers:
“Exploring the Efficacy of Support for Entrepreneurship in Detroit’s Motor City Match Program,” Marya R. Sosulski and Randi Mae Clayton-Ames, Michigan State University School of Social Work and Nathaniel G. Nowsch, Michigan State University
“Grassroots Agency: Community-Embedded Efforts to Address Urban Violence,” Cheryl A. Hyde, Temple University
“Teaching Ethnic Studies during a Complex Time: K-12 Ethnic Studies Educators in California,” Angeles Rubi Castorena, University of California, Irvine
“Wounded Healers: Community Resilience and Laughter Yoga in Rwanda and Detroit,” Paul Draus, University of Michigan–Dearborn
“Countermapping the City: Engaging Narrative and Visual Praxis for Urban Epistemic Justice,” Alexa Cinque, The University of Chicago
“Nothing about Us without Us? Allyship, Collective Identity, and Leadership in the Movement to Abolish Life without Parole Sentencing,” Kelsey Weymouth-Little, University of California, Irvine, Honorable Mention of the Conflict, Social Action, & Change Division’s Student Paper Competition
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 023: Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
Room: Plymouth
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Law and Society
Organizers: Peper E. Rivers, Indiana University
Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University
Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center
Presider: Peper E. Rivers, Indiana University
Description: Medical and legal systems have long relied on one another to manage populations deemed mentally ill, yet this interdependence produces outcomes far more complex than a simple medicalization-versus-criminalization binary. This session examines how therapeutic and punitive logics intertwine in practice, revealing institutional structures that perpetuate or obscure the challenges facing people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and criminal legal system involvement. The session also explores new directions in the study of drug use. Papers examine implementation strategies for community-based interventions and present collaborative research models that center the expertise of people who use drugs. Collectively, these contributions challenge us to move beyond false binaries, recognize carcerality wherever it operates, and imagine alternatives grounded in autonomy and meaningful community participation.
Papers:
“Beyond Criminalization versus Medicalization: Reconceptualizing the Criminalization of Mental Illness,” Mariya A. Khan, University of Illinois Chicago
“‘Artificial Motivation’: Civil Commitment, Rehabilitation, and the Cultural Production of Addiction as Legal Pathology (1961–1971),” Peper E. Rivers, Indiana University
“Identifying Implementation Strategies to Support Programming That Addresses Criminal Risk Factors for People with Serious Mental Illness within Community Behavioral Health Service Settings,” Natalie Bonfine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Amy Blank Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Faith Scanlon, Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Anna Parisi, George Mason University, Jonathan Phillips, University of Minnesota, Robert D. Morgan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Jamie Swaine and Caroline Ginley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Socioecological Correlates of Prison-Based MOUD Initiation among Persons with Opioid Use Disorder,” Carrie B. Oser, Marisa Booty and Maria Rockett, University of Kentucky
“Pursuing Legitimacy through Criminalization: A General Systems Theory Analysis of Behavioral Health System Response to Familiar Faces,” Leslie L. Wood, York Technical College, Stacey L. Barrenger and Shiah Kleinman, Northeast Ohio Medical University
“Doing Community-Based Research for Real,” Hiawatha Collins, Terrell Jones, Tom Blazsek and William Almodovar, Peer Network of New York, David Frank, Alex S. Bennett and Holly Hagan, New York University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Board of Directors Meeting II, 2025-26
Room: Minetta
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 024: Families in Distress: Caregiving for and with Family Members with Disabilities and/or Social Identity Challenges
Room: Ambassador I
Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Muhammed Faisol Olaitan, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Description: As the first social institution, the family plays a vital role in the survival and growth of its members. Families provide resources, nurturance, socialization, development of life skills, and support. Yet achieving these goals often comes with stress as families experience transitions, unexpected events, and shifting societal and political realities—all of which may be intensified for families of people with disabilities. This session explores how families experience and navigate such challenges, with particular attention to the development and integration of a family member with disabilities. Families can simultaneously provide support and serve as sites of additional crises. This session focuses on research examining the reciprocal relationship between support and stress within and around the family.
Papers:
“‘We (Don’t) Want to Be Like Them’: Self-Identity and Dramaturgical Dilemmas among Alcohol Abstainers at the University of Botswana,” Tebogo B. Sebeelo, University of Botswana
“Ajumobi O Kan T’Anu: Perpetrators of Victimization and the Effect on Women with Disabilities in Lagos State, Nigeria,” Muhammed Faisol Olaitan, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
“Between Joy and Social Exclusion: A Systematic Literature Review on the Recreational Sports Experiences of People with Overweight or Obesity,” Johannes Müller, University of Vienna
“Governance in Crisis, Families in Distress: Pandemic Management and Divorce across Nations,” Banafsheh Aghayeeabianeh, Arkansas State University, Janet P. Stamatel, University of Kentucky and Veena Kulkarni, Arkansas State University
“Narrative of Self-Care, Responsibility, and Moral Soundness in End-of-Life Social Care Services,” Rebecca M. Blackwell, University of South Florida and Marta C. Blackwell, Canadian Council for the Americas
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 025: Weaponization of Child Welfare
Room: Ambassador II
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizers: Miltonette Olivia Craig, Sam Houston State University
Denae J. Cook, University of Utah
Presider: Denae J. Cook, University of Utah
Description: This session examines how child welfare systems often operate as tools of control and surveillance to regulate lifeworlds. Within contemporary child welfare systems, marginalized families and BIPOC communities are disproportionately surveilled, investigated, and separated. Under the guise of “protection,” policies and practices dismantle kinship networks, impose white, middle-class family norms, and punish families for systemic inequities beyond their control. Panelists demonstrate how these patterns reflect colonial practices and dominant carceral systems while overlooking community-driven solutions. Discussants explore ways to resist harmful colonialist practices and imagine new approaches to child and family well-being rooted in dignity, solidarity, and collective care.
Papers:
“‘I Wouldn’t Want Your Job’: Child Protection as Dirty Work,” Keith R. Johnson, Independent Scholar
“Disparate Child Welfare Responses to Sexual Abuse Cases involving AI/AN Children: Context, Actions, and Outcomes,” Paul D. Steele, The University of New Mexico, Emeritus
“From Care to Compliance: Mothers’ Everyday Resistance to Digital Welfare Bureaucracy,” Tasnim Binte Maksud, University of Houston
“Girls, Take Care and Boys Be a Man: Gendered Interventions in Policing ‘Delinquency’ among Latina Youth,” Alexia Palomino-Cortez, University of Illinois Chicago
“Governing the Poor: Poverty, Perception, and Child Welfare Reunification: A Scoping Review of Poverty Bias in Child Welfare between 2015–2025,” Denae J. Cook, University of Utah
“Racial Violence in the Name of Care: Neoliberalism, Carcerality, and the Afterlives of MacLaren Hall,” Akhila L. Ananth, California State University, Los Angeles
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 026: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Scholar Café: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsor: Community, Research, and Practice
Organizer: Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Description: This session offers a roundtable opportunity for intergenerational sharing of experiences as social justice and social problems scholars. In a recent gathering, participants identified the significant wisdom within the membership of SSSP, as well as a clear opportunity to build stronger bonds to sustain scholars during an increasingly challenging higher education landscape. This session is designed as a set of prompted roundtable discussions to encourage participants to share their professional journeys, discuss pressing issues in their work, and build connections for future scholarship and action.
Roundtable #1 Title: Scholar Café: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
Presider:
Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Papers:
“A Systematic Review of Prejudice against Immigrant Women in Organizational Leadership in the United States,” Vanessa Ampofoa Boadu, Ohio University
“Contesting the Court: Reform and Retrenchment in Criminal and Racial Justice Activism,” Cathy Hu, University of California, Berkeley
“Elders’ Stories of Resilience and Resistance Guide Young People into a Climate-Changed Future: A Student-Led Oral History Collection,” Finn McLafferty Bell, University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Navigating Civilian Life After Combat: Veterans’ Perspectives,” Melissa Villarreal, Nicholas K. Stevenson and Angel M. Burns, Grand Valley State University
“Teaching and Researching Race, Gender and Migration in Texas,” Luis A. Romero and Amina Zarrugh, Texas Christian University
“Which Relationships Matter? The Mediating Effect of Social Bonds on Immigration and Crime,” Sirat Kaur, University at Buffalo
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 027: WORKS IN PROGRESS / RESEARCH FEEDBACK: Media and Technology as Sites of Digital Contestation and Resistance
Room: Ambassador III
Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Organizer: Sara Tehrani, University of Central Florida
Description: Resistance and social action manifest across a range of spaces, including the symbolic and discursive realms of media and technology. This session conceptualizes media and technology as dynamic arenas of social engagement, contestation, and transformation. It examines how individuals, communities, and movements strategically mobilize digital platforms, technological tools, and AI systems to articulate identities, confront inequality, amplify marginalized voices, raise awareness of social problems, organize collective action, and contest dominant narratives. Papers may examine a range of topics at the intersections of media, technology, and social change, including digital activism, cultural production, political communication, grassroots organizing, algorithmic bias, platform politics, and the role of media technologies in shaping public discourse and policy outcomes.
Roundtable #1 Title: AI, Technology, and Education and Pedagogy
Presider:
Marina I. Rivera Ramos, Rutgers University
Papers:
“Visualizing Opportunity: Using Community Asset Mapping to Uncover Trends in Resource Mobilization and Positive Outcomes in Detroit’s Motor City Match Grant Program,” Marya R. Sosulski, Michigan State University School of Social Work, Nathaniel G. Nowsch, Michigan State University and Randi Mae Clayton-Ames, Michigan State University School of Social Work
“Experiments in AI-Engaged Pedagogy,” Greg Scott and Julie Patarin-Jossec, DePaul University
“Co-Creating Artificial Intelligence Classroom Policies,” Atticus M. Wolfe, Agnes Scott College
“Virtual Co-Learning as Resistance: An Analysis of an Online Community Co-Producing Knowledge toward Post-Capitalist and Entangled Futures,” Marina I. Rivera Ramos, Rutgers University
“Exploring Motivations for Online Courses at MSIs and PWIs,” Kea Saper, University of California, San Diego
“Digital Connectivity and Social Solidarity,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Roundtable #2 Title: Media, Technology, and Inequality
Presider:
Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon
Papers:
“‘Comphet Is Ableism’s Next-Door Neighbor’: #Neuroqueer Counterdiscourses on TikTok,” Jules Vivid, Rutgers University
“Digital Activism: Social Media, Framing and Collective Action in the Struggle against Femicide in Kenya,” Constance Manga Ndeleko and Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon
“Beyond Basic Skills: Intersectional Digital Health Literacy Challenges and Resources for Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Hong Kong,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University and Adwoa Owusuaa Koduah, Tung Wah College
“Media as a Site of Transformation and Resistance in the Weight-Inclusive Healthcare Movement,” Gabby Gomez, Macalester College
“Supply and Care: Campus Food Pantries and Graduate Student Hunger at an Elite University,” Ambria Jones, Brandeis University
“The Professional Medicalization of Homelessness: Poverty Governance and Doctoring in the Streets of the City,” Irene Del Mastro Naccarato, University of California, Los Angeles
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 028: The Problem Pipeline: How Social Problems Become Research Agendas - Special Issue of Global Discourse
Room: Minskoff
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Discussant: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Co-Presiders: Glenn Muschert, Khalifa University
Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Description: This session examines how social problems come to be defined, prioritized, and legitimized within academic research. It asks how scholarly agendas are shaped by institutional incentives, funding structures, publication economies, and disciplinary traditions. In dialogue with the 2026 Society for the Study of Social Problems theme, Resisting Colonization of Lifeworlds, the session treats the “problem pipeline” as a site where academic knowledge production can either reproduce extractive logics or defend lifeworlds as spaces of meaning, care, and solidarity. We invite theoretical, empirical, methodological, and reflexive contributions that interrogate how special issues, edited volumes, and other gatekeeping mechanisms shape research priorities, distribute scholarly attention, and influence justice, equity, and public engagement within the social sciences.
Panelists:
Joel Best, University of Delaware
Jarrett Robert Rose, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Virginia Berndt, McDaniel College
Glenn Muschert, Khalifa University
Douglas V. Porpora, Drexel University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 029: Humanist Sociology: past, Present and Future
Room: Palace
Sponsors: Association for Humanist Sociology
Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College
Description: This session will examine the history of humanist sociology and its role in encouraging, supporting and practicing activist scholarship. While some panelists will look at past efforts and the Association for Humanist Sociology in particular, most will focus on contemporary practices and approaches for humanist sociology. After brief comments from the panelists we hope to spend much of our time in critical dialogues about the future of humanist sociology and its place within and outside of the discipline.
Panelists:
Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Holy Cross College
Bhoomi K. Thakore, University of Connecticut
Willow Sipling, Western Michigan University
Armani Beck, Dartmouth College
Chenesia Brown, State University of New York-Oswego
Nancy Rios-Contreras, Chapman University
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 030: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Fighting Global Inequalities: Actions towards Social, Ethnoracial and/or Gender Justice
Room: Pearl
Sponsors: Global
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizers: Nicole Kraus, West Texas A&M University
Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida
Presider/Discussant: Nicole Kraus, West Texas A&M University
Description: Since the onset of globalization, inequalities have been on the rise. While class struggle remains central, other forms of inequality—such as those based on gender, race, and ethnicity—have become increasingly recognized across societies. These inequalities have a decisive global impact, particularly in the asymmetries between the Global North and the Global South in terms of power differentials, access to resources, and extractivism. This critical dialogue invites speakers to address these issues, with particular attention to examples of resistance that seek to confront and transform such inequalities.
Papers:
“Compositional and Scale Effects: How Foreign Direct Investment Shapes Informal Employment in Latin America, 2000–2018,” Ang Li, Brown University
“From Women’s Gold to Men’s Market: Global Value Chains and Evolving Traditions in Nigeria’s Shea Economy,” Idowu Alabi, Wayne State University, Winner of the Global Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Haryanvi Jaat Girls’ Affective Resistance as Micro-Modal Feminist Activism,” Namrata Shokeen, Arizona State University
“La Colectíva: A Plática about Collective, Community-Centered Care and Resistance Responding to the Impacts of ICE Family Separations,” Florence Emily Castillo, Rice University; La Colectíva NTX, Sandra E. Avalos, La Colectíva NTX; People of Color in Action, Angélica Elizabeth Andrade and Francisco Mercado-Romero, La Colectíva NTX
“Methamphetamine Use in Mexico City: Identifying Preliminary Patterns, Drug Checking, and HIV Risk,” Alice Cepeda, Arizona State University, Jessica Frankeberger, Arizone State University, Mario Dominguez, Eduardo Zafra, Carlos Zamudio and Nefertari Rincon-Guerra, Arizona State University, Esmeralda Ramirez, The University of Texas at Austin and Avelardo Valdez, Arizona State University
“Unstable Categories: Creativity and Vulnerability in Transnational Transgender Politics,” J. Michael Ryan, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 031: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives
Room: Plymouth
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Law and Society
Organizer: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Presider: Hara Bastas, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Description: This session examines the intersections of gender and violence across global contexts. Papers explore gender-based violence, gendered patterns in criminal behavior, and anti-violence movements, with attention to legal systems and broader institutional dynamics.
Papers:
“Everyday Violence and Structural Inequality: Caste and Gender Oppression of Dalit Women in Punjab,” Ritu Singh, University of Delhi and Ravinder Goyat, Independent Researcher
“Feminist Knowledge as Praxis: Resisting Femicide in Türkiye,” Fatime Güneş, Anadolu University
“Gender Norms and Violence: Attitudes toward Rape and Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria,” Patricia Mmeri Ebubechukwu, Illinois State University
“Gendered Exploitation and Reproductive Injustice: Mapping Baby-Factory Networks in South-East Nigeria,” Ijeoma Mercy Ogba-Amaugo, Abia State University
“Impediments of South African Police Service Personnel in Policing Gender-Based Violence (GBV),” Emeka E. Obioha and Ishmael Mugari, Walter Sisulu University
“Strategizing Gender: Experiences of Transmasculine Folk with Police and Security Forces in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires,” Francis J. Fabre, The University of Chicago
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Welcoming Reception
Room: Gershwin Foyer
Date: Friday, August 7
Time: 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Student Social Hour
Room: Foundry Bar (private section)
