SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Chair, 2025-26
Room: Chicago Room
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 084: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Sociologists as Workers and Political Actors in Today’s Multiracial and Multigendered Working Class Struggle
Room: Crystal Room
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Howard University
Description: The university is a microcosm of society. Its purpose is to produce the next generation of workers and to reproduce the existing class relations. Crises within the corporate university are part of global capitalist crises. Sociologists, as workers, face deteriorating economic working conditions, an attack on tenure, and increasing censorship and repression in relation to teaching, research, and political expression. Ironically, sociology has contributed to invisibilizing the concept of working class. Is the resolution to the crises we are experiencing located in becoming more professionalized, more accepting of our exploitation and oppression as workers or should we be organizing collectively as a front of today’s multiracial and multigendered working class struggle? What could this look like?
Papers:
“Consciousness, Vision, & Strategy: Black Women Fighting beyond Survival,” Nicole Rousseau, Howard University and Brittney Autry, Purdue University Northwest
“Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Betrayals of the Academic ‘Working Class’,” Olivia Perlow, Northeastern Illinois University and Sheldon Applewhite, Borough of Manhattan Community College
“Finding Love in the Swamp: Solidarity and Identity in the M(or)ass Struggle,” Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College
“The Possibility of Black Sociology,” Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College
“Sociology as a Suspect Discipline: Lessons from Post-Soviet Societies,” Leontina Hormel, University of Idaho
“Wokeness as Revolutionary Praxis in the Academy and Beyond: Exploring Anti-Wokeness and Anti-Marxist Propaganda as Hegemonic Social Control,” Zoe Spencer Harris, Virginia State University
“Revolutionary Praxis behind the Wall: The Struggle of a Black Sociologist in Prison Education at an HBCU,” Anthony Jerald Jackson, Bowie State University
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 085: Technology, Surveillance and Access to Health Services
Room: Indiana Room
Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Description: This session will explore the use - and developments of - technology in healthcare, surveillance of patients and medical providers, and access to services across healthcare services.
Papers:
“Promoting Digital Skills for Health Equity in Digital Era,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
“Commercial Sex Trafficking Dynamics in South Asia,” Natasha Israt Kabir, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
“Foreign Experts, Local Problems: Tracing the Transnational Movement and Application of Medical Expertise in Cambodian Nongovernmental Organizations,” Derek Richardson, Indiana University Bloomington
“Negotiating Silicocratic Biomedicalization: Healthcare, Market, and the Emergence of Biomedical-AI Dual Experts in South Korea,” June Jeon and Kwang Hyuck Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
“Self-care in Response to Care Scarcity and Systemic Marginalization: Challenging the Narrative in AMR Policy,” Agata Pacho, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
“Examining the Eco-gender Gap: Emotion and Gender in Environmental Concern Research,” Helen E. Wilds, University of Tennessee
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 086: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Everyday Work of Abolition
Room: Kimball Room
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Keisha M. Muia, Portland State University
Jayne Malenfant, McGill University
Presider/Discussant: To Be Determined, TBD
Description: This session will explore abolition and focus on institutional ethnography and other critical approaches to research and action.
Papers:
“Abolitionist Struggle in Practice: The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and the Fight to End Prison Slavery in Minnesota,” Isabella Irtifa, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Creating Spaces Where We Can Breathe: Abolitionist-decolonial Environmental Justice Praxis,” Ki'Amber Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Humanizing, Relational, and Everyday Approaches to Advocacy and Abolitionist Praxis,” Libby Vigil, The University of New Mexico
“Prairieland Solidarity Committee: The Early Days of an Abolitionist Organization against a Texas Immigrant Prison,” Luis A. Romero, Texas Christian University
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 087: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance on College Campuses
Room: Wabash Room
Sponsors: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Global
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Amani M. Awwad, SUNY Canton
Description: This session will focus on the history of resistance on college campuses. The focus will be on how such activity was received by the college administration, law enforcement, and party politics. Further exploration of the political, economic, social, and ideological implications of how the state, local and federal government agencies dealt/deal with such resistance movement on college campuses.
Papers:
“New Social Geographies of Solidarity: Student Protests and Political Consciousnesses,” Jason C. Mueller, Kennesaw State University
“From Campus to Battlefield: Policing Empires and the Disruption of Student Protests,” Kariar Al-Naiem, University of California, Irvine
“The U.S Media v. Universities: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Pro-Palestine Student Protests,” Reese Castro, DePaul University
“‘Where’s Nancy?’ Theorizing Suggestive Violence,” Liz Wilcox, Boston College
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 088: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
Room: Wilson Room
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
Description: The publishing process can be confusing at times even for the seasoned scholar. In this session, the co-editors of Social Problems share their experiences as editors, authors, and reviewers and discuss the process of publishing in the journal.
Panelists:
Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
Michael A. Long, Oklahoma State University
Rachel M. Schmitz, Oklahoma State University
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 089: Community-Based Solutions to Criminal Justice Problems
Room: Buckingham Room
Sponsor: Crime and Justice
Organizers &
Presiders: Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University
Shaneya Nyasia Simmelkjaer, Syracuse University
Description: This session will explore the formal and informal mechanisms by which communities organize and/or respond to criminal justice problems that are either created by or remain unsolved by traditional criminal-legal institutions.
Papers:
“Making Communities Safe and Strong: Neighbors and Police Collaboration,” Natasha C. Pratt-Harris, Morgan State University, James J. Nolan and Henry H. Brownstein, West Virginia University
“PIC, CIT, EDPRT, Social Workers…Why Mental Health Crisis Teams Dominated by Police Fail in Rochester, NY,” Ted Forsyth, Syracuse University
“The Diffusion of Policing Alternatives in U.S. Cities after the George Floyd Protests,” Aaron Stagoff-Belfort and Robert Vargas, The University of Chicago and Angela Zorro-Medina, University of Toronto
“Police Abolition as Community Practice: Lessons from an Applied Project,” Luis Alberto Fernandez, Northern Arizona University
“Purposeful Living Units Serve (PLUS): Rehabilitation and Servant Leadership in the Indiana Department of Correction’s Intra-prison Programming,” Peper E. Rivers, Indiana University
“Disturbed Topsoil: The Disappeared, Immeasurable Resistance, and Mexico’s Social Fabric,” Pedro J. Gonzalez, Northern Arizona University
