Recent Announcements from The theory section
The ASA Theory section posts announcements from diverse sources of potential interest to its members.
2022 Junior Theorists Symposium
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, February 25, 2022 - 11:59 p.m. PST
Held via in-person/zoom hybrid on August 4th (additional details TBD)*
We invite submissions of précis for the 16th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS). The annual symposium will be held in person on August 4th (additional details TBD) prior to the 2022 ASA Annual Meeting. The JTS is a conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined.
It is our honor to announce that Steven Epstein (Northwestern University), Saskia Sassen (Columbia University), and Mario Small (Harvard University) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Paul Joosse (Hong Kong University) and Robin Willey (Concordia University of Edmonton), winners of the 2021 Junior Theorist Award, will deliver a keynote address. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Theorizing Intersections,” with panelists Tey Meadow (Columbia University), Tianna Paschel (UC Berkeley), Vrushali Patil (Florida International University), Mary Romero (Arizona State), and Adia Harvey Wingfield (Washington University St. Louis).
We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2018 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.
As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology. and we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.
Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form. Tara Gonsalves (University of California at Berkeley) and Davon Norris (The Ohio State University) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. The deadline is Friday, February 25th. By mid-March, we will extend 9 invitations to present at JTS 2022. Please plan to share a full paper by July 5, 2022. Presenters will be asked to attend the symposium in its entirety in order to hear fellow scholars’ work. Please plan accordingly.
*Presenters should plan to attend in-person, though this may change based on the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is our honor to announce that Steven Epstein (Northwestern University), Saskia Sassen (Columbia University), and Mario Small (Harvard University) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Paul Joosse (Hong Kong University) and Robin Willey (Concordia University of Edmonton), winners of the 2021 Junior Theorist Award, will deliver a keynote address. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Theorizing Intersections,” with panelists Tey Meadow (Columbia University), Tianna Paschel (UC Berkeley), Vrushali Patil (Florida International University), Mary Romero (Arizona State), and Adia Harvey Wingfield (Washington University St. Louis).
We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2018 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.
As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology. and we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.
Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form. Tara Gonsalves (University of California at Berkeley) and Davon Norris (The Ohio State University) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. The deadline is Friday, February 25th. By mid-March, we will extend 9 invitations to present at JTS 2022. Please plan to share a full paper by July 5, 2022. Presenters will be asked to attend the symposium in its entirety in order to hear fellow scholars’ work. Please plan accordingly.
*Presenters should plan to attend in-person, though this may change based on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pre-ASA announcements August 4, 2021
The Junior Theory Symposium (JTS) begins tomorrow, August 5th! You can find the program and information on how to register here: http://www.asatheory.org/junior-theorist-symposium.html
The Theory Section Business Meeting is Sun, August 8, 4:15 to 4:45pm EDT, Room 69.
Our main agenda is to nominate volunteers for our committees (including our prize committees), and to present this year’s awards (see http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/2021-asa-theory-section-awards).
Please plan to attend, as the meeting needs to meet a 25-participant quorum in order for its nominations to be valid according to our bylaws.
Our main agenda is to nominate volunteers for our committees (including our prize committees), and to present this year’s awards (see http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/2021-asa-theory-section-awards).
Please plan to attend, as the meeting needs to meet a 25-participant quorum in order for its nominations to be valid according to our bylaws.
The theory program at the ASA annual meeting is available here:
http://www.asatheory.org/theory-events-asa-virtual-engagement-meeting.html
http://www.asatheory.org/theory-events-asa-virtual-engagement-meeting.html
Theory Section Council Meeting
Date: Sat, August 7, 10:00 to 10:45am EDT, VAM, Room 19
Theory Section Business Meeting
Date: Sun, August 8, 4:15 to 4:45pm EDT, VAM, Room 69
Date: Sat, August 7, 10:00 to 10:45am EDT, VAM, Room 19
Theory Section Business Meeting
Date: Sun, August 8, 4:15 to 4:45pm EDT, VAM, Room 69
Past announcements
2021 Junior Theorists Symposium
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, February 19, 2021
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, February 19, 2021
We invite submissions of précis for the 15th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS). The symposium will be held over Zoom on August 6th (additional dates TBD) prior to the 2021 ASA Virtual Annual Meeting. The JTS is a conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined.
It is our honor to announce that Jean Beaman (University of California, Santa Barbara), Gil Eyal (Columbia University), and Frederick Wherry (Princeton University) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Kyle Green (SUNY Brockport) and Daniel Winchester (Purdue), winners of the 2019 Junior Theorist Award, and Neil Gong (University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego), winner of the 2020 Junior Theorist Award will deliver keynote addresses. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Theorizing for Troubled Times,” with panelists Javier Auyero (University of Texas, Austin), Jennifer Carlson (University of Arizona), Harvey Molotch (New York University), Christina Simko (Williams), and Howard Winant (University of California, Santa Barbara).
We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2017 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.
As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology, we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.
Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form. Sarah Brothers (Yale) and Laura Halcomb (University of California, Santa Barbara) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. The deadline is Friday, February 19th. By mid-March, we will extend up to 12 invitations to present at JTS 2021. Please plan to share a full paper by July 6, 2021. Presenters will be asked to attend the symposium in its entirety in order to hear fellow scholars’ work. Please plan accordingly.
It is our honor to announce that Jean Beaman (University of California, Santa Barbara), Gil Eyal (Columbia University), and Frederick Wherry (Princeton University) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Kyle Green (SUNY Brockport) and Daniel Winchester (Purdue), winners of the 2019 Junior Theorist Award, and Neil Gong (University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego), winner of the 2020 Junior Theorist Award will deliver keynote addresses. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Theorizing for Troubled Times,” with panelists Javier Auyero (University of Texas, Austin), Jennifer Carlson (University of Arizona), Harvey Molotch (New York University), Christina Simko (Williams), and Howard Winant (University of California, Santa Barbara).
We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2017 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.
As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology, we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.
Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form. Sarah Brothers (Yale) and Laura Halcomb (University of California, Santa Barbara) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. The deadline is Friday, February 19th. By mid-March, we will extend up to 12 invitations to present at JTS 2021. Please plan to share a full paper by July 6, 2021. Presenters will be asked to attend the symposium in its entirety in order to hear fellow scholars’ work. Please plan accordingly.
June 2020
The ASA's recent election:
Chair-Elect: Claudio Benzecry, Northwestern University
Secretary-Treasurer: Claire Decoteau, University of Illinois at Chicago
Council: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School
Julian Go, University of Chicago
Student Representative to Council: Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California
ASA 2020 Virtual Engagement
The Theory Section has a diversity of offerings for this year’s virtual engagement.
Coming soon: Our site will offer an informational page with details about sessions from the Theory section.
Junior Theorists Symposium
The Junior Theorists Symposium has strong plans for the ASA 2020 Meeting.
Please see their page for details.
Perspectives
Following the publication of the summer issue we welcome the new editorial team for Perspectives:
Vasfiye Toprak (University of Virginia), Abbie Moore (University of Virginia), and Anne Taylor (Yale University).
Thank you to the current editorial team: Luis Flores, Pinar Ustel, and Dylan Nelson and Chair-Elect Simone Polillo
Award Announcements
Shils-Coleman Award for the best paper produced by a graduate student:
Recipient: Aaron Horvath, "From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational Supererogation and the Transformation of Nonprofit Disclosure."
Committee: Josh Pacewicz (Chair), Alex Barnard, Marco Garrido, Barbara Kiviat, Mikell Hyman
Junior Theorist Award for the best paper produced by an early career sociologist:
Recipient: Neil Gong, "Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family," American Sociological Review 84 (2019): 664-689.
Committee: Stephanie Mudge (Chair), Daniel Hirschman, Shai Dromi, Kyle Green
Theory Prize for the best book in the field of social theory:
Recipient: Ari Adut, Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Committee: Margaret Frye (Chair), Kimberly Kay Hoang, Jaeeun Kim, Iddo Tavory, Fiona Greenland
Honorable mentions:
Michal Pagis, Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Sarah Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Lewis A. Coser Award given to a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology:
Recipient: Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago
Committee: Greta Krippner (Chair), Sharmila Rudrappa, Suzanna Walters, Wendy Simonds, Chandra Mukerji
The ASA's recent election:
Chair-Elect: Claudio Benzecry, Northwestern University
Secretary-Treasurer: Claire Decoteau, University of Illinois at Chicago
Council: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School
Julian Go, University of Chicago
Student Representative to Council: Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California
ASA 2020 Virtual Engagement
The Theory Section has a diversity of offerings for this year’s virtual engagement.
Coming soon: Our site will offer an informational page with details about sessions from the Theory section.
Junior Theorists Symposium
The Junior Theorists Symposium has strong plans for the ASA 2020 Meeting.
Please see their page for details.
Perspectives
Following the publication of the summer issue we welcome the new editorial team for Perspectives:
Vasfiye Toprak (University of Virginia), Abbie Moore (University of Virginia), and Anne Taylor (Yale University).
Thank you to the current editorial team: Luis Flores, Pinar Ustel, and Dylan Nelson and Chair-Elect Simone Polillo
Award Announcements
Shils-Coleman Award for the best paper produced by a graduate student:
Recipient: Aaron Horvath, "From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational Supererogation and the Transformation of Nonprofit Disclosure."
Committee: Josh Pacewicz (Chair), Alex Barnard, Marco Garrido, Barbara Kiviat, Mikell Hyman
Junior Theorist Award for the best paper produced by an early career sociologist:
Recipient: Neil Gong, "Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family," American Sociological Review 84 (2019): 664-689.
Committee: Stephanie Mudge (Chair), Daniel Hirschman, Shai Dromi, Kyle Green
Theory Prize for the best book in the field of social theory:
Recipient: Ari Adut, Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Committee: Margaret Frye (Chair), Kimberly Kay Hoang, Jaeeun Kim, Iddo Tavory, Fiona Greenland
Honorable mentions:
Michal Pagis, Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Sarah Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Lewis A. Coser Award given to a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology:
Recipient: Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago
Committee: Greta Krippner (Chair), Sharmila Rudrappa, Suzanna Walters, Wendy Simonds, Chandra Mukerji
