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Call for ASA OOW Section Award Nominations!

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Organizations, Occupations, and Work

James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award
The James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper in the area of organizations, occupations, and work, written or published within the last three years (2023, 2024, 2025).  Publication date is based on print publication for traditional journals (i.e., not online-first date) and release date for online-only journals.  Paper co-authored with faculty members are not eligible for this award. Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate a paper, please submit the following materials via email to all members of the committee: (1) a PDF of the paper, (2) a brief letter highlighting the paper’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work, and (3) contact information for the nominee.  Use “Thompson Paper Award Nomination 2026” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2026 to:

Aliya Hamid Rao (Committee Chair)
London School of Economics 
a.h.rao@lse.ac.uk

Committee members: 
Julia Dessauer, Indiana University
Nino Bariolo, University of Toronto

W. Richard Scott Article Award
The W. Richard Scott Article Award is granted for an outstanding article in the area of organizations, occupations, and work published within the last three years (2023, 2024, 2025).  Publication date is based on print publication for traditional journals (i.e., not online-first date) and release date for online-only journals.  Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate an article, please submit the following materials via email to all members of the committee: (1) a PDF of the article, (2) a brief letter (PDF or MSWord) highlighting the article’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and (3) contact information for the nominee.  Use “Scott Article Award Nomination 2026” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2026 to:

Youngjoo Cha (Committee Chair)
Indiana University
cha5@iu.edu

Committee members: 
Leroy Gonsalves, Boston University
Angelina Grigoryeva, University of Toronto
Jennifer Merluzzi, George Washington University

Max Weber Book Award
The Max Weber Book Award is granted for an outstanding book in the area of organizations, occupations, and work published within the last three years (2024, 2025, 2026).  Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.  

To nominate a book, please submit via email a brief nomination letter highlighting the book’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work and including contact information for the nominee.  Use “Weber Book Award Nomination 2026” as the subject line of your email.  In addition, send a hard or digital copy of the book to each committee member at the mailing addresses or the email addresses provided below.  Books should be received by the submission deadline.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2026 to:

Laura Doering (Committee Chair)
University of Toronto
laura.doering@utoronto.ca
Mailing address:
University of Toronto
105 Saint George St
Toronto, ON M5S 3E6, Canada

Malissa Alinor, UNC Chapel Hill
malinor@unc.edu
Mailing address:
UNC Chapel Hill 
Abernethy Hall 
131 S. Columbia St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Xi Wang, Northwestern University
XiWang2026@u.northwestern.edu
Mailing address:
6000 N Sheridan Rd #509 
Chicago, IL 60660

Kim de Laat, University of Waterloo
kim.delaat@uwaterloo.ca
Mailing address:
125 St. Patrick Street
Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business
University of Waterloo
Stratford, ON 
N5A 0C1
Canada

Heba Alex, University of Chicago
halex@uchicago.edu
Mailing Address:
University of Chicago
Department of Sociology
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Tiantian Yang, University of Pennsylvania
yangtt@wharton.upenn.edu
Mailing address:
University of Pennsylvania
Office 2025 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104



Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award
The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a career of outstanding contributions to the area of organizations, occupations, and work.  Nominations are judged on the depth and breadth of impact through scholarship, teaching and/or service over an extended time and across multiple projects, initiatives, and roles.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

The section retains and considers nominations for the Kanter Award over a 3-year cycle.  Thus, this year’s committee will consider nominations submitted in 2024, 2025, and 2026.  Nominations submitted in 2026 but not selected will remain in the pool for the 2027 and 2028 award years.

To submit a nomination, send the following materials to the selection committee: (1) a letter of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s contributions to the field, (2) a copy of the nominee’s most recent curriculum vitae, and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email address). Nomination materials may also include supporting letters and up to 10 of the nominee’s publications in electronic form.  All nomination materials should be in PDF or word format and submitted as email attachments (a single email if possible).  Use “Kanter Career Award Nomination 2026” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2026 to:

Eunmi Mun (Committee Chair)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
eunmimun@illinois.edu

Committee members: 
Callen Anthony, New York University
Caroline Hanley, College of William & Mary
Malte Reichelt, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität

2025 ASA OOW SECTION AWARDS

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Congratulations to the 2025 award recipients for their achievements!

Dr. Heather A. Haveman (middle) received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award for 2025

Dr. Katherine Sobering won the 2025 Max Weber Book Award for her book The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2022).

Anna Fox (left) won the James Thompson Graduate Paper Award for her paper “Covalent Logics: Policing, Family Values, and the Reproduction of Inequality.”

Dr. Katherine Weisshaar (left), Dr. Koji Chavez (in the middle), and Dr. Tania Hutt (not in the picture) won the W. Richard Scott Article Award for their paper “Hiring Discrimination Under Pressures to Diversify: Gender, Race, and Diversity Commodification across Job Transitions in Software Engineering,” published in American Sociological Review.

Announcement: Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

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Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

Submissions are now open for the Work and Family Researchers Network 8th Biennial Conference, June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. More than 400 scholars are anticipated to attend. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. 

Submission deadline is October 1, 2025.
Upon request, submissions received by September 1, 2025, will be expedited to facilitate Canadian visa approval.

To submit your paper, poster, or session proposal, follow this link: https://wfrn26.mymeetingsavvy.net/. 

For more information on the 2026 conference and travel to Canada, visit the conference webpage: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/

Announcement: Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

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Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

Register for the semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at the ASA Annual Meeting on Friday, August 8. Spots are limited; sign up here.

The semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop is back this summer from 9 am to 5 pm on Friday, August 8, 2025 – the day of pre-conference activities for the ASA annual meeting in Chicago. 

The Summer 2025 GPO organizing team welcomes anyone working on gender, professions, and organizations (broadly defined; if you’re unsure if your work applies, it likely does). Our goals are to foster connection and collaboration, build community across career stages, and dedicate time for writing. We encourage new and returning participants! 

The full-day workshop is organized into two standalone sessions, each with time for connecting and writing, and a lunch break in between. Participants are welcome to join for the morning, afternoon, or both. 

Anyone registered for ASA is welcome to join the workshop at no additional cost; however, space is limited. Participants should bring their own charged laptop computers (and possibly an extension cord) and snacks to share, as additional funding is not available. 

Please contact one of the current organizers with any questions. Register by July 27, using this form. 

Kristen McNeill (kristen.mcneill@graduateinstitute.ch, Assistant Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute)

Former organizers: Sharla Alegria, Melissa Abad, Ethel Mickey, Elizabeta Shifrin, Rodica Lisnic, Kathrin Zippel, Laura Kramer, Christina Falci, Laura Hirshfield, Julia McQuillan, Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch, Shauna Morimoto, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Announcement: The Work and Family Researchers Network Conference will be held June 17-20, 2026, at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada

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The next Work and Family Researchers Network Conference will be held June 17-20, 2026, at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, and the dynamic program will focus on meaningful exchanges.

Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2025.

More information can be found at https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.

WORK2025 Conference “Work in the Era of Unruly AI” from August 20-22, 2025 in Turku, Finland (also online)

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The multidisciplinary, international WORK2025 conference is from August 20-22, 2025, at the University of Turku and online. WORK2025 offers 19 exciting research streams, five inspiring keynote talks, and nice breaks between the sessions to share knowledge, research results, and discuss new directions in research.

The main theme of WORK2025, “Work in the era of unruly AI,” will explore the “unruliness” of AI in contemporary working life. WORK2025 calls upon presentations and posters to address the main theme and various issues related to work and working life. WORK2025 welcomes abstracts from a wide variety of interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical perspectives.

Check out the streams and submit your abstract no later than February 20, 2025 at www.work2025.fi!

Click to access work2025-conference-2.pdf

CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025

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CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025

The OOW call for submissions for our annual conference is now out!
Call for Submissions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/

Section Sessions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/

1 – Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of organizations, including studies that assess the implications of their structures, norms, policies, and practices.
(Session Organizer) Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan; (Session Organizer) Matthew Clair, Stanford University 

2 – Professions and Occupations
We invite paper submissions on the broad topic of professions and occupations, including studies that focus on their emergence, evolution, and implications. 
(Session Organizer) Nicholas Occhiuto, Hunter College; (Session Organizer) Alexandrea Ravenelle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

3 – Gender Inequality in Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the topic of gender inequality in organizations.
(Session Organizer) Sharla Alegria, University of Toronto; (Session Organizer) Alexandra Kalev, Tel-Aviv University

4 – Labor Markets
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of labor markets, including studies that examine their structures, dynamics, and consequences.
(Session Organizer) Koji Chavez, Indiana University; (Session Organizer) Steve McDonald, North Carolina State University

5 – Future of Work
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of the future of work.
(Session Organizer): Angèle Christin, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Steve Vallas, Northeastern University

6 – Informal and Unregulated Economies
We invite paper submissions under the topic of informal and unregulated economies, including studies that examine migrant and transnational dynamics.
(Session Organizer) Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University; (Session Organizer) Patricia Ward, Bielefeld University

7 – AI in the Workplace (joint with Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section)
We invite paper submissions under the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace. (NB: Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2025 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall.)
(Session Organizer) Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Simone Zhang, New York University.

8 – Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Refereed Roundtables
(Session Organizer) Michel Anteby, Boston University; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Luhr, University of Illinois, Chicago

https://oowsection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/call-for-submissions_asa_2024.docx

Section Sessions

Conference Call: Organizing Plurality – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS), March 2025 in Hamburg, Germany

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Organizing Plurality

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS)

March 27 & 28, 2025  Hamburg, Germany

Call for Abstracts is now open!

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024

The German Section of Organizational Sociology and its European peers are organizing the International Conference on  Organizational Sociology ICOS 2025 at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, in March 2025.

The main topic is “Organizing Plurality,” which will be discussed in relation to several societal trends:
1) Organizations and  Valuation
2) Organizations and Sustainability
3) Organizations and Digitalization
4) Organizations and Governance

Additional details can also be found on the pdf: icos2025_organizing-plurality.pdf

You can find the full Call for Papers and more information on their homepage, icos2025.com.

Announcement: Submit to the ISA Session on “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” by October 15

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Please consider submitting by October 15 to a  “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” session at the International Sociological Association Forum on Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025. 

Please see the link below for a detailed description:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19472.html

If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this session, the Call for Abstracts is at https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts.

The call closes on October 15th (note that the ISA observes Central Europe Time).

“If you have not attended ISA before, it is truly an international sociology conference with distinct inflections in each location where it meets—I have found every ISA conference I have attended to be fascinating, and of course, Rabat itself is a very interesting place in a very interesting region. In addition to this session, I encourage you to scan other possible sessions (Research Council 44 is the ISA’s Labor Movements section; RC 30 is the Sociology of Work).”
– Dr. Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs