CFP: ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award

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Selection Criteria and Eligibility

The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually to an ASA member for the best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the year the book is nominated (books with copyright years of 2022 and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 award).

Nomination Procedures

Nominations must include a cover letter with the name of the author, title of book, date of publication, publisher, and a brief statement of no more than 300 words as to why the book should be considered, along with a PDF copy or 10 physical copies of the book.

Nominations can be considered for two award cycles however, nominations are not carried over from one award cycle to the next. Nominations need to be submitted each year for consideration.

In addition to the nomination materials described above, complete and submit the required nomination form.

Self-nominations are encouraged. All awardees must be current ASA members at the time of the award ceremony at the Annual Meeting.  One need not be a member to be nominated for an award. All nominators must be current members.  Nominations sent from publishers will not be accepted. Please also be aware of ASA’s ethics disclosure and award revocation policies.

Submit the cover letter and nomination form to nominations@asanet.org. Please also send a copy of the nominated book either as a PDF to nominations@asanet.org or ship 10 physical copies of the publication to American Sociological Association, c/o Mark Fernando and Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, 1430 K ST, NW, Ste 600, Washington, DC 20005 (Please ship books as early as possible because of holiday-related shipping delays).

2024 Selection Committee

The selection committee is composed of nine members, each serving a staggered three-year term. Members are appointed from among the Association membership by the Council based on the recommendation of the Committee on Committees.

Richard E. Ocejo, Chair
Rick A. Baldoz
Kristen Barber
Caitlyn Collins
Emmanuel David
Yến Lê Espiritu
Jeff Hass
Two additional members TBD

New Publication: Gray Areas

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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

By Adia Harvey Wingfield

Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility—ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve “diversity,” inequities persist through what Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the “gray areas:” the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that are now more important than ever. The reality is that Black employees are less likely to be hired, stall out at middle levels, and rarely progress to senior leadership positions.

Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over two hundred Black subjects across professions about their work lives. In Gray Areas, she introduces seven of them: Alex, a worker in the gig economy Max, an emergency medicine doctor; Constance, a chemical engineer; Brian, a filmmaker; Amalia, a journalist; Darren, a corporate vice president; and Kevin, who works for a nonprofit.

In this accessible and important antiracist work, Wingfield chronicles their experiences and blends them with history and surprising data that starkly show how old models of work are outdated and detrimental. She demonstrates the scope and breadth of gray areas and offers key insights and suggestions for how they can be fixed, including shifting hiring practices to include Black workers; rethinking organizational cultures to centralize Black employees’ experience; and establishing pathways that move capable Black candidates into leadership roles. These reforms would create workplaces that reflect America’s increasingly diverse population—professionals whose needs organizations today are ill-prepared to meet.

It’s time to prepare for a truly equitable, multiracial future and move our culture forward. To do so, we must address the gray areas in our workspaces today. This definitive work shows us how.

2023 OOW Award Winners!

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Here are photos of our 2023 award winners at the Section business meeting in Philadelphia (taken by Past Chair Tim Bartley).  Congratulations to all! 

Erin Cech presents the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award to Don Tomaskovic-Devey.

Laura Lopez-Sanders presents the James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award to co-winner Eldad Levy Guerrero for his paper, “Looking Right and Looking Busy: Producing Vigilance in Private Security.”

Laura Lopez-Sanders presents the James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award to co-winner Wendy Li for her paper, “Regulatory Capture’s Third Face of Power” (forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review).

Adilia James presents the W. Richard Scott Article Award to Jayanti Owens for her article, “Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline,” published in American Sociological Review.

Amy Binder presents the Max Weber Book Award to Josh Seim for his book, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering, published by University of California Press.

New Publication: Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement

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Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey have a new book analyzing industry-level union density from 1900-2015, Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement (Oxford University Press, June 2023). Everyone is invited to make use of the book’s publicly available data repository, including information on union membership and density, strikes, elections, unfair labor practices, employment size, race, gender, and occupation of workers.  

Job Posting: Assistant/Associate Professor – Management at Columbia Business School

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The Management Division of Columbia Business School is currently searching for qualified applicants for a tenure-track position in Entrepreneurship at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank.  Applications that are received by October 15 will receive full consideration. However, we encourage applicants to submit their materials as soon as possible as we are evaluating applications on a rolling basis.

Applicants for an Assistant Professor level appointment should have, or be close to completing, a PhD from an accredited institution, demonstrate promise of becoming an outstanding scholar in every respect, including research and teaching, and should combine exceptional disciplinary training in Management with a strong interest in the professional mission of the school.

Applicants for an Associate Professor level appointment (non-tenured, tenured) should have a PhD from an accredited institution, a record of being an excellent scholar in every respect, including research and teaching, and should combine exceptional disciplinary training with a strong interest in the professional mission of the school and show great promise of attaining distinction in the field of Management.

Columbia Business School is particularly interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching and/or service will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community.  We will have a particular interest in Entrepreneurship, and other related areas of Management. Applicants from a range of disciplines are encouraged to apply, including those with PhDs from business schools, sociology, social psychology, economics, and political science departments. 

More information can be found at this link:

Academic Search and Recruiting (columbia.edu)

Upcoming Event: City & Community virtual panel series, “Reaching a Broader Audience: How to Publish Crossover Books

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City & Community Presents: “Reaching a Broader Audience: How to Publish Crossover Books”

A Virtual Panel Event

Thursday, September 21, 2023; 3:30-5:00 p.m. EST 

Wanting to write a “crossover” book for a “broader” audience is becoming more and more common in sociology. But how is it different to write a book for readers outside of academia compared to writing one for scholars? How does an author identify and write to a specific non-academic audience? What are the potential pros and cons of writing a crossover book? What are editors looking for from scholars who propose crossover books? And what challenges have authors who have written books for broader audiences faced in the research, writing, and promotion of their work? 

Hosted by City & Community, this virtual panel event brings together authors and a book editor who will share their experiences with crossover books. We welcome sociologists at any level who are interested in writing a book to a broader audience now or in the future to attend. 

Host and Moderator: Richard Ocejo, Editor, City & Community 

Panelists:

Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College, author of Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping throughAmerican’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places

Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside, author of Academic Outsider: Stories ofExclusion and Hope

Meagan Levinson, Editorial Director, Three Hills Press

Registration is required for this event. 

Please send any questions to cicojournal@gmail.com.

New Publication: ““Was It Me or Was It Gender Discrimination?” How Women Respond to Ambiguous Incidents at Work” by Laura Doering, Jan Doering, and András Tilcsik

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Research shows that people often feel emotional distress when they experience a potentially discriminatory incident but cannot classify it conclusively. In this study, we propose that the ramifications of such ambiguous incidents extend beyond interior, emotional costs to include socially consequential action (or inaction) at work. Taking a mixed-methods approach, we examine how professional women experience and respond to incidents that they believe might have been gender discrimination, but about which they feel uncertain. Our interviews show that women struggle with how to interpret and respond to ambiguous incidents. Survey data show that women experience ambiguous incidents more often than incidents they believe were obviously discriminatory. Our vignette experiment reveals that women anticipate responding differently to the same incident depending on its level of ambiguity. Following incidents that are obviously discriminatory, women anticipate taking actions that make others aware of the problem; following ambiguous incidents, women anticipate changing their own work habits and self-presentation. This study establishes ambiguous gendered incidents as a familiar element of many women’s work lives that must be considered to address unequal gendered experiences at work.

Read the article here.

Job Posting: Open Level Faculty Position in AI and Work, Department of Technology Management, University of California Santa Barbara

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University of California -Santa Barbara (UCSB), College of Engineering’s Department of Technology Management invites applications for an open-rank position in the area of technology and organizations with a research focus on technology, AI, and the future of work. The position has a start date of July 1, 2024, or later. Successful applicants will contribute to the exciting intellectual environment within the Department of Technology Management and contribute meaningfully to its strategic initiatives and programmatic activities. The selected candidate is expected to play a key role in the growth of the department and to participate in departmental service appropriate for their rank. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position.

The Department of Technology Management resides in UCSB’s highly ranked College of Engineering, where it offers a successful professional master’s degree, a Ph.D. program, and undergraduate and graduate certificates. Core faculty in the Department of Technology Management include: Matthew Beane, Sukhun Kang, Paul Leonardi, Kyle Lewis, Nelson Phillips, Renee Rottner Jessica Santana, and Mary Tripsas; all of whose research and teaching reflect the unit’s intentional interdisciplinary character.

In 2023-24, a wide array of UC Santa Barbara departments is partnering with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to launch a special faculty recruitment initiative named after Benjamin Banneker, the 18th-century African American mathematician, astronomer, anti-racist, engineer, ecologist, and peace advocate. Funded by an Advancing Faculty Diversity grant from the UC Office of the President, with the goal of diversifying faculty, research, and curriculum in STEM (and related) fields, the Banneker Initiative aims to recruit scholars, scientists, and engineers whose disciplinary and interdisciplinary work would take place within the community of interests exemplified by Banneker’s intellectual, ethical, and social commitments as an African American scientist. Applicants may be eligible to be fellows in the Benjamin Banneker Initiative. The community of Banneker Fellows will receive funding for cohort building and professional development activities, including enrollment in the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program, proposal writing training, and seed grants.

The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See Table 3 for the salary range. A reasonable estimate for this position is $190,000 – $400,000 annual salary. “Off-scale salaries”, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide minimum salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions.

Applications can be submitted via UC Recruit at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02571.
Review of applications will begin Wednesday, October 4, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service as appropriate to the position. UCSB is an EEO/AA EOE, including disability/vets.

Postdoc Position: University of Pennsylvania and CHOP Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity

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The 2024-2025 University of Pennsylvania and CHOP Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity

Deadline: Nov 03, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Postdoctoral Fellowships are competitive programs intended to increase the diversity of the academic research community at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). While the Penn and CHOP programs have a common application form, they are independently funded and have separate review processes.

Both organizations seek to attract promising researchers and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse populations whose life experiences, research experiences and employment backgrounds will contribute significantly to their academic missions.

Fellowships are available for postdoctoral training in all areas of study at either Penn or CHOP. STEM applications are strongly encouraged. Successful candidates will receive mentored scholarly and research training as well as courses and workshops to enhance their research success skills and prepare them for a faculty position in a major university.

The current 2023-2024 stipend rate begins at $65,000 in year one with $2,000 increases in years two & three. Additionally, the fellow will receive annual allowances for research and travel related expenses of $6,000, and if eligible, a one-time relocation expense of up to $5,000. The University and CHOP also provide a benefits package.

Successful candidates will receive highly mentored scholarly and research training and have access to courses and workshops provided by partners on campus to enhance their research skills and prepare them for faculty positions in a major university.

The program is designed to provide postdocs with time to focus on research and publishing activities that will enhance their career prospects for either a faculty appointment in an academic institution or an appointment in other sectors of the economy such as industry, government or nonprofit organizations.

Start dates will be arranged in consultation with the faculty mentor and will begin as early as July 2024.
Qualifications

See https://apply.interfolio.com/129592 for more details.

Job Posting: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Strategic Management Area

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The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment in the Strategic Management Area. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2024, or shortly thereafter.

Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in management or a cognate discipline with a focus on strategic management (e.g., economics, sociology) by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, with a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and enhance our existing strengths.

Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence in strategic management, which is shown primarily by the job-market paper and additional research papers or publications submitted with the application, a research statement, and strong letters of reference from referees of high standing. The successful candidate is expected to pursue innovative and independent research at the highest level, establish an outstanding, independent research program, and publish articles in internationally recognized top-tier and field relevant academic journals in the field of strategy and/or cognate disciplines. We seek individuals who have published in, have papers forthcoming in, or have works in progress meeting the standards of Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal/Review, American Economic Review, American Journal of Sociology, Management Science, Organization Science, and journals of similar caliber and standing. Further evidence of research excellence includes presentations at significant conferences, awards and accolades, and research presentations at other highly ranked universities.

Applicants must demonstrate excellence in teaching, including a strong demonstrated ability to integrate both theory and practice; evidence of effective communication and presentation skills; a willingness to undertake graduate supervision; and a demonstrated mastery of their subject area. Evidence of excellence in teaching will be demonstrated by teaching accomplishments, strong letters of reference, the teaching dossier, and for short-listed candidates, a strong performance during the on-campus seminar presentation. The teaching dossier includes a teaching statement, sample course materials, teaching evaluations, or other evidence of superior performance in teaching-related activities, which can include superior performance as a teaching assistant or course instructor, experience leading successful workshops or seminars, student mentorship, or excellent conference presentations or posters.

This search aligns with the University’s commitment to strategically and proactively promote diversity among our community members (Statement on Equity, Diversity & Excellence). Recognizing that Black, Indigenous, and other Racialized communities have experienced inequitiesthat have developed historically and are ongoing, we strongly welcome and encourage candidates from those communities to apply. Applicants are invited to include in their cover letter any experiences, or planned future contributions, to equity, diversity and inclusion, in the areas of research, teaching, and/or service.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

About the Organization
U of T is Canada’s largest university and has an international research reputation. The Rotman School of Management has a strong research-oriented faculty that is supportive of serious scholarship and is committed to the professional development of its faculty. The Rotman School operates a wide range of degree programs, including an undergraduate Commerce program, a full-time, part-time, Executive, and Global Executive MBA program, a Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences, a Master of Management Analytics, a Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting, and a Ph.D. program. The Strategic Management area provides a stimulating and supportive research environment and a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching. Within the University of Toronto, the Strategic Management area has close ties with the Economics Department and the Sociology Department. All Strategic Management PhD students complete graduate-level courses in at least one of these departments.

Rotman is situated in the heart of Canada’s corporate and financial center, and the world’s most diverse city. Rotman’s core values reflect this diversity. For more information about the Rotman School and its core values, please visit: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Connect/AboutRotman/OurValues.

All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking the link below. Applicants must submit a cover letter including any experiences, or planned future contributions, to equity, diversity and inclusion, in the areas of research, teaching, and/or service; a current curriculum vitae; a research statement outlining current and future research interests; a job-market paper and up to two additional research papers or publications; and a teaching dossier including a teaching statement, sample course materials, and teaching evaluations, or evidence of superior performance in other teaching-related activities as listed above.

Applicants must provide the name and contact information of three references. The University of Toronto’s recruiting tool will automatically solicit and collect letters of reference from each referee the day after an application is submitted. Applicants remain responsible for ensuring that referees submit recent letters (on letterhead, dated and signed) by the closing date. More details on the automatic reference letter collection, including timelines, are available in the candidate FAQ.

Submission guidelines can be found at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Your CV and cover letter should be uploaded into the dedicated fields. Please combine additional application materials into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Professor Becky Reuber, Search Committee Chair at Strategy.Recruiting@Rotman.Utoronto.Ca.

All application materials, including recent reference letters, must be received by September 25, 2023.​​​​​​​

Click here to apply: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Strategic-Management-ON/573257517/