Developing and Communicating Your Scholarly Identity

Virtual Event for Graduate Student Scholars of Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 2:00–3:30 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Pacific
Location: Zoom
Registration required: www.tinyurl.com/oowgradevent

This virtual event is an opportunity for graduate students who study organizations, occupations, and work to: 

  • meet peers with similar interests; 
  • learn about how to develop and effectively communicate your scholarly identity to others; and 
  • ask questions and receive advice from a panel of advanced grad students and recent PhDs in academia and in industry!

The event is open to any graduate student with these interests; membership in ASA or the OOW section is not required. 

By the end of the event, you will have learned and practiced how to effectively communicate your scholarly identity and research—an important skill for the job market, meeting new people at conferences, and just getting more comfortable talking to others about your research. Plus, you’ll get a chance to meet other grad students with similar interests and get your questions answered by people who successfully landed a postdoc or job—and have recent experience effectively communicating their research to others.

Register to receive the Zoom link: www.tinyurl.com/oowgradevent.

If you have any questions, please contact a member of the OOW Mentorship committee:

Meet Your Council: Jennifer Bouek

bouekprofilepictureJennifer Bouek is the 2018-2019 OOW Council Student Representative.  She was the recipient of the 2018 Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award for her Social Problems paper, “Navigating Networks: How Nonprofit Network Membership Shapes Response to Resource Scarcity.”  Her dissertation, The Ecological Patterning and Effects of Child Care Markets, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, explores the institution of child care using in-depth interviews, as well as spatial and archival analysis of administrative records, survey data, and observational data. Bouek is currently finishing her Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. Below, she discusses her research and experiences at ASA.

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Call for Abstracts:19th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference

On the Ground: Ethnography & Contemporary Social Crises

The Chicago Ethnography Conference Planning Committee invites graduate student abstract submissions (150-200 words) for the 19th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. We ask that you use your university email when submitting your work.

This conference brings together graduate students working within diverse social science fields to present ethnographic research that engages with pressing social issues.

Abstracts Due: December 18, 2016, 11:59 p.m.
chiethnography@gmail.com

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Call for Papers: Cheryl Allyn Miller Award

Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) has established an award for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s working in the area of women and paid work: employment and self-employment, informal market work, illegal work. The award is supported by a bequest from the family of the late Cheryl Allyn Miller, a sociologist and feminist who studied women and paid work.

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