1 AGING, THE LIFE COURSE
Intergenerational Relations
Edythe Krampe
CSU Fullerton
ekrampe@fullerton.edu
Age & Sexuality
Byron Lee
Temple Univ.
Aging & the Body
Patricia Drew
CSU East Bay
Aging & Mental Health
Carolina Apesoa-Varano
UC Davis
2 CAREERS, PROFESSIONS,
ASSOCIATIONS
Career Planning in a
Turbulent World
Gwen Sheldon
CSU Chico
Thinking & Planning
for Your Future: Grad School?
(spons. by Student Affairs)
Sally Raskoff
LA Valley College
Professions: Identity,
Conflict, & Change
Elizabeth Chiarello
UC Irvine
Current Issues in
Occupations & Professions
Carolina Apesoa-Varano
UC Davis
apesoavarano@ucdavis.edu
3 CLINICAL, APPLIED,
PRACTICE, ETHICS
Sociology in the Public Sector
(spons. by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
Donald Winiecki
Boise State Univ.
dwiniecki@boisestate.edu
Sociology in the Private Sector
(spons. by the Committee on Applied, Practice & Clinical Sociology)
Donald Winiecki
Boise State Univ.
dwiniecki@boisestate.edu
Evaluating Social
Programs: Successes, Failures, & Innovations
(spons. by Committee on
Practice, Applied, & Clinical Sociology)
Warren Lucas
Northern Arizona Univ.
warren.lucas@nau.edu
4 COMMUNICATION, MEDIA,
FILM
Cooperation, Trust & Community in Online Environments
Coy Cheshire
UC Berkeley
coye@ischool.berkeley.edu
New Media & New Forms
of Social Reproduction: Focusing the Sociological Imagination on Digital
Inequality
Laura Robinson
Santa Clara Univ.
Becoming an Effective
Communicator
Melissa Kew
Univ. of Chicago
Virtual Worlds &
Video Games
Melissa Monson
Metropolitan State College
of Denver
Feminist Media Studies
Camilla A. Sears
Simon Fraser Univ.
Political Economy of Mass
Media
Andrew Jones
CSU Fresno
Sexuality & Media
Eileen Ie
CSU Northridge
Issues in Media
Relations: Sociologists Examining Their Media Experiences
Steven Ortiz
Oregon State University
sortiz@oregonstate.edu
The Digital Divide: Restriction of Access, Accuracy of Information, Isolated Populations
Greg Morales
Mexican American Political
Association
5 DEMOGRAPHY, POPULATION,
COMMUNITY, RURAL
Revitalizing the
Sociological Imagination: Human Populations & the Environment in the Age of
Exponential Growth
Kooros Mahmoudi
Northern Arizona Univ.
Contemporary Suburbia
Emily Molina
UC Santa Barbara
Project Bay Area: New
Research Projects in the Bay Area
Nikki Jones
UC Santa Barbara
Urban Communities
Mark Hutter
Rowan University
Population & the
Environment
Berna Torr
CSU Fullerton
Inequality & Urban Growth
Jen Gray-O’Connor
UC Santa Cruz
Demographic Change &
the Family
Berna Torr
CSU Fullerton
Urban Sociology of the
Oakland-San Francisco-San Jose Bay Area
Benjamin Bowser
CSU East Bay
Benjamin.bowser@csueastbay.edu
6 CRIME, DELINQUENCY,
CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, SOCIAL CONTROL, DEVIANCE, DRUGS
Drugs, Crime & the State
Josh Meisel
Humboldt State Univ.
Crime & Delinquency
David Musick
Univ. of Northern Colorado
Contemporary Issues in Juvenile
Delinquency & Juvenile Justice
Brian Smith
Central Michigan Univ.
Deviances & Social
Control
Jennifer Murphy
CSU Sacramento
Gender & Crime
Kate Luther
Pacific Lutheran University
lutherke@plu.edu
7 CULTURE, POPULAR CULTURE, FOOD, MUSIC, LITERATURE
The Other California—The
Great Central Valley: People, Cultures & Transitions
Paul O’Brien
CSU Stanislaus
Sharing: Examining
Strategies, Processes & Outcomes of Sharing
Alison Cliath, CSU Fullerton
U.S. & Latin American
Culture
Juven Parra, CSULA
Chicano/Latino Popular
Culture
Marie Gaytan
Bowdoin College
mgaytan@bowdoin.edu
The Sociology of Online Social Worlds
David Boyns
CSU Northridge
Pop Music & Public
Sexuality
Michael B. MacDonald
Univ. of Alberta
Food, Community &
Social Activism
Anna Leon-Guerrero
Pacific Lutheran Univ.
ayl@plu.edu
The Sociology of
Performance
Jin You & Jen
Gray-O’Connor
UC Santa Cruz
jinyoung.you@gmail.com & jgrayoco@ucsc.edu
The Sociology of Music
Leck Intharath
National University
Celebrity Culture &
the Sociological Imagination
Karen Sternheimer
Univ. of Southern California
Food, Culture, &
Social Organizations
Akihiko Hirose
Univ. of Colorado-Denver
Trust & Society
Alexandra Gerbasi
CSU Northridge
agerbasi@csun.edu
Innovation in the Arts & Popular Culture
Jonathan Cordero
California Lutheran Univ.
The Social Content of
Literature: Looking at the Novel as a Source of Post-Event Participant
Observation
Greg Morales
Mexican American Political
Association
8 EDUCATION
Institutional Agents
& Institutional Culture
Brianne Davila
UC Santa Barbara
Indigenous Peoples &
Education
Sheila Prados
New Mexico State Univ.
Military & Education
Don Barrett
CSU San Marcos
Social Inequality &
Education
Roberta Espinoza
CSU Fullerton
Retention in Higher
Education
Sandra Way
New Mexico State Univ.
Embodying Academia:
Theoretical, Methodological & Practical Reflections
Danielle Hidalgo
UC Santa Barbara
daniellehidalgo@mac.com
9 ENVIRONMENTAL
SOCIOLOGY, ECOLOGY
Green Collar Jobs in a
Changing Global Economy: Theoretical & Practical Challenges to the
Sociological Imagination
Ian Sakura-Lemessy
Albany State Univ.
ian.sakura-lemessy@asurams.edu
Environmental Sociology
1: Consumption & Risk
Kevin Wehr
CSU Sacramento
Environmental Sociology
2: Race, Class, Gender & Space
Kevin Wehr
CSU Sacramento
Politics of
Sustainability
Lora Vess
Missouri State Univ.
Sustainable Agriculture
Laura Earles
Lewis-Clark College
10 FAMILY, MARRIAGE,
ADOLESCENCE, CHILDHOOD
Violence, Aggression
& Kids
Todd Migliaccio
CSU Sacramento
Family Transformation
Jennifer Utrata
Univ. of Puget Sound
Adoption: A Shade of
Difference
Cathy Wong
CSU Stanislaus
Parenting & Social
Justice/Inequality
Ann Travers
Simon Fraser Univ.
Immigrant &
Transnational Families
Kristy Shih
UC Riverside
Transforming Crisis into
Opportunity: Exposing the Social in Family Troubles
Karla Hackstaff
Northern Arizona Univ.
Sociology of Children
& Youth
Kathryn Hadley
CSU Sacramento
International Adoption
Charlie V. Morgan
Brigham Young Univ.
Research & Theory on
New Family Forms
Carl Stempel
CSU East Bay
carl.stempel@csueastbay.edu
11 GENDER, FEMINISM,
MASCULINITIES, LGBT ISSUES
Gender: Open Topics
(co-spons. by SWS West & Committee on Status of Women
Mary Virnoche
Humboldt State Univ.
mary.virnoche@humboldt.edu
Queer Citizenship
Byron Lee
Temple Univ
Lesbian Issues
Ann Travers
Simon Fraser Univ.
Doing Gender: How the Researcher Does "Gender," "Race," "Class," and "Sexuality" and the Implications for the Outcome of the Research
Suzel Bozada Deas
USC
bozadadeas@yahoo.com
and
Kristen Barber
USC
kmbarber@usc.edu
Gender, Ethnicity &
Sexuality
Byron Lee
Temple Univ.
&
James Thing
USC
Gender & Asian
Americans
Akiko Yasuike
California Lutheran Univ.
Gender Inequity &
Social Crime
Charity Perry-Turner
CSU Los Angeles
The Declining
Significance of Gender?
Judith Hennessy
Central Washington Univ.
Men & Masculinities
Tal Peretz
Univ. of Southern California
Gendered Violence
Debra Guckenheimer
UC Santa Barbara
debraguckenheimer@umail.uscb.edu
Ethics & Research on
LGBT Individuals
Amy Stone
Trinity Univ.
Transcending the Gender
Binary
Meredith Conover Williams
Washington State Univ.
meredithlwilliams@gmail.com
12 GLOBALIZATION,
URBANIZATION, POVERTY
Globalization, Labor
& the Transformation of Work
Jonathan Westover
Utah Valley Univ.
Globalization in the 21st
Century
Berch Berberoglu
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
Globalization, State,
& Development
Rebecca S.K. Li
The College of New Jersey
Qualitative Research on
Poverty & Welfare
Sheila Katz
Sonoma State Univ.
Sociological Research on
Mexico
Kelley Strawn
Willamette Univ.
Impact of Globalization
on Asian Societies
Ching-wa Wong
Polytechnic Univ. of Hong
Kong
13 MENTAL HEALTH, HEALTH,
HEALTHCARE, MEDICINE, DISABILITIES
Health Disparities, Morbidity & Mortality
Augustine Kposowa
UC Riverside
War & Health
Daniel Poole
University of Utah
Universal Health Care in
the United States: Challenges & Prospects
Augustine Kposowa
UC Riverside
Social Construction of
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Don Barrett
CSU San Marcos
The Growing Impact of
Medicalization
Benjamin Lewin
Univ. of Puget Sound
Health Inequalities &
Social Activism
Angelique Harris
CSU Fullerton
Race, Ethnicity, &
Mental Health
Aya Kimura Ida
CSU Sacramento
Medical Sociology
Tina Burdsall
Portland State Univ.
Immigrant & Refugee
Health & Mental Health
Carl Stempel
CSU East Bay
14 IMMIGRANTS,
IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION
Professional Immigrants
Yung-Yi Diana Pan
UC Irvine
Migration & Nation
Cinzia Solari
UC Berkeley
Immigrant Women: Tales of
Identity
Zeynep Kilic
Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
Immigrants, Legal Status
& Workplace Rights
Shannon Gleeson
UC Santa Cruz
Immigration, Race &
Social Movements
Katie Furuyama
UC Irvine
The Effects of
Immigration on Rural Communities
Marianne Paiva
CSU Chico
The Immigrant Experience
in the United States: Integration or Alienation
Manuel Barajas
CSU Sacramento
barajasm@saclink.csus.edu
15 METHODS, RESEARCH,
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS
Quantitative Methods
Robert O’Brien
Univ. of Oregon
Doing Feminist Research
Camilla A. Sears
Simon Fraser Univ.
Researching Vulnerable Populations
James Sutton
CSU Chico
Doing Ethnography
Kathryn Hadley
CSU Sacramento
Collaborative Research:
Methods & Challenges
Shannon Elizabeth Bell &
Ryanne Pilgeram
Univ. of Oregon
GIS for Environment, Health & Community
Sheila Steinberg
Humboldt State Univ.
16 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY,
JUSTICE, THE STATE, HUMAN RIGHTS, VIOLENCE, TERRORISM
Wars & Occupations
Dennis Loo
Cal Poly Pomona
Fifty Years After C.
Wright Mills “Listen Yankee!”: Normalizing Cuban-US Ties
Richard Dello Buono
Manhattan College
State-Sanctioned Violence
Byron Lee
Temple Univ.
The Military Meets
Sociology
Linda Heuser
Willamette Univ.
lheuser@willamette.edu
17 RACE, ETHNICITY
Current Research on
Latinos
Alicia Gonzales
CSU San Marcos
Middle Eastern
Communities in the U.S.
Neda Maghbouleh
UC Santa Barbara
Issues in Race &
Ethnicity
J. Vern Cromartie
Contra Costa College
Mixed Race &
Identity: The Social Construction of Race
Michael McKail & Joanna
Norton
UC Riverside
Race/Ethnicity & Education
(spons. by Committee on Race
& Ethnic Minorities)
Elvia Ramirez
CSU Sacramento
Race, Class, & Gender
in Hip-Hop Culture
Michael Barnes
CSU Long Beach
18 RELIGION
Community & Religion
David McKell
Northern Arizona Univ.
Religion &
Immigration
Jessica Hamar Martinez
Univ. of Arizona
jhamar@email.arizona.edu
19 SEXUALITY
Transgender Issues
Ann Travers
Simon Fraser Univ.
atravers@sfu.ca
Sociology of Sexuality
Ellen Berg
CSU Sacramento
Commodification of
Sexuality
Kassia Wosick-Correa
New Mexcio State Univ.
Race & Sexuality
Jason Crockett
Univ. of Arizona
Sexuality in a Family
Context
Kristin Scherrer
Univ. of Michigan
Sexuality & Politics
Karl Bryant
SUNY New Paltz
& Tom Waidzunas
UC San Diego
Sexuality & Sexual
Regulation in Institutions
Amy Denissen
CSU Northridge
amy.denissen@csun.edu
20 SOCIAL INEQUALITY,
STRATIFICATION, POWER
Working Class Studies
Jeff Torlina
Utah Valley Univ.
The Political Economy of
Inequality
Richard Anderson-Connolly
Univ. of Puget Sound
Sociology & Social
Class
Charles Varano
CSU Sacramento
Gendered Inequalities
Susan Murray
San Jose State Univ.
Inequalities in Academia
Shannon Elizabeth Bell &
Ryanne Pilgeram
Univ. of Oregon
Social Inequalities &
Reproductive Technologies
Patricia Jennings
CSU East Bay
Class & Class
Conflict
Berch Berberoglu
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
21 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS,
PROTEST, SOCIAL CHANGE
Consciousness &
Social Change
Janine Schipper
Northern Arizona Univ.
Social Movements &
Organizations
Elizabeth Chiarello
UC Irvine
The Complex Work of
Social Change: Social Movement & Organization Interaction
Cassandra Engeman
UC Santa Barbara
New Directions in Social
Movements & Collective Action Research
Kelley Strawn
Willamette Univ.
Social Movements,
Protest, Social Change
Robert Wonswer
Pierce College
robert.wonser@gmail.com
Grassroots Movements
& Community Organizing
Pepper Glass
Los Angeles Valley College
Social Movements &
Social Transformation
Berch Berberoglu
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
berchb@unr.edu
22 SOCIAL NETWORKS
Social Networks Analysis
in/for Organizations: Research & Its Translations
Ann McCranie
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Technology & Social
Networks
Laura Scott
Los Angeles Valley College
Imagining Social Networks
Byron Lee
Temple Univ.
Work & Social
Networks
Kjersten Whittington
Reed College
23 SOCIAL & PUBLIC
POLICY, PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY, LEGAL SYSTEM
Women & the Legal
System
(spons. by the Committee on
Status of Women)
Cynthia Siemsen
CSU Chico
Social Problems & Public Policy
Rachel Best &
Hana Brown
UC Berkeley
24 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY,
MEMORY, IDENTITY, EMOTIONS, THE BODY
Self & Identity
Candan Duran-Aydintug
Univ. of Colorado Denver
candan.duran-Aydintug@ucdenver.edu
Race & Multiracial
Identity: Contemporary Trends in Research
Reginald Daniel &
Josef Castaneda-Liles
UC Santa Barbara
Sociology of Memory: New
& Old Conceptualizations of Memory; Personal or Commodity, Public or
Private?
Noel Packard
The New School
The Sociology of Emotions
David Boyns
CSU Northridge
Sociology of the Body
(spons. by Committee on the
Status of Women)
Patricia Drew
CSU East Bay
Sexual Bodies &
Identities in a Technological Age
Eve Shapiro
Westfield State College
eshapiro@wsc.ma.edu
Emotion Management Perspective: Applying the Contributions of Arlie Hochschild
Steven Ortiz
Oregon State Univ.
Multi-Racial &
Multi-Ethnic Identities
Shigueru Tsuha
UC Riverside
tsuhaj01@student.ucr.edu
25 SPORT
Sociology of Baseball
Ann Travers
Simon Fraser Univ.
Sport & Social
Justice/Inequality
Ann Travers
Simon Fraser Univ.
Sociology of Sport &
Physical Activity
William McTeer
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
26 TEACHING, LEARNING
Facebook &
Faculty-Technology & the Classroom in the 21st Century
Paul O’Brien
CSU Stanislaus
Online Teaching: The
Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Deborah Smith
Saginaw Valley State Univ.
Technological Innovations
in Teaching
(spons. by the Committee on
Teaching)
Michelle M. Camacho
Univ. of San Diego
Graduate Students Engage
the Sociological Imagination in a Turbulent World
Michelle Harris & Karla
Hackstaff
Northern Arizona Univ.
Working with Alpha Kappa
Delta Student Organizations to Use the Sociological Imagination
Patricia R. Hoffman
New Mexico State Univ.
New Perspectives on
Teaching the Social Problems Course
Harry Mersmann
San Joaquin Delta College
Ways of Utilizing
Technology in Teaching
Brian Smith
Central Michigan Univ.
Public Sociology &
Community Service Learning
(spons. by the Committee on
Teaching)
Amy Denissen
CSU Northridge
Reflections on
Student-Teacher-Administration Relations & Ethics
(spons. by COFRAT &
Committee on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights)
Byron Lee
Temple Univ.
Teaching Sociological
Theory as a Foundation for Applied Sociology
(spons. by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Robert E. Kettlitz
Hastings College
Teaching Statistics to
Undergraduates
Anna Leon-Guerrero
Pacific Lutheran Univ.
Curriculum Content for a
Two-Semester Research Methods Course with an Applied Emphasis
(spons. by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Robert E. Kettlitz
Hastings College
Great Ideas for Teaching
the Sociological Imagination
(spons. by the Committee on
Teaching)
Rosemary Powers
Eastern Oregon Univ.
Teaching Applied
Sociology
(spons. by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Robert E. Kettlitz
Hastings College
Teaching Today’s College
Students
Amy Leisenring
San Jose State Univ.
Radical Teaching
Approaches
(spons. by Committee on
Teaching)
Adam Rafalovich
Pacific Univ.
Two & Four Year
Sociology Programs: Trends & Issues in Articulation & Connection
Herman de Bose
CSU Northridge
Teaching Sexuality
Emily Kazyak
Univ. of Michigan
Teaching Focus Group
Methodology
Sheila Katz
Sonoma State Univ.
Beyond Master-Slave:
Egalitarian Collaborations Between Graduate Students & Faculty
Yvonne Braun
Univ. of Oregon
Strategies for Teaching
Sociology Students How to Write
Linda Heuser
Willamette Univ.
Down Here on the Ground:
Connecting Theory to the Real World for Our Students
Michael Barnes
CSU Long Beach
The Real Deal: Students
Discuss Best//Worse Experiences with Faculty
(spons. by Student Affairs
Committee)
Michael Barnes
CSU Long Beach
Music, Movies & Musicals: Utilizing Pop Culture to Demonstrate Sociological Concepts
Linda Rillorta
Mt. San Antonio College
27 THEORY, SOCIOLOGICAL
IMAGINATION, KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, RISK
The Sociology of Risk,
Credit & Finance
Sarah Quinn
UC Berkeley
Discourse, Rationality,
Technology & the Subject in Society
Donald Winiecki
Boise State Univ.
Dead Theorists & Live
Issues: Marx, Weber, Veblen & Mills and the Unraveling of Contemporary
Capitalism
Larry Van Sickle
Rollins College
Sociological Theory
David Boyns
CSU Northridge
Using Sociological Theory
to Frame Applied Sociological Research
(spons. by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Robert E. Kettlitz
Hastings College
Marxist Sociology
Berch Berberoglu
Univ. of Nevada-Reno
The Matrix of Domination
Tracy Nielsen
Mount Royal
Humanism & the
Sociological Imagination
Jeff Torlina
Utah Valley Univ.
Mathematical Sociology
John Angle
Inequality Process Institute
Bourdieuan Sociology
Carl Stempel
CSU East Bay
carl.stempel@csueastbay.edu
28 WORK, LABOR,
ORGANIZATIONS
Sociology of Work &
Organizations
Jonathan Westover
Utah Valley Univ.
New Directions in
Research on Work, Organizations, & Inequality
Julie Kmec
Washington State Univ.
29 UNDERGRADUATE SESSIONS
NOTE: Undergraduate students are encouraged
to participate in the 2010 meeting in Oakland. Undergraduate students can present in a poster session or in
one of the undergraduate roundtables, which will cover diverse topics in
sociology.
Undergraduate Poster
Session: Open Topic
(spons. by Alpha Kappa
Delta)
Virginia Mulle
Univ. of Alaska Southeast
Undergraduate Student
Roundtables: Open Topic
Virginia Mulle
(spons. by Alpha Kappa
Delta)
Virginia Mulle
Univ. of Alaska Southeast
Undergraduate Roundtable:
Women’s Issues
(spons by the Comm. on
Status of Women)
Cynthia Siemsen
CSU Chico
&
Camilla Sears
Simon Fraser Univ.
Undergraduate
Research-Formal Presentations in Applied Sociological Research by
Undergraduates
(spons. by the Committee on Practice, Applied & Clinical Sociology)
Robert E. Kettlitz
Hastings College
Undergraduate Roundtable:
Coming of Age in the Digital World
Laura Robinson
Santa Clara Univ.
Undergraduate Roundtables
on GLBT Issues & Sexualities
Anna Muraco
Loyala Marymount Univ.
Undergraduate Roundtable:
Urban Communities
(spons. by Alpha Kappa
Delta)
Mark Hutter
Rowan Univ.
Undergraduate Roundtable:
The Transition to Adulthood
Laura Nichols
Santa Clara Univ.
Undergraduate Roundtable: Contemporary Social Issues
Linda Rillorta
Mt. San Antonio College
30 FACULTY & GRADUATE
STUDENT ROUNDTABLES
NOTE: Graduate students are encouraged to
participate in the 2010 meeting in Oakland. Graduate students & faculty can submit their work to any
listed session in the call for papers and to the open topic roundtable listed
below.
Open Topic Graduate and
Faculty Roundtables
Karen Sternheimer
USC
Meaningful & Educational Service Learning Assignments
Linda Rillorta
Mt. San Antonio College
31 Submissions without a
Home, Submissions that Don’t Fit Any Session Listed
Karen Sternheimer
USC
