2012 Annual Meeting

 

THE 2012 ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD IN SAN DIEGO, March 22-25 at the Sheraton Hotel, Harbor Island

 

1) Preliminary Program on 2/5/2012. Please Inform the PSA Office of any changes, typos, omissions.

Download Program as of Feb 5.pdf

2) Index of Participants on 2/5/2012. Look at the index to find sessions and times by participants. Download Index to Participants as of Feb 5_Website.pdf

3) Committee Meeting Times

4) Hotel Information for the  2012 Meeting: Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina on  Harbor Island

The 2012 PSA Annual Meeting will take place at Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina on Harbor Island, 1380 Harbor Island Drive on March 22-25. The PSA will be meeting in the Bay Tower of the complex and we will have this facility pretty much to ourselves.  Most sleeping and meeting rooms of the hotel have views of San Diego Bay or the marina. There are a host of good restaurants on Harbor Island within walking distance. The Gaslamp Quarter is only 2.5 miles from the hotel and Little Italy is less than 1.8 miles from the hotel. Put on your walking shoes and stroll along the bayfront Embarcadero from the hotel to the Gaslamp or Little Italy. Or, hire a pedicab to transport you!

Support the PSA by Booking at the Sheraton. This will assure that your association meets its sleeping room contract and will keep convention costs low, since thousands of dollars in meeting room rental will not have to be paid to the Sheraton. Not meeting the PSA “room block” would have serious financial consequences and would most likely increase the cost of registration at future meetings.

The PSA 2012 discounted Convention Rate is $149 single or double, plus tax.  To make a reservation, call 1-877-734-2726. Please ask for the PSA convention rate.  Or book online by using the following URL: http://tinyurl.com/PSA-Sheraton-SanDiego

All Reservations Must Be Made By Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to guarantee the PSA rate. However please note that the PSA discounted room block could easily sell out before the February 15th deadline. The hotel may still have rooms after this date, but at a rate-available basis.

Hotel Parking: Hotel parking is $22 per day for self-parking and $28 for valet parking.

Airport Transportation: The San Diego Sheraton Hotel is located directly across the street from the San Diego International Airport. A free “Sheraton” Shuttle passes through the terminal area every 15 to 20 minutes.

4) THEME: INTERSECTIONALITIES AND INEQUALITIES:  KNOWLEDGE AND POWER FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY

Three decades ago, Black feminist activists argued for an analysis of the situation of Black women that took seriously the ways in which their lives were affected by racial, gendered, and classed dynamics. Black feminist scholars did just that in developing the concept of intersectionality and elaborating an intersectional approach to knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities.  This approach has transformed scholarship in many fields. In sociology, scholars have sought to examine the simultaneous and multiplicative interaction of axes of inequality around class, race, gender, sexuality, age, religion, disability, citizenship.  Scholars have reckoned not only with an intersectional approach to identity construction and enactment but also its application to understanding the social processes of interaction in organizations, social movements, and other institutional spheres, and the ways in which inequalities are produced, changed,  and resisted. No longer is it simply Black feminist scholars doing this work, but many scholars in various areas within sociology have taken the challenge of working with this framework.

It is now time to examine the intersectional approach to assess its strengths and its weaknesses in theoretical argument, empirical research, policy development and implementation, and in the work we do as teachers.  The 2012 meeting will focus on how intersectional approaches have been marshaled in various subfields of sociology and attempt to measure their success; how quantitative and qualitative methodologies have been enhanced and challenged by an intersectional perspective; how and why some axes of power  been more fully explored than others;  to what extent analyses of specific policy domains, such as immigration, corporate profit-taking, crime, educational access, HIV/AIDS, civil rights, have usefully employed its insights;  what works and what does not in teaching intersectionality.

Submissions on all sociological topics are welcome. However, organizers are particularly interested in those related to the theme of the 2012 meetings.  We welcome all suggestions and submissions.

Beth Schneider

2012 PSA President-Elect

 5) 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND TOPICS

Manuel Barajas	CSU Sacramento	mbrasjas@csus.edu	Chic Stud; ethnic; migration
Karl Bryant	SUNY-New Paltz	bryantk@newpaltz.edu	Sexualities; gender; medicalization
Dana Collins	CSU Fullerton	dcollins@fullerton.edu	Theory; globalization; sexualities
Briane Davila	Willamette University	bdavila@willamette.edu	Education; race
James Dean	CSU Sonoma	James.dean@sonoma.edu	Sexualities; gender; race; lgbtq
Sylvanna Falcon	UC Santa Cruz	smfalcon@ucsc.edu	Racism; globalization; 3rd world feminism
Jim Fenelon   Joshua Gamson	CSU San Bernadino   USF	jfenelon@csusb.edu   gamson@usfca.edu	Native nations; urban; stratification Soc. Movements; pop culture; sexuality
Liahna Gordon	Chico State	legordon@csuchico.edu	Sexuality; deviance; identity
Black Hawk Hancock	DePaul University	bhancock@depaul.edu	Stratification; urban; theory; dance
Judith Hennessey	Central Washington	hennessj@cwu.edu
Jason Hopkins	UCSB	jhopkins@umail.ucsb.edu	Religion; soc movts
Michelle Jacob	USD	mjacob@sandiego.edu	Race; native Americans; health
Nikki Jones	UCSB	njones@soc.ucsb.edu	Girls; gangs; African Americans; fieldwork
Stephen Kulis	Arizona State	KULIS@asu.edu	Health; substance abuse; race in org
Amy Leisenring	San Jose State	Amy.Leisenring@sjsu.edu	Gender; family; domestic violence
Nancy Lopez	U of New Mexico	nlopez@unm.edu	Race, Education, Health
Matthew Mahutga	UC Riverside	Matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu	Political economy; development
Tim Mechlinski	Lewis and Clark	tmm@lclark.edu	Migration; immigration; development
David Musick	U Northern Colorado	David.Musick@unco.edu	Crime; juvenile delinquency; Black-white relations
Amy Orr	Linfield College	aorr@linfield.edu	Ed; policy; marriage
Edward J.W. Park	Loyola Marymount	epark@lmu.edu	Asian Pacific; ethnic; immigration; urban
Rosemary Powers	Eastern Oregon State	rpowers@eou.edu	Education; gender
Jennifer Reich	Denver University	jreich@du.edu	Welfare; health; reproduction
Garry Rolison	CSU San Marcos	grolison@csusm.edu	Crime; African Americans; racism
Victor Shaw	CSU Northridge	Victor.shaw@csun.edu	Asia; education; crime
Glenn Tsunokai	Western Washington	Glenn.Tsunokai@wwu.edu	Gangs; stratification; methods
Carolyn Turnovsky	UCSB	cturnovsky@soc.ucsb.edu	Immigration; labor; fieldwork; gender
Mary Virnoche	CSU Humboldt	Mary.Virnoche@humboldt.edu	Science; race; gender; info technology
Carol Ward	Brigham Young	Carol_ward@byu.edu	Race & ethnic; rural; education
Jane Ward	UC Riverside	Jane.ward@ucr.edu	Sexualities; social movements; masculinities