Stand up for sociology! ASA's Action Center is your hub for messaging legislators about the policies that matter most to you. Use our templates as guides to structure your message, express your concerns, and offer your sociological expertise as a resource. asa.org/asa-action-center

In the recently released fall 2026 issue of ASA's Footnotes, Immediate Past President Shelley J. Correll reflects on the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting in NYC and the transformative power of sociology. Read this article and the entire issue here: https://bit.ly/ASAfall26

Listen to sociologist Rin Reczek @rinreczek.bsky.social (The Ohio State University) discuss family estrangement and how it may be time to rethink what family means and what we expect from it on this episode of On Point @wbur.org.

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.

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Erin Ice (UT at Austin) received the 2026 Dissertation Award during the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting for “My Mother’s Keeper: The Singularity of Caregiving in the U.S.,” completed at @umich.edu.  #ASA #sociology #ASA2026

Attend the ASA Rose Series Speaker Series to hear Verónica Terriquez (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center) discuss her research and book on youth organizing in immigrant communities. Virtual and in person, University of Albany, Sept. 30 at 2 pm Eastern. Register here: https://bit.ly/4AILKBs.

Do you know a sociologist doing great work? ASA Annual Awards are now open for nominations. Read about award categories, including our newest recognition for early career sociologists, the Early Career Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship. Deadline 1/1/27. https://www.asanet.org/awards

Great reading for grad students, faculty, admin, and anyone committed to building more inclusive and empowering academic communities, this new book by ASA members dives into distinct areas of mentorship from the perspectives of both mentor and mentee. @nyupress.bsky.social

The Heart of Mentorship

A fascinating and important understanding of the role relational mentoring can play in higher educationThe mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most crit...

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ASA member Paul Stock @universityofkansas.bsky.social is part of a team that received an NSF grant to build drought tolerance in wheat and rice. He will talk with farmers and others involved in agricultural systems to understand the relationships and contexts they operate in.

$1.9M grant will support KU research on boosting drought tolerance in crops

A new National Science Foundation grant will bring $1.9 million to KU to test specific types of microscopic soil fungi for their potential to build drought tolerance in wheat and rice.

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Just Released! The American Sociological Association’s fall issue of Footnotes on Community-Engaged Scholarship. Access all the articles and the latest news from ASA here: https://bit.ly/ASAfall26  #ASA #sociology #research

The start of a new school year means lots of great new programming by ASA Sections and Communities. Get more attention for your events and find out what your peers are planning. Visit the ASA Calendar for more info! asanet.org/calendar.      #ASA #sociology #webinars #professionaldevelopment

Ed Cornelius (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) received the 2026 Dissertation Award during the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting for “Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field,” completed at @utoronto.ca.  #ASA #sociology #ASA2026

ASA member Jennifer Reich @jenniferreich.bsky.social gives insights into why the new executive order on vaccines may actually make it harder for parents to exercise choice and customize vaccines. @us.theconversation.com

Separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could decrease access for Colorado parents

Parents concerned about vaccine overload may not get the outcome they expect from Trump’s recent vaccine executive order.

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American Sociological Association President Alford Young Jr. to speak at Howard University. https://bit.ly/4AIRHOO

Sociologists! Consider applying for a 2027-28 residential fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Deadline: October 30, 2026. @casbsstanford.bsky.social @stanford.edu

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📣 Call for applications Apply for a 2027-28 CASBS residential fellowship & join a multi-disciplinary community of social & behavioral scientists like no other. Deadline to apply: October 30, 2026. Exit surveys suggest it will be the best year of your professional life. Start here: bit.ly/3STrBaK

Explore ASA’s new data resource! Into the Workforce has a variety of demographics and employment characteristics held by sociology bachelor’s degree recipients that can be searched by educational trajectories, job satisfaction, and more. https://bit.ly/4ruNzxI

Save the date for the American Sociological Association’s 2027 Annual Meeting! Taking place on August 6-10 in Chicago, “Realizing the Promise of Sociology in Turbulent Times” will feature hundreds of sessions designed to inform and inspire! https://bit.ly/ASA27AM

ASA member danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social observed and interviewed 100s of government civil servants to learn what it took for the Census Bureau to create the 2020 census amid a global pandemic, natural disasters, and challenging political forces. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Data Are Made, Not Found

An eye-opening story of the people who make the census, the United States’ largest and most consequential dataset, and the growing threats to their crucial work. By many measures, the US census is the government’s largest non-wartime operation, and one of the world’s oldest and biggest data-making endeavors. The 2020 census required more than a decade of planning and technical work—not to mention managing nearly a quarter of a million temporary workers simultaneously—to collect data about the American public. That data was then processed to count each of 331,449,281 residents once—and only once—and in the right place. The operation is also one of the country’s most consequential. Census data determine how political power and federal funding are allocated. Census data make politics, and consequently, politics make census data. In this urgent book, danah boyd explores what it took for the Census Bureau to make the 2020 census, amidst a global pandemic and natural disasters, and while navigating political forces that constrained the budget, micro-managed the schedule, and attacked statisticians’ methods. With rare insider access to the Census Bureau, boyd observed and interviewed hundreds of government civil servants who made the 2020 census. By documenting the perspectives of government workers, Data Are Made, Not Found provides a rare glimpse into what it takes to make democracy’s data. Each chapter reveals a different challenge—ranging from the last-minute fights about a citizenship question to the not-so-helpful help of well-intended stakeholders to avoid undercounts—and shows how civil servants responded to each problem, controversy, and hurdle. Boyd shows how many of the challenges that the Census Bureau faced in 2020 resulted from decades of political operatives, data users, and various stakeholders playing what boyd calls “Jenga politics,” weakening the administrative state for short-term political gains by removing support and adding more requirements. Civil servants saved the 2020 census, but future censuses—and other data-making efforts related to elections, health, and the economy—are precarious. Boyd’s message is clear and compelling: protecting democracy means protecting the people and institutions that produce this data.

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Be an ASA editor! The Rose Series in Sociology and Sociology of Education are seeking applications. Learn more about editor responsibilities, co-editorships, and successful editor proposals on the website. Apply by Dec. 1. bit.ly/3Rv8gM9

Prudence L. Carter @prulcarter.bsky.social @brown.edu received the 2026 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award during the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting. #ASA #sociology #ASA2026

ASA Sections and Communities: We want to help you reach a broad and diverse audience of sociologists! Send us info about your upcoming professional event to add to the ASA Calendar! asanet.org/calendar   #ASA #sociology #webinars #professionaldevelopment

Host an award-winning sociologist! Apply for an ASA Sorokin Lecture Grant to get funds to have a recipient of an ASA-wide award deliver a lecture at a sociological association meeting or on an academic campus. Applications considered on a rolling basis. bit.ly/4q3mAqZ

Sociology students! Register for ASA’s interactive proseminar! Learn how sociologists can work in practice settings and faculty positions simultaneously w/ Jennifer Turner, Institute for Women's Policy Research. Sep 16 @ 3pm EST. Free for student members. https://bit.ly/4xhMrP5

Support the sociologist in your life—give the gift of ASA membership! ASA members connect with a vibrant community of peers and get essential tools to grow their careers, increase research impact, stay current on trends in the field, and so much more. https://bit.ly/3SSO47Q

Sociologists! Are you doing original research that addresses HIV stigma or other mental or physical health-related stigma? Submit to the 17th Annual International Conference on Stigma. Abstracts due Sept. 21.

2026 Conference - Howard University Stigma Project

International Conference on Stigma 2026 SHATTERING INVISIBILITY: Let Your Light Shine. Break the Stigma The 17th Annual International Conference on Stigma will be held as a hybrid conference from Wednesday November 18, 2026 – Friday, November 20, 2026. The first two days are virtual, with the final day at Howard University Hospital in Washington,

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The start of a new school year means lots of great new programming by ASA Sections and Communities. Get more attention for your events and find out what your peers are planning. Visit the ASA Calendar for more info! asanet.org/calendar.      #ASA #sociology #webinars #professionaldevelopment

Catch up with ASA’s Contexts Magazine, publishing cutting-edge sociology research that’s accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Open access to featured articles and podcast interviews with authors. https://bit.ly/ASAcontexts

ASA member Ingrid E. Castro examines college students' experiences forming and sustaining interracial friendships and suggests institutional and policy changes to improve campus climate and increase the potential for interracial friendships. @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Gender, Race, Inequality and Student Friendship in Higher Education

With a qualitative case study of two university campuses in the United States, Ingrid E. Castro examines experiences of students in forming and sustaining close…

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Listen as ASA member Elisabeth S. Clemens traces the history of volunteerism--from the early republic to the challenges civic organizations now face--highlighting how voluntary orgs are  important to democratic life and encouraging them to "be patient with the messiness."

How volunteerism helped build American democracy — and why it still matters - Morristown Green

Kirby Foundation 'Reflections at 250' webinar traces voluntary associations from the early republic to today’s struggle for volunteers’ time.

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Get informed and stay informed on a variety of topics relevant to sociologists with ASA's library of webinar recordings! Our professional development videos are a valuable starting point for addressing challenges and advancing your career. Free for ASA members! https://bit.ly/ASAwebinars

Promote your next Section or Community event on the ASA Calendar! Whether you’re hosting a webinar, networking event, or panel discussion, let ASA help you spread the word! Send info about your upcoming events: asanet.org/calendar.      #ASA #sociology #webinars #professionaldevelopment