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Our Las Vegas 2025 Annual Meeting Call for Papers has been released

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New Orleans 2024 Annual Meeting

A Special Tribute to former SSSA President
Joe Stewart

View the Online 2024 Annual Meeting Program

2024 Annual Meeting Program in PDF Format

2024 Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grant Awardees

Memories from the New Orleans 2024 Annual Meeting

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News & Events Past Stories

2025 Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grant Winners Announced

  The Southwestern Social Science Association is pleased to announce the winners of the Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grants for the 2025 Annual Meeting. The meeting will be 3-5 April at The Flamingo in Las Vegas, ...
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Proposed changes to SSSA Council to be discussed at Las Vegas 2025

  SSSA President Jennifer Horan has announced that an ad hoc committee on the bylaws is recommending changes to the representation structure on the association’s Council. The Council is the body where both the association officers ...
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