"Southwestern Social Science Association" News Stories

Dr Liliana Rodriguez, assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and SSSA member, recently announced two publications, linked below with abstracts. Congratulations, Liliana!

“El Mexicano se ríe de sus desgracias”: adolescent arrivals and humour in an anti-immigrant context This article examines how newcomer immigrant teens navigate a heightened, anti-immigrant climate in the United States. Drawing on 24 ...
Read More

The SSSA is pleased and proud to announce the recipients of our 2023 Student Travel Grants for the Annual Meeting in Fort Worth. Each recipient will be recognized at the Presidential Plenary session during the Annual Meeting. Please join us in congratulating these fantastic young scholars!

• Madison Adams (Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas A&M University)
• Joel Chavez (Political Science, Georgetown University)
• Kiera Figgins ...
  Read More

We’ve added an “Ask the Expert” page to our website. This initiative was suggested by the SSSA Communications Committee at the San Antonio 2022 Annual Meeting and is now ready to roll out to the membership and the world-at-large. This will be a place where SSSA members who wish to make known their areas of expertise to colleagues, the media, ...
Read More

Our 2023 Annual Meeting will feature a special bonus session and whiskey tasting event, “Lawlessness and Libations:  A Discussion of Hell’s Half Acre and the Whiskey that Pays Homage to Fort Worth’s Shady Past”, set for Friday, March 31, 8:30-9:30 PM.

This is a ticketed event with a strict limit of 50 persons attending. Ticket price is $35 (plus Eventbrite fees). ...
Read More

Southwestern Social Science Association President Salli Vargis is pleased to announce that Dr Jennifer R Mercieca will deliver the Presidential Keynote Address at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth.

Her presentation for the Annual Meeting is entitled “Communicating for the Democratic Way of Life.”

Our public sphere is dominated by the widespread use of information warfare techniques that normalize the idea ...
Read More

The SSSA Nominations Committee is accepting nominations for the positions of SSSA Communications Director and SSSA Chair of the Site Policy Committee (Site Director), each for a three-year term serving through the 2026 Annual Meeting. Position announcements are as follows:

The SSSA Council will elect a Communications Director at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, TX.  Members of the SSSA, ...
Read More

The SSSA Council is pleased to announce availability of student travel grants for our 2023 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth.  We will award up to twenty (20) grants in the amount of $300 each, with at least one (1) award provided to an attendee in each of our affiliates (identified as the primary affiliate on the student’s membership file).

Honorees will be recognized ...
Read More

Livingstone College political scientist and active SSSA member Dr Chris White has published an article entitled “Security Arrangements and Migration Crises” in the journal International Social Science Review. His work examines the role of maritime military intervention in an international immigration crisis, using NATO as a case study. His article is available at this link.

Dr White is an active member ...
Read More

Our Call for Papers for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association has been extended. You can submit your poster, paper, or full panel by clicking here.

Our 2023 Annual Meeting will be at the Omni Fort Worth, 30 March – 1 April.

Dr Liliana Rodriguez, assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, was recently named as a Career Enhancement Fellow by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars and funded by the Mellon Foundation. The fellowship will allow her to advance her research in immigration, race relations, and Latina/o studies, in addition to other fields. She is also co-coordinator of Southwest Borderlands ...
Read More