"Women's and Gender Studies" News Stories

 

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, Nevada.

This year’s honorees are:

Addie Robertson Ouachita Baptist University Political Science Angelica G. Villagrana Casillas University of Texas at El Paso Sociology Britton Sechrist Hendrix College Sociology Collins Chukwunonso Ezea Northern Arizona University Social Work, Sociology Edward D. ...
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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 and representatives of our affiliate members conduct SSSA business outside of the general business meeting that occurs during the Annual Meeting each year.

The proposals, if ...
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The Southwestern Social Science Association has now joined BlueSky!

Give us a follow on @sssaonline.bsky.social. We will be posting key information regarding our Annual Meeting and other news there, in addition to our other active social media outlets.

You can also find us on Facebook (@SWSocSciAssn) and on Instagram/Threads (@sssaonline).

The SSSA Council is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grants for our 2025 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas.

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 ...
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Acceptance notices for the 2025 Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas are being sent via email. If your paper or panel proposal has been accepted, you should receive a notice through the All Academic system that you used to submit your proposal. Acceptance notice emails can and do sometimes land in a user’s SPAM folder, so you ...
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The SSSA is pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Steve Fish of UC Berkeley. Professor Fish is a comparative political scientist who specializes in democracy and authoritarianism, religion and politics, and constitutional systems and national legislatures. His most recent book is Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy’s Edge (2024).

Fish writes and comments extensively on international ...
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Southwestern International Studies Association President Sebahattin Ziyanak recently announced publication of his new book, Native American Princess Pageants: Understanding cultural identity and representation, co-authored with Steven Aicinena. Dr Ziyanak is associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas Permian Basin. Dr Aicinena is retired professor of kinesiology, also at the University of Texas Permian Basin.

This book delivers a systematic investigation ...
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The Southwestern Social Science Association approved at its 103rd Annual Meeting the following Resolution on Protecting Academic Freedom:

Whereas state legislatures across the U.S. have passed or are considering laws that target and restrict teaching and training about “divisive concepts.”

Whereas the Southwestern Social Sciences Association, the oldest inter-disciplinary social-sciences association in the U.S., holds that “By way of studying the present ...
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The Southwestern Sociology Association has been supporting the important work of the American Sociology Association Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) for over twenty years through a variety of fundraising efforts. The ASA Minority Fellowship Program provides crucial funding to scholars from historically underrepresented groups, and former fellows have contributed to SSA in leadership capacities over the years. SSA invites those interested ...
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The application process for the Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grants is now open for the 2024 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 18-20. Up to 20 grants in the amount of $300 will be awarded to students attending the Annual Meeting, with at least one award provided to an attendee in each of our disciplinary affiliates.

The deadline to apply is ...
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