"Women's and Gender Studies" News Stories

The Southwestern Social Science Association is pleased to announce that our 2025 Annual Meeting will be held April 3-5 at The Flamingo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Room rates will be $59/night for April 1-3 and $169/night for April 4-5. These apply for both single and double rooms.

More details will be posted at sssaonline.org and our Facebook and X (formerly known as ...
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The Southwestern Social Science Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Brian Hosmer will be the Presidential Plenary speaker at the 2024 SSSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 18-20, 2024.

His presentation is entitled: “When Consultants Come to Town: How the Social Sciences can save higher education.”

Dr. Hosmer currently is a Professor of History at Oklahoma State University.  Previously he ...
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Joe Stewart was a prince among the people who knew him.  He was an unlikely prince, to be sure.  Joe was unassuming. He tended to see humor in everything, sometimes even when others of more serious bearing found his humor inappropriate.  He was immensely talented, producing insightful and important research, though not at the rate that critics might ascribe to ...
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It is with great sadness that the Southwestern Social Science Association mourns the passing of former president Dr Alexander John Kondonassis.

Dr Kondonassis served as SSSA president for the 1984 Annual Meeting held in Fort Worth. He was a very active member of the Southwestern Economics Association prior to his service as president.

Born in Athens, Greece, he attended the University of ...
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The Southwestern Social Science Association honored Dr Tracy Dietz by voting to present her with its Distinguished Service Award at the close of its 101st Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, March 30-April 1, 2023.

Dr Dietz has served as the general program director for the association for many years, with overall responsibility for working with the SSSA’s affiliates to put together ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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