Amendment to SSSA Bylaws Proposed
This post shall serve as notice to members that an amendment to the SSSA Bylaws has been proposed. The full text of the proposed amendment and a brief explanation behind it can be downloaded here.
The purpose of this amendment is to establish a new office of Communications Director, with consequential amendments to other sections reflecting creation of this office and ...
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Graduate Student Fair and Employment Service to be offered at the 2018 SSSA Annual Meeting
Our 2018 Annual Meeting is just around the corner, and we are very pleased to announce that we will again offer our Graduate Student Fair and our Employment Service at the meeting.
The Graduate Student Fair and the Employment Service are open to institutions and organizations wishing to speak to prospective graduate students and to those who are or soon will ...
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Book by SSSA Past President Receives Accolade
Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) by Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, past president of the SSSA, was recently listed as one of the “Historical Studies of 2017 to Highlight” by Santiago, Chile’s major daily newspaper La Tercera. Barr-Melej is Professor of History at Ohio University.
The book illuminates modern Chilean ...
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SSSA Sociologists Publish Research on Rural Banking
This year Baylor University faculty Carson Mencken and Charlie Tolbert (Sociology affiliate) published two additional articles from their research on Changing Rural Bank Lending Patterns:
“Locally Owned Bank Concentration and Bank Loans for Nonmetropolitan Business Start-Ups and Expansions: A Multilevel Analysis from the 2007 Survey of Business Owners” Rural Sociology 83(2): 376-401.
“Small Business Lending and Economic Development in Texas Counties: A ...
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SSQ Editor Keith Gaddie honored with V.O. Key Award
Professor Keith Gaddie, general editor of Social Science Quarterly, was honored with the V.O. Key, Jr. Award for The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act, recognized as the best book of the year published in southern politics by the Southern Political Science Association. Prof. Gaddie co-authored the book with Profs. Charles Bullock and Justin Wert. This marks the second time that ...
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SSSA Political Scientists Publish New American Government Reader
Southwestern Social Science Association political scientists recently joined together to publish a compelling new American government reader, Considering American Government, available from Kendall Hunt. Edited by SSSA President Lydia M. Andrade and former political science affiliate president James W Riddlesperger, Jr., the text features chapters on a variety of current issues on US government and politics. Each chapter was written by a ...
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2018 Call For Papers Announced
The Call for Papers for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association has been announced. Full details are at https://sssaonline.org/annual-meeting/orlando-2018-call-papers/, including a downloadable poster in PDF format.
Past SSSA President Barr-Melej publishes new book
Past SSSA President Patrick Barr-Melej has published his new book, Psychedelic Chile, through the University of North Carolina Press. His work re-examines the country’s tumultuous period of the 1960s and 1970s, including the countercultural attitudes prevailing among Chilean youth at the time. Details on his book are here: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469632575/psychedelic-chile/.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
The SSSA wishes to send our continued good wishes and thoughts to our members and friends in Texas and Louisiana who continue to recover and rebuild from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. We also send our good wishes and thoughts to our members and friends in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and other places in the path of Hurricane Irma.
McCants Gives 2017 Plenary Address
With an audience of more than 200 professors and students packing a ballroom at the Austin Hyatt Regency, Dr. Anne McCants delivered the plenary address “History and Social Science in an Age of Uncertainty” during the association’s 97th annual meeting in April. Focusing on how the humanities and social sciences help us understand everyday life in the past and give us ...
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