EastErn sociological sociEty nd 82 annual MEEting Storied Lives: Culture, Structure, and Narrative Millennium Broadway Hotel New York City February 23-26, 2012 GENERAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Hours: Thursday, 11:30 am-5:00 pm Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Saturday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm Sunday, 8:00 am-10:00 am. nd The Registration Desk is located in the Foyer by the Gotham Dining Rooms (2 Fl) 1. When you register, you will be given a registration badge. 2. Badges are to be worn at all sessions and are required for admission to ESS events. 3. Registered participants may request complimentary badges for their nonmember spouses. ESS COMMONS nd The ESS COMMONS is on the main level in Gotham Dining Rooms (2 fl). It includes: The Book Exhibit, which is described on the back inside cover of the program. The Message Board, where participants can leave and receive messages. Because too few job openings were submitted prior to program publication, the Employment Center will be suspended for this year. 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Next Year's Annual Meeting will be at the The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers March 21-24, 2013 Storied Lives: Culture, Structure, and Narrative nd The 82 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel Table of Contents Program Highlights 2 Program Summary 8 Program Details 17 Previous Officers and Award Winners 103 ESS Officers and Committees 106 Acknowledgements 109 Call for 2012 Papers 110 Publisher Advertisements 111 Index of Participants 116 General Information Inside Front Cover Book Exhibitors Inside Back Cover Session Room Maps Back Cover Cover Design: Emily Mahon Begin Making Plans for ESS 2013: Sustainable Communities/Sustainable Lives: Social Change, Social Action, & Social Justice The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers March 21-24, 2013 1 Storied Lives: Culture, Structure, and Narrative ESS 2012 Program Highlights PLENARY SESSIONS: Thursday 5:30-7:00 PM Robin Williams Lecture presented by Sudhir Venkatesh Metropolis Friday 5:30-7:00 PM Plenary: The Future of Higher Education – with Paul Attewell, Metropolis David Lavin, Laura Hamilton, Elizabeth Armstrong, and Marta Tienda. Organized by Dan Clawson Saturday 5:30-7:00 PM Presentation of 2012 Awards and Robert Zussman’s Hudson Theater Presidential Address: “Narrative Freedom: Identity, Inequality, and the Limits of Self Invention” RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT: Thursday 7:00 PM Reception following Robin Williams Lecture Metropolis Friday 7:00 PM Reception following Higher Education Plenary Metropolis Saturday 7:00 PM Presidential Reception Theater Lobby THEMATICS: Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM Narratives of Youth: Intersectionality and Risk Room 3.11 Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM Uncovering Patterns: Reflections on Narrative Positivism Room 3.11 Twenty Years Ago and Today Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM Untold Stories: Silence and other Dilemmas in Personal Room 3.11 Narrative Research Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Telling Sexual Stories Metropolis Friday 12:00-1:30 PM The Pedagogical Uses of Stories Metropolis Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Welfare Reform: Missing Stories Metropolis Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Ethnography in the First Person I Metropolis Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Illuminating Life Stories Through Slow Sociology Metropolis Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Tales of the Street(s) Metropolis Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM The Explanatory Power of Narrative Room 3.11 Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Identity Narratives and Kinship Stories Room 3.11 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Tales from the Dark Side Room 3.11 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Narrative and Social Movements Room 4.02 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM When Stories Don't Work Room 3.11 Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Trauma Narratives Room 3.11 AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS: Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM The Maid's Daughter by Mary Romero Room 3.11 Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity by Nazili Kibria Room 4.11 Friday 8:30-10:00 AM The Alter-Globalization Movement: Becoming Actors in a Room 5.04 Global Age by Geoffrey Pleyers Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Violence Against Latina Women by Roberta Villalon Room 5.04 2 AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS – cont’d Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work Room 5.04 by Enobong Branch Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Strip Club by Kim Price Glynn Room 5.04 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Room 5.04 Desire by Lynne Haney Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM The Marriage Go-Round by Andrew Cherlin Room 5.04 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Making Care Count by Mignon Duffy Room 5.04 Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York by Jonathan Room 5.04 Wynn Saturday 1:45-3:00 PM New Blood by Chris Bobel Room 5.04 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Room 5.04 Underground by Gregory Snyder Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism by Sarah Room 4.11 Sobieraj Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Room 4.11 Women's Health by Gayle Sulik “CONVERSATIONS” WITH: Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Margaret Anderson, Joya Misra, Tufuku Zuberi – Conversations Room 4.02 on Race and Gender (Organizer Enobong Hannah Branch) Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Jasmine Burnett, Pamela Calla, Svati Shah, Claudia de la Cruz Room 3.02 – Transnational Conversations about New Forms of Feminist Organizing (Organizers Millie Thayer and Elisa Martinez) Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Where goes the Neighborhood: A Conversation with Robert Room 3.02 Sampson and Philip Kasinitz Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Andrew Papachristos, Chris Wildeman, Patrick Sharkey – Room 3.02 Inequality and Crime Research (Organizer Andrew Papachristos) Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Gary Alan Fine, Pamela Donovan, Nicholas DiFonzo – Room 3.02 Narrating Rumor, Belief, and Truth (Organizer Gary Alan Fine) Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Christine E Bose, Nancy Naples, Jyoti Puri – Transnational Room 3.02 Approaches to Gender (Presider Roberta Villalon) Sunday 12:00-1:45 Paul DiMaggio, Andrew Abbott, Patricia Roos – How To Advise Room 3.11 a Dissertation (Presider Michael Schwartz) SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS: Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM Sociological Perspectives on the Arab Spring Room 5.07 Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Ethnography in the First Person Room 3.02 Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Social Knowledge in the Making, Michele Lamont Room 3.02 Friday 12:00-1:45 PM Historical Perspectives on Care Room 4.05 Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Sociology at the Intersections: Our dialogs with those beyond Room 3.02 our intellectual border 3 SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS – cont’d Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Celebrating Elliot Mishler I: Performing Stories Room 4.03 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Occupy Wall Street and the Future of Political and Economic Room 3.02 Reform Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Celebrating Elliot Mishler II: Stories in Social Science Room 4.03 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Revisiting the Importance of Conceptualizing Work and Family Room 4.05 Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Family Stories Room 4.06 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM Rethinking National Identity: Struggles over Diversity in the Room 5.04 U.S. and Europe Sunday 12:00-1:45 Narratives of Everyday Diversity on Local Shopping Streets: Room 4.11 New York, Berlin, Toronto MINICONFERENCE: Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 1 Room 3.11 Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 2 Room 3.11 Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 3 Room 3.11 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 4 Room 3.11 Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 5 Room 3.11 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Panel 6 Room 3.11 MINICONFERENCE: Community Colleges Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Opportunity and Constraint at the Community College: Room 3.03 Perspectives from Research and Storied Lives Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Research on Community College Students: Challenges, Room 3.03 Outlooks and Implications for Social Policy Satruday 8:30-10:00 AM Cultivating "Community" at the Community College and Room 3.03 Beyond Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Teaching Across the Divides: Challenges and Innovations of Room 3.03 Community College Teaching Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Diverse Experiences, Global Challenges: Community Colleges Room 3.03 Traverse a Changing Social Landscape Saturday 1:45-3:00 PM Narratives of Learning at the Community Colleges: The Room 3.03 Undergraduate Perspective MINICONFERENCE: Military Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Effects of Military Service Across the Life Course Room 3.04 Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Military Issues in International and Historical Context Room 3.04 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Military Issues: Macro, Micro and Theoretical Room 3.04 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM Military Structure and Its Effects Room 3.04 Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM The Military and "The Unspoken" Room 3.04 4 MINICONFERENCE: Reproduction Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Framing Reproduction Room 4.11 Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Situating Reproduction Across/In Institutions, Organizations, Room 4.11 and States Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Still Killing the Black Body: Understanding Race, Room 4.11 Reproduction, and Liberty in Contemporary Social Contexts Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Understanding the Perspectives of Reproductive Health Room 4.11 Professionals Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Normalizing Reproduction Room 4.11 Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Narrativizing Reproduction and Birth Room 4.11 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Examining Women's Reproductive Experiences Room 4.11 Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Assessing the Sociology of Reproduction and Next Steps. Room 4.11 (Bring your lunch!) Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Studying a Fraught Subject in Reproduction, Abortion Room 4.11 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Interrogating the Science of Reproduction Room 4.11 MINICONFERENCE: Security Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM The Politics of Urban Infrastructure Room 3.04 Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM The Sentiments of Patriotism Room 3.04 Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM Case in Focus- Latin America Room 3.04 Friday 8:30-10:00 AM The Body in Security Room 3.04 Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Social movements, Activism, and Warfare Room 3.04 Friday 12:00-1:30 PM The State in Question Room 3.04 Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Case in Focus: The Olympics Room 3.04 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Ethical Considerations and the Military Room 3.04 Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM On Governance Room 3.04 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Coping with Disasters Room 3.04 Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Securing the Economy Metropolis Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Discursive Practices and Narrative Telling Metropolis Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Culture and Identities: The Inner Landscape of Security Metropolis MINICONFERENCE: Social Movements Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Internal Engagements Room 5.07 Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Players Formerly Known as the State Room 5.07 Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Players Formerly Known as the State Part Two Room 5.07 Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Protesters and their Targets Room 5.07 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Protesters Engage Experts and the Media Room 5.07 MINICONFERENCE: Women in Science Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Choices Versus Constraints: Understanding Women in Science Room 3.05 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Narrating their Stories: A View from the Trenches Room 3.05 Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Pathways and Potholes: Entry, Persistence, and Exit in STEM Room 3.05 Fields Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Science in a Globalizing World: Continued Marginalization or Room 3.05 an Opportunity? 5 WORKSHOPS: Thursday 9:00 – 12:00 PM Workshop on Service Learning (preregistration needed) Room 3.06 Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM "Using Service Learning and Civic Engagement to Teach About Room 5.04 Inequities". (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women) Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM Asset Based Community Development and Service -Learning Room 5.03 Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM SAY WHAAAAT?!? Teaching Research Methodology through Room 5.04 Service-Learning (Workshop) Friday 10:15-11:45 AM "You'll Never Graduate or Get Tenure Doing That!": Doing Room 5.03 Multi-Year Research Projects and Negotiating Tenure and Promotion Timelines Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Applying Sociology: Mentoring undergraduate student Room 4.03 research Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM National Science Foundation Funding Opportunities, Merit Room 5.03 Review, and Proposal Preparation Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Speed Dating for Potential Co-Authors Room 5.03 Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Workshop on the Status of the Job Market for New PhDs in Room 5.03 Sociology 2011-2012 Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Professional development for sociology graduate students Room 5.03 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM "The Conference Mommy": Negotiating and Enjoying Room 3.01 Conferences with Children (panel session, children welcome!) Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM How to Get Published in Trails, the Teaching Resources and Room 4.04 Innovation Library for Sociology Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM Atlas.ti: Beyond Coding Room 3.06 Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM StoryCorps as resource for sociologists Metropolis Sunday 2:00-4:00 PM How to Share Your Sociological Smarts With a Larger Room 3.02 Audience: A Professional Workshop (Pre -registration required) EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Undergraduate Poster Session I Gotham Foyer Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Undergraduate Poster Session II Gotham Foyer Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Undergraduate Poster Session III Gotham Foyer Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Undergraduate Poster Session IV Gotham Foyer Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Undergraduate Poster Session V Gotham Foyer EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM Using Service Learning and Civic Engagement to Teach About Room 5.04 Inequities Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Room 4.01 Contemporary Narratives on Motherhood LOCAL INTEREST: Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Jane Jacobs: An Urbanist's New York Room 4.02 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM NY and LA, the Uncertain Future: Social Trends Room 4.03 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM How to Build Something in New York Metropolis Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM NY and LA, the Uncertain Future: The Financial Crisis and its Metropolis Ongoing Ramifications 6 ESS SPECIAL EVENTS AND MEETINGS: Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM ESS Executive Committee Meeting I Room 4.01 Friday 7:30-8:30 AM ASA Department Chairs Breakfast Room 3.06 Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting Room 3.01 Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Sociological Forum Editorial Board Meeting Room 5.08 Saturday 8:30-10:15 AM Committee on Graduate Education Meeting Room 3.06 Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Committee on the Status of Minorities Meeting Room 4.05 Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Committee on the Status of Women Meeting Room 3.06 Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM ESS General Meeting Empire Sunday 10:25-11:45 AM ESS Executive Committee Meeting II Empire And congratulations to our Student Travel Grant winners: Jenna Appelbaum, New York University, Transitional Justice and its Stories: Complicating the Genocidal Rape Monologue in Rwanda Miriam Sessions, Florida State University, Social Control and Emotional Expression: Women`s Experiences in Hospitalized Childbirth Mia Diaz-Edelman, Boston University, Anchoring Narratives: Multicultural Collaboration in the Immigrant Rights Movement Amanda Gengler, Brandeis University, Telling Stories about Ourselves and Our Projects in the Field Andrew Junker, Yale University, Storied Methodologies: Innovative Uses of Narrative in Research Rebekkah Joy Orr, Syracuse University, Pride and Prejudice: Sexual Storytelling and the Politics of Inclusion in One Sex-Positive Group Sara Garrett, UC - Berkeley, “Then it all went wrong…”: First-time mothers respond to deviations from their desired birth plans Joris Gjata, University of Virginia, Constructing a Self: Organizations and their Stories Naliyah Kaya, George Mason University, Poetic Personas: Self & Society in Spoken Word Performance Culture Undergraduate: John Robert Butler, Louisiana State University, The Cultural Psychology of Palestinian Ter- rorism 7 Storied Lives: Culture, Structure, and Narrative ESS Annual Meeting Program Summary Thursday, 23 February 2012 9:00 AM-12:00 PM 1. Workshop -- Workshop on Service Learning -- Room 3.06 12:00 PM-1:30 PM 2. Regular Paper Session -- HIV/AIDS, Human Security and Gender Activism -- Room 4.05 3. Thematic Session -- Narratives of Youth: Intersectionality and Risk -- Room 3.11 4. Regular Paper Session -- Race and Low-Wage Labor -- Room 3.01 5. Regular Paper Session -- Migration and Belonging -- Room 3.02 6. Regular Paper Session -- Transnational Identities -- Room 3.03 7. Regular Paper Session -- Ethics and Technology in Medicine -- Room 3.04 8. Regular Paper Session -- Gender Dynamics of Migration -- Room 3.05 9. Regular Paper Session -- Poverty and Punishment -- Room 3.06 10. Regular Paper Session -- Public Spaces -- Room 3.10 11. Regular Paper Session -- Sociology of Online Gaming -- Room 4.01 12. Regular Paper Session -- The Social Construction of Disease -- Room 4.02 13. Regular Paper Session -- Academic Achievement: Latino and Asian Students -- Room 4.03 14. Regular Paper Session -- Activism and the Media -- Room 4.04 15. Regular Paper Session -- Disruption and Disadvantage in American Education -- Room 4.06 16. Regular Paper Session -- Families and Work: Raising Children in the Ethnographic Field -- Room 4.10 17. Regular Paper Session -- Political Characters -- Room 5.03 18. Regular Paper Session -- Immigration, Assimilation, and Incorporation in the U.S. and Abroad -- Room 5.07 19. Workshop -- "Using Service Learning and Civic Engagement to Teach About Inequities". (Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women) -- Room 5.04 20. Roundtable 1 -- Crime and Community -- Room 5.08 21. Roundtable 2 -- Immigration and Health -- Room 5.08 22. Roundtable 3 -- Bullying -- Room 5.08 23. Roundtable 4 -- Family and Work -- Room 5.08 24. Roundtable 5 -- Can Sociology Educate? -- Room 5.08 25. Roundtable 6 -- The Making of Criminals -- Room 5.08 26. Roundtable 7 -- Corporations and the Political Economy of the Environment -- Room 5.08 27. Roundtable 8 -- Urban Cultures -- Room 5.08 28. Roundtable 9 -- Research on Students -- Room 5.08 29. Mini-Conference: Security -- The Politics of Urban Infrastructure -- Metropolis 30. Invited Session -- Juxtaposing Asias and Latin Americas: Transnational Approaches to Gender and Sexuality -- Room 4.11 1:45 PM-3:15 PM 31. ESS Executive Committee Meeting I -- Room 4.01 32. Thematic Session -- Uncovering Patterns: Reflections on Narrative Positivism Twenty Years Ago and Today -- Room 3.11 33. Special Presidential Session -- Sociological Perspectives on the Arab Spring -- Room 5.07 34. Author-Meets-Critics -- The Maid's Daughter by Mary Romero -- Room 4.11 35. Regular Paper Session -- Race and Space -- Room 3.01 36. Regular Paper Session -- Re-considering "Speed Bumps" in Urban Qualitative Research in the Midst of Rampant Disinvestment in the Public Sector -- Room 3.02 37. Regular Paper Session -- The Medical Profession -- Room 3.03 38. Regular Paper Session -- Collective Behavior in China -- Room 3.04 39. Regular Paper Session -- Global Inequalities and Financial Crises -- Room 3.05 40. Regular Paper Session -- Suicide and Emotional Lives -- Room 3.06 41. Regular Paper Session -- Teachers and Teaching -- Room 3.10 42. Regular Paper Session -- Revolutions, Riots and Flash Mobs: Social Media and Social Movements -- Room 4.02 43. Regular Paper Session -- Stories of Everyday Life in the City -- Room 4.03 44. Regular Paper Session -- Food, Society and Ethnicity -- Room 4.04 45. Regular Paper Session -- Blame and Suffering in the Economic Crisis -- Room 4.05 46. Regular Paper Session -- Environmental Social Movements -- Room 4.06 47. Regular Paper Session -- Teaching Tolerance -- Room 5.04 48. Workshop -- Asset Based Community Development and Service-Learning -- Room 5.03 49. Roundtable 1 -- Resilience and Coping Among Urban Black Women -- Room 5.08 50. Roundtable 2 -- Church -- Room 5.08 51. Roundtable 3 -- Modernization and Reform in Asia -- Room 5.08 52. Roundtable 4 -- Projects of Empire -- Room 5.08 53. Roundtable 5 -- Children's Health at Risk -- Room 5.08 54. Roundtable 6 -- The Shadow of the Sacred -- Room 5.08 55. Roundtable 7 -- Personal Narratives -- Room 5.08 8