NEWS
Date: July 25, 2000
Contact: Public Information Office
(202) 383-9005, ext. 320
[email protected]
RESKIN ELECTED 93RD PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Barbara F. Reskin, Harvard University, was elected the 93rd President of the American Sociological Association, and Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania, was elected Vice President. Reskin and Anderson will assume office in August of 2001, following a year of service as President-elect and Vice President-elect. Also, elected Secretary was Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He will begin his three-year term in 2002, following a year of service as Secretary-elect.
Election to President is the highest honor ASA members can bestow on a colleague. As President, Reskin serves as Chair of the ASA Council, which governs the Association and its policies. She also chairs the Program Committee for the 2002 Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, IL on Aug. 16-20, 2002.
In announcing the results of the election, Secretary Florence B. Bonner and Executive Officer Felice J. Levine extended heartiest congratulations to the newly elected officers and committee members. The other elected officials include the four newly elected Council Members-at-Large, the two members elected to the Committee on Publications, and the six members elected to the Committee on Nominations. The newly elected officers and their positions are:
President-Elect
Barbara F. Reskin, Harvard University
Vice President-Elect
Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Secretary-Elect
Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Council
Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley
Craig Calhoun, New York University and Social Science Research Council
Barbara Risman, North Carolina State University
Lynn Smith-Lovin, University of Arizona
Committee on Publications
Douglas McAdam, Stanford University
Beth E. Schneider, University of California-Santa Barbara
Committee on Nominations
Susan Gonzalez Baker, University of Texas-Austin
Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Glenn Firebaugh, Penn State University
Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
Robin Stryker, University of Iowa
Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles
Founded in 1905, the ASA is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
# # #
RSS