The "New Voices in the History of Sociology" is a yearly digital symposium held in August. We held the inaugural symposium on August 11, 2020 to commemorate the twenty year anniversary of the establishment of the History of Sociology section in the American Sociological Association. We are currently looking forward to our 2021 symposium and our program is here.
We have have included below a record of the 2020 program and links to recorded videos from each of the sessions.
A number of the papers presented here have now been published in a special issue of The American Sociologist, July 2021
We have have included below a record of the 2020 program and links to recorded videos from each of the sessions.
A number of the papers presented here have now been published in a special issue of The American Sociologist, July 2021
Program and Video Links
2 pm – Opening
Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Chair, Section on the History of Sociology; The George Washington University
Video: https://youtu.be/sQ4uEA9Yhtw
2: 10 - Reflections on the Value of Mentorship for Emerging Scholars
Taylor Winfield, Council, Section on the History of Sociology; doctoral candidate Princeton University
Video: https://youtu.be/k2JGlA2njBw
2:30 - Discussion (~10 minutes)
2:45 - Paper Panel 1: Sociological Encounters Across Time & Geopolitical Space
Video link: https://youtu.be/B7OCtVsDjyI
"Caste and Race in American Sociology"
Ryan Parsons, Princeton University
"Introducing Jane Addams into Contemporary China"
Wen Guan and Lan Huang both of The George Washington University
"Doctoral Origins & Academic Labour in the Periphery of American Sociology"
Francois La Chapelle, University of British Columbia
"U.S. Sociology in/and the Global Cold War"
Savina Balsubramanian, Loyola University of Chicago
"Erving Goffman's First Steps Toward an 'Unfettered and Unsponsored' Sociology"
Francesco Ranci, Iona College
Discussant: Gary Jaworski, Chair Opportunities Committee, Section on the History of Sociology, Farleigh Dickinson University (ret.)
3:45 - Discussion - ~15 minutes
4:00 - Break - 15 minutes
4:15 - Paper Panel 2 - Shifting Paradigms in Theory & Methods
Video: https://youtu.be/aHHFjGZ2Kmw
"Moving Beyond the Founding Father Myth"
Angela Fillingim, Western Washington University
and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, State University of New York at Albany
"Paper Tools and the Sociological Imagination”
Stefan Bargheer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus, Denmark
"On the Mortality of Cited Works, Cited Authors, and Writing Authors in Sociology"
Alec McGail, Cornell University
"Mourning the Sociological History of Death"
Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
Discussant: David Swartz, Past Chair, Section on the History of Sociology; Boston University
5:15 - Discussion & Break - ~15 minutes
5:30 - Reflections on the State of the Field
Larry Nichols, The American Sociologist
Video: https://youtu.be/GSrgTOdP8MU
6 pm – Opportunity for further group discussion
Illustration by W.E.B. DuBois, from 1900 Paris Exposition Collection, Library of Congress.
2 pm – Opening
Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Chair, Section on the History of Sociology; The George Washington University
Video: https://youtu.be/sQ4uEA9Yhtw
2: 10 - Reflections on the Value of Mentorship for Emerging Scholars
Taylor Winfield, Council, Section on the History of Sociology; doctoral candidate Princeton University
Video: https://youtu.be/k2JGlA2njBw
2:30 - Discussion (~10 minutes)
2:45 - Paper Panel 1: Sociological Encounters Across Time & Geopolitical Space
Video link: https://youtu.be/B7OCtVsDjyI
"Caste and Race in American Sociology"
Ryan Parsons, Princeton University
"Introducing Jane Addams into Contemporary China"
Wen Guan and Lan Huang both of The George Washington University
"Doctoral Origins & Academic Labour in the Periphery of American Sociology"
Francois La Chapelle, University of British Columbia
"U.S. Sociology in/and the Global Cold War"
Savina Balsubramanian, Loyola University of Chicago
"Erving Goffman's First Steps Toward an 'Unfettered and Unsponsored' Sociology"
Francesco Ranci, Iona College
Discussant: Gary Jaworski, Chair Opportunities Committee, Section on the History of Sociology, Farleigh Dickinson University (ret.)
3:45 - Discussion - ~15 minutes
4:00 - Break - 15 minutes
4:15 - Paper Panel 2 - Shifting Paradigms in Theory & Methods
Video: https://youtu.be/aHHFjGZ2Kmw
"Moving Beyond the Founding Father Myth"
Angela Fillingim, Western Washington University
and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, State University of New York at Albany
"Paper Tools and the Sociological Imagination”
Stefan Bargheer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus, Denmark
"On the Mortality of Cited Works, Cited Authors, and Writing Authors in Sociology"
Alec McGail, Cornell University
"Mourning the Sociological History of Death"
Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
Discussant: David Swartz, Past Chair, Section on the History of Sociology; Boston University
5:15 - Discussion & Break - ~15 minutes
5:30 - Reflections on the State of the Field
Larry Nichols, The American Sociologist
Video: https://youtu.be/GSrgTOdP8MU
6 pm – Opportunity for further group discussion
Illustration by W.E.B. DuBois, from 1900 Paris Exposition Collection, Library of Congress.