MidSouth Soc Announcements and Final Call for Presenters

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• August 28th

Greetings everyone!

The 2012 MSSA Annual Conference is nearly upon us, and the deadline for session organizers to send their sessions to Earl is fast approaching.  So, if you have not yet submitted your work for presentation, please contact a session organizer right away (or contact Earl if you can not identify an appropriate organizer) right away.  The list of session organizers is below.  The deadline for paper submissions is September 10.

The conference this year promises to be a good one and we’re getting very excited.  Mobile is always beautiful and makes for a wonderful fall location.  The list of sessions looks very interesting and we’re hearing about insightful and intriguing presentations in the works.  The dinner banquet has been scheduled on the evening of Friday, November 9, beginning at 6:30 this year and promises to be an exciting time to gather, explore and celebrate the winners of various awards.

Additionally, the deadline for preregistration is quickly approaching: October 8.  Although people attending the conference can register when they arrive, if you are an organizer or presenter you must be preregistered for the conference or your name will be dropped from the program.  The registration form can be found on the MSSA website’s Conference Registration page:

Finally, please don’t forget about the Stanford M. Lyman Memorial Scholarship which is open to any Ph.D. candidate working on a dissertation in sociological theory, symbolic interaction, race relations, law, or ethics.  Applications must be submitted by September 1 to Dr. Stan Hodges: stan.hodges@tamuk.edu

We hope everyone is doing well and look forward to seeing all of you at this year’s conference!!

Sociology from the South:
Assessing the Past, Examining the Present and Forecasting the Future
of Southern Sociology

November 7-10, 2012     –     Mobile Alabama

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If you are unable to locate an appropriate session below please forward your paper to: Earl Wright II (earl.wright@uc.edu)

SESSION ORGANIZERS

• “Alternative Medicine in the Twenty First Century”  Shanta Sharma (sharma@hsu.edu)
• “Civic Engagement, Service Learning and Community Involvement” Ann Marie Kinnell (ann.kinnell@usm.edu)
• “Community” Melissa S. Fry (frym@ius.edu)
• “Consumption, Consumer Culture and the American Dream” Terrell A. Hayes (thayes@highpoint.edu)
• “Crime and Deviance”  Rhonda D. Evans (rde8498@louisiana.edu)
• “A Critical Analysis of Classical Theory”  Tina Hebert Deshotels (tdeshotels@jsu.edu)
• ”Educational Practices”  Sherrie Drye Cannoy (sdcannoy@ncat.edu)
• “Family and Personal Relationships” Kimberly P. Brackett (kbrackett@aum.edu)
• “Gender”  Rhonda D. Evans (rde8498@louisiana.edu)
• “Gender and Social Deviance” Jackie Eller (jackie.eller@mtsu.edu)
• “Gendered Experiences/Global Institutions: A View from the American South  Ruth Channie Hill (rchill@uni.edu)and Tina Hebert Deshotels (tdeshotels@jsu.edu)
• “Global Sociology”  Samuel Adu-Mireku (sadu-mireku@uncfsu.edu)
• “Homicide Studies”  John Boulahanis (john.boulahanis@selu.edu)
• “Integrating Networks in Health Disparities Research” Dawood Sultan (dsultan@health.usf.edu) and Claire M. Norris (cnorris@xula.edu)
• “Latino Americans at PWI’s (Predominately White Institutions) Ray V. Robertson (rvrobertson@my.lamar.edu)
• “Meeting the Challenges of the 21^st Century: The HBCU in the South and in Global Context”  DeMond Miller (millerd@rowan.edu) and Anita Bledsoe-Gardner (abgardner@jcsu.edu)
• ”Shaping and Redefining Images of Black Womanhood in 21^st Century America”  Toni Sims-Muhammad (drtonisims@gmail.com)
• “Small and Community Colleges: Challenges and Strengths” Kathy Smith (ksmith@vallnet.com)
• “Sociology of Race”  Jessica Pardee (jwpgss@rit.edu)
• “Sociology of Religion”  Andrew Whitehead (Andrew_Whitehead@baylor.edu)
• “The Role and Relevancy of HBCU’s to Black Progress and Empowerment in the 21st Century” Toni Sims-Muhammad (drtonisims@gmail.com)
• “Social Stigma and Discrimination” Kristi Stringer (KLS5N@UAB.EDU)
• “Social Theory”  David Knottnerus (david.knottnerus@okstate.edu)
• “Sociology of Education and Youth”  Frederique Van de Poel-Knottnerus (Frederique.knottnerus@okstate.edu)
• “Sociology of Emotions”  Jackie Eller (jackie.eller@mtsu.edu)
• “Sociology of the Environment, Disaster, and Environmental Justice in the South and Beyond” Francis O. Adeola (fadeola@uno.edu)
• “Sociology of the Global South” Francis O. Adeola (fadeola@uno.edu)
• “Sociology of Health and Illness in the South” Christopher R. Freed (cfreed@usouthal.edu)
• “Sociology of Leisure”  Timothy Gongaware (tgongaware@uwlax.edu)
• “Sociology of Work and Labor”  Terrell A. Hayes (thayes@highpoint.edu)
• “Undergraduate Paper Competition” DeMond S. Miller (millerd@rowan.edu)
• “Undergraduate Paper Session (Non-Competitive)” DeMond S. Miller (millerd@rowan.edu) and Anita Bledsoe-Gardner (abgardner@jcsu.edu)

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL Presenters, Presiders, Discussants, and Session Organizers must be current members of MSSA and must pre-register for the conference by September 10, 2012.  Individuals not pre-registered for the conference by this date will not have their name or presentation information included in the final program.