Weekly Digest #5: Sessions Seeking Papers

Submit your Session Seeking Papers (SSP) by Sunday, Oct. 27th, to be included in our final weekly digest next Tuesday. To submit a Session Seeking Papers, use this form.  We currently have 27 SSPs across a variety of exciting themes! Their due dates for abstract submission vary. Please visit our website for the full list of SSPs for … Read more

Weekly Digest #4: Sessions Seeking Papers and Highlighting Posters at SSS 2025

The submission deadline for SSS 2025 is approaching and we hope you are busy preparing to send us your work. As always, we welcome your submissions in whatever format suits your contributions – as oral presentations, as roundtable discussions, or in poster format. We invite papers that are consistent with this year’s theme: Sociology of the … Read more

Digest #2: Sessions Seeking Papers

With less than 5 weeks until the submission deadline for the SSS 2025 meeting in Charlotte, NC, now is the time to consider organizing a session(s) around various themes, including but not limited to the conference theme (Future of Sociology and the Sociology of the Future), that represent the richness of sociology. For the full … Read more

Hurricane Helene

SSSers, I am reaching out today to convey my support and hopes for well-being and recovery for our members who have been affected by Hurricane Helene and its aftermath.  From the winds, rain and storm surge in the initial landfall, to the tornadoes, to the floods from the bursting dams in the aftermath, Helene left … Read more

SSS 2025 Weekly Digest #1

This is the first of our weekly digests of Sessions Seeking Papers for the SSS 2025 meeting. With the meeting’s theme “Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology,” President Dawn Robinson invites us to consider “how sociology can help us understand how to adapt, resist, and thrive in the face of this changing social … Read more

Call for Nominations

Dear SSSers, The Southern Sociological Society (SSS) is seeking nominees for the elected positions of President, Vice President, Executive Committee (2), Publications Committee (2), and J.E.D.I (3).  To qualify for these positions, the candidate must have been a dues-paying member of SSS 2 of the last 4 membership years. Any member of SSS, after first … Read more

Announcing the SSS 2025 Call for Papers

Southern Sociological Society 2025 Annual Meeting  CALL FOR PAPERS  Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology April 9-12, 2025Sheraton Charlotte Hotel Charlotte, North Carolina Submission Due Date: November 4, 2024  PresidentDawn T. Robinson, University of Georgia Program ChairLisa Slattery Walker, University of North Carolina – Charlotte Theme: Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology … Read more

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University

Unit: Sociology  Position Type: Faculty  Position Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology  Location: Nashville, TN  Open Date: Sep 2, 2024  Deadline —  Position Description: The Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of health/medical and/or environmental sociology to begin fall semester 2025. The successful candidate will study … Read more

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Randolph College

Assistant Professor of Sociology FLSA Classification Full-Time Faculty – Tenure Track Reports to Provost Tim Smith Date July 01, 2025 Job Description  Summary/Objective The Sociology Department at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The focus is open, but we particularly encourage people whose teaching and research concentrate on … Read more

Announcing the New Social Currents Editor

The SSS Publications Committee is delighted to announce that Dr. Hiromi Taniguchi will serve as the next editor of Social Currents. The Publications Committee reviewed applications and made a recommendation to the SSS Executive Committee, who voted to confirm the Editor-in-Chief. Hiromi Taniguchi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of Asian Studies at the University … Read more