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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Sociologists and Sociology During COVID-19
As we began planning the first issue of Footnotes to be produced entirely from home, it was self-evident that we should focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. I feel confident in saying that not a single member of ASA has been unaffected by this crisis, and some in profound and heartbreaking ways. We have been affected both personally and professionally, and our work as sociologists has also had an impact on response to the crisis. In this special issue we have sought to illuminate the impact across these domains.
We start with the personal. In this issue you will find brief first-person narratives from sociologists around the world, such as Angela Hoekstra, an adjunct professor in Prague juggling the responsibilities of online teaching and parenting young children; Timothy Pippert, a faculty member on sabbatical in Minnesota worrying about the impact of the pandemic on his extended family; and Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, a graduate student finishing her dissertation while contributing to the care of her hard-hit tribal community. These stories provide a window into the range of experiences sociologists are having during this period, and I found them moving.
The pandemic has created a host of challenges for our professional endeavors and here you will find articles that address the approaches some of our colleagues are using to respond. The difficulty of the sudden and disruptive move to virtual instruction is highlighted in several articles. Challenges to research productivity are also addressed. Many scholars are unable to engage in ethnographic fieldwork or access the archives on which they typically rely, for example. We also include pieces that focus on challenges specific to high school teachers of sociology, graduate students, and contingent faculty as well as challenges in particular settings within higher education, including community colleges, BA-granting departments, and PhD-granting departments.
Sociology also informs us about the crisis, and much of this issue is devoted to highlighting sociological insight on COVID-19 and its myriad dimensions. The intellectual backbone of ASA is its sections, and we turned to them to create a compilation of articles related to COVID-19 that are reflective of the breadth of our discipline. Each section was invited to make a submission, and we were pleased to receive 35 articles.
This issue of Footnotes represents a truly collective effort by the association's members, and I thank all the authors for their hard work at a time when an added task is especially difficult. Thanks too to the section leaders for their enthusiasm for this endeavor and their willingness to help identify authors.
The pieces in this special issue are interesting and consequential now and will likely continue to be revelatory as we reflect on this moment over time. This special issue was planned, and the articles were submitted, before protests in response to systemic racism and police violence began. But the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on people and communities of color lays bare the ways in which the protests are very much related to the pandemic. The special issue is publicly available, so individuals and policymakers can draw upon these pieces to guide their efforts to understand and manage this global crisis. Collectively, the articles here make a powerful statement about sociology as a discipline and all it has to contribute to addressing critical societal issues.
Nancy Kidd
ASA Executive Director
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Personal Narratives from Sociologists
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- Remedies in a World Upside Down.
Elizabett Sugeiry Baez, State University of New York-Plattsburgh, writing from Brooklyn, NY.
- How Am I Doing?
Carol Caronna, Towson University, writing from Columbia, MD.
- Mentally Returning to Mississippi.
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, Davidson College, writing from Bordeaux, France.
- Insights on the Pandemic from Abroad.
Angel Hoekstra, Anglo American University, writing from Prague.
- Reflections from a Sabbatical During COVID-19.
Timothy Pippert, Augsburg University, writing from Inver Grove Heights, MN.
- Redefining Progress.
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Dual PhD Candidate, University of Arizona and University of Waikato New Zealand; Incoming Assistant Professor, University of California-Los Angeles, Sociology and American Indian Studies, writing from Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
- Are We Protected Enough?
Ryan Trettevik, Managing Editor for Production, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, writing from Bellingham, WA.
- Views of the Pandemic From Retirement.
Theodore Wagenaar, Miami University (OH), writing from Sarasota, FL.
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Professional Challenges Facing Sociologists
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- International Education and the COVID-19 Crisis.
Esther D. Brimmer, Executive Director and CEO, NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
- Finding Our Way Forward When the Only Paths Are Rocky: The Case of CSU-Channel Islands.
Dennis Downey, Professor, California State University-Channel Islands.
- Archival Research During COVID-19.
Shai M. Dromi, Lecturer, Harvard University.
- Ethnography in the Time of COVID-19.
Gary Alan Fine, James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, and Corey M. Abramson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona.
- Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Plight for Graduate Students.
Brittany Gatewood, PhD (2020) from Howard University, and Emily McDonald, PhD Candidate, George Mason University.
- Strategies for Managing Stress During a Storm.
Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology and Chair of Public Health, University of California-Merced.
- Contingent Faculty Face Added Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Kimberly Hennessee, Assistant Teaching Professor, Ball State University.
- Essential Skills for Researchers During COVID-19: Agility and a Quick Pivot.
Samantha Jaroszewski, UX Researcher, Yahoo.
- Graduate Education and Academic Labor for Graduate Students during the Pandemic.
prabhdeep singh kehal, PhD candidate, and Michael D. Kennedy, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
- Sociological Reflections on the Distance Between Skin and Skin.
David L. Levinson, Presidential Fellow, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.
- Challenges for High School Teachers of Sociology during the Pandemic.
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School, and Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School.
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Sociological Insight on COVID-19 from ASA Sections
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- Pervasive Ageism in the Response to the Pandemic (Aging and the Life Course).
Toni Calasanti, Virginia Tech.
- What Happens When a Pandemic Intersects With an Epidemic? (Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco).
Meghan M. O'Neil, Institute for Social Research and University of Michigan Law School.
- COVID-19, Animals and Us: Human Supremacy as an Environmental Pathology (Animals and Society).
Corey Wrenn, University of Kent; Loredana Loy, Cornell University; and Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Group.
- The Nativist Fault Line and Precariousness of Race in the Time of Coronavirus (Asia and Asian America).
Jennifer Lee, Columbia University, and Monika Yadav, PhD student, Columbia University.
- Coronavirus and the Inequity of Accountability for At-Home Learning (Children and Youth).
Jessica Calarco, Indiana University.
- Local Politics and Civic Participation during the COVID-19 Crisis (Community and Urban Sociology).
Benny Witkovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- "Condemned to Repeat It": The U.S. Response to COVID-19 (Comparative-Historical Sociology).
Constance Nathanson, Columbia University, and Amy Lauren Fairchild, Ohio State University.
- Disability as an Axis of Inequality: A Pandemic Illustration (Disability in Society).
Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut; Brian Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago; Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project; Angel Miles, Access Living; Sharon Barnartt, retired; Jennifer Brooks, Syracuse University; Angela Frederick, University of Texas-El Paso; and Ashley Volion, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Framing the Pandemic for Students from a Sociological Perspective (Econonomic Sociology).
Mauro F. Guillén, University of Pennsylvania.
- Lessons in Finding Consensus (Environmental Sociology).
Jill Richardson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Social Interaction and Presentation of Self in a Masked World (Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis).
Anne Rawls, Bentley University, and David Gibson, University of Notre Dame.
- The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Lesson in Evolution, Biology, and Society (Evolution, Biology, and Society).
Russell K. Schutt, University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Rengin B. Firat, University of California-Riverside.
- Imagining the Public Admidst the Pandemic in China and the United States (Global and Transnational Sociology).
Larry Au, Cornell University.
- How Might a Study of the History of Sociology Inform the Discipline's Response to the Pandemic?(History of Sociology).
Compiled by Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, George Washington University.
- The COVID-19 Pandemic: Normal Accidents and Cascading System Failures (Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility).
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts.
- Being an Immigrant with Limited Social Protections is a Killer During Pandemic Too (International Migration).
Tiffany D. Joseph, Northeastern University.
- Contributions to COVID-19 Response Efforts (Mathematical Sociology).
Compiled by Carter T. Butts, University of California-Irvine.
- Sociology as a Lens on the Pandemic and Responses to It (Medical Sociology).
Harry Perlstadt, Michigan State University, and Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
- Modeling the Impact of Collective Action on Coronavirus Containment (Methodology).
Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- COVID-19: A Threat to Jobs and Identities (Organizations, Occupations, and Work).
Dawn R. Norris, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
- Theorizing Social Response to COVID-19 in the U.S. (Political Sociology).
Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota.
- Linking Higher Black Mortality Rates from COVID-19 to Racism and Racial Inequality (Racial and Ethnic Minorities).
Loren Henderson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Hayword Derrick Horton, SUNY-Albany; and Melvin Thomas, North Carolina State University.
- COVID-19 and the Politics of Knowledge (Science, Knowledge, and Technology).
Steven Epstein, Northwestern University.
- Looking Beyond the Sick Body (Sociology of Body and Embodiment).
Beth L. Dougherty, Loyola University Chicago.
- Culture, Crisis, and Morality (Sociology of Culture).
Aliza Luft, University of California-Los Angeles.
- The Sociology of Development, Global Health, and COVID-19 (Sociology of Development).
Shiri Noy, Denison University; Nicole Angotti, American University; and Joseph Harris, Boston University.
- COVID-19, Technology, and Implications for Educational Equity (Sociology of Education).
Cassidy Puckett, Emory University, and Matt Rafalow, Google.
- Is it Really Okay to Feel Not Okay? Reflections from Three Scholars of Emotion (Sociology of Emotions).
Jessica Collett, University of California-Los Angeles; Lisa Walker, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Alison Bianchi, University of Iowa.
- The Sociology of Human Rights and COVID-19 (Sociology of Human Rights).
Annie Isabel Fukushima, University of Utah, and Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of Minnesota.
- Speaking for the Dying (Sociology of Law).
Susan P. Shapiro, American Bar Foundation.
- What We Still Need to Know (Sociology of Population).
Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University; Jenifer Brater, Rice University; Yong Cai, University of North Carolina; Kara Joyner, Bowling Green State University; Youngmin Yi, Cornell University.
- Why Sociologists of Religion Are Needed to Study COVID-19 Response (Sociology of Religion).
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University.
- Reproduction during COVID-19: Implications of Physical and Social Isolation (Sociology of Sex and Gender).
Charlotte Abel, PhD student, University of California-Los Angeles.
- Isolating Intervention: Prevention as Citizenship (Sociology of Sexualities).
James Gall, Drexel University, and Jason Orne, Drexel University.
- Three Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19 (Teaching and Learning in Sociology).
Sarah L. Hoiland, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College-City University of New York (CUNY).
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