This page provides space for SSSP members to share news of recently published books, articles and papers, award nominations and receptions, and other items of interest.  If you are a member of SSSP and would like to post an item of interest, please contact the Executive Office at . 

Announcements will remain posted for three months.

"Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina" is now in print! Edited by: Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Kristen Barber.  Click here for more details and ordering information.
(Posted 1/25/08)

Rosanna Hertz' book Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family has been named one of the outstanding books for 2007 by Choice.    It was also a C. Wright Mills finalist in 2006.  See the press release for more information.
(Posted 1/4/08)

David Wagner, professor of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Southern Maine, has published a new book entitled Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age.  Click here for more details or ordering information.
(Posted 11/29/07)