SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION NEWS

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS – SPRING 2018

DIVISION CHAIR:  William Cabin, CHAIR: (2017-2019), Assistant Professor, 
Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. 
Email: tuf34901@temple.edu  AND wcabin@umich.edu  



Inside this issue:

Note from the Chair 
Member News & Accomplishments 
SSWD Members on the Job Market 
Student Paper Competition 
Open Positions 
Newsletter Contributions Invited 



Note from the Chair

Greetings SSWD members! I hope you all are doing well. Our main focus is the 
upcoming annual meeting this August in Philadelphia. I hope you all can 
attend. The sessions should be finalized by mid-February.

Sincerely
Bill  

Bill Cabin, JD, Ph.D., MSW, MPH

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Member News and Accomplishments

Recent Publications

*	Melissa Osborne (2018). “Who gets ‘Housing First’?:Eligibility 
determination in an era of Housing First homelessness.” Journal of 
Contemporary Ethnography. Doi.org/10.1177/0891241617753289.
*	Joan Maya Mazelis (2017). Surviving poverty: Creating sustainable ties 
among the poor. NYU Press.
*	Gross, Christi L., Jacob Church, Tiffany Taylor, and Jackuelyn Towne-
Rose. (Forthcoming 2018). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: The 
constraints of Welfare-to-work bureaucracies.” Poverty & Public Policy.
*	Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, & Christi L. Gross. (Forthcoming 
2018). “Helpers ‘Here on the frontlines’: Welfare-to-Work managers’ 
moral identity work.” Symbolic Interaction.
*	Taylor, Tiffany, Christi L. Gross, and Brianna Turgeon. (Forthcoming 
2018). “Becoming a good welfare manager: Paternalistic oppressive 
othering and Neo-liberal boundary maintenance.” Sociological Focus 
51(4).


       


Awards and Announcements

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE IS:

Looking for reviewers. If interested, please contact: rleighn@berkeley.edu 

Looking for analyses of the impact of the Trump presidency on any aspect of 
social welfare for a possible future Special issue. Contact: 
rleighn@berkeley.edu 


SSWD Members on the Job Market

No News


Graduate Student Paper Competition Winner!

Caitlin Carey has won our graduate student paper competition. Caitlin is a 
PhD candidate in the Department of Public Policy and Research Assistant in 
the Center for Public Policy at the John M. McCormack Graduate School of 
Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her 
paper will be presented at the August 2018 conference. It is entitled: 
“Hostile Architecture Aimed at the Homeless in Boston, Massachusetts: A 
Spatial Analysis.”  CONGRATULATIONS Caitlin.

If you are a graduate student, it’s not too early to think of possibly 
submitting your paper for next year so think about it.

Open Positions

NO NEWS. Let me know if you have anything to post for our next issue 




Newsletter Contributions Invited

We encourage members to submit news such as publications, new appointments, 
and other professional accomplishments for inclusion in a future newsletter. 
Suggestions and inquiries about less conventional content are also welcome—
consider editorials, book reviews, teaching notes, department/program 
profiles, calls for contributions to journals and edited books, obituaries… 
Please direct such inquires to the current Division Chair, Bill Cabin at: 
wcabin@umich.edu 




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