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Friday , August 17

8:00 AM – 9:40 AM, Jobs, Family, & Communities, April
Schueths, with Family & Law and Society Divisions.

6:45 AM – 7:45 PM, Reception honoring Michele Koontz and Past SSSP Presidents

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Awards Banquet

Saturday, August 18

8:30 AM – 10:10 AM, Engaging Youth in Social Action
Maralee Mayberry, with Conflict, Social Action, and Change

10:30 AM – 12:10 PM, Grassroots Women Activists, Nancy Naples, with Conflict, Social Action, and Change

2:30 PM – 4:10 PM, Radicalism in the 21st Century: Networking and Social Activism, Tracy Lee Peressini, with Conflict, Social Action, and Change & Poverty, Class, and Inequality.

4:30 PM – 6:10 PM, Global Families and the Art of Research and Activism, Nancy J. Mezey, with Family & Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Bios of Division Honorees

Alfred Joseph, associate professor of social work and family studies at Miami University, died April 1, 2012. At the end of our business meeting our Division will join the Poverty, Class and Inequality Division for a tribute to Alfred. The description below reminds us of the tremendous loss to his friends and to the cause of progressivism that his death represents. I wish I knew him. Joyce

Alfred L. Joseph, Jr. (1955-2012) was a tireless advocate for social justice, a scholar, a revered teacher and a cherished husband, father and friend. He was a committed and active member of SSSP for many years. Alfred served as the chair of the Sociology & Social Welfare Division from 2002-2004 and was a member of the Board of Directors at the time of his death. He earned his doctorate from Ohio State University in 1995 and joined the faculty in Social Work and Family Studies at Miami University (Ohio) where he also was an Affiliate in Black World Studies. His research focused on poverty, educational policy and the impact of tracking on disadvantaged children.  Alfred served as the Co-Editor for the Journal of Poverty since 2007. He was dedicated to raising consciousness regarding issues of social injustice and the importance of action. He was active locally, nationally and internationally. Alfred always had hope that his efforts could make a difference. They did. His optimism was without bounds, his enthusiasm infectious, his commitment from the heart. He will be remembered with love and respect. We will miss him terribly. 
Keith Kilty




Mimi Abramovitz and Nancy Naples will each receive a plaque honoring them as 2011 Sociology and Social Welfare Division Scholar Activists.

	Mimi Abramovitz is The Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a member of the Consortial Faculty at Murphy Institute of Labor Studies and Worker Education.  She received her MSW and doctorate from Columbia University School of Social Work 
	She is widely published in the areas of women, poverty and the welfare state, Her books include Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present, the award-winning Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U S. as well as The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, and Taxes Are A Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate. She is currently writing a book entitled Gender Obligations: The History of Low-Income Women’s Activism Since 1900. Dr. Abramovitz’s work is widely used in sociology, history and women's studies as well as in social work courses. Her research has appeared in all the major social work journals as well as in the popular press. She is regularly interviewed by the print media, and broadcast media and is a frequent keynote speaker at local, national, and international meetings.
      An activist and a scholar, Dr Abramovitz has worked with welfare rights and labor organizations and is the recipient of several prestigious awards from top social work organizations including The Council of Social Work Education and the New York City chapter of the National Association of Social Work and the Columbia University School of Social Work Hall of Fame.

      Nancy Naples holds a joint appointment in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the 
University of Connecticut. She has also held faculty appointments at the University of California, Irvine; Iowa State University, and SUNY Purchase. She was President of Sociologists for Women in Society in 2004 and the Society for the Study of Social Problems from 2007 to 2008. She is currently the President of the Eastern Sociological Society.  Her research on citizenship, social policy, immigration, and community activism has been published in numerous journals and edited books. Her scholarship includes publication of two sole authored books, four edited books, twenty-five journal articles, twenty seven book chapters, and many book reviews and other publications.  Her first book, Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work and the War on Poverty, received Honorable Mention from the Section on Race, Class and Gender of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her most recent book, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossing and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú’ and co-edited with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, received the 2010 Best Book Award from the Sexualities Section of the ASA and Honorable Mention from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.  
      She has received numerous grants for her research including funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, U.C. Mexus, and the ASA's Spivack Program on Applied Social Research as well as from ASA’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline and the National Science Foundation.  She received the 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research (Humanities/Social Sciences) given by Uconn’s Alumni Association and the 2011 Excellence in Research Award for Social Sciences from UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  She also received the 2010 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2011 Feminist Mentor Award from Sociologists for Women in Society. 

  










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