ALT Zoom Registration: https://american.zoom.us/meeting/register/8xggIxcBRamonJJ2faAphQ Join us this Fri, 8/22: 2-3PM EST for our next SWE Spotlight Speaker series! Kerrie Kauer, PhD, is a Senior UX Researcher at Google where she leads research to build more equitable and human-centered products for a global audience. Drawing on over 20 years of academic and industry experience, including her former career as an Associate Professor of Sport Sociology, she applies socio-cultural frameworks to understand the complex social dynamics between humans and technology.

ALT Join us on Tuesday, 8/12: 8-9:30AM CST for Sociological Practices and Public Sociology (SPPS) Paper Session: “Doing Public Sociology”: Sociological Practice in the Community (50255, viewable in online program) Register for Zoom details: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/CcyTfZC5TtiSrfEkJTgvEg Website: https://sspps.wordpress.com/meetings/ This session will acquaint the audience with how settings outside academia can involve meaningful and creative work. Faculty and students often find themselves at a loss when asked to think about what sociologists do outside a campus environment. The truth is that this work is complex and varied. This session focuses on work done by those engaging in public and applied sociology in myriad settings. Sociologists in various stages of their careers engaging in public sociology and sociological practice are encouraged to submit their work for presentation.

ALT Join us on Sunday, 8/10: 2-3:30PM CST for ASA Section and Community Open House at Table 15 with the following sections/communities: Sociological Practice and Public Sociology (SPPS), Sociologists Working Everywhere Community (SWE), and Community Engaged Scholars and Teachers Community! Chat with Section and Community representatives, learn about their programs, and make some new connections! Table Presiders: Julia Ferrara Waity, University of North Carolina-Wilmington Shirley A. Jackson, Portland State University Caren Arbeit, RTI International Carol L. Glasser, Minnesota State University-Mankato Rebecca D. Christensen, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University-College Station Marie Skoczylas, Highmark Health Augie Diana, HHS/NIH Ervin (Maliq) Matthew, Prudential Financial Madeline Smith-Johnson, Rice University Yujia Lyu, Univer of Health Sciences and Pharmacy Session Organizer: Cara Racin, American Sociological Association

ALT ASA Chicago 2025 SPPS Session Schedule Join us during this year’s annual meeting starting Saturday, August 9th through Tuesday, August 12th for the following SPPS sessions (all CST): - *Sat, 8/9: 10-11:30AM - 20465 - "How did they get that job?": Sociologists Engaged in Work Outside Academia - Sun, 8/10: 2-3:30PM - 30820 - ASA Section and Community Open House, Table 15 - Mon, 8/11: 6:30-8PM - 41399 - Reception Tues, 8/12: Section Day: - *8-9:30AM - 50255 - "Doing Public Sociology": Sociological Practice in the Community - *10-11AM - 50464 - Roundtables - 11-11:30AM - 50564 - Business Meeting - *12-1:30PM - 50658 - Whose Story and Whose Project?: Ethical Issues and Considerations in Research Collaborations Note: Events marked with "*" will be hybrid. Registration required to receive Zoom details via SPPS website. Session details can also be searched in the online program by the 5 digit number in parentheses. Visit https://sspps.wordpress.com/meetings/ for detailed info!

ALT Three scholars, Amanda Cheong, Tony Jack, and Demar F. Lewis IV, beam at the camera. Each person holds a plaque.

ALT Tues, 8/13: 10-11:30 AM EST | Hybrid Paper Session (50408) Public Sociology and Engaged Scholarship Across the Discipline - Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/yrtznzs5 This session includes exciting examples of the range of applied, public, and engaged scholarship occurring across the discipline. Youth, community, internal, external, quantitative, qualitative, this session has it! Be inspired. Presider: Mindy Fried, Arbor Consulting Partners Individual Presentations - How can public policy hear youth ideas?: A case study of public sector sociology - Institutional Public Sociology and the Protection of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth - Urban Processes and Spatial Analysis: Utilizing Geographic Approaches to Social Disorder Intervention in Chicago - The Baltimore Immigration Summit: A Model for Academic-Community Collaboration - Curating Asian American Art Movements in New York City: Collaborative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Excavation Session Organizer: Laura Nichols, Santa Clara

ALT SPPS | Monday, August 12, 2024 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM EST | Hybrid Paper Session (40433) Research in Public and Applied Sociology - Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/2rwp3uk5 Description: This session will highlight recent research in public and applied sociological settings. This includes but is not limited to substantive and methodological research conducted outside of academic environments, research with community organizations, government reports and research, and other non-academic applications of sociology. We encourage sociologists at all stages of their careers to submit research.

ALT ASA Section Sociological Practice and Public Sociology (SPPS) Annual Meeting 2024 SPPS Session Schedule Join us on Sunday, August 11th and Monday, August 12th for the following SPPS sessions (all EST): 8/11: 2:00-3:00PM - Referred Roundtables (30857) - Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Roundtables 8/11: 3:00-3:30PM - Section Business Meeting (30957) - Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Business Meeting 8/12: 8:00-9:30AM - Open House (40234) - SPPS Table 25: Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology & Sociologists Working Everywhere (SWE) Table 40: Sociologists Working Everywhere Community 8/12: 10:00-11:30AM* - Paper Session (40433) - Research in Public and Applied Sociology 8/12: 2:00-3:30PM* - Paper Session (40833) - Using Sociological Research Methodology in Evaluation 8/12: 6:00-8:00PM - SPPS & SWE Community Reception (Offsite) See website for more details: https://sspps.wordpress.com/