SSSP-Youth, Aging, & the Life Course Division

06/07/2023

😁 Congratulations to the following YALC 2023 award winners!

*Graduate Student Paper Award Competition winner: Ruo-Fan “Mikki” Liu

*Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists winner: Jonathan Coley
*Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists honorable mention: Christopher J. Douçot

Please check out the Spring 2023 YALC Newsletter for more information about our winners!

04/20/2023

📣YALC's Spring 2023 Newsletter is now available!

01/13/2023

The deadline to nominate someone for the Maggie Kuhn award is quickly approaching. Please consider nominating a scholar activist!

Maggie Kuhn was the founder of the Gray Panthers, an intergenerational social justice organization. The Maggie Kuhn award, established in 2014, is awarded to a scholar-activist who upholds the ideals of social and economic justice and peace for individuals of all ages, in both their scholarship and service. These ideals include, but are not limited to, honoring age, intergenerational work, and scholarship and/or activism that promotes a humane society by putting the needs of people over profits, responsibility over power, and democracy over institutions. The award recipient will be publicly announced at the YALC 2023 Division Meeting (held at the annual conference) and receive a monetary prize of $150 to be shared with a community organization of their choice. For more information or to nominate a scholar-activist, please e-mail Christina Barmon at [email protected].

11/17/2022

The YALC 2022 Fall Newsletter is available! 😃

10/24/2022

Hi YALC members,

Please see the following 3 announcements:
Please send any information, announcements, news, or accomplishments for the Fall newsletter to our new newsletter editor, Pat Barrett at [email protected] by Friday, November 4, 2022.

Please let me know if you are interested in serving on one of our awards committees. YALC has two awards: 1) Graduate Student Paper Award and 2) Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar Activists (details here). If you are interested, please let me know by Monday, October 31.

Our social media manager Lea Marzo will be stepping down. If you are interested in managing YALC's Facebook and Twitter, please let me know by Monday, October 31.

If you have any questions about the above announcements or role duties, please don't hesitate to reach out to me and ask.

Graduate students and postdocs - you are allowed to serve in any role as well. It's a great way to get involved with SSSP/YALC and network!

Cheers,
Julia
Chair (2021-2023) of the Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division (← click here for Division info, Facebook and Twitter account links, and newsletters!)

Julia Kay Wolf, Ph.D. (she/her)

08/04/2022

SSSP conference attendees! Welcome to California!

The Welcome Reception starts at 6:30pm!

See you there!

07/26/2022

SSSP Annual Meeting COVID-19 Protocol:
bring your proof of full vaccination required to attend and participate in the annual meeting and wear a mask in all SSSP sessions and events.
The success of our session rests on our adherence to these requirements.

07/26/2022

Check out our Summer 2022 YALC Newsletter!

07/26/2022

Please take a look at a new book published by Diane M. Rodgers.

It provides a global and historical focus on the issue of children's activism.

Children in Social Movements: Rethinking Agency, Mobilization and Rights.
Diane M. Rodgers
Routledge, 2020.

07/26/2022

The Department of Sociology at Florida State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position, effective August 2023 in the area of Demography. Please submit materials to Florida State University at https://hr.fsu.edu/facultyjobs [Job ID # 52557] by 9/15/22

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06/07/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Wendy Simonds from Georgia State University! She has been awarded the Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems’ (SSSP). The award is given to a faculty member who has “exercised an extensive leadership role within the SSSP and other professional societies and within the larger community. In particular, SSSP seeks to recognize faculty who “effectively: 1) Addresses social issues of contemporary public importance; 2. Brings a deepened public understanding to these issues; 3. Advances social understanding of leadership for change within the larger society; 4. Proposes courses of action to effect that change.” The award will be formally presented to Wendy during the SSSP annual meeting in Los Angeles in August.

Please join US in congratulating Wendy and thanking her for all her work on behalf of our discipline!

06/02/2022

➡️New Postdoctoral Listing - Evidence for Action Postdoctoral Opportunity

Evidence for Action, a Signature Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is hiring a postdoc to work in their Methods Lab to help develop and share approaches to overcoming methodological challenges in research to advance health and racial equity. The postdoc should have training and interest in quantitative research methods and their application toward dismantling root causes of health inequities.

The individual will work on emerging topics that may focus on areas such as critical perspectives on quantitative methods in disparities research, data pooling to address small samples, and development of measures relevant to advancing racial equity.

For full consideration, applications are due June 27. For more information visit https://e4action.org/PostDoc.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, awards grants to support innovative, rigorous research on how systems, programs, and policies can advance racial equity, improve population health, and reduce health inequalities in the United