Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society

Attending the Mid-South Sociological Association's annual conference? We will have virtual and hybrid Teaching & Learning sessions there! Check out the flyer for dates, times, and session topics. Hope to see you there! #sociology #teaching #learning #alphakappadelta

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We currently have two spots open for mentees (undergraduate or graduate students). If you are interested working with a mentor - apply today! First come, first served. Apply by 9/26 - https://alphakappadelta.org/programs/mentorship/

Attn: ALL SOC GRAD STUDENTS! Our next Graduate Student Lounge will be Sun, 9/26 @ 4pm PDT/7pm EDT! Topic: "Becoming Flexible': Adjusting Pedagogical and Student Engagement Practices in a Pandemic. A Conversation with Mary Ippolito" Receive an invite: https://bit.ly/2TtXnZr

#AKDmember Spotlight! Congratulations to AKD's 2021 3rd Place Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner: Abigail Williams (Colorado College) Paper Title: Street Perspectives: How Street Roots Vendors are (Re)Creating the City of Portland"... Abigail's abstract: Due to the steadily increasing rate of unsheltered homelessness in Portland, Oregon, the city has declared a homelessness state of emergency. However, often missing from discussions of homelessness in Portland is input from people with lived experience of homelessness. An alternative media source that prioritizes the experiences and insights of unhoused people is Portland’s street newspaperStreet Rootssold by and for vendors experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty. This study is a qualitative analysis of the advocacy role of Street Roots vendors in the city. It reveals the ways Street Roots vendors resist exclusion and create spaces of representation in the city.

Are you an undergrad member looking for a mentor to help you w/the graduate school experience? Or maybe you're a grad student looking for a mentor experienced in publishing? Consider applying to our virtual mentorship program! Applications are due Sept 15... Apply here: https://bit.ly/3DO7nD0

#AKDmember Spotlight! Congrats to AKD's 2021 2nd Place Under Paper Competition Winner: Charlotte Matthews (Georgetown Univ.) Paper Title: Fertility Day 2016: the Cultural Construction of Italian Fertility Marketing Campaigns... Charlotte's abstract: In an effort to boost fertility, the Italian Health Ministry launched a marketing campaign called Fertility Day in 2016 that spurred a multitude of negative responses. My thesis examines the implicit and explicit cultural repertoires that Italian journalists have used to frame their reactions to the Fertility Day campaign. Ultimately, my research seeks to expand conversations of maternal health, and provide a link for how interconnected structures of sexism, racism, and classism are coded within Italian fertility politics.

#AKDmember Spotlight 1st place winner of the 2021 Undergrad Paper Competition: Alessandra Ahlmen (Colorado College) Paper Title: The World is Stopped, but We Keep Going: Nurses’ Processes of Emotional Labor During the SARS-COVID19 Pandemic... "Nursing within a pandemic context has been seldom studied. Past studies have concluded that, in ordinary times, nursing requires a substantial amount of emotional labor. Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews of nurses working during the CoVID pandemic, I conclud that the nurses perform a different version of emotional labor than what has been conceptualized in past literature. In this process of emotional labor, the suppression of feelings forms the main action that is taken to meet external expectations that include a healthcare worker’s duty to care. Further research should examine the duty to care in additional populations of healthcare workers including doctors and CNAs and analyze its role in those populations’ performance of emotional labor at work.

Have you seen the newest article by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva? The article tackles what makes "systemic racism" systemic and develops ideas from the racialized social system approach to racial stratification. A great read for any scholar! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12420

Through its Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), the American Sociological Association (ASA) supports the development and training of sociologists of color in any sub-area or specialty in the discipline. Congratulations to the 2021-2022 AKD Sponsored ASA MFP, Alejandro Zermeño! Zermeño’s work focuses on ethnoracial identity constructions, stress and coping, settler-colonial racial projects, mestizaje, and Indigenous resurgence movements. ... Learn more here: https://alphakappadelta.org/minority-fellowship-program/

Attn: ALL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS! Our next Graduate Student Lounge will be Sunday, August 22nd at 2pm PDT/4pm CT/5pm EDT! Join us for this meet up titled: "De-briefing ASA and AKD Info Session" To receive an invite: https://bit.ly/2TtXnZr

Attn: ALL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS! Our next Graduate Student Lounge will be Thursday, July 15th at 8:30am PDT/10:30am CT/11:30am EDT! Join us for this meet up titled: "All About the Job Market: A Conversation with Dr. Minwoo Jung" To receive an invite: https://bit.ly/2TtXnZr

Not to be missed! Join us on July 14 at 1pm EDT for our monthly session, "Editors' Panel" where editors of journals will discuss ways to increase your chances that your paper will get a favorable review. Pre-register here: https://bit.ly/3AoPnwW