The Simpson Center invites proposals for a new initiative, Next Generation Humanities PhD. We advise potential applicants to be in touch with the Simpson Center—either the director or the assistant director—with your ideas for a grant in this category.
We request that proposals not duplicate support available through the Mellon-funded program Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics.
1. Proposal Narratives (limit eight pages) should address:
- Near-term and long-term project goals
- Participating persons and/ units and what they will contribute to the project
- Activities to be funded
- Anticipated outcomes
- Scholarly, public, and/or institutional significance
2. Budget should detail how requested funds will be used (for research, hourly pay for students, stipends or honoraria, travel, accommodations, curricular or promotional materials, hospitality, and facilities rentals), as well as other confirmed and anticipated sources of support.
3. C.V. Include a curriculum vitae for each organizer. Limit five pages per organizer.
Ever since Ehrlich and Holdren proposed the IPAT model in the early 1970s, social scientists have sought to provide elaborations and evaluate the evidence against their model. However, the onset of global climate change research has overtaken much of the nuanced understandings associated with earlier empirical and theoretical work about population, development, and environment linkages. In this Special Issue, we seek to publish papers that reinvigorate this earlier line of inquiry with data and theories that can do so in the context of also understanding the current and future impact of global climate change. Innovative methodologies and a greater array of data sources at multiple levels of analysis should facilitate the observation and evaluation of linkages across these three domains. This Special Issue–overseen by guest editor and CSDE Director Sara Curran–welcomes research papers at any scale, from global to local, but these should explicitly observe factors in each domain and the mechanisms linking across domains. Papers should conform to basic social science research expectations and include a theoretical framework and systematic evaluation of evidence.
More information about the submission process is available below.
Abstract: Recent studies suggest that interpersonal racial discrimination increases the risk of crime among African Americans, and familial racial socialization provides resilience to discrimination’s criminogenic effects. This study seeks to advance knowledge by elucidating how racialized experiences–in interactions and socialization–influence crime for African Americans over time. Elaborating Simon’s and Burt’s social schematic theory of crime, this study aims to trace the effects of childhood and adolescent discrimination and familial racial socialization on adult offending through cognitive and social mechanisms and their interplay. The present study tests this life-course SST model using data from the Family and Community Heath Study (FACHS), a multisite panel study of African American youth and their families followed from ages 10 to 25. Consistent with the model, analyses reveal that the criminogenic consequences of childhood racial discrimination are mediated cognitively by a criminogenic knowledge structure and socially through the nature of social relationships and ties in concert with ongoing offending and discrimination experiences. Specifically, by increasing criminogenic cognitive schemas, interpersonal racial discrimination decreases embeddedness in supportive romantic, educational, and employment relations, which influence social schemas and later crime. Consonant with expectations, findings also suggest that familial racial socialization practices provide enduring resilience by both compensating for and buffering discrimination’s criminogenic cognitive and social effects.
This talk will be delivered by Callie Burt, CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW.
In addition to her scheduled CSDE Seminar talk on Friday, Elizabeth Cooksey (Department of Sociology, Ohio State University) will be giving a workshop on the NLSY79 Young Adult Survey longitudinal data set. Dr. Cooksey is the Associate Director of the Center for Human Resource Research and is the PI on the NLSY79 survey. This is a great opportunity to learn more about this longitudinal data resource. All students and researchers are welcome.
The Amish in the 21st Century
The Amish are well known for their distinctive dress, restricted use of modern technology, a continued reliance on the horse and buggy for local transportation, maintenance of their Pennsylvania German dialect, and a strict adherence to a rural-based lifestyle. They are also known for their high levels of fertility. In the preface to his 2001 book The Riddle of Amish Culture, Donald Kraybill writes that the Amish story is “a fascinating tale of traditional people navigating their way through the swirling rapids of modern life.” The Amish are not only a draw for tourists, but their rapidly expanding population has also brought them into increased contact with the non-Amish through intensified migration to new geographic areas. This research uses individual and household demographic data to ask the question of how the growing influence of modern life might have impacted core beliefs and behaviors of the Amish in the early part of the 21st century.
Elizabeth Cooksey is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State University. She holds a BA in Human Sciences from Oxford University and a PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Longitudinal Studies, London University and is a past president of the international Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Much of her research focuses on children and youth, and life course transitions and she has been the PI of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth’s Child and Young Adult studies for more than a decade. Much of her research on the Amish has been undertaken with rural sociologist, Joseph Donnermeyer. Together they have spent the last decade creating a database of the Amish in the North America and trying to keep up with rapid Amish settlement growth.
You can schedule a meeting with Dr. Cooksey here.
Amelia Gavin, CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Social Work at UW, recently published research examining the association between maternal early life forced sexual intercourse, offspring birth weight, and socioeconomic status. The study used a life-course framework to analyze how, if at all, early forced intercourse worked alongside adolescent health behaviors to impact birth weight. The results suggest some influence. Given underweight infants’ heightened risk of adverse conditions throughout life, the study’s findings underscore the importance of preventing behavioral risks in the first place. You can read the full study below.
Kam Wing Chan, CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Geography at UW, recently spoke with The Sydney Morning Herald about Chinese urban architecture and urbanization. Chan, a leading expert on population change in China, cautions of a real estate bubble forming in the country. To read the full story and learn more about China’s population trajectory, visit the link below.
This workshop will begin by presenting an overview of the basic concepts of Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Armed with an understanding of what GIS is, students will complete a hands-on tutorial introducing ESRI’s ArcGIS software. Topics covered during the first week’s lab will include working with GIS data, simple data queries, and map creation (symbolization, labeling, layout and export). Building on the basic concepts covered during the first week, week 2 will focus entirely on hands-on training in GIS for demographic research. Topics covered in the second week’s lab will include acquiring GIS and census data, synthesizing multiple data sources, and basic GIS analysis.
This workshop meets twice, Monday April 10th and Monday April 17th from 1pm to 4pm. Signup once to be registered for both meetings. The workshop assumes no prior knowledge of GIS.
Gunnar Almgren, CSDE Affiliate and Associate Professor of Social Work at UW, has published a new book—Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform. The book outlines the Affordable Care Act’s impact on both health policy and public perception, arguing that the bill’s most significant achievement lies in its popularization of universal health care as a right of democratic citizenship. You can learn more about the book below, and you can also discuss it with the author himself at an upcoming book talk.
Now accepting 100-word abstracts by May 10, 2017 on all topics examining aspects of globalization.
Send your abstract, full name, affiliation, and current email address in the body of an email to Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net.