AAAS Social Science Caucus

Only a few days left to submit your paper to the mini-conference! Deadline is October 15.

The 2026 AAAS Honolulu has extended its CFP deadline until October 20, 12:00 AM Hawaiian Standard Time! You can find more information about the CFP at aaastudies.org/conference/p....

To ensure full consideration, please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests and teaching philosophy and experience, three confidential letters of recommendation, and a writing sample through Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/169094 by October 1, 2025.

We seek scholars with teaching and research interests in the sociology of Asian American or Latine groups in the United States, whose work is shaped by engagement with ethnic studies. Subfield specialties are open.

[Job Opportunity] Tenure-Track Position in Sociology and Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (Reed College, Portland, OR)

The Department of Sociology and the Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies Program invite applications for a tenure-track position beginning in the 2026–2027 academic year.

[Job Opportunity] Part-time Lecturer in Asian American Studies (San Diego State University)

The Department of Asian American Studies at San Diego State University is accepting applications for their part-time lecturer pool. View this position here: careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/54...

Lecturer in Health Justice and Community University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

Review of applications begins September 30, 2025.

View the position here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02982?fbc...

We seek candidates who can teach interdisciplinary health justice courses on topics like critical disability studies, food justice, environmental justice, health disparities, reproductive care, indigenous knowledge, community healing, migrant health care, medical racism, colonial medicine, etc.

[Job Opportunity] Lecturer in Health Justice and Community (UC Santa Barbara)

The Health Justice and Community initiative at UCSB invites applications for qualified lecturers with strong research training and innovative pedagogic experience to teach courses in critical health justice.

In the event that multiple submissions are received, the Caucus council members will select the representative sponsored panel.

Announcement: AAAS has again permitted each section to officially "sponsor" one session at the Honolulu conference. If interested in serving as the representative Social Science Caucus sponsored panel of AAAS 2026, please email Caucus chair, Stephen Cho Suh, (ssuh@sdsu.edu) by September 30, 2025.

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Support your international colleagues by leaving an opposing comment by September 29: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE.... Your voice matters!

Make sure to select the “track” of Transnational Asian/America during submission, and specify in the abstract how your paper connects with our mini-conference theme. For any questions, contact Shirley Lung (Shirley.Lung@du.edu), Minjung Noh (min223@lehigh.edu), and Xuemei Cao (xcao@bentley.edu).

The ESS conference submission portal will be open from September 15 until October 15, 2025. Abstracts should be submitted directly to the ESS website, www.essnet.org. Submissions to the mini-conference require a title, author, and a short abstract (max 500 words) for consideration.

We welcome submissions that use transnational frameworks to shed light on little-examined domains of Asian American social life, especially domains that are primarily understood through American-centric lenses.

Transnational Asian/America Mini-Conference 2.0 Call for Papers: This Mini-Conference will align with the 2026 ESS theme of world-making, inviting papers that challenge traditional Asian/America narratives and highlight transnational views in struggles, constraints, transformations, and repair.

AAAS-SocSci - Article Awards the 2026 Article Award Competition Call for Papers is now available!

More info here: sites.google.com/view/aaas-so...

Papers submitted for any award category require a nomination letter (either external or self-nomination) and the author/s (including all writers) of the papers must be current dues-paying members of the Social Science Caucus. External nominators are not required to be members of the Caucus.

The AAAS SocSci Caucus is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three article awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Article, Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article, and Outstanding Tenured Faculty Research Article.

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The Summer/Fall 2025 Newsletter is now live! Major thanks to the Caucus Secretary, Yvonne Kwan, for putting the newsletter together. Please be sure to send kudos to your friends and colleagues for their accomplishments!

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I’ve recently started as the Research Coordinator for the @aaas-socsci.bsky.social , and we’re looking for volunteers to serve on the selection committee for either the Outstanding Graduate Student / Faculty Research Award.
If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out at tliu20@albany.edu.

Group 2: Led by Qing Tingting Liu (tliu20@albany.edu), will meet on Mondays, 1:00-3:00 pm PT / 4:00-6:00 pm ET.

Group 1: Led by Xuemei and Carolyn, will meet on Wednesdays, 8:00-10:00 am PT/11:00-1:00 pm ET. (Folks are welcome to join this group earlier and stay later than the designated time: Xuemei will begin at 7 am PT / 10 am ET, and Carolyn will stay until 11 am PT / 2pm ET.)

We also invite you to join one of our two online writing groups for Fall 2025! To receive the zoom links and additional details, please email our mentoring coordinators, Xuemei Cao (xcao@bentley.edu) and Carolyn Choi (cc0645@princeton.edu).

AAAS has again permitted each section to officially "sponsor" one session at the Honolulu conference. If interested in serving as the representative Social Science Caucus sponsored panel of AAAS 2026, please email Caucus chair, Stephen Cho Suh, (ssuh@sdsu.edu) by September 30, 2025.

AAAS 2026 Social Science Panel Requests.xlsx

As in prior years our caucus has opened a google spreadsheet with potential panel ideas provided by members at the most recent business meeting and a space for members to form sessions and seek out additional presenters. Access the spreadsheet here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hi everyone, the 2026 AAAS Honolulu CFP is Live! Proposals will be accepted until October 7, 3:00 AM Hawaiian Standard Time. You can find more information about the CFP at aaastudies.org/conference/p....