AAAS Social Science Caucus

3. Community Updates:
Tenure-Track Position in Sociology and Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies (Reed College, Portland, OR). Apply through Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/169094 by October 1, 2025. Inquiries about the position may be directed to sociology.search@reed.edu.

2. Please consider becoming a paid member! Signing up is easy and comes with several benefits. If you have any questions re: membership, please contact the AAAS SocSci Caucus Treasurer (aaassocscitreasurer@gmail.com).

Key duties include securing a local venue, ideally APIDA-owned, for the Caucus reception. Interested candidates should email Yeeun Hong at yhon4@albany.edu.

Dear SocSci Caucus, July updates:
1. Local Events Coordinator Needed in Honolulu: The Caucus council is looking for one person in Honolulu, HI, to coordinate local events for the 2026 AAAS conference.

Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025

There are just a handful of hours left to register for the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting at discounted rates! Register by 11:59 p.m. to show your commitment to social science research in Chicago this summer. We can’t wait to see to there! http://bit.ly/RegisterASA25

#ERSNew🐣🔓 How do class & host-country context shape young #ChineseMigrants’ views on #racism? This study compares #F-1 students in the U.S. & #WorkingHolidayMakers in Australia. Article by Guo Weirong & Qing Tingting Liu: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2519807

Privilege or marginalization: how Chinese youth from divergent class backgrounds make sense of racism in the U.S. and Australia This study examines how Chinese youth in the U.S. and Australia perceive and respond to racism as temporary migrants, focusing on the influence of pre-migration class positions and host-country con...

Link to the online article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

5) How are other knowledge producers, like K-12 teachers, librarians, and activists attempting to resist, create and protect liberated space as their work is subject to increasing surveillance, scrutiny, and attack?

4) How are researchers and teachers engaging in more secure data management and digital security practices?

3) Much like the “university” is not the center of knowledge production, the U.S. is not the center of knowledge production. What lessons can we learn from colleagues for whom conducting research and teaching in overtly authoritarian regimes is the longstanding norm?

1) What must we publish? What must we refuse to publish at this time?
2) For those of us writing from the US, how do feminist/activist ethics and questions of ethnographic representation and betrayal need to shift?

This special issue invites submissions interrogating the shifting conditions of North American knowledge production. We are open to original ethnographic research articles, reflections, creative works, “Coming to Terms” pieces, and book reviews that speak to one or more of the following questions:

4. Call for Papers: Ethnographic Knowledge Production under American Authoritarianism (Journal for the Anthropology of North America). Special Issue Co-editors: Xitlalli Alvarez-Amendariz, Denise Brennan, & Elizabeth Rubio. Deadline: September 30, 2025. Contact: elizabeth.h.rubio@ucr.edu.

3. Call for Papers: CUNY Forum Vol 12. The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is currently accepting submissions for its academic journal, CUNY Forum Volume 12, scheduled for print in Winter 2026. The submission deadline is Monday, June 30, 2025. More info here: aaari.info/cunyforumsub...

AAAS-SocSci - Membership Dues For general membership, please complete the form below. To check if your membership is current, please refer to this membership list. If you do not see your name but believe that your dues are curren...

2. Please consider becoming a paid member! Signing up is easy and comes with several benefits. If you have any questions re: membership, please contact the AAAS SocSci Caucus Treasurer (aaassocscitreasurer@gmail.com). More info here: sites.google.com/view/aaas-so...

Key tasks include finding a local venue (ideally APIDA-owned) for the Caucus reception. Interested candidates should email Yeeun Hong (yhong4@albany.edu).

Dear Caucus members,
I hope you’re enjoying your summers. I’m back with Caucus Updates.
1. Local Events Coordinator(s) Needed in Honolulu: The Caucus council is looking for 1-2 people in Honolulu, HI to coordinate local events for the 2026 AAAS conference.

Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe Abstract. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 51 Chinese migrants who live in the US but strive to support frail parents back home, this article analyze

We live in a time where migrants' mobility can no longer be taken for granted, and my new article in Social Forces examines how mobility restrictions create "linked immobility" that affects entire transnational family networks. Here is the link (open access): academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Check out the preprint of this paper here: static1.squarespace.com/static/61a70...

How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement ABSTRACT. How are social movements that address democratic states’ wrongdoings and violence perceived and discussed by the publics under authoritarian regi

Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang):
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

I’m looking for interview participants for my dissertation research!🤓

I am conducting a research study on Asian migrants’ dating and marriage experiences and how these are influenced by US immigration policies.

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Group photo of the council members at AAAS Boston

Our Social Science Caucus successfully organized the Business Meeting and Reception at AAAS Boston! Thanks to East End Books Boston Seaport for the space and to all members for their coordination. It was great seeing everyone join our community — looking forward to next year’s AAAS!

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