ASA Body and Embodiment Section

Body & Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award, 2025-2026
Nomination Deadline: March 1, 2026

The committee welcomes submissions of papers (published or unpublished) that advance the field of sociology of the body and embodiment.

For details, please visit:
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Body & Embodiment Best Article Award, 2025-2026
Nomination Deadline: March 1, 2026

The award committee welcomes submissions of articles that advance the field of sociology of the body and embodiment, published in 2024 or 2025.

For details, please visit:
www.asanet.org/communities-...

📷 Council member Ginger Berndt showing off our 2025 section pin (with a picture of our original section mascot, M. Bodiment) and our new mascot, M. Bodiment Jr. Both were lovingly crafted by section chairs!

📷 Best grad paper co-winner Michael Zangler-Tishler accepting his award from Danya for “Visual Identifiability and its Consequences: A Study of American Jews and Antisemitism.”

📷 Best grad paper co-winner Kristen Miller getting her award from Danya Lagos, for “We Outside! Bike Life and Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture.”

📷 Chelsea Johnson (and adorable new baby) accepting her best book award from committee chair Alka Menon, for her book “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair.”

🏆 Introducing Our Award Winners (and more photos) at 2025 ASA in Chicago!

📷 Phung Su accepting the best article award on behalf of her coauthor Phi Hong Su, for their Frontiers in Sociology article, “Discomforting Surplus: Gender, Sexualization, and Omissions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”

📷 Council member Ginger Berndt showing off our 2025 section pin (with a picture of our original section mascot, M. Bodiment) and our new mascot, M. Bodiment Jr. Both were lovingly crafted by section chairs!

📷 Best grad paper co-winner Michael Zangler-Tishler accepting his award from Danya for “Visual Identifiability and its Consequences: A Study of American Jews and Antisemitism.”

📷 Best grad paper co-winner Kristen Miller getting her award from Danya Lagos, for “We Outside! Bike Life and Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture.”

📷 Chelsea Johnson (and adorable new baby) accepting her best book award from committee chair Alka Menon, for her book “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair.”

🏆 Introducing Our Award Winners (and more photos) at 2025 ASA in Chicago!

📷 Phung Su accepting the best article award on behalf of her coauthor Phi Hong Su, for their Frontiers in Sociology article, “Discomforting Surplus: Gender, Sexualization, and Omissions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”

📢 Body & Embodiment July Newsletter

(1) Chair's corner: Don't forget to vote for section elections! Email sent on July 1st by asa-elections.com
(2) Calls for Papers and award nominations
(3) Section Business Meeting reminder
(4) mentoring program at ASA

🍀Body&Embodiment June Newsletter

1. Words from Kate Mason
- Award Winners
- ASA sections
- Business Meeting & Reception
2. Upcoming Seminar
3. Gift a membership!
4. Mentorship Registration

📚 Ask a Mentor Series part 6.
What are the tips for maximizing the ASA experience?

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📚 Ask a Mentor Series part 5:
Given the current environment, what do you suggest we do to bolster our ability to remain in the field while the industry is particularly rough?
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(4) ASA announcements for our members
📢 Become an ASA POP fellow!
📢 Check out the New Annual Meeting Guide Program
📢 Advocacy Update
📢 Is your research Federally Funded?

(3) Other announcements
📢 Instats is hosting a seminar on How Work Sustains Racial Inequality, running June 17th.
📢 ASA Theory Section Seminar happening on May 16th.
📢 Featuring Grad students! Please submit your headshot and research description.

(2) Member Publications
: Check out our members' newest publications!

📢May Newsletter (1) Chair's Corner: Words from Kate Kason
: Voting has begun for ASA-wode positions (4/30-6/2)!
: Mark Saturday, 8/9 and Sunday, 8/10 as our section days!

🌷Ask a Mentor Series: Part 4
As a scholar constantly engaging with the body and identities, do you have any insight into how and when to disclose information related to my identity while on the job market or during campus visits?

📢 April Newsletter
Check out member publications and other announcements!

📢 Ethnographic Summer School
The University of Texas at Austin, August 18-21, 2025.
More information: sites.utexas.edu/ethnolab/tra...
✅️ Deadline for applications: The deadline to apply is April 23. Admits will be notified by May 1.

📚 Ask a Mentor Question for the Week
How do you suggest "translating" the relevancy of your work on bodies to more traditional Sociology departments when on the job market, especially for more general ads?
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Now featuring Graduate Students and their research! Can we profile you on our social media, website, and in the newsletter?
Please submit materials here: forms.gle/11htfiRsfX8K... and email a headshot to bexm@uoregon.edu.

📢 Call for Précis - 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium
✅️SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 21, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern Time

📢 Ethnographic Summer School
The University of Texas at Austin, August 18-21, 2025.
More information: sites.utexas.edu/ethnolab/tra...
✅️ Deadline for applications: The deadline to apply is April 23. Admits will be notified by May 1.

ASA Body & Embodiment Section- Graduate Student Profile Interest Form Thanks for your interest in sharing your research with the Body and Embodiment section! Materials submitted here may be shared in the newsletter, on social media, or on our section's website. IMPORT...

📣 📣 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT - Please share!

Body & Embodiment section is looking to feature our Graduate Students and their research! Can we profile you on our social media, website, and in the newsletter?

Please submit materials at forms.gle/11htfiRsfX8K... and email a headshot to asabodynews@gmail.com

📚 Ask a mentor QnA for February
Q: The body and embodiment is a key area of interest of mine, but essentially no faculty in my department falls into this area or are familiar with it. What tips would you provide to graduate students in this position?
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You can submit your papers/abstracts through the online portal: convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa25/