ASA Human Rights Section

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[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

🚨 Important Announcement: Nominations for the 2023 Human Rights Section awards (graduate student paper, article, and book) are due THIS WEDNESDAY, March 1!

Full details for the nomination process can be found here: https://t.co/Whs5otpznR

[Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @Mirayhp]

📢 Sociologists of Human Rights

For @ASAnews, I am organizing @HumanRightsASA's session on The Politics of Human Rights, focusing on how human rights are politicized and instrumentalized on the local, national, and global level.

Deadline: Feb 22nd

Happy to answer questions!

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

🚨 Important Reminder

Nominations for section paper, article, and book awards are due today, March 1! Please consider nominating your own work or that of valued colleagues.

You can find more information below 👇

https://t.co/3DWWwaV2Zv

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

Can justice be reconceptualized and achieved in cases of long-passed violence, like in the case of the 1921 #TulsaMassacre? @n_iturriaga shares her thoughts in this #BlackHistoryMonth piece. https://t.co/S4XgPyDxmg @Social_Ecology @ucisociology @womenalso @ASAnews @HumanRightsASA

[Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @Mirayhp]

Reminder to submit your articles for the @HumanRightsASA Best Scholarly Article Award by March 1st, 2022!

I'm part of the committee along with Robert Wyrod, chaired by @nickyfox530. Please send a nomination letter and a copy of the article to: [email protected]

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

I've been incredibly fortunate, and that was only possible with many, many mentors, friends, and supportive family, chosen and blood.

I'm hoping to pass that on, so with @UWSoc I've started a scholarship fund targeting QTPOC undergrads in sociology.

https://t.co/HlFLkoOF5y

[Salvador Santino Regilme @santinoregilme]

The multidisciplinary volume #HumanRightsAtRisk from @RutgersUPress will be released in hardback, paperback, & ebook formats in June 2022. Rutgers has a sale until the end of 2021, & the ebook can be pre-ordered, 75% off by checkout here: https://t.co/jVGCkPWtRY

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Call for chapter proposals for edited volume on children's rights and global governance 👇👇

[Salvador Santino Regilme @santinoregilme]

I'm editing a multidisciplinary volume on children's rights and global governance. Chapter proposals are due on December 15, 2021. #HumanRights
https://t.co/UI90aCQbs7

[Tim Gill @timgill924]

We did a ton of Q&As in the new Human Rights Section newsletter. We also feature several pieces, including two from UTK grad students 😎.

[Sac State Office of Faculty Advancement @SacFaculty]

Congrats @nickyfox530! #StingersUp!

[Dr. Danielle Slakoff @DSlakoffPhD]

My colleague Dr. @nickyfox530 is an incredible scholar and an incredible person. Congratulations, Nicky!!!!

[Nicky Fox @nickyfox530]

It was such a honor to be awarded this recognition

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

🚨🚨 The Early Fall 2021 Newsletter is OUT!

We have pieces on COVID-19, private military security companies, sexual harassment, as well as Q&As with Tim Black, John Markoff, @Dangermoss16, Susan Pearce, and Thomas E. Shriver.

Check it out 👇👇
https://t.co/kRFqeM9lTW

[UCD Sociology @ucdsociology]

Many congrats to our own @Lea__David on this wonderful recognition of your book 👏

[Lea David @Lea__David]

Small step for mankind, but giant leap for me! Or is it the other way around 😁? Only time will tell 🔻But great honour what so ever.

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Congratulations to Honorable Mention for the Graduate Student Paper Award, Minwoo Jung, for "Reluctance and reconstruction: How Social Movements Navigate International Mobilization.”

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Congratulations to co-winners Miray Philips (@Mirayhp) and Laura Acosta (@lauraacostag) for the Graduate Student Paper Award!

Philips: Coptic Cultural Trauma between Martyrdom and Rights

Acosta, 2021: Victimhood Dissociation and Conflict Resolution

https://t.co/756PRfoUjo

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Congratulations to Lea David (@Lea__David), the Honorable Mention for the Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award. Her book, "The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights" was published with Cambridge University Press.

https://t.co/8iZIcK0SV5

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Congratulations to David FitzGerald (@FitzGeraldUCSD) for receiving the Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award for his book, "Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers," published with @OUPPrimary.

https://t.co/x0jeA4XnZZ

[ASA Human Rights Section @HumanRightsASA]

Congratulations to Nicole Fox (@sacstate) for the Best Scholarly Article Award on gender-based violence, genocide and commemoration published in @SignsJournal.

https://t.co/36gBbAwyFx