Graduate Student Paper Award
Please consider submitting your work for presentation at the 2016 SSSP Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, on August 19-21, 2016. Submissions for the Graduate Student Paper Award are also encouraged (see below for details).
The Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems invites graduate students to submit a paper to the Graduate Student Paper Award competition. The paper can be theoretical and/or empirical, and must be directly related to some aspect of scholarship on youth, aging, and the life course. Current graduate students and recent graduates (who received their degrees after January 2015) may submit a paper if it was written while a student. The paper must be unpublished, not accepted for publication, and not under review at the time of submission. Papers based on theses or dissertations are acceptable. Co-authored papers are also acceptable as long as all of the listed authors are current or recent graduate students; faculty and non-graduate student co-authors are not allowed. Students may submit to only one SSSP student paper award competition; submission to multiple SSSP award competitions will disqualify the paper. The award recipient is expected to present the winning paper at the 2016 SSSP Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA (August 19-21, 2016). To facilitate scheduling the presentation, the (lead) author is required to submit the paper through the Call for Papers process for the annual meeting. Regular submission through the Call for Papers process ensures that the winning paper can be placed on the program. The paper should be submitted to any Youth, Aging, and the Life Course-(co)sponsored session, or the roundtable organizer, by the January 31st deadline, as well as e-mailed separately to the Division and Award Committee Chair as indicated below. The award recipient will be publicly announced at the Awards Ceremony and receive a plaque, a monetary prize of $100, a student membership to SSSP, and a SSSP conference registration. To have a paper considered for this award, please send an electronic copy of the paper and a cover letter that includes a brief overview of the paper and the context in which it was written, identifies the graduate program and status of all authors, certifies that the paper meets all of the criteria for the award, and provides the name and contact information of an adviser who is familiar with the (lead) author’s work to Andrew S. London at anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu. The submission should: be no more than 30 double-spaced pages (including references and notes); use 12-point font; be double-spaced throughout; use one-inch margins; and be prepared for anonymous review, with the (lead) author specified only on the cover page and identifying references blinded.
Access the call for papers here.
Sessions sponsored and co-sponsored by the YALC Division include:
Division Sessions
Title: THEMATIC: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course across the Globe
Organizer: Andrew S. London
Affiliation: Syracuse University
E-mail: anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Critical Dialogue: Life-Course Perspective on Transgender Lives
Organizer: Tre Wentling
Affiliation: Syracuse University
E-mail: tlwentli@maxwell.syr.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Papers in the Round: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Organizer: Scott Landes
Affiliation: University of North Florida
E-mail: scott.landes@unf.edu
Division: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Co-sponsored Sessions
Title: Crime and the Life Course
Organizer: Lindsay Morgia
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts-Boston
E-mail: Lindsay.Morgia001@umb.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Title: THEMATIC: Life Course and Substance Use across the Globe
Co-Organizers: Miriam W. Boeri / Aukje K. Lamonica
Affiliation: Bentley University / Southern Connecticut State University
E-mail: mboeri@bentley.edu / lamonicaa1@southernct.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Drinking and Drugs
Title: Health and Well-Being across the Life Course
Organizer: Joseph D. Wolfe
Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
E-mail: jdwolfe@uab.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Health, Health Policy, and Health Services; Society and Mental Health
Title: Technology and the Workforce across the Life Course: Redefining What Employment Is and Who an Employee Is
Co-Organizers: Valerie Adrian / Heather Champeau
Affiliation: Washington State University / University of Colorado Boulder
E-mail: Valerieadrian@gmail.com / Heather.Champeau@Colorado.EDU
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Labor
Title: THEMATIC: Inequality and the Life Course across the Globe
Organizer: Alair MacLean
Affiliation: Washington State University-Vancouver
E-mail: alair.maclean@wsu.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Title: THEMATIC: Sexuality in Global and Life Course Contexts
Organizer: Koji Ueno
Affiliation: Florida State University
E-mail: kueno@fsu.edu
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Community
Title: Social Welfare and Aging
Organizer: William Cabin
Affiliation: Temple University School of Social Work
E-mail: williamcabin@yahoo.com
Divisions: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course; Sociology and Social Welfare
All papers must be submitted by midnight (EST) on January 31, 2016.