357 - Special Session. Crossing the Scholar-Activist Line

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

A panel of activist sociologists will present on how activist sociologists can maintain a passion for social justice while ensuring the demands of academia. The presenters will draw on lessons from their roles as scholar-activists with a focus on the arenas in which they work (labor, immigrant rights, community development, global social movement, feminist, communities of color, LGBT communities). Panelists will address new models of research, learning, and practice that are engaging faculty, students, and partners in problem solving to find solutions to community problems; lessons in fulfilling professional academic objectives (e.g. publishing in scholarly journals, getting tenure) while engaging in community-based research; research and practices of developing the classroom as part of the civic realm and that encourage the interconnections between the local and global.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizer

• Jose Zapata Calderon, Pitzer College

Presider

• Gregory D. Squires, George Washington University

Panelists

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts-Boston

• Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland-College Park

• Jose Zapata Calderon, Pitzer College

• Veronica Terriquez, University of Southern California