2012 San Diego - Southwestern Political Science Association

125 Pages·2012·0.29 MB·English

Striking Gold
in the Social Sciences:
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
92nd Annual Meeting
of the
Southwestern Social Science Association
April 4 – 7, 2012
The Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego, California
Presidential Address

"Water and the Making of the West: A Story of
Success and Crisis"

David M. Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan
Professor of History, Emeritus, and Co-Director of the
Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford
University

DAVID M. KENNEDY is a native of Seattle and a 1963 Stanford
graduate. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale
University in 1968. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1967.

Professor Kennedy has long taught both undergraduate and
graduate courses in the history of the twentieth-century United
States, American political and social thought, American foreign
policy, American literature, and the comparative development of
democracy in Europe and America. Graduating seniors have four
times elected him as Class Day speaker. In 1988 he received the
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Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2005 the
Hoagland Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He
has also received the Stanford Alumni Association's Richard W.
Lyman Award for faculty service, and the Organization of
American Historian’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2008 the
Yale University Graduate School presented him with its highest
honor, the Wilbur Cross Medal.

Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies,
which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics,
Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of
economic and cultural analysis with social and political history.
His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret
Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious
dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging
field of women's history. Over Here: The First World War and
American Society (1980) used the history of American
involvement in World War I to analyze the American political
system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century.
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and
War, 1929-1945 (1999) recounts the history of the American
people in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World
War II. With Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen, Kennedy is
also the co-author of a textbook in American history, The
American Pageant, now in its fifteenth edition.

Birth Control in America was honored with the John Gilmary
Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. Over Here
was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. Freedom From Fear was a
Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History
Book Club, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and
winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman Prizes, as well as the
English-Speaking Union’s Ambassador’s Prize, and the
Commonwealth Club of California’s California Book Award Gold
Medal, all in 2000.

Professor Kennedy has been a visiting professor at the
University of Florence, Italy, and has lectured on American
history in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Scandinavia, Canada, Britain,
Australia, and Ireland. He has served as chair of the Stanford
History Department, and as director of Stanford's Program in
International Relations, as well as Associate Dean of the School
of Humanities and Sciences. He has served on the Advisory
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Board for the Public Broadcasting System's "The American
Experience" and has chaired the Test Development Committee
for the Educational Testing Service's Advanced Placement
Program in American History. He has also served as a director of
the CORO Foundation, and as chair of the Board of Directors of
the Stanford University Bookstore. He is also on the board of
Environmental Traveling Companions, a service organization for
the handicapped. In 1995-96, he was the Harmsworth Professor
of American History at Oxford University. He is an elected Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the
American Philosophical Society. From 2002 to 2011 he served
on the Board of the Pulitzer Prizes (chair, 2010-2011) and in
2008 joined the Board of the New York Historical Society. Since
2000, he has served as the Editor of the Oxford History of the
United States.
As Co-Director of The Bill Lane Center for the American West,
Kennedy has become increasingly engaged with a range of
issues affecting the western region, including water, the
demography of the rural West, state and local governance,
climate change, immigration, bio-diversity, and the future of the
national parks. Read more at: http://west.stanford.edu/

4:00 – 5:15 pm, Thursday, April 4, 2012
Randle E
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GENERAL PROGRAM GUIDELINES FOR THE
93rd (2013) ANNUAL MEETING

New Orleans Marriott
New Orleans, LA

April - June, 2012 Call for Papers Posted on SSSA Web Site
(www.sssaonline.org)

Announcements of Affiliates Calls for Papers
by Affiliate Program Chairs

June, 2012 General Call for Papers listed inside the
back cover of the Social Science Quarterly

Late August, 2012 Final Call for Papers by Affiliate Program
Chairs

October - Deadline for receipt of proposals to Affiliate
November, 2012 Program Chairs

December 1, 2012 Tentative deadline for Affiliate Program
Chairs to submit affiliates programs to
SSSA Program Director

January, 2013 Pre-registration, registration, and hotel
information sent to SSSA members and
available on web site

March 1, 2013 Tentative deadline for convention pre-
registration

March 27-30, 2013 93rd SSSA Annual Meeting

If you wish to submit a proposal to your affiliate for the 2013
program, please contact the appropriate Affiliate Program Chair.
The SSSA web site (www.sssaonline.org) will list these
individuals and their addresses on or about May 1, 2012, and the
June and September, 2012 issues of Social Science Quarterly
(inside back cover) will also include this information.
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SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

FUTURE MEETING SITES AND DATES

New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Marriott
March 27 – 30, 2013

San Antonio, Texas
Grand Hyatt (Riverwalk)
April 16 – 19, 2014

Denver, Colorado
Grand Hyatt Denver
April 8 – 11, 2015

Las Vegas, Nevada
Paris and Bally’s Hotels
March 22 – 27, 2016

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SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL ASSOCIATION
92nd Annual Meeting
SSSA Organizational Events

Event Time Location
Wednesday April 4
Registration & Exhibits 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Randle Foyer
SSSA Executive 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Windsor B
Committee
Nominations Committee 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Windsor C
Thursday April 5
Registration & Exhibits 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Randle Foyer
Nominations Committee 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Conference Parlor 606
Membership Committee 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Conference Parlor 605
Budget and Financial 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Windsor B
Policies Committee
Resolutions Committee 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Conference Parlor 605
Editorial Policies 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Windsor B
Committee
Site Policy Committee 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Conference Parlor 606
SSSA Council 1:00 - 3:45 p.m. Windsor B
SSSA Presidential 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Randle E
Address
SSSA Presidential 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Randle Terrace
Reception
Friday April 6
Registration & Exhibits 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Randle Foyer
SSSA Student Social & 7:45 – 9:30 a.m. Del Mar B
Welcome Breakfast
SSSA General Business 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Mohsen B
Meeting
Saturday April 7
Registration 7:30 - noon Randle Foyer
2012 Program 7:15 - 8:30 a.m. Maggie
Committee
Getting to Know SSSA 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. Cunningham C
SSSA Council 9:15 - 11:30 a.m. Maggie
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SSSA AFFILIATES MEETINGS & SOCIAL EVENTS

Economics
Plenary Session Friday April 6 Windsor C
10:00-11:15
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Windsor B
4:00-5:15
Reception Friday April 6 Cunningham Foyer
5:30-6:30

History
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Randle B
5:30-7:00
Reception Friday April 6 Annie Foyer
7:00-8:30

International Studies
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Connaught
4:00-5:15

Political Science
Executive Council Friday April 6 Cunningham B
7:30-8:45
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Randle A
5:30-6:00
SWPSA Plenary Friday April 6 Randle A
Session 6:00-6:45
Presidential Friday April 6 Randle Terrace
Reception 7:00-8:00

Social Work
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Maggie
4:00-5:15

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Sociology
Executive Council Thursday April 5 Randle D
Meeting I 8:30-9:45
Executive Council Friday April 6 Del Mar A
Meeting II 7:30-8:30
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Cunningham A
5:30-6:30
Reception Friday April 6 Pool Terrace
6:30-7:30

Women’s and Gender Studies
Business Meeting Friday April 6 Oxford
4:00-5:15

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SSSA WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

Workshop A: Publishing in Academic Journals
When: Friday, April 6, 4:00 – 5:15 pm (No Reg. Fee).
Where: America’s Cup B
Leader: R. Keith Gaddie, Ph.D., Social Science Quarterly
Editor, University of Oklahoma

Workshop B: Employment Opportunities Outside Academia
When: Saturday, April 7, 8:00 – 10:00 am (No Reg. Fee)
Where: Windsor B
Leader: Edwin J. Rossman, Ph.D., US Army Corps of
Engineers
Edwin J. Rossman, Ph.D., is a supervisory social scientist with
the US Army Corps of Engineers where he has worked for more
than 30 years. He will present a workshop on employment
opportunities outside teaching and research in an academic
environment. The discussion will discuss the benefits of working
in the non-academic environment and the type of employment
opportunities available. He will specifically discus how to be
more competitive in finding such jobs.

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