Minutes
Informal meeting at the American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, August 4, 2008.
We met at the registration desk at 10:00 a.m., as arranged via our
list-serve the previous week, and then found some empty tables at a
park outside of the conference hotels. We numbered about six people,
half graduate students. After introductions, we brainstormed ideas
for possible institution-building:
- graduate training workshop in Middle East sociology, perhaps a week before ASA meetings?
- list faculty on Mideast Sociology webpage in addition to graduate students?
- include Middle East and/or Islam as category in the ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology?
[ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of
Sociology, 2008 edition, includes an index to more than 70 special
programs at various departments. The criterion for inclusion is:
"Special programs denote an area in which the department offers several
regularly scheduled courses, a core faculty, special examinations, or
some other indication of a concentration." (p. iii)]
Minutes taken by Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill