ASA Body and Embodiment Section
asabodyembodiment.bsky.social
ASA Body and Embodiment Section
@asabodyembodiment.bsky.social
The official BlueSky account of the ASA section on Sociology of Body and Embodiment.
📷 Council member Ginger Berndt showing off our 2025 section pin (with a picture of our original section mascot, M. Bodiment) and our new mascot, M. Bodiment Jr. Both were lovingly crafted by section chairs!
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📷 Best grad paper co-winner Michael Zangler-Tishler accepting his award from Danya for “Visual Identifiability and its Consequences: A Study of American Jews and Antisemitism.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📷 Best grad paper co-winner Kristen Miller getting her award from Danya Lagos, for “We Outside! Bike Life and Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📷 Chelsea Johnson (and adorable new baby) accepting her best book award from committee chair Alka Menon, for her book “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🏆 Introducing Our Award Winners (and more photos) at 2025 ASA in Chicago!

📷 Phung Su accepting the best article award on behalf of her coauthor Phi Hong Su, for their Frontiers in Sociology article, “Discomforting Surplus: Gender, Sexualization, and Omissions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
📷 Council member Ginger Berndt showing off our 2025 section pin (with a picture of our original section mascot, M. Bodiment) and our new mascot, M. Bodiment Jr. Both were lovingly crafted by section chairs!
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
📷 Best grad paper co-winner Michael Zangler-Tishler accepting his award from Danya for “Visual Identifiability and its Consequences: A Study of American Jews and Antisemitism.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
📷 Best grad paper co-winner Kristen Miller getting her award from Danya Lagos, for “We Outside! Bike Life and Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
📷 Chelsea Johnson (and adorable new baby) accepting her best book award from committee chair Alka Menon, for her book “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
🏆 Introducing Our Award Winners (and more photos) at 2025 ASA in Chicago!

📷 Phung Su accepting the best article award on behalf of her coauthor Phi Hong Su, for their Frontiers in Sociology article, “Discomforting Surplus: Gender, Sexualization, and Omissions in Ethnographic Fieldwork”
August 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
📢 Body & Embodiment July Newsletter

(1) Chair's corner: Don't forget to vote for section elections! Email sent on July 1st by asa-elections.com
(2) Calls for Papers and award nominations
(3) Section Business Meeting reminder
(4) mentoring program at ASA
July 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🍀Body&Embodiment June Newsletter

1. Words from Kate Mason
- Award Winners
- ASA sections
- Business Meeting & Reception
2. Upcoming Seminar
3. Gift a membership!
4. Mentorship Registration
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
📚 Ask a Mentor Series part 6.
What are the tips for maximizing the ASA experience?

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June 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📚 Ask a Mentor Series part 5:
Given the current environment, what do you suggest we do to bolster our ability to remain in the field while the industry is particularly rough?
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May 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
(4) ASA announcements for our members
📢 Become an ASA POP fellow!
📢 Check out the New Annual Meeting Guide Program
📢 Advocacy Update
📢 Is your research Federally Funded?
May 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
(3) Other announcements
📢 Instats is hosting a seminar on How Work Sustains Racial Inequality, running June 17th.
📢 ASA Theory Section Seminar happening on May 16th.
📢 Featuring Grad students! Please submit your headshot and research description.
May 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
(2) Member Publications
: Check out our members' newest publications!
May 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
📢May Newsletter (1) Chair's Corner: Words from Kate Kason
: Voting has begun for ASA-wode positions (4/30-6/2)!
: Mark Saturday, 8/9 and Sunday, 8/10 as our section days!
May 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🌷Ask a Mentor Series: Part 4
As a scholar constantly engaging with the body and identities, do you have any insight into how and when to disclose information related to my identity while on the job market or during campus visits?
April 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
📢 April Newsletter
Check out member publications and other announcements!
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
📢 Ethnographic Summer School
The University of Texas at Austin, August 18-21, 2025.
More information: sites.utexas.edu/ethnolab/tra...
✅️ Deadline for applications: The deadline to apply is April 23. Admits will be notified by May 1.
April 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
📚 Ask a Mentor Question for the Week
How do you suggest "translating" the relevancy of your work on bodies to more traditional Sociology departments when on the job market, especially for more general ads?
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April 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Now featuring Graduate Students and their research! Can we profile you on our social media, website, and in the newsletter?
Please submit materials here: forms.gle/11htfiRsfX8K... and email a headshot to bexm@uoregon.edu.
March 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
📢 Call for Précis - 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium
✅️SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 21, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern Time
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
📢 Ethnographic Summer School
The University of Texas at Austin, August 18-21, 2025.
More information: sites.utexas.edu/ethnolab/tra...
✅️ Deadline for applications: The deadline to apply is April 23. Admits will be notified by May 1.
March 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM