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Term will begin in August following association's annual meeting
David Snow, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, has been elected vice president-elect of the American Sociological Association, the discipline's premier organization which lists more than 14,000 members. Snow will assume the full office of vice president in 2010 following one year of service as vice president-elect which will begin August 8 at the association's annual meeting in San Francisco.
Snow joined the UCI faculty in 2001 following appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and University of Arizona. His work has focused largely on protest and social movements, inequality, homelessness and poverty, the latter of which he explored in Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People which earned him the 1993 Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the 1994 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, and the 1994 Scholarly Achievement Award from the North-Central Sociological Association. He has authored or co-authored a total of eight books and more than 100 articles and is currently writing a book titled The Sidewalks of Globalization, based on a multi-year comparative study of homelessness in four global cities - Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. He is a past president of both the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and was the 2008 recipient of the Society for the Study of Social Problems' Lee Founders Award for career contributions to the study of social problems. Currently, he co-directs UCI's Center for Citizen's Peacebuilding and is the university's faculty athletic representative.
Learn more about David Snow at http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4669.
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