Faculty Fellow Joseph Harris Elected to ASA Sociology of Development Section Council

Joseph Harris, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently elected to serve on the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Development Section Council.

The ASA Sociology of Development Section promotes theoretical and applied work on the causes and effects of development in all geographical regions, including the United States, other developed countries, and the Global South. The Council, to which Prof. Harris was elected, is the governing body of the Section. Council members are elected by their peers to serve three-year terms.

The Sociology of Development Section hosts annual conferences, and issues policy briefs, newsletters, and awards. The Global Health and Development interest group, which Prof. Harris co-founded, also has its home in the Sociology of Development Section. Click here to learn more. 

As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, Prof. Harris convened the First Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences, bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists working on global health from around the nation and world. The two-day gathering took place November 9-10, 2017 and was intended to expose participants to colleagues from other disciplines, to new ideas, and to provide the opportunity for scholars to create new research pathways and chart new agendas in conference sessions with both disciplinary and interdisciplinary themes.