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North American Society for the Sociology of Sport :: Société nord-americaine de sociologie du sport :: La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociología del Deporte

Sport / Empires / Globalization ** October 26-29, 2005 ** Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

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Welcome | Conference Tips | Minority Scholarship | Student Paper Award | Workshop | Lunch

Welcome!

This new page is dedicated to all things ‘student’ in the NASSS organization. The following items have been prepared by your graduate student representatives, with the generous assistance of former graduate student representatives, in the lead up to the 2005 NASSS meeting in Winston Salem (26-29 October). We are also working on sections for the webpage related to information about graduate programs in sport studies, scholarship opportunities, and other topics of particular interest to NASSS grad students. We welcome your suggestions and contributions (via e-mail) related to any of these topics, or on other topics/ideas that you feel are important. You can also email us to be put on the grad email list. We would love to learn from your conference experiences (and we look forward to seeing you in Winston Salem)!


Emma Wensing emma.wensing [at] utoronto.ca University of Toronto
  Michele Donnelly michelekdonnelly [at] hotmail.com McMaster University

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Conference Tips

We have selected the topic, “Tips for Conferences” for the inaugural posts on the grad page. Our aim is to include information that is useful for all graduate students attending the annual meeting (Winston Salem, North Carolina in 2005), but particularly for those graduate students attending their first NASSS conference. These are our ideas and ‘tips’ (generated with the assistance of former graduate student representatives), and we encourage you to contribute your own ideas, either through the bulletin board on this site, or by e-mailing us. We would love to learn from your conference experiences!

  1. Preparing an abstract/Choosing a session
  2. Preparing for NASSS (including accommodations and travel)
  3. Making the most of academic opportunities
  4. Making the most of social opportunities

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Minority Scholarship

In recognition of the recommendation made by the Racial Diversity Committee in the fall of 2003, the NASSS Conference Programme Committee is piloting the proposed scholarship program for a graduate student who is a member of a racial or ethnic “minority” group. The purpose of the scholarship is to create a mechanism to identify racial and/or ethnic “minority” graduate students who are doing research in the area of sport sociology and to provide a means of supporting their work and association with NASSS. The award is for $500 to be applied toward expenses associated with attendance at the NASSS 2005 Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Applicants must be members of NASSS. The application process for the scholarship is as follows:

Application Deadline: Tuesday, 31 May 05 via e-mail.

Submit materials via email to:

Laurel Davis-Delano
Chair, NASSS Racial and Ethnic Diversity & Climate Committee
(413) 748.3645 (office)
Laurel_R_Davis-Delano [at] SPFLDCOL.EDU

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Student Paper Award

Barbara Brown Student Paper Award

The DEADLINE for submissions is September 2, 2005.


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Graduate Student Workshop

Negotiating the Post-PhD Terrain (Thursday, 2:30 to 4p.m., Session 4)
The annual NASSS conference in Winston-Salem is fast approaching, and we hope your preparations are going well. We have finalised the panellists for this year’s graduate student workshop, “Negotiating the Post-Phd Terrain”. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Louise Adams (Queen’s University), Dr. Michael Atkinson (McMaster University), Dr. Amy Hribar (Montana State University), and Dr. Kim Schimmel (Kent State University) have agreed to speak – and, more importantly, answer questions – about their varied experiences searching, applying, and hiring for positions both within and outside of academia.
It is your attendance and participation that will make this session a success. We strongly recommend that you take advantage of this opportunity to have your questions answered by our excellent panellists, who are able to speak to a number of different experiences of the Post-PhD world (including applying for jobs and/or working at teaching versus research focused institutions, searching for and working at jobs outside of academia, etc.). What do you want to know about life after a PhD?
Organizers: Emma Wensing and Michele Donnelly

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Take a Student to Lunch (Friday)

A key event in the NASSS conference schedule for grad students is “take a student to lunch’. This event will take place at lunchtime on Friday, 28 October and is a great opportunity to meet with a specific professor (and a free lunch only adds to the experience). This year, we are trying to organise ‘take a student to lunch’ more efficiently by starting before the conference. An e-mail will be sent to NASSS faculty members asking for their participation in this year’s event, and this will allow us to start matching up professors and students right away. If there is a faculty member who you are particularly excited to meet at NASSS, please e-mail Emma and we will do our best to organize a lunch for you on Friday. Also, look for the sign up list by registration when you arrive in Winston-Salem!


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