Western Social Science Association

Website: http://wssa.asu.edu/

Each year in April, 750 or more social scientists gather for the association's annual conference. At a typical conference held over three and one-half days, participants, organized in some 30 sections and affiliated groups, present 800 papers at 300 disciplinary and interdisciplinary panel sessions. Five affiliated organizations --Borderlands Studies, Canadian Studies, Economics: AFIT, Land Grant Studies and Slavic Studies--meet concurrently with WSSA. 

Through its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary commitment, WSSA offers an alternative to the tendency toward parochial scholarship and provides a means for social scientists, regardless of intellectual persuasion or scholarly enthusiasm, to communicate. To facilitate involvement, the various sections and affiliated groups organize their own conference panels under the general guidance of the Association's President-Elect.

MEETINGS
50th Annual Conference
Dates:  April 23-26, 2008
Location:  Denver, Colorado
Call for proposals deadline: December 1, 2007
Website: http://wssa.asu.edu/conferences/default.htm

JOURNAL

The Social Science Journal 
The Social Science Journal, the official journal of the WSSA, is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, quarterly journal. It is dedicated to the promotion of scholarly research. Social science is interpreted in the classical sense and we accept the idea that scholarship appears in a variety of methodological forms.

All articles are refereed. Theoretical as well as speculative articles are considered as fully as those using extensive statistical analyses. The major concern is the quality of work rather than approach or method. In addition to articles, the journal publishes research notes and book reviews. Issue number four each year is a special issue focusing on a particular theme or area of study. For more information, please contact the editor at the address below.

Editor, Social Science Journal
N. Prabha Unnithan 
Department of Sociology
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
Office: (970) 491 6615
Email: prabha@lamar.colostate.edu

Book Review Editor, Social Science Journal
Rich Greene
Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb , IL 60115
Office Phone: 815 753 6851
Fax 815 753 6827
Email: rgreene@niu.edu

Book Reviews for the Social Science Journal
The Social Science Journal publishes book reviews for the various social science disciplines the social sciences and in the fields represented by the affiliated sections of the Western Social Science Association. Any scholar interested in being considered to write a book review should contact:

Rich Greene
Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb , IL 60115
Office Phone: 815 753 6851
Fax 815 753 6827
Email: rgreene@niu.edu

OFFICERS

President:
Richard V. Adkisson
Department of Economics
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3CQ
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
Office: (505) 646 - 4988
Fax: (505) 646 1915
Email: radkisso@nmsu.edu

President-Elect:
Phadrea Ponds, Research Wildlife Biologist
Fort Collins Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
2150 Centre Ave., Building C
Fort Collins, CO 80526-8118
Phone: 970.226.9445
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: pondsp@usgs.gov

Vice President:
Jack Hou
California State University, Long Beach
Department of Economics
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Phone: 562-985-4710
Fax: 562-985-5804
E-mail: jackhou@csulb.edu