Outgoing Officers

Brad R. Fulton is an assistant professor at Indiana University in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research draws on organizational theory and network analysis to examine the social, political, and economic impact of community-based organizations. Fulton is the PI for the National Study of Community Organizing—a multi-level study that examines the causes and consequences of racial, socioeconomic, and religious diversity within grassroots advocacy organizations. He is also the Co-PI for the Observing Civic Engagement project and the National Study of Congregations’ Economic Practices.

Sarah K. Harkness is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her work centers on the social psychology of inequality, specifically related to the study of morality, status, health stigma, and intersectionality. She is currently building a research program with Steven Hitlin (professor, University of Iowa) arguing that the level of inequality of a society deeply affects the moral reactions felt by its members, with those in more unequal societies experiencing more negative, sanctioning moral emotions, while those in more equal societies are more likely to feel positive, binding moral emotions. She is the co-author of Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality, and Emotions across Cultures (Oxford University Press).

Mary R. Rose, is an Associate Professor at University of Texas at Austin,. She teaches courses on social science and law as well as social psychology and research methods. Her research examines lay participation in the legal system and perceptions of justice. She writes on the effects of jury selection practices on jury representativeness, citizens’ views of justice, jury decision making, and public views of court practices. She has served on the editorial boards of Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, and Law & Human Behavior. In 2005, her research on the peremptory challenge was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Miller-el v. Dretke (Breyer, J., concurring) and her work on punitive damages was cited in the 2008 decision Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker.
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Bin Xu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture, including collective memory, civil society, cultural sociology, and social theory. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Culture and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association. He is currently finishing a book and a few related articles on the collective memory of China’s “educated youth” (zhiqing) generation—the 17 million youth sent down to the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s. His research has appeared in leading sociological and China studies journals.

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