Award Description

The ASA Dissertation Award honors the ASA members' best PhD dissertation from among those submitted by advisers and mentors in the discipline. Dissertations from PhD recipients with degree awarded in the 2011 calendar year will be eligible for consideration for the 2012 ASA Dissertation Awards. Nominations must be received from the member student’s adviser or the scholar most familiar with the student’s research. Nominations should explain the precise nature and merits of the work.

Send nomination letters, with ten copies of the dissertation (Please Note: it is now preferable, that instead of sending the ten physical copies, to instead send one digital copy of your dissertation attached in an email), and nominee’s curriculum vita (with current address) to : American Sociological Association, c/o Governance, 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; fax: (202) 638-0882; e-mail governance@asanet.org. The deadline for all nomination for the 2012 award is January 31, 2012.
 

Recipients of ASA Dissertation Major ASA Award

2011 - Alice Goffman, "On the Run"
Honorable Mention: Laura Hamilton, "Strategies for Success: Parental Funding, College Achievement, and the Transition to Adulthood"
Joanna Robinson, "Contested Water: Anti-Water Privatization Movements in Canada and the United States"

2010 - G. Cristina Mora, "De Muchos, Uno: The Institutionalization of Latino Panethnicity, 1960-1990 "
Honorable Mention: Sophia Krzys Acord, "Beyond the Code: Unpacking Tacit Knowledge and Embodied Cognition in the Practical Action of Curating Contemporary Art"

2009 - Claire Laurier Decoteau, "The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa."

2008 - Helen Beckler Marrow, "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South."

2007 - Wendy Roth, "Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans' and Puerto Ricans' Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility"

2006 - Jason Beckfield, "The Consequences of regional, Poiltical and Economic Integration for Inequality and the Welfare state in Western Europe," and Amy Hanser, "Counter Strategies: Service Work and the Production of Distinction in Urban China."

2005 - Ann Morning, "The Nature of Race:  Teaching and Learning About Human Difference," and Amélie Quesnell-Vallée, "Pathways from Status Attainment to Adult Health:  The Contribution of Health Insurance to Socioeconomic Inequities in Health in the U.S."

1989 - Richard Biernacki, "The Cultural Construction of Labor: A Comparison of Late Nineteenth Century German and British Textile Mills"