The Section on Aging and the Life Course’s Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award
2023: Richard Settersten, Oregon State University
2022: Deborah Carr, Boston University
2020: Ellen L. Idler, Emory University
2019: Merril Silverstein, Syracuse University
2018: Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California
2017: Linda Waite, University of Chicago
2016: Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse University
2015: Debra J. Umberson, University of Texas, Austin
2014: Kenneth Ferraro, Purdue University
2013: Gunhild Hagestad, NOVA/Norwegian Social Research and the University of Agder
2012: Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University
2011: Jon (Joe) Hendricks, Oregon State University
2010: Judy Treas, University of California, Irvine
2009: Dale Dannefer, Case Western Reserve University
2008: Angela O’Rand, Duke University
2007: Leonard Pearlin, University of Maryland, College Park
2006: Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina
2005: Charles F. Longino, Jr., Wake Forest University
2004: Linda George, Duke University
2003: Fredric D. Wolinsky, University of Iowa
2002: Martin Kohli, Free University of Berlin
2001: Phyllis Moen, Cornell University
2000: Carroll Estes, University of California, San Francisco
1999: Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max Plank Institute, Berlin
1998: Glen H. Elder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1997: Eva Kahana, Case Western Reserve University
1996: Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Florida
1995: Vern Bengston, University of Southern California
1994: Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
1993: Marie R. Haug, Case Western Reserve University
1992: Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Loyola University, Chicago
1991: John Myles, Carleton University
1990: David L. Featherman, Social Science Research Council
1989: Anne Foner, Rutgers University
1988: Matilda White Riley, National Institutes of Health
1987: Ethel Shanas
1986: Irving Rosow, University of California, San Francisco
1985: George Maddox, Duke University
1984: Gordon Streib, University of Florida
The Section on Aging and the Life Course’s Dissertation Award
This award was last offered in 1999. It has been replaced by the Graduate Student Paper Award
This award was established in 1986, but no award was given that year. In 1990, the Section honored Robert M. Ball with a Special Award for his substantial contributions to social policy.
1999: Andrea Wilson, Florida State University, “Women’s Economic Well Being in Later Life: A Life Course Perspective”
1996: Robin Weinick, Agency for Health Care Policy Research, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Coresidence and Intergenerational Assistance in the United States”
1994: Cheryl Elman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Household Structure, Local Economics, and the Labor Force: Attachment of Elderly American Males in 1910: A Contextual Analysis”
1993: Sally K. Gallagher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Family and Community Caregiving by the Elderly: The New Volunteers”
1992: Ann Robertson, University of California, Berkeley, “Beyond Apocalyptic Demography: Critical Reflections on the Politics of Need”
1991: Deborah Merrill, Brown University, “The Tradeoff Between Caregiving and Employment for Familial Caregivers of the Disabled Elderly”
1990: Roma Hanks, University of Delaware, “Family & Corporation Linkage in Timing & Control of Incentive Based Early Retirement”
1989: Jason S. Lee, University of Michigan, “Age, Social Factors, & Abstraction: A Study of Adult Intellectual Development”
1987: Deborah T. Gold
The Section on Aging and the Life Course’s Graduate Student Paper Award
This annual award honors the outstanding paper written by a graduate student (or students) member(s) of the Section on Aging and the Life Course, as determined by the Graduate Student Paper Award committee. At the 1996 Annual Meeting, a Graduate Student Paper Award was established in place of the Doctoral Dissertation Award. Papers authored or coauthored solely by students are eligible; faculty co-authorship is not allowed. Eligible student authors include master’s students and pre-doctoral student members of the section who are currently enrolled in a graduate program or who have graduated no earlier than December of 2009.
2023: Alexander Adames, University of Pennsylvania, for “The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Erin Ice, University of Michigan, for “Bringing Family Demography Back In: A Life Course Approach to the Gender Gap in Caregiving in the United States.”
2022: Kai Feng, University of Pennsylvania, “Unequal Duties and Unequal Retirement: Decomposing the Women’s Labor Force Decline in Post-Reform China.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Vanessa Delgado, University of California, Irvine, “’In-between’ to ‘Front and Center’: How Brokering Shifts to Advocacy in Emerging Adulthood.”
2021: Leafia Zi Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Continuous Integration or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Trajectories in Later Life.”
2021 Honorable Mention: Tabitha G. Wilbur, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Stressed but not Depressed: A Longitudinal Analysis of First-Generation College Students, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms.” Social Forces
2020: Shannon Ang, University of Michigan, “Your Friends, My Friends and our Family: Informal Social Participation and Mental Health Through the Lens of Linked Lives.”
2019: Laura Upenieks, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Religious Attendance and Physical Well-Being in Later Life: Integrating Life Course Models of Health”.
2018: Beth Truesdale, Harvard University, “Coming of Age in an Unequal State: The Life Course Effects of Economic Inequality on Health”
2017: Angelina Grigoryeva, Princeton University,“Own Gender, Sibling’s Gender, Parent’s Gender: The Division of Elderly Parent Care Among Adult Children,” American Sociological Review 82:116-146. 2017.
2017: Courtney Boen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; now at University of Pennsylvania, “The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Black-White Health Inequities Across the Life Course,” Social Science and Medicine 170:63-76. 2016.
2016: Katherine Fallon and Casey Stockstill, “The Condensed Courtship Clock: How Elite Women Manage Self-Development and Marriage Ideals,” Socius 4:1-14. 2018.
2015: Siwei Cheng, “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality,” American Journal of Sociology 120(3):633-700. 2014.
2014: Jonathan Horowitz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education and Civic Participation in America,” Social Forces 94(2):747-774. 2015.
2013: Stacy Marlena Torres, University of California and New York University, “Where Everybody May Not Know Your Name: The Importance of Elastic Ties”
2012: Christopher Steven Marcum, RAND Corporation, “Age Differences in Daily Social Activities”
2012: Maggie Frye, University of California, Berkeley, “Bright Futures in Malawi’s New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity,” American Journal of Sociology 117(6):1565-1624. 2012.
2011: Markus H. Schafer and Lindsay A. Rinaldo, Purdue University, “Childhood Conditions, Educational Attainment, and Adult Health: Who Benefits the Most from College?”
2010: Daniel Carlson, The Ohio State University, “Explaining the curvilinear Relationship between Age at First Birth and Depression among Women,” Social Science & Medicine 72(4):494-503. 2011.
2009: Kyle Longest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Integrating Identity Theory and the Life Course Perspective: The Case of Adolescent Religious Behavior”
2008: Genevieve Pham-Kanter, University of Chicago, “Social Comparisons and Health: Can Having Richer Friends and Neighbors Make You Sicker?” Social Science & Medicine 69(3):335-344. 2009.
2008: Tetyana P. Shippee, Purdue University, “‘But I am Not Moving’: Residents’ Perspectives on Transitions within a Continuing Care Retirement Community,” The Gerontologist 49(3):418-427. 2009.
2007: Daniel Carlson, The Ohio State University, “The Stress of Non-Marital Events”
2006: Jinyyoung Kim and Emily Durden, University of Texas, Austin, “Socioeconomic Status and Age Trajectories of Health,” Social Science & Medicine 65(12):2489-2502. 2007.
2005: Yang Yang, University of Chicago, “Is Getting Old Depressing? Growth Trajectories and Cohort Variations in Late Life Depression,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48(1):16-32. 2007.
2004: Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, McGill University, Miles G. Taylor, Duke University, “Socioeconomic Status Across the Life Course and Mental Health in Adulthood: The Interplay of Ascribed and Achieved Statuses,” Journal of Aging and Health 28(1):40-67. 2016.
2003: Krysia N. Mossakowski, Indiana University, “The Nativity Paradox and the Social Timing of Immigration over the Life Course”
2002: Tay McNamara, Boston College
2001: Joy E. Pixley and Carter T. Butts, “Analyzing Life Course Patterns with the Interval Graph Approach”
2000: Kim Shuey, Florida State University, “In the Middle: Intergenerational Patterns of Assistance Among a Cohort of American Couples”
1999: Guobin Yang, New York University, “The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity,” Sociological Forum 15(3):379-406. 2000.
The Section on Aging and the Life Course’s Outstanding Publication Award
2023: Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Villanova University, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life. Cornell University Press. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Richard Settersten, Oregon State University, Glen Elder and Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the 20th Century. The University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2022: Sanyu Mojola, Princeton University, Enid Schatz, University of Missouri, Nicole Angotti, American University, and Brian Houle, Australian National University, “‘A Nowadays Disease’: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in a Rural South African Community.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 127(3): 950–1000. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Patricia Morton, Wayne State University, and Kenneth Ferraro, Purdue University, “Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 61(4): 503-522. 2020.
2021: Courtney E. Boen. “Criminal justice contacts and psychophysiological functioning in early adulthood: health Inequality in the carceral state.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 61(3), 290-306. 2020.
2020: Roi Livne, University of Michigan, Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care. Harvard University Press.
2019: Jielu Lin, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, and Jessica Kelley, Case Western Reserve University, “From Noise to Signal: The Age and Social Patterning of Intra-Individual Variabiilty in Late-Life Health,” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 72 (1): 168-179
2018: Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose. Oxford University Press. 2016.
2017: Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University, John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota, James M. Raymo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and D. Adam Nicholson, Indiana University, “The Impact of Work and Family Life Histories on Economic Well-Being at Older Ages,” Social Forces 93(4):1369-1396. 2015.
2016: Corey Abramson, The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years. Harvard University Press. 2015.
2015: Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Matt L. Huffman, and Judith Treas, “The Parity Penalty in Life Course Perspective: Motherhood and Occupational Status in 13 European Countries,”American Sociological Review 79(5):993-1014. 2014.
2014: David Warner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Tyson Brown, Vanderbilt University, “Understanding how race/ethnicity and gender define age-trajectories of disability: An intersectionality approach,” Social Science and Medicine 72(8):1236–1248. 2011.
2013: Richard Settersten, Oregon State University, and Jacqueline Angel, University of Texas at Austin, Handbook on the Sociology of Aging. Springer-Verlag. 2011.
2012: Markus H. Schafer, University of Toronto, Kenneth F. Ferraro, Purdue University, and Sarah A. Mustillo, Purdue University, “Children of Misfortune: Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories,” American Journal of Sociology 116(4):1053-1091. 2011.
2011: Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University, and Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Growing up Faster, Feeling Older: Hardship in Childhood and Adolescence,” Social Psychology Quarterly 72(1):39-60. 2009.
2010: Josephy C. Hermanowicz, University of Georgia, Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers. University of Chicago Press. 2009.
2009: Anrea Wilson, University of Western Ontario, Kim Shuey, University of Western Ontario, and Glen Elder Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Cumulative Advantage Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health,” American Journal of Sociology 112(6):1886-1924. 2007.
2008: Arland Thornton, William Axinn, and Yu Xie, Marriage and Cohabitation. University of Chicago Press. 2007.
2007: Brian Powell, Indiana University, Lala Steelman, University of South Carolina, and Robert Carini, University of Louisville, “Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children,” Social Forces 84(3):1359-1390. 2006.
1999: Ching Kwan Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. University of California Press. 1998.
Outstanding Mentor Award
SALC has a rich legacy of mentoring, both of students and junior faculty. We want to honor this history by recognizing SALC members who have distinguished themselves as mentors in the field of aging and the life course.
2023: Deborah Carr, Boston University
2023: Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University
2022: Irma Elo, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Chair of the Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania
2021: Linda K. George, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Duke University
2020: Jacqueline L. Angel, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, and Faculty Research Associate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
2019: Mark Hayward, Professor of Sociology, Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, and Faculty Research Associate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
