Congratulations to the Recipients of
2008 ASA Section Awards
Aging and the Life Course
2008 Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award
Angela O’Rand, Department of Sociology, Duke University
2008 Outstanding Publication Award Arland Thornton, William Axinn, Yu Xie. 2007. Marriage and Cohabitation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (Co-Winners)
Genevieve Pham-Kanter, University of Chicago, for “Social Comparisons and Health: Can Having Richer Friends and Neighbors Make You Sicker?”
Tetyana P. Shippee, Purdue University, for “’But I am Not Moving’: Residents’ Perspectives on Transitions within a Continuing Care Retirement Community.”
Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco
Student Paper Award Winner
Joseph Wolfe, at Indiana University, for his paper "A Time to Mature? Age at First Birth and Alcohol Use"
Senior Scholar Award Winner
James A. Inciardi, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Delaware
Animals and Society
Animals and Society Distinguished Publication Award
Colin Jerolmack, New York University,“Animal Practices, Ethnicity, and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers or Berlin.”
Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship Award
Elizabeth Cherry, University of Georgia,“Deconstructing Symbolic Boundaries: Cultural Strategies of New Social Movements.”
Asia and Asian America
Book Award (Co-Winners)
Das Gupta, Monisha. 2006. Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press.
Jung, Moon-Kie. 2006. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia University Press.
Research Paper Award
Winner: Kelly H. Chong. 2006. “Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender.” Gender and Society 20: 697-724.
Graduate Student Paper Award:
Leslie Kim Wang (University of California, Berkeley). “Multicultural Negotiations in a Chinese State-Run Orphanage.” Unpublished manuscript, Department of Sociology, UC, Berkeley.
Early Career Award:
Winner: Dina Okamoto, University of California, Davis
Honorable Mention: Angie Chung, The University at Albany
Children and Youth
Student Paper Award
Hilary Levey, Princeton University. "Which One Is Yours?: Children and Ethnography."
The Distinguished Contribution for Advocacy Award
Strategies for Children, Boston (http://www.strategiesforchildren.org/)
Communication and Information Technologies
CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation.
CITASA Award for Public Sociology
Michael Macy, Cornell University.
CITASA Book Award
Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom (2006, Yale University Press).
CITASA Paper Award
Paul Leonardi, Northwestern University, “Activating The Informational Capabilities Of Information Technology For Organizational Change”. Organization Science 18(5),Pp. 813-831 (2007).
CITASA Student Paper/Application Award (co-winners)
Steven G. Hoffman, Northwestern University, "Simulation As A Social Process In Organizations". Sociology Compass 1(2), Pp. 613-636 (2007).
Alison Powell, Concordia University
“Wi-Fi Publics: Producing Community And Technology". Unpublished Paper.
Community and Urban
Robert Park Award (best book)
Mary Pattillo, Black on the Block. 2007. University of Chicago Press.
Jane Addams Award (best article)
Winner: Kevin Fox Gotham. 2006. “The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered: Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Section.” American Journal of Sociology. 112 (1): 231–75
Robert and Helen Lynd Award (life time achievement and service)
Winner: John Logan, Brown University
Student Paper Award (best paper/article by a graduate student)
L. Owen Kirkpatrick, 2007. “The Two Logics of Community Development: Neighborhoods, Markets and Community Development Corporations.” Politics and Society. 35 (2): 329-359
Comparative and Historical Sociology
Best Book Award
George Steinmetz (Michigan), The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (Chicago, 2007).
Best Article Award
John F. Padgett, University of Chicago, and Paul D. McLean, Rutgers University, "Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence," American Journal of Sociology, Volume 111 Number 5 (March 2006).
Best Graduate Student Paper
Besnik Pula, University of Michigan, "The Informal Road to State Power: State Building in the Albanian Highlands, 1919-1939."
Crime, Law, and Deviance
Student Paper Award
Graduate Student Paper Award Christopher Wildeman (Princeton University) "Paternal Incarceration and Children’s Aggressive Behaviors: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.”
Environment and Technology
Outstanding Publication Award
Thomas Rudel, Rutgers University, Tropical Forests: Paths of Destruction and Regeneration.
Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award
Eric Bonds, University of Colorado, whose paper, “The Knowledge-Shaping Process: Elite Mobilization and Environmental Policy,”
Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award
J. Timmons Roberts, The College of William and Mary
History of Sociology
Graduate Student Paper Award
Robin Das, Fordham University,"The Academic Marginalization of Werner Stark"
Distinguished Scholarly Book or Article Award
Mary Jo Deegan, Professor of Sociology, University of Nebrasks-Lincoln, "The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park." Journal of Classical Sociology, 2006.
Distinguished [Career] Achievement Award
Robert Alun Jones, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
Labor and Labor Movements
Distinguished Book
Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (UC Press)
Distinguished Student Paper
Kyoung-Hee Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for “Linking Movement to Organization: Movement Careers in the Justice for Janitors.”
Distinguished Scholarly Article
Franco Barchiesi, Ohio State University, "Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of 'Social Movement Unionism': A Case Study of Municipal Workers in Johannesburg (South Africa)", (published in International Labor and Working Class History 71 (2007))
Distinguished Contribution To Literature On Race, Labor, And Empire (Joint With Association Of Black Sociologists)
Moon-kie Jung, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement (Columbia University Press)
Medical Sociology
Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology Carol Aneshensel, University of California-Los Angeles Eliot Freidson Award Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego, The Politics of Difference in Medical Research, University of Chicago Press, 2007
Roberta G. Simmons Dissertation Award Rene Alemling, PhD from the University of California-Los Angeles, “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material.” American Sociological Review, June, 2007. Louise Johnson Scholar Emily Walton, University of Washington PhD program, “Residential Segregation and Birth Outcomes among Asian and Latino Americans.”
Organizations, Occupations, and Work
Max Weber Award Rakesh Khurana, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton University Press (2007) W. Richard Scott Award for Best Paper Brian Uzzi and Jarrett Spiro, “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem,”American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 447-504, Sept 2005 The Thompson Award for Best Student Paper
Taekjin Shin “Pay Disparities Within Firms: Roles of Chief Executive Officers"
Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award
Jo Deegan, Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Elise Boulding Student Paper Award (Graduate Co-Winners)
Captain Jana K. Fajardo, Columbia University, “Unity, Division and Masculinity: An Exploration of the Total Institutional Methods of Madness at the United States Military Academy”
Victor P. Corona, Columbia University, “Attainment Clusters in U.S. Army Officer Careers, 1979-2006”
Elise Boulding Student Paper Award (Undergraduate)
Chelsea Cunningham, United States Military Academy, “United States Army Spouses: Fear, Communication, and Job Satisfaction During Operation Iraoi Freedom II”
Political Sociology
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award Javier Auyero, Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power, Columbia University Press
Best Article or Chapter Nathan Martin and David Brady, "Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multi-Level Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries", in American Sociological Review 72(4):562-584, 2007.
Graduate Student Paper Award Djordje (George) Stefanovic, “The Path to Weimar Serbia? Explaining the Resurgence of the Serbian Far Right after the Fall of Milosevic"
Science, Knowledge, and Technology
Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
Martha Poon, University of California-San Diego, Department of Sociology, From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets: Commercial consumer risk scores and the making of subprime mortgage finance. Accounting Organizations and Society (forthcoming).
Robert K. Merton Book Award
Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 (Duke University Press, 2006).
Sex and Gender
The Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award Laura Hamilton. 2007. "Trading on Heterosexuality: College Women's Gender Strategies and Homophobia." Gender & Society. April 21(2):145-172.
Sex and Gender Outstanding Article Award Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. "Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?" American Journal of Sociology 112(5): 1297-1338.
The Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award Kathy Davis. How Feminisms Travels Across Borders: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Duke University Press, 2007.
Sexualities
Simon-Gagnon Award Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology, University of California – Santa Barbara Distinguished Book Award Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (2007, University of Chicago Press) Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship Terece McDonnell, Northwestern University, "AIDS Streetscapes: A Social Iconography of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana" Best Graduate Paper (Co-Winners) Laura Hamilton, Indiana University, "Trading on Heterosexuality: College Women's Gender Strategies and Homophobia."
Tom Waidzunas, University of California - San Diego, "Young, Gay and Suicidal: The Troubled Project of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics."
Sociological Practice
William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award J. Steven Picou, University of South Alabama
Student Sociological Practitioner Award Becky Hsu, Princeton University
Sociology of Culture
Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book (Co-winners)
Jeffrey Alexander, The Civil Sphere. Oxford University Press, 2006.
George Steinmetz, The Devil's Handwriting. The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article (Co-winners)
Lizardo, Omar. 2006. “How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks.” American Sociological Review 71: 778–807.
Mizrachi, Nissim, Israel Drori and Renee R. Anspach. 2007. “Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict.“ American Sociological Review 72:143–165.
Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper
Gabriel Abend, "Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality" Theory and Society, Volume 37 Number 2 (April 2008)
Sociology of Education
David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award
Fabian Pfeffer, University of Wisconsin Madison. "Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment and its Institutional Context."
Willard Waller Award for Best Article
Claudia Buchmann, The Ohio State University, and Thomas A. DiPrete, Columbia University. "The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Parental Resources and Academic Achievement." American Sociological Review 71:515-541.
Sociology of Emotions
Lifetime Achievement Award
David Karp, Boston College Recent Contribution Book or Article Award
Jan E. Stets, University of California, Riverside and Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside for Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions. 2006. New York: Springer. Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award R. Tyson Smith, SUNY Stony Brook for “Passion Work: The Joint Production of Emotional Labor in Professional Wrestling” Social Psychology Quarterly 71: 157-176
Sociology of Law
Distinguished Book Prize
Simon, Jonathan. Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford 2007).
Graduate Student Prize
Shauhin Talesh, UC-Berkeley, "The Legislature, Lemons, and Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers to 'Holster' Consumer Warranty Protection Law 'Weapons.'"
Undergraduate Student Prize
Andre Bagoo, King's College in London, “The Law of Albion: Arendt, Rights-Talk, and Critical Race Theory.”
Teaching and Learning
Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology Jay Howard of Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus.
