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Washington, DC—The American Sociological Association (ASA) proudly announces the 2024 award recipients, the highest honors the association confers.
Awardees, selected by committees directly appointed by the ASA Council, will be honored on Sunday, August 11, 2024, as part of the ASA 2024 Annual Meeting. A formal address by ASA President Joya Misra will follow the ceremony.
The officers of the association extend heartfelt congratulations to the following honorees:
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award
John B. Diamond, Brown University
The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award is given to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier, three African American scholars.
Dissertation Award
Luis Flores, Harvard University, for the dissertation titled “The Regulatory Politics of Home-Based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage,” completed at University of Michigan
Honorable Mention:
Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University, for the dissertation titled “Policing the Black Metropolis: Race, Surveillance, and Resistance,” completed at Northwestern University
The Dissertation Award is given to an individual or individuals with the best PhD dissertation from among those submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline.
Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Monica M. White, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others; work that has significantly advanced the utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing, has elevated the professional status or public image of the field as a whole; or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the discipline for its significant impacts.
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
Robin G. Isserles, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Michele Lee Kozimor, Elizabethtown College
The Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award is given to honor outstanding contributions to the undergraduate and/or graduate teaching and learning of sociology that improve the quality of teaching.
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism by Jordanna Matlon, American University and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Honorable Mentions:
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre by Yang Su, University of California-Irvine
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement by Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is given to the single best book published in the two preceding calendar years.
Jessie Bernard Award
Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles
The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society and honors those who have demonstrated significant cumulative work throughout a professional career.
Public Understanding of Sociology Award
Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles
The Public Understanding of Sociology Award is given to honor those who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public.
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley
The W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline.
For more information on the ASA awards, visit https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/.
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