Section on Biosociology and Evolutionary Sociology Best Publication Award
2023: Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, James J. Feigenbaum, Jonas Helgertz, Elaine Hernandez, and Courtney E. Boen, “Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in U.S. Cities”. Demography, 59(5):1953-1979.
2022: Jonathan H. Turner, The Evolution Institute, On Human Nature: The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human. Routledge. 2020.
2021: Yen-Sheng Chiang, Yen-Wen Chen, Wen-Chi Chuang, Chyi-In Wu and Chien-Te Wu, “Triadic Balance in the Brain: Seeking Brain Evidence for Heider’s Structural Balance Theory,” Social Networks 63: 80-90. 2020.
2021: Kalkhoff, Will, David Melamed, Josh Pollock, Brennan Miller, Jon Overton, and Matthew Pfeiffer. “Cracking the Black Box: Capturing the Role of Expectation States in Status Processes.” Social Psychology Quarterly 83, 26-48. 2020.
2019: Alexandra Maryanski, Emile Durkheim and The Birth of the Gods: Clans, Incest, Totems, Phratries, Hordes, Mana, Taboos, Corroborees, Sodalities, Menstrual Blood, Apes, Churingas, Cairns, and Other Mysterious Things. New York: Routledge.
2018: Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Evolution and Gender: Why it Matters for Contemporary Life. Routledge. 2016.
2018: Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher, The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals About Ourselves, Our History, and the Future. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2017: Brea L. Perry, Indiana University, “Gendering Genetics: Biological Contingencies in the Protective Effects of Social Integration for Men and Women,” American Journal of Sociology 121(6):1655-1696. 2016.
2016: Jonathan H. Turner, Richard Machalek, and Alexandra Maryanski, Handbook on Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science. Paradigm Publishers. 2015.
2012: David D. Franks, Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology. Springer. 2010.
2011: István Back and Andreas Flache, “The Adaptive Rationality of Interpersonal Commitment,” Rationality and Society 20(1):65-83. 2008.
2010: Allan Horwitz, Rutgers University, The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. Oxford University Press. 2007.
Section on Biosociology and Evolutionary Sociology Best Student Article Award
2022: Tamkinat Rauf, Stanford University, “The Elusive Causal Income Effect on Mental Well-Being: Can Sociogenomics Identify It?”
2021: Ramina Sotoudeh, “Effects of the Peer Metagenomic Environment on Smoking Behavior.”
2021: Michael Rotolo, “Fight-or-Flight for America: The Development of Christian Nationalist Ideology during the Transition to Adulthood.”
2019: Meng-Jung Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The social and genetic inheritance of educational attainment: Genes, parental education, and educational expansion.” Social Science Research 86. 2020.
2019: Brennan J. Miller, Kent State University, Will Kalkhoff, Joshua Pollock and Matthew A. Pfeiffer. “Persistent identity threats: Emotional and Neurological Responses.” Social Psychology Quarterly V82(1) 98-111. 2019.
2018: Robbee Wedow, “Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Forwarding a Multidimensional Theory of the Environmental Moderation of Genetic Effects,” forthcoming in American Sociological Review.
2015: Hexuan Liu and Guang Guo, “Lifetime Socioeconomic Status, Historical Context, and Genetic Inheritance in Shaping Body Mass in Middle and Late Adulthood,” American Sociological Review 80(4):705-737. 2015.
2014: Anna Bellatorre, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2012: Steward Man-Kit Lei and Mary Bond Edmund, University of Georgia, “The Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage, Social Ties, and Genetic Variation on the Antisocial Behavior of African American Women”
2010: David Peterson, Northwestern University, “The Ivy and the Trellis: Agency, Biology and Socialization,” Pp. 293-315 in Advances in Group Processes. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2013.
2006: Jerry Cullum, University of Wyoming, “Selection Pressures on Cultural Contents: The Role of Social Learning, Evolutionary Psychology and Dynamic Social Input in Accounting for the Evolution of Culture”
2005: Daniel E. Adkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Unified Stratification Theory: Structure, Genome and Status Across Human Societies,” Sociological Theory 27(2):99-121. 2009.
