W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
Award Description:
The W.E.B. DuBois 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. The body of lifetime work may include theoretical and/or methodological contributions. The award selection committee is particularly interested in work that substantially reorients the field in general or in a particular sub field.
Nominations should include a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae and letters in support of the nomination. The most compelling cases contain five to eight letters from a variety of individuals able to speak to the qualifications of the nominees. The person making the nomination should obtain this material and forward it to the committee, with the nominee's curriculum vitae, as a package. Nominations remain under active consideration for five award cycles. The deadline for nominations for this award is January 31, 2010.
Selection Committee Members:
| Name |
Begin |
End |
Position |
| Walter R. Allen |
1/1/2007 |
12/31/2009 |
Member |
| Charles Camic |
1/1/2008 |
12/31/2010 |
Member |
| Cynthia Deitch |
1/1/2008 |
12/31/2010 |
Member |
| Michael Omi |
1/1/2008 |
12/31/2010 |
Member |
| Cecilia L. Ridgeway |
1/4/2007 |
12/31/2009 |
Member |
| Ann Swidler |
1/1/2009 |
12/31/2011 |
Member |
| Robin E. Wagner-Pacifici |
1/1/2009 |
12/31/2009 |
Chair |
Recipients of ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award:
2008 - Barbara Reskin
2007 - Joseph Berger
2006 - Herbert Gans
2004 - Arthur Stinchcombe
2003 - Immanuel Wallerstein
2002 - Gerhard E. Lenski
2001 - William Foote Whyte
2000 - Seymour Martin Lipset
1999 - Dorothy E. Smith
1998 - Howard S. Becker
1997 - William Hamilton Sewell
1996 - Peter M. Blau
1995 - Leo Goodman
1994 - Lewis A. Coser
1993 - Joan R. Acker
1992 - Daniel Bell
1991 - Mirra Komarovsky
1990 - Robin M. Williams, Jr.
1989 - Jessie Bernard
1988 - George C. Homans
1987 - Wilbert E. Moore
1986 - Edward A. Shils
1985 - Reinhard Bendix
1984 - Morris Janowitz
1983 - Herbert Blumer
1982 - Kingsley Davis
1981 - Everett C. Hughes
1980 - Robert K. Merton
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