Recipients of 2005 Section Awards | American Sociological Association

“Congratulations!” to the 2005 ASA Section Award Winners

ASA is proud to announce the winners of the various awards given by ASA’s special interest sections. Not all 43 sections give awards, but the vast majority of sections have now reported their 2005 award winners to ASA, and they are listed here. A hearty congratulation is extended to each of these stellar ASA members!

Section on Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco:

Outstanding Senior Scholar Award: Helen Raskin White, Rutgers University
Outstanding Junior Scholar Award: Ellen Benoit, National Development and Research Institutes

Section on Animals and Society:

Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship: Samantha Kwan and Rachael Neal, University of Arizona, “Pathways to Meat Avoidance: Doing Vegetarianism and Counter-Hegemonic Politics”
Award for Distinguished Scholarship: David Nibert, Wittenberg University, Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, 2002 Rowman & Littlefield

Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements:

Graduate Student Paper Award: Erich Steinman, University of Washington

Section on Communication and Information Technologies:

Outstanding Achievement in Computing and Teaching Applications Award: Stephen Borgatti, Boston College

Section on Community and Urban Sociology:

(Robert and Helen) Lynd Award: John Walton, University of California-Davis

Robert E. Park Award (Book): Mario Small, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004); AND Terry Clark ed., The City as an Entertainment Machine. New York: Elsevier, 2004

Honorable Mention: Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; AND Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf and Mary Waters, eds., Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. Santa Monica: Russell Sage, 2004

Robert E. Park Award (Article): Courtney B. Abrams, Albright, Karen, and Panofsky, Aaron, "Contesting the New York Community: From Liminality to the “New Normal” in the Wake of September 11." City & Community 3 (2004):189-220; AND Nicole Marwell, “Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors.” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 265-291
Student Paper Award: Andrew Scott Deener, University of California-Los Angeles

Honorable Mention: Virag Molnar, Princeton University
Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology

Best Article Prize: Marc Steinberg, Smith College, "Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law," American Journal of Sociology (2003) 109: 445-495

Reinhard Bendix (Best Student Paper) Prize: Tammy Smith, Columbia University, "Narrative Networks and the Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation"

Honorable Mention: Martin Kreidl, University of California-Los Angeles, "Politics and Secondary School Tracking in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989" European Sociological Review (2004) 20: 123-139

Barrington Moore (Best Book) Prize: Vivek Chibber, New York University, State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton, 2003)

Honorable Mention: Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge, 2003)

Section on Crime, Law and Deviance:

Graduate Student Paper Award: Callie H. Burt, University of Georgia, “A Longitudinal Test of the General Theory of Crime's Predictions Regarding the Effects of Parenting and the Stability of Self Control”
Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Award for Distinguished Book in the Field of Crime, Law and Deviance: John H. Laub, University of Maryland, and Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, 2003, Harvard University Press

Section on Sociology of Culture:

Graduate Student Paper Award: Gregoire Mallard, Princeton University, "Communities of Interpreters and Their Technical Instruments," forthcoming in American Sociological Review
Best Article Award: Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California, "Culture in Interaction" American Journal of Sociology, Volume 108 Number 4 (January 2002): 735-94
Best Book Award: Eva Illouz, University of Jerusalem, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture (Columbia University Press 2003)

Honorable Mention: Mario Luis Small, Princeton University, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (University of Chicago Press 2004); AND Tia DeNora, University of Exeter, After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology (Cambridge University Press 2003)

Section on Economic Sociology:

Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award: Steve Lippmann, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Public Airways, Private Interests: Competing Visions and Ideological Capture in the Regulation of US Broadcasting 1920-1934"
Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award: Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, and Yuval Millo, London School of Economics, "Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivaties Exchange", American Journal of Sociology 109 (2003): 107-145

Section on Sociology of Education:

David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award: Douglas Lee Lauen, University of Chicago, “Contextual Explanations of School Choice”

Section on Sociology of Emotions:

Lifetime Achievement Award: Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University
Graduate Student Paper Award: Omar Lizardo and Jessica Collett, University of Arizona, “Socioeconomic Status and the Experience of Anger”
Outstanding Recent Contribution Award: Kathryn Lively, Dartmouth College, and David Heise, Indiana University, “Sociological Realms of Emotional Experience.” American Journal of Sociology 2004, 109(5):1109-1136

Section on Environment and Technology:

Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism: William James Smith, Jr., “Filling a Gap in International Water Development Discourse: Challenges to Capacity Building at the Rural, Remote and Least-wealthy Small Island Scale in Chuuk, Micronesia”

Section on Sociology of Family:

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award: Jennifer L. Hook, University of Washington, “Care in Context: Men’s Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965-1998”
William J. Goode Book Award: Mary Blair-Loy, University of California-San Diego, Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Executive Women
Distinguished Career Award: Lynn White, University of Nebraska

Section on History of Sociology:

Graduate Student Paper Award: Ryan Light, Ohio State University, "Balkanized or Boundless: The Dynamic Idea Boundaries of American Sociology"
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award: Michael R. Hill and Mary Jo Deegan (Editors), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Social Ethics: Sociology and the Future of Society by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004
Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award: Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Professor Emerita at Concordia University and Retired Visiting Professor at University of Iowa, 'for her outstanding career of scholarship and leadership in the History of Sociology'

Section on International Migration:

Distinguished Career Award: Edna Bonacich, University of California-Riverside; AND Lydio Tomasi, Center for Migration Studies
Graduate Student Paper Award: Emily Ryo, Stanford University, "Documenting the Significance of Race for the Undocumented: Occupational Mobility of Undocumented Immigrants"
Thomas & Zaniecki Award: Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation)

Honorable Mention: Yen Le Espiritu, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities and Countries (University of California Press)

Section on Labor and Labor Movements:

Best Student Paper: David Fitzgerald, University of California-Los Angeles, "Mexican State Responses to Labor Emigration, 1900-2004"
Book Award: Steven Henry Lopez, Ohio State University, Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement (University of California Press)

Honorable Mention: Chun Soonok, Sungkonghoe University-Seoul, They Are Not Machines: Korean Women Workers and Their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s (Ashgate); AND Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge University Press)

Section on Latino/a Sociology:

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship and Research Award: Rogelio Saenz, Texas A&M University
Christina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award: Victor M. Rios, University of California-Berkeley

Section on Sociology of Law:

Prize for Best Article: Patricia Ewick, Clark University, and Susan Silbey, MIT, “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority,” American Journal of Sociology, vol 108: 1328-72, 2003; AND Nicholas Pedriana, Louisiana State University, and Robin Stryker, University of Minnesota, “The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 110: 709-760, 2004

Honorable Mention: Becky Petit, University of Washington, and Bruce Western, Princeton University, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration” American Sociological Review, 2004, vol 69 (April: 151-169)

Undergraduate Student Paper Award: Roxanne Moreno, "Immutable Identities? Gender in the Asylum and Immigration Process"
Graduate Student Paper Award: Gabrielle Ferrales, Northwestern University, "Domestic Violence Crime Control Policy and Practice: Implications for Arguments Concerning Penal Theory"

Section on Mathematical Sociology:

Outstanding Article Award: Douglas Heckathorn, Cornell University, and Mathew J. Salganik, Columbia University, "Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling"
Graduate Student Paper Award: Ko Kuwabara, Cornell University, "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself"

Section on Medical Sociology:

Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award: Jason Beckfield, University of Chicago, “Does Income Inequality Harm Health?” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (September 2004); AND Jill Quadagno, Florida State University, “Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance” Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Extra Issue 2004)
Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology: Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University
Roberta Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award: Rebecca Utz, University of Utah, “Obesity in America 1960-2000: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis”

Section on Sociology of Mental Health:

Leonard Pearlin Award: Peggy Thoits, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Best Publication Award: John Hagan, Northwestern University, and Holly Foster, Texas A&M University, "S/He's a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emergine Adulthood" Social Forces 2003, 82: 53-86
Dissertation Award: Julie McLaughlin, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "The Timing of Family Transitions and Depression: Difference by Sex and Education Level"

Section on Methodology:

Leo Goodman Award: Joeren Vermunt, Tilburg University ( Netherlands)
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award: William M. Mason, University of California-Los Angeles

Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work:

Max Weber Award: Maria Charles, University of California-San Diego, and David Grusky, Stanford University, Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men, Stanford University Press, 2004
W. Richard Scott Award: Vincent Roscingno and Randy Hodson, Ohio State University, "The Organizational and Social Foundations of Worker Resistance", American Sociological Review 69: 14-39, 2004; AND Hayagreeva Rao, Northwestern University, Phillipe Monin and Rodolphe Durand, E.M. Lyon, "Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy", American Journal of Sociology 108: 795-43, 2003
James D. Thompson Award: Dirk Zorn, Princeton University, "Here a Chief, There a Chief: The Rise of the CEO in the American Firm", American Sociological Review 69: 345-64

Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict:

Elise Boulding Student Paper Award: Katherine E. McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Rachel K. Beck

Section on Political Economy of the World System:

Distinguished Book Award: John Talbot, University of the West Indies-Mona, Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain (Roman & Littlefield, 2004)
Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award: Chris Kollmeyer, University of California-Santa Barbara, "Globalization and Class Compromise: Political Change in 15 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1980-1999"

Section on Political Sociology:

Graduate Student Paper Award: David Fitzgerald, University of California-Los Angeles, "Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control" International Migration Review, forthcoming
Book Award: Diane Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America, Cambridge University Press

Honorable Mention: Neil Brenner, New York University, New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Oxford University Press; AND Robert Fishman, University of Notre Dame, Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain, Cornell University Press

Article Award: Nicola Beisel, Northwestern University, and Tamara Kay, University of California-San Diego, "Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth Century America" American Sociological Review 69(4): 498-518

Honorable Mention: Nicholas Pedriana, Louisiana State University, and Robin Stryker, University of Minnesota, "The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971" American Journal of Sociology 110(3): 709-760

Section on Sociology of Population:

Otis Dudley Duncan Award: Edward Telles, University of California-Los Angeles

Section on Race, Gender and Class:

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award:
1st Place: Sarah A. Damaske, New York University, “Brown Suits Need Not Apply: The Transition from School to Work in a College Career Center”

2nd Place: Angie Beeman, University of Connecticut, “Emotional Segregation: An Analysis of Institutional Racism in U.S. Films”

3rd Place: Jessica Holden Sherwood, North Carolina State University, “Not Multicultural, Just Diverse: Racial Discourse in Exclusive Country Clubs”

Section on Rationality and Society:

James S. Coleman Award: Trond Petersen, University of California-Berkeley
Graduate Student Paper Award: Steve Bernard, Cornell University

Section on Sociology of Religion:

Student Paper Award: Omar Lizardo and Jessica L. Collett, University of Arizona, “Why Biology is Not (Religious) Destiny: A Second Look at Gender Differences in Religiosity”
Distinguished Article Award: Prema Kurien, Syracuse University, “Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism” Social Problems, 2004, Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 362-385
Distinguished Book Award: Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Boston University, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (University of California Press, 2005)

Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology:

Robert K. Merton Award: Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg, The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care (Temple University Press)

Hacker-Nicholas Mullins Graduate Student Award: Annalisa Salonius, McGill University, “Social Organization of Work in Biomedical Research Labs: Socio-historical Dynamics and the Influence of Research Funding”; AND Abby Kinchy, University of Wisconsin, “African Americans in the Atomic Age”

Section on Sex and Gender:

Sally Hacker Dissertation Award: Jennifer Hook, University of Washington, "Care in Context: Men's Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965-1998"
Distinguished Book Award: Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor, University of California-Santa Barbara, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, University of Chicago Press, 2003
Distinguished Article Award: Ada Cheng, DePaul University, "Rethinking the Globalization of Domestic Service: Foreign Domestics, State Control, and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan", Gender and Society 12: 166-186, 2003

Honorable Mention: Linda Blum and Nena Stracuzzi, University of New Hampshire, "Gender in the Prozac Nation: Popular Discourse and Productive Femininity", Gender and Society 18: 269-286, 2004

Section on Social Psychology:

Graduate Student Paper Award: Justine Eatenson Tinkler, Yan E. Li and Stefanie Bailey Mollborn, Stanford University
Cooley-Mead Award: Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Stanford University

Section on Sociological Practice:

William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award: Severyn Bruyn, Boston University

Student Practitioner Award: Delores A. Edelen, University of Central Florida

Section on Sociological Theory:

Shils-Coleman Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper: Daniel E. Adkins, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology:

Hans O. Mauksch Award: Gregory Weiss, Roanoke College