ASA is pleased to announce the winners of the ASA Awards for 2007! The awards are the highest honor that the Association confers, recipients selected by committees directly appointed by the ASA Council. Thought some of the awards are not listed below as those specific award committees work on different schedules, the ASA award winners for 2007 are:
Dissertation Award: Wendy Roth (University of British Columbia)
The ASA Dissertation Award honors the best PhD dissertation from among those submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline. Dissertations from PhD recipients with degree awarded in the 2005 calendar year will be eligible for consideration for the 2006 ASA Dissertation Awards.
W.E.B. DuBois Award for Distinguished Scholarship: Joseph Berger (Stanford University)
The W.E.B. DuBois Award for Distinguished Scholarship 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.
Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Robert Dentler (University of Massachusetts)
This annual award honors outstanding contributions to sociological practice. The award 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 whole, or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the discipline for its significant impacts, particularly in advancing human welfare.
Distinguished Book Award: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland – College Park) for her book, Black Sexual Politics (Routledge Press) & Jerome Karabel for his book, The Chosen (Houghton Mifflin)
This annual award is given for a single book or monograph published in the three preceding calendar years.
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Ed Kain (Southwestern University)
This award is given annually to honor outstanding contributions to the undergraduate and/or graduate teaching and learning of sociology, which improve the quality of teaching.
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: Jorge Bustamante (University of Notre Dame)
The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award honors the intellectual traditions and contributions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier. The award is given either to a sociologist for a lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community or to an academic institution for its work in assisting the development of scholarly efforts in this tradition.
Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award: Malcolm Gladwell
The Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues honors individuals for their promotion of sociological findings and a broader vision of sociology. The ASA would like to recognize the contributions of those who have been especially effective in disseminating sociological perspectives and research. The ASA is cognizant of the fact that there are many professionals (e.g., journalists, filmmakers) whose job it is to translate and interpret a wide range of information, including sociological perspectives and research, for the general public.
Jessie Bernard Award: Patricia Yancey Martin (Florida State University)
The Jessie Bernard Award is given annually in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research, theory, or methodology.
Award for Public Understanding of Sociology: Andrew Beveridge (Queens College, CUNY)
This award is given annually to a person or persons who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public.
Any questions about the awards can be directed to Daniel Spar, Governance, Sections and Archives. He can be reached at (202) 383-9005, ext. 334 or at spar@asanet.org.
