Congratulations to the Recipients of
2007 ASA Section Awards

ASA is proud to announce the winners of the various awards given by ASA special interest sections. Not all 44 sections give awards, but the vast majority of sections have now reported their 2007 award winners to ASA, and they are listed here.

Aging and the Life Course

Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award:
Leonard I Pearlin, University of Maryland-College Park

Outstanding Publication Award:
Brian Powell, Indiana University, Lala Carr Steelman, University of South Carolina, and Robert M. Carini, University of Louisville, "Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children," Social Forces, March 2006, vol. 84: 1359-1390

Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco

Best Graduate Student Paper Award:
Michael L. Weisst, University of Miami Coral Gables, “Social Control and Adolescent Marijuana Use: Revisiting Hirschi’s Four Elements of the Social Bond.”

Outstanding Junior Scholar Award:
Amie L. Nielsen, University of Miami Coral Gables

Outstanding Senior Scholar Award:
Bruce D. Johnson, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Animals and Society

2007 Graduate Student Paper Award:

Colter Ellis, University of Colorado, “Negotiating Contradictions: Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Cattle Ranching”

2007 Distinguished Scholar Award:
Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado, If You Tame Me: Understanding our Connection with Animals (Temple University Press, 2004)

Asia and Asian America

2007 Book Award:
Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University, The State and the Life Chances in Urban China: Redistribution and Stratification, 1949-1994 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

2007 Research Paper Award:
Pawan Dingare, Oberlin College, ” Being American Between Black and White: Second-Generation Asian American Professionals Racial Identities.” Journal of Asian American Studies 6, 2: 117-147.

2007 Graduate Student Paper Award:
Becky Hsu, Princeton University, “Confucian Ethics and Dyadic Ties: Strong Relationships, Weak Groups, and Micro Credit Payments in China”

2007 Outstanding Teaching Award:
Esther Ngan-ling Chow, American University

2007 Early Career Award:
Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Collective Behavior Social Movements

Outstanding Student Paper Award:
Dan Lanier-Vos, Columbia University, "Social Movements and Citizenship: Conscientious Objection in France, the United States, and Israel"

Communication and Information Technology

William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award
David Lyon, Queen's University

CITASA Public Sociology Award
Keith N. Hampton, University of Pennsylvania

CITASA Book Award
Andrew Chadwick, University of London, Internet Politics (Oxford University Press, 2006)

CITASA Paper Award
Laura Robinson, University of Southern California, "The Cyberself: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital Age"

CITASA Student Paper/Application Award
Lee Humphries, Cornell University, "Cellphones in Public: Social Interactions in a Wireless Era"

Community and Urban Sociology

Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award:
Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College

Robert Park Best Book Award:
Robert Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press, 2006)

Robert Park Best Article Award:
Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare, “Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change,” American Journal of Sociology, November 2006

CUSS Student Paper Award:
Jooyoung Lee, University of California-Los Angeles “Rappin’ on the Street Corner: The Social Organization of Street ‘Disorder’

Comparative Historical

Barrington Moore Award
Monica Prasad, 2006. The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Best Article Award:
Ardreas Wimmer and Brian Min, University of California–Los Angeles, "From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816" American Sociological Review 71:867-897. 2006

Reinhard Bendix Award for Best Graduate Student Paper:
Anna Paretskaya, The New School, “Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in Late Soviet Union”

Crime, Law, and Deviance

Student Paper Award:
Phillip Goodman, University of California-Irvine, “It's Just Black, White or Hispanic': An Ethnographic Examination of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prison Reception Areas”

Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Book Award:
Bruce Western, Princeton University, Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation)

Culture

Book Award:
Laura J. Miller, Brandeis University, Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

Best Article Award (Co-Winners):
Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota, and Ryan King, State University of New York-Albany, "Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States." American Journal of Sociology, 111(2): 579-615
Brian Steensland, Indiana University, "Cultural Categories and the American Welfare State: The Case of Guaranteed Income Policy." American Journal of Sociology, 111(5): 1273-1326

Graduate Student Paper:
  Hiro Saito, University of Michigan, "Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma"
Honorable Mention- Sarah Quinn, University of California-Berkeley, "From Revulsion to Consolation: Moral Ambiguity and the Viaticals Industry"
Honorable Mention: Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago, "High Heels and Headscarves: Women's Clothing and Islamic Piety in Indonesia"

Economic Sociology

Ronald Burt Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper
(Co-Winners):
Rene Almeling, University of California-Los Angeles, “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material”
Eunmi Mun, Harvard University, “Sex Segregation and Social Closure: Evidence From Japan”

Viviana Zelizer Prize for Distinguished Scholarship:
Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, Douglas R. White, University of California-Irvine, Kenneth W. Koput, University of Arizona, and Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan, “Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences,” American Journal of Sociology 110: 1132-1205 (2005)

Education

Willard Waller Award:
Charles Bidwell, University of Chicago

David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award:
Donna Bobbit-Zeher, Ohio State University “The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education”

Emotions

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Spencer E. Cahill, University of South Florida

Outstanding Recent Contribution (Article):
Robin W. Simon, Florida State University and Leda E. Nath, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, "Gender and Emotion in the United States: Do Men and Women Differ in Self-Reports of Feelings and Expressive Behavior," American Journal of Sociology 1137–76

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper:
Pamela M. Hunt, Kent State University, "Membership and Subcultural Identity Meaning: Exploring Two Continuous Measures of Membership in the Jamband Subculture"

Environment and Technology Section

Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award
(Co-Winners):
Robert Gramling, University of Louisiana
Penelope Canan, University of Central Florida

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

EMCA Lifetime Achievement Award:
Harold Garfinkel, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

EMCA Distinguished Book Award:
Hedwig te Molder and Jonathan Potter (editors), Conversation and Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

EMCA Graduate Student Paper Award:
  Kevin A. Whitehead, University of California-Santa Barbara, “The Use, Management and Reproduction of Racial Commonsense in Interaction.”

Family

William S. Goode Award:
Arland Thornton, University of Michigan, Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life. University of Chicago Press

Award for Distinguished Scholarship:
Frances K. Goldscheider, Brown University

Outstanding Graduate Paper Award
(Co-Winners):
Christopher Wildeman, Princeton University, "Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage"
Amy Hsin, University of California – Los Angeles: "Mothers' Time with Children and the Social Reproduction of Cognitive Skills"

History of Sociology

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Shireen Ally, "Oppositional Intellectualism as Reflection, not Rejection, of Power: Witts Sociology, 1975-1989"

Distinguished Scholarly Book Award:
Craig Calhoun (Editor), Sociology in America: A History, edited by (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Distinguished Achievement Award:
  Guenther Roth,Columbia University

International Migration

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Suzanna Crage, Indiana University, "Policy, Place, Ideas: Refugee Aid Policy in Munich"

Honorable Mention: Sandra Bucerius, University of Frankfurt, Germany (visiting at the University of Toronto), "Cultural Influences on Migrant Drug Dealers in Germany"

Labor and Labor Movements

Distinguished Scholarly Book Award:
Steven McKay, University of California-Santa Cruz, Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines (ILR Press, 2006)

Honorable Mention:  Ruth Milkman, University of California-Los Angeles, LA Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the US Labor Movement (Russell Sage, 2006)

Latino/a Sociology

Lifetime Distinguished Contributions to Research, Teaching, and Service:
Denise Segura, University of California-Santa Barbara

Distinguished Contribution to Research Award:
Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University, “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States,” American Journal of Sociology 111 (4):999-1037

Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award:
  Oscar F. Gil-Garcia, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Migration Politics and Human Rights: Redefining the Camera as Collaborative Technology in Transnational Communities,” The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society (Forthcoming)

Law

Best Article Award:
Ryken Grattet, University of California-Davis and Valerie Jenness, Universtiy of Calfiornia-Irvine, "The Reconstitution of Law in Social Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime," Law and Society Review 39 (4), 2005: 893-942

Best Graduate Student Paper Award:
Leisy Abrego, University of California-Los Angeles, "Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California"

Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award:
Ashley DeMinck, Macalester College, "The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru"

Mathematical Sociology

Outstanding Article Publication Award:James Kitts, "Collective Action, Rival Incentives, and the Emergence of Antisocial Norms," American Sociological Review. 71:235-259, 2006.

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Yen-Sheng Chiang, University of Washington, "Birds of Moderately Different Feathers: Bandwagon Dynamics and the Threshold Heterogeneity of Network Neighbors" Journal of Mathematical Sociology 31: 1-23, 2007

Harrison White Outstanding Book Award:
Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj and Anuska Ferligoj,
Generalized Blockmodeling, (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Mental Health

The Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health
Ronald C. Kessler, Harvard Medical School

Best Publication in the Sociology of Mental Health:
Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Columbia University and co-authors J. Blake Turner, Nicholas A. Turse, Ben G. Adams, Karestan C. Koenen, and Randall Marshall, "The Psychological Risks of Vietnam for US Veterans: A Revisit with New Data and Methods"
Honorable Mentions:
Krista M. Perreira, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Kathleen Mullan Harris and Kenneth Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "What Are We Measuring? An Evaluation of the CES-D across Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Generation"
Lisa Strohschein, University of Alberta, "Household Income Histories and Child Mental Health Trajectories" and "Parental Divorce and Child Mental Health Trajectories"

Best Dissertation in the Sociology of Mental Health:
Belinda L. Needham, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, “Adolescent Depression and Young Adult Educational Attainment: An Examination of Gender Differences"

Methodology

Paul Lazarsfeld Memorial Award:
Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University and Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University

Leo Goodman Award:
Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University and CUNY

Clifford Clogg Award:
Paul von Hippel, Ohio State University, “"Regression With Missing Y's: An Improved Strategy for Analyzing Multiply Imputed Data.”

Organization, Occupations, and Work

W Richard Scott Award for the Best Paper:
David Obstfeld, University of California, Irvine, “Social Networks, the Tertius Lungens Orientation, and Involvement in Innovation” Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 100-130

Max Weber Award for Best Book:
Nicole Raeburn, University of San Francisco. Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

James D. Thompson Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper:
Matthew S. Desmond, University of Wisconsin, “Making Workers Deployable”

Peace, War, and Social Conflict

Elise M. Boulding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paper Award:
Undergraduate:
Danilo Mandic, Princeton University, “Myths and Bombs: War, State Popularity and the Collapse of National Mythology in Serbia”
Honorable Mention-Bari L. Katz, New York University, “A Shift in Strategy: Why the United Democratic Front Revived Nonviolent Protest After Years of Militant Struggle in the fight for Equality and Justice in South Africa”

Graduate (Co-Winners)–
Robert Kevlihan, American University, “Humanitarian Aid, Social Services and Conflict Dynamics: Exploring the Case of Sudan”
Thomas DeGloma, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, “Expanding the Survivor Worldview: Transmitting and Bridging Trauma Trough Space and Time”

Political Sociology

Best Book Award
Moon-Kie Jung, Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement, Columbia University Press.

Honorable Mentions
Francesca Poletta, It was Like a Fever, Storytelling in Protest Politics
Monica Prasad, The Politics of Free Markets

Graduate Student Paper Prize
(Co-Winners):
Hiro Saito, University of Michigan, "Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma"
Eran Shor, Stony Brook University, "The Power of Human Rights in Times of Conflict: The Spiral Model for Norms of Socialization Revisited"

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award:
Andreas Wimmer, University of California-Los Angeles, and, "From empire to nation-state. Explaining wars in the modern world, 1816-2001", in American Sociological Review 71(6):867-897, 2006

Honorable Mention:  Brian Steensland, Indiana University, "Cultural Categories and the American Welfare State: The Case of Guaranteed Income Policy” American Journal of Sociology 111:1273-1326, 2006.

Population

The Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography
(co-winners)
Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout, University of California - Berkeley, "Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years"

Suzanne Bianchi, John  P. Robinson, and Melissa Milkie, University of Maryland - College Park, "Changing Rhythms of American Family Life"

Student Paper Award:
Jui-Chung Allen Li, RAND Corporation, "The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems"

Race, Gender, and Class

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Oscar F. Gil-Garcia, University of California-Santa Barbara, "The Rural Women's Movement: Engendering Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa"

Contribution to Scholarship Article Award
Bronwen Lichtenstein for “Domestic Violence, Sexual Ownership, and HIV Risk in Women in the American Deep South,” 2005, Social Science and Medicine, 60, pp. 701-714.

Distinguished Contribution To Scholarship Book Award
Jennifer Reich, University of Denver, "Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System" (Routledge, 2005)

Honorable Mention: Prudence L. Carter, Stanford University, "Keepin' it Real: School Success Beyond Black and White" (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award
(co-winners):
Michael O. Emerson, Rice University, People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2006)

Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, Harvard University, What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Princeton University Press, 2006)

2007 James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award:
Ellen Berrey, Northwestern University, "The Diversity Project and the New Terms of Inclusion in the US: Evidence from Three Field Sites"

2007 Joe R. Feagin Award for Best Undergraduate Paper:
Peter J. Wruck, University of Minnesota, "Learning Apart Together: A 'Clustered' Framework for Understanding Race in a Modern Suburban High School"

Rationality and Society

James Colman Award:
Elizabeth E. Bruch, University of Michigan, and Robert D. Mare, University of California-Los Angeles, "Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change" which was published in AJS Volume 112 Number 3 (November 2006): 667-709.

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Yen-Sheng Chiang, University of Washington, "The Path Towards Fairness: Preferential Association and the Evolution of Strategies in the Ultimatum Game"

Religion

Distinguished Book Award
(Co-Winners):
Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
and
Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press 2006)

Distinguished Article Award:
Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson, “The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy: Support for Islamic Law and Economic Justice in Seven Muslim-Majority Nations.” American Sociological Review 71, 2006:167-190

Student Paper Award:
Christopher Scheitle, Pennsylvania State University, “Organizational Niches and Religious Markets: Uniting Two Literatures”

Science, Knowledge, and Technology

Robert K. Merton Professional Award:
Steven Epstein, University of California-San Diego, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Sex and Gender

Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award:
Pei-Chia Lan, Taiwan National University, Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke University Press, 2006

Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award:
Raine Dozier, University of Washington, "Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World." Gender & Society, June 2005

Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Prize:
Joan Meyers, University of California-Davis, "Unpacking Bureaucracy: An Intersectional Theory of Gendered Organizations"

Sexualities

Simon and Gagnon Award:
Barry D. Adam, University of Windsor

Best Article Award
(Co-Winners):
Adam Isaiah Green, University of Toronto, “Until Death Do Us Part? The Impact of Differential Access to Marriage on a Sample of Urban Men,” Sociological Perspectives, 2006
and
Tarik Bereket, University of Toronto, and Barry D. Adam, University of Windsor “The Emergence of Gay Identities in Contemporary Turkey,” Sexualities, 2006

Graduate Student Paper Award
(Co-Winners):
Karl Bryant, University of California-Santa Barbara, “In Defense of Gay Children? ‘Progay’ Homophobia and the Production of Homonormativity”
and
Eran Shor, State University of New York-Stony Brook, "Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion: Revisiting Westermarck and the Case of the Israeli Kibbutzim"

Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Award:
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Impossible Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Social Movements in Postcolonial India"
Honorable Mention:  Carla A. Pfeffer, University of Michigan, "‘Women’s Work’: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of the Women Partners of Transgender and Transsexual Men"

Sociological Practice

Student Practitioner Award:
Darren Noy

William Foote Whyte Award:
Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University

Teaching and Learning

Hans O. Mauksch Award:
Maxine P Atkinson, North Carolina State University

Teaching and Learning

Hans Mauksch Award
Maxine Atkinson, North Carolina State University

Theory

2007 Shils-Coleman Award Winner:
William Wood, Boston College, “(Virtual) Myths,” Critical Sociology, Vol. 30 No. 4 (July, 2004)

Honorable Mentions: Gabriel Abend, Northwestern University, Stefan Kluseman University of Pennsylvania, and Isaac Reed, Yale

2007 Theory Prize for Outstanding Article:
Jeffrey Alexander, “Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy," Sociological Theory, 2004

2006 Theory Prize for Outstanding Article*:
Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger, “Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets," American Journal of Sociology, 2002

* Since the Prize was not awarded in 2006, the voting officers of the section voted, on a one-time basis, to award two article prizes in 2007: one for the 2006 period (beginning in 2002) and the other for the 2007 period (beginning in 2003)