Dissertation Award | American Sociological Association

Dissertation Award

Award Description:

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 2007 calendar year will be eligible for consideration for the 2008 ASA Dissertation Awards. Nominations must be received from the student's advisor or the scholar most familiar with the student's research. Nominations should explain the precise nature and merits of the work. The deadline for all nomination for the 2008 award is January 31, 2008.

Selection Committee Members:

Name

Begin

End

Position

Toni Calasanti

1/01/2006

12/31/2008

Member

Robert Crosnoe

1/01/2007

12/31/2009

Member

Kevin J. Delaney

1/01/2006

12/31/2008

Member

Michele Dillon

1/01/2007

12/31/2009

Member

Rebecca Jean Emigh

1/01/2008

12/31/2010

Member

Sarah Fenstermaker

1/01/2006

12/31/2008

Member

Stephen S. Kulis

1/01/2008

12/31/2010

Member

Jack K. Martin

1/01/2006

12/31/2008

Member

Katherine Shelley Newman

1/01/2008

12/31/2008

Member

Timothy J. Owens

1/01/2007

12/31/2009

Member

Raka Ray

1/01/2007

12/31/2009

Member

Hiromi Taniguchi

1/01/2008

12/31/2010

Member

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

1/01/2008

12/31/2010

Member

Recipients of ASA Dissertation Award:

2007 - Wendy Roth, "Caribbean Race and American Dreams: How Migration Shapes Dominicans' and Puerto Ricans' Racial Identities and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Mobility"

2006 - Jason Beckfield, "The Consequences of regional, Poiltical and Economic Integration for Inequality and the Welfare state in Western Europe," and Amy Hanser, "Counter Strategies: Service Work and the Production of Distinction in Urban China."

2005 - Ann Morning, "The Nature of Race: Teaching and Learning About Human Difference," and Amélie Quesnell-Vallée, "Pathways from Status Attainment to Adult Health: The Contribution of Health Insurance to Socioeconomic Inequities in Health in the U.S."

2004 - Brian Gifford, "States, Soldiers, and Social Welfare: Military Personnel and the Welfare State in the Advanced Industrial Democracies," and Greta Krippner, "The Fictitious Economy: Financialization, the State, and Contemporary Capitalism"

2003 - Devah Pager, "The Mark of a Criminal Record"

2002 - Kieran Healy, "Exchange in Blood and Organs"

2001 - Jeremy Freese, "What Should Sociology Do About Darwin?: Evaluating Some Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology"

2000 - Wan He, "Choice and Constraints: Explaining Chinese Americans' Low Fertility"

1999 - Sarah L. Babb, "The Evolution of Economic Expertise in a Developing Country: Mexican Economics, 1929-1998

1998 - Douglas Guthrie, "Strategy and Structure in Chinese Firms: Organizational Action and Institutional Change in Industrial Shanghai

1997 - Dalton Clark Conley, "Being Black, Living in the Red: Wealth and the Cycle of Racial Inequality"

1996 - Jeffrey Lee Manza, "Policy Experts and Political Change during the New Deal"

1995 - Wilma Dunaway, "The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World Economy, 1700-1860"

1994 - Steven Epstein, "Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge"

1993 - Ronen Shamir, "Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal"

1992 - Elizabeth Mitchell, "The Interpenetration of Class and Ethnicity in the Perpetuation of Conflict in Northern Ireland"

1991 - Rogers Brubaker, "Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany"

1990 - Vedat Milor, "A Comparative Study of Planning and Economic Development in Turkey and France: Bringing the State Back In"

1989 - Richard Biernacki, "The Cultural Construction of Labor: A Comparison of Late Nineteenth Century German and British Textile Mills"