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The Public Understanding of Sociology Award is given annually to an ASA member, person or persons, who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public. The award may recognize a contribution in the preceding year or for a longer career of such contributions. Nominations should include the nominee's vita and a detailed one to two page nomination statement that describes how the person's work has contributed to increasing the public understanding and knowledge of sociology. The nominator must also include additionally three to four nomination letters within their nomination before sending the nomination to ASA. The nominator may also include the evidence supporting the claims made in the nomination letter(s). If these above requirements are not met the committee will not be able to accept the nomination.
Send nominations email to nominations@asanet.org. The deadline for the 2019 award is January 31, 2018.
Name | Begin | End | Position |
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Julie A. Dowling | 1/1/2018 | 12/31/2018 | Chair |
Margaret Abraham | 1/1/2016 | 12/31/2018 | Member |
Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson | 1/1/2017 | 12/31/2019 | Member |
William Darity, Jr. | 1/1/2018 | 12/31/2020 | Member |
Michael O. Emerson | 1/1/2017 | 12/31/2019 | Member |
Alexes Harris | 1/1/2018 | 12/31/2020 | Member |
Pedro Noguera | 1/1/2018 | 12/31/2020 | Member |
C.J. Pascoe | 1/1/2016 | 12/31/2018 | Member |
Steven A. Tuch | 1/1/2016 | 12/31/2018 | Member |
2017 - Victor Rios
2016 - Joel Best
2015 - Katherine Shelley Newman
2014 - Juliet B. Schor
2013 - Ruth Milkman
2012 - Douglas S. Massey
2011 - Barbara Risman
2010 - Valerie Jenness & Doris Wilkinson (co-winners)
2009 - Jack Levin
2008 - David Segal & Shirley Laska (co-winners)
2007 - Andrew Beveridge
2006 - Diane Vaughan
2005 - Pepper Schwartz
2004 - Jerome Scott and Walda Katz Fishman
2003 - Frances Fox Piven
2002 - No award presented
2001 - Alan Wolfe
2000 - Arlie Hochschild
1999 - Herbert J. Gans
1998 - William Julius Wilson
1997 - Charles Moskos