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  Section Awards  
     
 

“Congratulations!” to the 2006 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 2006 award winners to ASA, and they are listed here. A hearty congratulation is extended to each of these stellar ASA members!

Aging and the Life Course / Asia and Asian America / Animals and Society / Children and Youth / Collective Behavior-Social Movements/ Communcation and Information Technologies/ Community and Urban/ Comparative-Historical Sociology/ Culture/ Economic Sociology/ Environment and Technology / Evolution/ Family / History of Sociology/ International Migration/ Labor and Labor Movements/ Marxist Sociology/ Medical Sociology / Methodology / Organizations, Occupations and Work/ Peace, War and Social Conflict / Political Sociology/ Population/ Race and Ethnic Minorities/ Race, Gender and Class / Rationality and Society / Religion / Science, Knowledge and Technology / Sex and Gender / Social Psychology / Sociology of Emotions / Sociology of Law/ Teaching and Learning



Section on Aging and the Life Course

Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award:
Peter Uhlenberg, University of North Carolina

Student Paper Award
Jinyyoung Kim and Emily Durden, University of Texas - Austin, "Socioeconomic Status and Age Trajectories of Health"


Section on Asia and Asian America

Book Award (Co-Winners)
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, University of California-San Diego, Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Stanford University Press); AND Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine, and Min Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles (Co-Eds), Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (Routledge Press)

Graduate Student Paper Award
Erin Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “’Prelude to Imperialism’: Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in the Reimagining of the United States”

Research Paper Award
Xiaogang Wu, Hong University of Science and Technology, “Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities: Entry into Self-Employment in China, 1978-1996” (forthcoming in Social Forces)



Section on Animals and Society

Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship Award
Helena Pederson, Göteborg University, “’We Have to Kill the Animals So That They Won’t Die!’: Constructing Hunting Discourses in the Classroom”

Distinguished Scholarship Award
Clinton Sanders, University of Connecticut, “Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals” (Symbolic Interaction, 2003, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 405-426)



Section on Children and Youth

Distinguished Contribution Award – Early Career
Amanda E. Lewis, University of Illinois-Chicago

Student Paper Award
Natasha K. Warikoo, University of London, "Youth Culture and Peer Status among Children of Immigrants in London and New York: Assessing the Cultural Explanation for Downward Assimilation"



Section on Collective Behavior/Social Movements

CBSM Distinguished Book Award
Gene Burns, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2005)


Best Published Article Award:
Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Sheera Joy Olasky, "Age for Leisure?
Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age
Policy," American Sociological Review 70 (June 2005):516-538.

Honorable mention
David Smilde, "A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicism: How Networks Matter," American Journal of Sociology 3 (November 2005): 757-797.


Outstanding Student Paper Award

Rachel Meyer, University of Michigan, "Constituency and Emotion in Collective Action: Sources of Working-Class Identity and Activism."

Honorable Mention
Jon Agnone, University of Washington, "Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S. Environmental Movement."



Section on Communication and Information Technologies

Outstanding Contribution to Research Award
Manuel Castells, Universitat Oberta de Catalaunya

Outstanding Paper Award
Fred Turner, Stanford University, "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community."



Section on Community and Urban Sociology


Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto

Robert Park Best Article Award
Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush, "Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows," Social Psychology Quarterly, 2004, Vol. 67(4):319-342

Robert Park Best Book Award
Chris Rhomberg, Yale University, No There There: Race, Class and Political
Community in Oakland (University of California Press, 2004)

Student Paper Award
Adriana Abdenur, Princeton University, "Opening Doors Upstairs: Networks and Social Capital Among Ipanema Doormen"



Section on Comparative/Historical Sociology

Reinhard Bendix Award for Best Student Paper

Amy Kate Bailey, University of Washington, "Fertility and Revolution: When Does Political Change Influence Reproductive Behavior?"

Barrington Moore Award for Best Book
Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Honorable Mention
Eikdo Ikegami, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Best Paper Award
Monica Prasad, "Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981." AJS 111(2): 357-407, September 2005.

Honorbale Mention
Ari Adult,
"A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscard Wilde." AJS 111(1): 213-248.



Section on Sociology of Culture

Graduate Student Paper Award
Jason Mast, University of California-Los Angeles and Visiting Fellow, Yale University, "The Cultural Pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/Lewinsky Affair," in Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast, Cambridge University Press 2006.

Kim Babon, University of Chicago, "Composition , Coherence, and Attachment: The Critical Role of Context in Reception," forthcoming in Poetics.

Best Article Award
Jeremy Brooke Straughn, Purdue University, “Taking the State at Its Word: The Arts of Consentful Contention in the German Democratic Republic,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 110 (May 2005), pages 1598–1650.

Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson, Harvard University, "Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket," American Sociological Review, Volume 70 (February 2005), pages 82-110.

Book Award
Eiko Ikegami, New School University, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press 2005).

Honorable Mention:
Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California, Elusive Togetherness : Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions (Princeton University Press 2005)

Philip Smith, Yale University, Why War?: The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez (University of Chicago Press 2005)

Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College, The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's EndUniversity of Chicago Press 2005)



Section on Economic Sociology

Viviana Zelizer Destinguished Scholarship Award
Olav Velthuis, Talking Prizes: Symbolic Meaning of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art (Princeton University)

James R. Lincoln and MIchael L. Gerlach, Japan's Network Economy: Structure, Persistence and Change (Cambridge University Press)

Ronald Burt Prize for Best Paper Award by a Graduate Student
Pierre Kremp, Princeton University, "From Main Street to Wall Street: The Diffusion of Stock-Market Participation in the United States."



Section on Environment and Technology

Best Student Paper Award
Jessica Crowe, Washington State University, “Community Economic Development Strategies in Rural Washington: Toward a Synthesis of Natural and Social Capital”

Honorable Mention:
Lisa Asplen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Decentering Environmental Sociology: Lessons from Post-Humanist Science and Technology Studies”

Distinguished Contribution Award
Phil Brown, Brown University

Outstanding Publication Award
Peter Dickens, University of Cambridge, "Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves"


Section on Evolution

Student Paper Award

Jerry Cullum, University of Wyoming, "Selection Pressures on Cultural Content: The Role of Social Learning, Evolutionary Psychology and Dynamic Social Impact in Accounting for the Evolution of Culture."
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Section on Family

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Sarah Winslow-Bowe, University of Pennsylvania, "The Persistence of Wives' Income Advantage."

William J. Goode Book Award
Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania & Maria Kefalas, Saint Joseph's University, Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.

Distinguished Career Award
Paul Amato, Pennsylvania State University



Section on History of Sociology

Graduate Student Paper Award
Johnathan Dirk VanAntwerpen, University of California - Berkeley, "Empiricism, Interactionism, and Epistelmological Authority: Reexamining Blumer's Early Sociological Practice."

Book Award
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, Diverse Histories of American Sociology (Brill Press)

Career of Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award
Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University



Section on International Migration

Graduate Student Paper Award

Jim Bachmeier, University of California - Irvine, "New Destination Contexts of Reception: Labor Market Coethnic Concentration and the Earnings of Recent Mexican Immigrants."

Thomas and Zaniecki Book Award
Robert Courtney Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (UC Press)

Honorable Mention
Margaret Chin, Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry (Columbia UP)



Section on Labor and Labor Movements

Most Outstanding Student Paper Award
Barry Eidlin, "State Coercion and the Rise of U.S. Business Unionism: The Counterfactual Case of Minneapolis Teamsters, 1934-1941."

Distinguished Scholarly Article Award
Tamara Kay, "Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: the Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America" (AJS 2005)

Honorable Mention
Ben Cornwell and Jill Harrison, "Union Members and Voluntary Associations: Membership voerlap and a Case of Organizational Embeddedness." (ASR 2004)



Section on Marxist Sociology

Lifetime Acheivement Award
Immanuel Wallerstein



Section on Medical Sociology


Leo G. Reeder Award
Howard B. Kaplan, Texas A&M University

Eliot Freidson Outsatnding Publication Award
Stefan Timmermans, Brandeis University, Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths.

Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Awars
Joanna Kempner, University of Michigan, "Not Tonight: The Politics of Gender and Legitimacy in Headache Medicine."



Section on Methodology

Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award
Christopher Winship, Harvard University



Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work

Max Weber Award Winner (best book in the past three years)
Jerome Karabel. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Houghton Mifflin.

Richard C. Scott Award Winner (best published article in the past three years)
Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster. 2004. "Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Large Law Firm Market." American Sociological Review, 69: 319-344.

James D. Thompson Award Winner (best graduate student paper in the past three years)
Jake Rosenfeld, Princeton University, "Desperate Measures: Strikes and Wages in Post-Accord America."

Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of California-Berkeley, "Before the Professional Project: Success and Failure in Creating an Organizational
Representative for English Doctors."



Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict


Elise M. Boulding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paper Award
Undergraduate: Arielle Botter, Rowan University, "Their Own Corner of the Island: Violent Nationalism Among Sri Lanka's Tamils"

Graduate: Tammy Smith, Columbia University, "Institution-Building After Conflict: Emergent Confidence or Interpersonal Trust?"

Graduate Student Fellows (commemorating United Nations officials who have lost their lives in the effort to reduce violence)
Ryan Burgess, Teachers College-Columbia University

Michelle Gawerc, Boston College

Robin M. Williams Award for Distinguished Career in Scholarship, Teaching and Service
Charles Moskos, Northwestern University Emeritus

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Section on Political Sociology

Book Award
Eiko Ikegami, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Cambridge Press)

Honorable Mention
Georgi M. Delugian, Bourdieu's secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-Systems Biography (Chicago Press)

Best Article Award
Douglas Hartman and Joseph Gerteis, "Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms." Sociological Theory 23(2):218-240, June 2005.
Monica Prasad, "Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981." AJS 111(2): 357-407, September 2005.

Graduate Student Paper Award
Jon Agnone, University of Washington, "Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U. S. Environmental Movement."



Section on Population

Student Paper Award
Filiz Garip, Princeton University, "Social Captial and Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes"

Best Paper Award
David Cutler and Grant Miller, "The Role of Public Health Improvement in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century United States."



Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities

James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award
Douglas Grbic, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, “Social and Cultural Meanings of Tolerance: Immigration, Incorporation, and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand.”

Joe R. Feagin Award for Best Undergraduate Paper
Lauren Hawley, DePaw University, “Language and Ethnicity Formation: exploring the Identities of Non-Native English Speakers”

Oliver Cromwell Cox Award (Co-Winners)
Edward Telles, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton University Press)

Prudence L. Carter, Harvard University, Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (Oxford University Press)



Section on Race, Gender and Class

Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Raine Dozier, University of Washington, "Accumulating Disadvantage: The Growth in the Black-White Wage Gap Among Women"



Section on Rationality and Society

Best Student Paper Award
Jacob Dijkstra, University of Groningen, "Externalities in Exchange Networks An Adaptation of existing Theories of Exchange Networks"

James Coleman Award
Peter Hedstrom, Oxford University, "Dissecting the Social. On the Principles of Analytical Sociology" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)



Section on Religion

Distinguished Book Award
Mark Chaves, Congregations in America (Harvard University Press)

Penny Edgell, Religion and Family in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press)

Article Award

Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, “The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China.” The Sociological Quarterly 47(1), 2006: 93-122

Student Paper Award
Christopher P. Scheitle, Pennsylvania State University, “The Social and Symbolic Boundaries of Congregations: An Analysis of Website Links.”

Honorable Mention
Jenny Trinitapoli, University of TexasAustin, Religion and HIV Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Examining Influence and Pathways.”





Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology

The Sally Hacker/Nicholas Mullins Student Paper Award
Janet Vertesi, Cornell University, "Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space"

Robert Merton Professional Award, Co-Winners
Scott Frickel
"Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology," Rutgers 2004.
Joseph Masco
"The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico," Princeton (2006).
Honorable Mention:
Sydney A. Halpern, "Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research," Chicago (2004).



Section on Sex and Gender

Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award
Benita Roth, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and white Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave (New York: Cambridge University Press)

Sex and Gender Outstanding Article Award
Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson. “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities." Gender & Society. 2003. 16:33-53.

Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award
C. Shawn McGuffey. "Engendering Trauma: Race, Class, and Gender Reaffirmation after Child Sexual Abuse."





Section on Social Psychology

Cooley-Mead Award
Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University

Graduate Student Paper Prize
Steven M. Nelson, University of Arizona, "Redefining a Bizarre Situation: Relative Concept Stability in Affect Control Theory"



Section on Sociology of Emotions

Lifetime Achievement Award
Peggy A. Thoits, University of North Carolina

Outstanding Recent Contribution Award
Jennifer Lois, Western Washington University, Heroic Efforts (NYU Press)

Outstanding Graduate Paper Award
Meredith Rossner, University of Pennsylvania, "Restorative Justice and Interaction Ritual: An In-Depth examination of the MIcro Mechanisms for Emotional Transformation."



Section on Sociology of Law

Distinguished Book Award
Shai J. Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States (Princeton University Press)

Distinguished Undergraduate Paper Award
Elizabeth Sylvester, Carleton College, “A Study of Judicial Rhetoric on Wrongful Dismissal and Sexual Harassment”

Distinguished Graduate Paper Award
Mary Nell Trautner, University of Arizona, “Liability v. Likeability: How Personal Injury Lawyers Screen Cases in an Era of Tort Reform”



Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology

Hans O. Mauksch Award
Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University