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SEX AND GENDER DISTINGUISHED ARTICLE AWARD

Description of Award: The 2013 Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award Committee is currently accepting nominations of outstanding and innovative articles or book chapters published in 2010, 2011, or 2012.The award honors those who make a significant contribution to the field of sex and gender through an article or book chapter on the cutting edge of sociological inquiry. Authors need not be sociologists, and articles may be published in journals associated with disciplines other than sociology. Self-nominations are acceptable. To nominate a particular article or book chapter for this award, please submit a one-page letter explaining why the article makes a significant contribution to the sociology of sex and gender, along with an electronic version of the article/chapter to the award committee's chair, Mignon R. Moore, at moore@soc.ucla.edu. In the subject line of your email please type "NOMINATION FOR SEX & GENDER ARTICLE AWARD." While not a requirement, we encourage nominees to become members of ASA's Sex and Gender section. Nomination deadline is February 15th, 2013.

DISTINGUISHED ARTICLE AWARD COMMITTEE
Mignon Moore (chair)                        moore@soc.ucla.edu
Kristen Barber                                    barber@siu.edu
Lauren Joseph                                     luj12@psu.edu
Stephanie Otte                                     smotte@memphis.edu
Robert Wyrod                                     rwyrod@umich.edu

 

SEX AND GENDER DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD

The 2012 Sex and Gender Distinguished book Award Committee is currently accepting nominations of outstanding and innovative books published in 2010, 2011, or 2012. The award honors those who make a significant contribution to the field of sex and gender through a book on the cutting edge of sociological inquiry. Self-nominations are acceptable, and authors need not be sociologists. Edited collections are ineligible; and nominations from publishers will not be accepted. To nominate a book for this award: 1) Please send a two-page letter via email explaining how the book makes a significant contribution to the sociology of sex and gender to the Committee’s Chair, Kristen Schilt (kschilt@uchicago.edu), and 2) notify the book publisher to send copies of the books by February 1, 2013 to the chair and all the committee members. Contact information for all committee members is below. Please note that the nomination deadline for this award is February 1, 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEMINIST-SCHOLAR AWARD

The Sex and Gender Section seeks nominations for the Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, established in 2010 to recognize and honor scholars who have used feminist research and strategies to foster social change in public understandings and treatments of gender.

Nominees may have contributed to a range of efforts, including (but not limited to) critically engaged pedagogy, community-based or participatory research, translational work, advocacy research, media campaigns, and grassroots organizing. Scholar-activist efforts may be local, regional, national, or international. To nominate a feminist scholar-activist for the Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, please submit a letter of nomination, a copy of the nominee‘s vita, one additional supporting letter, and any additional relevant supporting material you wish to include to the Award Committee Chair, Shelley Correll (Professor of Sociology, Stanford University; scorrell@stanford.edu ) Nomination deadline is February 15, 2013.

FEMINIST SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST AWARD COMMITTEE

Shelley Correll (chair)                                   scorrell@stanford.edu
Christobel Asiedu                                          casiedu@latech.edu
Monisha Dasgupta                                         dasgupta@hawaii.edu
Tugce Elliati                                                    elliati@upenn.edu
Michael Messner                                            messner@email.usc.edu

 

SALLY HACKER GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Papers are currently being accepted for the 2013 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award. The paper should deal with a theoretical issue or empirical problem important to the field of sex and gender and should be based on a dissertation that is still in progress or was completed and approved no earlier than February 2012. Papers should be journal length (35 pages maximum.) Self-nominations are acceptable. Please send a letter of nomination and an electronic version of the paper to the Committee Chair, Abby Ferber, at aferber@uccs.edu. Nomination deadline is February 15, 2013.

SALLY HACKER AWARD COMMITTEE

Abby Ferber (chair)                                        aferber@uccs.edu
Orit Avishai (2^nd yr of term)                           avishai@fordham.edu
Catherine (Cati) Connell (2^nd yr of term)      cati@bu.edu
Fareen Parvez (1^st yr of term)                        parvez@soc.umass.edu
Smitha Radhakrishnan (1^st yr of term)          sradhakr@wellesley.edu