American Sociological Association: Section on the Sociology of Education Past Award Recipients.

Section on the Sociology of Education Award Recipients

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David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper
This award was first presented in 1993 as the Dissertation Award. In 1994 name was changed to Graduate Student Paper Award. In 2000 Its name was changed again to its current name.

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2012	Margaret Frye	University of California-Berkeley	2012. “Bright Futures in Malawi’s New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity” American Journal of Sociology 117.
2011	Jessica McCrory Calarco	University of Pennsylvania	“Can you help me get ahead?: Social class differences in elementary students’ efforts to negotiate opportunities for learning.”
2010	Oren Pizmony-Levy	Indiana University	"A Multilevel Approach to the Study of Global Curricula Scripts: The Case of Environmental Education."
2009	Kyle Longest	University of North Carolina/Furman University	"Popularity Lost: Identity Status and Its Consequences in the Transition to Young Adulthood.”
2008	Fabian Pfeffer	University of Wisconsin Madison	"Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment and its Institutional Context"
2007	Donna Bobbit-Zeher	Ohio State University	“The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education.”
2005	Douglas Lee Lauen	University of Chicago	"Contextual Explanations of School Choice"
2004	Jennifer Booher-Jennings Jennifer C. Lee and Jeremy Staff	Columbia University University of Minnesota	“Below the Bubble: ‘Educational Triage’ and the Texas Accountability System” “When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Adolescent Work Intensity on High School Dropout”
2003	Sean Kelly	University of Wisconsin-Madison	“The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking”
2002	HyunJoon Park	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2001	Simon Cheng and Brian Starks	Indiana University, Bloomington	“Elaborating Racial Differences in Educational Expectations: A Test of Three Core Assumptions”
2000	Christopher B. Swanson	University of Chicago	“Cooling-out and Warming Up:The Role of Postsecondary Institutional Environment in Managing Ambitions”
1999	Mark J. Schafer	Indiana University	“International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross National Study”
1998	Salvatore Saporito	Temple University	“Exercising Strategic Choice in Education Contexts: Why School Choice Increases Segregation in Public Schools”
1997	William Carbonaro	University of Wisconsin-Madison	“I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends’ Parents? Family Structure , Social Capital, and Effects on Educational Outcomes”
1996	Vincent J. Roscigno	North Carolina State University	"Race, Place, and the Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage: The Black-White Gap and the Influence of Local Context”
1995	John Robert Warren	University of Wisconsin-Madison	“Social Background, Migration History, and English Language Ability: Educational Attainment Among White and Mexican Origin Children in the American Southwest, 1990”
1994	Kim M. Lloyd	SUNY-Albany	"Family Size & Educational Attainment: Differences by Gender, Race, & Ethnicity"
1993	Sally K. Gallagher	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	"Family & Community Caregiving by the Elderly: The New Volunteers?"

Willard Waller Award
The Willard Waller Award was founded in 1986 to acknowledge distinguished scholarly contribution to the sociology of education. After 1992, the Willard Waller Award changed to recognize the best article publishedin the field. The 1987, 93 and 96 awards were for best article published in the last three years.

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	PUBLICATION TITLE/OTHER
2012	Not given
2011	Not given
2010	Robert Hauser	University of Wisconsin
2009	Not given
2008	Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete	Ohio State University and Columbia University	"The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Parental Resources and Academic Achievement." American Sociological Review 71:515-541
2007	Charles Bidwell	University of Chicago
2004	Not given
2003	James Rosenbaum	Northwestern University	Beyond College for All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half
2002	Not given
2001	Basil Bernstein	Institute of Education, University of London	Lifetime Career Achievments
2000	Samual Roundfield Lucas	University of California, Berkeley	Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools
1999	Suet-ling Pong	Pennsylvania State University	“The School Compositional Effect of Single-Parenthood on Tenth-Grade Achievement”
1998	Alan C. Kerckhoff	Duke University	Not listed
1997	Kevin J. Dougherty	Manhattan College	The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and futures of the Community College
1996	Robert Dreeben	University of Chicago	“The Sociology of Education: Its Development in the United States”
1995	John Meyer	Stanford University	Lifetime Career Accomplishments
1994	Anthony S. Bryk Valerie E. Lee Peter B. Holland	University of Chicago University of Michigan Belmont School District (MA)	Catholic Schools and the Common Good
1993	Alan Sadovnik	Adelphi University	"Basil Bernstein's Theory of Pedagogic Practice: A Structuralist Approach"
1992	Christopher Jencks	Northwesternn University	Lifetime contributions
1991	Not given
1990	William Sewell	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Lifetime contributions
1989	Not given
1988	James S. Coleman	University of Illinois-Chicago	Lifetime contributions
1987	Richard Rubinson	Florida State University	“Class Fromation, Politics, and Institutions: Schooling in the United States”
1986	Willard B Brookover	Michigan State University	Lifetime contributions

The Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education

This award is made annually. Books published in the two years prior to the year in which the current annual meeting occurs are eligible for nomination (e.g., in 2009, books published in 2007-2008 are eligible).

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER
2012	Karolyn Tyson	University of North Carolina	2011. Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown. Oxford University Press
2011	Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford		No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. Published by Princeton University Press, 2009
2010	William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S. McPherson	Mellon Foundation, Harvard and Spencer Foundation	Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities.
2009	Mitchell L. Stevens	Stanford University	Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites , Harvard University Press.

The James Coleman Award for the Best Article in the field of Sociology of Education

This award is made annually. Articles in the two years prior to the year in which the annual meeting occurs are eligible for nomination (e.g. in 2009, articles published in 2007-2008 are eligible).

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER
2012	Jennie Brand and Yu Xie	University of California-Los Angeles and University of Michigan	2010. “Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education” American Sociological Review 75:273-302.
2011	Dennis Condron	Emory University	“Social Class, School and Non-School Environments, and Black/White Inequalities in Children’s Learning” American Sociological Review October 2009 vol. 74 no. 5 685-708.
2010	Robert Crosnoe	University of Texas	"Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools," American Sociological Review, 2009.
2009	Douglas B. Downey, Paul von Hippel, and Melanie Hughes	Ohio State University and University of Pittsburgh	“Are ‘Failing' Schools Really Failing?” Sociology of Education 81:242-70.