Olsen Student Paper Award
The section made its first Graduate Student Paper Award in 1991. In 1993, the award name was changed from the Outstanding Student Paper Award to the Olsten Student Paper Award.
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
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2012 |
Justin Farrell | University of Notre Dame |
“Moral Outpouring: The BP Oil Spill and Americans’ Responses to Large-Scale Disasters.” |
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2011 Co. |
Maria Akchurin |
University of Chicago |
“Constructing the Rights of Nature: Environmentalism, Indigenous Politics, and Legal Mobilization in Ecuador, 1970-2008.” |
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2011 Co. |
Cristina Lucier |
Boston College |
“Obstacles to precaution and equity in global environmental governance: applications to the Basel Convention.” |
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2010 |
KuoRay Mao |
“The Neoliberal Conundrum: The Western Development Policies, Migration, and Environmental Degradation in Northwestern China.” |
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2009 |
Stefano Long - |
University of Oregon: |
"Mediterranean Rift: The Metabolic Rift in the Sicilian Bluefin Tuna Fishery." |
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2008 |
Eric Bonds |
"The Knowledge-Shaping Process: Elite Mobilization and Environmental Policy." |
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2007 |
Norah Mackendrick |
University of Toronto |
Contaminants, the Human Body and the Framing of Risk: A Study of Canadian News Coverage, 1986-2006 |
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2006 |
Jessica Crowe |
Washington State University |
“Community Economic Development Strategies in Rural Washington: Toward a Synthesis of Natural and Social Capital” |
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2005 |
None given |
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2004 |
Rebecca Gaisor Altman |
Brown University |
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2003 |
Kari Norgard |
University of Oregon |
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2002 |
Andrew Jorgenson |
University of California, Riverside |
“The Effects of Trade Dependence, Consumption, and Organic Water Pollution on Infant Mortality: A World Systems Approach” |
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2001 |
Michael Mascarenhas |
Michigan State University |
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2000 |
Allison shore |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
“Risk, Regulation, and Indoor Air Pollution: Environmental Inequalities Inside” |
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1999 |
Reid Helford |
Loyola University, Chicago |
“Constructing Nature, Constructing Science: Expertise, Activist Science and Lay Complaints in the Chicago Wilderness” |
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1998 |
Michael Handel |
Harvard University |
“Computers and Wage Structure” |
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1997 |
Zsuzsa Gille |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
“Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland” |
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1996 |
Elizabeth Schaefer Caniglia |
University of Notre Dame |
"Classifying Proenvironmental Behaviors and Revisiting their Link with Ecological Concern" |
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1995 |
Karen O’Neil |
University of California-Los Angeles |
One Model for Elite-State Relations? The Special Case of Land Owners |
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1994 |
Glynis Daniels |
Pennsylvania State University |
"The Forest Related Content of Children's Textbooks, 1950-1991" |
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1993 |
Adam S. Weinberg |
Northwestern University |
"Sociological Narratives: A Case for a Pragmatic Based Study of Environmental Movements" |
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1992 |
Hal Aronson |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
"Becoming an Environmental Activist: The Process of Transformation from Everyday Life to Making History in the Hazardous Waste Movement" |
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1991 |
Adam S. Weinberg |
Northwestern University |
"Community Right to Know & the Environment: Reconceptualizing the Law" |
Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution
This award was established in 1983.
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
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2012 |
Kathleen Tierney |
University of Colorado- Boulder |
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2011 |
Andrew Szasz |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
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2010 |
Arthur Mol |
Wageningen University, Netherlands. |
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2009 |
Harvey Molotch |
New York University |
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2008 |
J. Timmons Roberts |
College of William and Mary |
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2007 |
Robert Gramling (Co-Winner) Penelope Canan (Co winner) |
University of Louisiana University of Central Florida |
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2006 |
Phil Brown |
Brown University |
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2005 |
Not Given |
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2004 |
Steve Kroll-Smith |
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2003 |
Craig Humphrey |
Pennsylvania State University |
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2002 |
John Bellamy Foster |
University of Oregon |
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2001 |
Steven Picou |
University of South Alabama |
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2000 |
Shirley Laska |
University of New Orleans |
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1999 |
Eugene A. Rosa |
Washington State University |
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1998 |
Robert Bullard |
Clark Atlanta University |
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1997 |
Tom Dietz |
George Mason University |
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1996 |
William R. Freudenburg |
University of Wisconsin |
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1995 |
Thomas Rudel |
Rutgers University |
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1994 |
Frederick Buttel |
University of Wisconsin |
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1993 |
Marvin E. Olsen |
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1992 |
David Sills |
Social Science Research Council |
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1991 |
Kai T. Erikson |
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1990 |
James F. Short, Jr. |
Washington State University |
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1989 |
Denton E. Morrison |
University of Minnesota |
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1988 |
Adeline Levine |
SUNY-Buffalo |
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1987 |
William Michelson |
University of Toronto |
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1986 |
William R. Catton, Jr. and Riley E. Dunlap |
Washington State University |
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1995 |
No award given |
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1984 |
Allan Schnaiberg |
Northwestern University |
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1983 |
C.P. Wolf |
Robert Boguslaw Award
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Year |
Name |
Affilation |
Title |
| 2012 | Not Given | ||
| 2011 | Not Given | ||
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2010 |
Govind Gopakumar, |
Concordia University, Montreal. |
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2009 |
Not Given |
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2008 |
Not Given |
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2007 |
Not Given |
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2006 |
Not Given |
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2005 |
William James Smith, Jr. |
"Filling a Gap in International Water Development Discourse: Challenges to Capacity Building at the Rural, Remote and Least-wealthy Small Island Scale in Chuuk, Micronesia" |
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2004 |
Not given |
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2003 |
Not given |
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2002 |
Not given |
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2001 |
David Pellow |
University of Colorado |
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2000 |
Not given |
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1999 |
Christopher Wellin |
Northwestern University |
“Liberation Technology?: Workers’ Knowledge and the Micro-Politics of Adopting Computer-Automation in Industry” |
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1998 |
Not given |
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1997 |
Valerie Kuletz |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
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1996 |
Not given |
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1995 |
Thomas Webler |
Clark University |
Right Discourse in Citizen Participation: An Evaluative Yardstick |
Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
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2012 |
William Freudenburg and Robert Gramling | University of California- Santa Barbara and University of Louisiana | 2010. Blowout in the Gulf. MIT Press. |
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2011 |
Sherry Cable, Tamara Mix and Thomas Shriver |
University of Tennessee, Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma State University |
“Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers.”. American Sociological Review. Vol 73 (3): 380-401. |
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2010 |
Dorceta Taylor |
University of Michigan" |
The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change." |
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2009 |
Liam Downey |
This year the committee considered series of thematically-related articles published between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2008: |
* Downey, Liam. 2005. "The Unintended Significance of Race: Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit," Social Forces 83(3):971-1008. * Downey, Liam. 2006. "Using Geographic Information Systems to Reconceptualize Spatial Relationships and Ecological Context," American Journal of Sociology 112(2):567-612. * Downey, Liam. 2006. "Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit," Social Forces 85(2):771-796. * Downey, Liam. 2007. "US Metropolitan-area Variation in Environmental Inequality Outcomes," Urban Studies 44(5/6): 953-977. |
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2008 |
Thomas Rudel: |
"Tropical Forests: Paths of Destruction and Regeneration |
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2007 |
Brett Clark and Richard York |
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2006 |
Peter Dickens |
University of Cambridge |
Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves |
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2005 |
Dara O’Rourke Scott Frickel (Honorable Mention) |
University of California-Berkeley Tulane University |
Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology |
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2004 |
Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, & Thomas Dietz |
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2003 |
Not given |
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2002 |
Carlo Jaeger Ortwin Renn Eugene A. Rosa Thomas Webler |
Washington State University |
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action |
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2001 |
Not given |
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2000 |
Jeffrey E. Olsen |
University of Minnesota |
Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest |
Environment and Technology Sociology Mentorship and Teaching Award
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
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2012 |
Tom Shriver |
Oklahoma State University |
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2011 |
Richard York |
University of Oregon |
Environmental Sociology Practice and Outreach Award:
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
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2012 |
Not Awarded | |
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2011 |
Not Awarded | |
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2010 |
Daniel Faber |
Northeastern University. |