Sex and Gender Call for Awards Nominations

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SEX AND GENDER DISTINGUISHED ARTICLE AWARD
The 2012 Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award Committee is currently accepting nominations of outstanding and innovative articles or book chapters published in 2009, 2010, or 2011.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 1.) a two-page letter explaining why the article makes a significant contribution to the sociology of sex and gender and 2.) an electronic version of the article/chapter to the award committee's chair, Mindy Stombler, atstombler@gsu.edu.

While not a requirement, we encourage nominees to become members of ASA's Sex and Gender section. Nomination deadline is February 15^th.

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 2009, 2010, or 2011. 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 (either through email or hard-copy) explaining how the book makes a significant contribution to the sociology of sex and gender to the Committee's Chair, Abby Ferber, and 2) notify the book publisher to send copies of the books by February 1, 2012 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, 2012.

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 inaugural Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, please submit a letter of nomination, a copy of the nominee's vita, two additional supporting letters, and additional relevant supporting material to the Award Committee Chair, Jessica Fields (Associate Professor of Sociology, San Francisco State University;jfields@sfsu.edu). Nomination deadline is February 15, 2012.

SALLY HACKER GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Papers are currently being accepted for the 2012 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 2011. 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, Shelley Correll, atscorrell@stanford.edu. Nomination deadline is February 15, 2012.