The Section on Methodology’s Clifford Clogg Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
2024: Aidan Combs, Duke University, “Disagreement and Entropy: Operationalizing Uncertainty in Cultural Meaning Between and Within People.”
2024: Nathan Hoffman, University of California, Los Angeles, “Double Robust, Flexible Adjustment Methods for Causal Inference: An Overview and an Evaluation.”
2023: Oscar Stuhler, New York University, “Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry.” Sociological Methods & Research. 2022.
2022: Flavien Ganter, “Identification of Preferences in Forced-Choice Conjoint Experiments.”
2021: Ian Lundberg, “The Gap-closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions that Close Disparities Across Social Categories”
2021: Blair Sackett, “Ghosted: Disappearance in Qualitative Research in the Digital Era.”
2020: Antonio Nanni, Northwestern University, “Statistical Inference for Segregation Indices”
2019: Mauricio Bucca, European University Institute, and Daniela R. Urbina, Princeton Sociology, “Lasso Regularization for Selection of Log-linear Models: An Application to Educational Assortative Mating,” Sociological Methods and Research 2019.
2018: Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University, “Diagnosing Multicollinearity in Exponential Random Graph Models”
2017: M. B. Fallin Hunzaker, “Cultural Sentiments and Schema-Consistency Bias in Information Transmission,” American Sociological Review 81(6):1223-1250. 2016.
2016: C. Ben Gibson and Burrel Vann Jr., “The Bootstrapped Robustness Assessment for Qualitative Comparative Analysis”
2016 Honorable Mention: Jacob Fisher, “Social Space Diffusion”
2016 Honorable Mention: Andrei Boutyline, “Improving the Measurement of Shared Cultural Schemas with Correlational Class Analysis,” Sociological Science 4(15):353-393. 2017.
2015: Siwei Cheng, “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality,” American Journal of Sociology 120(3):633-700. 2014.
2014: Jeremy Fiel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Decomposing School Resegregation: Social Closure, Racial Imbalance, and Racial Isolation,” American Sociological Review 78(5):828-848. 2013.
2013: Xiang Zhou, “A Nonparametric Index of Stratification,” Sociological Methodology 42(1):365-388. 2012.
2012: Charles Seguin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2012: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2011: Weihua An, Harvard University
2007: Paul von Hippel, The Ohio State University
The Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award
This award was created in 2005 to honor an outstanding researcher within 15 years of their Ph.D.
2024: Brandon Stewart, Princeton University
2023: Kristian Bernt Karlson, University of Copenhagen
2022: Xiang Zhou, Harvard University
2021: Zack Almquist, University of Washington
2020: Geoffrey Wodtke, University of Chicago
2019: Paul VonHippel, University of Texas Austin Public Policy
2018: Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin
2017: Benjamin Cornwell, Cornell University
2016: Jennie E. Brand, University of California, Los Angeles
2015: Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University
2014: Scott Lynch, Princeton University
2013: Stephen L. Morgan, Cornell University
2012: James L. Mahoney, Northwestern University
2011: Damon Centola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010: Carter Butts, University of California, Irvine
2007: Mitch Duneier, Princeton University
2005: Joeren Vermunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands
The Section on Methodology’s Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award
This award, recognizing sociologists who have contributed to the field of sociological methodology, was founded in 1986 in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
2024: Stephen Raudenbush, University of Chicago
2023: Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University
2022: Tom A.B. Snijders, University of Groningen and University of Oxford
2021: Tim Liao, Univeristy of Illinois
2020: Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona
2019: Yu Xie, Princeton Sociology
2018: Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State University
2017: David Heise, Indiana University
2016: Don Dillman, Washington State University, and Peter Marsden, Harvard University
2015: Guillermina Jasso, New York University
2014: Charles Ragin, University of California, Irvine
2013: Robert M. Groves, Georgetown University
2012: Stanley Presser, University of Maryland
2011: Ross M. Stolzenberg, University of Chicago
2010: Leo Goodman, University of California, Berkeley
2008: Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University
2007: Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University, and Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern Universtiy
2006: Christopher Winship, Harvard University
2005: William M. Mason, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: Adrian Raftery, University of Wasington
2002: J. Scott Long, Indiana University
2001: Paul D. Allison, University of Pennsylvania
2000: Kenneth A. Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1999: Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Richard Berk, University of California, Los Angeles
1997: Kenneth Land, Duke University
1996: Howard Schuman, University of Michigan
1995: Peter H. Rossi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994: Nancy Brandon Tuma, Stanford University
1991: Hubert M. Blalock Jr., Univeristy of Washington
1990: Nathan Keyfitz
1989: Leslie Kish, University of Michigan
1987: Clifford Clogg, Pennsylvania State University
1986: Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin
The Section on Methodology’s Innovation Award
2023: Kristian Bernt Karlson, University of Copenhagen, Anders Holm, University of Western Ontario, and Richard Breen, University of Oxford
2021: Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan
The Section on Methodology’s Pedagogy Award
2024: Robert Chung, University of California, Berkeley
2024: Germán Rodríguez, Princeton University
2022: J. Scott Long, Indiana University Bloomington
The Section on Methodology’s Outstanding Publication Award
This award alternates between recognizing books and articles, with books awarded in odd years and articles awarded in even years.
2024: Kenneth R Hanson, University of Wyoming, and Nicholas Theis, University of Oregon, “Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data. Sociological Methodology.” Sociological Methodology. 2024.
2024 Honorable Mention: Peng Huang, University of Georgia, and Carter T. Butts, University of California, Irvine, “Parameter estimation procedures for exponential-family random graph models on count-valued networks: A comparative simulation study.” Social Networks, 76, 51-67. 2024.
2023: Mario Luis Small, Columbia University, and Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University Bloomington, Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. University of California Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Annette Lareau University of Pennsylvania, Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up. University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2022: Ian Lundberg, Rebecca Johnson, and Brandon M. Stewart. 2021. “What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 86, no. 3: 532-565.
2022 Honorable Mention: Josh Seim, “Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography.” Sociological Methods & Research. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Felix Elwert and Fabian T. Pfeffer, “The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias.” 2019.
2021: Christensen, Garret, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel. Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science. University of California Press.’ 2019.
