The Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology’s Publication Award for Significant Contributions to Applied and Public Sociology
2024: Amanda R. Cheong, The University of British Columbia, and The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund (LALDEF), “How Driver’s Licenses Matter for Undocumented Immigrants.” Contexts, 20(3), 22-27. 2021.
2024: Anjuli Fahlberg, Cristiane Martins, Mirian de Andrade, Sophia Costa, and Jacob Portela, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Poor Urban Neighborhoods: A Participatory Action Research Study of a ‘Favela’ in Rio de Janeiro” Socius, 9. 2023.
2023: Ashley Gromis, Ian Fellows, James Hendrickson, Lavar Edmonds, Lillian Leung, Adam Porton, and Matthew Desmond, “Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119: 1-8. 2022.
2023: Kasey Henricks, Chris D. Poulos, Iván Arenas, Ruben Ortiz, and Amanda E. Lewis, “475, 106 Mistakes: When Tickets are Issued Under False Pretenses.” University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy Report. 2022.
2022: Sarah Brothers, Pennsylvania State University
2022: Joss Green, Columbia University
2022 Honorable Mention: Alvin Camba, University of Denver
2021: Kelley Fong, Georgia Institute of Technology
2020: Gretchen Purser, Syracuse University
2020: Miriam Boeri, Bentley University
2019: Tim O’Brien and Oren Pizmony-Levy
2018: Dr. Christopher Uggen and Ryan Larson, University of Minnesota, and Dr. Sarah Shannon, University of Georgia, “6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016,” The Sentencing Project. 2016.
The Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology’s Robert Dentler Student Practitioner Award
2024: Demar F. Lewis IV, University of Maryland College Park
2024: Abdul Basit Adeel, The Pennsylvania State University
2023: Christina Pao, Princeton University
2023: Sangeetha (Ilā) Ravichandran, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022: Katie Gordon, Stony Brook University
2022: Mary Shi, University of California, Berkeley
2021: Matthew DelSesto, Boston College
2018: Melissa Osborne, University of Chicago
2017: Amanda McMillan LeQuieu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2017: Michael Gibson-Light, University of Arizona
2016: Elizabeth Becke, Yale University
2016: Landon Schnabel, Indiana University
2015: Marisa C. Allison, George Mason University
2015: Ben Merriman, University of Chicago
2014: David Ciplet, Brown University
2014: Amanda Freeman, Boston College
2012: Oren Pizmony-Levy, Indiana University
2012: Kathleen “Casey” Oberlin, Indiana University
2012: Michelle Lueck, Colorado State University
2010: Esteban Calvo, Natalia Sarkisian, Harvard School of Public Health and Boston College, “Retirement and Well-being: Examining the Characteristics of Life Course Transitions”
2010: Charles Varner and Cristobal Young, Princeton University, “Millionaire Migration and the State Taxation of Top Incomes: Evidence from New Jersey,” National Tax Journal 64(2):255-284. 2011.
2009: Lou Jacobson, Redwood Coast Energy Authority, “Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: The Social Barriers to the Diffusion of the Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb”
2008: Becky Hsu, Princeton University
2007: Darren Noy, Principles for “Organic Public Sociology: Reflections on Publicly Engaged Research in the San Francisco Homeless Policy Field,” Societies Without Borders 2(2):260-272. 2007.
2006: Antoinette Swayne-Kohlman, Alliant International University
2005: Delores A. Edelen, University of Central Florida
2004: Nancy Wong, University of Massachusetts, Boston
2002: Kirsten Sletten, St. Cloud State University
2001: Emily Sama Martin, University of Pennsylvania, “Making Ends Meet: Military vs. Civilian Employees”
1999: Megan Cross, University of San Diego
1998: Teri Kepner, Society for Applied Sociology
1996: Gary David, Wayne State University
1989: Shari Williams, Temple University
The Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology’s William Foote Whyte Career Award
This award was established in 1983. Name changed from Distinguished Contribution Award to William Foote Whyte Distinguished Contribution Award in 1996.
2024: Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside
2024: Anthony Jack, Boston University
2023: Erin Maher, University of Oklahoma
2023: Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College, City University of New York
2022: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota
2022: Ricky Bluthenthal, University of Southern California
2021: Rita Stephan, USAID and North Carolina State University
2020: Chloe E. Bird, The RAND Corporation
2020: Sarah K. Bruch, University of Delaware
2019: Dr. Stacy Torres, University California San Francisco
2018: Dr. Nancy Lopez, University of New Mexico
2017: Angela Aidala, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
2016: Jan Marie Fritz, University of Johannesburg
2015: Philip W. Nyden, Loyola University, Chicago
2014: Herbert Gans, Columbia University
2013: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard University
2012: Robert Groves, Georgetown University
2011: Leora Lawton
2011: Thomas Pettigrew
2010: Henry Steadman, Policy Research Associates, Inc.
2009: Dr. Kristin Moore, Child Trends
2008: J. Steven Picou, University of South Alabama
2007: Robert Bullard, Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Juistice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
2006: Barbara Altman, Distinguished Consultant Appointee as Special Assistant for Disability Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics
2005: Severyn Bruyn, Boston University
2004: Charles Vert Willie, Charles William Eliot Professor Emeritus of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
2003: Judith A. Cook, University of Illinois, Chicago
2002: Julia Mayo, St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers
2001: Stephen F. Steele, Anne Arudnel Community College and Applied Data Associates
2000: Lewis Yablonsky, California State University, Northridge
1999: Donald Light, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
1998: Ross Koppel, University of Pennsylvania
1996: William Foote Whyte, Cornell University
1994: Ronnie J. Steinberg, Temple University and University of Delaware (visiting scholar)
1993: Robert Dentler, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1992: David J. Kallen, Michigan State University
1989: Albert Gollin, Newspaper Advertising Bureau
1987: Katrina Johnson, National Institutes of Health
1986: Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University
1985: Anne Knettles McCarrick, Department of Family Practice, Medical College of Virginia
1983: Jack Riley and Matilda White Riley, National Institutes of Health
