Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population
2024: Leafia Ye, University of Toronto. “Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life.” Social Forces, 102(3): 1111-1133. 2024.
2024 Honorable Mention: Danya Lagos, University of California-Berkeley. “Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born between 1935 and 2001.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1): 94-143. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Abigail Weitzman, University of Texas at Austin, Justin Heinze, Yasamin Kusunoki, Marc Zimmerman, and Jennifer Barber, University of Michigan, “Exposure to Nearby Homicides and Young Women’s Reproductive Lives during the Transition to Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology, 129(3): 856-906. 2023.
2023: Joel Mittleman, University of Notre Dame, “Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America.” American Sociological Review, 87(2):303-335. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Max Besbris, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ariela Schacter, Washington University in St. Louis, and John Kuk, University of Oklahoma, “The Unequal Availability of Rental Housing Information Across Neighborhoods.” Demography, 58(4):1197-1221. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Reed T. DeAngelis, Duke University, Taylor W. Hargrove, and Robert A. Hummer, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status.” Demography, 59(5):1791-1819. 2022.
2022: Jacob Faber, New York University, “We Built This: Consequences of New Deal Era Intervention in America’s Racial Geography.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 85(5): 739-775. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania, Christine Schwartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kelly Musick, Cornell University, “Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality.” Demography, Vol. 58(3): 1093-1117. 2021.
2021: Andrew Halpern-Manners, Jonas Helgertz, John Robert Warren, and Evan Roberts. “The effects of education on mortality: Evidence from linked US Census and administrative mortality data.” Demography 57, no. 4 (2020): 1513-1541.
2021 Honorable Mention: Jennifer Karas Montez, Jason Beckfield, Julene Kemp Cooney, Jacob M. Grumbach, Mark D. Hayward, Huseyin Zeyd Koytak, Steven H. Woolf, and Anna Zajacova. “US state policies, politics, and life expectancy.” The Milbank Quarterly 98, no. 3 (2020): 668-699.
2020: Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier. “Immigrants in their parental homeland: half a Million US-born Minors Settle throughout Mexico.” Demography 56.4 (2019): 1453-1461.
2019: Alexandra Killewald and Brielle Bryan, “Falling Behind: The Role of Inter- and Intragenerational Processes in Widening Racial and Ethnic Wealth Gaps through Early and Middle Adulthood,” Social Forces 97(2):705-740. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Eliza Brown and Mary Patrick, “Time, Anticipation, and the Life Course: Egg Freezing as Temporarily Disentangling Romance and Reproduction,” American Sociological Review 83(5):959-982. 2018.
2018: Margaret Frye. “Cultural Meanings and the Aggregation of Actions: The case of Sex and Schooling in Malawi” American Sociological Review 82(5):945-976, 2017.
2017: Joscha Legewie and Merlin Schaeffer, “Contested Boundaries: Explaining Where Ethnoracial Diversity Provokes Neighborhood Conflict,” American Journal of Sociology 122(1):125-161. 2016.
2016: Christine R. Schwartz and Hongyun Han, “The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Trends in Marital Dissolution,” American Sociological Review 79(4):605-629. 2014.
2015: Deirdre Bloome, University of Michigan, “Racial Inequality Trends and the Intergenerational Persistence of Income and Family Structure,”American Sociological Review 79(6):1196-1225. 2014.
2014: Sarah Burgard and Jennifer Ailshire, University of Michigan and University of Southern California, “Gender and Time for Sleep among U.S. Adults,” American Sociological Review 78(1):51-69. 2012.
2013: Lincoln Quillian, “Segregation and Poverty Concentration: The Role of Three Segregations,” American Sociological Review 77(3):354-379. 2012.
2012: Evelyn J. Patterson, Vanderbilt University, “Incarcerating Death: Mortality in U.S. State Correctional Facilities, 1985-1998,” Demography 47(3):587-607. 2010.
2011: Shige Song and Sarah Burgard, Queens College and Institute for Demographic Research, City University of New York, “Does Son Preference Influence Children’s Growth in Height? A Comparative Study of Chinese and Filipino Children,” Population Studies 62(3):305-320. 2008.
The Section on Sociology of Population’s Otis Dudley Duncan Award
2024: Jenny Trintapoli, University of Chicago, An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi. University of Chicago Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Asad L. Asad, Stanford University, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2023: Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, University of California, Berkeley, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton University Press. 2021.
2022: Tomás R. Jiménez, Deborah J. Schildkraut, Yuen J. Huo, and John F. Dovidio, States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion. Russell Sage Foundation. 2021.
2022: Emily Merchant, University of California, Davis, Building the Population Bomb. Oxford University Press. 2021.
2021: Richard Alba, The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expansion of the American Mainstream. Princeton University Press, 2020
2020: Tod G. Hamilton, Immigration and the remaking of Black America. Russell Sage Foundation. 2019
2019: Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder, Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification. Russell Sage Foundation. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Karida L. Brown, Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia. University of North Carolina Press. 2018.
2018: Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher. The Genome Facotr: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future. Princeton University Press.
2017: Filiz Garip, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration. Princeton University Press, 2016.
2016: Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier, Parents without Papers. Russell Sage Foundation. 2015.
2015: Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchman, The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools. Russell Sage Foundation. 2013.
2014: Patrick Sharkey, New York University, Stuck in Place: Urban neighborhoods and the end of progress toward racial equality. University of Chicago Press. 2013.
2013: Dennis Hogan, Family Consequences of Children’s Disabilities. Russell Sage Foundation. 2012.
2012: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, University of California, Berkeley, Christine Bachrach, Columbia University, Phil Morgan, Duke University, and Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania, Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action. Springer. 2011.
2011: Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee, The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-first Century. Russell Sage Foundation. 2010.
2010: Michael White, Department of Sociology and Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, and Jennifer Glick, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods. Russell Sage Foundation. 2009.
2009: Edward E. Telles, Princeton University, and Vilma Ortiz, University of California, Los Angeles, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race. Russell Sage Foundation. 2008.
2007: Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley, Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years. Russell Sage Foundation. 2006.
2007: Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie, University of Maryland, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. Russell Sage Foundation. 2006.
2005: Edward Telles, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: Frank Bean, University of California, Irvine, Gilliam Stevens, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2002: Richard Rogers, University of Colorado, Robert Hummer, University of Texas, Austin, and Charles Nam, Florida State University, Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and Social Differentials in Adult Mortality. Academic Press. 2000.
2002: Lynne Casper, National Institutes of Health, and Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland, Continuity and Change in the American Family. Sage Publications, Inc. 2002.
2001: Mary C. Waters, Harvard University, Black Indentities: West Indian Immigrant Ideas and American Realitites. Harvard University Press. 2001.
2000: James Z. Lee, California Institute of Technology, and Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities. Harvard University Press. 1999.
1999: Stewart E. Tolnay, State University of New York, Albany, The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. Univeristy of Illinois Press. 1999.
1998: Reynolds Farley, Russel Sage Foundation, The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going. Pantheon Books. 1996.
1997: Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina, Teen Mothers and the Revolving Welfare Door. Temple University Press. 1997.
1996: Sara McLanahan, Princeton University, Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Growing up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. Harvard University Press. 1994.
1995: Arland Thornton, University of Michigan, Hui-Sheng Lin, Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning, Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. 1994.
1994: Douglas Massey, University of Chicago, Nancy S. Denton, State University of New York, Albany, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Harvard University Press. 1993.
1993: Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda White, Brown University, New Families, No Families. University of California Press. 1991.
1992: Susan Cott Watkins, From Provinces Into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1878-1960. Princeton University Press. 1990.
The Section on Sociology of Population’s Student Paper Award
2024: Ohjae Gowen, Harvard University. “Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for US Residential Fathers.” Social Forces, 102(2): 475-495. 2023.
2023: Alexandra Cooperstock, Cornell University, “The Demographics of School District Secession.” Social Forces 101(4):1976-2012. 2023.
2023 Honorable Mention: Kai Feng, University of Pennsylvania, “Unequal Duties and Unequal Retirement: Decomposing the Women’s Labor Force Decline in Post-Reform China.”
2022: Yifan Shen, Brown University, “The Nonlinear Linkage between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality among Married Couples”
2022 Honorable Mention: Fumiya Uchikoshi, Princeton University, “Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan”
2021: Anna Nicole Kreisberg, Brown University (PhD) and Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow), “Green Card or Golden Ticket? Employment Discrimination against Immigrants”
2021 Honorable Mention: Ian Lundberg, Princeton University (PhD) and UCLA (Postdoctoral Fellow), “Occupational Segregation Contributes to Racial Disparities in Health: A Gap-Closing Perspective”
2020: Ariane Ophir with Jessica Polos, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Care Life Expectancy: Gender and Unpaid Work in the Context of Population Aging”
2020 Honorable Mention: Nathan Seltzer, University of California-Berkeley, “Beyond the Great Recession: Labor Market Polarization and Ongoing Fertility Decline in the United States” Demography. 2019.
2019: Margot Moinester, “Policing Noncitizens: Risk of Removal from the U.S. Interior, 1988-2010”
2019 Honorable Mention: Danya Lagos, “Looking at Population Health Beyond ‘Male’ and ‘Female’: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health”
2018: Joel Mittleman. “A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspension and the Path to Juvenile Arrest”
2017: Julia Behrman, “Educational Assortative Mating and Intra-household Gender and Family Dynamics: A Case Study of Social Change in Eastern Africa”
2016: Peter Rich, “White Parental Flight and Avoidance: Neighborhood Choices in the Era of School District Desegregation”
2015: Christina J. Diaz and Jeremy Fiel, “The Effect(s) of Teenage Pregnancy: Reconciling Theory, Methods, and Evidence,” Demography 53(1):85-116. 2016.
2014: Emily Smith-Greenaway, Pennsylvania State University, “Mothers’ reading skills and child survival in Nigeria: Examining the relevance of mothers’ decision-making power,” Social Science & Medicine 97:152-160. 2013.
2013: Abigail Weitzman, “The Daughter Tax: The Effects of Daughters on Maternal Outcomes in the Developing World”
2012: Anna R. Haskins, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness,” Sociological Science 1:141-158. 2014.
2010: Rachel E. Goldberg, Brown University, “Family Instability and Sexual Debut in Western Kenya,” Demography 50(2):725-750. 2013.
2009: Nathalie E. Williams, University of Michigan, “Coping with Conflict: Do Community Organizations Moderate the Affect of Armed Conflict on Migration?” Population Studies 67(3):353-369. 2013.
2008: Donhoon Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Early Socioeconomic Effects of Teenage Childbearing: A Propensity Score Matching Approach,” Demographic Research 23:697-736. 2010.
2007: Jui-Chung Allen Li, RAND Corporation, “The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children’s Behavior Problems”
2006: Filiz Garip, Princeton University, “Social Capital and Migration: how do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes,” Demography 45(3):591-617. 2008.
2003: Amelie Quesnel-Valle, Duke University
2002: Gretchen Livingston, University of Pennsylvania, “The Ties that Bind: Gender, Social Capital, and Economic Outcomes among Mexico-U.S. Migrants”
2001: Molly Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “AFDC Use Across Generations: The Effects of the Intergenerational Correlation in Income”
2000: Kelly A. Musick, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Links Between Cohabitation, Non marital Childbearing, and Marriage,” Demographic Research 16:249-286. 2007.
The Section on Sociology of Population’s Early Career Scholar in Sociology of Population Award
Award established in 2024.
The Section on Sociology of Population’s Distinguished Career in Sociology of Population Award
Award established in 2024.
