Section Award Nomination Calls

Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest.  Following are the most recent calls for nominations from each section.

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Aging and the Life Course

SALC Mentoring Award

SALC has a rich legacy of mentoring, both of students and junior faculty. We honor this history by recognizing SALC members who have distinguished themselves as mentors in the field of aging and the life course. Submit a nomination of a candidate by March 1, 2025. The nominee’s CV should be included with the nomination materials. Letters of nomination should describe the nominee’s contributions to mentoring in the area of aging and the life course that warrant consideration. If multiple persons wish to nominate a person, we strongly encourage co-signers on a single nomination letter and for co-signers to include short specific personal descriptions of how the nominee has mentored them. We also urge those preparing nomination letters to indicate where co-signers are working now and to think broadly about types of mentorship and the contributions of that mentorship for promoting diversity and inclusion in the discipline and beyond. Specifically, letters should describe mentorship experiences over the range of the nominee’s career, including but also going beyond mentorship provided around research and for graduate students, and include specific details regarding the nominee’s mentorship. Nominations will be carried over for consideration for the award for two years beyond the year of the initial submission of the nomination package. Nominations can be sent to Susan Brown, Chair of the Outstanding Mentor Award Committee, at [email protected]. Other committee members include Mallory Bell and Rebecca Utz.

Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award

This annual award honors a scholar in the field of aging and the life course who has shown exceptional achievement in research, theory, policy analysis, or who has otherwise advanced knowledge of aging and the life course. To nominate a colleague for the MWR Distinguished Scholar Award: Submit a full nomination letter and copy of the nominee’s CV by March 1, 2025. Letters of nomination should describe the nominee’s contributions to the study of aging and the life course that warrant consideration. If multiple persons wish to nominate a person, we strongly encourage co-signers on a single nomination letter. Nominations will be carried over for consideration for the award for two years beyond the year of the initial submission of the nomination package. Materials should be sent to Patricia Thomas, Chair of the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award Committee, at [email protected]. Other committee members include Marc Garcia, Emma Zhang, and Seoyoun Kim.

Outstanding Publication Award

This annual award honors an outstanding recent contribution to the field of sociology of aging and the life course as determined by the Outstanding Publication Award Committee. Eligible publications include original research reports, theoretical or methodological developments, and policy-related contributions. The outstanding publication can be an article or book chapter published within the past three years (from 2022-2024) are eligible for the 2025 award. A single author or one of the coauthors must be a SALC member. Multiple entries cannot by submitted by the same author(s); please choose the strongest entry. Only SALC members are permitted to make nominations, but nominators should make only one nomination. Self-nominations are accepted. Papers that have been uploaded as Advance Access articles but have not yet been published cannot be submitted until next year.

A nomination letter should accompany a PDF of the article or chapter. The letter should provide the full citation, describe the scope of the manuscript, and highlight some of its contributions to the field. Nominations of publications for the award should be sent to Patricia Drentea, Chair of the Outstanding Publication Award Committee, at [email protected]. Other committee members include Pamela Herd, Ronald Berkowsky, and Han Liu.  All nominations are due by March 1, 2025.

Graduate Student Paper Award

This annual award honors an outstanding paper written by a graduate student member(s) of SALC, as determined by the Graduate Student Paper Award committee. The award consists of $250 presented to the winner at the SALC Business Meeting, held during the annual ASA meeting.

Papers authored or coauthored solely by students are eligible; faculty co-authorship is not allowed. Eligible student authors include master’s and pre-doctoral student members of the section who are currently enrolled in a graduate program, or who have graduated no earlier than December 2024. Unpublished, under review, accepted, or published papers are eligible. If published, the paper should have appeared within the past two calendar years (e.g., a paper nominated in 2025 may have been published anytime in 2023 or later). Unpublished papers should not exceed 9,000 words of text (not including references, tables, etc).

To be nominated, send an electronic version of the paper along with a completed and signed SALC Grad Student Paper Award Nomination Form (found at https://asasalc.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/salc_grad-student_award.pdf) to Lance Erickson, Chair of the Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, at [email protected]. Other committee members include Catherine Garcia, Christine Mair, Vanessa Delgado, and Xuemei Cao. All nominations are due by March 1, 2025, and self-nominations are encouraged.

Public Impact Award

This award recognizes the work of a SALC member at any stage of their career who has demonstrated impact in applied research or improving lives through aging and/or life course scholarship. Examples of impact could be through, for example, community-engaged research, education of future professionals or stakeholders, policy engagement, and/or effective research translation for the greater public good. The winner must be a member of the Section on Aging and the Life Course at the time of the award. Submit a full nomination letter by March 1, 2025. Letters of nomination should describe the nominee’s contributions to public impact through aging and life course scholarship that warrant consideration. If multiple persons wish to nominate a person, we strongly encourage co-signers on a single nomination letter. Nominations will be carried over for consideration for the award for two years beyond the year of the initial submission of the nomination package. Materials should be sent to Dawn Carr, Chair of the SALC Public Impact Award Committee, at [email protected]. Other committee members include Markus Shaffer, Merril Silverstein, Christine Mair, Jennifer Ailshire, and Ranran He.

Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity

Distinguished Career Award
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Contact: Michèle Lamont, Chair

The Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Career Award. This award is given annually to a researcher who has made a number of significant contributions to the study of altruism, morality, and/or social solidarity over an extended period of time. It is intended to recognize a senior scholar’s cumulative achievements. Nominations should include a brief description of the career contributions that make the candidate deserving of the award. Self-nominations are welcome. Please also see previous winners of the award for reference here.

Please send nominations, with the subject line AMSS 2025 Distinguished Career Award Nomination, by March 5, 2025 to the Committee Members:

1. Michèle Lamont: [email protected]
2. Lauren Valentino: [email protected]
3. Paul Joosse: [email protected]

Outstanding Published Book Award
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Contact: Shai Dromi, Chair

The Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Published Book Award. This award is given annually to the author(s) of a theoretical analysis, research monograph, or reader published in the last five years (2020-2024) that increases knowledge and understanding of altruism, morality, and/or social solidarity. Nominations must include the book itself and a brief statement regarding the merits of the book. Self-nominations are welcome. A single author or one of the coauthors must be a current AMSS section member.

Send the nomination email, with the subject line AMSS 2025 Book Award Nomination, by March 5, 2025 to the Committee Members via email. Also, please mail or have the publisher mail a hard copy of the book to each committee member. If for some reasons, hard copies cannot be sent, a PDF file is acceptable, but the committee prefers hard copies:

Shai Dromi: [email protected]
33 Kirkland St
Department of Sociology
Cambridge, MA 02138

Jeffrey Guhin: [email protected]
296 Haines Hall/Dept. of Sociology
375 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Matthew Andersson: [email protected]
Tidwell, 204.12
One Bear Place #97326
Waco, TX 76798-7326

Outstanding Published Article Award
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Contact: Candice Robinson, Chair

The Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Published Article Award. This award is given annually to the author(s) of a peer-reviewed research or theoretical journal article that increases knowledge and understanding of altruism, morality, and/or social solidarity published in the last three years, not counting the current year (2022-2024). The article must be either in print or “online first” by December 31, 2024. Nominations must include a PDF copy of the article and a brief statement regarding the merits of the article. Self-nominations are welcome. Multiple authored papers are eligible for the award. Co-author teams involving graduate students are eligible if the paper is not also under review for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. A single author or one of the coauthors must be a current AMSS section member.

Send a PDF copy of the paper, with the subject line AMSS 2025 Article Award Nomination, by March 5, 2025 to the Committee Members:

1. Candice Robinson: [email protected]
2. Yongren Shi: [email protected]
3. Joshua Doyle: [email protected]
4. Barbara Kiviat: [email protected]

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Contact: Max Besbris, Chair

The Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. This award is given annually to the author(s) of a research or theoretical paper that increases knowledge and understanding of altruism, morality, and/or social solidarity and that has been (a) presented at a regional, national, or international professional meeting, or (b) published, or submitted for publication, in a journal during the two preceding calendar years (2022-2023). Authors of eligible papers must be graduate students at the time of the paper submission. Multiple authored papers are eligible for the award if all authors are graduate students. Self-nominations are welcome. A single author or one of the coauthors must be a current AMSS section member.

Please send a PDF copy of the paper, with the subject line AMSS 2025 Graduate Paper Award

Nomination, by March 5, 2025 to the Committee Members:

1. Max Besbris: [email protected]
2. Lingxiao Chen: [email protected]
3. Joyce Kim: [email protected]

Animals and Society

The Section on Animals & Society is now accepting nominations for our 2025 section awards! The deadline to submit the requested materials (see details below) is Friday, February 28th at 11:59pm Eastern Time. Nominated individuals must be Animals and Society section members to be eligible for awards, unless noted otherwise below. Submit nomination materials as PDF attachments to the section secretary, Mark Suchyta, at [email protected] with the subject title: “ASA 2025 Nomination”.

Jane Goodall Award for Student Scholarship

The ASA Section on Animals & Society announces its call for nominations for the Jane Goodall Award for Student Scholarship, which recognizes the best student-authored paper. To be eligible, either the student(s) or their advisor must be a member of the Section on Animals & Society. If the student is not a member, their advisor must be a member and must be the one to nominate the paper. Papers may be empirical or theoretical, and they may address any aspect of animals and society. The paper must be authored by a current graduate or undergraduate student (or students). Unpublished and published papers, as well as those which have been presented at a professional meeting, are eligible. Papers coauthored with non-students are accepted so long as the student is lead author or an equal co-author on the paper. There is no page limit. To nominate a paper, please provide a PDF of the paper and a brief letter from the student’s advisor certifying their student status. Self-nominations are permitted; please include contact information for yourself and the nominee(s).

Award for Distinguished Article

The ASA Section on Animals & Society announces its call for nominations for the Distinguished Article Award. The award will be given for distinguished scholarship in the form of an article to an author(s) whose work makes a significant empirical or theoretical contribution to the sociological understanding of animals and society. To be eligible, the lead author(s) must be a member of the Section on Animals & Society and the article must have been published within the calendar years of 2024 or 2025. To nominate an article, please provide a PDF of the article, full citation information, and a letter outlining why you believe this work makes a substantial contribution to the field. Self-nominations are permitted; please include contact information for yourself and the nominee(s).

Award for Distinguished Book

The ASA Section on Animals & Society announces its call for nominations for the Distinguished Book Award. The award will be given for distinguished scholarship in the form of a book to an author(s) whose work makes a significant empirical or theoretical contribution to the sociological understanding of animals and society. To be eligible, the lead author(s) must be a member of the Section on Animals & Society and the book must have been published within the calendar years of 2024 or 2025. To nominate a book, please provide a PDF of the book, full citation information, and a letter outlining why you believe this work makes a substantial contribution to the field. Self-nominations are permitted; please include contact information for yourself and the nominee(s).

The Clifton Bryant Animals & Society Course Award

The ASA Section on Animals & Society announces its call for nominations for the Clifton Bryant Animals & Society Course Award. To be eligible, the instructor of the course must be a member of the Section on Animals & Society. To nominate a course, please provide a letter describing the course’s contributions to undergraduate and/or graduate understandings of animals and society, the instructor’s curriculum vitae, and a copy of the course syllabus. Self-nominations are permitted; please include contact information for yourself and the nominee.

The P-22 Award for Distinguished Service

The Animals & Society section announces its call for nominations for the P-22 Award for Distinguished Service. This award is given to a section member who exemplifies an impressive track record of service to nonhuman animals and/or contributions to the field of human-animal studies. We define service to nonhuman animals broadly to include volunteering, advocacy, or activism. We define contributions to the field broadly as well, including careers in practice settings, publications, scholarship, advising, and teaching. The spirit of this award is to honor someone who has dedicated themselves to improving the lives of nonhuman animals and our relationships with them through their actions and work. To be eligible, the person must be a current member of the Section on Animals & Society. To nominate someone, please provide a letter describing the nominee’s service and contributions as well their CV or resume and any other optional materials which demonstrate why the nominee should be considered for the award. Self-nominations are permitted; please include contact information for yourself and the nominee.

Asia and Asian America

Biosociology and Evolutionary Sociology

No Awards Submitted Yet for 2025

Children and Youth

Distinguished Career Award
Nominations due by: February 14, 2025

Contact: Derron Wallace, Brandeis University, [email protected]

This award honors individuals for distinguished contributions to research, teaching, and service on the sociology of children and youth. Candidates must have received their PhD 21 or more calendar years prior to the nomination deadline. Nominees must be current members of the American Sociological Association’s Children and Youth Section. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

To make a nomination, submit one or more letter(s) briefly stating why the person should be considered for this award with a copy of their CV to the committee chair, Derron Wallace ([email protected]) by February 14, 2025, with the subject line “2025 CandY Career Award Nomination.”

Outstanding Scholarly Contribution: Journal Article or Book Chapter Award
Nominations due by: February 14, 2025

Contact: Melanie Jones Gast, University of Louisville, [email protected]

This award is given in odd years to a journal article or book chapter (from an edited volume) with a publication date from the preceding two years (between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024) that has had a major impact on the field of Children and Youth. Nominees must be current members of the American Sociological Association’s Children and Youth Section. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

To make a nomination, submit a copy of the paper to the committee chair, Melanie Jones Gast, ([email protected]) by February 14, 2025, with the subject line “2025 CandY Article Award Nomination.”

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Nominations due by: February 14, 2025

Contact: Margaret Hagerman, Mississippi State University, [email protected]

This award recognizes an outstanding paper authored by one or more graduate students. To qualify, the author and any co-authors must be current graduate students and graduate students at the time the paper was written. A paper is eligible if it made a “public appearance” within the preceding two years, defined as one of the following: 1) having been submitted for a class or seminar held in those years, 2) having been presented at a professional meeting in those years, or 3) having been accepted for publication or published in those years. Nominees must be current members of the American Sociological Association’s Children and Youth Section. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

To make a nomination, submit a copy of the paper to the committee chair, Margaret Hagerman ([email protected]) by February 14, 2025, with the subject line “2025 CandY Graduate Student Paper Award Nomination.”

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award

Section members and authors may nominate books with publication dates of 2024. All authors must be members of the section. No lengthy nominating letters please, and please no nominations directly from publishers. Send any questions to the committee chair. Please send or have publishers send a copy of the book to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2025. Electronic copies are also OK.

2025 Charles Tilly Award Committee:

Edwin Amenta (chair), [email protected]
36 Frost
Irvine, CA 92617

Melinda Kane, [email protected]
107 Prince Rd
Greenville, NC 27858

Didem Türkoğlu, [email protected]
Kadir Has Universitesi
Core program
Cibali, Kadir Has Cd., 34083
Fatih/İstanbul/Turkey

Weijun Yuan, [email protected]
4303 Palo Verde Rd,
Irvine, CA 92617

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award

Articles and chapters from edited books with publication dates of 2024 are eligible. All authors must be members of the section. Authors may submit their own work, or nominations may be made by section members. No lengthy nominating letters please, and please send all questions to the committee chair. Send a copy of the article or chapter electronically to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2025.

2025 Distinguished Article Award Committee:
Catherine Corrigall-Brown (chair), [email protected]
Sharon Quinsaat, [email protected]
Hajar Yazdiha, [email protected]
Yang Zhang, [email protected]

Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award

Current students, as well as those who received their PhD in 2024 or later, are eligible. Any paper (published or unpublished) written in 2024 by a student or students is eligible. The committee will accept only one submission per student. A previously submitted paper may be resubmitted only if significantly revised. Authors may submit their own work, or nominations may be made by section members. No lengthy nominating letters please, and please send all questions to the committee chair. Send a copy of the paper electronically to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2025.

2025 Mayer Zald Committee:
David Cunningham (chair), [email protected]
Barry Eidlin, [email protected]
Minwoo Jung, [email protected]
Catharina O’Donnell, [email protected]

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Dissertation Award

Any doctoral dissertation completed (i.e., successfully submitted, defended, and approved) in calendar year 2024 is eligible. Only nominations from the student’s dissertation chair or co-chair will be accepted. Nomination letters should not exceed two typed pages in length. The nomination letter should be accompanied by the dissertation in electronic form. Send a copy of the nomination letter and dissertation to each of the award committee members by March 15, 2025.

2025 Dissertation Award Committee:
Chandra Russo (chair), [email protected]
Hilary Boudet, [email protected]
Nicole Iturriaga, [email protected]
Kaylin Bourdon, [email protected]

Distinguished Early Career Award for Contributions to Social Movements Scholarship

The Career Awards Committee welcomes nominations for the Distinguished Early Career Award for Contributions to Social Movements Scholarship. The section seeks to honor early career scholars of color making meaningful contributions to the study of social movements. Early career includes being at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor or comparable rank. To nominate a scholar for the award, please describe (in one page or less) the strengths of the nominee for this award. Please send copies of your nomination letter to members of the Career Awards Committee by March 1, 2025.

2025 Career Awards Committee:
Catherine Corrigall-Brown (chair), [email protected]
Zakiya Luna, [email protected]
Daisy Reyes: [email protected]
Taura Taylor, [email protected]
Sarah Hernandez, [email protected]

Communication, Information Technologies, and Media

Career Achievement Award
This award recognizes a sustained body of research by a section member who has provided multiple outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the areas relevant to the section. Nominations may be made for scholars at any career stage. A nomination should include a nomination letter and CV of the nominee. The letters should describe the major contributions, what kind of product the scholar has produced (e.g., books, articles, textbooks, policy briefs, teaching, public engagement), how it has advanced the areas of concern to the section, and what the impact and/or reach has been. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. If you are nominating another person, you are encouraged to notify them. All nominees will be asked to complete a survey by the section’s DEI committee. Nominations should be submitted via survey link by March 15: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fiM7aD6DFkeUBM

Best Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding published paper or book chapter on a topic relevant to the section, written by a member of the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. A nomination should include a nomination letter and PDF of the paper. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. If you are nominating another person, you are encouraged to notify them. All nominees will be asked to complete a survey by the section’s DEI committee. Nominations should be submitted via survey link by March 15: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJN1ud3Kjhn3q0m

Best Student Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding published or unpublished paper/book chapter on a topic relevant to the section, or an outstanding design or use of media, communication, or information technology. Submissions must be in English. A nomination should include a nomination letter and PDF of the work. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. If you are nominating another person, you are encouraged to notify them. All nominees will be asked to complete a survey by the section’s DEI committee. For this award only, the nominees do not need to be members of the section. Award winners and honorable mentions will receive a one-year section membership for either the year of being selected or the year after. Nominations should be submitted via survey link by March 15: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6h4nyykDJuKiMPc

Public Sociology Award
This award recognizes a specific achievement in teaching, the development or the use of a communication, media, or information technology, or the dissemination of knowledge that advances public understanding or engagement on topics of concern in the section by a member of the section. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQI scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. A nomination should include a nomination letter of 1-2 pages. The letter should describe the topic(s) of concern, what kind of product the scholar has produced (e.g., an easy to use tool for the public, a book that crosses over into trade/popular/public literature, media appearances, op-eds, social media), how it has advanced public understanding, and what the impact and/or reach has been. Please also include up to 10 examples with your letter. Examples could include, but are not limited to: course materials/assignments, Twitter threads, podcasts, op-eds, media appearances, or social media channels. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. If you are nominating another person, you are encouraged to notify them. All nominees will be asked to complete a survey by the section’s DEI committee. Nominations should be submitted via survey link by March 15: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e9fts8bRtgjzaPs

Best Book Award
This award recognizes an outstanding book on a topic relevant to the section, written by a member of the section. Submissions must be in English and published within the two calendar years prior to the award nomination deadline. A nomination should include a nomination letter and copy of the book, either in physical or electronic form. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups—those who work internationally, work in industry, those in small teaching-oriented institutions, BIPOC scholars, scholars with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and those at the intersections of these and other categories. If you are nominating another person, you are encouraged to notify them. All nominees will be asked to complete a survey by the section’s DEI committee. Nominations should be submitted via survey link by February 15: https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dcd8VJRxUHvOrHw

Community and Urban Sociology

CUSS Outstanding Book Award

This award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the previous 2 years (2023/24). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here. Also, mail a hard copy of the book to each committee member (addresses will appear in the nomination form).

Book Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Tanya Golash Boza, [email protected]
Robert Durán, [email protected]
Nate Ela, [email protected]
Janini Selzer, [email protected]

Jane Addams Article Award

The Jane Addams Award goes to the author(s) of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the previous 2 years (2023/2024). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Jane Addams Article Award Committee:
Committee Co-Chair: Christof Brandtner, [email protected]
Committee Co-Chair: Jan Doering, [email protected]
Luis Nuño, [email protected]
Emily Walton, [email protected]
Kasey Zapatka, [email protected] 

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award

The CUSS Student Paper award goes to the student author of the paper the committee regards as the best graduate student paper in community and urban sociology. The award is granted to current graduate students for papers completed, published or forthcoming in 2023-2024 . Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeremy Levine, [email protected]
Anna Fox, [email protected]
Whitney Gecker, [email protected]
Jaleh Jalili, [email protected]
Lacee Satcher, [email protected]

CUSS Early Career Award

The Early Career Award recognizes members, who are within 10 years of their PhD,for interdisciplinary contributions, innovation and creativity, and mentorship. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

CUSS Early Career Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Elena Vesselinov, [email protected]
Jerome Hodos, [email protected]
Mervyn Horgan, [email protected]
Ian Kennedy, [email protected]

CUSS Publicly Engaged Research Award

This award recognizes community and urban sociologists who use their research to make significant and meaningful contributions to public debates, public policy, and/or communities. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

CUSS Publicly Engaged Scholar Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeni Cross, [email protected]
Brandon Alston, [email protected]
JoAnne DeRouen, [email protected]
Derek Hyra, [email protected]

Click here to access Community and Urban Sociology’s page for award submissions. Nominations are open through March 1, 2025. 

Comparative-Historical Sociology

BARRINGTON MOORE BOOK AWARD

The section presents the Barrington Moore Book Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative-historical sociology.

To be eligible for consideration, nominated books must have been published in one of the two years immediately prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the award given in 2025, only books published in 2024 or 2023 will be considered). Eligible books must also not have been previously nominated for the Moore Award. Thus, books that were nominated for the 2024 award are not eligible to be considered for the 2025 award.

To nominate a book for the Moore Award, please send an email to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, publisher, and publication date of the book you wish to nominate. Please make arrangements for each member of the committee to receive a copy of the book by March 15, 2025. The nominating e-mail and the nominated book must be received by each member of the committee by this deadline. Books may be nominated by their authors or by other scholars, but not by publishing houses. Letters of nomination are not required.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award, and winners of the Moore Award are expected to be members of the comparative-historical sociology section at the time the award is presented.

Committee:

Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Chair)
[email protected]
Department of Sociology
S401 Social & Behavioral Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York 11794-4356

Leslie Gates
[email protected]
Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
4400 Vestal Parkway East PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Veda Hyunjin Kim
[email protected]
Elliott Hall 308
Sociology-Anthropology Department
Ohio Wesleyan University
61 S. Sandusky St.
Delaware, OH 43015

CHARLES TILLY ARTICLE AWARD

The section presents the Charles Tilly Article Award every year to the best article in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology.

To be eligible for consideration, nominated articles must have been published in one of the two years immediately prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the award given in 2025, only articles published in 2023 or 2024 will be considered).

To nominate an article for the Tilly Award, please send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, journal, and publication date of the article that you wish to nominate, and it should also attach a PDF of the article. The nominating e-mail and PDF of the article must be received by each member of the committee by March 15, 2025.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:

Alexandre White  (chair), Johns Hopkins University- [email protected]
Jordanna Matlon- American University–[email protected]
Jeremy Levine, University of Michigan– [email protected]
Celene Raymer  Reynolds,  Indiana University–[email protected]
Kelly Russell, Florida State University–[email protected]

IBN KHALDUN DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD

The section presents the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award every year in order to recognize a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. This is one of the most celebrated awards given by the section, and it is presented only to scholars of the utmost distinction.

To nominate someone for the award, please send a letter of nomination to Marisela Martinez-Cola at [email protected]. The letter should briefly discuss the significance and impact of the nominee on the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. Please also provide the most current curriculum vitae for the nominee as well as the nominee’s contact information, including their e-mail address.

Nominations must be received by all members of the committee by March 31, 2025.

Please note that nominees must have received their Ph.D. no later than 1999. All nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:

Marisela Martinez-Cola (chair), Morehouse College, [email protected]
Johnnie Lotesta, Appalachian State University
Jorge Vasquez, American University

REINHARD BENDIX STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The section presents the Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award every year to the best graduate student paper in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology.

To be eligible for consideration, nominated papers must have been written by students enrolled in a graduate program at the time the paper was written. Both published and unpublished papers are eligible.

To nominate a paper, authors and/or mentors should send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author and title of the paper, and it should attach a PDF of the article. The e-mail and the nominated paper must be received by each member of the committee by March 15, 2025. Students may self-nominate their finest work, or a paper may be nominated by a student’s mentors.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:

Atef Said (Chair), University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected]
Youbin Kang, Cornell University, [email protected]
Matthew Brooke, Harvard University, [email protected]

THEDA SKOCPOL DISSERTATION AWARD

The section presents the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award every year to the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative-historical sociology.

To be eligible for consideration, nominated dissertations must have been defended and filed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024.

To nominate a dissertation, please send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, and filing date of the dissertation that you wish to nominate. An electronic copy of the dissertation must also be sent to each member of the award committee. (For dissertations that are too large to send over email, please e-mail the committee members a durable link to a downloadable version of the dissertation.) Both the nominating e-mail and the electronic copy of the nominated dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by March 15, 2025. Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors, or current department chairs. Self-nominations are also welcome.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:

Rebecca Jean Emigh (Chair), UCLA, [email protected]
Shay O’Brien, Harvard University, [email protected]
Katrina Q. Wang, University of Wisconsin, [email protected]

Crime, Law, and Deviance

Crime, Law, and Deviance Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Book Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance invites nominations for the 2025 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Book Award (established in 2023). The award is presented annually for a distinguished book in crime, law, and deviance published in the preceding two years. Books published during the calendar years 2023 and 2024 are eligible. Any section member may submit a book for consideration, and self-submissions are encouraged, as are nominations that highlight the work of underrepresented groups. To nominate a book, please email the Award Committee Chair, Dr. Popy Begum, [email protected], with the subject line, “CLD Distinguished Book Nomination.” Once received, Dr. Begum will provide the names and addresses to which copies of the book should be mailed no later than March 15, 2025.

Committee:
Chair: Popy Begum (Chair), St. Louis University
Daanika Gordan, Tufts University
Joss Greene, University of California, Davis
Justin Sola, University of North Carolina

Crime, Law, and Deviance Distinguished Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance invites submissions for the 2025 Distinguished Student Paper Award competition. This award is presented annually for the best paper authored by a graduate student. Papers may be empirical or theoretical and can address any topic in the sociology of crime, law, and deviance. Submissions may be sole- or multiple-authored, but all authors must be students at the time of submission. Papers should be article length (approximately 30 double spaced pages) and should follow the manuscript preparation guidelines used by the American Sociological Review. Papers accepted for publication at the time of submission are not eligible. The winner will receive $500 to offset the cost of attending the 2025 ASA meeting. Nominations may be submitted by the author or by others, and we encourage self-nominations. Please send a PDF of the paper to the Award Committee Chair, Dr. Shannon Malone Gonzalez, [email protected], with the subject line, “CLD Distinguished Student Paper Nomination.”

Committee:
Chair: Shannon Malone Gonzalez, University of North Carolina
Tony Cheng, Duke University
Uriel Serrano, University of California, Irvine
Bryan Sykes, Cornell University

James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance invites submissions for the 2025 James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award. This award is presented every year for a distinguished article in crime, law, and deviance. All papers with a publication date in the calendar year 2024 are eligible. (Note: Papers published as “online first” in 2024 but not yet in print are ineligible; papers published in online-only journals can be submitted in the year they are published online.) Any section member may submit an article for consideration, and self-submissions are encouraged. Please send a PDF of the article to the Award Committee Chair, Dr. Poulami Roychowdhury, [email protected], with the subject line, “CLD Distinguished Article Nomination.”

Committee:
Chair: Poulami Roychowdhury, Brown University
Liz Chiarello, St. Louis University
Kelley Fong, University of California, Irvine
William Pridemore, University of Georgia

Crime, Law, and Deviance Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The American Sociological Association’s Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance invites nominations for the 2025 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award. This award is presented every other year to an individual for a lifetime of outstanding scholarship contributing to the sociological understanding of crime, law, and deviance. All members of the section are encouraged to submit nominations, and self-nominations are welcome. To nominate an individual for the award, please send a letter of nomination evaluating the nominee’s contributions to the sociological understanding of crime, law, and deviance, accompanied by a copy of the nominee’s CV, to the Award Committee Chair, Dr. Mary Nell Trautner, [email protected], with the subject line, “2025 CLD Distinguished Scholar Nomination.”

Committee:
Chair: Mary Nell Trautner, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Brenden Beck, Rutgers University
Rachel Ellis, University of Maryland
Neil Gong, University of California, San Diego

Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society

James S. Coleman Outstanding Article Award
Deadline for submission: March 31, 2025

Nominations, including self-nominations, are encouraged for theoretical, empirical or experimental works on or including work on decision-making, social networks, and those in the tradition of analytical and computational sociology. To be eligible for the award, the article must be published within the last two years. Faculty and graduate students are eligible for the award. An article may be submitted to the Outstanding Article Award or the Graduate Student paper award, but not both. Co-authors share the award equally. Nominators should be members in good standing of the American Sociological Association. Nominations, including a pdf of the article, should be submitted to Robert Braun at [email protected], Cassie McMillan at [email protected], and Simone Zhang at [email protected] by March 31, 2025.

Committee Chair: Robert Braun; Members: Cassie McMillan, Simone Zhang

Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section Award for Best Paper by a Graduate Student
Deadline for submission: March 31, 2025

Nominations, including self-nominations, are encouraged for theoretical, empirical, or experimental works on or including work on decision-making, social networks, and those in the tradition of analytical and computational sociology. Eligible authors are students currently enrolled in a graduate program who will not have received their PhD by the time they submit the paper (March 31, 2025). Multi-authored papers are eligible if none of the authors has a PhD. Nominations can be for an unpublished paper or for an article that was published within the last two years. An article may be submitted to the Outstanding Article Award or the Graduate Student paper award, but not both.

Please include (1) a brief statement by the nominator of the reason the paper deserves this award that includes the name of the author, their degree status, and their institutional affiliation; and (2) an electronic copy of the paper or article. Nominations should be submitted by email to Ashley Harrell at [email protected], Benjamin Rosche at [email protected], and Peng Huang at [email protected] by March 31, 2025.

Committee Chair: Ashley Harrell; Members: Peng Huang, Benjamin Rosche

Disability in Society

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

This award recognizes an outstanding paper in the sociology of disability, authored by one or more graduate students written or published within the last three years. To be considered, all authors must be graduate students at the time of submission and be members of ASA. Papers may be published or unpublished; however, submissions should not exceed 35 pages in length. Papers will be judged on theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the sociology of disability. Self-nominations are welcome. Applicants should submit the paper for consideration, along with a letter of nomination, to the Awards Committee Chair, Angela Frederick, at [email protected] no later than  April 1, 2025.

Outstanding Publication Award

The Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award is given in alternating years, either for 1) the best journal article or chapter in an edited volume in the preceding two years that has made (or is likely to make) an impact on the sociology of disability; or for 2) the best published book in the preceding two years that has made (or is likely to make) an impact on the sociology of disability. This year, we will present the award for the best journal article or chapter in an edited volume, published during 2023, 2024, or early 2025. To be eligible for consideration, articles and book chapters must be authored or co-authored by a member of the Disability in Society Section. Individuals can be nominated by colleagues or self-nominate. To be considered, please email a letter of nomination and an electronic copy of the article or book chapter to the Awards Committee Chair, Angela Frederick, at [email protected], no later than April 1, 2025.

Drugs and Society

Junior Scholar Award
We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Drugs and Society (D&S) Junior Scholar Award. We present this award annually in recognition of research contributions within the scientific discipline, such as publications and grants; an outstanding publication may be sufficient for a recent Ph.D. The candidate should also demonstrate an independent line of research. Eligible candidates must have defended their doctoral dissertations within five academic years prior to the annual meeting at which the award is made. In accordance with ASA policy, all award nominees must be current members of the ASA and D&S section. You may become a member of the section to be considered. We encourage self-nominations. Winner will receive the award at the D&S Reception at the ASA annual meeting in Chicago in August 2025. Please send nominations and a CV to Guangzhen (Gary) Wu, [email protected] by March 15, 2025.

Senior Scholar Award
We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Drugs and Society (D&S) Senior Scholar Award. We present this award annually to an established scholar who has made significant contributions to the scientific discipline and has provided service to the Drugs and Society section. In accordance with ASA policy, all award nominees must be current members of ASA and the D&S Section. You may become a member of the section to be considered. We encourage self-nominations. Winner will receive the award at the D&S Reception at the ASA annual meeting in Chicago in August 2025. Please send nominations and a CV to William Pridemore, [email protected] by March 15, 2025.

Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award
We are now accepting nominations for the 2025 American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Drugs and Society (D&S) Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award. This award recognizes the author(s) of an outstanding article published in the past two years (2023-2024) in the area of drugs and society. In accordance with ASA policy, all award nominees must be current members of the ASA and the D&S section. You may become a member of the section to be considered. We encourage self-nominations. Winner(s) will receive the award at the D&S Reception at the ASA annual meeting in Chicago in August 2025. Please send a PDF copy of the article with a brief comment on the manuscript’s merits and its contribution to the field of drugs and society to Lindsey Richardson, [email protected] by March 15, 2025.

Graduate Student Paper Award
We are now accepting papers for the 2025 American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Drugs and Society (D&S) Graduate Student Paper Award. We present this award to a paper authored by a student currently enrolled in a graduate program. A paper may be co-authored by two or more students, who would share the award. Papers co-authored with faculty are ineligible. Papers should be of typical manuscript length, about 25-35 double-spaced pages. In accordance with ASA policy, all award nominees must be current ASA members and members of the D&S section. You may become a member of the section to be considered. We encourage self-nominations. Winner(s) will receive the award at the D&S Reception at the ASA annual meeting in Chicago in August 2025. Please send a letter of nomination and a copy of the paper (PDF or Word format) to Andrew London, [email protected] by March 15, 2025.

Economic Sociology

Economic Sociology’s Ronald Burt Student Paper Award
The Economic Sociology Section invites nominations for the 2025 Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award for a paper written by a graduate student in the field of economic sociology. Papers may be either published or unpublished, but must have been authored by students who have not received their Ph.D. by March 23, 2025. Students are encouraged to nominate their own work. Letters of nomination are not required. Nominees must already be Section members or must join the Section. Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible for the Burt award. Electronic copies of the paper should be submitted no later than March 23, 2025 to all members of the Burt Award Committee. Please direct any inquiries to Minjae Kim at [email protected].

Submissions: https://forms.gle/zLzZe81fvp2ve8uZ7

Economic Sociology’s Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology
The Economic Sociology Section invites nominations for the 2025 Granovetter Prize for an outstanding article published in the field of economic sociology. Eligible publications must have a 2023 or 2024 publication date. Authors are encouraged to nominate their own work. Letters of nomination are not required. Stand-alone chapters from edited volumes are eligible for this award. Nominees must already be Section members or must join the Section. An electronic copy should be sent no later than March 23, 2025 to all members of the Granovetter Award Committee. Please direct any inquiries to Victoria Reyes at [email protected].

Submissions: https://forms.gle/hV6kxRqoPstN1pLN6

Economic Sociology’s Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award
The Economic Sociology Section invites nominations for the 2022 Zelizer Book Award for an outstanding book published in the field of economic sociology. Eligible books must have a 2023 or 2024 publication date. Authors are welcome to nominate their own work. Nominees must already be Section members or must join the Section. To nominate a book, please send a hard copy of the book to all four committee members listed below by March 31, 2025. Letters of nomination are not required from ASA members. Publishers who wish to submit a book for consideration must include a nomination letter that states how the book contributes to economic sociology. Please direct any inquiries to Dan Hirschman at [email protected].

Submission information and form: https://forms.gle/TPXrVWhQ1QPHFBNz5

Environmental Sociology

The deadline for all award nominations is April 1st, 2025, with the exception of the Practice & Outreach award. The initial packet for that award is due March 1st, 2025.

Environmental Sociology Student Paper Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding paper written by a graduate student or group of graduate students. All members of the Section and the ASA are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are also welcome. In addition to recognition, recipients will receive a modest monetary award. Papers do not have to be published or accepted for publication to be considered. They must have been submitted to the ASA annual meeting and/or to a journal by a graduate student(s) at the time the nomination is made. Published papers must have been accepted for publication or published between January 1^st, 2024 and December 31^st, 2024 and while the author(s) was still a graduate student in order to be considered. Papers co-authored with faculty are ineligible. To nominate a paper, please send a PDF copy of the paper along with a nomination letter that includes information about the paper’s status by April 1st, 2025 to Policy & Research Committee Chair, Caleb Scoville ([email protected]). Please put “Environmental Sociology Student Paper Award” in the subject line.

Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award
This is given for publications of special noteworthiness in the field of environmental sociology. It is given in alternate years for either (a) a book in even years or (b) a single article in odd years. This year the committee will consider articles published within the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024. To nominate an article, please email a nomination letter by April 1st, 2025 to Policy & Research Committee Chair, Caleb Scoville ([email protected]). Please put “Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award” in the subject line.

Distinguished Contribution Award
This award is given annually to recognize individuals for outstanding service, innovation, or publication in environmental sociology. It is intended to be an expression of appreciation, awarded when an individual is deemed extraordinarily meritorious by the Section. All members of the Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. Nominations for this award must be received by April 1st, 2025. To nominate an individual for this award, please send a letter of nomination describing the nominee’s contribution to environmental sociology and/or the sociology of technology, accompanied by a copy of the nominee’s CV, to the chair of the award committee, Debra Davidson, Past-Chair, ([email protected]). Please put “Distinguished Contribution Award Nomination” in the subject line.

Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism (Bi-yearly)
The Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism, given in odd years, honors a doctoral student or other young investigator who has obtained a Ph.D. in the past five years. The purpose of the award is to recognize work that investigates the relationship between technology and humanism or otherwise proposes innovative solutions to emerging social issues associated with technology. Unpublished papers or articles published within the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024, are eligible. All members of the ASA and Environmental Sociology Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. To submit a nomination, please send the article and a nomination letter by April 1st, 2025 to Joshua Sbicca, Chair-Elect, ([email protected]). Please put “Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism Nomination” in the subject line.

The Environmental Sociology Practice and Outreach Award (Bi-yearly)
This award, given in odd years, honors faculty scholar-activists who demonstrate outstanding practice and outreach contributions that advance equity in the context of socio-environmental relations. All members of the Section are encouraged to submit nominations; self-nominations are welcome. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given to receive the award. The initial nomination should include a nomination letter (up to 2 pages) describing the practice and outreach contributions of the nominee and the nominee’s CV, and may also include up to three pieces of evidence supporting the nominee’s outstanding service and outreach accomplishments, and other evidence of especially dedicated service to the field (e.g., letter of support, examples of outreach/practice activities, media coverage, etc.). Send this initial nomination packet to Alan Rudy, Teaching, Training, and Practice Committee Chair ([email protected]) by March 1^st, 2025. Please put “Environmental Sociology Practice and Outreach Award Nomination” in the subject line.

Preliminary decisions on nominations will be made by the Committee and those selected for further consideration for the award will be asked to submit a revised nomination letter and up to 5 letters of support from any mix of community members/public representatives, colleagues, and/or students by April 15^th, 2025 for final consideration for the award.

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

The Section Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis is requesting nominations for the following awards to be given at the 2025 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship

This award recognizes those who have made distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. To nominate an individual for this award, please submit the following:

1) A letter detailing the nominee’s contributions to EMCA;

2) Relevant supporting materials, including a list of the nominee’s publications; and

3) At least two additional external letters speaking to the person’s contributions and impact on the field(s).

Please send nominations to Albert J. Meehan (Committee Chair) ([email protected]) by March 1, 2025.

EMCA Distinguished Book Award

This award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The 2025 award will be given to a book. Eligible books for the 2025 award must be published between September 1, 2022 and February 28, 2025, inclusively. Authors can submit their own publications, or nominations can be made on their behalf. Committee members may also make their own nominations.

To nominate a book for this award, contact the Committee Chair, Angela Garcia ([email protected]), who will provide the author with the mailing addresses for the members of this committee. Nominated authors should then send, or request the publisher send, a copy of the book to each award committee member. It is the nominated author’s responsibility to ensure that the book is received by the committee members by March 1, 2025. Hard copies of the nominated book are preferred by committee members, but members will accept a confidential/not for circulation PDF of the book if providing hard copies is cost-prohibitive.

EMCA Graduate Student Paper Award

This award recognizes an outstanding graduate student paper (either published or unpublished) that contributes to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. Eligible papers for the 2025 award must have been published or written between September 1, 2022 and February 28, 2025, inclusively. Authors can submit their own papers, or nominations can be made on their behalf. Committee members may also make their own nominations. Please note: Only graduate students who are current EMCA section members are eligible for this award. Section membership must be valid by the March 1st submission deadline.

Nominations must include 1) full bibliographic information on the nominated paper; and 2) a PDF copy (preferable) or a hard copy of the paper; or a link to a website where the article can be downloaded in full at no charge.

Please send nominations to Virginia Gill (Committee Chair) ([email protected]) by March 1, 2025.

Click here for a list of all previous section award winners. 

Family

The ASA Family Section Distinguished Career Award

This award recognizes the collective body of a person’s work as it relates to the sociology of the family (not a single publication). Award winners may be selected on the basis of distinguished contributions to either research or service. Service to the field includes developments (such as data sets or analytic techniques) that have had a substantial impact on family research. Please send the nominee’s CV to Christina Cross, Chair, ([email protected]) by March 10, 2025. A short letter of nomination (no longer than one page) is optional but encouraged.

The ASA Family Section William J. Goode Book Award

This award is for a book on the family published in 2023 or 2024. The committee will consider only books nominated by section members and we encourage self-nominations. Textbooks and edited volumes are not eligible. Please send an email notification of your nomination to Jessica Halliday Hardie, Chair ([email protected]) no later than January 13, 2025 and request the mailing addresses for the members of committee. Arrange for the publisher to send copies of the books directly to the committee chair and all members (6 copies total).

The ASA Family Section Article of the Year Award

This award recognizes a journal article that has made a significant contribution to the field of family sociology. The award committee will accept nominations for articles published in 2022, 2023, or 2024. Nominations may be made by the author or others. To nominate, please send an electronic copy of the article to the chair of the award committee, Kate Choi, Chair ([email protected]). The deadline for nominations is March 10, 2025.

The ASA Family Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Graduate Students are invited to submit an article-length paper on the family. The paper should represent a finished product rather than a proposal for future work. The submission can be based on a course paper, a recently published journal article, a manuscript under review at a journal, or a conference presentation. Co-authored papers are acceptable if all authors are students, although the prize will be shared. The paper must have been written when the author was enrolled in a graduate program. The paper may not exceed 30 pages or 11,000 words. Please send an electronic copy of the paper to Liana Sayer, Chair ([email protected]) by March 10, 2025. 

Global and Transnational Sociology

Global and Transnational Sociology Best Publication (Book) by an International Scholar Award
Deadline: 3/1/2025
The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2025 Award for Best Publication by an International Scholar. The award will recognize an outstanding book published in 2022, 2023, or 2024 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The author or authors must be neither US citizens nor affiliated with a US institution. When nominating an article, please include a brief comment (a couple of sentences) in the body of your email on its contribution to global and transnational sociology. Books in languages other than English must also include an English summary of the book’s approach, methods, and main findings. International scholars may not submit the same work for consideration in other award categories.

GATS is committed to countering material, institutional, and intellectual hierarchies in the social sciences in general, and among global and transnational sociologists in particular.  For this award, we are particularly interested in honoring work by scholars from the Global South, who study sites in the Global South, who are driven by theoretical, methodological, or epistemological approaches developed in the Global South, and/or who currently work at academic or non-academic institutions in the Global South. Along with your submission, if you feel comfortable, please provide a brief statement (a couple of sentences) in the body of your email explaining how your work and personal biography fit with these goals. Please feel free to include information about the type and location of institutions at which you have been trained and currently work.

International scholars can be nominated for the award without becoming ASA members, but if they win they must pay the ASA Annual Meeting registration fee, which is reduced for international scholars.

Please direct any inquiries to the committee chair, Andy Clarno, at [email protected].

The committee members prefer physical copies of the book. But if the cost of sending physical copies is prohibitive, electronic copies are acceptable. Send books and nomination letters to all committee members.

Andy Clarno
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 W. Harrison (MC 312)
Chicago, IL 60607
USA
[email protected]

Juan J. Fernández
Department of Social Sciencies
University Carlos III of Madrid
c/ de Madrid, 126
28903 Getafe
Spain
[email protected]

Mushahid Hussain
Department of Multidisciplinary Studies
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
USA
[email protected]

Global and Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Article Award
Deadline: 3/1/2025
The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2025 Best Scholarly Article Award, recognizing an outstanding article published in 2023 or 2024 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology.

No cover letter is required. Please email an electronic copy of the article to all members of the

Best Scholarly Article Committee:
Benjamin H. Bradlow, Princeton University (Chair), [email protected]
Jack Jin Gary Lee, New School for Social Research, [email protected]
Jiaqi Liu, Singapore Management University, [email protected]
Sadiyah Malcolm, University of Michigan, [email protected]

Please contact the committee chair, Benjamin H. Bradlow, [email protected] with any questions.

Global and Transnational Sociology Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: 3/1/2025
The Global and Transnational Sociology Section invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2025 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, recognizing an outstanding paper, published or unpublished, in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. The author must be a graduate student who has not received the PhD by March 1, 2025. For co-authored papers, all authors must be graduate students. When nominating an article, please include an abstract that emphasizes the paper’s contributions to the global and transnational sociology field.

Please direct any inquiries to the committee chair Katherine Jensen at [email protected]

Please email an electronic copy of the paper to all members of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee.

Katherine Jensen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Committee Chair, [email protected]
Jun (Philip) Fang – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colby College [email protected]
Sam Dinger – Sociology PhD Candidate, NYU [email protected]
Mary-Collier Wilks – Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC Wilmington  [email protected]

Global and Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Book Award
Deadline: 3/1/2025
The Global and Transnational Sociology Section solicits nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award, recognizing an outstanding book published in 2023 or 2024 (per the copyright) in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology. When nominating a book, please include a brief letter of nomination (a couple of paragraphs) explaining its contribution to the global and transnational sociology field. Please note that second editions, translations, and edited volumes are not eligible.

Please send a hard copy (or ask the publisher to send copies) of the book to each of the 5 members of the Committee. Please email the nomination letter to each committee member. If you have a question, please contact the chair of the committee, Jyoti Puri ([email protected]).

Jyoti Puri, [email protected] (Chair)
Department of Sociology
96 Cummington Street
Boston MA 02215

Elena Shih, [email protected]
Brown University
Dept of American studies
Box 1892
Providence, RI 02912

Minwoo Jung, [email protected]
Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660

Veda Kim, [email protected]
Elliott 308
Ohio Wesleyan University
61 S. Sandusky Street
Delaware, OH 43015

Chris Chih-Hua Tseng, [email protected]
4116 Social Science Plaza A
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100  

History of Sociology and Social Thought

Deadline March 15

The Lifetime Achievement Award.

To nominate a colleague for this Award, please submit a full nomination letter and the nominee’s CV.  Letters of nomination should describe the nominee’s contributions to the study of the history of sociology and/or social thought that warrant consideration.  If multiple persons wish to nominate the same person, we strongly encourage co-signers on a single nomination letter.

Please send nominations to the committee chair:

Matt Dawson, Committee Chair
[email protected]

Gary Alan Fine
[email protected]

George Steinmetz
[email protected]

Eleanor Townsley
[email protected]

Javier Trevino
[email protected]

The Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

The Award this year will focus on articles that have been published since January 2023. At least one of the authors must be a HOSST member.  Only HOSST members are permitted to make nominations. Nominators should make only one nomination. Self-nominations are encouraged. Nomination letters, in addition to including the complete citation, should also describe the scope of the publication and highlight some of its contributions to the field.

Please send nominations and email a pdf of the article to the committee chair:

Eric Malczewski, Committee Chair
[email protected]

Gary D. Jaworski
[email protected]

Amín Pérez
[email protected]

Stephen Turner
[email protected]

Graduate Student Paper Award.
Please restrict nominations to papers that focus on the history of sociology and/or social thought.  Papers authored or coauthored solely by students are eligible; faculty co-authorship is not allowed.  Eligible students include Masters and Ph.D. student members of the Section who are currently enrolled in a graduate program, or who have graduated no earlier than December 2024.  Unpublished, under review, accepted, or published papers are eligible.  If published, the paper should have appeared within the past two calendar years (i.e. a paper nominated in 2025 may have been published anytime during 2023 or 2024).  Unpublished papers should not exceed 9,000 words of text (excluding references, tables, etc.).  Self-nominations are encouraged.

Please send nominations along with an electronic version of the paper to the Committee chair:

Jean-Pierre Reed, Committee Chair
[email protected]

Andrea Cossu
[email protected]

Mervyn Horgan
[email protected]

Vanina Leschziner
[email protected]

Marek Skovajsa
[email protected] 

Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility

Application Deadline for ALL Awards: March 31, 2025

Outstanding Book Award
Awarded annually for a book nominated by a Section member and published in the three calendar years preceding the 2025 ASA annual meeting at which the award is bestowed (i.e., 2022, 2023, 2024). Self-nominations are permitted. Please send a brief nomination letter to the chair and have the book publisher contact him for the list of addresses of the committee members (Chair: Ellis Monk, Harvard University, [email protected])

Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award
Sponsored annually for an article nominated by a Section member and published in the calendar year preceding the 2025 ASA annual meetings (i.e., in 2024). Self-nominations are permitted. Please send a brief nomination letter and a pdf copy of the article to the committee chair (Chair: Jayanti Owens, Yale University, [email protected])

Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award
This award is made annually for a graduate student paper presented at a professional conference during the calendar year preceding the 2025 ASA annual meetings (i.e., 2024) or published during the same time. Papers co-authored with faculty are ineligible. Papers must be nominated by a section member. Please send a brief nomination letter and a PDF copy of the article to the committee chair (Chair: Matthew Clair, Stanford University, [email protected])

Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award
Awarded annually to mark and celebrate the field’s most fundamental accomplishments. Please send nominations to the committee chair via email. Sending a brief nomination letter and a copy of the candidate’s CV are encouraged, but only a brief email to the committee chair with the candidate’s name and current affiliation is necessary to nominate someone (Chair: Anthony Jack, Boston University, [email protected])

William Julius Wilson Early Career Award
The Wilson award is awarded annually to recognize a scholar who has made major contributions early in their career. Scholars who received their highest degree within the ten years prior to the next ASA annual meeting (i.e., 2015-present) are eligible to receive the Wilson award. Please send a brief nomination letter and a pdf copy of the candidate’s CV to the committee chair (Chair: Deirdre Bloome, Harvard University, [email protected])

International Migration

2025 Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award
This award is given annually for outstanding social science scholarship in the field of international migration to a book published within the previous 2 years. For the 2025 award, books must bear the publishing or copyright date of 2023 or 2024. Any section member may nominate a book for consideration and self-nominations are encouraged. An author can nominate more than one book (solo authored or coauthored, but not edited) in any given award cycle, though any book awarded “honorable mention” in a previous year is ineligible for the award in subsequent years.

Books published in-print will be considered the first year they are either published in print or have a formal copyright date in print,  and can be re-nominated and considered again one year after. E-Books published only online will be considered the first year they are either published online or have a formal copyright date online,  and can be re-nominated and considered again one year after. Author(s) should note the publication or copyright information, plus the first year the book was ever considered for this award, upon nomination.

Winner(s) must be members of the International Migration Section at the time of the awards ceremony. Arrangements must be made with the publisher to send the book to all committee members by March 15, 2025. Please contact the committee co-chair(s) for mailing addresses.

Committee:

Angela Garcia (Co-Chair)
University of Chicago
[email protected]

Ulrike Bialas (Co-Chair)
Max Planck Institute
[email protected]

Andrew Le
Arizona State University
[email protected]

Phil Kasinitz
CUNY Graduate Center
[email protected]

2025 Louis Wirth Best Article Award
The award is given annually to the outstanding article written by member(s) of the International Migration section published during the preceding two years (2023 or 2024). Any section member may nominate an article for consideration and self-nominations are encouraged. An author can nominate more than one article (solo authored or coauthored) in any given award cycle, though any article awarded “honorable mention” in a previous year is ineligible for the award in subsequent years. All articles will be considered the first year they are published either in print, online, or online before print, and can be re-nominated and considered again one year after.

Winner(s) must be members of the International Migration Section at the time of the awards ceremony. An abstract and electronic version of the article should be sent to the committee chair by March 15, 2025, alongside publication or copyright information, plus the first year the article was ever considered for this award.

Committee:

Jake Watson (Co-Chair)
University of California, San Diego
[email protected]

Van Tran (Co-Chair)
CUNY Graduate Center
[email protected]

Omid Asayesh
Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
[email protected]

Gabriela León-Pérez, PhD
Assistant Professor,
[email protected]

Melanie Escue, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
email: [email protected]

2025 Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award
Students from any discipline may nominate papers about any topic related to international migration broadly conceived. Any section member may nominate a paper for consideration and self-nominations are encouraged. Papers may be single or co-authored, but all author(s) must be graduate student(s) (i.e., not have a Ph.D. in hand) at the time of nomination for the award. Both published and unpublished papers are eligible. Papers must be no more than 12,000 words, including the abstract and references. Winner(s) must be members of the International Migration Section at the time of the awards ceremony. An abstract and copy of the paper should be sent via email to all committee members by March 15, 2025, with word count clearly noted.

Committee:

Ariela Schachter (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis, [email protected]
Amy Lutz, Syracuse University, [email protected]
Qian He, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, [email protected]
Soulit Chacko, [email protected], Boise State University

2025 Award for Public Sociology in International Migration
This award recognizes the work of an IM section member who addresses immigration and related issues in ways that apply scholarly knowledge directly in public work, generates such knowledge for public use, or otherwise contributes to improving the lives of migrants or refugees. This prize recognizes the value of such applied work and seeks to promote public sociology. “Public work” is broadly understood, but can include policy making, work with community organizations, advocates, a government agency, or a university, or engagement in public debate. Winner(s) must be members of the International Migration Section at the time of the awards ceremony. Members may be nominated by a scholar or community member familiar with their work. Nominations must outline the scholar’s contribution to public sociology and can include supporting documents or other letters or support. Packets should be submitted to all members of the award committee by March 15, 2025.

Committee:
Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University, [email protected]
Elizabeth Aranda (Co-chair), University of South Florida, [email protected]
Stephanie Canizales, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected]

2025 Distinguished Career Award

The award recognizes exceptional achievement and a lifetime of scholarly contribution to the field of the sociology of international migration. The letter of nomination should come from one or more IM section members and include a statement. The nomination should include a copy of the scholar’s curriculum vitae, and an assurance that the nominee has given their permission for the nomination of the award. To be eligible for the Distinguished Career Award, scholars must be members of the American Sociological Association and the International Migration section at the time the award is received (though not required at the time of nomination). Members of the award committee (i.e., the past-Chair, Chair, and Chair-elect) are not eligible to be nominated while in office. All nominated candidates will remain active for two rounds of the award. Nominations will be evaluated by the Distinguished Career Award committee. Please send nomination letters along with supporting material via email to all members of the committee by March 15, 2025.

Committee:
Zai Liang (IM Chair), State University of New York, Albany, [email protected]
Jean Beaman (IM Chair-Elect), CUNY Graduate Center, [email protected]
Jody Agius Vallejo (IM Past Chair), University of Southern California, [email protected]

Labor and Labor Movements

Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
The Labor & Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Book Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best book based on original research published in the sociology of work, the labor process, the working class, labor unions, or working class movements. To qualify, the book must have been published between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. No more than one book nomination per person is allowed. Section members are strongly urged to nominate books for the prize. Self-nominations are welcome. Authors must be members of the section at time of nomination. Please send nominations to the committee chair, Gretchen Purser at [email protected] no later than March 1, 2025. Upon receipt of your email nomination, you will be provided with the mailing addresses of the award committee members. Nominators/Nominees/Publishers will have until April 1, 2025 to send hard-copies to the committee members.

Committee:
Chair: Gretchen Purser (Chair), Syracuse University
Ruth Milkman, City University of New York
Natasha Iskander, NYU
Josh Seim, Boston College

Distinguished Scholarly Article Award
The Labor & Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Article Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best article in the sociology of labor unions, the working class or working class movements, work, or the labor process, published between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. Articles based on qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies are welcome. Research may be U.S. based, international, or global in scope. Section members are strongly urged to nominate articles for the prize. Authors must be members of the section at time of nomination. Nominations must include an electronic copy of (or link to) the article. Please send nominations to the committee chair, Pablo Gaston at [email protected] no later than March 1, 2025.

Committee:
Chair: Pablo Gaston, University of Michigan
Brad Nash, Appalachian State University
Lola Loustaunau, University of Wisconsin
Jordan Scott, Florida State University

Student Paper Award
The Labor & Labor Movements Distinguished Student Paper Award goes to what is judged by the award committee to be the best paper written by a graduate student on the sociology of work, the labor process, the working class, labor unions, or working class movements between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. Papers based on qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies are welcome. Research may be U.S. based, international, or global in scope. Published papers, papers under review, and unpublished article-length manuscripts are eligible. Authors must be enrolled students at the time the paper was written and cannot have won the student paper award in the previous 3 years. Authors must be members of the section at time of submission. The winner receives $250. Section members may self-nominate, and faculty should encourage graduate students to submit promising work. Nominations must include an electronic copy of the paper. Please send nominations to the committee chair, Ellen Reese at [email protected] no later than March 1, 2025.  Please use “LLM Student Paper Award nomination” in the subject line.

Committee:
Chair: Ellen Reese, University of California-Riverside
Katia Pilati, University of Trento
Pablo Perez-Ahumada, University of Chile
Katy Habr, Columbia University
Emily Ruppel, UC-Berkeley

The Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award
The Labor & Labor Movements Dan Clawson Activist-Scholar Award goes to an individual who demonstrates a long-standing commitment to engaging in scholarship and activism that directly addresses social and economic justice. In addition to a strong record of scholarship, the nominee should actively engage in movements for positive social change and demonstrate some of the core values central to Dan Clawson’s life: collegiality, mentorship, kindness, and generosity. A letter of nomination (2 pages single-spaced maximum please) should provide an overview of the nominee’s history of scholarship and activism. Activism should be outside of teaching. The letter should discuss how the nominee’s activist and scholarly work embody the values described above and why the individual is deserving of this award. Nominations can be made by academics and/or activists, but self-nominations will not be accepted. Nominations will be considered for five years. Nominators should email their letter to the award committee chair, Katy Fox-Hodess at [email protected] no later than March 1, 2025.

Committee:
Chair: Katy Fox-Hodess, University of Sheffield
Carolina Bank-Munoz, CUNY Brooklyn
Michael Gibson-Light, University of Denver 

Latina/o Sociology

Latina/o Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award
The Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association recognizes with this award a colleague who published an outstanding book in the area of Latina/o/x Studies in 2023 or 2024. The book should not be an edited or reprinted volume. A member of the section must nominate the book and the authors of the nominated books must be members of the section as well. Self-nominations are encouraged, but books nominated by the publisher alone will not be considered. Nominations should include a brief comment on the book’s merits and its contribution to the field of Latina/o/x Sociology. Arrangements must be made for the publisher to send copies of the book to each committee member listed below by March 1, 2025.

Sub-committee Chair:

Stephanie Ortiz  U-Mass Lowell
Dugan 205
883 Broadway Street
UMass Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854
[email protected]

Sub-committee Members:

Veronica Valencia-González
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of South Carolina
1305 Greene Street
Currell College, Rm 114
Columbia, SC 29208
[email protected]

Beatriz Aldana Marquez
221 Hilliard Street
Manchester, CT 06042
[email protected]

Diego de los Ríos
Consultant at Paradigm Strategy
18 Starfish Way
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
[email protected]

Asad Asad
Department of Sociology
450 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305
[email protected]

Latina/o Sociology Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award
The Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association recognizes with this award a colleague who has published an outstanding article in the area of Latina/o/x Studies in 2023 or 2024. Authors of nominated papers must be members of the Latina/o Sociology Section. Self-nominations are encouraged. If you are nominating an article, please send to each member of the committee a brief comment on the manuscript’s merits and its contribution to the field of Latina/o/x Sociology and a PDF copy of the article by March 1, 2025.

Sub-committee Chair: Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington – [email protected]

Sub-committee Members:

Ana Lopez Ricoy, UCSD – [email protected]
José Atiles Osoria, UIUC – [email protected]
Casandra Salgado, ASU – [email protected]

Latina/o Sociology Section’s Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award
The Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association recognizes with this award an outstanding paper authored by a student in the area of Latina/o/x Studies. The paper must have made “public appearance” in 2023 or 2024 as a class submission, delivered at a seminar, presented at a professional meeting, or accepted for publication. Self-nominations are encouraged. To qualify for the competition, the author must be a student at the time of paper submission and the paper must be either single authored by a student or co-authored with other students. Please send a copy of the paper (Word or PDF) to each member of the committee with a brief comment on the manuscript’s merits and its contribution to the field of Latina/o/x Sociology by March 1, 2025.

Sub-committee Chair: Isabel García Valdivia, University of Oregon, Eugene – [email protected]

Sub-committee Members:

Vanessa Delgado, Washington State University – [email protected]
Melanie Escue, University of North Carolina at Pembroke – [email protected]
Arturo Enamorado III, CUNY Kingsborough Community College –  [email protected]
Brian Cabral, University of Texas at Austin – [email protected]

Latina/o Sociology Section’s Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award
The Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association recognizes with this award an outstanding individual who has contributed to the field of Latina/o/x Sociology with not only scholarly publications, but also teaching and mentoring. In nominating an individual for the award, please include a letter describing this individual’s contribution to the research area of Latina/o/x Sociology, teaching and mentoring and the nominee’s CV. Examples of scholarship should be included as PDFs and not to exceed four. If you would like to submit a print copy of a book, please reach out to the committee chair for this inquiry. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Please submit nominations that include all required components via email to the committee chair, Christina Sue, by March 1, 2025.

Sub-committee Chair: Christina Sue, UT-San Antonio – [email protected]

Sub-committee Members:
Roger S. Cadena, Notre Dame – [email protected]
Nilda Flores-González, ASU – [email protected]

Marxist Sociology

The Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes distinguished career achievement in Marxist Sociology. Nominators should send a letter stating the case for the nominee and attach a copy of the nominee’s CV. The award is for a body of work of sociological importance in the area of Marxist theory and research. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given in order to receive the award. The deadline for nominations is March 3, 2025. Please send nomination materials to all committee members.

Lifetime Achievement Committee for 2024:
Kristen Plys, Chair ([email protected])
Jeff Goodwin ([email protected])
Corey Payne ([email protected])

The Marxist Sociology Teaching and Praxis Award
The Marxist Sociology Teaching and Praxis Award recognizes outstanding integration of theory and practice in the promotion and achievement of social change through teaching and scholarship by sociologists. We look for nominees who have excellent accomplishments in teaching Marxist sociology and/or have successfully blended Marxist scholarship with activism. This may involve (but is not limited to) activism, organizing, and/or outreach to encourage/facilitate social change. Nominations should include a letter of support for the nominee and other supporting materials. Self-nominations are acceptable but nominations by others are highly recommended.

Supporting materials include:
CV; teaching materials (such as syllabi, teaching statements, and creative assignments geared towards public engagements) and public scholarship materials, especially materials geared towards the public and progressive movements; at least one letter from a former student or mentee and/or a community organization or social movements; and any other supporting materials such as news articles or local or national news coverage.

The deadline for receipt of all materials is March 3, 2025. Please send materials to all committee members.

The Marxist Sociology Teaching and Praxis Award Committee for 2025:
Zeynep Gonen, Chair ([email protected])
Sara Maani ([email protected])
Zhandarka Kurti ([email protected])

The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award
The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past two years in the area of Marxist theory and research. The committee will select the book that best demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist sociology, and Marxist praxis. Nominations are sought for books that were published in 2023 or 2024. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given to receive the award.

Instructions for nominating books:
(1) Submit nomination by email. This should include standard bibliographic information about the work and a brief comment on its merits. Please send your nomination to all three committee members (see below).

(2) In addition to the nomination, a copy of the book (or a pdf) must be sent to all three of the committee members. Upon receipt of the nomination letter, the chair will reply with mailing instructions for sending hard copies should that be your submission method of choice.

The deadline for receipt of all material is March 3, 2025.

The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award Committee for 2025:
Jordanna Matlon, Chair ([email protected])
Şahan Karataşlı ([email protected])
J-P Reed ([email protected])

The Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award
The Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award goes to the author(s) of the best article published in the past two years (2023 or 2024) in the area of Marxist theory and research. The Committee will select the article that best demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist Sociology, and Marxist Praxis. We encourage nomination of a wide range of papers, including, for example, those incorporating an intersectional approach and/or an integrative theoretical framework to the study of conflict, class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and/or citizenship status. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given to receive the award. Nominees should also be members of the Marxist Sociology Section. Please send nominations to all three committee members. Nominations should include a brief statement of the merits of the article, and a pdf version of the article should be attached. The deadline for receipt of all materials is March 3, 2025.

The Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award Committee for 2025:
David Arditi, Chair ([email protected])
David Embrick ([email protected])
Lorna Zukas ([email protected])

The Albert Szymanski/T.R. Young Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
The Albert Szymanski/T.R. Young Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award is presented to the author(s) of the best graduate student paper drawing on a Marxist theoretical framework. The competition is open to papers written or published online or in print during the period from January 2022 to December 2024. Papers should be roughly 25 pages in length, not including tables, figures, charts, or references. The committee will accept sole-authored and multiple-authored papers as long as the applicant is lead author. No student-faculty collaborations can be accepted. In accordance with ASA policies, the recipient must be a current member of the association at the time the award is given. The committee will select the paper that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist Sociology, or Marxist Praxis. The award includes a prize of $250 (to be split among multiple authors). The deadline for submissions is March 3, 2025. All submissions, including a pdf of the nominated paper, must be sent electronically to all three committee members; questions should be sent to the chair, Suzy Lee ([email protected]).

Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee for 2025:
Suzy Lee, Chair ([email protected])
Nadeem Mansour ([email protected])
Mahvish Ahmad ([email protected])

Mathematical Sociology

The Mathematical Sociology Section invites nominations for five awards to be given in 2025. For all awards, nominators and nominees must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section at the time the nomination is submitted. Self-nominations are welcome. This year all nominations should be made via the Mathematical Sociology website: https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Award for Progress in Mathematical Sociology

This award is given annually for a discovery, technical innovation, or invention representing a significant contribution to progress in mathematical sociology. The contribution may have been made at any time prior to the award year. While this contribution will ordinarily be described in one or more publications, this award recognizes the intellectual contribution itself, and not any publication arising from it. Up to three individuals may share a given award, provided that all meet the selection criteria. The committee will generate nominations and also encourages nominations from section members. Nominators and nominees must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section. Self-nominations are welcome. Chair, Xi Song ([email protected]). Please submit nomination letters here by March 15, 2025: https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Harrison White Outstanding Book Award

This award is given biennially in odd-numbered years for an outstanding book in mathematical sociology. Eligible books must have been published during the four years prior to the award year (2019-2022). Only members of the Mathematical Sociology section are eligible to be nominated or to submit nominations for this award. Self-nominations are welcome. Chair, Natasha Quadlin ([email protected]). Please submit nominations here by February 1, 2025: https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Outstanding Article Publication Award in Mathematical Sociology

This award is given annually for a published article making significant contributions to mathematical sociology. Eligible papers must have a publication date during the three years before the award year, that is, in 2021-2024. Nominators and nominees must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section at the time the nomination is submitted. Self-nominations are welcome. Chair, Yongren Shi, Chair ([email protected]). Please submit articles and a nomination letter by March 15, 2025 here:  https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award in Mathematical Sociology

This award is given annually for a paper that makes a significant contribution to mathematical sociology. Papers can be published or unpublished. The submission can consist of a dissertation chapter, but not the entire dissertation. Eligible papers must have been written while the corresponding or first author was still a graduate student and during the three years before the award year, that is, in 2021-2024. Multiple-author papers are admissible, provided that the corresponding or first author meets the eligibility requirements and no non-student is co-first author. In the case of multi-authored papers with non-student authors, a letter from the most senior non-student author is required which describes the student(s) contributions. Nominators and nominees must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section at the time the nomination is submitted. Self-nominations are encouraged. On multiple-author papers including non-student authors who are Section members, the award is shared by the eligible student authors. Please submit (1) a copy of the paper, (2) a brief nomination letter describing the reasons for the nomination, and if relevant (3) a co-authorship letter.  (Faculty co-authorship letters may be sent separately in case of self-nomination; in that case, please indicate the name of the co-authorship letter writer in the nomination letter.) Chair, Charlie Gomez, ([email protected]) by March 15, 2024. Please submit nomination information here by March 15, 2025: https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Geoffrey Tootell Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award

This award, given annually, provides a grant of $5,000 to meet some of the scholarly expenses of a student whose dissertation employs mathematics in an interesting, imaginative, or ingenious way to advance sociological knowledge. The applicant should submit a copy of the approved dissertation proposal, with a list of any requirements added by the graduate committee. The application packet should also include a letter of support from the student’s sponsor, which describes the student’s qualifications for completing the work and the potential importance of the project. Applicants must be members of the Mathematical Sociology Section and must agree to remain members through the period to be covered by the grant. Please submit a copy of the dissertation proposal and an application letter. (Letters of support may be sent separately in cases of self-nomination; please indicate the name of the letter writer in the application letter.) Chair, Cassie McMillan ([email protected]). Please submit the proposal and application letter here by March 15, 2025: https://mathematicalsociology.wordpress.com/section-awards/

Medical Sociology

Leo G. Reeder Award

The Medical Sociology Section invites nominations for the 2026 Leo G. Reeder Award to be awarded at the annual meeting of the Medical Sociology Section in New York. This award is given annually for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology. This award recognizes scholarly contributions, especially a body of work displaying an extended trajectory of productivity that has contributed to theory and research in medical sociology. The Reeder Award also acknowledges teaching, mentoring, and training as well as service to the medical sociology community broadly defined. Please submit letters of nomination and the nominee’s curriculum vitae to Dr. Lijun Song ([email protected]) with the subject line: 2026 Reeder Award Nomination. Nominations are due by April 1, 2025. The nominee and at least one nominator must be current section members. Nominations will be retained for 2 years. After 2 years of consideration nominators will be notified that they can either withdraw or update their nomination materials. Note: If a person nominated for the Reeder Award is currently a member of the Medical Sociology Section Council, the nomination will be deferred until the person is no longer on the Council.

Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award

The Freidson Award is given in alternate years to a book or journal article published in the preceding two years that has had a major impact on the field of medical sociology.  The 2025 award will be given to a journal article published in the preceding two years (i.e., 2023 or 2024 according to the date published with a volume number for articles).  The article may deal with any topic in medical sociology, broadly defined. Self-nominations are encouraged. The nominator and at least one author must be current section members. This year, we are no longer requiring nomination letters, and are instead asking nominators to complete a nomination form using this link: https://forms.gle/nUEQNVVmQvQV8p946 . Alternatively, you are welcome to send your nomination (including the name of the nominee/nominator, full citation of the article, and a PDF of the article) to [email protected] with the subject line 2025 Freidson Award. Nominations are due no later than March 1, 2025.

Simmons Award

Nominations are being accepted for the 2025 Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award. The award is given each year by the Medical Sociology section. The awardee will receive a $750 travel grant to attend the ASA meetings. Self-nominations are encouraged. Eligible candidates must have defended their doctoral dissertations within two academic years prior to the annual meeting at which the award is made. To be considered for the 2025 award, the candidate should submit an article-length paper (sole-authored), not to exceed thirty-five double-spaced pages (11- or 12-point font), inclusive of references. This paper may have been previously published, in press, or under review. A letter of recommendation from a faculty mentor familiar with the candidate’s work is also required. Please send all materials to Dr. Emily Vasquez ([email protected]) with the subject line: 2025 Simmons Award Nomination. Deadline for receipt of all submission materials is April 1, 2025. The nominator and nominee must be current section members.

Howard B. Kaplan Memorial Award in Medical Sociology

This award is established to support graduate students doing research in one of the substantive areas that defined the distinguished academic career of Dr. Howard B. Kaplan, namely mental health, self-concept and health, or deviance, by providing funds up to the amount of $500 to contribute to expenses associated with attending the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Self-nominations are encouraged. To be considered for the 2025 award, the candidate should submit a curriculum vitae and faculty letter of nomination to Dr. Megan Reynolds ([email protected]) with the subject line: 2025 Kaplan Award Nomination. Deadline for receipt of all submission materials is April 1, 2025. The nominee must be a student member of the ASA, a student member of the Section, and currently enrolled as a graduate student at the time the award nomination is submitted.

Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology

The Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology will give one award to a book and one award to a journal article that deploys the concepts and methods of medical sociology to an applied issue or problem of significance. The Light Award recognizes sociologists whose professional work or advocacy contributes to politically or ethically important challenges in health, health care, or health care policy at the national or international level. This year, we are no longer requiring nomination letters for the Light awards. For the article award, we ask nominators to fill out this form and then email a copy of the article to Dr. Cathy van de Ruit ([email protected]) with the subject line: 2025 Donald W. Light Award. For the book award, the candidate should email Dr. Susan Short ([email protected]), who will provide the committee’s addresses to which the candidate will send copies of the book. The deadline for receipt of all submission materials is March 1, 2025. To be eligible, the book or article must have a publication date during the preceding two years (i.e., 2023 or 2024, according to copyright for books and date published with a volume number for articles). The nominator and at least one author must be current section members. Self-nominations are invited.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL NOMINEES MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF THE ASA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SECTION AWARDS

Methodology 

Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award
Awarded annually, the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award recognizes a career of outstanding contributions to sociological methodology. Please send CV and a nomination letter to the award committee chair Elizabeth Wrigley-Field at [email protected], with subject line “Lazarsfeld Award,” by March 1, 2025. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Leo Goodman Award
Awarded annually, the Leo Goodman Award recognizes contributions to sociological methodology or innovative uses of sociological methodology made by a scholar who is no more than 15 years past the date of the Ph.D. Please send CV and nomination letter to committee chair Jenny Trinitapoli ([email protected]) by March 1, 2025. Please use the subject line “Goodman Award.” Self-nominations are encouraged.

Innovation Award
Awarded biennially, the Innovation Award recognizes a discovery, innovation, or advancement representing a significant contribution to sociological methodology. The contribution may have been made at any time prior to the award year. While this contribution will ordinarily be described in one or more publications, this award recognizes the intellectual contribution itself, and not any publication arising from it. Please send nomination letters to Ian Lundberg ([email protected]), the award committee chair, by March 1, 2025.  Self-nominations are encouraged.

Outstanding Publication Award
Awarded annually, the Outstanding Publication Award recognizes an outstanding article or book in sociological methodology published in print (or, for online only publications, released online) the four calendar years preceding the ASA annual meeting at which the award is bestowed. The award alternates between recognizing books and articles, with book awards in odd years, like 2025. Nominees should have a copy of their book mailed to each member of the award committee by March 1, 2025. Please email the chair of the committee, Daniel Karell ([email protected]), for the committee members’ mailing addresses. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Clifford C. Clogg Award (graduate student paper)
Awarded annually, the Clifford C. Clogg Award recognizes an outstanding graduate student paper in sociological methodology. Please send manuscript and a brief nomination letter to award committee chair Corey Abramson [email protected] with the subject line “Clogg Award Submission” by March 1, 2025. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.

Organizations, Occupations, and Work

James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award
The James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award is given for an outstanding graduate student paper in the area of organizations, occupations, and work, written or published within the last three years (2022, 2023, 2024).  Publication date is based on print publication for traditional journals (i.e., not online-first date) and release date for online-only journals.  Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate a paper, please submit the following materials via email to all members of the committee: (1) a PDF of the paper, (2) a brief letter highlighting the paper’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work, and (3) contact information for the nominee.  Use “Thompson Paper Award Nomination 2025” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2025 to:

Aliya Hamid Rao (Committee Chair)
London School of Economics
[email protected]

Richard Scott Article Award
The W. Richard Scott Article Award is granted for an outstanding article in the area of organizations, occupations, and work published within the last three years (2022, 2023, 2024).  Publication date is based on print publication for traditional journals (i.e., not online-first date) and release date for online-only journals.  Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate an article, please submit the following materials via email to all members of the committee: (1) a PDF of the article, (2) a brief letter (PDF or MSWord) highlighting the article’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and (3) contact information for the nominee.  Use “Scott Article Award Nomination 2025” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2025 to:

Eunmi Mun (Committee Chair)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
[email protected]

Max Weber Book Award
The Max Weber Book Award is granted for an outstanding book in the area of organizations, occupations, and work published within the last three years (2022, 2023, 2024).  Self-nominations are welcome.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

To nominate a book, please submit via email a nomination letter highlighting the book’s contributions to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and work and including contact information for the nominee.  Use “Weber Book Award Nomination 2025” as the subject line of your email.  In addition, send a hard copy of the book to each committee member at the mailing addresses provided below.  Books should be received by the submission deadline.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2025 to:

Anne-Kathrin Kronberg (Committee Chair)
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
[email protected]

Mailing address:
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
476 Fretwell Building 9201
University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223

Matthew Clair
Stanford University
[email protected]
Mailing address:
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 120
Stanford, CA 94305

Erin Hatton
Department of Sociology
University at Buffalo
404 Park Hall
Buffalo, NY  14260
[email protected]

Arvind Karunakaran
Stanford University
[email protected]
Mailing address:
475 Via Ortega, #206
Stanford, CA 94305

Ya-Wen Lei
Harvard University
[email protected]
Mailing address:
Harvard University
Department of Sociology
33 Kirkland Street, Room 620
Cambridge, MA 02138

Martin Ruef
Duke University
[email protected]
Mailing Address:
344 Reuben Cooke Building
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0088

Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award
The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a career of outstanding contributions to the area of organizations, occupations, and work.  Nominations are judged on the depth and breadth of impact through scholarship, teaching and/or service over an extended time and across multiple projects, initiatives, and roles.  All nominations must come from members in good standing of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  However, nominated candidates need not be members of the Section or the ASA in order to be eligible for the award.

The section retains and considers nominations for the Kanter Award over a 3-year cycle.  Thus, this year’s committee will consider nominations submitted in 2023, 2024, and 2025.  Nominations submitted in 2025 but not selected will remain in the pool for the 2026 and 2027 award years.

To submit a nomination, send the following materials to the selection committee: (1) a letter of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s contributions to the field, (2) a copy of the nominee’s most recent curriculum vitae, and (3) contact information for the nominee (including email address). Nomination materials may also include supporting letters and up to 10 of the nominee’s publications in electronic form.  All nomination materials should be in PDF or word format and submitted as email attachments (a single email if possible).  Use “Kanter Career Award Nomination 2025” as the subject line of your email.  To receive full consideration, nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2025 to:

Ken-Hou Lin (Committee Chair)
University of Texas – Austin
[email protected]  

Peace, War, and Social Conflict

The Peace, War, and Social Conflict section is pleased to offer four awards this year, to be presented at our section business meeting during the ASA conference. Please see below for descriptions of each award. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2025.

The Peace, War and Social Conflict Section’s Robin M. Williams, Jr Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service: The Section shall give an Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching, and Service named to honor Robin Williams to recognize his contributions to the study of social conflict, conflict resolution, and war as well as his role as a founding member of the Section. This award shall honor a longstanding Section member who has had an outstanding scholarly career in the study of peace, war, genocide, military institutions, or social conflict; has made important contributions to teaching the sociology of peace, war, and social conflict; and/or has given outstanding service to the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. To submit a nomination, please submit a nomination letter to: https://forms.gle/T5FASSf2ck4ZwEAfA  or for more information, contact Selina Gallo-Cruz at [email protected].

The Peace, War and Social Conflict Section’s Outstanding Book Award: The Section gives an award for the best book on issues related to peace, war, and/or social conflict. Nominations are requested from members of the section, and all books relevant to the section’s interests published in the previous year (i.e., published in 2024) are eligible. Please send a nomination for a colleague or a self-nomination email to Prof. Jon Gordon at [email protected] to get specific instructions about where to send copies of your book.

The Peace, War and Social Conflict Section’s Elise Boulding Student Paper Award: The section offers a student paper award, named in honor of Elise Boulding to recognize her contributions to the study of peace and her role as a founding member of the Section. Papers submitted for the student paper award should be unpublished; published papers or those accepted for publication should be submitted for the published article award. We welcome submissions from undergraduate and graduate students. All authors should be students at the time of submission. Self-nominations are permissible. Word limit 12,000. Please send submissions to Andrew Davis at [email protected].

The Peace, War and Social Conflict Section’s Outstanding Published Article: The Section gives an award for the best published journal article. Nominations are solicited from members of the section, and all papers relevant to peace, war, and/or social conflict that were published in the previous calendar year (i.e. , published in 2024) are eligible. Please send nominations, including PDFs of the article/chapter, to Dr. Lea David at [email protected]. Self-nominations are permissible.

Political Economy of the World-System

The PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award

Nominations are invited for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award. The award honors the life and legacies of Immanuel Wallerstein and shall be for the best book or books published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2023 or 2024). Nominations for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award should include a brief statement of how the book is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the book to be sent to all members of the book award committee. Both electronic nomination letters for the book award, and hard copies of the nominated book, should be sent to the entire committee. Nominations are due by March 3, 2025. The author(s) of the book (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. Nominations by Black, ethnic minority, female, and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. For further information, including committee members’ mailing addresses, please contact Marina Karides at [email protected].

Committee Members:

Marina Karides (Chair)
[email protected]
Professor and Undergraduate Chair
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Department of Geography and Environment
2424 Maile Way, 445 Saunders Hall (Office 416)
Honolulu, Hawai’i 96822

Marilyn Grell-Brisk
[email protected]
Organizational Studies Field Group
1050 N Mills Ave
Claremont, CA 91711

Smriti Upadhyay
[email protected]
Assistant Professor
Dartmouth College
Department of Sociology
20 N Main Street
6104 Blunt 3rd Floor
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Sefika Kumral
[email protected]
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1009 Spring Garden St.
337 Frank Porter Graham Building
Greensboro NC 27412

The PEWS Distinguished Article Award

Nominations are invited for the PEWS Distinguished Article Award. To be eligible, papers must be published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2023 or 2024). Nominations should include a brief statement of how the article is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the article to be sent via email to all members of the article awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The author(s) of the nominated article (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact Şahan Savaş Karataşlı at [email protected].

Committee Members:
(Chair) Şahan Savaş Karataşlı
[email protected]

Marcel Paret
[email protected]

Michelle Lee
[email protected]

The PEWS Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award

This annual award is given to the best graduate student paper in the political economy of the world-system. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2023 or 2024 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Papers co-authored by a faculty member and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one paper nominated. Nominations should include a brief statement of how the paper is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the paper to be sent via email to all members of the paper awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The author(s) of the nominated paper (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact Şahan Savaş Karataşlı at [email protected].

Committee Members:
(Chair) Şahan Savaş Karataşlı
[email protected]

Marcel Paret
[email protected]

Michelle Lee
[email protected]

The PEWS Anti-Oppression Award

Please consider nominating a colleague or self-nominating for the PEWS Anti-Oppression Award. This biennial award is given to a member of PEWS who is an outstanding advocate against oppression in any form. This award recognizes an individual who embodies the characteristics outlined in the PEWS Anti-Oppression Statement, who promotes anti-oppression through thoughtful interpersonal actions that acknowledge power inequalities, and who demonstrates a sustained commitment to dismantling structures of oppression, inequality, and exclusion (including, but not limited to, those within universities and other institutions of scholarly exchange).

The nomination materials should include:

• A letter of nomination detailing the nominee’s specific efforts to dismantle structures of oppression through their work either/both inside or/and outside the academy.
• At least 1 letter of support detailing the nominee’s outstanding contributions and commitment to dismantling institutional barriers or supporting liberatory movements. Other evidence can be submitted but is not required.
• A current CV for the nominee.

Please send these materials electronically to the Award Committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The nominee must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Self-nominations are encouraged. The Award is open to members at any rank or institution. For further information, please contact Corey Payne at [email protected]

Committee Members:

Corey Payne (Chair)
[email protected]

Ricado Jacobs
[email protected]

Eirinn-Jingifer Neel
[email protected]

Political Sociology

The Distinguished Career Award in Political Sociology
Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a lifetime of contributions to the area(s) of political sociology. Nominations will be judged on the depth and breadth of the scholar’s impact on political sociology over the course of their career. Nominees must be at least a quarter of a century beyond graduating with their Ph.D. Section members may nominate a distinguished scholar by sending:

1. A letter (PDF or MSWord) of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s scholarly contributions to the field and provides assurance of the candidate’s willingness to be nominated;
2. A copy of the candidate’s most recent curriculum vitae, and
3. The full contact information for the nominee (including email address), to the nominating committee below with the email subject heading “2025 Political Sociology Career Award.”

The Distinguished Career Award Committee:

Dana R. Fisher (chair), [email protected]
Caroline Lee, Lafayette College, [email protected]
Ching Kwan Lee, [email protected]

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA Annual Meeting.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award in Political Sociology
Deadline: February 15, 2025

This award is given annually to an outstanding recent book in political sociology (edited books are not eligible for this award). To be eligible, submissions must have a 2024 publication date. A nomination letter is not necessary. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or nominations of work by others but nominations from publishers will not be accepted. Please send a hard copy of the book to the following committee members, with the note indicating that it is to be considered for the 2025 Political Sociology Book Award:

Daniel Laurison (chair)
[email protected]
Sociology & Anthropology
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore PA 19081

Bart Bonikowski
[email protected]
Department of Sociology, NYU
383 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Leslie Gates
[email protected]
Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
4400 Vestal Parkway East
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Julian Go
[email protected]
Department of Sociology
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Bo Yun Park
[email protected]
Jepson School of Leadership Studies
Richmond University
Jepson Hall 236
221 Richmond Way
Richmond, VA 23173

Shivani Choudhary
[email protected]
Department of Sociology
Yale University
493 College St
P.O. Box 208265
New Haven, CT 06520-8265

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA Annual Meeting, allowing presses to advertise the prize-winning book.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology
Deadline: March 15, 2025

This award is offered annually for an outstanding recently published article or chapter in political sociology. To be eligible, submissions must have a 2024 publication date. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or nominations of work by others. (Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.)

Please submit:
1. A brief nomination letter, and
2. A copy of the article or chapter

All materials should be sent to the chair of the selection committee at the chair’s e-mail address below, with the subject heading “2025 Political Sociology Article Award”:

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Boston College, (chair) [email protected]
Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California (chair), [email protected]
A.K.M. Skarpelis Department of Sociology, CUNY Queens College, [email protected]
Kristopher Velasco, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, [email protected]

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA Annual Meeting.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 15, 2025

This award is offered annually for the best graduate student paper in political sociology. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2024 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Articles co-authored by a faculty member are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.

Please submit:
1. A brief nomination letter, and
2. A copy of the paper, article, or chapter

All materials should be sent to each selection committee member at the e-mail addresses below, with the subject heading “2025 Political Sociology Grad Student Paper Award”:

Lynette Ong, University of Toronto (chair), [email protected]
Mathieu Desan, University of Colorado, [email protected]
Zheng Fu, Columbia University, [email protected]
Livio Silva-Muller, Geneva Graduate Institute,  [email protected]

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA Annual Meeting.

Race, Gender, and Class

Early/Mid-Career Award
The Race, Gender, and Class Early/Mid-Career Award was established to honor ASA RGC section members who have made significant contributions to the development of the field of race, gender, class, and related intersections given their rank as an early or mid-career scholar. Please submit your nominations to Ghassan Moussawi, Committee Chair, by Friday, March 30, 2025. Complete nominations include name and contact information of nominator and nominee, up to 250-word rationale for the nomination, a list of up to 4 significant contributions (including but not limited to publications, creative projects, research initiatives, innovations in teaching/pedagogy, policy interventions, depth of mentorship, and the like), and current CV. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominee or Nominator must be a member of the RGC section. To be eligible for the award, nominees must have PhD within the past 15 years (for this year’s award, PhD in hand no earlier than 2010).

Contact the committee chair if you have any questions.
Chair: Ghassan Moussawi ([email protected])
Committee is made up of all council members

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award
This award recognizes scholars who have made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through the publication of a book on the “cutting edge” of sociological inquiry. We accept nominations of books published (in print) in 2022, 2023, or 2024. Edited collections are not eligible. Nominations may be submitted by the author or by others, and we encourage self-nominations. Authors must be members of the section unless membership costs would present a hardship (in such cases, please email the committee chair with a brief explanation). To nominate a book, please send a letter of nomination not exceeding two pages that states why the book makes a significant contribution to the field of race, gender, class, and related intersections. Letters of nominations will be acknowledged by the Chair of the Book Award Committee, who will respond with information about where to send 6 copies of the nominated book. Please do not send books before receiving a response to the nomination. The deadline for nominations is February, 20, 2025; books must be received by all committee members by March 6, 2025 to be eligible.

Committee Members:

Jelani Ince (Committee Chair, [email protected])
Lisa Covington ([email protected])
Carla Salazar Gonzalez ([email protected])
Uriel Serrano ([email protected])
Mahala Stewart ([email protected])
Laurel Westbrook ([email protected])

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award
This award recognizes scholars who have made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through the publication of a journal article or book chapter on the “cutting edge” of sociological inquiry. We accept nominations of articles and book chapters published (in print) in 2022, 2023 or 2024. Nominations may be submitted by the author or by others, and we encourage self-nominations. At least one author of each submission must be a member of the Race/Gender/Class Section, unless membership costs would present a hardship (in such cases, please email the committee chair with a brief explanation).

To nominate an article, please send the following via email:

• Letter of nomination (not exceeding two pages) that explains the article’s or chapter’s significant contribution to the field of race, gender, and class;
• Complete citation of the work in ASA style; and
• Electronic copy of the article or chapter.

The deadline for nominations is March 6, 2025. Please send complete nominations in a single email to Article Award Committee Chair.

Chair: Deborwah Faulk [email protected]

Graduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes graduate students whose papers have the potential to make a significant contribution to the integrative field of race, gender, and class through a currently unpublished paper on the “cutting edge” of sociological inquiry. Eligible papers must be unpublished, sole-authored, or authored with other graduate students and written while the author was enrolled as a graduate student in 2022, 2023, or 2024. Nominations may be submitted by the author or by others. We encourage self-nominations. The author must be currently enrolled or hold a terminal MA degree. At least one author of each submission must be a member of the Race/Gender/Class Section unless membership costs would present a hardship (in such cases, please email the committee chair with a brief explanation). The paper can be no longer than 25 pages, please.

To nominate a paper, please send the following via email no later than March 15, 2025:

• Letter of nomination (not exceeding two pages) that explains the paper’s significant contribution to the field of race, gender, and class;
• Name(s) of the author(s)
• Title of the paper
• Statement confirming that you are (or a co-author is) a current member of the section
• A PDF copy of the paper (no longer than 25 pages)

Please send your questions and submissions to the Committee Chair, Marisela Martinez-Cola, at [email protected]

The members of the committee are:

Nino Bariola, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Carrie Carter, PhD Student, North Carolina State University
Celeste Curington, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Kevin Moseby, Assistant Professor, University of Akron

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

2025 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025

SREM’S Founder’s Award for Scholarship and Service was established in 2007 with a donation from Professor Charles Smith (one of the original founders of the SREM section) to recognize career excellence in scholarship as well as in service. For this award, scholarship is defined in terms of substantive academic (theoretical, empirical, or applied) contributions, while service is defined as professional and/or community service. A plaque will be presented at the SREM reception.

Nominations must include electronic copies of the following:

1. A letter of nomination outlining the nominee’s accomplishments and contributions–scholarly and service oriented– in the area of race and ethnicity
2. A copy of the nominee’s current curriculum vitae
3. Two representative scholarly publications by the nominee

Nominees must be a member of the section. Self-nominations are not accepted for this award. Please email a nomination letter and copies of all materials to the Committee Chair only, Tsedale M. Melaku, [email protected].

Committee Members:

• Chair: Tsedale M. Melaku. Ph.D., Baruch College, CUNY
• Joseph Guzman, Ph.D., Clark University
• Loren Henderson, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Eileen O’Brien, Ph.D., Saint Leo University
• Oneya Okuwobi, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

 2025 Joe Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes the best undergraduate student paper that centers race and/or ethnicity in its analysis and/or makes an important theoretical, methodological, or empirical contribution in the field of Race and Racism, including the study of racialized caste outside of the United States. Paper topics may include but are not limited to: intersectional analyses, relational analyses of race, interdisciplinary analyses of race, or examinations of emergent topics of interest such as racialization, racialized emotions, new racisms, critical race theory, etc. Papers (with a maximum length of 25 pages, double spaced, not including references) submitted for this award must be entirely student-authored and written when the author was an undergraduate student. Current undergraduate students and those who have completed their undergraduate degree no earlier than January 2025 are eligible. Self nominations and nominations by faculty advisors or other faculty members are welcome. The award includes $200. Please complete the associated Google Form (https://forms.gle/SmAZK8yyA6muCAzLA) to submit the paper and nomination letter. The winner must be a member of the section by the time the awards are determined. Please direct any questions to the committee chair ([email protected])

Committee Members:

• Julio Ángel Alicea (Committee Chair; Rutgers University-Camden)
• Jay Colond (University of California, Merced)
• Sadie Pendaz-Foster (Inver Hills Community College)
• Trina Vithayathil (Providence College)
• Patrice Wright (Howard University)
• Pamela Zabala Ortiz (Boston University)

2025 James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2025
The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2025 James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award. This award recognizes the best graduate student paper (authored by one or more graduate students) that focuses on the relation between or issues relevant to socially divided racial and ethnic groups. Eligible papers should make important theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical contributions in the field of Race/Racism Studies. Critical and/or innovative scholarship is encouraged. Papers submitted for this award must be entirely student-authored and written while the author was and/or authors were graduate student(s). Current graduate students and those who have completed their degree no earlier than January 2024 are eligible. Self-nominations and nominations by faculty advisors or other faculty members are welcome. The award includes $200.

The paper should be submitted in electronic form attached to an email including the student’s name, address, telephone number, email address, institutional affiliation, and graduate student status (i.e., year in the program and expected date of MA or PhD completion) to the Committee Chair only.  Nomination letters are not required and will not be considered in deliberations.

Committee Chair: Victoria Reyes ([email protected])

2025 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award
The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2023 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award. This award recognizes the author(s) of the best research article in the sociological study of race and ethnicity published in the past three years. Eligible articles for consideration must be published in 2022, 2023 or 2024 and must be “in print” versus “online-first,” unless the venue of publication is online only. To nominate a journal article, please email the following: 1) a copy of the article and 2) contact information for the nominee(s) (including email) to Committee Chair M. Isabel Ayala, [email protected]. Do not submit a nomination letter.

2025 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award

The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2025 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award. This annual award honors the memory of Oliver Cromwell Cox. The award recognizes sociologically related books published in the last two years (2023 or 2024 publication date) that make a distinguished and significant contribution to the study and eradication of racism. Books will be evaluated on 1) contribution to the eradication of racism, as well as 2) timeliness, 3) novelty, and 4) overall significance and contribution to theories of race and ethnicity, processes of racialization, and racism. Edited volumes are ineligible for this award.

All books must be nominated, and the committee encourages self-nominations and nominations of work by others. Nominees must be members of the section; if membership costs present an economic hardship, include a brief explanation as part of the nomination. No books will be accepted by publisher nomination alone. To nominate a book, inform the committee chair that the book is being nominated (no letter required) and include the nominees’ contact information (including email).

Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025

Please have publishers send one physical copy and one digital copy of the book to the Chair and each committee member listed below:

Raúl Pérez, Committee Chair
[email protected]
University of La Verne
Department of Sociology
1950 3rd St, La Verne, CA 91750

Saugher Nojan
[email protected]
San Jose State University
Dept: DMH Sociology
One Washington Sq.
San Jose, CA 95192

Dan Morrison
[email protected]
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Department of Sociology
10011 Bayreuth Dr SE,
Huntsville, AL 35803

Victoria Reyes
[email protected]
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
CHASS Interdisciplinary Building 2033
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Ali Meghji
[email protected]
University of Cambridge
6 Kimberley Road
Cambridge
Cb4 1hh
United Kingdom 

Science, Knowledge, and Technology

STAR-NELKIN BEST PAPER AWARD
Deadline: 3/15/2025

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association invites nominations for the 2025 Star-Nelkin Paper Award. ASA-SKAT welcomes nominations (including self-nominations) of published articles that advance the field of sociology of science, knowledge, and technology. To be eligible, an article’s earliest date of publication in a scholarly journal (whether online or in print) must have been in 2023 or 2024. The winner will be honored at the ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago (August 2025). Please email a copy of the nominated article in PDF format to the award committee chair, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer ([email protected]) by March 15, 2025. No nominating statement or letter is required (nor will be considered as part of the committee’s review of nominations). We especially encourage submissions of work written by scholars who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC). Send any requests for more information to the award committee chair. Please note that all nominees must be registered members of the ASA and SKAT to be considered for this award.

MERTON BOOK AWARD
Deadline: 1/15/2025

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2024 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2024 or 2023). Single or multi-authored works are eligible, but not edited volumes. The winner will be honored at the ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago (August 2025). The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2025. Nominations or requests for more information should be sent to the committee chair, Joan Robinson ([email protected]). No nominating statement or letter is required (nor will be considered as part of the committee’s review of nominations). Print copies of nominated books must be received by all committee members by February 15, 2025. Please contact the committee chair for mailing addresses. All nominees must be registered members of the ASA and SKAT to be considered for this award.

HACKER-MULLINS STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Deadline: 3/15/2025

The Science, Knowledge and Technology Section invites submissions for the 2025 Hacker-Mullins Graduate Student Paper Award. The winner will be honored at the ASA meetings in Chicago (August 2025) and will receive a certificate and a $350 monetary prize. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025.

We welcome and encourage self-nominations. We especially encourage submissions of work written by scholars who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC). To be eligible, the primary author must be a student at the time of the paper’s writing, and a student or postdoc at time of submission to the award. Published and unpublished papers of no more than 10,000 words are accepted (excluding references); if published, the article must have been published no earlier than 2023. Each student may submit only one paper in which they are the primary author. For papers co-authored with faculty members, a paper is eligible if the graduate student of the paper is the primary author and the non-student author must attest to the student’s primary role in the design, execution, and writing of the paper.

Please send a PDF of the nominated paper to the committee chair, Alexandra Vinson, at [email protected]. In the submission email, please include information about the status and provenance of the paper: if it has benefitted from peer review, if it has been considered or accepted for publication, or if it is an unpublished part of a dissertation or project. In addition, please indicate whether the student author has achieved PhD candidacy. These are not requirements for the award but will assist the committee in considering equity.

All nominees must be registered members of both ASA and SKAT to be considered for this award. Student membership is at a reduced rate. If this presents a financial hardship for you, please contact the chair (Alexandra Vinson – [email protected]) to discuss options.

2025 Emancipatory Practice Award Call for Nominations (for reference)
Deadline: 3/15/2025

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section invites nominations for the Emancipatory Practice in SKAT Award. This award recognizes the often-hidden contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to the pursuit of anti-racist social change, either by supporting BIPOC communities within our subfield or by supporting broader public engagement with SKAT knowledge and principles. SKAT research encompasses a broad range of topics, including the production, circulation, and understanding of scientific, technical and medical knowledge, the social shaping and impact of science and technology, and impact of science and technology on society. Nominations are welcome for creative contributions and work not traditionally recognized in the academy, including mentoring, public engagement through social media/blogs, activist leadership, artistic works including films, and social justice curriculum development.

The emancipatory practice award alternates between non-academic and academic recipients. In even years, nominees should be non-academic, and in odd years, they should be academic. Because this is a call for 2025, the committee invites academic nominees. If a collective contribution is nominated, 1-2 leaders should be identified to receive the award. In addition to identifying as BIPOC, nominees may be at any career stage. The Emancipatory Practice award comes with a $250 prize. SKAT welcomes nominations for this award of people who are not currently SKAT (or ASA) members.

Nomination letters should name a person who identifies as BIPOC and describe the relevant contribution the nominee has made, specifying how the contribution supports BIPOC communities in SKAT or has implications for public engagement with SKAT knowledge in the spirit of anti-racism. Nomination letters should be no more than 2 single-space pages in length, and if relevant, the nomination letter should include a link to a website, blog, or other social media platform.

Nominations should be emailed to Melanie Jeske ([email protected]), Chair of the Anti-Racism in SKAT Committee. Please include the contact information of the nominator for potential follow-up. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. SKAT also welcomes nominations for this award from people who are not currently SKAT (or ASA) members.

2025 Ida B. Wells-Troy Duster Paper Award for Early Career Scholars
Deadline: 3/15/2025 

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section invites nominations for written scholarship that develops understanding of Black, African American, or Indigenous intersections with science, knowledge, and technology in the spirit of anti-racism. The award honors sociologist Troy Duster (past President of ASA, and mentor to many), and his pathbreaking grandmother Ida B. Wells. Priority will be given to work that, in the tradition of both Wells and Duster, involves pioneering investigation of neglected areas of social injustice. Early career scholars are eligible for this award, and preference will be given to applicants who are Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). Eligible works include work in progress and published articles and chapters of no more than 10,000 words. Published works must have publication dates of no more than two years prior to award year (2023 for the 2025 award). The Wells-Duster Award comes with a $500 prize.

SKAT welcomes nominations (and encourages self-nominations) for this award from people who are not currently SKAT (or ASA) members. The award will come with membership in the SKAT section for one year if the selected recipient is an ASA member. Self-nominations are especially encouraged from students, postdoctoral scholars, and those in contingent or short-term academic positions. Nominees may put forward their work for consideration for this award and for any of the other SKAT awards at the same time.

The nominating statement should (a) briefly describe the written work; (b) summarize how it develops an understanding of Black, African American or Indigenous intersections with SKAT; and (c) explain what makes it a pioneering investigation of a neglected area of social injustice. The statement must also briefly describe the nominee’s current position and whether they are BIPOC. If the work has multiple authors, the contributions of the nominee to the design, execution, and writing of the work must be specified in the nominating statement. Please send nominated work and the brief nominating statement in one PDF document, via email, to Melanie Jeske ([email protected]), Chair of the Anti-Racism in SKAT Committee.

Social Psychology

Cooley-Mead Award
Deadline: January 20, 2025

The Social Psychology Section is seeking nominations for the 2025 Cooley-Mead Award. The Cooley-Mead Award is given annually to an individual who has made lifetime contributions to distinguished scholarship in sociological social psychology. In addition to receiving the award, the recipient presents an address to the Social Psychology Section at the 2025 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. In 2024 the award went to Brian Powell. Prior winners of the Cooley-Mead Award are listed at: https://www. socialpsychologyasasection.com/cooley-mead-award.html Nominations must be received (email only) by January 20, 2025, and should include a brief description of the career contributions that make the candidate deserving of the award. Please send to Sarah Thebaud (University of California-Santa Barbara), Committee Chair, at [email protected].

Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology
Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Social Psychology Section of the ASA invites submissions for the 2025 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award. In 2025, the award will be given to an article published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024. Nominations must include a .pdf file of the article or chapter and a brief statement (one or two paragraphs) regarding its merits. To be eligible for the award, the first author of the article must be a member of the ASA Social Psychology Section. In addition, the nominators mustbe members of the ASA Social Psychology Section. Self-nominations are welcome. Please send submissions by March 15, 2025 to the chair of the committee, Sarah Harkness (University of Iowa) at Harkness, [email protected].

Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Social Psychology Section of the ASA invites submissions for the Graduate Student Paper Award. The paper should be article length. Eligible papers include those that, between March 2023 and March 2024, were submitted for a class or seminar; filed as a thesis or dissertation; presented at a professional meeting; submitted or accepted for publication; pre-published on a journal website; or published. Authors of eligible papers must be graduate students and members of the Social Psychology Section at the time the paper was submitted. Authors may only submit one paper for consideration each year. Multi-authored papers may be submitted if all authors are students and section members, but the prize must be shared. The recipient(s) will receive $500. Please send a .pdf version of the paper by March 15, 2025 to Tony Love (University of Texas, Dallas), chair of the committee, at [email protected].

Graduate Student Investigator Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The Social Psychology Section of the ASA invites submissions for the 2025 Graduate Student Investigator Award. The award provides support for an innovative and outstanding research project that makes a significant contribution to social psychological scholarship. The proposed research may serve as the applicant’s dissertation, thesis, or other publishable research. The award provides up to $1,000 to meet some of the research expenses associated with the proposed research. The funds can be used for research expenses such as data collection, data analysis software packages, equipment, and travel. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a sociology program to submit. To apply, interested students should submit: (1) a proposal of no more than 8 double-spaced pages (page count does not include references, figures, tables, or appendices), (2) a budget describing how the funds will be used, (3) a curriculum vitae, and (4) a supporting faculty reference. The graduate student applicant should first fill out the form at this link. The faculty reference form and the faculty reference letter can be submitted at this link.

The proposals should be organized as: a) introduction, b) background/theory, c) methodology (specifying data, sampling, measurement, and IRB approval plans/status), and d) significance/impact for sociology and social psychology. Measurement instruments and other supplementary material can be included as an appendix to the proposal.

Applications will be evaluated using the following criteria: theoretical significance, creativity, the appropriateness and quality of the methods, and the potential contribution to the field of social psychology. The student applicant must be a current member of the ASA Social Psychology Section. A student may only submit one application for consideration each year. Please send a PDF version of the proposal, CV, and budget in one document by March 1, 2025 to Ashley Reichelman (Virginia Tech University) [email protected], chair of the committee.

Sociological Practice and Public Sociology 

Awards committee: 

Caren Arbeit, chair, [email protected]
Lorella Palazzo [email protected]
Marybeth C. Stalp [email protected]
Allison Roberts [email protected]

Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section William Foote Whyte Career Award

The Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section recognizes up to two individuals who have made notable contributions to sociological practice which can include several of the following elements: outstanding clinical, applied or public sociological work; exceptional service to the section; publications that advance both the theory and methods of sociological practice or public sociology; or mentoring and training of students for careers in sociological practice or public sociology.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Nominees are not required to be Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section members but membership is strongly encouraged. Nominees are required to be members of the American Sociological Association.

One to three nomination letters describing the nominee’s notable contributions and qualifications for the award should be submitted along with the nominee’s current CV to the chair of the awards committee, Caren Arbeit, [email protected] by March 1st, 2025.

Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section Robert F. Dentler Student Practitioner Award

The Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section recognizes up to two graduate students who have made a promising contribution to the field, such as a project or paper in the area of sociological practice or public sociology. Work can be done in the three years prior to the conferral of the award.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Nominees are not required to be Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section members but membership is strongly encouraged. Nominees are required to be members of the American Sociological Association.

One to three nomination letters describing the nominee’s notable contributions and qualifications for the award should be submitted along with the nominee’s current CV to the chair of the awards committee, Caren Arbeit, [email protected] by March 1st, 2025.

Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section Publication Award

The Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section recognizes up to two publications that have made significant contributions to applied and public sociology. The award is given for a white paper, policy report, essay published as a book chapter or official report, or an article published in a scholarly journal during the preceding 3 years.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Nominees are not required to be Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section members but membership is strongly encouraged. Nominees are required to be members of the American Sociological Association.

One to three nomination letters describing the author or authors’ contributions in the application of sociological practice and public sociology and/or demonstrated public impact should be submitted along with the nominee(s)’ current CV to the chair of the awards committee, Caren Arbeit, [email protected] by March 1st, 2025.  

Sociology of Body and Embodiment

Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Article Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

The Sociology of Body and Embodiment Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2025 Best Article Award. The award committee welcomes submissions of articles that advance the field of sociology of body and embodiment. For an article to be eligible, the earliest date of publication (whether online first or print) must have been in calendar year 2023 or 2024. In accordance with ASA policy, winners must be members of the section. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters will not be considered in the awards process. Please email the committee chair, Asia Friedman, at [email protected] with a PDF copy of the article, and please include the name(s) and email address(es) of the nominee(s). The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2025.

2025 Best Article Award Committee:
Asia Friedman, Chair
Joss Greene
Jennifer Mueller
Michelle Smirnova

Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Book Award Call
Nomination Deadline: February 15, 2025

This award recognizes the best book published between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024 that makes a significant contribution to the sociology of body and embodiment. Books that advance the understanding of body and embodiment as well as those that take an intersectional approach are of particular interest to the committee. Self-nominations are welcome as are co-authored works. To be considered for this award, all nominees must be current members of the Body & Embodiment section. To nominate a book for this award, 1) fill out this form by February 15, 2025 and the Committee Chair, Alka Menon, will reach out to the author with the mailing addresses for the members of this committee, and 2) nominated authors will send, or request the publisher send, a copy of the book to each award committee member. It is the nominated author’s responsibility to ensure that the book is received by the committee members by March 1, 2025. Hard copies of the nominated book are preferred by committee members, but members will accept a confidential/not for circulation PDF of the book if such is cost prohibitive. Nomination letters will not be accepted or considered. Contact the Committee Chair, Alka Menon, at [email protected] with any questions.

2025 Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Book Award Committee:
Alka Menon, Chair
David Hutson
Jinsun Yang
Dana Berkowitz
Zoe Muzyczka

Sociology of Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025

We invite submissions for the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award. The 2025 award recognizes the best paper (published or unpublished) by one or more graduate students. All authors must be graduate students at the time the paper is submitted for the award. If published, the paper must have been published since January 1, 2023. Self-nominations are welcome. The winner of this award must be a current member of the section on the Body and Embodiment as of June 1, 2025. To nominate an article for this award, please send an email to the committee chair, Danya Lagos ([email protected]) with a PDF copy of the paper and the email subject “Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award.” Nomination letters will not be accepted or considered. All nominations must be received by March 1, 2025.

2025 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:
Danya Lagos, Chair
Nadia Kim
Paige Sweet
Brandon Alston

Sociology of Consumers and Consumption

The Consumers and Consumption Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Deadline: Friday, March 29, 2025

The Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Section Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award will go to the author(s) of the best academic article or book chapter that makes a significant, original contribution to the understanding of ideas about and practices of consumption. Please note that the annual scholarly publication award alternates between books/edited collections and articles/book chapters. In 2025, the award will go to an academic article or book chapter.

Eligibility: The competition is open to articles and book chapters published in the last two years (March 2023-March 2025). Self-nominations are welcome.

• Authors must be members of the Consumers and Consumption Section at the time of nomination.
• Submissions must be published; manuscripts accepted for publication are not permitted.
• Co-authored submissions are permitted, provided the applicant is the lead author/editor.
• The same publication may not be nominated for both Section awards (Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award and Student Paper Award).
• The same publication may not be submitted for consideration for subsequent years’ awards

To apply: Send a nominating letter that outlines the work and its significance, along with a pdf of the article or chapter, to each committee member at the email addresses listed below. Nominations not accompanied by a nomination letter will not be considered for the prize. The deadline for receipt of all materials for this award is Friday, March 29, 2024.

Committee: 

• Patricia A. Banks (Committee Chair), Mount Holyoke College, [email protected]
• Joel Stillerman ([email protected])
• Matt Rafalow ([email protected])

The Consumers and Consumption Student Paper Award
Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2025 

The Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Section Student Paper Award goes to the graduate student paper that, from the submitted works, is found to offer the most thoughtful, thorough, holistic, and/or innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue related to aspects of the sociology of consumption. This includes subjects dealing with theoretical and/or empirical questions related to consumers, consumption, commodities, commodification (of relationships, interactions, in the workplace, and beyond), and/or consumer markets; this work can engage with a larger body of research on these topics. 

Eligibility: The award is open to both published and unpublished article-length papers (roughly 25 pages in length, not including tables or references) written by a graduate student in the last two years (March 2023-March 2025). Self-nominations are welcome.

• At the time of nomination, each nominated author must be an active Consumers and Consumption Section member (please reach out to the committee if there are financial concerns).
• Works including student-faculty authorship will not be accepted.
• Co-authored papers are permitted, provided all authors are students and the award applicant is the lead author.
• If the paper was accepted for publication, the nominee must have been a student at the time of acceptance.
• At the time of submission, the nominated paper cannot have been published (i.e., it is acceptable to nominate a paper that has been submitted for consideration; if the paper is accepted during the award review process, that is acceptable). Unpublished paper submissions may be nominated for a future award. 

To apply: All applications must include the paper and a nominating letter that outlines the paper and its significance (the nominating letter can be written by the paper’s author). Nominations that are not accompanied by a nomination letter will not be considered for the prize.  

Please include all committee members in the email (see below) with the subject line, “Consumers and Consumption: Student Paper Nomination”.  

The deadline for receipt of all materials for this award is by end of day (11:59pm, est) Friday, March 28, 2025. 

Committee: 
Amanda Koontz (Chair), [email protected]
Nino Bariola, [email protected] 
Dan Cassino, [email protected]   

Sociology of Culture

Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

Books published in the calendar year 2024 (as per the print edition) are eligible for this award. Authors must be section members to be eligible. In case of co-authored books, at least one author must be a section member. Authors should nominate their book through this online form. The deadline is January 31st, 2025.

When their nomination is received, authors will be sent details of the preferred postal addresses of committee members. To be considered, all the committee members must receive hard copies of the book by February 15, 2025.

Please direct any inquiries to committee co-chairs Hajar Yazdiha or Anna Schwenk.

Committee Members:

Hajar Yazdiha (Co-Chair)
Anna Schwenk (Co-Chair)
Peter Ore
Shyon Baumann
Ana Villereal

Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article

Section members may nominate articles and original chapters of edited collections published in calendar years 2023-2024. Self- nominations are strongly preferred. Authors must be members of the Culture Section. In case of co-authored articles, at least one author must be a section member.

Please make submissions through this online form.  Submissions that are not accompanied by an explanation for how the article contributes to the sociological study of culture will not be considered for the prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations and articles is March 1, 2025.

Please direct any inquiries to committee chair, Aliza Luft ([email protected])

Committee Members:
Aliza Luft (Chair)
AKM Skarpelis
Peter Francis Harvey
Neha Gondal
Kristopher Velasco

Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper

Section members may nominate any work (published or unpublished), written by someone who is a student at the time of submission.

Self-nominations are welcome, through this form. Authors must be members of the Culture Section. In case of co-authored articles, at least one author must be a section member.

Email an electronic copy of the paper to each member of the award committee. Submissions that are not accompanied by an explanation for how the article contributes to the sociological study of culture will not be considered for the prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations and articles is March 1st, 2025.

Please direct any inquiries to the committee chair, Elisabeth Becker ([email protected] ).

Committee Members
Elisabeth Becker (Chair)
Ankit Bhardwaj
Taylor Laemmli
Taylor Price
Kangsan Lee

Stuart Hall Award for Advancing the Cultural Study of Racial or Ethnic Inequality 

The annually organized Stuart Hall Award in Cultural Sociology recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for advancing the cultural study of racial or ethnic inequality. The winner must be a cultural sociologist who uses cultural theories and/or methods in their research. They must have received a Ph.D. no less than five, but no more than 20, years before their candidacy. The winner will be expected to deliver a lecture in the course of the academic year following the award as part of the Section’s Culture and Contemporary Life Series. An adapted version of the lecture will be published in Poetics.

Nomination letters should make a strong, substantive case for the nominee’s selection and should discuss the nominee’s past work and anticipated future research trajectory as they relate to the study of both cultural sociology and the sociology of race and ethnicity. Self-Nominations are preferred. Nomination letters and CVs as well as an article-length publication, which exemplifies the author’s contribution to the advancement of the cultural study of racial or ethnic inequality should be submitted through this form.

The committee may be in touch to request copies of writings that are not easily accessible. The deadline for nominations is March 1st 2025.

The committee may, in any given year, decide not to give the award.

Please direct any inquiries to the Committee Chair, Clayton Childress ([email protected]).

Committee Members:
Clayton Childress (Chair)
Ben Carrington
Michaela DeSoucey
Omar Lizardo
Tania Aparicio

John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant

The John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant awards $1,000 each to two racially or ethnically under-represented graduate student at a public institution studying any topic.  The recipient must be a member of the Sociology of Culture section.

This grant recognizes that scholars of color, especially graduate students, have been historically, systematically disadvantaged in academia and uses a commitment of material resources to acknowledge this harm and offer a small means of redress going forward.

Criteria for the award will be based on graduate student standing, merit, and need. Application materials include a CV, a dissertation abstract, an explanation as to how the grant will be used to expand your research beyond existing resources, and a brief explanation of your identity as a member of a racially or ethnically underrepresented group.

Please submit your application using this online form.

Committee Members:
Nino Bariola (Chair), [email protected]
Jyoti Puri, [email protected]
Casandra Salgado, [email protected]

Applications are due February 15, 2025.  Notifications will be sent in advance of ASA.

How to Make a Donation:

People interested in donating to the grant can do so electronically here. If you wish to send a check it will need to include a cover letter identifying the section and purpose of the funds (i.e. it should clearly state that the funds are intended for the Sociology of Culture section’s John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant). Here you can find a template of a cover letter for making a donation.

The ASA’s address for this purpose is the following:

American Sociological Association
c/o Governance Department
1717 K St NW, Ste 900
Washington DC 20006

Please simultaneously also email the section’s COO ([email protected]) to alert them of the donation. Upon receiving the funds, the section’s secretary will then earmark them for the grant and coordinate with the John Mohr Grant Committee the allocation and distribution of the funds.  The current donors that fund the John Mohr Award donate yearly. Donors can, of course, choose to donate year by year or to do so just once. If you plan to donate yearly, we request that you communicate to the COO expressing your interest in this regard. The secretary would then reach out to you each year (in September) to remind you about your donation.

About John Mohr:

John Mohr pioneered cultural research on meaning and measurement in sociology, focusing on institutional processes of meaning-making on topics ranging from poverty relief to institutional diversity initiatives. He spent his career at the University of California – Santa Barbara, and at different times served as Chair of the Culture Section and the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Behind the scenes, in a variety of roles, he dedicated his time and resources to diversity and equity initiatives. He died in 2019 of complications due to ALS.

As an incredibly supportive mentor and a brilliant scholar, John Mohr left a substantive mark on an entire generation of cultural sociologists. Testaments of his immense influence in the field are the collective book Measuring Culture (Columbia University Press) and the special issue of Poetics co-edited by two of Mohr’s advisees.   

Sociology of Development

Sociology of Development Book Award

All books published in 2023 or 2024 are eligible for nomination. Please submit a brief nomination letter (self-nominations are welcome) along with a copy of the nominated book to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.

Nikhil Deb (Chair)
Social Sciences Department
Cal Poly
Bldg. 47, Rm. 13
1 Grand Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0329
Email: [email protected]

Rina Agarwala
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
533 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: [email protected]

Ricado Jacobs
Global Studies Department (Mail Code: 7065)
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7065
Email: [email protected]

Zophia Edwards
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
560 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218.
Email: [email protected]

Li Zhang
105 Room
11 Barrett Hill Dr,
Amherst, MA, 01002
Email: [email protected]

Sociology of Development Faculty Article Award

Please send a letter of nomination and an electronic version of the article to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.  If the article has been published, the copyright date must be 2023 or 2024.  However, unpublished articles are also welcome, and self-nominations are encouraged.

Holly E. Reed (Chair)
Queens College, City University of New York
[email protected]

Jason Mueller
Kennesaw State University
[email protected]

Catherine van de Ruit
Ursinus College
[email protected]

Robert Wyrod
University of Colorado Boulder
[email protected]

Sociology of Development Graduate Student Paper Award

Please send a letter of nomination and an electronic version of the article to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.  If the article has been published, the copyright date must be 2023 or 2024.  However, unpublished articles are also welcome and self-nominations are encouraged.

Benjamin Bradlow (Chair)
Princeton University
[email protected]

Livio Silva-Muller
Geneva Graduate Institute
[email protected]

Elena Shih
Brown University
[email protected]

Sociology of Education

James Coleman Award for Best Article

The American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociology of Education invites nominations for the James Coleman Award for Best Article. The James Coleman Award annually honors the author of the best article in the field of sociology of education published in the preceding two years and based on the date of the paper’s journal’s volume issue. Nominations should include a PDF of the article and a letter of nomination that describes the article’s substantive, theoretical, methodological, and/or policy contributions to the field of the sociology of education. Nominations may be made by either an ASA member or the nominee(s) themselves. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Nominations are due March 1, 2025.

Materials should be sent to Emily Handsman, Chair of the James Coleman Best Article Award Committee, at [email protected].

Please use the subject line: James Coleman Award.

James Coleman Award Committee Members:
Emily Handsman (Chair)
Mary Kate Blake
Oren Pizmony-Levy

Doris Entwisle Early Career Award 

The Doris Entwisle Early Career Award is awarded biennually (alternating with the Willard Waller Award for lifetime achievement) to honor a scholar who has not yet achieved the status of associate professor for early career achievement in the field of Sociology of Education.

Nominations are due by March 1, 2025 and should include the nominee’s CV and a letter with a detailed description of the nominee’s contributions to the sociology of education. Self-nominations for this award are accepted and encouraged.

Materials should be sent to the committee chair, Chana Teeger, at [email protected].

Doris Entwisle Award Committee Members:
Chana Teeger  (chair)
Derron Wallace
Deni Mazrekaj

David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper Award 

This annual award honors a current graduate student who has written the best published or unpublished sociology of education paper disseminated during the previous year.

Nominations are due by March 1, 2025, and should include a PDF of the paper and a letter of self-nomination that describes the paper’s substantive, theoretical, methodological and/or policy contributions to the field of the sociology of education. The paper may be co-authored so long as the first author is a current graduate student and all the authors were graduate students at the time the paper was written. A previously submitted paper cannot be re-submitted. Submissions should approximate the length of a typical peer-reviewed journal article.

Materials should be sent to Edward Morris, Chair of the David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, at [email protected].

Please use the subject line: David Lee Stevenson Award

David Lee Stevenson Award Committee Members:
Edward Morris (chair)
David Rangel
Johann Quinn
Alma Nidia Garza
Meghan Mingo

Bourdieu Best Book Award

The Bourdieu Best Book Award is given annually to honor the best book in the field of the sociology of education published in the preceding two years. Self-nominations are permitted.

A letter of nomination is due by March 1, 2025, and should describe the book’s substantive, theoretical, methodological, and/or policy contributions to the field of sociology of education.

The individual nominating the book must send the letter of nomination to the Bourdieu Best Book Award Committee’s chair, Paul Hanselman, [email protected], with “Bourdieu Award Nomination” in the subject line. Following receipt of this letter, Paul will send the nominator a list of mailing addresses for all book award committee members.

Bourdieu Book Award Committee:
Paul Hanselman (Chair)
Ilana Horowitz
Jennifer Nelson
Peter Rich

Anna Julia Cooper Award

Established in 2022, the Anna Julia Cooper Award acknowledges exceptional research and/or service in efforts to address racial equity within the field of sociology of education. It is awarded annually and alternates between an early career award and a lifetime achievement award. This year, it will be a lifetime achievement award.

A nomination letter is due by March 1, 2025. It should include the nominee’s CV and a letter with a detailed description of the nominee’s contributions to addressing racial equity in the field of sociology of education. Self-nominations for this award are accepted. Materials should be sent to Deniz Yucel at [email protected].

Anna Julia Cooper Award Committee:
Deniz Yucel
Karlyn Gorski

Please note that all nominees must be registered members of the ASA to be considered for section awards. We encourage nominations of and from traditionally marginalized authors. 

Sociology of Emotions

No Awards Submitted Yet for 2025

Sociology of Human Rights

ASA Human Rights Section Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award
The Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award Committee of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Human Rights is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award. The award recognizes a book published in the last two years (2023 or 2024) that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue that is germane to the section’s main interests (for a description of the section, see https://www.asanet.org/asa_sections/sociology-of-human-rights/ ). Books that either intervene in ongoing debates or fill gaps in the literature are especially encouraged. In light of the pluralism of the section, the committee welcomes books from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. All books must be nominated, and the committee encourages self-nominations and the nominations of work by others. Nominations should include a written statement, no longer than 2 pages, explaining the book’s contribution to the social scientific analysis of human rights. The award will be presented to the winner at the section’s Business Meeting.

To nominate, please send a nomination letter and a copy of the book to all members of the Award Committee by March 15, 2025.

The 2025 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award Committee
Minwoo Jung (Chair), email: [email protected]
Katherine Jensen, email: [email protected]
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, email: [email protected]

ASA Human Rights Section Graduate Student Paper Award
The Graduate Student Paper Award Committee of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Human Rights is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Award. This award goes to the author of the best paper on human rights written by a graduate student or students, as deemed by the Committee. The Committee will accept sole-authored and multiple-authored papers as long as the nominee is the lead or senior author. No collaborations between students and faculty members will be accepted. Eligible student authors include members of the Human Rights section who are masters or doctoral students, and who are currently enrolled or who graduated no earlier than December 1, 2024. The competition is open to both unpublished and published article-length papers (roughly 25 double-spaced pages, without tables or references) written in the last two years (2023 or 2024). Only one award will be given.

The Committee will select the paper that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, and innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue that is germane to the Human Rights section’s main interests (for a description of the section, see https://www.asanet.org/asa_sections/sociology-of-human-rights/ ). Papers should be grounded in the social scientific analysis of human rights. Papers that either intervene in ongoing debates or fill gaps in the literature are especially encouraged. The Committee welcomes papers from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The award will be presented to the winner at the section’s Business Meeting.

To be nominated, please send an electronic version of the paper to all members of the Graduate Student Paper Award Committee by March 15, 2025. Self-nominations are encouraged.

The 2024 Graduate Student Paper Award Committee
Jillian LaBranche, email: [email protected]
Samuel Dinger, email: [email protected]
Yen Tung Lin, email: [email protected]

ASA Human Rights Section Best Scholarly Article Award
The Best Scholarly Article Award Committee in Human Rights is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Best Scholarly Article Award. The award recognizes an article published in the last two years (March 15, 2023 to March 15, 2025) that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent, or innovative analysis of a theoretical or empirical issue that is germane to the Section on the Sociology of Human Rights’ main interests (for a description of the section, see https://www.asanet.org/asa_sections/sociology-of-human-rights/ ). Articles that either intervene in ongoing debates or fill gaps in the literature are especially encouraged. In light of the pluralism of the section, the committee welcomes articles from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches.  All articles must be nominated, and the committee encourages self-nominations and nominations of work by others. Nominations should include a written statement, no longer than a page, explaining the article’s contribution to the social scientific analysis of human rights. The award will be presented to the winner at the section’s Business Meeting.

To be nominated, please send a nomination letter and an electronic copy of the article to the Chair of the Award Committee by March 15, 2025.

The 2025 Best Scholarly Article Award Committee:
Wes Longhofer (Chair), email: [email protected]
Nicole Iturriaga, email: [email protected]
Susan Pearce, email: [email protected]

Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations

Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Best Article Award
Deadline:  April 15, 2025
The section on Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations seeks nominations for the 2025 Best Publication Award for an article that has had a major impact on the field of Indigenous sociology. The award will be given to an article published in print in either 2022, 2023, or 2024 that advances an understanding of the issues, worldviews, and experiences of Indigenous Peoples and struggles around the globe. Self-nominations and co-authored works are welcome. At least one author must be a current section member. (Alternating annually between a Book Award and an Article Award.)

Please send your nomination with an attached PDF of the article by email to all members of the Award Committee:

• Dwanna McKay [email protected]
• Rowan Greywolf Moore [email protected]
• Laurel Davis-Delano [email protected]
• Heidi Nichols [email protected]

Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Graduate Student Article Award
Deadline:  April 15, 2025
The section on Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations seeks nominations for the 2025 Graduate Student Award that has had a major impact on the field of Indigenous sociology. The 2025 award recognizes the best article by a graduate student. Self-nominations are welcome. The article may deal with any topic and/or approach that is reflective of the IP/NN section’s purpose to advance scholarship that addresses the decolonial struggles of Indigenous Peoples globally. We especially encourage ARTICLES on research and teaching with, by, and for Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations. Self-nominations and co-authored works are welcome. Students must be a current section member. (Alternating annually between a Dissertation Award and an Article Award.)

Please send your nomination with an attached PDF of the article by email to all members of the Award Committee:

• Dwanna McKay [email protected]
• Rowan Greywolf Moore [email protected]
• Laurel Davis-Delano [email protected]
• Heidi Nichols [email protected]

Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Outreach Award
Deadline:  April 15, 2025
The section on Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations seeks nominations for the Outreach Award. This award recognizes scholarly projects that support community engagement, relationships, and reciprocity. We invite scholarly projects that are reflective of the IP/NN section purpose to advance scholarship that addresses the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, resists the settler colonial foundations of sociology, and challenges the illusion that “colonialism happens elsewhere” while still attending to decolonial struggles of Indigenous Peoples globally. We especially encourage scholarly projects that are organized with, by, and for Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations. The nominee(s) must be current section members. Self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged.

Required materials include:

• Brief nomination letter of no more than 2-3 paragraphs
• Brief biographies (200-500 words) of project member(s)
• A statement of project impact and origin
• A statement of support from a community and/or community organizations. We will accept written and/or video/audio forms of letters of support.
• Any other supporting materials such as news articles (local or national news coverage) and/or public scholarship materials.

Send your nomination letter and the supporting materials by email to all members of the Award Committee:

• Dwanna McKay [email protected]
• Rowan Greywolf Moore [email protected]
• Laurel Davis-Delano [email protected]
• Heidi Nichols [email protected] 

Sociology of Law

Distinguished Book Award
Deadline: February 15, 2025
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award recognizing an outstanding book published in 2023, 2024, or 2025 in the sociology of law.  Self-nominations are welcomed.  Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members, but persons nominating books must be section members at the time of nomination.  To nominate a book, please submit a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field to the award committee chair, Ari Waldman ([email protected]), who will provide the names and addresses to which copies of the book should be mailed.  In the subject line of your email please write “ASA Sociology of Law Nomination for Distinguished Book Award.” Committee members: Ari Ezra Waldman, UC-Irvine (chair); Heba Alex, University of Chicago; Oscar R. Cornejo Casares, Davidson College; and Amy Jones Haug, Berea College

Distinguished Article Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Article Award recognizing an outstanding journal article published in 2023, 2024, or 2025 in the sociology of law.  Self-nominations are welcomed.  Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members.  To nominate an article, please submit a PDF of the article, together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Celene Reynolds ([email protected]).  In the subject line of your email please write “ASA Sociology of Law Nomination for Distinguished Article Award.”  Committee members: Celene Reynolds, Indiana University Bloomington (chair), Beatriz Aldana Marquez, University of Connecticut; Katie Durante, University of Utah; and Daanika Gordon, Tufts University

Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 1, 2025
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award recognizing an outstanding paper written in 2023, 2024, or 2025 in the sociology of law.  The author (or first author, in the case of multiple authorship) must have been a graduate student when the paper was written.  Self-nominations are welcomed, as are nominations by faculty advisors or other section members.  Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members.  If unpublished, nominated papers must be double-spaced and article length.  To nominate a paper, please submit a PDF of the paper (in published or unpublished form), together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Rahim Kurwa ([email protected]).  In the subject line of your email please write “ASA Sociology of Law Nomination for Graduate Student Paper Award.” Committee members: Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois Chicago (chair), Walker Nelson Kahn, University at Buffalo; Jasmine Simington, University of Michigan; and Gillian Slee, Stanford University

Undergraduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The Sociology of Law Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizing an outstanding paper written in 2023, 2024, or 2025 in the sociology of law.  The author must have been an undergraduate student when the paper was written.  Self-nominations are welcomed, as are nominations by faculty advisors or other section members.  Nominees need not be members of the section, although they are encouraged to become members.  If unpublished, nominated papers must be double-spaced and article length.  To nominate a paper, please submit a PDF of the paper (in published or unpublished form), together with a brief letter highlighting its contributions to the field, to the award committee chair, Jessie K. Finch ([email protected]).  In the subject line of your email please write “ASA Sociology of Law Nomination for Undergraduate Student Paper Award.” Committee members: Jessie K. Finch, Northern Arizona University (chair); Jonathan Bleiweiss, University of Cincinnati; and Julio Montanez, University of Central Florida 

Sociology of Mental Health

Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions

This award is given for distinguished contributions to the sociological study of mental health. Thanks to a generous donation from Leonard Pearlin, the mental health section of the ASA has created this annual award. The award honors a scholar who has made substantial contributions in theory and/or research to the sociology of mental health. Nominations should include a CV of the nominee and a letter of support describing the nominee’s contributions to the sociology of mental health. Nominations should be sent to the Awards Committee Chair for the Mental Health Section, Marisa Young at [email protected] by January 15, 2025.

Award for Best Publication in Mental Health

This award is given for the best published article or chapter in the area of the sociology of mental health. To be eligible for the award, the publication must have appeared in print between August 2023 and August 2025. The awards committee will also conduct a search of works published in the past two years for potential candidates for this award. Letters of nomination for this award should be sent to the Awards Committee Chair for the Mental Health Section, , Marisa Young at [email protected], by February 1, 2025

Award for Best Book in Mental Health

This award (established in 2024) is given for the best published book in the area of the sociology of mental health. To be eligible for the award, the book must have appeared in print between August 2022 and August 2025. The awards committee will also conduct a search of books published in the past three years for potential candidates for this award. Physical or electronic copies must be made available to the nomination committee for consideration. Letters of nomination for this award should be sent to the Awards Committee Chair for the Mental Health Section, Marisa Young at [email protected], by February 1, 2025

Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health

This award is given for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of the sociology of mental health. To be considered for this award, the dissertation must have been defended within the two academic years (2023-2024 and 2024-2025) prior to the annual meeting. While not required, a letter from your dissertation advisor would be helpful. Please send a letter of nomination and a dissertation synopsis or a paper based on the dissertation to the Awards Committee Chair for the Mental Health Section, Marisa Young at [email protected], by March 1, 2025.

Graduate Student Paper Award

This award is given to a current graduate student member of the section for the best published or unpublished article, book, or chapter in the area of mental health. To be considered for this award, the paper must have been completed within the two academic years (2023-2024 and 2024-2025) prior to the annual meeting by a current graduate student as the first author. Papers authored by more than one student are acceptable but papers coauthored with faculty are not eligible. Section members are encouraged to submit nominations. Self-nominations from graduate student members of the section are also welcome. Please send a letter of nomination and a paper to the Awards Committee Chair for the Mental Health Section, Marisa Young at [email protected], by April 1, 2025.

Sociology of Population

Otis Dudley Duncan Award (Book Award)
Deadline for Nominating: February 1, 2025

The Sociology of Population section is accepting nominations for the Otis Dudley Duncan Award. This award will be presented to the author(s) of a recent book that has made significant contributions to the sociology of population, broadly construed. Books published in the last three calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024) will be considered. Please send a letter of nomination with a brief description of the book and its contribution to the sociology of population by email to all members of the committee. Self-nominations are welcome. Please also ensure that all committee members receive a copy of the book (these may be requested from the publisher). Nominations and books should be sent by February 1, 2025. Membership in the Sociology of Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award but is encouraged. Please send nominated books to each committee member at the addresses below.

2025 Otis Dudley Duncan Award Committee:

Chair: Ashton Verdery, [email protected]
712 Oswald Tower
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

Victor Agadjanian
Department of Sociology
206 Haines Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551

Asad L. Asad
Department of Sociology
450 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305

Jenny Trinitapoli
Department of Sociology
The University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award
Deadline for Nominating: March 1, 2025

The Sociology of Population section is accepting nominations for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award. The award recognizes an outstanding published article in the sociology of population, broadly construed. To be eligible, articles must have a 2023, 2024, or 2025 publication date. Please send a letter of nomination with author name(s), title, date of publication, and a brief statement explaining the significance of the work and its contribution to the sociology of population. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations and a copy of the article must be emailed to all committee members by March 1, 2025. Membership in the Sociology of Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award but is encouraged.

2025 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award Committee:

Chair: Emily Rauscher, Brown University, [email protected]
Leafia Ye, University of Toronto, [email protected]
Fernando Riosmena, University of Texas at San Antonio, [email protected]
Abigail Weitzman, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected]

Student Paper Award
Deadline for Nominating: March 1, 2025

The Sociology of Population section is accepting nominations for the best student paper in the sociology of population. This award consists of a certificate and $500 award. The paper must use a sociological perspective to address an issue of relevance to contemporary demography, broadly construed; purely technical papers are not eligible. The paper can be published or unpublished and should be article-length (approximately 40 pages including tables and figures). Papers can be sole-authored or have multiple student authors. All authors must be currently enrolled in graduate school or have completed their Ph.D. degrees on or after January 1, 2024. No faculty co-authors are allowed.

Please send a letter of nomination with author name(s), title, date of publication, and a brief statement explaining the significance of the work and its contribution to the sociology of population. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations and a copy of the article must be emailed to all committee members by March 1, 2025. Membership in the Sociology of Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award but is encouraged.

2025 Student Paper Award Committee:

Chair: Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [email protected]
Zoya Gubernskaya, University at Albany, [email protected]
Ohjae Gowen, Singapore Management University, [email protected]
Sophia Chae, University of Montreal, [email protected]
Won-tak Joo, University of Florida, [email protected]

Early Career Award
Deadline for Nominating: March 1, 2025

The Sociology of Population section solicits nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award. This award recognizes an early-career scholar (including tenured, tenure-track, those in contingent faculty positions, or working in applied settings) who has made an outstanding contribution to the sociology of population research. Such contributions may be original research published as articles or books, significant newly collected data, or a public policy achievement that broadens the impact of demography. Nominees must have received their Ph.D. within ten years of the submission deadline. They must also be a member of the ASA Sociology of Population Section. Nominees may become a member of the section to be considered. Self-nominations are welcome.

Nominators must send electronic copies of 1) a nomination letter outlining the nominee’s contributions to date to sociology of population research (2 pages maximum), 2) a copy of the nominee’s current CV, and 3) up to three supporting materials the nominator wishes to reference in order to showcase the nominee’s contributions (e.g., published articles or chapters, evidence of public impact) in a single PDF file to all committee members no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award.

2025 Early Career Award Committee:

Chair: Christine Percheski, Northwestern University, [email protected]
Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University, [email protected]
Adriana Reyes, Cornell University, [email protected]
Fumiya Uchikoshi, Harvard University, [email protected]

Sociology of Religion

Distinguished Book Award

The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award. The award honors a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion. Books published in the previous two years (copyright date of 2023 or 2024) are eligible for the 2025 award. Nominated authors must be members of the ASA Religion Section in order for their book to be considered. Please have publishers send copies of books nominated for the award to each of the committee members. Books may be nominated for the award by authors, publishers, or others; and need to be submitted either in hard copy by mail or in digital copy over email to all committee members no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award. Please send nominated books to each committee member at the addresses below.

2025 Distinguished Book Award Committee:

Chair: Anna Holleman, Appalachian State University, [email protected]
480 Howard Street
PO Box 32115
Boone, NC 28608

Katie Gaddini, Stanford University and University College London, [email protected]
PLEASE EMAIL DIRECTLY TO REQUEST MAILING ADDRESS

Mark Killian, Whitworth University, [email protected]
Sociology Department
Whitworth University
300 W. Hawthorne Rd.
Spokane, WA 99251 

Distinguished Article Award

The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Article Award. The award honors a peer-reviewed journal article or book chapter that makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion. Articles and chapters published in the previous two years (2023 or 2024) are eligible for the 2025 award.  Nominated authors must be members of the ASA Religion Section. Papers will be accepted in electronic form only. Please email a copy to the entire committee (listed below), in one email message, no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award. Articles may be submitted by authors, editors, or others.

2025 Distinguished Article Award Committee:

Chair: jimi adams, University of South Carolina, [email protected]
Zeynep Ozgen, New York University Abu Dhabi, [email protected]
Rachel Rinaldo, University of Colorado Boulder, [email protected] 

Student Paper Award

The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Student Paper Award. The award honors work that makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion. Either published or unpublished papers are eligible. Papers may not be longer than 40 double-spaced manuscript pages, including notes, tables, and references. Authors must be students and members of the ASA Religion Section at the time the paper is submitted. Papers must have been presented or published in 2023 or 2024 to be eligible for the 2025 award. Papers will be accepted in electronic form only. Please email a copy to the entire committee (listed below), in one email message, no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award. Papers may be submitted by authors or by others. Students may submit only one paper. Please note that papers can be considered for both the student paper award and the distinguished article award, but the nominated paper must be sent to both committees separately.

2025 Student Paper Award Committee:

Chair: Roger Baumann, Hope College, [email protected]
Joshua Davis, University of New Hampshire, [email protected]
Kristin George, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected]

Early Career Award

The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Early Career Award. This award recognizes an early-career scholar (including tenured, tenure-track, those in contingent faculty positions, or working in applied settings) who has made an outstanding contribution to the sociological study of religion. Contributions could include but are not limited to, impactful scholarship, teaching, or drawing (inter)disciplinary attention and public interest to the subfield. Nominees must have received their Ph.D. within ten years of the submission deadline. They must also be a member of the ASA Sociology of Religion Section. Nominees cannot self-nominate. Nominators must send electronic copies of 1) a nomination letter outlining the nominee’s contributions to date to the field/discipline (2 pages maximum), 2) a copy of the nominee’s current CV, and 3) supporting materials the nominator wishes to reference in order to showcase the nominee’s contributions (published articles or chapters, evidence of service or exceptional teaching, etc.) to the entire committee (listed below), in one email message, no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award.

2025 Early Career Award Committee:

Chair: Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [email protected]
Rachel Ellis, University of Maryland, [email protected]
Landon Schnabel, Cornell University, [email protected]

Sandra Barnes Anti-Racist Scholarship Award

The ASA Sociology of Religion Section solicits nominations for the 2025 Sandra Barnes Anti-Racist Scholarship Award. This award, named after the inaugural winner, aims to encourage sociologists of religion to engage in anti-racist scholarship that critically examines the intersection of religion and race, particularly work that challenges racist systems and structures. The award recognizes a scholar who has made an important contribution to anti-racist scholarship in the study of religion. Rather than focusing on a specific publication, this award recognizes the overall impact of a scholar’s work in the last couple of years. Contributions could include but are not limited to peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, books, reports, podcasts, institutional service, teaching, and articles in popular media such as magazines or newspapers. All submitted materials must be published at the time of submission, either online or in print. Dissertations will not be considered. Nominees must have a Ph.D. or be ABD. They must also be a member of the ASA Sociology of Religion Section. Self-nominations will be accepted. Nominators must send electronic copies of 1) a nomination letter outlining the nominee’s contributions to anti-racist scholarship in the study of religion disseminated on or since January 1, 2021 (one single-spaced page maximum), 2) a copy of the nominee’s current CV, and 3) supporting materials the nominator wishes to include to showcase the nominee’s contributions (such as published articles or chapters, broadcasts, evidence of service or exceptional teaching) to the entire committee (listed below), in one email message, no later than March 1, 2025 to be considered for the award.

2025 Sandra Barnes Anti-Racist Scholarship Award Committee (administered by Diversity and Inclusion Committee):

Chair: Oneya Okuwobi, University of Cincinnati, [email protected]
Feyza Akova, University of Notre Dame, [email protected]
Daniel Bolger, Southern Methodist University, [email protected]
Morgan Hanna-Ghattas, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]
Chelsea Starr, Eastern New Mexico University, [email protected]

Sociology of Sex and Gender

Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award
Nomination Deadline: 2/3/2025
Committee Chair: Elena Shih

The Sex and Gender Section seeks nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Article Award. This 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 necessarily be sociologists, and the articles may be published in journals associated with disciplines other than sociology. Self-nominations are welcome. To nominate a specific article or book chapter for this award, please submit a PDF version of the article/chapter to the Committee Chair, Elena Shih ([email protected]). The deadline for submissions is February 3, 2025. We are not collecting nomination letters.

• Eligible articles must have been published in a journal issue released in 2022, 2023 or 2024. Articles designated as “online first” (i.e., published online in advance of the print edition) are not eligible for consideration unless they were assigned to a 2022, 2023 or 2024 journal issue.
• At least one author should be a current member of the American Sociological Association and the ASA’s Sex and Gender section.
• An article can be nominated for either the Sex & Gender Distinguished Article Award or the Sally Hacker Award (which is for graduate student papers), but not both.

Committee: Elena Shih (Chair), Anna Gjika, Erin Johnson, Weifeng Tao, and Sara Tyberg

Sociology of Sex and Gender Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award
Nomination Deadline: 2/3/2025
Committee Chair: Ellen Lamont

The Sex and Gender Section seeks submissions for the 2025 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award in Sex and Gender. The deadline for submissions is February 3, 2025. Submissions should be uploaded via Google Form at (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9nkmYzDops0gzLEx4LSjni2CfwmXU4AhcwGI4QzADCccrsw/viewform?usp=sf_link). Any questions should be emailed to the award chair, Ellen Lamont ([email protected]), with the subject line “Sally Hacker 2025”. Please carefully read the eligibility requirements and submission instructions below before submitting. If you have any questions, please email the award chair. Do not send award submission files through email.

Students can submit either unpublished or published papers, as long as the following criteria are met:

• The paper addresses a theoretical issue or empirical problem important to the field of sex and gender. However, authors need not be sociologists by training, and articles may be published in journals associated with disciplines other than sociology.
• All authors must be graduate students at the time of submission.
• All authors must be current members of the American Sociological Association and members of ASA’s Sex and Gender section.
• Any information that might lead reviewers to discern authors’ identities or affiliations must be removed from the paper prior to submission (see below for more information).
• Published papers can either be submitted to the Sex & Gender Sally Hacker Award or the Sex & Gender Distinguished Article Award, but not both.
• Published papers must have been published in 2023 or 2024. Articles designated as “online first” (i.e., published online in advance of the print edition) are not eligible for consideration unless they were assigned to a 2023 or 2024 journal issue.

Submission instructions:

• Formatting: Papers must not exceed 35 pages, including the title, abstract, references, footnotes, tables, and figures. Papers should be blinded and double-spaced and typed in 12-point Times New Roman font. Please note that everything in the manuscript must be double-spaced including (and not limited to) references, tables, and block quotes. Margins should be 1” on all four sides. Please note that this formatting requirement applies to all papers. Any previously published pieces must also be formatted to adhere to submission guidelines (i.e., blinded, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, and a maximum of 35 pages).
• Anonymized submissions: The paper must not mention authors’ names, institutional location, specific institutional review boards, the paper’s publication status, any acknowledgment to those who provided comments, or any awards or fellowships that may have funded the paper.
• Through this Google Form submit the following two files: 1) The anonymized manuscript. 2) A separate file that includes: the paper’s title, abstract, authors’ names, authors’ institutional affiliations, authors’ contact information, and confirmation that the author is a member of the ASA Sex and Gender section.
• Nomination letters are NOT being collected.

Committee: Ellen Lamont (Chair), Gretchen Peterson, Hailey Rueden, Hanyi Shi, Sara R Wozniak, and Deniz Yucel

Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award
Nomination Deadline: 01/15/2025
Committee Chair: Freeden Blume Oeur

The Sex and Gender Section seeks nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award. This award honors those who make a significant contribution to the field of sex and gender through a distinguished book—published in 2022, 2023, or 2024—that is on the cutting edge of sociological inquiry. Nominees must be current members of the American Sociological Association and of ASA’s Sex and Gender section. The section will only accept self-nominations. Authors need not be sociologists—though the books must be relevant to sociologists. Edited collections are ineligible and nominations from publishers will not be accepted.

To nominate your book for this award: 1) Send a short email to the Committee Chair, Freeden Blume Oeur ([email protected]) no later than January 15, 2025 requesting the addresses for the members of the book award committee, and 2) Notify your book publisher to send copies of the books by February 3, 2025 to the chair and the committee members listed below (6 copies, total). If shipping physical copies of the book poses a financial burden for you or your publisher, you may send electronic copies instead. Please inquire with the committee chair. A formal letter of nomination is not required.

Please direct questions to, Freeden Blume Oeur ([email protected]).

Committee: Freeden Blume Oeur (Chair), Jamie Budnick, Max Calleo, Chloe Hart, Laurel Westbrook, Mary-Collier Wilks, and Anna Wozny

Sociology of Sex and Gender Feminist Scholar-Activist Award
Deadline: 2/3/2025
Committee Chair: Minwoo Jung

The Sex & Gender Section seeks nominations for the 2025 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, and nominations may recognize groups or individuals at any point in their career. The committee will consider self-nominations. Nominees must be current members of the American Sociological Association and of ASA’s Sex & Gender Section.

To submit a nomination for the Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, please send a letter of nomination, a copy of the nominee’s vita, one supporting letter, and any additional relevant supporting material to the Committee Chair, Minwoo Jung ([email protected]). The nomination deadline for this award is February 3, 2025.

Committee: Minwoo Jung (Chair), Stephanie Bonnes, Georgiann Davis, Alyssa Lyons, and Jun Zhou 

Sociology of Sexualities

Sociology of Sexualities Distinguished Book Award
Deadline: 2/1/2025
The Sociology of Sexualities Section of the ASA offers a prize for the best book published in the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. Winner(s) will receive the award at the ASA’s annual meeting in Chicago in 2025. Per ASA policy, winners must be members of the section. Edited volumes will not be considered.

The committee will evaluate the book based on several criteria, including an evaluation of 1) the significance of the research questions posed; 2) the quality/rigor of the research; 3) the contributions/impact of the discovery or theoretical innovation; 4) the expansion of knowledge or representation for underrepresented groups; and 5) the overall writing quality. We particularly encourage submissions that employ indigenous sociology, intersectional, and transnational lenses, and those from marginalized scholars.

Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters are not required and will not be considered in the awards process. Please email the committee chair, Dr. Shantel Gabrieal Buggs ([email protected]), with your/the nominee’s name, institutional affiliation, email address, book title, publisher, copyright date, and confirmation that you/nominator has arranged to have books sent to the chair and committee members. We accept hardcopy books as well as PDFs of books.

The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2025.

Committee members: Shantel Gabrieal Buggs (chair), Armani Beck, Jeremy Brenner-Levoy, Minwoo Jung, Laurel Westbrook

Please send books/PDFs to these addresses:

Shantel Gabrieal Buggs ([email protected])
Florida State University, Department of Sociology
113 Collegiate Loop Box 3062270
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2270

Armani Beck ([email protected])
Dartmouth College, Department of Sociology
20 North Main Street
Room 301E
Hanover, NH 03755

Jeremy Brenner-Levoy ([email protected])
Davidson College, Sociology
209 Ridge Rd.
Box 5000
Davidson, NC 28035

Minwoo Jung ([email protected])
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Sociology
1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660

Laurel Westbrook ([email protected])
12045 Jenks Street NE
Belding, MI 48809

Sociology of Sexualities Distinguished Article Award
Deadline: 2/1/2025
This award is for the best article or chapter in an edited volume in the Sociology of Sexualities published in the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. Winner(s) will receive the award at the ASA’s annual meeting in Chicago in 2025. Per ASA policy, winners must be members of the section.

The committee will evaluate the article based on several criteria, including an evaluation of 1) the significance of the research questions posed; 2) the quality/rigor of the research; 3) the contributions/impact of the discovery or theoretical innovation; 4) the expansion of knowledge or representation for underrepresented groups; and 5) the overall writing quality. We particularly encourage submissions that employ indigenous sociology, intersectional, and transnational lenses, as well as those from marginalized scholars.

Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters are not required and will not be considered in the awards process. Please send an email to the committee chair, Dr. Greggor Mattson ([email protected]), with your/the nominee’s name, institutional affiliation, email, article title, name of journal/edited volume, and publication date (online first or print are both acceptable if it was during the 2023 and 2024 calendar years).

The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2025.

Committee members: Greggor Mattson (chair), Cristina Silva, Alyssa Lyons, Kevin M. Moseby, Amelia Roskin-Frazee, Jane Ward

Best Graduate Student Paper in the Sociology of Sexualities
Deadline: 2/1/2025
Papers are currently being accepted for the 2025 ASA Sociology of Sexualities Graduate Student Paper Award. Winner(s) will receive the award at the ASA’s annual meeting in Chicago in 2025. Per ASA policy, winners must be members of the section. This award is given to a paper authored by a student currently enrolled in a sociology graduate program. Graduate students on the market are welcome to submit while enrolled and will receive the award in August if they have accepted a job during the spring. Graduate students can submit to both the Graduate Student Paper Award and the Distinguished Article Award.

The committee will evaluate the article based on several criteria, including an evaluation of 1) the significance of the research questions posed; 2) the quality/rigor of the research; 3) the contributions/impact of the discovery or theoretical innovation; 4) the expansion of knowledge or representation for underrepresented groups; and 5) the overall writing quality. We particularly encourage submissions that employ indigenous sociology, intersectional, and transnational lenses, as well as those from marginalized scholars.

Papers do not have to be published to be eligible; submissions should be manuscript length and no longer than 35 typed double-spaced pages. A paper may be co-authored by two or more students who would share the award. Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible. Graduate students who have won this award in previous years will be considered for honorable mentions but are not otherwise eligible to win this award a second time. Previous winners are welcome to submit their published work to the Distinguished Article Award.

Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters are not required and will not be considered in the awards process. Please send an email to the committee chair, Dr. Terrell J. A. Winder ([email protected]), with your/the nominee’s name, institutional affiliation, email, paper title, and if applicable, journal/edited volume, and publication date (online first or print are both acceptable if it was during 2023 – 2024 calendar years).

The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2025.

Committee members: Terrell J. A. Winder (chair), Ken Hanson, Jaime Hartless, Doug Meyer, Pamela Tsui

Sociology of Sexualities Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship
Deadline: 4/1/2025
The Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship was established to honor Martin Levine’s memory, who died of AIDS in 1993. It provides $3,000 to a graduate student (and $500 to an honorable mention) in the final stages of dissertation research and writing who is working on one (or more) of the following topics to which Levine devoted his career: 1) the sociology of sexualities, 2) the sociology of homosexuality (now LGBTQIA2S+ Studies), and 3) HIV/AIDS research. This fellowship is designed to help students complete their dissertations, and, as such, the committee evaluates dissertation proposals rather than completed work.

The fellowship committee is particularly interested in dissertation proposals that hold the potential to advance, broaden, or challenge existing theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches in the sociology of sexualities. Many former awardees’ work has been described as “innovative,” “theoretically and methodologically sophisticated,” and “well-poised to make major contributions to the field of sociology of sexualities.” We particularly encourage submissions that employ indigenous sociology, intersectional, and transnational lenses, as well as those from marginalized scholars.

The committee will evaluate the submission based on several criteria, including an evaluation of 1) the significance of the research questions posed; 2) the quality/rigor of the research; 3) contributions/impact of the discovery or theoretical innovation; 4) the expansion of knowledge or representation for underrepresented groups; and 5) the overall writing quality. We particularly encourage submissions that employ indigenous sociology, intersectional, and transnational lenses, as well as those from marginalized scholars.

Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters are not required and will not be considered in the awards process. Please send an email to the committee chair, Dr. Shantel Gabrieal Buggs ([email protected]) using the subject line “Levine Fellowship Proposal Submission.” Make sure to include your/the nominee’s name, institutional affiliation, email, dissertation title, and a brief positionality statement. Please attach a dissertation proposal of no more than eight (8) pages, including notes, bibliography, and tables. Please ensure that your references are no longer than one page.

Given that Ph.D. students may also apply for funding such as the ASA Dissertation Improvement Grant, applicants may find it helpful to use the ASA Project Description as a guide. The ASA has also provided a workshop on writing these proposals. Both the guidelines and the workshop are here. Please note that we do not require any additional documents they do (budget docs, biographical sketches). However, you may include any relevant budget information, survey instruments, interview schedule, etc.) within the 8-page proposal.

Regarding the request for a positionality statement, the section is committed to equity and inclusion and advancing our collective desire to recognize and celebrate marginalized scholars’ work. Thus, if the nominee is comfortable, please include information in your notification to the committee chair that indicates if the scholar is from a historically marginalized group and if their scholarship engages with, offers, or advances indigenous sociology, intersectional and/or transnational frames. This positionality statement is also helpful to our work compiling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statements as part of our annual reports to ASA.

Winner(s) will receive the award at the ASA’s annual meeting in Chicago in 2025. Per the ASA policy, winners must be members of the section.

The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2025.

Committee members: Shantel Gabrieal Buggs (chair), Alison Better, Theo Greene (rep for LGBTQ Caucus), Carla Pfeffer (rep for Sex & Gender)

Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award (alternates years with Simon-Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award)
This award will be awarded in 2026 at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York.
Deadline: 2/1/2025
The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities of the ASA invites nominations for the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award. This award highlights an exceptional scholar (whether in a tenure-track faculty position, a term faculty position, or engaged in a career outside academia) whose contributions to the discipline of sociology and the sociological study of sexualities are evident across a range of contributions. These contributions include scholarship, teaching, community building, and service to the sociology of sexualities, broadly defined.

The committee will evaluate: 1) breadth of scholarly contributions across the first ten or fewer years post-PhD; 2) the contributions and impact of the scholarship. Impact metrics may be noted in submissions and will be taken into account. Given that evaluation based solely on impact metrics can reproduce institutionalized inequality, and marginalized scholarship is less frequently published in journals with high impact factors, the committee will also focus on the contributions and influence of the scholarship, specifically on the field of sexualities; 3) the reach of their work such as through receipt of other awards or recognition or publication/translations in languages other than English; 4) service to the sociology of sexualities field, which may include but is not limited to contributions through teaching, mentorship, community building, and public sociology and; 5) how their scholarship engages with, offers, or advances indigenous sociology, intersectional and/or transnational frames.

Nominations must include electronic copies of 1) a nomination letter, 2) the nominee’s CV, and 3) nominee writing samples directly relevant to the sociology of sexualities (not to exceed four). Nominees must be a member of the section and have received their Ph.D. within ten years from the nomination deadline. Self-nominations are not accepted.

The required nomination letter should detail how the nominee has met the qualifications outlined above. Please make sure that the letter explicitly discusses each writing sample, how they meet the criteria and exemplify the distinct contributions they have made to the field of sexualities. Please also describe the nominee’s institutional context. If they are in a faculty position, what is their teaching load? We are especially interested in weighing how institutional context shapes scholarly output and considering faculty’s workload at teaching-centered and community colleges. Given the section’s commitments to equity and inclusion and our collective desire to recognize and celebrate marginalized scholars’ work, please include information in the nomination letter that describes how the scholar or their work contributes to equity and inclusion in the section. Self-nominations and nominations without a nomination letter will not be considered. Please submit electronic nominations that include all required components via email to Dr. Theo Greene ([email protected]).

The winner will receive the award at the annual meeting of the ASA in New York in 2026.

The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2025.

Committee members: Theo Greene (chair), Maya Glenn, Sidsel Harder and Alan Martino

Teaching and Learning in Sociology

Carla Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars
Nominations Due: February 3, 2025
Submissions Due: March 3, 2025

The ASA Section on Teaching and Learning seeks nominations for the 2025 Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars. The Howery Award recognizes distinguished accomplishments in the training and mentoring of future teacher-scholars in the field of sociology.

This award recognizes that nurturing the next generation of sociologists is vital to the discipline. Recipients of this award have made exceptional and/or enduring contributions to training graduate students to teach sociology or advancing understandings of the best means to accomplish this goal. Successful nominees contribute to teaching sociology through training and mentoring future teacher-scholars who apply scholarly literature in their own teaching, contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and/or publicly document successful teaching strategies. Mentoring is broadly defined and is not limited to faculty working at institutions with graduate programs (for example, serving as editor of TRAILS or Teaching Sociology, coordinating the section’s pre-conference, mentoring graduate students at regional conferences).

Eligibility
Nominees must be members of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Section on Teaching and Learning; gift memberships to the section are available if needed. Section and association membership will be verified after the portfolio submission deadline.

Nominations
Nominations, including self-nominations, are submitted through the Google Nomination Form. Nominations must be received no later than February 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. If you have questions regarding nominations, please email the chair of the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Award Committee, Amanda M. Jungels, at [email protected].

Award Portfolio
Nominees will be notified by the Award Committee Chair and invited to submit an Award Portfolio for consideration by the committee. The nomination portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 3, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. Candidates should email their portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line “Howery Award.”

Portfolio Guidelines: The portfolio should contain all elements in the order listed and be between 35-40 pages (portfolios that exceed 40 pages will be reviewed only to page
40). The candidate will demonstrate excellence in developing other teacher-scholars through the following materials:

1. An executive summary of materials in the portfolio which highlights the most relevant contributions/activities (limit 2 pages)
2. Brief written statement articulating the candidate’s teaching philosophy specifically directed toward mentoring or training graduate students to teach and methods used to achieve this goal (limit 2 pages).
3. Teaching-focused resume or curriculum vitae (limit 8 pages).
4. Letter of endorsement from the nominator, a colleague or former graduate student (limit 1 letter, 3 pages).
5. Supporting documents (20-25 pages), such as:

1. Excerpts from syllabi from different graduate teaching courses and seminars that the nominee has taught, or other examples of the means by which graduate students were taught to become teacher-scholars.
2. Examples of assessment tools such as projects, exams, student portfolios, or evidence of improved graduate student learning outcomes related to teaching sociology and/or contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
3. Examples of scholarly activities related to teaching, report or reflection on mentoring experiences, narratives from students about mentoring received by nominees, students’ success in teaching and/or obtaining teaching accomplishments (awards, teaching jobs, publishing relating to teaching in things like TRAILS, Teaching Sociology, etc.). d. Leadership activities related to graduate student teaching and learning.

Note: Please submit the portfolio as a single PDF file that contains all elements in the order listed.

Hans O. Mauksch Award: Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology
Nominations Due: February 3, 2025
Submissions Due: March 3, 2025

The ASA Section on Teaching and Learning seeks nominations for the 2025 Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology. The award is intended to recognize a colleague with a distinguished and demonstrated career of service to undergraduates in Sociology in all stated categories: program development, teaching innovation, leadership, scholarship, and the like. Nominations from faculty at later stages of their career, will be weighed more heavily.

Eligibility
Nominees must be members of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Section on Teaching and Learning; gift memberships to the section are available if needed. Section and association membership will be verified after the portfolio submission deadline.

Nominations
Nominations, including self-nominations, should be submitted through the Google Nomination Form. Nominations must be received no later than February 3, 2025 at 11:59pm PST. If you have questions regarding nominations, please email the chair of the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Award Committee, Amanda M. Jungels, at [email protected].

Award Portfolio
Nominees will be notified by the Award Committee Chair and invited to submit an Award Portfolio for consideration by the committee. The nomination portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. Candidates should email their portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line “Mauksch Award.”

Portfolio Guidelines: The portfolio should contain all elements in the order listed and be between 35-40 pages (portfolios that exceed 40 pages will be reviewed only to page 40).The candidate will demonstrate excellence in undergraduate education through the following materials:

1. An executive summary of materials in the portfolio which highlights the most relevant contributions/activities (limit 2 pages)
2. Brief written statement articulating the candidate’s teaching philosophy specifically directed toward undergraduate education in sociology (limit 2 pages).
3. Teaching-focused resume or curriculum vitae (limit 8 pages).
4. Letter of endorsement from the nominator, a colleague or former undergraduate student (limit 1 letter, 3 pages).
5. Supporting documents (20-25 pages), such as:

● Teaching honors/awards.
● Evidence of program development (at home institution or elsewhere).
● Development of innovative teaching techniques, curricula, or materials.
● Significant advising and/or committee duties related to teaching and undergraduate education.
● Peer and student assessment materials related to teaching.
● Contributions to instructional activities of state, regional, and/or national professional associations.
● Papers delivered at professional meetings related to teaching activities.
● Publications or materials intended to enhance undergraduate instruction and learning processes such as: instructional materials/resources, computer software, textbooks, or articles related to undergraduate teaching published in refereed scholarly journals.
● Evidence of leadership on committees concerned with undergraduate education or development of seminars, workshops or other events that enhanced undergraduate education.

Note: Please submit the portfolio as a single PDF file that contains all elements in the order listed.

Scholarly Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award
Nominations Due: February 3, 2025
Submissions Due: March 3, 2025

The ASA Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology seeks nominations for the 2025 Scholarly Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award. This award recognizes scholarship that advances teaching and learning by contributing insights into the educational process, presenting innovative teaching methods, and fostering significant, long-lasting learning. The award will be presented to an individual, a team of collaborators, or a formal program for any work published, implemented, or presented in the past three years that demonstrates excellence in one or more of these areas:
● Documented contribution to our understanding of the teaching and learning process
● Implemented innovation that enhances the learning process
● Demonstrated evidence of contributions to programmatic guidelines that have been implemented in teaching and learning settings
● Disseminated new and innovative teaching methods to other instructors (e.g., presented at conferences, published in TRAILS)

Eligibility
Nominees (at least one if a team or program) must be members of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Section on Teaching and Learning; gift memberships to the section are available if needed. Section and association membership will be verified after the portfolio submission deadline.

Nominations
Nominations, including self-nominations, are submitted through the Google Nomination Form. Nominations must be received no later than February 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. If you have questions regarding nominations, please email the chair of the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Award Committee, Amanda M. Jungels, at [email protected].

Award Portfolio
Nominees will be notified by the Award Committee Chair and invited to submit an Award Portfolio for consideration by the committee. The portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. Candidates should email their portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line “Scholarly Contribution Award.”

Portfolio Guidelines: The portfolio should contain all elements in the order listed below. The candidate(s) will demonstrate excellence in scholarly contribution to teaching and learning through the following materials:
1. A letter addressing how the work meets the awards criteria
2. The published work. If the published work is a book, two PDF files will be accepted: one for the nomination letter and one for the book. Both files must be in the same email.

Note: Please submit the portfolio as a single PDF file that contains all elements in the order listed.

Graduate Student Contribution to the Sociological Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Award
Nominations Due: February 3, 2025
Submissions Due: March 3, 2025

The ASA Section on Teaching & Learning invites submissions for the 2025 Graduate Student Contribution to the Sociological Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. This award is designed to recognize the contributions that graduate students make to the field of teaching and learning.

Many types of contributions (published or unpublished) could be recognized by this award, including empirical or theoretical manuscripts, classroom exercises, original videos or podcasts, paper assignments, online instructional modules, creative approaches to topics or readings, case studies, etc.

The winner will receive a cash award of $250, as well as a feature in the Section newsletter and website (the winner must agree to make their contribution available on the Section website and newsletter if awarded). An honorable mention may also be awarded.

Eligibility
Nominees must be current graduate students on the nomination deadline. Contributions developed while in graduate school by an early career faculty member will not be considered. Nominees must be members of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Section on Teaching and Learning; gift memberships to the section are available if needed. Section and association membership will be verified after the portfolio submission deadline.

Nominations
Nominations, including self-nominations, are submitted through the Google Nomination Form. Nominations must be received no later than February 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. No single person may nominate more than two graduate student contributions in the same year for the award. Only one contribution by the same graduate student in any given year will be considered. If you have questions regarding nominations, please email the chair of the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Award Committee, Amanda M. Jungels, at [email protected].

Award Portfolio
Nominees will be notified by the Award Committee Chair and invited to submit an Award Portfolio for consideration by the committee. The portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 3, 2025, at 11:59pm PST. Candidates should email their portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line “Graduate Student Contribution Award.”

Nomination Portfolio: The nomination portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 3, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.

Portfolio Guidelines: The portfolio should contain all elements in the order listed and not exceed 35-40 pages (portfolios that exceed 40 pages will be reviewed only to page 40). The candidate will demonstrate excellence in graduate student contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning through the following materials:

1. A description of the contribution being submitted that includes the following elements:

a. Explain what is being submitted (for example explain the teaching activity or the theory)
b. Describe the course in which the contribution is (or could be) used, if relevant
c. Ground the submission in the sociological scholarship of teaching and learning literature and explain its contribution
d. Analyze the effectiveness of the contribution (assessment)

2. The original manuscript, teaching materials, or other contribution

Theory

The Theory Prize (Article in 2025)

The Theory Prize is given to recognize outstanding work in theory. In even-numbered years, it is given to a book, and in odd-numbered years, to a paper; in both cases, eligible items are those published in the preceding four calendar years.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2025. Self-nominations are welcome. A nominating letter and the article submission should be sent to all five members of the committee. No paper can win more than one section award.

Chair, Hillary Angelo ([email protected])
Ioana Sendroiu ([email protected])
Matt Norton ([email protected])
Cinzia Solari ([email protected])
Matt Dawson ([email protected])

Lewis Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting

The Coser Award recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work, in the opinion of the committee, holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. While the award winner need not be a theorist, their work must exemplify the sociological ideals Coser represented. The Coser award-winner must be within 20 years of receiving their PhD. In evaluating whether work strives for these ideals, the committee will consider Coser’s commitment to: maintaining the centrality of sociological theory to sociology; avoiding the fragmentation of the field into overly narrow subfields; maintaining the critical edge of the discipline; separating political commitments from academic pursuits; and insuring the continued predominance of substance over method in the development of sociology.

To be considered for the award, candidates must be nominated by one or more people who are familiar with their work. Nomination letters should make a strong substantive case for the nominee’s selection and should discuss the nominee’s past work and their anticipated future trajectory. People nominated in the past are eligible to receive the award until they are more than 20 years past their PhD. Eligible nominees are passed along to subsequent committee members. Committee members may nominate candidates if they choose to do so. No self-nominations are allowed. After nomination, the committee will solicit additional information from nominees and others for those candidates they consider appropriate for consideration. Specifically, they will compile a dossier of the candidate’s published works and at least two additional letters of support from third parties. The committee will make its selection based on this information and their own research into the candidates’ experience and promise. The committee may decide, in any given year, that no nominee warrants the award, in which case no award will be awarded.

Initial nominating letters should be sent by email to the chair of the committee (Claire Decoteau, [email protected]) no later than March 1, 2025.

The committee is made up of the following members:

• The Chair of the Theory Section of the ASA: Claire Decoteau ([email protected])
• One member, appointed by the Chair of the Theory Section: Greta Krippner ([email protected])
• The President of the ASA: Adia Wingfield ([email protected])
• One member, appointed by the president of the ASA: Eli Wilson ([email protected])
• The President of the SSSP: Rose Brewer ([email protected])

Junior Theorist Award

The Junior Theorist Award honors the best paper each year submitted by an early-career sociologist (who has received the Ph.D., but who, at the time of nomination, is not more than eight years beyond the calendar year in which the Ph.D. was granted). Only self-nominations will be accepted. All submissions should be accompanied by a letter explaining how the paper advances sociological theory.  This work may take the form of: (a) a paper published or accepted for publication; (b) a paper presented at a professional meeting; or (c) a paper suitable for publication or presentation at a professional meeting. All submissions should be written or published in the 12 months preceding the nominations deadline. No paper can win more than one section award.

The winner is to present a keynote address at the Junior Theory Symposium the year after the award is given. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2025. Nominations for the Junior Theorist Award should be sent by email to the chair of the committee: Jonah Stuart Brundage ([email protected]). Self-nominations are welcome. Articles should be sent to the entire committee by the deadline.

Chair: Jonah Stuart Brundage ([email protected])
Zach Griffen ([email protected])
Luna Vincent ([email protected])
Freeden Blume Oeur ([email protected])

The Best Student Paper Prize

The Best Student Paper recognizes distinguished work in theory by a graduate student. Work may take the form of (a) a paper published or accepted for publication; (b) a paper presented at a professional meeting; (c) a paper suitable for publication or presentation at a professional meeting. To be eligible for this award, you must be a graduate student at time of submission.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2025. Nominations for the Student Prize and the article under consideration should be sent to all members of the committee (see below). Self-nominations are welcome. No paper can win more than one section award. The graduate student prize will include $500 award.

Chair: Asia Friedman ([email protected])
Yuchen Yang ([email protected])
Anna Wozny ([email protected])
Julia Dessauer ([email protected])
Sunmin Kim ([email protected])