June 16, 2023
Contact: Preeti Vasishtha, ASA Director of Communications, at (202) 247-9872, [email protected]
Washington, DC—The American Sociological Association (ASA) proudly announces the 2023 award recipients, the highest honors the association confers.
Awardees, selected by committees directly appointed by the ASA Council, will be honored on Saturday, August 19, 2023, as part of the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting. A formal address by ASA Prudence L. Carter will follow the ceremony.
The officers of the association extend heartfelt congratulations to the following honorees:
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award
David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech
David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut
The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award is given to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier, three African American scholars.
Dissertation Award
Laura Garbes, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, for the dissertation titled “Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at Brown University
David Showalter, Harvard University, for the dissertation titled “Going Nowhere: The Social Life of Opioids in Backcountry California,” completed at the University of California-Berkeley
The Dissertation Award is given to an individual or individuals with the best PhD dissertation from among those submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline.
Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University
The Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others; work that has significantly advanced the utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing, has elevated the professional status or public image of the field as a whole; or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the discipline for its significant impacts.
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
Jeffrey Chin, Le Moyne College
The Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award is given to honor outstanding contributions to the undergraduate and/or graduate teaching and learning of sociology that improve the quality of teaching.
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California
Honorable Mention: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy E. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is given to the single best book published in the two preceding calendar years.
Jessie Bernard Award
Raka Ray, University of California-Berkeley
The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society and honors those who have demonstrated significant cumulative work throughout a professional career.
Public Understanding of Sociology Award
Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
The Public Understanding of Sociology Award is given to honor those who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public.
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University
The W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline.
For more information on the ASA awards, visit www.asanet.org/awards.
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About the American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a nonprofit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society.
