The ASA awards are conferred on sociologists for outstanding scholarship, teaching, practice, and advancing the public understanding of sociology. The ASA proudly announces the recipients of the awards for 2020. Congratulations to the following honorees:
Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award
Vilna Bashi Treitler, University of California-Santa Barbara
Dissertation Award
Announced in June 2020
Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
Brian Powell, Indiana University- Bloomington
Michael Schwartz, Stony Brook University
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
Pathways of Desire, The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men by Hector Carrillo, Northwestern University
Trans Kids, Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey Meadow, Columbia University
Honorable Mention: Multinational Maids, Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market by Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College
Jessie Bernard Award
Jennifer Glass, University of Texas
Public Understanding of Sociology Award
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Commonwealth University
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
Aldon Morris, Northwestern University