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Graduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes excellence in graduate student research in the field of the history of sociology. Students who were actively enrolled (full- or part-time) in a graduate sociology program as of December 15, 2007 may submit one scholarly paper for consideration for this award. The submission may be an unpublished manuscript, an article submitted or accepted for publication, or a single chapter from a thesis or dissertation, and should address a theoretical or empirical problem central to the history of sociology. Members of the current Graduate Student Award Committee are ineligible for the award. The paper, along with a cover letter, must be submitted electronically to the selection committee chair, Bart Bonikowski, no later than March 1, 2008. Nominees will be notified of the Committee's decision at the beginning of May 2008.
Past Winners:
2008
Robin Das, Fordham University. "The Academic Marginalization of Werner Stark."
2007
Shireen Ally, University of Witwatersrand. "Oppositional Intellectualism as Reflection, not Rejection, of Power: Wits Sociology, 1975-1989."
2006
Jonathan Dirk VanAntwerpen, University of California Berkeley. "Empiricism, Interactionism, and Epistemological Authority: Reexamining Blumer's Early Sociological Practice."
2005
Ryan Light, Ohio State University. "Balkanized or Boundless: The Dynamic Idea Boundaries of American Sociology, 1963-1999."
2004
Michael DeCesare, University of Massachusetts. "Apathetic, Active, or Antagonistic? A History of the American Sociological Association's Involvement in High School Sociology."
2003
Ross E. Mitchell, University of Alberta. "Thorsten Veblen: Pioneer in Environmental Sociology."
Honorable Mention: Claudia Chaufan, University of California Santa Cruz. "Why is Classical Sociology Classical: An Intellectual Journey Through the History of Classical Sociological Theory."
2002
Erin Leahey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Alphas and Asterisks: The Development of Statistical Significance Testing Standards in Sociology."
Jonathan Dirk VanAntwerpen, University of California Berkeley. "Resisting Sociology's Seductive Name: Frederick J. Taggart and Sociology at Berkeley."
Distinguished Scholarly Book or Article Award
This award honors sociologists who have made significant contributions to the History of Sociology by writing books or articles on the 'cutting edge' of sociological inquiry. Only monographs, articles, or edited works published in 2006 or 2007 are elligible. The author(s) or editor(s) must be sociologists. All texts submitted for consideration should be accompanied by a letter of nomination highlighting the texts's significant contributions to the history of sociology. Self-nominations are welcome if accompanied by a letter of support from another member of the ASA. Members of the current Distinguished Scholarly Book or Article Award Committee are ineligable for this award. To nominate a book or article, write highlighting the item's significant contribution to the history of sociology to the committee chair, Professor Richard Swedberg, to arrive no later than March 1, 2008.
Past Winners:
| 2008 Mary Joe Deegan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park." Journal of Classical Sociology, 2006. |
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| 2007 Craig Calhoun, editor. Sociology in America: A History." Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. |
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| 2006 Anthony J. Blasi, editor. Diverse Histories of American Sociology. Published by Brill in 2005. |
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| 2005 Michael R. Hill and Mary Jo Deegan, editors. Social Ethics: Sociology and the Future of Society by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published by Greenwood Press in 2004. |
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| 2004 Award not given |
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| 2003 Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska, Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago. Published by Greenwood Press in 2002. |
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| Honorable Mention: Uta Gerhardt. Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002. | |
| 2002 Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoeker-Drysdale, editors. Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Published by Routledge, 2001. |
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| Honorable Mention: Mike Forrest Keen. Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology. Published by Greenwood Press, 1999. | |
Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award
This award recognizes sociologists who have made outstanding contributions to the History of Sociology throughout their careers, or who have made ground-breaking innovations or produced significant bodies of scholarly work in the History of Sociology. Nominees must be sociologists. Letters of nomination should highlight the nominee's outstanding innovation(s), career, and contributions to the History of Sociology. Self nominations are welcome if accompanied by a letter of support from another member of the ASA. Members of the current Distinguished Award Committee are ineligible for the award. To nominate an individual, send a nomination letter, the nominee's vitae, and samples of the nominee's work to the committee chair, Charles Camic. Paper nominations can be accepted; submit three copies of the materials noted above to Charles Camic at the Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60208. Nominations must arrive no later than February 29, 2008.
Past Winners:
2008
Robert Alun Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
2007
Guenther Roth, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; scholar of Max Weber.
2006
Irving Louis Horowitz, Chairman of the Board & Editorial Director, Transaction Publishers; University Professor & Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Rutgers University.
2005
Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Professor Emerita Concordia University and Retired Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa. "For her outstanding career of scholarship and leadership in the history of sociology."
2004
Jack Nusan Porter, University of Masachusetts-Lowell. Founder and Publisher of the Journal of the History of Sociology (1977-1982)
Glenn Jacobs, University of Masachusetts-Boston. Founding Editor, Journal of the History of Sociology (1977-1982)
Alan Sica, Pennsylvania State University. Editor and Publisher, History of Sociology (1983-1987).
"For pioneering contributions in publishing the history of sociology"
2003
Michael J. Hill. "For his outstanding and sustained contributions to the history of sociology."
2002
Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska Lincoln. "For her outstanding scholarship, professional integrity, and intellectual leadership in the discipline of sociology and the history of sociology."
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