Past Award Recipients

Distinguished Student Paper Awards

[Started in 1971, given every year; first place only listed. Beginning in 1997, two first place awards were given, one for undergraduates and one for graduate students. The monetary aspect of these awards has ranged from $25 to $50 in the 1970s to $200 plus two free nights lodging at the conference hotel in the 2000s.]

• 2012 Camila Alvarez, UNLV: "New Urbanist Design and Community Health in Las Vegas" (undergraduate student paper award)
• 2012 Lindsay A. Owens, Stanford University: "Getting a Workout: Mortgage Modification, Class, and Shifting Financial Institutions" (graduate student paper award)
• 2011 MacKenzie Fuentes, University of Puget Sound for her paper: "Social Movement Organizations and Policy Outcomes: Regulating Crisis Pregnancy Centers through Legislative Processes" and  Christine Richardson, Boise State University for her paper "Transracial Adoption: Promoting Racial Literacy or Perpetuating Colorblind Racism?" by Christine Richardson, Boise State University (undergraduate paper award)
• 2011 Anita Harker Armstrong, Utah State University:" Making the ‘Good’ Professor: Does Graduate Mentoring Promote Equality in Academia?" (graduate student paper award)
• 2010 Daniel B. Eisen, University of Hawaii at Manoa for his paper "Using Narratives to Construct and Convey Public and Private Frames" (graduate student paper award) and Kira Wilpone-Jordan, University of Puget Sound for her paper "Gender Representations in Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics" (undergraduate paper award)
• 2009 Kristen Barber, USC for her paper "Pretend You're Talking to a Caveman: Maintaining Masculinity in Cross-Gender Research" (graduate student paper award) and Rocio Garcia, CSU Stanislaus for her paper "Unmasking the Dynamics of Social Activism in Modern Society" (undergraduate paper award) 
• 2008 Andrew M. Penner, UC Berkeley for his paper: "Gender Differences in Extreme Mathematical Achievement: An International Perspective on Biological and Social Factors" (graduate student paper award) and Lianna Hart, Sonoma State University for her paper "Therapeutic Mothering: Maternal Practices as an Autism Intervention" (undergraduate student paper award)
• 2007 David Orzechowicz, UC Davis, for his paper: "Elite Emotion Managers: The Case of Novice and Semi-Professional Actors" (graduate student paper award)
• 2006 Lexi Shiovitz, USC, “Predatory Self-Esteem Boosting and the Creation of Gifted Identity” (undergraduate paper award), Sarah Stohlman, USC, “At Yesenia’s House: Central American Immigrant Pentecostalism, Congregational Homophily, and Religious Innovation in Los Angeles” (graduate student paper award)
• 2005 Nicole Kemper, Jessica Crewse, and Elizabeth Budd, Santa Clara University for a collaborative research project titled “Community Service Organizations and the Experiences of Student Volunteers: Applied Sociology in Action” (undergraduate paper award), Yvonne A. Braun, UC Riverside, “Resettlement and Risk: Women’s Community Work in Lesotho” (graduate student paper award)
• 2004 Lindsey Brook Fees, Arizona State University , “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy:” A Makeover of Messages (undergraduate paper award) and Matthew Brashears, University of Arizona , “The Use of Log-Multiplicative Models to Measure the Strength of Homophily” (graduate student paper award)
• 2003 Demetra Kalogrides, Santa Clara University , “Understanding Career Aspirations: Professional Values vs. Class Interests and the Compounding Affects of Faculty Criticism” (undergraduate student paper award) and Andrew Jorgenson, UC Riverside, “Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint” (graduate student paper award)
• 2002 Molly George, University of Denver , “Performance vs Appearance: Body Negotiations of Collegiate Women Athletes” (undergraduate paper award) and Amy Denissen, UCLA, “Perpetual Pioneers: Women's Efforts to Gain Inclusion in the Construction Trades” (graduate student paper)
• 2001 Scott Melzer, UC Riverside, “Occupational Violence Spillover: The Effects of Physically Violent Occupations on Men's Violence Against Female Partners” (graduate student paper award) No award given for undergraduate student paper.
• 2000 Mark Tristan Ng, UCLA, “The Continual Search for a Place Called Home: The Experiences(s) of Queer Asian Pacific Islander (API) Male Youth in Los Angeles ” and Kate McClellan, University of Alaska , “Stalking, Domestic Violence, and the Legal System” (both undergraduate awards) and Jordan Katherine Durbin, Portland State University , “The Persistence of Gender Inequality in the Medical Profession” (graduate student award)
• 1999 No awards Given
• 1998 Mara Loveman, UCLA, “Collective Action in Contexts of Extreme Risks”(graduate paper award). The undergraduate paper award was not given.
• 1997 Rodney Powell, San Diego State , “A Content Analysis of Personal Advertisements Placed by Male and female Hetersexuals and Homosexuals in Major West coast and Midwest Metropolitan Cities ” (undergraduate paper award) and
  Jeanne Powers, UC San Diego, “Is there an Emerging ‘Cognitive Elite?'” (graduate paper award)
• 1996 Julie Press and Eleanor Townsley, UCLA, “Yet Another Gender Gap: Reporting Housework Contributions”
• 1995 Susan Blank, UC Irvine, “Household Formation and Mexican Immigrants: An Alternative Strategy for Meeting the Goals of Recent Migration”
• 1994 Lisa Jean Moore and Monica J. Casper, UC San Francisco , “Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space
• 1993 Jieli Li, Geopolitics of the Chinese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century
• 1992 Hisako Matsuo, UC Riverside, Identificational Assimilation of Japanese Americans: Reassessment of Primordialism and Circumstantialism
• 1991 Unknown or No award given
• 1990 Nina Eliasoph, The Presentation of the Political Self: A Study of the Public Sphere in the Style of Erving Goffman
• 1990 Ann M. Cooper, UC Riverside, Title Unknown
• 1989 Deanna Chang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, title unknown
• 1988 unknown or no award given
• 1987 Marvin Prosono, UC San Francisco , Forensic Psychiatry, Professionalization and History: A Sociological View
• 1986 Kathy Murguia, CSU Bakersfield, “Weinstein's Theory and the Mechanization of the Processed Tomato Industry”
• 1985 Yehouda A. Shenhav, Stanford, “Dependency and Compliance in Academic Research Infra-Strukctures”
• 1984 William G. Staples, USC, “Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court”
• 1983 Art Budros, UCLA, “Some Causes and Consequences of Alienation in the American Workplace: A Reformulation and Testing of Blauner's Theory of Worker Alienation”
• 1982 Gary Bowden, University of Galgary , “Ideology, Political Economy and Historical Change in the Estimation of U.S. Crude Oil Resources”
• 1981 C. Montgomery Broaded, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Title Unknown
• 1980 Unknown or No award given
• 1979 Jean Keith Crawford, “A Case Study of Changing Folk Medical Beliefs and Practices in the Urban Barrio”
• 1978 Penelopoe J. Greene, University of Washington , “Green is Good: The Doll Technique and Racial Attitudes”
• 1977 Patricia A. Roos, UCLA, “Questioning the Stereotypes: Exploring Differentials in Income Attainment of Japanese, Mexican-Americans, and Anglos in California ”
• 1976 Joseph Rankin, University of Arizona , “Investigating the Interrelations Among Societal Control Variables and Conformity”
• 1975 Joseph Kotarba, ASU, “American Acupuncture: The New Enterprise of Hope”
• 1974 Barbara C. Farhar, University of Colorado , “The Impact of the Rapid City Flood on Public Opinion Abut Weather Modification”
• 1973 Dennis S. Mileti, University of Colorado , “Change Ratios in Age-Specific Fertility Performance and the Recent Decline in General Fertility in the United States ”
• 1972 Joseph G. Weis, UC Berkeley, “Patterns of Middle Class Adolescent Drug Use”
• 1971 Russell J. LaVesque, University of Arizona, “White Response to Negro Voter Registration in Southern States”

 

Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Practice Award

[Started in 1984, alternate years until 1990, then every year or periodically]

• 2012 John J. Schilchtman, University of San Diego
• 2011 Kathleen Kaiser, Chico State University
• 2010 No Award Given
• 2009 No Award Given 
• 2008 Valerie Jenness, UC Irvine
• 2007 No Award Given
• 2006 Ryken Grattet, UC Davis
• 2005 Kari M. Norgaard, UC Davis
• 2004 No Award Given
• 2003 No Award Given
• 2002 No Award Given
• 2001 No Award Given
• 2000 No Award Given
• 1999 K. William Wasson, CSU Long Beach
• 1998 Lewis Yablonsky, CSU Nothridge
• 1997 Richard P. Baker, Boise State University
• 1996 No award given
• 1995 Daniel Glaser, USC
• 1994 No award given
• 1993 Steven Deutsch, University of Oregon
• 1992 Penelope Canan, University of Denver
• 1991 Patrick L. Beirnacki, Youth Environment Project
• 1990 Jane Mercer, UC Riverside
• 1988 John M. Johnson, ASU
• 1986 Tomas E. Lasswell, USC
• 1984 no award given

 

Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award 

[Started in 1983, alternate years until 1996, then every year until 2008. Renamed the Dean S.Dorn distinguished contributions to teaching award in 2009.]  

• 2008 No Award Given 
• 2007 No Award Given
• 2006 No Award Given
• 2005 Rose Weitz, ASU
• 2004 Robert Emerson, UCLA
• 2003 No award given
• 2002 Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
• 2001 No award given
• 2000 John Foran, University of California Santa Barbara
• 1999 No award given
• 1998 Charles F. Hohm, San Diego State University
• 1997 James A. Glynn, Bakersfield College
• 1996 Jerome Rabow, UCLA
• 1995 No award given
• 1994 Reed Geertsen, Utah State University
• 1993 No award given
• 1992 Witold Krassowksi, Santa Clara University
• 1991 No award given
• 1990 Dean S. Dorn, CSU Sacramento
• 1989 No award given
• 1987 No award given
• 1985 Unknown or No award given
• 1983 No award given

 

The Dean S. Dorn Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award  [Started in 2009.]

• 2012 Linda Rillorta, Mount San Antonio College
• 2011 No Recipient
• 2010 Judith Liu, University of San Diego
• 2009 Jane Prather, CSU Northridge

 

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology  [Started in 2009.] 

• 2012 No recipient
• 2011 Clayton Peoples, Univ. of Nevada, Reno (co-recipient) and Jennifer Murphy, CSU Sacramento (co-recipient)
• 2010 Lisa Wade, Occidental College

     

Distinguished Scholarship Award for a Book or Series of Articles [Started in 1984, alternative years until 1990, then every year.]         

• 2012 Cecilia Menjivar, ASU: Enduring Violence: Latino Women's Lives in Guatemala
• 2011 Julie Shayne, Univ. of Washington, Bothell and Seattle: They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism 
• 2010 Kimberly Richman, University of San Diego, Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
• 2009 Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, UCLA: Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race
• 2008 Ivan Light, UCLA, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and regulation in Los Angeles
• 2007 Jerome Karabel, UC Berkeley, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
• 2006 Paul Lichterman, USC, Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions and John Foran, UCSB, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
• 2005 No Award Given
• 2004 Laura Grindstaff: The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows and Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UC Berkeley: Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizens
• 2003 Amy Binder, Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools 
• 2002 Pierrett Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence 
• 2001 Valerie Jeness, for a series of published articles dealing with hate-crimes, hate-crime legislation, and community responses to hate-motivated violence. The series was published in the following journals between 1994-1998: Gender and Society, Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, and the American Sociological Review.
• 2000 Charles Varano, Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership 
• 1999 William Domhoff, Who Rules America ?: Power and Politics in the Year 2000 
• 1998 Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy 
• 1997 Calvin Morrill, The Executive Way : Conflict Management in Corporations 
• 1996 James Aho, This Thing of Darkness: The Sociology of the Enemy 
• 1995 John Foran, Fragile Resistance 
• 1994 David Snow and Leon Anderson, Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People 
• 1993 Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, A Theory of Religion
• 1992 Kathy Charmaz, Good Days, Bad Days, The Self in Chronic Illness and Time 
• 1991 George M. Thomas, Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in 19th-Century United States 
• 1990 Jack Katz, Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attraction to Doing Evil 
• 1988 Unknown or No award given 
• 1986 Claude S. Fischer, To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City 
• 1984 no award given. 

 

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives

[Started in 1985, alternate years. Given every year starting in 2010.] 

• 2012 Jennifer A. Jones, The Ohio State University: Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse and Amy G. Langenkamp, University of Notre Dame (Co-Recipients): Effects of Educational Transition on Students' Academic Trajectory: A Life Course Perspective
• 2011  Young-Choon Kim, Univ. of Singapore & Mooweon Rhee, Univ. of Hawaii (co-recipients): The Contingent Effect of Social Networks on Organizational Commitment: A Comparison of Instrumental and Rebecca Joyce Kissane, Lafayette College (co-recipient):  Expressive Ties in a Multinational High-Technology Company and Administrative Challenges Facing Nonprofit Worksites Providing Work or Work-Like Experiences for Welfare Recipients
• 2010 Jennifer McMahon-Howard, Kennesaw State University, Jody Clay-Warner, University of Georgia and Linda Renzulli, University of Georgia, Criminalizing Spousal Rape: The Diffusion of Legal Reforms and Kelsey Kretschmer, University of California Irvine, Contested Loyalities: Dissident Identity Organizations, Institutions, and Social Movemenets
• 2009 Debbie Storrs, University of Idaho: Critical Literacy among the Working Poor: Individualism and Pseudostructural Interpretive Narratives of Health Inequalities
• 2008 No Award Given
• 2007 Jacqueline Adams, UC Berkeley, "When Art Loses Its Sting: The Evolution of Protest Art in Authoritarian Contexts
• 2006 No Award Given
• 2005 Karin Elizabeth Peterson, UNC Asheville, “Discourse and Display: the Modern Eye, Entrepreneurship, and the Cultural Transformation of the Patchwork Quilt”
• 2004 no award given
• 2003 Richard Nagasawa, ASU, Zhenchao Qian , Ohio State, and Paul Wong, University of Michigan at Dearborn , “Social Control Theory as an Explanatory Model of asian/Pacific Drug and Alcohol Use” 
• 2002 no award given 
• 2001 William R. Freudenbur and, Lisa J. Wilson, University of Wisconsin , and Daniel J. O'Leary, “Forty Years of Spotted Owls? A Longitudinal Analysis of Logging Industry Losses” 
• 2000 no award given 
• 1999 no award given
• 1998 Joseph M. Whitmeyer, University of North Carolina Charlotte , “Eccentricity and Indulgence in Autocratic Rulers” 
• 1997 no award given 
• 1996 no award given 
• 1995 Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona , “The rise of Semiotic Marxism” 
• 1994 no award given 
• 1993 unknown or no award given
• 1992 Albert Bergesen, University of Arizona , “Regime Change in the Semiperiphery: Democratization in Latin America and the Socialists Bloc” 
• 1991 Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, UC Riverside, “Sociology's Los Human Relations Files 
• 1988 unknown or no award given 
• 1987 T. R. Young, “The Sociology of Sport: Structural, Marxist, and Cultural Marxist Approaches” 
• 1985 no award given 

 

Social Conscience Award (monetary) [Started in 1996 officially, but informally presented in 1995, given every year.]

• 2012 Asociacion de Journalerosy Trabajadores de San Diego (Day Labor and Domestic Worker Association), San Diego $500
• 2011  The Pat Graney Company, Seattle & The Northwest Network, Seattle $500
• 2010 Healthy Babies Project, Oakland, California $500
• 2009 Supportive Parents Information Network and American Indian Recruitment Programs (AIR) $300 each, San Diego
• 2008 Sisters in Action for Power, $500, Portland
• 2007 The Bay Area Crisis Nursery and Pivotal Point Youth Services, Inc. $400 each, Oakland
• 2006 Women’s Care Center, North Hollywood $500
• 2005 Jobs with Justice $500, Portland
• 2004 Sisters Network of San Francisco $500
• 2003 Interfaith Community United for Justice and Peace, Pasadena CA $500
• 2002 End Legislative Poverty, Vancouver B.C. $500
• 2001 San Francisco Coalition for Homelessness $500
• 2000 San Diego Foundation for Change $500
• 1999 Bradley-Angle House, Portland, Oregon $500
• 1998 Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Oakland, California $500
• 1997 The Union of Pan Asian Communities and the Lesbian and Gay Men's Community Center $250 each, San Diego
• 1996 Pike Market Medical Center, Seattle $300
• 1995 Riley Center for Battered Women and Children, San Francisco $100