Nominations are now being accepted for the International Migration Section's 2009 Awards!

Deadlines:
Distinguished Career Award: April 1, 2010
T&Z Award: April 1, 2010
Graduate Student Paper Award: May 1, 2010

2009 DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD

The International Migration Section invites nominations for the 2009 Distinguished Career Award. The award recognizes a lifetime of contribution to the field of the sociology of international migration. The first award was given to Alejandro Portes in 1998; recent award winners include: Douglas S. Massey (2008) Richard D. Alba (2007), Edna Bonacich (2005) and Tamotsu Shibutani (2004). The letter of nomination should include a statement of the lasting significance of the research conducted by the nominated scholar over the course of her or his career. The nomination should also include a copy of the scholar’s curriculum vitae, and an assurance that the nominee has given her or his 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 Section on International Migration at the time of the receipt of the award (not required at the time of nominations). Officers and members of the Section Council are not eligible to be nominated while they are in office. All nominated candidates will remain active for at least two rounds of the award. Nominations wil be evaluated by the Distinguished Career Award committee.

Please submit all nominations by April 1, 2010 to:

Audrey Singer
Senior Fellow
Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Email: asinger@brookings.edu

2009 THOMAS & ZNANIECKI AWARD

The Thomas & Znaniecki Award is given annually for outstanding social science scholarship in the field of international migration to a book published within the previous two years. This year’s Thomas & Znaniecki Award committee invites nominations of books published in 2008 and 2009 that would be suitable candidates for this award. Recent winners have included: Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters and Jennifer Holdaway, Inheriting the City (2008); Ivan Light, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles (2008); and Robert C. Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (2006).

Please send your nominations by April 1, 2010 to:

Mary C. Waters
M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology
Sociology Department
540 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: mcw@wjh.harvard.edu

2009 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The International Migration Section's Graduate Student Paper Award Committee invites nominations and submissions for the section's annual graduate student paper competition. Students from any discipline may submit papers about any topic related to international migration broadly conceived. Papers must not yet be published at the time of submission and should be written during the 2009-2010 academic year. Papers must be single authored and no more than 10,000 words, including abstract and references.

Please send a cover letter, abstract, and copy of the paper (both hard copy and via e-mail) by May 1, 2010 to the committee chair:

Mark Leach
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Pennsylvania State University
110-B Armsby Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Email: mal41@psu.edu