The Thomas & Znaniecki Book 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 (Sara Curran, chair) invites nominations of books published in 2006 and 2007 that would be suitable candidates for this award. Recent winners have included: Robert C. Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press, 2005), Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Rethinking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Harvard, 2003) and Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press, 2001). Please send your nominations by March 30th, 2008 to: Sara Curran, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, Email: scurran@u.washington.edu; Jennifer Lee, Department of Sociology, University of California, 3253 Social Sciences Plaza B, Irvine, CA 92697, Email: jenlee@uci.edu; Jeffrey Reitz, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto Ont M5S 3K7 Canada, Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca.

Graduate Student Paper Award

The International Migration Section's Graduate Student Paper Award Committee (Elaine Howard Ecklund, Chair, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Margarita Mooney, UNC, Chapel Hill, and Dae Young Kim, U of Maryland) 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 2007-8 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 1st, 2008 to: Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sociology Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Department of Sociology 430 Park all, Buffalo, NY 14260, ehe@buffalo.edu.

Distinguished Career Award

The International Migration Section invites nominations for the 2007 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 Tamotsu Shibutani (2004), Edna Bonacich (2005), and Lydio F. Tomasi (2005). 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 (Nancy Foner,Chair; Peggy Levitt and Frank Bean, members). Please submit all nominations by March 15, 2008, to: Nancy Foner (nfoner@hunter.cuny.edu), Peggy Levitt (plevitt@wellesley.edu), and Frank Bean (fbean@uci.edu).