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Awards CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Section Awards - DEADLINE - FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award This annual award honors the memory of Oliver Cromwell Cox. The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award. This annual award honors the memory of Oliver Cromwell Cox. The award recognizes sociologically related books published in the last two years that make a distinguished and significant contribution to the eradication of racism. Eligible books for consideration must be published in 2007 or 2008. The committee encourages self-nominations and nominations of work by others. Nominations should include a statement, no longer than 3 pages, explaining the book's contribution to the eradication of racism. Please send a nomination letter, four copies of the nominated book, and other supporting material to the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award Committee Chair, Professor Erica Chito-Childs, Hunter College erica.chitochilds@hunter.cuny.edu Professor Erica Chito Childs Department of Sociology Hunter College 695 Park Avenue 16th Floor Hunter West New York, NY 10065 Email: erica.chitochilds@hunter.cuny.edu )Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award. This award recognizes the author(s) of the best research article in the sociological study of race and ethnicity published in the past three years. Eligible articles for consideration must be published in 2006, 2007, or 2008. The nomination letter should be no more than 3 pages and should explain the scholarly significance and innovations of the research article. To nominate a journal article, please send the following: 1) a PDF file of the article or a functioning URL where it can be accessed, 2) a nomination letter, and (3) contact information for the nominee(s) (including email) to the chair of the selection committee. Please send a nomination letter along with a copy of the paper and supporting material to the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award Committee Chair, Professor Nilda Flores-Gonzales, University of Illinois-Chicago, nilda@uic.edu 2009 Cromwell Cox Article Award Committee Chair: Professor Nilda Flores-Gonzales Department of Sociology (m/c 312) 4160 Behavioral Sciences Building University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 West Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607-7140 Email: nilda@uic.eduJames E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award This award recognizes the best graduate student paper (authored by one or more graduate students) that focuses on the relation between or issues relevant to socially divided racial and ethnic groups. Eligible papers should demonstrate an integrative race, class, gender analysis, and/or make an important theoretical, methodological, or empirical contribution in the field of Race/Racism/Race Relations Studies. Race critical or innovative scholarship are encouraged, as well as scholarship that focuses on the welfare of all, rather than the promotion of any one particular group of color's social or political interests. The award includes a cash prize of $300. Papers (with a maximum length of 25 pages) submitted for this award must be entirely student-authored and written while the author was a graduate student. Current graduate students and those who have completed their degree no earlier than January 2008 are eligible. Self-nominations and nominations by faculty advisors or other faculty members are welcome. Three copies of the paper should be submitted with a cover letter indicating the student's name, address, telephone number, email address and/or fax number, institutional affiliation, graduate student status (i.e., year in the program and expected date of MA or PhD). Please send a nomination letter along with a copy of the paper and supporting material to the 2009 James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair, Professor Joyce Bell, University of Georgia, jmbell@uga.edu 2009 Blackwell Award Committee Chair: Joyce Bell, University of Georgia Department of Sociology 119C Baldwin Hall Athens, GA 30602-1611 Email: jmbell@uga.edu2009 SREM Distinguished Early Career Award The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section's Distinguished Early Career Award recognizes exceptional achievement and scholarly contribution to research on the sociology of race and ethnicity. Nominations must include electronic copies of the following: 1) A letter of nomination outlining the nominee's accomplishments to date and anticipated future contributions in the area of race and ethnicity; 2) A copy of the nominee's current curriculum vitae; and 3) Two representative scholarly publications by the nominee. Nominees must be a member of the section and have received their PhD within ten calendar years of the nomination deadline. Self nominations are not accepted for this award. Please send a nomination letter and other supporting material to the 2009 SREM Distinguished Early Career Award Committee Co-Chairs, Professor Yen Le Espiritu, University of California at San Diego, yespirit@ucsd.edu and Professor Mary Romero, Arizona State University, MARY.ROMERO@asu.edu 2009 Distinguished Early Career Award Committee Co-Chairs: Professor Yen Le Espiritu 9500 Gilman Drive # 0522 La Jolla, CA 92093-0522 Email: yespirit@ucsd.edu Professor Mary Romero Wilson Hall 240 E Orange Mall Tempe, AZ 85281 Email: MARY.ROMERO@asu.edu2009 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service SREM’S Founder’s Award for Scholarship and Service was established in 2007 with a donation from Professor Charles Smith (one of the original founder’s of the SREM section) to recognize career excellence in scholarship as well as in service. For this award, scholarship is defined in terms of substantive academic (theoretical, empirical, or applied) contributions, while service is defined as professional and/or community service. A plaque and a $100 award will be presented at the 2009 Reception in San Francisco. Nominations must include electronic copies of the following: 1) A letter of nomination outlining the nominee's accomplishments and contributions – scholarly and service oriented - in the area of race and ethnicity; 2) A copy of the nominee's current curriculum vitae; and 3) Two representative scholarly publications by the nominee. Nominees must be a member of the section. Self nominations are not accepted for this award. Please send a nomination letter and other supporting material to the 2009 SREM Founder’s Award Committee Chair, Professor Earl Wright, II, Texas Southern University, wrighte@tsu.edu 2009 Founder’s Award Committee Chair: Earl Wright II, Ph.D. Chair & Associate Professor Department of Sociology Texas Southern University Houston, Texas 77004 Email: wrighte@tsu.edu2006 Award Winners Oliver Cromwell Cox Award (Co-Winners) Edward Telles (University of California at Los Angeles) Race in another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton University Press) Prudence L. Carter (Harvard University) Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (Oxford University Press) James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Douglas Grbic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Social and Cultural Meanings of Tolerance: Immigration, Incorporation, and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand" Joe R. Feagin Award for Best Undergraduate Paper Lauren Hawley, DePauw University, 'Language and Ethnicity Formation: Exploring the Identities of Non-Native English Speakers”2005 Award Winners Oliver Cromwell Cox Award Judith R. Blau for Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003 Honorable Mention: Mario Smnall for Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio), University of Chicago Press, 2004 James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Jeffrey C. Dixon, Indiana University, "The Ties That Bind and Those That Don't: Toward Reconciling Group Threat and Contact Theories of Prejudice" Joe R. Feagin Award HyeJin Kim, University of Notre Dame, "Class, Culture, and Conflict: African American-Korean Ameircan Conflict in South Central Los Angeles"2004 Award Winners Oliver Cromwell Cox Award Deirdre Royster for Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs, University of California Press Honorable Mention: Omar McRoberts for Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood (Morality and Society), University of Chicago Press James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award - CO-WINNERS Philip H. Kim, "When Information is Not Enough: Views of Americans Toward Racial Profiling" Scott Leon Washington, "The Killing Fields Revisited: Lynching and Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the Jim Crow South, 1882-1930 Honorable Mention: Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, "On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans' Racialization" Joe R. Feagin Award - CO-WINNERS Courtney Carter, Truman State University, Resettlement and Race: Ethiopian Jews in Israel Peter Joseph, George Washington University, Gender in the Study of Race Riots: Past and Future Avenues of Study2003 Award Winners Oliver Cromwell Cox Award - CO-WINNERS Evelyn Nakano Glenn for Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor Howard Winant for The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II Honorable Mention: David Naguib Pellow for Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Mary Jo Deegan for Race, Hull-House and the University of Chicago James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Etsuko Maruoka-Ng for The Challenge of the “Model Asian”: Rethinking Ethnic Assimilation |
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