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Awards
SECTION AWARDS - 2010
Deadline for all awards is March 31, 2010 A NOTE REGARDING THIS YEAR'S SECTION AWARDS: This year the Oliver Cromwell Cox article award WILL NOT be offered. Normally every year 1)the Oliver Cromwell Cox book award, 2)the Oliver Cromwell Cox article award, 3)the James Blackwell Graduate Student paper award, 4)the Early Career award and 5)the Founder's award are offered. As of 2011, the Feagin Undergraduate paper award and the Early Career award will be alternated, with each being offered every other year. If you have any questions, please email the SREM chair Erica Chito Childs, echitoch@hunter.cuny.eduA list of winners for section awards from 2003-2009 can be found below.
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 2010 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 2008 or 2009. 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 and other supporting material to: 2010 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award Committee Chair Dr. David Embrick Department of Sociology Loyola University 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60626 dembric@luc.eduOliver Cromwell Cox Article Award
THIS AWARD WILL BE OFFERED IN 2011 The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA invites nominations for the 2011 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 2008, 2009, or 2010. 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.James E. Blackwell 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 2009 are eligible. Self-nominations and nominations by faculty advisors or other faculty members are welcome. A copy 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 nomination letter and other supporting material by email to the 2010 SREM Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair, Dr. Angela A. Gonzales at aag27@cornell.edu .Joe Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award*
This award recognizes the best undergraduate student paper that focuses specifically on the relation between or issues relevant to socially defined racial and ethnic groups, uses an integrative race, class, gender analysis, and/or makes an important theoretical, methodological, or empirical contribution in the field of Race/Racism/Race Relations Studies. We encourage race critical or innovative scholarship as well as scholarship that focuses on and contributes to the welfare of all, rather than the promotion of any one particular group of color’s social or political interests. Papers (with a maximum length of 25 pages) submitted for this award must be entirely student-authored and written when the author was an undergraduate student. Current undergraduate students and those who have completed their undergraduate degree no earlier than January 2009 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, e-mail address and/or fax number, institutional affiliation, undergraduate student status (i.e. year in the program and expected date of undergraduate degree). The award includes $200. Please send a nomination letter and other supporting material to: 2010 SREM Joe Feagin Undergraduate Award Committee Chair Dr. Jane H. Yamashiro American Cultures Studies Program Loyola Marymount University University Hall, 1 LMU Drive jane@alumni.ucsd.edu *Beginning in 2011, this award will be offered in alternate yearsSREM 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: 2010 SREM Distinguished Early Career Award Committee Chair Dr. Nancy Foner Hunter College - CUNY Department of Sociology 1618 Hunter West 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 nfoner@hunter.cuny.edu Beginning in 2011, this award will be offered in alternate yearsFounder’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 2010 Reception in Atlanta. 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: 2010 SREM Founder’s Award Committee Chair Dr. Erica Chito Childs Chair, ASA-SREM Founders Award Committee Department of Sociology Hunter College/CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 erica.chitochilds@hunter.cuny.edu2009 Award Winners
2009 Founder’s Award for Scholarship & Service: Mary Romero, Arizona State University Distinguished Early Career Award: Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University Cromwell Cox Book Award: Co-Winners - Nadia Y. Kim. 2008. Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to L.A. Stanford University Press Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. 2008. White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award: Ann J. Morning. 2008. “Reconstructing Race in Science and Society: Biology Textbooks, 1952-2002”. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 114, supplement. Honorable Mention: Ben H. Carrington. 2008. “'What's the Footballer Doing Here?' Racialized Performativity, Reflexivity and Identity". Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies , 8:423-453. James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Matthew W. Hughey. “Navigating the (Dis)similarities of White Racial Projects: The Conceptual Framework of ‘Hegemonic Whiteness’”2008 Award Winners
Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award: Co-Winners -Moon-Kie Jung. 2006. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement. Columbia University Press. Karyn R. Lacy. 2007. Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. University of California Press Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award: Natalia Sarkisian. 2007. “Street Men, Family Men: Race and Men’s Extended Family Involvement” Social Forces, Volume 86, Number 2, December 2007. James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Rashawn Ray. “Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men's Approaches Toward Women.”
2006 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