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Awards
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Section Awards
Oliver Cromwell Cox Award
This annual award honors the memory of Oliver Cromwell Cox. The award recognizes sociologically related books or articles published in the last two years that make a distinguished and significant contribution to the eradication of racism. The winner will be announced at the section reception at the 2006 ASA meeting in Montreal. The committee encourages self-nominations and nominations of work by others. Nominations should include a statement, no longer than one page, explaining the book or article’s contribution to the eradication of racism. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2006. Send nominations and three copies of the nominated book or article to: Cromwell Cox Award Committeec/oDr. Erica Chito Childs
Department of Sociology Hunter College/CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 email: echitoch@hunter.cuny.edu
James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award
This award recognizes the best graduate student paper 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 winner will be announced at the section reception at the 2006 ASA meeting in Montreal. 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 2006 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). The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2006. Please send materials to: Blackwell Distinguished Award Committeec/o Dr. Emily Noelle Ignacio
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Box 358436
University of Washington at Tacoma
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402
email: eignacio@u.washington.edu
Joe R. Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award
ThThis paper recognizes the best undergraduate student paper that focuses specifically on the relation between or issues relevant to socially divided racial and ethnic groups, uses 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. 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. The winner will be announced at the section reception at the 2006 ASA meetings in Montreal. Papers (with a maximum length of 25 pages) submitted for this award must be entirely student-authored and written while the author was an undergraduate student. Current undergraduate students and those who have completed their undergraduate degree no earlier than January 2006 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, undergraduate student status (i.e., year in the program and expected date of undergraduate degree). The award includes $300. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2006. Please send materials to: Feagin Distinguished Award Committeec/o Dr. Bandana Purkayastha Department of Sociology Manchester Hall 344 Mansfield Road, Unit 2068 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-2068 email: bandana.purkayastha@uconn.edu
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 AssimilationCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Association of Black Sociologists Student Paper Awards
The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) is now accepting papers for its annual Undegraduate Student Paper Competition. Students who are members of ABS qualify for the competition. The top three winners of the competition will receive cash awards. They will also present their papers at this years ABS conference held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 8-11, 2006. The papers are to be no longer than 20 pages, including references. The papers cannot be under consideration for publication at the time of submission. Additionally, an abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted with the paper.
Graduate Competition The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) is now accepting papers for its annual Graduate Student Paper Competition. Graduate students who are members of ABS qualify for the competition. The top three winners of the competition will receive cash awards. They will also present their papers at this years ABS conference held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 8-11, 2006. The papers are to be no longer than 30 pages, including references. The papers cannot be under consideration for publication at the time of submission. Additionally, an abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted with the paper. Students should submit six copies of the paper and abstract to: ABS Student Paper Competition Association of Black Sociologists 4200 Wisconsin Avenue NW, PMB 106-257 Washington, D.C. 20016 Please indicate on the envelope and cover page which competition, undergraduate or graduate, you are entering. Students can also submit the paper and abstract electronically in either Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or PDF format to: studentpaper@blacksociologists.org . Again, please indicate in the email and cover page which competition, undergraduate or graduate, the submission is intended. The submission deadline for the competition is May 1, 2006. Please visit the ABS website at www.blacksociologists.org for further information about the Association of Black Sociologists and the Student Paper Competitions.