| Willard Waller Award |
YEAR | NAME | AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD | PUBLICATION TITLE/OTHER |
| 2007 |
Charles Bidwell |
University of Chicago |
Lifetime Career Achievements |
| 2006 |
Jerome Karabel |
|
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton |
| 2005 |
Douglas B. Downey, Paul von Hippel, and Beckett Broh |
|
"Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality During the Summer Months and the School Year." American Sociological Review 69:613-635 |
| 2004 |
Maureen Hallinan |
|
Lifetime Achievement |
| 2003 |
James Rosenbaum | Northwestern University | Beyond College for All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half |
| 2002 | Steven Brint, Mary F. Contreras, and Michael T. Matthews |
|
"Socialization Messages in Primary Schools: An Organizational Analysis" Sociology of Education 74: 157-180. |
| 2001 | Basil Bernstein | Institute of Education, University of London | Lifetime Career Achievments |
| 2000 | Samual Roundfield Lucas | University of California, Berkeley | Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility
in American High Schools |
| 1999 | Suet-ling Pong | Pennsylvania State University | "The School Compositional Effect of Single-Parenthood on Tenth-Grade Achievement" |
| 1998 | Alan C. Kerckhoff | Duke University | Not listed |
| 1997 | Kevin J. Dougherty | Manhattan College | The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and futures of the Community College |
| 1996 | Robert Dreeben | University of Chicago | "The Sociology of Education: Its Development in the United States" |
| 1995 | John Meyer | Stanford University | Lifetime Career Accomplishments |
| 1994 | Anthony S. Bryk
Valerie E. Lee
Peter B. Holland | University of Chicago
University of Michigan
Belmont School District (MA) | Catholic Schools and the Common Good |
| 1993 | Alan Sadovnik | Adelphi University | "Basil Bernstein's Theory of Pedagogic Practice: A Structuralist Approach" |
| 1992 | Christopher Jencks |
Northwestern University |
Lifetime contributions |
| 1991 | Annette Lareau |
|
Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education |
| 1990 | William Sewell | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Lifetime contributions |
| 1989 | Joel Perlmann | |
Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935 |
| 1988 | James S. Coleman | University of Illinois-Chicago | Lifetime contributions |
| 1987 | Richard Rubinson | Florida State University |
"Class Formation, Politics, and Institutions: Schooling in the United States" |
| 1986 | Willard B Brookover | Michigan State University | Lifetime contributions |
David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper
(name changed in 2000) |
YEAR |
NAME |
AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD |
TITLE |
| 2007 |
Donna Bobbitt-Zeher |
Ohio State University |
"The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education" |
| 2006 |
Jennifer Booher-Jennings |
Columbia University |
|
| 2005 | Douglas Lee Lauen | University of Chicago | "Contextual Explanations of School Choice" |
| 2004 | Jennifer Booher-Jennings
Jennifer C. Lee and Jeremy Staff | Columbia University
University of Minnesota | "Below the Bubble: 'Educational Triage' and the Texas Accountability System"
"When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Adolescent Work Intensity on High School Dropout" |
| 2003 | Sean Kelly | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking" |
| 2002 | HyunJoon Park | University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| 2001 | Simon Cheng and Brian Starks | Indiana University, Bloomington | "Elaborating Racial Differences in Educational Expectations: A Test of Three Core Assumptions" |
| 2000 | Christopher B. Swanson | University of Chicago | "Cooling-out and Warming Up:The Role of Postsecondary Institutional Environment in Managing Ambitions" |
| 1999 | Mark J. Schafer | Indiana University | "International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross National Study" |
| 1998 | Salvatore Saporito | Temple University | "Exercising Strategic Choice in Education Contexts: Why School Choice Increases Segregation in Public Schools" |
| 1997 | William Carbonaro | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends' Parents? Family Structure , Social Capital, and Effects on Educational Outcomes" |
| 1996 | Vincent J. Roscigno | North Carolina State University | "Race, Place, and the Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage: The Black-White Gap and the Influence of Local Context" |
| 1995 | John Robert Warren | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "Social Background, Migration History, and English Language Ability: Educational Attainment Among White and Mexican Origin Children in the American Southwest, 1990" |
| 1994 | Kim M. Lloyd | SUNY-Albany | "Family Size & Educational Attainment: Differences by Gender, Race, & Ethnicity" |
| 1993 | Sally K. Gallagher | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | "Family & Community Caregiving by the Elderly: The New Volunteers?" |
