PSA 2022 Awards

Social Conscience Award: Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology: Jeffrey Sacha, American River College

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: “No Choice but to be Essential: Expanding Dimensions of Precarity During COVID-19”, by Lola Loustaunau, Lina Stepick, Ellen Scott, Larissa Petrucci, and Miriam Henifin, all of University of Oregon (2021:Issue 5, October)

Distinguished Scholarship Award: Matthew Clair, Stanford University, for Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Distinguished Scholarship Award, Honorable Mention: Brandon Andrew Robinson, University of California Riverside, for Coming Out to the Streets: LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness (UC Press, 2020)

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award: Maura Kelly, Portland State University

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Meghna Mukherjee, University of California Berkeley, for “Hamstrung by Hardship: The Clinic’s Role in Protecting Egg Donors’ Reproductive Labour in Kolkata, India”

2020-2021 Awards Committee Members:
Miriam Abelson, Portland State University, Co-Chair
Ethel Nicdao, CSU San Bernardino, Co-Chair
Suzel Bozada-Deas, Sonoma State University
Hernan Ramirez, College of the Canyons
beginning 2021 awards cycle:
Minjeong Kim, San Diego State University
Alice Gates, University of Portland