PSA 2020 AWARDS

Distinguished Scholarship Award: Ranita Ray, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Book: The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (UC Press, 2017)

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology: Dilshani Sarathchandra, University of Idaho

Dean S. Dorn Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Vikas Gumbhir, Gonzaga University

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award: Alice Gates, University of Portland

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Sarah Ahmed, University of Oregon
“Women Left Behind: Migration, Agency, and the Pakistani Woman”

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, University of California, Davis “From Shame to Dignity: Elderly Women, Depression, and the Feminine Self” (Volume 62, Issue 2)

Social Conscience Award: One Oregon Coalition, Eugene, Oregon
The PSA Social Conscience Committee selected the One Oregon Coalition

PSA 2019 AWARDS

Distinguished Scholarship Award: Abigail Leslie Andrews, University of California, San Diego 
Book: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants (UC Press, 2018)

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Caleb Scoville, University of California, Berkeley
“Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and the Morality of Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta”

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology: Celeste Atkins, Cochise College

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: Caitlin Patler, University of California, Davis
“To Reveal or Conceal: How Diverse Undocumented Youth Navigate Legal Status Disclosure” Volume 61:6 (December 2018)

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award: Leontina Hormel, University of Idaho

Social Conscience Award: Boost! West Oakland

PSA 2018 AWARDS

Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award:  Viraji Weeraseena, University of California, Riverside  
“The Structural Sources of Violent Crimes in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka”

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award:  Armand Rene Gutierrez, University of California San Diego  
“The Determinants of Remittances among the Children of Mexican- and Filipino-American Migrants”

Social Conscience Award: Khmer Girls in Action, of Long Beach, California

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology:   Aya Kimura Ida, California State University Sacramento

Distinguished Scholarship Award:  Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver
Book: Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines (New York University Press, 2016)

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: Kevin Estep “Constructing a Language Problem: Status-based Power Devaluation and the Threat of Immigrant Inclusion”  Volume 60:3 (June 2017)

Honorable Mention:  Hui Liu, Corinne Reczek, Samuel C.H. Mindes, and Shannon Shen
“The Health Disparities of Same-sex Cohabitors at the Intersection of Race-ethnicity and Gender”  Volume 60:3 (June 2017)

PSA 2017 AWARDS

Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award:  Allison Nasson (University of Puget Sound)
“Donor Friendly Victimhood: Narrative Construction as a Fundraising Strategy”

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award:  Hyunsu Oh (University of California Merced)
“Immigration Pathway and Life Satisfaction: The Case of Female Marriage Migrants in
Contemporary South Korea”

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award:  Dr. Susan Peterson (Clark County School District)

Social Conscience Award:  Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc., Portland, Oregon

Early Career Innovation in Teaching Sociology Award:    Dr. Meredith Williams (Humboldt State University)

Distinguished Scholarship Award:   Dr. Jennifer Utrata (University of Puget Sound)
Book: Women Without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia  (2015, Cornell University Press

PSA 2016 AWARDS

Distinguished Scholarship Award: Michael Messner (University of Southern California), Max Greenberg (University of Southern California), and Tal Peretz (Auburn University)
Book: Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (2015, Oxford University Press)

Early Career Award for Innovation in Teaching Sociology: Luis Sanchez (California State University Channel Islands)

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award: Michelle Inderbitzin (Oregon State University)

Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: Erin Cech (Rice University)
Paper: “Engineers or Engineeresses? Self-conceptions and the Development of Gendered Professional Identities”  58(1):56-77    Spring 2015

Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award: Danya Axelrad-Hausman (University of Puget Sound)
Paper: “Seeking Justice: Examining Identity Formation Within the Enivironmental Justice Movement”

Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Jo Mhairi Hale (University of California Davis)
Paper: “Impact of the Great Depression and Cumulative Inequality on Cognitive Decline”

Social Conscience Award:  Women’s Economic Agenda Project, Oakland, CA

PSA 2015 AWARDS

2015 Distinguished Scholarship Award: Paul Almeida, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest
              Honorable mention: Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream

The 2015 Dean S. Dorn Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Karen Pyke, University of California Riverside

The 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award: Valerie Francisco, University of Portland

The 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award: Jan E. Stets and Peter J. Burke, “Self-Esteem and Identities,” Vol. 57(4):409-433.
                 Honorable mention: Valerie Jenness, “Pesticides, Prisoners, and Policy: Complexity and Praxis in Research on Transgender Prisoners and Beyond,” Vol. 57(1):6-26.

The 2015 Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award: Jesus Perez, “Latina/o Self-Identified Students at HSU: Beyond Their Freshmen Year”​

The 2015 Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award: Hasan Mahmud, “Social Determinants of Remitting Practices Among Bangladeshi Migrants in Japan”

Social Conscience Award: Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community