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Call for Award Nominations- 2025
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has five awards that are given to scholars and students to recognize particular achievements. Award descriptions can be found on the Awards page.
Awards
George Herbert Mead Award
Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award
The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award
The George Herbert Mead Award
Nomination deadline: April 1, 2025
The George Herbert Mead Award is given annually to recognize a scholar’s career contributions to the field of symbolic interactionism.
Mead award nominations should include a letter of nomination from a current member of SSSI, two letters of support, and a current CV. Nominators will be advised when the Award Committee has made a recommendation to the President, but the actual name will not be announced until the annual General Meeting and will subsequently be posted online.
Chair: Andrea Salvini - andrea.salvini@unipi.it
Committee: Christopher J. Schneider, Julie Wiest
Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Recent Book in Symbolic Interaction
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2025
Please contact the chair of the committee with your nomination and to arrange for copies of the book to be sent to the committee. Copies of the books must be received by the committee by the deadline. If you are submitting a nomination for the Cooley Award, please ensure that you contact the publisher as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for copies of the books reach the committee. Electronic copies are permitted and are preferable where shipping will cause delays. Nominated books must have been published within the three preceding years of the award (i.e. between March 2021 and March 2024).
Chair: Thomas DeGloma- tdegloma@hunter.cuny.edu
Committee: Heather Shay, Douglas Smith
Herbert Blumer Award
for Best Graduate Student Paper in Symbolic Interaction
Nomination deadline: April 1, 2025
Awarded to a graduate student paper; the paper may be published or unpublished. Papers should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. Self-nominations are accepted.
Chair: Michael O. Johnston - johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu
Committee: Jeffrey Parsells-Johnson, Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Helena Lopata Award for Excellence in Mentorship
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2025
Nominations should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. All nominations should include (a) a letter of nomination and, (b) multiple letters of support, ideally from people with different mentoring relations with the candidate, that testify to a sustained career of outstanding mentorship.
Chair: Beth Montemurro - eam15@psu.edu
Committee: Stacey Hannem, Scott Harris
Kathy Charmaz Early-in-Career Award
Nomination deadline: April 15, 2025
Nominations should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. All nominations should include (a) a letter of nomination detailing the candidate’s contributions to symbolic interaction and most noteworthy research and publications thus far, (b) letters of support that address the award criteria, and (c) the candidate’s CV.
Chair: Thomas DeGloma - tdegloma@hunter.cuny.edu
Committee: Heather Shay, Douglas Smith