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2025 Simon Gottschalk, Professor Emeritus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2024 Andrea Salvina, Professor, University of Pisa
2023
2022 Eviatar Zerubavel, Professor, Rutgers University
2021 E. Doyle McCarthy, Fordham University
2020 Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University
2019 Gary T. Marx, M.I.T. (Emeritus)
2018 Robert Prus
2017 Will van Hoonaard and Deborah van Hoonaard
2016 David Snow (UC Irvine)
2015 Ruth Horowitz. (New York University)
2014 Donileen Loseke (University of South Florida)
2013 Joel Best (University of Delaware)
2012 David Karp (Boston College)
2011 Clinton Sanders (University of Connecticut)
2010 Patti Adler and Peter Adler
2009 Joseph Kotarba
2008 Spencer Cahill
2007 Lonnie Athens
2006 Kathy Charmaz
2005 Clark McPhail
David Altheide
2004 Douglas Mitchell
2003 Gary Alan Fine
2002 John Johnson
2001 Lyn H. Lofland
2000 Sheldon Stryker
1999 David Maines
1998 Robert S. Perinbanayagam
1997 Norman Denzin
1996 Virginia Olesen
1995 John Lofland
1994 Peter Hall
1993 Helena Znaiecki Lopata
1992 Carl Couch
1991 Joseph Gusfield
1990 Ralph Turner
1989 Jacqueline Wiseman
1988 Louis Zurcher
1987 Howard S. Becker
1986 Tamotsu Shibutani
1985 Anselm Strauss
1984 Stanford Lyman
1983 Erving Goffman
1982 Kenneth Burke
1981 Everett Hughes
1980 Gregory Stone
1979 Alfred Lindesmith
1978 Herbert Blumer
Issei Misumi
2025 Asia Friedman, Associate Professor, University of Delaware for Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes
2024 Thomas DeGloma, Professor of Sociology, CUNY for Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities, University of Chicago Press, 2023
2023 Corte, Ugo. Professor, Sociology.
Honorable mentions: Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider.
2022 Michael J. Walker. Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail. Oxford University Press.
2020 Anne Nassauer. Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes. Oxford University Press.
2019 Eviatar Zerubavel, Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press
2018 Joonyoung Lee. Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.
2017 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman. The Color of Love. Racial Features, Stigma and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families. Austin: UT Press
Norbert Wiley Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2016
2016 Daniel R. Huebner Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge University of Chicago Press, 2015
2015 Thomas DeGloma Seeing the Light. The Social Process of Personal Discovery. University of Chicago Press, 2014
2014 Joe Kotarba Baby Boomer Rock ‘n’ Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends. Scarecrow Press, 2013
2013 Nancy Berns for Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What it Costs US. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2012 Michael G. Flaherty for The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Honorable Mentions: Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler for The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury. New York: NYU Press, 2011.
Will C. van den Hoonard for The Seduction of Ethics: Transforming the Social Sciences. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
2011 Scott R. Harris for What Is Constructionism? Navigating Its Use in Sociology. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications.
2010 Tammy L. Anderson for Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2009)
2009 Carolyn Ellis, Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009.
2008 Gary Alan Fine, Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
2007 David Altheide, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear. Lanham, MD: AltaMira, 2006.
2006 Adele E. Clarke, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
Joseph E. Davis, Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma and Self. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
2005 Jennifer Dunn, Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002.
2004 David Altheide, Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002.
2003 Stanford Lyman, Roads to Dystopia: Sociological Essays on the Postmodern Condition. Fayetteville, AS: University of Arkansas Press, 2001.
2002 Richard G. Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
2001 Robert Perinbanayagam, The Presence of Self. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
2000 Clinton R. Sanders, Understanding Dogs: Living and Working with Canine Companions. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999.
1999 Gary Alan Fine, Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
1998 Laurel Richardson, Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
1997 Arnold Arluke and Clinton Sanders, Regarding Animals. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1996.
1996 David Karp, Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection and the Meaning of Illness. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
1995 Ruth Horowitz, Teen Mothers: Citizens or Dependents? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
David Goode, A World Without Words: The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994.
1994 Donileen Loseke, The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992.
Special recognition: Irwin Deutscher, Fred P. Pestello and Frances G. Pestello, Sentiments and Acts. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993.
1993 David Snow and Leon Anderson, Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
1992 Kathy Charmaz, Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
1991 Joel Best, Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern About Child-Victims. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
1990 John P. Hewitt, Dilemmas of the American Self. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989.
Honourable mention: Peter K. Manning, Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
1989 Jack Katz, Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1988.
Honourable mention: John Van Maanen, Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
1988 Norman Denzin, The Alcoholic Self. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1997.
1987 Patrick Biernacki, Pathways from Heroin Addiction: Recovery Without Treatment. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986.
Honourable mention: Patricia A. Adler, Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1985.
1986 David Altheide, Media Power. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1985.
1985 Kristen Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.
1984 Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.
1983 Joseph Gusfield, The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
1981 Peter Conrad and Joseph Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness. St Louis, MO: Mosby, 1980.
1980 Howard S. Becker, for significant contributions to the perspective
1979 Anselm Strauss, Negotiations: Varieties, Contexts, Processes and Social Order. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1978
1978 Ralph Turner, ‘The Real Self: From Institution to Impulse’, American Journal of Sociology, 81(5): 989–1016, 1976.
Ralph Turner, ‘The Role and the Person’, American Journal of Sociology, 84(1): 1–23, 1978.
2025 Yuchen Yang, Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham for "Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender"
Honorable Mention: Jiwon Yun, PhD Candidate, Yale University for "Multiple Staging for Multiple Audiences: Working Around the Donor-Beneficiary Dynamic in the Nonprofit Sector."
2024 Oded Marom, University of Southern California for his paper, “Patterns of Tolerance: How Interaction Culture and Community Relations Explain Political Tolerance (and Intolerance) in the American Libertarian Movement”
2023 Yuchen Yang, "The Art Worlds of Gender Performance: Cosplay, Embodiment, and the Collective Accomplishment of Gender," The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 9(9).
2022 Robert Scott (UC-Boulder), “A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities.”
Honorable Mention: Ken Hanson (Oregon) for “The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community,” published in Symbolic Interaction
2020 Fangheyue Amber Ma, University of Southern Florida, for the paper: “’You Are First a Chinese Citizen, Then a Consumer’: Presenting and Balancing Identities Online as Chinese International Tourists”
2019 Max Papadantonakis (CUNY) for the paper: Cultural Othering: Interpersonal Foundations of Nationalist Ethnic Conflict in a Greek Street Market.
2018 Stephanie Peña-Alves (Rutgers University) for her paper “Say it with Doors: Object-Mediated Communication in Everyday Life”.
2017 Andrea Laurent-Simpson (Texas Women’s University Denton) for her paper “Considering Alternate Sources of Role Identity: Childless Parents and Their Animal “Kids”
2016 Sherri Sasnett-Martichuski (Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder) for her paper “The Transgender Experience: In Search of an Authentic Self”.
2015 Hyeyoung Kwon (Indiana University) for the paper: Intersectionality in Interaction: Immigrant Youth Doing American from an Outsider-Within Position.
2014 Hannah Wohl, Northwestern University, for her paper: Modeling Judgment: Interacting in an Erotic Arts Club
2013 Amanda Gengler, Brandeis University, for her paper: Keep Your Hope, Keep Your Faith: Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management among Families of Seriously Ill Children
Honourable Mention: Gareth M. Thomas, Cardiff University, for this paper, Cooling the Mother Out: Revisiting and Revising Goffman’s Account.
2012 Jason Sumerau and Alex I. Thompson
2011 Lisa-Jo Van den Scott
2010 Marc Eaton
2009 Raymond Garrett-Peters
2008 Eric C. Bonds
2007 Ken Kolb
2006 Margaret Leaf
Honorable mention: Annie Wagganer
2005 Elly Teman and Avi Shoshana
2004 Amy Leisenring
2003 Rob Gardner
2002 Hilary Smith
2001 Adina L. Nack
Honorable mentions: Scott R. Harris, Tony Puddephatt
2000 Alice Fothergill
1999 Penny Phillips
1998 Jennifer Lois
1997 Leslie Irvine and Joanna Gregson
1996 Daphne Holden
1995 Jessica Fields
Honorable mention: Stefan Timmermans
1994 Joseph Hopper
1993 Carol Rambo-Ronai
1992 Lori Ducharme
1991 Jody Miller
1990 J. David Brown
1989 Kent Sandstrom
1988 Martha Copp
1987 Elisabeth Schillinger
1986 Judi Miller
1985 Steve Worden
1983 William L. Tam
1981 Spencer Cahill, Wendy Espeland, and Bill Gronfein
1980 Diane Bjorkland and Monica Hardesty
1979 Claire Fraser Holt
1978 David Unruh
2025 Ross Haenfler, Professor, Grinnell College
2024 Beth Montemurro, Professor of Sociology, Penn State University
2023 Doug Schrock, Florida State University
2022 David Schweingruber, Iowa State University
2021 Timothy Hallett, Indiana University Bloomington
2020 Dr. J. Patrick Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
2019 Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Memorial University
2018 Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado, Boulder
2017 Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University
2016 Matthew W. Hughey, University of Connecticut
2015 Donileen Loseke, University of South Florida and
David G. Embrick, Loyola University Chicago
2014 Dan Miller, University of Dayton
2013 Clinton R. Sanders, University of Connecticut
2012 Joel Best, University of Delaware
2011 Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University
2010 Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State University
2009 John M. Johnson, Arizona State University
2008 Viktor Gecas, Washington State University
2007 David Altheide, Arizona State University
(The award was titled the ”Feminist Mentor Award” through 2006. It was changed to the “Mentor Excellence Award” in 2007.)
2006 Michael Schwalbe, North Carolina State University
2005 Peter Adler, University of Denver
2004 Patti Adler, University of Colorado
2003 Patricia Ticineto Clough, Fordham University
2002 Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco and Sherryl Kleinman, University of North Carolina
2001 Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University
2000 Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida and
Virginia Olesen, University of California, San Francisco
1999 Helena Znaniecki Lopata, Loyola University and
Lauren Richardson, Ohio State University
1998 Lyn H. Lofland, University of California and
Davis and Barrie Thorne, University of California Berkeley
1997 Mary Lou Dietz, University of Windsor and
Dorothy Smith, University of TorontoKathy Charmaz Early In Career Award2025 Martin Harbush, University of Siegen 2024 Deana Simonetto, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia-Okanagan 2023 Chris Connor, University of Missouri 2022 Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Alexandra Vinson, University of Michigan |