Scholarly Achievement Award
Call for 2025 Nominations
The Scholarly Achievement Award Committee is now encouraging nominations for significant work in the discipline which has appeared in the recent past (January 2021 through September 2024) that previously has not been recognized by the Association. There are two divisions of the award: scholarly paper and scholarly book. Both divisions should be submitted to the chair of the committee via the button below. Self nominations are welcome, but at least one of the authors of the work must either be an NCSA member or located within the North Central Region (Eastern Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, or Ontario, Canada).
The committee evaluates the nominated books/articles using the following criteria:
- Use, development, extension, or reworking of theory
- Appropriateness and strength of methods/research design
- Clarity, quality, and accessibility of writing
- Overall contribution to and impact on the discipline of sociology — be it through use in the classroom, as a research piece, or both — including its timeliness and significance
Given these criteria, with regards to books, there is a clear preference for research/teaching monographs, rather than dissertations, textbooks, edited volumes or encyclopedias.
The deadline for 2025 nominations will be October 20, 2024
For full criteria and nomination requirements, download 2025 call
Nomination Portal will be Available August 12, 2024
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Richelle Dykstra-Crookshanks, Slippery Rock University
2024 Recipient of the Scholarly Achievement Award for Books
Michelle R. Jacobs (Wayne State University)
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation
New York University Press 2023
NCSA Scholarly Achievement Award for an Article, 2024
Janani Umamaheswar (George Mason University) and Eman Tadros (Governors State University)
Not Anybody can be a Dad: The Intergenerational Transmission of Masculinity among Incarcerated Men
Crime and Delinquency (2022) 68(10): 1740-1764
We would like to express our deepest thanks to the North Central Sociological Association and the Scholarly Achievement Award committee for awarding us the 2024 Scholarly Achievement Award for Articles for our work, “ ‘Not Anybody Can be a Dad’: The Intergenerational Transmission of Masculinity Among Incarcerated Men.” For us, this award represents a recognition of our efforts to do better by people in prison, who are far too often stigmatized and dehumanized by society (if they are considered at all). In our article, we sought to explore the nuanced ways in which men in prison draw on, adapt, and/or modify the masculinity scripts that they inherit from their own fathers/father figures as they contemplate what it means to be a good father. Our findings complicate and disrupt one-dimensional portrayals of men in prison as hypermasculine and aggressive, and we hope that they serve as a step forward in understanding the lives of people in prison in all their depth and richness. We are tremendously grateful for this award, which inspires us (as scholars trained in Sociology and Marriage and Family Therapy respectively) to continue to shed light on the harms perpetuated by the criminal legal system in the hopes of mitigating some of these harms. Once again, many thanks to the North Central Sociological Association for this wonderful recognition of our work.
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Previous Book Award Recipients
1981 Dwight B. Billing, Jr. (University of Kentucky). Planters and the Making of a New South: Class, Politics and Development, 1865-1990
1982 Eleanor Wolf (Wayne State University). Trial and Error
1983 J. Milton Yinger (Oberlin College). Countercultures: The Promise and Peril of a World Turned Upside Down
1984 Karl Schuessler (Indiana University). Measuring Social Life Feelings
1985 No Award Given
1986 Aldon Morris (University of Michigan). The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
1986 Howard Schuman and Charlotte Steeh (University of Michigan). Racial Attitudes in America
1986 Lawrence Bobo and Reynolds Farley (University of Michigan) . Blacks and Whites
1987 Philip Converse and Ray Pierce (University of Michigan). Political Representation in France
1988 William J. Wilson (University of Chicago). The Truly Disadvantaged
1989 Larry T. Reynolds (Central Michigan University). Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
1990 Carolyn Perrucci, Robert Perrucci, Dena Targ and Harry Targ (Purdue University). Plant Closings: International Context and Social Cost
1991 Francis B. McCrea (Grand Valley State University) and Gerald E. Markle (Western Michigan University). Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America
1992 No Award Given
1993 Suzanne Staggenborg (McGill University). The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict
1994 David A. Snow (University of Arizona) and Leon Anderson (Ohio University). Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People
1995 James B. McKee (Michigan State University). Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective
1995 Martin S. Weinberg, Colin Williams and Douglas Pryor (Indiana University). Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality
1996 Donna Eder, Catherine Colleen Evans, and Stephen Parker (Indiana University) School Talk: Gender and Adolescent Culture
1997 Larry T. Reynolds and Leonard Lieberman, eds. (Central Michigan University). Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His Ninetieth Year
1998 Barry V. Johnston (Indiana University Northwest). Pitirim A. Sorokin: In Intellectual Biography
1999 Betty A. Dobratz (Iowa State University) and Stephanie Shanks-Meile (Indiana University Northwest). White Power, White Pride! The White Separatist Movement in the United States
2000 Mike Forrest Keen (Indiana University South Bend). Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI Surveillance of American Sociology
2001 No Award Given
2002 Lisa A. Keister (Ohio State University). Chinese Business Groups: The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations during Economic Development
2003 Douglas Harper (Duquesne University). Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture
2004 No Award Given
2005 Peter Adler (University of Denver) and Patti Adler (University of Colorado at Boulder). Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy
2006 No Award Given
2007 Mansoor Moaddel (Eastern Michigan University). Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse
2007 Clifford Bob (Duquesne University). The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism
2008 Edward Morris (Ohio University). An Unexpected Minority: White Kids in an Urban School
2009 Dan Zuberi (University of British Columbia). Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2010 Allison C. Carey (Shippensburg University). On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
2010 Nicole Rousseau (Kent State University). Black Woman’s Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction
2011 Brian Powell (Indiana University), Catherine Bolzendal (University of California, Irvine), Claudia Geist (University of Utah) and Lala Carr Steelman (University of South Carolina). Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definition of Family
2012 Sarah Damaske (Pennsylvania State University). For the Family? How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work
2013 Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson (Indiana University). Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare
2014 Elizabeth A. Armstrong (University of Michigan) and Laura T. Hamilton (University of California, Merced). Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
2015 No Award Given
2016 Akiko Hashimoto (University of Pittsburgh). The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan
2017 Jamie Longazel (University of Dayton). Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania
2018 Christopher Dum (Kent State University). Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
2019 Jessica McCrory Calarco (Indiana University). Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in Schools
2020 Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh). Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion
2021 Allison C. Carey (Shippensburg University), Pamela Block (Western University), and Richard K. Scotch (University of Texas, Dallas). Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities
2022 Anne Warfield Rawls (Bentely University) and Waverly Duck (University of Pittsburgh). Tacit Racism
2023 Timothy Black (Case Western Reserve University) and Sky Keyes (Homeless Prenatal Programs). It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins
2024 Michelle R. Jacobs (Wayne State University). Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocations and Reclamation
Previous Article Award Recipients
2024 Janami Umamaheswar (George Mason University) and Eman Tadros (Governors State University). (2022) Not Anybody can be a Dad: The Intergenerational Transmission of Masculinity among Incarcerated Men. Crime and Delinquency 68(10): 1740-1764.
2023 Kamesha Spates (University of Pittsburgh) and Brittany Slatton (Texas Southern University). (2021) Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide. Social Problems December. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spab072
2022 Michelle R. Jacobs (Wayne State University). (2019) Resisting and Reifying Racialization among Urban American Indians. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(4): 570-588.
2021 Pamela Braboy Jackson (Indiana University) and Christy L. Erving (Vanderbilt University). (2020) Race-Ethnicity, Social Roles, and Mental Health: A Research Update. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 61, 1: 43-59.
2020 Jamie L. Small (University of Dayton). (2019) Constructing Sexual Harm: Prosecutorial Narratives of Children, Abuse, and the Disruption of Heterosexuality. Gender & Society 33, 4: 560-582.
2019 Marci D. Cottingham (University of Amsterdam), Austin H. Johnson (Kenyon College), and Rebecca J. Erickson (University of Akron). (2018) I Can Never be too Comfortable: Race, Gender and Emotion at the Hospital Bedside. Qualitative Health Research 28, 1: 145-158.
2018 Anne Warfield Rawls (Bentley University) and Waverly Duck (University of Pittsburgh). (2017) Fractured Reflections’ of High-Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Non-recognition of Identity as a ‘Taci’ Form of Institutional Racism. Sociological Focus 50, 1: 36-51.
2017 Robert F. Carley (Texas A&M University). (2016) Ideological Contention: Antonio Gramsci and the Connection between Race and Social Movement Mobilization in Early Twentieth Century Italy. Sociological Focus 49, 1: 28-43.
2016 Josh Woods, Jason Manning, and Jacob Matz (West Virginia University). (2015) The Impression Management Tactics of an Immigrant Think Tank. Sociological Focus 48, 4: 354-372.
2015 Jason Manning (West Virginia University). (2012) Suicide as Social Control. Sociological Forum 27, 1: 207-227.
2014 Jaita Talukdar (Loyola University New Orleans) and Annulla Linders (University of Cincinnati). (2013) Gender, Class Aspirations, and Emerging Fields of Body Work in Urban India. Qualitative Sociology 36: 101-123.
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