The Distinguished Scholarship Award is given by the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) to sociologists based in the Pacific region of North America, in recognition of major scholarly contributions.UC Berkeley FAR Sociology. Accessed 22 December 2013. To be eligible for the award, a sociologist's contribution must be embodied in a recently published book or through a series of articles with a common theme.PSA Awards Committee and Awards Information. Accessed 22 December 2013.

Recipients

Source:

The Distinguished Scholarship Award was created by the PSA in 1984. The award was given biennially until 1990, when it became an annually granted award.PSA Past Award Recipients. Accessed 22 December 2013. 1984 - No award given 1986 - Claude S. Fischer: To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City 1988 - Unknown or No award given 1990 - Jack Katz: Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attraction to Doing Evil 1991 - George M. Thomas: "Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in 19th-Century United States" 1992 - Kathy Charmaz: "Good Days, Bad Days, The Self in Chronic Illness and Time" 1993 - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge: A Theory of Religion 1994 - David A. Snow and Leon Anderson, Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People 1995 - John Foran: Fragile Resistance 1996 - James Aho: This Thing of Darkness: The Sociology of the Enemy 1997 - Calvin Morrill: The Executive Way : Conflict Management in Corporations 1998 - Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi: Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy 1999 - William Domhoff: Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000 2000 - Charles Varano: Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership 2001 - Valerie Jeness, University of California Irvine for a series of published articles dealing with hate-crimes, hate-crime legislation, and community responses to hate-motivated violence. The series was published in the following journals between 1994 and 1998: Gender and Society, Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, and the American Sociological Review. 2002 - Pierrett Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California: Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence 2003 - Amy Binder, University of California, San Diego: Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools 2004 - Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California Berkeley: Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizens and Laura Grindstaff, University of California Davis: The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows 2005 - No award given 2006 - John Foran, University of California Santa Barbara: Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions and Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California: Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions 2007 - Jerome Karabel, University of California Berkeley: The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton 2008 - Ivan Light, University of California Los Angeles: Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and regulation in Los Angeles 2009 - Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, University of California Los Angeles: Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race 2010 - Kimberly Richman, University of San Francisco: Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law 2011 - Julie Shayne, University of Washington Bothell and University of Washington Seattle: They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism 2012 - Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University: Enduring Violence: Latino Women's Lives in Guatemala 2013 - Drew Halfmann, University of California, Davis: Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada 2014 - Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego: Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent 2015 - Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced: Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest 2016 - Michael Messner (University of Southern California), Max Greenberg (University of Southern California), and Tal Peretz (Auburn University): Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women 2017 - Allison Nasson, University of Puget Sound: Donor Friendly Victimhood: Narrative Construction as a Fundraising Strategy 2018 - Viraji Weeraseena, University of California, Riverside: The Structural Sources of Violent Crimes in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka 2019 - Abigail Leslie Andrews, University of California, San Diego: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants 2020 - Ranita Ray, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City 2021 - Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto: Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World 2022 - Matthew Clair, Stanford University: Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court 2023 - Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA

See also

List of social sciences awards

References