Awards
ASA METHODOLOGY SECTION CALL FOR AWARDS 2022
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award
Awarded annually, the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award recognizes a career of outstanding contributions to sociological methodology. Please send CV and a nomination letter to award committee chair Brandon Stewart (email: bms4@princeton.edu) by March 1, 2022. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters can be brief.
Leo Goodman Award
Awarded annually, the Leo Goodman Award recognizes contributions to sociological methodology or innovative uses of sociological methodology made by a scholar who is no more than 15 years past the date of the Ph.D. Please send CV and nomination letter to award committee chair Brandon Stewart (email: bms4@princeton.edu) by March 1, 2022. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters can be brief.
Pedagogy Award
Awarded biennially, the Methodology section’s pedagogy award recognizes sustained excellence in contributions in the teaching or mentorship of sociological methodology. Please send nomination letters to Brandon Stewart (email: bms4@princeton.edu), the award committee chair, by March 1, 2022. Nomination letters can be brief. Self-nominations should include materials (e.g., syllabi, slides, scripts, assignments) for teaching or a list of current/former students for mentoring. We also encourage nominations from colleagues, former students, and others that provide details demonstrating the nominee's impact on pedagogy or mentoring in the field of sociological methodology.
Publication Award
Awarded annually, the Outstanding Publication Award recognizes an outstanding article or book in sociological methodology published in the three calendar years preceding the ASA annual meeting at which the award is bestowed. Please send manuscript and (optionally) nomination letter to award committee chair Xi Song (email: xisong@sas.upenn.edu) by March 1, 2022. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters if provided should be brief.
Clifford C. Clogg Award
Awarded annually, the Clifford C. Clogg Award recognizes an outstanding graduate student paper in sociological methodology. Please send manuscript and (optionally) nomination letter to award committee chair Geoffrey Wodtke (email: wodtke@uchicago.edu) by March 1, 2022. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters if provided should be brief.
Also, the award below is not awarded this year but will be in 2023:
Innovation Award
Awarded biannually, the Innovation Award recognizes a discovery, innovation, or advancement representing a significant contribution to sociological methodology. The contribution may have been made at any time prior to the award year. While this contribution will ordinarily be described in one or more publications, this award recognizes the intellectual contribution itself, and not any publication arising from it. Please send CV and nomination letter to award committee chair [name] (email: [email]) by [date]. Self-nominations are welcome. Nomination letters can be brief.
Please note that all nominees must be registered members of the ASA and of the Methodology section to be considered for section awards.
PRIOR AWARDEES
The Section on Methodology's Clifford Clogg Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
2021: Ian Lundberg, "The Gap-closing Estimand: A Causal Approach to Study Interventions that Close Disparities Across Social Categories"
2021: Blair Sackett, "Ghosted: Disappearance in Qualitative Research in the Digital Era."
2020: Antonio Nanni, Northwestern University, "Statistical Inference for Segregation Indices"
2019: Mauricio Bucca, European University Institute, and Daniela R. Urbina, Princeton Sociology, “Lasso Regularization for Selection of Log-linear Models: An Application to Educational Assortative Mating,” Sociological Methods and Research 2019.
2018: Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University, “Diagnosing Multicollinearity in Exponential Random Graph Models”
2017: M. B. Fallin Hunzaker, "Cultural Sentiments and Schema-Consistency Bias in Information Transmission," American Sociological Review 81(6):1223-1250. 2016.
2016: C. Ben Gibson and Burrel Vann Jr., "The Bootstrapped Robustness Assessment for Qualitative Comparative Analysis"
2016 Honorable Mention: Jacob Fisher, "Social Space Diffusion"
2016 Honorable Mention: Andrei Boutyline, “Improving the Measurement of Shared Cultural Schemas with Correlational Class Analysis,” Sociological Science 4(15):353-393. 2017.
2015: Siwei Cheng, “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality,” American Journal of Sociology 120(3):633-700. 2014.
2014: Jeremy Fiel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Decomposing School Resegregation: Social Closure, Racial Imbalance, and Racial Isolation," American Sociological Review 78(5):828-848. 2013.
2013: Xiang Zhou, "A Nonparametric Index of Stratification," Sociological Methodology 42(1):365-388. 2012.
2012: Charles Seguin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2012: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2011: Weihua An, Harvard University
2007: Paul von Hippel, The Ohio State University
The Section on Methodology's Leo Goodman Award
This award, to be presented in alternate years, was created in 2005 to honor an outstanding researcher within 10 years of their Ph.D.
2021: Zack Almquist, University of Washington
2020: Geoffrey Wodtke, University of Chicago
2019: Paul VonHippel, University of Texas Austin Public Policy
2018: Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin
2017: Benjamin Cornwell, Cornell University
2016: Jennie E. Brand, University of California, Los Angeles
2015: Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University
2014: Scott Lynch, Princeton University
2013: Stephen L. Morgan, Cornell University
2012: James L. Mahoney, Northwestern University
2011: Damon Centola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010: Carter Butts, University of California, Irvine
2007: Mitch Duneier, Princeton University
2005: Joeren Vermunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands
The Section on Methodology's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award
This award, recognizing sociologists who have contributed to the field of sociological methodology, was founded in 1986 in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
2021: Tim Liao, Univeristy of Illinois
2020: Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona
2019: Yu Xie, Princeton Sociology
2018: Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State University
2017: David Heise, Indiana University
2016: Don Dillman, Washington State University, and Peter Marsden, Harvard University
2015: Guillermina Jasso, New York University
2014: Charles Ragin, University of California, Irvine
2013: Robert M. Groves, Georgetown University
2012: Stanley Presser, University of Maryland
2011: Ross M. Stolzenberg, University of Chicago
2010: Leo Goodman, University of California, Berkeley
2008: Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University
2007: Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University, and Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern Universtiy
2006: Christopher Winship, Harvard University
2005: William M. Mason, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: Adrian Raftery, University of Wasington
2002: J. Scott Long, Indiana University
2001: Paul D. Allison, University of Pennsylvania
2000: Kenneth A. Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1999: Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Richard Berk, University of California, Los Angeles
1997: Kenneth Land, Duke University
1996: Howard Schuman, University of Michigan
1995: Peter H. Rossi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994: Nancy Brandon Tuma, Stanford University
1991: Hubert M. Blalock Jr., Univeristy of Washington
1990: Nathan Keyfitz
1989: Leslie Kish, University of Michigan
1987: Clifford Clogg, Pennsylvania State University
1986: Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin
The Section on Methodology's Innovation Award
2021: Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan
The Section on Methodology's Outstanding Publication Award
2021: Christensen, Garret, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel. Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science. University of California Press.’ 2019.