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Announcing our 2025 Section Award Winners!
Announcing our 2025 Section Award Winners!
James Coleman Award for Best Article
The American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Education invites nominations for the James Coleman Award for Best Article. The James Coleman Award annually honors the author of the best article in the field of sociology of education published in the preceding two years and based on the date of the paper's journal's volume issue.
James Coleman Best Article Award Committee Members:
Emily Handsman (Chair)
Mary Kate Blake
Oren Pizmony-Levy
Award Co-Winners:
Peter Francis Harvey, Princeton University
"'Everyone Thinks They’re Special': How Schools Teach Children Their Social Station," ASR, 88(3).
Tom Wooten, Louisiana State University
"Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage," AJS, 130(2).
Honorable Mention:
Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, and Evan Schofera, University of California–Irvine
"The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022," ASR, 89(1).
Doris Entwisle Early Career Award
The Doris Entwisle Early Career Award is awarded biennually (alternating with the Willard Waller Award for lifetime achievement) to honor a scholar who has not yet achieved the status of associate professor for early career achievement in the field of Sociology of Education.
Doris Entwisle Early Career Award Committee Members:
Chana Teeger (chair)
Derron Wallace
Deni Mazrekaj
Award Winner:
Jordan Conwell, UT–Austin
Honorable Mention:
Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, CUNY–Hunter College
David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper Award
This annual award honors a current graduate student who has written the best published or unpublished sociology of education paper disseminated during the previous year.
David Lee Stevenson Best Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Members:
Edward Morris (chair)
David Rangel
Johann Quinn
Alma Nidia Garza
Meghan Mingo
Award Winners:
Andrew Myers and Crista Urena Hernandez, Indiana University
“The Labeling Power of CRT: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment” (Forthcoming, Sociology of Education)
Honorable Mention:
Maura R. Kraemer, University of Notre Dame
“Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates Within Schools as Racialized Organizations” (Social Science Research, March 2025)
Bourdieu Best Book Award
The Bourdieu Best Book Award is given annually to honor the best book in the field of the sociology of education published in the preceding two years. Self-nominations are permitted.
Bourdieu Book Award Committee:
Paul Hanselman (Chair)
Ilana Horowitz
Jennifer Nelson
Peter Rich
Award Winner:
Nora Gross, Barnard College, Columbia University
Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools
Honorable Mentions:
Jessi Streib, Duke University
The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
Chana Teeger, London School of Economics
Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools
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