2022 ASA Awards & Honors
June 17, 2022
As this year's Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association approaches, NU Sociology is pleased to announce several honors received by its students and faculty in recent weeks.
- Vilna Bashi won the 2022 ASA section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Founder’s Award recognizing excellence in scholarship and service, and was elected as the next chair of the ASA section on the Political Economy of the World System
- Stefan Vogler’s book, Sorting Sexualities, won the Distinguished Book Award for the ASA section on Sexualities
- katrina quisumbing king is a newly elected member of the Global and Transnational Sociology Council
- Beth Redbird was elected to Council for the ASA Economic Sociology Section.
- Jordan Conwell (NU Sociology Alum) won the James Coleman Award for his article, “Diverging disparities: Race, parental income, and children’s math scores, 1960 to 2009."
- Kristina E. Lee was elected to a two-year term as Student Representative for the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the ASA.
- Brandon Alston received the ASA 2022 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award in Sex and Gender for his paper “The Camera is My Weapon: How Black Men Use Cellphones to Negotiate Safety and Status Amid Neighborhood Policing.”
- Chas Camic’s book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, had been named the co-winner of the Book Prize awarded every other year by the Theory Section of the ASA.
- Angel Escamilla Garcia received the outstanding grad student paper award from the Children and Youth Section of the ASA for his paper, "When Internal Migration Fails: A Case Study of Central American Youth Who Relocate Internally Before Leaving Their Countries.” The article was recently published in the Journal on Migration and Human Security.
- NU Alum Armando Lara Millan received the ASA's Distinguished Book Award this year, marking the fourth consecutive year this award was received by NU-affiliated scholars: Armando Lara Millan (2022), Celeste Watkins-Hayes (2021), Héctor Carrillo (2020), and Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (2019).
Congratulations, all!