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Awards
Savelsberg & King Win 2012 Outstanding Book Award
American Memories: Atrocities and the Law, authored by Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King (Ph.D. 2005), and published in 2011 by the Russell Sage Foundation, is the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award of the Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Aminzade Wins CLA Teaching Award
Ron Aminzade received one of three Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2011-12. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2012-13.
Page Wins Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Josh Page has been recognized with the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for his book, The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California. The prize is given by the Law and Society Association and is intended to recognize new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship.
Aminzade Honored for Civic Engagement
Ron Aminzade is a recipient of the 2012 Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award by Minnesota Campus Compact. This award recognizes his outstanding contributions and commitment to collaborative action that produces positive change in the world. He will be honored on June 5th.
Teresa Gowan Wins Douglas Prize
Teresa Gowan's recent book, Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, is the co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book awarded by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
Rachel Schurman Wins Caldwell Prize
Rachel Schurman's recent book, Fighting for the Future of Food, is the winner of the 2011 Lynton Caldwell Prize awarded by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy section of the American Political Science Association. This award honors the best book in environmental politics and policy published in the past 3 years!
Chris Uggen Wins Equal Justice Award
Chris Uggen was honored by the Council on Crime and Justice with their 2011 Equal Justice Award recognizing those who provide exemplary leadership in helping to create safer, stronger, and more just communities. He was selected for ensuring that injustices in society remain at the forefront of public thought and discourse until they are resolved, particularly through his research and advocacy work in offender reentry and felon disenfranchisement.
Jeylan Mortimer Wins ASA Cooley-Mead Award
Jeylan Mortimer received the 2011 Cooley-Mead Award at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. This award is the highest honor conferred by the ASA's Social Psychology section to honor long-term contributions to the field. Social Psychology Quarterly has now released Michael Shanahan’s introductory remarks and an expanded version of Professor Mortimer’s acceptance address.
Carl Malmquist Wins APA Isaac Ray Award
Professor Carl Malmquist will receive the 2011 Isaac Ray Award at the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), May 14-18, Honolulu. This APA award is annually given to acknowledge outstanding accomplishment in psychiatry and jurisprudence.
Teresa Gowan Wins CLA Teaching Award
Assistant Professsor Teresa Gowan received one of four CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award for 2009-10. Teresa accepted this award during the December 2010 commencement ceremony.
Teresa Swartz Wins CLA Teaching Award
Assistant Professor Teresa Swartz received the CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award at the December 2009 commencement ceremony.
Joachim Savelsberg awarded Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency
Professor Joachim Savelsberg was awarded a summer 2010 collaborative residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center to work on the project “Collective Criminality and Human Rights: Violence, Memory, Responsibility.” His collaborators are John Hagan (Sociology and Law, Northwestern University) and Jens Meierhenrich (Political Science, Harvard University).
David Knoke Wins CLA Teaching Award
Professor David Knoke is one of two CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award winners awarded in May 2009.
Michael Goldman Wins 2008 Best Book Award
Professor Goldman's book, Imperial Nature: The World Bank & Struggles for Social Justice was awarded the 2008 best book prize from the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association.
Joachim Savelsberg – new ASC Fellow
Professor Savelsberg is among a select group of faculty awarded the American Society of Criminology honorary title of "Fellow" in the July/August newsletter, page 32 (The Criminologist). This recognition is for those who have made a scholarly contribution to the intellectual life of the discipline and made a significant contribution to the field through the career development of other criminologists.
Phyllis Moen Wins 2008 Legacy Award
Professor Moen is among a select group of leaders who have made compelling changes in the ways Americans live and work. Phyllis was honored with a 2008 Work Life Legacy Award by the Families and Work Institute June 9 in New York City.
Teresa Gowan Wins CLA Teaching Award
The CLA Student Board has selected Teresa Gowan as the recipient of the 2007-08 Outstanding Professor Award. Nominations are sought from CLA students and only one professor is honored each year. Congratulations, Teresa!!
Prof Stryker Wins Guggenheim Award
Robin Stryker awarded a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship in recognition of her work in government regulation of equal employment opportunity.
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Goldman Wins CLA Teaching Award
Michael Goldman received one of two Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2012-13. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2013-14.
May 23rd, 2013
