Researchers and faculty members in the University of Michigan’s Department of Sociology once again took top honors at the 2015 American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting in August.

This year, several faculty members and a graduate student were awarded prizes for their research and scholarship at the annual conference for sociologists. Award selection committees appointed by the ASA Council review nominations for individuals and groups deserving recognition, and present awards at the ASA Annual Meeting.

The conference’s most notable prize, the Distinguished Book Award, was given to Professor Elizabeth A. Armstrong’s Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, co-written with Laura T. Hamilton of the University of California Merced.

Other winners in the department include Professors Fatma Műge Gőçek, Elizabeth E. Bruch, and Deirdre Bloome, as well as graduate student winner Jay Borchert and 2015 graduate Siwei Cheng.

See below for the full list of winners and their prizes:

Distinguished Book Award - Award presented annually for a single book or  monorgraph  published in the three preceding calendar years in the field of Sociology.

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan
Laura T. Hamilton, University of California - Merced

Section on Sociology of Education’s Bourdieu Award

Elizabeth A. Armstrong & Laura T. Hamilton. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Harvard University Press

Mathematical Sociology Section Outstanding Article Publication Award

Elizabeth E. Bruch “How population structure shapes neighborhood segregation.” American Journal of Sociology 119, no.5 (2014): 1221

The Section on Sociology of Population Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population

Deirdre Bloome “Racial Inequality Trends and the Intergenerational Persistence of Income and Family Structure” American Sociological Review 79(6): 1196-1225

The Sociology of Culture Section’s Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

Fatma Műge Gőçek, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009. Oxford University Press.

2015 Best Graduate Student Paper in the Sociology of Sexualities

Jay Borchert “A New Iron Closet” Failing to Extend Lawrence v. Texas to Prisons and Prisoners.”

 

Siwei Cheng is a 2015 graduate of our doctoral program.
She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles:

Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Siwei Cheng “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 120:633-700

The Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Siwei Cheng “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 120:633-700

The Methodology Section’s Clifford Clogg Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

Siwei Cheng “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 120:633-700]