A whole lot of good work is happening in Knox Hall, and the ASA has taken notice!
First, PhD program alumna Kate Khanna (now President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland) and Professor Tey Meadow will receive the Distinguished Article Award from the ASA's Sex and Gender section. The award recognizes their article "The Fragile Male: An Experimental Study of Transgender Classification and the Durability of Gender Categories," published in 2023 in Gender and Society.
Second, Professor Andreas Wimmer and PhD candidates Seungwon Lee and Jack Laviolette will receive the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the Comparative and Historical Sociology section. The award recognizes their article "Diffusion Through Multiple Domains: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism Across Europe, 1770–1930," published earlier this year in AJS.
Third, in addition to the award above, Jack Laviolette will receive the Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper from the Culture section for his submission "Seeing Aliens: How Ecological Affordances Produce UFO Sightings."
Fourth, Assistant Professor Tara Gonsalves will receive an honorable mention from two different ASA sections for her paper "Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification," published in 2024 in AJS -- one for the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the Medical Sociology section, and the other for the Best Article Award from the Sociology of Body and Embodiment section.
Finally, PhD candidate Ludovico Genovese will receive an honorable mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section. The award recognizes his submission "Neighborhoods, Ethnic Diversity, and Inter-ethnic Cooperation: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Refugee Dispersal Policy in Sweden."
If you plan to be in Chicago for ASA this year, attend the section meetings to watch these department members receive their awards in person.
Congrats, all!