The 2018 Award Winners have been announced. Check them out:

​The 2018 award deadlines have passed.

​The Family Section Distinguished Career Award

Deadline: 3/12/2018
This award recognizes the collective body of a person’s work as it relates to the sociology of the family (not a single publication). Award winners may be selected on the basis of distinguished contributions to either research or service. Service to the field includes developments (such as data sets or analytic techniques) that have had a substantial impact on family research. Send letters of nomination and the nominee’s CV to Rob Crosnoe (crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu).

2018 Committee: 
Rob Crosnoe (Committee Chair)
Kathleen Gerson
Sung S. Park
Julia McQuillan
Sharon Sassler

The Family Section Article of the Year Award

​Deadline: 3/12/2018
This award recognizes a journal article that has made a significant contribution to the field of family sociology. The award committee will accept nominations for articles published in 2015, 2016, or 2017. Nominations may be made by the author or others. To nominate an article, please send a letter of nomination (not to exceed one page) that details the contribution of the article to the field of family sociology, as well as an electronic copy of the article, to the chair of the award committee, Claudia Geist (claudia.geist@soc.utah.edu).
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2018 Committee: 
Claudia Geist (Committee Chair)
Kristin Turney
Teresa Swartz
Sarah Meadows
Dawn Dow

The Family Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
This award was established in 1995.

​Deadline: 3/12/2018
Graduate students are invited to submit an article-length paper on the family. The paper should represent a finished product rather than a proposal for future work. The submission can be based on a course paper, a journal article, a manuscript under review at a journal, or a conference presentation. Co-authored papers are acceptable if all authors are students, although the prize will be shared. The paper must have been written when the author was enrolled in a graduate program, and submitted or published in 2017 or 2018. The paper may not exceed 30 pages or 11,000 words. Following our bylaws, the chair of the award committee is the chair of the section, Philip Cohen.
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There are three ways to nominate a paper:
  1. To participate in the SOAR (Sociology Open Award Recognition) program, and help support open scholarship, upload the paper at SocArXiv.org and then email a link for the paper to the chair. If the paper wins, SocArXiv will recognize the authors with a $250 prize. (For instructions, follow Step 1 of this short tutorial: http://bit.ly/2y7hHn3.)
  2. Post the paper on any non-profit open repository or public website, and email a link for the paper to the chair.
  3. Send an electronic copy of the paper directly to the chair (Philip Cohen, pnc@umd.edu).
The method of submission will not affect the committee’s evaluation of the paper for the award.

2018 Committee Chair:
Philip Cohen (chair)
Karen Guzzo
Jessica Kizer

The Family Section William J. Goode Book Award
​This award was established in 1985.

Deadline: 2/09/2018
This award is for a book published on the family in 2016 or 2017. Self-nominations are appropriate. Textbooks and edited volumes are not eligible. Please arrange for the book’s publisher to send a copy of the book directly to all members of the committee. The deadline to receive the letter of nomination is February 9th, 2018. The books may arrive shortly thereafter. Please send a letter of nomination to Megan Sweeney  (msweeney@soc.ucla.edu). 

2018 Committee:
Megan Sweeney (Committee Chair) 
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology, 264 Haines Hall, Los Angeles CA 90095

Ellen Lamont
Appalachian State University, 164 Carolina Ave
Boone NC 28607
 
Kei Nomaguchi
213 Williams Hall, Department of Sociology,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403
 
Mikaela Dufur
2008 JFSB, Department of Sociology,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
 
Kathryn Edin
Department of Sociology, 104 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
 
Jenifer L. Bratter
Rice University, Department of Sociology, MS-28
6100 Main St., Houston TX 77005-1892
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL NOMINEES MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF THE ASA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SECTION AWARDS