Congrats to the 2025 Family Section Award Winners!

​The Family Section Distinguished Career Award

Deadline: 3/9/2026
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. Please send the nominee’s CV to Kate Choi, Chair, ([email protected]) by March 9, 2026. A short letter of nomination (no longer than one page) is optional but encouraged.

The Family Section Article of the Year Award

​Deadline: 3/9/2026
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 2023, 2024, or 2025. Nominations may be made by the author or others. To nominate, please send an electronic copy of the article to the chair of the award committee, Kara Joyner, Chair ([email protected]). The deadline for nominations is March 9, 2026.

Linda Burton Award
​This award was established in 2020

Deadline: TBA
The Family section's Linda Burton awards offer 3 travel grants of $500 each to section members who will be attending the ASA annual meeting in New York for family section related activities. Further details on applications for the 2026 award will be forthcoming.

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

Deadline: 1/30/2026 note: updated since posting to ASA site.
This award is for a book on the family published in 2024 or 2025. The committee will consider only books nominated by section members and we encourage self-nominations. Textbooks and edited volumes are not eligible. Please send an email notification of your nomination to Liana Sayer, Chair ([email protected]) no later than January 30, 2026 and request the mailing addresses for the members of committee. Arrange for the publisher to send copies of the books directly to the committee chair and all members (6 copies total).

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

Deadline: 3/9/2026
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 recently published 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. The paper may not exceed 30 pages or 11,000 words. Please send an electronic copy of the paper to Eunsil Oh, Chair ([email protected]) by March 9, 2026.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL NOMINEES MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF THE ASA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SECTION AWARDS
Family Section Statement on Conflicts of Interest: Awards Committees

When evaluating nominees for awards, conflicts of interests may occasionally arise, for example, when a student, mentor, or collaborator is nominated or the evaluator has a personal interest in a nominee’s success. Committee members will recuse themselves from deliberations of nominees with whom there is a conflict of interest, but ideally remain on the committee and evaluate other nominees if it is possible to restructure the evaluative system to avoid the conflict. More information on conflicts of interest can be found in section 8 the ASA Code of Ethics.