Barbara R. Walters CC Faculty Award

The Barbara R. Walters Community College Faculty Award recognizes community college faculty who are actively engaged in scholarly work. Inspired by a gift from Barbara R. Walters (Kingsborough Community College) to the Committee, the goal of this award is to honor and support faculty in their academic endeavors, as well as to raise the visibility of community college faculty in the ESS.

The 2021 Walters Award winner is Shenique Davis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY "Cloaked in liminality and Blackness: Negotiating roles, identity, and emotional labor within and between prison walls and academia."


Vondora Wilson-Corzen, Nassau Community College, SUNY

Shenique Davis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, 2021

Submissions for the award are encouraged that meet the following criteria:

  • Author is a community college faculty member, either full-time or part-time.
  • Abstract has been accepted for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the ESS.
  • The full paper does not exceed 35 double-spaced pages, including tables and references.
  • Submission includes a cover page with name, institutional affiliation and email address

The award will be announced and presented during a special session at the annual meetings. The recipient is expected to be present to receive the award. Eligible authors should submit an electronic version of their paper by December 10, 2021 to the Committee Chair.  No papers submitted after this date will be accepted. 

Committee Members:

Sarah L. Hoiland, Hostos Community College, CUNY, Committee Chair, ([email protected])

Vondora Wilson-Corzen, Nassau Community College, SUNY

Shenique Davis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

Past recipients:

2021 Shenique Davis, "Cloaked in liminality and Blackness: Negotiating roles, identity, and emotional labor within and between prison walls and academia."
2020 Sarah L. Hoiland, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, “'I Pledge Allegiance to the MC': The Power of the Patch"

2019 Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County, "The Emperor Has New Clothes: How Outsider Sociology Can Shift the Discipline" 

2018  Marcus Bell, Onondaga Community College, (SUNY), “Becoming White Teachers: Symbolic Interactions and Racializing the Raceless Norm in Predominantly Black Schools”

2017 Jonathan Cornick, Queensborough Community College (CUNY), Stuart Parker, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), and Amy Traver, Queensborough Community College (CUNY). “’It’s Not Just a Math Problem’: Integrating Sociology and Math for Student Learning and Social Justice in Community College Contexts”

2016   Etsuko Donnelly, Suffolk County Community College, “Wearing ‘My Sword’: Political Activism and Headscarf Practice among Muslim College Students”

2015   Joshua L. Carreiro, Springfield Technical Community College, “W.E.B. Du Bois, Self-Segregation and Black Consumers’ Cooperation