ESS Merit AwardThe ESS Merit Award recognizes an ESS member’s exceptional achievement and a lifetime of scholarly contribution to the discipline and the profession. To submit a nomination for the ESS Merit Award, please send a letter of nomination and a copy of the nominee’s vita. The letter of nomination should emphasize the significance of the nominee’s research and highlight service to the discipline of sociology. Please draw attention to specific contributions to ESS. Self-nominations are accepted. The ESS Merit Committee reserves the right to request follow up documents if deemed necessary. Nominated candidates will be considered for two consecutive years. Nominations should be sent by October 15, 2020 to the committee Chair. Committee Members: Year, Winner1960, Maurice Davis1961, Welman J. Warner & Ray Abrams 1962, Robert S. Lynd 1963, Pitirim Sorokin 1964, Donald Young 1965, Leonard Cottrell Jr 1966, Thorsten Sellin 1967, Talcott Parsons 1968, Robert MacIver 1969, Negley Teeters 1970, Theodore Abel 1971, Jessie Bernard 1972, Everett C. Hughes 1973, Helen MacGill Hughes 1974, Alfred McClung Lee & Elizabeth Briant Lee 1975, Charles H. Page 1976, Paul Lazarsfeld 1977, Mirra Komarovsky 1978, Robert K. Merton 1979, Hylan Lewis 1980, A. B. Hollingshead & David Reisman 1981, William F. Whyte 1982, Robert Bierstedt 1983, Lewis Coser 1984, Robin M. Williams Jr 1985, George Homans 1986, Matilda White Riley 1987, Rose L. Coser 1988, Digby Baltzell 1989, James Blackwell 1990, Morris Rosenberg 1991, S. M. Miller 1992, William J. Goode 1993, Renée C. Fox 1994, Melvin Kohn 1995, Herbert Gans 1996, Charles Tilly 1997, Charles B. Perrow 1998, Harrison C. White 1999, Eliot Freidson 2000, Suzanne Keller 2001, Kai Erikson 2002, Marvin Bressler 2003, Bernard Barber 2004, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein 2005, William A. Gamson & Caroline Hodges Persell 2006, Charles V. Willie 2007, Judith Lorber 2009, Richard Alba 2010, Nancy Denton 2011, Jerry Jacobs 2012, Margaret L. Anderson 2013, Karen Cerulo 2014, Kathleen Gerson 2015, Phil Kasinitz 2016, Robert Zussman 2017, Elijah Anderson 2018, Nancy Foner 2019, Karen V. Hansen 2020, Not awarded |