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In 2022 ESS created two Public Sociology Awards this year, one for Pre-Tenure/Early Career (including graduate students) and Post-Tenure/Mid or later career Sociologists (inside or outside the academy).  These awards seek to recognize sociologists who have both done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research.  Meaningful public work here includes high profile public dissemination, such as Op-Eds or public media appearances, but especially values sustained public work that uses sociological skills and research in ways that help organizations or persons with which the scholar works, helps resist policies by institutions or government that cause harm and promote policies that help people, direct service to research participants, and in other ways.   The awards seek to recognize sociological work that improves public welfare, broadly understood, or the lives of research participants.  Finally, rather than seek to recognize the single “best” public sociologist, these awards seek to encourage public by recognizing, where appropriate,  multiple scholars. 

 

Nominations must include a letter of nomination, and may also include supporting documents, such as publications, reports, and/or letters from stakeholders, including organizational, governmental, or community partners.   Please send these materials by November 1, 2023 in one email to Professor Ingrid Castro, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts: i.castro@mcla.edu

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2023 Recipients:

Pre-Tenure:

Max Bebris, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Andrés Besserer Rayas, PhD Candidate-Political Science. CUNY Graduate Center 

Meg Bishop, Ph.D. Human Development and Family Sciences, Population Research Center University of Texas at Austin

Tannuja Rozario, Everytown for Gun Safety 

Post-Tenure:

Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside

Ernesto Castaneda, Catholic University

Ingrid Castro, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

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