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The Jessie Bernard Award is given by the American Sociological Association in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research, theory or methodology. It is presented for significant cumulative work done throughout a professional career, and is open to women or men and is not restricted to
sociologists
This is a list of sociologists. It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield. Scientists in other fields and philosophers are not included, unless at least ...
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ASA Jessie Bernard Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual. The award is named after Jessie Bernard.
Recipients
The Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual.
*2021 -
Jyoti Puri
Jyoti Puri is Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology at Simmons University. She is a leading feminist sociologist who advocates for transnational and postcolonial approaches to the study of gender, sexuality
Human sexuality ...
*2020 -
Jennifer Glass
Jennifer L. Glass is Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, University of Iowa and the University of ...
Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell (born 3 January 1944), usually cited as R. W. Connell, is an Australian sociologist. She gained prominence as an intellectual of the Australian New Left. She was appointed University Professor at the University of Sydney in 2004 ...
Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, an ...
, career
*2007 -
Patricia Yancey Martin
Patricia Yancey Martin is an American sociologist. She is the Daisy Parker Flory Professor of Sociology Emerita at Florida State University.
Education
Martin was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta her freshman year at University of Alabama i ...
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Evelyn Seiko Nakano Glenn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities, she served as founding director of the university'Center for Race and Gender(CRG), a leading U.S. acade ...
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein is an American sociologist and emeritus distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Fuchs Epstein served as president of the American Sociological Association in 2006.
Pr ...
, career
*2002 -
Barrie Thorne
Barrie Thorne (born 1942) is a professor of sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her work focuses on the sociology of gender, feminist theory, the sociology of age relations, childhood, and familie ...
Maxine Baca Zinn
Maxine Baca Zinn (born June 11, 1942),Course Blog and BiAvailable online(''retrieved'' 6 May 2014) ''née'' Baca, is an American sociologist known for her work on gender, race, and ethnicity and particularly, the experience of women of color at t ...
, career
*1999 -
Paula England
Paula S. England (born 4 December 1949), is an American sociologist and Dean of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research has focused on gender inequality in the labor market, the family, and sexuality. She has also studied ...
, career
*1998 - Ruth A. Wallace, career
*1997
** Nona Glazer, career;
** Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, ''Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth'' (University of Illinois Press, 1995);
***Honorable Mention:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is an American sociologist. Her main areas of research are gender, migration studies, and Latino studies. She has authored several books, received numerous awards and honors, and contributed to the field through various ...
, ''Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration'' (University of California Press, 1994).
*1996
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Judith Lorber
Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender ...
Ruth Frankenberg
Ruth Alice Emma Frankenberg (17 September 1957 – 22 April 2007) was a British–American social scientist and feminist, known for her pioneering work in the field of whiteness studies.
Biography
Ruth Frankenberg was born in Cardiff, Wales, 17 S ...
, ''White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness'' (Minnesota);
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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (born December 3, 1939) was one of the founding feminists of the field of women's studies and is a lesbian historian whose book ''Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: A History of the Lesbian Community'' (co-authored w ...
and Madeline D. Davis, ''Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community'' (Routledge).
*1993
** Dorothy Smith, career;
**Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (
Bonnie Thornton Dill Bonnie Thornton Dill (born 1944) is a feminist scholar and Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. Born in Chicago, Dill attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School, which she credits with ins ...
Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of ...
, ''Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.''
*1991 - Barbara Katz Rothman, ''Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society'' (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989).
*1989
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Joan Acker
Joan Elise Robinson Acker (March 18, 1924June 22, 2016) was an American sociologist, researcher, writer and educator. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1967. Acker is considered one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class ...
, career;
** Samuel R. Cohn, ''The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain'' (Temple University Press, 1985);
***Honorable Mention: Karen Brodkin Sacks, ''Caring by the Hour'' (University of Illinois Press).
*1987
**
Sandra Harding
Sandra G. Harding (born 1935) is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited ...
, ''The Science Question in Feminism'' (Cornell University Press, 1986);
** Judith Rollins, ''Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers'' (Temple University Press, 1986).
*1985
** Joan Huber, career;
** Judith G. Stacey, ''Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China''.
*1983 - Alice Rossi, career
*1981 - Elise Boulding, career
*1979
**
Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer
Valerie may refer to:
People
* Saint Valerie (disambiguation), a number of saints went by the name Valerie
* Valerie (given name), a feminine given name
Songs
*"Valerie", a 1981 song by Quarterflash, from ''Quarterflash''
*"Valerie", a 1982 s ...
, ''The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition'' (University of California and Greenwood Press);
**
Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor. She began her career as a professor of Women's studies at Wellesley College in 1973, and from 1974 on taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, unti ...
, ''The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender'' (University of California Press);
***Honorable Mention to Kristin Luker, ''Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept'' (University of California Press).
See also
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List of social sciences awards
This list of social sciences awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for contributions to social sciences in general. It excludes LGBT-related awards and awards for anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, Inform ...