The Distinguished Scholarship Award is given by the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) to

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based in the Pacific region of

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, in recognition of major scholarly contributions. To be eligible for the award, a sociologist's contribution must be embodied in a recently published

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or through a series of articles with a common theme.

Recipients

The Distinguished Scholarship Award was created by the PSA in 1984. The award was given biennially until 1990, when it became an annually granted award.PSA Past Award Recipients. Accessed 22 December 2013.
*2023 - Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University: ''Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA'' *2022 - Matthew Clair,

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

: ''Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court'' *2021 - Tahseen Shams,

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

: ''Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World'' *2020 - Ranita Ray,

University of Nevada, Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the S ...

: ''The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City'' *2019 - Abigail Leslie Andrews,

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

: ''Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants'' *2018 - Viraji Weeraseena,

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

: ''The Structural Sources of Violent Crimes in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka'' *2017 - Allison Nasson,

University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound (UPS or Puget Sound) is a private university in Tacoma, Washington. The university draws approximately 2,600 students from 44 states and 16 countries. It offers 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 traditional an ...

: ''Donor Friendly Victimhood: Narrative Construction as a Fundraising Strategy'' *2016 - Michael Messner (

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

), Max Greenberg (University of Southern California), and Tal Peretz (

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest uni ...

): ''Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women'' *2015 - Paul Almeida,

University of California, Merced The University of California, Merced (UC Merced) is a public land-grant research university and Hispanic-serving institution located in Merced, California, and is the tenth and newest of the University of California (UC) campuses. Established ...

: ''Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest'' *2014 - Isaac William Martin, University of California,

San Diego San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the List of United States cities by population, eigh ...

: ''Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent'' *2013 -

Drew Halfmann Drew Halfmann (born June 28, 1967) is an American Sociology, sociologist best known for his research on social policy in the United States. Career Drew Halfmann is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis ...

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

: ''Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada'' *2012 - Cecilia Menjívar,

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

: ''Enduring Violence: Latino Women's Lives in Guatemala'' *2011 - Julie Shayne,

University of Washington Bothell The University of Washington Bothell (UW Bothell) is a branch campus of University of Washington in Bothell, Washington. It was founded in 1989 and is located just northwest of the junction of Interstate 405 and State Route 522, and it shares ...

and

University of Washington Seattle The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

: ''They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism'' *2010 - Kimberly Richman,

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

: ''Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law'' *2009 - Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, University of California Los Angeles: ''Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race'' *2008 - Ivan Light, University of California Los Angeles: ''Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and regulation in Los Angeles'' *2007 -

Jerome Karabel Jerome Bernard Karabel (born May 20, 1950) is an American sociologist, political and social commentator, and Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written extensively on American institutions of higher educatio ...

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

: ''The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton'' *2006 - John Foran, University of California Santa Barbara: ''Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions'' and Paul Lichterman,

: ''Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions'' *2005 - No award given *2004 -

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 ...

: ''Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizens'' and Laura Grindstaff, University of California Davis: ''The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows'' *2003 - Amy Binder,

: ''Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools'' *2002 - Pierrett Hondagneu-Sotelo,

: ''Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence'' *2001 - Valerie Jeness,

University of California Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

for a series of published articles dealing with hate-crimes, hate-crime legislation, and community responses to hate-motivated violence. The series was published in the following journals between 1994-1998: ''Gender and Society'', ''Social Problems'', ''Sociological Perspectives'', ''Research in Social Movements'', ''Conflict and Change'', and the ''American Sociological Review''. *2000 - Charles Varano: ''Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership'' *1999 - William Domhoff: ''Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000'' *1998 - Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi: ''Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy'' *1997 - Calvin Morrill: ''The Executive Way : Conflict Management in Corporations'' *1996 - James Aho: ''This Thing of Darkness: The Sociology of the Enemy'' *1995 - John Foran: ''Fragile Resistance'' *1994 -

David A. Snow David A. Snow is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Intellectual Contributions Snow's research constitutes one of the most original and groundbreaking bodies of work in the discipline. While it addre ...

and Leon Anderson, ''Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People'' *1993 - Rodney Stark and

William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge (born October 12, 1940) is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

: ''A Theory of Religion'' *1992 - Kathy Charmaz: "Good Days, Bad Days, The Self in Chronic Illness and Time" *1991 - George M. Thomas: "Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in 19th-Century United States" *1990 - Jack Katz: ''Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attraction to Doing Evil'' *1988 - Unknown or No award given *1986 -

Claude S. Fischer Claude Serge Fischer (born January 9, 1948) is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology, research methods, and American socie ...

: ''To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City'' *1984 - No award given

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