The Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award

The Distinguished Scholarship Award is given by the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) to sociologists based in the Pacific region of North America, in recognition of major scholarly contributions.^[1] To be eligible for the award, a sociologist's contribution must be embodied in a recently published book or through a series of articles with a common theme.^[2]

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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.^[4]

• 2023 - Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
• 2022 - Matthew Clair, Stanford University: Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
• 2021 - Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto: Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World
• 2020 - Ranita Ray, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
• 2019 - Abigail Leslie Andrews, University of California, San Diego: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants
• 2018 - Viraji Weeraseena, University of California, Riverside: The Structural Sources of Violent Crimes in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka
• 2017 - Allison Nasson, University of Puget Sound: Donor Friendly Victimhood: Narrative Construction as a Fundraising Strategy
• 2016 - Michael Messner (University of Southern California), Max Greenberg (University of Southern California), and Tal Peretz (Auburn University): Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women
• 2015 - Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced: Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest
• 2014 - Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego: Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent
• 2013 - Drew Halfmann, University of California, Davis: Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
• 2012 - Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University: Enduring Violence: Latino Women's Lives in Guatemala
• 2011 - Julie Shayne, University of Washington Bothell and University of Washington Seattle: They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism
• 2010 - Kimberly Richman, University of San Francisco: 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, University of California Berkeley: 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, University of Southern California: Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions
• 2005 - No award given
• 2004 - Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California Berkeley: 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, University of California, San Diego: Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools
• 2002 - Pierrett Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California: Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
• 2001 - Valerie Jeness, University of California Irvine 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 and Leon Anderson, Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People
• 1993 - Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge: 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: To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City
• 1984 - No award given

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