Awards & Grants
Download award application info here.
- Nomination procedures currently under revision.
Paper/Posters Due
Jan. 10, 2013.
Jan. 10, 2013.
Awards & Grants from the Midwest Sociological Society:
MSS
- gives competitive awards in several categories,
- sponsors annual student paper and student poster competitions,
- offers small grants to support research by MSS members,
- and provides travel grants to members who are students or adjunct/contingent faculty attending the MSS annual meeting.
Download procedural rules and regulations below. Questions?
Contact the executive office by email.
Competitive Awards for Professionals:
- Annual Jane Addams Outstanding Service Award
- Biennial The Sociological Quarterly Award*
- Annual Distinguished Book Award
- Biennial Early Career Scholarship Award**
- Annual Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence
Grants for Professionals:
- Grants to Support Visiting Scholars/Researchers
- Grants for Research
- Annual Meeting Travel Grants for Adjunct/Contingent Faculty
Competitive Awards for Students:
- Student Paper Competition
- Undergraduate Research Poster Competition
Grants for Students:
Opportunities from Other Groups:
Occasionally, announcements about professional positions, awards, or opportunities are sent to us by other groups. These are posted at the Jobs & Opportunities page.
Did you know.......??
- Last year, MSS gave more than $28,000 in grants and awards to MSS members.
- A history of the professional award winners is here: past winners.
Grants for Grass-Roots Organizations in Support of Social Action:
MSS also awards two $1000 grants each year to nonprofit organizations doing grassroots work in pursuit of social justice and social change in the MSS geographical area.
- Nominations accepted: Sept. 1 - Oct. 31, 2012
- Nomination guidelines: Download pdf.
*The Sociological Quarterly Award is awarded at the annual meeting in years ending in an odd number: 2011, 2013, 2015, etc.
**The Early Career Scholarship Award is given at the annual meeting in years ending in an even number. 2012, 2014, 2016, etc.
MSS
429 24th St North
La Crosse, WI 54601
MIDWEST SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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Due dates for nominations
- Dec. 1, 2012
- No application necessary.
- Oct. 31, 2012
- INFO to come.
- Rules under revision.
Applications Due
- Accepted year-round.
- Jan. 15 - Feb. 15 only.
- Feb. 15, 2013.
See past winners below.
MSS Distinguished Book Award Past Winners
2013-- The Paradox of Youth Violence
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Dr. J. William "Jack" Spencer
Honorable mention - The Tender Cut
New York University Press
Dr. Patricia A. Adler and Dr. Peter Adler
2012— Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11
Temple University Press
Dr. Lori Peek, Colorado State University
2011— Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family,
Russell Sage Foundation.
Dr. Brian Powell, Indiana University, Dr. Catherine Bolzendahl, University of California-Irvine, Dr. Claudia Geist, University of Utah, and Dr. Lala Carr Steelman, University of South Carolina
2010— Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea
Harvard University Asia Center
Dr. Kelly Chong, University of Kansas
2009—Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
University of Chicago Press
Dr. Amy Wilkins, University of Colorado-Boulder
2009 - Postindustrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle-Class Prosperity
Worth Publishers
Dr. Kevin Leicht, Indiana University & Dr. Scott Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships2008—
Altamira Press
Dr. Shirley A. Hill, University of Kansas
MSS The Sociological Quarterly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award Past Winners
2013— Dr. Aaron M. McCright, Michigan State University, and Dr. Riley E. Dunlap, Oklahoma State University, for their article, "The Politicalization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001-2010," published in Vol. 52 (Spring, 2011): 155-94
2011— Dr. Steven H. Lopez, Dr. Randy Hodson, and Dr. Vincent Roscigno, all of Ohio State University, for their article, “Power, Status, and Abuse at Work: General and Sexual Harassment Compared”
2009— Dr. Danny Kaplan, Bar Ilan University, for his article, “Folk Models of Dyadic Male Bonds in Israeli Culture”
MSS Early Career Scholarship Award Past Winners
2012—Dr. ChangHwan Kim, University of Kansas & Dr. Melissa Walls, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth
2010— Dr. Scott Harris, Saint Louis University
2008— Dr. Jennifer Dunn, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale & Dr. Doug Hartmann, University of Minnesota
MSS Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence Past Winners
2010— Sociology Department of Macalester College
2009— Sociology Department of Augsburg College
MSS Jane Addams Outstanding Service Award Past Winners
2013-- Mytoan Nguyen Akbar, University of Wisconsin Madison, for her work with the Telling Our Stories Across Generations Project
2012—Dr. Meg Wilkes Karraker, University of St. Thomas for her activism on behalf of women and girls
2011—Dr. Andrea Nichols, St. Louis Community College, for her tireless efforts to empower women economically and furthering the study of domestic violence and improving policy
2010— Dr. Ellen Kennedy, University of Minnesota, for finding and directing the Genocide Intervention Network of Minnesota and work with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
2009— Dr. Pamela Forman, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, for working with elementary-aged girls, service to the University of Wisconsin, and her support of the LGBT community in Eau Claire.
2008— Dr. Kathryn Ward, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, for service with women and girls in Bangladesh and for her teaching and research.
2007— Dr. Martha Thompson, Northeastern Illinois University, for her work in the community to empower women and her teaching of feminism and gender at Northeastern Illinois University.
Travel Grants for Student Members
Each year, MSS offers travel grants of $100 each to 150 student members who participate in the annual meeting.
The grants are intended to help student members with the expenses of traveling to the MSS annual meeting.Thus - they are NOT intended for students who live in the conference city.
Watch this space in fall, 2013, for information about travel grants for the 2014 meeting.
2014 Annual Meeting LINKS
