in recognition of past and present service - Society for the Study of ...

Saturday, August 10, 8:45pm
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
SSSP Division Awards: Winners of various student paper
competitions and other division awards will be announced.
Announcing the
Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship: This $15,000 scholarship
will be awarded to a new or continuing graduate student who
began her or his study in a community college or technical
school.
C. Wright Mills Award: For a distinguished book that exemplifies
outstanding social science research and an understanding of the
individual and society in the tradition of C. Wright Mills.
Joseph B. Gittler Award: For significant scholarly achievement
that a SSSP member has made in contributing to the ethical
resolution of social problems.
Lee Founders Award: For recognition of significant achievements
that have demonstrated continuing devotion to the ideals of the
founders of the Society and especially to the humanistic tradition
of the Lee’s.
Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship: This $12,000
scholarship is given annually for support of graduate study and
commitment to a career of scholar-activism.
Thomas C. Hood Social Action Award: This $1,000 award is
given to a not-for-profit organization in the New York City area in
recognition of challenging social inequalities, promoting social
change, and/or working toward the empowerment of
marginalized peoples.
2012 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists
(in alphabetical order)
David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and
Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan, Oxford
University Press
Cybelle Fox, Three Worlds of Relief: Race,
Immigration, and the American Welfare State from
the Progressive Era to the New Deal, Princeton
University Press
Matthew W. Hughey, White Bound: Nationalists,
Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race,
Stanford University Press
Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther
Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination,
University of Minnesota Press
Susan Crawford Sullivan, Living Faith: Everyday
Religion and Mothers in Poverty, University of
Chicago Press
The C. Wright Mills Award will be presented on
Saturday, August 10 at the awards ceremony.
C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD COMMITTEE
Raymond J. Michalowski, Chair, Northern Arizona
University
A. Antonio González-Prendes, Chair-Elect, Wayne State
University
Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee
Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College
Shannon M. Monnat, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Gretchen Purser, Syracuse University
Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ronnie J. Steinberg, Vanderbilt University
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