Congratulations to Professors Amanda Cheong and Seth Abrutyn, who both received section awards, as well as Professor Andrew Jorgenson, who was given an honourable mention for his research!
Amanda Cheong
Professor Cheong was awarded the Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section Publication Award, recognizing the significant contributions made by her paper, “How Driver’s Licenses Matter for Undocumented Immigrants,” to applied and public sociology.
Co-written with the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fun, “How Driver’s Licenses Matter” presents findings from a community action research partnership on why obtaining a driver’s license would mean more than just the legal permission to operate a motor vehicle for undocumented immigrants in Central New Jersey.
Professor Cheong also received an honourable mention for the Global and Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Article Award, which recognizes an outstanding article published in the last two years in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology.
Her article, “Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood,” theorizes “omission” — the condition where unwanted populations are left out of state administrative apparatuses and deprived of the ability to establish their legal personhood.
Seth Abrutyn
Professor Abrutyn was awarded the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting from the American Sociological Association’s Theory Section, as well as the Best Book Award from the Biosociology and Evolutionary Sociology Section.
The Coser Award recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology and exemplifies the sociological ideals that Lewis Coser represented.
Professor Abrutyn received the Best Book Award for his book The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity, co-written with Jonathan Turner, professor emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.
The book expands a foundational definition of the institution to locate them as the basic building blocks of human societies and as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass knowledge from one generation to the next.
In addition to Professor Cheong and Abrutyn’s awards, Professor Andrew Jorgenson was also given an honourable mention for the 2024 Distinguished Article Award from the Political Economy of the World-System Section.
He was honoured for his article, “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions,” which investigates how and why national militaries shape the effect of economic growth on carbon pollution.
