W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

The W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award is given annually by the American Sociological Association to a scholar among its members, whose cumulative body of work constitutes a significant contribution to the advancement of sociology.^[1] Formerly called simply the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, the award was renamed in 2006 to honor pioneering American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois.^[2]^[3]

List of recipients

1980 – Robert K. Merton
1981 – Everett C. Hughes
1982 – Kingsley Davis
1983 – Herbert Blumer
1984 – Morris Janowitz
1985 – Reinhard Bendix
1986 – Edward A. Shils
1987 – Wilbert E. Moore
1988 – George C. Homans
1989 – Jessie Bernard
1990 – Robin M. Williams Jr.
1991 – Mirra Komarovsky
1992 – Daniel Bell
1993 – Joan Acker
1994 – Lewis A. Coser
1995 – Leo Goodman
1996 – Peter Blau
1997 – William H. Sewell
1998 – Howard S. Becker
1999 – Dorothy E. Smith
2000 – Seymour Martin Lipset
2001 – William Foote Whyte
2002 – Gerhard Lenski
2003 – Immanuel Wallerstein
2004 – Arthur Stinchcombe
2005 – Charles Tilly and Charles V. Willie
2006 – Herbert J. Gans
2007 – Joseph Berger
2008 – Barbara Reskin
2009 – Sheldon Stryker
2010 – Alejandro Portes
2011 – Harrison White
2012 – William A. Gamson
2013 – Joe Feagin
2014 – William Julius Wilson
2015 – John W. Meyer
2016 – Glen Elder
2017 – Patricia Hill Collins
2018 – Elijah Anderson
2019 – Harvey L. Molotch
2020 - Aldon Morris
2021 - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
2022 - Mary Romero
2023 - Viviana A. Zelizer

References

^ "W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award". American Sociological Association. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
^ "Members Propose Resolution to Rename ASA Awards". www.asanet.org. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
^ "Background on Proposed Name Change for ASA's Distinguished Scholarship Award". www.asanet.org. Retrieved 2017-11-07.

[1] "W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award". American Sociological Association. Retrieved March 20, 2024.

[2] "Members Propose Resolution to Rename ASA Awards". www.asanet.org. Retrieved 2017-11-07.

[3] "Background on Proposed Name Change for ASA's Distinguished Scholarship Award". www.asanet.org. Retrieved 2017-11-07.

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v t e W. E. B. Du Bois
Life	W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite Atlanta Conference of Negro Problems Atlanta Sociological Laboratory The Exhibit of American Negroes (1900) First Pan-African Conference (1900) Niagara Movement NAACP (co-founder) The Crisis magazine The Brownies' Book magazine Freedom newspaper Pan-African Congress Fisk University protest (1924–1925) W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture (home, burial site, and memorial)
Concepts	Talented Tenth Color line Double consciousness
Non-fiction	The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America (1894) The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) The Philadelphia Negro (1899) The Souls of Black Folk (1903) The Negro in the South (1907) John Brown (1909) The Negro (1915) Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920) Black Reconstruction in America (1935) Dusk of Dawn (1940)
Fiction	"The Comet" (1920) Dark Princess (1928)
Honors	W. E. B. Du Bois Library W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute
Related	Shirley Graham Du Bois (second wife) Yolande Du Bois (daughter) Encyclopedia Africana The Negro Problem (1903 book) W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America African American founding fathers of the United States

List of recipients

See also

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