Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in Symbolic Interaction

Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024. 

Awarded to a graduate student paper; the paper may be published or unpublished. Papers should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. Self-nominations are accepted.

Chair: Dirk Vom Lehn - dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk

Committee: Douglas Clayton Smith

Yuchen Yang

Kathy Charmaz Early-in-Career Award

Nomination deadline: April 15, 2024. 

Nominations should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. All nominations should include (a) a letter of nomination detailing the candidate’s contributions to symbolic interaction and most noteworthy research and publications thus far, (b) letters of support that address the award criteria, and (c) the candidate’s CV.

Chair: Christopher Conner - ctckdg@missouri.edu

Committee: Gary Alan Fine

Staci Newmahr

Helena Lopata Award for Excellence in Mentorship

Nomination deadline: April 15, 2024. 

Nominations should be submitted electronically to the chair of the committee. All nominations should include (a) a letter of nomination and, (b) multiple letters of support, ideally from people with different mentoring relations with the candidate, that testify to a sustained career of outstanding mentorship.

Chair: Doug Schrock dschrock@fsu.edu

Committee: Stacey Hannem

Michael O. Johnston

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Recent Book in Symbolic Interaction

Nomination deadline: April 15, 2024. 

Please contact the chair of the committee with your nomination and to arrange for copies of the book to be sent to the committee. Copies of the books must be received by the committee by the deadline. If you are submitting a nomination for the Cooley Award, please ensure that you contact the publisher as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for copies of the books reach the committee. Electronic copies are permitted and are preferable where shipping will cause delays.  Nominated books must have been published within the three preceding years of the award (i.e. between March 2021 and March 2024).

Chair: Ugo Corte: ugo.corte@uis.no

Committee: Ugo Corte (chair of committee), Scott Harris, Heather Shay