Awards
and
Distinctions
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction has five awards that are given to scholars and students to recognize particular achievements.
WINNERS – HERBERT BLUMER GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
(The award was titled the ”Feminist Mentor Award” through 2006. It was changed to the “Mentor Excellence Award” in 2007.)
2022 – David Schweingruber, Iowa State University
2021 – Timothy Hallett, Indiana University Bloomington
2020 – Dr. J. Patrick Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
2019 – Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Memorial University
2018 – Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado, Boulder
2017 – Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University
2016 – Matthew W. Hughey, University of Connecticut
2015 – Donileen Loseke, University of South Florida and
David G. Embrick, Loyola University Chicago
2014 – Dan Miller, University of Dayton
2013 – Clinton R. Sanders, University of Connecticut
2012 – Joel Best, University of Delaware
2011 – Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University
2010 – Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State University
2009 – John M. Johnson, Arizona State University
2008 – Viktor Gecas, Washington State University
2007 – David Altheide, Arizona State University
2006 – Michael Schwalbe, North Carolina State University
2005 – Peter Adler, University of Denver
2004 – Patti Adler, University of Colorado
2003 – Patricia Ticineto Clough, Fordham University
2002 – Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco and Sherryl Kleinman, University of North Carolina
2001 – Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University
2000 – Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida and
Virginia Olesen, University of California, San Francisco
1999 – Helena Znaniecki Lopata, Loyola University and
Lauren Richardson, Ohio State University
1998 – Lyn H. Lofland, University of California and
Davis and Barrie Thorne, University of California Berkeley
1997 – Mary Lou Dietz, University of Windsor and
Dorothy Smith, University of Toronto