BOOK AWARDS

Michael Messner, 2009. Choice Outstanding Academic Ttile for Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport, from the American Library Association.

Paul Lichterman, 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions.

Sharon Hays, 2004 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for Flat Broke With Children:  Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

Michael Messner, 2004. Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport for Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports.

Lynne M. Casper, (with Suzanne M. Bianchi). 2002 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Social Demography section of the American Sociological Association for Continuity and Change in the American Family: Anchoring the Future.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2001-2002 winner of the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems; the Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association; the Distinguished Contribution to Latino Research from the Latina/o Studies Section of the American Sociological Association; the Max Weber Award from the Labor Studies Section of the American Sociological Association; and the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, for Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence.

Elaine Bell Kaplan, 2000. Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association for Not Our Kind of Girl: Unravelling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood.

Leland Saito 2000, Outstanding Book Award from the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association for Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb.

Nina Eliasoph, 2000 Outstanding Book Award from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. 

Michael Messner 1993 Outstanding Book Award, from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport for Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity

ARTICLE AWARDS

Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman 2004. Outstanding article award from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for "Culture in Interaction,” American Journal of Sociology

Timothy Biblarz  2004 Outstanding Article Award, Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association.  “(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?”  American Sociological Review

Paul Lichterman 2001. Outstanding article award from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for "Identity Talk in the Public Sphere:  Broad Visions and SmallSpaces in Sexual Identity Politics,"  Theory and Society

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Dr. Malcolm Klein, 2008 is the recipient of the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology.

Michael Messner, 2007 Distinguished Service Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.

Vern Bengtson, 1998 Ernest W. Burgess Award for outstanding career achievement, National Council on Family Relations; 1996 Robert W. Kleemeier Award for outstanding research in the field of gerontology, Gerontological Society of America; 1995 Distinguished Scholar Award, Section on Aging, American Sociological Association

USC AWARDS

USC ASSOCIATES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
Barry Glassner, 2002
Vern Bengtson, 1991

USC ASSOCIATES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
Michael Messner, 2006
Ed Ransford, 1999
Jon Miller, 1995

USC FACULTY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Malcolm Klein, 2007

USC COLLEGE JUNIOR RAUBENHEIMER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SERVICE
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1997
Macarena Gomez-Barris, 2008

USC COLLEGE SENIOR RAUBENHEIMER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, RESEARCH AND SERVICE
Michael Messner, 2007

USC COLLEGE GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHING AWARD
Michael Messner, 2004
Timothy Biblarz, 2002
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2000
Vern Bengtson, 1999
Ed Ransford, 1999