The Jessie Bernard Award is given by the American Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...

 in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research, theory or methodology. It is presented for significant cumulative work done throughout a professional career, and is open to women or men and is not restricted to sociologists."

ASA Jessie Bernard Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual. The award is named after Jessie Bernard

Jessie Bernard

Jessie Shirley Bernard was a sociologist and noted feminist scholar. She was a persistent forerunner of feminist thought in American sociology and her life's work is characterized as extraordinarly productive spanning several intellectual and political eras...

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Selection Committee Members

• Paula England
• Myra Marx Ferree
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Myra Marx Ferree is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the...
  
  
• Alma Garcia
  Alma Garcia
  -Life:She grew up in West Texas, and has lived most of her life in New Mexico. She graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA. She worked at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard, Washington...
  
  
• Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
• Karen Hossfeld
• Jerry Jacobs
• Nancy Naples
  Nancy Naples
  Nancy A. Naples, a member of the Board of Directors of Amtrak, is the former Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in New York. Naples was appointed State Motor Vehicles Commissioner by then-Gov. George Pataki in January 2006 following a 12-year political career in Western New York...
  
  
• Nicole Raeburn
• Michael Schwalbe

Recipients

The Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual.

• 2010 - Harriet Presser, career
• 2009 - Cecilia Ridgeway, career
• 2008 - Arlie Hochschild, career
• 2007 - Patricia Yancey Martin, career
• 2006 - Margaret Andersen, career
• 2005 - Evelyn Nakano Glenn
  Evelyn Nakano Glenn
  Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities she serves as Founding Director of the University's Center for Race and Gender . The CRG is a leading U.S...
  
  , career
• 2004 - Myra Marx Ferree
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Myra Marx Ferree is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the...
  
  , career
• 2003 - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career
• 2002 - Barrie Thorne
  Barrie Thorne
  Barrie Thorne is a Professor of Sociology and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Her work focuses on the sociology of gender, feminist theory, the sociology of age relations, childhood, and families, and ethnographic methods...
  
  , career
• 2001 - Barbara Laslett, career
• 2000 - Maxine Baca Zinn, career
• 1999 - Paula England, career
• 1998 - Ruth Wallace
  Ruth Wallace
  Ruth Wallace is an Australian football player currently playing for Australian W-League team .- References :...
  
  , career
• 1997 - Nona Glazer, career; Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995); Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994)
• 1996 - Judith Lorber, career; Diane L. Wolf, Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992)
• 1995 - Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career; Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota); and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge)
• 1993 - Dorothy Smith, career; Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber) for significant collective work; and Patricia Hill Collins
  Patricia Hill Collins
  Patricia Hill Collins, is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and past President of the American Sociological Association Council...
  
  , Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
• 1991 - Barbara Katz Rothman
  Barbara Katz Rothman
  Barbara Katz Rothman, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York and the author of numerous books. Her work is interdisciplinary and international; its scope encompasses medical sociology, childbirth and midwifery issues, bioethics, race, disability, and the sociology of...
  
  , Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)
• 1989 - Joan Acker, career; Samuel R. Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985); and Honorable Mention to Karen Brodkin Sacks, Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press)
• 1987 - Sandra Harding
  Sandra Harding
  Sandra G. Harding is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science.She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science...
  
  , The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986); and Judith Rollins, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986)
• 1985 - Joan Huber, career; and Judith G. Stacey, Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China
• 1983 - Alice Rossi, career
• 1981 - Elise Boulding, career
• 1979 - Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer, The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press); Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press); and Honorable Mention to Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press)