Did you know…….??
- Last year, MSS awarded more than $35,000 in grants and awards to MSS members.
- A history of the professional award winners is here: past winners.
Awards & Grants from the Midwest Sociological Society
The MSS:
- gives awards in several categories of professional service and scholarship,
- sponsors an annual student paper competition with six cash prizes,
- offers small grants to support research by mss members,
- and provides travel grants to members who are students or adjunct/contingent faculty attending the mss annual meeting.
Download procedural rules and regulations for the various awards and grants below. Questions? Contact the executive office by email.
Competitive Awards for Professionals
Annual Jane Addams Outstanding Service Award
Nominations due November 1
Award Application Details
Annual MSS Distinguished Book Award
Nominations due October 31
Award Application Details
Biennial Early Career Scholarship Award**
Nominations due November 15, 2025 (awarded Spring 2026)
Award Application Details
*The Early Career Scholarship Award is given at the annual meeting in years ending in an even number: 2016, 2018, 2020, etc.
Teaching Excellence Award for Full-time Faculty
Nominations due October 15 - EXTENDED to October 31, 2025
Teaching Excellence Award for Part-Time/Contingent/Adjunct Faculty
Nominations due October 15 - EXTENDED to October 31, 2025
Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Student Instructors
Nominations due October 15 - EXTENDED to October 31, 2025
Competitive Awards for Students
Student Paper Competitionsample cover page | sample paper
Research Grants
Grants for Research
Applications accepted January 15 – February 15 only
Application Details
MSS Annual Meeting Travel Awards
Student Travel Award
Applications Due: February 14
Application link will be available January 1
Travel Award for Contingent Faculty and Sociology Practitioners
Applications Due: February 15
Application Details
Grants for Grass-Roots Organizations in Support of Social Action
MSS awards two $1,000 grants each year to nonprofit organizations doing grassroots work in pursuit of social justice and social change in the MSS geographical area.
Nominations due October 5, 2025
Nomination Details
PAST AWARD WINNERS
Click here for a list of professional awardees since 2008.
MSS Distinguished Book Award
2025
Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States
University of California Press, 2023
Chiara Galli, University of Chicago
Honorable Mention: Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora
University of Chicago Press, 2023
Sharon M. Quinsaat, Grinnell College
2024
Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #METOO
University of Regina Press, 2022
Stacey Hannem, Wilfred Laurier University, and Christopher J. Schneider, Brandon University
Honorable Mention: Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times
Palgrave McMillan, 2023
Gordon C. Chang, Western Illinois University
2023
Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulation Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality
Stanford University Press, 2021
Harland Prechel, Texas A&M University
2022
Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality
The University of Chicago Press, 2020
Max Besbris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021
Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law
University of California Press, 2019
Angela S. García, University of Chicago
MSS The Sociological Quarterly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
2025 - Daniel J. Bartholomay and Meagan Pendleton for their article, ""Doing Sexuality: How Married Bisexual, Queer and Pansexual People Navigate Passing and Erasure." (64:3);
Honorable Mention: A.P. Davis and Y. Zhang for their article, "Civil Society and Democracy under Pressure: Does Authoritarian Mobilization and Party Incapacity Diminish the Positive Effect of Civil Society?." (65:2)
2023 - Jennifer M. Whitmer for their article, ""Between a Regular Person and a Brand": Managing the Contradictions." (62:1);
Honorable Mention: Jess Lee for their article, "Race. Same-Sex Marriage, and the Politics of Respectability among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Racial Minorities." (62:3)
2021 - Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi & Shayna Alexander for their article, "Why White Supremacist Women Become Disillusioned, and Why They Leave." (60:1);
Honorable Mention: Gretchen Arnold, "The Case of Nuisance Laws and Intimate Partner Violence in the United States" (60:1)
2019 - Dr. Meghan Burke, Illinois Wesleyan University, for her article, "Racing Left and Right: Color-Blind Racism’s Dominance across the U.S. Political Spectrum."
MSS Early Career Scholarship Award
2024 - Daniel Bartholomay, Texas A&M University
2022 - Celeste Campos-Castillo, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018 - Andrea Nichols, Washington University in St. Louis
2016 - Meghan Burke, Illinois Wesleyan University
2014 - Dr. Mary E Campbell, Texas A & M University
2012 - Dr. ChangHwan Kim, University of Kansas & Dr. Melissa Walls, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth
2010 - Dr. Scott Harris, Saint Louis University
2008 - Dr. Jennifer Dunn, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale & Dr. Doug Hartmann, University of Minnesota
MSS Jane Addams Outstanding Service Award
2023 - Laurie Cooper Stoll, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
2022 - Gina Petonito, Founding Member of "Writing YOUR Way LLC"
2021 - Enid Logan, University of Minnesota
2020 - Jennifer Edwards, Northeastern State University
2018 - Bobbi Knapp, Dept of Kinesiology, Southern Illinois University
2016 – Dr. Aditi Mitra, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, for her work with American Association of University Women (AAUW)
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