Awards
2008 Award Recipients
Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award: Angie O'Rand, Duke University
Outstanding Publication Award: Arland Thornton, William Axinn, Yu Xie of University of Michigan for Marriage and Cohabitation. 2007. University of Chicago Press.
Graduate Student Paper Award: Genevieve Pham-Kanter, University of Chicago, for "Social Comparisons and Health: Can Having Richer Friends and Neighbors Make You Sicker?" and Tetyana P. Shippee, Purdue University, for "'But I am Not Moving': Residents' Perspectives on Transitions within a Continuing Care Retirement Community."
2009 Award Recipients
Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award: William Dale Dannefer, Case Western Reserve University
Outstanding Publication Award: Andrea E. Willson (University of Western Ontario), Kim M. Shuey (University of Western Ontario), and Glen H. Elder, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for their paper entitled "Cumulative Advantage Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health." It was published in the American Journal of Sociology in 2007.
Graduate Student Paper Award: Kyle C. Longest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for "Integrating Identity Theory and the Life Course Perspective: The Case of Adolescent Religious Behavior." Longest is now an Assistant Professor at Furman University.
