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| Sociology's Gans and Vaughan Receive Highest Honors in Field |
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Herbert J.
Gans, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, has received the
American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Career of
Distinguished Scholarship Award, the highest award the group bestows.
The award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the
profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in
important ways to the advancement of the discipline. Columbia sociology
professor Charles H. Tilly received the award last year. Gans
previously received the ASA’s 1999 award for Contributions to
the Public Understanding of Sociology.
Diane Vaughan, professor of sociology, has received the American
Sociological Association’s Award for Public Understanding of
Sociology. The award is given annually to a person who has made
exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of
sociology, sociological research and scholarship among the general
public.
About the awards, Thomas A. DiPrete, chair of sociology, said,
"Even as Gans and Tilly continue to enrich the intellectual
climate of the department, they remind us of the centrality of our
department in the discipline of sociology, and they push us to maintain
our leading position in the discipline into the future. The Career of
Distinguished Scholarship Award is the highest award offered by the ASA
because it honors an entire lifetime of achievement rather than any
specific article or book. With the honoring of Columbia's
Herbert Gans, a year after the similar honoring of Charles Tilly,
Columbia sociologists have now won this award two years in a
row. Fully 25 percent of the 28 recipients of this award have
been senior members of the Columbia or Barnard faculty."
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Published: May 04, 2006
Last modified:
May 22, 2006
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