The fourth floors of Social Science Plaza A & B – the academic home to many in UCI’s highly ranked Department of Sociology – were noticeably quieter in early August as faculty, students and staff headed to Montréal for the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. There, they connected with more than 5,000 researchers, educators, practitioners, decision-makers, professionals and students to share cutting edge research findings and diverse perspectives while celebrating newly elected program officers and award winners among the association’s 53 formal Sections. UC Irvine was well represented as more than three dozen faculty, students and alumni were among those honored with awards and/or election to key leadership positions within the discipline's premier organization.

Honorees included:

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2024 ASA Elected Officers        

Section on Altruism, Morality, & Social Solidarity
Chair: Dana Moss, Ph.D. 2016

Section on Asia & Asian America
Council: Yung-Yi Diana Pan, Ph.D. 2012

Section on Children & Youth
Council: Matt Rafalow, Ph.D. 2016

Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements
Chair-Elect: Edwin Amenta, Professor
Past Chair: Catherine Corigall-Brown, Ph.D. 2007
Council: Daisy Reyes, Ph.D. 2012
Student Representative: Weijun Yuan, Graduate Student
Publications: Nicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor (Criminology, Law & Society)
Workshop: Burrel Vann Jr., Ph.D. 2019

Section on Communication, Information Tech, & Media
Council: Matt Rafalow, Ph.D. 2016

Section on Crime, Law, & Deviance
Secretary/Treasurer: Danielle Rudes, Ph.D. 2008

Section on International Migration
Past Chair: Jody Agius Vallejo, Ph.D. 2008

Section on Latina/o Sociology
Council: Edelina M. Burciaga, Ph.D. 2016
Council: Maria G. Rendon, Associate Professor (Urban Planning & Public Policy)
Student Representative: Caroline Martinez, Graduate Student
Section on Political Economy of the World System
Council: Kristen Shorette, Ph.D. 2013

Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities
Council: Raul Perez, Ph.D. 2015
Publications: Daisy Reyes, Ph.D. 2012

Section on Sociology of Consumers & Consumption
Council: Yuki Kati, Ph.D. 2007
Council: Matt Rafalow, Ph.D. 2016

Section on Sociology of Human Rights
Council: Nicole Iturriaga, Assistant Professor (Criminology, Law & Society)
Council: Dana Moss, Ph.D. 2016

Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Council: Emily Carian, Assistant Professor of Teaching

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Award Winners: 

Kaylin Bourdon, Ph.D. 2024
Dissertation Award, ASA Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements, for “Who Speaks for a Movement? The Construction and Reception of Activists’ Claims to Standing”

Elizabeth Chiarello, Ph.D. 2011
2 Article Awards: ASA Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance & Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Sociology of Law for “Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice,” published in American Sociological Review

Kelley Fong, Assistant Professor
3 Book Awards: ASA Section on Family; ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility; Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Crime, Law, & Deviance for Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services

Peng Huang, Ph.D. 2024, and Carter T. Butts, Professor
2 Article Awards: Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Methodology and Student Paper, ASA Section on Mathematical Sociology for “Parameter Estimation Procedures for Exponential-Family Random Graph Models on Count-Valued Networks: A Comparative Simulation Study,” published in Social Networks

Zaoying Cherry Ji, Ph.D. 2024
Dissertation Award, ASA Section on Culture, for “The Global Rise of Women in Higher Education: Divergent Pathways and Global Discursive Changes, 1960-2020”

Minyoung Kim, Ph.D. 2024
Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Emotions, for “Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea”

Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor (Emerita), and Jasmine Kerrissey, Ph.D. 2012
Book Award, ASA Section on Labor & Labor Movements, for Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement 

David Snow, Professor (Emeritus)
Career Award, ASA Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements

Yang Su, Professor
Book Award, Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, for Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

Weijun Yuan, Ph.D. Candidate
Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements, for “Collaborating across Boundaries: Inter-organizational Endorsements during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests”

Wang Feng, Professor
Career Award, ASA Section on Asia & Asian America

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Congrats to all who presented research and were involved in planning efforts, as well as those who were elected to offices and recognized for their academic achievements!