SSS Awards

The Southern Sociological Society’s Committee on Honors is seeking nominations for all awards listed. Information about qualifications and nomination procedures for these awards may be found below.

If you have any questions or world like additional information, please contact James Wright, Chair of SSS Committee on Honors.

Roll of Honor

Odum Student Paper Award

Distinguished Teaching Award

Distinguished Lectureship Award

Charles S. Johnson Award

Katharine Jocher- Belle Boone Beard Award

Martin L. Levin Service Award

Roll of Honor Members:

Rupert B. Vance, 1977
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

T. Lynn Smith, 1977
University of Florida

Ernst Borinski, 1979
Tougaloo College

Vernon J. Parenton, 1982
Louisiana State University

Joseph S. Himes, 1984
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Joseph H. Fichter, 1986
Loyola University, New Orleans

Guy B. Johnson, 1986
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kurt W. Back, 1989
Duke University

Rudolf Heberle, 1990
Louisiana State University

Alan C. Kerckhoff, 1994
Duke University

Charles B. Nam, 1995
Florida State University

Lewis M. Killian, 1996
University of West Florida

Ronald L. Akers, 2002
University of Florida

Richard L. Simpson, 2006
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ida Harper Simpson, 2007
Duke University

Clifton Bryan, 2008
Virginia Tech

Patricia Yancey Martin, 2008
Florida State University

Charles S. Johnson, 2011
Fisk University

Ronald Wimberley, 2012
North Carolina State University