2025 SSS Awards
Dear SSS Members,
On behalf of the Committee on Honors, I am delighted to announce the 2025 Southern Sociological Society award recipients. We invite you to attend the Presidential Honors and Convocation event at the Annual Meeting (Friday 6-7:15pm) to offer congratulations and best wishes. Congratulations to all award winners!
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
Daniel Farr Kennesaw State University
SSS Junior Scholar Award
Trenton Mize Purdue University
Howard Odum Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Reilly Kincaid “Time is Money? Differences in First-Order and Third-Order Beliefs about How Gender Should Shape Parents’ Work-Family Priorities,” Purdue University (Jeremy Reynolds, advisor)
Howard Odum Award for Best Undergraduate Paper
Isabella Bahamon “‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Choice: American Attitudes about Abortion Rights in the United States,” Southwestern University (Maria Lowe, advisor)
Thank you for all of the outstanding nominations for SSS awards we received this year. We ask that you continuethinking of colleagues and students who are worthy of recognition by the Southern Sociological Society and begin working now on nominations for the upcoming awards cycle.
Not sure of membership status? Contact the SSS to verify that your nominees and letter-writers are current members. And congratulations, again, to this year’s award recipients.
See you all in Charlotte,
Matthew Ward
Chair, SSS Committee on Honors