2025 ASA OOW SECTION AWARDS

Congratulations to the 2025 award recipients for their achievements!

Dr. Heather A. Haveman (middle) received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award for 2025

Dr. Katherine Sobering won the 2025 Max Weber Book Award for her book The People’s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2022).

Anna Fox (left) won the James Thompson Graduate Paper Award for her paper “Covalent Logics: Policing, Family Values, and the Reproduction of Inequality.”

Dr. Katherine Weisshaar (left), Dr. Koji Chavez (in the middle), and Dr. Tania Hutt (not in the picture) won the W. Richard Scott Article Award for their paper “Hiring Discrimination Under Pressures to Diversify: Gender, Race, and Diversity Commodification across Job Transitions in Software Engineering,” published in American Sociological Review.

Announcement: Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

Summer 2025 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting

Register for the semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at the ASA Annual Meeting on Friday, August 8. Spots are limited; sign up here.

The semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop is back this summer from 9 am to 5 pm on Friday, August 8, 2025 – the day of pre-conference activities for the ASA annual meeting in Chicago

The Summer 2025 GPO organizing team welcomes anyone working on gender, professions, and organizations (broadly defined; if you’re unsure if your work applies, it likely does). Our goals are to foster connection and collaboration, build community across career stages, and dedicate time for writing. We encourage new and returning participants! 

The full-day workshop is organized into two standalone sessions, each with time for connecting and writing, and a lunch break in between. Participants are welcome to join for the morning, afternoon, or both. 

Anyone registered for ASA is welcome to join the workshop at no additional cost; however, space is limited. Participants should bring their own charged laptop computers (and possibly an extension cord) and snacks to share, as additional funding is not available. 

Please contact one of the current organizers with any questions. Register by July 27, using this form

Kristen McNeill (kristen.mcneill@graduateinstitute.ch, Assistant Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute)

Former organizers: Sharla Alegria, Melissa Abad, Ethel Mickey, Elizabeta Shifrin, Rodica Lisnic, Kathrin Zippel, Laura Kramer, Christina Falci, Laura Hirshfield, Julia McQuillan, Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch, Shauna Morimoto, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle