Joseph B. Gittler Award

The deadline to submit nominations for the 2023 Joseph B. Gittler Award was April 15, 2023. Check back this fall for the 2024 nomination procedures. See below for information on award eligibility and a list of past winners.

HISTORY

In 2007, a bequest by Joseph B. Gittler was made to the association establishing an award given to a SSSP member for significant scholarly achievements on the ethical resolution of social problems. The stipend for this award is $500. Past winners of this award can be found here.

CRITERIA 

  1. The nominee must have been an active member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for at least three years prior to receiving the award.
  2. The nominee must have produced and disseminated scholarship promoting ethical solutions to social problems over the preceding three or more calendar years. Ethical solutions entail scholarship that promotes awareness and/or activism to increase public recognition that social problems and social injustices are ethical issues; and/or scholarship that identifies and promotes societal level responses to social problems and injustices. Scholarship may be undertaken from a wide variety of perspectives, including both applied research (qualitative or quantitative research) and normative work (e.g., argumentative, historical, philosophical, textual or theoretical analyses).
NOMINATION

The nomination deadline for the 2023 award was April 15, 2023. The 2023 award will be presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting, August 18-20, 2023.

Please address all questions to:

Dr. Emily Schneider, Chair
Joseph B. Gittler Award Committee
emily.schneider@nau.edu