The deadline to submit nominations for the 2023 Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership 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

The Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award was established in 2015 and is awarded annually with a stipend of $500 to an outstanding faculty member who has exercised an extensive leadership role within the SSSP and other professional societies and within the larger community. In her 2001 Social Problems article, “Making History: A Personal Narrative of My Presidential Year,” Doris chronicles her activities in the Society during the early 1970s, when SSSP’s programs and members offered her a refuge during a restless period within the American Sociological Association (ASA). She was a participant-observer of the events that occurred when Sociologists for Women in Society and the Association of Black Sociologists were seen as “outsiders within” and sought “meaningful” entry and participation in the ASA. Doris turned her observation into action and became one of the leading voices in bringing change to the society and sociology as a discipline. Her leadership was consistent with the Society’s mission. Past winners of this award can be found here.

CRITERIA

The award will be given annually to an outstanding faculty member who has exercised an extensive leadership role within the SSSP and other professional societies and within the larger community. The award was named in honor of Doris Wilkinson, who turned observation into action and became one of the leading voices in bringing change to the society and sociology as a discipline.

The Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award will be given to a scholar who effectively:

  1. Addresses social issues of contemporary public importance;
  2. Brings a deepened public understanding to these issues;
  3. Advances social understanding of leadership for change within the larger society;
  4. Proposes courses of action to effect that change.
NOMINATIONS

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. Angie Beeman, Chair
Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award Committee
angie.beeman@baruch.cuny.edu