The 120th American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting took place August 8-12, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.
Jessica Calarco has been elected the 2026-2027 Vice President of ASA. Fabien Accominotti has been elected chair of the ASA Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society for 2025-2026. Eunsil Oh has been elected onto the Council for the ASA Family Section. We are proud of the faculty members from our department will serve in leadership positions in ASA and its sections.
Congratulations to all of the award winners, panel moderators, and presenters of this year’s ASA conference!
Section Awards
Anna Milewski received an honorable mention for the Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award from ASA’s Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section for her article, “Diffuse Social Movement Organizations As Focal Points For Novel Demands Under Repression: East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution, 1989-1990,” published in Mobilization.
Max Besbris and Hannah Wohl won the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from ASA’s Consumers & Consumption Section for their paper “Relational Brokerage: Interaction and Valuation in Two Markets,” published in Qualitative Sociology.
Youbin Kang (PhD 2024) received an Honorable Mention for the Theda Skocpol Best Dissertation Award from ASA’s Comparative and Historical Sociology Section for “Underground Labor and the Politics of Circuits: Public Transit Systems of New York and Seoul, 1974-2022.”
Masoud Movahed (PhD 2022) and Tiffany Neman won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA’s Mathematical Sociology Section for their paper “Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States: A Racial-Spatial Account,” published in Social Science Research.
Chaeyoon Lim and Dingeman Wiertz won the 2025 Outstanding Published Article Award from ASA’s Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section for their paper “Civic Lessons That Last? Religiosity and Volunteering on the Way to Adulthood,” published in American Sociological Review.