American Sociological Association: Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology Past Awards Recipients.

Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology Award Recipients

The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Hacker-Nicholas Mullins Graduate Student Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2014	Kelly Kistner	University of Washington	“A Word Factory was Wanted’: Organizational Objectivity in the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.”
2013	Phillipa K. Chong	University of Toronto	“Legitimate judgment in art, the scientific world reversed?: Critical distance in evaluation.”
2012	Ignacio Siles	Northwestern University	2011. “From Online Filter to Web Format: Articulating Materiality and Meaning in the Early History of Blogs.” Social Studies of Science, 41(5).
2011	Michael Strand	University of Notre Dame	"Where do classifications come from? The DSM-III, the transformation of American Psychiatry, and the problem of origins in the sociology of knowledge" (Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame).
2010	Owen Whooley	NYU	"Diagnostic Ambivalence: Psychiatric Workarounds and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." The paper was recently published in Sociology of Health and Illness.
2009	David Schliefer		"The Dovetailing of Activism, Industry, and the Technological Backburner: How Trans Fats Became Healthy."
2007	Elizabeth Popp Berman		“Why did Universities Start Patenting? Institution-building and the Road to the Bayh-Dole Act"
2006	Janet Vertesi	Cornell University	“Mind the Gap: the London Underground Map and Users’ Representation of urban Space”
2005	Annalisa Salonius Abby Kinchy	McGill University University of Wisconsin	“Social Organization of Work in Biomedical Research Labs: Socio-historical Dynamics and the Influence of Research Funding” “African Americans in the Atomic Age”
2003	Cyrus Mody Jennifer Fosket	Cornell University University of California-San Francisco	"Probe Microscopists at Work and Play: The Growth of American STM and AFM in the 1980s" "Constructing "High Risk Women": The Development and Standardization of a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool"
2002	Kjerten Clare Bunker	Stanford University	“Patterns of Discrimination in Public and Private Science: The Effects of Gender and Discipline”
2002	Park Doing	Cornell University	“Lab Hands’ and the ‘Scarlet O’: On Models, Identity, and Technology Studies”
2001	Jenny Reardon	Cornell University	“The Human Genome Diversity Paper”
2000	Christopher Henke	University of California, San Diego	“Making a Place for Science: The Field Trial”
1999	Jennifer Fishman and Laura Mamo	University of California, San Francisco	“Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body”
1998	Jason Owen-Smith	University of Arizona	“The Social Organization of Scientific Skepticism”
1997	Pablo Boczkowski	Cornell University	“The Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies In and Through Computer-Mediated Communication; Artifacts of Nationhood in the Argentine Mailing List”
1996	Lisa Jean Moore	University of California-San Francisco	"The Technologies of Safer Sex: Latex Devices"
1995	Stephan Timermans	University of Illinois	“Saving Lives or Sharing Multiple Identities? The Double Dynamic of Resuscitation Scripts”
1994	Charis Cussins Scott Frickel	University of California-San Diego University of Wisconsin-Madison	"Cycles of Conceivability: The Construction of the Normal Woman in an Infertility Unit" "Submarine Thermal Reactor Mark-I: Successful Science & the Geography of Actor Networks"
1992	Rosa Haritos	Columbia University	"Scientists at Work: Institutional & Cultural Contexts of Discovery"

The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Robert K. Merton Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2014	Sara Naomi Shostak	Brandeis University	Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health(University of California Press, 2013).
2013	Gabrielle Hecht	University of Michigan	Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
2012	Gil Eyal, Brendan Hart, Emine Onculer, Neta Oren, and Natasha Rossi	Columbia University	2010. The Autism Matrix. Polity Press.
2011	Kelly Moore		Disrupting Science; Social Movements, American Scientists, and the politics of the military, 1945-1975
2010	Gabriela Soto Laveaga		Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill.
2009	David J. Hess Honorable Mention: Maren Klawiter	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Yale University Law School	Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation and the Environment in an Era of Globalization (MIT, 2007) The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism (Minnesota, 2008)
2008	Libby Schweber	University of Lancaster, UK	Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 (2006, Duke University Press)
2007	Steve Epstein	University of California, Irvine	Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2006	Scott Frickel Joseph Masco Honorable Mention: Sydney A. Halpmen	Tulane University	Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War Mexico Lesser Harms: the Morality of Risk in Medical Research:
2005	Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg	University of California-Los Angeles	The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care (Temple University Press)
2004	Not given
2003	Donald MacKenzie		Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust
2002	Helen Longino	University of Minnesota	The Fate of Knowledge
2001	Karin Knorr Cetina	University of Bielefeld (Germany)	Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
2000	Anne Fausto-Sterling	Brown University	Sexing the Body
2000	Daniel Breslau	Tel Aviv University	In Search of the Unequivocal
1999	Thomas F. Gieryn	Indiana University	Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
1998	Joan H. Fujimura Steve Shapin	Stanford University University of California-San Diego	Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
1997	Steven Epstein	University of California-Berkeley	Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1996	Renee R. Anspach Diane Vaughan	University of Michigan Boston College	Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
1995	Michael Lynch	Brunel University	Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action: Ethnomethodology and the Social Studies of Science
1994	Harry Collins Trevor Pinch	University of Bath Cornell University	The Golem--What Everyone Should Know About Science
1993	Elaine Draper Donald MacKenzie	University of Southern California University of California-Santa Cruz	Risky Business: Genetic Testing & Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance
1992	Donna Haraway		Primate Visions
1991	Chandra Mukerji Jack R. Kloppenberg, Jr.	University of California-San Diego University of Wisconsin-Madison	A Fragile Power: Scientists & the State First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology's Star-Nelkin Paper Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2014	Carol Heimer	Northwestern University	“Inert Facts and the Illusion of Knowledge: Strategic Uses of Ignorance in HIV Clinics.”
2013 Co-Winner	Elizabeth Popp Berman	State University of New York, Albany	2012. “Explaining the Move Toward the Market in U.S. Academic Science: How Institutional Logics Can Change without Institutional Entrepreneurs,” Theory and Society 41: 261-299.
2013 Co-Winner	Benjamin Sims and Christopher Henke	Los Alamos National Laboratory and Colgate University	“Repairing Credibility: Repositioning Nuclear Weapons Knowledge After the Cold War,” Social Studies of Science 42 (3) :324-347.
2012	Kelly Moore, Daniel Lee Kleinman, David Hess and Scott Frickel	Loyola University- Chicago, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Vanderbilt University, Washington State University	2011, “Science and Neoliberal Globalization: A Political Sociological Approach,” Theory and Society 40(5).
2011	Mathieu Albert, Suzanne Laberge and Brian D. Hodges	University of Toronto, Université de Montréal and University of Toronto	2009, Boundary work in the health research field: Biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research. Minerva. 47(2): 171-194.