Service Excellence Award
The NASSS Service Excellence Award is awarded at our annual meeting to an individual who has offered distinguished service and long time contributions to the organization (NASSS), and/or the area of the sociology of sport more generally.
Criteria may include, but is not limited to:
- service to NASSS as an organization
- scholarly impact on the field through the discipline of the sociology of sport
Process:
- Nominators will submit—in the form of a letter—a one to two page statement on a nominee whom you believe is a worthy recipient of this award. The letter should describe in some detail the reasons why NASSS should recognize the recipient.
- Nominations may be submitted by an individual, or jointly by a group of individual NASSS member(s).
- It is not required that the nominee or recipient be a NASSS member. Nor is service to the organization as an elected officer a sufficient or required criteria.
Please submit nomination letters to F. Michelle Richardson, Chair of the 2024 NASSS Service Excellence Award Selection Committee ([email protected]).
The deadline for submission of nominations is August 31, 2024.
The Service Excellence Award Committee members, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Algerian Hart, Brenda Riemer, Akilah Carter-Francique, and F. Michelle Richardson, look forward to receiving and reviewing your submission.
Please consider submitting a nomination for the NASSS Service Excellence Award. The award is presented at our annual meeting to an individual who has offered distinguished service and long-time contributions to the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, and/or the area of the sociology of sport more generally.
To nominate someone, submit a one to two-page statement, in the form of a letter, about a nominee whom you believe is a worthy recipient of this award. The letter should describe in some detail the reasons why NASSS should recognize the recipient. Self-nominations are welcome.
Criteria include, but are not limited to:
- Service to NASSS as an organization
- Scholarly impact on the field through the discipline of the sociology of sport
Process:
- Nominations may be submitted by an individual, or jointly by a group of individual NASSS members.
- It is not required that the nominee or recipient be a NASSS member. Nor is service to the organization as an elected officer a sufficient or required criteria.
2025 Submissions:
Information on 2025 submissions will be made available closer to the deadline.
| 2024 | Jen McGovern (Monmouth University) |
| 2023 | Bob Case (Old Dominion University) Cheryl Cooky (Purdue University) Michael Giardina (Florida State University) |
| 2021 & 2022 | Not Awarded |
| 2020 | Billy Hawkins (University of Houston) |
| 2019 | Brenda Riemer (Eastern Michigan University) |
| 2018 | Mary McDonald (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| 2017 | Eric Dunning (University of Leicester) |
| 2017 | Gertrud Pfister (Københavns Universitet) |
| 2016 | Norman Denzin (University of Illinois) |
| 2015 | Mary Jo Kane (University of Minnesota) |
| 2014 | R. Vivian Acosta (Brooklyn College) and Linda Jean Carpenter (Brooklyn College) |
| 2013 | Nancy Spencer (Bowling Green University) |
| 2012 | Merrill Melnick (SUNY Brookport) & Peter Donnelly (University of Toronto) |
| 2011 | Don Sabo (DYouville College) & Gary Sailes (Indiana University) |
| 2010 | Joseph Maguire (Loughborough University) |
| 2009 | Susan Birrell (University of Iowa) & Harry Edwards (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 2008 | Jennifer Hargreaves (Universities of Surrey and Brighton, UK) & Richard Lapchick (University of Central Florida) |
| 2007 | Mike Malec (Boston College) & Michael Messner (University of Southern California) |
| 2006 | Vicky Paraschak (University of Windsor) |
| 2005 | Nancy Theberge (University of Waterloo) |
| 2004 | Jim Frey (University of NevadaLas Vegas) |
| 2003 | John Loy (Universities of Illinois and Otago) |
| 2002 | Andrew Yiannakis (University of Connecticut) & Susan Greendorfer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 2001 | George Sage (University of Northern Colorado) & D. Stanley Eitzen (Colorado State University) |
| 1996 | Jay Coakley (University of ColoradoColorado Springs), Gunther Lueschen (University of Alabama), & Lee Vander Velden (University of Maryland) |
| 1995 | Gerald Kenyon (Universities of Wisconsin and Waterloo) |