Service Excellence Award

Download the 2017 Call for Nominations

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.

Please 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.

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:

• 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 Cheryl  Cooky, the Chair of the 2017 NASSS Service Excellence Award Selection Committee.  You can also email Cheryl for further information: nassspp@purdue.edu

he Committee, which includes long-standing NASSS members and past-award recipient(s), look forward to reviewing the nominations.

The deadline for submission of nominations is August 31, 2017.

Past Recipients