Saturday, April 21, 2007

Accomplishments

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein just finished serving as the President of the America Sociological Association. She served as President from 2005-2006. She has also received numerous prestigious awards throughout her career.

Of particular note, Dr. Epstein received the Jessie Bernard Award in 2003. This award is given by the American Sociological Association to those who have expanded the horizons of sociology “to encompass fully the role of women in society” through their scholarly work (asanet.org). This award can be given to both men and women and the recipient does not need to be a sociologist. In order to receive this award, a member of the American Sociological Association must submit a nomination and from there, a selection committee, comprised of nine ASA members review the nominations and from this, the Committee selects the recipient of the award with advice and approval from the ASA Council. The Award Committee characterized Dr. Epstein as “a careful and eloquent sociologist, a tireless advocate for women’s equality, and a generous colleague and mentor” (asanet.org).

Dr. Epstein has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fellow-Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Resident Fellow, The Russell Sage Foundation; Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Study of Gender (ASA); Phi Beta Kappa Lectureship; Mellow Lectureship, and the Merit Award of the ESS. Dr. Epstein is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and has been so since 1990.She also received the first Sex and Gender Section Award for "distinguished contribution to gender scholarship" (asanet.org).

When I asked Dr. Epstein what she considered her greatest accomplishments to be, she stated that she considers her greatest accomplishment to be “explaining the social and cultural basis for the subjugation of women. My Presidential Address to the ASA (published in ASR this February) suggests that gender be included in all sociological analyses and also that the subjugation of women underlies the basis for most social structures in the world and therefore is very hard to change”.

Information from:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Sociology/faculty/epstein.html
http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct03/fn4.html
http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Awards&name=Jessie+Bernard+Award

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