Call for Nominations for Section Awards at ASA 2020

The call for nominations for the 2020 EMCA section awards is now open!

EMCA Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship



This award recognizes those who have made distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. To nominate an individual for this award, please submit the following:

1. 
A letter detailing the nominee's contributions to EMCA;
2. Relevant supporting materials, including a list of the nominee's
publications; and
3. At least two additional external letters speaking to the person's contributions and impact on the field(s)

Please send nominations to
Dušan Bjelić (Chair) (bjelic@maine.edu) by March 1.


EMCA Best Paper Award



This award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The 2020 award will be given to a paper. Eligible papers for the 2020 award must be published between March 1, 2017 and February 29, 2020, inclusively. Authors can submit their own publications, or nominations can be made on their behalf.


Nominations should include:

1. full bibliographic information on the nominated publication and 
2. a PDF copy (preferable) or a hard copy of the article or chapter; or a link to a web site where the article or chapter can be downloaded in full at no charge.

Please send nominations to
David Gibson (Chair) (dgibson1@nd.edu) by March 1.


EMCA Graduate Student Paper Award



This award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing to ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The 2020 award will be given to a paper. Eligible papers for the 2020 award must be published between March 1, 2018 and February 29, 2020, inclusively. Authors can submit their own publications, or nominations can be made on their behalf. 



Please send nominations to
Sarah Hitzler (Chair) (sarah.hitzler@uni-bielefeld.de) by March 1.

Melvin Pollner (1940-2007) Prize in Ethnomethodology



The Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology honors the intellectual spirit and memory of Melvin Pollner. The $1000 award recognizes an article, chapter, or book published between 2014-2019, that develops original work drawing upon, or resonant with, Melvin Pollner's ethnomethodological interests in topics such as mundane reason, reality disjunctures, radical reflexivity, and the connections and contributions of ethnomethodology to other types of sociology.



Nominations should include

1. full bibliographic information on the nominated publication
2. a PDF copy (preferable) or a hard copy of the article, chapter orbook; or a link to a web site where the article, chapter or book can be downloaded in full at no charge, and
3. a brief description of the publication's special contribution and how it reflects the spirit of the award.

Please submit nominations to
Goetz Hoeppe (Chair) (ghoeppe@uwaterloo.ca) by March 1.