Award Recognition

My research and scholarly contributions have received international and national award recognition. My co-authored book Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo won the Midwest Sociological Society's 2024 Distinguished Book Award. The award is presented to a book "which makes an exemplary, original, and substantive contribution to sociological understanding."  

Read related university media releases about Defining Sexual Misconduct HERE and HERE. 

In 2019, I was awarded the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) Early-in-Career Award. The SSSI is an “international professional organization of scholars interested in the study of a wide range of social issues with an emphasis on identity, everyday practice, and language.” This SSSI Award “specifically honors those scholars who have made significant contributions within the first ten years since the completion of their PhDs.”  In 2015, the Canadian Families and Corrections Network, Canada’s only national advocacy and resource organization for families affected by incarceration, presented me with the Friend of the Family award in recognition of my contributions to research on the effects of crime and incarceration on families.