Nominations Due: January 15, 2022
Submissions Due: March 1, 2022
The ASA Section on Teaching and Learning seeks nominations for the 2022 Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars. The Howery Award recognizes distinguished accomplishments in the training and mentoring of future teacher-scholars in the field of sociology.
This award recognizes that nurturing the next generation of sociologists is vital to the discipline. Recipients of this award have made exceptional and/or enduring contributions to training graduate students to teach sociology or advancing understandings of the best means to accomplish this goal. Successful nominees contribute to teaching sociology through training and mentoring future teacher-scholars who apply scholarly literature in their own teaching, contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and/or publicly document successful teaching strategies. Mentoring is broadly defined and is not limited to faculty working at institutions with graduate programs (for example, serving as editor of TRAILS or Teaching Sociology, coordinating the section’s pre-conference, mentoring graduate students at regional conferences).
Eligibility
Nominees must be members of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Section on Teaching and Learning; gift memberships to the section are available if needed. Section and association membership will be verified after the portfolio submission deadline.
Nominations
Nominations, including self-nominations, are submitted through the Google Nomination Form. Nominations must be received no later than January 15, 2022, at 11:59pm PST. If you have questions regarding nominations, please email the chair of the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology Award Committee, Sharon Yee, at asateachingandlearningawards@gmail.com. .
Award Portfolio
Nominees will be notified by the Award Committee Chair and invited to submit an Award Portfolio for consideration by the committee. The nomination portfolio, meeting the portfolio guidelines outlined below, must be compiled into one PDF file and submitted by March 1, 2022 at 11:59pm PST. Candidates should email their portfolio to asateachingandlearningawards@gmail.com with the subject line “Howery Award.”
Portfolio Guidelines: The portfolio should contain all elements in the order listed and be between 35-40 pages (portfolios that exceed 40 pages will be reviewed only to page 40).The candidate will demonstrate excellence in developing other teacher-scholars through the following materials:
- An executive summary of materials in the portfolio which highlights the most relevant contributions/activities (limit 2 pages)
- Brief written statement articulating the candidate’s teaching philosophy specifically directed toward mentoring or training graduate students to teach and methods used to achieve this goal (limit 2 pages).
- Teaching-focused resume or curriculum vitae (limit 8 pages).
- Letter of endorsement from the nominator, a colleague or former graduate student (limit 1 letter, 3 pages).
- Supporting documents (20-25 pages), such as:
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- Excerpts from syllabi from different graduate teaching courses and seminars that the nominee has taught, or other examples of the means by which graduate students were taught to become teacher-scholars.
- Examples of assessment tools such as projects, exams, student portfolios, or evidence of improved graduate student learning outcomes related to teaching sociology and/or contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
- Examples of scholarly activities related to teaching, report or reflection on mentoring experiences, narratives from students about mentoring received by nominees, students’ success in teaching and/or obtaining teaching accomplishments (awards, teaching jobs, publishing relating to teaching in things like TRAILS, Teaching Sociology, etc.).
- Leadership activities related to graduate student teaching and learning.
Note: Please submit the portfolio as a single PDF file that contains all elements in the order listed.
PREVIOUS CARLA B. HOWERY AWARD WINNERS 2018 – Edward Kain 2017 – Mindy Stombler 2016 – Mary Nell Trautner 2015 – Helen A. Moore 2014 – No Award Given 2013 – No Award Given 2012 – Michael Schwartz 2011 – No Award Given 2010 – Maxine P. Atkinson 2009 – Bernice Pescosolido and Brian Powell
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