Lifetime Achievement Award

Sociology of Emotion Section's 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner:

Dawn T. Robinson, University of Georgia

Dr. Robinson’s research in the sociology of emotion focuses on the ways in which emotion and affect reflect and feedback into structural arrangements and cultural meanings. Her research demonstrates the link between identity and emotion and characterizes the way that link is culturally situated. Her recent research focuses on how classroom networks shape affective processes, on representations of affective-linguistic culture in North African cultures, on developing non-reactive emotion measures of emotion in social interaction, and on emotional responses to injustice. Dr. Robinson previously served as Secretary-Treasurer and later Chair of ASA’s Sociology of Emotions Section. Her co-edited book (with Jody Clay-Warner), Social Structure and Emotion, received the 2010 Best Book Award from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Emotion. Her research on emotion and affect has appeared in outlets including American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Emotion Review, and Motivation and Emotion.

Past recipients:

2021: Robin Simon, Wake Forest University

2018: Neil MacKinnon, University of Guelph

2015: David Franks, Virginia Commonwealth University

2010: Jan Stets, University of California, Riverside

2009: Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside

2008: David Karp, Boston College

2007: Spence E. Cahill, University of South Florida

2006: Peggy A. Thoits, University of North Carolina

2005: Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University

2004: Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania

2003: Theodore D. Kemper, St. Johns University

2002: David R. Heise, Indiana University

2001: Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley

2000: Thomas J. Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lifetime Achievement Award:

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given every two years to an individual who has made lifetime contributions to the sociology of emotions by developing and extending the sociology of emotions empirically, theoretically, or methodologically. The recipient should have a record of several years of scholarly work (books and/or articles) related to emotions.