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Date: 12/12/2019
Subject: TASA 2020 Book Awards: Nominations now open
From: TASA



2020 Book Awards

Call for Nominations

Stephen Crook Memorial Prize
About Stephen Crook
Stephen Crook was TASA President (1999-2002), Joint-Editor of the Journal of Sociology (1993-1997), and Foundation Professor of Sociology at James Cook University (1998-2002). Steve had longstanding interests in social theory, the sociology of culture and political sociology. His books include: Environmentalism, Public Opinion and the Media in Australia (edited with J. Pakulski, 1998), Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture (ed, 1994), Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society (co-authored with J. Pakulski & M. Waters, 1992), Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath: Foundationalism and Anti-foundationalism in Radical Social Theory (1991).

Memoriam have been published in Nexus (Issue 3, 2002).
About the Stephen Crook Memorial Book Prize
This is a biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology.  The 2020 Prize will cover books that list 2018 or 2019 in the front matter of the book (please double check this as sometimes this date is different to the date your book was released/published). Previous recipients of the award are excluded. The nominated book should be clearly from the discipline of Sociology.
 
To full details of the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize are available on TASAweb here. To nominate your book, or that of a friend/colleague etc. please complete this Stephen Crook Memorial Prize online nomination form

Raewyn Connell Prize

About Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell
Taken from Raewyn Connell's website: Raewyn comes from a family linking the Melbourne professional bourgeoisie with rural settlers. Her Irish, Scots and Welsh ancestors were part of the nineteenth-century British colonization of Aboriginal lands in south-eastern Australia. Born in 1944, Raewyn grew up during the Cold War, mainly in Sydney, where she went to Dee Why Public School, then Manly and North Sydney High Schools. Raewyn took a BA Hons degree at University of Melbourne and a PhD at the University of Sydney. She was active in the student movement and New Left of the 1960s, and then became a university teacher and researcher.
 
The photo of Raewyn was taken by Mignonne Breier.
About the Raewyn Connell Book Prize
This is biennial prize for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology. The 2020 Prize will cover books that list 2018 or 2019 in the front matter of the book (please double check this as sometimes this date is different to the date your book was released/published). Previous recipients of the award are excluded. The nominated book should be clearly from the discipline of Sociology.
 
To full details of the Raewyn Connell Prize are available on TASAweb here. To nominate your book, or that of a friend/colleague etc. please complete this Raewyn Connell Prize online nomination form.
The nomination deadline for both 2020 book prizes is
March 1, 2020
All inquiries to TASA Admin: admin@tasa.org.au