Department Award Archive
David L. Dodge Memorial Teaching Award
The David L. Dodge Memorial Teaching Award, named for a Notre Dame professor in sociology who died in 1988, is conferred annually on the graduate student in our program who has most distinguished himself or herself in the teaching of undergraduates.
2017: Julie Dallavis
Past recipients
2014-2015: Jon Schwarz
2013-2014: Daniel Escher
2011-2012: Kari Christoffersen
2010-2011: Sara Skiles
2009-2010: Chris Hausmann
2008-2009: Bob Brenneman and Karen Monique Gregg
2007-2008: Brandy Ellison
The John J. Kane Memorial Award
The John J. Kane Memorial Award is presented each year to an outstanding sociology graduate student.
Past recipients
2014-2015: Bryant Crubaugh & Daniel Escher
2011-2012: Heather Price
2010-2011: Brandon Vaidynathan
2009-2010: Patricia Snell
2008-2009: Bob Brenneman
2007-2008: Nicholas Somma-Gonzalez
2006-2007: Xochitl Bada-Garcia & Jennifer Yonkoski
2005-2006: Brandy Ellison
The Jeanine Becker Award for Graduate Student Papers
The Becker Award is given annually to the current student in the doctoral program who applies and whose paper is judged to best represent the highest quality of sociological scholarship and Notre Dame’s commitment to serving human welfare and justice.
2017: Shanna Corner, and Justin Van Ness
Past recipients
2014-2015: Daniel Escher
2011-2012: Justin Farrell
2010-2011: Justin Farrell
2009-2010: Michael Strand
2008-2009: Elizabeth Covay & Guillermo Montt-Armant
2007-2008: Michael Strand
2006-2007: Jonathon Hill