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Ruth C. Schaffer Award
Purpose
The Ruth C. Schaffer Award, established in 2005, recognizes high achievement by undergraduate or graduate students who have written a research paper accepted
for presentation at the American Sociological Association meetings occurring in the year during which the award is made.
Past Recipients
2009 - Jennifer Mueller
2008 - Rosalind S. Chou
2007 - Kristen Lavelle
2006 - D'Lane Compton
2005 - Karen S. Glover
Eligibility
All graduate or undergraduate students in the Department of Sociology who have written a paper or co-written a paper with
another undergraduate or graduate student are eligible to submit a paper for consideration for this award, so long as the
following criteria are met:
1. The paper has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming meetings of the American Sociological Association on a
regular or section session panel, but not including presentation at a round-table or poster session.
2. The students are currently registered and in good standing with the University at the time of the award.
3. If the paper is co-authored with other students, only those co-authors who are currently registered and in good
standing with the University are eligible to share in the monetary award.
4. If the paper is co-authored, none of the co-authors are members of the faculty of the department or of any other
department in an institution of higher learning.
Award Selection
All papers submitted will be read by members of the Student Awards Committee as appointed by the Department Head. The
committee will consist of no fewer than three tenured or tenure-track faculty in the department.
1. A committee member may not discuss or evaluate papers submitted by a graduate student if they also sit on that
student’s dissertation or thesis committee. Should this problem arise, the Department Head may appoint additional
members of the committee to ensure that each paper is read by at least three faculty members who are not the student’s
advisors.
2. If in the committee’s judgment, no paper among the papers submitted meets the standard of excellence, the committee
may chose to give no award.
Award
The author of the paper selected by the committee will receive an award of $500 to be paid as a credit against tuition
and fees owed to the University during the next semester in which they are registered. Co-authors eligible to share in
the award will split the award equally.
College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Research Awards
The College of Liberal Arts usually awards four to six $2500 grants in each academic year in support of doctoral dissertation research. A minimum of two awards will be given in the humanities and a minimum of two awards in the social sciences. Each department in the College will be able to nominate a maximum of two students. In cases of departments with both social science and humanities components, one student may be nominated in each area, or two in a single area. The department must specify the category in which each nominee is being nominated. To be elgible, the student must have a dissertation on file with OGS. Further information is distributed by email and by memo to all sociology graduate students and faculty each year.
Information about the College program can be found at the following page on the College of Liberal Arts web site. Look under "Dissertation Award", "Call for nominations", and "Nomination cover sheet".
https://clla.tamu.edu/committees/gic/
Graduate Student Council Travel Awards Competition
The Graduate Student Council periodically invites applications for travel support awards.
A recent announcement (June 2009) can be found at the link below. Please review it for guidelines
and further information. Also, check with the offices listed in the announcement for notices
regarding future competitions.
Announcement June 2009
Other Awards
Travel Support and Research Funding for Sociology Graduate students
1. Travel funds in a sliding scale are awarded on a first-come first-serve basis, but
sizeable sums are invariably dedicated to ASA participation in late August.
 Student Travel Funding Guidelines
Student Travel Funding Form
Student Travel FAQs
2. Summer research grants (of $500 to $1000), with priority given to
dissertations near completion for which students have also previously submitted one or more proposals for external
funding. In addition, unusual graduate student achievement also qualifies for grants, as determined first by the
Department Chair and EC.
Undergraduate Scholarships
Two undergraduate scholarships, of $500 each, to “top performing” Sociology majors of junior standing or higher.
The Department determines this by highest overall GPA. Named after Bardin Nelson and Robert Skrabanek, these scholarships
are announced sometime in April.
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