Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award
The ASC’s Communities and Place Division Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award recognizes the best paper or book published (online or in print) in the past two years by division members. Graduate Students, Assistant Professors, or junior employees (less than seven years since terminal degree) in non-academic settings are eligible for the award. Papers or books can be sole-authored, or co-authored, as long as the junior scholar (i.e., the applicant) is the first author. There is no restriction on the rank or number of co-authors. One submission per applicant is permitted.
James Short Senior Scholar Award
The ASC’s Communities and Place Division James Short Senior Scholar Award recognizes the best paper or book published (online or in print) in the past two years by division members. Associate or Full Professors, and senior employees (seven years or more since terminal degree) in non-academic settings are eligible for the award. Papers or books can be sole-authored, or co-authored, as long as the senior scholar (i.e., the applicant) is the first author. There is no restriction on the rank or number of co-authors. One submission per applicant is permitted.
Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award
The ASC’s Division of Communities and Place Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award recognizes the best paper or book published (online or in print) in the past two years by graduate student division members. Papers or books can be sole-authored, or co-authored, as long as the nominated graduate student (i.e., the applicant) is the first author. There is no restriction on the rank or number of co-authors. One submission per applicant is permitted. Letters of support are not required.
Congratulations to the 2024 award winners!
Sheena L. Gilbert, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper Indigenizing social disorganization theory: An exploration of victimization in Native communities (with Emily M. Wright) at Crime & Delinquency.
Asad L. Asad, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the book Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life. Princeton University Press.
Runner-up: Seth Williams for the article Decomposing neighbourhood (in)stability: The structural determinants of turnover and implications for neighbourhood crime at the British Journal of Criminology.
Congratulations to the 2023 award winners!
Nicolo Pinchak, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper Paws on the street: Neighborhood-level concentration of households with dogs and urban crime (with Christopher R. Browning, Bethany Boettner, Catherine A. Calder, and Jake Tarrence) at Social Forces.
Tony Cheng, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper The cumulative discretion of police over community complaints at the American Journal of Sociology.
John R. Hipp, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book The spatial scale of crime: How physical and social distance drive the spatial location of crime. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Congratulations to the 2022 award winners!
Diana Sun, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award, for the paper Racial invariance or Asian advantage: Comparing the macro‐level predictors of violence across Asian, White, and Black populations (with Ben Feldmeyer) at Race and Social Problems.
Chelsea Farrell, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper Policing gender, race, and place: A multi-level assessment of stop and frisks at Race and Justice.
John Hagan, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book . 2021. Chicago’s Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City (with Bill McCarthy and Daniel Herda), Oxford University Press.
Congratulations to the 2021 award winners!
Christopher Contreras, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award for the paper Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates (with John R. Hipp) at Justice Quarterly.
Tarah Hodgkinson, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for the paper The Diffusion of Detriment: Tracking Displacement using a City-Wide Mixed Methods Approach (with Gregory Saville and Martin A. Anderson) at British Journal of Criminology.
David S. Kirk, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina, Oxford University Press.
Congratulations to the 2020 award winners!
Emma Fridel, winner of the Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Study Scholar Award for the paper The contextual correlates of school shootings, at Justice Quarterly.
Marin Wenger, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for Omitted level bias in multilevel research: An empirical test distinguishing block group, tract, and city effects of disadvantage on crime at Justice Quarterly.
John MacDonald, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for the book Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning, co-authored with Charles Branas and Robert Stokes, Princeton University Press.
Congratulations to the 2019 award winners!
Corina Graif, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for her 2017 article (with Alina Lungeanu and Alyssa M. Yetter): “Neighborhood isolation in Chicago: Violent crime effects on structural isolation and homophily in inter-neighborhood commuting networks” in Social Networks
Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, and Ben Feldmeyer, winners of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for their 2017 book: “Communities and Crime: An Enduring American Challenge”
Congratulations to our inaugural (2018) award winners!
Cody Telep, winner of the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award for his 2018 article (with Julie Hibdon): “Community Crime Prevention in High‐Crime Areas: The Seattle Neighborhood Group Hot Spots Project” in City & Community.
David Weisburd, winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award for his book: “Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century”