Cheryl Allyn Miller Award
Deadline: April 1 of calendar year
About Cheryl Allyn Miller
Cheryl Allyn Miller completed her PhD in sociology at Loyola University of Chicago in 1981 and then served as a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Johns Hopkins, first on an NSF grant and then in an NIMH-funded program. Most of Cheryl’s work centered on aging and the life course, family sociology, sex and gender, and women’s work and occupations. Cheryl had a strong commitment to feminist and feminist scholarship. Her interest in developing pre-college non-sexist classroom materials led to an involvement with the Chicago Area Women’s Studies Association between 1975 and 1980 and her attendance as a founding member at the National Women’s Studies Association. One of Cheryl’s notable publications is her two-volume book with Helena Z. Zapata and Debra Barnewolt, entitled City Women in America: Work, Jobs, occupations and Careers. When Cheryl passed away at the age of 33, she was also in the midst of a study with Andrew Cherin on the effects of divorce and remarriage on grandparent and grand-child relations.
History and Overview
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) has established an award for graduate students and recent Phds working in the area of women and paid work: employment and self-employment, informal market work, illegal work. The award was originally founded by a bequest from the family of the late Cheryl Allyn Miller, a sociologist and feminist who studied women and paid work.
The purpose of the award is to recognize a sociology graduate student or a recent doctorate whose research or activism constitutes an outstanding contribution to the field of women and work. This contribution may take the form of scholarly or policy research or activism. It may be completed work or work in progress, but should not be a proposal for future work, and should be sufficiently close to completion that the applicant can concisely describe and contextualize the contribution to the field.
Award Benefits
The awardee will be celebrated at the annual SWS Winter Meeting. Additional benefits associated with this award include:
Eligibility and Application Submission
Applicants must be graduate students or have received their Ph.D in the past two years.
Applicants must be members of SWS, and may apply for membership at the same time they apply for the award. For membership information go to sws.memberclicks.net.
A complete application includes:
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An application letter with a brief summary of how the applicant sees their work as aligning with the goals of the award.
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An abstract and paper of article length (no more than 30 double-spaced pages, including bibliography) in a style suitable for submission to a scholarly journal on the topic of women and work.
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Curriculum Vitae
Responsibilities of Recipient
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Attend the SWS annual Winter Meeting. The recipient receives complimentary registration and a $500 stipend to cover travel expenses to the annual meeting. If the award recipient needs assistance with arranging their travel to the annual meeting, they can contact the Executive Officer and the travel arrangements will be made on their behalf using the travel stipend.
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Submit a brief report (3 pages max) on the work completed during the scholarship year, no later than August 30th, about 1 month after the end of the award period. This report should be emailed to the Awards Director at: [email protected].
Awardees are notified by late summer if they are the recipient.
Click HERE to see Past Recipients Dating Back to 2009
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