Early Achievement Award

2012 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

We welcome nominations for the newly instituted PAA Early Achievement Award to be presented at the PAA Annual Meeting in 2012. The PAA Early Achievement Award recognizes the career of a promising scholar who is a member of PAA and who received the Ph.D. in the previous ten years, 2002-2011. The award will be given biennially to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to population research during the first ten years of their career. Such contributions may be original research published as articles or books, significant newly collected data, or a public policy achievement that broadens the impact of demography. The Award consists of a cash prize and a certificate, to be presented at the PAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, May 4, 2012.

Nominations (self nominations are permitted) should be sent to the Chair, Suzanne Bianchi (University of California, Los Angeles), bianchi@ucla.edu, by December 31, 2011. The nomination should include the name of the nominee, a brief description of his or her contributions to the field, two letters of recommendation indicating the importance of the contributions, and a copy of the nominee’s vitae. Other members of the committee are William Axinn (University of Michigan); Marcia Carlson (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Greg Duncan (University of California-Irvine); Grace Kao (University of Pennsylvania); Krista Perreira (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Robert Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis).