07/01/2009

Brea Perry's Work Earns Multiple Awards

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brea Perry, won the 2009 Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health, ASA Sociology of Mental Health Section. The award is given for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of the sociology of mental health completed within the previous two academic years.

Her dissertation also received Honorable Mention in the 2009 Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award in the ASA Medical Sociology Section - given each year for the best dissertation on any topic in medical sociology, broadly defined, that has been defended within the two academic years prior to the annual meeting.

Perry's 2008 co-authored American Journal of Sociology article “Under the Influence of Genetics: How Transdisciplinarity Leads Us to Rethink Social Pathways to Illness" received the 2009 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, ASA Medical Sociology Section. She co-authored the article with Bernice Pescosolido, J. Scott Long, Jack K. Martin, John I. Nurnberger Jr., John Kramer, and Victor Hesselbrock. The Freidson Award is given every other year to a book or journal article published in the preceding two years that has had "a major impact on the field of medical sociology."