Three Sociologists Win Awards for Their Book on the Changing American Family

A new book, which was co-authored by three women academics and a male colleague, has won several prestigious awards. The book, Counted Out: Same Sex Relations and Americans’ Definition of Family, received the William J. Goode Award for best book on the family from the American Sociological Association.

The work was also honored with the Distinguished Book Award from the Midwest Sociological Society and the Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association. Here are brief biographies of the three women who collaborated on the study.

Lala C. Steelman is a professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. at Emory University.

Catherine Bolzendahl is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University.

Claudia Geist is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Utah. She is a graduate of the University of Mannheim in Germany. Dr. Geist earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees in sociology at Indiana University.