The Marshall Sklare Award is an annual honor of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ). The ASSJ seeks to recognize "a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry." In most cases, the recipient has given a scholarly address. In recent years, the honored scholar has presented the address at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies. In 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the organization, the ASSJ board chose to break the precedent of honoring one person per year and named two honorees, both of whom were founders of the ASSJ. The award is named in memory of the "founding father of American Jewish sociology"

Marshall Sklare Marshall Sklare (1921–1992) was an American sociologist whose work focused on American Jews and the American Jewish Community. Sklare was the Klutznick Family Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University. Becau ...

(1921-1992), who had been Klutznick Family Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Sociology at Brandeis University.

Recipients

Past recipients, fields of study, and the titles of their scholarly papers have been: * 1992, Sidney Goldstein, Demography, "Beyond the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey: A Research Agenda" * 1993, Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociology, "Some Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of American Jewry" * 1994,

Celia Heller Celia Heller (20 November 1922 – 15 April 2011) was an American sociologist. She was born in Poland. Biography After graduating from Brooklyn College, in 1950, she entered a graduate program in sociology at Columbia University, earning a Maste ...

, History * 1995,

Daniel Elazar Daniel Judah Elazar (August 25, 1934 – December 2, 1999) was a political scientist known for his seminal studies of political culture of the US states. He was professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and Temple University ...

, Political Science, "The Future of American Jewry" * 1996, Samuel Klausner, Sociology * 1997, Walter Zenner, Anthropology, "The Ethnography of Diaspora: Studying

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" * 1998,

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, Communal Service, "Redefining Jewish Identity in North America" * 1999, Sergio DellaPergola, Demography, "Thoughts of a Jewish Demographer in the Year 2000" * 2000, Charles Liebman, Political Science, "Some Research Proposals for the Study of American Jews" * 2001, Calvin Goldscheider, Sociology and Demography, "Social Science and the Jews: A Research Agenda for the Next Generation" * 2002, Jonathan Sarna, History, "From Past to Present: Contemporary Lessons from the Study of American Judaism" * 2003, Samuel Heilman, Sociology, "How did Fundamentalism Manage to Infiltrate Contemporary Orthodoxy?" * 2004,

Egon Mayer Egon Mayer (19 August 1917 – 2 March 1944) was a Luftwaffe wing commander and fighter ace of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was credited with 102 enemy aircraft shot down in over 353 combat missions. His victories were all claime ...

, Sociology * 2005, Elihu Katz, Communications, "Two Dilemmas of Religious Identity and Practice among Israeli Jews" * 2006, Deborah Dash Moore, History, "On City Streets" * 2007, Barry R. Chiswick, Economics, "The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Ph.D." * 2008, Paul Ritterband, Sociology, "Smart Jews" * 2009,

Charles Kadushin Charles Garfiel Kadushin (June 5, 1932 – September 21, 2022) was an American psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology at the City University of New York. He was an expert in the field of social network analysis. Biography Kadushin' ...

, Social Network Analysis, "Social Networks and Jews" * 2010,

Steven M. Cohen Steven M. Cohen (born April 3, 1950) is an American sociologist whose work focuses on the American Jews, American Jewish Community. He served as a Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, ...

, Sociology, "The Demise of the 'Good Jew'" * 2011, Riv-Ellen Prell, Anthropology, "Boundaries, Margins and Norms: The Intellectual Stakes in the Study of American Jewish Culture(s)" * 2012, Leonard Saxe, Social Psychology, "Reflections on the Science of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry" * 2013,

Morton Weinfeld Morton Irwin Weinfeld (born 1949) is a Canadian sociologist, who has conducted studies on Canadian Jewry. He is chair in Canadian ethnic studies and former chairman of the sociology department at McGill University. Weinfeld was born to Polish Jew ...

, Sociology, "If Canada and Israel are at War, Who Gets My Support? Challenges of Competing Diaspora Loyalties" * 2014,

Sylvia Barack Fishman Sylvia Barack Fishman (born December 28, 1942) is an American feminist sociologist and author. She is the Joseph and Esther Foster Professor of Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and a board mem ...

, Sociology, "American Jewishness Today: Identity and Transmissibility in an Open World" * 2015, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies, "The Ethnographer in the Museum: Creating the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews" * 2016, Bruce Phillips, Sociology, "Beyond Policy: Reviving Jewish Demography through Local Population Studies" * 2017, Judit Bokser Liwerant, Political Science, "Latin American Jews in a Transnational World: Conceptual Paths and Shifting Paradigms" * 2018,

Arnold Eisen Arnold M. Eisen, Ph.D. (born 1951) is an American Judaic scholar who was Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He stepped down at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Koshland Pr ...

, Religious Studies, "Boomers, Millennials, and the Shape of American Judaism" * 2019, Harriet Hartman, Sociology, "How Gender and Family Still Matter for Contemporary Jewry" * 2020, Arnold Dashefsky, Sociology, and Chaim Waxman, Sociology * 2021, Ariela Keysar, Demography, and Barry Kosmin, Demography * 2022, Debra Kaufman, Sociology and Women's Studies

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