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Date: 11/16/2025
Subject: TASA's 2026 Book Awards: Nominations now open
From: TASA


Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for our Biennial Book Awards. Submissions are invited for the following prizes:
 
Stephen Crook Memorial Prize
Awarded for the best authored book in Australian Sociology.

Raewyn Connell Prize
 Awarded for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology.

Note, if a book is eligible for the Raewyn Connell Prize it may also be nominated for the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize (i.e. can nominate one book for both prizes but would need to supply 12 copies of the book - 6 for each book prize panel). 

Nominations close on 2 March 2026.

For the full details, the eligibility criteria, and links to the nomination forms, please read on.

Warm regards,
 
Sally, Penny and Ali
TASA Team
 
TASA's 2026 Book Awards

Call for Nominations
Stephen Crook Memorial Prize
About Stephen Crook
Stephen Crook was TASA President (1999-2002), Joint-Editor of the Journal of Sociology (1993-1997), and Foundation Professor of Sociology at James Cook University (1998-2002). Steve had longstanding interests in social theory, the sociology of culture and political sociology. His books include: Environmentalism, Public Opinion and the Media in Australia (edited with J. Pakulski, 1998), Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture (ed, 1994), Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society (co-authored with J. Pakulski & M. Waters, 1992), Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath: Foundationalism and Anti-foundationalism in Radical Social Theory (1991).

Memoriam have been published in Nexus (Issue 3, 2002).
About the Stephen Crook Memorial Book Prize
This is a biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian Sociology.  The 2026 Prize will cover books that list 2024 or 2025 in the front matter of the book (please double check this as sometimes this date is different to the date your book was released/published). Previous recipients of the award are excluded. The nominated book should be clearly from the discipline of Sociology.
 
The full details of the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize are available on TASAweb here. To nominate your book, or that of a friend/colleague etc. please complete this Stephen Crook Memorial Prize online nomination form. 

Raewyn Connell Prize
About Raewyn Connell
Raewyn Connell
Taken from Raewyn Connell's website: Raewyn comes from a family linking the Melbourne professional bourgeoisie with rural settlers. Her Irish, Scots and Welsh ancestors were part of the nineteenth-century British colonization of Aboriginal lands in south-eastern Australia. Born in 1944, Raewyn grew up during the Cold War, mainly in Sydney, where she went to Dee Why Public School, then Manly and North Sydney High Schools. Raewyn took a BA Hons degree at University of Melbourne and a PhD at the University of Sydney. She was active in the student movement and New Left of the 1960s, and then became a university teacher and researcher.
 
The photo of Raewyn was taken by Mignonne Breier.
About the Raewyn Connell Book Prize
This is biennial prize for the best first book by an author in Australian Sociology. The 2026 Prize will cover books that list 2024 or 2025 in the front matter of the book (please double check this as sometimes this date is different to the date your book was released/published). Previous recipients of the award are excluded. The nominated book should be clearly from the discipline of Sociology.
 
The full details of the Raewyn Connell Prize are available on TASAweb here. To nominate your book, or that of a friend/colleague etc. please complete this Raewyn Connell Prize online nomination form.
The nomination deadline for both 2026 book prizes is
March 2, 2026
All inquiries to TASA Admin: admin@tasa.org.au
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