Joya Misra, professor of sociology and public policy, received the 2010 Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society at this year’s annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, Georgia.
The mentoring award was begun in 1990 to annually honor an SWS member who is an outstanding feminist mentor. The SWS award recognizes Misra’s many contributions toward encouraging feminist scholarship, membership in the academy, and feminist change. Recipients of the prestigious award are known for their mentoring of junior women, both inside and outside of sociology, and for their work as role models, teachers, and advocates.
Misra is Chair of the Race, Gender & Class section of the ASA and previously served on the SWS Sister-to-Sister Task Force. At UMass, she has received several Mellon Mutual Mentoring grants, including to develop a CPPA grantswriting workshop. She also has chaired the UMass Joint MSP/Administration Work Life Committee, which conducts research about, and advocates for, family-friendly policies on campus. She regularly publishes with graduate students in Sociology and CPPA.