“Nan Lin Graduate Student Paper Award” was originally called “Graduate
Student Paper Award”, used to reward young scholars engaging in innovative
research on Chinese societies.
Dr. Nan Lin is Oscar L. Tang Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Duke
University. As a world-renowned and highly
respected sociologist, he has published substantive seminal work and mentored
multiple generations of scholars in and beyond the research field of Chinese
societies for about five decades. He
especially played a vital role in the rebirth of sociology in China in the late
1970s, and has made significant contributions to the development of sociology
in the Greater China region.
Dr. Nan Lin is also the founder and the inaugural President of the
North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA) from 1981 to 1990,
which was renamed as the International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA)
in spring 2018. The Board of ICSA
unanimously approved to rename the “Graduate Student Paper Award” as the “Nan
Lin Graduate Student Paper Award” in spring 2018. The rationale for this change is to recognize
Nan’s pioneer and significant contributions to the association and to the
research area on Chinese societies, and to inspire the research endeavors of
future generations of young scholars working on Chinese societies.
Annually the ICSA Graduate Student Paper Award Committee selects one
graduate student paper and announces the award at the dinner of the ICSA annual
conference. The ICSA Nan Lin Graduate
Student Paper Award will be used to recognize and reward emerging young
scholars in the study of Chinese societies.