Valerie Jenness Fellowships, Honors, & Awards

Valerie Jenness Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

Honorable Mention, Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2015

Certificate of Recognition (for expertise, leadership, and service to the community), Los Angeles Police Department, 2015

President’s Award (for contributions to the field of criminology and positive influence on the current WSC president’s career), Western Society of Criminology, 2015

Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice, Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology, 2014

Richard Tewksbury Award (for scholarship on crime and sexuality), Western Society of Criminology, 2014

Distinguished Article Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association, 2013

Honorable Mention, Article Prize, Law & Society Association, 2013

Honorary Member, Golden Key Society, 2012

President, Pacific Sociological Association, 2012­13

Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Award, 2010

Zot! Zot! Zot! Commencement Award (for the greatest display of Anteater spirit and joy of achievement during commencement ceremony), University of California, Office of the Chancellor and Office of Student Affairs, 2010

Outstanding Mentor Award, University of California, Irvine Emeriti Association, 2010

Stewardship Star (for nurturing important relationships with donors), University of California, Irvine Advancement, 2010

Lifetime Achievement Award, Crime and Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2009

Joseph B. Gittler Award (for contributions to the ethical resolution of social problems), Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2008

Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Practice Award, Pacific Sociological Association, 2008

Distinguished Article Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association, 2007

Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2006­2007

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, University of California, Irvine, 2006

Award for Teaching Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine, 2006

Selected by Social Ecology students as “the faculty member who has had the greatest impact on his/her education at UCI,” University of California, Irvine, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006

“Interesting Professor We Would Like to Meet Outside of the Classroom,” Arroyo Vista Housing, University of California, Irvine, 2005

Professor of the Month, Campus Village Housing, University of California, Irvine, 2004

Faculty Recognition Award, Disability Services Center, University of California, Irvine, 2004

McGee Lecturer, Marquette University, 2003

Steiglitz Memorial Lecturer, College of Wooster, 2003

Outstanding Scholarship Award, Crime and Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2002

Finalist, Aaron Wildavsky Book Award (for Outstanding Policy Book), Policy Studies Organization, 2002

UC Management Fellow, University of California Management Institute, 2001

Lee­Founders Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2001