Awards Received:

2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, Council on Contemporary Families

2019  Southern Sociological Society, Distinguished Lectureship Award

​UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Award (awarded in 2017)

2017 Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture

2015 UIC Graduate College, Graduate Mentoring Award 

2013 "100 Women that Mattered"  North Carolina State University

2012 The Society Pages Media Award for Measured Social Science

2011 Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association 

2007 Feminist Mentoring Award, Sociologists for Women in Society

2005 Katherine Belle-Boone Jocher Beard Award, Southern Sociological Society

2002 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer, Sociologists for Women in Society

2000 North Carolina State University Alumni Distinguished Research Professor

1999-2000 College of Humanities and Social Science Distinguished Research Award

1995 NCSU Equity for Women Award

Dr. Risman receiving the Council on Contemporary Families' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.

Professor Risman delivering the 2017 Distinguished Professor Lecture for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at UIC

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Barbara Risman (right) at the 2011 ASA annual meetings in Las Vegas, NV with Verta Taylor (lleft) 2011 winner of the ASA Jesse Bernard Award.   The feminist winners celebrate together.