Sociology and Criminology Student Awards
Each spring the Department of Sociology and Criminology honors its outstanding students with departmental awards. We invite others to join us in celebrating their achievements.
Awards
Recognizes the graduating senior who best demonstrates outstanding scholarly achievement in the major.
- 2026: Mya Hall
- 2025: Gabi Mathus
- 2024: Ally Truax
- 2023: Lauren Moreland
- 2022: Caitlin Segraves, Vanessa Wilson
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates the application of the sociological imagination to the analysis of social issues.
- 2026: Giana LaPorte
- 2025: Hadassah Brent, Jordan Lee-Caracci
- 2024: Claire Willis
- 2023: Laura Vandermeulen
- 2022: Miriam Berne
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates an aptitude for criminology.
- 2026: Ally Eppert
- 2025: Maddie Stine
- 2024: Gradi Gierke
- 2023: Sydney Green
- 2022: William Gigerich
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates the link between social theory and empirical research.
- 2026: Hailey Palomo
- 2025: Emily Hunt
- 2024: Audrey Erickson
- 2023: Emma Bergquist
- 2022: Grace Johnson
Recognizes the student who best displays an aptitude for social theory.
- 2026: Maitlyn Griner
- 2025: Sophi Zazycki
- 2024: AJ Boes
- 2023: Ash McIntosh
- 2022: Abiodun (Abey) Akinseye
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates the application of sociology to further cultural understanding and social justice.
- 2026: Laila Ford
- 2025: Sophie Knue
- 2024: Sumaiyah Ryan
- 2023: Andre Hardy
- 2022: Emily Leonard
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates outstanding work in criminology and deviance.
- 2026: Daphne Murray, Claire Yontz
- 2025: Anna Pierce
- 2024: Rylie Swails
- 2023: Hannah Ballard
- 2022: Olivia Ryder
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates outstanding work in transnational sociology.
- 2026: Eiman Toor
- 2025: Addie Kettenbrink
- 2024: Adela Tello Teles
- 2023: Molly Freeman
- 2022: Ian Carroll
Recognizes the student for their outstanding academic achievements and serve to Butler University and the larger community in memory of Dr. Richard E. Martin, a sociologist, professor, and administrator at Butler for 31 years. Students awarded this scholarship also demonstrate a strong interest in pursuing graduate studies or a career in the social sciences.
- 2026: Ash Anderson
- 2025: Hailey Palomo
- 2024: Gabi Mathus
- 2023: Anna Overman
- 2022: Molly Freeman, Lauren Moreland
Recognizes a student’s effort to embody the spirit of Weidner, a Dutch citizen who helped more than 1,000 people escape from the Nazis during World War II. This award is chosen each year by the Student Sociology and Criminology Association (SSCA), which, in 2006, founded the first collegiate chapter of the National John Henry Weidner Foundation for Altruism.
- 2026: Justine Starke
- 2025: Kendall Walker
- 2024: Adrianna Smith
- 2023: Kenya Bustos Diaz
- 2022: Gianna Bucaro
Formally the Jane Addams Award. Recognizes the student who has best demonstrated the relationship between sociological thought and service.
- 2026: Norah Schloneger
- 2025: Grace Erickson, Meagan Hill
- 2024: Julia Fryrear
- 2023: Abby Lane
- 2022: Allison Browning
Recognizes the student who best demonstrations outstanding work in Social Policy.
- 2026: Mackenzie Sizemore
- 2025: Drew Jones
- 2024: Damica Marshall
- 2023: Meghan Beckmann