Media Release: Nominations Open for 2026 Sage-CASBS Award
Media Release
Contact: Mike Gaetani, CASBS mgaetani@stanford.edu / Tel: (650) 736-0119
Stanford, CA (October 20, 2025) The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University and Sage now are accepting nominations for the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award.
Established in 2013, the SAGE-CASBS Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advances our understanding of pressing social issues. It underscores the role of the social and behavioral sciences in enriching and enhancing public discourse and good governance.
“Social and behavioral science research generates important knowledge that can solve the most difficult societal challenges,” noted Sage CEO Blaise Simqu and CASBS interim director Lara Tiedens in a joint statement. “Through this award, Sage and CASBS are committed as ever to honoring the transformative work of social and behavioral scientists – their ability to bridge disciplines, reshape understanding, and inform policies that foster more just, successful, and equitable societies."
Past winners of the award include:
- Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel laureate in economic sciences and author of the acclaimed book Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Pedro Noguera, the sociologist, education rights activist, as well as Distinguished Professor of Education and Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California
- Kenneth Prewitt, former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Emeritus at Columbia University
- William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University
- Carol Dweck, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
- Jennifer Richeson, the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University
- Elizabeth Anderson, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor as well as the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan
- Alondra Nelson, the Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel laureate and MIT Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In addition to a cash prize, the Sage-CASBS Award winner will deliver a public lecture to be held at CASBS in spring 2026.
More details, submission criteria, and the nomination form are available here: https://casbs.stanford.edu/news/nominations-open-2026-sage-casbs-award. The submission deadline is December 19, 2025.
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