Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division
Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division
Drinking and Drugs Division
Educational Problems Division
Environment and Technology Division
Family Division
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division
Labor Studies Division
Law and Society Division
Mental Health Division
Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division
Social Problems Theory Division
Sociology and Social Welfare Division
Teaching Social Problems Division

Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division
deadline: 5/1/03
The Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division will award $100 for a solely written paper by a current graduate student on issues related to the division's mission. Please send three copies of the paper to Chris Baker
Walters State Community College
Morristown, TN 37813
e-mail: chris.baker@ws.edu

Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division
postmark deadline: 3/15/03
The Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be empirical or theoretical, and they may be on any aspect of crime, deviance, and/or social control. To be eligible, a paper must have been written during 2002, and it may not be published, accepted for publication, or under review for publication. Papers which have been presented at a professional meeting or which have been submitted for presentation at a professional conference are eligible. Papers must be student-authored; they can be single-authored by the student, or co-authored by two students, but may not be co-authored by a student with a faculty member or other non-student. A 25-page limit, including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered in the SSSP Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:
Thomas Vander Ven
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ohio University
Athens, OH, 45701
Include a brief letter from your advisor certifying graduate student status. The winner will be announced in spring 2003, and will receive a $300 stipend.

Drinking and Drugs Division
deadline: 1/31/03
The Drinking and Drugs Division is holding its 2003 Student Paper Competition. The first place winner will receive a $100 prize and be recognized at the 2003 meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The division reserves the right to identify additional prizes or to not award a first place winner at its discretion. Papers must present original research (empirical and/or theoretical) related to drinking and/or drugs from a social problems perspective. To be eligible, participants must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program and have not yet received a Ph.D., J.D., or M.D. degree at the time of submission. Participants must have had primary responsibility for preparation of the paper. All entries must be endorsed by a sponsor who is a current (2003) member of the division. Send three copies of the paper and a short letter of submission identifying your graduate program and signed by your sponsor to: SSSP Drinking and Drugs Student Paper Competition
Dr. Andrew Golub, Division Chair
National Development and Research Institute
71 West 23rd St., 8th floor
New York, NY 10010

Educational Problems Division
deadline: 2/14/03
The Educational Problems Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be theoretical, empirical, or normative. Papers may focus on any aspect of Educational Problems (ranging from pedagogy to education policy formation and implementation to foundations of education to social impact of education). Eligible papers will have been written during the 2002 year. They may not have been published or accepted for publication. Eligible papers must be student-authored. However, multiple authored papers are eligible so long as each author is a student. Papers may not exceed 30 pages including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered in the Educational Problems Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:
Ken Kyle
Department of Social Sciences and Community Psychology and Social Change
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Penn. State Harrisburg
777 W. Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057.
Please include a letter from your advisor certifying your status as a graduate student. The author of the best paper will be awarded a $200 award, a student membership in the SSSP, and a banquet ticket at the 2003 annual conference in Atlanta. Also, the winner will be invited to present her or his paper in a regular session sponsored by the Educational Problems Division at the 2003 conference. The winner will be announced in the Spring of 2003. Please note, the Student Paper Competition Committee reserves the right to withhold making an award if no submission is deemed sufficiently meritorious.

Environment and Technology Division
deadline: 4/15/03
The Environment and Technology Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be theoretical and/or empirical and may be on a topic relevant to environment and technology, including environmental movements, technology and risk, political economy and the environment, or environmental justice. The winner will receive a monetary award plus payment of the winner's SSSP membership fee for the 2003 SSSP meeting to help the winner attend the meeting. The winner will be offered the opportunity to present this paper at one of the Environment and Technology sessions being held at the 2003 SSSP meetings. To be eligible, the paper must meet the following criteria:
1) The paper must have been written between January 2002 and April 2003;
2) The paper may not have been submitted for publication (papers presented at other professional meetings or that have been submitted for presentation at other meetings are eligible;
3) The paper must be authored by one or more students and not co-authored by faculty or colleague who is not a student;
4) The paper must be 25 pages or less, including notes, references, and tables; and,
5) The paper must be accompanied by a letter from a faculty member at the student's university nominating the paper for the Environment and Technology Division Graduate Student Paper Competition. Students should send two copies of their paper accompanied by a letter of support to:
Erin Robinson
Department of Sociology, 430 Park Hall
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Buffalo, NY 14260
716-645-2417, ext 462. Papers will also be accepted over e-mail: eer1@acsu.buffalo.edu . The winner will be announced prior to the 2003 SSSP meetings.

Family Division
deadline: 3/1/03
The Family Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should be of professional quality, and may relate to any aspect of sociology of the family. Authors should be currently enrolled as graduate students, or individuals who received their Ph.D.s in May 2002 or later. To be eligible, a paper may not be published, accepted, or under review for publication. Papers which have been presented at a professional meeting or which have been submitted for presentation at a professional conference are eligible. Papers must be student-authored; they can be single-authored by the student, or co-authored two students, but may not be co-authored by a student with a faculty member or other non-student. Papers should be of 20-35 pages in length, including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered in the Family Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:
Amy Hequembourg
44 Richmond Avenue, Apt. 5
Buffalo, NY 14222
Alternatively, papers may be sent electronically to Amy Hequembourg at alh5@acsu.buffalo.edu .
The winner and any runners-up will be announced in spring, 2003. The winner will receive a modest cash stipend and registration fees for the 2003 SSSP Annual Meeting.

Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division
deadline: 6/1/03
All graduate students are encouraged to apply for this annual paper award competition. The paper should be related to the broad division interest, including health and illness, health policy, and health services. The paper submission should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages and should be prepared for anonymous review (with the author specified on a title page but not referred to in other parts of the text). Current graduate students and recent graduates (who received their degrees after January 2002) may submit a paper if it was written while still a student. Papers based on theses or dissertations are acceptable. (Please do not submit the thesis or dissertation itself.) Co-authored papers are acceptable as long as all the listed authors are current graduate students. Double submission to other SSSP award competitions would be disqualified. The award recipient will be required to present the winning paper at the 2003 SSSP annual meeting in Atlanta. Thus it is strongly recommended that an abstract of the paper be submitted to any Health Division session organizer or the roundtable organizer by the January 31st deadline. The recipient will receive a monetary prize of $100, student membership to SSSP, SSSP conference registration, and a ticket to the SSSP awards banquet. Send three copies of the paper and a short letter of submission identifying your graduate program by June 1, 2003 to:
SSSP Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Student Paper Competition
Professor Judith N. Lasker
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 681 Taylor Street
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Labor Studies Division
deadline: 2/15/03
One of the most important activities of the Labor Studies Division is to recognize the work of graduate students. As in the past, the Division solicits graduate student papers that build on the legacy of the late Harry Braverman. One of these papers will be selected to receive the 2003 Braverman Award. The Award consists of a $200 cash prize and recognition at the SSSP Banquet, held in conjunction with the annual meeting. The Braverman tradition includes work in a variety of areas, including (but not limited to) labor process studies, critical organization studies, research on the intersections of gender, race, and class at work, technical and organizational change and its impact on work culture and hierarchies, labor movements and resistance in the workplace, critical perspectives on labor markets and occupational transformation. Papers co-authored with faculty members will not be accepted. Single authored papers by graduate students and papers co-authored by graduate students are welcome. Send three copies to:
Committee Chair Mindy Fried
50 Dunster Road, #2
Boston, MA 02130
e-mail: friedmin@mit.edu

Law and Society Division
deadline: 3/1/03
The Alfred R. Lindesmith Award is annually given to the best paper presented at the previous year's SSSP annual meeting that is law-related and written by one or more untenured faculty and/or graduate student(s) and has not been submitted for publication prior to presentation at the SSSP meeting. If your paper or that of a friend meet these criteria, please submit three copies of the paper to:
Mathieu Deflem, Chair, SSSP Law and Society Division
Department of Sociology
University of South Carolina
Sloan College 217
Columbia, SC 29208
phone: 803-777-6596
e-mail: deflem@gwm.sc.edu

Mental Health Division
deadline: 2/15/03
The Mental Health Division announces the 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should involve some sort of empirical analysis, either qualitative or quantitative, and they may deal with any aspect of the sociology of mental health. To be eligible, a paper must have been written during 2002, and it may not be published or accepted for publication. Papers that have been presented at a professional meeting, submitted for presentation at a professional conference, or are under review for publication are eligible. Papers must be student-authored. They may be single-authored by the student or co-authored by more than one student, but may not be co-authored by a faculty member or other non-student. Papers must not exceed 28 pages including all notes, references and tables. Send two copies of the paper and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered in the Mental Health Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:
Dr. Jo Phelan, Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
600 W. 168th St.
New York, NY10032.
Please include a letter from your advisor certifying your graduate-student status and incorporating some comments about the research. The winner will be announced at the Annual Meeting of SSSP in August 2003 and will receive a $100 cash award.

Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division
deadline for nominations: 12/15/02
The Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division announces a call for nominations for the 2003 Michael Harrington Distinguished Teaching Award to be awarded at the 2003 meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in Atlanta, Georgia. The Michael Harrington Distinguished Teaching Award is meant to recognize outstanding and sustained teaching on poverty and inequality. Teaching that incorporates service learning or community outreach in the spirit of Michael Harrington's commitment to social change is particularly appropriate for nomination. Self-nomination is acceptable. Deadline for nominations is December 15, 2002. Following the nomination deadline, nominees will be asked to prepare and submit supportive materials by February 15, 2003. Nomination letters should be sent by February 15, 2003 to:
Prof. Charles A. Gallagher, Dept. of Sociology
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
The winner will receive a plaque at the divisions reception.

Racial and Ethnic Minorities Divsion
deadline: 2/15/03
The Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division invites papers that cover any aspect within the field of race and ethnic relations. Papers may be empirical or theoretical. To be eligible, a paper must have been written in 2002, may not have been accepted for publication, or currently under review. Papers which have been presented at previous meetings or conferences are eligible. Papers must be single authored by the student. Papers must not exceed 25 pages, including notes, tables, and references. Papers should be accompanied by a cover letter specifying their submissions as consideration for the graduate student paper competition to: Stephani Williams
Department of Sociology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287
w: 480-965-3546, e-mail: stephani.williams@asu.edu
The winner will be announced in the spring 2003 and will receive a $100 stipend.

Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division
deadline: 3/1/03
The Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be empirical and/or theoretical, and they may be on any aspect of sexuality, including sexual behavior, sexual identity, sexual politics, sex law, political activism, or sexual communities. The winner will receive a stipend of $100 plus payment of the winners SSSP membership fee for the 2003 SSSP meeting to help the winner attend the meeting. The winner will be offered an opportunity to present this paper at the SBPC sessions being held as part of the 2003 SSSP meeting. To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria:
1) The paper must have been written between January 2002 and March 2003;
2) The paper may not have been submitted or accepted for publication (papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible);
3) The paper must be authored by one or more students, and not co-authored with a faculty member or colleague who is not a student;
4) The paper must be 25 pages or less, including notes, references, and tables.
5) The paper must be accompanied by a letter from a faculty member at the student's college or university nominating the paper for the Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division Student Paper Competition. Students should send five copies of their paper, accompanied by a letter of nomination from a faculty member to:
Lloyd Klein
History and Social Sciences Department
Louisiana State University, Shreveport
One University Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
w: 318-797-5123, f: 318-797-5122
e-mail: lklein@pilot.lsus.edu

Social Problems Theory Division
deadline: 4/1/03
The Theory Division invites papers for its annual Student Paper Competition. To be eligible, papers must be authored or co-authored by students only. They must pertain to some aspect of social problems theory and must not have been accepted for publication (papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible). Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages. The 1st place winner will receive $150 and the 2nd place winner will receive $100. Both winners will have their meeting registration fees paid and receive a banquet ticket for the 2003 Annual Meeting. The winner(s) will be announced prior to the 2003 SSSP Annual Meeting. Please send four copies of the paper to:
Dr. Kathryn Fox, Department of Sociology
University of Vermont
31 South Prospect Street
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0176 If you have any questions, e-mail the Committee Chair at: kfox@zoo.uvm.edu

Sociology and Social Welfare Division
deadline: 3/1/03
The Sociology and Social Welfare Division will award $150 for a solely written paper by a current graduate student on issues related to poverty and/or welfare reform. Please send three copies of the paper to Alfred Louis Joseph
104C McGuffey Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
email: josephal@muohio.edu

Teaching Social Problems Division
deadline: 3/15/03
The Teaching Social Problems Division announces its 2003 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers may be on any aspect of teaching about social problems. Topics for papers can include "best practices" in the classroom, service-learning courses, using technology, using media, assessment of learning, and other areas. The winner will receive a stipend of $100 plus payment of the winners SSSP registration fee for the 2003 SSSP meeting to help the winner attend the meeting. The winner will be offered an opportunity to present this paper at one of the Teaching Social Problems Division sessions being held as part of the 2003 SSSP meeting. To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria:
1) The paper must have been written between January 2002 and March 2003;
2) The paper may not have been submitted or accepted for publication (papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible);
3) The paper must be authored by one or more students, and not co-authored with a faculty member or colleague who is not a student;
4) The paper must be 25 pages or less, including notes, references, and tables; and,
5) The paper must be accompanied by a letter from a faculty member at the student's college/ university nominating the paper for the Teaching Social Problems Division Student Paper Competition. Students should send five copies of their papers, accompanied by a letter of nomination from a faculty member, to: Professor Will Holton, Department of Sociology
500 HO, Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-3853
e-mail: w.holton@neu.edu

The winner will be announced prior to the 2003 SSSP Annual Meeting.

For additonal information, contact
Michele Smith Koontz, Administrative Officer
University of Tennessee, 901 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0490
w: 865-689-1531, f: 865 689-1534
e-mail: mkoontz3@utk.edu