Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners

Congratulations to the student winners! The student paper competitions and outstanding scholarship awards are sponsored by the Special Problems Divisions. 

COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

1^st Place: “What’s in a Relationship? Examining Race, Class, and Contact Time as Determinants of Social Capital in Mentoring Relationships,” Michael Gaddis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Honorable Mention: “Social Capital, Migration, and Educational Opportunities in the Urban Chinese Context” Neil A. Palmer, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

1^st Place: “The Credibility of University Professors: Is There a Penalty on Engaged Scholarship?” Timothy L. O’Brien and Oren Pizmony-Levy, Indiana University

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Tethering Rehabilitation and Punishment: The Salience and Ambiguity of Rehabilitative Rhetoric within Canadian Youth Justice Debates,” Michael C. Adorjan, University of Hong Kong (written during graduate studies at McMaster University)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine

DISABILITIES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Perceived Stigma among People with Physical Disabilities: The Influence of Stress Exposure and Psychosocial Resources,” Robyn Lewis Brown, Florida State University

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

1^st Place: “Masculinized Femininity: College Women Drink Like Men, Act Like Ladies,” Patrick K. O’Brien, University of Colorado

Honorable Mention: “The Trouble with Morality: The Effect of Twelve-Step Discourse on Addicts’ Decision-Making,” David Frank, DePaul University

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

1^st Place: “A Competitive Edge in College Admissions: The Impact of Cultural Capital and College Admissions Preparations on College Destinations,” Kristin Marie Jordan, Indiana University

Faculty Paper Award:No submissions were received.

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Award: No submissions were received.

FAMILY DIVISION

No award given.

GLOBAL DIVISION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Undergraduate Student: No award given.

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL THEORY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

1^st Place – Graduate Student: “A Journey to a Right-ful Place: A Study of North Korean Defectors in the United States,” Hien J. Park, University of California, Irvine

Honorable Mention – Graduate Student: “Work as Welfare, Welfare as Work: Gender, Community and Care in Urban Tianjin,” Sophia Woodman, University of British Columbia

GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD

Outstanding Book Award: Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Ethel Brooks, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Honorable Mention: Social Movements for Global Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Jackie Smith, University of Notre Dame

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Defining Reality: How Biomedical Researchers Determine the Existence of Pain,” Elizabeth M. Sweeney, University of Cincinnati

Honorable Mention: “From Margin to Center: Native American Women, Reproductive Healthcare, and Reproductive Justice,” Barbara Gurr, University of Connecticut

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

1^st Place – George W. Smith Award: “Defining and Regulating Care Needs: The Power of the State and Professional Knowledge,” Li-Fang Liang, Syracuse University

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: Susan M. Turner, University of Guelph

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

1^st Place – Harry Braverman Award: “Manipulating the Weaker Sex Schema: Subversive Gendered Action in Bangalore’s Labor Protests,” SaunJuhi Verma, University of Chicago

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

1^st Place – Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “The Right to Refuse Sex: Gender Conflict and Marital Rape Laws in the U.S.,” Aubrey L. Jackson, The Ohio State University

Edwin H. Sutherland Outstanding Book Award: Police Interrogation and American Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), Richard A. Leo, University of San Francisco

MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

1^st Place: “There’s No Place Like Home: Examining the Emotional Consequences of Hurricane Katrina on Displaced Residents of New Orleans,” Alexis A. Merdjanoff, Rutgers University

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health: Virginia Aldigé Hiday, North Carolina State University

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Making Moves: Social Stratification and the Socioeconomic and Symbolic Dimensions of Black Reverse Migration to the South,” Sabrina Pendergrass, Harvard University

Mike Harrington Award for Community Action: No nominations were received.

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

1^st Place Co-Winner: “Professional Pose: Respect and Compensation Among Black Men in College,” Brandon Jackson, Florida State University

1^st Place Co-Winner: “Facebook: A Raced Space or Postracial?” Stephanie Laudone, Fordham University

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Putting the Double Standard in its Place: School Networks, Sexual Norms and Adolescent Non-Romantic Sex Behavior,” Brian Soller, The Ohio State University

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

1^st Place: “How Terrorists Became Racists: Framing, Secrecy, and Leaks in Britain’s Domestic Counter-Terrorism Policy, 2001-2008,” Christopher A. Bail, Harvard University

Honorable Mention: “Thanks, But No Thanks: The Glocalization of Humanitarian Relief Efforts,” Lynn Letukas, University of Delaware

Outstanding Book Award:Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare, Chad Alan Goldberg, University of Wisconsin - Madison

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

1^st Place: “Public Space is not so Public: Voice, Action and Power in the Homelessness Discourse,” Olivia R. Hetzler, University of Missouri

Honorable Mention: “More Than an Empty Stomach: The Sociological Effects of Food Insecurity on American Society and Why We Should Care,” Mary Johnston, Northern Arizona University

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Bourdieu, Bodies and Boxing: The Multidimensionality of Bodily Capital,” Elise Paradis, Stanford University

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

1^st Place: “Sociology of the Prison Classroom: Marginalized Identities and Sociological Imaginations Behind Bars,” Kylie L. Parrotta and Gretchen H. Thompson, North Carolina State University

2^nd Place: “Bridging the Millennial Divide: Illuminating Racial Inequality as a Social Structural Phenomenon Through Family History,” Jennifer C. Mueller, Texas A&M University

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

1^st Place: “Living in the Ages of Indeterminacy: Korean Youths’ Transnational Migration Experience in the U.S.,” Kirsten Younghee Song, Rutgers University