2011 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: “Gentrification, Creative-Class Style: Theorizing the State in Cultural Space- and Place-making,” Mary Scherer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

1^st Place: “Explaining Women’s Activism: Rethinking the Women’s Environmental Justice Narrative in California’s San Joaquin Valley,” Tracy E. Perkins, University of California, Santa Cruz

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Elderly Criminals and Aging Populations: Extending the Life Course Perspective on Crime,” Naomi Sugie, Princeton University

Lifetime Achievement Award: Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DISABILITIES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Humor as Social Identity in a Disability and Queer-Themed Alternative Theater Group,” Jennifer Caputo, Indiana University

Honorable Mention: “Governing the Eugenic Home: Propaganda for Responsible Parenthood and American Citizenship, 1936-1942,” Simone Diender, Brandeis University

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

No award given

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

1^st Place: “The Influence of Habitus in the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Cultural Capital, and Academic Success,” S. Michael Gaddis and Andrew Payton, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

1^st Place – Brent K. Marshall Award: “The Role of Values and Beliefs in Public Attitudes towards Wind Farms,” David Bidwell, Michigan State University

FAMILY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Oh, did the women suffer, they suffered so much: Impacts of Gendered Based Violence on Kinship Networks in Rwanda,” Nicole S. Fox, Brandeis University

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL THEORY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

1^st Place: From the Developing World to the West: Transnational Networks and Policy Change,” Erica Blom, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Honorable Mention: “Cross-national Interaction and Cultural Similarity: A Relational Analysis,” Bart Bonikowski, Harvard University

GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD

1^st Place – Outstanding Book Award: Making Transnational Feminism: Rural women, NGO activists, and Northern donors in Brazil (Routledge, 2010), Millie Thayer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Gender and Physical Health: A Study of African American and Caribbean Black Adults,” Christy L. Erving, Indiana University-Bloomington

2^nd Place: “Black Churches and HIV/AIDS: Factors Influencing Congregations’ Responsiveness to Social Issues,” Brad Fulton, Duke University

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

1^st Place – George W. Smith Award: “Mandatory HIV Testing Policy and Everyday Life: A Look Inside the Canadian Immigration Medical Examination,” Laura M. Bisaillon, University of Ottawa

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: No award given

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

1^st Place – Harry Braverman Award: “The Hidden Costs of Contingency: Contingent Worker Use and Standard Employees’ Outcomes at Work,” David S. Pedulla, Princeton University

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

1^st Place – Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “Locking Up Social Order: Incarceration, Organizational Leadership, and Street Corner Violence,” Robert Vargas, Northwestern University

Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Radelet, University of Colorado

MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

1^st Place: “From Structural Chaos to a Model of Consumer Support: Understanding the Roles of Structure and Agency in Mental Health Recovery for the Formerly Homeless,” Dennis P. Watson, Loyola University Chicago

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health: Eric R. Wright, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

1^st Place: “The Moral Entrepreneur’s Bind: The Institutionalization of Silence in a Poor Neighborhood,” Robert Vargas, Northwestern University

Mike Harrington Award: No award given

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Expressions of Relatedness: Ethnography of Everyday Talk and Interactions in the Barbershop,” Shatima J. Jones, Rutgers University

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

1^st Place: “Revanchist Masculinity and the Framing of Identity: How Pimps View Women, Domination, and Themselves,” Max Besbris, New York University

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

1^st Place: “Points of Connection and Divergence between Organizational and Personal Narratives of Social Problems: Ideology, Identity Work, and Battered Women’s Stories,” Amanda M. Gengler, Brandeis University

Outstanding Article Award:“On the Social Construction of Social Problems and Social Problems Theory: A Contribution to the Legacy of John Kitsuse,” Darin Weinberg, Cambridge University, The American Sociologist, Volume 40 (1-2) (2009), pp. 61-78

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

1^st Place: “Human Rights vs. Neoliberalism: Welfare State Spending as institutionalization of Human Rights Norms in 18 Latin American Nations, 1980-2008,” K. Russell Shekha, Florida State University

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

No award given

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

1^st Place: “Hopping on the Tips of a Trident: Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Teaching Social Problems at Predominantly White Institutions,” Chandra Waring and Samit Bordoloi, University of Connecticut

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

1^st Place: “Remaking Reciprocal Rules of Geriatric Care: The Case of Aging Taiwanese Immigrants,” Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Brandeis University