2008 Award & Scholarship Winners
Beth B. Hess Award Winner(s)
The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a new or continuing graduate student who began her or his study in a community college or technical school.
Winner: Crystal Jackson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Honorable Mention: Christine Schneider, Case Western Reserve University
Honorable Mention: James McKeever, University of Southern California
C. Wright Mills Award Winner(s)
The C. Wright Mills award is granted to one book annually that demonstrates dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society.
2007 Winner (awarded in 2008): Daniel Jaffee, Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival, University of California Press
2007 Finalists
Past Winners
Joseph B. Gittler Award Winner
Established in 2007 at the bequest of Joseph B. Gittler, this award is made in recognition of the significant scholarly achievements that a SSSP member has made in contributing to the ethical resolution of social problems.
Winner: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine
Lee Founders Award Winner
Established in 1981, this award is made in recognition of significant achievements that, over a distinguished career, have demonstrated continuing devotion to the ideals of the founders of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and especially to the humanist tradition of Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee.
Winner: David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine
Past Winners
Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Winner
The Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship was established at the 1993 Annual Meeting by The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). It is awarded to one recipient who demonstrates significant achievements of active engagement with social problems, participation in social problem solutions, and advancement of knowledge through study, service and critical analysis.
Winner: Isabel Martinez, Columbia University
Past Winners
Social Action Award Winners
The Social Action Award, established in 1991, is awarded to a not-for-profit organization in the city/area hosting the annual meeting demonstrating sensitivity to and respect for cultural diversity.
Co-Winners:
WAITT House “We’re All in This Together”
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Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners
The student paper competitions and outstanding scholarship awards are sponsored by the Divisions.
- COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
No Award Given
- CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
1st Place: “Awakenings: Autobiography, Collective Memory and the Social Geometry of Personal Discovery,” Thomas DeGloma, Rutgers University
- CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
1st Place: “Analysis of Gender Differences in the Linkage between Offending and Victimization: A Multivariable Latent Growth Approach,” Arina Gertseva, Washington State University
- DISABILITIES DIVISION
1st Place: “Rolling Manhood: Masculinity and Race following Traumatic Injury,” Alexis A. Bender, Georgia State University
- DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Student Paper Award: No Award Given
Senior Scholar Award: Brian C. Kelly, Purdue University
- EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
1st Place: “Safety Cultivates Fear?: The Unintended Consequences of School Surveillance Measures,” Shannon McDonough, University of South Carolina
- ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
1st Place: “Moral Entanglements: The Emergence of the Concern for Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1870-1930,” Stephan Bargheer, University of Chicago
- FAMILY DIVISION
1st Place: “Meaningful Exchanges: Recapturing and Restricting Procreative Power in Frozen Embryo Donation,” Kristin J. Wilson, Georgia State University
- GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
1st Place - Graduate Student: “The Limited Influence of Global Civil Society in the Montreal Protocol,” Brian J. Gareau, University of California, Santa Cruz
1st Place - Undergraduate Student: “Choosing Truth: The Influence of Function, Institutions, and Global Culture on the Establishment of TRCs,” Claire Posner, Macalester College
Outstanding Book Award: Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante, Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker, Cornell University Press, 2008
Honorable Mention: From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor and Globalization in Nicaragua, Jennifer Bickham-Mendez, Duke University Press, 2005
- HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
1st Place: “Race and Trust: The Case of Medicine,” Abigail A. Sewell, NSF/Ford/Ronald E. McNair Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington
Honorable Mention: “Understanding Lived Experience with Brain Injury through a Survivor’s Visual Illness Narrative,” Laura S. Lorenz, Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
1st Place - George Smith Award: “Gimme Shelter! Investigating the Social Service Interface from the Standpoint of Youth,” Naomi Nichols, York University
2008 Dorothy E. Smith Scholar Activist Award: Ellen Pence, Praxis International
- LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
1st Place - Braverman Award: “Individual Barriers and Neighborhood Context: Exploring Determinants of Employment and Welfare Receipt Among Unmarried Urban Women,” Timothy J. Haney, University of Oregon
- LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
1st Place - Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “The Social Construction Process Legitimating Police Use of Force,” Suzanne Goodney Lea,Trinity (Washington) University
- MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
1st Place:“Falling From Grace? The Psychological Impact of Downward Intragenerational Mobility,” Jason Houle, Pennsylvania State University
- POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
1st Place: “Space and Inequality: The Geographic Concentration of Homeless Services,” Nicole Esparza, Harvard University
Mike Harrington Award for Scholarship and Service: Keith M. Kilty, Ohio State University
- RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
1st Place: “Extended Identities: Context, Life Course and Social Networks in Second-Generation Nigerian Immigrant Identity Formation,” OluwakemiMonsurat Balogun, University of California, Berkeley
- SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
1st Place: “Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches Towards Women,” Rashawn Ray, Indiana University
- SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
1st Place: “Deconstructing Symbolic Boundaries: Cultural Strategies of New Social Movements,” Elizabeth Cherry, University of Georgia
2nd Place: “Awakenings: Autobiography, Collective Memory and the Social Geometry of Personal Discovery,” Thomas DeGloma, Rutgers University
- SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
1st Place: “Working Poor Fathers in the Era of Welfare Reform,” Joyce Bialik, Yeshiva University
Honorable Mention: “Of Rebels, Conformist, and Innovators: An Application of Merton’s Typology to Social Worker Adaptation to Home Care Policy,” William Cabin, Hunter College
- TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
No Award Given
- YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
1st Place: “A Time to Mature? Age at First Birth and Alcohol Use,” Joseph D. Wolfe, Indiana University
Honorable Mention: “Strong Advocates and Good Patients: How SES Impacts the Ways Parents of Children with Cancer Navigate Health Care Systems,” Elizabeth Gage, The State University of New York at Buffalo
