2012 Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners
Congratulations to the student paper competition and outstanding scholarhip award winners! The student paper competitions awards are sponsored by the Special Problems Divisions.
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Winner: “Getting a Workout: Mortgage Modification, Social Class, and Shifting Financial Institutions,” Lindsay A. Owens, Stanford University
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Winner: "Activist and Non-Activist Labels: Differential Activist Identification in the Tea Party and Occupy Movements,” Jesse Klein, Florida State University
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Winner: “The Social Control of Medical Marijuana Users: Escaping Criminalization and Embracing Medicalization,” Patrick K. O’Brien, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lifetime Achievement Award: Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
DISABILITIES DIVISION
Winner: “‘Sometimes I Think I Might Say Too Much’: Dark Secrets and Performance of Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” Alex I. Thompson, University of Colorado at Boulder
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Winner: "The Influence of Self Exempting Beliefs and Social Networks on Daily Smoking: A Mediation Analysis among Chinese Males,” Xiaozhao Y. Yang, Purdue University
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Winner: “Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness,” Anna R. Haskins, University of Wisconsin, Madison
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Winner – Brent K. Marshall Award: “Mundane Technology: A Case Study of the Introduction of Permanent Walls to the Inuit of Arviat, Nunavut, Canada,” Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Northwestern University
FAMILY DIVISION
Winner: “The Power and Limits of Marriage: Married Gay Men’s Family Relationships,” Abi Ocobock, University of Chicago
GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL THEORY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Winner: "New Protagonists in Global Economic Governance: Brazilian Agribusiness at the WTO,” Kristen Hopewell, University of Michigan
Honorable Mention: “‘The Internet is Magic’: Technology in the Transnational Family,” Valerie Francisco, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
Outstanding Book Award: Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China, Cheris Shun-ching Chan, Oxford University Press, 2012
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Winner: “‘Dude, You Need to Get into Nursing’: Mobilizing Masculinities as Recruitment Strategy,” Marci Cottingham, University of Akron
Honorable Mention: “Public Hospital Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Incarceration,” Armando Lara-Millian, Northwestern University
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
Winner – George W. Smith Award: Name and title temporarily witheld by request of the winner.
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: No award given
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Winner – Harry Braverman Award: “Global Chains, Global Workers: Warehouse Workers’ Experience of Globalized Labor Processes and Transnational Class Relations,” Jason Struna, University of California, Riverside
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Winner – Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “Penal Subjectivities: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Penal Consciousness,” Lori Sexton, University of California, Irvine
Outstanding Book Scholar Award: No award given
MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Winner: “Sexual Orientation, Social Support, and Mental Distress: A Study of Middle-Aged US Population,” Ning Hsieh, University of Pennsylvania
James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health: Jo C. Phelan, Columbia University
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Winner: “Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness,” Anna R. Haskins, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mike Harrington Award: No award given
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Winner: “Monoracial and Mulitracial Attitudes Towards Racial Inequality,” Crystal Bedley, Rutgers University
Honorable Mention: “The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes: Race, Sexually Orientation, and The Job Application Process,” David S. Pedulla, Princeton University
Honorable Mention: “They See Me as Exotic....That Intrigues Them: Gender, Sexuality, and Racially Ambiguous Body,” Chandra D. L. Waring, University of Connecticut
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Winner: “Attitudes Toward Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Lesbian and Gay Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment,” Long Doan, Annalise Loehr, and Lisa Miller, Indiana University
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Winner: “Constructing Difference with Similarity: The Rearticulation of Core News Agents on Cable News,” Lynn Letukas, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Outstanding Book Award: American Memories: Atrocities and the Law, Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King, Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Winner: “Formulating Anti-Poverty Policies in Emerging Countries: The Case of Palestine,” Najwa Sado Safadi, Boston College
Outstanding Activist Scholar Award: Mimi Abramovitz, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College and Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut
Outstanding 2011 Article Award: “Food Stamps and Dependency: Disentangling the Short-Term and Long-Term Economic Effects of Food Stamp Receipt and Low Income for Young Mothers,” Thomas Vartanian, Linda Houser, and Joseph Harkness. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Vol. 38, No. 4 (December, 2011)
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Winner: “Rethinking the Gender Gap In Youth Sports,” Michela Musto, University of Southern California
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Winner: “Welcoming the Personal as Sociological: Critical Self-Reflection and Transformation in the Classroom,” Sarah E. Rusche and Kendra Jason, North Carolina State University
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Winner: “‘I Wish I had that Camp when I was a Kid’: Adult Women and Empowerment Programs for Girls,” Danielle M. Giffort, University of Illinois at Chicago
