GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Deadline: 1/31/27

The Conflict, Social Action, Labor, and Social Change Division (CSALSC) is excited to announce its 2027 Student Paper Competition. We invite students to submit empirically grounded papers that make a theoretical and/or methodological contribution to the study of collective conflict, social action, labor, and social change. Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes: racial politics, violence, and capitalism; social movement mobilization and community building; peacebuilding and conflict transformation; criminalization, carceral labor, and criminal justice reform; institutional change; war, migration, and transnational movements; labor, economics, and artificial intelligence; eugenics, biopolitical management, and genocide; and epistemicide and epistemic resistance.

Eligibility and Submission Process:

  • Applicants must be students at the time of submission.
  • Papers must be submitted through the Annual Meeting Call for Papers process as a condition for award consideration. This ensures that winning papers are placed in the program.
  • Papers are not eligible if they have been published or accepted for publication before submission.
  • Papers are not eligible if previously presented at SSSP or presented or accepted for presentation at other professional meetings, unless substantially revised with new data, findings, or theoretical contributions.
  • Papers must be student-authored or student co-authored and cannot include faculty co-authors.
  • Students may submit to only one division.
  • Review the approved annual meeting policy statements.
  • While presenting at the Annual Meeting is expected and encouraged, it is not required to receive award funding.
  • The deadline for all SPC submissions is January 31, 2027.

To be considered, submit:

  • a copy of the manuscript,
  • a letter from your advisor that certifies your student status and offers some brief comments about your work.

Please upload your submission to the annual meeting Call for Papers submission site AND send an electronic copy of all requested materials to the Division Co-chairs, Sara Tehrani (sara.tehrani@ucf.edu), Sara Maani (sara.maani@unimib.it), and Leticia Morales (leticia022morales@gmail.com) with the subject line: “CSALSC 2027 Student Paper Competition.” The winner will receive a $150 cash award, a one-year student membership to SSSP, a waiver of 2027 Conference registration fees, and an electronic certificate commemorating their superb achievement.

OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD

Deadline: 1/31/27

The Conflict, Social Action, Labor, and Social Change Division (CSALSC) is excited to announce the 2027 Outstanding Article Award. With this award, the division aims to recognize published and pre-published work that exemplifies contributions to scholars and activists, advancing rigorous critical scholarship and activist-informed understandings of the character and causes of oppression, conflict, labor and economic shifts, social movements, and social change central to the division’s mission. Articles on a broad range of topics are welcomed, including poverty, criminal justice, social movements, mobilization and protest, racial politics and violence, war and genocide, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, global inequality, labor and moral economies, environmental injustices, migration, human rights, race, gender, and sexuality based oppression and inequality, the body, intersectionality, teaching for change, resistance and norm contestation, and institutional change;however, nominated articles should demonstrate commitment to social justice and research of, by, and/or for those most affected by social inequalities in the global world.

Guidelines for submission of nominations are as follows:

  • Eligible articles must have been or will be published between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2027.
  • Single- or multiple-authored articles are accepted.
  • At least one author must be a member of the SSSP to qualify for the award.

Emailed nominations should be titled in the subject line: CSALSC 2027 Outstanding Article Nomination, and include the following as attachments:

  • a copy of the article,
  • a cover letter specifying that the article is to be considered for the CSALSC 2027 Outstanding Article Award, describing the research, project, and/or work from which the publication originates, and a brief biographical statement and affiliation for all authors,
  • current Vita(s) of the nominated author(s).

Authors are encouraged to nominate their own work. Submit nominations to the Division Co-chairs: Sara Tehrani (sara.tehrani@ucf.edu), Sara Maani (sara.maani@unimib.it), and Leticia Morales (leticia022morales@gmail.com). Nominees and nominated articles will be reviewed, and the Outstanding Article Award Committee will determine awardee(s). The awardee(s) will be recognized at the 2027 CSALSC Business Meeting.

ACTIVIST-SCHOLAR AWARD

Deadline: 1/31/27

The Conflict, Social Action, Labor, and Social Change Division (CSALSC) is excited to announce our Activist-Scholar Award. This award recognizes scholars whose work meaningfully bridges scholarship and collective action. The award honors activist-scholars who engage with workers, communities, social movements, unions, grassroots organizations, or other collective actors in struggles around labor, conflict, and social change.

The award recognizes work in which scholarship and activism are substantively connected. This may include collaborative or participatory research; research developed in sustained engagement with movements, organizations, or communities; the production and circulation of knowledge useful to collective struggles; or other forms of scholarly practice that strengthen collective capacities for social action and transformation.

Relevant areas may include, but are not limited to, labor, worker, and community organizing, including struggles around less visible forms of labor and paid and unpaid work; diverse forms of collective action and transformative practice for economic and labor justice and their intersections with racial, gender, migration, disability, spatial, environmental, and other dimensions of justice; as well as anti-war, peace, and other movements for social change.

Emailed nominations should be titled in the subject line: CSALSC 2027 Activist-Scholar Award and include the following as attachments:

  • a cover letter specifying how the nominee embodies the spirit of the award,
  • a current curriculum vitae of the nominated activist-scholar

Activist-scholars are encouraged to nominate themselves or others. Submit nominations to the Division Co-chairs: Sara Tehrani (sara.tehrani@ucf.edu), Sara Maani (sara.maani@unimib.it), and Leticia Morales (leticia022morales@gmail.com). Nominees will be reviewed and determined by the Activist-scholar Awards Committee. The awardee will be recognized at the 2027 CSALSC Business Meeting.