2014 Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners
Congratulations to the student paper competition and outstanding scholarhip 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
Winner: “Business Unity and Anti-Corporate Social Movement Protests in the U.S.,” Tarun Banerjee, SUNY - Stony Brook
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Winner: “How Prisons Create Crime: Prisonization and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice,” Liam Martin, Boston College
Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard A. Leo, University of San Francisco School of Law
DISABILITIES DIVISION
Winner: “The Ambiguity of Deviance: Framing and Social Control among Caretakers of Adults with Autism,” Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, University of Pennsylvania
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Award: No award given
Junior Scholar Award: Alexander S. Bennett, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Winner: “The Production of the Docile Student: School Discipline in Texas,” Jessica L. Dunning-Lozano, The University of Texas, Austin
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Award: No award given
FAMILY DIVISION
Winner: “Assimilating Childrearing: Parenting Re-Socialization of Immigrant Mexican Families in the Bay Area,” José G. Soto-Márquez, New York University
GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
Winner: “The Tensions of Diasporic ‘Return’ Migration: How Class and Money Create Distance in the Vietnamese Transnational Family,” Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Honorable Mention: “Fair Trade, Neocolonial Developmentalism, and Racialized Power Relations,” Ian Hussey, York University and Joe Curnow, OISE-University of Toronto
GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD
Winner: Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India, Rina Agarwala, Cambridge University Press, 2013
Honorable Mention: From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia, Derrick Hindery, University of Arizona Press, 2013
Honorable Mention: Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing, Jamie K. McCallum, Cornell University Press, 2013
Honorable Mention: Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights, Patricia Richards, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Winner: “Professional Problems: The Burden of Educating the Global Filipino Nurse,” Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: “Is Schooling a ‘Social Vaccine’ against HIV for Adolescent Girls? Evidence from Malawi and Uganda,” Julia A. Behrman, New York University
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Award: No award given
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Winner – Harry Braverman Award: “Circuits of Reproductive Labor: Sex Work and Mothering in Contemporary China,” Catherine Man Chuen Cheng, University of Toronto
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Winner – Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “How Prisons Create Crime: Prisonization and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice,” Liam Martin, Boston College
Runner-Up–Alfred R. Lindesmith Award: “‘What He Did Was Lawful.’ Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in Rural China,” Ke Li, Indiana University, Bloomington
Sutherland Book Award: License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples, Kimberly D. Richman, New York University Press, 2013
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Winner: “New Scars for the New Economy? Gender and the Consequences of Non-Standard Employment Histories,” David Pedulla, Princeton University
Michael Harrington Award: Rachel L. Rayburn, Indiana University Purdue University - Fort Wayne
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Racial Hierarchy and Racial Liminality in Contemporary South Africa: Perceptions of Relative Deprivation in Coloureds,” Whitney N. Laster, Vanderbilt University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Revisiting White Flight and Segregation: The Consequences of Ethnoburbs,” Samuel H. Kye, Indiana University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Arizona under Fire in a ‘Post Racial’ Era: How Color-Blind Discourse, Anti-Immigrant Racism and White Injury Ideology Fueled Support for Senate Bill 1070,” Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Co-Winner:Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans and the Achievement Gap, Gilda L. Ochoa, University of Minnesota Press, 2013
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Co-Winner:White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race, Matthew W. Hughey, Stanford University Press, 2012
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, Wendy D. Roth, Stanford University Press, 2012
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Victor M. Rios, NYU Press, 2011
Kimberlé Crenshaw Paper Award: “Engendering Racial Perceptions: An Intersectional Analysis of How Social Status Shapes Race,” Andrew M. Penner and Aliya Saperstein, Gender and Society, 27(3): 319-344 (2013)
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Winner: “Perpetrating Teachers, Worthy Victims, and the Regulation of Female Sexuality,” Kerry Mulligan, Sage College of Albany
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Winner: “Character Problems as Collective Behavior,” Arthur McLuhan, McMaster University
Book Award: The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism, R.J. Maratea, Lexington Books, 2014
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award: No award given
James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health: Jane D. McLeod, Indiana University
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Winner: “Bursting Whose Bubble?: The Racial Tax Consequences of Evaporated Home Value,” Kasey Henricks, American Bar Foundation and Loyola University Chicago
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Winner: “Business or Cause? Gender and Contested Institutional Logics in Women’s Professional Soccer,” Rachel Allison, University of Illinois at Chicago
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award: No award given
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award: No award given