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