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

Paper Award: No award given

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “‘We are not retarded’: Explaining Collective Inaction in a Company Town.” Pamela Neumann, University of Texas at Austin

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “For Whom Does a Neighborhood Effect Matter? Neighborhood Trajectories of a Cohort of Released Prisoners,” Jessica T. Simes, Harvard University

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence v. Texas to Prisons and Prisoners,” Jay Borchert, University of Michigan 

Lifetime Achievement Award: Howard S. Becker, University of Washington

DISABILITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Out of Sight Still in Mind: Visually Impaired Women’s Embodied Accounts of Ideal Femininity,” Tara Fannon, National University of Ireland, Galway

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Variations in Drug and Alcohol Treatment Utilization across Men’s Prisons,” Kathryn M. Nowotny, University of Colorado, Boulder

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “(No) Harm in Asking: Culture, Class, and Undergraduates’ Help-Seeking and Engagement Strategies,” Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard University

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Calculative Ambivalence: Climate Change and the Mapping and Pricing of Flood Risk in New York City,” Rebecca Elliott, University of California, Berkeley

FAMILY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “How Does the Personal Become Political? Assessing the Impact of Mothers’ Employment on Daughters’ Political Organizing,” Mónica L. Caudillo, New York University

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Winner: “Jewish Tourism to the Palestinian Territories and its Effects on Diaspora Identities and Politics,” Emily Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara

GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD

Winner:Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador, Jocelyn Viterna, Oxford University Press, 2013

Honorable Mention: Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, William I. Robinson, Cambridge University Press, 2014

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Profiles in Health: Multiple Roles and Health Lifestyles in Young Adulthood,” Trenton D. Mize, Indiana University

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “The textual account of ‘quality’: Institutional technologies that coordinates the scheduling of community nursing for children with diabetes in Ontario schools,” Lisa Watt, McMaster University 

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: No award given

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Contention Across Social Fields: Labor Organizing and Community-Based Living Wage Campaigns in the Southern California Hospitality Industry,” Pablo U. Gaston, University of California, Berkeley

Harry Braverman Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Social Movement Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Marches,” Cassandra Engeman, University of California, Santa Barbara 

Harry Braverman Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Farm to Factory: The Making of Precarious Unionized Labor,” Ruben Espinoza, University of California, Santa Cruz

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Jurors’ Subjective Experiences of Deliberations: The Tangled Nature of Status Characteristics,” Alix Winter and Matthew Clair, Harvard University

William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard S. Quinney, Northern Illinois University

This World of Dreams—and Yet: In Appreciation of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Richard Quinney

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Housing Vouchers and the Re-Concentration of Poverty in Suburbs,” Rahim Kurwa, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Harrington Award: M.D.R. Evans, University of Nevada; Jonathan Kelley, University of Nevada; Joanna Sikora, Australian National University; and Donald J. Treiman, University of California, Los Angeles

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Colorism and Classism Confounded: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America,” Angela Dixon, Princeton University

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Bursting Whose Bubble?: The Racial Nexus between Social Disaster, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy,” Kasey Henricks, American Bar Foundation and Loyola University, Chicago

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “(Un)Deserving Iraqi Refugees? Racialized Moral Boundary Constructions among US Resettlement Bureaucrats,” Fatima Sattar, Boston College 

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award Winner: This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Zandria F. Robinson, University of North Carolina, 2014 

Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award Winner: “Discursive Colorlines at Work: How Epithetsand Stereotypes are Racially Unequal,” David G. Embrick and Kasey Henricks, Loyola University Chicago, Symbolic Interaction, Volume 36, Issue 2: 197-215

Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award Honorable Mention: “The Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race,” Marzia Milazzo, Vanderbilt University, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 8, No. 1, Dec. 2014 (web)/Feb. 2015 (print) 

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Does Acculturation Matter? Predicting Variability in Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relations Among College Students,” Ray Sin, University of Illinois at Chicago

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

Paper Award: No award given

Outstanding Article Award Winner: “Igniting Constructionist Imaginations: Social Constructionism’s Absence and Potential Contributions to Public Sociology,” Michael C. Adorjan, University of Calgary, American Sociologist 44:1-22

SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Constructing and defining mental illness: the DSM and professional practices,” Michael Halpin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health: No award given 

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Voluntary Child Welfare Workers’ Perception of the profession: Workers’ Experiences with Psychological Climate and Implications for Job Satisfaction,” Allison Houston and Anne-Marie Gomes, SUNY-Albany 

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Effect of Work and Parental Role Occupancy and Role Performance on Exercise Participation among U.S. Adults,” Kyler J. Sherman-Wilkins, The Pennsylvania State University 

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Reification and Recognition in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program,” Molly Malany Sayre, University of Kentucky 

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

Paper Award Co-Winner: “Own Gender, Sibling’s Gender, Parent’s Gender: The Division of Elderly Parent Care among Adult Children,” Angelina Grigoryeva, Princeton University

Paper Award Co-Winner: “Gender and Time Use in College: Converging or Diverging Pathways?” Natasha Yurk Quadlin, Indiana University

Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists: Dr. Karen D. Lincoln, University of Southern California School of Social Work