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 Winner: “From Myths to Means: Place and Organizational Processes in the Gowanus Canal Superfund, New York,” Orla Stapleton, Indiana University

Community Partner Paper Award Winner: “Integrating the Undocumented Community: A Qualitative Exploration of the Process for Obtaining DC’s Limited Purpose Driver’s License,” Diana M. Guelespe, Georgetown University and Mayra Ibarra, Central American Resource Center

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Rethinking Urban Militarism: Lessons from Rio de Janeiro’s Favela Pacification Program,” Anjuli Nicole Fahlberg, Northeastern University

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Post-Incident Interpersonal Difficulty among Adolescent Victims of Intentional Violence,”  Jason B. Phillips, Rutgers University

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky

DISABILITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: No award given

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Structural Segregation and Marijuana Legalization,” Burrel J. Vann Jr., University of California, Irvine

Senior Scholar Award Winner: Craig Reinarman, University California, Santa Cruz

Junior Scholar Award Winner: Luther Elliott, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “What’s in a Match? Disentangling the Impact of Teacher Race/Ethnicity for Black and Hispanic Students,” Joel Mittleman, Princeton University

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner:“Turtles & Teamsters Revival? Analyzing Labor Unions’ Environmental Discourse from the 2014 People’s Climate March,” Lauren Contorno, Northeastern Universityy

FAMILY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: No award given 

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Winner: “Fencing the Other: Symbolic Constructions of the ‘Immigrant’ Within,” Holly Sevier, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

GLOBAL DIVISION OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD

Winner: Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work, Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of California Press, 2015

Honorable Mention: Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, Tammy L. Lewis, The MIT Press, 2016

Honorable Mention: Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality, David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan, The MIT Press, 2015

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Emplacing Anger: Emotion Management in West African Pediatric Wards,” Ryann Manning, Harvard University

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “The Social Relations of HIV Disclosure in the Context of Criminalization in Canada: Reflections on an Objectifying Discourse,”  Colin Hastings, York University

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

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Stuck behind kitchen doors? Assessing the work prospects of latter-generation Latino workers in a Los Angeles Restaurant,” Eli R. Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Our Great Hobby’: The Construction of Legal Consciousness in Online Networks for Buyers of Sex in Illinois,” Lara Janson, University of Chicago

Sutherland Book Award Winner: Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness, University of California Press, December 2014

William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award: No Award Given

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Child Welfare Reporting and Poor Urban Mothers’ Disengagement,” Kelley Fong, Harvard University

Michael Harrington Award: No award given 

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner:“Racial Micro-aggressions in the Labor Market and Workplace in Australia," Yao-Tai Li, University of California, San Diego

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: “Rape and Racial Appraisals: Culture, Intersectionality, and Black Women’s Accounts of Sexual Assault,” C. Shawn McGuffey, Du Bois Review 10(1): 109-130, 2013

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Honorable Mention: “Race, Space, and Cumulative Disadvantage: A Case Study of the Subprime Lending Collapse,” Jacob S. Rugh, Len Albright, and Douglas S. Massey, Social Problems, Volume 62, Issue 2: 186-218, 2015

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation,”  Trenton D. Mize and Bianca Manago, Indiana University

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

Paper Award: “Science and Sociodicy: Neuroscientific Explanations of Social Problems,” Michael Halpin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Reclaiming the Commons, Activating Space: A Dual Genealogy,” Nate Ela, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Book Award Co-Winner: Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness, University of California Press, December 2014

Book Award Co-Winner: Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of California Press, September 2015

SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “American Indian Suicide Ideation: A Review of Adolescent and Early Adult differences using General Strain Theory,”  Jerreed D. Ivanich, University of Nebraska Lincoln

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health Winner: Peter Conrad, Brandeis University

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner:“Negotiating Privacy in the Context of Poverty: Poor Mothers and the Social Safety Net,” Cayce C. Hughes, University of Chicago 

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “What the Action Is: Flow, Risk, and Gender in a Fire Community,”  Kathryn Hendricks, University of Chicago

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Courting Equality? An Ethnographic Account of Disparities and Differential Treatment within a Youth Non-Profit Tennis Program,” Sarah Catherine Billups, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: No award given

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Alzheimer’s Disease Disparities: The Impact of the Great Depression and Cumulative Inequality on Cognitive Decline,” Jo Mhairi Hale, University of California, Davis

Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: Dr. Tamara G.J. Leech, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI