COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Interviews as Interaction: Peer-Interviews in Participatory Action Research,” Abby I. Templer Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Community Partner Paper Award Winner: No award given

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Political Opportunity Structures and Frame Contraction in Non-Receptive Contexts: Insights from Anti-Execution Movement in Iran,” Hadi Khoshneviss, University of South Florida

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Rules of (Dis)Engagement: Black Youth and their Strategies for Navigating Police Contact in NYC,” Brittany Fox-Williams, Columbia University

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

DISABILITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: No award given

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Subject, Agent, Object, Other: Zoom, PnP and Crystal Methamphetamine,” Dean Ray, York University

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Choosing Late: Considering Late Registration in School Choice,” Kelley Fong, Harvard University and Sarah Faude, Northeastern University

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Elites, Embeddedness, and Environmental Inequality: Examining the Growth in Farmland Acquisition in Brazilian Sugarcane,” Ian Robert Carrillo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

FAMILY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “When Mothers Can’t ‘Pay the Cost to be the Boss’: Roles and Identity within Doubled-Up Households,” Hope Harvey, Harvard University

Runner-Up Award Winner: “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother: Kin Support Strategies of the Black Middle Class,” Jasmine D. Hill, Stanford University

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Paper Award Winner: “La Vía Campesina and Standing Rock: Possibilities for Food, Water, and Climate Justice Amidst Global Expulsions?” Caitlin H. Schroering, University of Pittsburgh

GLOBAL DIVISION BOOK AWARD

Winner: Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil, Tianna S. Paschel, Princeton University Press, 2016

Honorable Mention: Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities, Chad Broughton, Oxford University Press, 2015

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Critique, Reform, and Accountability: The Rise of Quantification in United States Health Care Delivery Policy, 1965-2015,” Taylor M. Cruz, University of California, San Francisco

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “Ruling Texts Intersect: An Institutional Ethnographic Scoping Review and Policy Analysis of Family Caregivers’ Information Work,” Nicole K. Dalmer, University of Western Ontario

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: Gary Kinsman, Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “One Transnational Project, Two Labor Regimes: The Workers’ Experience with Labor Process and Racialization on a Chinese Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador,” Rui Jie Peng, University of Texas at Austin

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Medicalized Citizenship: Transgender Rights Claims in Employment Discrimination Court Decisions,” Kyla Bender-Baird, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of Minnesota

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Wealth, Race, and Place: How Neighborhood Disadvantage from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap at Age 50,” Brian Louis Levy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Legal Discrimination and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality in the Contemporary Houston Housing Market,” Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “‘I’m not Spanish, I’m from Spain’: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity,” José G. Soto-Marquez, New York University

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court, Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Stanford University Press, 2016  

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil, Tianna S. Paschel, Princeton University Press, 2016

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: “Criminal Justice Through ‘Colorblind’ Lenses: A Call to Examine the Mutual Constitution of Race and Criminal Justice,” Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve and Lauren Mayes, Law & Social Inquiry 40(2): 406-432, 2015

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Honorable Mention: “Toward a Critical Race Theory of State,” Glenn E. Bracey, Critical Sociology 41(3): 553-572, 2015

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Telling ‘Our’ Stories: Collectivity and Fragmentation in the LGBTQ+ Movement,” Julie Gouweloos, McMaster University

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “How Racial Formation and Inequality Happen in Urban Housing Markets,” Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico

Article Award Winner: “Moral Panic, Moral Breach: Bernhard Goetz, George Zimmerman, and Racialized News Reporting in Contested Cases of Self-Defense,” Jennifer Carlson, Social Problems 63:1: 1-20, 2016

SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Long-Term Mental Health Impact of Early Pregnancy and Unfulfilled Educational Expectations Among Black and White Women,” Noreen Kohl, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health Winner: Dr. Allan V. Horwitz, Rutgers University

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Who Gets ‘Housing First’?: Determining Eligibility in an Era of Housing First Homelessness,” Melissa Osborne, University of Chicago 

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “A Tilted Playing Field: Expertise and the Institutional Reproduction of Sex Difference,” Madeleine Pape, University of Wisconsin-Madison

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Relevance of Teaching Social Problems in a Diverse World,” Penny M. Harvey, Georgia State University

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Relational Resources: Poverty, Peer Support and Adolescent Wellbeing,” Jasmin Sandelson, Harvard University

Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: Dr. Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western Reserve University