COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Contemporary Defended Neighborhood: Maintaining Stability in a Diverse Community,” Joy Kadowaki, Purdue University

Community Partner Paper Award: No award given

CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Displacing Natives: Social Movement Influence over Mascot Change at Colleges and Universities,” Noemi Linares-Ramirez, University of California, Irvine

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Hearing from Both Sides: The Role of Dual-narrative Tours in Global Movements for Social Justice, Resistance, and Change in Israel/Palestine,” Emily Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara

CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Luck of the Draw: Exploring the Effects of Parole Board Composition upon Parole Release Decisions,” Kristen L. Hourigan, California State University, Los Angeles and Allison Houston, University at Albany, SUNY

DISABILITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Tell me your Story – Quota Compliance and the Pitfalls of new Recruitment Tools,” Lisa Danielle Buchter, Northwestern University, CSO (Sciences Po)

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Multiple Victimizations and Overdose among Women in a Harm Reduction Program,” Janna Ataiants, Drexel University

EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Intensity of College Preparation and Socioeconomic Background: A Mechanism for Equal Access?” Kevin McElrath, Stony Brook University

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Contradictions of Solidarity: Whiteness, Settler Coloniality, and the Mainstream Environmental Movement,” Joe Curnow and Anjali Helferty, University of Toronto

FAMILY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Extended Family Households among U.S. Children: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and SES,” Christina Cross, University of Michigan

Paper Award Runner-Up: “Racial Disparities in the Foster Care System,” Bethany Smith, Baylor University

GLOBAL DIVISION/CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Paper Award Winner: “Making Cold War Migrants: Vietnamese in Divided Germany,” Phi Hong Su, University of California, Los Angeles

GLOBAL DIVISION BOOK AWARD

Winner: Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India, Z. Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Oxford University Press, 2017

Honorable Mention: Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India, Manjusha Nair, George Mason University, SUNY Press, 2016

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Embodied Disruption: ‘Sorting Out’ Gender and Nonconformity in the Doctor’s Office,” Emily Allen Paine, University of Texas at Austin

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “The ‘Equity Work’ of the Activist Educator: Critical Re-imagining of Schools,” Alison Fisher, York University

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

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Welfare Capitalism and the Corporate Construction of the Precarious Worker,” Amanda McMillan Lequieu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Ambiguity and Accountability: The Expansion of Legal Fines and Fees in Texas, 1985-2015,” Kevin Dahaghi, University of Texas at Austin

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

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Economic Exchange and Relational Work within Doubled-up Households,” Hope Harvey, Harvard University

Michael Harrington Award: No award given

RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Policing to Segregate: Sketching the Contours of an Eviction Regime in Suburban Los Angeles,” Rahim Kurwa, University of California, Los Angeles

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: The Scholar Denied: The W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Aldon Morris, Northwestern University, University of California Press, 2015

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Harvard University, University of Chicago Press, 2016

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: “No Rest for the Weary: The Weight of Race, Gender, and Place inside and outside a Southern Classroom,” Barbara Harris Combs, Clark Atlanta University, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(4): 491-505, 2016

SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Navigating Reproductive Inequalities: Emotion Work among Lesbian Couples during the Transition to Parenthood,” Sierra Holland, University of Florida

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Claiming Racial Insider Status while LGB: Same-sex Marriage and Racialized Politics of Respectability,” Jess Lee, University of California Irvine

SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “The Pity Economy: Panhandling and the Valorization of Misfortune,” Joseph Wallerstein, Harvard University

Book Award: No award given

SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Exiters of Religious Fundamentalism: Reconstruction of Social Relationships and Support Related to Mental Well-being,” Andreea Nica, Portland State University

James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health Winner: Dr. Rogelio Saenz, University of Texas at San Antonio

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: "Hostile Architecture Aimed at People Experiencing Homelessness in Boston, Massachusetts: A Spatial Analysis,” Caitlin A. Carey, University of Massachusetts Boston 

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “Techno-physical Feminism: Surveillance, Anti-rape Technology and Shifting Risk Paradigms,” Renee M. Shelby, Georgia Tech

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Tenuous Cosmopolitan Canopies: Youth Soccer and Race in the United States,” Alex Manning, University of Minnesota

Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Gender Transgressors in the Change Room: Exploring a Site of Exclusion,” Ali Greey, University of Toronto

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: "An Assessment of Learning: Understanding Empathy Change in Sociology Undergraduates," Ashley Rockwell, Leanna Greenwood, Penny Harvey and Chris Vidmar, Georgia State University

YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION

Paper Award Winner: “From the Hood to the Home: Masculinity Reformation of Chicago Street Gang Members,” John Leverso and Christian Hess, University of Washington

Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: Dr. Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota