2019 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Political Participation of African Immigrants in the United States: A Theoretical Analysis of Nonprofits’ Involvement,” Olanike Ojelabi, University of Massachusetts Boston
Community Partner Paper Award: “Fighting Anti-homeless Laws Through Participatory Action Research” Lisa Marie Alatorre, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, Bilal Ali, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, Jennifer Friedenbach, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, Chris Herring, University of California, Berkeley, TJ Johnston, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, and Dilara Yarbrough, San Francisco State University
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “From Circumstance to Company: Landlord Context and Behaviors towards Tenants,” Doron R. Shiffer-Sebba, University of Pennsylvania
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Limits of Expectations and the Normalization of Collateral Consequences: Experience of Electronic Home Monitoring,” Gabriela Kirk, Northwestern University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Pretrial Detention and Employment: Local Carceral Inequality,” Christopher Thomas, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Stuck in Transition with You: Variable Pathways to In(ter)dependence for Emerging Adult Men with Mobility Impairments,” J. Dalton Stevens, Syracuse University
Honorable Mention: “More Than Therapy: Conformity and Resistance in an Organizational Narrative of Disability and the Performing Arts,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, University of South Florida
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Cannabis Conundrum: Exploratory Research on Demographic Differences in Approval of Marijuana Legalization in the US,” Kathryn L. Burnham, Erin Hudnall and Robert L. Nicewarner, West Virginia University
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Contending with the Double Bind: How Student-parent Expectations Matter for First-generation College Experiences and Outcomes,” Melissa Osborne, University of Chicago
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Mapping Social Spaces: The Divergent Experiences of First-generation Students in Graduate School,” Michael A. Miner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “A Cloud with no Silver Lining: The Bhopal Disaster and the Slow Violence of Social and Environmental Destruction,” Nikhil Deb, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Habitus of Ignorance: Ease and Legitimation of Ignorance in the Advanced Bioenergy Center,” June Jeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘I Am My Own Person,’ Women’s Agency Inside and Outside the Home in Rural Pakistan,” Sarah Ahmed, University of Oregon
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women,” Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan
Global Book Award Winner: The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa, Ching Kwan Lee, The University of Chicago Press, 2017
Global Book Award Honorable Mention: Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom, Elizabeth Bernstein, The University of Chicago Press, 2018
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Moralizing the Opioid Shortage: Race, Pain, and Interpretations of Resource Scarcity in an Urban Hospital,” Alexandra E. Brewer, University of Chicago
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “Institutional Ethnography and Critical Race Feminism: Unlocking Institutional Policy,” Sarah Lewington, McGill University
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: Praxis International
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Passive Privatization: Evaluating Regulatory Response to the Uberization of the American City,” Andrew B. Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “From Broken Windows to Broken Doors: Policing the ‘Sanctuary City’ and the Anti-sanctuary Suburb in Greater NYC and Greater LA, 2002-2017,” Michael Alexander Gould-Wartofsky, New York University
Sutherland Book Award Winner: Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, Trevor Hoppe, University of California Press, 2017
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Michael Harrington Award Co-Winners: Dr. Johanna Foster, Monmouth University and Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Bowdoin College
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘Blacks Here are Racist against Whites’: White Identifying Brazilian Immigrants’ Perception of African American Racism,” Rodrigo Serrao, University of South Florida
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “‘You Know, We’re Just Having a Good Time’: Masking Racism and Foregrounding Fun in Cosplay,” Manuel A. Ramirez, University of Connecticut
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Monica M. White, The University of North Carolina Press, 2018
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: Jennifer C. Mueller, Producing Colorblindness: Everyday Mechanisms of White Ignorance, Social Problems, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 219–238
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Social Control Beyond Deviance: The Process of Valorization in Community Policing,” Mai Thai, Indiana University Bloomington
Article Award: Joosse, Paul. 2018. ‘Expanding Moral Panic Theory to include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs.’ British Journal of Criminology 58(4): 993-1012
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
James R. Greenley Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health Winner: Dr. Verna M. Keith, University of Alabama at Birmingham
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Social Work Responses to Racial Inequity in Higher Education Retention: A Historical Case Study of the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Program Structure and Its Success,” Zita Dixon, Brandeis University
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “A Struggle by any Other Name: Towards a Pedagogy of Antiracist Solidarity,” Annie Hikido, Colby College
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Staying and Aging in Rural Hinterland: Women’s Care Work and Emotional Labor in Supporting Two Generations of Urban Migrant Workers,” Ruijie Peng, The University of Texas at Austin
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: Laurie Schaffner, University of Illinois at Chicago