2020 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "‘Enclaves of Poverty’ or ‘Homes That Last?’: Temporality, Strategy, and Competing Ideologies in the Preservation of Affordable Homeownership," Allison S. Reed, University of Chicago
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Race vs. Ethnicity?: How Indo-Caribbeans Navigate Ethno-racial Ambiguity in New York Politics,” Anjanette M. Chan Tack, University of Chicago, Honorable Mention in the Community Research and Development Division’s Student Paper Competition
Community Partner Paper Award: No award given
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Beyond Elites and Movements: Subterranean Activism and Anti-corruption Reform," Luiz H. Vilaça, University of Notre Dame
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Social Media, Selective Transparency, and Pursuing Legitimation of Police Violence," Tony Cheng, Yale University
Scholarly Achievement Award: Kristen M. Budd, Miami University
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Blindness Imagination: Chinese Pre-modern Perspective on Visual Disability," Nan Lin Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: "‘Fake’ Disabilities and Drug Money: Everyday Welfare Surveillance in the Opioid Era," Kristina P. Brant, Harvard University
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Cultural Sidelining: How Campus Cultures across University Contexts Shortchange Working-class, Hispanic Students," Alma Nidia Garza, University of California, Irvine
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "In School for After School: The Relationship between Extracurricular Participation and School Engagement," Karlyn J. Gorski, University of Chicago
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "The Racialized, Classed, and Gendered Logics of School-based Criminal Justice Interventions," Mai Thai, Indiana University, Bloomington
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: "Like Wildfire: Creating Rumor Content in the Face of Disaster" Rebecca G. Ewert, University of Chicago
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
GENDER DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Rightful Bargaining: Rural Women Making Claims for Social Provisions in China," Ruijie Peng, The University of Texas at Austin
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Gender Polarization: When and Where Partisanship Shapes Women’s U.S. Political Representation", Morgan C. Matthews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Women Left Behind: Migration, Agency and the Pakistani Woman," Sarah Ahmed, University of Oregon
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences ‘Developing’ Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations," Danielle Falzon, Brown University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Marrying into Overseas Labor Markets, Laboring into Local Marriageability: Gendered Migration Strategies in Global Vietnam," Phung N. Su, University of California, Berkley
Global Book Award Winner: The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila, Marco Z. Garrido, University of Chicago Press, 2019
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "The Role of Science in Shaping Surveillance of Pregnant Bodies: The Case of WIC," Annie McGlynn-Wright, Tulane University
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: "Invisibilizing Politics: Accepting and Legitimating Ignorance in Environmental Sciences," June Jeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism: No award given
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: "Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation in International Migration from Indonesia" Andy Scott Chang, University of California, Berkeley
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: No award given
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "The Segregated Decline of Child Care and the Political Origins of Organizational Deprivation," Jennifer W. Bouek, Brown University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Simulating Poverty and Stimulating Change", Samantha Plummer, Columbia University
Michael Harrington Award Winner: Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard University
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Immigration Discourse, Race-based Resource Allocation, and Political Identification: An Experiment" Victoria Shantrell Asbury, Harvard University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Beyond the Binary: Intraracial Diversity in Family Organization and Black Adolescents’ Educational Performance," Christina Cross, Harvard University
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: Ray, Victor. (2019). “A Theory of Racialized Organizations.” American Sociological Review 84(1): 26-53
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions, Amaka Okechukwu, Columbia University Press, 2019
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Dual Legal Consciousness of Transgender Rights-seekers: Reinforcing Legal Hegemony through Demands for Inclusion," Kyla Bender-Baird, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Article Award Winner: No award given
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "When Noxious Ties Help (or Do No Harm): The Case of Addiction," Joseph Wallerstein, Harvard University
Book Award: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard University Press, 2019
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Feeling like a Freak: Men Baton Twirlers, Compulsory Masculinity, and the Fag Discourse," Trenton M. Haltom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "#ImWithKap: Celebrity Influence, Frame Diffusion, and Youth Activism," Shaonta' Allen, University of Cincinnati
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: "Grandparenthood, Grandparenting, and Working Longer: Do the Genders of Grandparent and of Grandchild’s Parent Matter?," In Jeong Hwang, Harvard University
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: No award given
