2021 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Rethinking Migration-development Nexus in China: Why Chinese Ethnic-minority Migrant Workers Persist in the Precarious Urban Labor Market,” Rui Jie Peng, The University of Texas at Austin
Community Partner Paper Award Winner: No award given
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Restoring Social Order: How CASH and the Urban Rebellions Produced Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.,” Daniel G. McClymonds, University of Pittsburgh
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The ‘Lottery’ of Rape Reporting: Secondary Victimization and Swedish Criminal Justice Professionals,” Caitlin P. Carroll, The University of Texas at Austin
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: How Formerly Incarcerated Men Navigate the Labor Market with Prison Credentials,” Sadé Lindsay, The Ohio State University
Scholarly Achievement Award Winner: No award given
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘When You Get into This World, You’re Constantly Connected to Things’: Creating and Reproducing Cultural Capital for People with Disabilities Participating in the Arts,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, University of South Florida
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Neighborhoods and Health: Assessing ‘Neighborhood Effects’ on Accidental Drug Deaths,” Christopher Contreras, University of California, Irvine
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Bridging Institutional Logics: Implementing Naloxone Distribution for People Exiting Jail in Three California Counties,” David Showalter, University of California, Berkeley
Senior Scholar Award Winner: Samuel R. Friedman, New York University Medical School
Junior Scholar Award Winner: Kathryn M. Nowotny, University of Miami University
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Qué Vergüenza: Ambiguity around Diversity and Inclusion and How National Scholarship Recipients Became Ashamed of What Once Made Them Most Proud,” Sandra V. Portocarrero, Columbia University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Status Competitions in the Digital Era: Degree-seeking, Public Credentialism, and Informal Counseling in Two Taiwanese Social Media Sites,” Ruo-Fan Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Climate Change Concern among Youth: The Unexamined Role of Civics Education and Institutional Trust in Elevating Cross-national Climate Change Risk Perceptions,” Erika L. Kessler, Teachers College and Columbia University
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Materializing Inequality: The Production of Environmental Risks for Small-scale Farmers in the Palm Oil Industry,” Angela Serrano Zapata, University of Wisconsin-Madison
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
GENDER DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Let’s (Re)Tweet about Racism and Sexism: Responses to Cyber Aggression toward Black and Asian Women,” Paulina d. C. Inara Rodis, Pennsylvania State University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “(Un)Veiled Expectations: Muslimah Influencers and the Politics of Dejabbing on Social Media,” Inaash Islam, Virginia Tech
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Masculine Distinction: Family Formation and the Emergence of Class Identities in Post-communist Vietnam,” Phung N. Su, University of California, Berkeley
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Love of Money: Rewards of Care for India’s Women Community Health Workers,” Vrinda Marwah, The University of Texas at Austin
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “The Rainbow Nation and the Gays It Excludes: Homonationalism in a Modern South Africa,” Miriam Gleckman-Krut, University of Michigan
Book Award Winner: Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil, Jessica Lynn Graham, University of California Press, 2019
Book Award Winner: Walkable Cities: Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption, Carlos J. L. Balsas, SUNY Press, 2019
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Occupational Requirements of Care Work and Inflammation among Early-career Care Workers,” Lilla K. Pivnick, The University of Texas at Austin
Scholarship Winner: “The Impact of School-entry Mandates on Social Inequalities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination,” Andrea N. Polonijo, University of California, Merced
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: No award given
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Co-Winners: Frank Ridzi, Le Moyne College and Central New York Community Foundation and Frank Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “The Two-employer Problem: Strategic Dilemmas at the Heart of the Tipped Wage Debate,” Hanna Goldberg, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Harry Braverman Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Framing Relative Deprivation: An Analysis of the Role of Social Comparison in Contemporary Teacher Protest Strikes,” Amanda J. Brockman, Vanderbilt University
Harry Braverman Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Economic Instability and Child Protection: Evidence from State Administrative Data,” Julie Yixia Cai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Police-community Relations as an Alternative System of Neighborhood Representation,” Tony Cheng, Yale University
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court, Matthew Clair, Princeton University Press, 2020
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Runner-Up: Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, Victoria Reyes, Stanford University Press, 2019
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: In Someone Else's Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic, Trenita Brookshire Childers, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Beyond Behavior: Prevalences, Penalties, Ethno-racial Inequalities in Poverty,” D. Adam Nicholson, Indiana University
Michael Harrington Award Co-Winners: Matthew Clair, Stanford University and Jacob William Faber, New York University
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “How Gender Shapes Racial Alignment: Gendered Racial Schemas and Black/Asian Ethno-Racial Identity Choice” Anjanette M. Chan Tack, University of Chicago
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Discursive Interactions: Racial Ideologies, Discourses, and Socialization in Latinx Families,” Maria D. Duenas, University of California, Merced
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: Maria G. Rendón, Adriana Aldana, and Laureen D. Hom. 2018. “Children of Latino Immigrants Framing Race: Making Sense of Criminalisation in a Colour-blind Era.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46:11, 2407-2425
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica, Jovan Scott Lewis, University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Runner Up: Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, University of Minnesota Press, 2020
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Sex on the Streets and in the Margins: Homelessness, Sexual Citizenship, and Justice,” Jess Goldstein-Kral and Jamie O’Quinn, The University of Texas at Austin
Book Award Winner: No award given
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils,” Joshua H. Stout, University of Delaware
Article Award Winner: John N. Robinson III. 2020. “Making Markets on the Margins: Housing Finance Agencies and the Racial Politics of Credit Expansion,” American Journal of Sociology, 125:4, 974-1029
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Hidden Injuries of Assimilation: Subjective Assimilation as Internalized Racism and Its Effect on Mental Health,” Jienian Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
James R. Greenley Award Winner: Fernando I. Rivera, University of Central Florida
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘Hurry Up and Wait’: Stigma, Poverty, and Contractual Citizenship,” Katherine L. Mott, Syracuse University
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering,” Isabel García Valdivia, University of California, Berkeley
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: No award given