2022 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Community Partner Paper Award Winner: Suzan M. Walters, Rebecca S. Bolinski, Ellen Almirol, Stacy Grundy, Scott Fletcher, John Schneider, Samuel R. Friedman, Lawrence J. Ouellet, Danielle C. Ompad, Wiley Jenkins, and Mai T. Pho. 2022. “Structural and Community Changes during COVID-19 and Their Effects on Overdose Precursors among Rural People Who Use Drugs: A Mixed-methods Analysis.” Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 17: 24
Community Partner Paper Award Honorable Mention: Andrea N. Polonijo, Karine Dubé, Jerome T. Galea, Karah Yeona Greene, Jeff Taylor, Christopher Christensen, and Brandon Brown. 2022. “Attitudes Toward Payment for Research Participation: Results from a U.S. Survey of People Living with HIV.” AIDS and Behavior
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Policy Relay: How Affirmative Consent Went from Controversy to Convention,” Katelyn Rose Malae, University of California, Irvine
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “White Kids on the Block: On Race, Identity, and Criminality Among Incarcerated White Youth,” Julissa O. Muñiz, The University of Texas at Austin and Jessica M. W. Marshall, Northwestern University
Scholarly Achievement Award Winner: Matthew DelSesto, Boston College
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “False Confession in Wrongful Convictions: An Analysis of Age, Cognitive Disability, and False Confession among Exonerees,” Eileen L. Huey, Texas A&M University
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: No award given
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Co-Winner: “Brokers & Boundary Managers: School Expulsions Amidst the Non-Punitive Turn,” Rebecca Gleit, Stanford University
Paper Award Co-Winner: “‘You Selling?’: Snack Sales and the Construction of Deviance in a High School,” Karlyn J. Gorski, The University of Chicago
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Immigrant Age-At-Arrival, Social Capital, and College Enrollment," Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis
Paper Award Honorable Mention: "Hospice Education: Palliative Schooling in the Age of Equity," Jienian Zhang, University of Wisconsin- Madison
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “The Business of Adaptation in Bangladesh,” Danielle Falzon, Brown University
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘He Was Able to Rely on Me’: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families,” Estéfani Marín, University of California, Irvine
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “What’s Love Got to Do with It? How LGBTQ Youth’s Relationship with Their Caregiver Impacts Their Well-being in and out of Foster Care,” Heather M. Lepper-Pappan, The University of Oklahoma
GENDER DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Negotiating Utopia: Ethnography and Theorizing from Entangled US Trans Subjectivities,” prabhdeep singh kehal, Brown University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Patriarchal State Projects and the Exploitation of Women and Femininities: A Case Study of Japan’s Sex Industry and Gendered Expansionism (1870s-1950s),” Noelie Frix, Kansas State University
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “From Black Lives Matter to EndSARS: Women’s Socio-political Power and the Transnational Movement for Black Lives,” Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma, Harvard University
Book Award Winner: At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global Aids Crisis, Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press, 2021
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Lived Experiences of Ethical Responsibility in Care Work Occupations: The Case of Nurses, Teachers, and Social Workers,” Lilla K. Pivnick, Tennessee Department of Education
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: No award given
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: Naomi Nichols, Trent University
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Workers and Their Foes: Low-autonomy Precarious Work in the Service Triad,” Taylor Laemmli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “The Right to Mobility: A Critical Examination of Citizenship, Territorial Expansion, and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States,” Nathalie P. Rita, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Winner: No award given
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Protected Ties: How Renters Mobilize Their Social Networks to Find Homes in Los Angeles,” Steven E. Schmidt, University of California, Irvine
Michael Harrington Award Winner: Joan Maya Mazelis, Rutgers University-Camden
Michael Harrington Honorable Mention: Korey Tillman, University of New Mexico
RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘The Camera is My Weapon’: How Black Men Use Cellphones to Negotiate Safety and Status amid Police Surveillance,” Brandon Alston, Northwestern University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “White Victimhood as Organizational Decoupling: The Case of Anti-White Hate Crime Reporting,” Jesse Yeh, University of Michigan
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Co-Winner: Clair, Matthew. 2021. “Criminalized Subjectivity: Du Boisian Sociology and Visions for Legal Change.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 18(2), 289-319
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Co-Winner: Garcia, Rocío R., “Latinx Feminist Politicmaking: On the Necessity of Messiness in Collective Action,”">Mobilization: An International Quarterly (December 2020) 25:4: 441-460
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life, B. Brian Foster, The University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: The Browning of the New South, Jennifer A. Jones, The University of Chicago Press, 2019
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Article Award Winner: Moussawi, Ghassan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. 2020. “A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness.” Sociological Forum 35 (4), 1272-1287
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Agency and Constraint in Migration Scholarship: A Relational and Transformative Approach,” Emma-Claire LaSaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Book Award Winner: Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism, Laurel Westbrook, University of California Press, 2020
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Sent to the Hole: Restricted Housing Unit (RHU) Reform for Individuals with Severe Mental Health Diagnoses,” Shannon Magnuson, George Mason University
James R. Greenley 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: “Partner Dance Businesses, Demographic Aging, and the Urban Revival in South Korea,” Yu-Ri Kim, Vanderbilt University
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families,” Vanessa Delgado, University of California, Irvine
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Growing Into Unequal Adulthoods: Daughters’ Responsibilities in Financially Struggling and Stable White Families,” Annaliese Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: No award given