2023 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Community Partner Paper Award Winner: No award given
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
CRIME AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIVISION
Paper Award Co-Winner: “Race, Misconduct, and Disciplinary Action in United States Prisons,” Sydney Ingel, George Mason University
Paper Award Co-Winner: “The ‘Adjacency Hypothesis’: Racial Threat and Criminal Justice Policy,” Caylin Louis Moore, Stanford University
Scholarly Achievement Award Winner: No award given
CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Let’s Talk About Race, Baby: How Interracial and Interethnic Relationships Affect East Asian Women’s Racial Ideologies,” Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “‘Where Does Your Christ Come From?’ Exploring the Significance and the Prevalence of the White Jesus Phenomenon among Black Baptist Women and Men,” Stephanie M. House-Niamke, West Virginia University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Public Perceptions of Police in Street-identified Black American Community: The Impacts of Neighborhood Factors,” Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: Gonzalez, Shannon Malone, Faith M. Deckard, “‘We Got Witnesses’ Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement,” Social Problems, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac043
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA, Nadia Y. Kim, Stanford University Press, 2021
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award is given
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: “Welfare, Punishment, and the Social Policy of Addiction Treatment,” Josh Aleksanyan, Columbia University
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Commodification of Diversity in the Context of School Choice,” J’Mauri Jackson, University of Michigan
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “The Labeling Power of CRT: Measuring Support for School Content using a Survey Experiment,” Andrew Myers and Crista Urena Hernandez, Indiana University
Book Award Winner: The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth, Derron Wallace, Oxford University Press, 2023
Book Award Honorable Mention: Care-Based Methodologies: Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools, Veena Vasudevan, Nora Gross, Pavithra Nagarajan, Katherine Clonan-Roy, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
Contribution of the Discipline Award Winner: Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Drought and Settler Colonialism in the Tohono during the Mid-twentieth Century,” Allison Ramirez Madia, University of California, Los Angeles
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
GENDER DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Gendered Money and Relational Work: Women’s Money and Labor in Matrimonial Disputes in India,” Upasana Garnaik, The University of Texas at Austin
Article Award Winner: Shuster. Stef M., and Laurel Westbrook, Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy, Social Problems, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac034
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Affirming Blackness in a Colorblind Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Racial Ideologies and Ethnoracial Categories in Response to Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians,” Demetrius Miles Murphy, University of Southern California
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “‘I am Born on the Land of Pakistan. I am Pakistani’: Terric Nationalism among Hindu Pakistanis,” Syeda Q. Masood, Brown University
Book Award Co-Winner: A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism, Jordanna Matlon, Cornell University Press, 2022
Book Award Co-Winner: Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh, Kasia Paprocki, Cornell University Press, 2021
Book Award Co-Winner: Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City, Zachary Levenson, Oxford University Press, 2022
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Scholarship Award Winner: Barbara Katz Rothman, The Graduate Center, CUNY for her book, “The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Stanford University Press, 2021
Scholarship Award Winner: William Cabin, Associate Adjunct Professor at NYU and Hunter College Schools of Social Work, for his body of work focused primarily on the Medicare home health and hospice benefits
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: No award given
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: No award given
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: No award given
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Prosecution for Services: How Access to Services through the Criminal Legal System Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions,” Chiara Clio Packard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Deportation Defense Funds: Innovative or Continuing Inequalities?” Blanca A. Ramirez, University of Southern California
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation, Daanika Gordon, NYU Press, 2022
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice, Stacy Burns and Mark Peyrot, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘From the Dark Side of the Valley’: Making Power in Las Colonias in the Era of New Federalism,” Bobby Cervantes, Harvard University
Article Award Winner: Gonzales, Teresa Irene, Elizabeth M. Thissell, and Soumitra Thorat, “The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindess, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest,” Rural Sociology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12461
Article Award Winner: Jack, Anthony Abraham and Zennon Black, “Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University,” Social Problems, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac051
Article Award Winner: Mayorga, Sarah, Megan Underhill, and Lauren Crosser, “I Hate That Food Lion”: Grocery Shopping, Racial Capitalism, and Everyday Disinvestment. City & Community, 21(3), 238–255, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841221091811
Michael Harrington Award Winner: Junia Howell, University of Illinois Chicago
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Chicken or the Egg? Behavioral-Attitudinal Feedback Loops for Premarital Sex” Michelle Eilers, The University of Texas at Austin
Book Award Winner: A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises Behind Military Inclusion, Cati Connell, University of California Press, 2022
Book Award Honorable Mention: Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer Men, Doug Meyer, University of California Press, 2022
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Theory with Consequents: Theories of Neoliberalism in the Study of Social Problems,” Justin Lucas Sola, University of California, Irvine
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Egalitarian Attitudes as Mechanisms for Status Enhancement: Social and Symbolic Benefits for Men Who Support Gender Equality,” Katharine Khanna, Columbia University
Article Award Winner: Shuster. Stef M., and Laurel Westbrook, Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy, Social Problems, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac034
Article Award Honorable Mention: Isaac, Larry W., Jonathan S. Coley, Quan D. Mai, and Anna W. Jacobs, Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes, American Journal of Sociology, March 2022, 127:5, 1602–1663, https://doi.org/10.1086/719424
Article Award Honorable Mention: Savelsberg, Joachim J., Writing Biography in the Face of Cultural Trauma: Nazi Descent and the Management of Spoiled Identities, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2022, 10(1), 34-64, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-020-00125-8
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
James R. Greenley Award Winner: Pamela Braboy Jackson, Indiana University Bloomington
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
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: “Envisioning Opportunities to College Admissions: Social Capital in the Development of Students’ College Plans,” Ruo-Fan Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: Jonathan Coley, Oklahoma State University
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Honorable Mention: Christopher J. Douçot, Central Connecticut State University