2024 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Community Partner Paper Award Winner: Dutta, U., Azad, A. K., Mullah, M., Hussain, K. S., & Parveez, W. (2022). From Rhetorical “Inclusion” toward Decolonial Futures: Building Communities of Resistance against Structural Violence. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69, 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12561
Community Partner Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Queering College Sports: LGBTQ+-inclusive Athletic Department Policies at U.S. Colleges and Universities,” Jonathan S. Coley and Gabby Gomez, Oklahoma State University, AJ Kurtz, and Anna Baeth, Athlete Ally
Community Partner Paper Award Honorable Mention: Roll, M., Almansi, F., Hardoy, J., Gatti, S., Samios, A., Turmena, L., Campos, M., & Zubicaray, G. (2024). Urban Labs beyond Europe: The Formation and Contextualization of Experimental Climate Governance in Five Latin American Cities. Environment and Urbanization, 36(1), 173-194. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478241230462
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Overcoming a Protest-phobic Culture through Cultural Countermeasures: The Flower Demo Movement against Sexual Violence in Japan,” Kanoko Kamata, University of Pittsburgh
CRIME AND JUSTICE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Enclaves,” Anna D. Fox, The University of Chicago
Scholarly Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Stephanie Bonnes, University of New Haven
CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Broken Bond or Resilient Threads: Understanding Social Cohesion in Black American Streets,” Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: Tillman, Korey. Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence. Social Problems, Volume 70, Issue 3, August 2023, Pages 635–649. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac003
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Honorable Mention: Smith-Tran, A. (2023). “There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing”: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of “Black Don’t Crack” and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work. Sociological Perspectives, 66(3), 419-433. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214221139441
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, University of Minnesota Press, 2023
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Honorable Mention: Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Bobby J. Smith II, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023
DISABILITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: No award given
Senior Scholar Award Winner: Dr. Ellen Benoit, North Jersey Community Research Initiative
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “A Moral Dilemma of ‘Selling Out’: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students,” Joyce Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “‘If I’m Going to be an Ally, I Have to Walk the Walk’: Negotiating Occupational Activism within K-12 Educational Contexts,” Jessica L. Schachle-Gordon, Oklahoma State University
Book Award Winner: Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb, Sean J. Drake, University of California Press, 2022
Contribution of the Discipline Award Winner: Dr. Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “Environmental Risk and the Reorganization of Urban Inequality in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century,” Jonathan Tollefson, Brown University
FAMILY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Quotidian Homonationalism: Green Card Adjudication, Immigration Law, and Liberal Inclusion of Same-sex Binational Marriages,” Juhwan Seo, Cornell University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Estimating the Effects of Additional Placements on Internalizing Symptoms Using Quasi-Experimental Design,” Rin Ferraro, The University of Oklahoma
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Yes, Dear; Yes, Queer: Division of Household Labor among Queer Couples,” Ami Mariko Hood Frost, The University of Oklahoma
GENDER DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “State Predation? How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Women,” Raquel Guzman Delerme, University of Southern California
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “The Lived Experiences of Beauty and Grammars of the Maricada in the Colombian Insular Caribbean,” Ange La Furcia, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Article Award Winner: Westbrook, Laurel. (2023). “The Matrix of Violence: Intersectionality and Necropolitics in the Murder of Transgender People in the United States, 1990–2019”. Gender & Society, 37(3), 413-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231171172
Article Award Honorable Mention: Chen, Melinda. “‘Are You-?’ ‘Are You?’ Queer Advocacy at Contemporary Neoliberal Rape Crisis Centers”. Violence Against Women, 29(15-16), 3072-3100. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231192606
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Critical Phenomenology of Citizenship and Protest Spaces: Online Anti-immigration Movement Discourse in India,” Chetna Khandelwal, University of Calgary
Book Award Winner: Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Princeton University Press, 2022
Book Award Honorable Mention: Activism Under Fire: The Politics of Non-violence in Rio de Janeiro’s Gang Territories, Anjuli Fahlberg, Oxford University Press, 2023
Book Award Honorable Mention: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue, Elena Shih, University of California Press, 2023
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Beyond Motherhood: Exploring the Unmet Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Needs in the Medicaid Landscape,” Elizabeth M. Anderson, Indiana University Bloomington
Scholarship Award Co-Winner: Josh Seim, Boston College
Scholarship Award Co-Winner: Meredith Van Natta, University of California, Merced
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “Using Archival Materials to Conduct an Institutional Ethnography of Prison: Analytic and Methodological Observations,” Helen Hudson, University of Ottawa
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: Dr. Viviane Namaste, Concordia University
Inaugural Distinguished Contribution Award Winners: Dr. Paul Luken, University of West Georgia and Suzanne Vaughan, Arizona State University
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: “Automating the Automators: De/Up-skilling and Re/Off-shoring in Globalized Software Work,” Bhumika Chauhan, New York University
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “Legitimating Strategies: Pretrial Risk Assessments and the Logics of Data-driven Judicial Discretion,” Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Stop and Sexual Assault?: How Terry Stops become Legally Authorized Sexual Violence,” Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Reconceptualizing Eviction: Examining the Violent Dynamics against Tenants,” Minji Cho and Natalie J. Cholula, Portland State University
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, Asad L. Asad, Princeton University Press, 2023
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: The Colour of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe haven in Brazil, Katherine Jensen, University of Chicago Press, 2023
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women’s Fight for Dignity and Freedom, Cesraéa Rumpf, University of California Press, 2023
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Article Award Winner: No award given
Michael Harrington Award Winner: No award given
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Article Award Winner: Jung, Minwoo. 2023. “Queer Theory Impossible.” Munhakdongne [Literature Community] 115, 130-151 (in Korean). (English translation in: Jung, Minwoo. 2024 [in press]. “Queer Theory Impossible.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies)
Article Award Winner: Winder, T. J. A. (2023). The Discursive Work of “Bottom-Shaming”: Sexual Positioning Discourse in the Construction of Black Masculinity. Gender & Society, 37(5), 774-799. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231186999
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Normate Circle and the Biopolitics of Trans Stigma,” Eden Dean Ellen Nay, Oklahoma State University
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Hurt People Hurt People: Theorizing Liminal Complicity in the Reproduction of Inequality,” Andrew J. Shapiro, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Book Award Winner: Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes, Asia Friedman, Rutgers University Press, 2023
SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Inside the Classroom: How Does Internet Usage, Early School Day Routines, and Classroom Design Impact the Mental Health of Students?” Jacob R. Bahnick, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Childhood Trauma and the Impact on Mental Health Later in Life,” Marissa Button, University of North Carolina Wilmington
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “The Effect of Incarceration on the Termination of Parental Rights,” Loren Beard, The University of Chicago
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Geographies of (Sporting) Islamophobia: The Impact of Mosque-based Sports Programs on the Movement Practices of Muslim Women in Canada,” Zeana Hamdonah, University of Toronto
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Feeling Meritocracy? The Role of Affect in the Transmission of Meritocratic Beliefs on Social Media,” Chiara Osorio Krauter, Humboldt University of Berlin
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Teaching about American Society in Broken English,” Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon
YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner: No award given
