2025 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS & OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS
COMMUNITY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: TBA
Community Partner Paper Award Winner: TBA
Graduate Student Public Scholarship Award Winner: Erika Houston Brown, Texas Woman’s University, “False Prophets of Profit,” Yes! Magazine, September 4, 2024
Undergraduate Student Public Scholarship Award: No award given
CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Mentioning the Unmentionable: Perception of Opportunities, Agency, Emotions, and Identity in Iranian Resistance Rap prior and during the Women, Life, Freedom Uprisings,” Danial Vahabli, SUNY Stony Brook
Article Award Winner: TBA
CRIME AND JUSTICE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Shuffling within the System: The Pervasive Uncertainty of Prison Transfers,” Iolanthe Brooks, Northwestern University
Scholarly Achievement Award-Area of Research and Scholarship: Dr. Matthew Clair, Stanford University
CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: TBA
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: TBA
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: TBA
DISABILITY, MENTAL HEALTH, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: TBA
DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION
Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winner: TBA
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Transitional Justice Mechanisms, Collective Memory, and Teaching Practices,” Jillian P. LaBranche, University of Minnesota
Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Comparison of Bias-based Bullying and Non-bias-based Bullying: Prevalence Rates, Impacts on Students, and the Buffering Role of Social Support,” Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Book Award Winner: Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools, Nora Gross, The University of Chicago Press, 2024
Contribution of the Discipline Award Winner: TBA
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: TBA
FAMILY, AGING, AND YOUTH DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: TBA
Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar Activists Winner: TBA
GENDER, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): “What’s Behind the ‘Oxford Study’? Relationship-based Stigma and the Symbolic Significance of East Asian Woman/White Man Unions,” Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division): “Localization of Sex Testing: Transnational Knowledge Production of Sex,” Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon
Article Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): Kao, Ying-Chao. (2021). “The Coloniality of Queer Theory: The Effects of Homonormativity on Transnational Taiwan’s Path to Equality”. Sexualities, 27(1-2), 136-153. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211047518 (Original work published 2024)
Article Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division): Abdelhadi, Eman & Fox, Anna. (2024). “Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies.” Gender & Society, 38(6), 902-934. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241290544 (Original work published 2024)
GLOBAL DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Longing for the State: Women Grassroots Activists and Local State-building in Colombia,” Maria Ximena Davila, The University of Texas at Austin
Book Award Winner: TBA
HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “‘The Proof is in the Pudding’: A Qualitative Examination of the Weight-inclusive Healthcare Delivery from the Perspective of Weight-inclusive Healthcare Practitioners,” Gabby Gomez, Oklahoma State University
Scholarship Award Winner: Dr. Ariana Thompson-Lastad, University of California, San Francisco
INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION
George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: No award given
Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: Dr. Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University
LABOR STUDIES DIVISION
Harry Braverman Paper Award Winner: TBA
LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: TBA
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, Ana Villarreal, Oxford University Press, 2024
Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools, Chana Teeger, Columbia University Press, 2024
POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Job Loss and Unemployment Relief in Precarious Times: The Foundational Role of Legal Status in Producing Inequality,” Ewa Protasiuk, Temple University
Article Award Winner: Robinson, J. N., Headworth, S., & Karp, S. (2024). Performing Social Control: Poverty Governance, Public Finance, and the Politics of Visibility. Sociological Theory, 42(1), 23-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751231222476 (Original work published 2024)
Article Award Honorable Mention: Mo Torres, Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal, Social Problems, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae044
Michael Harrington Award Winner: TBA
SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Relational Colonialisms and a Turn to Place Based Epistemologies,” Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Arizona State University
Article Award Winner: TBA
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: TBA
SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: “Kayfabe Kisses on the Padded Turnbuckle: Racialized Trans Feminine Professional Wrestlers,” Daniel Uy, University of Toronto
TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION
Paper Award Winner: No award given