COMMUNITY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE DIVISION

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CONFLICT, SOCIAL ACTION, AND CHANGE DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Role Collapse: The Israeli Settler–State Compact and Pathways to Hybrid Domination in the Occupied West Bank,” Joseph Rafael Kaplan Weinger, University of California, Los Angeles

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Nothing about Us without Us? Allyship, Collective Identity, and Leadership in the Movement to Abolish Life without Parole Sentencing,” Kelsey Weymouth-Little, University of California, Irvine

Article Award Winner: Jack G R Wippell, The hate industry: mass media, moral panic, and the mobilization of anti transgender prejudice, Social Problems, 2025; spaf042, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf042

Article Award Honorable Mention: Savelsberg JJ, LaBranche J, Philips M. Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on Syria. Law & Society Review. 2025; 59(4):716-748. https://doi:10.1017/lsr.2025.10062 

Article Award Honorable Mention: Polletta Francesca, Boka D, Martinez C, Ogaki M. Social Movements in the Commercial Public Sphere: How Women’s Magazines Popularized Second-Wave Feminism. The University of Chicago Press Journals. 2025; 130(5). https://doi.org/10.1086/734377

CRIME AND JUSTICE DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “State Data and the Production of Quantitative Knowledge: The Case of Police Stops in the United States and France,” Michael Zanger-Tishler, Harvard University

Scholarly Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota

CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDY DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Filling the ‘Hollow’ of Chineseness: Feeling Ethnic Identity through Practice,” Charlotte Wang, Columbia University

Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner: TBD

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award Winner: TBD

DISABILITY, MENTAL WELLNESS, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DIVISION

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DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

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EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Missing the Boat: Social Class and Extracurriculars in the Elite Education-to-Employment Pipeline,” Joyce J. Kim and Tristan Ly, University of Pennsylvania

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Racialized Framing in Higher Education Policy: A Case Study from Florida,” Annie Jones, University of Central Florida

ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winner: “‘The Dead River Is Killing Us’: Environmental Risk and Reproductive Decision-Making in Colombia’s Caribbean Coast,” Maria Ximena Davila, The University of Texas at Austin

FAMILY, AGING, AND YOUTH DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Earning Money the Hard Way: Former Seasonal Farmworker Youth’s Entry into Labor as Precarity Management,” Natalia Candelaria Gonzalez, University of California, Irvine

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Reframing Adolescent Children of Sex Workers as Care Receivers and Caregivers Using the Southern Feminist Lens of Deep Care,” Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary

Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists Winner:  TBD

GENDER, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITIES DIVISION

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GLOBAL DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “From Women’s Gold to Men’s Market: Global Value Chains and Evolving Traditions in Nigeria’s Shea Economy,” Idowu Alabi, Wayne State University

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Lessons from the Peripheries: Resistance among U.S. Territorial Peoples,” Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Arizona State University

Book Award Winner: In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa, j. Siguru Wahutu, Cambridge University Press, 2024

HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: A Comparative Analysis across U.S. States and Counties,” Ting-Hui Lin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Health Insurance Patterns and the Transition to Adulthood in the United States,” Kathleen D’Alfonso, University at Buffalo

Scholarship Award Winner: TBD

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

George W. Smith Paper Award Winner: “‘Reading for Social Organization’ in Music Students’ Health Research: What Institutional Ethnography Makes Visible,” Jeffrey Sabo, University of Ottawa

George W. Smith Paper Award Honorable Mention: “At All Costs: Testifying for Housing Justice through Canada’s Federal Human Rights Review Panels,” Alex Nelson, Western University

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LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

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LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winner: “‘Money Instead of Change’: How Civil Compensation for Police Violence Shapes Litigants’ Views of the State,” Solome Solomon Haile, Princeton University

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Therapeutic Retribution: When Offender Punishment Becomes Victim Care in Progressive Prosecution,” Amelia Roskin-Frazee, University of California, Irvine

Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner: TBD

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

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SOCIAL PROBLEMS THEORY DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “A Framework for Ongoing Settler Colonialism Rooted in Indigenous Sociology,” Melissa Horner-Petrone, University of Missouri

Book Award Winner: TBD

Junior Scholar Award Winner: Dr. Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University

SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK, AND SOCIAL WELFARE DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Symbolic Violence in the Privatization of U.S. Public Housing,” Grace C. Sementilli, University at Buffalo

SPORT, LEISURE, AND THE BODY DIVISION

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TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

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