COMMUNITY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: TBD

Community Partner Paper Award Winner: TBD

Graduate Student Public Scholarship Award Winner: TBD

Undergraduate Student Public Scholarship Award: TBD

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

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: TBD

Paper Award Winner: TBD

DRINKING AND DRUGS DIVISION

Bruce D. Johnson Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: TBD

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 Graduate Student 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

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): “Strategizing Gender: Experiences of Transmasculine Folk with Police and Security Forces in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires,” Francis J. Fabre, The University of Chicago

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention (formerly Gender Division): “Codifying Binaries: Moral Entrepreneurs and Anti-Transgender Legislation in U.S. State Legislatures Between 2018-2024,” Anneliese M. Schenk-Day and Jack G.R. Wippell, The Ohio State University

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division): “Bounded Desirability: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Interracial Intimacy among and between Queer Men of Color,” Jyun-Jie Yang, University of California, Davis

Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division): “‘Comphet Is Ableism’s Next-Door Neighbor’: #Neuroqueer Counterdiscourses on TikTok,” Jules Vivid, Rutgers University

Article Award Winner (formerly Gender Division): Yuchen Yang, (2025). Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender. Sociological Theory, 43(4), 360-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751251368897

Article Award Winner (formerly Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division): Jonathan S. Coley, Gabby Gomez, Transmorphic Organizations: Racial Segregation and Discrimination against LGBTQ Students at Christian Colleges and Universities, Social Forces, 2025; soaf175, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf175

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: After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps, Farhana Afrin Rahman, 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: Dr. J. Michael Ryan, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Scholarship Award Honorable Mention: Dr. Mary Ellen Stitt, University at Albany, SUNY

INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY DIVISION

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

Dorothy E. Smith Award for Scholar-Activism Winner: TBD

Alison I. Griffith Distinguished Contribution Award Winner: TBD

LABOR STUDIES DIVISION

Harry Braverman Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: TBD

LAW AND SOCIETY DIVISION

Alfred R. Lindesmith Graduate Student 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 Graduate Student 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: The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Princeton University Press, 2025

Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Honorable Mention: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, Rahim Kurwa, University of California Press, 2025

POVERTY, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: TBD

Article Award Winner: TBD

Michael Harrington Award Winner: TBD

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: The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Princeton University Press, 2025

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

Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: No award given

TEACHING SOCIAL PROBLEMS DIVISION

Graduate Student Paper Award: No award given

Article Award Winner: No award given