Society for the Study of Social Problems

Presented by Dr. Bhoomi K. Thakore

Chairperson, Council of the Divisions

2017 Student Paper Competition Winners

Community Research and Development Division

Abby I. Templer RodriguesUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

Paper Award Winning Title“Interviews as Interaction: Peer-Interviews in Participatory Action Research”

Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division

Hadi KhoshnevissUniversity of South Florida

Paper Award Winning Title“Political Opportunity Structures and Frame Contraction in Non-Receptive Contexts:

Insights from Anti-Execution Movement in Iran”

Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division

Brittany Fox-WilliamsColumbia University

Paper Award Winning Title“The Rules of (Dis)Engagement:

Black Youth and their Strategies for Navigating Police Contact in NYC”

Drinking and Drugs Division

Dean RayYork University

Bruce D. Johnson Paper Award Winning Title

“Subject, Agent, Object, Other: Zoom, PnP and Crystal Methamphetamine”

Educational Problems Division

Kelly FongHarvard University Northeastern University

Paper Award Winning Title

“Choosing Late: Considering Late Registration in School Choice”

Sarah Faude

Environment and Technology Division

Ian Robert Carrillo

Brent K. Marshall Paper Award Winning Title

“Elites, Embeddedness, and Environmental Inequality: Examining the Growth in Farmland Acquisition in Brazilian Sugarcane”

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Family Division

Hope Harvey

Paper Award Winning Title

“When Mothers Can’t ‘Pay the Cost to be the Boss’: Roles and Identity within Doubled-Up Households”

Harvard University

Global Division/Critical Sociology

Caitlin H. SchroeringUniversity of Pittsburgh

Paper Award Winning Title

“La Vía Campesina and Standing Rock: Possibilities for Food, Water, and Climate Justice Amidst Global Expulsions?”

Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division

Taylor M. CruzUniversity of California, San Francisco

Paper Award Winning Title“Critique, Reform, and Accountability:

The Rise of Quantification in United States Health Care Delivery Policy, 1965-2015”

Institutional Ethnography Division

Nicole K. DalmerThe University of Western Ontario

George W. Smith Paper Award Winning Title

“Ruling Texts Intersect: An Institutional Ethnographic Scoping Review and

Policy Analysis of Family Caregivers’ Information Work”

Labor Studies Division

Rui Jie PengUniversity of Texas at Austin

Harry Braverman Paper Award Winning Title

“One Transnational Project, Two Labor Regimes: The Workers’ Experience with Labor Process and Racialization on a

Chinese Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador”

Law and Society Division

Kyla Bender-BairdThe Graduate Center, CUNY

Alfred R. Lindesmith Paper Award Winning Title

“Medicalized Citizenship: Transgender Rights Claims in Employment Discrimination Court Decisions”

Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division

Brian Louis LevyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paper Award Winning Title“Wealth, Race, and Place: How Neighborhood Disadvantage from Adolescence to

Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap at Age 50”

Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division

Elizabeth Korver-GlennUniversity of New Mexico

Paper Award Winning Title“Legal Discrimination and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality

in the Contemporary Houston Housing Market”

Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division

Julie GouweloosMcMaster University

Paper Award Winning Title“Telling ‘Our’ Stories: Collectivity and Fragmentation in the LGBTQ+ Movement”

Social Problems Theory Division

Elizabeth Korver-GlennUniversity of New Mexico

Paper Award Winning Title“How Racial Formation and Inequality Happen in Urban Housing Markets”

Society and Mental Health Division

Noreen KohlUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Paper Award Winning Title“The Long-Term Mental Health Impact of Early Pregnancy and Unfulfilled

Educational Expectations Among Black and White Women”

Sociology and Social Welfare Division

Melissa OsborneUniversity of Chicago

Paper Award Winning Title

“Who Gets ‘Housing First’?: Determining Eligibility in an Era of Housing First Homelessness”

Sport, Leisure, and the Body Division

Madeleine PapeUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Paper Award Winning Title

“A Tilted Playing Field: Expertise and the Institutional Reproduction of Sex Difference”

Teaching Social Problems Division

Penny M. HarveyGeorgia State University

Paper Award Winning Title

“The Relevance of Teaching Social Problems in a Diverse World”

Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division

Jasmin SandelsonHarvard University

Paper Award Winning Title

“Relational Resources: Poverty, Peer Support and Adolescent Wellbeing”

2017 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship

Presented by Dr. Reuben J. Miller

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Winner

Diego Emmanuel AvalosArizona State University

2017 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Winner

Ulluminair M. SalimUniversity of California, San Francisco

2017 Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award

Presented by Dr. Wendy Simonds

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award Winner

Dr. Barbara RothmüllerVienna

2017 Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award

Presented by Dr. Marlese DurrCommittee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award Winner

Dr. Claire M. RenzettiUniversity of Kentucky

2017 Joseph B. Gittler Award

Presented by Dr. Valerie LeiterCommittee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Joseph B. GittlerAward Winner

Dr. Rogelio SaenzUniversity of Texas at San Antonio

2017 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award

Presented by Dr. Maralee Mayberry

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Kathleen S. Lowney MentoringAward Winner

Dr. Sarah Jane Brubaker

Virginia Commonwealth University

2017 Thomas C. Hood Social Action Award

Presented by Sophie Pomerleau

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Thomas C. Hood Social Action Award Winner

“ Montréal-Nord Républik is a non-profit organization that gives a voice to those living in Montreal-North, a neighborhood where over 60% of the population consists of people from racialized communities and 40% of those living there live below the poverty line.”

Sophia SahraneCoordinator

2017 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship

Presented by Dr. Sarah K. BruchCommittee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Honorable Mention

Daniela PilaUniversity at Albany, SUNY

2017 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Winner

Suzann M. WaltersStony Brook University

2017 Lee Founders Award

Presented by Dr. Kathleen S. Lowney

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017 Lee FoundersAward Winner

Dr. Dorothy E. SmithUniversity of Victoria

2016 C. Wright Mills Award

Presented by Dr. David G. Embrick

Committee Chair

Society for the Study of Social Problems

2016 C. Wright Mills Award Winner

Dr. Roberto G. GonzalesHarvard University

Winning Book Title

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, University of California Press