Award-Winning Articles
Social Problems' standing as a leading publication is reinforced by the articles that go on to win awards and prizes.
2023 Awards
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy
stef shuster & Laurel Westbrook
- Outstanding Article Award, SSSP Social Problems Theory Division, 2023
- Outstanding Article Award, SSSP Gender Division, 2023
"The Stuff" of Class: How Property Rules in Preschool Reproduce Class Inequality
Casey Stockstill
- Honorable Mention, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
The Rise and Fall of the Tahrir Repertoire: Theorizing Temporality, Trajectory, and Failure
Atef Said
- Honorable Mention, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use
Sadé L. Lindsey & Mike Vuolo
- Distinguished Scholarly Paper Award, Section on Drugs and Society, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
Gendered Logics of Biomedical Research: Women in U.S. Phase I Clinical Trials
Marci Cottingham & Jill A. Fisher
- Distinguished Article Award, Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
‘We Got Witnesses’ Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement
Shannon Malone Gonzalez & Faith M Deckard
- Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award, SSSP Critical Race and Ethnic Study Division, 2023
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University
Anthony Abraham Jack & Zennon Black
- Outstanding Article Award, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2023
Can't Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood
Mia Brantley
- Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System
Yader R Lanuza, Nick Petersen, Marisa Omori
- Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award, Section on Latina/o Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
‘My Baby Went Straight to Heaven’: Morality Work in Abortion Online Storytelling
Sarah L. Combellick
- Honorable Mention, Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper, Section on Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia
Andy Scott Chang
- Honorable Mention, Best Research Paper Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2023
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide
Kamesha Spates, Brittany C Slatton
- Scholarly Achievement Award for an Article, North Central Sociological Association (NCSA), 2023
2022 Awards
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets
Davon Norris
- Honorable Mention, Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia
Andy Scott Chang
- Distinguished Article Award, Section on Labor and Labor Movements, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
- Distinguished Article Award, Section on Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
- Honorable Mention, Faculty Article Award, Section on the Sociology of Development, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
The Increasing Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition on Housing Values, 1980–2015
Junia Howell
- Jane Addams Article Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France
Daniel Driscoll
- Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award, Section on Environmental Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
- Louis Wirth Best Article Award, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
Unfit Stewards: The Role of the Intensive Pet Parenting Ideology in Constructing Racialized Narratives
Adilia E.E. James
- Distinguished Article Award, Section on Animals and Society, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
The Creepy White Guy and the Helpless Asian: How Sexual Racism Persists in a Gay Interracial Friendship Group
Khoa Phan Howard
- Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
Ratchet-Rasquache Activism: Aesthetic and Discursive Frames within Chicago-Based Women-of-Color Activism
Teresa Irene Gonzales
- Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award, Section on Latina/o Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
‘Reasonable’ Force at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Irene I. Vega
- Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award, Section on Latina/o Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2022
2021 Awards
Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement
Blanca Ramirez
- Distinguished Graduate Paper Award, Section on Race, Gender, and Class, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
Black Girls and the Talk? Policing, Parenting, and the Politics of Protection
Shannon Malone Gonzalez
- Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Family, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
- Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Children and Youth American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering
Isabel García Valdivia
- Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Student Paper Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2021
- Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award, Latina/o Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
The Creepy White Guy and the Helpless Asian: How Sexual Racism Persists in a Gay Interracial Friendship Group
Khoa Phan Howard
- Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on the Sociology of Sexualities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations
Danielle Falzon
- Honorable Mention, Graduate Student Paper Award, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
Representative Group Styles: How Ally Immigrant Rights Organizations Promote Immigrant Involvement
Grace Yukich, Brad R. Fulton, Richard L. Wood
- Outstanding Article Award, Section on Altruism, Morality & Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
- Winner, Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology’s Paper Award, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
Sexual Laborers and Entrepreneurial Women: Articulating Collective Identity in India’s HIV/AIDS Response
Gowri Vijayakumar
- Distinguished Article Award, Section on the Sociology of Sexualities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2021
2020 Awards
Kin Support of the Black Middle Class: Negotiating Need, Norms, and Class Background
Jasmine Hill
- Honorable Mention, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Family, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
Beyond the Binary: Intraracial Diversity in Family Organization and Black Adolescents’ Education Performance
Christina J. Cross
- James E. Gladwell Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
- Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2020
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations
Danielle Falzon
- Global Division Student Paper Award at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 2020
House of Cards: Informal Housing Markets and Precarious Pathways to Homeownership in Baltimore
Christine Jang-Trettien
- Honorable Mention (2019), Best Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association (ASA) Community and Urban Sociology Section
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India
Sneha Annavarapu
- Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociology Association, 2020
The Apathy Syndrome: How We Are Trained Not to Care about Politics
Anna Zhelnina
- Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
A Lighter Shade of Brown? Racial Formation and Gentrification in Latino LA
Alfredo Huante
- Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award, Section on Latina/o Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
Categorical Exclusions: How Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship
Joss Greene
- Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020
Motherwork Under the State: The Maternal Labor of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women
Susilia Gurusami
- Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship), Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
- Honorable Mention, Article of the Year Award, Family Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision
Daniel Bolger
- Student Paper Award, Sociology of Religion Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2020
2019 Awards
In Today’s Market, Your Food Chooses You’: News Media Constructions of Responsibility for Health through Home Cooking
Merin Oleschuk
- Student Paper Award, Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
- Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Consumers & Consumption, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
A Lighter Shade of Brown? Racial Formation and Gentrification in Latino LA
Alfredo Huante
- James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action
Jen Schradie
- Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award, Marxist Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
Immigrant Bodily Incorporation: How the Physical Body Structures Identity, Mobility, and Transnationalism
Hana E. Brown
- Best Publication Award, Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
Producing Colorblindness: Everyday Mechanisms of White Ignorance
Jennifer C. Mueller
- Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship), Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
- Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award, Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2019
- Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, Section on Race, Gender and Class, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
Damages Done: The Longitudinal Impacts of Natural Hazards on Wealth Inequality in the United States
Junia Howell and James R. Elliott
- Honorable Mention, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Environmental Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
Categorical Exclusions: How Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship
Joss Greene
- Honorable Mention, Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2019
2018 Awards
Navigating Networks: How Nonprofit Network Membership Shapes Responses to Resource Scarcity
Jennifer Bouek
- James Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018
2017 Awards
Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring
Dana M. Moss
- Outstanding Published Article Award, Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2017
- Best Scholarly Article Award, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2017
- Honorable Mention, Louis Wirth Best Article Award, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2017
“Grow Your Hair Out”: Chicano Gang Masculinity and Embodiment in Recovery
Edward Orozco Flores
- Honorable Mention, Best Publication Award, Section on Body & Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2017
Impossible Burdens: White Institutions, Emotional Labor, and Micro-Resistance
Louwanda Evans and Wendy Leo Moore
- Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship), Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2017
Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian Recycler Movement, 1986-2011
Manuel Rosaldo
- 2017 Distinguished Student Paper, American Sociological Association's Section on Labor and Labor Movements
- 2017 Distinguished Student Paper, American Sociological Association's Section on Development
2016 Awards
Legitimating Contexts, Immigrant Protests, and Exclusionary Actions
Kim Ebert and Dina Okamoto
- Louis Wirth Best Article Award, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian Ascendency and Western Decline in Global Sex Work
Kimberly Kay Hoang
- Best Scholarly Article Award, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
- Honorable Mention, Best Article Award, Section on Asia & Asian America, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016.
Subject to Change Without Notice: Mock Schedules and Flexible Employment in the United States
Brian Halpin
- Best Student Paper Award, Sections on Labor and Labor Movements / Critical Sociology, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
Basic Income in a Small Town: Understanding the Elusive Effects on Work
David Calnitsky and Jonathan Latner
- Best Graduate Student Paper, Section on Rationality and Society, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
How to Fight Without Rules: On Civilized Violence in De-Civilized Spaces
Neil Gong
- Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
Marrying Ain’t Hard When You Got A Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage
Daniel Schneider, Adam Reich
- Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, Section on Labor and Labor Movements, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2016
2015 Awards
Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian Ascendency and Western Decline in Global Sex Work
Kimberly Kay Hoang
- Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, Section on Race, Gender and Class, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2015
Race, Space, and Cumulative Disadvantage: A Case Study of the Subprime Lending Collapse
Jacob S. Rugh, Len Albright, Douglas S. Massey
- Law and Society Association - John Hope Franklin Award
- Society for the Study of Social Problems, Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities - Kimberle Crenshaw Outstanding Paper Award
Biopolitical Citizenship in the Immigration Adjudication Process
Sarah Morando Lakhani, Stefan Timmermans
- Honorable Mention, Distinguished Article Award, Section on Law, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2015
