Past Award Winners
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Best Book Award
2026: Frederick, Angela. 2025. Disabled Power: A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster. New York, NY: NYU Press. 2025: Johnson, Chelsea Mary Elise. 2024. Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair. New York, NY: New York University Press. Best Article Award 2026: Ingraham, Natalie, Kelly Duong, and Lena R. Hann. 2024. “‘It's Like Having an Uncontrolled Situation’: Using Body Maps to Understand the Embodied Experiences of People with Hidradenitis Suppurativa, a Chronic Dermatological Condition." Social Sciences 13(3): 168. 2025: Su, Phung N. and Phi Hong Su. 2023. “Discomforting Surplus: Gender, Sexualization, and Omissions in Ethnographic Fieldwork.” Frontiers in Sociology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1154435. Best Article Award, Honorable Mention 2025: Gonsalves, Tara. 2024. “Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification.” American Journal of Sociology, 29(5), 1311–1358. https://doi.org/10.1086/729505. Best Publication Award Co-Winners: 2022: Angela Jones, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry 2022: Piper Sledge, Bodies Unbound: Gender Specific Canvcer and Biolegitimacy 2021: Alka Menon, "Cultural gatekeeping in cosmetic surgery: Transnational beauty ideals in multicultural Malaysia." Poetics 2019. 2020: Sabrina Strings, University of California, Irvine, Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia New York: New York University Press. 2019: Hana E. Brown, Wake Forest University, "Immigrant Bodily Incorporation: How the Physical Body Structures Identity, Mobility, and Transnationalism," Social Problems 64(1): 14-29. 2017. 2018: Elizabeth Hordge- Freeman, University of South Florida, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families. University of Texas Press. 2015. 2017: Ashley Mears, Boston University. 2015. "Girls as elite distinction: The appropriation of bodily capital.” Poetics 53: 22–37. 2016: Heather Laine Talley. 2014. Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance. New York: New York University Press. 2015: Kimberly Hoang, University of Chicago. 2014. "Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam's Contemporary Sex Industry." Gender & Society 28(4):513-536. Best Publication Award, Honorable Mention 2022: Kelly Underman, Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training 2019: Oluwakemi M. Balogun and Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Politcal Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work," Sociological Perspectives 61(6): 953-972. 2018. 2017. Edward Orozco Flores, University of California, Merced. 2016. "'Grow Your Hair Out': Chicano Gang Masculinity and Embodiment in Recovery." Social Problems 63(4): 590–604. Graduate Student Paper Award 2026: Maria Ximena Dávila, The University of Texas at Austin. "Risky Bodies, Toxic Futures: Reproductive Decision-Making and Environmental Risk in Colombia." Co-Winners: 2025: Miller, Kristen. “We Outside! Bike Life and the Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture.” 2025: Zanger-Tishler, Michael. “Visual Identifiability and its Consequences: A Study of American Jews and Antisemitism.” 2022: Taylor Paige Winfield, "Embodied Theodicy: From Conceptual to Bodily Engagements with Suffering" Co-Winners: 2021: Eliza Brown, "Less like Magic, More like a Chore: How Sex Becomes Work for Other-Sex Couples Trying to Become Pregnant" 2021: Tara Gonsalves, "Gender Identity, the Sexed Body, and the Medical Making of Transgender" 2020: Danya Lagos, "Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality" 2019: Renee Shelby, “Techno-Physical Feminism: Surveillance, Anti-Rape Technology and Shifting Risk Paradigms” 2018: Carley Geiss and Justine Egner, "'Having a Sexual Outlet changes Everything:' Examining Organization Narratives of Legal Sex workers and Disabled Clients” 2017. Alka Menon. 2016. "Reconstructing race and gender in American cosmetic surgery." Ethnic and Racial Studies 40: 597-616. 2016: Neil Gong. 2015. "How to Fight Without Rules: On Civilized Violence in De-Civilized Spaces." Social Problems 62(4). 2015: Sonny Nordmarken, "Radiant Selves, Misgendering Experiences, and Biologized Gender Ideologies." Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention 2026: Carlo Sariego, Yale University. "Hormonal Kin Making." 2021: Warren Jensen, "The Strength to Diet: If It Fits Your Macros Dieting as Masculine Body Work" 2020: Sarah E. Frank, University of Wisconsin "Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary Identity and Body Politics" 2019: Kathleen Broussard, University of Texas, Austin, “The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care: Embodied Experiences in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland” 2019: Cristina Khan, University of Connecticut, “Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry” 2018: Kathleen Jensen, University of Texas, Austin, “The Epistemic Logic of Asylum Screening: (Dis)embodiment and the Production of Asylum Knowledge in Brazil” 2018: Emily Allen Paine, University of Texas, Austin, “Embodied Disruption: ‘Sorting Out’ Gender and Nonconformity in the Doctor’s Office” 2017. Lindsay Stevens, Rutgers University. 2016. "Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Bodies: Provider Perspectives on Risk, Gender, and Responsibility.” Journal of Health & Social Behavior 57: 471-485. 2017. Sneha Annavarapu. Forthcoming. “Consuming wellness, producing difference: The case of a wellness center in India.” Journal of Consumer Culture. 2016: Jessie K. Luna, University of Colorado, Boulder. "The Case of Hard Work: Distinction, Body Work and Embodied Neoliberalism." 2015: Kelly Underman, University of Illinois at Chicago. "Playing Doctor: Simulation in Medical School as Affective Practice." |
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