Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability
2024: Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2021: Allison Carey, Shippensburg University
2017: Sara Green, University of South Florida
Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Disability
2014: Richard Scotch, University of Texas-Dallas
2014: Sharon Barnartt, Gallaudet University
2014: Barbara Altman, Disability Statistics Consultant
The Section on Disability in Society’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
2024: Evan Baughman, University of California, Davis, “Athletes, Not Patients: “Disabled Athletes’ De-Medicalization of the Paralympic Games.”
2023: Helene Grogan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2023 Honorable Mention: Emily Ruppel, University of California, Berkeley
2022: Matthew Borus, University of Chicago, “Dispersed Organizing Before the Internet: The Case of the Disability Rag”
2021: Kristina Brant, Harvard University, “Deserving Victims and Undeserving Criminals: Disability Receipt in the Opioid Era”
2021 Honorable Mention: Katherine M. Hill, University of Texas at Austin, “Flexibility or Insecurity? Disability and Health in the Gig Economy”
2021 Honorable Mention: Emily H. Ruppel, University of California, Berkeley, Disability and the State Production of Precarity.
2020: Hillary Steinberg, University of Colorado – Boulder, “Distance and Acceptance: Identity Formation in Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions”
2020 Honorable Mention: Emily Ruppel, University of California – Berkeley, “The Depoliticization of Disability: Professions and Politics in the 1986 Entrenchment of the Subminimum Wage”
2019: Alan Santinele Martino, “Being Kept Out of Sexual Fields: The Intimate Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Ontario, Canada”
2018: J. Dalton Stevens, Jr., Syracuse University, “Stuck in Transition with You: Rooting, Returning, and Interdependence for Men with Physical Impairments”
2017: Jennifer D. Brooks, “Just a Little Respect: Differences in Job Satisfaction among Individuals With and Without Disabilities”
2016: Justine E. Egner, “Hegemonic or Queer?: A Comparative Analysis of Five LGBTQIA/Disability Intersectional Social Movement Organizations”
2015: Suzan Walters, Stony Brook University, “Caregiving and HIV: Accounts of Resisting Individualism, Privatization, and Cuts in Social Spending”
2014: Chen Yang, “Being Independent From Whom? Analyzing Two Interpretations in the Paradigm of Independent Living”
Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award
2024: Catherine Tan, Vassar College, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Columbia University Press. 2024.
2023: Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut, and Robyn Lewis Brown, University of Kentucky, “Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 62(4), 477-492. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Scott D. Landes, J Dalton Stevens, Syracuse University, and Margaret A. Turk, SUNY Medical University, “Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63(4), 525-542. 2022.
2022: Allison C. Carey, Shippensburg University, Pamela Block, Western University, and Richard Scotch, University of Texas at Dallas. Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities. Temple University Press. 2020.
2021: Jayanti Owens, “Social Class, Diagnoses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Child Well-Being.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 61, 134-152. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Rachel Elizabeth Fish, “Standing Out and Sorting In: Exploring the role of Racial Composition in Racial Disparities in Special Education.” American Educational Research Journal, 56, 2573-2608. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Dara Shifrer and Rachel Fish, “A Multilevel Investigation into Contextual Reliability in the Designation of Cognitive Health Conditions among U.S. Children.” Society and Mental Health, 10, 180-197. 2020.
2020: Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, City University of New York – Hunter College, Does Compliance Matter in Special Education? IDEA and the Hidden Inequities of Practice. New York: Teacher’s College Press (2018).
2020: David Pettinicchio, University of Toronto, Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press (2019).
2019: Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio, and Andrew C. Patterson, “Hierarchies of Categorical Disadvantage: Economic Insecurity at the Intersection of Disability, Gender, and Race,” Gender & Society 33(1):64-93. 2019.
2018: Meryl Alper, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality. MIT Press. 2017.
2017: Angela Frederick, “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project,” Gender and Society 31(1):74-95. 2017.
2017: Carrie L. Shandra and Anna Penner, “Benefactors and Beneficiaries? Disability and Care to Others,” Journal of Marriage and Family 79(4):1160-1185. 2017.
2016: Linda M. Blum, Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality. New York University Press. 2015.
2015: Dara Shifrer, Houston Education Research Consortium, “Stigma of a Label: Educational Expectations for High School Students Labeled with Learning Disabilities,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(4):462-480. 2013.
