The Family Section’s Article of the Year Award
2024: Eunsil Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Eunmi Mun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea.” Gender & Society 36(4): 552-577. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Aliya Hamid Rao, London School of Economics, “Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions.” American Sociological Review, 87(6): 1094-1120. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Wei-hsin Yu, University of California, Los Angeles, and Hope Xu Yan, University of Maryland, “Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights.” American Sociological Review, 88(6): 1002-1030. 2023.
2023: Christina J. Cross, Harvard University, Paula Fomby, University of Pennsylvania, and Bethany Letiecq, George Mason University, “Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy: Rethinking family structure’s effects on child outcomes in a racialized, unequal society,” Journal of Family, Theory, & Review, 14: 482-501. 2022.
2023: Sarah Thébaud, University of California, Santa Barbara, and David S. Pedulla, Harvard University, “When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women,” Work and Occupations, 49(2): 229-263. 2022.
2022: Deni Mazrekaj, Utrecht University, Kristof De Witte, KU Leuven, and Sofie Cabus, KU Leuven, “School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data.” American Sociological Review, Vol 85(5): 830-856. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Florencia Torche, Stanford University, and Alejandra Abufhele, University of Pennsylvania, “The Normativity of Marriage and the Marriage Premium for Children’s Outcomes.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol.126(4): 931-968. 2021.
2021: Kelly Fong, “Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life.” American Sociological Review 85(4): 610-638.
2020: Jennifer S. Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather H. Gatny, and Jamie Budnick, “The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence and the Risk of Pregnancy during the Transition to Adulthood,” American Sociological Review 83.5(2018): 1020-1047.
2020 Honorable Mention: Susila Gurusami, “Motherwork Under the State: The Maternal Labor of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women,” Social Problems 66.1(2019): 128-143.
2019: Margaret Frye and Sara Lopus, “From Privilege to Prevalence: Contextual Effects of Women’s Schooling on African Marital Timing,” Demography 55(6):2371-2394. 2018.
2019: Daniel Schneider, Orestes P. Hastings, and Joe LaBriola, “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments,” American Sociological Review 83(3):475-507. 2018.
2018: Daniel Schneider, University of California, and Orestes P. Hastings, Colorado State University, “Income Inequality and Household Labor,” Social Forces 96(2):481-506. 2017.
2016: Christine Schwartz and Hongyuan Han, “The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Trends in Marital Dissolution,” American Sociological Review 79(4):605–629. 2014.
2013: Liana Sayer, University of Maryland, College Park, Paula England, New York University, Paul Allison, University of Pennsylvania, and Nicole Kangas, Stanford University, “She Left, He Left: How Employment and Satisfaction Affect Women’s and Men’s Decisions to Leave Marriages,” American Journal of Sociology 116(6):1982-2018. 2011.
2012: Michelle Budig and Melissa Hodges, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Difference in Disadvantage: Variation in the Motherhood Penalty across White Women’s Earnings Distribution,” American Sociological Review 75(5):705-728. 2010.
2011: Susan L. Brown and Wendy D. Manning, “Family Boundary Ambiguity and the Measurement of Family Structure: The Significance of Cohabitation,” Demography 46(1):85-101. 2009.
The Family Section’s Best Paper Award
2015: Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, and Geir Høgsnes, “From Motherhood Penalties to Husband Premia: The New Challenge for Gender Equality and Family Policy, Lessons from Norway,” American Journal of Sociology 119(5):1434-1472. 2014.
The Family Section’s Distinguished Career Award
2024: Margaret Nelson, Middlebury College
2023: Lynne Casper, University of Southern California
2022: Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State University
2021: Judith Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles
2020: Debra Umberson, University of Texas at Austin
2019: Linda Waite, The University of Chicago
2018: Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
2017: Kathleen Gerson
2016: Brain Powell, Indiana University, Bloomington
2015: Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley
2014: Linda Burton, Duke University
2013: Suzanne Bianchi, University of California, Los Angeles
2012: Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland
2011: S. Phillip Morgan
2010: Paula England, Stanford University
2009: Harriet B. Presser, University of Maryland, College Park
2008: Steven Nock, Awarded Posthumously
2007: Frances K. Goldscheider, Brown University
2006: Paul Amato, Pennsylvania State University
2005: Lynn White, University of Nebraska
2004: Sara McLanahan
2003: Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University
2002: Alan Booth, Pennsylvania State University
2001: Frank Furstenburg, University of Pennsylvania
2000: Arland Thorton, University of Michigan
1999: William J. Goode, George Mason University
1998: Glen Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1997: Larry L. Bumpass, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1996: Alice S. Rossi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Family Section’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
This award was established in 1995.
2024: Faith Deckard, University of Texas at Austin, “Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Derek Siegel, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “Policing Motherhood, Controlling Families: Race, Reproductive Governance, and Trans Women’s Parenting Rights.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Juhwan Seo, Cornell University, “Quotidian Homonationalism: Green Card Adjudication, Immigration Law, and Liberal Inclusion of Same-Sex Binational Marriages.”
2023: DeAnna Y. Smith, University of Michigan, “Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling Amongst Black Middle-Class Mothers.”
2022: Sigrid Luhr, “Signaling Parenthood: Managing the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium in the U.S. Service Sector.” Gender & Society 34(2):259-283. 2020.
2022: Shay O’Brien, “The Family Web: Multigenerational Class Persistence in Elite Populations.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Vanessa Delgado, “Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 2022.
2022 Honorable Mention: Youngcho Lee, “Is Leave for Fathers Pronatalist? A Mixed‑Methods Study of the Impact of Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave on Couples’ Childbearing Intentions in South Korea.” Population Research and Policy Review 41: 1471-1500. 2022.
2021: Shannon Malone Gonzalez, “Black Girls and the Talk? Policing, Parenting, and the Politics of Protection,” Social Problems. 2020
2021: Allison Daminger, “De-gendered Processes, Gendered Outcomes: How Egalitarian Couples Make Sense of Non-egalitarian Household Practices. American Sociological Review 85(5): 806-829. 2020.
2020: Christina Cross, “Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Family Structure and Children’s Education,” Journal of Marriage and Family 88.2(2020): 691-712.
2020 Honorable Mention: Allison Daminger, “The Cognitive Dimension of Household Labor”
2020 Honorable Mention: Jasmine Hill, “Kin Support of the Black Middle Class: Negotiating Need, Norms, and Class Background”
2019: Daniela Urbina, Princeton University, “In the Hands of Women: Conditional Cash Transfers and Household Dynamics”
2019: Jaclyn (Jackie) Tabor, Indiana University, “Mom, Dad, or Somewhere in Between: Role-Relational Ambiguity and Children of Transgender Parents”
2018: Brielle Bryan, Harvard University, “Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Social Network Disadvantage,” Demography 54(4):1477-1501. 2017.
2016: Frank Edwards, “Saving Children and Controlling Families: Punishment, Redistribution and Child Protection,” American Sociological Review 81(3):575-595. 2016.
2015: Abigail Ocobock, “First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage: The Institutionalization of Marriage among Same-Sex Couples”
2014: Stacy Torres, New York University, “Where Everybody May Not Know Your Name: The Importance of Elastic Ties”
2013: Abigail Weitzman, New York University, “The Daughter Tax: The Effects of Daughters on Maternal Outcomes in the Developing World”
2012: Abi Ocobock, “The Power and Limits of Marriage: Married Gay Men’s Family Relationships,” Journal of Marriage and Family 75(1):191-205. 2013.
2012: Neha Gondal, “Who ‘Fills in’ for Siblings and How? A Multilevel Analysis of Personal Network Composition and its Relationship to Sibling Size”
2011: Hyun Sik Kim, University of Wisconsin, “Consequences of Parental Divorce for Child Development,” Sociological Forum 27(3):732-755. 2012.
2010: Youngjoo Cha, submitted from Cornell University, now at Indiana University, “Reinforcing Separate Spheres: The Effect of Spousal Overwork on Men’s and Women’s Employment in Dual-Earner Households,” American Sociological Review 75(2):303-329. 2010.
2009: Daniel Schneider, Princeton University, “Norms and Nuptials: The Changing Social Price of Marriage”
2008: Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach, “Heterogeneity in Two-Parent Families and Adolescent Well-Being,” Journal of Marriage and Family 70(2):435-451. 2008.
2007: Christopher Wildeman, Princeton University, “Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage,” Demography 46(2):265-280. 2009.
2006: Sarah Winslow-Bowe, University of Pennsylvania, “The Persistence of Wives’ Income Advantage,” Journal of Marriage and Family 68(4):824-842. 2006.
2005: Jennifer L. Hook, University of Washington, “Care in Context: Men’s Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965-1998,” American Sociological Review 71(4):639-660. 2006.
2004: Jennifer Lundquist, “An Examination of One Institution Within Another: Does the Black-White Marriage Differential Exist in A Total Institution?”
2003: Penelope Huang, University of Washington, “The Price of Parenthood: Examining Gendered Wage Penalties for Leave Taking”
2003: Makiko Fuwa, University of California, Irvine, “Macro-level Gender Inequality and the Division of Housework: A Cross-National Study,” American Sociological Review 69(6):751-767. 2004.
2002: Lori Wiebold-Lippisch, University of Kansas, “The Unglorified Self: Identity Transformation of Parental Caregivers”
2002: Matthew Weinshenker, University of Chicago, “Imagining Family Roles: Parental Influence on the Expectations of Adolescents in Dual-Career Families”
2001: Natalia Sarkisian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “More or Less Kin: Assessing the Debates on Kin Support in Euro and African American Families”
2000: Kathryn Harker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Immigrant Generation, Assimilation and Adolescent Psychology Wellbeing”
2000: Laura Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Quality of Adolescent Siblings Relationships: Does Biographical Relatedness of Family Structure Matter”
1999: Cesar Rebellon, Emory University, “Reconsidering the Broken Homes/Delinquency Relationship and Specifying its Mediating Mechanisms,” Criminology 40(1):103-136. 2002.
1998: Mick Cunningham, University of Michigan, “Parental Influences on Adolescent Attitudes Toward Household Labor”
1998: Maureen Sullivan, University of California, Davis, “Alma Mater: Family ‘Outings’ and the Making of the Mode Other Mother (MOM)”
1997: Amy Kroska, University of Indiana, “The Division of Labor in the Home: A Review and Re-conceptualization,” Social Psychology Quarterly 60(4):304-322. 1997.
1996: Renate Reimann, City University of New York Graduate Center, “Does Biology Matter? Biological Motherhood and the Division of Labor in Lesbian Nuclear Families”
1995: Heather Koball, Brown University, “Men’s Marriage Timing Across Cohorts and Race”
The Family Section’s William J. Goode Book Award
The William J. Goode Book Award was established in 1985.
2024: Kelley Fong, University of California, Irvine, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Jessica Halliday Hardie, Hunter College, CUNY, Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times. University of California Press. 2022.
2023: Sarah Damaske, Pennsylvania State University, The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America. Princeton University Press. 2021.
2022: Leslie Paik, Arizona State University, Trapped in a Maze. University of California Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Celeste Curington, North Carolina State University, Jennifer Lundquist, UMASS Amherst, and Ken-Hou Lin, The University of Texas at Austin, The Dating Divide. University of California Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Krystale Littlejohn, University of Oregon, Just Get on the Pill. University of California Press. 2021.
2021: Laura E. Enriquez, Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family. University of California Press, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Jennifer M. Randles, Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering. University of California Press, 2020.
2020: Dawn Dow, Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood. University of California Press, 2019.
2020: Caity Collins, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. Princeon University Press, 2019.
2019: Margaret A. Hagerman, Mississippi State University, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America. NYU Press. 2018.
2018: Sharon Sassler, Cornell University, and Amanda Miller, University of Inidanapolis, Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships. University of California Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Leslie K. Wang, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China. Stanford University Press. 2016.
2017: Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin, Johns Hopis University and Saint Joseph’s University, Coming of Age in the Other America. Russell Sage Foundation. 2016.
2016: Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, Labor’s Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America. Russell Sage Foundation. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules. Russell Sage Foundation. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Jennifer Silva, Bucknell University, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2014 Honorable Mention: Amy C. Steinbugler, Dickinson College, Beyond Loving: Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships. Oxford University Press. 2012.
2014 Honorable Mention: Judith A. Levine, Temple University, Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters. University of California Press. 2013.
2013: Amy T. Schalet, University of Massachusetts, Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex. University of California Press. 2011.
2012: Kathleen Gerson, New York University, The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family. Oxford University Press. 2011.
2011: Joanna Dreby, Kent State University, Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children. University of California Press. 2010.
2011: Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman, Indiana University, Bloomington, Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family. Russell Sage Foundation. 2010.
2010: Allison J. Pugh, University of Virginia, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture. University of California Press. 2009.
2009: Pamela Stone, Hunter College, Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. University of California Press. 2007.
2008: Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa A Milkie, University of Maryland, College Park, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. Russell Sage Foundation. 2006.
2007: Arland Thornton, University of Michigan, Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life. University of Chicago Press. 2005.
2006: Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania, and Maria Kefalas, Saint Joseph’s University, Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. University of California Press. 2005.
2005: Mary Blair-Loy, University of California, San Diego, Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women. Harvard University Press. 2005.
2004: Annette Lareau, Temple University, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. University of California Press. 2003.
2002: Glen H. Elder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Rand D. Conger, University of California, Davis, Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America. University of Chicago Press. 2000.
2001: Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University, Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. University of California Press. 2000.
2000: Anita Ilta Garey, University of New Hampshire, Weaving, Work, and Motherhood. Temple University Press. 1999.
1999: Steven L. Nock, University of Virginia, Marriage and Men’s Lives. Oxford University Press. 1998.
1998: Donna Franklin, Loma Linda University, Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African American Family. Oxford University Press.
1997: John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze, State University of New York, Albany, Family Ties: Enduring Relationships Between Parents and Their Children. Temple University Press. 1996.
1996: Toby S. Parcel and Elizabeth G. Menaghan, The Ohio State University, Parents’ Jobs and Children’s Lives. Aldine de Gruyter. 1994.
1995 Honorable Mention: Arland Thornton, University of Michigan, and Hui-Sheng Lin, Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning, Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. 1994.
1995 Honorable Mention: Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts What Helps. Harvard University Press. 1994.
1994: Gay C. Kitson iwth William M. Holmes, University of Akron, Portrait of Divorce: Adjustment to Marital Breakdown. Guilford Press. 1992.
1992: A.F. Robertson, University of California, San Diego, Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Reproduction. University of California Press. 1991.
1990: Judith Blake, University of California, Los Angeles, Family Size & Achievement. University of California Press. 1991.
1989: Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota, Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth Century England and America. University of Wisconsin Press. 1987.
1988: Frank Furstenberg, J. Brooks-Gunn, and S. Philip Morgan, University of Pennsylvania, Adolescent Mothers in Later Life. Cambridge University Press. 1987.
1988: Lenore Weitzman, Harvard University, The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America. Free Press. 1985.
1987: Alan MacFarlane, University of Cambridge
1985: Jessie Bernard, Pennsylvania State University, The Female World. The Free Press. 1982.
