Section on Latina/o Sociology Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award
2024: Casandra Salgado, Arizona State University, “Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico.” Social Problems. 2024.
2024 Honorable Mention: Ariana Valle, “He begins by targeting Mexicans and he will end with Puerto Ricans’”: Unpacking Florida Puerto Ricans’ politics of immigration.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(16), 237–260. 2022.
2023: Yader Lanuza, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nick Petersen, University of Miami, and Marisa Omori, University of Missouri-St. Louis, “Colorism in Punishment Among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System.” Social Problems, (70)2, 275-96. 2023.
2022: Teresa Irene Gonzales, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, “Ratchet-Rasquache Activism: Aesthetic and Discursive Frames within Chicago-Based Women-of-Color Activism.” Social Problems, Vol. 69(2): 380.397. 2022.
2022: Irene I. Vega, University of California, Irvine, ” ‘Reasonable’ Force at the U.S-Mexico Border.” Social Problems. 2021.
2021: Victor M. Rios, Greg Prieto, and Jonathan M. Ibarra “Mano Suave-Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk.”
2021: Rocio Garcia “Latinx Feminist Politicmaking: On the Necessity of Messiness in Collective Action”
2021 Honorable Mention: Nicholas Vargas, Julio Villa-Palomino & Erika Davis “Latinx Faculty Representation and Resource Allocation at Hispanic Serving Institutions”
2020: Alfredo Huante, “A lighter shade of brown? Racial formation and gentrification in Latino Los Angeles.” Social Problems. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Maria G Rendón, Adriana Aldana, and Laureen D. Hom. “Children of Latino immigrants framing race: making sense of criminalisation in a colour-blind era.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1-19. 2018.
2019: Sylvia Zamora, Celia Lacayo, “Perpetual Inferiority: Whites’ Racial Ideology Towards Latinos,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(4):566-579. 2017.
2019: “Mexican Illegality Black Citizenship and White Power: Immigrant Perceptions of the US Socioracial Hierarchy,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(11):1897-1914. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Hana Brown, Jennifer Jones, and Andréa Becker, “The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations- Criminality Ascription and Countermobilization,” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5):118-140. 2018.
2017: Stephanie L. Canizales, “American Individualism and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied Guatemalan Maya Young Adult in Los Angeles,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(10):1831-1847. 2015.
2017: Juan Herrera, “Racialized Illegality: The Regulation of Informal Labor and Space,” Latino Studies 14(3):320-343. 2016.
2016: Laura E. Enriquez, “Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experience of Undocumented Immigration Status within Mixed-Status Families,” Journal of Marriage and Family 77(4):939-953. 2015.
2015: G. Cristina Mora, University of California, Berkeley, “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990,” American Sociological Review, 79(2) 183–210.
2015 Honorable Mention: Robert Smith, Graduate Center, CUNY, “Black Mexicans, Conjunctural Ethnicity, and Operating Identities: Long-Term Ethnographic Analysis,” American Sociological Review, 79(3) 517 -548.
2014: Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University, and Leisy Abrego, University of California Los Angeles. “Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants.” American Journal of Sociology 117.5: 1380-1421. 2012.
2014 Honorable Mention: Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California. “Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program.” Latino Studies 11.3: 271-292. 2013.
2013: Roberto Gonzales, Harvard University, “Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transitions to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review. 2011
2012: Veronica Terriquez, University of Southern California, “Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and the School-Based Civic Engagement of Latino Immigrant Parents.” American Sociological Review 76: 581-601. 2011.
2011: Helen B. Marrow, Tufts University
2010: Jessica Vazquez, University of Kansas at Lawrence, and Christopher Wetzel, Stonehill College
2010: Tomás Jiménez, Stanford University
2009: C. Allison Newby, New Mexico State University, and Julie A. Dowling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2008: Tanya Golash-Boza, University of Kansas, “Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation,” Social Forces 85(1):27-55. 2006.
2007: Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University, “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States,” American Journal of Sociology 111(4):999-1037. 2006.
2006: Award not given
2005: Rogelio Saenz, Texas A&M University
2004: Edward Murguia, Texas A&M University
2003: Ramiro Martinez, Florida International University, and Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, University of Southern California
2002: Award not given
2001: Clara Rodriquez, Fordham University
2000: Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University
1999: Award not given
1998: Award not given
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Service
2007: Denise Segura, University of California-Santa Barbara
2005: Award not given
2004: Award not given
2003: Award not given
2002: Award not given
2001: Alfonso Morales, University of Texas, El Paso
2000: Award not given
1999: Award not given
1998: Award not given
Section on Latina/o Sociology Cristina Maria Riegos Distinguished Student Paper Award
2024: Brian Cabral, Stanford University, “Coming from México ‘for a Better Life Here’: Street Gangs, American Violence, and the Spatialized Contours and Historical Continuity of Racial Capitalism.” Critical Sociology. 2024.
2024 Honorable Mention: Adriana Ramirez, University of California, Berkeley, “Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico.” Social Problems. 2024.
2023: Katherine L. Maldonado, University of California, Santa Barbara, “In and Out of Crisis: Life Course Criminalization for Jefas in the Barrio.”
2023: Karina Santellano, University of Southern California, “We are the Children of Immigrants: Entrepreneurial Pivots Towards Market Strategies Of Belonging.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Katie M. Duarte, Brown University, “Romance During COVID-19: How Young Dominican-American Women’s Dating Strategies Changed During Unsettled Times.”
2022: Vanessa Delgado, University of California, Irvine, “Leveraging Protections, Navigating Punishments: How Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Mediate Illegality in Latinx Families”
2022 Honorable Mention: Demetrius Murphy, University of Southern California, “Aquilombamento, Entrepreneurial Black Placemaking in an Anti-Black City”
2021: Isabel Garcıa Valdivia. “Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering.”
2021: Vanessa Delgado. “Decoding the Hidden Curriculum: Latino/a First- Generation College Students’ Influence on Younger Siblings’ Educational Trajectory.”
2020: Marta Ascherio, University of Texas at Austin, “Sanctuary Policies and Crime: A County-level Investigation”
2020 Honorable Mention: Jomaira Salas Pujols, Rutgers University, “The Third Space: Afro-Latina Youth Racial Identity Through Social Justice and Activism”
2019: Ariana Valle, “Race and the Empire-state: Puerto Ricans’ Unequal U.S. Citizenship,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5(1):26–40. 2019.
2018: Stephanie Canizales, Texas A&M University, “Support and Setback: How Religion and Religious Organizations shape the incorporation of unaccompanied indigenous youth”
2017: Armand Rene Gutierrez, “The Determinants of Remittances among the Children of Mexican- and Filipino-American Migrants”
2016: Kevin Estep, “Constructing a Language Problem: Status-based Power Devaluation and the Threat of Immigrant Inclusion” Sociological Perspectives 60(3):437-458. 2016.
2015: Raúl Pérez, University of California, Irvine, “Brownface Minstrelsy: ‘Jose Jimenez,’ The Civil Rights Movement, and the legacy of racist comedy.”
2014: Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Brown University “Cultivating Consent: State Legibility, Latino Spokespersons, and the U.S. 2010 Census”
2013: Lorena Castro, Stanford University, “Attitudes about Assimilation among the Mexican-origin Population: Evidence from the 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches”
2012: Jacob Faber, New York University, “Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak.”
2012: Matthew Ward, University of Arizona,“Battling Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: A Three Step Model of Contemporary Anti-Immigration Micromobilization”
2011: Van C. Tran, Harvard University
2011: Anthony Christian Ocampo, University of California, Los Angeles
2010: Gladys Garcia-Lopez, University of California, Santa Barbara, “‘Nunca Te Toman En Cuenta [They never Take You Into Account]’: The Challenge of Inclusion and Strategies for Success of Chicana Attorneys,” Gender & Society 22(5):590-612. 2008.
2009: Laura Lopez-Sanders, Stanford University, “Trapped at the Bottom: Racialized and Gendered Labor Queues in New Immigrant Destinations”
2008: Glenda M. Flores, University of Southern California, “The Paradox of Race at the Workplace: Latina Teachers Navigating Racial/Ethnic Tensions and Opportunities on the Jobs”
2007: Oscar F. Gil-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Migration Politics and Human Rights: Redefining the Camera as Collaborative Technology in Transnational Communities,” The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society, Volume 2. 2007.
2006: Christina A. Sue, University of California, Los Angeles, “Assimilation and Gender in Latino Naming Practices,” American Journal of Sociology 112(5):1383-1415. 2007.
2005: Victor M. Rios, University of California, Berkeley
2004: Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: Rachel Munoz and Natalia Sarkisian, University of Massachusetts
2002: Award not given
2001: Kim M. Loyd, University of Albany, “Latino Nuptial Behavior: Evidence of Ethno-racial Assortative Mating in the United States”
2000: Award not given
1999: Award not given
1998: Julie Dowling, University of Texas-Austin, “Split at the Root: The Construction of Ethnic Identity in Persons of Mixed Mexican-American and Anglo Heritage”
1997: Award not given
1996: Award not given
1995: Cristina Riegos, Brown University, “The Fire Esta Vez”
Section on Latina/o Sociology Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship Book Awards
2024: Asad L. Asad, Stanford University, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Cassaundra Rodriguez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times. New York University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Abigail Andrews and the Students of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program, University of California, San Diego, Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation. University of California Press. 2023.
2023: Anthony Ocampo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons. New York University Press. 2022.
2023: Sylvia Zamora, Loyola Marymount University, Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border. Stanford University Press. 2022.
2022: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, and Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California, South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South LA. New York University Press. 2021.
2022: Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Northwestern University, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA. Stanford University Press, 2021.
2021: Rocio Rosales, Fruteros: Street Vendors, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles.
2021: Laura Enriquez, Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Love and Family.
2021 Honorable Mention: Angela Garcia, Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law.
2020: María del Socorro Castañeda-Liles. Our Lady of Everyday Life: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America. Oxford University Press, 2018.
2020: Maria G. Rendón. Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second Generation Latinos. Russell Sage Foundation, 2019.
2019: Amada Armenta, Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement. University of California Press. 2017.
2019: Greg Prieto, Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation. NYU Press. 2018.
2018: Hector Carrillo, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Glenda M. Flores, Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture. New York University Press. 2017.
2017: Joanna Dreby, Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families. University of California Press. 2015.
2016: Leisy Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. Stanford University Press. 2014.
2016: Tanya Golash-Boza, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism. New York University Press. 2015.
2015: Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, Brandeis University, Behind the White Picket Fence, University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
2014: Edward Orozco Flores, University of California, Merced, God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery, New York University Press, 2013
2014 Honorable Mention: Silvia Dominguez, Northeastern University, Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks, New York University Press, 2013
2013: Cybelle Fox, University of California, Berkeley, Three Worlds of Relief. Princeton University Press, 2012.
2012: Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York University Press, 2011.
2011: Tomas Jimenez, Stanford University, Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, University of California Press, 2010.
2011 Honorable Mention: Manuel Barajas, The Xaripu Community Across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family. University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
2010: Jacqueline Hagan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey. Harvard University Press. 2008.
2009: Jose Itzigsohn, Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence. Russel Sage Foundation. 2009.
2009: Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race. Russel Sage Foundation. 2009.
2008: Robert Courtney Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants. University of California Press. 2006.
2008: Milagros Pena, Activists Across Borders, Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas. Duke University Press. 2007.
2006: Ana Ramos-Zayas, Nationalist Performances: Race, Class, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2003.
2004: Award not given
2003: Award not given
2002: Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence. University of California Press. 2001.
2001: Award not given
2000: Mary Pardo, California State University, Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Communities. Temple University Press. 1998.
Section on Latina/o Sociology Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award
Changed to Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award in 2009
2024: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Arizona State University
2022: Rogelio Sáenz, University of Texas at San Antonio
2020: William Velez, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
2017: Rubén Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine
2016: Norma Chinchilla, California State University, Long Beach
2015: Maxine Baca Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
2014: Vilma Ortiz, University of California Los Angeles
2013: Nestor Rodriguez, University of Texas
2012: Mary Romero, Arizona State University, Tempe
2011: Ruth Enid Zambrana, University of Maryland at College Park
2010: Cecilia Menijívar, Arizona State University
2009: Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2008: Edward E. Telles, University of California, Los Angeles
The Section on Latina/o Sociology’s Founders’ Award
2021: Silvia Pedraza
2019: Denise Segura, University of California, Santa Barbara
2017: Rodolfo Alvarez, University of California, Los Angeles
2016: Jorge Chapa, University of Illinois
2015: Mary Romero, Arizona State University, Tempe
2015: Ramiro Martinez, Northeastern University
2014: José Z. Calderón, Pitzer College
2013: Rogelio Saenz, Texas A&M
2010: William Velez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
