The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology’s Hacker-Nicholas Mullins Graduate Student Award
2024: Clay Davis, Northwestern University, “The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas.” Social Studies of Science. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Priyam Saraf, Stanford University, “Interpreting Commerce and Care: A Comparative Ethnography of Garment Firms in Bangladesh.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Bolun Zhang and Davide Carpano, University of California at San Diego, “Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source.” Big Data & Society, 10(1). 2023.
2023: Mira Vale, University of Michigan, “Algorithmic Affordances: The Relational Construction of the Electronic Health Record.”
2022: Chuncheng Liu, University of California, San Diego, “Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
2022: Mary Shi, University of California, Berkeley, “The Public Lands, Settler Colonialism, and Early Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States”
2021: Andréa Becker, “Same Uterus, Different Paths: Examining Gendered Infertility Discourses in Hysterectomy Narratives”
2020: Sarah Brothers, “A Good ’Doctor’ is Hard to Find: Assessing Uncredentialed Expertise in Assisted Injection,” Social Science & Medicine, Vol 237. 2019.
2019: Madeleine Pape, “Expertise, Epistemologies of the Body, and the Institutional Enactment of the Binary,” forthcoming in Body and Society
2019 Honorable Mention: June Jeon, “Habitus of Ignorance: Ease and Legitimation of Ignorance in the Advanced Bioenergy Center,” forthcoming in Social Studies of Science
2019 Honorable Mention: Caleb Scoville, “Hydraulic Society and a ‘Stupid Little Fish’: Toward a Historical Ontology of Endangerment,” Theory and Society 38(1):1-37. 2019.
2018: Savina Balasubramanian, Northwestern University, “Motivating Men: Social Science and the Regulation of Men’s Reproduction in Postwar India,” Gender & Society 32(1):34 –58. 2018.
2017: Kellie Owens, “Too Much of a Good Thing? American Childbirth, Intentional Ignorance, and the Boundaries of Responsible Knowledge,” Science, Technology and Human Values 42(5):848-871. 2017.
2016: David Peterson, “All That is Solid: Bench-Building at the Frontiers of Two Experimental Sciences,” American Sociological Review 80(6):1201-1225. 2015.
2015: Natalie B. Aviles, “The Little Death: Rigoni- Stern and the Problem of Sex and Cancer in Twentieth-Century Biomedical Research,” Social Studies of Science 45(3):394-415. 2015.
2014: Kelly Kistner, University of Washington, “A Word Factory was Wanted’: Organizational Objectivity in the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary,” Social Studies of Science 43(6):801-828. 2013.
2013: Phillipa K. Chong, University of Toronto, “Legitimate Judgment in Art, The Scientific World Reversed?: Critical Distance in Evaluation,” Social Studies of Science 42(3):265-281. 2013.
2012: Ignacio Siles, Northwestern University, “From Online Filter to Web Format: Articulating Materiality and Meaning in the Early History of Blogs,” Social Studies of Science 41(5):737-758. 2011.
2011: Michael Strand, University of Notre Dame, “Where do classifications come from? The DSM-III, the transformation of American Psychiatry, and the problem of origins in the sociology of knowledge,” Thoery and Society 40(3):273-313. 2011.
2010: Owen Whooley, New York University, “Diagnostic Ambivalence: Psychiatric Workarounds and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” Sociology of Health and Illness 32(3):452-469. 2010.
2009: David Schliefer, “The Dovetailing of Activism, Industry, and the Technological Backburner: How Trans Fats Became Healthy”
2007: Elizabeth Popp Berman, “Why did Universities Start Patenting? Institution-building and the Road to the Bayh-Dole Act,” Social Studies of Science 38(6):835-871. 2008.
2006: Janet Vertesi, Cornell University, “Mind the Gap: the London Underground Map and Users’ Representation of Urban Space,” Social Studies of Science 38(1):7-33. 2008.
2005: Annalisa Salonius, McGill University, “Social Organization of Work in Biomedical Research Labs: Socio-historical Dynamics and the Influence of Research Funding”
2005: Abby Kinchy, University of Wisconsin, “African Americans in the Atomic Age”
2003: Cyrus Mody, Cornell University, “Probe Microscopists at Work and Play: The Growth of American STM and AFM in the 1980s”
2003: Jennifer Fosket, University of California, San Francisco, “Constructing “High Risk Women”: The Development and Standardization of a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool,” Science, Technology, and Human Values 29(3):291-313. 2004.
2002: Kjerten Clare Bunker, Stanford University, “Patterns of Discrimination in Public and Private Science: The Effects of Gender and Discipline”
2002: Park Doing, Cornell University, “Lab Hands’ and the ‘Scarlet O’: On Models, Identity, and Technology Studies,” Social Studies of Science 34(3):299-323. 2004.
2001: Jenny Reardon, Cornell University, “The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction,” Social Studies of Science 31(3):357-388. 2001.
2000: Christopher Henke, University of California, San Diego, “Making a Place for Science: The Field Trial,” Social Studies of Science 30(4):483-511. 2000.
1999: Jennifer Fishman and Laura Mamo, University of California, San Francisco, “Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body,” Body & Society 7(4):13-35. 2001.
1998: Jason Owen-Smith, University of Arizona, “The Social Organization of Scientific Skepticism”
1997: Pablo Boczkowski, Cornell University, “The Mutual Shaping of Users and Technologies In and Through Computer-Mediated Communication; Artifacts of Nationhood in the Argentine Mailing List”
1996: Lisa Jean Moore, University of California, San Francisco, “The Technologies of Safer Sex: Latex Devices,” Science, Technology, and Human Values 22(4):434-471. 1997.
1995: Stephan Timermans, University of Illinois, “Saving Lives or Sharing Multiple Identities? The Double Dynamic of Resuscitation Scripts,” Social Studies of Science 26(4):767-797. 1996.
1994: Charis Cussins, University of California, San Diego, “Cycles of Conceivability: The Construction of the Normal Woman in an Infertility Unit”
1994: Scott Frickel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Submarine Thermal Reactor Mark-I: Successful Science & the Geography of Actor Networks”
1992: Rosa Haritos, Columbia University, “Scientists at Work: Institutional and Cultural Contexts of Discovery”
The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology’s Robert K. Merton Award
2024: Ya-Wen Lei, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, and Samuel D. Stabler, Hunter College, CUNY, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science. University of Chicago Press. 2023.
2023: Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody A. Roberts, Residues: Thinking through Chemical Environments. Rutgers University Press. 2022.
2022: Claire Laurier Decoteau, University of Illinois Chicago. The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora. University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2021: Jill A. Fisher, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. New York University Press. 2020.
2020: Owen Whooley, On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing. University of Chicago Press. 2019.
2019: Miranda R. Waggoner, The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk. University of California Press. 2017.
2018: Shobita Parthasarathy, Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Stephen Hilgartner, Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution. MIT Press. 2017.
2017: Victoria Pitts-Taylor, The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics. Duke University Press. 2016.
2016: Natasha Myers, Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter. Duke University Press Books. 2015
2015: Owen Whooley, Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. University of Chicago Press. 2013.
2014: Sara Naomi Shostak, Brandeis University, Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health. University of California Press. 2013.
2013: Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. MIT Press. 2012.
2012: Gil Eyal, Brendan Hart, Emine Onculer, Neta Oren, and Natasha Rossi, Columbia University, The Autism Matrix. Polity Press. 2010.
2011: Kelly Moore, Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. Princeton University Press. 2008.
2010: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill. Duke University Press. 2009.
2009: David J. Hess, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation and the Environment in an Era of Globalization. MIT Press. 2007.
2009 Honorable Mention: Maren Klawiter, Yale University Law School, The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism. Minnesota University Press. 2008.
2008: Libby Schweber, University of Lancaster, UK, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885. Duke University Press. 2006.
2007: Steve Epstein, University of California, Irvine, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. University of Chicago Press. 2007.
2006: Scott Frickel, Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology. Rutgers University Press. 2004.
2006: Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War Mexico. Princeton University Press. 2006.
2006 Honorable Mention: Sydney A. Halpmen, Lesser Harms: the Morality of Risk in Medical Research. University of Chicago Press. 2004.
2005: Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg, University of California, Los Angeles, The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care. Temple University Press. 2003.
2004: Award not given
2003: Donald MacKenzie, Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust. MIT Press. 2001.
2002: Helen Longino, University of Minnesota, The Fate of Knowledge. Princeton University Press. 2001.
2001: Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Harvard University Press. 1999.
2000: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books. 2000.
2000: Daniel Breslau, Tel Aviv University, In Search of the Unequivocal: The Political Economy of Measurement in U.S. Labor Market Policy. Praeger. 1998.
1999: Thomas F. Gieryn, Indiana University, Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. University of Chicago Press. 1999.
1998: Joan H. Fujimura, Stanford University, Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer. Harvard University Press. 1996.
1998: Steve Shapin, University of California, San Diego, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. University of Chicago Press. 1994.
1997: Steven Epstein, University of California, Berkeley, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press. 1996.
1996: Renee R. Anspach, University of Michigan, Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery. University of California Press. 1993.
1996: Diane Vaughan, Boston College, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. University Of Chicago Press. 1996.
1995: Michael Lynch, Brunel University, Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action: Ethnomethodology and the Social Studies of Science. Cambridge University Press. 1993.
1994: Harry Collins, University of Bath, Trevor Pinch, Cornell University, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science. Cambridge University Press. 1993.
1993: Elaine Draper, University of Southern California, Risky Business: Genetic Testing & Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace. Cambridge University Press. 1991.
1993: Donald MacKenzie, University of California, Santa Cruz, Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. MIT Press. 1990.
1992: Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge. 1990.
1991: Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego, A Fragile Power: Scientists & the State. Princeton University Press. 1989.
1991: Jack R. Kloppenberg, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison, First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology. University of Wisconsin Press. 1988.
The Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology’s Star-Nelkin Paper Award
2024: Luciana de Souza Leão, University of Michigan, “Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico.” American Journal of Sociology 128 (1): 1-46. 2022.
2023: Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, and Gabrielle Finestone, Columbia University, “Long Covid and Medical Gaslighting: Dismissal, Delayed Diagnosis, and Deferred Treatment.” SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 2: 1-11. 2022.
2022: Claire Laurier Decoteau and Meghan Daniel. 2020. “Scientific Hegemony and the Field of Autism.” American Sociological Review. 85(3):451-476.
2022 Honorable Mention: Ricarda Hammer and Tina M. Park. 2021. “The Ghost in the Algorithm: Racial Colonial Capitalism and the Digital Age.” Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism. 38: 221-249.
2021: Benjamin Shestakofsky and Shreeharsh Kelkar, “Making Platforms Work: Relationship Labor and the Management of Publics”
2020: Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan, “Genetic Ancestry Testing Among White Nationalists: From Identity Repair to Citizen Science” Social Studies of Science 49 No. 5 (2019):653-81.
2020 Honorable Mention: Paige Sweet and Claire Decoteau, “Contesting Normal: The DSM-5 and Psychiatric Subjectivation” BioSocieties 13 No. 1 (2018):103-22.
2019: Angèle Christin, “Counting Clicks. Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France,” American Journal of Sociology 123(5):1382-1415. 2018.
2018: Daniel Navon, University of California, San Diego, and Gil Eyal, Columbia University, “Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population,” American Journal of Sociology 121(5):1416-71. 2016.
2018 Honorable Mention: Angela Frederick, University of Texas, El Paso, “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project: Women with Disabilities Negotiate Scientific Motherhood,” Gender & Society 31(1):74.95. 2017.
2017: Nancy Campbell and Laura Stark, “Making Up ‘Vulnerable People’: Human Subjects and the Subjective Experience of Medical Experiment,” Social History of Medicine 28(4):825–848. 2015.
2016: Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans, “Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies,” American Sociological Review 80(5):875-908. 2015.
2015: Carrie Friese, “Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine: The Uncanny Emergence of Care as Science,” Current Anthropology 54(S7):S129-S138. 2013.
2014: Carol Heimer, Northwestern University, “Inert Facts and the Illusion of Knowledge: Strategic Uses of Ignorance in HIV Clinics,” Economy and Society 41(1):17-41. 2012.
2013: Elizabeth Popp Berman, State University of New York, Albany, “Explaining the Move Toward the Market in U.S. Academic Science: How Institutional Logics Can Change without Institutional Entrepreneurs,” Theory and Society 41(3):261-299. 2012.
2013: Benjamin Sims, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Christopher Henke, Colgate University, “Repairing Credibility: Repositioning Nuclear Weapons Knowledge After the Cold War,” Social Studies of Science 42(3):324-347.
2012: Kelly Moore, Loyola University, Chicago, Daniel Lee Kleinman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, David Hess, Vanderbilt University, and Scott Frickel, Washington State University, “Science and Neoliberal Globalization: A Political Sociological Approach,” Theory and Society 40(5):505-532. 2011.
2011: Mathieu Albert, University of Toronto, Suzanne Laberge, Université de Montréal, and Brian D. Hodges, University of Toronto, “Boundary work in the health research field: Biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research,” Minerva 47(2):171-194. 2009.
Ida B. Wells-Troy Duster Award
2024: Jorge Vásquez, American University, “W.E.B. Du Bois and Irene Diggs: Gender, Erasures, and Knowledge Production in the Sociology of the Global Color Line.” Gender & Society. 2024.
2023: Fernanda R. Rosa, Virginia Tech, “From Community Networks to Shared Networks: The Paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous Networks to a Pluriversal Internet.” Internet, Communication & Society. 2022.
2022: Taylor Marion Cruz, California State University, Fullerton, “Racing the Machine: How Data Analytics Obscures the Social Nature of Racialized Health Inequality.”
2021: Philip Prince Grace, “‘Little Brother is Watching’: Undersight Experiments in Movements for Police Accountability”
Emancipatory Practice in Science, Knowledge, and Technology
2024: Lucy Parsons Lab (LPL), which is “a charitable Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.”
2023: Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
2022: Anti-Eviction Mapping Project for their collaborative work, which includes “Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance”
2021: Ruha Benjamin
2021: The Free Radicals
