Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Article Award
Award established in 2024. Was previously the Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award.
2024: Joss Greene, University of California, Davis, “The Insurgent Agency of Incarcerated Trans Women of Color.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 48(4), 873–896. 2023.
Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Book Award
Award established in 2024. Was previously the Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award.
2024: Alka Menon, Yale University, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards. University of California Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Katherine Mason, Wheaton College, The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health. New York University Press. 2023.
Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award
In 2024, the Section turned this single award into two separate awards – the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Book Award and the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Article Award
2023: Ellis Monk, Harvard University, Michael H. Esposito, and Hedwig Lee, Washington University in St. Louis, “Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology. 2021.
2023: Esra Sarioglu, Cornell University, The Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: S.L. Crawley and Ashley Green, University of South Florida, “Gender and Embodiment as Negotiated Relations.” The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA. Stanford University Press. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: stef shuster, Michigan State University, Trans Medicine: the Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender. New York University Press. 2021.
2022: Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York University Press. 2020.
2022: Piper Sledge, Bryn Mawr College, Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy. Rutgers University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Kelly Underman, Drexel University, Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training. New York University Press. 2020.
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 Fat Phobia. New York University Press, 2019.
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.
2019 Honorable Mention: Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon, and Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago, “Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex work,” Sociological Perspectives 61(6):953-972. 2018.
2018: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma & Socialization in Black Brazilian Families. University of Texas Press. 2015.
2017: Ashley Mears, “Girls as Elite Distinction: The Appropriation of Bodily Capital,” Poetics 53:22–37. 2015.
2016: Heather Laine Talley, Independent Scholar, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance. New York University Press. 2014.
2015: Kimberly Kay Hoang, “Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry,” Gender & Society 28(4):513-536. 2014.
2014: Maxine Leeds Craig, University of California, Davis, Sorry I Don’t Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2013: Elise Paradis, “Boxers, Briefs or Bras? Bodies, Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym,” Body & Society 18(2):82-109. 2012.
2012: Rene Almeling, Yale University, Sex Cells: the Medical Market for Egg and Sperm. University of California Press. 2011.
2011: Samantha Kwan, “Framing the Fat Body: Contested Meanings between Government, Activists, and Industry,” Sociological Inquiry 79(1):25-50. 2009.
Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award
2024: Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University, “Stop and Sexual Assault?: How Police Searches Become Legally Authorized Sexual Violence.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Tyler Leeds, University of California, Berkeley, “The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory.” Sociological Theory, 42(1), 49-72. 2024.
2023: Eldad J. Levy Guerrero, The University of Texas at Austin, “Looking Right and Looking Busy: Producing Vigilance in Private Security.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Yuchen Yang, University of Chicago, “The Artworlds of Gender Performance: Cosplay, Embodiment, and the Collective Accomplishment of Gender.”
2022: Taylor Paige Winfield, Princeton University, “Embodied Theodicy: From Conceptual to Bodily Engagements with Suffering”
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.”
2021 Honorable Mention: Warren Jensen, “The Strength to Diet: If It Fits Your Macros Dieting as Masculine Body Work.”
2020: Danya Lagos, University of Texas, “Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality”
2020 Honorable Mention: Sarah E. Frank, University of Wisconsin, “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Non-Binary Identity and Body Politics”
2019: Renee Shelby, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Techno-Physical Feminism: Surveillance, Anti-Rape Technology and Shifting Risk Paradigms”
2019 Honorable Mention: Kathleen Broussard, University of Texas, Austin, “The Changing Landscape of Abortion Care: Embodied Experiences in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland”
2019 Honorable Mention: Cristina Khan, University of Connecticut, “Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry”
2018: Carley Geiss and Justine Egner, University of South Florida, “’Having a Sexual Outlet Changes Everything:’ Examining Organizational Narratives of Legal Sex workers and Disabled Clients”
2018 Honorable Mention: Kathleen Jensen, University of Texas, Austin, “The Epistemic Logic of Asylum Screening: (Dis)embodiment and the Production of Asylum Knowledge in Brazil”
2018 Honorable Mention: Emily Allen Paine, University of Texas, Austin, “Embodied Disruption: ‘Sorting Out’ Gender and Nonconformity in the Doctor’s Office”
2017: Alka Menon, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University, “Reconstructing Race and Gender in American Cosmetic Surgery,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(4):597-619. 2016.
2016: Neil Gong, “How to Fight Without Rules: On Civilized Violence in De-Civilized Spaces,” Social Problems 62(4):605-622. 2015.
2015: Sonny Nordmarken, “Radiant Selves, Misgendering Experiences, and Biologized Gender Ideologies”
2014: Paige L. Sweet, University of Illinois, Chicago, “Every Bone in My Body: Domestic Violence and the Diagnostic Body”
2013: Drew Foster, University of Michigan, “Aspirational Habitus, Embodiment, and Sport: Explaining Cross-Class Participation in Aikido”
2012: Alex Thompson, University of Colorado, Boulder, “’Sometimes, I think I might say too much’: Dark Secrets and the Performance of Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” Symbolic Interaction 36(1):21-39. 2013.
2011: Katherine Mason, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, “Bearing Babies, Bearing Class: Class-Conditioned Agency and the Maternal Body”
