The Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
2024: Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State University, Identity Investments: Middle Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile. Stanford University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Patricia A. Banks, Mount Holyoke College, Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America. Stanford University Press. 2022.
2023: D. Matthew Godfrey, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Linda L. Price, University of Wyoming, and Robert F. Lusch, University of Arizona, “Repair, Consumption, and Sustainability: Fixing Fragile Objects and Maintaining Consumer Practices,” Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 49, 2022.
2022: David J. Ekerdt, University of Kansas, Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life. Columbia University Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Kenneth H. Kolb, Furman University, Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate. University of California Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Ashley Mears, Boston University, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Princeton University Press. 2020.
2021: Ryan Calder. “Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets.” Sociological Theory, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Cassi Pittman Claytor. “‘Shopping while Black’: Black consumers’ management of racial stigma and racial profiling in retail settings.” Journal of Consumer Culture, 2020.
2020: Péter Berta, Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. University of Toronto Press, 2019.
2019: Michelle F. Weinberger, Jane R. Zavisca, and Jennifer M. Silva, “Consuming for an Imagined Future: Middle-Class Consumer Lifestyle and Exploratory Experiences in the Transition to Adulthood,” Journal of Consumer Research 44(2):332–360. 2017.
2019 Honorable Mention: Fabien Accominotti, Shamus R. Khan, and Adam Storer, “How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America: Musical Purification and Cross-Class Inclusion at the New York Philharmonic,” American Journal of Sociology 123(6):1743-1783. 2018.
2018: Laura J. Miller, Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Daniel Fridman, Freedom From Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina. Stanford University Press. 2016.
2017: Kristie O’Neill and Daniel Silver, “From Hungry to Healthy: Simmel, Self-Cultivation and the Transformative Experience of Eating for Beauty,” Food, Culture & Society 20(1):101-132. 2017.
2016: Michaela DeSoucey, Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food. Princeton University Press. 2016.
2015: Erin Metz McDonnell, “Budgetary Units: A Weberian Approach to Consumption,” The American Journal of Sociology 119(2):307-350. 2013.
The Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption’s Student Paper Award
2024: Bowei Hu, University of California, Los Angeles, “Banking Without Banks: How Bank Account Ownership Influences Racial Disparities in Alternative Financial Services.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Jack Thornton, University of Pennsylvania, “‘Are We the Help?’ Frontline Fundraising as Elite Service Work.”
2023: Meghann Lucy, Boston University, “Divestment as Investment: ‘Kondo-ing’ Selves in the Context of Overaccumulation.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Taylor Laemmli, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Class Experience Mobility in Consumption, Work, and Relationships.”
2022: Xiangyu Ma, University of Chicago, “What Are the Temporal Dynamics of Taste?” Poetics. 2021.
2021: Alex Hoppe. “Coordinating Transnational Futurework in Fashion Design.” Socio-Economic Review. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Laura Halcomb, “Crowdfunding a Life: How Relationships Shape Cultural Narratives of the Patient.”
2020: Elizabeth C. Martin, “Regulating the Risk of Debt: Exemption Laws and Economic Insecurity Across US States, 1986-2012.”
2019: Merin Oleschuk, “‘In Today’s Market, Your Food Chooses You’: News Media Constructions of Responsibility for Health through Home Cooking,” Social Problems 2019.
2018: Barbara Kiviat, “The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions,” Socio-Economic Review 1-27. 2017.
2018: Helana Darwin, “Omnivorous Masculinity: Gender Capital and Cultural Legitimacy in Craft Beer Culture,” Social Currents 5(3):301-316. 2017.
2017: Nathan Wilmers, “Does Consumer Demand Reproduce Inequality? High-income Consumers, Vertical Differentiation and the Wage Structure,” American Journal of Sociology 123(1):178-231. 2017.
2017: Hannah Wohl, “Signature Styles: The Production of Uniqueness”
2016: Caitlin Daniel, “Economic Constraints on Taste Formation and the True Cost of Healthy Eating,” Social Science & Medicine 148:34-41. 2016.
2015: Zachary Hyde, “Omnivorous Gentrification: Restaurant Reviews and Neighborhood Change in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver,” City and Community 13(4):341-359. 2014.
2014: Janet Lorenzen, Rutgers University, “Challenges to Reducing Consumption: Social Connections and the Problem of Gift Giving,” Symbolic Interaction 41(2):247-266. 2018.
2013: Kjerstin Gruys, University of California, Los Angeles, “Does This Make Me Look Fat? Aesthetic Labor and Fat Talk as Emotional Labor in a Women’s Plus-Size Clothing Store,” Social Problems 59(4):481-500. 2014.
