The Section on the Sociology of Emotions’ Graduate Student Paper Award
2024: Minyoung Kim, University of California, Irvine, “Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea.”
2023: Ethan Johnston, University of Michigan, “Political Aesthetics: The Minimal Cultural Knowledge Used in Discerning Friend/Foe.”
2022: Nehal Elmeligy, University of Illinois, “Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storytelling as Feminist Social Change”
2022 Honorable Mention: Michael Rotolo, University of Notre Dame, “Fight-or-Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views during the Transition to Adulthood”
2021: Anna Gabur, University of Notre Dame, “We Know Your Pain. Cultural Dimensions of Pain and Suffering.”
2020: Kate K. O’Neill, The University of Washington. “Adolescence, Empathy, and the Gender Gap in Delinquency”
2019: Carley Geiss, University of South Florida, “Connecting Practical Doings to Cultural Meanings: Exploring the Work of Moral Mediators in Human Service Organizations”
2018: Amanda Barrett Cox, “Correcting Behaviors and Policing Emotions: How Behavioral Infraction Become Feeling-Rule Violations,” Symbolic Interaction 39(3):484-503. 2016.
2017: Jorie Hofstra, “Attentive Flexibility: A Theoretical Grounding of a New Concept in the Study of Emotional Support”
2016: Ryann Manning, “Emplacing Anger: Emotion Management in West African Pediatric Wards”
2015: Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Clare Forstie, and Savina Balasubramanian, “Shining Stars, Blind Sides, and “Real” Realities: Exit Rituals, Eulogy Work, and Allegories in Reality Television,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 44(4):417-449. 2015.
2014: Long Doan, Annalise Loehr, and Lisa Miller, Indiana University, “The Power of Love: The Role of Emotional Attributions and Standards in Heterosexuals,” Social Forces 94(1):401-425. 2015.
2013: Marci Cottingham, “Learning to ‘Deal’ and ‘De-Escalate’: How Men in Nursing Manage Self and Patient Emotions,” Sociological Inquiry 85(1):75-99. 2014.
2013: Sonny Nordmarken, “Everyday Transgender Emotional Inequality: Microaggressions, Micropower Dynamics, Emotional Exertion, and Cisgender Emotional Leisure”
2012: Yuval Feinstein, University of California, Los Angeles, “American Nationalism, Emotions, and Public Support for Military Action: Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment”
2011: Kirsten Younghee Song, Rutgers University, “Mourning for a National Monument:News Media Representation of the Loss of the Korean National Treasure Number 1”
2010: Yuval Feinstein, University of California, Los Angeles
2009: Christian Vaccaro, Florida State University
2008: R. Tyson Smith, State University of New York, Stony Brook
2007: Pamela M. Hunt, Kent State University, “Membership and Subcultural Identity Meaning: Exploring Two Continuous Measures of Membership in the Jamband Subculture”
2006: Meredith Rossner, University of Pennsylvania, “Restorative Justice and Interaction Ritual: An In-Depth Examination of the Micro Mechanism for Emotional Transformation”
2005: Jessica Collett and Omar Lizardo, University of Arizona, “Socioeconomic Status and the Experience of Anger,” Social Forces 88(5):2079-2104. 2010.
2004: Simone Polilo, University of Pennsylvania
2003: Erika Summers-Effler, University of Pennsylvania, “The Micro Potential for Social Change: Emotion, Consciousness, and Social Movement Formation,” Sociological Theory 20(1):41-60. 2002.
2002: Tim P. Hallett, Northwestern University, “Emotional Feedback and Amplification in Social Interaction,” The Sociological Quarterly 44(4):705-726. 2016.
2001: Michelle VanNatta, Northwestern University
2000: Jennifer Lois, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Managing Emotions, Intimacy, and Relationships in a Voucher Search and Rescue Group,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 30(2):131-179. 2001.
1999: Guobin Yang, New York University, “Achieving Emotions in Social Mevements”
1998: Kathryn Lively, Vanderbilt University, “Joint Emotion-work: Working together to Maintain Stratification in Private Law Firms,” Work and Occupations 27(1):32-63. 2000.
1997: Laura Mamo, University of California-San Francisco, “Death and Dying: Confluence of Emotions and Awareness,” Sociology of Health & Illness 21(1)1999:13–36. 1999.
1996: Lyn Jones, University of Arizona, “Rape Crisis Work and the Unpersonal Relationship: The Delicate Balance of Intimacy and Social Distance”
1995: Robert Garot, University of California, Los Angeles, “Emotions Front and Back stage: Anger and Tears in a Section 8 Housing Office”
1994: Donald E. Gibson, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Struggle for Reason: The Sociology of Emotion in Organizations”
1993: Rodney Beaulieu, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Emotion and Conflict in the Classroom: A Single Case Analysis”
1992: Leslie J. Irvine, Florida Atlantic University, “The Pathologizing of Love: Co-Dependency and the Naming of Emotion”
1991: Betsy Cullum-Swan, Michigan State University, “Behavior in Public Places: A Frame Analysis of Gynecological Exams”
1990: Jennifer L. Pierce, University of California, Berkeley, “Gender, Paralegals, and the ‘Tyranny of Niceness’: The Double-Bind Emotional Labor Poses for Women Workers”
The Section on the Sociology of Emotions’ Lifetime Achievement Award
2023: Dawn T. Robinson, University of Georgia
2021: Robert W. Simon, Wake Forest University
2018: Neil J. MacKinnon, University of Guelph
2015: David Franks, Virginia Commonwealth University
2010: Jan Stets, University of California, Riverside
2009: Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside
2008: David Karp, Boston College
2007: Spence E. Cahill, University of South Florida
2006: Peggy A. Thoits, University of North Carolina
2005: Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University
2004: Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
2003: Theodore D. Kemper, St. Johns University
2002: David R. Heise, Indiana University
2001: Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley
2000: Thomas J. Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Section on the Sociology of Emotions’ Outstanding Recent Contribution Award
2024: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida, Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
2023: Ana Villareal, Boston University, “The Logistics of Fear: Violence and the Stratifying Power of Emotion.” Emotions & Society, 4(3): 290-306. 2022.
2022: Amanda M. Gengler, Wake Forest University, “Save My Kid”: How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System. New York University Press. 2020.
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: Warikoo, Natasha. “Addressing Emotional Health while Protecting Status: Asian American and White Parents in Suburban America.” American Journal of Sociology 126 (3): 545-576, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Boyle, Kaitlin M., and Kimberly B. Rogers. “Beyond the Rape “Victim”–“Survivor” Binary: How Race, Gender, and Identity Processes Interact to Shape Distress.” Sociological Forum 35: 323-345, 2020.
2020: James M. Jasper, The Emotions of Protest. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 2018.
2019: Kari Marie Norgaard and Ron Reed, “Emotional Impacts of Environmental Decline: What Can Native Cosmologies Teach Sociology About Emotions and Environmental Justice,” Theory and Society 46(6):463-495.
2018: Timothy Recuber, Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster. Temple University Press. 2016.
2017: Chana Teeger, “Both Sides of the Story” History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” American Sociological Review 80(6):1175-1200. 2015.
2016: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socializationi in Black Brazilian Families. University of Texas Press. 2015.
2015: Seth Abrutyn and Anna S. Mueller, “The Socioemotional Foundations of Suicide: A Microsociological View of Durkheim’s Suicide,” Sociological Theory 32(4):327-351. 2014.
2014: Eva Illouz, Hebrew University, Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation. Polity. 2013.
2013: Kathryn J. Lively, Lala Steelman, and Brian Powell, “Equity, Emotion, and the Household Division of Labor,” Social Psychology Quarterly 73(4):358-379. 2010.
2012: Clare Stacey, Kent State University, The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides. Cornell University Press. 2011.
2011: Jennifer Lois, Western Washington University, “The Temporal Emotion Work of Motherhood: Homeschoolers’ Strategies for Managing Time Shortage,” Gender and Society 24(4):421-446. 2010.
2010: Jody Clay-Warner and Dawn T. Robinson, University of Georgia, Athens
2009: Alison Bianchi and Donna Lancianese, University of Iowa, “Accentuate the Positive: Positive Sentiments and Status in Task Groups.” Social Psychology Quarterly 70:1:7-26. 2007.
2008: Jan E. Stets and Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside
2007: Robin W. Simon, Florida State University, and Leda E. Nath, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, “Gender and Emotion in the United States: Do Men and Women Differ in Self-Reports of Feelings and Expressive Behavior,” American Journal of Sociology 109(5):1137-1176. 2004.
2006: Jennifer Lois, Western Washington University, Heroic Efforts
2005: Kathryn Lively and David Heise, “Sociological Realms of Emotional Experience,” American Journal of Sociology 109(5):1109-1136. 2004.
2004: Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, Interaction Ritual Chains
2003: Rebecca J. Erickson, The University of Akron, and Christian Ritter, Kent State University, “Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Inauthenticity: Does Gender Matter?” Social Psychology Quarterly 64(2):146-163. 2001.
2002: Jonathan H. Turner, University of California, Riverside
2001: Guobin Yang, University of Hawaii
2000: Candace Clark, Montclair State University
