The Section on Sociology of Human Rights’ Graduate Student Paper Award
2024: Yen-Tung Lin, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Human Rights Upsurge’ and the Limitation of Solitary Confinement Reform in Taiwan.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Xiaogao Zhou, University of Chicago, “Care in Transition: Global Norms, Transnational Adaptation, and Family-Centered Gender-Affirming Care in China.”
2023: Samuel Dinger, New York University, “Coordinating Care and Coercion: Styles of Sovereignty and the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Lebanon.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 13 (2): 218–39. 2022.
2022: Jiaqi Liu, University of California, San Diego, “Citizenship on the move: the deprivation and restoration of emigrants’ hukou in China.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Mohamed Mandour, Tahir Institute for Middle East Policy, “Egypt’s Criminalization of Minority Free Speech through Blasphemy Cases.” Rowaq Arabi. 2021.
2021: Laura Acosta, “Victimhood Dissociation and Conflict Resolution: Evidence From the Columbian Peace Plebiscite” Theory & Society, 2021
2021: Miray Philips: “Coptic Cultural Trauma: Between Martyrdom and Rights”
2021 Honorable Mention: Minwoo Jung:, “Reluctance and reconstruction: How Social Movements Navigate International Mobilization”
2020: Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan, “Pathways of Global Cultural Diffusion: Media and Attitudes about Violence against Women.”
2020 Honorable Mention: Kristopher Velasco, University of Texas, “Queer Compliance and Defiance: Global Norms, Rival Transnational Networks, and the Contested Case of LGBTI Rights.”
2019: Andrew P. Davis, “Middle Status Conformity in the World Polity: Global Institutional Embeddedness and Sexual Violence in Civil Conflict”
2019 Honorable Mention: Ioana Sendroiu, “Human Rights as Uncertain Performance during the Arab Spring”
2018: Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell, “Decoupling Transitional Justice: Selective Approaches for Addressing Human Rights Abuses in Colombia”
2018 Honorable Mention: Nicole Iturriaga, “At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging the Narrative of Violence in Post-Franco Spain”
2017: Kristopher Velasco, “Human Rights INGOs, and LGBT Policy Diffusion, 1991 – 2015”
2016: Roberts, Louisa, “Changing Global Attitudes Toward Homosexuality: The Influence of Global and Region-Specific Cultures, 1981-2012”
2015: Marie Berry, “When ‘Bright Futures’ Fade: Paradoxes of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda,” Signs 41(1):1-27. 2015.
2014: H.E.
2012: Ya-Wen Lei, University of Michigan, “Institutional-social Embeddedness of the Public Sphere: Media, Law, Networks, and the Heterogeneous Development of the Public Sphere in China”
2011: Jennifer Costanza, “A New Indigenous Citizenship: Constructing Citizen Rights from Human Rights at the Grassroots in Guatemala.”
The Section on the Sociology of Human Rights’ Best Scholarly Article Award
2024: Kristopher Velasco, Princeton University, “Transnational backlash and the deinstitutionalization of liberal norms: LGBT+ rights in a contested world” American Journal of Sociology Vol. 128 (5): 1381-1429. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Gillian Slee and Matthew Desmond, Princeton University, “Resignation without relief: Democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights” Theory and Society Vol. 52: 583–623. 2023.
2023: Nisa Göksela, Arizona State University, and Jaimie Morse, University of California, Santa Cruz, “‘Legal Exhaustion’ and the Crisis of Human Rights: Tracing Legal Mobilization against Sexual Violence and Torture of Kurdish Women in State Custody in Turkey since the 1990s.” Journal of Human Rights, 21 (2): 174–90. 2022.
2022: Marie Berry, University of Denver, and Milli Lake, London School of Economics, “Women’s Rights After War: On Gender Interventions and Enduring Hierarchies.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 17: 459-481. 2021.
2022: Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University, “Incorporation: Governing Gendered Violence in a State of Disempowerment.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4). 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Salvador Santino Regilme, Universiteit Leiden, “Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines.” Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 6(2). 2021.
2021: Nicole Fox, “Memory in Interaction: Gender-Based Violence, Genocide, and Commemoration,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45.1 (2019): 123-148.
2020: Nicole Iturriaga, “At the Foot of the Grave: Challenging Collective Memories of Violence in Post-Franco Spain.” Socius 5 (2019): 2378023119832135.
2020 Honorable Mention: Lisa Hajjar, “The Counterterrorism War Paradigm versus International Humanitarian Law: The Legal Contradictions and Global Consequences of the US “War on Terror”.” Law & Social Inquiry 44.4 (2019): 922-956.
2020 Honorable Mention: Yan Long, “The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013.” American Journal of Sociology 124.2 (2018): 309-366.
2018: Nicohlas Pedriana and Robin Stryker, “From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing U.S. Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Fair Housing Legislation,” American Journal of Sociology 123(1):86-135. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Gretchen Purser, “The Circle of Dispossession: Evicting the Urban Poor in Baltimore,” Critical Sociology 42(3):393-415. 2016.
2017: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, “Human Rights and Minority Activism in Japan: Transformation of Movement Actorhood and Local-Global Feedback Loop,” American Journal of Sociology 122(4):1050-1103. 2017.
2016: Chana Teeger, “Both Sides of the Story: History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” American Sociological Review 80(6):1175-1200. 2015.
The Section on Sociology of Human Rights’ Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book 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.
2024 Honorable Mention: Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil. University of Chicago Press. 2023.
2023: Lynette Ong, University of Toronto, Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022.
2022: Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University, Capable Women. Incapable States. Negotiating Violence and Rights in India. Oxford University Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press. 2021.
2021: David FitzGerald, Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers. Oxford University Press. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Lea David, The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights. Cambridge University Press. 2020.
2020: Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust, Cambridge University Press.
2019: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Lynette J. Chua, The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as A Way of Life. Stanford University Press. 2019
2018: Ya-Wen Lei, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do. Columbia University Press. 2017.
2017: Tianna S. Paschel, Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press, 2017.
2016: Elizabeth Holzer, The Concerned Women of Budburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas. Cornell University Press.
2015: Christopher N. J. Roberts, The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights. Cambridge University Press.
2014: Yuksel Sezgin, Syracuse University, Human Rights Under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2013: William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha, editors, Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011.
