The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Career Award
2006: Red Schwartz, Brown University
The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Distinguished Article Award
2024: Celene Reynolds, Indiana University Bloomington, “Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination in American Higher Education.” American Journal of Sociology, 128: 462-514. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University, “Trojan Horse Technologies: Smuggling Criminal-Legal Logics into Healthcare Practice.” American Sociological Review, 88: 1131-1160. 2023.
2023: Jason L. Ferguson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard University, “’There Is an Eye on Us:’ International Imitation, Popular Representation, and the Regulation of Homosexuality in Senegal.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 86(4): 700-727. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: katrina quisumbing king, Northwestern University, “The Structural Sources of Ambiguity in the Modern State: Race, Empire, and Conflicts over Membership.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(3): 768-819. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Caleb Scoville, Tufts University, “Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta.” American Journal of Sociology, 127(4): 1094-1150. 2022.
2022: Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University, “Incorporation: Governing Gendered Violence in a State of Disempowerment” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4): 852-88. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Robin Bartram, Tulane University, “Cracks in Broken Windows: How Objects Shape Professional Evaluation” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4): 759-94. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Talia Shiff, Tel Aviv University, “A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 127(2): 337-75. 2021.
2021: Monica C. Bell, Located Institutions: Neighborhood Frames, Residential Preferences, and the Case of Policing. American Journal of Sociology, 125(4), 917-973. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Joshua Page, Victoria Piehowski, Joe Soss. A debt of care: Commercial bail and the gendered logic of criminal justice predation. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 5(1), 150-172. 2019.
2019: Spencer Headworth, “Getting to Know You: Welfare Fraud Investigation and the Appropriation of Social Ties,” American Sociological Review 84(1):171-196. 2019.
2019 Honorable Mention: Valerie Jenness and Kitty Calavita, “‘It Depends on the Outcome’: Prisoners, Grievances, and Perceptions of Justice” Law and Society Review 52(1):41-72. 2018.
2018: Sarah Brayne, “Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing,” American Sociological Review 82(5):977-1008. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Joscha Legewie, “Racial Profiling and Use of Force in Police Stops,” American Journal of Sociology 122(2):379-424. 2016.
2017: Armando Lara-Millán and Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, “Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System,” Criminology 55(1):59-84. 2017.
2016: Elizabeth Chiarello, “The War on Drugs Comes to the Pharmacy Counter: Frontline Work in the Shadow of Discrepant Institutional Logics,” Law & Social Inquiry 40(1):86-122. 2015.
2015: Kathryne M. Young, Stanford University, “Everyone Knows the Game: Legitimacy and Legal Consciousness in the Hawaiian Cockfight.” Law and Society Review 48(3):499-530. 2014.
2014: Michael C. Campbell and Heather Schoenfeld, “The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment,” American Journal of Sociology 118(5):1375-1423. 2013.
2013: Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine, “Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons,” Social Problems 60(1):50-80. 2013.
2011: Calvin Morrill, University of California, Berkeley, Lauren Edelman, University of California, Berkeley, Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina, Richard Arum, New York University, “Legal Mobilization in Schools: The Paradox of Rights and Race Among Youth,” Law & Society Review 44(3-4):651-693.
2009: Ryan King, “Conservatism, Institutionalism, and the Social Control of Intergroup Conflict,” American Journal of Sociology 113(5):1351-1393. 2008.
2007: Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness, “The Reconstitution of Law in Social Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime,” Law and Society Review 39(4):893-942. 2005.
2005: Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey, Clark University, “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority,” American Journal of Sociology 108(6):1328-72. 2003.
2005: Nicholas Pedriana and Robin Stryker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971,” American Journal of Sociology 110(3):709-760. 2004.
2005 Honorable Mention: Becky Petit, Louisiana State University, and Bruce Western, University of Minnesota, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course”Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration,” American Sociological Review 69(2):151-169. 2004.
2003: Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry K. Adams, National Science Foundation, “Michigan’s Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs Through Law School” Law & Social Inquiry 25(2):395-505.
2001: Mary Vogel, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Social Origins of Plea Bargaining: Conflict and the Law in the Process of State Formation, 1830-1860,” Law & Society Review 33(1):161-246. 1999.
1999: Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine, “Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain,” Law & Society Review 32(3):529-566. 1998.
1997: Donald Black, University of Virginia, “The Epistemology of Pure Sociology,” Law & Social Inquiry 20(4):829-870. 1995.
1997: Arthur Stinchcombe, Northwestern University, “Lustration as a Problem of the Social Basis of Constitutionalism,” Law & Social Inquiry 20(1):245-273. 1995.
The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Distinguished Book Award
2024: Michael Sierra-Arévalo, University of Texas at Austin, The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing. Columbia University Press. 2024.
2023: Ke Li, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China. Stanford University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Lynne Haney, New York University, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. University of California Press. 2022.
2022: Stefan Vogler, University of Chicago, Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification. University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Matthew Clair, Stanford University, Privilege and Punishment. Princeton University Press. 2020.
2021: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite
2021: Jennifer Carlson, Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race
2019: Amada Armenta, Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement. University of California Press. 2017.
2018: Ya-Wen Lei, The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mentions: Ellen Berrey, Robert Nelson, and Laura Beth Neilson, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mentions: Forrest Stuart, Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2017: Lauren Edelman, Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights. University of Chicago Press. 2016.
2016: Ellen Berrey, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice. University of Chicago Press. 2015.
2016: Lauren Rivera, Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2015: Lynette J. Chua, National University of Singapore, Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State. Temple University Press. 2014.
2014: Michele Dauber, Stanford University, The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State. University of Chicago Press. 2013.
2013: Ruth Horowitz, New York University, In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process. Rutgers University Press. 2013.
2012: Katherine C. Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery. University of Chicago Press. 2011.
2010: Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Stanford University Press. 2009.
2010: Kwai Hang Ng, University of California, San Diego, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong. Stanford University Press. 2009.
2008: Jonathon Simon, Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford University Press. 2007.
2006: Shai J. Lavi, The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States. Princeton University Press. 2005.
2004: Susan Shapiro, American Bar Foundation, Tangled Loyalties: Conflict of Interest in the Legal Profession. University of Michigan Press. 2002.
2004: David T. Johnson, The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan. Oxford University Press. 2002.
2002: John Braithwaite and Peter Drahos, Global Business Regulation. Cambridge University Press. 2000.
2000: Robert Nelson and William Bridges, Northwestern University and University of Illinois, Chicago, Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in the United States. Cambridge University Press. 1999.
1998: Bryant Garth and Yves Dezalay, International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order. University of Chicago Press. 1996.
1996: Ronen Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal. Duke University Press. 1995.
1994: Donald Black, Virginia Polytechnic, The Social Structure of Right and Wrong. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 1993.
1994: Jonathan Simon, University of Miami, Poor Discipline: Parole & the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990. University of Chicago Press. 1993.
The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Graduate Student Paper Prize
2024: Jasmine Simington, University of Michigan, “Displaced Trust: Disrupting Legal Estrangement during Disaster Recovery.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Faith Deckard, University of Texas at Austin, “Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families.”
2023: Gabriela Kirk, Syracuse University, “Imagining Supervised Penal Subjects: Conceptualizations of Who Should be on Electronic Monitoring.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Catherine Sirois, Stanford University, “Contested by the State: Institutional Offloading in the Case of Crossover Youth.”
2022: Blanca A. Ramirez, University of Southern California, “Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement”
2022 Honorable Mention: Isaac Dalke, UC Berkeley, “I Come Before You a Changed Man: ‘Insight,’ Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California”
2021: Laura Adler, “From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: The Evolution of Pay-setting Practices in the US since the 1950s”
2021 Honorable Mention: Tony Cheng, “The Cumulative Discretion of Police over Community Complaints: Evidence from the NYPD”
2019: Celene Reynolds, Yale University, “The Diffusion of Title IX Sexual Harassment Complaints throughout U.S. Colleges and Universities”
2018: Deisy Del Real, “Toxic Ties: The Reproduction of Legal Violence within Mixed-Status Intimate Partners, Relatives, and Friends”
2018 Honorable Mention: Margo Moinester, “Beyond the Border and into the Heartland: Spatial Patterning of U.S. Immigration Detention,” Demography 55(3):1147-1193. 2018.
2018 Honorable Mention: Jaimie Morse, “Legal Mobilization in Medicine: Nurses, Rape Kits, and the Emergence of Forensic Nursing in the United States since the 1970s”
2017: Katherine Eva Maich, “Perpetuating the Past, Perpetuating the Present: Labor Rights and Colonial Fantasies of the Peruvian Home”
2016: Sarah Brayne, “Stratified Surveillance: Policing in the Age of Big Data”
2016: Nate Ela, “Litigation Dilemmas: Lessons from Marcos Human Rights Class Action” Law & Social Inquiry 42(2):479-508. 2017.
2015: Monica C. Bell, Harvard University, “From Legal Cynicism to Situational Trust”
2014: Ke Li, University of Indiana, “What He Did Was Lawful’: Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in Contemporary China,” Law & Policy 37(3):153-179. 2015.
2013: Trevor Hoppe, University of Michigan, “Controlling Sex in the Name of Public Health: Social Control and the Michigan HIV Law” Social Problems 60(1):27-49. 2013.
2012: Scott Leon Washington, Princeton University, “Crossing the Line: A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1662-2000”
2011: Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley, “How Organizations Shape the Meaning of the Law: A Comparative Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws”
2010: Nicole Martorano Van Cleve, Northwestern University, “Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney”
2010: Kathryne M. Young, Stanford University, “Rights Consciousness in Criminal Procedure: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry,” Pp. 67-95 in Access to Justice (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Volume 12). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2009.
2009: Lauren A. Rivera, Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, “Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Job Interviews”
2008: Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Berkeley, “The Legislature, ‘Lemons,’ Legal Endogeneity: How Manufacturers Force Consumers to ‘Holster’ Consumer Warranty Protection Law ‘Weapons’”
2007: Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles, “Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California,” Law & Social Inquiry 33(3):709-734. 2008.
2006: Mary Nell Trautner, University of Arizona, “Liability v. Likeability: How Personal Injury Lawyers Screen Cases in an Era of Tort Reform”
2005: Gabrielle Ferrales, Northwestern University, “Domestic Violence Crime Control Policy and Practice: Implications for Arguments Concerning Penal Theory”
2004: Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster, Northwestern University, “Law School Rankings and Admissions: The Effects of the Redefinition of a Status Hierarchy”
2002: Devah Pager, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Mark of a Criminal Record,” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937-975. 2003.
2001: Garry Gray, University of North Carolina, “A Socio-Legal Ethnography of the Right to Refuse Dangerous Work,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 24:133-169. 2002.
2000: Myrna Dawson and Ronit Dinovitzer, University of Toronto, “The Decision to Prosecute in Cases of Domestic Violence: Assessing the Role of Victim Cooperation”
2000: Jonathan Charles Dunten, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Avoiding Star Wars: Struggles Between National Sovereignty and International Cooperation in Outer Space Law”
1999: Michelle Manasse, Franklin and Marshall College, “The Organizational Process Leading to Successful Juvenile Corrections, 1986-1999”
1999: Annette Neirobisz, University of Toronto, “Wrongful Dismissal Litigation in an Era of Economies on Judicial Decisions”
1998: Stacy Burns, University of California, Los Angeles, “Think your Blackest Thoughts and Darken Them: Worst Light Depictions, Predictions and Evaluations in Judicial Mediation of Large Money Damage Disputes”
1997: Brian Gran, Northwestern University, “A Bugaboo for Social Policy: The Influence of Legal Systems on Public Pension Development”
1997: Megan Morgan, Flinders University of South Australia, “’Battered Woman Syndrome’: Women’s Experiences, Expert Evidence, and Legal Discourse”
1996: Scott Phillips, Louisiana State University, “The Institutionalization of Judicial Decision Making: A Temporal and Rhetorical Analysis of the Development of Hate Crime Laws”
The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award
Renamed the Mentoring Award in 2023; previously presented as the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Award. Awarded every other year jointly, in conjunction with ASA’s Crime, Law, and Deviance Section.
2024: Megan Comfort, Senior Research Sociologist at RTI International
2022: Alexes Harris, University of Washington
2022: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine
2020: Anthony Peguero, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2018: Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California
2016: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky
2014: Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota
2012: John Hagan, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Undergraduate Student Paper Award
2024: Vivian Wermers, University of Virginia, “The Impact of Urbanization on Juvenile Diversions.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Catherine Rhame, Williams College, “Penobscot Nation, Penobscot River.”
2023: Sanjana Manjeshwar, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Agreements’ in Name Only: How Workers Understand Mandatory Arbitration Clauses and Class Action Waivers in Employment Contract.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Sophia Kaufmann, Macalester College, “Un-Scene: How Responses to Sexual Violence Reproduce Legal Hegemony in the Bay Area’s Punk and DIY Community.”
2022: Daniella L. Efrat, University of California, Los Angeles, “Immigration-Related Retaliation Facing Undocumented Low-Income Workers in California”
2021: Rose Genaris, “I Dissent: A Comparative Analysis of Victim-Blaming in the Thomas and Kavanaugh Proceedings.”
2021 Honorable Mention: Gran Soren, “To Serve and Protect? Qualified Immunity and the Use of Legal Force by Police Across the United States.”
2019: Joseph Buttino, SUNY Buffalo, “Perceptions of Delinquency Among College Students and Non-Students”
2018: Rachel Schuster, “Individual Mobilization of Disability Rights”
2017: Neharika Goyal, “Incentivizing Social Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property Protections in Social Ventures”
2016: Austin Jenkins, “The False Dichotomy: Therapy and Punishment for Addicts in Minnesota”
2015: Laily Sheybani, Northwestern University, “‘That’s Him, Officer!’ (Or Is It?): The Effects of Unarticulated Instructions on Eyewitness Accuracy in Culprit Recognition”
2014: Daniel J. McCarthy, Rhode Island College, “Understanding the Determinants of U.S. District Court Judges’ Decisions on PATRIOT Act Cases”
2013: Mary Pheng, Macalester College, “The Bureaucratic Savior: How Human Service Professionals Allocate Rights to Noncitizens”
2012: Cathy Wang, University of California, Berkeley, “The Effect of Work-Family Policy Design and Culture on Women’s Employment Outcomes and Men’s User Rates”
2010: Kathryn Green, Brown University, “Legal Pluralism and Sexual Violence in the Democratic Repub lic of the Congo”
2009: Hope Harvey, Carleton College, “In Pursuit of Integration: Jefferson County, Kentucky”
2008: Andre Bagoo, King’s College in London, “The Law Of Albion: Arendt, Rights-Talk and Critical Race Theory”
2007: Ashley DeMinck, Macalester College, “The Origins of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Peru”
2006: Elizabeth Sylvester, Carleton College, “A Study of Judicial Rhetoric on Wrongful Dismissal and Sexual Harassment”
2005: Roxanne Moreno, Carleton College, “Immutable Identities? Gender in the Asylum and Immigration Process”
2004: David Kovacs, Boston University, “Tough Choices: A Sociological Analysis of Prosecutorial Decisions in Antitrust Cases”
2002: Yen P. Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Creating Computer Crime Units”
