The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’ Best Graduate Student Paper Award
2023: Pamela P. Tsui, University of Toronto, “Erotic Capabilities: A Feminist Analysis of Sexual Justice and Pleasure in Heterosexual Sex Partying.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Kris Rosentel, Northwestern University, “Beyond ‘Walking While Trans”: Transgender Discrimination, Gendered Spatial Stigma, and Biased Police Deployment in Sex Work Arrests.”
2022: Tara Gonsalves, University of California, Berkeley, “Gender Identity, The Sexed Body, And the Medical Making of Transgender”
2022 Honorable Mention: Kendall Ota, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Queer Heterotopias in “Straight(ish)” Spaces: The Case of Korean Spas”
2022 Honorable Mention: Canton Winer, University of California, Irvine, ‘My Gender Is Like an Empty Lot’: Gender Detachment and Ungendering Among Asexual Individuals”
2021: Khoa Phan Howard, Northwestern University. “The Creepy White Guy and the Helpless Asian: How Sexual Racism Persists in a Gay Interracial Friendship Group.”
2021: Elliot Chudyk, Boston University. “Genderplay: Reclaiming and Reconfiguring Femininity Through the Emotional Labor Practices of Trans Masculine Sex Workers.”
2020: Minwoo Jung. “Quiet Politics: Queer Organizing in Corporate Singapore”
2020 Honorable Mention: Nisarg Mehta. “In search of a ‘gay atmosphere’: emplacing sexual boundary-work.”
2019: Niina Vuolajarvi, Rutgers University, “Governing in the Name of Caring—the Nordic Model of Prostitution and its Punitive Consequences for Migrants Who Sell Sex”
2018: Emma Mishel, New York University, “Discrimination against Queer Women in the U.S. Workforce: A Résumé Audit Study”
2017: Jody Ahlm, “Respectable Promiscuity: Digital Cruising in an Era of Queer Liberalism,” Sexualities 20(3):364-379. 2017.
2016: Sarah A. Miller, “’How You Bully a Girl’: Sexual Drama and the Negotiation of Gendered Sexuality in High School,” Gender & Society 30(5):721-744. 2016.
2015: Jay Borchert, “A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend Lawrence v. Texas to Prisons and Prisoners”
2014: Rafael Colonna, University of California, Berkeley, “Avoiding Playground Liabilities: Coming Out Strategies and Stigma Management in LGBT Families with Children”
2014: Trevor Hoppe, University of Michigan, “Controlling Sex in the Name of ‘Public Health’: Social Control and Michigan HIV Law,” Social Problems 60(1):27-49. 2013.
2013: David Pedulla, “The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes: Race, Sexual Orientation, and the Job Application Process,” Social Psychology Quarterly 77(1):75-94. 2014.
2012: Kelsy Burke, University of Pittsburg, “Making ‘Bad’ Sex ‘Good’: Gender and Sexual Boundaries on Christian Sexuality Websites”
2012: Abigail Ocobock, University of Chicago, “The Power and Limits of Marriage: Married Gay Men’s Family Relationships,” Journal of Marriage and Family 75(1):191-205. 2013.
2011: Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of California, Berkeley, “‘She’s Not a Low-Class Dirty Girl!’: Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(4):367-396. 2011.
2010: Marcus Hunter, Northwestern University, “All the Gays Are White and All the Blacks Are Straight: Black Gay Identity and Community,” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 7(2):81-92. 2010.
2009: Anthony Christian Ocampo, University of California, Los Angeles, “Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation among Latino Men,” Latino Studies 10(4):448-472. 2012.
2009 Honorable Mention: Catherine Connell, University of Texas, Austin, “Dangerous Disclosures: How Occupational Context Shapes Gay and Lesbian Teachers’ Presentations of Self”
2008: Laura Hamilton, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Trading on Heterosexuality: College Women’s Gender Strategies and Homophobia,” Gender & Society 21(2):145-172. 2007.
2008: Tom Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego, “Young, Gay, and Suicidal: The Troubled Project of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics,” Science, Technology, & Human Values 37(2):199-225. 2012.
2007: Karl Bryant, University of California, Santa Barbara, “In Defense of Gay Children?: ‘Progay’ Homophobia and the Production of Homonormativity,” Sexualities 11(4):455-475. 2008.
2007: Eran Shor, State University of New York, Stonybrook, “Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion: Revisiting Westermarck and the Case of the Israeli Kibbutzim,” American Journal of Sociology 114(6):1803-1842. 2009.
2005: Eve Shapiro, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Drag Kinging and the Transformation of Gender Identities,” Gender & Society 21(2):250-271. 2007.
2004: Eric Anderson, University of California, Irvine, “Disentangling Sexuality from Masculinity”
2003: Tasleem Juana Padamsee, University of Michigan, “Medicine and Inequality in the Welfare State: AIDS Policy-Making in the United States and the United Kingdom”
2002: Meika E. Loe, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era,” Sexualities 7(3):303-326. 2004.
2002: Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Sexuality, Gender, and Race: LGBTs at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs”
2001: Adam Isaiah Green, New York University, “Monogamists, Playboys, and Uninvited Guests: The Role of Institutions in Heterosexual and Homosexual Careers”
Section on the Sociology of Sexualities Distinguished Article Award
2023: Emmanuel David, University of Colorado Boulder, “Transpinay: Genealogy of a Term.” Sexualities.
2023 Honorable Mention: Nehal Elmeligy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storytelling as Feminist Social Change.” Gender & Society, 36(1): 112 – 139.
2022: Sara Shroff, Lahore University of Management Sciences, “Bold Women, Bad Assets: Honour, Property, and Techno-Promiscuities.” Feminist Review, Vol. 128(1): 62-78.2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Tara Gonsalves, University of California, Berkeley, “Gender Identity, the Sexed Body, and the Medical Making of Transgender,” Gender & Society, Vol. 34(6). 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and Salvador Vidal Ortiz, American University, “A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness,” Sociological Forum, Vol. 35(4): 1272-1289. 2020.
2021: Fauzia Husain. “Halal Dating, Purdah, and Postfeminism: What the Sexual Projects of Pakistani Women Can Tell Us About Agency.” Signs 45(3).
2021 Honorable Mention: Gowri Vijayakumar. “Sexual Laborers and Entrepreneurial Women: Articulating Collective Identity in India’s HIV/AIDS Response.” Social Problems 67(3): 507 – 526.
2021 Honorable Mention: Chuncheng Liu. “ ‘Red is not the only color of a rainbow’: The making and resistance of the “MSM” subject among gay men in China.” Social Science & Medicine 252.
2020: Theodore Greene, “Aberrations of ‘Home’: Gay Neighborhoods and the Experience of Community among GBQ Men of Color” in The Handbook of Research on Black Males: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Multidisciplinary. Theodore S. Ransaw, C.P. Gause, and Richard Majors, Eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Ryan Stillwagon and Amin Ghaziani, “Queer Pop Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life.” City & Community, 18(3); 874-895. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Valerie Jenness, Lori Sexton, and Jennifer Sumner, “Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context.” Criminology, 57; 603-631. 2019.
2019: Vrushali Patel, Florida International University, “The Heterosexual Matrix as Imperial Effect,” Sociological Theory 36(1):1-26. 2018.
2017: Tony J. Silva, “Bud-Sex: Constructing Normative Masculinity Among Rural Straight Men that Have Sex With Men,” Gender & Society 31(1):51-73. 2017.
2017: Simon Cheng and Brian Powell, “Measurement, Methods, and Divergent Patterns: Reassessing the Effects of Same-Sex Parents,” Social Science Research 52:615-626. 2015.
2015: Carla A. Pfeffer, “‘I Don’t Like Passing as a Straight Woman’: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership,” American Journal of Sociology 120(1):1-44. 2014.
2013: Anthony Christian Ocampo, University of California, Los Angeles, “Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation among Latino Men,” Latino Studies 10(4):448-472. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Armstrong, Paula England, and Alison C.K. Fogarty, “Accounting for Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships,” American Sociological Review 77(3):435-462. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Emily Kazyak, “Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality,” Gender & Society 26(6):825-848. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Jyoti Puri, “Sexualizing the State: Sodomy, Civil Liberties, and the Indian Penal Code,” in Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present. Zubaan. 2012.
2011: Trevon D. Logan, “Personal Characteristics, Sexual Behaviors, and Male Sex Work: A Quantitative Approach,” American Sociological Review 75(5):679-704. 2011.
2011 Honorable Mention: Anne Esacove, “Love Matches: Heteronormativity, Modernity, and AIDS Prevention in Malawi,” Gender & Society 24(1):83-109. 2010.
2009: Shawn C. McGuffey, “Saving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race, and Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse,” Social Problems 55(2):216-237.
2007: Adam Isaiah Green, “‘Until Death Do Us Part?’: The Impact of Differential Access to Marriage on a Sample of Urban Men,” Sociological Perspectives 49(2):163-189.
2007: Tarik Bereket and Barry D. Adam, “The Emergence of Gay Identities in Contemporary Turkey” Sexualities 9(2):131-151.
The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’ Distinguished Book Award
2023: Srila Roy, University of the Witwatersrand, Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. Duke University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Desmond Goss, Georgia State University, Race and Masculinity in Gay Men’s Porn: Deconstructing the Black Beast. Routledge. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Steven Epstein, Northwestern University,The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics and Everyday Life. The University of Chicago Press. 2022.
2022: Chris Barcelos, University of Massachusetts Boston, Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health. Oakland, California. University of California Press. 2020.
2022: Stefan Vogler, University of Chicago, Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of legal Classification. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University, At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2021.
2021: Ghassan Moussawi, Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2021 Honorable Mention: Angela Jones, Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry. New York: New York University Press.
2021 Honorable Mention: S.M. Rodriguez, Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTQI Rights in Uganda. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2020: Elizabeth Bernstein, Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom. U of Chicago Press. 2018.
2020: Nicola Mai. Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work and Humanitarian Borders. U of Chicago Press. 2018.
2019: Trevor Hoppe, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness. University of California Press. 2017.
2019 Honorable Mention: Jason Orne, Drexel University, Boystown: Sex & Community in Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018: Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India. Duke University Press. 2016.
2018 Honorable Mention: Vanessa Panfil, Old Dominion University, The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members. New York University Press. 2017.
2016: Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. University of California Press. 2015.
2014: Amy C. Steinbugler, Beyond Loving: Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships. Oxford University Press. 2012.
2012: Sealing Cheng, On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010.
2010: Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. New York University Press. 2009.
2010: Lionel Cantu Jr., The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men. New York University Press. 2009.
2008: Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex. University of Chicago Press. 2007.
2006: Gloria González-López, Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and their Sex Lives. University of California Press. 2005.
2006: Michelle Wolkomir, Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-Gay Christian Men. Rutgers University Press. 2006.
The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’ Early Career Award
2022: Ghassan Moussawi, University of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign
2022: J.E. Sumerau, University of Tampa
2020: Brandon Andrew Robinson, University of California, Riverside
2020: Sarah Diefendorf, Scholars Strategy Network
2018: Dr. Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’ Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship
(Award established in 2004; switched from Sex and Gender Section)
2023: Brandon Alston, Northwestern University, “Surveilled and Controlled: How Criminal Legal Surveillance Produces a System of Sexualized Social Control”
2022: Michelle Gomez Parra, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Desiring a Better Life: Heteronormativity, Mobilities, and Generational Negotiations among Latinas”
2022 Honorable Mention: Erika Slaymaker, University of Texas at Austin, “Gender Flashpoints: Constructing and Contesting the Gender Binary”
2022 Honorable Mention: Nik M. Lampe, University of South Carolina, “Healthy Aging Beyond Sex and Gender Binaries”
2021: Kenneth Pass. “Diagnosing Blackness: AIDS, Science, and the Evolution of Black Politics”
2021 Honorable Mention: Alyssa Lynne. “Transnationalizing Gender, Medicine and Standardization: Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Thailand and the United States”
2021 Honorable Mention: Sarah Steele . “Not Yet Here: Reclaiming Queerness & Identity in Contemporary Social Movement Work”
2020: Jesse Holzman, University of Illinois, Chicago, “Serving LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness”
2020: Minwoo Jung, University of Southern California, “Queer Geopolitics: LGBTQ Projects in the Global Political Economy”
2020 Honorable Mention: Jamie O’Quinn, University of Texas at Austin, “Married as Minors: Young Women’s Experiences with U.S. ‘Child Marriages’”
2019: Di Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Legalizing Queer Families in China”
2019 Honorable Mention: Jamie Budnick, University of Michigan, “The New Gay Science: Sexuality Knowledge, Demography, and the Politics of Population Measurement”
2018: Andrea Herrera, University of Oregon, “Theorizing Embodied Femininities: US-Based Femme Queens, Racialized Gender Projects, and the Specter of the Straight White Girl”
2018 Honorable Mention: Anthony Urena, Columbia University, “From Risk to Reality: Race, Class, and HIV in an Age of Uncertainty”
2017: Sarah Diefendorf, University of Washington, “Sex, Gender and Sin in the Evangelical Church”
2016: Stefan Vogler, “Legal Bureaucracies and the Production of Sexual Knowledge”
2015: Hassan El Menyawi, “The Great Reversal”
2014: Kate H. Averett, University of Texas, Austin, “Gender, Sexuality, the Family, and Homeschooling”
2014 Honorable Mention: Abigail Ocobock, University of Chicago, “The Invisible Hand of marriage: Gay men and lesbians’ relationships in a new institutional context”
2013: Bethany Coston, State University of New York, Stonybrook, “Gender, Power, and Inequality: An Examination of the Causes and Consequences of Violence in Intimate Relationships”
2013 Honorable Mention: Gowri Vijayakumar, University of California, Berkeley, “Viral Politics: AIDS, Public Health and Citizenship in India and South Africa”
2012: Trevor Hoppe, University of Michigan, “From Sickness to Badness: Enforcing Michigan HIV Law as a Site of Social Control”
2012 Honorable Mention: Jeff Kosbie, Northwestern University, “Legal Organizations, Legal Translation, and Contested LGBT Identities”
2011: Timothy A. Ortyl, University of Minnesota, “Social Marginalization and Patterns of Family Formation”
2011 Honorable Mention: Tara McKay, University of California, Los Angeles, “(In)Visible Men: Constructing Men Who Have Sex With Men as a Global HIV Prevention Priority”
2010: Tey Meadow, New York University, “The Gender Dis/Order: Childhood Variance and Conformity”
2010 Honorable Mention: Evren Savci, New York University, University of Southern California
2009: Catherine Connell, University of Texas, Austin, “School’s Out: Workplace Sexuality as Demonstrated Through the Experience of LGBT Teachers”
2009 Honorable Mention: Thomas John Waidzunas, University of California, San Diego, “Drawing the Straight Line: Hierarchies of Evidence in Sexual Reorientation Therapy Debates”
2008: Terence McDonnell, Northwestern University, “AIDS Streetscapes: A Social Iconography of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana”
2008 Honorable Mention: Emily Kazyak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Gay and Lesbian in the Rural Midwest: The Intersections of Geography, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary Imaginaries and Lives”
2008 Honorable Mention: Laurel Westbrook, University of California, Berkeley, “Gender, They Wrote: The Constructions of Gender through Narratives about Murder”
2007: Chaitanya Lakkimsetti, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Impossible Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Social Movements in Postcolonial India”
2007 Honorable Mention: Carla A. Pfeffer, University of Michigan, “‘Women’s Work’: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of the Women Partners of Transgender and Transsexual Men”
2006: Chong-suk Han, University of Washington, “Geisha of a Different Kind: Managing Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America”
2006 Honorable Mention: Amy Steinbugler, Temple University, “Race Has Always Been More Than Just Race’: Gender, Sexuality, and the Negotiation of Race in Interracial Relationships”
2005: Karl Bryant, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Politics of Pathology and the Making of ‘gender Identity Disorder'”
2005 Honorable Mention: Elbert Almazan, Indiana University, “Sexual Orientation, Social Structure, and Adolescent mental Health”
2004: Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Sexuality in Santeriá: Religion and Sexuality Negotiation”
2004 Honorable Mention: Edward S Gallagher, Fordham University, “Social Movement Analysis of Gay Republicans”
2004 Honorable Mention: Eve Shapiro, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Disposable Boy Toys: Identity Transformation in a Drag King Community”
The Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’ Simon-Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award
2023: Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
2021: Dr. Gloria González-López, The University of Texas at Austin
2019: Dr. Beth Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara
2016: Mary Bernstein
2015: Kristin Luker
2014: Carole Vance
2013: Dennis Altman
2012: Judith Stacey
2011: Pepper Schwartz
2010: Jeffrey Weeks
2009: Edward Laumann
2008: Verta Taylor
2007: Barry Adam
2006: Arlene Stein
2005: Janice Irvine
2004: Steven Seidman
2003: Award not given
2002: Martin S. Weinberg
2001: Ken Plummer
