Theory Prize
Winner: Kiviat, Barbara. 2023. “The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases: How Algorithms and the Data They Depend on Obscure Narrative and Noncomparative Justice.” Sociological Theory 41(3):175–200.
Honorable Mention: Feinstein, Yuval. 2024. “The Tempest Within: The Origins and Outcomes of Intense National Emotions in Times of National Division.” Theory and Society 53(4):729–763.
Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting
Winner: Terence McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
Junior Theorist Award
Winner: Yuchen Yang, “Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender”
Honorable Mentions:
- Amanda R. Cheong. 2025. “Who Counts as a Stateless Person? Nation-Statist Logics and the Liabilities of Potential Citizenship Elsewhere.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 48(4):883–905.
- Mo Torres. 2024. “Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal.” Social Problems.
Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
Co-Winner: Richardson, Jacob W. 2024. “Queering Edgework: An Autoethnographic Account of Cruising for Sex.” Journal of Autoethnography 5(1):95–114.
Co-Winner: Leeds, Tyler. 2024. “Stuart Hall’s Relational Political Sociology: A Heuristic for Right-Wing Studies.” Journal of Right-Wing Studies 2(1):98–126.
Honorable Mention: Sariego, Carlo. 2025. “Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan.” Signs 50(2):343–368.
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