Distinguished Career Award
2025: Philip S. Gorski, Yale University
2024: Michèle Lamont, Harvard University
2023: Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University
2022: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago
2021: Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin
2020: Jeffery Alexander, Yale University
2019: Neil J. MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor, University of Guelph
2018: Edward J. Lawler, Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
2016: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
2015: Jane Piliavin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2014: Shalom H. Schwartz, Hebrew University
2013: Paul Schervish, Boston College
2012: Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame
2024: Michèle Lamont, Harvard University
2023: Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University
2022: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago
2021: Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin
2020: Jeffery Alexander, Yale University
2019: Neil J. MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor, University of Guelph
2018: Edward J. Lawler, Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
2016: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
2015: Jane Piliavin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2014: Shalom H. Schwartz, Hebrew University
2013: Paul Schervish, Boston College
2012: Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame
Outstanding Book Award
2025: Wes Markofski, Carleton College, Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2025 Honorable Mention: Matthew M. Hollander, Marion Technical College, and Jason Turowetz, University of California, Santa Barbara, Morality in the Making of Sense and Self: Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and the New Science of Morality. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2024: Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa, and Matthew A. Andersson, Baylor University, The Science of Dignity: Measuring Personhood and Well-Being in the United States. Oxford University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Nicholas H. Wilson, Stony Brook University, Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India. New York: Columbia University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, and Samuel D. Stabler, Hunter College, CUNY, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 2023.
2023: Iddo Tavory, Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen, Tangled Goods: The Practical Life of Pro Bono Advertising. The University of Chicago Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Galen Watts, University of Waterloo, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2022: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector. The University of Chicago Press. 2020.
2021: Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago, Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. The University of Chicago Press. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector. The University of Chicago 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: Cambridge University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Gary J. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Roi Livne, University of Michigan, Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press. 2019.
2019: Stefan Bargheer, University of California, Los Angeles, Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany. University of Chicago Press. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Chandra Russo, Colgate University, Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
2018: Steven Hitlin and Sarah K. Harkness, University of Iowa, Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality and Emotions Across Cultures. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2018 Honorable Mention: Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins, University of California, Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2017: Jennifer Reich, CU Denver, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
2016: Justin Farrell, Yale University, The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
2015: Gabriel Abend, New York University, The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton University Press. 2014.
2015: Vincent Jeffries, California State University, Northridge, The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
2014: Peter Stamatov, Yale University, The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires and Advocacy. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
2013: Lori Peek, Colorado State, Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11. Temple University Press. 2011.
2012: Donald Black, University of Virginia, Moral Time. Oxford University Press. 2011.
2025 Honorable Mention: Matthew M. Hollander, Marion Technical College, and Jason Turowetz, University of California, Santa Barbara, Morality in the Making of Sense and Self: Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and the New Science of Morality. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2024: Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa, and Matthew A. Andersson, Baylor University, The Science of Dignity: Measuring Personhood and Well-Being in the United States. Oxford University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Nicholas H. Wilson, Stony Brook University, Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India. New York: Columbia University Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, and Samuel D. Stabler, Hunter College, CUNY, Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 2023.
2023: Iddo Tavory, Sonia Prelat, and Shelly Ronen, Tangled Goods: The Practical Life of Pro Bono Advertising. The University of Chicago Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Galen Watts, University of Waterloo, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2022: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector. The University of Chicago Press. 2020.
2021: Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago, Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. The University of Chicago Press. 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University, Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector. The University of Chicago 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: Cambridge University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Gary J. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Roi Livne, University of Michigan, Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press. 2019.
2019: Stefan Bargheer, University of California, Los Angeles, Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany. University of Chicago Press. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Chandra Russo, Colgate University, Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
2018: Steven Hitlin and Sarah K. Harkness, University of Iowa, Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality and Emotions Across Cultures. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2018 Honorable Mention: Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins, University of California, Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2017: Jennifer Reich, CU Denver, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
2016: Justin Farrell, Yale University, The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
2015: Gabriel Abend, New York University, The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton University Press. 2014.
2015: Vincent Jeffries, California State University, Northridge, The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
2014: Peter Stamatov, Yale University, The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires and Advocacy. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
2013: Lori Peek, Colorado State, Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11. Temple University Press. 2011.
2012: Donald Black, University of Virginia, Moral Time. Oxford University Press. 2011.
Outstanding Published Article Award
2025: Chaeyoon Lim and Dingeman Wiertz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Civic Lessons That Last? Religiosity and Volunteering on the Way to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review, 89(4), 684–707. 2024.
2025 Honorable Mention: Minjae Kim, Rice University, Oliver Hahl, Carnegie Mellon University, Ethan Poskanzer, University of Colorado Boulder, and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics.” American Journal of Sociology, 130(1), 193–240. 2024.
2024: Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, “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. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Pablo Gastón, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Strike: Nurses Associations and the Justification of Workplace Conflict in California Hospitals.” American Journal of Sociology 128 (1): 47-93. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Aliza Luft, University of California, Los Angeles, The Moral Career of the Genocide Perpetrator: Cognition, Emotions, and Dehumanization as a Consequence, Not a Cause, of Violence. Sociological Theory, 41(4), 324-351. 2023.
2023: Michaela DeSoucey, North Carolina State University, and Miranda R. Waggoner, Florida State University, “Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality.” American Sociological Review, 87 (1): 50–79. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Owen Abbott, University of York, “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Forgotten Sociology of Morality: Contesting the Foundations and Informing the Future of the Sociology of Morality.” The Sociological Review. 2022.
2022: Robin Bartram, Tulane University, “Cracks in Broken Windows: How Objects Shape Professional Evaluation.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4). 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Margaret Frye and Anna Woźny, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Production and Sale of Student Papers in Uganda.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 86(3): 430-464. 2021.
2021: Grace Yukich, Brad R. Fulton, and Richard L. Wood. Representative group styles: How ally immigrant rights organizations promote immigrant involvement. Social Problems 67(3): 488-506. 2020.
2021: Jelena Golubović. One Day I Will Tell This to My Daughter: Serb Women, Silence, and the Politics of Victimhood in Sarajevo. Anthropological Quarterly 92(4): 1173-1199. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Kevin Estep Pierce Greenberg. Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity. American Sociological Review 85(6): 957-991. 2020.
2020: Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, “The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores,” American Sociological Review, 84(6):1134-1158, 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, Harvard University and Hunter College, “Good on Paper: Sociological Critique, Pragmatism, and Secularization Theory,” Theory and Society, 48:325-50, 2019.
2019: Brandon Gorman and Charles Seguin, University at Albany and Pennsylvania State University, “World Citizens on the Periphery: Threat and Identification with Global Society,” American Journal of Sociology 124(3):705-761. 2018.
2019: Patrick Reilly, University of California, Irvine, “No Laughter among Thieves: Authenticity and the Enforcement of Community Norms in Stand-Up Comedy,” American Sociological Review 83(5):933-958. 2018.
2018: Andrew C. Cohen and Shai M. Dromi, Yale University and Harvard University, “Advertising Morality: Maintaining Moral Worth in a Stigmatized Profession,” forthcoming in Theory & Society
2018: Blaine G. Robbins, NYU Abu Dhabi, “Probing the Links Between Trustworthiness, Trust, and Emotion: Evidence from Four Survey Experiments,” Social Psychology Quarterly 79(3):284-308. 2016.
2017: Robert Braun, Northwestern University, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.” American Political Science Review 119 (1) 127-147.
2017 Honorable Mention: Ashley Harrell and Brent Simpson, University of Michigan and University of South Carolina, “The Dynamics of Prosocial Leadership: Power and Influence in Collective Action Groups.” Social Forces 94(3): 1283-1308.
2016: Wayne E. Baker and Nathaniel Bulkley, University of Michigan and Innovation Places, LLC, “Paying It Forward vs. Rewarding Reputation: Mechanisms of Generalized Reciprocity” Organization Science 25(5): 1493-1510, 2014.
2015: Brent Simpson, Ashley Harrell, and Rob Willer, “Hidden Paths from Morality to Cooperation: Moral Judgment Promote Trust and Trustworthiness,” Social Forces 91(4):1529–1548. 2013.
2014: Dan Lainer-Vos, University of Southern California, “The Practical Organization of Moral Transactions: Gift Giving, Market Exchange, Credit, and the Making of Diaspora Bonds,” Sociological Theory 31(2):145-167. 2013.
2013: Chaeyoon Lim, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Carol Ann MacGregor, Loyola University, New Orleans, “Religion and Volunteering in Context: Disentangling the Contextual Effects of Religion on Voluntary Behavior,” American Sociological Review. 77(5):747-779. 2012.
2012: Gabriel Abend, New York University, “Thick Concepts and the Moral Brain,” European Journal of Sociology 52(1):143-172. 2011.
2012 Honorable Metion: Rob Willer, University of California, Berkeley, “Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem,” American Sociological Review 74(1):23-43. 2009.
2025 Honorable Mention: Minjae Kim, Rice University, Oliver Hahl, Carnegie Mellon University, Ethan Poskanzer, University of Colorado Boulder, and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics.” American Journal of Sociology, 130(1), 193–240. 2024.
2024: Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, “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. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Pablo Gastón, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Strike: Nurses Associations and the Justification of Workplace Conflict in California Hospitals.” American Journal of Sociology 128 (1): 47-93. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Aliza Luft, University of California, Los Angeles, The Moral Career of the Genocide Perpetrator: Cognition, Emotions, and Dehumanization as a Consequence, Not a Cause, of Violence. Sociological Theory, 41(4), 324-351. 2023.
2023: Michaela DeSoucey, North Carolina State University, and Miranda R. Waggoner, Florida State University, “Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality.” American Sociological Review, 87 (1): 50–79. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Owen Abbott, University of York, “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Forgotten Sociology of Morality: Contesting the Foundations and Informing the Future of the Sociology of Morality.” The Sociological Review. 2022.
2022: Robin Bartram, Tulane University, “Cracks in Broken Windows: How Objects Shape Professional Evaluation.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4). 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Margaret Frye and Anna Woźny, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Production and Sale of Student Papers in Uganda.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 86(3): 430-464. 2021.
2021: Grace Yukich, Brad R. Fulton, and Richard L. Wood. Representative group styles: How ally immigrant rights organizations promote immigrant involvement. Social Problems 67(3): 488-506. 2020.
2021: Jelena Golubović. One Day I Will Tell This to My Daughter: Serb Women, Silence, and the Politics of Victimhood in Sarajevo. Anthropological Quarterly 92(4): 1173-1199. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Kevin Estep Pierce Greenberg. Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity. American Sociological Review 85(6): 957-991. 2020.
2020: Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University, “The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores,” American Sociological Review, 84(6):1134-1158, 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, Harvard University and Hunter College, “Good on Paper: Sociological Critique, Pragmatism, and Secularization Theory,” Theory and Society, 48:325-50, 2019.
2019: Brandon Gorman and Charles Seguin, University at Albany and Pennsylvania State University, “World Citizens on the Periphery: Threat and Identification with Global Society,” American Journal of Sociology 124(3):705-761. 2018.
2019: Patrick Reilly, University of California, Irvine, “No Laughter among Thieves: Authenticity and the Enforcement of Community Norms in Stand-Up Comedy,” American Sociological Review 83(5):933-958. 2018.
2018: Andrew C. Cohen and Shai M. Dromi, Yale University and Harvard University, “Advertising Morality: Maintaining Moral Worth in a Stigmatized Profession,” forthcoming in Theory & Society
2018: Blaine G. Robbins, NYU Abu Dhabi, “Probing the Links Between Trustworthiness, Trust, and Emotion: Evidence from Four Survey Experiments,” Social Psychology Quarterly 79(3):284-308. 2016.
2017: Robert Braun, Northwestern University, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.” American Political Science Review 119 (1) 127-147.
2017 Honorable Mention: Ashley Harrell and Brent Simpson, University of Michigan and University of South Carolina, “The Dynamics of Prosocial Leadership: Power and Influence in Collective Action Groups.” Social Forces 94(3): 1283-1308.
2016: Wayne E. Baker and Nathaniel Bulkley, University of Michigan and Innovation Places, LLC, “Paying It Forward vs. Rewarding Reputation: Mechanisms of Generalized Reciprocity” Organization Science 25(5): 1493-1510, 2014.
2015: Brent Simpson, Ashley Harrell, and Rob Willer, “Hidden Paths from Morality to Cooperation: Moral Judgment Promote Trust and Trustworthiness,” Social Forces 91(4):1529–1548. 2013.
2014: Dan Lainer-Vos, University of Southern California, “The Practical Organization of Moral Transactions: Gift Giving, Market Exchange, Credit, and the Making of Diaspora Bonds,” Sociological Theory 31(2):145-167. 2013.
2013: Chaeyoon Lim, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Carol Ann MacGregor, Loyola University, New Orleans, “Religion and Volunteering in Context: Disentangling the Contextual Effects of Religion on Voluntary Behavior,” American Sociological Review. 77(5):747-779. 2012.
2012: Gabriel Abend, New York University, “Thick Concepts and the Moral Brain,” European Journal of Sociology 52(1):143-172. 2011.
2012 Honorable Metion: Rob Willer, University of California, Berkeley, “Groups Reward Individual Sacrifice: The Status Solution to the Collective Action Problem,” American Sociological Review 74(1):23-43. 2009.
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
2025: Christine Delp, University of Minnesota, “Cultural Critics as Moral Reputational Entrepreneurs: Controversy, Metaethical Discourse, and Authority in the Documentary Field.”
2025 Honorable Mention: Ludovico Genovese, Columbia University, “Neighborhoods, Ethnic Diversity, and Inter-ethnic Cooperation: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Refugee Dispersal Policy in Sweden.”
2024: Joyce Kim University of Pennsylvania, “A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations Among Elite College Students.”
2023: Martin Eiermann, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Towards a Higher Morality’: Privacy and the Remaking of Urban Space During Progressive Era Tenement Reforms.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Katharine Khanna, Columbia University, “Egalitarian Attitudes as Mechanisms for Status Enhancement: Social and Symbolic Benefits for Men Who Support Gender Equality.”
2022: Laura Halcomb, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Crowdfunding a Life: How relationships shape requests for financial assistance.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California, “Inclusive and Included? Practices of Civic Inclusivity of American Muslims in Los Angeles.”
2021: Wan-Zi Lu. “Affective Coordination: Mobilizing Deceased Kidney Donation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.”
2021: Ji Hye Kim. “Liberals with Conservative Minds: Identification of Latent Moral Groups in the United States.”
2020: Laura Adler & Elena Ayala-Hurtado, Harvard University and Julia Weiss, Heidelberg University “A Little Help from my Friends? Resolving Moral Tension between Meritocracy and Job-seeking Help,”
2020: Kelley Fong, Harvard University, ““I Know How It Feels”: Empathy and Child Maltreatment Non-Reporting Among Low-Income Mothers,”
2019: April Hovav, “Producing Moral Palatability in the Mexican Surrogacy Industry,” Gender and Society 33(2):273-295. 2019.
2018: Landon Schnabel, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Opiate of the Masses? Social Inequality, Religion, and Politics”
2018 Honorable Mention: Barbara Kiviat, Harvard University, “The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions,” Socio-Economic Review 1-27. 2017.
2017: Louisa Roberts, University of South Dakota, “Changing Global Attitudes toward Homosexuality: The Influence of Global and Region-Specific Cultures, 1981-2012”.
2016: Landon Schnabel, Indiana University, Bloomington, “More Religious, Less Dogmatic: Reexamining Gender Differences in Religion”.
2015: Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110(1):127-147. 2016.
2014: Blaine Robbins, University of Washington, “On the Origins of Trust: Perceived Motivations, Causal Attributions, and Other-Praising Emotions”
2013: Xiaohong Xu, Yale University, “Belonging Before Believing: Ethical Activism, Sectarian Ethos and Bloc Recruitment in the Making of Chinese Communism,” American Sociological Review 78(5):773-796. 2013.
2012: Margaret Frye, University of California, Berkeley, “Bright Futures in Malawi’ New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity,” American Journal of Sociology 117(6):1565-1624. 2012.
2012 Honorable Metion: Matthew Hoffberg, Cornell University, “Prosocial Values, Reciprocity, and the Mediating Role of Perceived Motives in Direct Favor Exchange”
2025 Honorable Mention: Ludovico Genovese, Columbia University, “Neighborhoods, Ethnic Diversity, and Inter-ethnic Cooperation: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Refugee Dispersal Policy in Sweden.”
2024: Joyce Kim University of Pennsylvania, “A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations Among Elite College Students.”
2023: Martin Eiermann, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Towards a Higher Morality’: Privacy and the Remaking of Urban Space During Progressive Era Tenement Reforms.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Katharine Khanna, Columbia University, “Egalitarian Attitudes as Mechanisms for Status Enhancement: Social and Symbolic Benefits for Men Who Support Gender Equality.”
2022: Laura Halcomb, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Crowdfunding a Life: How relationships shape requests for financial assistance.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California, “Inclusive and Included? Practices of Civic Inclusivity of American Muslims in Los Angeles.”
2021: Wan-Zi Lu. “Affective Coordination: Mobilizing Deceased Kidney Donation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.”
2021: Ji Hye Kim. “Liberals with Conservative Minds: Identification of Latent Moral Groups in the United States.”
2020: Laura Adler & Elena Ayala-Hurtado, Harvard University and Julia Weiss, Heidelberg University “A Little Help from my Friends? Resolving Moral Tension between Meritocracy and Job-seeking Help,”
2020: Kelley Fong, Harvard University, ““I Know How It Feels”: Empathy and Child Maltreatment Non-Reporting Among Low-Income Mothers,”
2019: April Hovav, “Producing Moral Palatability in the Mexican Surrogacy Industry,” Gender and Society 33(2):273-295. 2019.
2018: Landon Schnabel, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Opiate of the Masses? Social Inequality, Religion, and Politics”
2018 Honorable Mention: Barbara Kiviat, Harvard University, “The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions,” Socio-Economic Review 1-27. 2017.
2017: Louisa Roberts, University of South Dakota, “Changing Global Attitudes toward Homosexuality: The Influence of Global and Region-Specific Cultures, 1981-2012”.
2016: Landon Schnabel, Indiana University, Bloomington, “More Religious, Less Dogmatic: Reexamining Gender Differences in Religion”.
2015: Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110(1):127-147. 2016.
2014: Blaine Robbins, University of Washington, “On the Origins of Trust: Perceived Motivations, Causal Attributions, and Other-Praising Emotions”
2013: Xiaohong Xu, Yale University, “Belonging Before Believing: Ethical Activism, Sectarian Ethos and Bloc Recruitment in the Making of Chinese Communism,” American Sociological Review 78(5):773-796. 2013.
2012: Margaret Frye, University of California, Berkeley, “Bright Futures in Malawi’ New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity,” American Journal of Sociology 117(6):1565-1624. 2012.
2012 Honorable Metion: Matthew Hoffberg, Cornell University, “Prosocial Values, Reciprocity, and the Mediating Role of Perceived Motives in Direct Favor Exchange”