Awards

Recipients

Best Student Paper Awards

PhD Student (Year 4-7)

• Recipient: Ahmadreza Mohammadpouryazdi, Concordia University, Never Exhausted All at Once: Asynchronous Mourning and Collective Endurance in the PS752 Justice Field

  Session: (DEA2a) Death and Society I: Death and Politics

• Honourable Mention: Jessica Stallone, University of Toronto, From Emancipation to Exclusion: Secularism, Gendered Biographies, and Nationalist Reproduction among French Catholic Senior Women in Québec

  Session: (MIG7a) Negotiating Belonging in Settler Societies: Race, Migration, and Nation-Making in Canada

PhD Student (Year 1-3)

• Recipient: Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary, Reframing Adolescent Children of Sex Workers as Care Receivers and Caregivers using the Southern Feminist Lens of Deep Care

  Session: (SCY4b) Young People’s Experiences of their Worlds

MA Student

• Recipient: Humera Syed, Ontario Tech University, Beyond Passive Victimhood- Muslim Women's Active Negotiation of Victim Identity Amid Islamophobia

  Session: (AIS1a) Critical Muslim Studies and Anti-Islamophobia I

Undergraduate Student

• Recipient: Tara Tseng-West, University of British Columbia, Reorganizing Collective Memory: Commemorative Narratives and National Identity in Canada, 1967-2017

  Session: (KNW3) Knowledge and Power in the Public Arena

Research Cluster Awards

Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Recipient: Ismail Ayatullah Nasirudeen, University of Alberta, Public Opinion on Protest Policing in Canada: Who supports or opposes it and why?

  Session: (PSM6b) Transnational Solidarity, Protest Policing, Political Polarization, Voting Preferences

Environmental Sociology

• Recipient: David Chen, University of Toronto, China’s Eco-Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition

Feminist Sociology

• Recipient 1: Selay Ghaffar, University of Toronto, “Wall is our new weapon”: Afghan women protestors’ wall writing as a feminist tactic under gender apartheid

  Session: (PSM6a) Social Movements in the Global South

• Recipient 2: Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto, The Gender Interregnum: Institutional Erosion and Post-Hegemonic Masculinities

  Session: (GAS4a) Thinking Power: Reconfiguring Subjectivities

Internet, Technology, and Digital Sociology

• Recipient: Harmata Aboubakar, University of Toronto, Viral Orientalism: Street Food, Platform Capitalism, and the Algorithmic Extraction of Racialized Labour

  Session: (ITD12a) AI, Identity, Harm, and Algorithmic Subjectivity

• Honourable Mention: Maia Cassie, University of Toronto, Reclaiming the Feed: Examining and Transforming Social Media Scrolling for Young Women Through Peer Discussion

  Session: (ITD2c) Technology & Society: General Topics II

Political Sociology and Social Movements

• Recipient: Ismail Ayatullah Nasirudeen, University of Alberta, Public Opinion on Protest Policing in Canada: Who supports or opposes it and why?

  Session: (PSM6b) Transnational Solidarity, Protest Policing, Political Polarization, Voting Preferences

Race and Ethnicity

• Recipient: Sophie Xiaoyi Liu, University of British Columbia, Legal Disengagement as a Survival Strategy: The Limits of Legal Protection for Marginalized Victims of Hate

  Session: (RAE6a) From Yellow Peril to Pandemic Scapegoating: Anti Asian Racism, Cultural Trauma, and Racial Meaning Making In Canada I

Social Theory

• Recipient 1: India Appleton, University of British Columbia, (Re)Imagining Environmental Subjectivities for Just Futures

  Session: (ENV2b) Engaged Responses to Environmental Change: Uncovering Destructive Structures, Highlighting Paths Forward

• Recipient 2: Anna Henry, University of Guelph, Trans-forming the Civil Sphere: Civil Sphere Theory and the Need for Trans-Centered Sociological Theory

  Session: (GAS2) Transgender Studies in Times of Crisis

• Honourable Mention: Md Nazmul Arefin, University of Alberta, Beyond a Textbook Narrative of Female Suicide Bombers?: Representation of Female Terrorism in the Amazon Prime ‘The Family Man’

  Session: (VLS1) Anti-Violence Research, Collaboration, and Knowledge Mobilization

Sociology of Childhood and Youth

• Early Career Scholar Presentation Award: Bidushy Sadika, King's University College at Western University, Mislearning Consent: Masculinity and Violence in Adolescence

  Session: (SCY5a) Media, Sport, and Young People’s Identities

• Student Presentation Award: Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary,  Reframing Adolescent Children of Sex Workers as Care Receivers and Caregivers using the Southern Feminist Lens of Deep Care

  Session: (SCY4b) Young People’s Experiences of their Worlds

Sociology of Culture

• Recipient: Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto, Sacred Whores, Fire Mamas, and Hybrid Masculinity: Relational Femininity and Masculinity in Michigan’s Lakes of Fire Regional Burn

Sociology of Mental Health

• Recipient: Manlin Cai, University of British Columbia, Personal and Spousal Workplace Authority, Gender Ideology, and Gendered Happiness in China

Sociology of Migration

• Recipient 1: Oleena Chaudhuri, York University, Epistemologies of Survival: Rethinking Displacement Governance and Epistemic Justice in the Sundarbans

  Session: (SOM2) Recent Developments in Gender and Migration Research

• Recipient 2: Sara Hormozinejad, University of Toronto, Dreaming the West: How migration imaginaries are constructed and transformed among middle-class Iranians

  Session: (SOM1) Advancing Theories of Migration

Work, Professions, and Occupations

• Recipient 1: Natalie Adamyk, University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, Navigating New Academia’s Job Hierarchy: Understanding How Professors Create and Contest Academic Identities

  Session: (WPO1a) Professions: Complexities and Challenges

• Recipient 2: Cathrine Becker, University of Alberta, Department of Sociology, Costs of Care: Motherhood and Wage Inequality among Healthcare Providers

  Session: (WPO1d) Care Work and its Consequences