2026 Recipients
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2026
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Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award Julia Woodhall-Melnik |
Ahmadreza Mohammadpouryazdi PhD (Year 4-7) Category |
Best Student Paper - Honourable Mention Jessica Stallone PhD (Year 4-7) Category |
Anuneeta Chatterjee PhD (Year 1-3) Category |
Humera Syed MA Category |
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Tara Tseng-West Undergraduate Category |
Canadian Review of Sociology Journal Best Article Award Zohreh Bayatrizi, Rezvaneh Erfani, and Samira Torabi |
Geraldina Polanco |
Canadian Sociology Book Honourable Mention Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Carl E. James, Wolfgang Lehmann, Karen Robson, Erika McDonald and Erica Fae Thomson |
Ethan Raker |
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Galen Watts |
Temitope Oriola |
Lorne Tepperman Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award Oral Robinson |
Outstanding Contriubtion to Sociology Award Lori Wilkinson |
Outstanding Contriubtion to Sociology Honourable Mention Karen Hughes |
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Rima Wilkes |
Prix d'excellence en sociologie de langue française Samantha Vila Masse |
Student Awards |
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Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award
Dr. Julia Woodhall-Melnik, University of New Brunswick
Dr. Woodhall-Melnik has served as a member of the Community Development Committee for the Fundy Regional Service Commission, a government organization focused on regional collaboration and solutions for municipalities. In this role, she provided regional-level advice on one of her areas of expertise—housing. As a result, her expertise on housing and homelessness is directly given to the top levels of provincial government who are actively formulating policy-based solutions to address New Brunswick’s affordable housing crisis. Her work has been integral in policy change, policy creation and in the production of real housing affordability for individuals in our society who are denied the basic human right to housing.
She has also championed evidence-based interventions for precariously housed youth, leading a trauma-informed housing design project and staging an art installation on youth homelessness. Through her work with youth homelessness, she secured support services for young people accessing community housing. Dr. Woodhall-Melnik has also testified at the Legislative Committee for Economic and Social Inclusion in New Brunswick at the bill reading for a rent cap. Her work and testimony were integral in securing a rent cap for the province.
Dr. Woodhall-Melnik is also a highly respected community member, serving on the board of The Range, a housing co-operative. She is regularly sought out for her expertise by provincial and municipal governments and provides her time generously. Dr. Woodhall-Melnik maintains the highest commitment to community-based sociological research in the service of positive social change. Her work to date has had a significant impact on those living with complex mental health challenges, housing precarity, and poverty in New Brunswick and across Canada more broadly. In 2022, she was awarded the CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding work.
Dr. Woodhall-Melnik has been involved in major research projects; SSHRC Insight Development grants, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Council grant, as well a Partnership Development grant involving Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. She has parlayed her research into publications in diverse outlets such as Addiction, Social Science and Medicine, International Journal of Mental Health and Addictions, Journal of Community Psychology and Urban Affairs Review, as well as publishing many community reports and technical briefs.
Dr. Woodhall-Melnik teaches a capstone Sociology course which uses the methodological, theoretical, and applied skills garnered by Sociology, Social Work, and Bachelor of Health students in the real-world. She provides students with training in community-based research, partnership development, and creative knowledge translation for diverse audiences, alongside instruction in mixed-methods research, research ethics, and academic writing.
These activities, from community involvement, research to teaching, involve strong partnerships across the public and non-profit sectors. As a result of her work, she is sought out by various community organizations outside of New Brunswick. As a Sociologist, Dr. Woodhall-Melnik views inequity as a contributor to social, economic and health disparities and she argues that policy change can improve outcomes for low-to-moderate income households, while simultaneously creating a more equitable society.
She is a trusted voice in New Brunswick on all issues related to social justice, and she is genuinely inspired by the work of Sociologists who have come before her, work alongside her, and are emerging as leaders in community engagement and applied Sociology themselves. She has a passion for meaningful community collaboration, engagement and applied Sociology that makes an impact within her local community.
Best Student Paper Award - PhD (Year 4-7) Category
Ahmadreza Mohammadpouryazdi, Concordia University
Never Exhausted All at Once: Asynchronous Mourning and Collective Endurance in the PS752 Justice Field
This was a unanimous selection and a truly exceptional paper that blended rich data with theoretical depth. This paper introduces the concept of ‘asynchronous mourning’ as a contribution to the sociology of grief, established through a qualitative study of the justice field surrounding the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Blending several strains of sociological theory and abductive methodology, the paper compassionately draws out the narratives of six cases of bereaved family members and others involved in largely frustrated attempts to achieve justice or closure following the Iranian state’s actions. In so doing, the paper provides both a novel contribution to sociological theory, and an approachable – while also complex – account of the life in the context of politically-contested mourning and resistance.
Best Student Paper Honourable Mention - PhD (Year 4-7) Category
Jessica Stallone, University of Toronto
From Emancipation to Exclusion: Secularism, Gendered Biographies, and Nationalist Reproduction among French Catholic Senior Women in Québec
The article makes an important and timely intervention by revealing secularism as both emancipatory and exclusionary: the same secular rupture that enabled women’s liberation from clerical authority also equips them with the moral authority to regulate minority religions. In extending scholarship on everyday femonationalism, the study powerfully demonstrates that secular worldviews are historically produced through embodied experiences of religious control, rather than simply contemporary anti-immigrant discourse. This article is theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous, and highly relevance. It highlights the active role aging women play in reproducing national belonging and exclusion, offering important insights for scholars of feminism, religion, nationalism, and political sociology.
Best Student Paper Award - PhD (Year 1-3) Category
Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary
Reframing Adolescent Children of Sex Workers as Care Receivers and Caregivers using the Southern Feminist Lens of Deep Care
The adjudication committee selected this paper as a novel study that empirically captures the experiences of care giving and receiving from the perspectives of those who are truly marginalized and often fall in our blind spots. The paper makes appropriate use of existing theories and aptly adapts them to the context of the Global South to analyze its findings. There is much to learn from this paper about marginalized but also agentic forms of mothering, childhood, and caregiving.
Best Student Paper Award - MA Category
Humera Syed, Ontario Tech University
Beyond Passive Victimhood- Muslim Women's Active Negotiation of Victim Identity Amid Islamophobia
This paper makes an important contribution to sociological understandings of victimhood, stigma, and Islamophobia by challenging the tendency to portray Muslim women primarily as passive recipients of discrimination. Drawing on Goffman’s theory of stigma and Critical Muslim Feminism, the author demonstrates that victim identity is not simply imposed through experiences of harm but is actively negotiated through processes of interpretation, identity construction, and meaning-making. Through a thematic analysis of qualitative studies from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the paper identifies how Muslim women respond to Islamophobia through cognitive reframing, faith-based meaning-making, impression management, emotional regulation, and community support. In doing so, the study reveals the complexity of victimhood by showing how agency and oppression can coexist, while centering Muslim women as active interpreters of their own experiences. The result is a theoretically grounded and empirically rich analysis that advances our understanding of how marginalized individuals navigate stigma, identity, and resilience in everyday life.
Best Student Paper Award - Undergraduate Category
Tara Tseng-West, University of British Columbia
Reorganizing Collective Memory: Commemorative Narratives and National Identity in Canada,
1967–2017
This paper is an impressive study of nationalism and collective memory that demonstrates how commemorative discourse reorganizes national identity over time rather than simply reproducing it. The author employs a longitudinal comparison of Canadian newspaper coverage of the 1967 Centennial and 2017 Sesquicentennial that combines qualitative content analysis with thematic and co-occurrence analysis across a dataset of 310 articles. This is an impressive methodological contribution for an undergraduate study. The paper shows that the discourses shift from celebratory and collective orientations in 1967 to reflective, contested, and morally engaged forms in 2017. The author identifies a transition from collective to individualized narrative forms, where national identity is increasingly articulated through personal stories and exemplary individuals. By theorizing this shift as a reconfiguration rather than a decline of nationalism, the paper helps us better understand contemporary Canadian nationhood. The paper’s clear argument, strong empirical analysis, and theoretical sophistication make it a deserving recipient of the 2026 CSA Student Paper Award in the BA Category.
Canadian Review of Sociology Best Article Award
Dr. Zohreh Bayatrizi, Erfani Rezvaneh, and Samira Torabi - University of Alberta
Vicarious death: Grief, politics, and identity after the flight PS752 tragedy.
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 62(1), 4-19.
The authors of this paper created a robust dataset that tries to understand factors that influence the disparities in service given to immigration files between federal electoral districts. The committee was impressed by the authors' methodological approach using information requests to Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada to obtain data related to the volume of inquiries made by 338 MP federal district offices on immigration files on behalf of their constituents. In addition to the innovative data collection, the committee thought that this paper did an excellent job of dismantling embedded assumptions about the relationship between political ideology, gender, and ethno-cultural background of MP's and the degree to which they would dedicate time and resources for immigration case files in their districts. This work is timely and highly relevant given the significant political polarization on issues like immigration and identity politics and demonstrates that the work done in constituency offices is far less partisan than in other countries where similar offices exist.
Canadian Sociology Book Award
Dr. Geraldina Polanco, McMaster University
Filipino Migrants and the Canadian Dream: Governing Mobility in a Fast-Food Chain.
University of Toronto Press, 2025
The adjudication committee indicated that this book excelled in all seven adjudication categories. It is exceptionally well-written, engaging, and conveys complex ideas in a way that is easy to read. It combines theoretical originality, methodological rigour, and depth and is a major contribution to understanding migration, labour, and national belonging in Canada. The book offers an incisive critique of Canada’s temporary foreign worker regime through a multi-sited ethnography in Canada and the Philippines to argue that the construction of the “Canadian Dream” is manufactured and circulated through a nexus of migration labour institutions. This is necessary reading for all Canadians and students in post-secondary institutions.
Canadian Sociology Book Award - Honourable Mention
Dr. Paul Anisef, Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann, Dr. Carl E James, Dr. Karen Robson, Erika McDonald, & Erica Fae Thomson
The Story of a Generation: Life Course Pathways of the Class of '73.
University of Toronto Press, 2025
The adjudication recognized this book as a remarkable piece of empirical work - a longitudinal study spanning 47 years! This book follows the educational and occupational trajectories of a cohort of Canadian youth from Grade 12 to retirement. It illustrates the foundation of sociology as a discipline, showing how the interplay between structural forces and personal agency shapes life experiences at all stages.
Early Investigator Award
Dr. Ethan Raker, University of British Columbia
Since earning his PhD from Harvard and joining UBC in 2021, Dr. Raker has established himself as a leading scholar at the intersection of social stratification, medical sociology, and environmental sociology. His research brings together innovative data sources to illuminate how climate change shapes inequalities in human health and community well-being.
Dr. Raker’s work addresses some of the most urgent challenges of our time. He demonstrates how climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, and critically, how these events disproportionately affect marginalized populations. His research highlights the ways racial and socioeconomic inequalities are both revealed and reinforced through disasters such as hurricanes, heat waves, and tornadoes. By centering the role of social contexts and political institutions, he shows how vulnerability is produced—and how policy responses can inadvertently deepen existing inequities.
Across multiple research programs, Dr. Raker has made significant contributions. His work on health outcomes examines how environmental shocks influence both physical and mental health, emphasizing the mediating effects of social, economic, and political conditions. This includes a long-term panel study of low-income survivors of Hurricane Katrina and an ambitious project linking population-level birth data with climate and socioeconomic indicators to understand impacts on fertility and birth outcomes. In a complementary line of inquiry, Dr. Raker investigates the broader community consequences of disasters. His research reveals how institutional decisions shape disaster risk and recovery, often in unequal ways. Projects in this area include analyses of neighborhood change following tornadoes and influential studies demonstrating how disaster mitigation and response policies have exacerbated racial inequality in the United States.
Dr. Raker’s scholarly productivity and impact are exceptional for his career stage. He has published 21 peer-reviewed articles, including seven since arriving at UBC, with nearly 1,000 citations. These have been published in top Sociology journals (e.g. Social Forces, Socius, Demography, Annual Review of Sociology) as well as top health and environment journals (e.g. Population and Environment, American Journal of Public Health, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Social Science and Medicine). Through his innovative, policy-relevant research, Dr. Ethan Raker is advancing our understanding of climate change and inequality in profound ways. He is a highly deserving recipient of the CSA Early Investigator Award.
Early Investigator Award
Dr. Galen Watts, University of Waterloo
The Canadian Sociological Association is proud to present the 2026 Early Investigator Award to Dr. Galen Watts in recognition of his contributions to cultural sociology and the sociology of religion.
Dr. Watts holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen's University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo, where he is also an inaugural Associate Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Societal Futures.
His sole-authored monograph, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022), won the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion's Distinguished Book Award and received an Honourable Mention for the American Sociological Association's Best Book Award in Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity. Drawing on interviews and a twelve-month ethnography, the book reinterprets secularization, arguing that the shift from "religion" to "spirituality" reflects not religious decline but a fundamental transformation in the moral and cultural structure of liberal democracies. A co-edited volume with Columbia University Press and a co-authored textbook with Cambridge University Press have further consolidated his international standing.
Dr. Watts's second major research program investigates the cultural dynamics of Canada's diploma divide, drawing on over 160 interviews with urban professionals and rural working-class Canadians. Supported by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, this work challenges prevailing accounts of class polarization and points toward the cultural foundations of cross-class solidarity. Across both programs, he has developed a "post-Bourdieusian" cultural theory with broad implications for how sociologists understand the relationship between culture, meaning, and inequality.
His work has appeared in Sociological Theory, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, and numerous other leading venues, and has reached wide public audiences through The Conversation, CBC, and international media.
Dr. Watts exemplifies the spirit of this award through his theoretical ambition, his sustained engagement with Canadian society, and his commitment to public sociology. The CSA is delighted to recognize him as the 2026 Early Investigator Award recipient.
Global Sociology Book Award
Dr. Temitope Oriola, University of Alberta
Terrorism, politics and human rights advocacy: The #BringBackOurGirls Movement.
Oxford University Press, 2024
Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy offers a compelling account of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement, one of the most influential human rights campaigns of the twenty-first century. Emerging from a coalition of elite women and middle-class allies, the movement mobilized global attention around the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram in 2014. In doing so, it became a defining force in “lives matter” advocacy and a landmark chapter in African women-led social movements.
Drawing on rich empirical data from more than 170 research participants, Oriola delivers a nuanced and deeply informed analysis of how #BBOG transformed a tragic event into a sustained international cause. The book demonstrates how the movement not only galvanized global solidarity but also reshaped the kidnapping into a sociologically recognized social problem—while illuminating the unintended emergence of a broader “social problem industry.”
What sets this work apart is its depth and clarity. It provides a rigorous examination of the movement’s organizational structure, decision-making processes, protest strategies, and framing techniques, while also candidly exploring its internal tensions and divisions. Oriola persuasively shows that #BBOG is far more than a social media phenomenon, highlighting its sophisticated, hybrid communication approach that bridges the immediacy of digital platforms with the reach and authority of traditional media. The book also offers a powerful account of state repression and the resilience of movement actors, alongside a careful assessment of the campaign’s outcomes and lasting impact. Throughout, the analysis is both critical and empathetic, grounded in careful research and presented with clarity and insight.
We were deeply impressed by the originality, rigor, and relevance of this work. It is an outstanding contribution to the study of social movements, human rights advocacy, and political sociology. By combining theoretical sophistication with vivid empirical detail, Oriola has produced a book that is as enlightening as it is important. This is a deserving and impactful work that significantly advances our understanding of contemporary activism on a global stage.
Lorne Tepperman Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award
Dr. Oral Robinson, University of British Columbia
The adjudication committee is pleased to recognize Dr. Oral Robinson for his outstanding and transformative contributions to sociological pedagogy. Through rigorous scholarship and innovative approaches to critical, equity-focused teaching, Dr. Robinson has fostered inclusive, engaging, and intellectually vibrant learning environments for sociology students.
His pedagogical leadership has had a lasting impact on students both locally and nationally, as evidenced by his publications in Teaching Sociology, Innovations in Teaching and Learning, and the Canadian Review of Sociology as well as in several academic texts, including Reading Sociology (Oxford University Press), Active and Engaging Classrooms (Information Age Publishing) and Promoting Inclusion and Justice in University Teaching (Edward Elgar Publishers).
Through his scholarship and practice, he has advanced meaningful conversations about teaching and learning while promoting excellence, inclusion, and student success in sociology education. The committee was also impressed with Dr. Robinson’s accomplishments while in a lecturer position at the University of British Columbia which involves a heavy teaching load of up to eight courses a year.
Dr. Robinson’s nominators eloquently praised his contributions as follows;
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“Oral has been actively engaged in developing, applying and disseminating teaching knowledge and techniques that promote equity and inclusion in university classrooms, center student experiences and engage them as active learners, and transform students’ understanding of their worlds while given them tools to promote positive social change. At a time when equity initiatives have come under growing scrutiny and attack, Oral has nevertheless worked tirelessly to not only transform learning in his own classrooms in equitable ways, but to provide other educators with the tools and knowledge to do so in their classrooms as well.”
Previous Students
“Oral’s affable and interactive teaching style—structured around discussions and group in-class assignments nearly every session—quickly drew his class into asking questions, sharing personal experiences, and supporting one another.
What Oral has done for me personally I have seen him do for many others. He is devoted to teaching not only in the narrow sense—disseminating information—but in the broad and proper sense—helping students realize their potential. Students seek to emulate not only Oral’s knowledge but also his character of generosity and humility, which so artfully supports others without doing the task for them. In this way, Oral reminds us that great teaching is more than instruction; it is inspiration.”
“In my experience as a student and research collaborator, Dr. Robinson is not simply an excellent instructor, but rather, the most extraordinary and transformative educator I have encountered in my academic career. His teaching has reshaped how I understand sociology, learning, research, and my own capacity to contribute meaningfully to the discipline and to society.
The impact of Dr. Robinson’s teaching is unmistakable. His materials and approaches are taken up by other faculty, celebrated by students, recognized by peer reviewers, and engaged by public audiences. More importantly, his teaching leaves an enduring imprint on students’ lives, shaping how they think, learn, and act in the world.”
Outstanding Contribution to Sociology Award
Dr. Lori Wilkinson, University of Manitoba
The Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) has named Dr. Lori Wilkinson as the recipient of the 2026 Outstanding Contribution Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates a career defined by groundbreaking migration research, transformative teaching, exceptional mentorship, and an enduring commitment to public service and sociological advocacy across Canada.
A Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Wilkinson has spent over two decades reshaping the field of the Sociology of Migration. Moving past purely descriptive analyses, her foundational work employs rigorous intersectional frameworks to map out how structural arrangements, race, gender, class, and deep-seated trauma impact the long-term integration and adaptation of newcomers. Methodologically diverse, she has masterfully combined original data, such as her landmark Pan-Canadian and Western Canadian Resettlement Surveys, with administrative data and community-engaged participatory action research. Her seminal 2017 Migration Policy Institute report, The Economic Integration of Refugees in Canada: A Mixed Record, stands as a masterclass in mixed-methods versatility and remains a definitive agenda-setting text for longitudinal integration research in Canada.
Dr. Wilkinson’s scholarship is the epitome of "public sociology" in action. She is the visionary founder and director of Immigration Research West, a vital institutional hub that has significantly expanded national research capacity across Western and Northern Canada. Her successful program of research has generated multiple impactful academic publications, supported by large research grants, and produced evidence directly influencing housing transition policies, anti-racism initiatives, and settlement programs. Her highly cited research on refugee housing, which critically highlighted the role of domestic autonomy, such as allowing displaced families the dignity to cook their own meals in temporary shelters, fundamentally reoriented how government agencies conceptualize integration and agency. Consequently, she is a trusted voice for policymakers, twice presenting briefs before Parliamentary Standing Committees and serving on federal bodies like the Statistics Canada Expert Advisory Committee on Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics.
Beyond her profound societal and theoretical impact, Dr. Wilkinson is widely celebrated for her extraordinary commitment to student support and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) principles. She has supervised more than fifty graduate students and numerous honors trainees. Crucially, she intentionally integrates racialized and international scholars into her active research teams, co-authoring with and training a new generation of leaders in public accountability, ethical engagement, and policy translation.
Her profound national and international footprint is further evidenced by her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and her appointment as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Migration Futures.
In every domain, Dr. Lori Wilkinson embodies the absolute highest ideals of Canadian sociology. Her career serves as a powerful blueprint for how academic excellence, rigorous methodology, and genuine compassion can combine to build an inclusive society and advance human dignity.
Outstanding Contribution to Sociology Honourable Mention
Dr. Karen Hughes, University of Alberta
Dr. Karen Hughes was nominated in recognition of her sustained, high-impact contributions to sociology in Canada and beyond. A leading scholar of work, labour markets, gender, and entrepreneurship, her research has significantly advanced understanding of how social transformations (particularly gender inequality and technological change) shape economic opportunities and working lives in Canada. Over a distinguished career, Dr. Hughes has produced an extensive body of scholarship including several books, over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 book chapters, and 20 policy reports, among other contributions. At the same time, she has secured substantial research funding, including 17 tri-council grants. Her pioneering work on women’s entrepreneurship and gendered labour market dynamics has helped reshape academic debates and informed public policy, contributing to more inclusive economic practices. One nomination letter described her research impact as follows: “Hughes’ research here has been very influential, not only inspiring later researchers, but educating thousands of students about the sociology of work. Her early work on women’s challenges in the workforce, for example, helped to shape the explosion of research in this area.” Dr. Hughes was selected as an honourable mention for this award by the committee because of this combination of scholarly excellence, national and international impact, and sustained commitment to advancing the discipline.
Outstanding Service Award
Dr. Rima Wilkes, University of British Columbia
Dr. Rima Wilkes has been an engaged member of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) since 2009, serving in numerous leadership roles. Her contributions to the Executive Committee, the Canadian Review of Sociology, and the association’s award programs have been significant.
Over the years, Dr. Wilkes has and continues to serve as both member and chair on many of the CSA’s award adjudication committees, supporting our efforts to recognize student and scholar publications and broader contributions to the field of sociology.
From 2013 to 2016, she served as Executive Editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology (the flagship journal of the Association), where she helped grow the journal’s impact and readership.
Rima was then elected CSA President-Elect, and during her presidency was also part of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Sociological Association’s 2018 World Congress of Sociology hosted by the CSA. In 2019, she co-founded the CSA Decolonization Subcommittee and remained an active member through 2021.
These are just a few examples of how Dr. Wilkes generously volunteers her time and expertise in support of the association and its members. We extend our sincere gratitude to Dr. Wilkes for her many years of dedicated service.
Prix d'excellence en sociologie de langue française
Award for Excellence in French-language Sociology
Dr. Samantha Vila Masse, Université Laval
2025, Presses de l'Université Laval
Sociologist Samantha Vila Masse offers a relevant, original, and rigorous contribution to the sociology of organizations and work, remarkable both for the length of her ethnographic immersion and for the innovative theoretical framework she proposes. True to the interactionist tradition, she delivers a unique analysis of organizational injustice by adopting an approach attentive to the interpretations that social actors themselves give of their situation. The findings of the study reveal glaring inequities specific to the restaurant industry. The intensification of emotional labour in a pandemic context, documented through repeated interviews with the same individuals at multiple points in time, grounds the analysis in pressing contemporary issues — debates over tipped wages, labour shortages — and stands as one of the original contributions of the work.
Adjudication Committee Members
Thank you to everyone for their work diligently reviewing the nominations!
