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Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award

Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024

Mandate

An award is presented annually by the Association to the graduate student whose paper, presented at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association Conference in the year of the award, is judged by the Association’s Awards Committee to be the best among those received for adjudication.

Various Association Research Clusters will be sponsoring Best Student Paper Awards within their sessions held at the annual Conference.

Eligibility

Nominees must be members of the Canadian Sociological Association
The paper must be approved for presentation (and subsequently presented) at the Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference
The paper must be unpublished and not yet approved for publication
The author must be a registered student (MA or Ph.D. student) when the paper is presented
An author may submit only one paper for consideration
Papers soley authored or co-written with other students are eligible
Papers co-written with faculty are not eligible
Paper length may not exceed 10,000 words (40 pages) maximum, including bibliography and appendices
Paper must be formatted in Times New Roman font (12) and the margins must not be adjusted (2.54 cm margins)
An author cannot have received the award in the previous three years
We accept nominations in English and French

Submitting Nominations

Students may self-nominate. Nomination packages must include;

Nominee's name, email address, academic institution affiliation, student level (MA or PhD)
Copy of student card or verification of student status
Copy of the full paper being presented at the Canadian Sociological Association Conference

Email nomination packages to the CSA Office (office@csa-scs.ca) by April 15, 2024.

Equity Statement

The Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) is committed to the values and principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. We recognize and honour the intersectionality of equity-based identities. The CSA therefore invites and encourages the nomination (including self-nomination) of members from marginalized groups, including Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, persons who identify as women, and/or LGBTQ2+.

Honouring the Award Recipients

The award recipient will receive a certificate, a prize of $500 CAD (to be shared amongst co-authors if applicable), and acknowledgement in Canadian Sociological Association communications and on the website.

Recipients

* Honourable Mention

Year	Recipient	Paper Title
2023	Catharina O'Donnell, Harvard University	Calling to Action: How right-leaning and left-leaning contemporary American social movement organizations mobilize their members differently
2023	Firdaous Sbaï, University of Toronto	Racial disproportionality in incarceration: measuring the legacy of racial history
2022	Andrew Crosby, Carleton University	"Framework for Social Destruction”: Community Well-being and Domicide in the Liveable City
2022*	Sepideh Borzoo, University of Calgary	Marketing Diversity in a gendered racialized marketplace: The everyday experiences of selling diversity in the cosmetic retail store
2021	Natalie J. Adamyk, University of Toronto	"You can transfer skills you’ve gained over time”: Contingent Academics’ Use of Emotional Capital as Skilled Emotion Management
2020	Not awarded
2019	Dana Wray, University of Toronto	Can Paternity Leave Policy Change Father Involvement? Evidence from the Natural Experiment of Quebec.
2018	Not awarded
2017	Francois Lachapelle & Patrick John Burnett, University of British Columbia	Canadianization Movement, American Imperialism, and Scholastic Stratification: Professorial Evidence from 1977 to 2017
2017	Jonathan Simmons, University of Alberta	‘Not that kind of atheist’: skepticism as a lifestyle movement
2016	Holly Campeau, University of Toronto	The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Blueville Way: How Cultural Match Matters for Standardization in the Police Organization
2015	Judy Beglaubter, University of Toronto	Balancing the Scales: Negotiating Fathers’ Parental Leave Use
2014	Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Oxford University	How Unreligious are the Religious ‘Nones’? Religious Dynamics of the Unaffiliated in Canada and the West.
2013	Matt Patterson, University of Toronto	Constructing a Sense of Place: Global and Local Sensibilities in Iconic Architecture
2012	Pasko Bilic, University of Zagreb, Croatia	Towards a Mediated Centre in the Network Society: Social construction of knowledge on and with Wikipedia
2011	Temitope Oriola, University of Alberta	Kidnapping as "Public Good": the Actors, Social Benefits and Harms of Nigeria's Oil Insurgency.
2010	Laurence Clennet-Sirois, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex	Les blogues intimes: des expériences privées notées dans un espace public. Pour une prise de conscience politique?
2009	Phillippa Chong, University of Toronto	Ethnicity, Nation and Worth: How literary reviewers use author's race and ethno-national origins to construct literary worth
2008	Mark Stoddart, University of British Columbia	The Politics of Snow: Skiing, media and nature in British Columbia
2007	Sandra Smele, Concordia University	Jewish Identity and the Authority of Scientific Discourse. An historical comparative analysis
2006	Kevin Walby, University of Carleton	Performativity and Masculinities: At the gay bar with male erotic dancers and their bodies
2005	Janice Aurini, McMaster University	Crafting Ligitimation Projects: An institutional analysis of private education businesses.
2005	Kevin Walby, University of Victoria	Little England? The accession of open-street closed-circuit television surveillance in Canada.
2004	Kimberly-Ann Ford, Carleton University	Mefloquine Dreams: Preventing malaria in the 'Risk Society'.
2003	Linda Quirke, McMaster University	When ‘Parent’ Becomes a Verb: Changes to parenting and the rise of cognitively intensive education.
2002	Stephanie Knaak, University of Alberta	Deconstructing Discourse: Breastfeeding, intensive mothering and the moral construction of choice.
2001	Diane Crocker, York University	Conceptualizing Violence Against Women as a Gendered Crime: Directions for future theory.
2001	Gail McCabe, York University	Crone Resurrection: A cyberspace passage from social death to virtual immortality.