Congress and Research Cluster Awards
Several Canadian Sociological Association Research Clusters feature Best Student Paper initiatives as part of our annual Conference. In 2021, Congress also introduced a Graduate Student Merit Award program. Visit our Conference Website - awards section for further information about these opportunities.
Learn more about the Canadian Sociological Association's Best Student Paper Award.
Recipients
2022 Congress
Congress Graduate Student Merit Award
- Félix Pavlenko, Université d’Ottawa
- Jada Joseph, Concordia University
- Manlin Cai, University of British Columbia
- Max Chewinski, University of British Columbia
- Max Stick, McMaster University
Research Cluster Awards
Criminology and Law
Helen Kosc, University of Oxford – Freedom Amidst Crisis: Experiences of UK Inmate Re-entry during the Covid-19 Pandemic, and Implications for Support Networks and Services
Internet, Technology and Digital Sociology
Dilshan L. Fernando, University of Guelph – The Limited Use of ICT Solutions for Peripheral Inaccessibilities Faced by People with Disabilities in Myanmar
Political Sociology and Social Movements
Max Chewinski, University of British Columbia – “It became a battlefield”: Emotions, Polarization, and Disengagement from Environmental Deliberations
Sociology of Education
Zahide Alaca, University of Toronto – Within-Student Stability in Learning Trajectories: Summer after Summer, do the Same Students Fall Further and Further Behind in Math and Reading?
Sociology of Mental Health
Sanam Vaghefi, University of Victoria – Refugee Mental Health during the Asylum Waiting Process: A Qualitative Study of Turkish and Canadian Contexts
Sociology of Migration
Max Stick, McMaster University – Gendered Perspectives of Financial Control: Source-Country Gender Inequality and Financial Decisions of Immigrant Couples
Urban Sociology
Andrew Crosby, Carleton University – A “Framework for Social Destruction”: Community Well-being and Domicide in the Liveable City.
2021 Congress
Congress Graduate Student Merit Award
- Carlo Charles, McMaster University
- Andrew Crosby, Carleton University
- Ayesha Mian Akram, University of Windsor
- Karine Coen-Sanchez, University of Ottawa
- William Schultz, University of Alberta
- Olivia Peters, University of Guelph
Research Cluster Awards
Animals in Society - Maybe Memorial Award
Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, University of British Columbia - Metabolic Rifts and Alienation in the Animal Agriculture Industry
Comparative and Historical Sociology / Sociologie historique et comparée
Andrew Crosby, Carleton University - Policing Indigenous Dissent in the Settler Colonial Present
Umaima Miraj, University of Toronto - For a Revolutionary Feminist World-Systems Analysis: The Case of Ghadar
Political Sociology and Social Movements
Kristen Bass, University of Toronto - Étudiants en grève: Cultural Repertoires of Labour Organizing in the 2012 Quebec Student Strikes
Sociology of Disability
Danielle Landry, York University
Honourable Mention - Megan Linton, Carleton University
Work, Professions and Occupations
Sareh Nazari, University of Saskatchewan - Employment income gap in the Canadian labour market: Intersection of gender, religion, and visible minority status
2020 Congress
Research Cluster Awards
Sociology of Education
Emerson LaCroix, University of Guelph - Institutional Culture of Delegating & Decentralizing Control: A Case of Experiential Education in Ontario Higher Education
2019 Congress
Research Cluster Awards
Comparative and Historical Sociology / Sociologie historique et comparée
Ioana Sendroiu, University of Toronto - Failures of imagination in comparative perspective
Abdullah Shahid, Cornell University - Fictional Endogeneity and Market Formation: the case of Islamic finance 1963 - 2017
Economic Sociology
Anouck Alary, Université de Montréal - Family-directed cord blood banking and the (re)privatization of social reproduction.
Ningzi Li, University of Colorado & Abdullah Shahid, Cornell University - Liberalization and Legitimacy: Relationship Formation in A Newly Liberalized Market
Sociology of Development
Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan - Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women
Sociology of Education
Rod Missaghian, University of Waterloo - University dreams are made of these: exploring the role of social capital in the postsecondary decision-making process of a group of at-risk Canadian students
Violence and Society
Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia - Teaching Empathy, Teaching Politics: The Cultural Limitations of ‘Never Again’ in Canadian Education about Genocide
Work, Professions and Occupations
Philip Badawy and Scott Schieman, University of Toronto - With Greater Power comes Greater Stress? Supervisor Support and the Role Strains Associated with Job Authority
Katelyn D. Mitri, University of Western Ontario - Does Higher Education Make a Difference? The Influence of Educational Attainment on Women’s and Men’s Employment Outcomes
2017 Congress
Research Clusters
Political Sociology and Social Movements
Anna Slavina, University of Toronto - Cultures of Engagement: Cross-National Differences in Political Action Repertoires
2016 Congress
Research Clusters
Environmental Sociology
Doctoral Award: Georgia Piggot, University of British Columbia - Getting to Zero: Organizational Responses to British Columbia’s Carbon Neutral Policy
Masters Award: Amanda Evans, University of Alberta - An Ecological Habitus on the Oilfield? Climate Change and Green Technology Perspectives in the Lifestyles of Alberta Oilsands Mine Workers
Political Sociology and Social Movements
Max Chewinski, University of British Columbia - Knots that Strain & Threads that Bind: NGO-Grassroots Dynamics in the Movement Web Challenging Canadian Resource Extractivism
2015 Congress
Research Clusters
Environmental Sociology
Doctoral Award: Mihai Sarbu, University of Ottawa - (Re)defining Climate Change as a Cultural Phenomenon
Masters Award: Marianne Corriveau, University of Ottawa - Idea-driven environmental mobility: The Case of Goletta Verde
Sociology of Development
Amm Quamruzzaman, McGill University - Economic Growth or Good Governance: What is More Important to Reduce Poverty and Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Work, Professions and Occupations
Eugena Kwon - Exploring factors influencing career and family choices of female medical students and residents
2014 Congress
Research Clusters
Environmental Sociology
Doctoral Award: Mihai Sarbu, University of Ottawa - Instrumental Rationality and Climate Change
Masters Award: Max Chewinski, Carleton University - Whither the State? Globalization, Citizenship Regimes, and Canadian Mining as Nation-Building