Research Cluster Best Student Paper Awards
Several Canadian Sociological Association Research Clusters adjudicate Best Student Paper Awards as part of our annual Conference programming.
Research Clusters may select up to 3 recipients in a specific year based on student level (Undergraduate, MA, or PhD). All recipients will receive a certificate and ‘Commit Sociology’ T-shirt (while supplies last). Each cluster may select only 1 recipient in a specific year to receive a $100 prize sponsored by the Canadian Sociological Association.
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Recipients
| Year | Research Cluster | Recipient | Paper |
| 2023 | Criminology and Law | Mariana Pinzon-Caicedo, Simon Fraser University | Victim’s speech-acts in Transitional Justice Systems |
| 2023 | Feminist Sociology | Mary-Catherine Crowshaw, York University | The Invisibility of Sexual Violence in Sectarian Conflicts: Lessons from Northern Ireland |
| 2023 | Political Sociology and Social Movements | Gabriel Lévesque, McGill University | Toxic Substance Regulations and the Structuration of Interdependent Policy Networks |
| 2023 | Sociology of Health | Anna Kuznetsov, University of Toronto | Breastfeeding in Sociology: Overlooked and Misunderstood |
| 2023 | Sociology of Knowledge | Sarah Vanderveer, York University | Decolonizing Epistemologies through Postcolonial and Indigenous Theorizing |
| 2023 | Sociology of Mental Health | Loa Gordon, McMaster University | The Imaginarium of Self-care: Speculative Futures of Hope for Mental Health |
| 2023 | Sociology of Migration | Franka Zlatic, University of Nottingham | Leaving, coming and ‘going back’: How caring responsibilities create volatile futures for migrants |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | Political Sociology and Social Movements | Max Chewinski, University of British Columbia | “It became a battlefield”: Emotions, Polarization, and Disengagement from Environmental Deliberations |
| 2022 | 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? |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | Sociology of Migration | Max Stick, McMaster University | Gendered Perspectives of Financial Control: Source-Country Gender Inequality and Financial Decisions of Immigrant Couples |
| 2022 | Urban Sociology | Andrew Crosby, Carleton University | A “Framework for Social Destruction”: Community Well-being and Domicide in the Liveable City. |
| 2021 | Animals in Society | Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, University of British Columbia | Metabolic Rifts and Alienation in the Animal Agriculture Industry |
| 2021 | Comparative and Historical Sociology | Andrew Crosby, Carleton University | Policing Indigenous Dissent in the Settler Colonial Present |
| 2021 | Comparative and Historical Sociology | Umaima Miraj, University of Toronto | For a Revolutionary Feminist World-Systems Analysis: The Case of Ghadar |
| 2021 | Political Sociology and Social Movements | Kristen Bass, University of Toronto | Étudiants en grève: Cultural Repertoires of Labour Organizing in the 2012 Quebec Student Strikes |
| 2021 | Sociology of Disability | Danielle Landry, York University | |
| 2021 | Sociology of Disability - Honourable Mention | Megan Linton, Carleton University | |
| 2021 | 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 | Sociology of Education | Emerson LaCroix, University of Guelph | Institutional Culture of Delegating & Decentralizing Control: A Case of Experiential Education in Ontario Higher Education |
| 2019 | Comparative and Historical Sociology | Ioana Sendroiu, University of Toronto | Failures of imagination in comparative perspective |
| 2019 | Comparative and Historical Sociology | Abdullah Shahid, Cornell University | Fictional Endogeneity and Market Formation: the case of Islamic finance 1963 - 2017 |
| 2019 | Economic Sociology | Anouck Alary, Université de Montréal | Family-directed cord blood banking and the (re)privatization of social reproduction. |
| 2019 | Economic Sociology | Ningzi Li, University of Colorado & Abdullah Shahid, Cornell University | Liberalization and Legitimacy: Relationship Formation in A Newly Liberalized Market |
| 2019 | Sociology of Development | Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan | Exposure to Global Cultural Scripts through Media and Attitudes toward Violence against Women |
| 2019 | 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 |
| 2019 | Violence and Society | Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia | Teaching Empathy, Teaching Politics: The Cultural Limitations of ‘Never Again’ in Canadian Education about Genocide |
| 2019 | 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 |
| 2019 | Work, Professions and Occupations | 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 | Political Sociology and Social Movements | Anna Slavina, University of Toronto | Cultures of Engagement: Cross-National Differences in Political Action Repertoires |
| 2016 | Environmental Sociology - PhD | Georgia Piggot, University of British Columbia | Getting to Zero: Organizational Responses to British Columbia’s Carbon Neutral Policy |
| 2016 | Environmental Sociology - MA | 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 |
| 2016 | 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 | Environmental Sociology - PhD | Mihai Sarbu, University of Ottawa | (Re)defining Climate Change as a Cultural Phenomenon |
| 2015 | Environmental Sociology - MA | Marianne Corriveau, University of Ottawa | Idea-driven environmental mobility: The Case of Goletta Verde |
| 2015 | 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? |
| 2015 | Work, Professions and Occupations | Eugena Kwon | Exploring factors influencing career and family choices of female medical students and residents |
| 2014 | Environmental Sociology - PhD | Mihai Sarbu, University of Ottawa | Instrumental Rationality and Climate Change |
| 2014 | Environmental Sociology - MA | Max Chewinski, Carleton University | Whither the State? Globalization, Citizenship Regimes, and Canadian Mining as Nation-Building |