September 2013
ASA Section on Sociology of Sexualities Award Recipients
Simon & Gagnon Award
2013-Dennis Altman 2012-Judith Stacey 2011-Pepper Schwartz 2010-Jeffrey Weeks 2009-Edward Laumann 2008-Verta Taylor 2007-Barry Adam 2006-Arlene Stein 2005-Janice Irvine 2004-Steve Seidman 2003-No Award Given 2002-Martin Weinberg 2001-Ken Plummer
Distinguished Book Award
2012-Sealing Cheng, On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
2010-Lionel Cantú Jr., The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men ([edited by Nancy Naples and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz],New York University Press, 2009) and Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (New York University Press, 2009)
2008-Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
2006-Gloria González-López, Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and their Sex Lives (University of California Press, 2005) and Michelle Wolkomir, Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-Gay Christian Men (Rutgers University Press, 2006)
Distinguished Article Award
2013-Anthony C. Ocampo Ocampo, Anthony C. 2012. “Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation among Latino Gay Men.” Latino Studies 10:448-472
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Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Armstrong, Paula England and Alison C.K. Fogarty Armstrong, Elizabeth, Paula England, and Alison C.K. Fogarty. 2012. “Accounting for Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships.” American Sociological Review 77: 435-462.
Honorable Mention: Emily Kazyak Kazyak, Emily. 2012. "Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality." Gender & Society 26: 825-848.
Honorable Mention: Jyoti Puri Puri, Jyoti. 2012. "Sexualizing the State: Sodomy, Civil Liberties, and the Indian Penal Code." (In the book: Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present.)
2011-Trevon D. Logan Logan, Trevon D. 2011. “Personal Characteristics, Sexual Behaviors, and Male Sex Work: A Quantitative Approach” American Sociological Review 75(5): 679-704.
2011 Honorable Mention-Anne Esacove Esacove, Anne. 2010. “Love Matches: Heteronormativity, Modernity, and AIDS Prevention in Malawi.” Gender & Society 24(1): 83-109.
2009-C. Shawn McGuffey McGuffey, Shawn C. 2008. “Saving Masculinity: Gender Reaffirmation, Sexuality, Race, and Parental Responses to Male Child Sexual Abuse.” Social Problems 55(2): 216-237.
2007-Adam Isaiah Green Green, Adam I. 2006. “ ‘Until Death Do Us Part?’: The Impact of Differential Access to Marriage on a Sample of Urban Men” Sociological Perspectives 49(2): 163-189.
2006 – Tarik Bereket and Barry D. Adam. Bereket, Tarik and Barry D. Adam. 2006. “The Emergence of Gay Identities in Contemporary Turkey.” Sexualities 9(2): 131-151.
Best Graduate Student Paper
2013-David Pedulla (Princeton University), “The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes: Race, Sexual Orientation, and the Job Application Process.”
2012-Co-Awardee: Kelsy Burke (University of Pittsburgh) for “Making ‘Bad’ Sex ‘Good’: Gender and Sexual Boundaries on Christian Sexuality Websites.”
2012-Co-Awardee: Abigail Ocobock (University of Chicago) for “The Power and Limits of Marriage: Married Gay Men’s Family Relationships.”
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2011-Kimberly Kay Hoang (UC-Berkeley), “ ‘She’s Not a Low-Class Dirty Girl’: Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam”
2010-Marcus Hunter (Northwestern University) “All the Gays Are White and All the Blacks are Straight: Black Gay Identity and Community”
2009-Anthony Christian Ocampo (UCLA), “Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation among Latino Men
2009-Honorable Mention-Catherine Connell (UT-Austin), “Dangerous Disclosures: How Occupational Context Shapes Gay and Lesbian Teachers’ Presentations of Self”
2008-Laura Hamilton (IU-Bloomington), “Trading on Heterosexuality: College Women’s Gender Strategies and Homophobia” and Tom Waidzunas (UCSD), “Young, Gay, and Suicidal: The Troubled Project of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics”
2007-Karl Bryant (UCSB), “In Defense of Gay Children?: ‘Progay’ Homophobia and the Production of Homonormativity” and Eran Shor (State University of New York-Stony Brook), “Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion: Revisting Westermarck and the Case of the Israeli Kibbutzim”
2005-Eve Shapiro (UCSB), “Drag Kinging and the Transformation of Gender Identities”
2004-Eric Anderson (UC-Irvine), “Disentangling Sexuality from Masculinity”
2003-Tasleem Juana Padamsee (University of Michigan), “Medicine and Inequality in the Welfare State: AIDS Policy Making in the United States and the United Kingdon”
2002-Meika Loe (UCSB), “Sex and the Senior Woman: Pleasure and Danger in the Viagra Era” and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (CUNY), “Sexuality, Gender, and Race: LGBTs at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs”
2001-Adam Isaiah Green (NYU), “Monogamists, Playboys, and Uninvited Guests: The Role of Institutions in Heterosexual and Homosexual Careers”
Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship
2013-Bethany Coston (SUNY-Stony Brook), “Gender, Power, and Inequality: An Examination of the Causes and Consequences of Violence in Intimate Relationships.”
2013 Honorable Mention: Gowri Vijayakumar (UC Berkeley), “Viral Politics: AIDS, Public Health and Citizenship in India and South Africa”
2012-Trevor Hoppe (University of Michigan), “From Sickness to Badness: Enforcing Michigan HIV Law as a Site of Social Control.”
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2012 Honorable Mention: Jeff Kosbie (Northwestern University), “Legal Organizations, Legal Translation, and Contested LGBT Identities.”
2011-Timothy A. Ortyl (University of Minnesota), “Social Marginalization and Patterns of Family Formation”
2011 Honorable Mention-Tara McKay (UCLA) “(In)Visible Men: Constructing Men Who Have Sex With Men as a Global HIV Prevention Priority”
2010-Tey Meadow (NYU), “The Gender Dis/Order: Childhood Variance and Conformity”
2010 Honorable Mention-Evren Savri, “Queer Subcultures and Politics in Turkey”
2009-Catherine Connell (UT-Austin), “School’s Out: Workplace Sexuality as Demonstrated Through the Experience of LGBT Teachers”
2009 Honorable Mention-Thomas John Waidzunas (UCSD), “Drawing the Straight Line: Hierarchies of Evidence in Sexual Reorientation Therapy Debates”
2008-Terene McDonnell (Northwestern University), “AIDS Streetscapes: A Social Iconography of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana.”
2008 Honorable Mentions- Emily Kazyak (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Gay and Lesbian in the Rural Midwest: The Intersections of Geography, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary Imaginaries and Lives” and Laurel Westbrook (UC-Berkeley), “Gender, They Wrote: The Constructions of Gender through Narratives about Murder”
2007-Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (UW-Madison)-“Impossible Subjects: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements in Postcolonia India”
2007 Honorable Mention-Carla A. Pfeffer (U Michigan-Ann Arbor), “‘Woman’s Work’: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of the Woman Partners of Transgender and Transsexual Men”
2006-Chong-suk Han (PhD, University of Washington) – “Geisha of a Different Kind: Managing Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America”
2006 Honorable Mention-Amy Steinbugler (PhD, Temply University), "'Race Has Always Been More Than Just Race': Gender, Sexuality, and the Negotiation of Race in Interracial Relationships"
2005-Karl Bryant (UCSB), “The Politics of Pathology and the Making of ‘Gender Identity Disorder”
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2005 Honorable Mention-Elbert Almazan (Indiana University-Bloomington), “Sexual Orientation, Social Structure, and Adolescent Mental Health”
2004-Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (CUNY), “Sexuality in Santeriá: Religion and Sexuality Negotiation”
2004 Honorable Mentions- Edward Gallagher (Fordham), “Social Movement Analysis of Gay Republicans) and Eve Shapiro (UCSB), “The Disposable Boy Toys: Identity Transformation in a Drag King Community”
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