Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
| Year | Award Recipient | Name Of Institution | Name of Publication |
| 2025 | Co-Winners Emily Ekl & Benjamin Gallati and Jingwen Liu |
Indiana University, Bloomington and University of Maryland |
The Moderating Effect of Values on the Relationship Between Subjective Social Status and Depression: Evidence from MIDUS. Society and Mental Health, Vol. 14 (2), 145-163. DOI:10.1177/21568693231184282 Racial/ethnic differences in living arrangements, distant relations, and later-life mental health. Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 86, 309-330. DOI:10.1111/jomf.12963 |
| 2024 | Lauren M. Beard and Kyung Won Choi | University of Chicago | Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors. Social Science and Medicine 348: 116768. 2024. |
2024 Honorable Mention | Meghann Lucy | Boston University | Fighting Demons: Stigma and Shifting Norms in Explicit Mention of Overdose in Obituaries, 2010-2019. |
| 2023 | Caroline V. Brooks and Colter J. Uscola | Indiana University
University of British Columbia | Helpful or Hurtful? Untangling Mechanisms Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health.
Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride, and a Thirst to Belong. Society and Mental Health, 13 (1): 45-60. 2023 |
| 2022 | Mobarak Hossain | University of Oxford, Nuffield College | COVID-19 and gender differences in mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Young working women are more vulnerable. SSM-Mental Health, 10039. 2021 |
| 2021 | Rebecca Ewert | University of Chicago | Post-Disaster Masculinity and Mental Health |
| 2020 | George Usmanov and Mary Ellen Stitt | Georgia State University
University of Texas at Austin | Types of Types: Social Network Typologies and Meaning of Clients with Serious Mental Illness.
Adjudication Under Cover: Court-Mandated Treatment and Inequality |
| 2019 | Patricia Louie | University of Toronto | Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents, forthcoming in Society and Mental Health |