Article of the Year Award
Congrats to 2026 Award Winners!
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Bloome, Deirdre, and Garrett T. Pace. "Family Tree Branches and Southern Roots: Contemporary Racial Differences in Marriage in Intergenerational and Contextual Perspective." American Journal of Sociology 129, no. 4 (2024): 1084-1135.
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Christensen, MacKenzie A., Kristin Turney, and Suyeon Park Jang. "The carceral contradictions of motherhood: how mothers of incarcerated sons parent in the shadow of the criminal legal system." American Sociological Review 90, no. 1 (2025): 61-87.
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Deirdre Bloome
Harvard University 
Garrett T. Pace
University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
MacKenzie A. Christensen
University of Oregon 
Kristin Turney
University of California, Irvine 
Suyeon Park Jang
University of California, Irvine |
Past Recipients
Year2025
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NameDavid Brady
Regina S. Baker Ryan Finnigan Eunsil Oh Eunmi Mun Sarah Thébaud David S. Pedulla Christina Cross Paula Fomby Behtany Letiecq Deni Mazrekaj Kristof De Witte Sofie Cabus Kelly Fong Jennifer Barber Yasamin Kusunoki Heather H. Gatny Jamie Budnick Margaret Frye Sara Lopus Daniel Schneider Orestes P. Hastings Joe LaBriola Daniel Schneider Orestes P. Hastings Jennifer Glass Matthew Andersson Robin Simon Christine Schwartz Hongyun Han Trond Petersen Andrew Penner Geir Høgsnes. Liana Sayer Paula England Paul Allison Nicole Kangas Michelle Budig Melissa Hodges Susan L. Brown Wendy D. Manning |
AffiliationUniversity of Southern California
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Title"The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty" Demography 61(4):1161-1185
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