The Candace Rogers Award is given annually to a graduate student for an outstanding paper on any current social issue. To submit a nomination for the Candage Rogers Award, please send an electronic version of the eligible paper to the Committee Chair, Yuki Kato, yk483@georgetown.edu, by October 15, 2026. The paper should be in a style suitable for publication in a professional journal and should not exceed 35 double-spaced pages, including tables and references; papers over that length will not be considered. The paper may not be previously published or forthcoming in a professional journal. It may not be coauthored, and its author must be a graduate student at the time the paper is submitted.

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The award will be announced and presented at a special session at the annual meeting. The recipient must be an ESS member at the time the award is presented and is expected to be at the meeting to receive the award. 

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The 2026 Candace Rogers Award for outstanding paper is awarded to "Latinos Without Latinoness: Divergent Conceptions of Group Membership and Ethnoracial Boundary-Making" by

Keitaro Okura (Yale University).

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2026 Honorable Mentions:

"‘We Outside!’: Bike Life and the Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture" by

Kristen L. Miller (City University of New York, The Graduate Center)

“Sexual Betweenness and Intersecting Exclusion of Queer Chinese Adolescent Immigrants: Towards an Uneven Process of Fitting In” by Frank Yueyang Meng (University of Pennsylvania)

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The 2025 Candace Rogers Award for outstanding paper is awarded to Katie Billings, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Can Suicide Narratives Save Lives?: First-Hand Suicide Survival, Meaning-Making, and Suicide Prevention."

 

Anna Claire Church, The Ohio State University, was awarded a 2025 Honorable Mention for “Don’t Push!” Experiences of Obstetric Violence in U.S. Hospital Settings."

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Committee Chair: Yuki Kato, yk483@georgetown.edu