Past Winners

[2025]

Tenured Faculty Article Award

Nakano, Dana Y. 2024. "The racial replenishment of ethnicity: Asian immigration and the limits of Japanese American assimilation." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-20.

Emerging Scholar Article Award

Kaur, Harleen. 2024. "Legacies of a martial race: Sikh investment and implication in the US police state." Memory Studies 17(4): 795-812.

Honorable Mention:

Sabherwal, Sasha. 2024. "The Elasticity of Caste in the Sikh Diaspora: Jat Cool and Caste Masculinities in the Pacific Northwest." Journal of Asian American Studies 27(1): 91-114.

Graduate Student Article Award

Nishimura, Michael. 2024. "Model Guardians: The Rendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers." Social Problems.

[2024]

Faculty Article Award Recipients

Saugher Nojan. 2022. "Racialized Hauntings: Examining Afghan Americans' hyper(in)visibility admist Anti-Muslim Ethnoracism." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(7): 1347-1370. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1931391. 

Honorable Mention:

Prema Kurien. 2023. "The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States.' Social Problems 70(3): 717-734. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac035.

Graduate Student Research Paper Award Recipients

Sonya Chen. “Stop Asian Hate: Asian Americans and the Paradox of Racial Justice." 

Honorable Mention:

Mao Lee. “Home is Where there is Oxygen: The Body as a Site of Resistance Against   Oppressive Practices."

[2023]

Faculty Article Award Recipients

Stanley Ilanga Thangaraj. 2022. ""We share the same ancestry": US Kurdish diasporas and the ascriptive practices of race." American Anthropologist 124(1): 104-117.

Ken Chih-Yan Sun and Nazli Kibria for "The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings." Social Problems 69(4): 952-967.

Graduate Student Research Paper Award Recipients

Bianca Mabute-Louie. "How Chinese American Christians Use Religion to Frame Racial Injustice: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate."

Honorable Mention:

Chen Liang. "The Asian American Unelectable Paradox: How Racialization Shapes Asian American Political Candidates' and Organizers' Experiences in a Minority Context." 

[2022]

Faculty Article Award Recipients

R. Varisa Patraporn & Barbara W. Kim. 2021. "Resurgent Ethnicity and Residential Choice Among Second-Generation Asian Americans in a Los Angeles Panethnic Suburb," Urban Affairs Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874211016941. 

Honorable Mention:

Stephen Cho Suh. 2020. "Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar: Korean Americans' 'Imagined Affective Connection' to the Ancestral Homeland.' Ethnicities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796820981667.  

Graduate Student Research Paper Award Recipients

Daniel Iwama, Karen Umemoto and Kanako Masuda. “Calling Nikkei to Empire: Diaspora and Trans/Nationalism in the Redevelopment of Little Tokyo,” Journal of Historical Geography 74: 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2021.08.007.  

Honorable Mentions:

Weirong Guo. “Politics is Dangerous: Why Chinese College Students in the United States and China Struggle to Avoid Politics”

Elizabeth Rubio. 2021. “Black-Asian Solidarities and the Impasses of ‘How-to’ Anti-racisms,” Journal for the Anthropology of North America 24(1): 16-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/nad.12139.