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Award for Best Publication in Mental Health

Previous Winners
YearNameAffiliation (at time of Award)Title
2024

Rachel Kahn Best

Alina Arseniev-Koehler

University of Michigan

Purdue University

The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline. American Sociological Review. Vol. 88 (5): 938-969. 2023.
2024 Honorable MentionTania M. JenkinsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillPhysicians as shock absorbers: The system of structural factors driving burnout and dissatisfaction in medicine. Social Science and Medicine 337: 116311. 2023.
2023

Laura Upenieks

 Ioana Sendroiu 

 Ron Levi

John Hagan

Baylor University

University of Hong Kong

University of Toronto

Northwestern University,

Beliefs about Legality and Benefits for Mental Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63(2): 266–282. 2022.
2022

Dohoon Lee

Byungkyu Lee

Yonsei University

Indiana University, Bloomington

The Role of Multilayered Peer Groups in Adolescent Depression: A Distributional Approach.

American Journal of Sociology 125(6): 1513-1558, 2020.

2022

Patricia Louie

Laura Upenieks,

 Christy L. Erving,

Courtney S. Thomas Tobin

University of Washington, Seattle

Baylor University

Vanderbilt University

University of California, Los Angeles

Do Racial Differences in Coping Explain the Black-White Paradox in Mental Health? A Test of Multiple Mechanisms. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63, 55-70, 2022
2020

Daniel Schneider

Kristen Harknett

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, San Francisco

Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being, American Sociological Review, 84(1): 82-114, 2019.

2019Jason SchnittkerUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled. Columbia University Press. 2017.
2018

Mario Luis Small

and 

Tony Brown, Mary Laske Bell, and Evelyn J. Patterson

Harvard University
 
 
 
Vanderbilt University
 

Someone to Talk To. Oxford University Press, 2017

Imprisoned by Empathy: Familial Incarceration and Psychological Distress among African American Men in the National Survey of American Life, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57(2):240-256. 2016.

2017
Anna S. Mueller
Seth Abrutyn
Univeristy of Chicago
University of Memphis
Adolescents under Pressure: A New Durkheimian Framework for Understanding Adolescent Suicide in a Cohesive Community, American Sociological Review, 81(5): 877-899. 2016
2016

Andrew Scull

and

Owen Whooley

University of California, San Diego

 

University of New Mexico

Madness in civilization: A cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine. Princeton University Press, 2015
 
Nosological Reflections The Failure of DSM-5, the Emergence of RDoC, and the Decontextualization of Mental Distress. Society and Mental Health, 4: 92-110. 2014
2015Anna S. Mueller
Seth Abrutyn
University of MemphisSuicidal Disclosures among Friends: Using Social Network Data to Understand Suicide Contagion. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 56: 131-148, 2015
2014Mieke Beth Thomeer
Debra Umberson
Tetyana Pudrovska
University of Texas at AustinMarital Happiness and Depression: A Gendered and Relational Perspective. Society and Mental Health, 3(3), 151-169, 2013.
2013Jason SchnittkerUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Proximity of Common Unhappiness and Misery, Society and Mental Health, 2(3), 135-153. 2012
2012Scott Schleman
Paul Glavin
Univeristy of TorontoEducation and Work-Family Conflict: Explanations, Contingencies and Mental Health Consequences, Social Forces, 89: 1341-1362, 2011.
2011Robin Simon
Kathryn Lively
Wake Forest University
Dartmouth College
Sex, Anger, and Depression. Social Forces, 88(4): 1543-1568. 2010
2010John R. Reynolds
Chardie L. Baird
Florida State University
Kansas State University
Is There a Downside to Shooting for the Stars?: Unrealized Educational Expectations and Symptoms of Depression. American Sociological Review. 75:151-172. 2010
2009David Maimon
Danielle C. Kuhl
Ohio State University
Bowling Green University
Social Control and Youth Suicidality: Situating Durkheim's Ideas in a Multilevel Framework. American Sociological Review, 73: 921-943. 2008
2008Jane D. McLeod
Danielle L. Fettes
Indiana University
University of California
Trajectories of Failure: The Educational Careers of Children with Mental Health Problems, American Journal of Sociology. 113(3): 653-701. 2007
2007Bruce P. Dohrenwend, J. Blake Turner, Nicholas Turse, Ben Adams, Karestan Koenen, and Randall Marshall,University of CaliforniaThe Psychological Risks of Vietnam for US Veterans: A Revisit with New Data and Methods, Science 313(5789):979-982. 2006.
2005Johnny Hagan
Holly Foster
Northwestern University
Texas A&M University 
"S/He's a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood" Social Forces, 82: 52-86. 2003
2004Robin W. Simon Florida State UniversityRevisiting the Relationships among Gender, Marital Status, and Mental Health. American Journal of Sociology, 107: 1065-96, 2002
2003

Tami M. Videon

Carolyn K Manning

Montefiore Medical Center

Rutgers University

Influences on Adolescent Eating Patterns: The Importance of Family Meals. Journal of Adolescent Health, 32: 365-373. 2003
2001Carol Aneshensel
Jo Phelan
UCLA
Columbia University
Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
1999Sarah RosenfieldRutgers UniversityLabeling Mental Illness: The Effects of Received Services and Perceived Stigma on Life Satisfaction, American Sociological Review, 62(4):660-672. 1997. 
1997R. Jay Turner
Blair Wheaton
Donald Lloyd
Univeristy of Miami
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The Epidemiology of Social Stress, American Sociological Review, 60(1):104-125. 1995.
1995Jane McLeod
Michael Shanahan
U Minnesota
UNC Chapel Hill
Poverty, Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health, American Sociological Review, 58(3):351-366. 1993.