Outstanding SSJ Article Award

This award is presented to the author of the best article published in SSJ from the previous calendar year.

Recipients

2010    Thomas Patrick Oates (Penn State University) – New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom
2009    Samantha King (Queen’s University) – What’s Queer About (Queer) Sport Sociology Now?
2008    Lisa McDermott (University of Alberta) – A Governmental Analysis of Children “at Risk” in a World of Physical Inactivity and Obesity Epidemics
2007    Laura Frances Chase (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) – (Un)Disciplined Bodies: A Foucauldian Analysis of Women’s Rugby
2006    Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak (University of Memphis) – Athletes as Agents of Change: An Examination of Shifting Race Relations Within Women’s Netball in Post-Apartheid South Africa
2005    Jay Scherer (University of Alberta) and Steven J. Jackson (University of Otago) – From Corporate Welfare to National Interest: Newspaper Analysis of the Public Subsidization of NHL Hockey Debate in Canada
2004    Ted Butryn (San Jose State University) – Posthuman Podiums: Cyborg Narratives of Elite Track and Field Athletes
2003    Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge (Université de Montréal) – Mapping the Field of “AR”: Adventure Racing and Bourdieu’s Concept of Field
2002    Michael Silk (University of Maryland) – Together We’re One? The Place of the Nation in Media Representations of the 1998 Kuala Lompur Commonwealth Games
2001    Alan G. Ingham, Bryan J. Blissmer, and Kristen Wells Davidson (Miami University) – The Expendable Prolympic Self. Going Beyond the Boundaries of the Sociology of Sport
1999    Heather Sykes (University of Wisconsin) – Turning the Closets Inside/Out: Towards a Queer-Feminist Theory in Women’s Physical Education
1997    Margaret MacNeill (University of Toronto) – Network: Producing Olympic Ice Hockey for a National Television Audience
1995    Naomi Fejgin (Wingate Institute) – Participation in High School Competitive Sports: A Subversion of School Mission or Contribution to Academic Goals?
1993    Tim Curry (Ohio State University) – Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk About Competition and Women