{"id":50,"date":"2017-10-28T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-sociology\/studentpublications\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:48:37","slug":"studentawards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/sociology\/studentawards\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Awards and Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\tIn between session at the 2026 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, which was held in Saint Louis, Missouri..<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tGearing up for the first day of sessions at the 2024 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting in 2024.<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tSociology seniors and faculty member Christina Hughes are in the audience for a session at the 2024 Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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Each year, students present their research at the Midwest Sociological Society’s annual meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tradition of Excellence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since 2006, Macalester sociology students have won 81 regional and national awards for the quality of their research projects, all of which were developed in Sociology coursework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards for Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alpha Kappa Delta Undergraduate Paper Competition<\/strong>
<\/strong>Senior, Xinyi \u201cWendy\u201d Zheng<\/strong> \u201826- Third place. \u201cUnboxing Relations: An Ethnographic Study of Blind Box Consumption in the US.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest Sociological Society Paper Competition<\/strong>
<\/strong>Senior, Xinyi \u201cWendy\u201d Zheng<\/strong> \u201826- First place. \u201cUnboxing Relations: An Ethnographic Study of Blind Box Consumption in the US.”
Senior, Emery Teague<\/strong> \u201826- Second place. \u201cMitigating ‘Weird’: How Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Navigate Role Conflict with Ease through Repertoires of Action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alpha Kappa Delta Undergraduate Paper Competition<\/strong>
Senior, Kendall Coney<\/strong> \u201825- Third place. \u201cDeath and Inheritance: How Meanings of Money are Drawn from Everyday Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marianna McJimsey Student Essay Award<\/strong> at the ASIANetwork annual meeting
Junior, Xinyi Zheng<\/strong> \u201926- First place. “Managing Fertility: A Historical Comparative Study on Population Policy in Singapore and China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest Sociological Society Paper Competition<\/strong>
Senior, Audrey Hartmann<\/strong>, \u201925 – Third place. “Navigating Care: Tensions between Rational and Relational Agency in Caregiver Interactions with Individuals with Dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociologists of Minnesota, Caroline Rose Student Paper Competition<\/strong>
Junior, Xinyi “Wendy” Zheng<\/strong> \u201926 -First place. \u201c”Broken Skyscraper Dreams: Disillusionment and Urban Exit among Young Adults in China.”
Sophomore, Amanda Tu<\/strong> \u201927 – Second place. “From Empire to Nation-State: The Shifting Dynamics of Symbolic Power in Modern China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Midwest Sociological Society Paper Competition<\/strong>
Senior, Francesca Bernardino<\/strong> \u2013 First place. \u201c\u2019Eating the Other\u2019: Negotiations of Authenticity within Culinary Cosmopolitanism.\u201d
Senior, Daisy Alcantar<\/strong> \u2013 Third place. \u201cNi de aqu\u00ed, Ni de all\u00e1\u201d: How the Mexican-American student is seen as the perpetual foreigner in the U.S. and in Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociologists of Minnesota, Caroline Rose Student Paper Competition
<\/strong>Sophomore, Emery Teague<\/strong> \u2013 Second place. \u201cChristianity as Deviance: Flipping the Script at a Religiously Affiliated Liberal Arts College.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alpha Kappa Delta Undergraduate Paper Competition
<\/strong>Senior, Ethan Hyslop <\/strong>\u2013 Second Place. \u201cWho Gets the Job? Social Reproduction through Student Employment Hiring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest Sociological Society Paper Competition
<\/strong>Senior, Tommy Navarre<\/strong> \u2013 First place. \u201cNo Longer Invisible\u201d: Contesting the Purpose of Public Parks and the Production of Houselessness in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u201d
Senior, Sophia Kaufmann<\/strong> \u2013 Second place. \u201cUn-Scene: How Responses to Sexual Violence Reproduce Legal Hegemony in the Bay Area\u2019s Punk and DIY Community.\u201d
Senior, Stella Kirszner<\/strong> \u2013 Third place. \u201cHiding and Hoarding: How the New York City Public School Application Process Reinforces Privilege and Inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociologists of Minnesota, Caroline Rose Student Paper Competition
<\/strong>Senior, Josh Groven <\/strong>\u2013 First place. \u201c\u2018Cool People\u2019 vs. \u2018Food Goodness\u2019: Capitalist Grammar and Social Distinction at a St. Paul Restaurant and Salon.\u201d
Junior, Haoxuan Gao<\/strong> \u2013 Second place. \u201cWork Above and Beyond: How Peer Tutors Navigate Their Role and Manage Emotional Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Publications from Sociology Alumni<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Laemmli, alum ’11<\/strong>. 2024. “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work, and Relationships<\/a>.” Sociological Theory, 0(0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron (Xunwen) Zou<\/b>, alum ’22<\/strong>. 2024. “Examining the Information Needs of Chinese Migrants Crossing the Darien Gap<\/a>.\u201d Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Internews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shantee Rosado, alum ’09<\/strong>. 2025. Co-authored by Aaryn L. Green, Maretta Darnell McDonald, Veronica A. Newton, Candice C. Robinson. The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach. <\/a><\/strong>Routledge: New York City.
Authored: Spring 2025. “Recuerdo: Blackness, Memory, and the Racial Contract in Puerto Rico.” Centro Journal<\/a>, 37(1), pp. 21-50. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kai P.<\/span>Blake-Leibowitz<\/span><\/strong>. 2021. \u201cBeing Able to Breathe Publicly\u201d: Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Healing through Embodied Activity<\/a>. Advances in Trans Studies: Moving Toward Gender Expansion and Trans Hope (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 32), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 177-192. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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