Gary Sailes Graduate Diversity Scholarship

Master’s Award: Kaitlyn Seow (Queen’s University
Doctoral Awards: Tori A. Justin (University of Maryland)

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Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award

Doctoral Award: Jordan Keesler (University of Maryland) “Phenomenological Understandings of Transness: Queering Sporting Experiences”
Masters Award: Daniel Uy (York University) “Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events”

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Best SSJ Article

Tricia McGuire-Adams, Janelle Joseph, Danielle Peers, Lindsay Eales, William Bridel, Chen Chen, Evelyn Hamdon, and Bethan Kingsley for their paper “Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing” 

Honorable Mention
"Toward a Theory of Sportwashing: Mega-Events, Soft Power, and Political Conflict."
Jules Boycoff

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Early Career Researcher Award, Presented by Human Kinetics

Dr. Christopher McLeod, University of Florida

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Outstanding Book Award

Winner: Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game, Lisa Uperesa (University of Auckland)
Honorable Mention:
Action Sport and the Olympic Games, Belinda Wheaton &  Holly Thorpe
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories, Paul Darby,  James Esson,  and Christian Ungruhe

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Service Excellence Award

Robert Case (Old Dominion University)
Cheryl Cooky (Purdue University)
Michael Giardina (Florida State University)

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NASSS Fellows

2023 Recipients:

This award will be announced at Saturday's luncheon.

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