Gary Sailes Graduate Diversity Scholarship

Doctorate: Alexander Deeb, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Masters: Dervon Francis, Western Illinois University

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Barbara Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award

Doctorate: Nida Ahmad, University of Waikato, "Muslim Sportswomen as Social Media 'Space Invaders': Recreating Identities and Challenging Stereotypes in Digital Spaces."
Masters: Mitchell McSweeney, Brock University, "Reflexive Accounts of a Postcolonial Ethnographer: Understanding Insider-Outsider Status"

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Best SSJ Article

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato, "Athletic Women's Experiences of Amenorrhea: Biomedical Technologies, Somatic Ethics and Embodied Subjectivities"

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Early Career Researcher Award, Presented by Human Kinetics

Lyndsay Hayhurst, York University

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Outstanding Book Award

Lindsay Parks Pieper, Lynchburg College,  Sex testing: Gender policing in women’s sports.

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Service Excellence Award

Gertrud Pfister, Københavns Universitet

Eric Dunning, University of Leicester

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NASSS Fellows

Posthumous Award Winners:

Barbara A. Brown
James Curtis
D. Stanley Eitzen
Alan G. Ingham

2017 Recipients:

David L. Andrews, University of Maryland at College Park
Toni Bruce, University of Auckland
Ted M. Butryn, San Jose State University
Cheryl Cooky, Purdue University
Simon C. Darnell, University of Toronto
Bryan E. Denham, Clemson University
Michael D. Giardina, Florida State University
Audrey Giles, University of Ottawa
Lyndsay Hayhurst, York University
John D. Horne, University of Central Lancashire
Steven J. Jackson, University of Otago
Annelies Knoppers, University of Utrecht
Pirkko Markula, University of Alberta
Michael Messner, University of Southern California
Joshua I. Newman, Florida State University
Richard Pringle, University of Auckland
Jay Scherer, University of Alberta
John Sugden, University of Brighton
Heather J. Sykes, University of Toronto
Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton
Cathy van Ingen, Brock University
Brian Wilson, University of British Columbia

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