Previous Winners

2024: Jessica R. Nachman, Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Audrey R. Giles, Rochelle Stewart-Withers, & Daniel A. Henhawk. Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport: Applying Theories of Refusal.

2023: Tricia McGuire-Adams, Janelle Joseph, Danielle Peers, Lindsay Eales, William Bridel, Chen Chen, Evelyn Hamdon, & Bethan Kingsley. Awakening to Elsewheres: Collectively Restorying Embodied Experiences of (Be)longing.

2022: Samantha King & Gavin Weedon, The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment.

2021: Thomas P. Oates. "Where I’m From”: Jay-Z’s “Hip Hop Cosmopolitanism,” Basketball, and the Neoliberal Politics of Urban Space

2020: Moss Norman (University of British Columbia), Michael Hart (University of Calgary), LeAnne Petherick (University of British Columbia). Indigenous Gender Reformations: Physical Culture, Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Containment

2019:  Jenny McMahon (University of Tasmania), Camilla J. Knight (Swansea University), & Kerry R. McGannon (Laurentian University), Educating Parents of Children in Sport About Abuse Using Narrative Pedagogy

2018: Cheryl Cooky: "We Cannot Stand Idly By”: A Necessary Call for a Public Sociology of Sport

2017: Holly Thorpe: Athletic Women’s Experiences of Amenorrhea: Biomedical Technologies, Somatic Ethics and Embodied Subjectivities

2016: Jonathon Magee, Ramon Spaaij & Ruth Jeanes: “It’s recovery United for me”: Promises and pitfalls of football as part of mental health recovery.

2015: Samantha King, Scott Carey, Naila Jinnah, Rob Millington, Andrea Phillipson, Carolyn Prouse, & Matt Ventresca “When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League”

2014: Kyoung-Yim Kim Translation With Abusive Fidelity: Methodological Issues in Translating Media Texts About Korean LPGA Players

2013: Koji Kobayashi Corporate Nationalism and Globalization of Nike Advertising in Asia

2012: Michael A. Messner Gender ideologies, youth sports and the production of soft essentialism

2011: Ryan King-White. Danny Almonte: Discursive Construction(s) of (Im)migrant Citizenship in Neoliberal America

2010: Thomas P. Oates. New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom

2009: Samantha King. What's Queer About (Queer) Sport Sociology Now?

2008: Lisa McDermott. A Governmental Analysis of Children "at Risk" in a World of Physical Inactivity and Obesity Epidemics

2007: Laura Frances Chase. (Un)Disciplined Bodies: A Foucauldian Analysis of Women's Rugby

2006: Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak. Athletes as Agents of Change: An Examination of Shifting Race Relations Within Women's Netball in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2005: Jay Scherer & Steven J. Jackson. From Corporate Welfare to National Interest: Newspaper Analysis of the Public Subsidization of NHL Hockey Debate in Canada

2004: Ted Butryn. Posthuman Podiums: Cyborg Narratives of Elite Track and Field Athletes

2003: Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge. Mapping the Field of "AR": Adventure Racing and Bourdieu's Concept of Field

2002: Michael Silk. 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, & Kristen Wells Davidson. The Expendable Prolympic Self. Going Beyond the Boundaries of the Sociology of Sport

1999: Heather Sykes. Turning the Closets Inside/Out: Towards a Queer-Feminist Theory in Women's Physical Education

1997: Margaret MacNeill. Network: Producing Olympic Ice Hockey for a National Television Audience

1995: Naomi Fejgin. Participation in High School Competitive Sports: A Subversion of School Mission or Contribution to Academic Goals?

1993: Tim Curry. Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk About Competition and Women