2015 NASSS Award Winners

Barbara Brown Student Paper Award – Doctoral student

Matt Hawzen: “Reading Tim Tebow: Sporting celebrity, whiteness and the cultural politics of morality in America”

Barbara Brown Student Paper Award – Masters student

Matt Crockett: “A Spatial Ethnography of the CrossFit Gym”

Sociology of Sport Journal Outstanding Article Award

Samantha King, Scott Carey, Naila Jinnah, Rob Millington, Andrea Phillipson, Carolyn Prouse, and Matt Ventresca

“When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League”

Gary Sailes NASSS Graduate Diversity Scholarship Award – Doctoral Student

Bahar Tajrobehkar

Gary Sailes NASSS Graduate Diversity Scholarship Award – Master’s Student

Alexander Deeb

Distinguished Service Award 

Mary Jo Kane

2015 Outstanding Book Award

Alan Klein: Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA