Congratulations to the 2023-2024 Robert F. Winch Memorial Award Winners!
January 9, 2025
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 Robert F. Winch Memorial Awards!
Outstanding Second-Year Paper
Co-Winner: Iolanthe Brooks, for her paper “Governing Through Movement: Prison Transfers and the Experience of Within-System Shuffling”
Co-Winner: Jack Votava, for his paper “In Praise of Debt? Expectational Power and the Causes of Financial Crisis in Argentina”
Outstanding Published/Presented Paper
Winner: Megan Whitaker, for her paper “From “Scared” to “Evil” Ground: Remembering the Haystack Prayer Meeting at Williams College from 1806-2006,” which was presented at the American Sociological Association Conference in Montreal, August 2024
Outstanding Graduate Student TA
Co-Winners: Aven Peters and Taylor Domingos
Honorable mention: Miranda Simes
Outstanding Grad Student Instructor
Co-Winner: Sino Esthappan, for his 392, “Race, Punishment, and Change”
Co-Winner: Kathy Copas, for her 392, “Finance and Inequality”