Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
| Year | Award Recipient | Name Of Institution | Name of Publication | 
| 2024 | Lauren M. Beard and Kyung Won Choi  | University of Chicago | Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors. Social Science and Medicine 348: 116768. 2024. | 
2024 Honorable Mention  | Meghann Lucy | Boston University | 鈥橣ighting Demons鈥: Stigma and Shifting Norms in Explicit Mention of Overdose in Obituaries, 2010-2019. | 
| 2023 | Caroline V. Brooks and Colter J. Uscola  | Indiana University 
 University of British Columbia  | Helpful or Hurtful? Untangling Mechanisms Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health. 
 Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride, and a Thirst to Belong.鈥 Society and Mental Health, 13 (1): 45-60. 2023  | 
| 2022 | Mobarak Hossain | University of Oxford, Nuffield College | COVID-19 and gender differences in mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Young working women are more vulnerable. SSM-Mental Health, 10039. 2021 | 
| 2021 | Rebecca Ewert | University of Chicago | Post-Disaster Masculinity and Mental Health | 
| 2020 | George Usmanov and Mary Ellen Stitt  | Georgia State University 
 University of Texas at Austin  | Types of Types: Social Network Typologies and Meaning of Clients with Serious Mental Illness.鈥 
 Adjudication Under Cover: Court-Mandated Treatment and Inequality  | 
| 2019 | Patricia Louie | University of Toronto | Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents,鈥 forthcoming in Society and Mental Health |