2017 Affiliate Councils Awards

• Affiliate Grant Award
  University of Connecticut Student Affiliate

• Meritorious Service Award
  Sterling K. Wall, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

• Affiliate Councils Student and New Professional President-for-a-Day Award
  Cyrus M. Hair, University of Minnesota
   

2017 Section Award Winners

Advancing Family Science Section

• Wesley Burr Graduate Student Scholarship Award
  Jessica D. Cless, Kansas State University
  “Trauma-informed Pedagogy: The Trauma-informed Classroom Care (TICC) Model”

Education & Enrichment Section

• Student Proposal Award
  J. Kale Monk, University of Missouri
  “Systemic Relationship and Psycho-education Programs for Military Couples”
  Anthony J. Ferraro, Kansas State University
  “Coparenting After Divorce: Perceived Competence as a Coping Mechanism”
  Samantha LeBouef, University of Minnesota
  “Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Siblings and Social Media Communication”

Ethnic Minorities Section

• New Professional Best Paper Award
  Christiana Awosan, Seton Hall University
  “Racial Stressor and its effects on Black heterosexual Spousal Support”

• Student Best Paper Award
  Megan Hicks, Wayne State University
  “Risk and Protective Factors Predicting Sexual Risk Behavior Among Black Men”

Families & Health Section

• Outstanding Professional Paper/Publications Award
  Keeley J. Pratt, Ohio State University
  “Child Weight Status, Family Functioning, and Support Among Bariatric Patients”
• Outstanding Student and New Professional Paper Award
  Erin Yelland, Kansas State University
  “Sex, Dementia, and Long-term Care: Public Opinion and Importance of Policy”
• Outstanding Student and New Professional Poster Award
  Dina Izenstark, San José State University
  "Impact of Childhood Experiences in Nature on Adults' Mental Health and
  Family Relationships"

Family Policy Section

• Feldman Best Conference Proposal Award
  Junhan Cho, University of Georgia
  “Community and Family Influences on Engagement in Georgia’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program”

Family Therapy Section

• Best Research Paper Award – New Professional
  Youngjin Kang, University of Illinois-Springfield
  “Divorced Fathers’ Perceptions of Disclosures About Divorce-related Topics to Children”
• Best Poster Award – Student
  Allen Mallory, University of Texas at Austin
  “Remembering the Good Times: The Influence of Relationship Nostalgia on Relationship Satisfaction”

Feminism and Family Studies Section

• Alexis J. Walker Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
  April L. Few-Demo, Virginia Tech

International Section

• Jan Trost Award
  Judith A. Myers-Walls, Purdue University
• Annual Conference Travel Scholarship
  Tumaki Aruanã da Silva Cassiano, Tremembe Municipal Government
• Student and New Professional Travel Scholarship
  Nadia Semenova Moratto Vásquez, Universidad CES
  Mika Omagari, Ochanomizu Univeristy

Religion, Spirituality & Family Section

• Outstanding Paper Award
  G. Kevin Randall, Sam Houston State University
  “Distal Family Events, Proximal Influences, and the Religiosity of Incarcerated Males”
• Student and New Professional Outstanding Paper Award
  Hilary Dalton, Kansas State University
  “Sacrifice and Self-care as Relational Processes: The Connections and Tensions”
  Deirdre A. Quinn, University of Maryland
  “Family Religiosity, Parent Monitoring, and College Students’ Sexual Risk”

Research & Theory Section

• Best Abstract by a Student and New Professional Award
  Allen Barton, University of Georgia
  “Family Routines in Adolescence Forecast African Americans’ Young Adulthood Outcomes”

 

2017 Focus Group Awards

• Family Economics Focus Group – Best Family Economics Paper of the Year
  C. Ryan Dunn (first author), Weber State University
  “The Impact of Family Financial Investment on Perceived Parent Pressure and Child Enjoyment and Commitment in Organized Youth Sport,” Family Relations, 65(April), 287–299. 

• Issues in Aging Focus Group Award – Student and New Professional
  Yijung Kim, University of Massachusetts Boston
  “Effects of Parent Death on Relationship Quality with Adult Children”

• Issues in Aging Focus Group Award – Professional
  Joshua Robert Novak, Utah State University
  “Associations between Economic Pressure and Physical Health in Later Life Marriages”

• Latino(a) Research Focus Group – Best Student Posters
  Lorena Aceves, Pennsylvania State University,
  “Transactional Associations: Latina Girls’ Self-Esteem and Parenting Behaviors” 
  Stephanie Martinez Fuentes (first author), Arizona State University 
  “Latinos’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization, Identity, and Academic Engagement” 

• Latino(a) Research Focus Group – Best Student Paper
  Jordan Arellanes, Iowa State University 
  “Investing in Future Generations: Realities and Goals of Latino Immigrant Families”

• Men in Families Focus Group – Best Research Article Award
  Daphne C. Hernandez, University of Houston
  “The role of boomerang fathers in adolescent female depression,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 78 (October), 1285-1299

• Men in Families Focus Group – Best New Professional Research Article Award
  Todd M. Jensen , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
  “Stepfather involvement and stepfather-child relationship quality: Race and parental marital status as moderators,” Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42 (October), 659-672

• Men in Families Focus Group – Diversity and Inclusion Research Article Award
  Karen Z. Kramer , University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign  
  “At-home father families in the United States: Gender ideology, human capital, and unemployment,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 78 (October), 1315-1331

• Qualitative Family Research Network Focus Group – Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research
  Adam Isaiah Green and Jenna Valleriani, University of Toronto, and Barry Adam, University of Windsor
  “Marital Monogamy as Ideal and Practice: The Detraditionalization Thesis in Contemporary Marriages,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(April), 416-430