Award for Best Publication in Mental Health
| Year | Name | Affiliation (at time of Award) | Title |
| 2024 | Rachel Kahn Best Alina Arseniev-Koehler | University of Michigan Purdue University | The Stigma of Diseases: Unequal Burden, Uneven Decline. American Sociological Review. Vol. 88 (5): 938-969. 2023. |
| 2024 Honorable Mention | Tania M. Jenkins | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Physicians as shock absorbers: The system of structural factors driving burnout and dissatisfaction in medicine. Social Science and Medicine 337: 116311. 2023. |
| 2023 | Laura Upenieks Ioana Sendroiu Ron Levi John Hagan | Baylor University University of Hong Kong University of Toronto Northwestern University, | Beliefs about Legality and Benefits for Mental Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63(2): 266–282. 2022. |
| 2022 | Dohoon Lee Byungkyu Lee | Yonsei University Indiana University, Bloomington | The Role of Multilayered Peer Groups in Adolescent Depression: A Distributional Approach. American Journal of Sociology 125(6): 1513-1558, 2020. |
| 2022 | Patricia Louie Laura Upenieks, Christy L. Erving, Courtney S. Thomas Tobin | University of Washington, Seattle Baylor University Vanderbilt University University of California, Los Angeles | Do Racial Differences in Coping Explain the Black-White Paradox in Mental Health? A Test of Multiple Mechanisms. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 63, 55-70, 2022 |
| 2020 | Daniel Schneider Kristen Harknett | University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco | Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being, American Sociological Review, 84(1): 82-114, 2019. |
| 2019 | Jason Schnittker | University of Pennsylvania | The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled. Columbia University Press. 2017. |
| 2018 | Mario Luis Small and Tony Brown, Mary Laske Bell, and Evelyn J. Patterson | Harvard University Vanderbilt University | Someone to Talk To. Oxford University Press, 2017 Imprisoned by Empathy: Familial Incarceration and Psychological Distress among African American Men in the National Survey of American Life, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 57(2):240-256. 2016. |
| 2017 | Anna S. Mueller Seth Abrutyn | Univeristy of Chicago University of Memphis | Adolescents under Pressure: A New Durkheimian Framework for Understanding Adolescent Suicide in a Cohesive Community, American Sociological Review, 81(5): 877-899. 2016 |
| 2016 | Andrew Scull and Owen Whooley | University of California, San Diego
University of New Mexico | Madness in civilization: A cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine. Princeton University Press, 2015 Nosological Reflections The Failure of DSM-5, the Emergence of RDoC, and the Decontextualization of Mental Distress. Society and Mental Health, 4: 92-110. 2014 |
| 2015 | Anna S. Mueller Seth Abrutyn | University of Memphis | Suicidal Disclosures among Friends: Using Social Network Data to Understand Suicide Contagion. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 56: 131-148, 2015 |
| 2014 | Mieke Beth Thomeer Debra Umberson Tetyana Pudrovska | University of Texas at Austin | Marital Happiness and Depression: A Gendered and Relational Perspective. Society and Mental Health, 3(3), 151-169, 2013. |
| 2013 | Jason Schnittker | University of Pennsylvania | The Proximity of Common Unhappiness and Misery, Society and Mental Health, 2(3), 135-153. 2012 |
| 2012 | Scott Schleman Paul Glavin | Univeristy of Toronto | Education and Work-Family Conflict: Explanations, Contingencies and Mental Health Consequences, Social Forces, 89: 1341-1362, 2011. |
| 2011 | Robin Simon Kathryn Lively | Wake Forest University Dartmouth College | Sex, Anger, and Depression. Social Forces, 88(4): 1543-1568. 2010 |
| 2010 | John R. Reynolds Chardie L. Baird | Florida State University Kansas State University | Is There a Downside to Shooting for the Stars?: Unrealized Educational Expectations and Symptoms of Depression. American Sociological Review. 75:151-172. 2010 |
| 2009 | David Maimon Danielle C. Kuhl | Ohio State University Bowling Green University | Social Control and Youth Suicidality: Situating Durkheim's Ideas in a Multilevel Framework. American Sociological Review, 73: 921-943. 2008 |
| 2008 | Jane D. McLeod Danielle L. Fettes | Indiana University University of California | Trajectories of Failure: The Educational Careers of Children with Mental Health Problems, American Journal of Sociology. 113(3): 653-701. 2007 |
| 2007 | Bruce P. Dohrenwend, J. Blake Turner, Nicholas Turse, Ben Adams, Karestan Koenen, and Randall Marshall, | University of California | The Psychological Risks of Vietnam for US Veterans: A Revisit with New Data and Methods, Science 313(5789):979-982. 2006. |
| 2005 | Johnny Hagan Holly Foster | Northwestern University Texas A&M University | "S/He's a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood" Social Forces, 82: 52-86. 2003 |
| 2004 | Robin W. Simon | Florida State University | Revisiting the Relationships among Gender, Marital Status, and Mental Health. American Journal of Sociology, 107: 1065-96, 2002 |
| 2003 | Tami M. Videon Carolyn K Manning | Montefiore Medical Center Rutgers University | Influences on Adolescent Eating Patterns: The Importance of Family Meals. Journal of Adolescent Health, 32: 365-373. 2003 |
| 2001 | Carol Aneshensel Jo Phelan | UCLA Columbia University | Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health |
| 1999 | Sarah Rosenfield | Rutgers University | Labeling Mental Illness: The Effects of Received Services and Perceived Stigma on Life Satisfaction, American Sociological Review, 62(4):660-672. 1997. |
| 1997 | R. Jay Turner Blair Wheaton Donald Lloyd | Univeristy of Miami University of Toronto University of Toronto | The Epidemiology of Social Stress, American Sociological Review, 60(1):104-125. 1995. |
| 1995 | Jane McLeod Michael Shanahan | U Minnesota UNC Chapel Hill | Poverty, Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health, American Sociological Review, 58(3):351-366. 1993. |