2025 Paper Competition Winners

Undergraduate Paper Competition Winners

First Place: Emma Farrow, Central Connecticut State University
Paper Title: “Wounds of Inequality: The Intersectionality of Gendered Racism in Healthcare and Autonomy”

Second Place: Erin Farrell, Georgetown University
Paper Title: “Left Unsaid: Gendered Differences in Physical Mannerisms Within University Classrooms”

Third Place: Kendall Coney, Macalester College
Paper Title: “Death and Inheritance: How Meanings of Money are Drawn from Everyday Life”

Graduate Paper Competition Winners

First Place: Kennedy Chi-Pan Wong, University of Southern California
Paper Title: “Resisting China, Supporting Trump? Mapping Political Identities Among Hong Kongers in the United States”

Second Place: Jonathan Ellis, University of Louisville
Paper Title: “Contested Spaces: Unhoused Black Men and their Survival Within Urban Landscape”

Third Place: Zhongze Wei, Washington University in St. Louis
Paper Title: “Relational Linked Fate and the Racial Position of Asian Americans”