The 2018 Candace Rogers Award for The Most Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student was awarded to Joseph Wallerstein for his paper "Urban Panhandling and the Valorization of Misfortune," and Rebecca A, Karam (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

The Candace Rogers Award is given annually at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) meeting to a graduate student for an outstanding paper on any current social issue. The award was announced and presented at a special session at the annual meeting in Boston (March 14-17, 2019).

Past award winners include Kelley Fong, who won the 2017 Candace Rogers Award for her paper, “Child Welfare Reporting and Poor Mothers’ Disengagement,” Deirdre Bloome, who received the 2014 Candace Rogers Student Paper Award for her paper, "Racial Inequality Trends and the Intergenerational Persistence of Income and Family Structure," and Megan Holland, who received the 2013 Candace Rogers Student Paper Award for her paper, "Recruiting Disadvantaged Students: Higher Education Marketing and the Reproduction of Inequality."