Kelley Fong won the 2017 Candace Rogers Award for The Most Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student for her paper, “Child Welfare Reporting and Poor Mothers’ Disengagement.”

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 Philadelphia (February 23-26, 2017).

Past award winners include 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."