PhD candidate Jessica Stallone was recently recognized for her article, “I Would Have Given them a Piece of my Mind”: Spatialized Feelings and Emotion Work Among Racialized Muslim Women in Québec, which received an honorable mention for the 2025 Sally Hacker Prize at the ASAs.
Published in Gender & Society, the article draws on interviews with racialized Muslim women in Québec to explore how emotional responses to public hostility are shaped by race, religion, and space. Stallone demonstrates how women strategically manage emotions—such as anger, fear, and defiance—across different public settings, offering new insight into the relationship between affect, space, and power.
The Sally Hacker Prize honors work that challenges conventional sociological thinking and reaches wider publics. Honorable mentions are awarded to scholarship that exemplifies critical engagement with pressing social issues.