ISS Bapna-Ghose Social Justice Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Creation or Destruction? STEM OPT Extension and Employment of Information Technology Professionals

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Inclusion by Design: Requirements Elicitation with Digitally Marginalized Communities

Purpose of the Award

This best paper award’s purpose is to foster and encourage high quality IS research that makes an impact towards improving social justice outcomes. The award’s concept of social justice research is broadly scoped to include all facets of modern IS, analytics, digital platforms and AI perspectives, as well as the full palette of methodologies. It specifically aims to direct, recognize and reward IS research that helps positively move the interlocking gears of education, housing, healthcare, transportation, employment, income and criminal justice outcomes and policies for Black/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanic-American and Native Americans populations.

Application Process:

Click here for more information. 


Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Xue Guo, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Jing Gong, University of Virginia Min-Seok Pang , Temple University
Nan Zhang, University of Florida Heng Xu, University of Florida
Avijit Sengupta , University of Queensland Yimeng Deng, National University of Singapore Isam Faik, Western University
2023 Winner(s)
Sofia Bapna, University of Minnesota
Russell James Funk, University of Michigan
Ross School of Business
Priyanga Gunarathne, University of Pittsburgh Huaxia Rui, University of Rochester
Abraham Seidmann
Lauren Rhue, University of Maryland Jessica Clark, University of Maryland
2022 Winner(s)
Gorkem Turgut Ozer, University of New Hampshire
Brad Greenwood, University of Minnesota
Anandasivam Gopal, University of Maryland
2021 Winner(s)
Jorge Mejia, Indiana University
Christopher Parker, American University