Congratulations Nanum Jeon on receiving the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

We congratulate Nanum Jeon on receiving the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Mathematical Sociology Section for her paper on trajectory atypicality and employment instability. The paper introduces a relational measure of employment instability — the position of an individual’s employment trajectory relative to its cohort’s distribution — and shows how this relational dimension structures wage penalty across cohorts and gender. It contributes to sociological research on life-course inequality, labor-market stratification, and computational approaches to sequence analysis.