人文學最佳論決選名單：
- 《祝你生日快樂》：音樂在雨傘運動中作為非暴力之武器
（Winnie W C Lai, 2018, “ ‘Happy Birthday to You’: Music as Nonviolent Weapon in the Umbrella Movement”, Hong Kong Studies 1(1):66-82.） - 尋找香港的新政治主體性：雨傘運動作為代際轉變之街道劇場
（Agnes Shuk-mei Ku, 2019, “In Search of a New Political Subjectivity in Hong Kong–The Umbrella Movement as a Street Theatre of Generational Change”, The China Journal 82:111-132.） - 殖民主義之最後之柱？中英談判（1982-1984）中的非官守行政和立法局成員
（Yui Chim Lo, 2020, “The Last Stand of Colonialism? The Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils and the Sino-British Negotiations over Hong Kong, 1982–1984”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 48(2):370-394.） - 生產「豪宅」：香港地產商的策略與樓盤廣告
（Kimburley Choi, Annie Chan & Anita Chan, 2020, “Producing ‘luxury’ housing: Developers’ strategies and housing advertisements in Hong Kong (1961–2011)”, Urban Studies 57(16):3252-3280.） - 公共意見調查與英殖香港的隱蔽殖民主義
（Florence Mok, 2019, “Public Opinion Polls and Covert Colonialism in British Hong Kong”, China Information 33(1):66-87.） - 香港特區之性欲公民與社會公義：陳耀成的《撐傘》
（Gina Marchetti, 2019, “Sexual citizenship and social justice in the HKSAR: Evans Chan’s Raise the Umbrellas (2016)”, JUMP CUT no.59.） - 白人、帝國焦慮與「全球三十年代」：香港的白種英國人之辯論聯賽
（Vivian Kong, 2020, “Whiteness, Imperial Anxiety, and the ‘Global 1930s’: The White British League Debate in Hong Kong”, Journal of British Studies 59(2):343-37.）
社會科學決選名單
- 透過社交媒體來去極化：香港中的雙重身份標示之證據
（Tetsuro Kobayashi, 2020, “Depolarization through social media use: Evidence from dual identifiers in Hong Kong”, New Media & Society 22(8):1339-1358.） - 香港身份認同量尺之發展：文化和公民領域中香港「本地人」與大陸中國人之分野
（Siu-lun Chow, King-wa Fu & Yu-Leung Ng, 2020, “Development of the Hong Kong Identity Scale: Differentiation between Hong Kong ‘Locals’ and Mainland Chinese in Cultural and Civic Domains”, Journal of Contemporary China 29(124):568-584.） - 「我願我是水管工」：香港專業人員與管理層在移民經驗中的跨國階級重建
（Lake Lui & Sara Curran, 2020, “ ‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers”, Current Sociology 68(7):872-890.） - 同性婚姻的法律認可：香港、台灣與日本的比較研究
（Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Diana Khor & Yi-Chien Chen, 2019, “Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan”, The Sociological Review 68(1):192-208.） - 本土—地方網絡與政治動員：以後主權移交之香港為例
（Samson Yuen, 2020, “Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-Handover Hong Kong”, Modern China OnlineFirst June 2020.） - 以知識轉移作社會賦權：香港社工在中國大陸所作的跨邊界行動
（Yi Kang, 2020, “Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China”, China Information OnlineFirst August 2020.） - 說話對抗沉默：在雨傘運動中尋找香港華裔家庭之聲音
（Ho, P.S.Y., Jackson, S., & Kong, S.S.-T., 2018, “Speaking against silence: Finding a voice in Hong Kong Chinese families through the Umbrella Movement”, Sociology 52(5):966-982.） - 跨國酷兒在香港的性身份和公民—政治行動之社會學分析
（Travis SK Kong, 2019, “Transnational queer sociological analysis of sexual identity and civic-political activism in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China”, British Journal of Sociology 70(5):1904-1925.）
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