Elisabeth Anderson and Barry Eidlin are pleased to announce Revisiting Remaking Modernity: New Voices in Comparative-Historical Sociology, a mini-conference sponsored by the ASA Comparative-Historical Section, the Northwestern University Department of Sociology, and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. The conference will be held at Northwestern University on August 21 from 9am-6:30 pm.

Ten years after the publication of the landmark edited volume Remaking Modernity (Duke 2005), the time is ripe to take stock of comparative-historical sociology’s past, present and future. The conference will open with a plenary panel featuring the book’s editors (Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff) in conversation with scholars in the early stages of their careers (Robert Braun, Marcus Hunter, and Catherine Lee).

A central aim of the conference is to bring comparative-historical sociology into fruitful dialogue with other areas of sociology. Panel topics include gender & sexuality, race & ethnicity, religion, collective action, war and organized violence, social policy, environment, development, colonialism, and cities in comparative-historical perspective.

Registration includes lunch and a post-conference reception, and is $15 for students, post-docs, and adjuncts, and $25 for faculty.

For more information about the program, location, and how to register, please visit http://www.revisitingremakingmodernity.org/.

The summer edition of the newsletter is in preparation. If you have published an article or book that you would like to publicize to section members, please send your news to Benjamin Lind at lind.benjamin@gmail.com

We have an impressive line-up of political sociology panels and roundtables at this year’s ASA meetings in Chicago. Look for our section events on SATURDAY, August 24.

The section reception is organized jointly with Economic Sociology section, and will be held in the Hilton on MONDAY, August 24. Note that the incorrect date was listed in the preliminary online program and in Footnotes. The correct time and place will be listed in the conference program.

2014 was a great year in political sociology.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award will be awarded jointly to two books:

David Scott Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martín, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) and Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (article) Award will be awarded to Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol, for “Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 119, no. 5, with an honorable mention to Delia Baldassarri and Amir Goldberg for their article “Neither Ideologues nor Agnostics: Alternative Voters’ Belief System in an Age of Partisan Politics,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 120, no. 1.

The Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be awarded to Robert Braun of Cornell University for “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide,” with an honorable mention to Pablo Gaston of the University of California-Berkeley for “Contention Across Social Fields: Labor Organizing and Community-Based Living Wage Campaigns in the Southern California Hospitality Industry.”

All award winners will be recognized at our business meeting on SATURDAY, August 22, at 11:30 AM. Please come to congratulate them!

Thank you to all the awards committee members who did the hard work of deciding among the many entries, and to the section members who kept them busy by writing and publishing and nominating so much excellent scholarship this year.

Please welcome Rhys Williams, our new chair-elect; Cedric de Leon, our new secretary/treasurer; and Elizabeth Popp Berman and Dana Fisher, our new council members!