The Section on Political Sociology’s Distinguished Career in Political Sociology Award

YEAR	WINNER(S)	AFFILIATION	COMMITTEE
2025	Craig Calhoun	Arizona State University	Dana R. Fisher (chair); Caroline Lee; Ching Kwan Lee
2024	Ching Kwan Lee	University of California Los Angeles	Caroline Lee (chair); Gianpaolo Baiocchi; Dina Okamoto; Yasemin Soysal; Mathieu Desan
2023	Not Given
2022	Jack Goldstone	George Mason University
2021	Evelyne Huber	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	John Stephens	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020	John Markoff	University of Pittsburg	Richard Lachmann (chair) and Rebecca Emigh and Jeff Goodwin
2019	Frances Fox Piven	City University of New York	Pamela Paxton (chair); Jeff Manza; Debra Minkoff
2018	Theda Skocpol	Harvard University	Thomas Janowski (chair) and Richard Lachmann

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award

YEAR	AUTHOR(S)	AFFILIATION	TITLE
2025	Stephanie Ternullo	Harvard University	How the Heartland Went Red – Why Local Forces Matter in an age of Nationalized Politics
2024	Leslie Gates	Binghamton University	Capitalist Outsiders: Oil’s Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela
	Julian Go	Boston University	Policing Empires: Militarization Race and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US
	Anjuli Fahlberg	Tufts University	Activism Under Fire: The Politics of Non-Violence in Rio de Janeiro’s Gang Territories (Honorable Mention)
2023	Lynette H. Ong	University of Toronto	Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. Oxford University Press. 2022.
	Elizabeth Popp Berman	University of Michigan	Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
2022	Elisabeth Anderson	NYU Abu Dhabi	Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
2021	Elisabeth S. Clemens	University of Chicago	Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
	John W.P. Veugelers	University of Toronto	Empire’s Legacy: Roots of a Far-Right Affinity in Contemporary France
2020	Rachel Best	University of Michigan	Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America
	Marco Garrido	University of Chicago	The Patchwork City
	Anne Nassauer	University of Berlin	Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes (Honorable Mention)
2019	Stephanie Mudge	University of California Davis	Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
	Kiyoteru Tsutsui	University of Michigan	Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan
2018	Paul Frymer	Princeton University	Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
	Fareen Parvez	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India (Honorable Mention)
2016	Elizabeth Holzer	University of Connecticut	The Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
	Dingxin Zhao	University of Chicago	The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory for Chinese History
2015	David Scott FitzGerald & David Cook-Martin	UC San Diego & Grinell College	Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
	Mara Loveman	UC Berkeley	National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America
2014	Mark Mizruchi	University of Michigan	The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
	Jocelyn Viterna	Harvard University	Women in War: The Micro-Processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
2013	Cybelle Fox	UC Berkeley	Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
	Monica Prasad	Northwestern	The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
2012	Greta R. Krippner	University of Michigan	Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
2011	James Mahoney	Northwestern University	Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
2010	Deborah B. Gould	University of Chicago	Moving Politics: Emotion and Act Up’s Fight Against AIDS
	Marcus J. Kurtz	Ohio State University	The Social Foundations of Institutional Order: Reconsidering War and the ‘Resource Curse’ in Third World State Building
2009	Not Given
2008	Javier Auyero		Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: The Gray Zone of State Power
2007	Moon-Kie Jung	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement
2006	Eiko Ikegami	New School for Social Research	Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
2005	Not Given
2004	Not Given
2003	John Skrentny	University of California-San Diego	The Minority Rights Revolution
2002	Mounira Maya Charrad	University of Texas in Austin	States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco
2001	Lawrence Jacobs & Robert Shapiro	University of Minnesota & Columbia University	Politicians Don’t Pander
	Richard Lachmann	University of Albany	Capitalists In Spite of Themselves
2000	Jeff Manza & Clem Brooks	Northwestern University & Indiana University	Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions
1999	Edwin Amenta	New York University	Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy
	Elisabeth Clemens	University of Arizona	The People’s Lobby
1998	Jeff Manza & Clem Brooks	Northwestern University & Indiana University	The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992
1997	Peter Evans	University of California-Berkeley	Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
1996	Ronald Aminzade	University of Minnesota	Ballots and Barricades
1995	Craig Calhoun	University of North Carolina	Neither Gods Nor Emperors
	Kim Voss	UC-Berkeley	The Making of American Exceptionalism
	Frances Fox Piven Richard Cloward	CUNY	Regulating the Poor
1994	Margaret Somers	University of Michigan	Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere: Law, Community, and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy
1993	Theda Skocpol	Harvard University	Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
	Deitrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyn Stephens & John Stephens	Brown University, Northwestern University & Northwestern University	Capitalist Development and Democracy

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Article or Book Chapter) Award

YEAR	AUTHOR(S)	AFFILIATION	TITLE
2025	Tomás Gold & Ann Mische	Brown University & University of Notre Dame	Channeling Anti-Partisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave (2008–2016)
	Amanda R. Cheong	University of British Columbia	Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
2024	A.K.M Skarpelis	Queens College CUNY	Horror Vacui: Racial Misalignment Symbolic Repair  and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography
2023	María-Fatima Santos	University of California Berkeley	Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State
	Celene Reynolds	Cornell University	Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination in American Higher Education (Honorable Mention)
2022	Bart Bonikowski & Yuval Feinstein & Sean Bock	New York University & Harvard University	The Partisan Sorting of `America’: How Nationalist Cleavages Shaped the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
	Poulami Roychowdhury	McGill University	Incorporation: governing gendered violence in a state of disempowerment
2021	Hana E. Brown	Wake Forest University	Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context Tribal Sovereignty and Race-Making in Fragmented States
	Julian Go	University of Chicago	The Imperial Origins of American Policing: Militarization and Imperial Feedback in the Early 20th Century (Honorable Mention)
2020	Yao Lu	Columbia University	Empowerment or Disintegration? Migration, Social Institutions, and Collective Action in Rural China
	Isaac Reed	University of Virginia	Performative State-Formation in the Early American Republic” (Honorable Mention)
2019	Elisabeth Anderson	New York University Abu Dhabi	“Policy Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Welfare State: Child Labor Reform in 19th Century Europe.”
	Yan Long	University of California Berkeley	“The Contradictory Impact of Transnational Aids Institutions on State Repression in China 1989-2013.”
2018	Nicholas Pedriana & Robin Stryker	University of Wisconsin, Whitewater & University of Arizona	“From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing US Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity and Fair Housing Legislation”
2016	Paul Lichterman & Nina Eliasoph	USC Dornsife	“Civic Action”
2015	Malcolm Fairbrother	University of Bristol	“Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective”
2014	Hana E. Brown	Wake Forest College	“Racialized Conflict and Policy Spillover Effects: The Role of Race in the Contemporary U.S. Welfare State”
2013	Christopher A. Bail	University of North Carolina	“The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since September 11th Attacks”
2012	Anthony Spires	Chinese University of Hong Kong	“Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: Understanding the Survival of China’s Grassroots NGOs”
	Robert S. Jansen	University of Michigan	“Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism”
2011	Gregory Hooks and Brian McQueen	Washington State University	“American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Military-Industrial Complex, Racial Tension, and the Underdeveloped Welfare State”
	Chris Rhomberg	Fordham University	“A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States”
2010	Marcus J. Kurtz	Ohio State University	“The Social Foundations of Institutional Order: Reconsidering War and the ‘Resource Curse’ in Third World State Building”
2009	Ho-Fung Hung	Indiana University- Bloomington	“Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited”
	Jason Kaufman	Harvard University	“Corporate Law and the Sovreignty of States”
2008	Nathan Martin and David Brady		“Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multi-Level Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries”
2007	Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min		“From Empire to Nation-state. Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001”
2006	Douglas Hartman and Joseph Gerteis	University of Minnesota	“Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms”
	Monica Prasad	Northwestern University	“Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions, and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981”
2004	Not given
2003	Jack Goldstone & Bert Useem	University of California-Davis & University of New Mexico	“Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons”
2002	Evan Schofer & Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas	University of Minnesota & Princeton University	“The Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement: National Polities and Individual Association Membership”
2001	Harvey Molotch, William Freudenburg & Krista E. Paulsen	University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin, Madison & University of North Florida	“History Repeats Itself, But How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place”
2000	Not Given
1999	David Jacobs & Robert M. Brien	Ohio State University & University of Oregon	“The Determinants of Deadly Force: A Structural Analysis of Police Violence”
1998	Not Given
1997	Ed Collom	University of California-Riverside	“Race, Class, and Gender: The Bases of Socialist Beliefs in America”
	Pamela J. Aronson	University of Minnesota	“Rethinking Political Generations: The Life Course, Personal History and Feminist Identities”
1996	Judith Stepan-Norris & Maurice Zeitlin	University of California, Irvine & University of California, Los Angeles	“Union Democracy, Radical Leadership, and the Hegemony of Capital”
1994	Margaret Somers	University of Michigan	“Law, Community, & Political Culture in the Transition Democracy”
1992	Judith Stepan-Norris & Maurice Zeitlin	University of California, Irvine & University of California, Los Angeles	“’Red’ Unions and ‘Bourgeois’ Contracts?”

Graduate Student Award

YEAR	AUTHOR(S)	AFFILIATION	TITLE
2025	Emily H. Ruppel	University of California Berkeley	How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities
	María Ximena Dávila	University of Texas at Austin	Building a Longed-for State: How Local Actors Shape the Meaning and Materiality of War-Aggrieved Institutions
2024	Zheng Fu	Columbia University	Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unshackles Labor Militancy Under an Authoritarian Regime
	Livio Silva-Muller	Geneva Graduate Institute	Pathways of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest
2023	Wendy Y Li	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Regulatory Capture’s Third Face of Power
2022	Jiaqi Liu	University of California San Diego	State Power Beyond the State: Digital Infrastructures of China’s Diaspora Governance During the Covid-19 Pandemic
	Pei Palmgren	University of California Los Angeles	State Capacity and Opportunistic Governance: The Causes and Consequences of Regulatory Brokerage in Thailand’s Guestwork Formalization Process (Honorable Mention)
2021	Jordan Brensinger & Ramina Sotoudeh	Columbia University & Princeton University	Affect in the Age of Partisanship: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes Towards Social Groups
	Matty Lichtenstein	University of California Berkeley	Legitimizing Tactics: Hasidic Schools Non-Compliance and the Politics of Deservingness
2020	Ethan J. Raker	Harvard University	“Stratifying Disaster: State Aid and the Reproduction of Inequality in American Communities”
	Landon Schnabel	Cornell University	“Opiate of the Masses? Inequality Religion and Political Ideology in the United States”
2019	Rachel Wetts	University of California Berkeley	“Models and Morals: Elite-Oriented and Value-Neutral Discourse Dominates American Organizations’ Framings of Climate Change.”
	Yueran Zhang	University of California Berkeley	“Highlighting Versus Concealing: Divergent Strategies of Enacting Redistributive Taxation in Post-Socialist China.”
2018	Katrina Quisumbing King	University of Southern California	“The Sources and Political Uses of Ambiguity in Statecraft”
2016	Jeremy Levine	Harvard University	“The Privatization of Political Representation: Community-Based Organizations as Non-elected Neighborhood Representatives”
2015	Robert Brown	Cornell University	“Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide”
2014	H.S.†	–	–
2013	Charles Seguin	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“Avalanches of Attention: Dynamics of Media Attention to Social Movement Organizations”
2012	Carly Knight	Harvard University	“A Voice but Not a Vote: The Case of Surrogate Representation and Social Welfare for Legal Nocitizens Since 1996”
2011	Nicholas Hoover Wilson	University of California, Berkeley	“From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, ca. 1770-1855”
2010	Michaela Desoucey	Northwestern University	“Gastronationalism: Food Traditions and Authenticity Politics in the European Union”
2009	Christopher Bail	Harvard University	“The Configurations of Symbolic Boundries against Immigrants in Europe”
	Lauren Rivera	Harvard University	“Managing “Spoiled” National Identity: War, Terrorism, and Memory in Croatia”
2008	Djordje (George) Stefanovic		“The Path to Weimar Serbia? Explaining the Resurgence of the Serbian Far Right after the Fall of Milosevic>”
	Liza Weinstein		“Mumbai’s Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime, and Land Development”
2007	Hiro Saito	University of Michigan	“Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma”
	Eran Shor	Stony Brook University	“The Power of Human Rights in Times of Conflict: The Spiral Model for Norms of Socialization Revisited>”
2006	Jon Agnone	University of Washington	“Amplifying Public Opinion: The Policy Impact of the U.S. Environmental Movement”
2004	Not Given
2003	Vanessa Barker	New York University	“The Politics of Punishing: How the Routine Activities of Governance Impact State Reliance on Confinement”
	Hsiu-hua Shen	University of Kansas	Mandating Chinese Identity: Taiwanese Business People Meet Chinese Nationalism
2002	Genevieve Zeitlin	Univeristy of Chicago	“We, the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates”
2001	Chris Bonastia	New York University	“Why Did Affirmative Action in Housing Fail During the Nixon Era? Exploring the Institutional Homes of Social Policies”
2000**	Christopher E. Paul	University of California, Los Angeles	“Moving Forward with State Autonomy and Capacity: Example from two Studies of the Pentagon during WWII”
1999	Bill Winders	Emory University	“The Roller Coaster of Class Conflict: Class Segments, Mass Mobilization, and Voter Turnout in the United States, 1840-1996″
1998	Mathew Krain	Indiana University	“State Sponsored Mass Murder: The Onset and Severity of Genocides and Politicides”
1997	Pam Aronson	University of Minnesota	“Rethinking Political Generations: the Life Course”
	Edward Collom	University of California, Riverside	“Race, Class, and Gender: the Bases of Socialist Beliefs in America”
1995	Wei-Der Shu	Syracuse University	“The Emergence of Nationalism”
1994	Denise Scott	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	“The Power of Connection in corporate Government Relations: a Gendered Perspective”
1993	Tang Nah Ng	Emory University	“The Democratic Transition Model: Debt, Democracy, and Welfare Effect in Four Semi-Peripheral Nations, 1956-1986″
1992	Debra Street	Florida State University	“Maintaining the Status Quo: The Impact of Old Age Interest Groups on the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988”

Affiliation listed at time of award.
** Undergraduate student paper award given.
† Affiliation and paper title withheld by author’s request.