The Section on Political Sociology’s Distinguished Career in Political Sociology Award
YEAR | WINNER(S) | AFFILIATION* | COMMITTEE |
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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 at University of Texas at Austin (chair); Jeff Manza at New York University; Debra Minkoff at Barnard |
2018 | Theda Skocpol | Harvard University | Thomas Janowski at Univesity of Kentucky (chair) and Richard Lachmann at SUNY Albany |
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award
YEAR | AUTHOR(S) | AFFILIATION* | TITLE | |
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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 |
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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 & UCLA | 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 & UCLA | “'Red' Unions and 'Bourgeois' Contracts?” |
Graduate Student Award
YEAR | AUTHOR(S) | AFFILIATION* | TITLE |
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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 | Hassan El Menyawi | New York University | “The Great Reversal” |
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 | U. C. 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 | UC 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 | U Mass-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, 1959-1986” |
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 |
* At time of award.
** Undergraduate student paper award given.