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Call for Nominations: 2019 Political Sociology Section Awards

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You are invited to submit your nominations for the 2019 Political Sociology Section Awards. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2019:

The Distinguished Career Award in Political Sociology
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2019.

The Distinguished Career Award recognizes and celebrates a lifetime of contributions to the area(s) of political sociology. Nominations will be judged on the depth and breadth of the scholar’s impact on political sociology over the course of their career. Nominees must be at least a quarter of a century beyond graduating with their Ph.D. Section members may nominate a distinguished scholar by sending:

A letter (PDF or MSWord) of nomination, which outlines the candidate’s scholarly contributions to the field and provides assurance of the candidate’s willingness to be nominated; a copy of the candidate’s most recent curriculum vitae; and
the full contact information for the nominee (including email address), to the nominating committee below:
The Distinguished Career Award Committee:
Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin (Chair) ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu
Jeff Manza, New York University manza@nyu.edu
Debra Minkoff, Barnard College dminkoff@barnard.edu

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award in Political Sociology
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2019.

This award is given annually to the outstanding recent book in political sociology (we will not consider edited books for this award). To be eligible, the book must have a 2018 copyright date. The selection committee encourages self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. Nominations from publishers will not be accepted. To nominate a book for this award:

Send a short letter (via e-mail) nominating the book to each committee member below and have a copy of the book sent to each committee member, at the addresses below:
Hana Brown, Wake Forest University (Chair)
brownhe@wfu.edu
Department of Sociology
1834 Wake Forest Rd.
PO Box 7808
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Cybelle Fox, University of California Berkeley
cfox@berkeley.edu
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980

Paul Frymer, Princeton University
pfrymer@Princeton.EDU
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
314 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings allowing presses to advertise the prize-winning book.

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2019.

This award is offered annually for the outstanding recently published article or chapter in political sociology. To be eligible, submissions must have a 2018 publication date. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. (Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.) Please submit the following to the selection committee at their email addresses listed below:

A brief nomination letter and a copy of the article or chapter.
The Best Article or Book Chapter Award Committee:
G. Cristina Mora, University of California, Berkeley (Chair) gcristinamora2@gmail.com
Jennifer YJ Hsu, London School of Economics and Political Science jenniferhsu@cantab.net
Nicholas Pedriana University of Wisconsin – Whitewater pedriann@uww.edu
Robin Stryker, Purdue University Stryker, rstryker@purdue.edu

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Call for Papers: 2019 Political Sociology Mini-Conference

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States of Exception? Political Conflict, Culture & Populism in the Trump Era

Friday, August 9, 2019 in New York City

The ASA Political Sociology section is pleased to announce a mini-conference to be held prior to the ASA annual meeting in August. The morning sessions will center on populist politics, examining the rise of populist leaders and how they have transformed the political landscape, considering cases such as Donald Trump, Brexit populists Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico. The afternoon sessions will have a number of open panels, depending on submissions. We welcome papers on topics related to the historical rise of labor, political parties, gender and/or race politics, immigration issues, the media in politics, social movements, and other topics related to the current political situation. We similarly welcome papers that take a comparative and/or historical perspective, or that investigate questions in other countries going through challenging political processes.

In order for the organizers to read the abstracts and shape the sessions for the conference, please send your abstracts to us by February 1st, 2019. Please submit your abstracts to the panel organizer who fits your paper topic.

PANEL 1: “What is Trump’s base and will it hold in the long term?” Delia Baldassarri, Organizer, delia.b@nyu.edu

PANEL 2: “The Politics of Fear and Resentment: Nationalist Appeals in the Trump Era,” Bart Bonikowski, Organizer, bonikowski@fas.harvard.edu

PANEL 3: “The Trump style of populism, and how it compares to populists in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere,”Carlos de la Torre, Organizer, c.delatorre@uky.edu

PANEL 4: “Trump and the European Populists: Authoritarians, Just Showy Neo-Liberals, or Both?” Richard Lachmann, Organizer, rlachmann@albany.edu

OPEN SUBMISSIONS: The afternoon panels will be organized by the themes that emerge from the submissions. Please submit your abstracts to Thomas Janoski, Organizer, tjanos@uky.edu

Conference participants and attendees will be asked to contribute a participation fee of $25 for faculty and $15 for students to cover incidentals and a small lunch. We look forward to seeing you in New York!

Four Lecturer/AP Positions at Sheffield University, UK

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The Department of Politics at Sheffield University is hiring up to 4 (four) lecturers – the UK equivalent of assistant professors – with a starting date of Sept. 1, 2018. Applications are due March 16. You can find out more about the department here. For information about the openings, please email Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky at l.stampnitzky@sheffield.ac.uk

 

Candidates for ASA Section Leadership

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Below are the nominations for each elected office in the section. Many thanks to Caroline Lee and Richard Lachmann for their work on the nominations committee. The candidates in alphabetical order by last names are as follows:
 
Chair (elect 1)
Bart Bonikowski, Harvard
Richard Lachmann, SUNY Albany
 
Council (elect 2)
Rachel Best, University of Michigan
David Brady, University of California, Riverside
Daniel Laurison, Swarthmore
Jeremy Levine, University of Michigan
Anthony Spires, University of Melbourne
 
Treasurer (elect 1)
Stephanie Mudge, University of California, Davis
Rima Wilkes, University of British Columbia

Section Awards, Committees, and Deadlines

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The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award in Political Sociology:

The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.

This award is given annually to the outstanding recent book in political sociology (we will not consider edited books for this award). To be eligible, the book must have a 2017 copyright date. The selection committee encourages self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. Nominations from publishers will not be accepted. To nominate a book for this award:

(1) Send a short letter (via e-mail) nominating the book to each committee member below and

(2) Have a copy of the book sent to each committee member, at the addresses below.

 

Chair: Jennifer Hsu, jhsu@ualberta.ca

Visiting Fellow, Department of Social Policy

2nd Floor, Old Building

London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Street,

London WC2A 2AE UK

 

Cristian Mora, cmora@berkeley.edu

410 Barrows Hall

Sociology Department

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1980 USA

 

Xiaohong Xu socxuxh@nus.edu.sg

Department of Sociology, AS1 #04-18

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

National University of Singapore

Singapore 117570

 

Meghan Kallman, Meghan_Kallman@umb.edu

93 Capwell Ave

Pawtucket, RI 02860. USA

 

Rima Wilkes, wilkesr@mail.ubc.ca

Department of Sociology

University of British Columbia

6303 NW Marine Drive

Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1 Canada

 

Nick Wilson, Yale University, nicholas.wilson@stonybrook.edu

Department of Sociology

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

 

The winner will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings allowing presses to advertise the prize-winning book.

 

The Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article or Chapter Award for Political Sociology. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.

This award is offered annually for the outstanding recently published article or chapter in political sociology. To be eligible, submissions must have a 2017 publication date. The selection committee encourages either self-nominations or suggestions of work by others. (Please note that each author may have only one article nominated.) Please submit the following to the selection committee at their email addresses listed below:

(1) A brief nomination letter and

(2) A copy of the article or chapter.

The Best Article or Book Chapter Award Committee:

Chair: Elizabeth Popp Berman, University at Albany, SUNY, epberman@albany.edu

Dana Fisher, University of Maryland, drfisher@umd.edu

Paul Chang, Harvard University, paulchang@fas.harvard.edu

Joseph Harris, Boston University, josephh@bu.edu

David Jacobs, Ohio State University, Jacobs.184@osu.edu

The winners will be notified and announced prior to the ASA meetings.

 

Best Graduate Student Paper Award. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2018.

This award is offered annually for the best graduate student paper in political sociology. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2017 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Articles co-authored (and/or subsequently published jointly) by a faculty and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one article nominated. Please submit:

(1) A brief nomination letter,

(2) A copy of the article or chapter

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