Section Awards

Barrington Moore Book Award
Best Article Award
Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award
Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award

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BARRINGTON MOORE BOOK AWARD

The section presents the Barrington Moore Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have been published during the two years prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the 2012 award only books published in 2010 or 2011 will be considered). Books may be nominated only once for this prize. Thus, books nominated last year cannot be considered again for the 2013 award.

Books may be nominated by authors or by other section members. Non-authors may nominate a book by sending a letter or email to the prize committee members. Non-authors should ask authors to arrange to have the book sent to each member of the committee. Authors may nominate their book by sending a letter or email to the prize committee members and making arrangements for each member to receive a copy. Nominations must be received by February 15, 2013 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Richard Lachmann (chair)
Department of Sociology
SUNY Albany
1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences
351 University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
rlachmann@albany.edu

Stefan Bargheer
Department of Sociology
UCLA
264 Haines Hall
375 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
bargheer@soc.ucla.edu

Gurminder Bhambra
Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL UK
G.K.Bhambra@warwick.ac.uk

Past Barrington Moore Book Award Winners

2012 Award

Winner: Yang Su, 2011. Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Honorable Mention: Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, 2011. Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Honorable Mention: James Mahoney, 2010. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.

2011 Award

Winner: David Garland, 2010. Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Honorable Mention: Dan Slater, 2010. Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press.

2010 Award

Winner: Andrew G. Walder, 2009. Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Honorable Mention: Marion Fourcade, 2009. Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Honorable Mention: Chad Alan Goldberg, 2008. Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2009 Award

Co-Winner: Karen Barkey, 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Co-Winner: Ivan Ermakoff, 2008. Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2008 Award

George Steinmetz, 2007. The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2007 Award

Monica Prasad, 2006. The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2006 Award

Winner: Michael Mann, 2005. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Honorable Mention: Eiko Ikegami, 2005. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press.

2005 Award

Winner: Vivek Chibber, 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Honorable Mention: Wood, Elisabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.

2004 Award

Winner: Gorski, Philip S. 2003. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Honorable Mention: Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer, 2003. Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

2002 Award

Winner: Mahoney, James. 2001. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Honorable Mention: Lachmann, Richard. 2000. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press.

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CHARLES TILLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD

The section awards this prize every year to the best article in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared during two years prior to the year of the award (i.e. for the 2011 award only articles published in 2010 or 2009 will be considered).

Authors or other members of the section may nominate an article by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee along with a paper copy of the article. The letter and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2013 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Isaac A. Reed (chair)
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado-Boulder
UCB 327
Boulder, CO 80309
Isaac.Reed@Colorado.EDU

Krishan Kumar
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4766
kk2d@virginia.edu

Aaron Major
Dept. of Sociology
SUNY-Albany
1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences
351 University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
amajor@albany.edu

Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
asantana@fas.harvard.edu

Past Charles Tilly Article Award Winners

2012 Award

Winner: Nicolas Hoover Wilson, 2011. "From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, circa 1770-1855." American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1437-77.

Honorable Mention: Hazem Kandil, 2011. "Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian Counterhegemonic Strategies." Theory and Society 40(1):37-62.

2011 Award

Co-Winner: Danielle Kane and Jung Mee Park, 2009. "The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia." American Journal of Sociology 115(2):365-404.

Co-Winner: Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein, 2010. "The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001." American Sociological Review 75(5):764-790.

2010 Award

Winner: Dan Slater, 2009. "Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia." American Journal of Sociology 115(1):203-254.

2009 Award

Winner: Cedric de Leon, 2008. "'No Bourgeois Mass Party, No Democracy': The Missing Link in Barrington Moore's American Civil War." Political Power and Social Theory 19: 39-82.

Honorable Mention: Ho-fung Hung, 2008. "Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited." American Sociological Review 73: 569-88.

Honorable Mention: Liliana Riga, 2008. "The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the 'Russian' Revolutionary Elite." American Journal of Sociology 114: 649-705.

2008 Award

John F. Padgett and Paul D. McLean, "Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence," American Journal of Sociology, 111(5) (March 2006): 1463-568.

2007 Award

Wimmer, Andreas and Brian Min, 2006. "From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001." American Sociological Review 71:867-897.

2006 Award

Winner: Prasad, Monica. 2005. "Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981." American Journal of Sociology 111(2): 357-407.

Honorable Mention: Ari Adut, 2005. "A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde." American Journal of Sociology 111(1): 213-248.

2005 Award

Steinberg, Marc. 2003. "Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law." American Journal of Sociology 109: 445-495.

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THEDA SKOCPOL DISSERTATION AWARD

The section presents the Theda Skocpol Award every year to the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Eligible dissertations must have been defended and filed between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012.

Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors or current department chairs. We ask that each nomination letter include a brief discussion of the specific strengths and contributions of the dissertation. Self-nominations are not allowed for this award. Dissertations may be nominated by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee. Authors are then responsible for providing each member of the committee with a printed copy of the dissertation. Both the nominating letter and the dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2013 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Colin Beck (Chair)
Pomona College
Sociology
420 N. Harvard Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
colin.beck@pomona.edu

Erin Murphy
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
State Route 157
Edwardsville, IL 62026
ermurph@siue.edu

Ben Herzog
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
bherzog@wcfia.harvard.edu

Past Skocpol Award Winners

2012 Award

Winner: Stephan Bargheer, 2011. "Moral Entanglements: the Emergence and Transformation of Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1790-2010." Ph.D. Dissertation, Sociology, University of Chicago. (Dissertation Chair: Andrew Abbott.)

Honorable Mention: Damon Maryl, 2011. "Secular Conversions: Politics, Institutions, and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000." Ph.D. Dissertation, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. (Dissertation Chair: Margaret Weir.)

2011 Award

Winner: Robert S. Jansen, 2009. "Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective." Ph.D. Dissertation, Sociology, UCLA. (Dissertation Chair: Rogers Brubaker.)

Honorable Mention: Besnik Pula, 2011. "State, Law and Revolution: Agrarian Power and the National State in Albania, 1850-1945." Ph.D. Dissertation, Sociology, University of Michigan. (Dissertation Chair: George P. Steinmetz.)

2010 Award

Dan Lainer-Vos, 2009. "Nationalism in Action: The Construction of Irish and Zionist Transatlantic National Networks." Ph.D. Dissertation, Sociology, Columbia University. (Dissertation Chair: Gil Eyal.)

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REINHARD BENDIX STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The section presents the Reinhard Bendix Award every year to the best graduate student paper in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Submissions are solicited for papers written by students enrolled in graduate programs at the time the paper was written. Both published and unpublished papers will be considered.

Students may self-nominate their finest work or it may be nominated by their mentors. Authors and mentors may nominate a paper by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee along with a paper copy of the article. The letter and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2013 to be considered.

The members of the committee are:

Nina Bandelj (chair)
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
4263 Social Science Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
nbandelj@uci.edu

Claire Decoteau
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
4112 Behavioral Sciences Building
1007 West Harrison Street (MC 312)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7140
decoteau@uic.edu

Matthew Norton
Department of Sociology
1291 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1291
mnorton@uoregon.edu

Nicholas Hoover Wilson
British Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center
for International and Area Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208206
New Haven CT 06520-8206
n.wilson@yale.edu

Past Bendix Award Winners

2012 Award

Co-Winner: Carly Knight (Harvard). "A Voice but Not a Vote: The Case of Surrogate Representation and Social Welfare For Legal Noncitizens Since 1996."

Co-Winner: Diana Rodriguez-Francoz (Northwestern). "Internal Wars, Taxation, and State Building."

2011 Award

Winner: Joshua Bloom (UCLA). "Insurgent Influence on Truman's Civil Rights Policy: A Theoretically Informed Event Structure Analysis."

Honorable Mention: Josh Pacewicz (University of Chicago). "Old Factions, New Partnerships: How the Changing Integration of Economic and Civil Institutions Produces Avoidance of Partisan Politics in Local Life."

2010 Award

Winner: Anoulak Kittikhoun (CUNY Graduate Center, Political Science), 2009. "Small State, Big Revolution: Geography and the Revolution in Laos." Theory and Society 38(1).

Honorable Mention: Bart Bonikowski (Princeton), "Shared Representations of the Nation-State in Thirty Countries: An Inductive Approach to Cross-National Attitudinal Research."

2009 Award

Winner: Ateº Altinordu (Yale), "The Politicization of Religion: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparison."

Honorable Mention: Wesley Hiers (UCLA), "The Colonial Roots of Racialized Polities."

2008 Award

Besnik Pula (Michigan), "The Informal Road to State Power: State Building in the Albanian Highlands, 1919-1939."

2007 Award

Anna Paretskaya (The New School), “Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in Late Soviet Union.”

2006 Award

Amy Kate Bailey (University of Washington), "Fertility and Revolution: When Does Political Change Influence Reproductive Behavior?"

2005 Award

Winner: Tammy Smith (Columbia University), "Narrative Networks and the Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation"

Honorable Mention: Martin Kreidl (University of California-Los Angeles), "Politics and Secondary School Tracking in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989" European Sociological Review (2004) 20: 123-139.

2004 Award

Winner: Scott Leon Washington (Princeton University), "Principles of Racial Taxonomy."

Honorable Mention: Jason W. Moore (Berkeley, Geography), "The Modern World System as Environmental History? Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism." Theory and Society (June 2003) 32, pp. 307-377.

2003 Award

Ho-fung Hung. 2003. “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900.” Sociological Theory. Vol. 21, No. 3. 254-79.