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 2012 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, 2012 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Bart Bonikowski (chair)
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
636 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
bonikowski@fas.harvard.edu

Enrique Pumar
Department of Sociology
The Catholic University of America
Aquinas Hall 116 D
Washington, DC 20064
pumar@cua.edu

John Torpey
Department of Sociology
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
jtorpey@gc.cuny.edu

Melissa Wilde
7122 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI, 53706
mwilde@sas.upenn.edu

Past Barrington Moore Book Award Winners

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 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 2012 award only articles published in 2010 or 2011 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, 2012 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Greta Krippner (Chair)
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
4146 LSA Building
500 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
krippner@umich.edu

Danielle Kane
Duke University
200Q Art Building
Box 90025
Durham, NC 27708
dck8@duke.edu

Dylan Riley
University of California
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall (1980)
Berkeley, California 94720-1980
riley@berkeley.edu

Past Charles Tilly Article Award Winners

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, 2010 and December 31, 2011.

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, 2012 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Josh Pacewicz (Chair)
30 Alta Road
IRiSS
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
pacewicz@stanford.edu

Anisha Datta
Department of Sociology
Brandon University
270-18th Street
Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9
dattaa@brandonu.ca

Robert Jansen
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
4209 LSA Building
500 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Mi 48109-1382
rsjansen@umich.edu

Carly Schall
Department of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
PMB 351811
Nashville, TN 37235-1811
carly.e.schall@vanderbilt.edu

Past Skocpol Award Winners

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, 2012 to be considered.

The members of the committee are:

Matt Sanderson (Chair)
Kansas State University
Department of Sociology
204 Waters Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
mattrs@ksu.edu

Amy Bailey
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
0730 Old Main Hill
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0730
amy.bailey@usu.edu

Stefan Bargheer
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
*Stefan requests that you send him an electronic copy.
sbargheer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Paul McLean
Department of Sociology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
26 Nichol Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
pmclean@sociology.rutgers.edu

Past Bendix Award Winners

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: Ateş 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.