Section Awards and History

Awards- Contributions honored by the section.
Section History - About the origins of the section.

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AWARDS

Barrington Moore Book Award

The section awards the Barrington Moore Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared within two years prior to the year in which they are nominated (i.e. for the 2008 award only books published in 2006, 2007, or 2008 were considered

Section members (including self-nominators) may nominate a book by sending a letter or email to the chair of the Moore prize committee, and should arrange to have the publisher send copies to each of the committee members.

The winner of the 2008 Barrington Moore Award is:

George Steinmetz (Michigan), The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (Chicago, 2007).

Special thanks goes to this year's Barrington Moore Award committee members: Steven Pfaff (Chair, University of Washington), Monica Prasad (Northwestern), and Michael Young (University of Texas at Austin).

Past Barrington Moore Book Award Winners

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: Eikdo 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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Comparative Historical Best Article Award

The section awards this prize every year to the best article in the areas of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared in the two years prior to the year in which they are nominated (i.e. for the 2008 award only articles published in 2006, 2007, or 2008 were considered). Articles may be nominated by authors or by other section members.

Author and non-authors may nominate a book by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee along with a paper copy of the article.

The winner of the 2008 Best Article Award is:

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

Special thanks goes to this year's Best Article Award committee members: Marc Steinberg (Chair, Smith College), Julian Go (Boston University), and Andreas Wimmer (UCLA)

Past Best Article Award Winners

2007 Award

Wimmer, Andreas and Brian Min, 2006. "From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816" 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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Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award

Every year the section presents the Reinhard Bendix Award for the best graduate student paper. Submissions are solicited for papers written by students enrolled in graduate programs at the time the paper was written.

Students may self-nominate their finest work or it may be nominated by their mentors. Author 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 winner of the 2008 Reinhard Bendix Award is:

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

Special thanks goes to this year's Reinhard Bendix Award committee members: Philip Gorski (Chair, Yale University), Vivek Chibber (NYU), and Anna Paretskaya, (New School for Social Research)

Past Best Article Award Winners

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, University of California, 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.

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SECTION HISTORY
Past Council Members
See the Section Information page for current council members.

2006-2007

Chair: William Roy; Chair-Elect: Philip S. Gorski; Past-Chair: Richard Lachman; Sec./Treasurer: Genevieve Zubrzycki; Council: Jeffrey Broadbent; Miguel Centeno; Vivek Chibber; Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas; Mara Loveman; James Mahoney; Newsletter Editor: Monica Prasad; Webmaster: Dylan John Riley.

2005-2006

Chair: Richard Lachman; Chair-Elect: William Roy; Past-Chair: Jeff Goodwin; Sec./Treasurer: Genevieve Zubrzycki; Council: Miguel Centeno; Rebecca Jean Emigh; Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas; Fatma Muge Gocek; Mara Loveman; James Mahoney; Newsletter Editor: Monica Prasad.

2004-2005

Chair: Jeff Goodwin; Chair-Elect: Richard Lachmann; Past-Chair: John R. Hall; Sec./Treasurer: Ming-Cheng Lo; Council: Miguel Centeno; Elisabeth Clemens; Rebecca Jean Emigh; Fatma Muge Goceck; Philip S. Gorski; James Mahoney; Newsletter Editor: Rosemary L. Hopcroft.

2003-2004

Chair: John Hall; Chair-Elect: Jeff Goodwin; Past-Chair: Eiko Ikegami; Sec./Treasurer: Ming-Cheng Lo; Council: Elisabeth Clemens; Rebecca Jean Emigh; Fatma Muge Goceck; Philip S. Gorski; Mark Traugott; Viviana Zelizer; Newsletter Editor: Rosemary L. Hopcroft.

2002-2003

Chair: Eiko Ikegami; Chair-Elect: John Hall; Past-Chair: Margaret Somers; Sec./Treasurer: Ming-Cheng Lo; Council: Mounira M. Charrad; Elisabeth Clemens; Gary Gereffi; Philip S. Gorski; Mark Traugott; Viviana Zelizer; Newsletter Editor: Rosemary L. Hopcroft.

2001-2002

Chair: Margaret Somers; Chair-Elect: Eiko Ikegami; Past-Chair: Charles Ragin; Sec./Treasurer: Anne Kane; Council: Mounira Charrad; Gary Gereffi; Viviana Zelizer; Mark Traugott; William G. Roy; Mabel Berezin; Newsletter Editor: Hans Bakker.

2000-2001

Chair: Charles Ragin; Chair-Elect: Margaret Somers; Past-Chair: Ewa Morawska; Sec./Treasurer: Anne Kane; Council: Mounira Charrad; Frank Dobbin; Gary Gereffi; Jeff Goodwin; William G. Roy; Mabel Berezin; Newsletter Editor: Hans Bakker.

1999-2000

Chair: Ewa Morawska; Chair-Elect: Charles C. Ragin; Past-Chair: David Stark; Sec./Treasurer: Anne Kane; Council: Julia Adams; Michèle Lamont; Frank Dobbin; Jeff Goodwin; William G. Roy; Mabel Berezin; Newsletter Editor: Mathieu Deflem.

1998-1999

Chair: David Stark; Chair-Elect: Ewa Morawska; Past-Chair: John Stephens; Sec/Treasurer: Elisabeth Clemens; Council: Kim Voss; Bruce Carruthers; Julia Adams; Michèle Lamont; Frank Dobbin; Jeff Goodwin; Newsletter Editor: Mathieu Deflem.

1997-1998

Chair: John Stephens; Chair-Elect: David Stark; Past-Chair: Jack A. Goldstone; Sec/Treasurer: Elisabeth Clemens; Council: Edwin Amenta; Karen Barkey; Kim Voss; Bruce Carruthers; Julia Adams; Michèle Lamont; Newsletter Editor: Philip S. Gorski.

1996-1997

Chair: Jack A. Goldstone; Chair-Elect: John Stephens; Sec/Treasurer: Elisabeth Clemens; Council: John R. Hall; Robin Stryker; Edwin Amenta; Karen Barkry; Kim Voss; Bruce Carruthers.

1995-1996

Chair: Andrew Abbott; Sec/Treas: Harland Prechel; Council: John R. Hall; Robin Stryker; Edwin Amenta; Karen Barkry; Kathleen Blee; Rogers Brubaker.

1994-1995

Chair. Andrew Abbott; Sec/Treas: Harland Prechel; Council: John R. Hall; Robin Stryker; Larry Isaac; Ewa Morawaska; Kathleen Blee; Rogers Brubaker.

1993-1994

Chair: Ann Orloff; Sec/Treas: Harland Prechel; Council: Andrew Abbott; Sonya Rose; Larry Isaac; Ewa Morawaska; Kathleen Blee; Rogers Brubaker.

1992-1993

Chair: Ronald Aminzade; Chair-Elect: Ann Orloff; Sec/Treas: David Zaret; Council: Joane Nagel; George Steinmetz; Andrew Abbott; Sonya Rose; Larry Isaac; Ewa Morawaska.

1991-1992

Chair: Ronald Aminzade; Sec/Treas: David Zaret; Council: Pamela B. Walters; Richard Lachman; Joane Nagel; George Steinmetz; Andrew Abbott; Sonya Rose.

1990-1991

Chair: Barbara Lasleft; Chair-Elect: Ronald Aminzade; Sec./Treas.: David Zaret; Council: Michael Kimmel; William Sewell, Jr.; Pamela B. Walters; Richard Lachman; Joane Nagel; George Steinmetz.

1989-1990

Chair: Barbara Laslett; Sec./Treas.: Said Arjornand; Council: William Brustein; Ewa Morawska; Michael Kimmel; William Sewell, Jr.; Pamela B. Walters; Richard Lachman.

1988-1989

Chair: Jill Quadagno; Chair-Elect: Barbara Lasleft; Sec./Treas.: Said Arjornand; Council: Margaret Somers; Viviana Zelizer; William Brustein; Ewa Morawska; Michael Kimmel; William Sewell, Jr.

1987-1988

Chair: Jill Quadagno; Sec./Treas.: Said Arjornand; Council: Jack Goldstone; Craig Jenkins; Margaret Somers; Viviana Zelizer; William Brustein; Ewa Morawska.

1986-1987

Chair: Dietrich Ruescherneyer; Chair-Elect: Jill Quadagno; Sec./Treas.: Gary Hamilton; Council: Barbara Laslett; Theda Skocpol; Jack Goldstone; Craig Jenkins; Margaret Somers; Viviana Zelizer.

1985-1986

Chair: Craig Calhoun; Chair-Elect: Dietrich Ruescherneyer; Sec./Treas.: Gary Hamilton; Council: Ronald Glassman; David Zaret; Barbara Laslett; Theda Skocpol; Jack Goldstone; Craig Jenkins.

1984-1985

Chair: Craig Calhoun; Sec./Treas.: Gary Hamilton; Council: Ronald Aminzade; Ronald Glassman; Barbara Laslett; Theda Skocpol; Mark Traugott; David Zaret.

1983-1984

Chair: Ronald Glassman; Sec./Treas.: Judith Marcus; Council: Robert Antonio; Roslyn Bologh; Edith Kurzweil; Vatro Murvar; Zoltan Tar.

1982-1983

Chair: Ronald Glassman; Secretary: Judith Marcus; Council: Robert Antonio; Roslyn Bologh; Edith Kurzweil; Vatro Murvar; Zoltan Tar.