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 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 2010 award only books published in 2008 or 2009 will be considered). 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 chair of the Moore prize committee. 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 of nomination to the Moore prize committee and making arrangements for each member of the Moore prize committee to receive a copy. Nominations must be received by February 15, 2010 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Ivan Ermakoff (chair)
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
8128 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
ermakoff@ssc.wisc.edu

Karen Barkey
Columbia University
Department of Sociology
MC 9649
New York, NY 10027
kb7@columbia.edu

Elisabeth Clemens
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
clemens@uchicago.edu

Past Barrington Moore Book Award Winners

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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COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL 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 within two years prior to the year in which they are nominated (i.e. for the 2010 award only articles published in 2008 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, 2010 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Jeff Haydu
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
jhaydu@ucsd.edu

Cedric de Leon
Department of Sociology
Providence College
Providence, Rhode Island 02918
cdeleon@providence.edu

Ho-fung Hung
Department of Sociology
Indiana University
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue, BH 758
Bloomington, IN 47405
hofung@indiana.edu

Past Best Article Award Winners

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

For the first time in 2010, the section will present the Theda Skocpol Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Eligible dissertations must have been defended and filed between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009.

Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors or current department chairs. We ask that each nomination letter include a 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 the chair of the committee, Mabel Berezin, with a printed copy of the dissertation and sending an electronic copy as a compressed zip file or cd to the other members. Please do not send uncompressed attachments by e-mail. Both the nominating letter and the dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2010 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:

Mabel Berezin (Chair)
Department of Sociology
346 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-7601
mmb39@cornell.edu

Jeffrey Broadbent
Department of Sociology
909 Social Science Building
University of Minnesota
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
broad001@umn.edu

Julian Go
Department of Sociology
Boston University
96 Cummington St.
Boston, MA 02215
juliango@bu.edu

John R. Hall
Department of Sociology
University of California at Davis
1 Shields Avenue
Davis CA 95616
jrhall@ucdavis.edu

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REINHARD BENDIX STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Every year the section presents the Reinhard Bendix Award for 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.

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 letter and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2010 to be considered.

The members of the committee are:

Isaac Martin (Chair)
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
iwmartin@dssmail.ucsd.edu

Simone Polillo
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4766
sp4ft@virginia.edu

Ateş Altinordu
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
Yale University
P.O. Box 208265
New Haven, CT 06520-8265
ates.altinordu@yale.edu

Past Bendix Award Winners

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.