Section Awards
2012 Section Award nominations are now being accepted. Nominate a member today!
2011 Section Awards
Distinguished Career Award
John W. Meyer
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Stanford University
Award committee: Salvatore Babones, Terence Halliday, and Hwaji Shin
Best Scholarly Book Award
Sarah Babb
Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
and
Susan Eva Eckstein
The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the US and their Homeland (Routledge, 2009)
Award committee: Julia P. Adams, Alex Hicks, and Ann Hironaka
Best Scholarly Article Award
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
“Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305 (2009)
and
David John Frank, Bayliss J. Camp, and Stephen A. Boutcher
“Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005,” American Sociological Review 75: 867-93 (2010)
Award committee: Katja M. Guenther, Heather Hurwitz, and Andrew Kent Jorgenson
Best Publication Award by an International Scholar
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
“Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305 (2009)
Award committee: Sara Curran, Matt Mathias, and Miriam Abu Sharkh
Best Publication by a Graduate Student
Min Zhou
“Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000,” Social Forces 88: 1619-43 (2010)
Award committee: Colin Beck, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, and Rachel Sullivan Robinson
2010 (Inaugural!) Section Awards
The ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of this year’s section awards. We will introduce the honorees and their work at the business meeting in Atlanta. Congratulations to all! For the award committees’ explanations of their decisions, and descriptions of the winners’ works, see: SGTS.awards2010.pdf.