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