Past Awards
Distinguished Career Award:
- 2009: Giovanni Arrighi
- 2003: Immanuel Wallerstein
- 1999: Janet Abu-Lughod
- 1997: Andre Gunder Frank
Book Award:
- 2012: Xuefei Ren. 2011. Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- 2011: Bill Winders. 2009. The Politics of Food Supply. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Honorable mention, 2011: Borocz, Jozsef. 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A critical geopolitical-economic analysis. London and New York: Routledge Press.
- 2008: Jennifer Bickham Mendez. 2005. From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua. Durham: Duke University Press.
- 2008: Michael Goldman. 2005. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- 2007: Georgi M. Derluguian. 2005. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- 2007: Saskia Sassen. 2006. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Honorable mention, 2007: Bruce Podobnik. 2005. Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- 2006: Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell. 2005. Globalization and the Race for Resources. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 2006: John Foran. 2005. Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Honorable mention, 2006: Valentine M. Moghadam. 2005. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 2005: John Talbot. 2004.Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2004: Beverly J. Silver. 2003. Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2003: Lauren Benton. 2002. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2002: Denis O'Hearn. 2001. The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- 2001: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver. 1999. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- 2001: Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000. The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Towards Global Democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
- 2000: Andre Gunder Frank. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University Of California Press.
- Honorable mention, 2000: Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. 1997. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Boulder: Westview Press.
- 1999: Stark, David and Laszlo Bruszt. 1998. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1998: Paige, Jeffery. 1997. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- 1997: Robinson, William I. 1996. Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- 1996: Evans, Peter B. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- 1995: Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times. London: Verso.
- 1994: Foran, John. 1993. Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- 1993: Suter, Christian. 1992. Debt Cycles in the World_Economy: Foreign Loans, Financial Crises, and Debt Settlements, 1820_1990. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- 1992: Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1989. Global Formation: Structures of the World_Economy. London: Basil Blackwell. (Reprinted 1998, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).
- 1991: Tomich, Dale W. 1990. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.1990.
- 1990: Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1989. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 1989: Bunker, Stephen. 1987. Peasants Against the State. Champagne Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (Reprinted in paper, 1991 University of Chicago Press)
Article Award:
- 2012: Hung, Ho-fung and Jaime Kucinskas. 2011. “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980–2005.” American Journal of Sociology: 116:5:1478-1513.
- 2011: Dunaway, Wilma. 2010. “Nonwaged Peasants in the Modern World-System: African Households as Dialectical Units of Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Resistance, 1890-1930.” The Journal of Philosophical Economics: 4:1:19-57.
- Honorable mention, 2011: Hall, Thomas. 2009. “Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications.” Journal of World-Systems Research:15:1:25-47.
- Honorable mention, 2011: Sanderson, Matthew and Jeffrey Kentor. 2009. “Globalization, Development and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000.” Social Forces: 88:1:301-336.
- Honorable mention, 2011: Moore, Jason. 2010. “Amsterdam is Standing On Norway.” Journal of Agrarian Change:10:1:33-68 and 10:2:188-227.
- 2009: Leslie Gates: “Theorizing Business Power in the Semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000” in Theory and Society, 38:57-95 (2009).
- 2008: No award made.
- 2006: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran: "Theorizing the Relationship between Inequality and Economic Growth" in Theory and Society, 34, 277-316 (2005).
- 2004: Ho-fung Hung: "Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conception of East-West Differences from 1600 to1900" in Sociological Theory, 21 (3: September), 2003.
- 2002: Jason W. Moore: "Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective" in Organization and Environment, 13 (2:June), 123-157, 2000.
- 2000: No Award Given
- 1998: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran: "World-Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1965-1992" in American Journal of Sociology 102 (4): 1000-1039, 1997.
- 1996: Beverly Silver: "Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measurement," and "World Scale Patterns of Labor-Conflict" both in Review 18:1(Winter) 1995.
Terrence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
- 2011: Austin, Kelly. 2010. “Soybean Exports and Deforestation from a World-Systems Perspective.” The Sociological Quarterly:51:511-536.
Terrence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award:
- 2007: No award made.
- 2005: Chris Kollmeyer: Globalization and Class Compromise: Political Change in 15 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1980-1999. University of California-Santa Barbara, 2003.
- 2003: Jon D. Carlson: The Expanding World-System and the Roots of Globalization. Arizona State University, 2002.
- 2001: Teivo Teivainen: Enter Economy, Exit Politics: Transnational Politics of Economism and Limits to Democracy in Peru. University of Helsinki, 2000
- 1999: Kenneth Barr: The Metamorphosis of Business Enterprise. State University of New York, Binghamton, 1999.
- 1996: Edward McCaughan: Global Change and Paradigm Crisis: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexcio. University of California, Santa Cruz 1995.
- 1994: Wilma A. Dunaway: The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World-Economy, 1700-1860 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1994.