Category: Announcements

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

We are soliciting content for our next issue of
Trajectories.  We are interested in 3 categories:

1)    If you are beginning or in the middle of a dissertation, please
write us and tell us about it;

2)    If you are a graduate student on the market, please take the
opportunity to tell us about yourself and your job aspirations

3)    Lastly, any other member who has news:  new job, new
publication; new projects—send us a brief description as if you were
running into us at an ASA cocktail party.  July 25 is the latest for
this content.

COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL AWARD NOMINATIONS CALLS

Global Note: All nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for section awards.

IBN KHALDUN DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD    

The section presents the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award every year in order to recognize a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. This is one of the most celebrated awards given by the section presented only to scholars of the utmost distinction.

To nominate someone for the award, please send a letter of nomination to the award committee below. The letter should briefly discuss the significance and impact of the nominee on the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. Please also provide the most recent curriculum vitae for the nominee as well as the nominee’s contact information, including their e-mail address.  All members of the committee must receive nominations by February 15, 2021.

Please note that nominees must have received their Ph.D. no later than 1994. All nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:
Andreas Wimmer (Chair), Columbia, andreas.wimmer@columbia.edu
Julian Go, University of Chicago,  jgo34@uchicago.edu
Philip Gorski, Yale, philip.gorski@yale.edu
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University, m-prasad@northwestern.edu
 

BARRINGTON MOORE BOOK AWARD

The section presents the Barrington Moore Book Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative-historical sociology. 

To be eligible for consideration, nominated books must have been published in one of the two years immediately prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the 2021 award only books published in 2019 or 2020 will be considered). Eligible books must also not have been previously nominated for the Moore Award. Thus, books that were nominated for the 2020 award are not eligible to be considered for the 2021 award. 

To nominate a book for the Moore Award, please send an email to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, publisher, and publication date of the book you wish to nominate. Please make arrangements for each member of the committee to receive a copy of the book by February 15, 2021. The nominating e-mail and the nominated book must be received by each member of the committee by this deadline. Books may be nominated by their authors or by other scholars, but not by publishing houses. Letters of nomination are not required.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award, and winners of the Moore Award are expected to be members of the comparative-historical sociology section at the time the award is presented.

Committee:
Stephanie Lee Mudge (Chair), University of California-Davis,  mudge@ucdavis.edu
Mailing Address:  1318 Cassel Ln, Davis, CA 95616

Robert Braun, University of California-Berkeley,  robert.braun@berkeley.edu
Mailing Address:  1931 McGee Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703

Angel Parham, Loyola University- New Orleans  aaparham@loyno.edu
Mailing Address:  2416 S. Derbigny St. New Orleans,LA 70125

CHARLES TILLY ARTICLE AWARD

The section presents the Charles Tilly Article Award every year to the best article in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. 

To be eligible for consideration, nominated articles must have been published in one of the two years immediately prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the 2021 award only articles published in 2019 or 2020 will be considered). 

To nominate an article for the Tilly Award, please send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, journal, and publication date of the article that you wish to nominate, and it should also attach a PDF of the article. The nominating e-mail and PDF of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2021.

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:
Shamus Khan (Chair) , Columbia University, sk2905@columbia.edu
Eddy U, University of California, Davis eu@ucdavis.edu
Alexander Kentikelenis, Bocconi University, Milan alexander.kentikelenis@unibocconi.it

THEDA SKOCPOL DISSERTATION AWARD

The section presents the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award every year to the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative-historical sociology. 

To be eligible for consideration, nominated dissertations must have been defended and filed between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020. 

To nominate a dissertation, please send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author, title, and filing year of the dissertation that you wish to nominate, and it should briefly discuss the strengths and contributions of the dissertation. An electronic copy of the dissertation must also be sent to each member of the award committee. (For dissertations that are too large to send over email, please e-mail the committee members a durable link to a downloadable version of the dissertation.) The nominating e-mail and the electronic copy of the nominated dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2021.  Dissertation chairs, advisors, or current department chairs may nominate dissertations.  Self-nominations are not permitted for this award. 

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:
Lyn Spillman (Chair), University of Notre Dame Lynette.P.Spillman.1@nd.edu
Tad Skotnicki, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,  tpskotni@uncg.edu
Lotesta, Johnnie Anne, Harvard University, Ash Center, johnnie_lotesta@hks.harvard.edu
 

REINHARD BENDIX STUDENT PAPER AWARD

The section presents the Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award every year to the best graduate student paper in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. 

To be eligible for consideration, nominated papers must have been written by students enrolled in a graduate program at the time the paper was written. Both published and unpublished papers are eligible. 

To nominate a paper, authors and/or mentors should send an e-mail to each member of the award committee. The e-mail should indicate the author and title of the paper, and it should attach a PDF of the article. The e-mail and the nominated paper must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2021. Students may self-nominate their finest work, or a paper may be nominated by a student’s mentors. 

Please note that all nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee: 
Jonathan Wyrtzen (Chair), Yale University, jonathan.wyrtzen@yale.edu
Maryam Alemzadeh, Princeton, ma40@princeton.edu
Simeon J. Newman, Michigan, simnew@umich.edu
 

The Committee on ASA Presidential Biographies (CAPB) seeks contributions for a revision of the biographies of the Association’s more than one hundred former presidents, available on its website: https://www.asanet.org/about-asa/asa-story/asa-history/past-asa-officers/presidents 

The Online Presidential Biographies are one of the tools that the Association uses to remember the history of the discipline and to present it to the public. In order to close gaps in the existing record and to bring the biographies up to date with recent scholarship, the Committee seeks single- or co-authored biographies that meet scholarly standards, while written in a publicly accessible style. Contributions shall not exceed 900 words, plus a select bibliography of original and secondary sources.  

The revision of the biographies will be carried out in several waves. For the current inaugural wave, proposals are solicited for biographies of the presidents serving from 1906 to 1938. Prospective authors are asked to submit a short letter of interest and a CV by November 9, 2020. If available, although not absolutely necessary, previous publications dealing with the president in question or the relevant time period should be highlighted. Applicants will be informed about the decision by January 22, 2021. 

All contributing authors will be provided with publication guidelines in order to ensure consistency in style. The completed biographies are due nine months after the receipt of the acceptance letter and are subject to a final editorial review by the committee prior to publication on the ASA website. All biographies will list the name of the author(s). 

You can read the Footnotes article detailing the genesis of this project here. 

For further questions and to submit proposals, please contact the chair of the Committee, Stefan Bargheer: bargheer@soc.ucla.edu 

Committee on ASA Presidential Biographies (CAPB): 

Stefan Bargheer (chair) 

Kevin Anderson  

Kerby Goff 

Bradley Nash, Jr. 

David Swartz 

Joyce E. Williams