Category: Awards

Congratulations to the 2024 Section Award winners!

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Comparative-Historical Sociology

CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS

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

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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, and it is 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 current curriculum vitae for the nominee as well as the nominee’s contact information, including their e-mail address. Nominations must be received by all members of the committee by March 31, 2024.

Please note that nominees must have received their Ph.D. no later than 1998. All nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for any section award.

Committee:
Anthony S. Chen (chair), Northwestern University, anthony-chen@northwestern.edu
Angel Adams Parham, University of Virginia, pnh7bj@virginia.edu
Rebecca Jean Emigh, University of California, Los Angeles, Emigh@soc.ucla.edu

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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 award given in 2024, only books published in 2023 or 2022 will be considered). Eligible books must also not have been previously nominated for the Moore Award. Thus, books that were nominated for the 2023 award are not eligible to be considered for the 2024 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 March 15, 2024. 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:
Manuela Boatcă (chair), Universität Freiburg
Email: manuela.boatca@soziologie.uni-freiburg.de
Mailing address: Institut für Soziologie & Global Studies Programme, Rempartstraße 15, D–79085 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Philip Hough, Florida Atlantic University
Email: phough2@fau.edu
Address: Department of Sociology, 777 Glades Road, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL USA 33431

Anna Skarpelis, Queens College in the City University of New York
Email: askarpelis@qc.cuny.edu
Address: Department of Sociology, Powdermaker Hall 252, Office 252M, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, New York, NY 11367

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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 award given in 2024, only articles published in 2022 or 2023 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 March 15, 2024.

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

Committee:
Regina Baker (co-chair), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, rbaker@unc.edu
Robert Braun (co-chair), University of California – Berkeley, robert.braun@berkeley.edu
Marisela Martinez-Cola, Morehouse College, Marisela.Cola@morehouse.edu

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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, 2022 and December 31, 2023.

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.) Both the nominating e-mail and the electronic copy of the nominated dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by March 15, 2023. Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors, or current department chairs; self-nominations are not allowed for this award.

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

Committee:
Alexandre White (Chair), Johns Hopkins University, awhite94@jhmi.edu
Martin Eiermann, Duke University, martin.eiermann@duke.edu
Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa, marina-zaloznaya@uiowa.edu

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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 March 15, 2024. 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:
Luis Flores (chair), Harvard University, luis_flores@hks.harvard.edu
Maryam Alemzadeh, University of Oxford, maryam.alemzadeh@area.ox.ac.uk
Benjamin Abrams, University College London, b.abrams@ucl.ac.uk

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. Committee: Ho-fung Hung (Chair, Johns Hopkins University), Mounira Charrad (University of Texas at Austin) and Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley).

Winner: Jack Goldstone, George Mason University

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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. Committee: Joachim J. Savelsberg (Chair, University of Minnesota), Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan) and Mishal Khan (University of California, Hastings College of Law).

Winner: Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg, Germany) for Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, Cornell University Press.

Honorable Mention: Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University) for At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia, Cambridge University Press.

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Wyrtzen (Yale University) for Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East, Columbia University Press.

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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. Committee: Rebecca Jean Emigh (Chair, University of California Los Angeles), Laura K. Nelson (University of British Columbia) and Yang Zhang (American University).

Co-Winner: Regina S. Baker (University of Pennsylvania) for “The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South.”

Co-Winner: Robert Braun (University of California-Berkeley) for “Bloodlines: National border crossings and antisemitism in Weimar Germany.”

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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. Committee: Fabien Accominotti (Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Andrew Buck (University of Southern Indiana), and Jen Triplett (University of Michigan).

Winner: Luis Flores (University of Michigan) for “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.” 

Honorable Mention: Shilin Jia (University of Chicago) and Benjamin Rohr (University of Mannheim) for “Vacancy Chains as Strategy: Inter-Administration Mobility of Political Elites in Reform China.”  

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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. Committee: Nick Wilson (StonyBrook University), Wan-Zi Lu (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), and Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins University).

Winner: Martin Eiermann for “American Privacy: Diffusion and Institutionalization of an Emerging Political Logic, 1870-1930.”