Category: Call for Papers

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 

Online Colloquium: 26-27 November 2020 / Colloque en ligne : les 26 et 27 novembre 2020

Organized by the University of Québec in Montréal and the University of Ottawa / Organisé par l’Université du Québec à Montréal et l’Université d’Ottawa 

Please complete this form (link below) by 15 September 2020 to submit your abstract to the colloquium / Veuillez remplir ce formulaire (lien ci-dessous) avant le 15 septembre 2020 pour soumettre une proposition de communication au colloque

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchCjrxxEgGh8ZT1qID6KDWe55Lh1dtZF7hOP4ijH5rYVrg3A/viewform?usp=sf_link

For questions / Pour toute question : colloquepopulisme2020@gmail.com

Frédérick Guillaume Dufour (UQÀM), Efe Peker (uOttawa), Djamila Mones (UQÀM)

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DESCRIPTION

As the early twenty-first century witnessed a global upsurge in populist politics, the social scientific study of the phenomenon has also gained a renewed interest. Although the concept has been in use since the late nineteenth century, and it received steadily more academic attention since the 1960s, it is only with the recent political upsurge that populism became a widely used—though often poorly defined—reference point in public debates, which creates new challenges as well as opportunities for social scientific analysis. Rising up to the task, a growing yet fragmented body of populism scholarship today focuses on the multiple aspects the phenomenon as ideology, mobilization strategy, political style, sociocultural response, or economic policy, to name a few.

This multidisciplinary and bilingual colloquium invites social scientists of diverse fields to submit their works that contribute to the study of populism. The colloquium will feature theoretical pieces as well as empirical case studies and comparative works that advance the understanding of populism, both right-wing and left-wing, across the global North-South divide. Submissions may include themes such as the following:

• Populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism

• Right-wing and left-wing populisms

• Theories and varieties of populism

• Populist performance and style

• Populist leadership and mobilization

• Race, gender, and class in populist politics

• Populism and political economy

• Religion and culture in populist mobilization

• Populism and democratic backsliding

• Populism and science

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DESCRIPTION

Alors que le début du vingt-et-unième siècle est le théâtre d’une croissance globale de la politique populiste, l’étude du phénomène en sciences sociales suscite également un intérêt renouvelé. Bien que le concept de populisme ait été utilisé depuis la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, et qu’il ait reçu une attention plus systématique depuis les années 1960, ce n’est que récemment que son utilisation s’est généralisée, souvent au détriment de sa précision conceptuelle. Il en découle des nouveaux défis et des nouvelles opportunités pour les sciences sociales. C’est dans ce contexte que nous assistons à l’émergence de différents nouveaux programmes sur le populisme en tant qu’idéologie, que stratégie de mobilisation, que style politique, que réponses socioculturelles et que politiques économiques, pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns.

Ce colloque multidisciplinaire et bilingue invite les chercheurs en sciences sociales de différents horizons à soumettre leurs travaux de recherche portant sur le populisme. Le colloque proposera des présentations théoriques, des études de cas empiriques et des études comparatives qui contribuent à notre compréhension du populisme de droite, comme de gauche, au Nord, comme au Sud. Les propositions de communication portant sur les thèmes suivants sont particulièrement bienvenues :

• Populisme, nationalisme et autoritarisme

• Populismes de gauche et de droite

• Explications théoriques de la variation du populisme

• Style et performance populiste

• Leadership et mobilisations populistes

• Race, genre et classe dans le politique populiste

• Économie politique du populisme

• Religion et culture dans les mobilisations populistes

• Populisme et la dédémocratisation

• Populisme et la science

Jeffrey Alexander and ISA Research Committee on Sociological Theory (RC16) mid-term conference organizer Csaba Szalo and co-President Brad West, along with other international scholars interested in global issues and the civil sphere, are organizing a mini-conference on civil sphere theory (CST). Theorists and empirical sociologists can discuss, criticize, and inspire one another, interacting around a common set of intellectual symbols. The aim is to further develop, and revise, CST, continuing the discussions among nearly 100 sociologists from around the world that have produced “civil sphere” volumes on Latin America, East Asia, the Nordic countries, and radicalism, with volumes on India, Canada, and cultural trauma in process.

The one-day conference will take place on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Brno, Czech Republic, ahead of RC 16’s mid-term meetings (July 2-4, 2020), which will kick off that same evening with a joint reception. 

Though this mini-conference is being organized around an ISA meeting, all intellectuals, theorists, sociologists and scholars interested in matters related to civil sphere theory are invited to participate; ISA membership or affiliation is not required, unless you wish to participate in the RC 16 mid-terms after (highly encouraged!). Brno local organizers will organize very reasonable housing and meals; covering such expenses, however, will be your own responsibility. (There may be a possibility of defraying some travel costs for young and emerging scholars who will be presenting papers.) 

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a paper title and abstract to Jeffrey Alexander (Jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu) and Anne Marie Champagne (anne.champagne@yale.edu) by February 15, 2020. If you would like to attend without presenting a paper, please send us a letter indicating your interest. Note: This is an indication of interest only. We will be asking for a firm commitment by April 1, 2020.

Co-organizers: André Vereta-Nahoum (Sociology, University of São Paulo)

Simone Polillo (Sociology, University of Virginia)

Call for papers

The idea of crisis may be as old as modernity (Koselleck, 2015), but, over the past decade, as crisis texts have become a “veritable industry” (to paraphrase Roitman, 2013: 3), scholars have joined public debate by drawing attention to the conditions of possibility of crisis, its uses and effects (e.g. Appadurai, 2015; Bear, 2015; Mounk, 2018; Przeworski, 2019; Streeck 2017). Following up on this emerging interdisciplinary work on the multiple conceptualizations and practices of crisis, we are interested in two broad and interconnected themes: the relationship between crisis and governance, and the relationship between crisis and time.

The first theme encompasses how crisis works as a political strategy and as a way of governing. Crisis is often associated with critique (Koselleck, 2015), when those who declare a state of affairs to be in crisis do so in the hope of summoning support towards changing the status quo. However, crisis makes it possible to associate a present state of affairs with previous choices, and so it serves to justify the implementation of significant reforms that are presented as exceptional but unavoidable measures – the only solutions to the emergencies. As a result, as Roitman (2013) argues, crisis can also blind critics to the assumptions behind declaring a state of affairs in crisis, to the effects of unexamined questions about what an enacted crisis refers to, and of policy options and shifts that are presented as necessary consequences of the enactment.

The relationship between the practice of crisis, and narratives about what makes a state of affairs normal, conventional, or settled, also hinges on particular assumptions about time and temporality, which is the second theme we want to explore. A crisis declared to be temporary requires different interpretative work and temporal narratives and does different work than a crisis perceived to be more secular or structural; a past crisis can affect interpretations about the present and responses in the form of future developments, but so can the threat of crisis in some more or less distant future. Particular local, regional, and national historical trajectories may also affect how crises are enacted and perceived, and how responses to the crisis are debated and translated into policy. The exceptionality or normalcy associated with a state of affairs considered to be a crisis must be analyzed and critically assessed. Conflicts between different and potentially incompatible time horizons may generate crisis, but also open opportunities for the strategic deployment of crisis in order to shift the balance of power and shape the range of available policy choices.

Within the broader themes of crisis and governance, and crisis and time, exemplary questions we invite participants to consider include the following:

• Who has the authority to declare a crisis, and what happens when other powerful agents (whether experts or publics) reject this characterization?
• Which material and ideational devices are employed to enact crises, and how does the temporal orientation of crisis vary as a result?
• How do particular historical trajectories—punctuated by crises or not—influence the enactment of crises?

Deadline for New Submissions: Friday, January 24, 2020

The Comparative Historical Social Sciences Working Group at Northwestern University is calling graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to participate in our third annual conference this year entitled, “The Neoliberal State Reconsidered: Risk, Surveillance, and the Future of Global Capitalism.” Our keynote speaker is Sarah Quinn (University of Washington). We will also have a Closing Keynote panel featuring Bruce Carruthers, Patricia Posey, Destin Jenkins, and Sarah Quinn. 

 Talk of “Surveillance Capitalism” abounds in scholastic circles and public audiences alike. Tactics of state surveillance, techniques of social control, and profits within global financial capitalism all seem to increasingly rely upon the extraction of personal data and information through various technologies. What this spells for the power of states to monopolize violence, the stability of global capitalism, and the political possibilities for social movements remains to be seen. Our keynote and closing will begin to unfold the answers to these theoretically intriguing and politically troubling uncertainties.

 We are accepting paper proposals broadly oriented towards comparative and historical social science research, though we encourage scholars to submit papers relevant to the theme. In particular, this includes proposals that address key theoretical debates or contribute to new methodological ideas and tools in the subfield of comparative historical analysis. 

 Please see our full call for participation and our flyer attached. We would greatly appreciate if you could share this information with your graduate students, postdocs, and faculty!

 The conference is from April 9th to 10th, 2020. We welcome paper submissions at different stages of research, and especially invite graduate students and younger scholars to share their work. Submission deadline has been extended until January 24th – submit your abstract here! 

 Please feel free to contact us at CharlotteRosen2021@u.northwestern.edu with any questions.”

Deadline Extended to Monday, October 7th
Call for Papers: “World-Systems Analysis in a Critical Juncture”

44th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS)
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
The Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
April 10-11, 2020

The 44th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System takes place during a critical juncture for both the field of world-systems analysis and for the world-system itself. In this time of escalating systemic chaos, we seek papers that utilize a world-systems perspective to analyze the social, political, and economic challenges of the current juncture. To more effectively grapple with these challenges, this conference also aims to reconstruct the foundations of world-systems analysis and to develop useful synergies with other critical perspectives within the social sciences.

1. Global Crisis and Systemic Chaos. A world-systems perspective can provide unique insights into the multiple system-level problems facing the world today—for example, xenophobic nationalism, militarism, neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, and environmental degradation. We seek papers that use the tools of world-systems analysis to shed light on the current global crisis.
2. Reconstructing the Lineages of World-Systems Analysis. While some of the foundational contributions of world-systems analysis continue to be well-examined by its practitioners today, others have fallen outside the main corpus of the perspective. We seek papers that evaluate the contemporary relevance of contributions such as Terence K. Hopkins’ methodological essays in World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Methodology; Giovanni Arrighi’s Geometry of Imperialism; Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa; Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialética da Dependência; Samir Amin’s Accumulation on a World Scale; and Janet Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony.
3. Epistemological Inclusion and Exclusion in World-Systems Analysis. In what ways has world-systems analysis succeeded (or failed) to incorporate major insights from other critical perspectives that share key epistemological premises? How can world-systems analysis develop new synergies with these other critical perspectives? Of particular interest are papers that enter into a dialogue with analyses focusing on race, gender, sexuality, and/or kinship.

Submissions and Support: Please send paper proposals (less than 500 words) by Monday, October 7, 2019 to [pews-2020@umd.edu<mailto:pews-2020@umd.edu>]. Please include affiliations and contact information for all authors. Conference presenters will be provided lodging and meals during their stay. Papers selected for the conference will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed edited book.

Conference organization:
Patricio Korzeniewicz, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park
Beverly Silver, The Arrighi Center for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Corey Payne, The Arrighi Center for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Call for papers for the 5^th Annual World-Ecology Research Network in San Francisco this summer (May 29-June 1). It looks highly relevant to comparative-historical sociologists; please see attached document.  Registration open through 8 May 2019. Here is the weblink: https://worldecologyconferences.wordpress.com/

Barrington Moore Book Award
Deadline: 2/15/2019

The section presents the Barrington Moore Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have been published during the two years prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the 2019 award only books published in 2017 or 2018 will be considered). Books may be nominated only once for this prize. Thus, books nominated last year cannot be considered again for the 2019 award. Books may be nominated by authors or by other scholars, but not by publishing houses. Letters of nomination are not required. To nominate a book, please send an email to each member of the prize committee indicating that you are doing so, and please make arrangements for each member of the committee to receive a copy of the book by February 15, 2019. Both the book and the email must be received by February 15 for the book to be considered. Winners of the award are expected to be members of the comparative historical sociology section at the time the award is presented.

Committee:
Yingyao Wang (chair)
Department of Sociology
Randall Hall 101, 130 Ruppel Drive
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904
yw8c@virginia.edu

Angel Adams Parham
Loyola University New Orleans
Department of Sociology
6363 St. Charles Ave.
Campus Box 30
New Orleans, LA 70118
aaparham@loyno.edu

Sahan Savas Karatasli
Department of Sociology
318 Graham Hall
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
skaratasli@uncg.edu

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The Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Charles Tilly Best Article Award
Deadline: 2/15/2019

The section awards this prize every year to the best article in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared during the two years prior to the year of the award (i.e., for the 2019 award only articles published in 2017 or 2018 will be considered). Authors or other members of the section may nominate an article by sending an email to each member of this prize committee along with a PDF copy of the article. The email and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2019 to be considered.

Committee:
Sourabh Singh (chair), ssingh2@fsu.edu
Greta Krippner, krippner@umich.edu
Anna Skarpelis, askarpelis@fas.harvard.edu

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Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award
Deadline: 2/15/2019

The section presents the Theda Skocpol Award every year to the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Eligible dissertations must have been defended and filed between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018. Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors, or current department chairs. Self-nominations are not allowed for this award. Dissertations may be nominated by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee. We ask that each nomination letter include a brief discussion of the specific strengths and contributions of the dissertation. Authors are then responsible for providing each member of the committee with an electronic copy of the dissertation, to the email addresses indicated below. (For dissertations that are too large to send over email, please email the committee members a durable link to a downloadable version of the dissertation.) Both the nominating letter and the dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2019 to be considered.

 Committee:
Michael Kennedy (chair), michael_kennedy@brown.edu
Besnik Pula, bpula@vt.edu
Zeynep Ozgen, zo2@nyu.edu

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Reinhard Bendix Best Student Paper Award
Deadline: 2/15/2019

The section presents the Reinhard Bendix Award every year to the best graduate student paper in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Submissions are solicited for papers written by students enrolled in graduate programs at the time the paper was written. Both published and unpublished papers will be considered. Students may self-nominate their finest work or it may be nominated by their mentors. Authors and mentors may nominate a paper by sending an email to each member of the prize committee along with a PDF copy of the article. The email and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2019 to be considered.

Committee:
Josh Pacewicz (chair), pacewicz@brown.edu
Elisabeth Anderson, aea4@nyu.edu
Zsuzsa Gille, gille@illinois.edu

The Princeton Series in Global and Comparative Sociology provides an publishing home for books that dare to compare by either focusing on global phenomena or by studying social processes across countries and continents. It welcomes projects written in all macro-comparative traditions in sociology and neighboring disciplines. The series is edited by Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University) and curated by Meagan Levinson at PUP. Please send proposals to Meagan_Levinson@press.princeton.edu.