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Outstanding Book Award: Charles Tilly Award for Best Book
Established in 1986 to honor a significant contribution, the award recognizes a publication that has added to the field.
In 1990, the Section gave this award as the Best Study of 1988-1989 Award.
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
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2012 |
Drew Halfmann |
University of California- Davis |
2011. Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada. University of Chicago Press. |
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2011 |
Not given. |
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2010 Co. |
Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun, |
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. New York: Oxford University Press; |
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2010 Co. |
Nancy Whittier, T |
he Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State. New York: Oxford University Press. |
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2009 |
Klawiter, Maren, |
The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism (University of Minnesota Press) |
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2008 |
Roger Karapin |
Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s (Penn State Press) |
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2007 |
Francesca Polletta, |
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics (University of Chicago Press) |
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2006 |
Gene Burnes |
Michigan State University |
The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States |
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2005 |
Not given |
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2004 |
Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht |
Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States (Cambridge University Press) |
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2003 |
Francesca Polletta |
Columbia University |
Freedom is an Endless Meeting |
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2002 |
Jeff Goodwin |
New York University |
No Other Way Out: States and Revoluntionary Movements, 1945-1991 |
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2002 |
Dingxin Zhao |
University of Chicago |
The Power of Tiananmen: State-Sociecty Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement |
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2001 |
Not given |
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2000 |
Rebecca Klatch |
Univeristy of California, San Diego |
A Generation Divided |
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1999 |
Not listed |
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1998 |
Nicola Beisel |
Northwestern University |
Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America |
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1996 |
Charles Tilly |
Columbia University |
Popular Contention in Great Britian: 1754-1837 |
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1994 |
Clark McPhail |
University of Illinois-Urbana |
The Myth of the Madding Crowd (1991, Aldine De Gruyter) |
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1992 |
Sidney Tarrow |
Democracy & Disorder: Protest & Politics in Italy, 1965-1975 |
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1990 |
Rick Fantasia Doug McAdam |
Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, & Contemporary American Workers Freedom Summer |
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1988 |
John Lofland |
University of California-Davis |
Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements |
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 2012 | Hiroe Saruya | University of Michigan | “The Rise of Japan’s First New Left: Bourdieusian Field Dynamics and the Emergence of Movement Organizations.” |
| 2011 | Not given | ||
| 2010 | Lauren Joseph | University of Texas at Austin | “From the “Gayborhood” to the Small Town: LGBT Pride Organizations and the Mobilization of Resources, Culture, and Symbolic Capital. |
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2009 |
Matthew S. Williams, |
Boston College, |
"Strategizing against Sweatshops: Ideology, Strategic Models, and Innovation in the U.S. Anti-Sweatshop Movement." |
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2008 |
Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, |
"Strategic Dilemmas in Organizational Frame Selection and Audience Frame Preference in Women's Peace Organizing" |
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2007 |
Dan Lainer-Vos |
Columbia University |
“Social Movements and Citizenship: Conscientious Objection in France, the United States, and Israel." Mobilization Vol. 11, Number 3, (September 2006): 277-295. |
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2006 |
Rachel Meyer |
Univeristy of Michigan |
“Constituency and Emotion in Collective Action: Sources of Working-Class Identity and Activism” |
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2005 |
Erich Steinman |
University of Washington |
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2004 |
Robert S. Jansen Honorable Mention: Vanessa Barker |
UCLA NYU |
"Resurrection and Reappropriation: Political Uses of Historical Figures in Comparative Perspective" "Politics of Pain: State Governance, Moral Protest, and the Varied Impacts of Social Movements" |
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2003 |
Julie Stewart |
New York University |
"When Local Troubles Become Transnational Issues: A Study of an Indigenous Rights Movement in Guatemala” |
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2002 |
Deana A. Rohlinger |
Univeristy of California, Irvine |
“Movement-Countermovement Dynamics in the Abortion Debate: An Examination of Media Coverage Outcome” |
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2001 |
John Krinsky |
Columbia University |
“The Relational Dynamics of Claim-Making in New York City’s Workfare Politics” |
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2000 |
Gary Bologh |
Univeristy of Michigan |
“Learning from Populism: Narrative Analysis and Social Movement Consciousness” |
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1999 |
Not given |
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1998 |
Ira Silver |
Nortwestern University |
“Buying and Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy” |
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1997 |
Mary Bernstein |
New York University |
“Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement” |
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1995 |
Kenneth T. Andrews |
SUNY-Stony Brook |
“The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi, 1960-1984” |
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1993 |
Jackie Smith |
University of Notre Dame |
"Transnational Political Processes and the Human Rights Movement" |
Best Published Article Award: Outstanding Article Award
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
| 2012 | Amin Ghaziani and Delia Baldassarri |
University of British Columbia New York University |
2011. “Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences: A Multi-method Analysis of LGBT Marches on Washington,” American Sociological Review 76(2): 179-206. |
| 2011 |
White, Robert W. |
"Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of Irish Republicans: Persistence, Disengagement, Splits, and Dissidents in Social Movement Organizations." Social Problems 57(3): 341-370. | |
| 2010 | Not given | ||
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2009 |
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Mary Bernstein. |
"Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements" Sociological Theory 26(1): 74-99. |
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2008 |
Caroline Lee, |
"Is There a Place for Private Conversation in Public Dialogue?" American Journal of Sociology 113:1 (July 2007): 41-96. |
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2007 |
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage, |
"Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth." American Sociological Review Volume 71 (October 2006): 724-751. |
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2006 |
Edwin Amenta |
University of Michigan New York University |
“Age for leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on US Old-Age Policy” |
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2005 |
Not given |
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2004 |
Paul Almeida |
"Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings" Am. J. of Sociology 109 (2): 345-400 |
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2003 |
Bert Useem and Jack A. Goldstone |
University of New Mexico University of California |
"Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons" |
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2002 |
Steven Pfaff Guobin Yang |
University of Washington University of Hawaii |
“Political Commemorations and the Mobilization of Protest in 1989” |
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2001 |
Not given |
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2000 |
Not given |
Exceptional Service Award
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Year |
Name |
Affiliation |
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2003 |
Hank Johnston |
San Diego State University |