American Sociological Association: Community and Urban Sociology Section Awards Recipients History

Section on Community and Urban Sociology Award Recipients

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Special Award

In 2012 The Community and Urban Sociology Section Honored Herbert Gans of Columbia University, for the 50th Anniversary of the publication of The Urban Villagers, contributing to urban theory and practice 1962-2012.

Robert and Helen Lynd Award

Year	Name	Affiliation	Notes
2012	Terry Nichols Clark	University of Chicago
2011	Gregory D. Squires	George Washington University
2010	Mark Gottdiener	University of Buffalo
2009	Anthony Orum	University of Illinois- Chicago
2008	John Logan	Brown University
2007	Sharon Zukin	Brooklyn College
2006	Barry Wellman	University of Toronto
2005	John Walton	University of California-Davis
2004	Richard Sennett	New York University and London School of Economics
2003	Harvey Molotch	New York University
2002	Not Given
2001	Chester Hartman	Poverty Race Research Council
2000	Joe Feagin	University of Florida
1999	Janet Abu-Lughod	New School for Social Research	For career achievement
1998	Manuel Castells	University of California-Berkeley	For career achievement
1997	Peter Rossi	University Massachusetts
1996	Claude S. Fischer	University of California-Berkeley	For life time contribution
1995	Lyn H. Lofland	University of California-Davis
1994	Kenneth P. Wilkinson	Pennsylvania State University
1993	Gerald Suttles	University of Chicago
1992	Herbert Gans	Columbia University	Former ASA president
1991	Sylvia Fava	CUNY Brooklyn College
1990	Amos Hawley	UNC-Chapel Hill	Former ASA president
1989	John Ronald Seeley
1988	William Foote Whyte	Cornell University	Former ASA president
1987	Joseph Bensman Maurice Stein Arthur Vidich	New School for Social Research
1986	Floyd Hunter		Founder “Social Science Research and Development Corporation”, Berkeley
1985	Morris Janowitz	University of Chicago
1984	James Coleman	University of Chicago	Former ASA president
1983	Irwin Sanders	Boston University
1982	Roland Warren	Brandeis University
1981	Everett C. Hughes	University of Chicago	Former ASA president
1980	Robert & Helen Lynd	Columbia University
1979	Nels Anderson	University of New Brunswick

Robert Park Award (Book)
This award was first given in 1987 in honor of Robert E. Park's contributions to Urban Sociology.

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Li Zhang	Virginia Commonwealth University	2010. In search of paradise: middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis. Cornell Univ Press.
2011	Not given
2010	Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun	University of Texas	Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
2009	Miriam Greenberg	University of California-Santa Cruz	Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
2008	Mary Pattillo	Northwestern University	Black on the Block
2007	Robert Smith	Barcuh College	Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
2006	Chris Rhomberg	Yale University	No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland
2005	Mario Small Terry Clark ed. Honorable Mentions: Andrew Wiese Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf and Mary Waters, eds.	Princeton University	Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 The City as an Entertainment Machine. New York: Elsevier, 2004 Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation. Santa Monica: Russell Sage, 2004
2004	Sonya Salamon	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
2003	Eric Klinenberg	New York University	Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
2002	Susan Eckstein	Boston University	Community as Gift-Giving: Collective Roots of Volunteerism
2001	Cynthia M. Duncan	Ford Foundation	Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America
2000	Not given
1999	Jan Lin	Occidental College	Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclaves, Global Change
1998	Roger Waldinger	University of California-Los Angeles	Still Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York
1997	Camilo Jose Vergara	Photographer and Sociologist	The New American Ghetto
1996	John Horton	University of California-Los Angeles	The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance and Change in Monterey Park California
1995	Alejandro Portes & Alex Stepick	Johns Hopkins University Florida International University	City on the Edge
1994	Richard Maddox	Carnegie-Mellon University	El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town
1993	John Walton	University of California- Los Angeles	Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California
1992	Martin Sanchez Jankowski	University of California-Berkeley	Islands in the Street: Gang and American Society
1991	Elijah Anderson	University of Pennsylvania	StreetWise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
1990	Theodore Bestor	Columbia University	Neighborhood Tokyo
1989	Steven P. Erie	University of California-San Diego	Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
1988	Carolyn Ellis Harvey Molotch John Logan	University of South Florida University of California-Santa Barbara SUNY Albany	Fisher Folk, Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay Urban Fortunes, the Political Economy of Place
1987	Jonathan Rieder Victoria Steinitz & Ellen Solomon	Yale University	Canarsie: The Jews and the Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism Starting Out: Class & Community in the Lives of Working-Class Youth

Jane Addams Award (Article or Book)

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Wodtke Geoffrey T. David J. Harding and Felix Elwert	University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin	2011. “Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective: The Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation.” American Sociological Review 76(5) 713–736
2011	Not given
2010 Co	Alice Goffman	Princeton University	“On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto,” American Sociological Review 74: 339-357, 2009
2010 Co	Patrick Sharkey	NYU	“The Intergenerational Transmission of Context,” American Journal of Sociology
2009	Robert J. Sampson,	Harvard University	Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure
2008	Kevin Fox Gotham,	Tulane University	The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered: Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Section
2007	Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare		Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change
2006	Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush		“Seeing disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows”
2005	Courtney B. Abrams, Albright, Karen, and Panofsky, Aaron Nicole Marwell		"Contesting the New York Community: From Liminality to the “New Normal” in the Wake of September 11." City & Community 3 (2004):189-220 “Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors.” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 265-291
2004	Mario Small Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman (Honorable Mention)	Princeton University MIT University of Toronto	"Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project" (AJS 108:1-54) "Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb" (City & Community 2:277-311)
2003	Jennifer Lee	University of California, Irvine	“From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America”

CUSS Student Paper Award

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Klein, Nicholas J. and Andrew Zitcer	The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers	2012. "Everything but the Chickens: Cultural Authenticity Onboard the Chinatown Bus" forthcoming in Urban Geography (Vol. 33:1, pp. 46-63).
2011	Van C. Tran	Harvard University	“Spatial Assimilation or Spatial Inequality? Second-Generation Neighborhood Attainment and Mobility Trajectories in Young Adulthood.”
2010	Erin Powers	University of Washington	“Must it Take a Village? Social Disorganization, Crime and Collective Action.”
2009	Laura M. Tach	Harvard University	More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed-Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project
2008	L. Owen Kirkpatrick		The Two Logics of Community Development: Neighborhoods, Markets and Community Development Corporations
2007	Jooyoung Lee	University of California, Los Angeles	Rappin’ on the Street Corner: The Social Organization of Street ‘Disorder
2006	Adriana Abdenur	Princeton University	Opening Doors Upstairs: Networks and Social Capital Among Ipanema Doormen.
2005	Andrew Scott Deener Honorable Mention: Virag Molnar	University of California-Los Angeles Princeton University
2004	Kraig Beyerlein and John Hipp Ellen Berrey (Honorable Mention)	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Northwestern University	"Bridging or Bonding Social Capital as an Antidote to Crime: The Case of American Religious Traditions" "Debating Diversity: A Slippery Symbol in Neighborhood Redevelopment Politics"
2003	John Hipp	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“If You Don’t Do It, Someone Else Might…Volunteering for Neighborhood Associations as a Response to Environmental Change”
2002	Isaac Martin	University of California, Berkeley	“Dawn of the Living Wage: The Diffusion of a Redistributive Municipal Policy”
2001	Judith Friedman	Rutgers University
2000	Not given
1999	Rachael Anne Woldoff	Ohio State University	“The Effects of Local Stressors on Neighborhood Attachments”
1998	Eric Klinenberg	University of California-Berkeley	“Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave”
1997	Kevin Fox Gotham	Tulane University	“Suburbia Under Siege: Low Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan Kansas, 1970 to Present”
1996	Jennifer Parker	City University Graduate School	"The Corporate Fast Food Restaurant as 'Transnational Community’: Global and Local Interactions Among an Immigrant Workforce in New York City"
1995	Dalton Clark Conley	Columbia University	“Separate and Unequal? Household Level Effects of Racially Segregated Housing Markets”