Comparative and Historical Sociology Call for Awards Nominations

Barrington Moore Book Award

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 2011 award only books published in 2009 or 2010 will be considered). Books may be nominated only once for this prize.  Thus, books nominated last year cannot be considered again for the 2011 award.

        Books may be nominated by authors or by other section members.  Non-authors may nominate a book by sending a letter or email to the prize committee members. Non-authors should ask authors to arrange to have the book sent to each member of the committee. Authors may nominate their book by sending a letter or email to the prize committee members and making arrangements for each member to receive a copy. Nominations must be received by February 15, 201 to be considered.

The committee members are:

Charles Tilly Best Article Award

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 two years prior to the year of the award (i.e. for the 2013 award only articles published in 2011 or 2012 will be considered).
Authors or other members of the section may nominate an article by sending a letter or email to each member of this prize committee along with a paper copy of the article. The letter and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2012 to be considered.

The committee members are:
Isaac A. Reed (chair)
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado-Boulder
UCB 327
Boulder, CO 80309
Isaac.Reed@Colorado.EDU

Krishan Kumar
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4766
kk2d@virginia.edu

Aaron Major
Dept. of Sociology
SUNY-Albany
1400 Washington Ave.
Arts & Sciences
351 University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
amajor@albany.edu

Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
asantana@fas.harvard.edu
 

Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award

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, 2011 and December 31, 2012.

Dissertations may be nominated by dissertation chairs, advisors or current department chairs. We ask that each nomination letter include a brief discussion of the specific strengths and contributions of the dissertation. 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. Authors are then responsible for providing each member of the committee with a printed copy of the dissertation. Both the nominating letter and the dissertation must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2013 to be considered.

The committee members and their email and mailing addresses are:
Colin Beck (Chair)
Pomona College
Sociology
420 N. Harvard Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
colin.beck@pomona.edu

Erin Murphy
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
State Route 157
Edwardsville, IL 62026
ermurph@siue.edu

Ben Herzog
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
bherzog@wcfia.harvard.edu
 

Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award

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 a letter or email to each member of this prize committee along with a paper copy of the article. The letter and copy of the article must be received by each member of the committee by February 15, 2013 to be considered.
The members of the committee are:

Nina Bandelj (chair)
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
4263 Social Science Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
nbandelj@uci.edu

Claire Decoteau
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
4112 Behavioral Sciences Building
1007 West Harrison Street (MC 312)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7140
decoteau@uic.edu

Matthew Norton
Department of Sociology
1291 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1291
mnorton@uoregon.edu

Nicholas Hoover Wilson
British Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center?for International and Area Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208206
New Haven CT 06520-8206
n.wilson@yale.edu