American Sociological Association: Section on Culture Past Award Recipients

Section on the Sociology of Culture Award Recipients

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Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2011 Co.	Teresa Gowan		Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. University of Minnesota Press
2011 Co.	David Garland		Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Harvard University Press.
2010	Marion Fourcade		Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
2009 Co.	Julian Go		American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism.
2009 Co.	Brian Steensland		The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy.
2008 Co.	Jeffrey Alexander	Yale University	The Civil Sphere. Oxford University Press, 2006.
2008 Co.	George Steinmetz	University of Michigan	The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
2007	Laura Miller	Brandeis University	Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption. University of Chicago Press, 2006
2006	Eiko Ikegami	New School University	Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
2005	Eva Illouz Honorable Mention: Mario Luis Small Tia DeNora	University of Jerusalem Princeton University University of Exeter	Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture (Columbia University Press 2003) Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (University of Chicago Press 2004) After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology (Cambridge University Press 2003)
2004	Annette Lareau Laura Grindstaff	Temple University University of California, Davis	Unequal Childhoods: class, race and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 The Money Shot: Trash, Class and the Making of TV Talk Shows. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
2003	Amy Binder	University of California-San Diego	Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public School
2002	Wendy Griswold	University of Chicago	Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (published by Princeton Univ. Press)
2001	Robin Wagner-Pacifici	Swarthmore	Theorizing the Standoff: Contingency in Action
2001	Stnaley Lieberson	Harvard University	A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change
2000	Joseph Soares	Yale University	The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University
2000	Nina Eliasoph	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Avoiding Politics; How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life
1999	Joshua Gamson	Yale University	Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
1999	Wendy Nelson Espeland	Northwestern University	The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
1998	Chandra Mukerji	University of California-San Diego	Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
1997	Sharon Hayes	University of Virginia	The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
1996	Karen A. Cerulo Viviana Zelize	Rutgers University Princeton University	Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation The Social Meaning of Money
1995	Michael Mayerfeld Bell Magali Sarfatti Larson		Childerly: Nature and Morality in a country Village Behind The Post Modern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth Century America
1994	Gideon Kunda	Tel Aviv University	Engineering Culture: Control & Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
1993	Not given
1992	Rick Fantasia Faye Ginsburg	Smith College	Cultures of Solidarity Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community
1991	Not given
1990	George M. Thomas	Arizona State University	Revivalism & Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Suzanne Langer Prize for the Best Student Paper

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2011	Avi Astor		"Memory, Community, and Opposition to Mosques: The Case of Badalona." Theory and Society.
2010	Iddo Tavory		"Everyday Morality--Street Danger and Moral Density in a Jewish Orthodox Neighborhood"
2009	Not given
2008	Gabriel Abend	Northwestern University	"Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality." in Theory and Society, 37(2):87-125.
2007	Hiro Saito	University of Michigan	"Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma." in Sociological Theory, 24(4):353-376.
2006	Jason Matt Kim Babon	University of California-Los Angeles, Visiting Fellow Yale University University of Chicago	“The Cultural pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/Lewinsk Affair” “Composition: Coherence, and Attachment: The Critical Role of Context in Reception”
2005	Gregoire Mallard	Princeton University	"Communities of Interpreters and Their Technical Instruments," forthcoming in American Sociological Review
2004	Virag Molnar	Princeton University	"Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Post-War Hungary"
2003	Karen Danna Lynch	Rutgers University	"The Good Mother: Ideologies of Motherhood 1950-1998"
2002	Genevieve Zubrzycki	University of Chicago	“We the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic Visions of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates”
2001	Jamie Mullaney	Rutgers University	“Like A Virgin: Temptation, Resistance, and the Construction of Identities Based on ‘Not Doings’”
2001	Shyon Baumann	Harvard University	“Intellectualizing Discourse and Art World Development: The Case of Film in the United States”
2000	Gabriella Fried	University of California, Los Angeles	“On Remembering and Silencing the Past: The Adult Children of the Disappeared of Argentina and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective”
1999	Kari Lerum	University of Washington, Seattle	“Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement Turn Radical Women into ‘Useless Citizens’”
1998	Kristen Purcell	Rutgers University	“A League of Their Own: Mental Leveling and the Creation of Social Comparability in Sport”
1997	Wayne Brekhaus	Rutgers University	“Social Marking and the Mental Coloring of Identity: Sexual Identity Construction and Maintenance in the United States”
1996	Ronald N. Jacobs	University of California-Los Angeles	"Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating"
1995	Bethany Bryson Stephen Ellingson		“Anything but Heavy Metal: Identity and Exclusion in Musical Taste” ”Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Ante-bellum Cincinnati”
1994	Matthew P. Lawson	Princeton University	"Free to Choose: Submission in the Lives of Catholic Charismatics"
1993	Timothy Dowd	Princeton University	"The Song Remains the Same? The Musical Diversity and Industry Context of Number One Songs, 1955-1988"
1992	Christiana Nippert-Eng	State University of New York-Stony Brook
1991	Ann Bowler	New School for Social Research
1990	Ken Dauber	Northwestern University

Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	TITLE
2011	Genevieve Zubrzycki		“History and the National Sensorium: Making Sense of Polish Mythology.” Qualitative Sociology.
2010	Larry Isaac		"Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel."
2009 Co.	Espeland, Wendy Nelson & Michael Sauder		"Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds," American Journal of Sociology, 113 (1): 1-40.
2009 Co.	Weber, Klaus, Kathryn L. Heinze & Michaela DeSoucey		“Forage for Thought: Mobilizing Codes in the Movement for Grass-fed Meat and Dairy Products," Administrative Science Quarterly, 53 (September): 529-567.
2008 Co.	Omar Lizardo	University of Notre Dame	"How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks." in American Sociological Review, 71:778-807.
2008 Co.	Nissim Mizrachi, Israel Drori, and Renee R. Anspach	Tel Aviv University, College of Management, Rishon Letzion, and University of Michigan, respectively	"Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict," in American Sociological Review, 72(1):143-165.
2007 Co.	Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King	University of Minnesota and University at Albany, SUNY, respectively	"Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States," in American Journal of Sociology, 111(2):579-616. t,
2007 Co.	Brian Steensland	Indiana University	"Cultural Categories and the American Welfare State: The Case of Guaranteed Income Policy," in American Journal of Sociology, 111(5):1273-326.
2006	Jeremy Brooke Straughn Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson	Purdue University Harvard University	“Taking the State at its Word: The arts of Consentful Contention in the German Democratic Republic” “Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The global Spread of Cricket”
2005	Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman	University of Southern California	"Culture in Interaction" American Journal of Sociology, Volume 108 Number 4 (January 2002): 735-94
2004	Jeffrey C. Alexander Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey	Yale University Clark University Massachusetts Institute of Technology	"On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The 'Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama," European Journal of Sociology "Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority," American Journal of Sociology
2003	John Foran and Jean-Pierre Reed	University of California-Santa Barbara University of Memphis	"Political Cultures of Opposition: Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua"
2002	Vincent Roseignio William Danaher	Ohio State University	“Radio and the Mobilization of Textile Workers in the South”
2002	Marion Fourcase-Gourinchas	Princeton University	“Politics, Institutional Structures, and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study”
2001	Anne Kane	University of Texas	“Narratives of Nationalism: Construction Irish National Identity During the Land War, 1879-82”
2001	Paul Lichterman	Princeton University	“Talking Identity in the Public Sphere: Broad Visions and Small Spaces in Sexual Identity Politics”
2000	Marc Steinberg	Smith College	“The Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse Among Nineteenth-Century English-Cotton Spinners”
1999	Orville Lee	Northwestern University	“Culture and Democratic Theory: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Democracy”
1998	Nina Eliasoph	University of Wisconsin-Madison	“Making a Fragile Public: A Talk-Centered Study of Citizenship and Power”
1997	Bonnie Erickson Margaret Somers	University of Toronto University of Michigan	“Culture, Class and Connections.” “The ‘Misteries’ of Property: Relationality, Rural-Industrialization, and Community in Chartist Narratives of Political Rights”
1996	John W. Mohr	University of California-Santa Barbara	"Soldiers, Mothers, Tramps and Others: Discourse Roles in the 1907 New York City Charity Directory"
1995	Mabel Berezin Jeff Goodwin Mustafa Emibayer	University of Pennsylvania NYU New School for Social Research	“Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy” “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency”
1994	Nicola Beisel	Northwestern University	"Morals Versus Art: Censorship, the Politics of Interpretation, and the Victorian Nude"
1993	Not given
1992	William Sewell	University of Chicago	"The Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation"
1991	Not given
1990	Kurt Lang Gladys Lang	Washington University	"Recognition and Renow: The Survival of Artistic Reputations"