The Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology’s Barrington Moore Book Award
Prior to 2002, called the Barrington Moore, Jr. Award for Best Recent Article
2024: Leslie Gates, Binghamton University SUNY, Capitalist Outsiders: Oil’s Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023.
2024: Honorable Mention: Vrushali Patil, Florida International University, Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Julian Go, University of Chicago, Policing Empires Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press. 2023.
2023: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis, and Manuela Boatcă, Albert-Ludwigs University, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires. Cornell University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University, At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia. Cambridge University Press. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East. Columbia University Press. 2022.
2022: Joachim J. Savelsberg, University of Minnesota, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. University of California Press. 2021.
2021: Elisabeth S. Clemens, Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State, Chicago: The Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, New York: Cambridge University Press 2020.
2020: Robert Braun, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2020: Eddy U, Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.
2019: Andreas Wimmer, Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart. Princeton University Press. 2018.
2019: Stephanie L. Mudge, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. 2018.
2018: Krishan Kumar, Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World. Princeton University Press. 2017.
2018: Angel Adams Parham, American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2018: Daniel Ziblatt, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2017: Heather A. Haveman, Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2017: Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley & Patricia Ahmed, How Societies and States Count (2-volume work: Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States). Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
2017: Tianna S. Paschel, Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press. 2016.
2016: Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. Cambridge University Press. 2015.
2016: Fatma Müge Göçek, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009. Oxford University Press, 2014.
2015: Thelen Kathleen, Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press. 2015.
2014: Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State. Harvard University Press. 2013.
2014: Cybelle Fox, University of California, Berkeley, Three Worlds of Welfare Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton University Press. 2012.
2013: Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945. Cambridge University Press. 2012.
2013: Monica Prasad, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Harvard University Press. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Andreas Wimmer, Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
2012: Yang Su, University of California, Irvine, Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
2012 Honorable Mention: Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. Princeton University Press, 2011.
2012 Honorable Mention: James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2011: David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2010.
2011 Honorable Mention: Dan Slater, Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2010: Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University, Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Harvard University Press. 2009.
2010 Honorable Mention: Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton University Press, 2009.
2010 Honorable Mention: Chad Alan Goldberg, Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
2009: Karen Barkey, Columbia University, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 2008.
2009: Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Duke University Press Books. 2008.
2008: George Steinmetz, The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. University of Chicago Press. 2007.
2007: Monica Prasad, The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. University of Chicago Press. 2006.
2006: Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
2006 Honorable Mention: Eiko Ikegami, New School for Social Research, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
2005: Vivek Chibber, New York University, Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. Princeton University Press. 2003.
2005 Honorable Mention: Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. Cambridge University Press. 2003.
2004: Philip Gorski, University of Wisconsi. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
2004 Honorable Mention: Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer, Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Stanford University Press. 2003.
2003: Jack A. Goldstone, “Efflorescences and Economic Growth in the World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of World History 13(2):323-389. 2002.
2002: James Mahoney, Brown University, The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002.
2002 Honorable Mention: Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2000.
2001: Julia Adams, University of Michigan, Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation. Cornell University Press. 1999.
2000: Anthony W. Marx, Columbia University, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Cambridge University Press. 1998.
1999: Jeff Goodwin, New York University, “The Libidinal Constitution of High Risk Social Movement: Affectual Ties and Solidarity in the Huk Rebellion, 1946-54,” American Sociological Review 62(1):53-69. 1997.
1998: Thomas Ertman, Harvard University, Birth of Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. 1997.
1997: Robin Stryker, Indiana University, “Beyond History Versus Theory: Strategic Narrative and Sociological Explanation,” Sociological Methods & Research 24(3):304-352. 1996.
1997: David Zaret, University of Iowa, “Petitions and the ‘Invention’ of Public Opinion in the English Revolution,” American Journal of Sociology 101(6):1497-1555. 1996.
1995: Julia Adams, “The Familial State: Elite Family Practices and State-Making in Early Modern Netherlands,” Theory and Society 23(4):505-539. 1994.
1995: Roger Gould, “Trade Cohesion, Class Unity, and Urban Insurrection: Artisanal Activism in the Paris Commune,” American Journal of Sociology 98(4):721-754. 1993.
The Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology’s Charles Tilly Best Article Award
2024: Celene Reynolds, Indiana University, “Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination in American Higher Education.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 128, No. 2. 2022.
2024: Jeremy Levine, University of Michigan, and Kelly L. Russell, Florida State University, “Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–1984.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 128, No. 4. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Jorge Daniel Vasquez, American University, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba (1931–1941).” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 1-27. 2023.
2023: Regina S. Baker, University of Pennsylvania, “The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol 127 (6). 2022.
2023: Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley, “Bloodlines: National border crossings and antisemitism in Weimar Germany.” American Sociological Review. Vol 87 (2), 2022.
2022: Yang Zhang, American University, “Why Elites Rebel: Elite Insurrections During the Taiping Civil War in China.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 127(1). 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Benjamin Bradlow, Harvard University, “Embedded Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution.” Theory and Society. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Daniel Hirschman, Brown University, “Rediscovering The 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and The Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 127(3). 2021.
2021: Hana Brown, “Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States,” American Sociological Review. 2020; 85(5):776-805.
2021: John N. Robinson III, “Making Markets on the Margins: Housing Finance Agencies and the Racial Politics of Credit Expansion,” American Journal of Sociology. Volume 125, Number 4: 874-1029 | January 2020
2020: Fabien Accominotti, Adam Storer; Shamus R. Khan. 2018. “How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America: Musical Purification and Cross-Class Inclusion at the New York Philharmonic.” American Journal of Sociology 123(6): 1743-83.
2020: Alexander E. Kentikelenis and Sarah Babb. 2019. “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandenstine Institutional Change.” American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1720-62.
2019: Barış Büyükokutan, “Elitist by default? Interaction dynamics and the inclusiveness of secularization in Turkish literary milieus,” American Journal of Sociology 123(5):1249-1295. 2018.
Christopher Muller, “Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South,” American Journal of Sociology 124(2):367-405. 2018.
2019: Christopher Muller, “Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South,” American Journal of Sociology 124(2):367-405. 2018.
2018: Greta Krippner, “Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America,” American Journal of Sociology 123(1):1-47. 2017.
2017: Barry Eidlin, “Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932-1948,” American Sociological Review 81(3):488-516. 2016.
2017: Ivan Ermakoff, “The Structure of Contingency,” American Journal of Sociology 121(1):64-125. 2015.
2016: Josh Pacewicz, “Playing the Neoliberal Game: Why Community Leaders Left Party Politics to Partisan Activists,” American Journal of Sociology 121(3):826-881. 2015.
2016 Honorable Mention: Damon Mayrl. “How Does the State Structure Secularization?”, European Journal of Sociology 56(2):207-239. 2015.
2015: Melissa Wilde and Sabrina Danielsen, “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America,” American Journal of Sociology 119(6):1710-1760. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Malcolm Fairbrother. “Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Sociology 119(5): 1324-1379. 2014.
2014: Robert Fishman and Omar A. Lizardo, University of Notre Dame, “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste,” American Sociological Review 78(2):213-239. 2013.
2013: Elisabeth Anderson, “Ideas in Action: The Politics of Prussian Child Labor Reform, 1817-1839,” Theory and Society 42(1):81-119. 2012.
2012: Nicolas Hoover Wilson, University of California, Berkeley, “From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, circa 1770-1855,” American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1437-77. 2011.
2012 Honorable Mention: Hazem Kandil. “Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian Counterhegemonic Strategies.” Theory and Society 40(1):37-62. 2011.
2011: Danielle Kane and Jung Mee Park, “The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia,” American Journal of Sociology 115(2):365-404. 2009.
2011: Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein, “The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001,” American Sociological Review 75(5):764-790. 2010.
2010: Dan Slater, University of Chicago, “Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia,” American Journal of Sociology 115(1):203-254. 2009.
2009: Cedric de Leon, Providence College, “No Bourgeois Mass Party, No Democracy: The missing Link in Barrington Moore’s American Civil War,” Political Power and Social Theory 19:39-82. 2008.
2009 Honorable Mention: Ho-fung Hung. “Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited.” American Sociological Review 73: 569-88. 2008.
2009 Honorable Mention: Liliana Riga. “The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the ‘Russian’ Revolutionary Elite.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 649-705. 2008.
2008: John F. Padgett and Paul D. McLean, “Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence,” American Journal of Sociology 111(5):1463-568. 2006.
2007: Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min, “From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001,” American Sociological Review 71(6):867-897. 2006.
2006: Prasad, Monica. “Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981.” American Journal of Sociology 111(2): 357-407. 2005.
2006 Honorable Mention: Ari Adut. “A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde.” American Journal of Sociology 111(1): 213-248. 2005.
2005: Marc Steinberg, “Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law,” American Journal of Sociology 109(2):445-495. 2003.
The Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology’s Ibn Khaldun Career Award
2024: Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
2023: Jack Goldstone, George Mason University
2022: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley
2021: Orlando Patterson, Harvard University (received as a “distinguished career award”)
2020: William Sewell Jr., University of Chicago
2020: Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University
The Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology’s Reinhard Bendix Prize
This award was founded in 1986 as the Section Paper Award. Award was renamed as the Best Recent Article Award, and then to the Reinhard Bendix Prize.
2024: Matthew Brooke, Harvard University, “How Democracy’s Resisters Forge Organizational Change: Insights from the Emergence of Christian Right Broadcasting Companies.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Jillian LaBranche, University of Minnesota, “Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.”
2023: Luis Flores Jr., University of Michigan, “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Shilin Jia, University of Chicago, and Benjamin Rohr, University of Mannheim, “Vacancy Chains as Strategy: Inter-Administration Mobility of Political Elites in Reform China.”
2022: Jen Triplett, University of Michigan, “Articulating the Pueblo Cubano: Women’s Politicization and Productivity in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959.” American Sociological Review. Vol. 87(1). 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Mary Shi, University of California, Berkeley, “’Until Indian title shall be… fairly extinguished:’ The Public Lands, Settler Colonialism, and Early Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States.”
2021: Omri Tubi, “Kill me a mosquito and I will build a state: political economy and the socio-technicalities of Jewish colonization in Palestine, 1922–1940”
2021 Honorable Mention: Wen Xie, “Generation as Structure: Market Transformation in China’s Socialist Industrial Heartland”
2020: Simeon J. Newman, “Mass Clientelism: A Mode of Political Intermediation.”
2020 Honorable Mention: Lantian Li, “Redefining Innovation for Development: The Political Economy of New Drug Classification in China.”
2019: Luciana de Souza Leao “Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico” (Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University).
2018: Yueran Zhang, “Preempting ‘No Taxation without Representation’: The Case of Taxing Private Homeownership in China”
2018 Honorable Mention: A.K.M. Skarpelis, “Beyond Aryans: Making Germans in the Nazi Empire”
2018 Honorable Mention: katrina quisumbing king, “The Sources and Political Uses of Ambiguity in Statecraft”
2017: Chengpang Lee and Myung-Sahm Suh, “State-Building and Religion: Explaining the Diverged Path of Religious Change in Taiwan and South Korea, 1950-1980,” American Journal of Sociology 123(2):465-509. 2017.
2017 Honorable Mention: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, Berkeley, “The Demise of the Debtors’ Prison: Market Development, State Formation, and the Moral Politics of Credit.”
2016: Mohammad Ali Kadivar, “Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies,” American Sociological Review 83(2):390-417. 2018.
2016 Honorable Mention: Adaner Usmani. “Democracy and the Class Struggle”, New York University.
2015: Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110(1):127-147. 2016.
2014: Eric W. Schoon and and Joseph F.West, University of Arizona, “From Prophecy to Practice: Mutual Selection Cycles in the Routinization of Charismatic Authority,” Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion 56(4):781-797. 2017.
2014: Emily A. Marshall, University of Michigan, “Great Expectations? Population Projections and Politics in Twentieth Century France and Great Britain.”
2013: Yael Berda, Princeton, “The Peculiar Persistence of Colonial Legacies: Why New Nations Reproduce State Practices against which their Founders Struggled.”
2013 Honorable Mention: Deirdre Bloome and Christopher Muller, Harvard, “Slavery and African-American Marriage in the Postbellum South, 1860-1880.”
2012: Carly Knight, Harvard University, “A Voice but Not a Vote: The Case of Surrogate Representation and Social Welfare For Legal Noncitizens Since 1996”
2012: Diana Rodriguez-Franco, Northwestern University, “Internal Wars, Taxation, and State Building,” American Sociological Review 81(1):190-213. 2016.
2011: Joshua Bloom, University of California, Los Angeles, “Insurgent Influence on Truman’s Civil Rights Policy: A Theoretically Informed Event Structure Analysis.”
2011 Honorable Mention: Josh Pacewicz, University of Chicago, “Old Factions, New Partnerships: How the Changing Integration of Economic and Civil Institutions Produces Avoidance of Partisan Politics in Local Life.”
2010: Anoulak Kittikhoun, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Small State, Big Revolution: Geography and the Revolution in Laos,” Theory and Society 38(1):25-55. 2009.
2010 Honorable Mention: Bart Bonikowski, Princeton, “Shared Representations of the Nation-State in Thirty Countries: An Inductive Approach to Cross-National Attitudinal Research.”
2009: Ateş Altinordu, Yale University, “The Politicization of Religion: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparison,” Politics & Society 38(4):517-551. 2010.
2009 Honorable Mention: Wesley Hiers, UCLA, “The Colonial Roots of Racialized Polities.”
2008: Besnik Pula, University of Michigan, “The Informal Road to State Power: State Building in the Albanian Highlands, 1919-1939”
2007: Anna Paretskaya, The New School, “Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in Late Soviet Union”
2006: Amy Kate Bailey, University of Washington, “Fertility and Revolution: When Does Political Change Influence Reproductive Behavior?”
2005: Tammy Smith, Columbia University, “Narrative Networks and the Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation,” Poetics 35(1):22-46. 2007.
2005 Honorable Mention: Martin Kreidl, University of California, Los Angeles, “Politics and Secondary School Tracking in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989,” European Sociological Review 20(2):123-139. 2004.
2004: Scott Leon Washington, Princeton University, “Principles of Racial Taxonomy.”
2004 Honorable Mention: Jason W. Moore (Berkeley, Geography), “The Modern World System as Environmental History? Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism.” Theory and Society (June 2003) 32, pp. 307-377.
2003: Ho-Fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900.” Sociological Theory. Vol. 21, No. 3. 254-79.
2002: Peter Stamatov, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Political Resources of Performance: Patriotic Uses of Giuseppe Verdi’s Operas in the 1840s”
2001: Chris Bonastia, New York University, “Why Did US Policy Fail During the Nixon Era? Exploring the ‘Industrial Homes’ of Social Policies”
2000: Drew Halfman, New York University, “Policy and Institutional Influences on the Formation of Abortion Policy Regimes in the United State and Great Britain”
2000: Mara Loveman, University of California, Los Angeles, “High-Risk Collective Action: Defending Human Rights in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina,” American Journal of Sociology 104(2):477-525. 1998.
1999: Jason Kaufman, Harvard University, “Three Views of Associationalism in 19th-Century America: AN Empirical Examination,” American Journal of Sociology 104(5):1296-1345. 1999.
1998: Eric Kaufmann and Oliver Zimmer, London School of Economics, “In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland,” Nations and Nationalism 4(4):483-510. 1998.
1997: Steven Pfaff, University of North Carolina, “Collective Identity and Informal Groups in Revolutionary Mobilization: East Germany in 1989,” Social Forces 75(1):91-117. 1996.
1997: Ivan Ermakoff, University of Chicago, “Prelates and Princes: Aristocratic Marriages and Canon Law Prohibitions: Shifts in Norms and Patterns of Domination in the Central Middle Ages,” American Sociological Review 62(3):405-422. 1997.
1995: Katherine Stovel, University of North Carolina, “The Structure of Lynching: Temporal Pattern and Spatial Variation in the Deep South, 1882-1930,” Social Forces 79(3):843-880. 2001.
1995: Dahlia Sabina Elazar, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Making of Italian Fascism: The Seizure of Power, 1919-1922”
1992: Robert V. Gould, “Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871,” American Sociological Review 56(6):716-729. 1991.
1988: Pamela Barnhouse Walters and Philip J. O’Connell, Indiana University, “The Family Economy, Work, and Educational Participation in the United States, 1890-1940,” American Journal of Sociology 93(5):1116-1152. 1988.
1987: Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania, “Labor Migrations of Poles in the Atlantic World Economy, 1880-1914,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 31(2):237-272. 1989.
The Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology’s 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.
2024: Shay O’Brien, Princeton University, “Dallas: Kinship, Mobility, and Inheritance in an Elite Population, 1895-1945.”
2024: Rahardhika Utama, Northwestern University, “Embedded Peasantry and Economic Transformation in the Asian Rubber Belt.”
2023: Martin Eiermann, University of California, Berkeley, “American Privacy: Diffusion and Institutionalization of an Emerging Political Logic, 1870-1930.”
2022: Wan-Zi Lu, University of Chicago, “Body Politics: Morals, Markets, and Mobilization of Organ Donation.”
2021: Benjamin H. Bradlow, Brown University, “Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing Sao Paolo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016,” 2020.
2020: Johnnie Lotesta, Brown University, “Rightward in the Rustbelt: How Conservatives Remade the GOP, 1947-2012,” 2019.
2019: Şefika Kumral, Johns Hopkins University, “Democracy and Violence: Social Origins of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey”
2019 Honorable Mention: Isabel Perera, University of Pennsylvania, “States of Mind: A Comparative and Historical Study on the Political Economy of Mental Health”
2018: Charles Seguin, University of Arizona, “Making a National Crime: The Transformation of U.S. Lynching Politics, 1883-1930,” PhD completed at University of North Carolina. 2016.
2017: Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110(1):127-147. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Shai Dromi, Yale Univeristy. “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields”
2016: Hillary Angelo, “How Green Became Good: Urban Greening as Social Improvement in Germany’s Ruhr Valley”
2015: Alamgir Alena, “Socialist Internationalism at Work: Changes in the Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967-1989”
2014: Sahan Savas Karatasli, John Hopkins University, “Financial Expansions, Hegemonic Transitions, and Nationalism: A Longue Durée Analysis of State-Seeking Nationalist Movements”
2013: Jaeeun Kim, “Colonial Migration and Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea”
2013 Honorable Mention: Kevan Harris, “The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics of Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
2012: Stephan Bargheer, Max Planck Institut-Berlin, “Moral Entanglements: the Emergence and Transformation of Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1790-2010.”
2012 Honorable Mention: Damon Mayrl, “Secular Conversions: Politics, Institutions, and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000.”
2011: Robert S. Jansen, University of California, Los Angeles, “Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective.”
2011 Honorable Mention: Besnik Pula, University of Michigan, “State, Law and Revolution: Agrarian Power and the National State in Albania, 1850-1945.”
2010: Dan Lainer-Vos, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, “Nationalism in Action: The Construction of Irish and Zionist Transatlantic National Networks”
