The Section on Economic Sociology’s Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology
2024: Pablo Gastón, University of Michigan, “Moralizing the Strike: Nurses Associations and the Justification of Workplace Conflict in California Hospitals.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1): 47-93. 2022.
2024: Aliya Hamid Rao, London School of Economics, “Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions.” American Sociological Review, 87(6): 1094-1120. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Aaron Horvath, Stanford University, “Organizational Supererogation and the Transformation of Nonprofit Accountability.” American Journal of Sociology 128(4): 1031-1076. 2023.
2023: Roi Livne, University of Michigan, “Toward a Sociology of Finitude: Life, Death, and the Question of Limits.” Theory and Society, 50(6):891–934. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Alexandra C. Feldberg, Harvard University, “The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 67(4):1049–92. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Grégoire Mallard, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Jin Sun, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1):144–88. 2022.
2022: Dan Hirschman, Cornell University, “Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructure and the Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology, 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Adam Goldstein and Charlie Eaton, “Asymmetry by Design? Identity Obfuscation, Reputational Pressure, and Consumer Predation in U.S. For-Profit Higher Education.” American Journal of Sociology, 2021.
2021: John N. Robinson III. “Making markets on the margins: Housing finance agencies and the racial politics of credit expansion.” American Journal of Sociology 125, no. 4 (2020): 974-1029.
2021 Honorable Mention: Ryan Calder. “Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets.” Sociological Theory 38, no. 4 (2020): 334-361.
2021 Honorable Mention: Mabel Abraham. “Gender-role incongruity and audience-based gender bias: An examination of networking among entrepreneurs.” Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2020): 151-180.
2020: Rivera, Lauren A., and András Tilcsik, 2019. “Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation.” American Sociological Review 84(2): 248-274.
2020 Honorable Mention: Kiviat, Barbara. 2019. “The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores.” American Sociological Review 84(6):1134-1158.
2019: Angèle Christin, “Counting Clicks: Quantification and Variation in Web Journalism in the United States and France,” American Journal of Sociology 123(5):1382-1415. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Emily Erikson and Mark Hamilton, “Companies and the Rise of Economic Thought: The Institutional Foundations of Early Economics in England, 1550–1720,” American Journal of Sociology 124(1):111-149. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Patrick S. Park, Joshua E. Blumenstock and Michael W. Macy, “The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks,” Science 362(6421):1410-1413. 2018.
2108: Nathan Wilmers, “Does Consumer Demand Reproduce Inequality? High-Income Consumers, Vertical Differentiation, and the Wage Structure,” American Journal of Sociology 123(1):178-231. 2018.
2017: Christopher Yenkey, “Mobilizing a Market: Ethnic Segmentation and Investor Recruitment into the Nairobi Securities Exchange,” Administrative Science Quarterly 60(4):561-595. 2015.
2017: Cristobal Young, Charles Varner, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Richard Prisinzano, “Millionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data,” American Sociological Review 81(3):421-446. 2016.
2016: Delia Baldassarri, “Cooperative Networks: Altruism, Group Solidarity, Reciprocity, and Sanctioning in Ugandan Producer Organizations,” American Journal of Sociology 121(2):355-395. 2015.
2015: András Tilcsik, “Imprint-environment fit and performance: How organizational munificence at the time of hire affects subsequent job performance,” Administrative Science Quarterly 59(4):639-668. 2014.
2014: Patrick Hamm, Harvard University, Lawrence P. King, University of Cambridge, and David Stuckler, University of Cambridge, “Mass Privatization, State Capacity, and Economic Growth in Post-Communist Countries,” American Sociological Review 77(2):295-324. 2012.
2013: Lauren Rivera, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, “Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms,” American Sociological Review 77(6): 999-1022. 2012.
2012: Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, “The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge,” American Journal of Sociology 116(6):1778-1841. 2011.
The Section on Economic Sociology’s Ronald Burt Student Paper Award
2024: Walker Kahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Bowei Hu, University of California, Los Angeles, “In the Red: How Bank Concentration Fuels Debt Burden for Households, 1999-2019.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Meiying Li, University of Southern California, “Devaluation for Whom? Feminization and Wages in an Economically Polarized Labor Market, 2003-2019.”
2023: Mira Vale, University of Michigan, “Algorithmic Affordances: The Relational Construction of the Electronic Health Record.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Faith Deckard, University of Texas at Austin, “Punishment By and Through Association: An Examination of Commercial Bail and Its Incorporation of Families.”
2022: Patrick T. Sheehan, University of Texas at Austin, “The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches”
2022 Honorable Mention: Luis Flores, University of Michigan, “Crabgrass Rentiers: Land-Use Zoning and the Making of American Residential Property”
2022 Honorable Mention: Julia Melin, Stanford Univesity, “The Help-Seeking Paradox: Gender and the Consequences of Using Career Re-entry Assistance”
2021: Emily Parker. “The Market Failure Paradox: Political Contention in the U.S. Welfare State.”
2021 Honorable Mention: Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar. “Time and Tide: Temporal Inequalities in Residential Decisions around Climate Change.”
2020: Aaron Horvath, “From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational supererogation and the transformation of nonprofit disclosure”
2020 Honorable Mention: Laura Adler, “From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: The Evolution of Pay-setting Practices since the 1950s”
2019: Georg Rilinger, “Corporate Conspiracies and Complex Secrets: Structure and Perception of the Insull Scheme in 1930s Chicago,” American Journal of Sociology 124(4):1043-1089. 2019.
2018: Barbara Kiviat, Harvard University, “The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from how Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions,” Socio-Economic Review mwx030. 2017.
2017: Katherine Hood, University of California, Berkeley, “The Science of Value: Economic Expertise and the Valuation of Human Life in US Federal Regulatory Agencies”
2016: Alexander F. Roehrkasse, “The Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt: Market Development, State Formation, and the Moral Politics of Credit”
2015: Daniel J. DellaPosta, “Bridging the Parochial Divide: Closure and Brokerage in Mafia Families”
2014: Laura Doering, University of Chicago, “Rethinking Escalation of Commitment: Relational Lending in Microfinance”
2013: Todd Schifeling, University of Michigan, “Defense Against Recession: U.S. Business Mobilization, 1950-1970,” American Journal of Sociology 119(1):1-34. 2013.
2012: Adam Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley, “Revenge of the Managers: Labor Cost-Cutting and the Paradoxical Resurgence of Managerialism in the Shareholder Value Era, 1984 to 2001,” American Sociological Review 77(2):268-294. 2012.
2011: Christopher Yenkey, Cornell University
2010: Michaela DeSoucey, Northwestern University, “Gastronationalism: Food Traditions and Authenticity Politics in the European Union,” American Sociological Review 75(3):432-455. 2010.
2010: Min Zhou, Harvard University, “Integration or Fragmentation: Tackling Gravity within Global Trade, 1950-2000”
2006: Pierre Kremp, Washington State University, “From Main Street to Wall Street: The Diffusion of Stock-Market Participation in the United States”
2005: Steve Lippmann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Public Airways, Private Interests: Competing Visions and Ideological Capture in the Regulation of US Broadcasting 1920-1934,” Pp. 111-150 in Research in Political Sociology. Emerald. 2005.
2003: Francisco J. Granados, University of Minnesota, “Intertwined and Relational Environments of Organizations,” Social Forces 83(3):883-918. 2005.
The Section on Economic Sociology’s Viviana Zelizer Best Book Award
2024: Jordanna Matlon, American University and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Megan Tobias Neely, Copenhagen Business School, Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street. University of California Press, 2022.
2024 Honorable Mention: Jessi Streib, Duke University, The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
2023: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Washington University in St. Louis, Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America. Oxford University Press. 2021.
2023: Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy. Princeton University Press. 2022.
2022: Rebecca Elliott, London School of Economics. Underwater.: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States. Columbia University Press. 2021.
2022: Angèle Christin, Stanford University. Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. Princeton University Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Mitchel Abolafia, University of Albany. Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis. Harvard University Press. 2020.
2021: Nitsan Chorev. Give and Take. Princeton University Press, 2019.
2021: Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital. Oxford University Press, 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen. Overload: How good jobs went bad and what we can do about it. Princeton University Press, 2020.
2020: Sarah Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation. Princeton University Press.
2019: Monica Prasad, Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution. Russell Sage Foundation. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Stephanie L. Mudge, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. 2018.
2018: Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Cornell University Press. 2016.
2017: Marc Steinberg, England’s Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution. University of Chicago Press. 2016.
2016: Gabriel Abend, The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton University Press. 2014.
2016: Debbie Becher, Private Property and Public Power for Eminent Domain in Philadelphia. Oxford University Press. 2014.
2015: Martin Ruef, Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton University Press. 2014.
2014: Ofer Sharone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flawed System, Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences. University of Chicago Press. 2013.
2013: Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame, Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. University of Chicago Press. 2012.
2013: Monica Prasad, Northwestern University, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Harvard University Press. 2012.
2012: Greta R. Krippner, University of Michigan, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Harvard University Press. 2012.
2011: Balazs Vedres and David Stark, “Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups,” American Journal of Sociology 115(4):1150-1190. 2010.
2010: Terence G. Halliday, American Bar Association, Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern University, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Stanford University Press. 2009.
2009: Greta R. Krippner, University of Michigan, “The Making of U.S. Monetary Policy: Central Bank Transparency and the Neoliberal Dilemma,” Theory & Sociology 36(6):477-513. 2007.
2008: Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. MIT Press. 2006.
2007: Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, Douglas R. White, University of California, Irvine, Kenneth W. Koput, University of Arizona, Jason Owen Smith, University of Michigan, “Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences,” American Journal of Sociology 110(4):1132-1205. 2005.
2006: Olav Velthuis, Talking Prizes:Symbolic Meaning of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art. Princeton University Press. 2005.
2006: James R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach, University of California, Berkeley, Japan’s Network Economy: Structure, Presistence and Change. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
2005: Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, and Yuval Millo, London School of Economics, “Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange,” American Journal of Sociology 109(1):107-45. 2003.
2004: Harrison White, Columbia University, Markets from Networks Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production. Princeton University Press. 2002.
2004: Sarah Babb, Boston University, Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton University Press. 2001.
2003: Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley, The Architecture of Markets. Princeton University Press. 2002
Best Student Paper in Economic Sociology and Entrepreneurship Award, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation
2022: Jun Zhou, University of Michigan, “The Work-family Circuit: Doing and Undoing Gender through Monetary Flows in Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship”
2021: Devika Narayan. “Between the Cloud and a Hard Place: New organizational forms and market dynamics in the corporate computing industry”
2020: Grace Tien, “‘Culture’ and ‘Charisma’ in Startup Companies”
