The Section on the Sociology of Development’s Faculty Article Award
2024: Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University, “Developmentalism as Internationalism Toward a Global Historical Sociology of the Origins of the Development Project.” Sociology of Development. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Masoud Movahed, University of Pennsylvania, “Varieties of capitalism and income inequality.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 2023.
2023: Benjamin H. Bradlow, Princeton University, “Embeddedness and Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution.” Theory and Society, Vol. 51(1): 117–144. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Rhacel S. Parreñas, University of Southern California, “Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 86(6): 1043–1065. 2021.
2022: Michael Goldman, University of Minnesota, and Devika Narayan, Oxford University, “Through the Optics of Finance: Speculative Urbanism and the transformation of Markets.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 45(2): 209-231. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Andy Chang, Singapore Management University, “Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia.” Social Problems, Vol. 68(4): 903-924. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University, “Incorporation: Governing Gendered Violence in a State of Disempowerment.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(4): 852-888. 2021.
2021: Laura Doering and Kristen McNeill. “Elaborating on the Abstract: Group Meaning-Making in a Colombian Microsavings Program” American Sociological Review 85(3):417-450. 2020.
2021: Marco Garrido. “Democracy as Disorder: Institutionalized Sources of Democratic Disenchantment among the Middle Class in Metro Manila.” Social Forces 99 (3): 1036-59. / Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago. 2021.
2021 Honorable Mention: Zachary Levenson, “‘Such Elements Do Not Belong in an Ordered Society’: Managing Rural-Urban Resettlement in Democratic South Africa.” Journal of Agrarian Change 19(3):427-46. 2019.
2020: Victoria Reyes, UC Riverside, “Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters.” Social Forces, 96 (3): 1097–1118. 2018.
2020: Marcel Paret, University of Utah, “Critical Nostalgias in Democratic South Africa.” The Sociological Quarterly, 59 (4): 678-696. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, UC-Irvine School of Law, “Just Like Global Firms: Unintended Gender Parity and Speculative Isomorphism in India’s Elite Professions.” Law & Society Review, 53 (1): 108-140. 2019.
2019: Yan Long, “The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989-2013,” American Journal of Sociology 124(2):309-366. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Yao Lu, “Empowerment or Disintegration? Migration, Social Institutions, and Collective Action in Rural China”
2018: Erin Metz McDonnell, “Patchwork Leviathan: How Pockets of Bureaucratic Governance Flourish within Institutionally Diverse Developing States,” American Sociological Review 82(3):476-510. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Cihan Tuğal, “The Uneven Neoliberalization of Good Works: Islamic Charitable Fields and Their Impact on Diffusion,” American Journal of Sociology 123(2):426-464. 2017.
2017: Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University, “Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India,” World Development 74:77-92. 2015.
2017 Honorable Mention: Şahan Savaş Karataşlı, Princeton University, “The Capitalist World-Economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500–2008,” Sociology of Development 3(2):163-196. 2017.
2016: Prerna Singh, “Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States,” World Politics 67(3):1-57. 2015.
2015: Gabriel Hetland, “The Crooked Line: From Popular Mobilization to Participatory Democracy in Chavez-Era Venezuela,” Qualitative Sociology 37(4):373-401. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Becky Hsu, “Alleviating Poverty or Reinforcing Inequality? Interpreting Microfinance Practices with Illustrations from Rural China,” British Journal of Sociology 65(2):245-265. 2014.
2014: Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews, all of Harvard Kennedy School, “Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation,” The Journal of Development Studies 49(1):1-18. 2013.
2013: Cheol-Sung Lee, “Associational Networks and Welfare States in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan” World Politics 64(3):507-554. 2012.
The Section on the Sociology of Development’s Book Award
2024: Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago, An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi. University of Chicago Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Elena Shih, Brown University, Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue. University of California Press. 2023.
2023: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Akshay Mangla, University of Oxford, Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education, and Public Service Delivery in Rural India. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Jordanna Matlon, American University, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. Cornell University Press. 2022.
2022: Natasha Iskander, New York University, Does Skill Make Us Human? Princeton University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Georgetown University, Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India. Oxford University Press. 2021.
2021: Lauren Duquette-Rury. Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Julia Chuang. Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market. University of California Press, 2020.
2020: Chris Bobel, University of Massachusetts Boston, The Managed Body: Developing Girls & Menstrual Health in the Global South. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
2020: Rebecca Tarlau, Pennsylvania State University, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019.
2019: Michael Levien, Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Marie E. Berry, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
2018: Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018: Erin Beck, How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs. Duke University Press. 2017.
2017: Pablo Lapegna, University of Georgia, Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina. Oxford University Press. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Tiana S. Paschel, University of California, Berkeley, Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Columbia and Brazil. Princeton University Press. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Terence McDonnell, University of Notre Dame, Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns. University of Chicago Press. 2016.
2016: Sarah Swider, Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat. Cornell University/ILR Press. 2015.
2015: Paromita Sanyal, Credit to Capabilities: A Sociological Study of Microcredit Groups in India. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
2014: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Development in India. Cambridge University Press. 2013.
2013: Evelyne Huber, and John D Stephens, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America. The University of Chicago Press. 2012.
2012: Patrick Barron, University of Oxford, Rachel Diprose, University of Oxford, and Michael Woolcock, World Bank, Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia. Yale University Press. 2011.
2012: James Mahoney, Northwestern University, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 2010.
The Section on the Sociology of Development’s Graduate Student Paper Award
2024: Lívio Silva-Muller, Geneva Graduate Institute, “Coupling the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Tracy Fehr, University of Colorado Boulder, “Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Development Surge: The Unintended Local Impacts of Reconstruction.”
2024 Honorable Mention: Priyam Saraf, Stanford University, “Interpreting Commerce and Care: A Comparative Ethnography of Garment Firms in Bangladesh.”
2023: Sophia Boutilier, Stony Brook University, ““What do you mean by that?”: Meanings of Solidarity for Canadian International Development Workers.”
2023: Skye Niles, University of Colorado Boulder, “Colorblind Racism and Market-Based Development.”
2022: Joel Salvador Herrera and Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez, UCLA, “Diversifying violence: Mining, Export-Agriculture, and Criminal Governance in Mexico.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Kai Feng, University of Pennsylvania, “Unequal Duties and Unequal Retirement: Decomposing the Women’s Labor Force Decline in Post-Reform China.”
2021: Daniela R. Urbina, “Mass Education and Women’s Autonomy: Evidence from Latin America”
2021 Honorable Mention: Danielle Falzon, “The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences ‘Developing’ Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations”
2020: Sneha Annavarapu, University of Chicago, “Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India.”
2020 Honorable Mention: Rahardhika Arista Utama, Northwestern University, “Embedded Peasantry: Path-Dependence and Economic Transformation in Indonesia and Malaysia.”
2019: Luciana Souza Leão, Columbia University, “Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico”
2019 Honorable Mention: Catalina Vallejo, University of Virginia, “Economic Reparations, Entrepreneurship, and Post-Conflict Development: Evidence from Colombia”
2018: Joel S Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles, “Cultivating violence: trade liberalization, labor informality, and the Mexican drug trade”
2018 Honorable Mention: Alvin A. Camba, Johns Hopkins University, “The Contentious Politics of Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Investments in the Philippines”
2018 Honorable Mention: Anjuli N. Fahlberg, Northeastern University, “Activism under Fire: Urban Governance and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro’s Conflict Zones”
2017: Manuel Rosaldo, University of California, Berkeley, “Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian Recycler Movement, 1986-2011,” Social Problems 63(3):351-372. 2016.
2016: Pandian Roshan, “Does Manufacturing Matter for Economic Growth in the Era of Globalization?” Social Forces 95(3):909-940. 2017.
2015: Julia Behrmanand Abigail Weitzman, “The Effect of Severe Natural Disaster on Fertility: Evidence from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake”
2015: Gowri Vijayakumar, “I’ll be like Water:” Gender, Class and Flexible Aspirations at the Edge of India’s Knowledge Economy,” Gender & Society 27(6):777-798. 2013.
2014: Diana Rodríguez-Franco, Northwestern University, “Internal Wars, Taxation, and State Building,” American Sociological Review 81(1):190-213. 2016.
2013: Michael Levien and Marcel Paret, “A Second Double Movement? Polanyi and Shifting Global Opinions on Neoliberalism,” International Sociology 27(6):724– 744. 2012.
2012: Abigail Andrews, University of California, Berkeley, “The Quiet Insubordination of Staying Home: Rethinking Women who “’Stay Behind”’
The Section on the Sociology of Development’s Lifetime Achievement Award
2023: Samuel Cohn, Texas A&M University
2012: Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley
The Section on the Sociology of Development’s Samuel Cohn Distinguished Service Award
2023: Alaka Basu, Cornell University
2022: Devparna Roy, Nazareth College
2022: Heidi Rademacher, SUNY Brockport
2018: Matthew Sanderson, Kansas State University
2014: Samuel Cohn, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University
The Section of the Sociology of Development’s Distinguished Career Award
2022: Rae Blumberg, University of Virginia
