2023 CHS Section Award Winners

Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award 

The section presents the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award every year in order to recognize a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. Committee: Ho-fung Hung (Chair, Johns Hopkins University), Mounira Charrad (University of Texas at Austin) and Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley).

Winner: Jack Goldstone, George Mason University

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Barrington Moore Book Award

The section presents the Barrington Moore Book Award every year to the best book in the area of comparative-historical sociology. Committee: Joachim J. Savelsberg (Chair, University of Minnesota), Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan) and Mishal Khan (University of California, Hastings College of Law).

Winner: Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg, Germany) for Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires, Cornell University Press.

Honorable Mention: Phillip A. Hough (Florida Atlantic University) for At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia, Cambridge University Press.

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Wyrtzen (Yale University) for Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East, Columbia University Press.

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Charles Tilly Article Award

The section presents the Charles Tilly Article Award every year to the best article in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. Committee: Rebecca Jean Emigh (Chair, University of California Los Angeles), Laura K. Nelson (University of British Columbia) and Yang Zhang (American University).

Co-Winner: Regina S. Baker (University of Pennsylvania) for “The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South.”

Co-Winner: Robert Braun (University of California-Berkeley) for “Bloodlines: National border crossings and antisemitism in Weimar Germany.”

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Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award 

The section presents the Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award every year to the best graduate student paper in the subfield of comparative-historical sociology. Committee: Fabien Accominotti (Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Andrew Buck (University of Southern Indiana), and Jen Triplett (University of Michigan).

Winner: Luis Flores (University of Michigan) for “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.” 

Honorable Mention: Shilin Jia (University of Chicago) and Benjamin Rohr (University of Mannheim) for “Vacancy Chains as Strategy: Inter-Administration Mobility of Political Elites in Reform China.”  

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Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award

The section presents the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award every year to the best doctoral dissertation in the area of comparative-historical sociology. Committee: Nick Wilson (StonyBrook University), Wan-Zi Lu (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), and Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins University).

Winner: Martin Eiermann for “American Privacy: Diffusion and Institutionalization of an Emerging Political Logic, 1870-1930.”