2024
Co-winners:
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Celene Reynolds. 2022. “Repurposing Title IX: How Sexual Harassment Became Sex Discrimination in American Higher Education.” American Journal of Sociology 128(2):462-514 |
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Jeremy Levine and Kelly L. Russell. 2023. “Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–1984.” American Journal of Sociology 128(4):1158-1205 |
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Jorge Daniel Vasquez. 2023. “WEB Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba (1931–1941).” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 21(1):1-27 |
2023
Co-winners:
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Regina S. Baker. 2022. “The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South.” |
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Robert Braun. 2022. “Bloodlines: National border crossings and antisemitism in Weimar Germany.” |
2022
Winner:
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Yang Zhang. 2021 “Why Elites Rebel: Elite Insurrections During the Taiping Civil War in China.” American Journal of Sociology. |
Honorable Mentions:
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Benjamin Bradlow. 2021. “Embedded Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution.” Theory and Society. |
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Daniel Hirschman. 2021. “Rediscovering The 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and The Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology. |
2021
Co-winners:
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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. |
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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 | January 2020 |
2020
Co-winners:
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Fabien Accominotti, Shamus R. Khan, and Adam Storer. 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. |
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Alexander E. Kentikelenis and Sarah Babb. 2019. “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.” American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1720-62. |
2019
Co-winners:
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Barış Büyükokutan. 2018. “Elitist by default? Interaction dynamics and the inclusiveness of secularization in Turkish literary milieus.” American Journal of Sociology 123(5): 1249-1295. |
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Christopher Muller. 2018 “Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South.” American Journal of Sociology 124(2): 367-405. |
2018
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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
Co-winners:
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Barry Eidlin, 2016, “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. |
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Ivan Ermakoff, 2015, “The Structure of Contingency,” American Journal of Sociology 121(1): 64-125. |
2016
Winner:
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Josh Pacewicz. 2015. “Playing the Neoliberal Game: Why Community Leaders Left Party Politics to Partisan Activists”, American Journal of Sociology 121(3):826-881. |
Honorable Mention:
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Damon Mayrl. 2015. “How Does the State Structure Secularization?”, European Journal of Sociology 56(2):207-239. |
2015
Winner:
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Melissa Wilde and Sabrina Danielsen. 2014. “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America.” American Journal of Sociology 119(6): 1710-1760. |
Honorable Mention:
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Malcolm Fairbrother. 2014. “Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Sociology 119(5): 1324-1379. |
2014
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Robert Fishman and Omar Lizardo. “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste.” American Sociological Review 78(2): 213-239. |
2013
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Elisabeth Anderson. 2012. “Ideas in Action: The Politics of Prussian Child Labor Reform, 1817-1839”. Theory and Society 42: 81-119. |
2012
Winner:
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Nicolas Hoover Wilson, 2011. “From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, circa 1770-1855.” American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1437-77. |
Honorable Mention:
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Hazem Kandil, 2011. “Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian Counterhegemonic Strategies.” Theory and Society 40(1):37-62. |
2011
Co-winners:
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Danielle Kane and Jung Mee Park, 2009. “The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia.” American Journal of Sociology 115(2):365-404. |
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Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein, 2010. “The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001.” American Sociological Review 75(5):764-790. |
2010
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Dan Slater, 2009. “Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia.” American Journal of Sociology 115(1):203-254. |
2009
Winner:
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Cedric de Leon, 2008. “‘No Bourgeois Mass Party, No Democracy’: The Missing Link in Barrington Moore’s American Civil War.” Political Power and Social Theory 19: 39-82. |
Honorable Mentions:
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Ho-fung Hung, 2008. “Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited.” American Sociological Review 73: 569-88. |
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Liliana Riga, 2008. “The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the ‘Russian’ Revolutionary Elite.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 649-705. |
2008
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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) (March 2006): 1463-568. |
2007
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Wimmer, Andreas and Brian Min, 2006. “From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001.” American Sociological Review 71:867-897. |
2006
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Prasad, Monica. 2005. “Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981.” American Journal of Sociology 111(2): 357-407. |
Honorable Mention:
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Ari Adut, 2005. “A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde.” American Journal of Sociology 111(1): 213-248. |
2005
Winner:
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Marc Steinberg. 2003. “Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law.” American Journal of Sociology 109: 445-495. |