CHS Panels / Call for Papers for ASA 2024

CHS Panels / Call for Papers for ASA 2024 in Montreal (Deadline February 26, 2024)

We are very excited to share our section panels being organized for next year’s ASA. These include an invited session, “Towards an Intersectional Comparative-Historical Sociology,” and three panels open for paper submission plus our roundtables session. 

The online portal is open for submissions! The deadline is February 26, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. 

Comparative and/or Historical Sociology: Open Session (*Open to papers/extended abstract submission)

We welcome submissions on topics of comparative and/or historical sociology, broadly defined.
(Session Organizer) Vasfiye Betul Toprak, University of Virginia; (Session Organizer) Simeon J. Newman 

Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Politics (*Open to papers/extended abstract submission)
Historical sociologists have increasingly turned attention to tracing various ways colonial and imperial state practices and rule have shaped social, political, and economic life in successor independent states and post-imperial metropoles. This panel welcomes papers across a wide range of regions and cases that address questions of colonial continuity or change related to contemporary political outcomes. These include, but are not limited to, liberal / authoritarian systems, identity politics and movements, political contention, ethnic and racial classifications, citizenship, and legal systems.
(Session Organizer) Yael H Berda, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Field Theory, History, and Sociological Analysis: New Directions (*Open to papers/extended abstract submission)
Field theory has increasingly been deployed as a vigorous framework for historical sociological analysis. Applied to history, Bourdieu’s field theory underscores the importance of examining processes of contestation among social actors as a means to highlight both the objective features of their social world and their subjective perception of it. This session invites papers that theoretically and empirically engage and advance field theory and its insights into a wide range of historical cases.
(Session Organizer) Sourabh Singh, Florida State University
(Discussant) George Steinmetz, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology Roundtables (*Open to papers/extended abstract submission)
We welcome submissions on topics of comparative and/or historical sociology, broadly defined.
(Session Organizer) Vasfiye Betul Toprak, University of Virginia; (Session Organizer) Simeon J. Newman