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. This is one of the most celebrated awards given by the section, and it is presented only to scholars of the utmost distinction.

2024
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
2023

Jack Goldstone, George Mason University
2022

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, UC Berkeley

2021
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University

2020

Co-winners:

Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University
William Sewell Jr., University of Chicago