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.
Winner: George Steinmetz, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
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.
Winner: Zeke Baker, Sonoma State University, Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future. (University of California Press, 2024.)
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.
Co-winner: Andreas Wimmer, Seungwon Lee, and Jack LaViolette (Columbia University), “Diffusion Through Multiple Domains: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism Across Europe, 1770–1930.” American Journal of Sociology 130 (4): 931–75.
Co-winner: AKM Skarpelis (Queen’s College, CUNY), Horror Vacui: Racial Misalignment, Symbolic Repair, and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 129, No 2.
Honorable Mention: Joy Chen (Renmin University), Erik H. Wang (NYU), and Xiaoming Zhang (Zhejiang University), “From Powerholders to Stakeholders: State‐building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China.” American Journal of Political Science 69 (2): 607–23.
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.
Co-winner: Mary Shi, UC Berkeley, “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789–1862”
Honorable Mention: Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Underground Labor and the Politics of Circuits: Public Transit Systems of New York and Seoul, 1974-2022”
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.
Co-winner: Peter Kent-Stoll, UMass Amherst, “Dispossessory citizenship: The settler colonial state and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ relocation program, 1952–1972.” Social Problems 71, no. 4 (2024): 1014-1031.
Co-winner: Emily H. Ruppel, UC Berkeley, “How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities.” American Sociological Review 89, no. 5 (2024): 907-936.
Honorable Mention: Muhammad Amasha, Yale University, “Theorizing Dilemmas through Intellectuals’ Politics”
