Charles Tilly Best Article Award

The section awards the Charles Tilly Best Article Award every year to the best article in the area of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared within two years prior to the year in which they are nominated. Articles may be nominated by authors or by other section members.

2023 Award

Co-winners:

	Regina S. Baker. 2022. “The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South.”
	Robert Braun. 2022. “Bloodlines: National border crossings and antisemitism in Weimar Germany.”

2022 Award

Winner:

Yang Zhang. 2021 “Why Elites Rebel: Elite Insurrections During the Taiping Civil War in China.” American Journal of Sociology.

Honorable Mentions:

	Benjamin Bradlow. 2021. “Embedded Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution.” Theory and Society.
	Daniel Hirschman. 2021. “Rediscovering The 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and The Stylized Facts of Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology.

2021 Award

Co-winners:

	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.
	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 Award

Co-winners:

	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.
	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 Award

Co-winners:

	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.
	Christopher Muller. 2018 “Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South.” American Journal of Sociology 124(2): 367-405.

2018 Award

Winner:

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 Award

Co-winners:

	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.
	Ivan Ermakoff, 2015, “The Structure of Contingency,” American Journal of Sociology 121(1): 64-125.

2016 Award

Winner:

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:

Damon Mayrl. 2015. “How Does the State Structure Secularization?”, European Journal of Sociology 56(2):207-239.

2015 Award

Winner:

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:

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 Award

Winner:

Robert Fishman and Omar Lizardo. “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste.” American Sociological Review 78(2): 213-239.

2013 Award

Winner:

Elisabeth Anderson. 2012. “Ideas in Action: The Politics of Prussian Child Labor Reform, 1817-1839”. Theory and Society 42: 81-119.

2012 Award

Winner:

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:

Hazem Kandil, 2011. “Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian Counterhegemonic Strategies.” Theory and Society 40(1):37-62.

2011 Award

Co-winners:

	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.
	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 Award

Winner:

Dan Slater, 2009. “Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia.” American Journal of Sociology 115(1):203-254.

2009 Award

Winner:

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:

	Ho-fung Hung, 2008. “Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited.” American Sociological Review 73: 569-88.
	Liliana Riga, 2008. “The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the ‘Russian’ Revolutionary Elite.” American Journal of Sociology 114: 649-705.