Announcements
Call for Awards – 2025
CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS Global Note: All nominees must be members of the ASA to be considered for section awards. BARRINGTON MOORE BOOK AWARD The section presents the Barrington Moore …
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CHS-GTS Mentoring Event 2024
At this year’s ASA meeting, the Comparative Historical and Global & Transnational sections are teaming up once again to host a Graduate Student and Postdoc Mentoring Event. The event will …
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2024 CHS Section Award Winners
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 …
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2024 ASA Mini-Conference
Intersectional Solidarity: Emerging Comparative Historical Perspectives Comparative Historical Sociology Mini-ConferenceMcGill UniversityAugust 9, 2024 Register for Free: http://bit.ly/4c7WbBq (lunch provided)chsminicon2024@gmail.com State Violence and EmpireLuis Rubén González Márquez · Heidi Nicholls · Corey R. …
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New Book: After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology
What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that have long justified comparison’s use: that cases can …
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Xiaohong Xu Memorial Conference (May 24) Professor Xiaohong Xu, sociologist of politics, culture, revolution, political economy, and China, passed away on December 12, 2023. His death interrupted a period of …
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CHS Section Mid-Year Town Hall (4/19) We will be convening for our annual section mid-year town hall on April 19, 2024, at 12pm EST on zoom. Now part of our normal section …
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New Book: Selina Gallo-Cruz- Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Global Nonviolence as Contentious Performance.
Congrats to Selina Gallo-Cruz, who recent published has published an Element in Contentious Politics with Cambridge University Press, Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Global Nonviolence as Contentious Performance.
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