A composite map of Europe, Asia, and North Africa from the Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq (“The Excursion of One Who is Eager to Traverse the Regions of the World”), drafted by the Moroccan cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154. The map is oriented with the North at the bottom and the South at the top.

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Award Winners 2025

  • Global and Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Book Award
    • Winner: Quinsaat, Sharon M. Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
    • Honorable Mentions:
      • Larson, Eric. Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the U.S. and Mexico (University of California Press, 2023)
      • Long, Yan. Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford University Press, 2024), by Yan Long
  • Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book by an International Scholar Award
    • Co-Winners:
      • Husain, Fauzia. 2024. The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women. Stanford University Press.
      • Hanieh, Adam. Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of a World Market. Verso Press.
  • Global and Transnational Sociology Best Scholarly Article Award
    • Chang, Andy Scott. 2024. “Masculinity on the Margins: Boundary Work Among Immobile Fathers in Indonesia’s Transnational Families,” Social Forces 102(3): 1048–1067.
    • Honorable Mentions:
      • Cheong, Amanda R. 2025. “Who counts as a stateless person? Nation-statist logics and the liabilities of potential citizenship elsewhere.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 48(4): 883-905.
      • Gold, Tomás, and Ann Mische. 2024. “Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008-2016.” American Journal of Sociology. 129(6): 16601719.
  • Global and Transnational Sociology Best Graduate Student Paper Award
    • Co-Winners:
      • Eduardo Cornelius, “Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field.” Law & Society Review 57:340-363. 2023.
      • Xiaogao Zhou, “Care in Transition: Global Norms, Transnational Adaptation, and Family-Centered Gender-Affirming Care in China.” Social Science & Medicine 344:116658. 2024.
    • Honorable Mention:
      • Neha Lund, “Making the Case for Afghan Adjustment: The Racial Politics of Post-
        War Status Adjustment.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity:1-15. 2025.