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 2023
- Best Scholarly Book Award
- Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago), Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets (Princeton University Press), 2022
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Best Scholarly Article Award
- Winner: Katrina Quisumbing King (Northwestern University), “The Structural Sources of Ambiguity in the Modern State: Race, Empire, and Conflicts Over Membership” American Journal of Sociology 128(3), 2022
- Honorable Mention: Annie Hikido (Colby College) “Making South Africa Safe: The Gendered Production of Black Place on the Global Stage” Qualitative Sociology 44, 2021
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Best Graduate Student Paper
- Jorge Daniel Vasquez (American University), “WEB Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-Racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba, 1931-1941.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2023
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Best Publication (Book) by an
International Scholar
- Winner: Jieh-Min Wu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model (Harvard University Press) 2022
- Honorable Mention: Anju Paul (Yale-NUS College, Singapore), Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press) 2021