Global and Transnational Sociology Award Winners
BEST SCHOLARLY BOOK AWARD
2024
- Elena Shih, Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue: University of California Press, 2023
Honorable Mentions:
- Julian Go, Policing Empire: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US: Oxford University Press, 2023
- Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba: Stanford University Press, 2023
2023
- Kimberly Kay Hoang, Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets: Princeton University Press, 2022
2022
- Dana Moss, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes: Cambridge University Press, 2021
- Gowri Vijayakumar, At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis: Stanford University Press, 2021
2021
- Jeffrey J. Sallaz, Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital: Oxford University Press, 2019
2020
- Marco Z. Garrido, The Patch-Work City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018
Honorable Mention:
- Nitsan Chorev, Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and The Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019
2019
- Michael Levien, Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India: Oxford University Press, 2018 Honorable Mention:
- Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor and Private Authority in the Global Economy: Oxford University Press, 2018
2018
- Ann Swidler and Susan Watkins. A Fraught Embrace: The Romance & Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa: Princeton University Press, 2017
Honorable Mention:
- Ching Kwan Lee. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa: University of Chicago Press, 2017
2017
- Faranak Miraftab, Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking: Indiana University Press, 2016
2016
- Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work: University of California Press,
2015
2015
- Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America: Oxford University Press, 2014
2014
- Amy A. Quark, Global Rivalries: Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade: University of Chicago Press, 2013
- Peter Stamatov, The Origins of Global Humanitarianism: Religion, Empires, and Advocacy: Cambridge University Press, 2013
2013
- Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power Vol 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945: Cambridge University Press, 2012
2012
- Julian Go. Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present: Cambridge University Press, 2012
2011
- Sarah Babb, Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations: University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Susan Eva Eckstein, The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the US and their Homeland: Routledge, 2009
2010
- Terrence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers. Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis: Stanford University Press, 2009
BEST SCHOLARLY ARTICLE AWARD
2024
- Jack Jin Gary Lee, “Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies, 1886–1890.” Law & Social Inquiry, 2023
Honorable Mentions:
- Anna Skarpelis. 2023. “Horror Vacui: Racial Misalignment, Symbolic Repair, and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography.” American Journal of Sociology 129(2), 2023
- Amanda Cheong, “Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood”. Sociological Theory 41(4), 2023
2023
- Katrina Quisumbing King, “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
2022
- Mishal Khan (University of California, Hastings College of Law) “Abolition as a Racial Project: Erasures and Racializations on the Borders of British India,” Political Power and Social Theory 38, 2021
Honorable Mention:
- Zeynep Ozgen (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Matthias Koenig (Heidelberg University) “When global scripts do not resonate: international minority rights and local repertoires of diversity in Southern Turkey.” Qualitative Sociology 45(1), 2022
2021
- Kimberly Kay Hoang, “Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments in Risky Markets”- GENDER & SOCIETY 34(4), 2020: 547–572
- Julian Go, The Imperial Origins of American Policing: Militarization and Imperial Feedback in the Early 20th Century” American Journal of Sociology 125(5), 2020: 1193–1254
Honorable Mention:
- Peng Wang, Paul Joosse and Lok Lee Cho, “The Evolution of Protest Policing in a Hybrid Regime”- BRIT. J. CRIMINOL 60, 2020: 1523–1546
2020
- Alexander Kentikelenis and Sarah Babb, “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change,” American Journal of Sociology 124(6), 2019
Honorable Mention:
- Tahseen Shams, “Successful yet Precarious: South Asian Muslim Americans, Islamophobia, and the Model Minority Myth,” Sociological Perspectives 2019: 1-17
2019
- Yan Long, “The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013” American Journal of Sociology 124(2), 2018: 309-366
Honorable Mention:
- Kiyoteru Tsutsui, “Human Rights and Minority Activism in Japan: Transformation of Movement Actorhood and Local-Global Feedback Loop.” American Journal of Sociology 122, no. 4 (January 2017): 1050-1103
2018
- Jordanna Matlon, “Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity.” American Sociological Review 81(5), 2016: 1014-1038.
2017
- Dana M. Moss, “Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of the Arab Spring.” Social Problems, 2016.
2016
- Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2014. “Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian Ascendency and Western Decline in Global Sex Work.” Social Problems 61(4): 507–529.
2015
- 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
- Robert D. Woodberry, National University of Singapore, “The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy.” American Political Science Review 106, 2012:244-274
2013
- Nitsan Chorev, “Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs”, American Sociological Review 77(5), 2012: 831 –853
2012
- Colin Beck, “The World-Cultural Origins of Revolutionary Waves: Five Centuries of European Contention.” Social Science History 35(2), 2011
- Ho-fung Hung and Jaime Kucinskas,“Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980–2005.” American Journal of Sociology, 116(5), 2011
2011
- Cheri Shun-ching Chan, “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38, 2009: 271-305.
- David John Frank, Bayliss J. Camp, and Stephen A. Boutcher, “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005,” American Sociological Review 75, 2010: 867-93
2010
- Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Hwa Ji Shin “Global Norms, Local Activism, and Social Movement Outcomes: Global Human Rights and Resident Koreans in Japan.” Social Problems 55, 2008: 391-418&
BEST PUBLICATION BY A GRADUATE STUDENT
2024
- Sam Dinger, “Un/predictable states: legal status regularization and the production of refugee precarity in Lebanon”
- Syeda Masood, “Encountering the Global Color Line: Racialized Afghan Identity in Occupied Afghanistan”
2023
- Jorge Daniel Vasquez, “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
2022
- Yannick Coenders, “Colonial Recursion and State Categories of Race: The Emergence of the “Non- Western Allochthone”
2021
- Jeremy Kuperberg, “The Color Line in Southeastern Europe: A Du Boisian Analysis of the Yugoslav Region.” Social Problems, 2021
Honorable Mentions:
- Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar. “Time and Tide: Temporal Inequalities in Residential Decisions Around Climate Change.”
- Alexander Hoppe, “Coordinating transnational futurework in fashion design.” Socio-Economic Review, 2020
2020
- Omri Tubi, “Kill me a Mosquito and I Will Build a State: Political Economy and the Socio-Technicalities of Jewish Colonization in Palestine, 1922-1940”
Honorable Mention:
- Minwoo Jung, “Mobilizing ‘the International’: Reluctant Universalism and Pan- Ethnic Regionalism in the South Korean LGBT Movement”
2019
- Andy Scott Chang. 2018. “Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia’s Migration Infrastructure.” Pacific Affairs 91(4), 2018: 695-716
2018
- Jake Watson, “Family Ideation, Immigration, and the Racial State: Explaining Divergent Family Reunification Policies in Britain and the US.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(2), 2018
Honorable Mention:
- Tara Gonsalves and Christopher Velasco. “Understanding Transnational LGBT Network Formation: Evidence from Europe.”
2017
- Tania DoCarmo, “UN Workspace and the Institutionalization of Human Trafficking as a Contemporary Phenomenon”
2016
- Shai Dromi “For Good and Country: Nationalism and the Diffusion of Humanitarianism in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
2015
- Mohammad Ali Kadivar, “Popular Transitions and the Fate of Young Democracies.“
- Alexandre White. “Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics: Contrasting Responses to Bubonic Plague and Smallpox in 1901 Cape Town.”
2014
- Nahoko Kameo, “Global Policies and Transnational Repertoires of Action: Rethinking Local Adoption and Decoupling at the Periphery.”
- Rachael Pierotti, “Increasing Rejection of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence of Global Cultural Diffusion.”
2013
- Marco Garrido, “The Ideology of the Dual City: The Modernist Ethic in the Corporate Development of Makati City, Metro Manila.” International Journal for Urban and Regional Research. 37, 2012: 165–185
2011
- Min Zhou. “Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000,” Social Forces 88, 2010: 1619-43
2010
- Patricia Bromley and Susan Garnett Russell. “The Holocaust as History and Human Rights: A Cross-National Analysis of Holocaust Education in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008.” Prospects 153, 2010
BEST SCHOLARLY ARTICLE AWARD BY AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR
2024
- Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, “Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship.” Sociological Theory 40(2), 2022: 151-178
Honorable Mention:
- Jiaqi M Liu, “Diasporic Placemaking: The Internationalisation of a Migrant Hometown in Post-Socialist China.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(1), 2022: 209-227.
2022
- Kristin Surak, “Millionaire Mobility and the Sale of Citizenship,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(1), 2021
2020
- Lorenzo Gabrielli, Emanuel Deutschmann, Fabrizio Natale, Etore Recchi and Michele Vespe, “Dissecting global air traffic data to discern different types and trends of transnational human mobility,” EPJ Data Sci. 8, 26. 2019.
2017
- Emanuel Deutschmann, “The Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity.” Social Science Research.” 59, 2016: 120-136.
2015
- Grégoire Mallard, “Crafting the Nuclear Regime Complex (1950–1975): Dynamics of Harmonization of Opaque Treaty Rules.” European Journal of International Law 25(2), 2014: 445-472.
2013
- Min Zhou,“Participation in International Human Rights NGOs: The Effect of Democracy and State Capacity.” Social Science Research 41(5), 2012: 1254-1274.
2011
- Shun-ching Chan, Cheris, “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38, 2009: 271-305.
BEST BOOK AWARD BY AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR
2023
- Jieh-Min Wu, Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model: Harvard University Press 2022
Honorable Mention
- Anju Paul, Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia: Cambridge University Press, 2021
2021
- Altan-Olcay, Özlem and Evren Balta, The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020
2016
- Monika Krause, The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason: The University of Chicago Press, 2014
2014
- Eeva Luhtakallio, Practicing Democracy: Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland: MacMillan, 2012
2010
- Max Haller, Roger Jowell, and Tom W. Smith, eds. The International Social Survey Programme, 1984-2009: Charting the Globe: Routledge, 2009