Global and Transnational Sociology Award Winners

BEST SCHOLARLY BOOK AWARD

2023: Winner:

  • Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago), Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets (Princeton University Press), 2022

2022: Co-Winners:

  • Dana Moss (University of Notre Dame), The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge UP), 2021
  • Gowri Vijayakumar (Brandeis University), At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis (Stanford UP), 2021

2021: Winner: Jeffrey J. Sallaz, Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital (Oxford University Press 2019).

2020: Co-Winners:

  • Marco Z. Garrido, The Patch-Work City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South. Durham: Duke University Press
  • Honorable Mention: Nitsan Chorev, Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and The Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press

2019: Winner: Michael Levien, Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (2018, Oxford University Press)

  • Honorable Mention: Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor and Private Authority in the Global Economy (2018, Oxford University Press)

2018: Winner: 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: Hoang, Kimberly Kay. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. (University of California Press, 2015)

2015: Loveman, Mara. National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. (Oxford University Press, 2014).

2014: Co-winners:

  • Amy A. Quark, College of William & Mary, Global Rivalries: Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
  • Peter Stamatov, Yale University, 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 UP 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)

2011: Eckstein, Susan Eva. 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

2023: 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

2022: Winner: 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: Co-Winners

  • Kimberly Kay Hoang, “Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments in Risky Markets”- GENDER & SOCIETY, Vol 34 No. 4, August, 2020 547–572
  • Julian Go, The Imperial Origins of American Policing: Militarization and Imperial Feedback in the Early 20th Century”- AJS Volume 125 Number 5 (March 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. (2020) 60, 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

  • Honorable Mention: Tahseen Shams, “Successful yet Precarious: South Asian Muslim Americans, Islamophobia, and the Model Minority Myth,” Sociological Perspectives (December 2019): 1-17.

2019: Winner: Yan Long, “The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013” American Journal of Sociology 124 no. 2 (September 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. 2016. “Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity.” American Sociological Review 81(5): 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. 2012 “Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs”, ASR 77(5) 831 –853.

2012: Co-Winners:

  • Beck, Colin (Pomona College). 2011. “The World-Cultural Origins of Revolutionary Waves: Five Centuries of European Contention.” Social Science History 35:2.
  • Hung, Ho-fung (Johns Hopkins University) and Jaime Kucinskas (Indiana University). 2011. “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980–2005.” American Journal of Sociology, 116:5.

2011 Co-winners:

  • Shun-ching Chan, Cheris. 2009. “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305.
  • David John Frank, Bayliss J. Camp, and Stephen A. Boutcher. 2010. “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005,” American Sociological Review 75: 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 55:391-418 (2008).

BEST PUBLICATION AWARD BY AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR

2023: Winner

  • 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

2022: Kristin Surak, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, for “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 for the outstanding article, “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, 2016.

2016: Monika Krause. 2014. The Good Project: Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason. The University of Chicago Press.

2014: Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki, Practicing Democracy: Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland(MacMillan, 2012).

2013: Min Zhou. 2012. “Participation in International Human Rights NGOs: The Effect of Democracy and State Capacity.” Social Science Research 41(5): 1254-1274.

2011: Shun-ching Chan, Cheris. 2009. “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China,” Theory and Society 38: 271-305.

2010: Max Haller, Roger Jowell, and Tom W. Smith, eds. The International Social Survey Programme, 1984-2009: Charting the Globe (Routledge, 2009).

BEST BOOK AWARD BY AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR

2021: Altan-Olcay, Özlem and Evren Balta. 2020. The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2015: Mallard,Grégoire. 2014. “Crafting the Nuclear Regime Complex (1950–1975): Dynamics of Harmonization of Opaque Treaty Rules.” European Journal of International Law 25(2): 445-472.

2014: Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki, Practicing Democracy: Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland(MacMillan, 2012).

BEST PUBLICATION BY A GRADUATE STUDENT

2023: Winner:

  • 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

2022: Winner:

  • Yannick Coenders (PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University), “Colonial Recursion and State Categories of Race: The Emergence of the “Non- Western Allochthone”

2021: Jeremy Kuperberg. 2021. “The Color Line in Southeastern Europe: A Du Boisian Analysis of the Yugoslav Region.” Social Problems.

  • Honorable Mention: Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar. “Time and Tide: Temporal Inequalities in Residential Decisions Around Climate Change.”
  • Honorable Mention: Alexander Hoppe. 2020. “Coordinating transnational futurework in fashion design.” Socio-Economic Review

2020: Omri Tubi, Northwestern University, “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, USC, “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):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 (2018, volume 42, issue 2).

  • 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 Co-Winners:

  • 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 Co-Winners:

  • Nahoko Kameo, University of California – Los Angeles, “Global Policies and Transnational Repertoires of Action: Rethinking Local Adoption and Decoupling at the Periphery.”
  • Rachael Pierotti, University of Michigan, “Increasing Rejection of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence of Global Cultural Diffusion.”

2013: Marco Garrido. 2012 “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: 165–185.

2011: Min Zhou. “Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000,” Social Forces 88: 1619-43 (2010)

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).