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Best Book Award





YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2006

Eiko Ikegami

New School University

Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Honorable Mention

Paul Lichterman

University of Southern California

Elusive Togetherness : Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions (Princeton University Press 2005)

Honorable Mention

Philip Smith

Yale University

Why War?: The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez (University of Chicago Press 2005)

Honorable Mention

Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Swarthmore College

The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End (University of Chicago Press 2005)

2005

Eva Illouz


Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Honorable Mention

Tia DeNora

University of Exeter

After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology

Honorable Mention

Mario Luis Small

Princeton University

Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio

2004

Annette Lareau



Laura Grindstaff

Temple University



University of California, Davis

Unequal Childhoods: class, race and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003

The Money Shot: Trash, Class and the Making of TV Talk Shows. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002

2003

Amy Binder

University of California-San Diego

Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public School

2002

Wendy Griswold

University of Chicago

Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (Princeton Univ. Press)

2001

Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Swarthmore College

Theorizing the Standoff: Contingency in Action


Stnaley Lieberson

Harvard University

A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change

2000

Joseph Soares

Yale University

The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University


Nina Eliasoph

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Avoiding Politics; How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life

1999

Joshua Gamson

Yale University

Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity


Wendy Nelson Espeland

Northwestern University

The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest

1998

Chandra Mukerji

University of California-San Diego

Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles

1997

Sharon Hayes

University of Virginia

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

1996

Karen A. Cerulo

Viviana Zelizer

Rutgers University

Princeton University

Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation

The Social Meaning of Money

1995

Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Magali Sarfatti Larson


Childerly: Nature and Morality in a country Village



Behind The Post Modern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth Century America

1994

Gideon Kunda

Tel Aviv University

Engineering Culture: Control & Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

1993

Not given



1992

Rick Fantasia

Faye Ginsburg

Smith College

Cultures of Solidarity

Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community

1991

Not given



1990

George M. Thomas

Arizona State University

Revivalism & Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States



Graduate Student Paper Award





YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2006

Jason Mast

University of California-Los Angeles and Visiting Fellow, Yale University

"The Cultural Pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/Lewinsky Affair," in Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast, Cambridge University Press 2006.


Kim Babon

University of Chicago

"Composition , Coherence, and Attachment: The Critical Role of Context in Reception," forthcoming in Poetics.

2005

Gregoire Mallard

Princeton University

Communities of Interpreters and their Technical Instruments” (forthcoming in ASR)

2004

Virag Molnar

Princeton University

"Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Post-War Hungary"

2003

Karen Danna Lynch

Rutgers University

"The Good Mother: Ideologies of Motherhood 1950-1998"

2002

Genevieve Zubrzycki

University of Chicago

We the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic Visions of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates”

2001

Jamie Mullaney

Rutgers University

Like A Virgin: Temptation, Resistance, and the Construction of Identities Based on “Not Doings”

2001

Shyon Baumann

Harvard University

Intellectualizing Discourse and Art World Development: The Case of Film in the United States”

2000

Gabriella Fried

University of California, Los Angeles

On Remembering and Silencing the Past: The Adult Children of the Disappeared of Argentina and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective”

1999

Kari Lerum

University of Washington, Seattle

Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement Turn Radical Women into 'Useless Citizens'”

1998

Kristen Purcell

Rutgers University

A League of Their Own: Mental Leveling and the Creation of Social Comparability in Sport”

1997

Wayne Brekhaus

Rutgers University

Social Marking and the Mental Coloring of Identity: Sexual Identity Construction and Maintenance in the United States”

1996

Ronald N. Jacobs

University of California-Los Angeles

"Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating"

1995

Bethany Bryson



Stephen Ellingson


Anything but Heavy Metal: Identity and Exclusion in Musical Taste”



Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Ante-bellum Cincinnati”

1994

Matthew P. Lawson

Princeton University

"Free to Choose: Submission in the Lives of Catholic Charismatics"

1993

Timothy Dowd

Princeton University

"The Song Remains the Same? The Musical Diversity and Industry Context of Number One Songs, 1955-1988"

1992

Christiana Nippert-Eng

State University of New York-Stony Brook


1991

Ann Bowler

New School for Social Research


1990

Ken Dauber

Northwestern University




Award for Best Article





YEAR

NAME

AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD

TITLE

2006

Jeremy Brooke Straughn

Purdue University

Taking the State at Its Word: The Arts of Consentful Contention in the German Democratic Republic,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 110 (May 2005), pages 1598–1650.


Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson

Harvard University

"Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket," American Sociological Review, Volume 70 (February 2005), pages 82-110.

2005

Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman

University of Southern California

Culture in Interaction,” AJS

2004

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey

Yale University



Clark University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The 'Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama," European Journal of Sociology

"Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority," American Journal of Sociology

2003

John Foran and Jean-Pierre Reed

University of California-Santa Barbara; University of Memphis

"Political Cultures of Opposition: Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua"

2002

Vincent Roseignio and William Danaher

Ohio State University

Radio and the Mobilization of Textile Workers in the South”

2002

Marion Fourcase-Gourinchas

Princeton University

Politics, Institutional Structures, and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study”

2001

Anne Kane

University of Texas

Narratives of Nationalism: Construction Irish National Identity During the Land War, 1879-82”

2001

Paul Lichterman

Princeton University

Talking Identity in the Public Sphere: Broad Visions and Small Spaces in Sexual Identity Politics”

2000

Marc Steinberg

Smith College

The Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse Among Nineteenth-Century English-Cotton Spinners”

1999

Orville Lee

Northwestern University

Culture and Democratic Theory: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Democracy”

1998

Nina Eliasoph

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Making a Fragile Public: A Talk-Centered Study of Citizenship and Power”

1997

Bonnie Erickson



Margaret Somers

University of Toronto



University of Michigan

Culture, Class and Connections.”



The 'Misteries' of Property: Relationality, Rural-Industrialization, and Community in Chartist Narratives of Political Rights”

1996

John W. Mohr

University of California-Santa Barbara

"Soldiers, Mothers, Tramps and Others: Discourse Roles in the 1907 New York City Charity Directory"

1995

Mabel Berezin



Jeff Goodwin and Mustafa Emibayer

University of Pennsylvania



New York University; New School for Social Research

Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy”

Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency”

1994

Nicola Beisel

Northwestern University

"Morals Versus Art: Censorship, the Politics of Interpretation, and the Victorian Nude"

1993

Not given



1992

William Sewell

University of Chicago

"The Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation"

1991

Not given



1990

Kurt Lang

Gladys Lang

Washington University

"Recognition and Renow: The Survival of Artistic Reputations"



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