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Culture Section Award Winners
| John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant Winner: Şeyma Özdemir UCSB Honorable Mention: Kristen Miller CUNY Honorable Mention: Yucheng Liu UCSB Stuart Hall Award for Advancing the Study of Racial or Ethnic Inequality Patricia A. Banks Mount Holyoke College Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book Winner: Reeves, Aaron, and Sam Friedman. Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024. Honorable Mention: Pernell, Kim. Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation. Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article Winner: Fang, Jun. “The culture of censorship: State intervention and complicit creativity in global film production.” American Sociological Review Honorable Mention: Krippner, Greta R. “Gendered market devices: The persistence of gender discrimination in insurance markets.” American Journal of Sociology Honorable Mention: Yavaş, Mustafa. “White-collar opt-out: How “good jobs” fail elite workers.” American Sociological Review Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper Co-Winner: Kristen Miller, CUNY Graduate Center “‘We Outside!’ Bike Life and the Collective Experience of Blackness Beyond Capture” Co-Winner: Jack LaViolette, Columbia University “Seeing Aliens: How ecological affordances produce UFO sightings” |
Call for Book Proposals
| The ASA Rose Series in Sociology, a joint publication of the Russell Sage Foundation and the American Sociological Association, invites seasoned scholars to submit proposals for books that offer fresh perspectives on enduring controversies, challenge prevailing paradigms, and provide synthetic analyses of contemporary public issues. The series focuses on critical areas of research, including the Future of Work, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. We also welcome interdisciplinary work that intersects with these themes. Rose Series books are designed to be accessible to both academic and general audiences, ensuring broad impact and relevance across multiple fields. Benefits of Publishing with the Rose Series: Quick and Professional Review Process: Russell Sage compensates expert reviewers to ensure timely and high-quality evaluations of proposals. Seminar with Established Scholars: Authors are invited to present drafts of their manuscripts to leading experts, strengthening the final product and generating excitement for the forthcoming book. Extensive Marketing Support: The Rose Editors, Russell Sage Foundation, and ASA collaborate on a comprehensive marketing effort to maximize the visibility and impact of Rose Series books. Author Meets Critic Session at ASA Annual Meeting: Each year, one new Rose Series book is selected for a special Author Meets Critic panel discussion at the ASA Annual Meeting. Rose Book Speaker Series: Hosted by the University at Albany Rose Editors, this lecture series offers authors a platform to present their work to diverse audiences and emphasize the policy relevance of their research. Interested authors are encouraged to submit their proposals. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis. For more information, please contact us at roseseries@albany.edu or reach out to a member of our editorial team: Joanna Dreby (jdreby@albany.edu), Aaron Major (amajor@albany.edu), Katherine Trent (ktrent@albany.edu), and Steve Messner (smessner@albany.edu). |
Publications
| Leal, Diego F. (2025). Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries. Sociological Methods & Research. Online first, https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241251322517 Letourneau, N. R., Robey, D. J., & Lamont, M. (2025). Lights, Camera, Activism: Recognition Strategies in Hollywood and Comedy. Work and Occupations. Online first, https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884251336699 Ly, Louise H. 2025. “Asian Americans as Objects of Desire: Gendered Racialized Attraction among White Spouses Married to East Asians.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Online First. Marois, Sophie (2025). “Remember, reclaim, heal”: commemorating anti-Muslim violence in Canada. American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Online first, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-024-00233-9 Qi, Xiaoying. 2025. “Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation.” Sociological Inquiry. First online. Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi, Jiwon Choi, and Tsveta Dobreva. 2025. “The Growth Machine as an Agent of Racial Capitalism: Gentrification Coverage and the New Media.” City & Community. Online first. Woźny, Anna. (2023). Domesticating the Salaryman: Marriage Promotion, Hybrid Masculinity, and the Resignification of Reproduction in Japan. Men and Masculinities. Online first, https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X251328018 Yaylacı, Ş., Robey, D., & Roth, W. D. (2025). Determinants of genetic essentialist beliefs about race: a comparison of Canada and the United States. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2477748 |
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