2019 Call for Award Nominations

The Sociology of Culture Section’s Mary Douglas Prizes for Best Book

Section members, authors, or publishers may nominate books published in 2018. Self-nominations are welcome. Authors must be members of the Culture Section. Send a nominating letter, including a description of the book and its significance, to each of the committee members. Books that do not have an accompanying nomination letter by the deadline will not be considered for the prize. Also, please arrange for the book’s publisher to send a copy of the book to each committee member. The deadline for nominations and receipt of books is March 15, 2019.

Clayton Childress, Committee Co-Chair
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 2J4
CCChildress [at] gmail [dot] com

Bin Xu, Committee Co-Chair
Department of Sociology
Emory University
1555 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
bin [dot] xu [at] emory [dot] edu

Richard Ocejo
Department of Sociology
John Jay College
524 W. 59th St.; 520.12HH
New York, NY, 10019
rocejo [at] jjay [dot] cuny [dot] edu

Eva Illouz
Center for the Study of Rationality
2nd Floor
Edmund Safra Campus
91904 Jerusalem
illouz [at] mscc [dot] huji [dot] ac [dot] il

Kelsy Burke
Department of Sociology
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
711 Oldfather Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0324
kburke [at] unl [dot] edu

The Sociology of Culture Section’s Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article

Section members may nominate articles and original chapters of edited collections published in 2017-2018 (although not pieces that have previously won a Culture Section award). Self-nominations are welcome. Authors must be members of the Culture Section. Send a nominating letter, including a description of the article and its significance, along with an electronic copy of the article to each member of the prize committee. Articles that are not accompanied by a nomination letter will not be considered for the prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations and articles is March 15, 2019.

Paul Joosse, Committee Chair
Department of Sociology
University of Hong Kong
Room 928, 9/F
The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
SAR
pjoosse [at] hku [dot] hk

Ori Schwarz
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, 52900
Israel
ori.schwarz [at] biu [dot] ac [dot] il

Sam Friedman
Department of Sociology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
s.e.friedman [at] lse [dot] ac [dot] uk

Ellis Monk
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
404 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
emonk [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu

Larissa Buchholz
Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
Frances Searle Building
2240 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
larissa [dot] buchholz [at] northwestern [dot] edu

The Sociology of Culture Section’s Richard A. Peterson for Best Student Paper

Section members may nominate any work (published or unpublished), written by someone who is a student at the time of submission. Self-nominations are welcome. Authors must be members of the Culture Section. This award includes a $300 prize to reimburse part of the cost of attending the 2019 ASA Annual Meeting. Send a nominating letter, including a description of the paper and its significance, along with an electronic copy of the paper to each member of the prize committee. Papers that are not accompanied by a nomination letter will not be considered for the prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations and articles is March 15, 2019.

Anya Degenshein (Committee Chair)
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1812 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, IL 60208
adegenshein [at] u.northwestern [dot] edu

Alison Gerber
Department of Sociology
Lund University
Box 114, 221 00 Lund
Sweden
alison [dot] gerber [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se

Fiona Greenland
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
Randall 222
P.O. Box 400766
Charlottesville, VA 22904
fargreenland [at] virginia [dot] edu

Svetlana Kharchenkova
School of Asian Studies
Leiden University
Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden
The Netherlands
svetlana [at] kharchenkova [dot] com

Hannah Wohl
Department of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg.
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430
hwohl [at] ucsb [dot] edu

2018 Award Winners

Mary Douglas Award (Best Book)

Co-Winners:

Clayton Childress Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel.
(Princeton, 2017)

And

Bin Xu The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. (Stanford, 2017)

Clifford Geertz Award (Best Article)

Joosse, Paul. 2017. “Max Weber’s Disciples: Theorizing the Charismatic Aristocracy.” Sociological Theory 35(4): 334-358.

Honorable mention: Frye, Margaret. 2017. “Cultural Meanings and the Aggregation of Actions: The Case of Sex and Schooling in Malawi.” American Sociological Review 82(5): 945-976

Richard A. Peterson Award (Best Student Paper)

Winner: Anya Degenshein, Northwestern University “Strategies of Valuation: Repertoires of Worth at the Financial Margins”

Honorable mention: Lily Liang,  Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison “No Room for Respectability: Boundary Work in Interaction at a Shanghai Rental”

Honorable mention: Talia Shiff,  Northwestern University “Evaluating the Case: Encounters of Schematic Accordance and Discordance in Asylum Adjudications.”

Previous Award Winners

*work in progress*

Mary Douglas Award (Best Book)

• 2017, co-winner: Michaela DeSoucey, Contested Tastes. Foie Gras and the Politics of Food. (2017, Princeton University Press)
• 2017, co-winner: Nicole Gonzalez van Cleve, Crook County. Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court. (2016, Stanford University Press)
• 2016: Lauren Rivera, How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press
• 2015: Fatma Müge Göçek, Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009. Oxford University Press
• 2014: Virag Molnar, Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State formation in Postwar Central Europe. Routledge 2013
• 2013: Lynette Spillman, Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations. University of Chicago Press
• 2012: Claudio Benzecry, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession. University of Chicago Press
• 2011, co-winner:  Teresa Gowan, Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. University of Minnesota Press
• 2011, co-winner: David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Harvard University Press.
• 2010, co-winner: Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton University Press
• 2010, co-winner: Allison Pugh, Parents, Children and Consumer Culture. University of California Press

Clifford Geertz Award (Best Article)

• 2017: Daniel Winchester, “A Hunger for God: Embodied Metaphor as Cultural Cognition in Action,” 2016. Social Forces 95(2): 585-606.
• 2017, honorable mention: Chana Teeger, “‘Both Sides of the Story’: History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” (2015, in American Sociological Review 80(6): 1175-1200)
• 2016, co-winner: Paul Lichterman and Nina Eliasoph, “Civic Action,”  2014. American Journal of Sociology, 120(3):798-863
• 2016, co-winner: Ruth Braunstein, Brad R. Fulton, and Richard L. Wood, “The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations” 2014. American Sociological Review, 79(4), 705-725
• 2015: Matthew Norton, “Classification and Coercion: The Destruction of Piracy in the English Maritime System,” 2014. American Journal of Sociology, 119 (6): 1537-1575
• 2014, co-winner: Iddo Tavory and Nina Eliasoph, “Coordinating Futures: Toward a Theory of Anticipation,” 2014. American Journal of Sociology, 118(4), 2013, pp. 908-942.
• 2014, co-winner: Iddo Tavory and Nina Eliasoph, “Coordinating Futures: Toward a Theory of Anticipation,” 2013. American Journal of Sociology, 118(4):908-942.
• 2014, co-winner: Arnout van de Rijt, Eran Shor, Charles Ward and Steven Skienaa, “Only 15 Minutes? The Social Stratification of Fame in Printed Media,” 2013. American Sociological Review, 78(2):266–289.
• 2013: Lauren Rivera, “Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms,” 2012. American Sociological Review 77(6):

Richard A. Peterson Award (Best Student Paper)
**Changed from the Suzanne Langer award in 2011.**

• 2017: Matthew Clair (Harvard University), “Resources, Navigation, and Punishment in the Criminal Courts”
• 2017, honorable mention: Mary Beth Fallin Hunzaker (Duke University), “Cultural Sentiments and Schema-Consistency Bias in Information Transmission”
• 2016:
• 2015: Monica C. Bell, “Situational Trust: How Disadvantaged Mothers Reconceive Legal Cynicism.”
• 2014, co-winner: Hassan El Menyawi, “The Great Reversal”
• 2014, co-winner: Laura K. Nelson, “Enduring Cultural/Cognitive Structures: Political Logics as Cultural ‘Memory.’”
• 2013, co-winner: Charles Seguin, “The Mathematics of Superstars: Two Theories of Cultural Consumption”
• 2013, co-winner: Phillipa K. Chong, “Legitimate Judgment in Art, The Scientific World Reversed?: Critical Distance in Evaluation.”
• 2012: Christina Simko,  “Rhetorics of Suffering: September 11 Commemorations as Theodicy.”
• 2011: Avi Astor, “Memory, Community, and Opposition to Mosques: The Case of Badalona.” Theory and Society.
• 2010:  Iddo Tavory, “Everyday Morality–Street Danger and Moral Density in a Jewish Orthodox Neighborhood”
• 2009: Anna Paretskaya, “The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism.”
• 2008: Gabriel Abend, “Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality.” in Theory and Society, 37(2):87-125.
• 2007: Hiro Saito, “Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma.” in Sociological Theory, 24(4):353-376.
• 2006, co-winner: Jason Matt, “The Cultural pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/Lewinsky Affair”
• 2006, co-winner: Kim Babon, “Composition: Coherence, and Attachment: The Critical Role of Context in Reception”
• 2005: Gregoire Mallard, “Communities of Interpreters and Their Technical Instruments,” American Sociological Review. 70:992-1010. 
• 2004: Virag Molnar, “Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Post-War Hungary”
• 2003: Karen Danna Lynch, “The Good Mother: Ideologies of Motherhood 1950-1998”
• 2002: Genevieve Zubrzycki, “We the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic Visions of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates”
• 2001, co-winner: Jamie Mullaney,  “Like A Virgin: Temptation, Resistance, and the Construction of Identities Based on ‘Not Doings’”
• 2001, co-winner: Shyon Baumann, “Intellectualizing Discourse and Art World Development: The Case of Film in the United States”
• 2000: Gabriella Fried, “On Remembering and Silencing the Past: The Adult Children of the Disappeared of Argentina and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective”
• 1999: Kari Lerum, “Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement Turn Radical Women into ‘Useless Citizens’”
• 1998: Kristen Purcell, “A League of Their Own: Mental Leveling and the Creation of Social Comparability in Sport”
• 1997: Wayne Brekhus, “Social Marking and the Mental Coloring of Identity: Sexual Identity Construction and Maintenance in the United States”
• 1996: Ronald N. Jacobs, “Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating”
• 1995, co-winner: Bethany Bryson, “Anything but Heavy Metal: Identity and Exclusion in Musical Taste”
• 1995, co-winner: Stephen Ellingson, ”Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Ante-bellum Cincinnati”
• 1994: Matthew P. Lawson,  “Free to Choose: Submission in the Lives of Catholic Charismatics”
• 1993: Timothy Dowd, “The Song Remains the Same? The Musical Diversity and Industry Context of Number One Songs, 1955-1988”
• 1992: Christiana Nippert-Eng, [unknown]
• 1991: Ann Bowler, [unknown]
• 1990: Ken Dauber, [unknown]