2013 Section Award Winners
from L to R: Jake Rosenfeld, Meredith Kleykamp, Madison Van Oort, Barry Eidlin, Kjersin Gruys, Chris Rhomberg, and Rachel Meyer
2013 Awards Winners:
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Co-sponsored by Critical Sociology (committee chaired by Nancy Plankey Videla):
Best Paper Award (committee chaired by Belinda Lum):
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (committee chaired Ian Robinson):
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Co-sponsored by Critical Sociology (committee chaired by Nancy Plankey Videla):
- Co-winner: Madison Van Oort, for "Post-Recession Governmentalities: Neoliberalism, Job Searching, and Comparative Control in Minneapolis"
- Co-winner: Barry Eidlin, "Class vs. Special Interest: Labor Regimes and Union Strength in the United States and Canada, 1911-2011"
- Honorable mention: Kjersin Gruys, UCLA, “Does This Make Me Look Fat? Aesthetic Labor and Fat Talk as Emotional Labor in a Women's Plus-Size Clothing Store"
Best Paper Award (committee chaired by Belinda Lum):
- Winner: Rosenfeld, Jake, and Meredith Kleykamp. 2012. “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 117: 1460-1502.
- Honorable Mention: Lee, Cheol-Sung. 2012. "Associational Networks and Welfare States in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan" World Politics Volume 64, Number 3, July 2012 pp. 507-554
- Honorable Mention: Meyer, Rachel. 2012. "Transforming Citizenship: The Subjective Consequences of Local Political Mobilization" in Julian Go (ed.) Political Power and Social Theory (Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.147-188
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (committee chaired Ian Robinson):
- Winner: Chris Rhomberg (2012). The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor. New York: Russell Sage.
- Honorable Mention: Adam Reich (2012): With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital. Ithaca, NY.: Cornell University Press.