section awards: Lifetime Achievement, Graduate Student Paper, Outstanding Book
Lifetime Achievement Award
2013: Will be announced prior to the 2013 Annual Meeting in New York
Requirements: This award is given to a scholar-activist who has had a profound influence on Marxist theory, research, and activism.
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes distinguished career achievement in Marxist sociology. Nominators should send all committee members an email letter stating the case for the nominee winning the award and attaching a copy of the nominee's vitae. Although the award is for a body of work of sociological importance, neither the nominator nor the nominee need be members of the Marxist Sociology section or of the American Sociological Association. The deadline for nominations is May 1. All submissions must be received electronically by the deadline. They should be sent to the chair of the committee. The deadline for nominations is March 15. The chair in 2013 is Kevin Anderson (kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu). It is the responsibility of the chair to coordinate the review of the candidates for the award with the other members of the committee in a manner consistent with the goals of the committee.
Previous recipients
- 2012: Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevado, Reno
- 2011: John C. Leggett, Rutgers University
- 2010: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University
- 2009: Edna Bonacich, University of California at Riverside
- 2008: Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
- 2007: Marty Oppenheimer, Rutgers University
- 2006: Immanuel Wallerstein
The Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award
2013: Will be announced prior to the 2013 Annual Meeting in New York
Requirements: A work that has made a significant contribution to the understanding of Marxist theory, research, and activism.
The Sweezy Book Award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past two years in the area of Marxist theory and research. The Committee will select the book that best demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist Sociology, and Marxist Praxis. Nominations are now being sought for books that appeared in 2009 or 2010. Nominations should include (by email to all committee members) standard bibliographic information about the work and a brief comment on its merits, and (by mail to all committee members) a copy of the book. The deadline for receipt of all materials is March 15. The committee must send the decision to ASA by April 1. It is the responsibility of the chair to coordinate the review of the books with the other members of the committee in a manner consistent with the goals of the committee (e.g., ranking of the submissions). The chair in 2013 is Hans Bakker ([email protected]).
Previous recipients
- 2012: David McNally, York University. Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. (PM Press: 2010).
- 2011: Kevin Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies.
(University of Chicago Press 2010). - 2010: Roderick D. Bush, St. John’s University
- The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press 2009).
- 2009: Paul Paolucci, Eastern Kentucky University
- Marx's Scientific Dialectics: A Methodological Treatise for a New Century (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) (Haymarket Books)
- 2008: Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University
Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). - 2007: Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise (NYU Press, 2005) - 2006: John Foran at the University of California - Santa Barbara
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
The Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Student Paper Award
2013: Will be announced prior to the 2013 Annual Meeting in New York
- The Szymanski-Young/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee invites submissions for the 2011 best graduate student paper in Marxist sociology. The competition is open to both published and unpublished article-length papers (roughly 25 pages in length without tables or references) written by a graduate student in the last two years (2011 or 2012). The committee will accept sole-authored and multiple-authored papers as long as the applicant is lead or senior author. No student-faculty collaborations can be accepted. The Committee will select the paper that demonstrates the most thoughtful, competent or innovative analysis of a theoretical, empirical, or activist issue(s) that is germane to Marxism, Marxist Sociology, and Marxist Praxis. The prize for the winner will be $300 plus $250 from Critical Sociology, which is generously jointly underwriting the award. The deadline for submissions is March 15. All submissions must be received electronically by noon on March 15th. They should be sent to the chair (in 2013: Matt Vidal ([email protected]). The committee will make the selection by May 1st. Winners will always be announced at the Section Reception (in 2013 ASA Annual Meeting in New York). It is the responsibility of the chair to coordinate the review of the papers with the other members of the committee in a manner consistent with the goals of the committee (e.g., ranking of the submissions).
Previous recipients
- 2012: Michael Levien, University of California-Berkeley, For the paper entitled: “The Politics of Dispossession: Theorizing India’s Land Wars.”
- 2011: Mathieu Desan, University of Michigan, For the paper entitled: ‘Bourdieu and Capital: A Marxian Critique.’
- 2010: Barry Eidlin, University of California, Berkeley, For the paper is entitled: 'Upon this (foundering) rock: Minneapolis Teamsters and the transformation of US business Unionism, 1934-1941. eidlin@berkeley.edu
- 2009: Eric Bonds, University of Colorado – Boulder
- 2009 Honorable Mention, Jennifer A. Schradie of University of California- Berkeley
- 2008: Brian J. Gareau, University of California - Santa Cruz
"Dangerous Holes in Global Environmental Governance: The Roles of Neoliberal Discourse, Science, and California Agriculture in the Montreal Protocol." (Dissertation) - 2007: Matt Vidal, UCLA
"Manufacturing Empowerment? 'Employee Involvement' in the Labour Force after Fordism." - 2006: Philip Mancus, University of Oregon
2007-8] (updated January 2013)