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Section Committees
The Marxist Sociology Section has four committees
Please direct any questions about the awards and committees to the chair of the Marxist Sociology Section, Art Jipson, [email protected].
Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
Current Lifetime Award Committee (2013):
- Kevin Anderson kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu (chair)
- Tom Mayer [email protected]
- Jeff Haley Jeffrey.Halley@utsa.edu
Previous Members 2012:
- Jeffrey Halley, Jeffrey.Halley@utsa.edu (chair) University of Texas at San Antonio, Sociology Department, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-1644
- Michael Brown, Northeastern University mikebrown29@rcn.comWalda Katz-Fishman, Howard University, wkatzfishman@igc.org
Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
Current Lifetime Award Committee (2013):
- Kevin Anderson kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu (chair)
- Tom Mayer [email protected]
- Jeff Haley Jeffrey.Halley@utsa.edu
Previous Members 2012:
- Jeffrey Halley, Jeffrey.Halley@utsa.edu (chair) University of Texas at San Antonio, Sociology Department, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-1644
- Michael Brown, Northeastern University mikebrown29@rcn.comWalda Katz-Fishman, Howard University, wkatzfishman@igc.org
Previous Members 2011:
- Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University, wkatzfishman@igc.org (chair)
- Roger A. Salerno, Pace University rsalerno@pace.edu
Previous Members 2010:
- Wilma A. Dunaway (chair), Wadunaway@aol.com
- Alan Spector, a_spector@sbcglobal.net
- Donald Clelland, don51035@aol.com
Current recipient
- 2013: To Be Determined
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, CUNY Graduate Center
- 2007: Marty Oppenheimer, Tufts University
- 2006: Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
- 2004: Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado at Boulder and T.R. Young, Red Feather Institute
- 2003: Robert Newby, Central Michigan University
- 2002: James Petras, State University of New York and James Geshwender, Binghamton
- 2001: John Horton, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2000: Albert Szymanski and Larry Reynolds, Central Michigan University -- Founding year of the award
- Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
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).
Current Graduate Student Award Committee 2013
- Matt Vidal ([email protected])
- Ryan Caldwell ([email protected])
- Richard Hogan ([email protected])
- Lloyd Klein ([email protected])
Previous Graduate Student Award Committee 2012
- Lloyd Klein, St. Francis College lklein@stfranciscollege.edu (Chair)
- Ryan Caldwell, Soka University of America racaldwell@gmail.com
- Mathieu Desan, University of Michigan mdesan@umich.edu
Previous Graduate Student Award Committee 2011
- Lloyd Klein, St. Francis College lklein@stfranciscollege.edu (Chair)
- Laura Langman, Loyola University of Chicago llangma@luc.edu
- Ryan Caldwell, Soka University of America racaldwell@gmail.com
- Barry Eidlin, University of California, Berkeley eidlin@berkeley.edu
2013 Award
- To be determined
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.
- 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
- 2007: Matt Vidal, UCLA
- 2006: Philip Mancus, University of Oregon
The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award
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]).
All addresses for the delivery of books for consideration is included below.
The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award for 2013:
Hans Bakker ([email protected])
Mail books to: Room 616 Mackinnon Building, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Mike Brown (mikebrown29@rcn.com)
Mail books to: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 360 Huntington Avenue, 500 Holmes Hall, Boston, MA 02115
Wendi Kane (wkane@mail.ucf.edu)
Mail books to: College of Sciences, Department of Sociology, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Howard Phillips Hall, rm. 403, Orlando, FL 32816-1360
Previous Book Award Committee for 2012
Talmadge Wright, Loyola University twright@luc.edu (Chair)
Mail books to: Loyola University of Chicago Department of Sociology Lake Shore Campus, Coffey
Hall 433 1032 W. Sheridan Chicago, Illinois 60660
Allison Hurst, Furman University allison.hurst@furman.edu
Mail books to: Department of Sociology, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC, 29613.
Kevin Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu
Mail books to: Department of Sociology, Social Science and Media Studies Building (SSMB),
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430.
Previous Book Award Committee for 2011:
Thomas Keil, tjkeil@asu.edu (602) 543-6147 Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100
Roderick D. Bush, bushr@stjohns.edu (718) 990-5661 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York 11439
Thomas Conroy, Tmascon@hotmail.com (718) 960-8015 Lehman College - CUNY, Department of Sociology, 250 Bedford Park Blvd, Bronx, NY 10468
Wendi Belinda Kane, wkane@mail.ucf.edu Department of Sociology, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-1360
Current recipient for 2013
- To be Determined
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
OurDailyBread: Wages, WorkersandthePoliticalEconomyoftheAmericanWest(University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
- 2007: Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College
TheEnd oftheHamptons: ScenesfromtheClassStruggleinAmerica'sParadise (NYU Press, 2005).
- 2006: John Foran at the University of California - Santa Barbara
TakingPower: OntheOriginsofThirdWorldRevolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- 2004: Barbara H. Chasin, Montclair State University Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism
- 2003: Ellen Israel Rosen, Brandeis University (Co-Winner) Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
- 2003: William G. Staples and Clifford L. Staples, University of Kansas (Co-Winner) Power, Profits, and Patriarchy: The Social Organization of Work at a British Metal Trades Firm, 1791-1922
- 2002: Kenneth Nuebeck, University of Connecticut Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor
- 2001: Edna Bonacich, University of California, Riverside and Rirchard Appleabum, University of California, Santa Barbara Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
- 2000: John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon (Co-Winner) Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
- 2000: Sean Sayers, University of Kent (Co-Winner) Marxism and Human Nature
- 2000: Martin Oppenheimer, Princeton University (Co-Winner) The State in Modern Society
The Marxist Sociology Nominations Committee
The nominations committee seeks active vibrant members of the Marxist Sociology section to be officers in the section. Nominations are now being sought for officers for open positions of chair and council of the section. Nominations should include standard bibliographic information about the work and a brief comment on its merits. To facilitate distributing information for committee review, we are also requesting electronic submission of materials when possible. Please send nominations electronically by December 1 to the Nominations committee chair (in 2013: Art Jipson [email protected]). It is the responsibility of the chair to coordinate the review of the candidates for the nomination with the other members of the committee in a manner consistent with the goals of the committee. The timeline and work for the committee is listed below.
Timeline for the Nominations Committee:
December 31st: Slate of Candidates due. ASA needs the names and institutional affiliations.
January 31st. Biographical information for all candidates is due. Please ask candidates not to send their biographical information to ASA. Instead, the committee collects the biographical forms for everyone and then sends them to the ASA Section Coordinator (currently, Justin Lini. He can be contacted at: Lini@asanet.org ).
Current Nominations Committee 2013
- Art Jipson, University of Dayton [email protected] (chair)
- Daniel Thompson, John Hopkins University [email protected]
- Jonna Ryan, University of Oregon [email protected]
Previous Nominations Committee for 2012
- Ann Strahm, California State University, Stanislaus ann.strahm@gmail.com (Chair)
- Lauren Langman, Loyola University LLang944@aol.com
- Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates pra@publiceye.org
Previous Nominations Committee for 2011
- Roger Salerno, rsalerno@pace.edu (Chair)
- Warren Goldstein goldstein@criticaltheoryofreligion.org
- Carina Bandhauer, Western Connecticut State University bandhauerc@wcsu.edu
State of the Section and Bylaws Review Committee (Ad Hoc Committee)
This committee will study the state of the section and review the section bylaws and bring important recommendations to the section counsel and to the business meeting in 2012 in the ASA annual meeting in Denver.
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