The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award
Established in 1986 to honor a significant contribution, the award recognizes a publication that has added to the field. In 1990, the Section gave this award as the Best Study of 1988-1989 Award.
2023: Rachel Einwohner, Purdue University, Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2023: Nicole Iturriaga, University of California, Irvine, Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past. Columbia University Press. 2022.
2022: Dana M. Moss, University of Notre Dame, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes. Cambridge University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Northwestern University, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton University Press. 2021.
2021: Eleonora Pasotti. Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities. Cambridge University Press. 2020.
2020: Jen Schradie, The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. Harvard University Press. 2019.
2020: Robert Braun, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press. 2019.
2019: Diana Fu, Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China. Cambridge University Press. 2018.
Tamara Kay and R.L. Evans, Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2018: Neil Ketchley, Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2018: Chris Zepeda-Millan, Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2017: Erica Simmons, Meaningful Resistance: Market Reforms and the Roots of Social Protest in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. 2016.
2016: Daniel Schlozman, When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2016 Honorable Mention: Christopher Bail, How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2015: Katrina Kimport, Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States. Rutgers University Press. 2013.
2015: Edward T. Walker, Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
2014: Isaac William Martin, Rich People’s Movements: Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2014 Honorable Mention: David Cunningham, Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2013: Kathleen Blee, Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Guillermo Trejo, Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico. Cambridge University Press. 2012.
2012: Drew Halfmann, Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada. University of Chicago Press. 2011.
2012 Honorable Mention: Yang Su, Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution. Cambridge University Press. 2011.
2010: Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. Oxford University Press. 2009.
2010: Nancy Whittier, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State. Oxford University Press. 2009.
2009: Maren Klawiter, The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism. University Of Minnesota Press. 2008.
2009 Honorable Mention: Kelly Moore, Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. Princeton University Press. 2008.
2008: Roger Karapin, Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s. Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007.
2007: Francesca Polletta, It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. University of Chicago Press. 2006.
2006: Gene Burns, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
2004: Myra Marx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht, Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States.Cambridge University Press. 2002.
2003: Francesca Polletta, Freedom is an Endless Meeting. University of Chicago Press. 2002.
2002: Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991. Cambridge University Press. 2001.
2002: Dingxin Zhao, The Power of Tiananmen: State-Sociecty Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. University of Chicago Press. 2001.
2000: Rebecca Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. University of California Press. 1999.
1998: Nicola Beisel, Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America. Princeton University Press. 1997.
1996: Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain: 1758-1834. Harvard University Press. 1995.
1994: Clark McPhail, The Myth of the Madding Crowd. Aldine Transaction. 1991.
1992: Sidney Tarrow, Democracy & Disorder: Protest & Politics in Italy, 1965-1975. Oxford University Press. 1989.
1990: Rick Fantasia, Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, & Contemporary American Workers. University of California Press. 1988.
1990: Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer. Oxford University Press. 1988.
1988: John Lofland, Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Transaction Publishers. 1985.
The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award
2023: Bert Useem, Purdue University, and Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, “The Paradox of Victory: Social Movement Fields, Adverse Outcomes, and Social Movement Success.” Theory and Society, 51: 31-60. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Atef Said, University of Illinois at Chicago, “The Rise and Fall of the Tahrir Repertoire: Theorizing Temporality, Trajectory, and Failure.” Social Problems, 69: 222-240. 2022.
2022: Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University, “Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy.” American Sociological Review. 2021.
2020: Yao Lu, Columbia University, “Empowerment or Disintegration? Migration, Social Institutions, and Collective Action in Rural China” American Journal of Sociology 125(3): 683-729. 2019.
2019: Yan Long, “The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013,” American Journal of Sociology 124(2):309-366. 2018.
2018: Yao Lu and Ran Tao, “Organizational Structure and Collective Action: Lineage Networks, Semiautonomous Civic Associations, and Collective Resistance in Rural China,” American Journal of Sociology 122(6):1726-1774. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Human Rights and Minority Activism in Japan: Transformation of Movement Actorhood and Local-Global Feedback Loop,” American Journal of Sociology 122(4):1050-1103. 2017.
2017: Paul Ingram, Columbia University, and Brian S. Silverman, University of Toronto, “The Cultural Contingency of Structure: Evidence from Entry to the Slave Trade In and Around the Abolition Movement,” American Journal of Sociology 122(3):755–797. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Michael Hechter, Steven Pfaff, and Patrick Underwood, “Grievances and the Genesis of Rebellion: Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740 to 1820.” American Sociological Review. 81:165–189. 2016.
The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Best Published Article Award
2016: Ion Bogdan Vasi and Edward Walker, “’No Fracking Way!’ Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013,” American Sociological Review 80(5):934-959. 2015.
2016 Honorable Mention: Joshua Bloom, “The Dynamics of Opportunity and Insurgent Practice: How Black Anti-Colonialists Compelled Truman to Advocate Civil Rights” American Sociological Review 80: 391-415. 2015
2015: Rory McVeigh, David Cunningham, and Justin Farrell, “Political Polarization as a Social Movement Outcome: 1960s Klan Activism and Its Enduring Impact on Political Realignment in Southern Counties, 1960 to 2000,” American Sociological Review 79(6):1144-1171. 2014.
2014: Doron Shultziner, “The Social-Psychological Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Social Interaction and Humiliation in the Emergence of Social Movements,” Mobilization 18(2):117-142. 2013.
2014 Honorable Mention: Genevieve Zubrzycki, “Aesthetic revolt and the remaking of national identity in Québec,” Theory and Society 42(5):423-475. 2013.
2013: Kevan Harris, “The Brokered Exuberance of the Middle Class: An Ethnographic Analysis of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement,” Mobilization 17(4):435-55. 2012.
2013 Honorable Mention: Hyojoung Kim and Steven Pfaff, “Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency: Students and the Spread of the Reformation,” American Sociological Review 77(2):188-215. 2012.
2012: Amin Ghaziani and Delia Baldassarri, “Cultural Anchors and the Organization of Differences: A Multi-method Analysis of LGBT Marches on Washington,” American Sociological Review 76(2):179-206. 2011.
2011: Robert W. White, “Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of Irish Republicans: Persistence, Disengagement, Splits, and Dissidents in Social Movement Organizations,” Social Problems 57(3):341-370. 2010.
2009: Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Mary Bernstein, “Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements,” Sociological Theory 26(1):74-99. 2008.
2008: Caroline Lee, “Is There a Place for Private Conversation in Public Dialogue?” American Journal of Sociology 113(1):41-96. 2007.
2007: Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage, “Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth,” American Sociological Review 71(5):724-751. 2006.
2006: Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Sheera Joy Olasky, “Age for leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on US Old-Age Policy,” American Sociological Review 70(3):516-538. 2005.
2004: Paul Almeida, “Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings,” American Journal of Sociology 109(2):345-400. 2003.
2003: Bert Useem and Jack A. Goldstone, “Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons,” American Sociological Review 67(4):499-525. 2002.
2002: Steven Pfaff and Guobin Yang, “Double-edged Rituals and the Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Political Commemorations and the Mobilization of Protest in 1989,” Theory and Society 30(4):539-589. 2001.
The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Dissertation Award
2023: Emmanuel Cannady, Bucknell University, “Black Lives Matter University: How Activist Knowledge Affects Organizational Sustainability,” completed at University of Notre Dame.
2022: Minwoo Jung, University of Southern California, “Rights Projects in a Globalized World”
2021: Benjamin H. Bradlow. “Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016”
2021: Anna Zhelnina. “Engaging Neighbors: Housing Strategies and Political Mobilization in Moscow’s Renovation”
2020: Tyson Patros, University of California, Irvine, “The Links on the Chain: Popular Uprisings and Political Re-constitutions in the Global Middle East and North Africa”
2019: Anjuli N. Fahlberg, Northeastern University, “Activism Under Fire: Violence, Poverty, and Collective Action in Rio de Janeiro”
2019 Honorable Mention: Heidi Reynolds-Stenson, University of Arizona, “‘Building a Wall of Resistance:’ Collective Action and Rationality in the Anti-Terror Age”
2018: Michelle Oyakawa, Ohio State University, “Building a Movement in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex”
2017: Yang Zhang, “Insurgent Dynamics: The Coming of the Chinese Rebellions, 1850-1873”
2016: Daniel Escher, “Unmoving People, Removing Mountains: Coal Mining, Cultural Matching, and Mobilization in Central Appalachia”
The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award
This award was established in 1992. The section chose to present one award each year, giving the Student Award in odd-numbered years and the Book Award in even-numbered years.
2023: Katy Habr and Hannah Pullen-Blasnik, Columbia University, “A Convergence of Crises: Sudden Employment Loss and Black Lives Matter Protest Attendance During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Laura Adler, Yale University, “Gender Equity Against ‘Economic Realities’: How a Conflict Between Two Movements Reshaped the Cultural Understanding of Pay.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 27(4): 389–407. 2022.
2022: Simone Durham, University of Maryland, “’Not in this Lifetime’: The Black Millennial Imagination and Impacts of Black Lives Matter on Racial Dynamics in the U.S.”
2022 Honorable Mention: Stephen Wulff, University of Minnesota, “’Entrepreneurs of Punishment’: Police Misconduct Insurance, Grassroots Activism, and the Limits of Linguistic Capital.”
2021: Apoorva Ghosh. “The Politics of Alignment and the ‘Quiet Transgender Revolution’ in Fortune 500 Corporations, 2008 to 2017.”
2021 Honorable Mention: Rui Jie Peng. “Rightful Bargaining: Rural Women Making Claims for Social Provisions in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Program.”
2020: Anna Zhelnina, CUNY Grad Center. “The Apathy Syndrome: How We Are Trained Not to Care About Politics.”
2020 Honorable Mention: Alejandro Márquez, University of Texas – Austin. “Detached Attachments: Dealing with and Preventing Burnout among Caregivers in the Immigrant Rights Movement.”
2019: Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Loyola University Chicago, “‘Coming Out of My Shell:’ Motherleaders Contesting Fear, Vulnerability, and Despair through Family-focused Community Organizing”
2019 Honorable Mention: Yewon Lee, University of California – Los Angeles, “Reframing Gentrification: How Tenant Shopkeepers’ Activism in Seoul Radically Reframed Gentrification”
2018: Chloe Haimson, University of Wisconsin, “Interactional Resistance During Black Lives Matter Protests: The Political Stakes of Rebelling Against the Public Order”
2018 Honorable Mention: Didem Turkoglu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “As Tuition Rises: Opposition to the Neoliberalization of Higher Education”
2017: Anya M. Galli, “How Glitter Bombing Lost Its Sparkle: The Emergence and Decline of a Novel Social Movement Tactic,” Mobilization 21(3):259-281. 2016.
2016: Marcos Emilio Perez, “Becoming a Piquetero: Past, Novel and Current Routines in the Development of Activist Dispositions”
2016: Han Zhang, “Causal Impact of Witnessing Political Protest on Civic Engagement”
2015: Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110(1):127-147. 2016.
2015 Honorable Mention: Aliza Rebecca Luft, “Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro-Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda.”
2014: Jonathan Horowitz, “Oh, the Places I’ll Go! Possible Selves, Persistence Narratives, and Activist Identity”
2013: Mohammad Ali Kadivar, “Opportunities, Perception Profiles, and Alliances in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997-2005,” American Sociological Review 78(6):1063-1086. 2013.
2013 Honorable Mention: Tarun Banerjee, “Media, Movements, and Mobilization: Tea Party Protests in the U.S., 2009-2010,” Pp. 39-75 in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 36. Emerald Group Publishing. 2013.
2013 Honorable Mention: Daniel S. Blocq, “Formation of Armed Self-Defense Groups during Civil Wars”
2012: Hiroe Saruya, “The Rise of Japan’s First New Left: Bourdieusian Field Dynamics and the Emergence of Movement Organizations”
2010: Lauren Joseph, “From the ‘Gayborhood’ to the Small Town: LGBT Pride Organizations and the Mobilization of Resources, Culture, and Symbolic Capital”
2009: Matthew S. Williams, “Strategizing against Sweatshops: Ideology, Strategic Models, and Innovation in the U.S. Anti-Sweatshop Movement”
2008: Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, “Strategic Dilemmas in Organizational Frame Selection and Audience Frame Preference in Women’s Peace Organizing”
2007: Dan Lainer-Vos, “Social Movements and Citizenship: Conscientious Objection in France, the United States, and Israel,” Mobilization 11(3):357-375. 2006.
2006: Rachel Meyer, “Constituency and Emotion in Collective Action: Sources of Working-Class Identity and Activism”
2005: Erich Steinman, “Institutionalizing Tribes as Governments: Skillful Meaning Entrepreneurship Across Political Fields”
2004: Robert S. Jansen, “Resurrection and Reappropriation: Political Uses of Historical Figures in Comparative Perspective,” American Journal of Sociology 112(4):953-1007. 2007.
2004 Honorable Mention: Vanessa Barker, “Politics of Pain: State Governance, Moral Protest, and the Varied Impacts of Social Movements”
2003: Julie Stewart, “When Local Troubles Become Transnational Issues: A Study of an Indigenous Rights Movement in Guatemala,” Mobilization 9(3):259-278. 2004.
2002: Deana A. Rohlinger, “Movement-Countermovement Dynamics in the Abortion Debate: An Examination of Media Coverage Outcome”
2001: John Krinsky, “The Relational Dynamics of Claim-Making in New York City’s Workfare Politics”
2000: Gary Bologh, “Learning from Populism:Narrative Analysis and Social Movement Consciousness”
1998: Ira Silver, “Buying and Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy,” Sociological Perspectives 41(2):303-321. 1998.
1997: Mary Bernstein, “Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement,” American Journal of Sociology 103(3):531-565. 1997.
1996: Kenneth T. Andrews, “The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi, 1960-1984”
1993: Jackie Smith, “Transnational Political Processes and the Human Rights Movement”
The Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Aldon Morris Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements
2022: Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
Distinguished Early Career Award for Contribution to Social Movements Scholarship
2023: Zakiya Luna, Washington University in St. Louis
