2025 ASA PEWS Section Award Winners
PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award:
Honorable Mention, Book Award:
Immanuel Wallerstein Book Award:
Owalabi, Olukunle P. 2023. Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupations in the Global South. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press.
Honorable Mention:
Mniga, Mariam. 2024. Recolonizing Africa: An Ethnography of Land Acquisition, Mining, and Resource Control; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Distinguished Professional (Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow) Article Award:
McDermott, Joshua Lew. 2024. “Difference Between Global South Cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the Global Division of Urban Informal Labour.” Urban Studies 62(5):932‐953.
Honorable Mention, Article Award:
Sikirica, Amanda. 2024. “Where Are Fossil Fuels Displaced by Alternatives? World-Systems and Energy Transitions.” Journal of World-Systems Research 30(1):249‐275.
Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Roy, Rianka. 2024. “Covert Carcerality for ‘ High-Income Cheap Labor’: Indian Tech Workers in the United States.” Sociological Forum 40(1):50-64.
Honorable Mention, Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Sharma, Aryaman. 2023. “Assessing Core-Monopolization and the Possibilities for the Semi-Periphery in the World-System Today.” Journal of World-Systems Research 29(2):480‐504.
Honorable Mention, Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Solanki, Durgesh. “Plaguing the Empire: Repertoires of Colonial Governance.”
The PEWS Anti-Oppression Award:
Oscar Gil-García, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Anthropology
2024 ASA PEWS Section Award Winners
PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award:
Radhakrishnan, Smitha., Solari, Cinzia D.. 2023. The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Honorable Mention, Book Award:
Gates, Leslie C. 2023. Capitalist Outsiders: Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela. United States: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Distinguished Professional (Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow) Article Award:
Levenson, Zachary and Marcel Paret. 2023. “The Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism: From South Africa to the U.S. and Back Again.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 20(2):333‐351.
Honorable Mention, Article Award:
Joosse, Paul and Dominik Zelinsky. 2023. “Charismatic Mimicry: Innovation and Imitation in the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky.” Sociological Theory 41(3):201-228.
Honorable Mention, Article Award:
Pandian, Roshan K.. 2024. “The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis.” American Journal of Sociology 129(5):1493-1534.
Honorable Mention, Article Award:
Jorgenson, Andrew K., Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2023. “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions.” American Sociological Review 88(3):418-453.
Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Movahed, Masoud. 2023. “Varieties of capitalism and income inequality.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 64(6):1-37. (Written and accepted for publication when still a student.)
Honorable Mention, Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Hoppe, Alexander D. “Sure It Works in Practice, but Does It Work in Theory? The Geography of Skill and the Problem of Unique Capabilities in the Global Fashion Industry.”
Honorable Mention, Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:
Gleckman-Krut, Miriam. “A Dangerous Precedent: South Africa's Management of Sexuality And Migration During Colonization And Apartheid (1913 ‐ 1991).”
Distinguished Teaching Award:
Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University Sociology Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the members of the award committees for their service!
Political Economy of the World System Award Recipient History
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Distinguished Career Award (given occasionally)
2009: Giovanni Arrighi, Johns Hopkins University
2003: Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
1999: Janet Abu-Lughod, New School for Social Research
1997: Andre Gunder Frank, University of Toronto
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award
2023: Phillip Hough, Florida Atlantic University, At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Anna Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis, and Manuela Boatcă, Albert-Ludwigs University, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires. Cornell University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Kristin Plys, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University, Capitalism and its Uncertain Future. Routledge. 2022.
2022: Ashok Kumar, Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
2022 Honorable Mention: Christy Thornton, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy, University of California Press, 2021.
2021: Laura Doyle, Inter-Imperiality. Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance, Duke University Press, 2020.
2021 Honorable Mention: Nicholas Jepson, In China’s Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South, Columbia University Press, 2020.
2020: Jerome Roos, Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt, Princeton University Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Victoria Reyes, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, Stanford University Press. 2019.
2019: Michael Levien, Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. Oxford University Press. 2018.
2018: Andy Clarno, Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2017: Andrej Grubacic and Denis O’Hearn, Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid. University of California Press. 2016.
2017: Kristin Hopewell, Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project. Stanford University Press. 2016.
2016: Jason W. Moore, Binghamton University, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso Books. 2015.
2015: Christine Chin, Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City. Oxford University Press. 2013.
2015: William Robinson, Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
2014: Vivek Chibber, New York University, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Verso Books. 2013.
2013: Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, Democracy and the left: social policy and inequality in Latin America. University of Chicago Press. 2012.
2012: Xuefei Ren, Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. University of Chicago Press. 2011.
2011: Bill Winders, The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy. Yale University Press. 2009.
2010: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran, Unveiling Inequality: A World Historical Perspective. Russell Sage Foundation. 2009.
2009: Nitsan Chorev, Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. Cornell University Press. 2007.
2008: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua. Duke University Press. 2005.
2008: Michael Goldman, Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. Yale University Press. 2005.
2007: Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. University of Chicago Press. 2004.
2007: Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton University Press. 2006.
2006: Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell, Globalization and the Race for Resources. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005.
2006: John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
2005: John Talbot, University of the West Indies, Mona, Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.
2003: Lauren Benton, Rutgers University, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. Cambridge University PRess. 2002.
2002: Denis O’Hearn, Queens University, The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the United States, and Ireland. Manchester University Press. 2001.
2001: Terry Boswell, Emory University, Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside, The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Towards Global Democracy. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2001.
2001: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverley J. Silver, Johns Hopkins University, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. University of Minnesota Press. 1999.
2000: Andre Gunder Frank, University of Toronto, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. University of California Press. 1998.
1999: David Stark, Columbia University, Laszlo Bruszt, Central European University-Budapest, Postsocialist Pathways:Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe. Cambridge University Press. 1998.
1998: Jeffrey Paige, University of Michigan, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Harvard University Press. 1997.
1997: William I. Robinson, University of Tennessee, Promoting Ployarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony. Cambridge University Press. 1996.
1996: Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley, Embedded Autonomies and Industrial Transformation. Princeton University Press. 1995.
1995: Giovanni Arrighi, State University of New York, Binghamton, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. Verso Books. 1994.
1994: John Foran, University of California, Berkeley, Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution. Routledge. 1992.
1993: Christian Sutter, University of Zurich, Debt Cycles in the World-Economy: Foreign Loans, Financial Crises, and Debt Settlements, 1820-1990. Westview Press. 1992.
1992: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Johns Hopkins University, Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy. Blackwell Publishing. 1989.
1991: Dale W. Tomich, State University of New York, Binghamton, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848. State University of New York Press. 1990.
1990: Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. Oxford University Press. 1989.
1989: Stephen Bunker, Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900–1983. University of Illinois Press. 1987.
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Distinguished Article Award
2025: Joshua Lew McDermott, University of Pittsburgh, “Difference Between Global South Cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the Global Division of Urban Informal Labour.” Urban Studies. 2024.
2025 Honorable Mention: Amanda Sikirica, University of Wyoming, “Where Are Fossil Fuels Displaced by Alternatives? World-Systems and Energy Transitions.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 30(1): 249–75. 2024.
2024: Zachary Levenson, Florida International University and University of Johannesburg, and Marcel Paret, University of Utah and University of Johannesburg, “The Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism: From South Africa to the U.S. and Back Again.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 20:2, 333–351. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Paul Joosse, University of Hong Kong, and Dominik Zelinsky, Slovak Academy of Sciences, “Charismatic Mimicry: Innovation and Imitation in the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky,” Sociological Theory. 41(3) 201-228. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutgai, “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions,” American Sociological Review. 88(3): 418-453. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Roshan K. Pandian, Southern Methodist University, “The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis,” American Journal of Sociology. 2024.
2023: Grégoire Mallard, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Jin Sun, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Viral Governance: How the US Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1): 144–188. 2022.
2022: Andy Scott Chang, Singapore Management University, “Selling a resume and buying a job: Stratification of gender and occupation by states and brokers in international migration from Indonesia.” Social Problems, Vol. 68(4): 903-924. 2021.
2021: Sahan Savaş Karataşlı, “Capitalism and nationalism in the longue durée: Hegemony, crisis, and state-seeking nationalist mobilization, 1492–2013,” 2020, International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
2020: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey Payne, “Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and “Coreification” in the Longue-Durée.”Journal of World Systems Research 25(2): 395-419. 2019.
2019: Victoria Reyes, “Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters,” Social Forces 96(3):1097-1118. 2018.
2018: Sahan Savas Karatasli, “The Capitalist World-economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500-2008” Sociology of Development 3(2):163-186. 2017.
2017: Hannah Holleman, “De-naturalizing ecological disaster: colonialism, racism and the global Dust Bowl of the 1930s,” Journal of Peasant Studies 44(1):234–260. 2016.
2016: Matthew C. Mahutga, University of California, Riverside, “Global models of networked organization, the positional power of nations and economic development,” Review of International Political Economy 21(1):157-194. 2014.
2015: Donald A. Clelland, “The Core of the Apple: Dark Value and Degrees of Monopoly in Global Commodity Chains,” Journal of World-System Research 20(1):82-111. 2014.
2014: Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced, “Subnational opposition to globalization,” Social Forces 90(4):1051-1072. 2012.
2014: Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University, “The legacies of partial possession: From agrarian struggle to neoliberal restructuring in Mexico and Colombia,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 53(5-6): 345-366. 2012.
2013: Jon Shefner and Julie Stewart, “Neoliberalism, Grievances and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexico’s Democratic Transition,” Journal of World-Systems Research 17(2):353-378. 2011.
2012: Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980-2005,” American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1478-1513. 2011.
2011: Wilma Dunaway, “Nonwaged Peasants in the Modern World-System: African Households as Dialectical Units of Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Resistance, 1890-1930,” The Journal of Philosophical Economics 4(1):19-57. 2010.
2010: Andrew Schrank, “Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform,” American Journal of Sociology 114(1):1-34. 2008.
2009: Leslie Gates, “Theorizing Business Power in the Semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000,” Theory and Society 38(1):57-95. 2009.
2006: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran, “Theorizing the Relationship between Inequality and Economic Growth,” Theory and Society 34(3):277-316. 2005.
2004: Ho-fung Hung, “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conception of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900,” Sociological Theory 21(3):254-280. 2003.
2002: Jason Moore, Johns Hopkins University, “Environmental Crisis and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective,” Organization & Environment 13(2):123-157. 2000.
1998: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy P. Moran, University of Maryland, “World Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1970-1992”
1996: Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University, “Labor Unrest and World-systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts, and Measurement,” Review 18(1):7-34. 1995; and “World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves, and Cycles of World Hegemony,” Review 18(1):155-192. 1995.
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award
Award named Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award in 1997; alternated year-to-year with the Distinguished Scholarship Award for an Article. Award was discontinued in 2007.
2005: Chris Kollmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Globalization and Class Compromise: Political Change in 15 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1980-1999”
2003: Jon D. Carlson, Arizona State University, “The Expanding World-System and the Roots of Globalization”
2001: Teivo Teivainen, University of Helsinki, “Enter Economy, Exit Politics: Transnational Politics of Economism and Limits to Democracy in Peru”
1999: Kenneth James Barr, State University of New York, Binghamton, “The Metamorphosis of Business Enterprise”
1996: Edward McCaughan, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Global Change and Paradigm Crisis: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico”
1994: Wilma A. Dunaway, University of Tennessee, “The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World-Economy, 1700-1860”
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Distinguished Article Award
2025: Joshua Lew McDermott, University of Pittsburgh, “Difference Between Global South Cities: Mexico City, Freetown and the Global Division of Urban Informal Labour.” Urban Studies. 2024.
2025 Honorable Mention: Amanda Sikirica, University of Wyoming, “Where Are Fossil Fuels Displaced by Alternatives? World-Systems and Energy Transitions.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 30(1): 249–75. 2024.
2024: Zachary Levenson, Florida International University and University of Johannesburg, and Marcel Paret, University of Utah and University of Johannesburg, “The Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism: From South Africa to the U.S. and Back Again.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 20:2, 333–351. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Paul Joosse, University of Hong Kong, and Dominik Zelinsky, Slovak Academy of Sciences, “Charismatic Mimicry: Innovation and Imitation in the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky,” Sociological Theory. 41(3) 201-228. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, and Matthew C. Mahutgai, “Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions,” American Sociological Review. 88(3): 418-453. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Roshan K. Pandian, Southern Methodist University, “The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis,” American Journal of Sociology. 2024.
2023: Grégoire Mallard, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Jin Sun, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Viral Governance: How the US Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1): 144–188. 2022.
2022: Andy Scott Chang, Singapore Management University, “Selling a resume and buying a job: Stratification of gender and occupation by states and brokers in international migration from Indonesia.” Social Problems, Vol. 68(4): 903-924. 2021.
2021: Sahan Savaş Karataşlı, “Capitalism and nationalism in the longue durée: Hegemony, crisis, and state-seeking nationalist mobilization, 1492–2013,” 2020, InternationalJournal of Comparative Sociology.
2020: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey Payne, “Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and “Coreification” in the Longue-Durée.”Journal of World Systems Research 25(2): 395-419. 2019.
2019: Victoria Reyes, “Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters,” Social Forces 96(3):1097-1118. 2018.
2018: Sahan Savas Karatasli, “The Capitalist World-economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500-2008” Sociology of Development 3(2):163-186. 2017.
2017: Hannah Holleman, “De-naturalizing ecological disaster: colonialism, racism and the global Dust Bowl of the 1930s,” Journal of Peasant Studies 44(1):234–260. 2016.
2016: Matthew C. Mahutga, University of California, Riverside, “Global models of networked organization, the positional power of nations and economic development,” Review of International Political Economy 21(1):157-194. 2014.
2015: Donald A. Clelland, “The Core of the Apple: Dark Value and Degrees of Monopoly in Global Commodity Chains,” Journal of World-System Research 20(1):82-111. 2014.
2014: Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced, “Subnational opposition to globalization,” Social Forces 90(4):1051-1072. 2012.
2014: Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Phillip A. Hough, Florida Atlantic University, “The legacies of partial possession: From agrarian struggle to neoliberal restructuring in Mexico and Colombia,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 53(5-6): 345-366. 2012.
2013: Jon Shefner and Julie Stewart, “Neoliberalism, Grievances and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexico’s Democratic Transition,” Journal of World-Systems Research 17(2):353-378. 2011.
2012: Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980-2005,” American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1478-1513. 2011.
2011: Wilma Dunaway, “Nonwaged Peasants in the Modern World-System: African Households as Dialectical Units of Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Resistance, 1890-1930,” The Journal of Philosophical Economics 4(1):19-57. 2010.
2010: Andrew Schrank, “Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform,” American Journal of Sociology 114(1):1-34. 2008.
2009: Leslie Gates, “Theorizing Business Power in the Semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000,” Theory and Society 38(1):57-95. 2009.
2006: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran, “Theorizing the Relationship between Inequality and Economic Growth,” Theory and Society 34(3):277-316. 2005.
2004: Ho-fung Hung, “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conception of East-West Differences from 1600 to1900,” Sociological Theory 21(3):254-280. 2003.
2002: Jason Moore, Johns Hopkins University, “Environmental Crisis and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective,” Organization & Environment 13(2):123-157. 2000.
1998: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy P. Moran, University of Maryland, “World Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1970-1992”
1996: Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University, “Labor Unrest and World-systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts, and Measurement,” Review 18(1):7-34. 1995; and “World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves, and Cycles of World Hegemony,” Review 18(1):155-192. 1995.
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award
Replaced the Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award. First given in 2011.
2025: Rianka Roy, Wake Forest University, “Covert Carcerality for ‘High-Income Cheap Labor’: Indian Tech Workers in the United States.” Sociological Forum. 2024.
2025 Honorable Mention: Aryaman Sharma, Indiana University, “Assessing Core-Monopolization and the Possibilities for the Semi-Periphery in the World-System Today.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 29(2): 480–504. 2023.
2025 Honorable Mention: Durgesh Solanki, Johns Hopkins University, “Plaguing the Empire: Repertoires of Colonial Governance.”
2024: Masoud Movahed, University of Pennsylvania, “Varieties of capitalism and income inequality,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 1-37. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Miriam Gleckman-Krut, University of Michigan, “A Dangerous Precedent”: South Africa’s Management of Sexuality and Migration During Colonization and Apartheid (1913 – 1991).”
2023: Jiaqi Liu, University of California, San Diego, “When Diaspora Politics Meet Global Ambitions: Diaspora Institutions Amid China’s Geopolitical Transformations.” International Migration Review, 56(4): 1255-1279. 2022.
2022: John Peter Antonacci, SUNY Binghamton, “Periodizing the Capitalocene as Polemocene.” Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 27(2): 439-467. 2021.
2021: Alvin Camba, “The Sino-Centric Capital Export Regime: State-Backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines.” 2020, Development and Change.
2020: Spencer Louis Potiker. “Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle.” Anarchist Studies 27 (2): 77-102. 2019.
2019: Ricardo Jacobs, “An Urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa,” Journal of Peasant Studies 45(5-6):884-903. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Andrew Smolski, Alexander Reid Ross, and Javier Sethness Castro, “Lessons from exits foreclosed: An exilic interpretation of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, 1910–1924,” Capital & Class 42(3):453–488. 2018
2018: Ricarda Hammer, Brown University, and Alexandre White, Boston University, “Black Revolutions, Black Republics”
2017: Roshan K. Pandian, “Does Manufacturing Matter for Economic Growth in the Era of Globalization?” Social Forces 95(3):909–940. 2017.
2017: Irene Pang, “Banking Is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market,” Journal of World-Systems Research 22(2):510-541. 2016.
2016: Benjamin J. Marley, Binghamton University, “The Coal Crisis in Appalachia: Agrarian Transformation, Commodity Frontiers and the Geographies of Capital,” Journal of Agrarian Change 16(2):225-254. 2016.
2015: Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside, “The Structure of Globalized Travel: A Relational Country-Pair Analysis,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 54(2):144-170. 2013.
2014: Anthony Roberts, University of California, Riverside, “Peripheral accumulation in the world economy: A cross-national analysis of the informal economy,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 54(5-6):420-444. 2013.
2013: Brendan I. McQuade, “A Critical View of Counterinsurgency: World Relational State (De)Formation,” Yonsei Journal of International Studies 4(1):67-90. 2012.
2011: Kelly Austin, “Soybean Exports and Deforestation from a World-Systems Perspective,” The Sociological Quarterly 51(3):511-536. 2010.
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Award for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This award is biennial, in odd years.
2019: Manuel Barajas, California State University, Sacramento
The Section on Political Economy of the World-System’s Distinguished Teaching Award
The award is biennial, on even years.
2024: Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University
2022: Jason Mueller, University of California, Irvine/Kennesaw State University
2020: Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College
2020: Albert S. Fu, Kutztown University
2018: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, William & Mary