CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award
1996 American Sociological Association Meetings in NYC to celebrate the retirement of Terence K. Hopkins. Left to Right: Giovanni Arrighi, William G. Martin, Walter Goldframk, Ravi Palat, and Resat Kasaba. Courtesy of Ravi Palat.
The PEWS Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award
This annual award is given to the best graduate student paper in the political economy of the world-system. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2024 or 2025 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Papers co-authored by a faculty member and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one paper nominated. Nominations should include a brief statement of how the paper is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the paper to be sent via email to all members of the paper awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2026. The author(s) of the nominated paper (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact the committee’s chair, Marina Karides, mkarides@hawaii.edu.
The award honors the life and legacies of Immanuel Wallerstein and shall be for the best book or books published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2024 or 2025). Nominations for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award should include a brief statement of how the book is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the book to be sent to all members of the book award committee (see below). Both electronic nomination letters for the book award, and hard copies of the nominated book, should be sent to the entire committee (see below). Nominations are due by March 1, 2026. The author(s) of the book (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. Nominations by groups underrepresented in academic scholarship and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. For further information, please contact the committee’s chair Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, korzen@umd.edu.
The PEWS Distinguished Article Award
Nominations are invited for the PEWS Distinguished Article Award. To be eligible, papers must be published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2024 or 2025). Nominations should include a brief statement of how the article is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the article to be sent via email to all members of the article awards committee (see below). Nominations are due by March 1, 2026. The author(s) of the nominated article (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact the committee’s chair, Marina Karides, mkarides@hawaii.edu.
The PEWS Distinguished Teaching Award
The PEWS Distinguished Teaching Award is a bi-annual award is given (in even numbered years) to a member of PEWS who has demonstrated a superior record of mentoring and teaching related to political economy of the world system at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. Scholars are welcome to self-nominate. Nominees must be members of the section at the time of nomination. Nominations are due by March 1, 2026. For further information, please contact the committee’s chair, Ricado Jacobs, rejacobs@ucsb.edu.