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Sociology of Development

2025 Section Awards

The Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association invites
nominations for three awards recognizing outstanding scholarship in the area of the sociology of development: Book Award, Faculty Article Award, and Graduate Student Paper Award.

Sociology of Development Section Book Award

All books published in 2023 or 2024 are eligible for nomination. Please submit a brief nomination letter (self-nominations are welcome) along with a copy of the nominated book to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.

Nikhil Deb (Chair)
Social Sciences Department
Cal Poly
Bldg. 47, Rm. 13
1 Grand Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0329
Email: ndeb@calpoly.edu

Rina Agarwala
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
533 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: agarwala@jhu.edu

Ricado Jacobs
Global Studies Department (Mail Code: 7065)
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7065
Email: rejacobs@ucsb.edu

Zophia Edwards
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
560 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: zedward2@jhu.edu

Li Zhang
105 Room
11 Barrett Hill Dr,
Amherst, MA, 01002
Email: lzhang@amherst.edu

Sociology of Development Section Faculty Article Award

Please send a letter of nomination and an electronic version of the article to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.  If the article has been published, the copyright date must be 2023 or 2024.  However, unpublished articles are also welcome, and self-nominations are encouraged.

Holly E. Reed (chair)
Queens College, City University of New York
Holly.Reed@qc.cuny.edu

Jason Mueller
Kennesaw State University
jmuell18@kennesaw.edu

Catherine van de Ruit
Ursinus College
cvanderuit@ursinus.edu

Robert Wyrod
University of Colorado Boulder
robert.wyrod@colorado.edu

Sociology of Development Section Graduate Student Paper Award

Please send a letter of nomination and an electronic version of the article to each of the committee members listed below by March 1, 2025.  If the article has been published, the copyright date must be 2023 or 2024.  However, unpublished articles are also welcome and self-nominations are encouraged.

Benjamin Bradlow (chair)
Princeton University
bhbradlow@princeton.edu

Livio Silva-Muller
Geneva Graduate Institute
livio.silva@graduateinstitute.ch

Elena Shih
Brown University
elena_shih@brown.edu