Call for Section Awards: 2024
The PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award
Nominations are invited for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award. 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 (2022 or 2023). 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. Both electronic nomination letters for the book award, and hard copies of the nominated book, should be sent to the entire committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2024. 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 Black, ethnic minority, female, and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. For further information, including committee members' mailing addresses, please contact Sahan Savaş Karataşli at skaratasli@uncg.edu.
Committee Members:
Sahan Savaş Karataşli (Chair)
skaratasli@uncg.edu
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina - Greensboro
318 Graham Hall
1009 Spring Garden St.
Greensboro, NC 27412
Amanda Lynn Sikirica
asikiric@uwyo.edu
Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology
University of Wyoming
Dept. 3197 | A&S Building 208
Laramie, WY 82071
Corey Payne
cpayne@jhu.edu
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
533 Mergenthaler Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
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 (2021 or 2022). 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. Nominations are due by March 1, 2024. 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 Vilna Bashi Treitler at vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu.
Committee Members:
Vilna Bashi Treitler (Chair)
vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu
Nefratiri Weeks
nefratiri.weeks@colostate.edu
Justin Theodra
justin.theodra@uconn.edu
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 2021 or 2022 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, 2024. 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 Vilna Bashi Treitler at vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu.
Committee Members:
Vilna Bashi Treitler (Chair)
vilna.bashi@northwestern.edu
Kirk Lawrence
klawrence@sjny.edu
Youbin Kang
youbin.kang@wisc.edu
The PEWS Distinguished Teaching Award
The PEWS Distinguished Teaching Award is a bi-annual award 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, 2024. For further information, please contact Alvin Camba at alvin.camba@du.edu.