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Past Awards

Distinguished Career Award:

• 2014: Christopher Chase-Dunn

• 2009: Giovanni Arrighi

• 2003: Immanuel Wallerstein

• 1999: Janet Abu-Lughod

• 1997: Andre Gunder Frank

Distinguished Teaching Award:

• 2022: Jason Mueller, UC Irvine / Kennesaw State University

• 2020 (Co-Winners): Albert S. Fu, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College

• 2018: Jennifer Bickham Mendez, William & Mary

Award for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

• 2021: Mangala Subramaniam, Purdue University

• 2019: Manuel Barajas, California State University Sacramento

Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award:

• 2023: Hough, Phillip. 2020. At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2023: Parvulescu, Anna and Manuela Boatca. 2022. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires. Cornell University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2023: Plys, Kristin and Charles Lemert. 2022. Capitalism and its Uncertain Future. Routledge.

• 2022: Ashok Kumar. 2020. Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2022: Christy Thornton. 2021. Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Oakland, CA, USA: University of California Press.

• 2021: Laura Doyle. 2020. Inter-Imperiality. Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance. Durham: Duke University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2021: Nicholas Jepson. 2020. In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South. New York: Columbia University Press.

• 2020: Jerome Roos. 2019. Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2020: Victoria Reyes. 2019. Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

• 2019: Michael Levien. 2018. Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• 2018: Andy Clarno. 2017. Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2018: Ching Kwan Lee. 2017. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• 2017: Andrej Grubacic and Denis O'Hearn. 2016. Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid. Berkeley: University Of California Press.

• 2017: Kristin Hopewell. 2016. Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

• 2016: Jason W. Moore. 2015. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso.

• 2015: Christine Chin. 2013. Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

• 2015: William Robinson. 2014. Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2015: Sean O'Riain. 2014. The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 2014: Vivek Chibber. 2013. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. London: Verso.

• 2013: Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens. 2012. Democracy and the left: social policy and inequality in Latin America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Honorable Mention, 2013: Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest. 2012. Social movements in the world-system: the politics of crisis and transformation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; American Sociological Association, Rose Series in Sociology.

• 2012: Xuefei Ren. 2011. Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• 2011: Bill Winders. 2009. The Politics of Food Supply. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Honorable mention, 2011: Jozsef Borocz. 2010. The European Union and Global Social Change: A critical geopolitical-economic analysis. London and New York: Routledge Press.

• 2010: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran. 2009. Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• 2009: Nitsan Chorev. 2007. Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

• 2008: Jennifer Bickham Mendez. 2005. From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua. Durham: Duke University Press.

• 2008: Michael Goldman. 2005. Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• 2007: Georgi M. Derluguian. 2005. Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• 2007: Saskia Sassen. 2006. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Honorable mention, 2007: Bruce Podobnik. 2005. Global Energy Shifts: Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

• 2006: Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell. 2005. Globalization and the Race for Resources. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

• 2006: John Foran. 2005. Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Honorable mention, 2006: Valentine M. Moghadam. 2005. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

• 2005: John Talbot. 2004.Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

• 2004: Beverly J. Silver. 2003. Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 2003: Lauren Benton. 2002. Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 2002: Denis O'Hearn. 2001. The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

• 2001: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver. 1999. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• 2001: Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000. The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Towards Global Democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

• 2000: Andre Gunder Frank. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University Of California Press.

• Honorable mention, 2000: Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. 1997. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Boulder: Westview Press.

• 1999: Stark, David and Laszlo Bruszt. 1998. Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• 1998: Paige, Jeffery. 1997. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• 1997: Robinson, William I. 1996. Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• 1996: Evans, Peter B. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• 1995: Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994. The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times. London: Verso.

• 1994: Foran, John. 1993. Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

• 1993: Suter, Christian. 1992. Debt Cycles in the World-Economy: Foreign Loans, Financial Crises, and Debt Settlements, 1820-1990. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

• 1992: Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1989. Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy. London: Basil Blackwell. (Reprinted 1998, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).

• 1991: Tomich, Dale W. 1990. Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.1990.

• 1990: Abu-Lughod, Janet. 1989. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press.

• 1989: Bunker, Stephen. 1987. Peasants Against the State. Champagne Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (Reprinted in paper, 1991 University of Chicago Press)

Article Award:

• 2023: Mallard, Grégoire and Jin Sun. 2022. “Viral Governance: How the US Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology, 128(1): 144–188.

• 2022: Chang, Andy Scott. 2021. "Selling a resume and buying a job: Stratification of gender and occupation by states and brokers in international migration from Indonesia." Social Problems 68(4):903-924.

• 2021: Sahan Savaş Karataşli. 2020. "Capitalism and nationalism in the longue durée: Hegemony, crisis, and state-seeking nationalist mobilization, 1492-2013." International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 61(4):233-263.

• 2020: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey R. Payne. 2019. "Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and “Coreification” in the Longue-Durée." Journal of World-Systems Research, 25(2): 395-419.

• 2019: Victoria Reyes. 2018. "Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters." Social Forces, 96(3): 1097-1118.

• 2018: Sahan Savaş Karataşli. 2017. "The Capitalist World-Economy in the Longue Duree: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500-2008." Sociology of Development, 3(2): 163-186.

• 2017: Hannah Holleman. 2017. "De-naturalizing ecological disaster: colonialism, racism and the global Dust Bowl of the 1930s." Journal of Peasant Studies, 44(1): 234-60.

• 2016: Matthew C. Mahutga. 2014. "Global models of networked organization, the positional power of nations and economic development." Review of International Political Economy, 21(1): 157-194.

• 2015: Donald A. Clelland. 2014. "The Core of the Apple: Dark Value and Degrees of Monopoly in Global Commodity Chains." Journal of World-Systems Research, 20(1): 82-111.

• 2014 co-winner: Paul Almeida. 2012. "Subnational opposition to globalization." Social Forces, 90(4): 1051-1072.

• 2014 co-winner: Jennifer Bair and Phillip A. Hough. 2012 "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.

• 2013: Jon Shefner and Julie Stewart. 2011. "Neoliberalism, Grievances and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexico's Democratic Transition." Journal of World-Systems Research, 17: 353-378.

• 2012: Hung, Ho-fung and Jaime Kucinskas. 2011. "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: Dunaway, Wilma. 2010. "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.

• Honorable mention, 2011: Hall, Thomas. 2009. "Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications." Journal of World-Systems Research, 15:1:25-47.

• Honorable mention, 2011: Sanderson, Matthew and Jeffrey Kentor. 2009. "Globalization, Development and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000." Social Forces 88:1:301-336.

• Honorable mention, 2011: Moore, Jason. 2010. "Amsterdam is Standing On Norway." Journal of Agrarian Change, 10:1:33-68 and 10:2:188-227.

• 2009: Leslie Gates: "Theorizing Business Power in the Semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000" in Theory and Society, 38:57-95 (2009).

• 2008: No award made.

• 2006: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran: "Theorizing the Relationship between Inequality and Economic Growth" in Theory and Society, 34, 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" in Sociological Theory, 21 (3: September), 2003.

• 2002: Jason W. Moore: "Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective" in Organization and Environment, 13 (2:June), 123-157, 2000.

• 2000: No Award Given

• 1998: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran: "World-Economic Trends in the Distribution of Income, 1965-1992" in American Journal of Sociology, 102 (4): 1000-1039, 1997.

• 1996: Beverly Silver: "Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measurement," and "World Scale Patterns of Labor-Conflict" both in Review, 18:1(Winter) 1995.

Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Article Award:

• 2023: Liu, Jiaqi. 2022. “When Diaspora Politics Meet Global Ambitions: Diaspora Institutions Amid China’s Geopolitical Transformations.” International Migration Review, 56(4): 1255-1279.

• 2022: John Antonacci. 2021. "Periodizing the Capitalocene as Polemocene: Militarized Ecologies of Accumulation in the Long Sixteenth Century." Journal of World-Systems Research 27(2):439-467.

• 2021: Alvin Camba. 2020. "The Sino-Centric Capital Export Regime: State-Backed and Flexible Capital in the Philippines." Development and Change, 51(4):970-997.

• 2020: Spencer Louis Potiker. 2019. "Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle." Anarchist Studies, 27(2).

• 2019: Ricardo Jacobs. 2018. "An Urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa." Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (5-6): 884-903.

• Honorable Mention, 2019: Andrew Smolski, Alexander Reid Ross, and Javier Sethness Castro. 2018. "Lessons from exits foreclosed: An exilic interpretation of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, 1910-1924." Capital & Class, 42(3): 453-488.

• 2018: Ricarda Hammer and Alexandre White. 2017. "Black Revolutions, Black Republics" 2017 ASA Conference Preceding Archives.

• 2017: Roshan K. Pandian. 2017. "Does Manufacturing Matter for Economic Growth in the Era of Globalization?" Social Forces, 95(3): 909-940.

• 2017: Irene Pang. 2016. "Banking is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market." Journal of World Systems Research, 22(2): 510-41.

• 2016: Benjamin J. Marley. 2015. "The Coal Crisis in Appalachia: Agrarian Transformation, Commodity Frontiers and the Geographies of Capital." Journal of Agrarian Change.

• Honorable Mention, 2016: Alvin Almendrala Camba. 2015. "From colonialism to neoliberalism: Critical reflections on Philippine mining in the 'long twentieth century'." The Extractive Industries and Society, 2(2): 287-301.

• 2015: Victoria Reyes. 2013. "The Structure of Globalized Travel: A Relational Country-Pair Analysis." International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 54(2):144-170.

• 2013: Brendan I. McQuade. 2012. "A Critical View of Counterinsurgency: World Relational State (De)Formation." Yonsei Journal of International Studies, 4: 67-90.

• 2012: No award given

• 2011: Austin, Kelly. 2010. "Soybean Exports and Deforestation from a World-Systems Perspective." The Sociological Quarterly, 51:511-536.

Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award:

• 2007: No award made.

• 2005: Chris Kollmeyer: Globalization and Class Compromise: Political Change in 15 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1980-1999. University of California-Santa Barbara, 2003.

• 2003: Jon D. Carlson: The Expanding World-System and the Roots of Globalization. Arizona State University, 2002.

• 2001: Teivo Teivainen: Enter Economy, Exit Politics: Transnational Politics of Economism and Limits to Democracy in Peru. University of Helsinki, 2000

• 1999: Kenneth Barr: The Metamorphosis of Business Enterprise. State University of New York, Binghamton, 1999.

• 1996: Edward McCaughan: Global Change and Paradigm Crisis: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexcio. University of California, Santa Cruz 1995.

• 1994: Wilma A. Dunaway: The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World-Economy, 1700-1860 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1994.

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