2021 ASA Theory Section Awards

Junior Theorist Award

Winner 
Paul Joosse and Robin Willey. 2020. “Gender and Charismatic Power,” Theory and Society, 49(4):533-561.

Honorable Mention
Christina Simko. 2020. “Marking Time in Memorials and Museums of Terror: Temporality and Cultural Trauma,” Sociological Theory 38(1):51-77.

Committee
​Besnik Pula (chair)
Neil Gong
Katrina Quisumbing King
Poulami Roychowdhury

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Co-winners
Andrew Le. “The Third Element of Migration.”
Yuchen Yang. "What's Hegemonic about Hegemonic Masculinity?"

Honorable Mentions
Laura Acosta Gonzales. "Victimhood Dissociation and Conflict Resolution"
Demar Lewis. “Troubling America’s Historical Waters.”

Committee
Fatma Gocek (chair)
Sourabh Singh
Christina Simko
Jakob Habinek

Best Graduate Student Paper

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Theory Prize

Co-winners
Victor Ray (2019). "A Theory of Racialized Organizations," American Sociological Review 84(1): 26-53.
Michael Sauder (2020). "A Sociology of Luck," Sociological Theory 38(3): 193-216.

Committee
Camilo Leslie
Michal Pagis
Natalie Aviles
Ellis Monk

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Winner
Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)

Committee
Simone Polillo
Chas Camic
Raul Perez
​Monika Krause

Lewis A. Coser Award