Junior Theorist Award
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The Junior Theorist Award honors the best paper each year submitted by an early-career sociologist. The winner is to present a keynote address at the Junior Theory Symposium the year after the award is given.
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current winner
Junior Theorist Award Winner: Daniel Hirschman
The current winner for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Daniel Hirschman, for his piece, "Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality." (American Journal of Sociology 2021).
Honorable Mention
Caleb Scoville. “Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta.” (American Journal of Sociology 2022).
The current winner for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Daniel Hirschman, for his piece, "Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality." (American Journal of Sociology 2021).
Honorable Mention
Caleb Scoville. “Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta.” (American Journal of Sociology 2022).
Past winners
2021 Junior Theorist Award Winners: Paul Joosse and Robin Willey
The 2021 winners for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Paul Joosse and Robin Willey, for their piece, “Gender and Charismatic Power.” (Theory and Society 2020).
Honorable Mention
Christina Simko. “Marking Time in Memorials and Museums of Terror: Temporality and Cultural Trauma.” (Sociological Theory 2020).
2020 Junior Theorist Award Winner: Neil Gong
The 2020 winner for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Neil Gong, for his piece, "Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family." (American Sociological Review 2019)
2019 Junior Theorist Award Winner:
The 2019 Junior Theorist Award goes to Daniel Winchester, Purdue University, and Kyle D. Green, The College at Brockport, for their piece, “Talking your self into it: How and when accounts shape motivation for action.” (Sociological Theory 2019)
2018 Junior Theorist Award Winner: ERIN METZ MCDONNELL
The 2018 Junior Theorist Award goes to Erin Metz McDonnell, University of Notre Dame for her piece, “Patchwork Leviathan: How Pockets of Bureaucratic Governance Flourish within Institutionally Diverse Developing States” (ASR 2017).
Honorable mention
Joshua Wakeham, University of Alabama, “Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology” (Sociological Theory 35 2017).
2017 Junior Theorist Award Winner: LARISSA BUCHHOLZ
The 2017 Junior Theorist Award goes to Larissa Buchholz of Northwestern University for her piece, “What Is a Global Field? Theorizing Fields Beyond the Nation State.” The important question Larissa takes up in her article is how to rework Bourdieu’s concept of “field” to enable it to be applied transnationally.
2016 Junior Theorist Award Winner: CHRIS BAIL
The 2016 Junior Theorist Award was awarded to Chris Bail (Duke University) for "The Public Life of Secrets: Deception, Disclosure, and Discursive Framing in the Policy Process” (Sociological Theory, 2015).
2015 Junior Theorist Award Winner: CLAUDIO BENZECRY
The 2015 Junior Theorist Award was awarded to Claudio Benzecry (University of Connecticut) for "An Opera House for the Paris of South America: Pathways to the Institutionalization of High Culture" (Theory and Society, 2014).
2014 Junior Theorist Award Winners: CLAIRE LAURIER DECOTEAU AND ISAAC REED
The 2014 Junior Theorist Award was jointly awarded to Claire Laurier Decoteau (University of Illinois- Chicago) for her paper,
“Hybrid Habitus: Toward a Post-Colonial Theory of Practice" ( Political Power and Social Theory, 2013) and Isaac Reed (University of Colorado - Boulder) for his paper, “Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions" (Sociological Theory, 2013).
The 2021 winners for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Paul Joosse and Robin Willey, for their piece, “Gender and Charismatic Power.” (Theory and Society 2020).
Honorable Mention
Christina Simko. “Marking Time in Memorials and Museums of Terror: Temporality and Cultural Trauma.” (Sociological Theory 2020).
2020 Junior Theorist Award Winner: Neil Gong
The 2020 winner for the Junior Theorist Award goes to Neil Gong, for his piece, "Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family." (American Sociological Review 2019)
2019 Junior Theorist Award Winner:
The 2019 Junior Theorist Award goes to Daniel Winchester, Purdue University, and Kyle D. Green, The College at Brockport, for their piece, “Talking your self into it: How and when accounts shape motivation for action.” (Sociological Theory 2019)
2018 Junior Theorist Award Winner: ERIN METZ MCDONNELL
The 2018 Junior Theorist Award goes to Erin Metz McDonnell, University of Notre Dame for her piece, “Patchwork Leviathan: How Pockets of Bureaucratic Governance Flourish within Institutionally Diverse Developing States” (ASR 2017).
Honorable mention
Joshua Wakeham, University of Alabama, “Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology” (Sociological Theory 35 2017).
2017 Junior Theorist Award Winner: LARISSA BUCHHOLZ
The 2017 Junior Theorist Award goes to Larissa Buchholz of Northwestern University for her piece, “What Is a Global Field? Theorizing Fields Beyond the Nation State.” The important question Larissa takes up in her article is how to rework Bourdieu’s concept of “field” to enable it to be applied transnationally.
2016 Junior Theorist Award Winner: CHRIS BAIL
The 2016 Junior Theorist Award was awarded to Chris Bail (Duke University) for "The Public Life of Secrets: Deception, Disclosure, and Discursive Framing in the Policy Process” (Sociological Theory, 2015).
2015 Junior Theorist Award Winner: CLAUDIO BENZECRY
The 2015 Junior Theorist Award was awarded to Claudio Benzecry (University of Connecticut) for "An Opera House for the Paris of South America: Pathways to the Institutionalization of High Culture" (Theory and Society, 2014).
2014 Junior Theorist Award Winners: CLAIRE LAURIER DECOTEAU AND ISAAC REED
The 2014 Junior Theorist Award was jointly awarded to Claire Laurier Decoteau (University of Illinois- Chicago) for her paper,
“Hybrid Habitus: Toward a Post-Colonial Theory of Practice" ( Political Power and Social Theory, 2013) and Isaac Reed (University of Colorado - Boulder) for his paper, “Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions" (Sociological Theory, 2013).
