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THE JANE ADDAMS AWARD

This award goes to the authors of the best book-length research monograph or the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the past two years.
 

JANE ADDAMS AWARD WINNERS

Year
 

Name & Affiliation

2009

Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University
Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure

2008

Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane University
The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered: Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Section

2007

Elizabeth Bruch and Robert Mare
Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change

2006

Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush
Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows

2005

Nicole Marwell, Columbia University
Privatizing the Welfare State: Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations as Political Actors
Courtney Abrams, Karen Albright, Aaron Panofsky, New York University
Contesting the New York Community: From Liminality to the "New Normal"
in the Wake of Spetember 11th

2004

Mario Small, Princeton University
Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory:
Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project
American Journal of Sociology

2003

Jennifer Lee, University of California-Irvine
From Civil Relations to Racial Conflict: Merchant-Customer Interactions in Urban America
American Sociological Review 67: 77-98

2002
 

Susan Eckstein
"Community as Gift-Giving: Collective Roots of Volunteerism"
American Sociological Review 66: 829-851.

2001
 

No award given

2000
 

Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush
"Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods" (American Journal of Sociology 105, 3, 1999).

Information about Jane Adams Award Committee and Nominations here