The Robert E. Park Award

The Park Award (formerly the Park Book Award) goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past two years. Nominations are now being sought for books that appeared in 2007 or 2008. Nominations should include (by email to all three committee members) standard bibliographic information about the work and a brief comment on its merits, and (by mail to all three committee members) a copy of the book. The deadline for receipt of all materials is March 1, 2010.

2009-2010 Robert E. Park Award Committee

Kevin Fitzpatrick (Chair) University of Arkansas kfitzpa@uark.edu
Miriam Greenberg University of California, Santa Cruz miriam@ucsc.edu
Matthew Marr Florida International University mmarr@fiu.edu

2008-2009 Robert E Park Award Committee

Bruce Phillips (Chair) Louchheim School of Judaic Studies, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
Mary Pattillo, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Bruce Haynes, Department of Sociology, U.C. Davis

2007-2008 Robert E Park Book Award Committee

David Halle (Chair), UCLA
Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University
Jonathan Wynn, Smith College

2006-2007 Robert E Park Book Award Committee

Kevin Gotham, (Chair), National Science Foundation
Max Herman, Rutgers University/Newark
Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State University

2005-2006 Robert E Park Book Award Committee

Cynthia Mildred Duncan, University of New Hampshire, Chair
Terry Clark, University of Chicago
Maria Kefalas

2004-2005 Robert E. Park Book Award Committee

Chair: David Halle, UCLA & CUNY
Ruth Horowitz, NYU
Barry Wellman, U Toronto