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THE JANE JACOBS  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 ADAMS AWARD WINNERS
Year
 
Name & Affiliation
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