Robert Park Book Award

THE ROBERT E. PARK BOOK AWARD

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

PREVIOUS PARK BOOK AWARD WINNERS
	Name & Affiliation	Book Title
2011	Teresa Gowan	Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
2010	Javier Auyero Débora Alejandra Swistun	Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
2009	Miriam Greenberg University of California-Santa Cruz	Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
2008	Mary Pattillo Northwestern University	Black on the Block
2007	Robert Smith Barcuh College	Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
2006	Chris Rhomberg Yale University	No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland
2005	Terry Nichols Clark University of Chicago Mario Small University of Chicago	The City as an Entertainment Machine Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
2004	Sonya Salamon University of Illinois	Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland
2003	Eric Klinenberg New York University	Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
2002	Li Zhang University of California-Davis	Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population
2001	Cynthia M. Duncan University of New Hampshire	Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America
2000	Gerald H. Gamm University of Rochester	Urban Exodus: Why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed
1999	Jan Lin Occidental College	Reconstructing Chinatown
1998	Roger Waldinger University of California-Los Angeles	Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York
1997	Camilo Jose Vergara	The New American Ghetto
1996	John Horton University of California-Los Angeles	The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance and Change in Monterrey Park, California
1995	Alejandro Portes John Hopkins University Alex Stepick Florida International University	City of the Edge: The Transformation of Miami
1994	Richard Maddox Carnegie-Mellon University	El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andulusian Town
1993	John Walton University of California-Davis	Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California
1992	Martin Sanchez Jankowski University of California-Berkeley	Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Society
1991	Elijan Anderson University of Pennsylvania	StreetWise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Communi ty
1990	Theodore Bester Columbia University	Neighborhood Tokyo
1989	Steven P. Erie UC-Santa Barbara	Raindow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Machine Politics, 1840-1985
1988	Carloyn Ellis University of South Florida Harvey Molotch UC- Santa Barbara John Logan SUNY Albany	Fisher Folk, Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
1987	Victoria Steinitz & Ellen Soloman Jonathon Rieder Yale University	Starting Out: Community in the Lives of Working -Class Youth Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism

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