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.| 2006 |
Chris
Rhomberg Yale University |
No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland |
| 2005 | Terry
Nichols Clark University of Chicago Mario Small |
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 |
Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population |
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Cynthia M. Duncan |
Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America |
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Gerald H. Gamm University of Rochester |
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed | |
| Jan
Lin Occidental College |
Reconstructing Chinatown | |
| Roger
Waldinger UCLA |
Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York | |
| Camilo Jose Vergara | The New American Ghetto | |
| John
Horton UCLA |
The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance and Change in Monterrey Park, California | |
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Alejandro Portes John Hopkins University Alex Stepick Florida International University |
City of the Edge: The Transformation of Miami |
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Richard Maddox Carnegie-Mellon University |
El Castillo: The Politics of Tradition in an Andulusian Town | |
| John
Walton UC-Davis |
Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California | |
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Martin Sanchez Jankowski University of California-Berkeley |
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Society |
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| Elijan Anderson University of Pennsylvania | StreetWise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community | |
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Theodore Bester Columbia University |
Neighborhood Tokyo | |
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Steven P. Erie UC-Santa Barbara |
Raindow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Machine Politics, 1840-1985 | |
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Carloyn Ellis University of South Florida Harvey Molotch |
Fisher Folk, Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place |
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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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Information about Robert E. Park Book Award Committee and Nominations here