Winner: Barry Eidlin, 2016, "Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? Political Articulation and the Canadian Comparison, 1932-1948.” American Sociological Review 81(3) :488-516.
Winner: Ivan Ermakoff, 2015, "The Structure of Contingency," American Journal of Sociology 121(1) :64-125.
Winner: Josh Pacewicz. 2015. "Playing the Neoliberal Game: Why Community Leaders Left Party Politics to Partisan Activists", American Journal of Sociology 121(3):826-881.
Honorable Mention: Damon Mayrl. 2015. "How Does the State Structure Secularization?", European Journal of Sociology 56(2):207-239.
Winner: Melissa Wilde and Sabrina Danielsen. 2014. “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America.” American Journal of Sociology 119(6): 1710-1760.
Honorable Mention: Malcolm Fairbrother. 2014. “Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization: North American Free Trade in Comparative-Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Sociology 119(5): 1324-1379.
Winner: Robert Fishman and Omar Lizardo. “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste.” American Sociological Review 78(2): 213-239.
Elisabeth Anderson (Northwestern). 2012. "Ideas in Action: The Politics of Prussian Child Labor Reform, 1817-1839". Theory and Society 42: 81-119.
Winner: Nicolas Hoover Wilson, 2011. "From Reflection to Refraction: State Administration in British India, circa 1770-1855." American Journal of Sociology 116(5):1437-77.
Honorable Mention: Hazem Kandil, 2011. "Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian Counterhegemonic Strategies." Theory and Society 40(1):37-62.
Co-Winner: Danielle Kane and Jung Mee Park, 2009. "The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia." American Journal of Sociology 115(2):365-404.
Co-Winner: Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein, 2010. "The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001." American Sociological Review 75(5):764-790.
Winner: Dan Slater, 2009. "Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia." American Journal of Sociology 115(1):203-254.
Winner: Cedric de Leon, 2008. "'No Bourgeois Mass Party, No Democracy': The Missing Link in Barrington Moore's American Civil War." Political Power and Social Theory 19: 39-82.
Honorable Mention: Ho-fung Hung, 2008. "Agricultural Revolution and Elite Reproduction in Qing China: The Transition to Capitalism Debate Revisited." American Sociological Review 73: 569-88.
Honorable Mention: Liliana Riga, 2008. "The Ethnic Roots of Class Universalism: Rethinking the 'Russian' Revolutionary Elite." American Journal of Sociology 114: 649-705.
John F. Padgett and Paul D. McLean, "Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence," American Journal of Sociology, 111(5) (March 2006): 1463-568.
Wimmer, Andreas and Brian Min, 2006. "From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816-2001." American Sociological Review 71:867-897.
Winner: Prasad, Monica. 2005. "Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981." American Journal of Sociology 111(2): 357-407.
Honorable Mention: Ari Adut, 2005. "A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde." American Journal of Sociology 111(1): 213-248.
Steinberg, Marc. 2003. "Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law." American Journal of Sociology 109: 445-495.