Hirschman Award Ceremony » 2008

Adam Ashforth

Adam Ashforth teaches in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth Century South Africa (Oxford, 1990), Madumo, a Man Bewitched (Chicago, 2000), and Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago, 2005), which was awarded the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize (2005) and the Third World Studies Association's Toyin Falola Book Award (2006). He is currently involved in research on HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi and ethnic conflict in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Javier Auyero

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Poor People’s Politics (Duke U Press 2000), Contentious Lives (Duke U Press 2003), Routine Politics and Collective Violence in Argentina (Cambridge U Press 2007), and Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford U Press, forthcoming in 2009). He is the current editor of Qualitative Sociology.

Richard Bensel

Richard Bensel is a Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His primary fields are American politics and political economy, with specific interests in American political development, parties and elections, the United States Congress, and comparative state formation. He is the author of, most recently, Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention (Cambridge, 2008), The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2004) and The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 (Cambridge, 2000). Among his other publications are Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 and Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980. Current research projects include The Material Construction of Courage: Political Violence in the American South, 1865-1900 and States out of Nature: The Legislative Founding of Democracies.

Craig Calhoun

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at New York University and President of the Social Science Research Council. His empirical research has ranged from Britain and France to China and three different African countries. His study of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 resulted in the prize-winning book, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1994). Among his other works are Nationalism (Minnesota, 1997), Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference (Blackwell, 1995), and several edited collections including Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT, 1992), Understanding September 11 (New Press, 2002), and Lessons of Empire (New Press, 2005). He was also editor in chief of the Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences. In more than ninety articles, he has also addressed the impact of technological change; the organization of community life; the relationship among tort law, risk, and business organizations; the anthropological study of education, kinship, and religion; and problems in contemporary globalization.

Ernesto Castañeda-Tinoco

Ernesto Castañeda-Tinoco is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His work focuses on transnational migration, remittances, development, expertise, and contentious politics. He was a visiting scholar (2007-2008) at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris looking at specific migrant circuits between North Africa and Europe. His dissertation compares contexts of reception, integration, and migrant political mobilization, specifically among Mexicans in the U.S. and North Africans in France and Spain. He can be reached at ec2183@columbia.edu

Mona El-Ghobashy

Mona El-Ghobashy is assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. Her research examines political opposition in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on Egypt. Her work has appeared in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report, and American Behavioral Scientist. El-Ghobashy's book manuscript, Petition and Protest in Authoritarian Egypt, is inspired by Chuck Tilly’s work on the political mobilization of ordinary people.

Lynn Eden

Lynn Eden is acting co-director at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, part of Stanford University’s institute for international studies. Eden received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan under Chuck Tilly and taught in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University before going to Stanford, where she works in an multi-disciplinary environment with perhaps too many political scientists. Eden's most recent book, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation won the American Sociological Association's 2004 Robert K. Merton award for best book in science, knowledge and technology. Eden is currently working on organizational learning and error, and organizational explanation and rhetoric.

Roberto Franzosi

Roberto Franzosi is professor of Sociology and Linguistics at Emory University. Franzosi’s main interests have been in social protest (The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy, Cambridge University Press, 1994). He has also worked on issues of measurement of meaning, publishing several articles and three books From Words to Number: Narrative, Data, and Social Science (CUP, 2005), Content Analysis (Sage, 2008) and Quantitative Narrative Analysis (Sage, in press). Using quantitative narrative analysis, he has completed a large project on the rise of Italian fascism (1919-22) and he is currently carrying out a project on lynching in Jim Crow South.

Jack A. Goldstone

Jack A. Goldstone is Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (California 1991), and editor of The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Congressional Quarterly 1998). He has received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship award of the American Sociological Association, the Arnoldo Momigliano Prize of the Historical Society, and fellowships from the ACLS and the MacArthur Foundation. Professor Goldstone has written or edited ten books and over one hundred academic articles or essays on topics ranging from demography and conflict to long-term social and economic change.

Michael Hanagan

Michael Hanagan received his B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1969 and his Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan in 1976. His specialties include European labor history, French social history, and world history. He is the author of The Logic of Solidarity: Artisans and Industrial Workers in Three French Towns (University of Illinois, 1979) and Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France (Blackwell, 1989). He has edited a number of collections, most recently (with Charles Tilly) Expanding Rights: Reconfiguring States (Rowman and Littlefield 1999) and (with Leslie Moch and Wayne Te Brake), Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics (U of Minnesota, 1998). He is also finishing a manuscript with Miriam Cohen on the comparative history of the welfare state in England, France and the United States, 1870-1950. Together with John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter Perdue, Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly, he is in the final stages of completing a world history textbook, “Global Connections: Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History.” He served as senior editor for International Labor and Working-Class History for the last four years and has been on the Consulting Board of Theory and Society for the last six.

Ira Katznelson

Ira Katznelson is the Ruggles professor of political science and history at Columbia University and a Board member of the Social Science Research Council. He was a close colleague of Charles Tilly at both the New School and Columbia University. At Friday evening's ceremony, he will address the “practice of originality” in Tilly's work.

Sun-Chul Kim

Sun-Chul Kim is Term Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, where he teaches contentious politics and social movements in East Asia and Korea. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University. His primary research interest focuses on how social movements and other forms of popular contention evolve after democratization. His dissertation is titled, Defiant Institutionalization: Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea, 1984-2002. His recent research includes exploring the relationship between online activities and street mobilization, how interaction between movements and counter-movements affects contentious dynamics in South Korea, and a comparative study of post-transition contentious dynamics in East Asia and Eastern Europe. He served as the organizer for the Workshop on Contentious Politics at Columbia University for several years.

Andreas Koller

Andreas Koller is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University and at the Social Science Research Council. His research interests include social and political theory, pragmatism, comparative historical sociology, public communication and democratization. He is working on a series of articles on the historical sociology of the public sphere and on a special issue of Social Science History on “The Public Sphere and Comparative-Historical Research.” He has co-edited the SSRC online essay forum “Tributes to Charles Tilly” and edited the related “Annotated Links to Charles Tilly Resources.” Other forthcoming publications include contributions to handbooks on both Habermas and Bourdieu and handbook articles on the public sphere.

John Merriman

John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. His recent books include The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002); Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (Oxford UP, 2006) and The Dynamite Club: The Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris, to be published by Houghton Mifflin and Tallandier. He co-edited, with Jay Winter, The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 and The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2006, (each 5 volumes, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006). His entries in the latter include “The French Suburban Riots, 2005” and “The Rolling Stones.” He was awarded an honorary doctorate in France, where he and his family are residents, and was the recipient of the Yale University Byrnes-Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000.

Joan Scott

Joan Scott is a professor of social science at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. She first got to know Charles Tilly when the Social Science Research Council awarded her a research training fellowship and assigned him as her mentor. At Friday evening's ceremony, Scott will address the connections between Tilly’s work and that of her IAS colleague, Albert Hirschman, as well as Tilly’s long-standing—and extremely productive—relationship with the SSRC.

William Sewell

William Sewell is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. He has published widely on social theory and on eighteenth and nineteenth century French history. He is currently working on a project on eighteenth-century capitalism and the cultural origins of the French Revolution.

Sidney Tarrow

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Tarrow's first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). In the 1980s, after a foray into comparative local politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978), he turned to a reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960's and early 1970's, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989). His recent books are Power in Movement (Cambridge, 1994, 1998), Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Cambridge, 2001), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig, Rowman and Littlefield 2001), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (ed., with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge, 2005) and (with the late Charles Tilly), Contentious Politics (Paradigm, 2006). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as Program co-Chair of the American Political Science Association Annual Convention, President of the Conference Group on Italian Politics, President of the APSA Section on Comparative Politics. He is currently working on warmaking, state building and human rights.

Wayne Te Brake

Wayne Te Brake is Professor of History at Purchase College in the State University of New York. A student of Charles Tilly at The University of Michigan, he has written broadly on the themes of revolution, contentious politics and religious co-existence in early modern Europe. Professor Te Brake is the author of Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth Century Dutch City and Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 and co-editor of Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics. He has also directed collaborative research projects, funded by the Ford Foundation, on “The Politics of Cultural Pluralism in Europe” and “The Hidden History of European Pluralism.”

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. He is the author of The Modern World-System (3 vol.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century; Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World, and most recently, European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power. He was the founder and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center (1976-2005). He was President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998). He chaired the international Gulbenkian Commission for the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, whose report is Open the Social Sciences. A collection of his work appears as The Essential Wallerstein.

Barry Wellman

Coming from the Bronx, Barry Wellman knew that cities contain exciting, supportive communities, despite most sociologists being mired in the pastoralist muck. As Chuck Tilly's Teaching Fellow (no mere Assistants at Harvard) in Urban Sociology, 1964-1965, he found a kindred spirit and more trenchant analyst. Wellman followed Tilly to the burning northern Toronto bush and has stayed frozen there ever since. S.D. Clark recruited Chuck (and Barry) to Toronto, so it is only fitting that Wellman is now the S.D. Clark Chair of Sociology there. With Lee Rainie, head of the Pew Internet project, Wellman is now writing The Networked Individual which applies Chuck's An Urban World insights (with a dollop of Harrison White) to studying networked communities—on and off the Internet.

Harrison C. White

Harrison C. White is Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. One line of his current research melds economic sociology with mathematical modeling (Markets from Networks, Princeton University Press 2002); another meshes social network with discourse analyses. The theoretical foundation of both was laid in Identity and Control, first published in 1992, now available in a thoroughly revised second edition (Princeton University Press 2008). White has also taught at five other universities (Arizona (Tucson), Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Edinburgh and Harvard) and has worked in several applied research organizations and business schools. He earned doctorates at MIT (theoretical physics) and Princeton (sociology) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Viviana A. Zelizer

Viviana A. Zelizer is Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She specializes in historical analysis, economic processes, interpersonal relations, and childhood. She has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing economic and sentimental value of children, and on the place of money in social life. Her most recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy, deals with the interplay of economic activity and personal ties, especially intimate ties, both in everyday practice and in the law. It includes the formation of couples, the provision of personal care, and social relations within households. She is co-author with Chuck Tilly of “Relations and Categories.”