Community and Urban Sociology

Congratulations to our 2023 award winners, and sincere thanks to the award committees. Award recipients will be honored at our Section Business Meeting at the ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Robert E. Park Book Award

Co-Winner: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Washington University in St. Louis

Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth. 2021. Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Co-Winner: Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Levenson, Zachary. 2022. Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Honorable Mention: Robin Bartram, Tulane University

Bartram, Robin. 2022. Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

· Committee chairs: Xuefei Ren (Michigan State) & Jessica Simes (Boston University)

· Michael Gaddis (UCLA/ NWEA)

· Allen Hyde (Georgia Tech)

· Jinwon Kim (City Tech-CUNY)

Jane Addams Article Award*

Winner: Prentiss Dantzler, University of Toronto

Dantzler, Prentiss A. 2021. “The Urban Process Under Racial Capitalism: Race, Anti-Blackness, and Capital Accumulation.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City 2(2): 113-134.

· Committee chairs: Junia Howell (UI-Chicago) & Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (WashU)

· Denia Garcia (UW-Madison)

· Kristin Perkins (Georgetown)

· Nicole Trujillo-Pagán (Wayne State)

*During the review process, committee members abstained from votes pertaining to colleagues or co-authors.

Best Student Paper Award

Winner: Reed T. DeAngelis, UNC-Chapel Hill

DeAngelis, Reed T. 2022. “Moving on Up? Neighborhood Status and Racism-Related Distress among Black Americans.” Social Forces 100(4): 1503–32.

Honorable mention: Luis Flores, University of Michigan

Flores, Luis. 2022. “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.”

· Committee chair: Rahim Kurwa (UIC)

· Bryant Crubaugh (Pepperdine)

· CalvinJohn Smiley (Hunter-CUNY)

· Kiara Wyndham-Douds (WashU)

Publicly Engaged Scholar Award

Winner: Derek Hyra, American University

· Committee chair: Patricia Snell Herzog (Indiana)

· Max Lubell (UT-Austin)

· Chandra Ward (UT-Chattanooga)

· Simón Weffer (Northern Illinois U)

Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner: Lance Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

· Committee chair: John Gilderbloom (U of Louisville)

· Eileen Avery (U of Missouri)

· Watoii Rabii (Oakland U)

· Emily Sandusky (Cornell)