Community and Urban Sociology

Congratulations to the 2026 Award Winners! Thank you to the committees for their hard work and dedication!

Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner:

Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University

Award Committee: Mario Small (committee co-chair), Krista Paulsen (committee co-chair), Ray Hutchinson, and Japonica Brown-Saracino

2026 Jane Addams Best Article Award

Winner: Lara-Millán, Armando, and Melissa Guzman-Garcia. 2025. “Digital Platforms and the Maintenance of the Urban Order.” Social Problems 72 (2): 675–95.

Honorable Mentions:

Roberto, Elizabeth, Yu Zhu, Santiago Segarra, and Jaleh Jalili. 2026. “Counterfactual Raod Networks: A Method for Examining Social and Spacitl Division in Road Networks.” Sociology Methodology 56(1): 62 – 95.

Manduca, Robert, Brian Highsmith, and Jacob Waggoner. 2026. “Tax Base Fragmentation as a Dimension of Metropolitan Inequality.” Socio-Eocnomic Review 24 (1): 331 – 362.

Award Committee: Stephanie Ternullo (committee chair), Jackie Hwang, Yannick Coenders, and Mo Torres

Outstanding Book Award in Community and Urban Sociology

Co-Winners:

Greene, Theodore. 2024. Not in MY Gayborhood! Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen. New York: Columbia University Press.

Torres, Stacy. 2026. At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Honorable Mention:

Kurwa, Rahim. 2025. Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Award Committee: Randol Contreras (committee chair), Diedre Oakley, Carol Camp Yeakey, and Tony Cheng

Graduate Student Paper Award

Winner:

Peter Kent Stoll, “Struggles for the land and the city: Settler colonialism, anticolonalism, and the Bureau for Indian Affairs Urban Relocation Program in Chicago”

Honorable Mention:

AJ Golio, “Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Neighborhoods”

Award Committee: Nima Dahir (committee chair), Allison Helmuth, Elaina Johns-Wolfe, Angel Ross

Teaching Award

Winner:

Dr. Çağlar Dölek (Cal Poly Humboldt) 

Award Committee: Azat Güdoğan (committee chair), Pamela Prickett, and Adirenne Dixson