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2025 CUSS Award Winners

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Congratulations to our award winners and honorable mentions!

Jane Addams Article Award

Winner: Stephanie Ternullo. 2024. “Place-Based Partisanship: How Place (Re) produces Americans’ Partisan Attachments.” American Journal of Sociology, 130(2), 293-343.

Honorable Mention: Nima Dahir & Jackelyn Hwang. 2025. “Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco”. City & Community, 24(1), 3-25.

Committee: Jan Doering and Christof Brandtner (co-chairs), Emily Walton, Luis Nuño, and Kasey Zapatka.

Book Award

Co-winners:

Randol Contreras (UC Riverside), The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2024.

Stephanie Ternullo (Harvard), How the Heartland went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics, Princeton University Press, 2024.

Honorable mention:

Tony Cheng (Duke), The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input, University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Committee: Tanya Golash Boza (chair), Nate Ela, Jean Lin, Robert Durán, and Janina Selzer

Student Paper Award

Winner: Max Lubell (UT-Austin), “Do Schools Provide a Reprieve from Residential Neighborhood Violence?”

Committee:  Jeremy Levine (chair), Anna Fox, Lacee Satcher, and Jaleh Jalili

Early Career Award

Co-winners: Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana (SUNY Albany) and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (UNC)

Committee:  Elena Vesselinov (chair), Mervyn Horgan, Jerome Hodos, and Ian Kennedy

Publicly Engaged Research Award

Winner: Esther Sullivan (University of Colorado Denver)

Committee: Jeni Cross (chair), Brandon Alston, Derek Hyra, and Joanne Derouen

Interview w/ Jean Yen-Chun Lin

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Jean Yen-Chun Lin, an Associate Professor at California State University – East Bay, was co-winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award. Jean’s innovative research agenda centers on social movements, community organizations, and civic participation. We reached out to ask her to discuss her award-winning book, and we’re including her responses below. Thanks to Jean for participating in our interview series!

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Interview w/ Mario Luis Small

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The 2024 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement in Community and Urban Sociology was awarded to Professor Mario Luis Small. Professor Small is the Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice and Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. Among many other awards and honors, Professor Small is a previous winner of both the CUSS awards for best article and best book.   

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Interview w/ Tanya Golash-Boza

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Tanya Golash-Boza, a Professor at the University of California – Merced and the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center, was co-winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award. Tanya’s innovative research agenda focuses on how racism intersects with capitalism and how the legal system creates and upholds inequities. We reached out to ask her to discuss her award-winning book, and we’re including her responses below. Thanks to Tanya for participating in our interview series!

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Interview w/ Azat Zana Gündoğan 2024 Teaching Award Winner

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The CUSS Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, consisting of Albert Fu, Judith Halasz, Colleen Wynn, and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, has selected Azat Zana Gündoğan as the section’s 2024 winner. He is currently an Associate Teaching Professor in the University Honors Program and holds Affiliate Faculty status in the Sociology Department at Florida State University. In his role, he has built up a diverse portfolio of urban-oriented courses and has been involved in co-curricular activities in the honors program. Student letters noted his, “innovative teaching methods, passion for the topic, and uniquely interdisciplinary focus.” Another letter highlighted Dr. Gündoğan’s helping the student “appreciate the learning process itself.” Albert Fu reached out to him to discuss his teaching. Thanks to Azat for participating in our interview series!

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CUSS Award Nominations

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CUSS Outstanding Book Award

This award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the previous 2 years (2023/24). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here. Also, mail a hard copy of the book to each committee member (addresses will appear in the nomination form).

Book Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Tanya Golash Boza, tanyaboza@gmail.com
Robert Durán, rjduran@tamu.edu
Nate Ela, nate.ela@temple.edu
Janini Selzer, jselzer@hamilton.edu

Jane Addams Article Award

The Jane Addams Award goes to the author(s) of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the previous 2 years (2023/2024). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Jane Addams Article Award Committee:
Committee Co-Chair: Christof Brandtner, brandtner@em-lyon.com
Committee Co-Chair: Jan Doering, jan.doering@utoronto.ca
Luis Nuño, lnuno3@calstatela.edu
Emily Walton, Emily.C.Walton@dartmouth.edu
Kasey Zapatka, kaseyzapatka@berkeley.edu 

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award

The CUSS Student Paper award goes to the student author of the paper the committee regards as the best graduate student paper in community and urban sociology. The award is granted to current graduate students for papers completed, published or forthcoming in 2023-2024 . Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeremy Levine, levinejr@umich.edu
Anna Fox, annafox@uchicago.edu
Whitney Gecker, whitney.gecker@mcla.edu
Jaleh Jalili, jj70@rice.edu
Lacee Satcher, satcher@bc.edu

CUSS Early Career Award

The Early Career Award recognizes members, who are within 10 years of their PhD,for interdisciplinary contributions, innovation and creativity, and mentorship. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

CUSS Early Career Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Elena Vesselinov, elena.vesselinov@gmail.com
Jerome Hodos, jerome.hodos@fandm.edu
Mervyn Horgan, mhorgan@uoguelph.ca
Ian Kennedy, ikennedy@uic.edu

CUSS Publicly Engaged Research Award

This award recognizes community and urban sociologists who use their research to make significant and meaningful contributions to public debates, public policy, and/or communities. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

CUSS Publicly Engaged Scholar Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Jeni Cross, jeni@innosphere.org
Brandon Alston, alston.113@osu.edu
JoAnne DeRouen, jo.derouen@louisiana.edu
Derek Hyra, hyra@american.edu

Click here to access Community and Urban Sociology’s page for award submissions. Nominations are open through March 1, 2025

Interview with Derek Hyra, Winner of the 2023 Publicly-Engaged Scholar Award

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Derek Hyra, Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Founding Director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University, won the 2023 ASA Community and Urban Sociology section’s Publicly Engaged Scholar Award. Derek, an expert in neighborhood change, housing policy, urban politics, and race, served as board chair of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority and Alexandria Planning Commissioner and is currently a member of the City of Falls Church Planning Commission. His research and advocacy have informed national legislative debates on the subprime lending crisis as well as secured greater affordable housing funds and improved mixed-income housing developments in Virginia. Thalia Tom reached out to him to discuss his research. Thanks to Derek for participating in our interview series!

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