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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/ 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 with John Gilderbloom, winner of the 2022 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement

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Against the Odds: The Real Power of Science, Data, and Facts to Win Progressive Victories

John Hans Gilderbloom is a Professor in the Graduate Planning, Public Administra- tion, Public Health, and Urban Affairs program at the University of Louisville. Dr. Gilderbloom is considered one of the most influential figures in urban affairs with an emphasis on sustainability, housing, health and transportation. His fingerprints are all over cities throughout the world. As the winner of the 2022 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement, Dr. Gilderbloom has graciously agreed to be interviewed for our newsletter. Thank you, John, and congratulations!

I am a gunshot survivor. I am grateful to be alive.  But I prefer to let the enemies of science know I have learned to thrive.  The gunshot resulted in a partial loss of eyesight and hearing, and balance issues.  I have post-traumatic stress disorder, despite years of therapy.  Before the shooting, The Nation magazine in May 1979 quoted a letter stating that powerful people in the real estate industry were going to “neutralize me” if I continued to advocate for renter rights.  I was told I would never survive, yet 43 years later I am thriving with energy, passion, joy, and love.  I persisted.  

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Elijah Anderson on the burden of being Black in white spaces

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Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites. They have received mixed receptions.

Many neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, universities, and other public spaces remain overwhelmingly white. Blacks perceive such settings as the “white space,” which they often consider to be informally “off limits” to them, said Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize, the world’s most prestigious prize in the field of criminology.

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Black in White Space by Elijah Anderson – 2021 Lynd Award Winner

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CUSS Newsletter, Winter 2022, Vol. 35, No. 1

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, and one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Additionally, Professor Anderson is the recipient of the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and three prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, including the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, the 2021 winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the 2021 Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement. For our newsletter, Elijah Anderson has shared part of his latest book, Black in White Space. As noted in the excerpt, Black in White Space is an extension of his previous work. These ethnographies are now considered essential reading in community and urban sociology. In addition to contextualizing his body of work, the excerpt below also addresses his concern for the fragility of American society as a whole.   

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2021 CUSS Awards

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1. CUSS Publicly Engaged Scholar Award 2021

Co-winners:

George Greenidge, Georgia State University

Stefanie A. DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University

2. CUSS Graduate Student Paper Award 2021

Ángel Mendiola Ross, University of California, Berkeley, “Outercity Policing: Drivers of Police Spending in a Changing Metropolis.”

3. CUSS Book Award 2021

Marco Garrido, University of Chicago, The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila (University of Chicago Press 2019)

4. CUSS Jane Addams Article Award 2021

Co-winners:

Bell, Monica C., Yale University, “Located Institutions: Neighborhood Frames, Residential Preferences, and the Case of Policing.” American Journal of Sociology 125, no. 4 (2020): 917-973.

Pacewicz, Josh (Brown University) and Robinson, John (Washington University, St. Louis), “Pocketbook Policing: How Race Shapes Municipal Reliance on Punitive Fines and Fees in the Chicago Suburbs. Socio-Economic Review (2020).

5. CUSS Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement 2021

Elijah Anderson, Yale University

2020 Lynd Award: Lessons Learned: A Perspective from Golden Pond

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Barrett Lee
Pennsylvania State University
2021 Winter, Vol. 34, No.1 

Being named the 2020 recipient of the Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement has been both gratifying and humbling, given the distinguished honorees who preceded me. I was taken by surprise when Kevin Gotham (the Lynd committee chair) first passed along the news last spring. That initial reaction quickly gave way to an appreciation of the award as a collective rather than solo accomplishment. From my undergraduate days to the present, I’ve had the good fortune to learn from and work with many talented and inspiring students, mentors, colleagues, and collaborators.

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CUSS 2021 Award Committees

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Below are our section’s 2021 award committee calls. Please note we have a new award this year, the Publicly-Engaged Scholar Award. I thank all of the award committee chairs and members for their willingness to serve as well as council member Jean Beaman for organizing these committees. You all are publishing great work and I am excited to see who gets recognized next year.

All submissions must be received by March 1, 2021 and award winners will be notified by June 30, 2021.

Best,

Derek Hyra

Section Chair

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