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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

City & Community – Graduate Editorial Assistants Program

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City and Community launched a new Graduate Editorial Assistants Program this year. The aim has been to expose doctoral students to academic publishing, help them to become professional evaluators of academic writing, and support them in their own work. They also received a $250 stipend for their participation.

This year, there were four doctoral students. As part of the editorial team, students have been learning how academic publishing works through seminar-like sessions with the editor and managing editor. They have helped evaluate new submissions to determine their fit and look for potential reviewers. They also meet regularly as a group to discuss academic publishing and workshop drafts of their papers.

Here are the four students and a little blurb from each one about themselves and what they’re getting out of the program:

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Seeking Philly Newsletter Pieces

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Does your scholarship or activism take place in Philadelphia? If so, the CUSS Newsletter Committee wants to feature your work in our next newsletter! Anyone interested in submitting a feature-length article (approximately 1,000-2,000 words) should contact Co-Editors Lora Phillips (lora.phillips@asu.edu) and Steven Schmidt (seschmid@uci.edu) by May 15 with a short (1-5 sentence) description of your proposed article. Final submissions will be due by July 1 in order to ensure inclusion in the summer newsletter.

Beyond Black Marginality: Expanding Our View of Black People & Places

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As part of our virtual panel series, City & Community is excited to host “Beyond Black Marginality: Expanding Our View of Black People & Places” on Monday, May 1, at 5:00PM (ET). Aimed at junior scholars (but inclusive of all), this panel series features topics within the journal’s scope in which more established scholars share their experiences and intellectual journeys with the intention of both guidance and information. See below for a description and information. 

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City & Community Webinar

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City & Community virtual webinar on R&Rs, 3/16/23, 6:30-8

“Great, but Now What? How to Handle R&Rs”

“We invite you to revise and resubmit this paper” are great words to read from journal. But they are only the start of what may be a long revision process. Aimed at early career scholars, this virtual information session is meant to offer some guidance on how to revise and resubmit papers for journals from the perspective of an editor. Richard Ocejo, editor of City & Community, will offer some common tendencies–effective and ineffective ones–in how authors handle R&Rs and tips for how to incorporate reviewers’ comments in your papers (especially when they conflict) and write effective response memos. While City & Community and urban sociology will serve as the main examples, the lessons will be universal. Scholars in other subfields are therefore welcome to attend.

Thursday, March 16, 6:30-8, on Zoom. 

Note: Registration is required and this event will not be recorded.

Email any questions to: cicojournal@gmail.com.  

CUSS Award Nominations

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Robert E. Park Book Award
Deadline: March 15, 2023

This award goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the previous 2 years (2021/2022). 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).

Robert E. Park Book Award Committee:
Committee Co-Chair: Xuefei Ren, renxuefe@msu.edu
Committee Co-Chair: Jessica Simes, simes@bu.edu
Michael Gaddis, mgaddis@soc.ucla.edu
Allen Hyde, allen.hyde@hsoc.gatech.edu
Jinwon Kim, JinKim@citytech.cuny.edu

Jane Addams Article Award
Deadline: March 15, 2023

The Jane Addams Award (formerly the Park Article Award) goes to author(s) of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the previous 2 years (2021/2022). Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Jane Addams Article Award Committee:
Committee Co-Chair: Junia Howell, juniahowell@gmail.com
Committee Co-Chair: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, kelizabeth@wustl.edu
Denia Garcia, dgarcia28@wisc.edu
Krista Perkins, Kristin.Perkins@georgetown.edu
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, npagan@wayne.edu

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award
Deadline: March 15, 2023

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. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Community and Urban Sociology Graduate Student Paper Award Committee:
Committee Chair: Rahim Kurwa, rak@uic.edu
Bryant Crubaugh, bryant.crubaugh@pepperdine.edu
CalvinJohn Smiley, csmiley@hunter.cuny.edu
Kiara Wyndam-Douds, wyndham-douds@wustl.edu

Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement
Deadline: March 15, 2023

This award recognizes distinguished career achievement in community and urban sociology. Submit nominations using CUSS’s page for award submissions, here.

Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement Committee:
Committee Chair: John Gilderbloom, john.gilderbloom@louisville.edu
Eileen Avery, averye@missouri.edu
Watoii Rabii, wrabii@oakland.edu
Emily Sandusky, ems444@cornell.edu

CUSS Publicly Engaged Scholar Award
Deadline: March 15, 2023

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: Patricia Snell Herzog, psherzog@iupui.edu
Max Lubell, mlubell@utexas.edu
Chandra Ward, Chandra-ward@utc.edu
Simon Weffer-Elizondo, sweffer@niu.edu

Click here for award submissions Anchor

Interview w/ Junia Howell and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn

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The 2022 Jane Addams Article Award was presented to Junia Howell (University of Illinois Chicago) and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (Washington University in St. Louis) for their 2021  Social Problems article entitled “The Increasing Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition on Housing Values, 1980–2015.” Drawing on decades of data from the U.S. Census, their analysis demonstrates that neighborhood racial composition is a stronger determinant of appraised housing values in 2015 than it was in 1980. Thalia Tom reached out to Junia and Elizabeth to discuss their research, and we’ve included Junia’s responses below. Thanks for participating in our interview series!

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