2009 AHS BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Javier Auyero
and Debora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (Oxford University
Press, 2009)
Runner up:
Mary Chayko, Portable Communities: The
Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness (SUNY Press, 2008)
Thank you to our book award committee for
serving our association this year!
AHS 2009 Book Award Committee:
Dr. Reuben A. Buford May,Texas A & M University
Dr. Judith Gordon, Yale University
Dr. Jim Gallagher,
University of Maine
Previous AHS Book Award Winners
2008 Devah Pager, Marked: Race,
Crime, and Finding Work, University
of Chicago
Press
Reuben A. Buford May, Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American
Dream, New York University
Press
2007 Laura
Pulido, Black Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, University of California
Press.
Melissa Checker,
Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Social Justice
in a Southern Town, New York University
Press.
2005 Corey Dolgon, The End
of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, New
York University Press, 2005.
2003 Kevin Delaney & Rick Eckstein, Public Dollars
Private Stadiums: The Battle
Over
Building
Sports Stadiums, Rutgers University
Press, 2003.
2001 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto, Harvard University
Press, 2000.
1999 Nina Eliasoph,
Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, Cambridge University
Press, 1998.
1997 Jay MacLeod,
Ain't No Makin'
It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, expanded
edition, Westview Press,
1995.
1995 (Co-Winners) Andrew
Szasz, EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement
for Environmental Justice, University of Minnesota
Press, 1994.
and
Rob Rosenthal, Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain, Temple University
Press, 1994.
1993 Timothy Diamond, Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing
Home Care, University
of Chicago
Press, 1992.
1991 (Co-Winners) Beth
and Steve Cagan, This
Promised Land: El
Salvador, Rutgers University
Press, 1991.
and
Roslyn W. Bologh, Love
or Greatness, Max Weber and Masculine Thinking - A Feminist Inquiry, Unwin Hymon, 1991.
1989 Ray Cuzzort,
Using Social Thought: The Nuclear Issue and Other Concerns, Mayfield
Publishing Company, 1989.
1987 David Bouchier,
Radical Citizenship: The New American Activism, Schocken Books, 1987.
