Archive

2020-2021

  • Elisabeth Clemens and Adam Braffman at Politics, History and Society: 10/01

State Repression as Structural Fold:  The Conjuncture of Pacifism and Civil Rights During the Second World War

Discussant: Professor Joyce Bell

  • Martin Kornberger,  Christof Brandtner and Renate Mayer at Politics, History and Society: 10/15

The formation of a social actor: recursivity and the Vienna city administration at the Fin the Siecle

Discussant: Benjamin Rohr

  • Angela Zorro Medina at  Politics, History and Society: 10/22

A Bottom-Up Latin American Prison Study: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Latin  American Criminal Procedural Revolution in Incarceration Rates

Discussant: Professor Julian Go

  • Andreas Glaeser at Politics, History and Society: 11/5

Freedom: Chapter of book on “Good Institutions: Towards a Sociological Metaethics”

Discussant: Maryam Alemzadeh

  • Cameron Day at Politics, History and Society: 11/19

Scientific Liberalism: The Institutional Diagnosis of “Sexually Dangerous Persons”Discussant: Nisarg Mehta

  • Yaniv Ron El at Politics, History and Society: 12/3

Mobilizing with a weak identity:Collective identities in the 1970s American consumer movement

Discussant: Jacy Reese Anthis

  • Stephanie Ternullo at Politics, History and Society: 1/14

The Local Origins of American Anti-Statism

Discussant: Benjamin Rohr

  • Nicolás Torres-Echeverry at Politics, History and Society: 1/28

Social Media, meet Clientelism

Discussant: Laura Acosta

  • Atef Said at  Politics, History and Society: 2/11

Revolution Squared: Egypt’s Uprising in 2011 Between Historical Possibilities and Counter-Revolutionary Containments

Discussant: Eman Abdelhadi

  • Anjanette M. Chan Tack at Politics, History and Society: 2/25

Race vs. Ethnicity?: How Indo-Caribbeans Navigate Ethno-Racial Illegitimacy in New York Politics

Discussant: Nisarg Mehta 

  • Benjamin Rohr: Co-authored with: William McAllister & Peter Bearman at Politics, History and Society: 3/11

Building the American State?: Transformations in the Recruitment Structure of Elite Administrative Positions, 1850-2000

Discussant: Elisabeth Clemens

  • Hyunku Kwon at Politics, History and Society: 4/1

Micro-foundations of Polarization, Triadic Structures, and the Erosion of Social Trust

Discussant: Jake Buchard

  • Sergio Galaz Garcia at Politics, History and Society: 4/15

Historical Events as Bridges Between Social Domains: Taking Bolsonaro’s Victory Personnel in the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Elections

Discussant: Nicolás Torres-Echeverry

  • Shilin Jia & Linzhuo Li at Politics, History and Society: 4/29

New Wine in Old Bottles: Ideological Transformation and the Rhetorical Creation of the Market in China’s People’s Daily

Discussant: James Murphy

  • Anna Berg at Politics, History and Society: 5/13

Populism going viral? The conceptual challenge of online mediation for studies of populism

Discussant: Noa Neumark

  • Timothy Elder and Hanock Spitzer at Politics, History and Society: 6/3

The Ratlines: or How Clandestine Networks Aided War Criminals Escaping Europe

Discussant: Nicolás Torres-Echeverry

2019-2020

  • Robert Vargas at Politics, History and Society: 10/10

Redistricting and the Making of Dynastic Communities

  • Simon Yamawaki Shachter at Politics, History and Society: 10/24

Efficacy v. Legitimacy: The Many Hands of Foundation Political Activity

Discussant: Cameron Day

  • Yang Zhang at Politics, History and Society: 11/7

Factions in Action: Elite Networks and Political Alignment in China’s Reform Era

Discussant: Yuhao Zhuang

  • Anna Skarpelis at Politics, History and Society: 11/21

Beyond Aryans: Making Germans in the 20th Century

Discussant: Shannon Morrissey

  • Mishal Khan at Politics, History, and Society and the Reproductions of Race and Racial Ideologies: 12/5

Neither Slave, nor (Forced) Laborer:Residual Categories of Non-Intervention at the League and the ILO

Discussant: Professor Aaron Benanav

  • Yuanhang Zhu at Politics, History and Society: 01/16

Can State Embeddedness Enhance State Autonomy? Evidence from the ‘Targeted Poverty Alleviation’ Campaign in Rural China

Discussant: Simon Shachter

  • Simeon Newman at Politics, History and Society: 02/06

Brokerage and Power: A Processual Approach

Discussant: Maurice Bokanga

  • Sneha Annavarapu at Politics, History and Society: 02/13

Aesthetics of authority: friendly police, unruly citizens, and the politics of visibility

Discussant: Nisarg Mehta

  • Étienne Ollion at Politics, History and Society: 02/20

Living in politics: Careers, Power and Political Professionalization in France

Discussant: Nick Judd

  • Laura Acosta Gonzalez at Politics, History and Society: 02/27

Social Roots of Perpetual Civil Wars:War Cultures and Civil Conflict in Mexico and Colombia

Discussant: Angela Zorro Medina

  • Fahad Sajid at Politics, History and Society: 03/05

The Autonomous Colonial State: Lessons from the British Empire

Discussant: Anjali Anand

  • Anna Berg at Politics, History and Society: 04/16

Symbolic hazard or strategic opportunity? Center parties’ reaction to right-wing ascendancy in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964-1990

Discussant: Georg Rilinger

  •  Nicolás Torres-Echeverry at Politics, History and Society: 04/23

Digital Technologies, Meet Political Structures: Why Outsiders have Been Better in Adopting Digital Tech than Traditional and Unsatisfied Insiders

Discussant: Benjamin Rohr

  • Anjanette Chan Tack at Politics, History and Society: 05/28

Ethnic Nationalism, Embodied Nationalism in Immigration Research

Discussant: Uday Jain

  • Peter J. Fugiel at Politics, History and Society: 06/04

The Making of a Precarious Retail Labor Force in the United States, 1900-2019

Discussant: Yaniv Ron-El

  • Yuhao Zhuang at Politics, History and Society: 05/21

The State’s Paradoxical Making of Grassroots-Oriented Corporate Philanthropy in China

Discussant: Simon Shachter

  • John Clegg at Politics, History and Society: 06/11

Measuring the Carceral Legacy of Slavery

Discussant: Kyla Bourne

2018-2019

  • René D. Flores at Politics, History and Society: 10/09

Shifting Ethnic Lines? The Unexpected Rise of Indigeneity in Mexico

Discussant: Ilana Ventura

  •  Georg Rilinger at Politics, History and Society: 10/30

Resolving Regulatory Blindspots in California’s Electricity Markets: Deep Blindspots, Conceptual Metaphors and the Power of Unstructured Data

Discussant: Rishi Arora

  • Jonathan Schoots at Politics, History and Society: 11/20

The Birth of African Nationalism: Transformations in African Politics in South Africa, 1860-1912

Discussant: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani

  • Joshua Silver at  Politics, History and Society: 12/04

The Emergence of Peer Reviewed Books: University Press Editorial Practice in the United States

Discussant: Timothy Elder

  • Timothy Elder at  Politics, History and Society: 01/15

Breaking Boundary Objects:The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects in the 20th Century

Discussant: Andrew Swift

  • Austin Kozlowski at Politics, History and Society: 01/29

What Do We Know about Belief System Structure?

Discussant: Alessandra Lembo

  •  Stephanie Ternullo at Politics, History and Society: 02/12

Does Class Matter? It Depends: Regional Variation in Class Voting, 1948-1992

Discussant: Nick Judd

  •  Maryam Alemzadeh at Politics, History and Society: 02/26

Cultural Practice in Collective Action: Religion and Grassroots Institution Building in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Discussant: Anna Berg

  • Ann Mische at Politics, History and Society: 03/12

Futures in Contention: Public Scenarios and Transformative Politics in the Global Arena

Discussant: Nicolas Torres-Echeverry

  • Jane McCamant at Politics, History and Society: 04/02

Zeal for Democracy, Zeal for Christ: Civics Education in the Catholic Schools of Early Cold War Chicago

  •  Wan-Zi Lu at Politics, History and Society: 04/16

Moralizing Matchmaking:Institutionalization of Organ Donation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Discussant: Hong Jin Jo

  • Delia Baldassarri at Politics, History and Society: 04/30

Foreigners in hostile hinterlands: Local exposure to refugees and right-wing support in Eastern Germany after the 2015 refugee crisis

Discussant: Benjamin Rohr

  • Benjamin Rohr at Politics, History and Society: 05/07

The Emergence of Political Parties in New York, 1777-1821”

Discussant: Stephanie Ternullo

2017-2018

  • Andrew Abbott at Politics, History and Society: 9/26

Living One’s Theories: Moral Consistency in The Life of Émile Durkheim

Discussant: Georg Rilinger

  • Le Lin at Politics, History and Society:10/10

Are Ambiguities Assets?: State, innovation and privatization in China

Discussant: Maryam Alemzadeh

  • Milena Ang and Yuna Blajer de la Garza at Politics, History and Society: 10/24

I See Right Through You: The Logic and Consequences of Spurious Criminal Charges

Discussant: Pranathi Diwakar

  • Kristin Surak at Politics, History and Society: 10/31

Jus Pecuniae and the Crystallization of Citizenship by Investment

Discussant: Yuna Blajer de la Garza

  • Pranathi Diwakar at Politics, History and Society: 11/07

A Recipe for Disaster: Framing risk and vulnerability in slum relocation policies in Chennai, India

Discussant: Austin Kozlowski

  • Lucas Wehrwein at Politics, History and Society: 12/5

Instrumental Rationality:Prototype & Ideal Type in Violins, 1550-1911

Discussant: Rishi Arora

  • Patrick Bergemann at Politics, History and Society: 1/16

Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia and Nazi Germany

Discussant: James Murphy

  • John Padgett at  Politics, History and Society: 1/30

Faulkner’s Assembly of Memories into History: Narrative Networks in Multiple Times

Discussant: Austin Kozlowski

  • Maryam Alemzadeh at Politics, History and Society: 2/13

Wars that Make Shadow States:The 1980 Kurdish Conflict and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Road to Authority

Discussant: Moira O’Shea

  • Moira O’Shea at Politics, History and Society: 2/27

Opportunity and Memorial Incongruence: Contesting Confederate Monuments in New Orleans

Discussant: Jane McCamant

  • Mishal Khan at  Politics, History and Society: 3/13

Abolition and Order Making under Empire: Defining “Slavery” within India, and at the League of Nations

Discussant: Yaniv Ron El

  • Dana R. Fisher at Politics, History and Society: 4/05

American Resistance

  • Valentin Danchev at Politics, History and Society: 4/10

Reinventing the Classics: Present-day Influences on Sociological Traditions

Discussant: Jim Murphy

  • Paolo Parigi at Politics, History and Society: 4/24

The Emerging Structure of a Field: A New Methodology for Bipartite Networks

Discussant: Jim Murphy

  • Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani at Politics, History and Society: 05/08

From Traditional Rule to Professional Experts: The growth of new religious elites in British Malaya

Discussant: Fahad Sajid

2016-2017

  • Le Lin at Politics, History and Society: 10/4

Robust Ambiguity and the Making of Capitalism: The Thriving of Private Enterprises in China’s Education and Training Industry

Discussant: Peter J. Fugiel 

  • Teng Ge at Politics, History and Society: 10/18

Competitive Solidarity: Understanding Variations in Chinese Social Welfare Policy among the Major Municipalities

Discussant:  Yuhao Zhuang

  • Ivan Ermakoff at Politics, History and Society: 11/01

On the Frontiers of Rational Choice

Discussants: Jim Murphy and Austin Kozlowski

  • Yaniv Ron-El at Politics, History and Society: 11/15

Truth in Advertising: The alignment of morality and business in the early twentieth century advertising industry

Discussant: Sneha Annavarapu

  • Benjamin Rohr at Politics, History and Society: 11/22

Organization and Mobilization in the Case of the Tea Party Movement

Discussant: Nathan Gonzales

  • Alessandra González at Politics, History and Society: 01/3

Do Foreign Firms Change Culture? Evidence from Female Executives and Firms in the GCC

Discussant: Robert Owens

  • Elizabeth Popp Berman at Politics, History and Society: 1/10

Politics By Other Means: How Experts Channeled Interests in U.S. Antitrust Policy

Discussant: Robert Owens

  • Wan-Zi Lu at Politics, History and Society: 1/17

Authority Structures and Founding of Financial Institution: Credit Unions Across Indigenous Communities in Taiwan, 1965-2014

Discussant: Austin Kozlowski

  • Jane McCamant at Politics, History and Society: 1/31

The Purposes of Historical Knowledge in Sociology

Discussant: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani

  • Jonathan Schoots at Politics, History and Society: 2/14

The birth of African Nationalism in South Africa, 1860-1890

Discussant: Wan-Zi Lu

  • Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani at Politics, History and Society: 2/28

The lawless Europeans: law and order on Penang island, 1786-1807

Discussant: Jack Jin Gary Lee

  • Maryam Alemzadeh at Politics, History and Society: 3/28

Formalizing Informality: Iranian Revolutionary Militias’ Unconventional Establishment

  • Matthew M. Koo at Politics, History and Society: 4/11

Schooling the Leviathan: Meritocracy, Ambition, and Elite Cohesion in Politics

Discussant: Jack Jin Gary Lee

  • Marco Garrido at  Politics, History and Society: 5/2

The “Third World City” as Lens

Discussant: Sneha Annavarapu

  • Esma Ozel at Politics, History and Society: 5/16

Innovation without Technology: Diffusion of the Innocuous Practices

Discussant: Jane McCamant

  • Fahad Sajid at Politics, History and Society: 5/30

The Colonial Origins of Landed Power: South Asia in Comparative Perspective

Discussant: Sneha Annavarapu

2015-2016

  • Marco Garrido at Politics, History and Society- 6/9

The Effect of Interspersion on Class Relations

Discussant: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani

  • Robert Owens at Politics, History and Society- 10/6

What is a Social Group in the Eyes of the Law? Knowledge Work in Refugee Status Determination

Discussant: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani

  • Jessica Feldman at Politics, History and Society- 10/13

Central Park as a Work of Art

Discussant: Ben Merriman

  • Cate Fuggazola at  Politics, History and Society- 10/27

A Family Matter: Mapping the Shift in Regional LGBT Discourse in Italy

Discussant: Jane McCamant

  • Wen Xie at Politics, History and Society- 11/10

“When Socialism Meets Market: The Remaking of Ideology in China, 1976-1992”

Discussant: Heangjin Park

  • Dan Slater at Politics, History and Society- 11/24

Nationalist Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Categorical Inequality and Regime Trajectories in South and Southeast Asia (The paper is co-authored with Maya Tudor)

  • Paul Staniland at Politics, History and Society: 1/7

Armed Politics and the State in South Asia

Discussant: Nathaniel J. Gonzalez

  • Nathan Gonzalez at  Politics, History and Society: 1/19

Group Threat and Intercommunal Violence

  • Peter J. Fugiel at Politics, History and Society: 2/2

Unbundling abundance: Work strategies in french and spanish hypermarkets

Discussant: Yaniv Ron-El

  • Andrew Abbott at Politics, History and Society: 3/1

Lineage as Structure

  • Kathleen Thelen at Politics, History and Society: 3/2

Path Dependence or Ship of Theseus? Transitions to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Discussant: Adam Almqvist

  • B. Robert Owens at Politics, History and Society: 3/29

Knowledge Work and Interpretive Dispute in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Discussant: Jim Murphy

2014-2015

  • John Padgett at Politics, History and Society-4/14

Social and Political Mobility in Florence

  • Maryam Alemzadeh at Politics, History and Society – 4/28

An Unconventional Military in a Conventional Battle: The Informal Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iran-Iraq War

Discussant: Mishal Khan 

  • Maria Akchurin at Politics, History & Society- 5/12 

The Politics of Water: Privatization, Institutional Change, and Social Protest in Santiago de Chile, late 1970s to the present

Discussant: Peter Fugiel

  • Jane McCamant at Politics, History and Society- 5/26

Science of Character Education, 1918-1932

Discussant: Nidia Banuelos