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Organized Section 27: Michael Harrington Book Award

New Political Science Organized Section Award Recipients

Michael Harrington Book Award
The Michael Harrington Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.


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2017 Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia
Environmentalism of the Rich. MIT Press, 2016.
2016  Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton University Press, 2015 
2015  Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press, 2014 
2014 Craig Wilder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (New York Bloomsbury Press, 2013)
2013 Meira Levinson, Harvard University
No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press 2012)
2012 Joe Soss, University of Minnesota
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
2012 Richard Fording, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
2012 Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
2011 Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2010 Marshall Ganz, Harvard University
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
2009 Stephen Pimpare, Yeshiva University
A People's History of Poverty in America (The New Press, 2008)
2007 Daniyal Zuberi, University of British Columbia
Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2006 Odd Westad, London School of Economics and Political Science
The Global Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
2005 Katherine Stone, UCLA
From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (Cambridge UP, 2004)
2004 Linda Williams, University of Maryland
The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (Penn State University Press, 2003)
2003 Manfred Steger, Illinois State University
Globalization: the New Market Ideology
2002 Peter Dreier, Occidential College
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
2002 John Mollenkopf, CUNY, Graduate Center
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
2002 Todd Swanstrom, Saint Louis University
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
2001 Stan Luger, University of Northern Colorado
Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry
2000 John Ehrenberg, Illinois State University
Globalization: the New Market Ideology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
1999 Michael Forman, University of Washington, Tacoma
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (Penn State Press, 1998)