Call for Section Awards: 2024

The PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award

Nominations are invited for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award. The award honors the life and legacies of Immanuel Wallerstein and shall be for the best book or books published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2023 or 2024). Nominations for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award should include a brief statement of how the book is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the book to be sent to all members of the book award committee. Both electronic nomination letters for the book award, and hard copies of the nominated book, should be sent to the entire committee. Nominations are due by March 3, 2025. The author(s) of the book (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. Nominations by Black, ethnic minority, female, and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. For further information, including committee members' mailing addresses, please contact Marina Karides at mkarides@hawaii.edu.

Committee Members:
Marina Karides (Chair)
mkarides@hawaii.edu
Professor and Undergraduate Chair
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Geography and Environment
2424 Mile Way, 445 Saunders Hall (Office 416)
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822

Marilyn Grell-Brisk
marilyn.grell@gmail.com
Organizational Studies Field Group
1050 N Mills Ave
Claremont, CA 91711

Smriti Upadhyay
smriti.upadhyay@dartmouth.edu
Assistant Professor
Dartmouth College
Department of Sociology
20 N Main Street
6104 Blunt 3rd Floor
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Sefika Kumral
s_kumral@uncg.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1009 Spring Garden St.
337 Frank Porter Graham Building
Greensboro, NC 27412

The PEWS Distinguished Article Award

Nominations are invited for the PEWS Distinguished Article Award. To be eligible, papers must be published with copyright date falling in the two calendar years prior to the year of the award (2023 or 2024). Nominations should include a brief statement of how the article is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the article to be sent via email to all members of the article awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The author(s) of the nominated article (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact Sahan Savaş Karataşli at skaratasli@uncg.edu.

Committee Members:
Sahan Savaş Karataşli (Chair)
skaratasli@uncg.edu

Marcel Paret
marcelparet@gmail.com

Michelle Lee
michellelee2028@u.northwestern.edu


The PEWS Terence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award

This annual award is given to the best graduate student paper in the political economy of the world-system. Persons who were graduate students at any time during calendar year 2023 or 2024 are invited to submit published or unpublished papers for this award. To be eligible, papers must be either single authored or co-authored by two or more graduate students. Papers co-authored by a faculty member and a student are not eligible. Please note that each author may have only one paper nominated. Nominations should include a brief statement of how the paper is relevant to the political economy of the world-system, and the nominator must make arrangements for copies of the paper to be sent via email to all members of the paper awards committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The author(s) of the nominated paper (at least one author of a co-authored work) must be a current members of the PEWS section at the time of nomination. Authors are invited to self-nominate for the award. For further information, please contact Sahan Savaş Karataşli at skaratasli@uncg.edu.

Committee Members:
Sahan Savaş Karataşli (Chair)
skaratasli@uncg.edu

Marcel Paret
marcelparet@gmail.com

Michelle Lee
michellelee2028@u.northwestern.edu


The PEWS Anti-Oppression Award

The PEWS Anti-Opression Award is a bi-annual award given (in even numbered years) to a member of PEWS who is an outstanding advocate against oppression in any form. This award recognizes an individual who embodies the characteristics outlined in the PEWS Anti-Oppression Statement, who promotes anti-oppression through thoughtful interpersonal actions that acknowledge power inequalities, and demonstrates a sustained commitment to dismantling structures of oppression, inequality, and exclusion (including, but not limited to, those within universities and other institutions of scholarly exchange).

The nomination materials should include:

  • A letter of nomination detailing the nominee's specific efforts to dismantle structures of oppression through their work either/both inside or/and outside the academy.
  • At least 1 letter of support detailing the nominee's outstanding contributions and commitment to dismantling institutional barriers or supporting liberatory movements. Other evidence can be submitted, but is not required.
  • A current CV for the nominee.

Please send these materials to the Awards Committee. Nominations are due by March 1, 2025. The nominee must be a current member of the PEWS section at the time of nominatino. Self-nominations are encouraged. The Award is open to members at any rank or institution.. For further information, please contact Corey Payne at corey.payne@richmond.edu.

Committee Members:
Corey Payne (Chair)
corey.payne@richmond.edu

Ricado Jacobs
rejacobs@ucsb.edu

Eirinn-Jingifer Neel
edunn@hcc.edu