Congrats to Anna Skarpelis!

We are pleased to announce that Anna Skarpelis has won a veritable round of awards. The WZB Fellow will receive the prestigious Roger Gould Prize of the American Journal of Sociology and three awards by the American Sociological Association for her article “Horror Vacui. Racial Misalignment, Symbolic Repair, and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography” .

The Roger Gould Prize is given annually to the article that best exemplifies the qualities that made Roger Gould's own work so remarkable. From articles published over a two-year period, the American Journal of Sociology editorial boards select a piece that is empirically rigorous, theoretically grounded, and lucidly written. The article was chosen for this award out of all the papers published in AJS between January 2022 and November 2023.

Anna Skarpelis' contribution, published in the American Journal of Sociology, has won further prizes by the American Sociological Association. The researcher will be honored with the following awards:

  • ASA Political Sociology Article/Chapter Award (Award Winner)

  • Global and Transnational Section Best Article Award (Honorable Mention)

  • Clifford Geertz Prize in the Sociology of Culture (Honorable Mention)

The awards ceremony will take place at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association from August 9-13, 2024, in Montréal. The jury of the Political Sociology Article/Chapter Award mentioned “the substantive importance, theoretical scope, and empirical ambition of this brilliant contribution to political sociology and well beyond.” The jury highlighted Anna Skarpelis' ability to bring together previously disconnected literatures from sociology, art history, and even physics to substantiate the research question.

 

5/8/24, kes