Hello Fellow CBSM Section Members!

Here are the results of the recent election and the deliberations of the awards committees.  Congratulations to the election winners and my thanks to everyone who stood for election!  Congratulations to the award winners!  And great thanks to the committee members who read many, many excellent submissions!

All the best,
Edwin

Chair-Elect:
Belinda Robnett (University of California, Irvine)

Council:
Lee Ann Banaszak (Penn State University)
Elizabeth Borland (The College of New Jersey)

Mentoring Committee:
Steven Boutcher (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Workshop Committee:
Wayne Santoro (University of New Mexico)

Nominations Committee:
Kathleen Fallon (SUNY, Stonybrook)

Publications Committee:
Lyndi Hewitt (UNC, Asheville)

The bylaws amendment was approved.

Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Student Paper) Award
 (30 submissions):

Winner:
Jonathan Horowitz (University of North Carolina), “Oh, the Places I’ll Go! Possible Selves, Persistence Narratives, and Activist Identity.”

Committee:  James M. Jasper (chair), Deanna A. Rohlinger, Drew Halfmann, and M. Ali Kadivar.

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Article) Award (17 submissions):

Winner:
Doron Shultziner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Social-Psychological Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Social Interaction and Humiliation in the Emergence of Social Movements.” Mobilization 18(2).

Honorable Mention:
Genevieve Zubrzycki (University of Michigan), “Aesthetic Revolt and the Remaking of National Identity in Québec.” Theory and Society 42: 423-475.

Committee:  Nancy E. Whittier (chair), Catherine Corrigall-Brown, David Cunningham, and Kevan Harris.

Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award (28 submissions):

Winner:
Isaac William Martin (University of California, San Diego), Rich People’s Movements:Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Honorable Mention:
David Cunningham (Brandeis University), Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Committee: Edwin Amenta (chair), Manisha Desai, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, and Kathleen M. Blee.