1990

Organizer

• Daniel BERTAUX, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, France

Winners

1. William Rogers BRUBAKER, Harvard University, USA
   Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation-State in France and Germany: A Comparative Historical Analysis
2. Dongno KIM, University of Chicago, USA
   The Transformation of Familism in Modern Korean Society: From Cooperation to Competition
3. Solomon MOMBESHORA, Darwin College, Cambridge University, UK
   The Salience of Ethnicity in Political Development: The Case of Zimbabwe
4. Nao OYAMA, University of Shizuoka, Japan
   Some Recent Trends in Japanese Values: Beyond the Individual-Collective Dimension

1994

Organizer

• Veronica STOLTE-HEISKANEN, University of Helsinki, Finland

Top Winners

1. Mario FUKS, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   Theoretical and Practical Considerations on Environment-Related Litigation
2. Oleg KHARKHORDIN, University of California, Berkeley, USA
   The Corporate Ethic, the Ethic of Samostoyatelnost and the Spirit of Capitalism: Reflections on Market-Building in Post-Soviet Russia
3. Tia DENORA, University of Exeter, UK
   Intimate Knowledge/ Local Experience: The Politics of Knowledge in Alternative Contraception 1960-1991
4. Chikako TAKEISHI, Harvard University, USA
   The Japanese National Identity in Transition: Who Want to Send Solidiers Abroad
5. Natan URIELY, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
   Rhetorical Ethnicity of Permanent Sojourners: The Case of Israeli Immigrants in the Chicago Area
6. Marinus SPREEN, University of Groningen, Netherlands
   Personal Network Sampling, Outdegree Analysis and Multilevel Analysis: Introducing the Network Concepts in Studies of Hidden Populations
7. Ronald ZWAAGSTRA, University of Groningen, Netherlands
   Personal Network Sampling, Outdegree Analysis and Multilevel Analysis: Introducing the Network Concepts in Studies of Hidden Populations
8. Xinyi Xu XU, University of Hawaii, USA
   Organisational Control in Chinese Work Units

1998

Organizer

• Christine INGLIS, University of Sydney, Australia

Winners

1. Boris HOLZER, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
   Miracle with a System: The Economic Rise of East Asia and the Role of Socio-cultural Patterns
2. Cristina IANNELLI, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy
   Educational Choice in Italy
3. Matar MBAYE, Université de Lille, France
   Les attitudes des entrepreneurs sénégalais de la petite entreprise de production face à la rigidité technique
4. Anton OLEYNIK, College of Economics, Moscow, Russia
   The Costs and Prospects of Economic Reforms in Russia - An Institutional Approach
5. Jennifer PARKER TALWAR, Pennsylvania State University, USA
   The Corporate Fast Food Restaurants as “Transnational Community”: Global and Local Interactions Among an Immigrant Workforce in New York City

2006

Organizer

• Kenneth THOMPSON, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Winners

1. Michael LINDSAY, University of Princeton, USA
   Liminal Organization in Elite Ranks: Linking Societal Power to Religious Faith
2. Michelle HSIEH, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
   East Asian Miracle Revisited: Taiwan-South Korea Comparison through a Case Study of the Bicycle Industry
3. Dmitry KHODYAKOV, The State University of New Jersey, USA
   Trust as a Process: A Three-Dimensional Approach

Highly Commended

1. Francisco LINARES, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
   Weak and Strong Unintended Consequence: Agent’s Rationality and the Predictability of Systems of Action
2. Jorge Alberto S. MACHADO, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
   Ativismo em Rede, Technologia e Conexoes Identarias – Novas perspectives para os Movimentos Sociais (Network Activism, Technology and Identitarian Connections)
3. Svetla STOEVA, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
   Conspiracy Growth and Predatory Culture of the Big Informals in Bulgaria. The Case of the Economic Group “TEAM”
4. Yuriy SAVELYEV, Lugansk State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
   Modernization and Pseudomorphosis: Post-Communist Gender Order in the context of Global Gender Transformation

Commended

1. Saúl RAMIREZ SANCHEZ, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico
   La Transpertenencia de los Indígenas Migrantes
2. Elena BOGDANOVA, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
   Anthropology of the Rural Double-Decker Dwelling: One of the Unsuccessful State Projects
3. Wiebke KEIM, University of Freiburg, Germany
   Internaionale Soziologie: nordatlantische Dominanz und konterhegemoniale Strömungen
4. Ann GUEVARRA, Arizona State University, USA
   Governing Migrant Workers Through Empowerment and Sustaining a Culture of Labour Migration: The Case of the Philippines
5. Alinaya FABROS, University of Phillippines, Diliman, Phillippines
   Deterriotorialized Objects, Disjunct Spaces, Disembedded Selves: Reflections on the rise of the globalized Call Centre in the Phillippines
6. Brian J. GAREAU, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
   Global Concerns, Local Interests: Resource Conservation and Human Survival in Southern Honduras
7. Omobalaji OLARINMOYE, The Registry University of Ibadan, Nigeria
   Women in Ethnic Social Movements: Notes from Southwestern Nigeria
8. Virginie DIAZ PEDREGAL, Université Paris V Sorbonne, France
   Les privilégiés du commerce équitable
9. Claudia CARVALHO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
   As Culturas Locais na Pós-modernidade: dinâmicas culturais entre o local e o global

2010

Organizer

• Louis CHAUVEL, Sciences-Po, University Paris, France

Winners

1. Stefan BARGHEER, University of Chicago, USA
   Toward a Leisure Theory of Value. The Game of Bird-watching and the Concern for Conservation in Great Britain
2. Sunnee BILLINGSLEY, University of Stockholm, Sweden
   Exploring the Conditions for a Mortality Crisis: Bringing Context Back into the Debate
3. Rachel BUSBRIDGE, University of South Australia
   Double-tasks and Transformations: The Politics of Recognition for Arab-Australians Post-9/11

Finalists

1. Miguel Ángel FERNÁNDEZ LLANOS, University of Chile
   Un modelo analítico del cambio social y cultural
2. Juan Alberto ROCHA ÁGUILA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
   Cambios en la tenencia de la tierra en Huando: un análisis de las trayectorias ideológicas y socioeconómicas de los trabajadores beneficiados por la reforma agraria
3. Clement RUFFIER, University of Lyon, France
   La carrière de l'objet technique comme une succession de boucles reliant ses trois formes : le cas d'un moteur de camion en France et en Chine

Commended

1. Javier ÁVILA MOLERO, University of Barcelona, Spain
   El análisis de redes personales como nueva herramienta para el estudio de las comunidades inmigrantes transnacionales. Estudio comparativo de argentinos, dominicanos, marroquíes y senegaleses en Barcelona, España
2. Olga GUROVA, School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
   Fashioning the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia
3. Fatma KASSEM-AGBARIA, Ben Gurion University, Israel
   The Subaltern Has a Voice, Can Speak and Write
4. Juli LEZHNINA, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
   Evaluation of the Practicability of Raising the Retirement Age in Russia
5. So-Jung LIM, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
   Educational Differentials in Married Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan during the 1990s
6. Dobroslawa WIKTOR-MACH, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
   On Secularization, Modernity and Islamic Revival