WINNER of the
2007 C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD
Jaffee, Daniel. 2007. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
FINALISTS for the
2007 C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD
Abu-Lughod, Janet L. 2007. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Brown, Phil. 2007. Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. NY: Columbia University Press. Foreword by Lois Gibbs.
Clear, Todd R. 2007. Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Conrad, Peter. 2007. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Desmond, Matthew. 2007. On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Igo, Sarah E. 2007. The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Lee, Ching Kwan. 2007. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Pellow, David Naguib. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Szasz, Andrew. 2007. Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
The C. Wright Mills Award was presented on Friday, August 1, 2008 at the Awards Banquet.
2007-08 C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD COMMITTEE
Kathleen Lowney, Chair, Valdosta State University
Heather Dalmage, Chair-Elect, Roosevelt University
Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware
Aneesh Anessh, University of Washington
Ione DeOllos, Ball State University
Lara Foley, University of Tulsa
Mark Goodman, York University
