ANNOUNCING THE


FINALISTS for the
2008 C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD
(in alphabetical order)

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe, MIT Press

Daniel Faber, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization, Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, Inc.

John M. Hagedorn, A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture, University of Minnesota Press

Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality and Gendered Violence, New York University Press

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press


The C. Wright Mills Award will be presented on Saturday, August 8
at the SSSP Awards Banquet.


C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD COMMITTEE

Heather M. Dalmage, Chair, Roosevelt University
Debra Street, Chair-Elect, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Charles André Christie-Mizell, Kent State University
Kimberly J. Cook, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Elizabeth Ettorre, University of Liverpool
Anna M. Santiago, Wayne State University
Peter Venturelli, Valparaiso University
Johnny Williams, Trinity College