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