2025 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists

The 2025 C. Wright Mills Award finalists have been selected. 

The committee reviewed 113 nominated books to select the six finalists. The winner and finalists will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 8 from 5:45pm-7:00pm (Eastern Time). 

Each finalist met the award criteria to an outstanding degree: 

• Critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance
• Brings to the topic a fresh, imaginative perspective
• Advances social scientific understanding of the topic
• Displays a theoretically informed view and empirically orientation
• Evinces quality in style of writing
• Explicitly or implicitly contains implications for courses of action 

View the list of finalists.

Posted Friday, 05/22/2026, 08:40 AM - Comments - Category: Awards