The C. Wright Mills Award was presented at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 8.

Congratulations, Dr. Christina J. Cross!

Congratulations to the 2025 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists

Friedman, Brittany, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, The University of North Carolina Press
Garbes, Laura, Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry, Princeton University Press
Jackson, Michelle, The Division of Rationalized Labor, Harvard University Press
Kurwa, Rahim, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, University of California Press
Mojola, Sanyu A., Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol, University of California Press

C. Wrights Mills Award Committee

Michael L. Walker, Chair, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
David Brunsma, Chair-Elect, Virginia Tech
Asad L. Asad, Stanford University
Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University
Patrice D. Collins, Northeastern University
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University
Diana Papademas, SUNY Old Westbury
Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hamilton College
Derron Wallace, Brown University
Siyue Lena Wang, University of California, Los Angeles