Category: Award Winners
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Q&A with Ya-Wen Lei, author of The Gilded Cage
Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa on March 7, 2025 Ya-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, and is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is the author of The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2003) and…
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Q&A with Owen Whooley, 2020 Merton Book Award Winner
Owen Whooley is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. His research uses historical and qualitative research methods to explore questions related to medical knowledge and professional power. Interview by Timothy O’Brien Q. The subtitle of the book is the “politics of not knowing.” What do you mean by the “politics of not…
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Interview with Miranda Waggoner, Winner of the 2019 Robert K. Merton Book Award
The Zero Trimester: How did we begin to think that pregnancy should last longer than 9 months? In June 2018 we were pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 SKAT Section Awards, which will be presented at the SKAT business meeting on Saturday, August 10th at 5:30pm in the Central Park West room (2nd Floor) at the…
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Reflections on 2018 Merton Award
Merton Award 2018 by Jennifer Carrera We had many exceptional books in the pool this year for the Robert K. Merton Award, SKAT’s prestigious book award that honors an outstanding book on the topic of science, knowledge, and/or technology. But one stood out among the rest. We really wanted a book that not only made…
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Reflection on 2018 Star Nelkin Award
The Star Nelkin Award by Ruha Benjamin The 2018 Star Nelkin Prize committee (Santiago Molina, Michelle Smirnova, Justin Farrell, and Ruha Benjamin) received 17 submissions which included a wide variety of topics and methodologies, reflecting the vibrancy of SKAT! The committee gave an honorable mention to Angela Frederick for “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project: Women with Disabilities…
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Interview with Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Jennifer Singh caught up with Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University and winner of the 2017 Robert K. Merton Book Award for The Brain’s Body: Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics (Duke University Press, 2016). Her book was also awarded the Feminist Philosophy of Science Award from the Women’s Caucus of…
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Interview with Natasha Myers
David Peterson (Northwestern) spoke with Natasha Myers, Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University and winner of the 2016 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press, 2015). In the interview, Professor Myers discussed theoretical innovations and the next directions of her work. David Peterson: What is…
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