________________________________________________________________________ __ Trajectories Spring 2012 Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section Volume 23, No. 2 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Book Symposium (Krippner)…………………….1 Book Symposium (Mahoney)…...………………16 Member Award………………………………….30 Journal Announcements and Calls for Papers…..31 Member Publications……………………………32 Section Awards………………………………….33 Section Election Results………………………...34 Section Members on the Job Market & Recently Defended Dissertations………………………….35 Other Information……………………………….49 Call for Member Information……………….......50 Editors’ Note: Greta R. Krippner ’s Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard 2011) was the subject of an Author Meets Critics session at the Social Science History Association meeting in Boston in November 2011. These are the revised comments from Frank Dobbin, Isaac Martin, and Bill Sewell with Greta Krippner ’s response. We would like to thank Ho- fung Hung for organizing and guest-editing the symposium. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta R. Krippner (Harvard University Press, 2011) SECTION OFFICERS 2011-2012 Chair Neil Fligstein University of California-Berkeley Chair-Elect Julian Go Boston University Past Chair James Mahoney Northwestern University Secretary-Treasurer Ho-fung Hung Johns Hopkins University Council Members Dylan John Riley, UC Berkeley (2014) Mounira Maya Charrad, U Texas-Austin (2014) Greta Krippner, U Michigan (2013) Nina Bandelj, UC Irvine (2013) Isaac Martin, UC San Diego (2012) Ivan Ermakoff, U Wisconsin (2012) Elizabeth Pearson (Student, 2014) Newsletter Editors Ateş Altınordu, Sabancı University Seio Nakajima, U Hawaii-Manoa Webmaster Robert Jansen, University of Michigan Book Symposium (Krippner)