Comparative National Histories of Sociology

National histories of sociology have become increasingly common in recent years, particularly with the publication of John Holmwood's and Stephen Turner's Sociology Transformed series. It is thus timely to take seriously the task of building some conceptual tools to compare and analyse these histories. Some work has already been published on this issue, but much more needs to be done. This session invites contributions that discuss such matters and develop strategies to build collaboration to further this arena of knowledge. Presentations might deal with conceptual problems of comparative histories of sociology, their methods, or perform exemplary comparative analyses of two or more cases.