Président, Social Science History Association, 2012
Meilleur livre en théorie sociologique, section théorie, American Sociological Association, 2008
Membre de l’American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
Sewell, W. « Liensing Capitalism to the French Revolution: The Parisian Promenade and the Origins of Civic Equality in Eighteenth Century France. » Critical Historical Studies 1 (2014): 5–46.
Sewell, W. « Economic Crises and the Shape of Modern History. » Public Culture 24 (2012): 303–27.
Sewell, W. « The Temporalities of Capitalism. » Socio-Economic Review 8 (2008): 517–37.
Sewell, W.H. Jr. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Sewell, W. « A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation. » Am. Journ. Sociology 98 (1992): 1–29.
Sewell, W.H. Jr. A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyes and « What Is the Third Estate? » Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
Sewell, W.H. Jr. Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Sewell, W.H. Jr. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.