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Bonnie Thornton Dill, Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, joins the department this year as Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.
Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong was elected treasurer of the Eastern Sociological Society and was elected to the Board of Directors of Lamaze International. She received a grant from the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education to develop a new course and certificate program in “Technology and Society,” in collaboration with colleagues in Engineering and the History of Science.
Debbie Becher received a Research Fellowship from the Metropolitan Policy Program of the Brookings Institution, was an American Fellow of the American Association of University Women, and had a research grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
Yael Berda received a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship.
Bart Bonikowski is a recipient of the Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship and holds a Woodrow Wilson Scholars Fellowship.
Rebecca Casciano won the Beth Hess Prize from the Eastern Sociological Society.
Phillip Connor received a Doctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council and was the winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Sociology of Religion Section and the Best Student Paper Award from the ASA International Migration Section.
Donna DeFrancisco received a Special Performance Award from the Office of Human Resources in recognition of her exceptional efforts as Department Manager.
Paul DiMaggio was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been named as the University’s A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs.
Mitchell Duneier received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching during the Commencement ceremonies in June.
Nicholis Ehrmann was awarded a grant to start a non-profit organization, Blue Engine, dedicated to increasing Advanced Placement enrollment and test scores among youth in inner city schools.
Rachael Ferguson was co-winner of the Sociology Department’s Graduate Teaching Award.
Rene Flores received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and an American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship.
Julia Gelatt received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Angel Harris has received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he will be spending the 2009-10 academic year.
Becky Yang Hsu won the Student Sociological Practitioner Award from the ASA Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section.
Pierre Kremp received a Beyster Graduate Fellowship from the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
Hilary Levey won the prize for Best Graduate Student Paper from the ASA Section on Children and Youth and the Beth Hess Prize from the Eastern Sociological Society. She is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson post doctoral fellowship which she will take up at Harvard this fall.
Karen Levy was the recipient of an Arthur Liman Public Interest Summer Fellowship from Yale Law School.
Valerie Lewis was awarded a post doctoral fellowship at Harvard University where she is working with political scientist Robert Putnam on a project on the consequences of increasing diversity for social capital.
Scott Lynch was elected as a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Douglas Massey has received a Visiting Scholar fellowship from the Russell Sage Foundation, where he will be spending the 2009-10 academic year. He continues to serve as President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and as Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Class of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Career Award from the ASA Section on International Migration.
Alexandra Murphy received a Pre-doctoral grant from the Harvard University Hauser Center on Non-Profit Organizations and is the recipient of an Honorable Mention for the Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section.
Katherine Newman will deliver the Wildavsky Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, in March 2010 and based on it will publish a book with coauthor, graduate student Rourke O’Brien, on the impact of tax regimes on the poor, especially in the south.
Jayanti Owens won the Best Student Poster Presentation Award from the Population Association of America and is the recipient of a Predoctoral Dissertation Development Grant from the Social Science Research Council.
Alejandro Portes was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society and is serving as president elect of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Victoria Reyes was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Martin Ruef has been promoted to Full Professor and has completed a year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Rania Salem received a grant from the International Development Research Center as part of their “Gender and Work in the Middle East” research competition.
Danny Schneider won the Candace Rogers Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Eastern Sociological Society; the Poverty, Class, the Inequality Division Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and the Graduate Student Paper Prize from the ASA Family Section. He also was the recipient of a Filene Research Institute Doctoral Research Grant, and was co-winner of the Sociology Department’s Graduate Teaching Award.
Liza Steele received a scholarship from the European Consortium for Political Research.
Edward Telles received the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association for Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, with Wilma Ortiz.
LaTonya Trotter won the Best Paper Award from the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board
Robert Wuthnow received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
King-to Yeung received the 2009 Teaching Award from the Department’s Graduating Seniors.
Jessica Yiu received a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship.
Sharon Yoon received a Fellowship from the Blakemore Foundation.
Cristobal Young received the Dodds Honorific Fellowship from Princeton University and won the Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on the History of Sociology.
