2007 News

Hilary Levey is the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Student Paper Award from the ASA's Children and Youth Section for her paper "'Which One is Yours?' Children and Ethnography."

Philip Connor received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 2008.

Alejandro Portes received a Robert Wood johnson Foundation Senior Investigator Award in support of his project on Immigration and the Health System and the Award for Scientific Reviewing (Social and Political Sciences) from the National Academy of Sciences.

Robert Wuthnow was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wake Forest University.

Robert Wuthnow has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Philip Connor is the 2007 recipient of the Student Paper Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his paper, "New Directions for Immigrant Religious Research: The Convergence of Contextual and Micro-Level Theories as Determinants for Variation in Immigrant Religious Participation Surrounding the Migratory Event."

Robert Wuthnow is the 2007 recipient of the Tufts Civic Engagement Research Prize from the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University in honor of his contributions to the study of civic engagement.

Delia Baldassarri's book La semplice arte di votare, Il Mulino, 2005 (The Simple Art of Voting) was awarded the 2007 prize for the best book in political science written in the last two years by the "societa' italiana di scienza politica" (Italian Political Science Association).

Betsy Armstrong's paper, "Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media," co-authored with Dan Carpenter and Marie Hojnacki, is the 2007 winner of the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.

Viviana Zelizer has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Alex Portes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Investigator Award for 2007-09 in support of his project entitled "Immigration and the Health System: An Institutional Analysis."

Hilary Levey received a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

Christine Percheski received the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars for 2007-08.

Gregoire Mallard received the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars for 2007-08.

Paul DiMaggio is the 2007 winner of the university's Graduate Mentoring Award in the Social Sciences.

Mitch Duneier is the winner of the Leo Goodman Award from the ASA Section on Methodology in recognition of his contributions to sociological methodology.

Devah Pager was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Charles Westoff received the 2007 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Council Laureate Award.

Chris Wildeman was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Children and Youth for his paper, "Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage."

Betsy Armstrong was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Robert Wuthnow received the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society for America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity.

Debbie Becher received the Graduate Prize Fellowship from the Center for Human Values for the 2006-07 school year.

Becky Yang Hsu is the 2007 co-winner of the Candace Rogers Award for Best Student Paper from the Eastern Sociological Society for her paper "Confucian Ethics and Dyadic Ties: The Paradox of Strong Relationships and Weak Groups in Rural China."

Miguel Centeno was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association.

Scott Lynch was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Douglas Massey was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Douglas Massey was elected President of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Katherine Newman received the Textor Prize from the American Anthropological Association.

Devah Pager received an NIH Mentored Scientist Award and the W.T. Grant Scholars Award.

Paul Starr received the Goldsmith Book Prize and the Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Communications and Information Technology for The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications.

Marta Tienda was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education.

Marta Tienda received the Outstanding Latina Faculty in Higher Education Award in Research and Teaching from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.

Martin Ruef was elected as a member of the Sociological Research Association (SRA), an honorary society for academic sociologists, as well as the Macro-Organizational Behavior Society (MOBS), an association of leading scholars in the area of organizational sociology.