Professors Caitlin Patler and Laura Grindstaff have been selected as winners for this year's Distinguished Teaching Award in the Undergraduate and Graduate/Professional categories, respectively.
Stephanie Mudge joins Erin Hamilton (2019), Jacob Hibel (2017), and Bob Faris (2015) to become the newest Sociology faculty to be named a Chancellor's Fellow.
An article co-authored by Erin Hamilton, Claudia Masferrer, and Nicole Denier titled, "Immigration in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico," won the Published Article Award from ASA Population Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population.
Professor Orly Clerge was selected as a finalist for the 2019 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia.
Orly Clerge wins the Mary C. Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for her book, "The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (UC Press, 2019).
Professor Mudge's book, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press 2018) won the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Political Sociology section book award, the Barrington-Moore Book Award from the ASA Historical-Comparative section, and an honorable mention for the Viviana Zelizer Award for the ASA, Economic Sociology section book award.