Congratulations to our students and faculty on their incredible accomplishments this year!

Elizabeth Armstrong

Awarded the Distinguished Article Award from the ASA Sex & Gender Section for her article              co-authored with Lotus Seeley (PhD 2016) and Laura Hamilton.

"Hegemonic Feminizaties and Intersectional Domination"

Rachel Best

Awarded the 2020 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology Award by the ASA Political

"Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America"

Deirdre Bloome

Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by U-M Regents.

Jamie Budnick

A successful dissertation defense. Jamie's dissertation is titled The New Gay Science: Sexuality Knowledge, Demography, and the Politics of Population Measurement.

Erin Cech

Received the Henry Russell Award from the Rackham Graduate School.

Tia Clinton

Inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

Received the DEI Certificate from the Rackham Graduate School.

Shauna Dyer

Neil Gong

Received the James F. Short Distinguished Article Award from the ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance section.

Katie Hauschildt

A successful dissertation defense.

Accepted a postodoctoral fellowship at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Hospital, Ann Arbor.

Constance Hsiung

A successful dissertation defense. Dr. Hsiung's dissertation is titled Three Studies of Occupational Sex Segregation and Working Women: Own-Group Effects, Occupational Rewards, and Devaluation.

Dana Kornberg

A successful dissertation defense. Dr. Kornberg's dissertation is titled Reclaiming Water, Remaking Communities: Persistence and Change in Delhi's Informal Recycling Economy.

Analidis Ochoa

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship honorable mention.

Luciana de Souza Leão

Awarded the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Best Paper Prize from the Latin America Studies Association, Brazil Section for “Seeing Whites: Views of Black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro.”

published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43 (4), 632-651

Tarlise Townsend

A successful dissertation defense.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.

Named the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy.

Al Young, Jr.

Named Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Afroamerican Studies.