Sociology

Miguel Angel Centeno is the 2012 co-recipient of Princeton University’s MLK Day Journey Award, given in recognition of efforts to continue the effort to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision

Edward Telles is the focus of a feature story in News at Princeton about his research broadening the study of race and ethnicity

Alejandro Portes has been elected as the James S. Coleman Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Tom Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford's book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class In Elite College Admission and Campus Life, is the recipient of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Award for the best book in the sociology of education from the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association.

Delia Baldassarri is serving as Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation to study social and spatial networks and leadership accountability in rural development.  She is the recipient of Princeton University’s John Witherspoon Bicentennial Preceptorship.

Paul DiMaggio is Principal Investigator for Princeton on an NSF grant to six universities to host postdoctoral fellows studying the origins and effects of the Great Recession

Mitch Duneier received a President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly served as Acting Director of the Latino Studies Program

Angel Harris was the recipient of a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study

Douglas Massey was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation during the 2009-10 academic year and received the Distinguished Scholarly Career Award from the
International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association

Sara McLanahan was elected as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences

Devah Pager received the 2010 Teaching Award from the Department’s Graduating Seniors

Alejandro Portes is the 2010 recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association and is the incoming chair for the Economic Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.  Choice magazine has named his book on Economic Sociology an outstanding academic publication for 2010

Gilbert Rozman spent the 2010-11 academic year as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC

Matthew Salganik is Principal Investigator for an NIH project on respondent-driven sampling for the study of hidden populations, PI for a Google Faculty Research Award on developments in bottom-up social data collection, and Co-PI for an NSF project on robust socio-technological networks.  He is the recipient of Princeton University’s Jonathan Dickinson Bicentennial Preceptorship.

Kim Lane Scheppele has been elected an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and as treasurer of the National Security Law Section of the Association of American Law School. She will give the Rosenthal Lectures at Northwestern Law School in September 2011 .

Paul Starr spent part of the 2010-11 academic year in Washington with the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism

Edward Telles has been elected to serve as the 103rd Vice President of the American Sociological Association for 2011-12 and assumes office in August of 2011, following a year of service as Vice President-Elect.  He has also been elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association.

Marta Tienda was appointed to the Key National Indicators Commission and the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Nick Ehrmann has launched a non-profit education fellowship program.

Yael Berda is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, Law and Social Sciences; and the Public Law Association in Israel Gurney Award for contribution to Constitutional Law in 2010 (for securing the Israeli Supreme Court decision to annul Prison Privatization in Israel)

Sarah Brayne received an external doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Rene Flores is the recipient of a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council

Alice Goffman is the recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association

Sarah Islam is one of two grant recipients selected by the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, American University in Cairo  (U.S. Department of Education) Program Level II Research and Training Grant for CASA I Alumni

Jeff Lane received an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

Alexandra Murphy is the recipient of a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2011-2012; a Barnard College Alumnae Association Fellowship, 2011-2012; a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant; a research grant from the Alleghany Department of Human Services; and a research grant from the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), Carnegie Mellon University

Jayanti Owens is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for “Early Childhood Behavioral Skills and Educational Attainment.

Jayanti Owens and Allison Schnable were selected to participate in the McGraw Center’s seminar on Teaching in the Research University, funded by the Teagle Foundation

Daniel Schneider was awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Honorific Fellowship for AY 2011-2012 and with Elizabeth Gummerson is the recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Population 2011 Graduate Student Paper Award

Liza Steele is the 2011 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Children and Youth Graduate Paper Award

Naomi Sugie received the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division Graduate Student Paper Award for her second empirical paper, entitled “When the elderly turn to crime: revisiting the age-crime curve in an aging population" 

Alex Tham is the recipient of the Philip G. Terrie ’39 Fellowship