STRYKER WINS W.E.B. DUBOIS CAREER AWARD
The W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. The body of lifetime work may include theoretical and/or methodological contributions. The award selection committee is particularly interested in work that substantially reorients the field in general or in a particular sub field. Congratulations to Shel on this wonderful and much deserved award! |
BARTLEY AWARDED SUSTAINABILITY COURSE DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
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ROJAS WINS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Fabio
Rojas will spend the next two academic years at the University of
Michigan as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy
Research. His book From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical
Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, was recently
published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Bravo! |
CHRISTI M. SMITH WINS FELLOWSHIP Graduate student Christi Smith has won the 2008
Wells Graduate Fellowship – congratulations! The Wells Graduate
Fellowship, named after Herman B Wells, honors a student "who
demonstrate[s] the qualities for which Chancellor Wells was
renowned: leadership abilities, academic excellence, character,
social consciousness, and generosity of spirit." Christi’s sponsors
are Pam Walters, Brian Steensland and DGS Art Alderson. A graduate
student in Sociology has now won this prestigious prize two times:
Emily Fairchild was honored in 2007.
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BLOUIN WINS TEACHING AWARD Graduate
student David Blouin will receive the Lieber Associate Instructor
Award for teaching excellence at Founders Day ceremonies on March
30, 2008. At least one graduate student from Sociology has won this
University-wide award in each the last four years, a remarkable
testament to the outstanding quality of AI teaching in our
Department. Congratulations David!
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ETHAN MICHELSON WINS OUTSTANDING JUNIOR FACULTY AWARD Dean
of Faculties Jeanne Sept and Vice Provost for Research Sarita Soni have
announced that Ethan Michelson is a recipient of the 2007-08 Outstanding
Junior Faculty Award. This is among the most competitive and
prestigious honors awarded by the Bloomington Campus. Ethan will be
able to enjoy some research funds and summer salary – and, of course,
the prestige!
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POWELL NAMED RUDY PROFESSOR
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STRYKER RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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MCLEOD TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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CORNELL WINS CORNELIS LELY PRIZE
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PESCOSOLIDO WINS HANS O. MAUKSCH AWARD
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ROBINSON'S PAPER HONORED...TWICE
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STEENSLAND WINS GRANT
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WALTERS WINS GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
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ARMSTRONG SELECTED AS RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FELLOW
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PAVALKO NAMED EDITOR
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Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stryker has won the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. 
Tim Bartley has been awarded a Sustainability Course Development Fellowship for his proposal "Statistics for Sustainability: A Research Course on Environmental Literacy, Attitudes and Practices," which plans to transform the Sociology Department's required social statistics course into an opportunity for sociology students to collect and analyze new data on the environmental literacy, practices and attitudes of fellow IU students. Congratulations, Tim!
Brian
Powell has been awarded the title of Rudy Professor of Sociology,
effective January 2008. For the last five years, Brian has been the
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, a title that has
since been given to Eliza Pavalko. The Rudy Professorship will provide
Brian with annual funds to aid his research, for as long as he remains
at IU. Congratulations, Brian! In addition, Brian Powell’s 2006 paper in
Social Forces, co-authored with Lala Steelman and IU-PhD Bob
Carini won the Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Section on
Aging and the Lifecourse.
Jane
McLeod will deliver the Keynote Address and the 11th International
Conference on Social Stress Research at Santa Fe in May 2008.
Laurel
Cornell won the Cornelis Lely Prize for the “best historical paper with
relevance to contemporary policy questions” from the International
Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. The
prize was awarded at a recent meeting in Helmond, The Netherlands. The
title of Laure’s prize-winning paper is “How did Roads in the United
States Come to be So Large?”
Distinguished
Professor Bernice A. Pescosolido won the Hans O. Mauksch Award from the
ASA Section on Teaching and Learning, at the annual meetings in New York
in August 2007.
Rob
Robinson’s paper in the April 2006 American Sociological Review,
co-authored with Nancy Davis, won the Distinguished Research Award from
the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It also won the best
paper prize from the ASA Section on Religion.
Brian
Steensland has been awarded a Research Travel Grant from the College
Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) to support his project on “Does God
Love Free Markets?” Brian’s recent paper in the American Journal of
Sociology won the 2007 Best Article Award from the ASA Section on the
Sociology of Culture.
Pam
Walters has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007-08 – hooray!
Elizabeth
Armstrong has been selected as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study (Harvard University), and will spend the 2007-08 academic
year in Cambridge. Congratulations!
Professor
Eliza Pavalko has been named the new editor of the Journal of Health
and Social Behavior.