#  Celeste Watkins-Hayes 

PhD in Sociology, 2003.

Jean Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (beginning Aug 2021).

 

 

 



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   ![Remaking a Life, by Celeste Watkins-Hayes](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/watkinshayesbk19.jpg?itok=mdyiDque) 

 

Celeste Watkins-Hayes's second book, [Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequalty](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296039/remaking-a-life), has been published by the University of California Press (2019). In the face of life-threatening news, how do we reevaluate and transform our lives? Starting in 2005, Celeste Watkins-Hayes spent more than a decade documenting the experiences of over 100 women living with HIV/AIDS in Chicago and beyond. *American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. 2021. The award is given to the single best book published in the three preceding calendar years.*

 *Eastern Sociological Society Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, 2021.*

 *C. Wright Mills Award 2019 Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020.*

 *Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender, 2020.*

 *Eliot Freidson Award, given to a book or journal article that has had a major impact on the field of medical sociology, American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology, 2020.*

 *PROSE Award Finalist, Association of American Publishers, 2020.*

   
*E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award given by Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, 2018.*

 *National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award to study the social and economic consequences of HIV/AIDS for Chicago-area women, 2009-2015.*

 *Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Investigator Award, 2009-2014.*

 *Inaugural recipient of the Jacquelyn Johnson Jackson Early Career Award from the Association of Black Sociologists, 2013.*

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes's first book, [The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo6853048.html), has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2009). *Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2009.*

 *Honorable Mention Max Weber Book Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association, 2011.*

   
*National Science Foundation Fellow, National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2005-2006.*





 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology](/alumni-department/sociology)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2003](/alumni-year/2003)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)