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Association of Black Sociologists names first Early Career Award recipient

August 15, 2013

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes

PhD in Sociology, 2003.
Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan.


Celeste Watkins-Hayes's second book, Remaking a Life:  How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequalty, 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.

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 Assoociation 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.
 

Celeste Watkins-Hayes's first book, The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform, 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.
 

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Natasha Kumar Warikoo

PhD in Sociology, 2005.
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.


Natasha Kumar Warikoo's next book, The Rules of the Game: Asian Americans, Whites, and the Quest for Excellence in Suburban America, will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Elected Guggenheim Fellow, 2017.

Natasha Warikoo's second book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, lluminates how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. University of Chicago Press (2016).

Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic MinoritiesOliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award, 2018.

Honorable Mention, Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award, 2018.

Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2018.

Natasha Kumar Warikoo's first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City, analyzes how youth cultures among children of immigrants are related to their orientations toward schooling through ethnographic, interview, and survey data in diverse New York and London high schools. University of California Press (2011).

Winner of the Thomas and Znaneicki Best Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012.

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Tom S. Vogl

PhD in Economics, 2011.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego.

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Zoua M. Vang

PhD in Sociology, 2008.
Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University.
Founding Director, Indigenous Maternal Infant Health & Well-being Lab, McGill University.


National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2010.

William Dawson Scholar Award, McGill University, 2020. The William Dawson Scholar Award "recognizes an emerging scholar developing into an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber who is poised to become a leader in his or her field."

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Ruth N. López Turley

PhD in Sociology, 2001.
Professor of Sociology, Rice University.
Director, Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC), and Founder, National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships.

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Ugo Troiano

PhD in Economics, 2013.
Sponsored Affiliate, University of Michigan.

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Van C. Tran

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2011.
Associate Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Deputy Director, Center for Urban Research.


Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2013.

Outstanding Service Award, ASA Section on International Migration, 2019.

Nancy W. Malkiel Scholars Award recognizing research excellence and an extraordinary commitment to inclusion, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2018.

Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest university-wide honor to recognize lasting intellectual influence on students, Columbia University, 2018.

Faculty Mentoring Award for excellence in mentoring PhD students, Graduate Student Advisory Council, Columbia University, 2017. 

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Adam Thomas

PhD in Public Policy, 2007.
Teaching Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.


From 2007 to 2011, Adam Thomas was the Research Director for the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families, which is housed in the Institution’s Economic Studies program. While at Brookings, Thomas led the effort to develop FamilyScape, an agent-based simulation model of family formation.

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Laura Tach

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2010.
Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology (by courtesy), Cornell University.
Associate Director, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University.


Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012.

State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, 2020. Awarded for her research on the connections between economic insecurity, relationship instability and the well-being of children.

William Julius Wilson Early Career Award: Inequality, Poverty, Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2018.

Laura Tach has been named a William T. Grant Scholar, 2015-2020. The William T. Grant Scholars program selects 4-6 promising early-career researchers each year in the social, behavioral, and health sciences and supports their professional development with five-year research awards.

Confronting Inequality: How Policies and Practices Shape Children's Opportunities, edited by Laura Tach, Rachel Dunifon, and Douglas L. Miller, has been publisehd by the American Psychological Association (2020).

It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, co-authored by Sarah Halpern-Meekin '09, Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach '10, and Jennifer Sykes '11, has been published by the University of California Press (2015).

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