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    Natasha Kumar Warikoo

    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.

    The Diversity Bargain, by Natasha Kumar WarikooNatasha 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.

    Balancing ActsNatasha 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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    Celeste Watkins-Hayes

    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.


    Remaking a Life, by Celeste Watkins-HayesCeleste 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.
     

    The New Welfare BureaucratsCeleste 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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    Vesla M. Weaver

    Vesla M. Weaver

    PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2007.
    Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.


    Named a Johns Hopkins University Gilman Scholar, distinction that honors and celebrates select Johns Hopkins faculty who embody the highest standards of scholarship and research across the university, 2018.

    Winner of the Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of  New York for the advancement of research in the humanities and social sciences, 2016.

    Weaver is at work on a new project that will map patterns of citizenship and governance across cities and neighborhoods called the Faces of American Democracy using an innovative technology that creates digital ‘wormholes’ called Portals.

    VArresting Citizenshipesla Weaver's book with Amy Lerman, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control, documents the effects of increasing punishment and surveillance in America on democratic inclusion, particularly for the black urban poor. University of Chicago Press (2014).

    Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book in Urban Politics, 2015.

    Founding director, ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality, Yale University, 2015-2017.

    Creating a New Racial OrderJennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, and Traci R. Burch's (PhD '07) book, Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, has been published by Princeton University Press (2012).

    Winner of  the American Political Science Association’s Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Dissertation Award, 2008.

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