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June (Kim) Han
PhD in Sociology, 2007.
Research Writer and Consultant, Bellevue School District.
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Therese Leung

PhD in Sociology, 2008.
Director of External Affairs, MDRC.

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Shelley McDonough Kimelberg
PhD in Sociology, 2007.
Director, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
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Gesemia Nelson

PhD in Sociology, 2004.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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Sabrina Pendergrass

PhD in Sociology, 2010.
Assistant Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, University of Virginia.


Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, 2012-2014.

Sabrina Pendergrass is currently working on a book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, about the African American reverse migration to the South. 

Winner of the Exemplary Diversity Dissertation Award from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, for her dissertation, “Making moves: Place, culture, and stratification in African American reverse migration to the urban South,” 2010.

Winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for “Making Moves: Social Stratification and the Socioeconomic and Symbolic Dimensions of Black Reverse Migration to the South,” 2010.

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Graziella Silva

PhD in Sociology, 2010.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.


Assistant Professor of Sociology and Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Inequality, University of Rio de Janeiro (on leave from 2016).

Co-author of Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel, by Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica S. Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog & Elisa Reis. Princeton University Press (2016).

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Mario Luis Small

PhD in Sociology, 2001.
Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
Visiting Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.


Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020.
Elected to American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 2020.
University of Bremen Excellence Chair, 2020.
Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University, 2020
 

Mario Luis Small's latet book, Someone To Talk To, examines how people use their networks to cope with loss, victimization, failure, and other debilitating stressors. Oxford University Press (2017).

Best Publication, Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

James Coleman Award for Best Book, Rationality and Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

 

Mario Luis Small's second book, Unanticipated Gains, Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, has been published by Oxford University Press (2009).

Winner of the 2009 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

 

Mario Luis Small's first book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, has been published by University of Chicago Press (2004).

Winner of the 2005 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Winner of the the 2005 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 



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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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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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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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