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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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Margot Moinester

PhD in Sociology, 2020.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis.

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Christopher Bail

PhD in Sociology, 2011.
Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University.
Director of the Duke Polarization Lab.


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of Michigan, 2011-2013.

Measuring Culture, by John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry, has been published by Columbia University Press (July 2020).

Paul Lazarsfeld Award, Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association, for "Exposureto Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media," 2019.

Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, for a Duke faculty member who embodies the highest values of scholarship, teaching, and collegiality, 2019.

Guggenheim Fellow, 2018.

Andrew Carnegie Fellow, 2017.

Christopher Bail's first book, Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream, has been published by Princeton University Press (2014).

Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action,  2016.

Distinguished Book Award, Religion Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.

Honorable Mention, Charles Tilly Award for Best Book, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2016.

Junior Theorist Award (for scholar less than 8 years post-PhD), Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2015.

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Jeffrey S. Denis

PhD in Sociology, 2011.
Associate Professor of Sociology, McMaster University.


Author of Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations, based on Denis's PhD dissertation research, which included 18 months of fieldwork, 160 interviews, and a photovoice project with Anishinaabe, Métis, and white residents of Northwestern Ontario (Treaty #3 territory). University of Toronto Press (2020).

Winner of the IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award, 2018.

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Seth D. Hannah

PhD in Sociology, 2011.
Lecturer in Global Health, UC San Diego


Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, 2014-2016.

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University, 2011-2014.

Shattering Culture: American Medicine Responds to Cultural Diversity, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Sarah S. Willen, Seth Donal Hannah, Ken Vickery, Lawrence Taeseng Park, editors. Russell Sage Foundation (2011).

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Anthony Abraham Jack

PhD in Sociology, 2016.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Shutzer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.


Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2016-2019.

Anthony Abraham Jack's first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what these schools can do differently if these students are to thrive. Harvard University Press (2019).

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

Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award, Honorable Mention, Section on Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association, 2020

Michael Harrington Award, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020.

Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2020.

Outstanding Book Award, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2020.

PROSE Award, Finalist, Education Practice, Association of American Publishers, 2020

Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press.  Awarded for outstanding first-book by Harvard University Press, 2019.

CEP Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2019. 

Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2019.

Named one of NPR Book's Best Books of 2019.
 

Amherst College Harold Wade Jr. ‘68 Fellowship, Amherst College, 2016-2019.

National Center of Institution Diversity Emerging Diversity Scholar, University of Michigan, 2016.

Tribute to Black Men Faculty Award, Association of Black Harvard Women, Harvard University, 2015.

Graduate Student Paper Award, Education Problems Division, Society of the Study of Social Problems, 2015.

Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising Award, Harvard College, 2015.

Charles V. Willie Minority Graduate Student Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2015.

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Association, 2014.

David Lee Stevenson Award for best Graduate Student Paper, Honorable Mention, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association 2014.

Harvard College Race Relations Adviser Award, 2013

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Carly R. Knight

PhD in Sociology, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University.

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Jessica T. Simes

PhD in Sociology, 2016.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University.
Associate Director of Research of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.


University Provost Career Development Professor, Boston University, 2016-2019.

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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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Susan Crawford Sullivan

PhD in Sociology, 2005.
Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross.


Susan Crawford Sullivan's first book, Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty, explores the role of religion in the lives of low-income urban mothers. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012.

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 2012.

Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2012.

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