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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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Jessica Welburn Paige

PhD in Sociology, 2011.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Iowa.


Jessica Welburn Paige is currently working on a book tentatively titled Keep on Pushin’  that uses in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations to explore how working class and middle class African Americans in Detroit, MI navigate the city’s crumbling infrastructure.

Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 2018.

Co-author of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel, by Michèle Lamont, Graziela Silva, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrahi, Hannah Herzog and Elisa Reis, Princeton University Press (2016).

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 2012-2014.

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, 2011-2012.

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Beth C. Truesdale

PhD in Sociology, 2017.
Research Associate, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University.


Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, 2017-2019.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association Section on Aging and the Life Course, for “Coming of Age in an Unequal State: The Life Course Effects of Economic Inequality on Health,” 2018.

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Benjamin Sosnaud

PhD in Sociology, 2015.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trinity University.


Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard College Fellows Program, 2015-2017.

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Margot Moinester

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

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Carly R. Knight

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

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Christy Ley

PhD in Sociology, 2018.
Senior Social Science Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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Jessica Danielle Tollette

PhD in Sociology, 2017.
Academic Director, Bachelor in Behavior and Social Sciences, IE University.

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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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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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