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Jessica Danielle Tollette

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

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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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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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-Hayes 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).