Awards/Honors for Sociology Faculty

Professor Amy Binder

2005-06 Resident Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, New York (September - July)

2005 Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation's Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy (July-August)

Professor Binder's book Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press 2002) has won three awards:

• 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association
• 2003 Best Book Prize from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
• 2003 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Pacific Sociological Association

Professor Mary Blair-Loy

Her book Competing Devotions won the 2005 Goode Book Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association.

Professor Maria Charles

Her book Occupational Ghettos won the 2005 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association.

Professor Steve Epstein

Professor Steve Epstein has received the Chancellors’ Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Research.  This is the highest honor for research that our campus can bestow. (2007/08) 

His book Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research won the Robert K. Merton Professional Award from the ASA’s Section on Science Knowledge and Technology. Professor Epstein’s first book, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge had also been so honored. In fact, Professor Epstein is the only scholar ever to win this prestigious award TWICE.

Professor John H. Evans

His book Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate won:the 2002 Best Book Prize from the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association

Professor Andrew Lakoff

2004-05 Hellman Fellow

Professor Hugh Mehan

2003-04 Chancellor's Associates Excellence Award in Community Service

Professor Gershon Shafir

His book Being Israel: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship was awarded the Hourani Award for Best Book on the Middle East in 2002 by the Middle Eastern Studies Association.

Professor John D. Skrentny

2006 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

His book The Minority Rights Revolution won the 2002 Distinguished Publication Award in Political Sociology as the Best Book of 2002 by the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.