Awards/Honors for Sociology Faculty (partial list)

Professor Richard Biernacki

  • Fellow Comité d’honneur, Archives européennes de sociologie, Paris
  • Havens Center Visting Fellow in Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Faculty Fellow, 2002
  • Wissenschaftskolleg - Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 1998
  • German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1994
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1991
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 1990
  • ASA Best Dissertation in Sociology Award, 1989

 

Professor Amy Binder

  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2010/11
  • Resident Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2005/06
  • Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation's Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2005
  • 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 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 Jeffrey Haydu

  • His book Citizen Employers won the Labor History journal's Best Book of 2008 prize.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999

Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette

  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986
  • Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, 1980
  • American Association of University Women Award of Recognition, 1979

Professor Rebecca Klatch
Professor Klatch's book, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s, won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Social Movements and Collective Behavior Award, from the American Sociological Association.

  • Her book, Women and the New Right, won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics.
  • UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009
  • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1990/91
  • Mellon Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1989/90
  • American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1989

Professor Martha Lampland
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1981

Professor Richard Madsen

  • UCSD Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecture Award, 2007
  • His book, Habits of the Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for best book in general non-fiction and the Pulitzer Prize jury nomination for best book in general non-fiction
  • C. Wright Mills Award (major book award from Society for the Study of Social Problems), 1985

Professor Isaac Martin

  • President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association (co-winner for The Permanent Tax Revolt) 2007
  • Hellman Faculty Fellow, 2007

Professor Emeritus Bud Mehan

  • Lifetime Achievement Award by AERA, 2008
  • Elizabeth Cohen Award for outstanding contributions to Applied Sociology by the Sociology of Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2007
  • George and Louise Spindler Award for outstanding contributions to Anthropology and Education by the American Anthropological Association, 2006
  • Chancellors’ Associates’ “Outstanding Faculty Member” Award, 2004
  • Muir College “Most Valuable Professor” Award, 2001
  • Academic Senate’s Outstanding Teacher Award, 1997
  • Elected to the National Academy of Education, 1997
  • Eleanor Roosevelt College Outstanding Teaching Award, 1994
  • Thurgood Marshall College Outstanding Teaching Award, 1991

Professor Andrew Scull

  • UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007
  • UC President’s Humanities Research Fellowship, 2002
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982

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

  • 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.
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006

Professor Carlos Waisman

  • Hubert C. Herring prize for best book on Latin American Studies, 1987
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1971

 

Professor Leon Zamosc
Hubert C. Herring prize for best book on Latin American Studies, 1986