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

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

UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009


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.

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1990/91

Mellon Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1989/90

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 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