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Faculty honors and awards

Walter Allen
DuBois Johnson Frazier Award, American Sociological Association
 
César Ayala
American Sugar Kingdom: the Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 named "outstanding 
academic book" by Choice Magazine
 
Phillip Bonacich
Elected Chair, ASA Rationality and Society Section
Elected Chair, ASA Social Psychology Section
Best Paper Award, ASA mathematical Sociology Section
 
Jennie Brand
Editorial Board, Sociological Methodology
 
Rogers Brubaker
Member - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
MacArthur Fellowship
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
 
Cameron Campbell
American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, Award for Outstanding Book on Asia for Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship
 
Adrian Favell
Annual David W.Roth and Robert H. Symonds Memorial Lecture at the Yale University School of  
Architecture
SSRC/Japan Foundation Abe Fellowship
 
Rick Grannis
Nominated Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
 
Ruben Hernandez-Leon
Academic Senate, Assistant Professor Initiative
Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow
Council of Anthropology in Education, American Anthropological Assoc.
 
Patrick Heuveline
Fellow, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
William T. Grant Scholar, William T. Grant Foundation
 
Darnell Hunt
O.J Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality named "outstanding academic book" by Choice Magazine
 
Jack Katz
Fortunoff Criminal Justice speaker, NYU
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Invited Professor, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris
 
Gail Kligman
UCLA Eugen Weber Honors Collegium Teaching Award recipient
NEH Collaborative Humanities Research Fellowship (co administered by the American Council for International Education ACIE and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research NCEEER)
NCEEER Research Fellowship (with Katherine Verdery)
MacArthur International Peace and Cooperation Fellowship (with Susan Gal)
 
Hannah Landecker
History of Science Society Levinson Award for Culturing Life:  How Cells Became Technologies (Harvard 2007). The Levinson prize is awarded biennially for a book in the history of life sciences and natural history.
 
Ching Kwan Lee
Sociology of Labor Book Award, American Sociological Association, Labor and Labor Movement Section for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
 
Ivan Light
Thomas and Znaniecki book award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association for Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles
Pacific Sociological Association award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for his book
Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles.
Research Fellow, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
Elected President of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association
Recipient, Distinguished Career of Scholarship, Award of the International Migration Section of the  
American Sociological Association
  
Michael Mann
Named an Honorary Professor of Cambridge University
Barrington Moore Award for the best book in the areas of comparative and historical sociology from the Comparative/Historical Section of the ASA for The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
 
Robert Mare
President, Population Association of America
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award, American Sociological Association Section on Methodology
 
William Mason
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology from the ASA Section on Methodology
 
Mignon Moore
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
NIH Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research Pilot Study Award (UCLA)
Human Rights Campaign Award for Research on LGBT Racial Minorities
Board Member, Ford Foundation University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training
Joan Heller-Diane Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York
Editorial Boards: American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family

Vilma Ortiz
Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award of the ASA Population Section for Generations of Exclusion with Edward Telles
PSA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship for Generations of Exclusion with Edward Telles
  
Jeffrey Prager
Invited Participant, "Social Redress in Law, Literature, and Social Thought," Faculty Seminar, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine
Recipient, Gradiva Award for Best Book (Sociology), National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Recipient, Heinz Hartmann Prize for Outstanding Scholarship, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Appointed, Associate Member of North American Editorial Board, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
 
William Roy
Distinguished Contribution to Teaching, UCLA
Distinguished Contribution to Teaching, American Sociological Association
Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Dissertation Awards Panel, National Science Foundation
Sociology Panel, National Science Foundation
Choice Outstanding Academic Book for Socializing Capital:  The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
Chair, Comparative & Historical Section of the ASA
 
Abigail Saguy
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford. Fellowship
Council, ASA Sociology of Culture Section, Elected Position
Elected as council member for the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association
Postdoctoral Fellowship. Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
Sally Hacker prize from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association
 
Emanuel Schegloff
Member of the Council, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 
Judith Seltzer
Chair-elect, ASA Sociology of Family
Member, National Academies of Science Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments
Member, NIH Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section
 
Edward Telles
Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award of the ASA Population Section for Generations of Exclusion with Vilma Ortiz
PSA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship for Generations of Exclusion with Vilma Ortiz
American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for his book Race in Another America
Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the ASA for best book in the sociology of population for Race in Another America
Distinguished Publication (Sorokin) Award from the American Sociological Association
Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for best book from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the ASA
Best Book Award from the Population Section of the ASA
Hubert Herring Award from the Pacific Council on Latin American Studies
Best Book Award from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Assocation
 
Stefan Timmermans
Sociology of Health and Illness book award, British Sociology Association for Postmortem
Eliot Freidson book award for best book published in the past two years from the Medical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for Postmortem
Robert K. Merton Professional award for best book published in the past three years from the Science, Knowledge, and Society section of the American Sociological Association for The Gold Standard
 
Donald Treimam
Visiting Professorial Fellow, People's University, Beijing
Overseas Research Fellow, University of Transkei, Republic of South Africa
Sackler Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University
 
Roger Waldinger
Guggenheim Fellow
Chair, International Migration Section, ASA Sociological Research Association
Robert E. Park Award, Urban and Community Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, for  
Still the Prornised City?
 
Andreas Wimmer
Honorable Mention, Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article in the Culture Section of the ASA for  “The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries”
ASA Theory Prize for “The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries”
Best Paper Award of the Comparative Historical Section of the ASA for “From empire to nation-states. Explaining wars in the modern world”
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the Political Sociology Section of the ASA
Social Science Article Award by the Thyssen Foundation for “Does ethnicity matter? Everyday group formation in three Swiss immigrant neighborhoods”
Visiting Professor for Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Harvard University
Liebehenz Foundation Guest Professor, University of Göttingen
Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg)
Senior Associate Member of St Anthony’s College
Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Heisenberg Scholar of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn
 
Maurice Zeitlin
Award for Distinguished Scholarship (Honorable Mention), political sociology section, American Sociological Association
Inaugural Distinguished Publication Award, labor studies division, Society for the Study of Social Problems
 
Min Zhou
Chair, Section on Asia and Asian America of the ASA
Recipient, Chiyoko Doris’34 & Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies, UCLA
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Winner, Outstanding Book Award for Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Lee), Section on Asia and Asian America of the ASA
President, North American Chinese Sociologists Association
Member, Sociological Research Association
Winner of the Thomas and Znaniecki Award for Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (with Bankston), International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA)