Faculty Awards

Anthropology

Victoria Bernal

2006-07 American Philosophical Society sabbatical fellowship

2004 Rockefeller Foundation grant, for Bellagio Team Project

2003-2004 Invited to Bellagio Italy team residency for approved proposal on Democratizing Women

1999 Fulbright (African Regional Research Program), senior research grant

1999 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; research grant

Tom Boellstorff

2007 Named editor in chief of the journal American Anthropologist by the American Anthropological Association

A Coincidence of Desires. Duke University Press, 2007.

2007 Appointed to the Executive Board, Gaya Nusantara (the largest and oldest Indonesian gay/lesbian rights advocacy organization)

2006-07 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship

2005 The Ruth Benedict Prize for The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation In Indonesia

The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. Princeton University Press, 2005

Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Languages (co-editor). University of Illinois Press, 2003

Teresa Caldeira

2003-2004 Invitation as a fellow to the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford University

2001-2002 Fellowship, NEV-USP (Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo) and Fapesp (São Paulo State Foundation for the Support of Research)

2001 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for lecturing and research in São Paulo, Brazil

1997-1998 Fellowship, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University

Frank Cancian

Orange County Housecleaners. University of New Mexico Press, 2006

Leo Chavez

2004-2007 Russell Sage Pre-Proposal grant: "The New Second Generation"

2003-2004 Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside

2002-2003 Russell Sage Pre-Proposal grant: "The New Second Generation"

1996-97 National Science Foundation, California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP), Social and Behavioral Sciences

Paula Garb

2007 Awarded grant from the JAMS Foundation to develop mediation and conflict resolution training

Susan Greenhalgh

2005 Runner up for the Gordon White Prize for the most original article in contemporary Chinese studies

Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (co-author). Stanford University Press, 2005

2004-2005 Open Society Institute, publishing grants for two books on Chinese population policy

2002-2004 National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program, grant for research on population science and the making of China’s one-child-per-couple policy

2002 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement (first 20 years post-PhD), Population Association of America

1998-1999 Open Society Institute, Individual Project Fellowship

Karen Leonard

2007 Recipient of the campus-wide UC Irvine Emeriti Association's Faculty Mentorship Award

Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad. Stanford University Press, 2007

Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America (co-author). AltaMira Press; 2Rev Ed edition, 2006

Coalition of American Overseas Research Centers Smithsonian grant

Rupee grant from His Exalted Highness the Nizam’s Charitable Trust

2004 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for teaching about Islam and Muslims in the US, headed by John Bowen (Washington University)

2002 Social Science Research Council co-convener, conference on Religion, Immigration and Civic Life, U of Texas, Arlington

George Marcus

Ocasiao: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration (co-author). Altamira Press, 2005

William Maurer

2006 Elected President, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (currently serving as President-Elect; term as President begins November, 2007)

Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (co-author). Columbia University Press, 2006

Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

2005-2007 National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, grant for research on offshore finance in the Caribbean

2005 The Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, for Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason

Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason. Princeton University Press, 2005

2003, 2004 Russell Sage Foundation (2 grants), for research on Islamic home financing

1998-2002 National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, grant for research on Islamic banking

Michael Montoya

2006-2007 General Clinical Research Center, School of Medicine, UC-Irvine, Research Feasibility Fund Award to study the use of bioethnographic research methods for characterizing community health disparities in a small local population

2006-2007 Social Sciences Alumni Assistant Professor Research Award to develop a participatory collaborative research group to examine diabetes among Latinos in one neighborhood

2006-2007 Intel Corporation Research Award to research the role of technology in health related behaviors of urban Latinos living in the US

2005-2007 National Institutes of Health, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Health Disparities Research Scholar Award, Loan Repayment Program

2005 National Science Foundation grant: "Measuring Human Behavior, Methodological Training"

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

2006-07 National Science Foundation grant, Science and Society program

Biocapital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life. Duke University Press, 2006

2004-05 National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program, for "Lively Capital" conference

A. Kimball Romney

2002-2003 National Science Foundation award: "Research in the Foundations and Practice of Social Measurement"

Roxanne Varzi

2007-2008 Awarded fellowship for the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin's (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) "Europe in the Middle East and the Middle East in Europe" program, funded by the German Fritz Thyssen foundation

Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran. Duke University Press, 2006

Douglas White

2007 Awarded the Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award for jointly authored paper, "Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences"

2005-07 Agence Nationale de Recherche. Traitement Informatique des Phenomènes de Parenté.

2005 International Program, Santa Fe Institute, support for Working Group in Network Analysis

2004 Principal Co-Organizer: "Santa Fe Institute Workshop on Modeling Macrosocial System Dynamics"

Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan. Lexington Books, 2004

2002-05 European Union Grant (Subcontracted component): "Society as a Complex System"

1999-00 National Science Foundation, BCS-9978282

1995-96 Mellon Program Development Grant in Anthropology and Demography, with James Lee, California Institute of Technology

Mei Zhan

2007 Named co-book review editor for the American Ethnologist

2006-07 Junior Faculty Career Development Award, UC Irvine

Chicano/Latino Studies

Gilberto Conchas

2007 Awarded Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant to examine Latino middle and high school students' experiences in after school programs and other out-of-school activities

The Color of Success: Race and High Achieving Urban Youth. Teachers College Press, 2006

Louis DeSipio (also in Political Science)

2003-2004 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research as a faculty member in the School of Social Sciences

Gilbert Gonzalez

2007 Awarded a UC MEXUS grant in support of his documentary entitled: "Transnational Labor Contractor: The Bracero Program"

Alejandro Morales

2007 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

The Captain of All These Men of Death. Bilingual Review Press, 2007

Vicki Ruiz

Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, 3 vols. Indiana University Press, 2006

American Dreaming, Global Realities: Re-Thinking U.S. Immigration History. University of Illinois Press, 2006

Deborah Vargas

2007 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship Award: "Radio Waves/Immigrant Waves: Spanish Language Radio, Immigration, and Cultural Citizenship"

Cognitive Sciences

2002-2003 National Science Foundation award: "Research in the Foundations and Practice of Social Measurement"

Mike Braunstein

2002-2003 National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center research award: "Visual Perception of Surfaces Defined Through Motion"

Barbara A. Dosher

Collaborative Research: "Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning The Functions and Mechanisms of Perceptual Attention Functions and Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning"

Nicole Gage, Post Doctoral Researcher
Sponsor: Gregory Hickok, Associate Professor

2002-2003 UC Davis, Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Institute research award: "The Neurobiology of Speech and Language Processing in Autism: An MEG Investigation"

Donald D. Hoffman

2001-2004 National Science Foundation research award: "The Role of Parts in the Visual Perception of Objects"

Michael Lee

2007 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant (AFOSR): "Modeling Exploration and Exploitation in Structured Environments"

Duncan Luce (also in Economics and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences)

2007 Awarded honorary doctorate of mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada

2007 Lauds & Laurels Extraordinarius Award, UCI Alumni Association

2004 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

Ramsey Award

2003 National Medal of Science

2002-2005 National Science Foundation award: "Algebraic and Stochastic Models of Structures Arising in Utility Theory and Psychophysics"

Virginia Mann

2002 Orange County Children & Families Commission award: "Enhancing Child Development Through Family Resource Center HABLA: Home based Activities Building Language Acquisition"

William Rodman Shankle

2001-2003 Alzheimer's Association award: "Preclinical Detection and Disease Measurement of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Using EEG, Psychophysical and Data Mining"

Ramesh Srinivasan

Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG, 2nd Ed (co-author). Oxford University Press, 2005

Mark Steyvers

2007 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant (AFOSR) for "Modeling Exploration and Exploitation in Structured Environments"

2005 Early Investigator Award from Society for Experimental Psychologists (SEP)

2004 Young Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association

Economics

Volodymyr Bilotkach

2007 Named to the advisory board of Ascertainment, a Newport Beach entertainment and media consulting firm

Marianne Bitler

2007 Appointed to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) as a faculty research fellow for the NBER's Program on Children

Linda Cohen

Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase One): A First Look Forward (co-author). National Academies Press, 2005

2003 - 2004 Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC

Garance Genicot

2002-2003 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation award: "Investing in Conflict Management: An Economic Approach"

Charles Lave

2007 Selected to serve as editor-in-chief of "Access," the journal of the University of California Transportation Research Centers.

Francesca Mazzolari

2007 UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research grant for joint project "Increasing Top Wages and the Growth of Low Quality Jobs: An Analysis at the Local Labor Market Level"

David Neumark

Improving School-to-Work Transitions. Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

Min Ouyang

2007 Awarded fellowship from the American Economics Association and the National Science Foundation

Dale Poirier

Bayesian Econometric Methods (co-author). Cambridge University Press, 2007

Giuseppe Ragusa

2007 UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research grant for joint project "Increasing Top Wages and the Growth of Low Quality Jobs: An Analysis at the Local Labor Market Level"

Don Saari

2003-2004 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2003-2004 Elected Chair, Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

Stergios Skaperdas

2002-2003 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation award: "Investing in Conflict Management: An Economic Approach"

Kenneth Small

2007 Faculty Achievement Award, UCI Alumni Association

2004 Distinguished Transportation Research Award by the Transportation Research Forum

2004 Visiting Patterson Scholar, Northwestern University

Logic and Philosophy of Science

Aldo Antonelli

2003-2004 Selected to serve as Director, UC Education Abroad Program in Italy

2003-2004 Selected as Editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic

Kent Johnson

2005 Recipient of the Faculty Career Development Award at UC Irvine

Penelope Maddy

2007 President of Association of Symbolic Logic

Second Philosophy: A Naturalistic Method. Oxford University Press, 2007.

2006 Selected to deliver the Gauss Lecture in Dresden; first philosopher ever to be invited to give this lecture

2002 Received the Lakatos Award for Naturalism in Mathematics; also delivered the 2003 Lakatos Award Lecture

2002 Awarded the UCI Distinguished Lectureship for Research

2001 Elected Vice President of the Association for Symbolic Logic (2001-2004)

Brian Skyrms

2006 Presented the 2006 Reichenbach Lecture

2003-2004 Elected President, Philosophy of Science Association

2001 Awarded the UCI Distinguished Lectureship for Research

P. Kyle Stanford

Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford University Press, 2006

2001-2002 National Science Foundation award: "Underdetermination, Real Antirealism and a New Induction on the History of Science"

Political Sciences

Alison Brysk

National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counter-Terror. Coauthored with Gershon Shafir (eds). University of California Press, 2007

2007 Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, University of California Academic Senate

Russell Dalton

2007 Recipient of the campus-wide UC Irvine Emeriti Association's Faculty Mentorship Award

The Good Citizen: How A Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics. CQ Press, 2007

Citizens, Democracy and Markets Around the Pacific Rim (co-editor). Oxford University Press, 2007

2001-2003 Institute of European Studies award: "The Transformation of Democratic Institutions in Europe: Is the Cure for the Problems of Democracy More Democracy?"

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

2004-2005 UCLA Institute of American Cultures post-doctoral fellowship: "The Right to Good Government: Race and Citizenship in California, 1840-1875" at UCLA and the Huntington Library

Bernard Grofman

Behavioral Social Choice: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications (coauthor). Cambridge University Press, 2006

Marek Kaminski

Gry Wiezienne. Oficyna Naukowa, 2006 (in Polish; translated: Prison Games. Science Publishers, 2006)

Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison. Princeton University Press, 2004

2004 European Academy of Sociology Annual Distinguished Book Award for Games Prisoners Play

Cecelia Lynch

Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations. M.E. Sharpe, Feb 2007.

2004-2005 American Association of University Women post-doctoral fellowship

Anthony McGann

The Logic of Democracy: Reconciling Equality, Deliberation and Minority Protection. University of Michigan Press, 2006

Kristen Monroe

2007 President of International Society of Political Psychology

Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues. Coauthored with Ronald B. Miller, and Jerome Tobis (eds). University of California Press, 2007

2004 Appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Holocaust Museum and Institute on Altruism in Detroit, Michigan

Kevin Olson

Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State. MIT Press, 2006

Shawn Rosenberg

Can the People Decide? Theory and Empirical Research on Democratic Deliberation. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007

Etel Solingen

2003-2004 Abe Fellowship by the Japan Foundation & Social Science Research Council

2002 U.S. Institute of Peace award: "ASEAN After Hard Times: Implications for the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)"

Dorothy J. Solinger

Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reform: Individual Pathways from Plan to Market (editor). Edwin Mellen Press, 2006

2001-2002 Smith Richardson Foundation award: "Chinese Entry Into the World Trade Organization in Comparative Perspective"

Rein Taagepera

Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems. Oxford University Press, 2007

Sociology

Edwin Amenta

Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park. University of Chicago Press, 2007

2006 Distinguished Publication Award for "Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on Old-Age Policy" (American Sociological Review 70: 516-38), Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association

When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. Princeton University Press, 2006

Nina Bandelj

2004 Seymour Martin Lipset Prize for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Research, Society for Comparative Research

Frank D. Bean

2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"

2001-2004 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Multiracial Identification"

Carter Butts

2007 National Science Foundation grant: "Improvisation in Emergency Response: Linking Cognition, Behavior and Social Interaction"

2006 National Science Foundation grant: "Collaborative Research: Mapping and Analyzing Emergent Multiorganizational Networks in the Hurricane Katrina Response"

Francesca Cancian

2001-2003 The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company, Inc. award: "Latina Low-Income Mothers Entering Higher Education: Bridging Two Social Worlds"

Leo R. Chavez

2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"

Cynthia Feliciano

2007-08 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

Unequal Origins: Immigrant Selection and the Education of the Second Generation. LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2005

Wang Feng

2005 Outstanding Book Award for Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, Section on Asia and Asian Americans, American Sociological Association

David Frank

Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in the Academia in the 20th Century. Stanford University Press, 2006

Linton Freeman

2006 James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Award, Section on Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association

2003 Elected to the Sociological Research Association

Matt Huffman

2007 National Science Foundation grant: "Management Matters: Consequences of Managerial Composition"

Jennifer Lee

2006 Outstanding Book Award for Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity, Section on Asia and Asian Americans, American Sociological Association

2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"

2001-2004 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Multiracial Identification"

David Meyer

The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America. Oxford University Press, 2006.

2005 Best Article Award for "Conceptualizing Political Opportunity" (Social Forces 82: 1457-1492), Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association.

2004 Chair, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association.

Calvin Morrill

2007 National Science Foundation grant: "Collaborative Research: School Rights: Law and the Dynamics of Everyday School Life"

2004 Elected to the Sociological Research Association

Chuck O'Connell

2007 Recognized as Outstanding Professor in the Social Sciences by 2007 graduating senior class

Francesca Polletta

It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2006

2005 Chair, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association

Jen'nan Ghazal Read

2007-2008 Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation scholar-in-residence grant

2006 Assistant Professor Research Award, School of Social Sciences

2005-2006 Carnegie Foundation Scholar

Rubén G. Rumbaut

Immigrant America: A Portrait (3rd Ed). University of California Press, 2006

Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future. National Academic Press, 2006

2004 National Science Foundation grant: "Collaborative Research: The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study"

2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation award: Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles

David Smith

Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy. JAI Press, 2005

2004 National Science Foundation grant: "Collaborative Research: Globalization and the Network of World Cities."

David Snow

2007-2008 Elected as Chair, Section on Urban and Community, American Sociological Association

2002-2004 National Science Foundation award: "A Comparative Study of Homelessness in Four Global Cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo"

Judy Stepan-Norris

2007 National Science Foundation grant: "Organizational Strategy and Environment: A Pilot Study to Collect Disaggregate Data on American Labor Unions"

2004 Max Weber Distinguished Book Award for "Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions" awarded by the American Sociological Association

Judith Treas

2008-2009 Elected President, Pacific Sociological Association

2005 National Science Foundation grant: "The Division of Household Labor in Three-dozen Countries: Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement"

2004 National Science Foundation grant: "The Division of Household Labor in Three-dozen Countries"

Susan Wierzbicki

2002-2003 Russell Sage Foundation award: "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles"

Social Sciences

Joseph White

2007 Awarded honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Minnesota

2004 Lauds & Laurels Extraordinarius Award