Awards & Honors
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Goldie Komaie
received a $20,000 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from
the Haynes
Foundation in support of her research on second generation Iranian
immigrants living in California. A second generation Iranian herself,
Komaie studies how other sons and daughters of immigrants have
incorporated into communities in Los Angeles and Orange County.
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David Snow
has been selected as this year's recipient of the
Lee
Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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Jen’nan Ghazal Read
has been awarded $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
for strategic outreach and communication on her research on Muslim American political incorporation. The funds are to be used to hire a professional website company and publicist.
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Jennifer Lee
has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Japan for 2008-09 and named the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar Distinguished Lecturer.
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Goldie Komaie, James D. Bachmeier, and Roberto G. Gonzales
winners of the 2007-2008 Order of Merit in the School of Social Sciences:
Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship; A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper, and Special Recognition to Lauds & Laurel Recipient
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Jody Agius Vallejo
paper selected as the Best Graduate Student Paper from the
International Migration Section of the ASA. The award committee noted,
"Vallejo collected an impressive amount of data, employing several qualitative methods and strategies to examine the under-studied topic of upwardly mobile Latinas. Her cutting-edge theoretical framework, data analysis, and writing assure that this article will make an important contribution to the literature."
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Steve Boutcher
awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
for his project titled, "Pro Bono Publico, The Large Law Firm, and Social
Movements: A Relational Approach to the Study of Cause Lawyering"
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Edwin Amenta
received $151,737 from NSF for his research project "Strengthening Qualitative Research Through Methodological Innovation and
Integration:
A New Approach to Understanding Social Movement Organizations"
The project will provide the first big empirical picture of any aspect of the rise, decline, and persistence of U.S. movement organizations through all articles in which they were mentioned in national newspapers across the twentieth century. There were about 1250 organizations mentioned in about 300,000 articles in the New York Times alone. The PI will use the information to map movement organization coverage across movement families and appraise theories of social movements and their coverage by synthesizing historical investigation, formal qualitative analyses, and pooled time-series and cross-sectional regression analyses.
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Roberto G. Gonzales
Recipient of the 2008 Lauds and Laurels in the School of Social Sciences.
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Jody Agius Vallejo
was awarded a Visiting Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship at
the Center for Comparative Immigration
Studies and U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC, San Diego,
where she will
spend the 2008-2009 academic year.
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Visiting Professor Chuck O’Connell
“Outstanding Professor” of The 2008 UCI Anthology Yearbook
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Cynthia Feliciano
was awarded the Cultural Diversity Studies grant from
The Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Libraries (CORCL).
The grant awards Felciano with $3000 in support of her project,
"Explaining Ethnic and Generational Differences in College Attainment."
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James Bachmeier
awarded the UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research Fund Award for his project titled
"Cumulatively Caused Migration and Effects of Immigration on the Earnings of Low-Skilled Mexican Immigrants."
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Jasmine Kerrissey
awarded the UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research Fund Award for his project titled “One Big Union? A Comparative Historical Analysis of Union Mergers.”
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Carter Butts
is the recipient of the 2008 Freeman Award from the
International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
Named for Linton C. Freeman, the biannual award recognizes Butts' contributions as a young scholar to the scientific study of social structures.
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Susan K. Brown
received a $35,000 Presidential Authority Award from the Russell Sage Foundation
to study how the descendants of Mexican immigrants are becoming
residentially
integrated across greater Los Angeles.
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David J. Frank
was selected as one of the recipients of
inaugural residency fellowship from Spencer Foundation,
an $85,000 fellowship to continue his study on
the changing dynamics of the global university system.
David
will spend the 2007-08 winter and spring quarters in Chicago conducting
research at the Foundation's headquarters.
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Jody Agius
was selected as one of the awardees of the
2007-2008 Chancellor's Club Fund for Excellence Fellowships
The pool of nominees was very strong and included quite exceptional students; awardees were selected by the committee based on their academic excellence, accomplishments, and leadership qualities consistent with the mission of the Chancellor's Club, i.e., representing our academicand research leaders of the future.
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Danielle Rudes
was selected as one of the 2007-2008
Center in law, Society and Culture graduate fellows, and will receive $500 in stipend.
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Matthew Mahutga
was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
The fellowship comes with a $20,000 award for the 2007-2008 academic year
* * *
Matthew Mahutga
was awarded the 2007-2008 Dean's Endowed Fellowship of Excellence
from the School of Social Science. The fellowship comes with a $11,000 award.
* * *
Roberto G. Gonzales
Awarded the Public Policy Institute of California Dissertation Fellowship, $46,200 for "Born in the Shadows:
the Uncertain Futures of the Children of Unauthorized Mexican Migrants"
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Cynthia Felciano
named a 2007-08 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow providing funding for her project "Gender and Ethnic Disparities in Early School Engagement among Children of Immigrants"
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Francesca Polletta
Received two American Sociological Association awards for her book
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics (Chicago, 2006):
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The 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section
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The 2007 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Honorable Mention, from the Political Sociology Section
* * *
Matthew Mahutga
awarded the Odum Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, titled
"The Persistence of Structural Inequality?
A Network Analysis of International Trade, 1965-2000."
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Matthew Mahutga
Recognized schoowide for Outstanding Graduate Scholarship
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Namanh Vu Hoang
Winner of the 2006-07 Social Sciences Undergraduate Outstanding Honors Thesis
"Shared Semantic Structures of Automobile Brands Among US Residents"
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Nina Bandelj
Awarded $1,000 as recipient of the 2007 Faculty Small Grant award
for her project titled "From Communists to Foreign Capitalists:
The Special Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe"
* * *
Sharon Oselin
Awarded $1,000 as
recipient of the 2007 Graduate Student Fellowship award
for her project titled "Unhooked: A Comparative Analysis of Women Existing Prostitution Via Prostitution Helping Organizations".
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Andrew Noymer
Awarded $5,000 research program funding as
Co-recipient of 2007-08 Social Science Assistant Professor Research Award:
Recongizing research excellence, accompanied by a strong research proposal
"Chronic Disease, Nutrition, and Race in the Nineteenth Century:
Tuberculosis and Syphilis in the Union Army in the Civil War"
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Matthew Mahutga
Awarded $20,000 for the 2007-2008 IGCC Dissertation Fellowship
"Global Commodity Chains and Economic Development:
Dominance, Subordination and Well-Being in the Global Economy"
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Visiting Professor Chuck O’Connell
“Outstanding Professor” of The 2007 UCI Anthology Yearbook
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Sociology House
Sociology House won two awards at the annual Arroyo Vista Awards ceremony:
Most Improved GPA, and
Professor Katherine Faust won the award for Most Involved Faculty Sponsor.
* * *
Christopher Marcum
Awarded $5,000 summer funding
from the Social Science Research Council in New York City
for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
* * *
Carter Butts
Awarded $710,000
from the National Science Foundation’s Human Social Dynamics, to fund "Improvisation in Emergency Response: Linking Cognition, Behavior and Social Interaction."
* * *
Linton Freeman
2006 James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Award in Mathematical Sociology from the ASA Section on Mathematical Sociology,
the highest award in the discipline for mathematical sociology
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Andrea Denish
“Spotlight Award”,
selected by the University of California Office of the President,
a recognition for “sustained, outstanding performance” among staff members
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Edwin Amenta
2006 Distinguished Publication Award
from the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movement,
with co-authors Neal Caren and Sheera Joy Olasky,
for “Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on Old-Age Policy”
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Jim Bachmeier
2006 Best Graduate Student Paper Award
from the ASA Section on International Migration
for "New Destination Contexts of Reception: Labor Market Co-ethnic Concentration and the Earnings of Mexican Immigrants."
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Jennifer Lee
2006 Outstanding Book Award
from the ASA Section on Asia and Asian Americans
for co-edited volume with Min Zhou,
“Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity”
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Visiting Professor Chuck O’Connell
“Outstanding Professor” of The 2006 UCI Anthology Yearbook
* * *
Jen’nan Ghazal Read
Selected the 2005-2007 Carnegie Scholar,
a fellowship that carries a $100,000 grant.
* * *
Jen'nan Ghazal Read
2006-07 Social Science Assistant Professor Research Award
Read's project, "Multiple Identities and Muslim American Political Incorporation"
will receive $5,000 funding.
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Danielle Rudes
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
for a project called
"A Proposal to Study Parole Agent Decision-Making and
Occupational Socialization in an Era of Organizational Change"
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David Meyer
2005 Best Published Article Award
from the ASA's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
* * *
Wang Feng
2005 Outstanding Book Award
from the American Sociological Association's Asian and Asian American Section
* * *
Kassia Wosick-Correa
received the James J. Harvey Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2005-2006 with a stipend of $8,000.
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Matthew Cardinale
10,000 grant from CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, to lead a team of homeless youth and young adults research a topic in their community of New Orleans , Louisiana.
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Jody Agius
Spring 2005 Early Career Fellowship
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Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
2004 A. Kimball Romney Outstanding Student Paper Award
* * *
Yvonne Braun
Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award
given by the Pacific Sociological Association
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Ruben Rumbaut
2004 UCI NSF Sociology grant
"Collaborative Research: The Second Generation in
Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study."
David Smith
2004 UCI NSF Sociology grant
"Collaborative Research: Globalization and the Network of World Cities."
Judy Treas
2004 UCI NSF Sociology grant
"The Division of Household Labor in Three-dozen Countries."
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Matthew Mahutga
Winter 2004 Pre-Dissertation Award from the School of Social Sciences
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Sharon Oselin
Fall 2004 Pre-Dissertation Award from the School of Social Sciences
* * *
Jessica McKinney
1st place in Association of Black Sociologists Graduate Student Paper Award competition for her paper, "Rethinking the Political: Using Frame Analysis to Look at the Role of Black Mega Churches"
* * *
Ping Ren
Yokoyama Student Travel Grant from the UCI Center for Asian Studies $1250 to pursue research on: "Reproductive Health of Female Migrants in China"
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Yvonne Braun
UCOP Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship for 2004-2005
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Matthew Cardinale
Point Foundation Scholarship of $39,000 in fellowship support
* * *
Judy Stepan-Norris
2004 Max Weber Book Award from the ASA Occupations, Organizations and Work Section for her book, Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions( co-authored with Maurice Zeitlin; Cambridge Cambridge University Press)
* * *
Eric Anderson (UCI PhD, 2004)
Sociology of Sexualities Section 2004 Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper, "Disentangling Sexuality From Masculinity."
* * *
Mark Leach
2004 Student Paper Award from the International Migration Section of the ASA for his paper, "Linking the Present to the Past:
Mexican Migration to New Destination States"
* * *
Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
2004 A. Kimball Romney Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
* * *
Matthew Mahutga
2004 Robin Williams Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
* * *
Christen Hilgeman
2004 Robin Williams Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
* * *
Matthew Cardinale
Sentencing Project Research Fellowship on Felon Disenfranchisement and $2500 to pursue research on: "To Be a Poor Homeless Ex-Felon: Triple-Decker Experiences with Democratice Disenfranchisement"
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Makiko Fuwa
Whose article, "Macro-Level Gender Inequality and the Division of Househould Labor: A Cross-National Study" was accepted for publication by the American Sociological Review
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Visiting Professor Chuck O'Connell
UCI Professor of the Month for April, 2004
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Nina Bandelj
2004 Seymour Martin Lipset Prize
for the Best Dissertation in the field of comparative research
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