UCI’s Department of Sociology, ranked #9 among sociology programs at public U.S. institutions, is home to experts on topics ranging from social movements to aging and race, from gender and work/life to education and migration, and so many topics in between. This year, more than two dozen faculty, students and alumni were among those honored with awards and/or elected to key leadership positions within the American Sociological Association at the group’s premier annual meeting, held virtually Aug. 6-10.

“The department's sweeps of the 2021 ASA elections and awards highlight the tremendous impacts of our all-star faculty, students, and Ph.D.s across the discipline of sociology,” says David John Frank, professor and department chair. “They offer yet more proof of the department's unprecedented rise in rankings and recognition.”

Current and former Anteater sociologists and affiliates honored include:

UCI 2021 ASA Elected Officers

American Sociological Association
Vice President: Nina Bandelj
Publications: Kristin Turney 
Council: Daisy Reyes (Ph.D. 2013)

Section on Animals & Society
Chair: Carol Glasser (Ph.D. 2011)

Section on Children & Youth
Chair: Kristin Turney

Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements
Chair-Elect: Deana Rohlinger (Ph.D. 2004)
Council: Kelsy Kretschmer (Ph.D. 2010)
Publications: Megan Brooker (Ph.D. 2019)
Publications: Leslie Bunnage (Ph.D. 2005)
Workshops: Eulalie Laschever (Ph.D. 2017)

Section on Community & Urban Sociology
Secretary/Treasurer: Yuki Kato (Ph.D. 2007)
Publications: Rocio Rosales

Section on Drugs & Society
Council: Elizabeth Chiarello (Ph.D. 2011)

Section on Labor & Labor Movements
Council: Rocio Rosales

Section on Latina/o Sociology
Student Rep: Veronica Valencia Gonzalez (CLS)

Section on Mathematical Sociology
Council: Emma Spiro (Ph.D. 2013)

Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Council: Dana Moss (Ph.D. 2016)

Section on Political Sociology
Past Chair: Ann Hironaka
Student Rep: Jessica Kang

Section on Rationality & Society
Council: Carter Butts

Section on Sociology of Law
Council: Swethaa Ballakrishnen (Law)
Council: Emily Taylor Poppe (Law)

UCI 2021 ASA Award Winners

Zack Almquist (Ph.D. 2013)
Goodman Early-Career Award Section on Methodology

Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Book Award Section on Sociology of Law Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India's Professional Elite

Vanessa Delgado
Student Paper Award Section on Latina/o Sociology “Decoding the Hidden Curriculum: Latino/a First- Generation College Students’ Influence on Younger Siblings’ Educational Trajectory” Journal of Latinos and Education

Laura Enriquez
Book Award Section on Latina/o Sociology Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Love and Family

Apoorva Ghosh (Ph.D. 2020)
Student Paper Award Section on Collective Behavior & Social Movements “The Politics of Alignment and the ‘Quiet Transgender Revolution’ in Fortune 500 Corporations, 2008 to 2017” Socio-Economic Review      

Carol Glasser (Ph.D. 2011)
Course Award Section on Animals and Society

Warren Jensen
Student Paper Award Section on the Sociology of Body & Embodiment “The Strength to Diet: If It Fits Your Macros Dieting as Masculine Body Work”

Matt Rafalow (Ph.D. 2016)
Book Award Section on Communication, Information Technologies, & Media Sociology Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era

Rocio Rosales
Book Award Section on International Migration Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles

Rocio Rosales
Book Award Section on Latina/o Sociology Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles

Eddie Telles & Christina Sue
Book Award Section on International Migration Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core

Congrats to all who presented research and were involved in planning efforts, as well as those who were elected to committees and awarded for academic work!