Awards and Honors
Lawrence D. Bobo is the recipient of this year's Cooley-Mead Award,
given annually to an individual who has made
lifetime contributions to distinguished scholarship
in sociological social psychology. In addition to receiving the award,
the recipient presents an address to the Social Psychology Section
at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
William Julius Wilson was awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa, New York University, 2010, and North Carolina State University, 2010. He was also the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in Nonfiction, 2010.
Mary C. Waters has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Michèle Lamont is one of eight Harvard faculty to recieve recognition as "master mentor" by the Office of the Senior Vice-Provost on Faculty Development and Diversity. Professor Lamont will also receive the GSAS Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award and was honored at a reception held on April 13th. See Mentoring Matters in the May 2010 issue of GSAS Bulletin. Jocelyn Viterna was presented the Mendelsohn Award in 2009.
David Ager was awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize by the Harvard Undergraduate Council. The award is given to those who have "made outstanding contributions to the education of undergraduates." Bruce Western was nominated for Senior Faculty Member and Nicole Deterding was nominated for Teaching Fellow.
Michèle Lamont was appointed to President Nicolas Sarkozy's Haut Conseil de la Science et de la Technologie (Times Higher Education )
Orlando Patterson gave the Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton University on "A Short History of Freedom". This series is one of Princeton's most prestigious university wide events going back over a century. Previous lecturers in the series have included Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Thurgood Marshall, Seymour Hersh and James Fallows.
Martin Whyte has been appointed a member of the Advisory Committee for the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010.
William Julius Wilson was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa, Trinity College, 2007. He was also awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award by the American Political Science Association, 2007.
Bruce Western has been awarded the Albert J. Reiss Award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication, Crime, Law and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Assocation, 2007, for Punishment and Inequality in America. He was also elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2007.
Stanley Lieberson has been named Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Co-Recipient 2007, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award, Methodology Section, American Sociological Association. He was also elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2007 and has been made an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter, Harvard College, 2007.
Robert Sampson was one of four social science scholars installed as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on April 29, 2007. To read excerpts of his remarks, see "Criminology: From 'Determinism' to the Importance of Transitions."
Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz and Ariane Liazos have been selected co-winners of the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award presented by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Assocation for their book What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality.They will be recognized at the 2007 ASA meeting in New York City.
Peter Marsden has been appointed a Harvard College Professor, effective July 1. This professorship honors excellence and dedication to undergraduate teaching.
David R. Williams, an Associate of the Sociology Department, and at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of African and African American Studies has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Nicholas Christakis was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine by the National Academy of Sciences. He was also awarded the Distinguished Research Award by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization for an "oustanding body of work contributing to the enhancement of hospice and palliative care.
Frank Dobbin was made a fellow with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Cambridge, MA, 2006-2007. He was also made a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007.
Jason Kaufman was a 2006 program awardee at Columbia University's Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop. "Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket" by Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson (American Sociological Review, vol. 70, February 2006: 82-110) is the co-winner of 2006 Best Article Prize in the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
Tamara Kay was awarded The "Distinguished Scholarly Article" Award, Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association for "Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: The Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America," (American Journal of Sociology, 111(3), November 2005: 715-756).
Orlando Patterson was made a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, September 9, 2006 and delivered the University's Bernard Bailyn Lecture. He also won the American Sociological Association Culture Prize at the ASA annual conference in Montreal, September 2006 with Jason Kaufman.
Robert J. Sampson was one of 72 scholars to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences and was an elected member of the National Academy of Politicial and Social Sciences. He also received the Robert Park Award for best paper from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, for "Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of Broken Windows" (Social Psychology Quarterly, 2004).
Theda Skocpol was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, April 2006. She was faculty advisor for the Hoopes Prize-winning senior thesis by Luke Appling, "From Policy to Politics: The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Individual and Group Political Participation." She also served as faculty advisor to Rob Mickey, winner of the 2006 E.E. Schattschneider Award given by the American Political Science Association to the "best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government," for "Paths Out of Dixie: The Decay of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972."
Mary C. Waters was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is serving as Membership Chair (2006-2007) of the Sociological Research Association. She delivered the Keynote Address at the Center for the Study of the Americas, University of London in March 2006, and at the School of Social Work, University of Michigan, September 2006.
Christopher Winship is the recipient of the 2006 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association which was presented to him at its Annual Meeting in August.
Updated: March 5, 2012
William Julius Wilson
Robert J. Sampson
Mary C. Waters
Christopher Winship