Faculty Awards, Honors, and Accomplishments

Andy Andrews- Selected as a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the 2009-2010 academic year. 

 

Judith Blau- Asked to chair the Education Committee of AAAS's Human Rights Initiative. The Center for Human Rights created by Judith is a center for undergraduate hands-on learning as well as an advocacy and service NGO.

 

Kenneth Bollen- Named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and won the Post Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring Award.

 

Neal Caren- Selected as the CURS Scholar-in-Residence for the spring 2010 semester.

 

Philip Cohen- Won the 2009 ASA Sex & Gender Best Article Award for his article with Matt Huffman entitled, “Working for the Woman: Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap.” 

 

Glen Elder- The journal Research in Human Development recently published a special issue celebrating Glen H. Elder, Jr.'s research on life course studies.  The special issue, entitled "Glen H. Elder, Jr., and the Importance of Lived Experience," was edited by Michael J. Shanahan, a former CPC postdoctoral scholar and currently a Professor of Sociology at UNC-CH.

 

Larry Griffin- Received the Charles S. Johnson Award at the 2009 Southern Sociological Society meetings, given, according to the SSS webpage, "by the SSS to an individual in recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions on race and the South. The individual's contribution may be an exceptional single work, several pieces of work, or a significant career of professional achievement."

 

Guang Guo- Approved by the College of Arts and Sciences as the Odum Distinguished Term Professor in the Department of Sociology, effective July 1, 2009. This is a five-year appointment.

 

Jackie Hagan- Recently promoted from associate to full professor.  Published book Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, & Meaning on the Undocumented Journey (Harvard University Press, 2008).  Received seed funding from the Institute for the Study of the Americas and from the Carolina Population Center for a project on return migration to Mexico.

 

Charles Kurzman – Published book Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (Harvard University Press, 2008).

 

Victor Marshall- Received the Evelyn Shapiro Mentoring Award from the Canadian Association on Gerontology "in recognition of his contributions to the mentoring of students, new academics, and emerging scholars in the field of aging." He is also PI on a training grant from National Institute on Aging to support CPHAR: the Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research. It provides funds to support two postdocs and four predocs.

 

Margarita Mooney- Selected as one of three new fellows in the "Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations" fellowship program.  She also won a Junior Faculty Development Award.

 

Andrew Perrin- Appointed as the new Associate Chair starting in the Spring 2009 semester. Awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Mike Shanahan- Recently promoted from associate to full professor.  He has also been awarded a WN Reynolds leave for the spring semester of 2010.

 

Cathy Zimmer- Elected to be Vice President of the Southern Sociological Society.