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• Bruce Carruthers has been named to a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair (2011).
• Georgi Derluguian has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary doctorate, from the University of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, 2011. The university is located in one of Georgi's field sites: the man who was central to his book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus, for instance, was a native of Kabardino-Balkaria.
• James Mahoney, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, has won four major awards from the American Sociological Association and American Political Science Association for his book Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.
• Steven Epstein has been elected Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for a two-year term to commence in 2013.
• Nicola Beisel, Georgi Derluguian, Steven Epstein, and Karrie Snyder have been selected by students for this year's Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
• Erin McDonnell has won the Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize in Organization Studies from the Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern group.
• Graduate students Kieran Bezila and Marina Zaloznaya have each received Nationl Science Foundation dissertation improvement grants.
• Professor Mary Pattillo has been named the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. The University's announcement notes in part that, "She is considered the foremost authority on the black middle class. Her first book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (1999), won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She is also co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (2004). Her most recent book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (2007), examines conflict and consensus as one African American neighborhood deals with gentrification and the transformation of public housing."
• Professor Ann Orloff has been named President of the Social Sciences and History Association.
• Professor Steven Epstein's book, Inclusion, was honored with the Ludwik Fleck Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. This prize is for the best book in the area of science and technology studies from the primary professional organization in the area of science studies.
• Assistant Professor Gregoire Mallard's dissertation, which was jointly delivered by Princeton University and University Paris-Est, received the 2009 Best Dissertation Award of the University Paris-Est.
• Zandria Robinson, a fourth-year graduate student, has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Mississippi, which will begin this fall.
• Fifth-year grad student Jean Beaman was selected as the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellow for 2009-2010 in the Africana Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Notre Dame.
• Fourth year graduate student Bin Xu was awarded a research grant from the Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner-Asia Council) to support his dissertation research.
• Umud Dalgic is the winner of the 2009 Keymna Research Award from the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies for his dissertation research in Turkey.
• Fourth year graduate student Marcus Hunter has been awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant.
• Graduate students Dawna Goens and Nina Johnson have been selected to receive 2009-2010 fellowship awards from the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI). DFI is a fellowship initiative designed to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented faculty and staff at Illinois institutions of higher learning and higher education governing boards. More information on the DFI can be found here.
• Several members of the Sociology Department have been elected to positions in the American Sociological Association. Professors Robert Nelson and Gary Fine have been named chairs of the Sociology of Law Section and the History and Sociology Section, respectively. Graduate Student, Erin McDonnell has been elected to be the student Council Member of the Theory Section.
• John Hagan has received the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Crime, Law & Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association for his book Darfur and the Crime of Genocide with Wenona Rymond-Richmond.
• Wendy Espeland has been named the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence for a three-year period beginning in Fall 2009. This is the highest teaching honor bestowed on Northwestern Faculty.