Jean Beaman (Faculty) has been elected the incoming chair of the American Sociological Association’s  International Migration Section.

Thomas DeGloma (Faculty)

Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities, has won both The Theory Prize (for outstanding contribution to sociological theory), American Sociological Association, Theory Section, 2024 and The Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book, Society for the Study of  Symbolic Interaction, 2024.

Heba Gowayed’s  (Faculty)

Heba’s book Refuge has received the 2024 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award  from American Sociological Association’s  Racial and Ethnic Minorities section’s 2024.

Jessica Hardie (Faculty)

Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the ASA Family Section’s 2024 William J. Goode Book Award.

Robert C. Smith (Faculty)

Won the American Sociological Association’s 2024 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.

Kristen Miller

Was awarded the American Sociological Society’s  2024-2025 Minority Fellowship .($20,000) for her dissertation on Black biking subcultures.

Joseph van der Naald

2024 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG)

For his dissertation titled, Organizing Outside and Under the Law: A Comparative Case Study of Public Sector Unionism in Michigan and Ohio, 1960-1985.

Anna Gjika (‘20) 

When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age won the 2024 Distinguished Book Award of ASA’s Sex and Gender section.

Robin Isserles (‘02)

Won the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching award.

• The Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant for his dissertation titled: Rezoning New York: Class and Racial Inequalities in the Struggle for Space.

• Won the Presidential Prize for Public Communication at the 2024 Graduate Center Dissertation Showcase.

• The American Sociological Association’s 2024-2025 Minority Fellowship for her dissertation on Black biking subcultures.
• The Dean K. Harrison Fellowships for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

• The 2024 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG). For his dissertation titled: Organizing Outside and Under the Law: A Comparative Case Study of Public Sector Unionism in Michigan and Ohio, 1960-1985

• The Dean K. Harrison Fellowships for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

November 2022 – May 2023

2023-2024 Dissertation Fellowship Recipients

• Bonnie Ip, Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000)
• Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, Altman Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)
• Marianne Madore, Gittell Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000)
• Zachary Del Rosso, Garth Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000)
• Nicholas Rodrigo, Dissertation Year Award ($10,000)
• Lorraine Torres Colon, Dissertation Year Award ($10,000)

2022-2023 Early Research Initiative Awards Recipients

• Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, American Studies Archival Award ($4,000)
• Andrew Shapiro, American Studies Archival Award ($4,000)
• Brian Mercado, Public Research Summer Award ($4,000)
• Nicholas Rodrigo, Public Research Summer Award ($4,000)
• Brittany Suh, Connect New York Research Award ($4,000)

2022-2023 Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant Recipients

• Yu-Jhen Chen ($1,000)
• Qiyao Pan ($1,000)

2022-2023 Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Fellowship Recipients 

• Cristine Khan (Doctoral Fellow)
• Kristen Miller (Doctoral Fellow)
• Diana Yung-Yi Pan (Research Faculty Fellow)
• Margaret Chin (Curriculum Development Faculty Fellow)
• Richard Ocejo (Curriculum Development Faculty Fellow)
• John Torpey (Curriculum Development Faculty Fellow)

2022-2023 Future Initiative Grant Receipients

• Sasha Isaac, Equity & Social Justice Grant ($500)
• Parisa Osmanovic, Equity & Social Justice Grant ($500)
• Bonnie Ip, Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Grant ($500)

Zachary Del Rosso

Was awarded 2023-2024 Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) Fellowship

Sasha Isaac

Was awarded 2023-2024 CUNY Humanities Alliance Fellowship ($29,000)

Joseph van der Naald

Was awarded 2023-2024 Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship ($30,000)

May – November 2023

David Brotherton (Faculty)

Received Lifetime Achievement Award from American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice, also featured in GC news here

Yu-Jhen Chen

Received 2023-2026 Demography Graduate Center Fellowship ($27,374 per year)

Janet Gornick (Faculty)

Was awarded an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University in recognition for her research on socioeconomic inequality

Beiyi Hu

Received 2023-2024 Future Initiative Fellowship ($29,374)

Cristine Khan and Angela LaScala-Gruenewald

Received Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant ($10,000)

Tammy Lewis (Faculty)

Received the 2023 Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from ASA Environmental Sociology section

Jayne Mooney (Faculty)

Received the 2023 Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Feminist Criminology

Brittany Suh

Received the 2023 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($16,000)

Van Tran (Faculty)

Was elected a member of Sociological Research Association, also featured in GC news here

Talya Wolf

Was offered and has accepted a position as a MALS Advising Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year