Recent Grants and Awards
2023
Jason J. Jones has received a fellowship for the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany
Sohee Shin has been awarded a summer fellowship to study immigrant integration research & policy at the Rockefeller Institute of Government (2023).
Sophia Boutilier has received the ASA 2023 Sociology of Development Section Graduate Award for her paper "What do you mean by that? Meanings of Solidarity for Canadian International Development Workers (2023).
Wyatt "Raf" Thompson has received a position at the Medici School in Economic Sociology at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Summer 2023.
2022
Nicholas Wilson, has received a $20,000 Stony Brook Foundation Trustees Faculty Award to pursue research,
scholarship and creative art. Recipients are chosen with an emphasis on the quality
of research and publications and scholarship, the institutional impact of achievements
and potential for continued professional growth, and the clarity, quality and significance
of long-term reseach, scholarship and creative activity and their probable impact
upon SBU and the scholarly impact within the discipline.
Dana McIntyre received a Fulbright-Hayes Group Study Abroad Fellowship (2022).
Katie Gordon has received the Robert Dentler Award for Outstanding Student Achievement from the Sociological Practice and Public Sociology (SPPS) Section of the American Sociological Association (2022).
Katie Gordon led a team at th Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women that received a $25,000 competitive grant from the state of California to support women's economic recovery in the community to produce the Report on the Status of Women and Girls in Sonoma County in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary's University (2022).
Natalia Navas has been selected by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education as a graduate fellow for the 2022 AAHHE Graduate Student Fellowship Program.
2021
Oyeronke Oyewumi has received the Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the United States. Established in the 1980s, the award recognizes and honors "scholars who have contributed a lifetime record of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African Studies and service to thr Africanist community."
Danielle Lucksted has been selected as a 2021 Edmonds Summer Fellow with Human Rights Educators USA to create a "train the trainers" module for their educators throughout the country.
Dana McIntyre received the 2021 International Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Breanna Brock received an honorable mention for the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2021
2020
Jennifer Heerwig, has received a Piper Foundation Research Grant for her work on democracy vouchers,
"Comparing Small Donor Public Financing Systems: The Effects of Matching Funds and
Democracy Vouchers on Donor Diversity.
Yongjun Zhang, with his co-author Jeremy E. Fiel, is the co-winner of the 2020 James Coleman Best Article Award in the ASA Sociology of Education Section for his article, "With All Deliberate Speed: The Reversal of Court-Ordered School Desegregation, 1970-2013." AJS 124(6): 1685-1719
Crystal Fleming, has received a Stony Brook Mid-Career Diversity Award, recognizing a faculty member at the mid-career stage who has a strong record of research and service while also advancing Stony Brook's goals of a diverse and inclusive campus.
Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, has received the American Sociological Association's 2020 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.
Jessica Kim has received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to complete her doctoral dissertation entitled, "The Diffusion of Democratic Norms: Examining How Democracy INGO Strategies Contribute to Hybrid Regimes" (2020)
José Guevara Fino was awarded a Fulbright Award. Minciencias, Fulbright Columbia (2020).
Fatoumata Ceesay received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which carries three years of full funding to support her research (2020).
Jessica Kim has received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to complete her doctoral dissertation entitled, "The Diffusion of Democratic Norms: Examining How Democracy INGO Strategies Contribute to Hybrid Regimes" (2020).
2019
Ivan Chase, Professor Emeritus, and his co-authors Raphael Duoady and Diana K. Padilla were featured in a 12/13/19 New York Times article " Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality" which discusses their study, " A comparison of wealth inequality in humans and non-humans", being published in the journal Physica A in January 2020
Ivan Chase, Professor Emeritus, has received the best paper award in the 2019 Visualization in Data Science section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference for his paper entitled, "PeckVis: A Visual Analytics Tool to Analyze Dominance Hierarchies in Small Groups." The authors are Darius Coelho, Ivan Chase, and Klaus Mueller.
Carrie Shandra has been elected Chair of the Disability and Society Section of the American Sociological Association for 2019-2020.
Catherine Marrone has received the 2019 College of Arts & Sciences Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award.
Catherine Marrone has received the 2019 College of Arts & Sciences Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award.Jason Jones -- with colleagues from Ohio State, Michigan, and Cornell Universities is part of a team that was selected to receive data and funding from the Social Science Research Council to study information sharing on Facebook. For more information see: "Understanding Problematic Sharing Behavior on Facebook"
Sophia Boutilier has been awarded the P.E.O. Scholar award, a merit-based award recognizingacademic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs (2019).
Sophia Boutilier, Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019).
Andrew Hargrove, 5th Annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop in environmental Politics and Governance, scholarship to attend and invitations to present, University of Washington Seattle (2019).
Robert Cserni, Solidarity Fund for the 14th ESA Conference, European Sociological Association (2019).
Jamie Puglin and Helana Darwin are recipients of the 2019 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award.
Helana Darwin has received the SAGE Publishing Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award (2019).
Aarushi Bhandari has received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to complete her doctoral dissertation entitled, "Mobile Phone Distribution and Global Food Security" (2019).
Michael Lenmark received funding from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) to present his paper, "Immigration, Xenophobia, and the Redistribution of Wealth: A Study of Public Opinion" at the annual conference in Toronto (2019).
2018
Carrie Shandra -- Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar Program. "Market, Employer, and Student Trends in Internship Vacancies, Hiring, and Participation." 2018-2019, $46,000. -- $20,000
Jennifer Heerwig -- Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar Program. "Bringing Elites back In: Investigating
the Long-Term Political Behavior of the American Corporate Elite." 2018-2019
Carrie Shandra -- Pathways Through College Research Network, Wisconsin Center for Education Research,
2018-2019, $8,000
Helana Darwin received the Robert J. McNamara Award for the most outstanding article by a graduate student, Association for the Sociology ofReligion (2018).
Helana Darwin won the ASA Consumer and Consumption Graduate Student Paper Award (2018).
Helana Darwin, 2018 Gallagher Travel Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018).
Jamie Puglin, American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award (2018).
Deniz Ilhan, Ralph A. Gallagher Travel Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018).
Jamie Sommer has been awarded a United Nations Constitutional Research Fellowship, 3-month Spronsored Fellowship in Global governance, Brussels, Belgium (2018).
Jessica Kim received the Clogg Scholarship to participate in the 2018 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (2018).
Kevin McElrath was awarded the 2018 Education Problems Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Graduate Student Paper Competition Award (2018).
Jamie Sommer, 4tn Annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop in Environmental Politics and Governance, scholarship to attend and invitation to present, University of Washington, Seattle (2018).
Suzan Walters, 2018 Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse, University of Southern California.
2017
Jennifer Heerwig -- Massiver Data Institute Seed Grant, Georgetown University. Project title: "The Seattle Voucher Experiment: Using Big Data to Enhance Local Democracy." July 2017 ($38,000)
Nick Rogers, Travel Fellowship to the 2017 Political Networks Annual Conference, Columbus, OH (2017).
Idil Akin has received an Austrian Government Award Ernst Mach Worldwide Fellowship (2017).
Suzan Walters has received the Howard B. Kaplan Memorial Award in Medical Sociology (2017).
Jamie Sommer has been named a 2017 Horowitz Foundation Award Recipient (2017).
Suzan Walters received the Beth Hess Memorial Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) (2017).
Cliff Leek has been elected President of the American Men's Studies Association (2017).
2016
Carrie Shandra -- Russell Sage Foundation -- $20,000
Aarushi Bhandari, Ph.D. student -- P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
Tiffany Joseph -- Named one of five Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellows for 2016, Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Tiffany Joseph -- American Sociological Association Fund to Advance the Discipline Grant
Rebekah Burroway -- SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award
Andrew Hargrove, Ph.D. Student -- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2015
Jennifer Heerwig and Josh Murray (Asst. Professor, Vanderbilt and SBU Sociology Alumni) -- Russel Sage Foundation Grant -- $33,000
Jason Jones (Co-PI with Jie Gao, Department of Computer Science) -- NSF AitF -- $720,000
Oyeronke Oyewumi -- South African National University Fellowship -- $30,000
Tiffany Joseph and Ph.D. Student Clayton Fordahl -- Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Research Program in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences -- $20,000
Suzan Walters, Ph.D. student -- American Sociological Association 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award, Disability and Society Section
2014
Oyeronke Oyewumi -- Fulbright Scholar Grant
Rebekah Burroway, Cathy Marrone, and Carrie Shandra -- Dean's Funds for Excellence awards
Sasha Rodriguez, Ph.D. student -- American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship
Bethany Coston, Ph.D. student -- Madeline Fusco Fellowship Award
Sasha Rodriguez, Ph.D. student -- Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship
Amanda Kennedy, PhD. student -- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Sociology Major Neha Kinariwalla -- Gates Cambridge University Fellowship
Tarun Banerjee, Ph.D. student -- Judith Tanur Dissertation Research Award
Crystal Fleming -- Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Recent years
Arnout van de Rijt -- Research grant -- NSF -- $274,769
Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz -- Dissertation Improvement Grant -- NSF -- $12,000
Michael Restivo and Arnout van de Rijt -- Dissertation Improvement Grant -- NSF -- $12,000
Michael Kimmel -- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant for a Center for the Study of Men & Masculinities -- $300,000
Carrie Shandra -- Emerging Investigator Award -- DRC & SSA -- $30,000
Arnout van de Rijt and Robert J. Harrison -- Research Initiatives Seed Grant -- SBU & BNL -- $38,260
Rebekah Burroway -- TALENT grant -- Stony Brook University Teaching, Learning & Technology -- $6,000
Tarun Banerjee, Rebekah Burroway and Michael Schwartz -- FAD award -- ASA / NSF -- $7,000
Crystal Fleming -- 2012 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award -- APSA French Politics Group
Lori Scarlatos, Alexander Orlov, Arnout van de Rijt and David Tonjes -- Innovative Instruction Technology Grant -- SUNY -- $60,000
Michael Schwartz -- 2012 Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher Scholars -- ASA
Arnout van de Rijt and Steven Skiena -- Seed Grant for Survey Research -- SBU Center for Survey Research -- $10,000
Carrie Shandra -- Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship -- National Academy of Education -- $55,000
Carrie Shandra -- FAD award -- ASA / NSF -- $7,000
Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz -- Dissertation Improvement Grant -- NSF -- $3,635
Joshua Murray, Arnout van de Rijt and John Shandra -- FAD award -- ASA / NSF -- $7,000
Arnout van de Rijt -- Freeman Award for Distinguished Young Scholar -- INSNA
Vincent Buskens and Arnout van de Rijt -- Prize for Best Article -- European Academy of Sociology -- €500
Arnout van de Rijt (with Jie Gao & Steven Skiena) -- Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund (2x) -- FAHSS -- $10,000
Tomothy Moran, Javier Auyero and Michael Schwartz -- Research Grant -- NSF -- $245,235
Ken Feldman -- Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award -- Association for the Study of Higher Education
Eran Shor and Michael Schwartz -- Dissertation Improvement Grant -- NSF -- $12,000
Judith Tanur -- Innovators Award -- American Association for Public Opinion Research
Judith Tanur -- Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Mentoring -- SBU