Recent Grants and Awards
2013
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 -- TBA
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
Recent years
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
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
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