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External Grants and Awards

  1. Wyatt (Raff) Thompson has been accepted to the prestigious 2024 SASE/Digit Early Career Workshop.
  2. Gaëlle Colin has been awarded a Racial Justice Research Fellowship by the Association for the Study of Food and Society for her winning proposal "A Visual Exploration of Black Women's Food Practices in France."
  3. Chi Keung (Charles) Fung's first book, Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963-1985 (co-authored with Alan Smart) has just been published by Hong Kong University Press. 
  4. Silence Marsh has received the Electoral Integrity Project's 2024 junior fellowship.
  5. Sohee Shin has been awarded a summer fellowship to study immigrant integration research & policy at the Rockefeller Institute of Government (2023).
  6. 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).
  7. Wyatt "Raf" Thompson has received a position at the  Medici School in Economic Sociology at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Summer 2023.
  8. Dana McIntyre received a Fulbright-Hayes Group Study Abroad Fellowship (2022).
  9. 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).
  10. 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).
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Dana McIntyre received the 2021 International Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
  14. Breanna Brock received an honorable mention for the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2021.
  15. Nayla Huq has received a Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, an intensive language and cultural immersion program.
  16. Andrew Hargrove, Stony Brook PhD graduate Jamie Sommer (Assistant Professor, University of South Florida), and Sociology Professor Jason Jones's article, "Virtual reality and embodied experience induce similar levels of empathy change: Experimental evidence" published in Computers and Human BehaviorReports has been chosen the most impactful research of the year by CHBR Editor-in-Chief Matthew Guitton
  17. José Guevara Fino was awarded a Fulbright Award. Minciencias, Fulbright Columbia (2020).
  18. Fatoumata Ceesay received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which carries three years of full funding to support her research (2020).
  19. 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).
  20. 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).
  21. Sophia Boutilier, Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019).
  22. 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).
  23. Robert Cserni, Solidarity Fund for the 14th ESA Conference, European Sociological Association (2019).
  24. Jamie Puglin and Helana Darwin are recipients of the 2019 SAGE Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award.
  25. Helana Darwin has received the SAGE Publishing Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award (2019).
  26. 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).
  27. 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).
  28. Helana Darwin received the Robert J. McNamara Award for the most outstanding article by a graduate student, Association for the Sociology ofReligion (2018).
  29. Helana Darwin won the ASA Consumer and Consumption Graduate Student Paper Award (2018).
  30. Helana Darwin, 2018 Gallagher Travel Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018).
  31. Jamie Puglin, American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award (2018).
  32. Deniz Ilhan, Ralph A. Gallagher Travel Grant, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018).
  33. Jamie Sommer has been awarded a United Nations Constitutional Research Fellowship, 3-month Spronsored Fellowship in Global governance, Brussels, Belgium (2018).
  34. Jessica Kim received the Clogg Scholarship to participate in the 2018 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (2018).
  35. Kevin McElrath was awarded the 2018 Education Problems Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Graduate Student Paper Competition Award (2018).
  36. 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).
  37. Suzan Walters, 2018 Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse, University of Southern California.
  38. Nick Rogers, Travel Fellowship to the 2017 Political Networks Annual Conference, Columbus, OH (2017).
  39. Idil Akin has received an Austrian Government Award Ernst Mach Worldwide Fellowship (2017).
  40. Suzan Walters has received the Howard B. Kaplan Memorial Award in Medical Sociology (2017).
  41. Jamie Sommer has been named a 2017 Horowitz Foundation Award Recipient (2017).
  42. Suzan Walters received the Beth Hess Memorial Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) (2017).
  43. Cliff Leek has been elected President of the American Men's Studies Association (2017).

Department and University Awards

  1. Gyuho Shin won the Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research graduate student paper in gender studies (2023).
  2. Gyuho Shin has been awarded the Hanan Selvin Award for best quantitative and/or methodological graduate student paper (2023).
  3. Breanna Brock and Jose Guevara Fino received the David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2023)
  4. Dana McIntyre has received a Graduate Fellowship to support summer research efforts from the  Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Center (2023).
  5. Wyatt Rafferty Thompson  received the Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2023).
  6. Alec Cali and Danielle Lucksted have  received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student (2023).
  7. Breanna Brock has received a Turner Conference Travel Award (2023).
  8. Hao Lin has been awarded the 2022-2023 Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) Junior Research Award (2022).
  9. Wyatt Rafferty Thompson won the David Street Paper Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2022).
  10. Duygu Alpan Cakmak and Hao Lin have received GSO Distinguished Travel Awards (2022).
  11. Breanna Brock has received a Turner Summer Research Grant (2022).
  12. Samee Shirazi has received a Presidential Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Fall 2022).
  13. Duygu Alpan Cakmak received the Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2022).
  14. Jessica Kim has been awarded the Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship (2022).
  15. Ida Nikou received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student (2022).
  16. Jessica Kim won the Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research graduate student paper in gender studies (2021).
  17. Nicholas Rogers has been awarded the Hanan Selvin Award for best quantitative and/or methodological graduate student paper (2021).
  18. Sophia Boutilier received the David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2021).
  19. Ahmad Al-Sholi and Sophia Boutilier are recipients of Presidential Dissertation Completion Fellowships (2021).
  20. Natalia Navas received the 2021 Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2021).
  21. Jessica Kim has been awarded a Stony Brook Foundation Trustees Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2021).
  22. Natalia Navas has received a Turner Academic Year Research Grant to support her dissertation project entitled "Transnational Political Participation in the Global Age: The Salvadorian Case of Diaspora Politics" (2020)
  23. Duygu Alpan Cakmak received the David Street Paper Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2020).
  24. Andrew Hargrove received the Hanan Selvin Award for the best quantitative and/or methodological paper by a graduate student (2020).
  25. Jessica Kimreceived the 2020 Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2020).
  26. Alec Cali has received the Emerging Leadership Award from the Stony Brook University Graduate Student Organization
  27. Çaglar Cetin and Joseph Marchia have received Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Science (AHLSS) Summer 2020 Research Fellowships (2020).
  28. Natalia Navas, Fatoumata Ceesay, and Breanna Brock, Turner Summer Research Grants(2020).
  29. Natalia Navas has been awarded a Turner Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Inclusive Education (2019).
  30. Sophia Boutilier and Caglar Cetin are co-recipients of the Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2019).
  31. Robert Cserni and Helana Darwin are co-recipients of the David Street Paper Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2019).
  32. Jessica Kim received the Hanan Selvin Award for best quantitative and/or methodological graduate student paper (2019).
  33. Lucas Azambuja and Fatoumata Ceesay, Turner Summer Research Grants (2019).
  34. Deniz Ilhan received the David Street Paper Award for the best qualitative and/or theory graduate student paper (2018).
  35. Sophia Boutilier was awarded the Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research graduate student paper in gender studies (2018).
  36. Aarushi Bhandari received the 2018 Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2018).
  37. Helana Darwin received the Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award (2018).
  38. Jamie Sommer was awarded the Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship (2018).
  39. Jamie Sommer, Summer Research Grant, Center for the Study of Inequality, Social Justice and Policy (2018).
  40. Jamie Puglin received the Graduate Student Employee Union Professional Development Award (2017).
  41. Caglar Cetin won the Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research graduate student paper in gender studies (2017).
  42. Jamie Sommer and Kevin McElrath were co-recipients of the Hanan Selvin Award for best quantitative and/or methodological graduate student paper (2017).
  43. Ahmad Al-Sholi received the David Street Award for best qualitative and or theory graduate student paper (2017).
  44. Vanessa Lynn received the Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award (2017).
  45. Suzan Walters was awarded the Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship (2017).
  46. Idil Akin and Alli Lindner were co-recipients of the 2017 Judith Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2017).

2021-2022 Publications

2019-2020 Publications


2018-2019 Publications


2017-2018 Publications


2013-2014 Graduates

  • Amy Braksmajer, Research Associate, School of Nursing, University of Rochester
  • Paul Bugyi, Lecturer in Sociology, SUNY-Old Westbury
  • Bethany Coston, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Virginia Commenwealth University
  • Misty Curreli, Instructor of Sociology, Suffolk County Community College
  • Amy Graglia, Research Manager, Quonundrums (Aptos, CA)
  • Rachel Kalish, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Old Westbury
  • Lauren Pandolfelli, Statistician, Evidence & Data for Gender Equality, United Nations Statistics Division
  • Michael Restivo, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY-Geneseo

2014-2015 Graduates

  • Florencia Arancibia, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council
  • Tarun Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
  • Deidre Caputo-Levine, Visiting Assistant Professor of Culture & Society, Drake University
  • Cheryl Llewellyn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
  • Kenneth Pierce, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Passaic County Community College
  • Eric Shircliff, Lecturer, St. Joseph's College
  • Diane Stalker

2015-2016 Graduates

  • Can Ersoy
  • Amanda Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Women's Studies, Curry College
  • Fernanda Page-Poma, Researcher/Advisor in Social Scienes applied to Defense, National School of Defense, Argentina
  • Sasha Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University
  • Gianmarco Savio, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, St. Lawrence University
  • Juhi Tyagi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, M.S. Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Delhi University and Max Weber Center for Advance Cultural & Social Studies, University of Erfurt
  • Gabriela Vaillant Gonzalez, Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences and Politics, Catholic University of Uruguay

2016-2017 Graduates

  • Diana Baldermann
  • Elizabeth Coston, Teaching Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Donna DiDonato, Dean and Chief Operating Officer, Long Island University Brentwood and Riverhead Campuses
  • Clayton Fordahl, Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
  • Prita Lal, Assistant Professor, Evergreen State College
  • Clifford Leek, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado
  • Haryun Peun

2017-2018 Graduates

  • Hewan Girma, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
  • Kent Henderson, Assistant Professor, California State University-Bakersfield
  • Soyon Kim, Assistant Research Scientist, Yale University
  • Heidi Rademacher, Assistant Professor, SUNY-Brockport
  • Suzan Walters, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University

2018-2019 Graduates

  • Jamie Sommers, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
  • Vanessa Lynn, Assistant Professor, Marist College
  • Hyang-Gi Song, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Max Weber Programme, European University Institute

2019-2020 Graduates

  • Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor, Davidson College
  • Helena Darwin, Visiting Research Associate, Department of Religious Studies, Rutgers University
  • Carlos Encina, Adjunct Instructor, Adelphi University
  • Kyra Holland, Speechwriter, Consulat General de France a New York, Adjunct Instructor, Ramapo College
  • Kevin McElrath, Statistician in the Education and Social Stratification Branch, U.S. Census Bureau
  • Jamie Puglin, Associate Director of Assessment, Duke University

2020-2021 Graduates

  • Caglar Cetin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Augustana College
  • Andrew Hargrove, Visiting Assistant Professor, Judy Genshaft Honors College, University of South Florida
  • Joseph Marchia, Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College

2021-2022 Graduates

  • Carolyn Coburn, Lecturer, Stony Brook University
  • Tamas Robert Cserni, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College
  • Jessica Kim, Postdoctoral Fellowship, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
  • Nicholas Rogers, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

    2022-2023 Graduates
  • Ahmad Al-Sholi, Regional Scholar, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
  • Sophia Boutilier, Assistant Professor, Fresno State
  • Alec Cali, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam
  • Markus Gerke, Dissertation Scholar in Sociology, Middlebury College
  • Adam Safer, Research and Evaluation Manager, Carolina Small Business Development Fund
  • Samee Shirazi, Survey Statistician, US Census Bureau
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