Best Historical Materials Award for works published in 2025!

We are thrilled to congratulate Stony Brook Sociology PhD student Charles Fung on this wonderful achievement! Charles’s book, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, co-edited with historians of Hong Kong, has received the Best Historical Materials Award for works published in 2025. The award is presented by the Best Historical Materials Committee of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association. This is an exciting and well-deserved recognition of Charles’s scholarship and his contribution to the study and preservation of Hong Kong’s modern history. We are incredibly proud to celebrate this accomplishment with him. Please join us in congratulating Charles! 👏📚

Celebrating Dr. Cathy Marrone! 🎉

It is our absolute pleasure to announce that our very own Dr. Cathy Marrone is the 2026 recipient of the NACADA Advising Excellence Award – Faculty Advisor! 🏆💙 The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) presents this award to faculty advisors who make a significant and lasting impact on the students they serve — and there is no one more deserving of this recognition than Cathy. Cathy’s advising is about so much more than course schedules and degree requirements. She listens. She advocates. She encourages. She empowers. She creates a space where students feel heard, supported, and confident in making their own decisions. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Marrone and her outstanding achievement! 🎉👏

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2027 Award Winner Gaëlle Aminata!

Please join us in congratulating Gaëlle Aminata on receiving a 2027 Chow Green Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)! Gaëlle will be honored at the SWS meeting in February, celebrating this incredible recognition of her outstanding dissertation research. 💙 Congratulations, Gaëlle! We are so proud of you! 🎓✨

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Congrats to Professor Nick Wilson!

Please join us in congratulating Nick Wilson, Associate Professor of Sociology, History affiliate faculty member, and co convener of the Initiative for the Historical Social Sciences, on receiving the Barrington Moore Book Award from the American Sociological Association! The award recognizes the best book in comparative and historical sociology published over the past two years, as selected by the ASA's Historical and Comparative Section. Nick was honored for his edited volume, After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology (Columbia University Press). This prestigious recognition highlights the impact of interdisciplinary scholarship and innovative approaches to historical sociology.

Congratulations to our own Professor Wan-Zi Lu!

We are proud to celebrate Wan-Zi Lu, whose recent American Sociological Review article, "Rationality or Relationality in Life and Death: Regulating Organ Donation in Singapore and Taiwan," has received two prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association: 🏆 Outstanding Published Article Award – ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity 🏆 Distinguished Article Award (Co-Winner) – ASA Section on the Sociology of Law These honors recognize the impact and excellence of Wan-Zi's scholarship. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition—we're proud to have you as part of the Stony Brook Sociology community!