Roksana Badruddoja has just accepted an offer for a tenure-track teaching position in the Department of Women's Studies at California State University, Fresno (aka Fresno State). She will start teaching there as an Assistant Professor next fall.

Wayne Brekhus
*Winner, Shils-Coleman Memorial Award, American Sociological Association's Theory Section Best Student Paper Award, 1998.
*Winner, American Sociological Association's Culture Section Best Student Paper Award, 1997.

C. Lynn Carr - Winner, American Sociological Association's Social Psychology Best Student Paper Award, 1999.

Geoffrey Curran - Honorable Mention, Thompson Prize, American Sociological Association's Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section Best Student Paper Award, 1995.

Thomas DeGloma
*2008-2009, Fellow, Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA), 2008-09
*2007-2008, Presidential Fellow, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
*2007-2008, University and Bevier Award
*2007, first prize in the Theory Division Paper Award contest of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) for the paper "Expanding the Survivor Worldview: Transmitting and Bridging Trauma through Space and Time"
*2007, co-winner of the Elise M. Boulding Student Paper Award of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association for the same paper
*2007, winner of the Student Paper Award of the Mental health Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) for the paper "Broadening the Culture of Survivorhood: Expanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder through Space and Time"

Karen Danna-Lynch - Fellow, Center for Cultural Analysis, "Mind and Culture". Winner, American Sociological Association's Culture Section Best Student Paper Award, 2003. Honorable Mention, Shils-Coleman Memorial Award, 2002.

Anna da Silva - winner of the Student Paper Award of the Global Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) for her paper "Global Networks of Trade in Vaccines: the Case of Global Public Goods".

Shruti Devgan - her paper "Donning Religion: Religious Symbols among Second Generation Sikhs" has just won the Center for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley's Amrit Kaur Ahluwalia Memorial Oustanding Paper Prize.

Asia Friedman
*winner , 2007 Eastern Sociological Society's Candace Rogers Student Paper Competition for the paper "Toward a Sociology of Perception: Sight, Sex, and Gender," a paper characterized by the award committee as "a very conceptually innovative piece that identifies and tracks an important theoretical perspective in sociological research."
*2008-09 University and Bevier (aka simply a "Bevier") Fellowship

John Lang has just accepted an offer for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, starting in August.

Julie McLaughlin - ASA Best Dissertation Award 2004, Mental Health Section

Elizabeth Mitchell - ASA dissertation award

Dawne Mouzon- 2008-2009 ASA-NIMH Minority Fellowship.

Jamie Mullaney - Co-Winner, American Sociological Association's Culture Section Best Student Paper Award, 2001.

Manjusha Nair -
* 2007. Rutgers South Asian Studies Program Travel Grant to conduct
follow-up field interviews in the city of Bhilai, India.
* 2005-6. International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science
Research Council, for dissertation fieldwork.
*2005-6. Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies,
for dissertation fieldwork (declined).
* 2006. $1000.00 cash award from the World Society Foundation (a scholarly
nonprofit organization at the Department of Sociology at the University of
Zürich)for the paper titled "Defining Indigeneity: Situating Transnational
Knowledge".
* 2004. Summer Research Grant on Urbanization and Migration: Office of
Population Research, Princeton University, for preliminary dissertation
fieldwork.
* 2003. Pre-dissertation grant, The Graduate School, Rutgers University.

Kristen Purcell - Winner, American Sociological Association's Culture Section Best Student Paper Award, 1998.

Alena Singleton - 2007-2008 ASA Minority Fellowship

Tami Videon - ASA Best Dissertation Award 2003, Mental Health Section

Elizabeth Williams
* NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "The Mobilization of Emotions and Their Effect on Commitment to a Social Movement"
*Alternate, 2008-09 University and Bevier (aka simply a "Bevier") Fellowship