2024
Aghil Daghaghaleh. 2024 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Indigenous Refusal: Arab Minority and the Formation of Modern State in Iran.”
Marilyn Baffoe-Bonnie. 2024 Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award for her excellent dissertation, Sickle Cells to Super Cells: The Alluring Genetic Cure for Sickle Cell Disease the School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
Marilyn Baffoe-Bonnie. 2024 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Sickle Cells to Super Cells: The Alluring Genetic Cure for Sickle Cell Disease.”
Changhye Ahn. 2024 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Agentic Conformity in Sexual Labor: Reddit Discussions on OnlyFans Content Work.”
Hamutal Jaffe-Dax. 2024 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “When Less is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay.”
Allegra Pocinki. 2024 Community Engagement Award, The School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University
Jenny Enos. 2024-25 University and Louis Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University
2023
Adrian Good. 2023 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Between Satire and Sincerity: Duality in Stand-up Comedy.”
Anthony Landers. 2023 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “The Criminal Record Paradox: How Formerly Incarcerated Coders Manage Stigma in the Era of Diversity & Inclusion.”
Lior Yohanani. 2023 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “High-Risk Transnationalism: Why Do Israeli-Americans Volunteer in the Israeli Military?”
Seungyun Lee. 2023 Jack Riley and Matilda White-Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Climate Anxiety: A Narrative Review.”
Hamutal Jaffe-Dax. 2023 University and Louis Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University
2022
Haruki Eda. 2022 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Queer Korean Diaspora: An Ethnography of Geopolitics.”
Haruki Eda. 2022 Excellence in Leadership and Teaching Award, The School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
Hamutal Jaffe-Dax. 2022 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Ripped Jeans, Used Cars, and Backyard Weddings: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay.”
Jenny Enos. 2022 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Politicized Ethno-Racial Shock as Group Threat: “Refugee Crisis” Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Voting in Sweden.”
Maria Espinoza. 2022 National Communication Association (NCA) Award in the Public Relations division for Outstanding Book/Monograph, for her co-authored book, A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism.
Aaron Martin. 2022 Center for Cultural Analysis Fellowship, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
Lior Yohanani. 2022 University and Louis Bevier Fellowship, Rutgers University
2021
Lexi Gervis. 2021 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Portable Benefits: Building Protection and Power in the New Non-Standard Safety Net.”
Armani Beck-McField. 2021 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Assumptive Rights of Maleness: Stealth Transgender Men's Accounts of [White] Male Privilege.”
Gabrielle Martin. 2021 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Desire/Desirability: Gender Asymmetries in Heterosexual Erotic Attention.”
Endia Hayes. 2021 Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching Award, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
Niina Vuolajarvi. 2021Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, The School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University
2020
Laura Callejas. 2020 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Adolescent Status Struggles: Exploring the Relationship Between Conflict and Social Status Mobility in Middle School.”
Idit Fast. 2020 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Creating Diversity, Managing Diversity.”
Jenny Enos. 2020 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Ethnoracial Difference, Temporality, and Group Threat: Immigration to Sweden during the Refugee Crisis.”
Jomaira Sales. 2020 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “The Third Space: Afro-Latina Racial Identity Through Social Justice and Activism.”
Lior Yohanani. 2020 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Zionist identity and the British Mandate: Palestine's internment camps and the making of the Western native.”
Endia Hayes. 2020 Jack Riley and Matilda White-Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Eating Dirt: Imaginations from a Texas girl on the remaking of Texas land.”
2019
Brittany Pearl Battle. 2019 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “'They're Stealing My Opportunity to Be a Father': The Child Support System and State Intervention in the Family.”
Kayla Crawley. 2019-20 Eagleton Fellow, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University.
Maria Espinoza. 2019 Off-Campus Dissertation Development Award, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
Amanda Kaplan. 2019 Off-Campus Dissertation Development Award, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
Jason B. Phillips. 2019 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Postincident Interpersonal Difficulty among Adolescent Victims of Violent Crime.”
Jessica Poling. 2019 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Art in the Time of Frugality: Uncertainty, Collaboration, and Change in Art Museums.”
Lior Yohanani. 2019 Off-Campus Dissertation Development Award, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
2018
Crystal Bedley. 2018 Excellence in Leadership and Teaching Award, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University.
Haruki Eda. 2016-18 PreDoctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellowship, Rutgers University.
Haruki Eda. 2018 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Contention and Coalition: Imagining Korean Unification through Queer Diaspora.”
Brooklynn Hitchens. 2018 Bevier Dissertation Fellowship, Rutgers University.
Brooklynn Hitchens. 2018 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Girl Fights and the Online Media Construction of Black Female Violence and Sexuality.”
Ying-Chao Kao. 2018 ISSS International Student Leadership Award, Rutgers Global, Rutgers University.
Lindsay Stevens. 2018 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “According to Plan? Medicine, Inequality, and Reproduction in the United States.”
Hannah Troxel. 2018 Jack Riley and Matilda White-Riley Term Paper Award,Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “This Land is Our Land: Masculinity, Meaning, and Land in the Occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.”
2017
Brittany Pearl Battle. 2017 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “War Widows and Welfare Queens: The Semiotics of Deservingness in the U.S. Welfare System” forthcoming publication in Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology (2017).
Jorie Hofstra. 2017 Bredemeier Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.
Libby Luth. 2017 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Social and Health Determinants of End-of-Life Care Quality: A Multidimensional Approach.”
Stephanie Peña-Alves. 2017 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Say it with Doors: Object-Mediated Speech Acts in Everyday Life."
Lior Yohanani. 2017 Jack Riley and Matilda White-Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Rethinking Zionism: Ideology, Domination, and Knowledge in the Course of Zionism.”
2016
Laura Callejas. 2016 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Seeking to Apply: How High School Students Gather College Information.”
Haruki Eda. 2016-2018 Fellow, Rutgers PreDoctoral Leadership Development Institute, Rutgers University.
Idit Fast. 2016 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Understanding Educational Policy Formation: The Case of School Violence Policies in Israel" published in Sociology of Education (2016).
Ben Foley. 2016-2017 Center for Historical Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Brooklynn Hitchens. 2016 Graduate Fellow, Rutgers Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Rutgers University.
Alexis Merdjanoff. 2016 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Weathering the Storm: The Long-Term Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Mental Health, Mobility, and Recovery.”
Jomaira Salas. 2016 Jack Riley and Matilda White-Riley Term Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “A Different Set of Research Questions: Towards a Comprehensive Study of Students of Color in Higher Education.”
2015
Shruti Devgan. 2015 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Re-presenting Pasts: Sikh Diasporic and Digital Memories of 1984."
Haruki Eda. 2015-2016 Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Maria Espinoza. 2015-2016 Center for Historical Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Julia Flagg. 2015 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Aiming for Zero: What Makes Nations Adopt Carbon Neutral Pledges?" published in Environmental Sociology (2015).
Libby Luth. 2015 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Future Time Perspective and End-of-life Planning in Older Adults" published in Research on Aging (2015).
Ghassan Moussawi. 2015 Distinguished Contrubutions to Undergraduate Education-Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences - New Brunswick.
Lauren Murphy. Summer 2015 James J. Gallagher Family Fellowhip, Bloustein School and the Rutgers Climate Institute.
Jason B. Phillips. 2015 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Post-Incident Interpersonal Difficulty among Adolescent Victims of Intentional Violence."
2014
Alena Alamgir. 2014 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Socialist Internationalism at Work: Changes in the Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967-1989."
Dilara Demir. 2014-2015 Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Janet Lorenzen. 2014 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Convincing People to Go Green: Managing Strategic Action by Minimising Political Talk" published in Environmental Politics (2014).
Jason B. Phillips. 2014 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Engagement across the Racial and Ethnic Divide in Multiracial Protestant Congregations."
Alicia Raia-Hawrylak. 2014 Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni Student Award Winner, Rutgers University Alumni Association.
Eunkyung Song. 2014 Part-Time Lecturer Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University.
Kirsten Song. 2014 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Between Global Dreams and National Duties: The Dilemma of Conscription Duty in the Transnational Lives of Young Korean Males" published in Global Networks (2014).
Lindsay Stevens. 2014 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for " Interrogating 'Planned Parenthood': Reproductive Health Care Providers' Perspectives on Family Planning."
2013
Portia Allen-Kyle. 2013-2015 Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellow, University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, Rutgers University.
Analena Bruce. 2013 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Labor of Love: Viability Strategies in Sustainable Farming.”
Angel Butts. 2013 Harry C. Bredemeier Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.
Kevin Chamow. 2013 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award (runner up), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “A Brief Inquiry into the Framing of the Occupy Movement.”
Christine DeJong . 2013 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Reconfiguring and Reimagining Boundaries of The State in Contemporary Venezuela.”
Dilara Demir 2013-2014 Center for Historical Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Neha Gondal. 2013 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Less-Institutionalized Social Structures: A Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Analysis of How Networks and Culture Matter for Emergence.”
Anna Harewood. Harry C. Bredemeier Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.
Brandon Kramer. 2013 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Making Connections You Can Bet On It: A Biosociological Study of Precarious Masculinity."
Alexis Merdjanoff. 2013 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "There’s No Place Like Home: Examining the Emotional Consequences of Hurricane Katrina on the Displaced Residents of New Orleans" published in Social Science Research (2013).
Etienne Meunier. 2013-2015 Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellow, University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, Rutgers University.
2012
Crystal Bedley. 2012-2014 Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellow, University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, Rutgers University.
Julia Flagg. 2012 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award (honorable mention), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Uncertainty Management and Risk Communication in the Wake of Katrina."
Rachelle Germana. 2012 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Hyphenation and its Discontents: Hyphenators, Hyphen-Haters, and the Cultural Politics of Ambiguity."
Neha Gondal. 2012-2013 Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
Jorie Hofstra. 2012 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Toward a Sociological Definition of Attunement."
Ghassan Moussawi. 2012 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Queering Beirut, the 'Paris of the Middle East': Fractal Orientalism and Masculinities in Contemporary Gay Travelogues" published in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2013).
Alicia Raia-Hawrylak. 2012-2014 Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Institute Fellow, University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, Rutgers University.
Hsin-Yi Yeh. 2012 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Producing a Chinese Nationality: Analyzing the Observance of National Celebration Day in Taiwan from 1949 through 1987."
2011
Heather Batson. 2011 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Inequalities in Motion? Commuting Demography and Street-level Experiences in Philadelphia."
Crystal Bedley. 2011-2012 Institute for Research on Women Fellow, Rutgers University.Eunkyung Song. 2011-2012 Institute for Research on Women Fellow, Rutgers University.
Ivana Brown. 2011 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "A Sociological Analysis of Maternal Ambivalence: Class and Race Differences Among New Mothers."
Chioun Lee. 2011 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Serious Injuries and Premature Death During Early Adulthood: An Examination of Mediators.”
Chioun Lee. Special Study Award for Dissertation Research, Graduate School of Rutgers University.
Etienne Meunier. 2011 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Collective Intimacy: the Unexpected Effect of Health Regulations on Private Gay Sex Parties in NYC."
Karen Stein. 2011 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Getting Away from It All: The Construction and Management of Temporary Identities on Vacation" published in Symbolic Interaction (2011).
Andy Stroffolino. 2011-2012 Center for Cultural Analysis Graduate Fellow, Rutgers University.
2010
Tom DeGloma. 2010 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Awakenings: Autobiography, Memory and The Social Logic of Personal Discovery.”
Shruti Devgan. Chakra Student Paper Prize from the South Asian Studies Program for "Sacred Cyberspaces: Virtual Commemoration and 1984 Anti Sikh Violence."
Asia Friedman. 2010 Anne Foner Dissertation Prize (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Blind to Sameness: The Socio-Optical Construction of Male and Female Bodies.”
Neha Gondal. 2010-11 Institute for Research on Women. Graduate Student Fellowship.
Neha Gondal. 2010-11 Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, Graduate Fellowship (Honorable Mention).
Daina Harvey. 2010 Graduate Teaching Award, Graduate School-New Brunswick, Rutgers University.
Susan Kremmel. 2010 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for “Processes and Politics of Gender Play in US Popular Music."
Oh-Jung Kwon. 2010 Matilda White Riley Qualifying Paper Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "The Logic of Social Policy Expansion in a Neoliberal Context: Health Insurance Reform in Korea after the 1997 Economic Crisis."
Chioun Lee. 2010-2011 Excellence Fellowship, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research of Rutgers University.
Chioun Lee. Leon A. Greenberg Award, Center of Alcohol Studies of Rutgers University.
Janet Lorenzen. 2010 Initiative for Climate and Social Policy Dissertation Grant, Rutgers University.
Dawne Mouzon. 2010 Project L/EARN Alington Memorial Award, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University.
Andrea Mueller. 2010 Center for European Studies Graduate Associate, Rutgers University.
Theresa Simpson. 2010 Matilda White Riley Term Paper Award (co-winner), Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Parents’ Valuation of Children’s Achievement in Organized Activities."
Theresa Simpson. 2010 Project L/EARN Alington Memorial Award, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University.
Alena Singleton. 2010 Part-Time Lecturer Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University.
Jason Torkelson. 2010 Matilda White Riley Published Article Award, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University for "Life After (Straightedge) Subculture" published in Qualitative Sociology (2010).
Elizabeth Williamson. 2010 Graduate Teaching Award, Graduate School-New Brunswick, Rutgers University.
Elizabeth Williamson. 2010 Faculty Resource Development Grant, Rutgers University.
