Congratulations to Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve for receiving the Meenakshi Narain Excellence in Research Mentoring (ERM) Award.

Congratulations to Jonathan Tollefson, who has been selected as the winner of S4's 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize for a paper entitled, "Racial environmental inequality in US cities, 1880-1930."

Congratulations to Syeda Masood for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Empire and Identity: Racialization of the Afghan Middle Class Under U.S. Occupation.”

Congratulations to Amanda Ball for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, "Securitized By Design: Security, Space, and Race in Colonial Nairobi."

Congratulations to the Department of Sociology's Academic Department Manager, Tami Mildner, on successfully completing the DOF Financial Reporting Certification Program here at Brown.

Congratulations to Lisa Di Carlo for being selected to be an Equitable Learning Inquiry (ELI) Fellow through the Sheridan Center for 2024-25.

Congratulations to Lisa Di Carlo for being selected as one of five recipients of the President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance for 2023-24.

Congratulations to María Fernanda López Portillo Alcocer for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Indigeneity in Mexico.”

Congratulations to Bryan Natividad for successfully defending his dissertation entitled, “Invisible or Invincible? An Empirical Analysis of University Disability Support Services & Academic Success.”

Congratulations to Kevin Mwenda, who, in collaboration with his research colleagues, has received an award from the National Science Foundation Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program for their project entitled, "Household adaptation amongst hot spots of land degradation vulnerability and bright spots of resilience."

Congratulations to Clare Wan for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “From Streets to Screens: Unfolding Market Dynamics through a Marketplace Development in China.”

Congratulations to Laura López-Sanders for her newly published book, The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market (NYU Press, January 2024).

Congratulations to Emily Rauscher for being a recipient of a Spencer Foundation Grant (“Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Rising Inequality”).

Rachel Wetts' article, "Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate" was published earlier last month (Nov. 2023) in the American Journal of Sociology. The paper investigates how the economic power of interest groups -- and the cultural appeal of their messages -- shape which voices have received media coverage in the US climate change debate.

Congratulations to Michael Kennedy for his recently published op-ed piece,"Public Sociology’s Expression: From Reagan to Trump, from the USA to Global Social Change" in The Society Pages.

Congratulations to Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve for her leadership and participation in the Mumia Abu-Jamal Conference and Research.