2025
Congratulations to Krystale E. Littlejohn (MFP Cohort 39) and Amy L. Stone on their appointment as the inaugural co-editors of the new journal from ASA’s Sociology of Sexualities Section, Sex & Sexualities. Find the Footnotes press release here.
2024
Congratulations to Linda Burton (MFP Cohort 8) on her accomplishments as Dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Read Dr. Burton’s reflections on her experience leading the school through a challenging five-year term here.
Congratulations to Bridget Goosby (MFP Cohort 27) for receiving the 2024 Humana Foundation Excellence in Health Equity Research Award from the Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Science (IAPHS).
Congratulations to Sofia Locklear (MFP Cohort 47) with Elizabeth Korver-Glenn on receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation for “Housing Experiences and Outcomes among Urban American Indian/Alaska Native People.”
2023
Congratulations to Patricia Hill Collins (MFP Cohort 7) on receiving the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The $1 million award is given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world. Read more about Dr. Collins and the prestigious award here.
Congratulations to LaShaune Johnson (MFP Cohort 29) on becoming the President of the Midwest Sociological Society (2023-24). Dr. Johnson is “committed to engaging public sociologists and sociologists working outside of academia as well as community partner voices” in her new role. She succeeds MSS’s Past President, Brian Donovan.
Congratulations to Cecilia Menjívar (MFP Cohort 17) and Rogelio Sáenz (MFP Cohort 10) on joining the 2023 cohort of six Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Cecilia Menjívar is the 2023 W.E.B. DuBois Fellow and Rogelio Sáenz is the 2023 Ernest Burgess Fellow. Find the press release here.
Congratulations to Aldon D. Morris (MFP Cohort 4), who was elected to the presitigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. Find Dr. Morris’s Academy profile here.
