Barbara Combs has joined the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University as chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.
Frank R. Edwards, Rutgers University, and Theresa Rocha Beardall, University of Washington, received the Law and Society Association’s 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize for their paper “Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare,” an empirical study of forced separation of Native children and the failed legacy of the landmark Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Britany Gatewood, Albany State University, was appointed by the American Council of Learned Societies as one of its Leading Edge Fellows, supporting outstanding early career PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they work with social justice organizations in communities across the United States.
Michael Mendez, University of California-Irvine, was named a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Elizabeth A. Mertz, University of California-San Francisco, received the Law and Society Association’s 2022 Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award and its Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize for empirical scholarship and the advancement of research in law.
Steven F. Messner, University at Albany-State University New York, received the 2021 Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology at the recent meeting in Chicago.
Reuben Jonathan Miller, University of Chicago and the American Bar Foundation, received the Law and Society Association’s 2022 Herbert Jacob Book Prize for his book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Little, Brown and Company 2022).
Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, was elected to faculty governance as Chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.
William Pridemore, SUNY-Albany, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. He will be inducted in November.
Liliana V. Rodriguez, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, received a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.
