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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Graduate
  Dynamic Department

Awards Our Students Have Won

We have strong students, who get excellent training, and make their professional marks while in our program and after they graduate. There is no surprise that they win significant national awards along the way. In the following list, we give some recent examples.
  • Winning entry in the 2005 SSSP Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to Carissa Froyum, 2005
  • Odum Award (Southern Sociological Society Paper Award) to Carissa M. Froyum, 2005
  • American Dialect Society presidential award and honorary student membership to Christine Mallinson, 2004
  • Charles A. Ferguson prize for best graduate student paper at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 32 conference to Christine Mallinson, 2003
  • Reza Ordoubadian Award for best graduate student paper at SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics to Christine Mallinson, 2003
  • Language in the USA Fellowship and the American Association for Applied Linguistics graduate student travel award to attend the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute to Christine Mallinson, 2003
  • Winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Environment and Technology Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award to Tricia McTague, 2003
  • Winner of the Nancy G. Pollack Thesis Award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, sponsored by NCSU Graduate School to Tricia McTague, 2003
  • Graduate Student Paper Award, Rural Sociological Society Meetings, Montreal, Canada, to Corre L. Robinson, 2003
  • College of Agriculture and Science Outstanding Teaching Award Winner, North Carolina State University to Travis Satterlund, 2002-2003
  • North Carolina State University Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award Winner, University Graduate Student Association to Travis Satterlund, 2002-2003
  • Honorable Mention (National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship) to Carissa M. Froyum, 2002
  • National Institute of Mental Health Minority Fellowship to Tonia Burkett, 1999-2002
  • Himes Award (North Carolina Sociological Society) to Jeffrey Roberts, 2000, and to Shannon Davis, 2001
  • Student Paper Award (Southern Rural Sociological Society) to Donald Woolley, 2001
  • Minority Fellowship (American Society of Criminologists) to Kecia Johnson, 1997-98
  • C.A. Miller Award (Sociologists for Women in Society) to Cynthia Anderson, 1996-97
  • Blumer Award (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction) to Daphne Holden, 1996-97
  • Minority Scholarship, Student Paper Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems) to Jacquelyn Johnson, 1996-97
  • Minority Fellowship (ASA/Nat’l Institute of Mental Health) to Marino Bruce, 1996-97
  • Levine Dissertation Fellowship (ASA Sex & Gender Section) to Jammie Price, 1995-96
  • Dissertation Research Award (Society for Scientific Study Religion) to Michelle Wolkomir, 1998
  • Thompson Award (ASA Orgs, Occupations, and Work Section) to Vincent Roscigno and Keith Kimble, 1995-96
  • Red Feather Institute Award to Marino Bruce, Jacquelyn Johnson, and Vincent Roscigno, 1996-97