David Lam will begin his five-year appointment as director of the Institute for Social Research on July 1, 2015, taking over from long-serving ISR Director James Jackson. “ISR is the leading social science research institute in the world. It is a great honor to step into the shoes of James Jackson and the other distinguished… Continue reading David Lam is new director of Institute for Social Research

Apoorva Jadhav, a postdoc on the Health and Retirement Study, has won the A. Regula Herzog Young Investigators Award from the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The award supports the research and training of junior researchers engaged in work on older populations. Jadhav is currently studying the effects of widowhood on wealth… Continue reading Postdoc Apoorva Jadhav wins Herzog Award for her research on older populations

Elizabeth Bruch’s AJS paper, “How Population Structure Shapes Neighborhood Segregation,” was awarded the Robert Merton Prize for the best paper in analytical sociology. The prize will be presented at the International Network for Analytical Sociologists Conference (INAS), June 12-13, in Cambridge, MA.

Elizabeth Bruch won the American Sociology Association’s 2015 Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Article Publication Award. Her award-winning paper, “How Population Structure Shapes Neighborhood Segregation,” identifies three population parameters that shape how income inequality between race groups affects racial segregation.

PSC trainee Olga Malkova was awarded the 2015 Dorothy S. Thomas Award by the Population Association of America. The annual award recognizes the outstanding graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic, and demographic variables.

Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton won the 2015 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association for *Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality* (Harvard University Press, 2013). The award is presented annually for the best single book authored by an ASA member in the two calendar years preceding the award year.

PSC trainee Siwei Cheng won the 2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association for her paper “A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality.” This award is made annually for a paper presented at a professional conference during the… Continue reading Siwei Cheng wins ASA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Maggie Hicken has won an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Outstanding Research Mentor Award, which recognizes excellence among U-M faculty/researchers in providing opportunities and guidance to undergraduates. This recognition includes a monetary award and will be presented at a ceremony on April 22, 2015.

At the 2014 meeting of the Economic History Association, Martha Bailey and PhD student Nicolas Duquette won the Arthur H. Cole Prize, ¶awarded annually by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic History for the best article in the previous year’s volume. The title of the article is: “How Johnson Fought the War on… Continue reading Martha Bailey and Nicolas Duquette win Cole Prize for article on War on Poverty

Jeff Morenoff was one of only two social science researchers at U-M to make Thomson Reuters’ list of highly cited researchers. To compile the list, Reuters analyzed articles and reviews in science and social science journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, 2002-2012. Those who made the list ranked among the top 1%… Continue reading Jeff Morenoff makes Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers list for 2014