Department Awards

Academic Year 2019-20

Graduate Students

Shawn Ratcliff	Cheryl Applegate Teaching Award Scott C. Whiteford Graduate Student Support Award
Rosalind Kichler	Nicholas Babchuk Endowment for Excellence in Research by Sociology Graduate Students
Jessica Morrow	Alice Frost Howard Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Joseph Jochman	Dan Hoyt Graduate Student Publication Award Department of Sociology Research Award
Sela Harcey	David C. & Marilyn S. Moore University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Student Quantitative Research Award

Madison Aponte, Raisa Gallegos, Ryan Kaufman, Meagan Kunitzer, Lora McGraw, Daniel Schaefer, and Cadyn Williamson	J.J & Eleanor S. Ogle Fellowship
Josey VanOrsdale	Fernando I. Rivera Sociology Research Award
Trenton Haltom	Department of Sociology Teaching Award

Undergraduate Students

Adison Pace	Vanetta Aaron Undergraduate Student Paper Competition in Race, Class, or Gender
Han Le	Alan P. Bates Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Cory Meyer	Alice Frost Howard Memorial Scholarship

Nestor Hernandez	Ed A. Munoz Latina/o Sociology Excellence Award
Clarice Ann Santos	University Nebraska-Lincoln Opportunities Scholarship in Sociology

Academic Year 2018-19

Faculty

Brandon Bosch	College Distinguished Teaching Award
Kelsy Burke	College Distinguished Teaching Award Elected to ASA Religion Section Council
Lory Dance	College Distinguished Teaching Award
Kirk Dombrowski	Selected to serve on the Big Ten Academic Alliance Health Equity Initiative Strategic Directions Task Force
Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Kimberly Tyler, Jeffrey Smith	Five-year grant from NIH's Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence
Christina Falci	Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education
Marc Garcia	NIA funding through the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer's Disease at the Univ. of Michigan for Age of Migration and Cognition: The Importance of Contextual Factors in Cognitive Aging Among Older Latinos in the US
Dan Hoyt	Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Service Award

Emily Kazyak	Outstanding Instructor in the Honors Program
Lisa Kort-Butler	Parents' Recognition Award Elected Nebraska State Director for the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS)
Julia McQuillan	Willa Cather Professorship
Kristen Olson	Associate Conference Chair on AAPOR 2019-2020 Executive Council Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Jolene Smyth	Parents' Recognition Award
Kimberly Tyler	College Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award
Regina Werum	Parents' Recognition Award

Graduate

Angela Adler	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar
Jennifer Andersen	Outstanding Graduate Research and Creative Activities Award
Alice MillerMacPhee	Science Slam Winner

Shawn Ratcliff	President of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Student Association
Josey VanOrsdale	2019 Social Networks and Health Workshop Fellow

Undergraduate

Claire Bartels	Phi Beta Kappa
Jayden Barth	Alice Lou Crank Award Undergraduate Scholarship
Katie Batenhorst	Fulbright Scholarship Program Vanetta Aaron Outstanding Undergraduate Student Paper Competition in Race, Class, and Gender
Allison Black	Mortar Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program
Lauren Bruning	Mortar Board University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program
Sofia Cranley	Fulbright Scholarship Program
Hannah Dickson	Vanetta Aaron Outstanding Undergraduate Student Paper Competition: Race, Class, and Gender Phi Beta Kappa
Mackenzie Griffith	Alan P. Bates Outstanding Undergraduate Award CAS Highest Distinction
Mariah Houston	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Luminary Award

Mishala Lewis	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Luminary Award
Jennifer Libov	University Honors Program
Nick Martinez	CAS Highest Distinction
Abigale Miller	CAS Highest Distinction
Luke Novack	CAS Highest Distinction College of Arts and Sciences Ovation Award
Kamryn Sannicks	Innocents Society
Hunter Traynor	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Luminary Award The Innocents Society
Katrina Voge	University Honors Program
Sarah Weisbecker	Innocents Society Women of Character, Courage and Commitment Award from the Women's Center

Alpha Kappa Delta members holding certificates

Alpha Kappa Delta members: Samantha Peterson, Martha Balderas, Ryan Salvatori, Lillian Butler-Hale, Josey VanOrsdale, Beza Bekele, Brigitta Bogue, Claire Bartels, Daniel Krueger, Grace Kelly, Jade Virdi, Lauren Bruning, Sylvie Zozaya, Morgann Pospisil, Olivia Stafursky, Angelica Phillips, Sydney Paulak, Tiffany Mick, Andrea Johnson, Maizie Humm, Kamryn Sannicks, Sara Benes, Ashley Prososki, Jess Esquivel, Nestor Hernandez, Jackson Belva, Grecia Macias, Vanessa Woosley, Madison Woodward.

Recipient essays on why they chose sociology