Department Awards

The Academic year 2018-2019 a great year for the department of sociology. Our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students received many accolades and awards:

See other departmental award winners for both graduate and undergradutes:

Faculty

Name	Award
Brandon Bosch	College Distinguished Teaching Award
Kelsy Burke	College Distinguished Teaching Award
Kelsy Burke	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
Lisa Kort-Butler	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
Kristen Olson	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 UNL 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
Katie Batenhorst	Vanetta Aaron Outstanding Undergraduate Student Paper Competition in Race, Class, and Gender
Allison Black	Mortar Board – and UNL Honors Program
Lauren Bruning	Mortar Board – and UNL Honors Program
Sofia Cranley	Fulbright Scholarship Program
Hannah Dickson	Vanetta Aaron Outstanding Undergraduate Student Paper Competition: Race, Class, and Gender
Hannah Dickson	Phi Beta Kappa
Mackenzie Griffith	Alan P. Bates Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Mariah Houston	UNL Student Luminary Award
Mishala Lewis	UNL Student Luminary Award
Luke Novack	College of Arts and Sciences Ovation Award
Kamryn Sannicks	Innocents Society
Hunter Traynor	UNL Student Luminary Award
Hunter Traynor	The Innocents Society
Sarah Weisbecker	Innocents Society – and Women of Character, Courage & Commitment Award/Women’s Center