Here are the 2025 conference awards recently won by Berkeley Sociology Faculty and Students
- Prof. Marion Fourcade won the Viviana Zelizer Book Book Award from the Economic Sociology section of the ASA for her book The Ordinal Society (co-authored with Kieran Healy, Duke)
- Prof. Heather Haveman was awarded the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the ASA
- Prof. Stephanie L. Canizales' book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles was honored with the ASA Latina/o Sociology Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award Honorable Mention, the ASA Sociology of the Family William Goode Book Award Honorable Mention, and the SSSP C. Wright Mills Book Award Finalist. Prof. Canizales also received the William M. LeoGrande Prize for the best academic monograph on U.S.-Latin American relations during the period 2023-2024 by American University's Center for Latin American & Latino Studies and School of Public Affairs.
- Yueran Zhang (PhD '24) received the 2025 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements for his dissertation, "Whither Socialism? Workers’ Democracy and the Class Politics of China’s Post-Mao Transition to Capitalism."
- Luis Edward Tenorio won multiple paper awards. "Work After Lawful Status: Formerly Undocumented Immigrants' Gendered Relational Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims-Making" (Law and Society Review 2024) won the Distinguished Student Paper Award from the ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section and received an Honorable Mention from the ASA Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section for the Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award. "Disclosure and the Evolving Consciousness of Sexual and Gender Minority Central American Unaccompanied Minors" (Law and Social Inquiry 2025) won the ASA Children and Youth Section's Graduate Student Paper Award.
- Emily Ruppel received the Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award from the Comparative/Historical Section and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Political Sociology Section for her paper "How Work Becomes Invisible: The Erosion of the Wage Floor for Workers with Disabilities." (American Sociological Review, 2024)
- Audrey Augenbraum was awarded a 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
- Adriana P. Ramirez won the Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award from the International Migration Section.