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jmylesProfessor John Myles has been awarded the Canadian Sociological Association's Outstanding Contribution Award for 2013 . This award honours colleagues who have significantly contributed to Sociology in Canada. Reflecting his exceptional scholarship, John was unanimously chosen as this year's recipient by the awards committee. The award will be presented at the CSA Awards Banquet on Tuesday June 4, 2013 at 6:30pm, at the University Club on the University of Victoria Campus, Victoria, British Columbia. John has also been invited to give the Outstanding Contribution Lecture at next year's CSA Annual Meeting at Brock University in May/June 2014. More information on the award can be found at http://www.csa-scs.ca/contribution-award .
bobandersenProfessor Robert Andersen has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor of Social Science from the University of Toronto starting July 1, 2013 . The title of Distinguished Professor is awarded with the goal “to advance and recognize individuals with highly distinguished accomplishments and those who display exceptional promise, who maintain an extraordinary level of activity in their research and scholarly work and have achieved pre-eminence in their field in line with the University's stated objectives and emerging priorities.” For more information on Professor Andersen’s appointment, please see: http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards/Distinguished_Professors/Professor_Robert_Andersen.htm .
hychooHae Yeon Choo has won the 2013 Cheryl Allyn Miller Award for Research on Women and Work, given by the Sociologists for Women in Society. The awards committee unanimously selected her paper “Gendering Migrant Rights: Explaining Differences in the Practice of Rights for Filipina Factory Workers and Club Hostesses in South Korea” as this year's best paper in the area. Hae Yeon will be presented the award at the ASA meetings in New York this August.

mpattersonMatt Patterson, a PhD student in the department, has been awarded the Canadian Sociology Association's Best Student Paper Award for 2013. The award will be presented at the CSA’s Annual Banquet and Award Ceremony to be held Tuesday, June 4 at the University of Victoria's University Club.

smontazerShirin Montazer, a recent PhD graduate from the department, has just won the Best Dissertation Award from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association for 2012-2013. Her dissertation title is: Country of Origin as Modifier of the effect of Generation and Length of Residence on the Mental Health Outcome of Immigrants to Canada: Evidence from Cross sectional and Longitudinal Data. Blair Wheaton was the Chair of her dissertation committee.
pchong2Phillipa Chong, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, has won the ASA Culture section's Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper in the Sociology of Culture for 2013 . She won the award for her paper "Legitimate Judgment in Art, The Scientific World Reversed?: Critical Distance in Evaluation." More information on the award can be found at http://www.asanet.org/sections/culture_awards.cfm .

bwellmanProfessor Barry Wellman is retiring from the University effective 1 July 2013.
Professor Wellman has had a long and distinguished career of scholarship and teaching since his arrival in the Department of Sociology forty-five years ago. He currently holds the rank of Full Professor and the S.D. Clark Chair in Sociology. He has written or co-authored more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books on community sociology and social networks, and more recently the internet. His scholarly work has been widely recognized by his peers for its distinction.

Professor Wellman was recently identified as the most highly cited sociologist in the country. His honours include election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007 and career achievement awards from the following organizations:

Professor Wellman has held the following offices:

  • founding chair of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and founding editor of its journal, Connections
  • founder of the Department of Sociology’s Structural Analysis Program
  • Associate Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies
  • chair of both the Community and Urban Sociology and the Communication and Information Technologies sections of the American Sociological Association
  • President of the Sociological Research Association honour society
  • North American editor of the journal Information, Communication and Society.

Professor Wellman has also published with 76 students, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers. In 1997 the Department of Sociology established the Barry Wellman Award, awarded to the Sociology student who has submitted the best undergraduate research paper.

Professor Wellman will continue with his ongoing funded research projects as a Professor Emeritus and will be based in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. We wish him all the best.

Congratulations to Barry Wellman whose book, Networked: The New Social Operating System(co-authored with Lee Rainie) recently received honorable mention for a PROSE award in the category of Sociology and Social Work! The PROSE awards are presented annually by the American Publishers Association to recognize excellence in scholarly writing. The book documents the ways in which our society is defined by "networked individuals" rather than tightly knit groups and shows the implications of our large, loose networks for opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction.

One of our undergraduates, Joanne Cave, has just been named a Rhodes Scholar for 2013. Congratulations, Joanne, on a tremendous achievement! To learn more about Joanne, please follow the following links:

Three UofT Students named 2013 Rhodes Scholars

Meet Joanne Cave, Rhodes Scholar for 2013


Professor Scott Schieman and graduating PhD student Paul Glavin were recently awarded the 2012 Best Paper Award from the American Sociology Association's Sociology of Mental Health Awards Committee. The award was given for their paper "Education and work-family conflict: Explanations, contingencies and mental health consequences" (Social Forces, 2011).

Professor Markus Schafer was recently awarded the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course. The award was given for his paper, "Children of Misfortune: Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories" (American Journal of Sociology 116:1053-1091).

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