Rice - School of Social Sciences


	Social Sciences Commencement Awards 2007 5/11/2007 Faculty Awards George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching This award is based on a survey completed by about 1,200 alumni who graduated two and five years ago and each year they recognize six faculty members with this award. Below are this year's recipients in School of Social Sciences. Michael Emerson - Sociology (2nd from left in the picture) James Brown - Economics (3rd from left in the picture) Nicholas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award This award is the oldest teaching award at Rice University. It is awarded based on votes from the current junior and senior class. Bridget Gorman - Sociology 2007 C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Endowed Award for Student Life This award is student nominated; selected by a committee that includes the Dean of Undergraduates and Director of Student Activities. Bridget Gorman - Sociology The Jablin Dissertation Award This award is an annual honor given by the International Leadership Association and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond for the most impressive doctoral dissertation. D. Michael Lindsay - Sociology The dissertation examines the rise of evangelical fervor within the nation's elite for its theoretical contributions, analytical breadth, and timeliness. The Fourth Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists This award is given every four years at the World Congress of Sociology by the International Sociological Association. It is the world's top scholarly honor for a sociologist under the age of 35. D. Michael Lindsay - Sociology Dr. Lindsay received the award for his work on organizational liminality and elite power. Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award - Piper Professor of 2007 This award since 1958 has been honoring professors from colleges and universities in Texas by recognizing outstanding achievement as effective and dedicated teachers. Elizabeth Long - Sociology Charles R. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty The Duncan Award was established to recognize a tenure-track or tenured member of the faculty with ten or fewer years of service for outstanding performance in both scholarship and teaching. Brett Ashley Leeds - Politial Science The Outstanding Faculty Associate at Brown College John Ambler - Political Science The Outstanding Faculty Associate at Jones College James Brown - Economics

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Elizabeth Long
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair

Elizabeth Long majored in History at Stanford University, and worked for several years in publishing for Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in New York City. She completed her doctorate at Brandeis University in 1979, teaching Women's Studies and doing administrative work at Wellesley College and M.I.T. during graduate school. She joined the faculty at Rice University in 1978.

Professor Long has published in the fields of cultural sociology, sociology of gender, the sociology of knowledge, qualitative sociology, and contemporary sociological theory, as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, cultural studies, and woman's studies. Her most recent book is Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served on several Editorial Boards. At Rice University, she has won several teaching awards, including the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Julia Miles Chance Award for teaching excellence and gender sensitivity. Her ongoing projects include an article about an African American women's book club associated with the N.A.A.C.P. that met in Houston from 1949 into the 1970's; a study of the uses of field research and the concept of culture in the Chicago School of Sociology; a study of the varieties of women's activism in the late 20th and early 21st century; and a piece on Merleau Ponty's relevance for feminist rethinking of the body.