József Böröcz received the “Knight’s Cross of the Medal of Honor of the Republic of Hungary”—a high state award bestowed by the President of the Republic—for his scholarly achievements, in 2006.  Böröcz was the 2006 occupant of the Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics at the University of Ghent (Belgium). His recent publications include:

Deborah Carr was invited to become a member of the Sociological Research Association, at the 2008 meeting of the American Sociological Association. Her recent book Making up with Mom was featured in Newsweek, USA Today, National Public Radio, the Detroit Free Press, Newark Star-Ledger and other national and local media.

Patrick Carr was a featured guest on WHYY's Radio Times on November 2nd, 2007 talking about the crime crisis in Philadelphia. He was also featured on NPR's Day to Day in a segment that profiled the Philadelphia Crime emergency and the task facing the new Mayor Michael Nutter on November 7, 2007. Carr was featured in a Philadelphia Daily News article that examined the five things the new Mayor of Philadelphia must tackle when he assumes office.

Karen A. Cerulo‘s book Never Saw It Coming was featured in several articles published in The Chicago Tribune, Slate Magazine, The Times of India, and USA Today.  Professor Cerulo also did nearly a hundred 30 and 60 minute radio interviews – some on nationally syndicated shows such as Pat Reuter’s “Viewpoints,” Greg Allan’s “The Right Balance,” Richard Baker’s “Perspectives,” and the “Mancow Show,” and others on public and commercial radio stations, including WFAN/WXRK in New York, WIP, Philadelphia, WNJN in Trenton, KCPW, Salt Lake City, KSFR in Santa Fe , and KPTK in Seattle. Currently, she is a Research Fellow at Princeton where she participates in the “Cognitive and Textual Methods Project.” Karen Cerulo was featured in the new online magazine /Glimpse/.  She was interviewed regarding the ways in which colors and shapes influence the impact of flags and other symbols. She just completed a Research Fellowship at Princeton where she participated in the "Cognitive and Textual Methods Project." In 2008, she was elected as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Culture Section.

Lee Clarke was the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow of American Studies, Princeton University, Spring 2007. His book Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination (University of Chicago Press) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. He received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association, in August 2005.

Allan Horwitz was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study during 2007-2008. His book, The Loss of Sadness, co-authored by Jerome Wakefield, won the Association of American Publishers award for best psychology book of 2007. It was also featured in articles in Time, Newsweek and US News and World Reports and was the subject of a column in the New York Times Science Times.

Ellen Idler was invited to become a member of the Sociological Research Association, at the 2007 meeting of the American Sociological Association.  She is also serving this year as Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America for the 2008 meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.  She was a 2007-08 Fellow of the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis.  

Joanna Kempner received the 2006 American Sociological Association Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award. Her article on "The chilling effect: How researchers respond to controversy" was featured in several media outlets, including the Financial Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Nature, the Newark Star-Ledger, and abcnews.com.

Paul McLean was a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2007
The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence -- received an Honorable Mention in the 2008 ASA Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize Competition for Best Book
"Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence" (AJS 111,5: 1463-1568), co-authored with John F. Padgett, received the 2008 Best Article Award from the ASA Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology

Robyn Rodriguez was recognized as a “Leader in Diversity” by Rutgers
University for her commitment to supporting, encouraging and enhancing
diversity on campus. Her work has been featured in print and
television media. She was interviewed by Princeton Community
Television and the Herald News for her research on immigration in New
Jersey. Her work on Philippine migration issues was cited by the San
Francisco Chronicle while her efforts in setting up an informal
learning community with Rutgers undergraduates on Filipino Studies was
featured in the show “Pinoy Abroad” by the Philippine-based television
network, GMA, and broadcast internationally through its affiliates
around the world.

Patricia Roos presented her work on subtle barriers to gender equity in higher education at the Inaugural Conference for the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, and at the Epstein, Becker & Green law firm.  Her work on gender equity in higher education was also mentioned in Inside Higher Ed, a online source for news and opinions about higher education ( http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/14/soc), and in the Asbury Park Press (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~roos/asburyparkpress112808.pdf).  She was named a Fellow of the Stanford University's Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.  She is currently serving as Director of the Rutgers Center for Women & Work for AY 2008-09, and is the Co-PI and Director of Research on the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant, "RU-FAIR-Rutgers University for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-imagination" (2008-2013). 

Tom Rudel's book, Tropical Forests: Regional Paths of Destruction and
Regeneration in the Late 20th Century (New York, Columbia), won the 2008
Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of
the American Sociological Association.

Kristen Springer received the 2007 American Sociological Association Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award for her dissertation, "His and Her Marriage Today: The Impact of Wives' Employment on Husbands' Later Mid-Life Health."  

Arlene Stein is a fellow at  the Institute for the Research on Women in 2009-10. She was the Sally Gearhart Lecturer  in Lesbian Studies at the University of Oregon in 2009, and was a Visiting Fellow at the  Humanities Research Center, Australian National University in 2008.

Helene White and colleagues’ recent article in Alcoholism: Clinical Experimental Research (Vol. 38, pp. 1380-1391) was highlighted by the journal and picked up by several media sources. This paper describes the long-term evaluation of a brief substance use intervention for mandated college students.

Eviatar Zerubavel was promoted to Board of Governors Professor, 2007