Faculty Awards and Recognition

Internal Awards

Daryl P. Evans Outstanding Teaching Award

Description:  This award honors the memory of Daryl P. Evans, Professor of Sociology at Purdue, who was deeply committed to undergraduate education and regularly taught large sections of Introductory Sociology.  Professor Evans earned the PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado and served on the Purdue faculty from 1995 until his death in 1999. 

Eligibility: Faculty Award

Due Date:  November 30

How To Apply:  Faculty nomination to Sociology Awards Committee

Perpetual:

Rachel Einwohner
Book of Great Teachers (inducted 2013)

Ken Ferraro
Distinguished Professor (2008)

J. Jill Suitor
Distinguished Professor (2018)

Robin Stryker
Distinguished Professor (2019)

2020-2021

J. Jill Suitor
College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher

Spencer Headworth
Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Discovery and Creative Endeavors

Lindsay Hamm
The Excellence in Instruction Award for Lecturers

Exceptional Teaching and Instructional Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lindsay Hamm, Brian Kelly, Dan Olson and Jeremy Reynolds

2019-2020

Ken Ferraro
Morrill Award

2018-2019

Brian Kelly
University Faculty Scholar (2014-2019)

Ken Ferraro
Lu Ann Aday Award, Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships

Shawn Bauldry
University Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)

2017-2018

Rachel Einwohner
Purdue CLA 2-Teach

Spencer Headworth
Purdue CLA Engage Award

Christie Sennott
Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Mangala Subramaniam
Salute to Women Honoree, Woman of Distinction, YWCA, Greater Lafayette area, IN
College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Project: Institutional Mechanisms for Breaking the ‘Glass Ceiling’: Gender, Race and Mid-Career Faculty

Patricia Thomas
Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families, Purdue University

Fenggang Yang
Purdue Liberal Arts Discovery Excellence Award: Social Sciences

2016-2017

Jean Beaman
Excellence in Research Award by the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion for Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France

Ken Ferraro
Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Alumni Appreciation Award, Center on Aging and the Life Course

External Awards

2020-2021

Kenneth Ferraro
2021 recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier Award, Gerontological Society of America

Trenton Mize
Oustanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology, American Soiological Association

2019-2020

Shawn Bauldry
Southern Sociological Society's Junior Scholar

2018-2019

Ken Ferraro
Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America

Robin Stryker
Sociological Association, for “From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation?: Comparing US Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity and Fair Housing Legislation (with Nicholas Pedriana)

2016-2017

Robin Stryker
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University