AWARDS

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Major awards and Honors:

  • Elected and Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018

  • Elected to Vice President of the American Sociological Association, 2010-2013

  • Elected to the Sociological Research Association, 2009

  • Distinguished Career Award, Latino Section, American Sociological Association, 2008

  • Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for the Best Book in Sociology from the American Sociological Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

  • Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in Social Demography from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

  • Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in Social Demography from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2005 (for Race in Another America)

  • Distinguished Book Award from the Pacific Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

  • Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for the Best Book from the Race and Ethnic Minorities section of the American Sociological Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

  • Best Book Award from the Latino Section of the American Sociological Association, 2009 (for Generations of Exclusion)

  • Best Book Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2006 (for Race in Another America)

  • Hubert Herring Award for the Best Book in Latin American Studies from the Pacific Council for Latin American Studies, 2005 (for Race in Another America)

GRANT AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING:

  • “Social Science Analysis of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America” 2008-2014

  • Ford Foundation, New York 2008-14 

  • Ford Foundation, Santiago and Mexico City 2009-11.

  • Various grants from Princeton University, 2008-13 

  • “Examining Key Issues Affecting Workforce Development: Immigrant Workers, Other New Entrants in the Economy, and Latino and Black Relations”Ford Foundation (with Abel Valenzuela, Michael Stoll and Manuel Pastor) 2006-2007

  • “Global Network and Conference on Ethnic, Race and Caste Discrimination and Legal Remedies in Brazil, Central Europe, India, South Africa and the United States.” (with James Cavallaro of the Harvard Law School), 2005.

  • UCLA Center for International Studies  

  • Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University 

  • “The Paradox of Miscegenation. Race Relations in Brazil” Ford Foundation, 2000-2002 

  • “Training Fellowship in Latin American Sociology” (with David Lopez and Maurice Zeitlin) Mellon Foundation. 1995-2005.  

  • “Racial Classification in Brazil” National Science Foundation, 1997-1999.  

  • “Mexican American Study Project” (with Ortiz):

  • National Institute for Child and Human Development [1 RO1 HD33436-O1A2], 1997-2000 

  • Russell Sage Foundation, 1996-98, 2003- 06 

  • UC-MEXUS, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2002-03

  • Haynes Foundation, 1996-98 

  • Rockefeller Foundation, 1996-98 

  • Ford Foundation, 1993-94, 1995-96 

  • California Policy Seminar, 1994-95 

  • Numerous grants from UCLA including the Institute of American Cultures, Academic Senate, California Center for Population Research, Office of the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor for Research, Dean of Social Sciences and Office of Academic Development  

  • Various Brazil Research Grants

  • Rockefelller Foundation, 1989-90 

  • UCLA Academic Senate, 1989-96