This year, Duke faculty and students dominated the awards and offices of the ASA Section on Mathematical Sociology. From left to right:
Kimberly Rogers (Duke PhD, now at Dartmouth College) won the award for best contribution for her ASR article (with Tobias Schroder and Jesse Hoey); Jaemin Lee (now ABD at Duke) won the Best Dissertation in Progress Award; Lynn Smith-Lovin (Robert L. Wilson Professor of Arts and Sciences) won the James S. Coleman Award for lifetime achievement; Ken Land (John Franklin Crowell Professor Emeritus of Sociology) is the current Chair of the section; and Carter Butts (Trinity '96, now Professor of Sociology at UC-Irvine) is currently chair-elect of the section.
Department of Sociology