Awards & Department Kudos

Undergraduate Student Awards
Graduate Student Awards
Department Kudos


Undergraduate Student Awards

  • Patrick “Saint” Ange: Winner of the 2023 President's Award for Undergraduate Student Excellence for seniors and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
  • Stephanie Ramirez-Cisneros: Winner of the 2023 President's Award for Undergraduate Student Excellence for Juniors
  • Adebola O Abbey-Peter: Honorable Mention, 2023 President’s Award for Undergraduate Student Excellence for Juniors
  • Julian Rostek: Winner of the 2023 UUP College Scholarship Fund Award 
  • Monishka Jhaveri: Winner of the 2022 President's Award for Undergraduate Excellence
  • Casey Adrian: Winner of the 2022 Provost's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
  • Adam Benjamin:  2022 Provost's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Honorable Mention
  • Makoto Toyada: Winner of the Edward H. Prentice Award, Harpur College

Graduate Student Awards

  • Doctoral Candidate: Busra Sati Doga wins the 2023 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research
  • Gabreella Friday, Ph.D. and Doctoral Candidate, Michael Stephens win the 2022 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching.
  • Doctoral Candidate: Nicola Satchell wins the 2022 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research
  • Nilufer Akalin, Ph.D. was selected for the Edward H. Prentice Award, Spring 2022 Foundation Award
  • Doctoral Candidate: Kai Wen-Yang wins the 2021 Distinguished Dissertation Award
  • Doctoral Candidates: Roberto Ortiz and Kevin Revier both received the 2019 Graduate Student Excellence Award for Excellence in Research from Binghamton University's Graduate School

  • Doctoral Candidate: Sung Hee Ru, won the 2018 best graduate student paper award from New York State Sociological Association for his paper "Mapping transformation of nineteenth century Chinese cities within China's incorporation."


Department Kudos

  • Doctoral Candidate, Harun Ercan wins 2021 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research
  • Doctoral Candidate, Andrew Pragacz wins 2021 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Service and Outreach
  • Doctoral Candidates, Büşra Satı and Andrea Toth win 2021 Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching
  • Alum, Brendan McQuade was elected as Chair of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, June 2021
  • Doctoral Candidate, Gabreella Friday wins 2019 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Service
  • Doctoral Candidate, Nilufer Akalin and Odilka Santiago, PhD win 2019 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Doctoral Candidate, Daniel Cunha wins 2019 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research
  • Kevin Revier, PhD wins BU's 2019 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences
  • Doctoral Candidate, Busra Doga wins 2020-21 Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Public Humanities Fellowship
  • Doctoral Candidate, Michael Stephens wins 2020-21 Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Dissertation Fellowship
  • Delal Aydin, PhD wins Sociology Department's 2019 Distinguished Dissertation Award
  • Doctoral Candidate, Kai Wen Yang, wins 2018 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Albert Fu, PhD wins 2019 award for Distinguished Teaching from the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the ASA
  • Brendan McQuade, PhD wins 2019 Best Book Award from Marxist Section of the ASA
  • Toivo Asheeke, PhD won BU's 2018 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences
  • Doctoral Candidate, Michael Stephens received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct doctoral research in Colombia during the 2019-20 academic year