Appointments, honors and activities

• Faculty and staff honors

Trenton Mize, assistant professor of sociology, earned the Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Social Psychology. Co-written with Bianca Manago, assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, Trenton’s paper, “Precarious Sexuality: How Men and Women Are Differentially Categorized for Similar Sexual Behavior,” “investigates perceptions of sexual orientation [and] raises novel and exciting questions about the policing of high-status identities,” according to the award committee’s summary.

 

• Student honors

Reilly Kincaid, a graduate student in sociology, won the 2020 Graduate Student Investigator Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Social Psychology. The Graduate Student Investigator Committee selected Reilly’s project, “Status Beliefs at the Intersection of Age and Gender,” as the winner out of 60 applications for the award and $1,000 prize.