Awards & Honors

Brandina Jersky, Sociology, Kellie Nicholas, Resource Economics, and Nancy Robinson, Resource Economics have been awarded the 2025 SBS Outstanding Staff Award. 

Joshua Kaiser, Sociology, and Kevin Young, Economics, have received the 2025 Outstanding Mentor Award. 

Vanessa Blais, SBS Pathways Center, and John Ciampa, Journalism, have received the 2025 Nicola Mare Usher SBS Outstanding Advising Award. 

Jasmine Kerrissey, Sociology and Labor Studies, and Jesse Rhodes, Political Science and UMass Poll, have received the 2025 Outstanding Research Award.

Brian Sargent, Public Policy and Sociology, and Regine Spector, Political Science, have been awarded the 2025 Outstanding Teaching Award. 

Driver, the first Black faculty member at UMass Amherst, came to the university in 1948. He conducted leading comparative sociology and mental health research.

Paul Collins, Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, has been honored for the second time with a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.

Katie R. Billings, PhD candidate in sociology, has been awarded the 2024 IAPHS Student Award, recognizing work of notable quality. 

Shahnaz Bashir, PhD candidate in communication, has been awarded the 2024 Emerging Scholar Award at the International Conference on the Image. 

Allison Butler, communication, has been named a Chancellor's Leadership Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. 

The latest book from Jasmine Kerrissey, labor studies, was selected for the ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements' 2024 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.

Amel Ahmed and Joshua Braun are among the five UMass Amherst faculty selected to receive Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year.