Doug Massey was elected to the membership in the American Philosophical Society. His book, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, won the 2004 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in social demography from the ASA.

Sara McLanahan received the distinguished career award from the Sociology of the Family section of the ASA.

Katherine Newman was elected to the Sociological Research Association.

Alejandro Portes was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Genova.

Mario Small received the 2004 Robert Park Article Award from the Section on community and Urban Sociology of the ASA.

Scott Leon Washington was recently named a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Robert Wuthnow, Conrad Hackett, and Becky Yang Hsu won the Distinguished Article Award of the sociology of religion section of the ASA.