AWARDS and HONORS
2018: Nominated for President of the American Sociological Association (Accepted)
2018: Film: Aldon Morris: The Scholar Affirmed (Documentary), Winner Best Documentary, Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival
2018: Lifetime Achievement Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
2018: Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
2018: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2017: John D McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior
2017: Film: The Great War of the Harlem Hellfighters, (Documentary) film by François Reinhardt, Paris, France
2017: Award for Outstanding Leadership in Social Activism, Community Organizing, and Scholarly Teaching, Brooklyn, NY City Council
2017: Fulbright Specialist Award The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
2016: R. R. Hawkins Award
2016: Prose Award for Excellence in Social Science
2016: Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology
2016: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association
2016: William Julius Award, for sociological Practice, Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
2016: Film: Aldon Morris: The Scholar Affirmed (Documentary).
2015: Lester F. Ward Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied and Clinical Sociology.
2014: Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award American Sociological Association
2013: Ran for President of the American Sociological Association (Not Elected)
2013: A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentoring and Service Association of Black Sociologists
2012: Nominated for President of the American Sociological Association (Accepted)
2009: Cox-Johnson – Frazier Award, American Sociological Association
2006: Joseph Sandy Himes Award for Lifetime Scholarship Association of Black Sociologists
2005: Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined)
2005: Nominated for Editorship of the American Sociological Review (Declined)
2003: Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined)
1997: Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chaves, Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1995: Certificate of Leadership Award, Association of Black Sociologists
1988: Outstanding Leadership Award as President of the Association of Black Sociologists from
1986-88: Membership of the Association of Black Sociologists
1988: Drum Major Award, University of Michigan Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Epsilon Chapter
1987: Outstanding Young Graduate Award, Bradley University For The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
1986: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
1986: Honorable Mention, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
1986: Gustavus Myers Award
1986: Co-winner, Annual Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association
1985: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1984