Sociology
Faculty Distinction 2023/24
![Gil Eyal](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Gil-Eyal.jpg)
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology
Star-Nelkin Award for best paper from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2023
Niklas Luhmann Visiting Professorship, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. May-July 2024
![Gil Eyal](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Gil-Eyal.jpg)
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology
Star-Nelkin Award for best paper from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2023
Niklas Luhmann Visiting Professorship, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. May-July 2024
![Gil Eyal](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Gil-Eyal.jpg)
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology
Star-Nelkin Award for best paper from the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2023
Niklas Luhmann Visiting Professorship, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. May-July 2024
![Jennifer Lee 2](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Jennifer-Lee-2.jpg)
Jennifer Lee
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences & the Founding Director of the Asian American Initiative
Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section
Distinguished Fellow, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
![Jennifer Lee 2](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Jennifer-Lee-2.jpg)
Jennifer Lee
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences & the Founding Director of the Asian American Initiative
Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section
Distinguished Fellow, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
![Jennifer Lee 2](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Jennifer-Lee-2.jpg)
Jennifer Lee
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences & the Founding Director of the Asian American Initiative
Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association, International Migration Section
Distinguished Fellow, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
![Mario Small | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/05/Mario_Small.jpg)
Mario Small
Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Outstanding Publication Award, American Sociological Association (ASA), Methodology Section
Inaugural Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
![Mario Small | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/05/Mario_Small.jpg)
Mario Small
Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Outstanding Publication Award, American Sociological Association (ASA), Methodology Section
Inaugural Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
![Mario Small | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/05/Mario_Small.jpg)
Mario Small
Chair and Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Outstanding Publication Award, American Sociological Association (ASA), Methodology Section
Inaugural Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture, University of Pennsylvania
![David Stark](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/David-Stark.jpg)
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Organizational Innovation
Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Guest Professor of Social Theory, Bielefeld University
![David Stark](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/David-Stark.jpg)
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Organizational Innovation
Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Guest Professor of Social Theory, Bielefeld University
![David Stark](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/David-Stark.jpg)
David Stark
Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Organizational Innovation
Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Guest Professor of Social Theory, Bielefeld University
![Marissa Thompson](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Marissa-Thompson.jpeg)
Marissa Thompson
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant
![Marissa Thompson](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Marissa-Thompson.jpeg)
Marissa Thompson
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant
![Marissa Thompson](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Marissa-Thompson.jpeg)
Marissa Thompson
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant
![Bruce Western | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/10/Bruce_Western.jpg)
Bruce Western
Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice; Director, Justice Lab
Elected member, American Philosophical Society
![Bruce Western | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/10/Bruce_Western.jpg)
Bruce Western
Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice; Director, Justice Lab
Elected member, American Philosophical Society
![Bruce Western | Faculty Distinction 2023/24](https://facultydistinction.fas.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/10/Bruce_Western.jpg)
Bruce Western
Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice; Director, Justice Lab
Elected member, American Philosophical Society
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