Faculty Excellence

Kathryn Freeman Anderson

2013. Outstanding Author Contribution Award, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, for “Racial Residential Segregation and Access to Health Care Coverage: A Multilevel Analysis,” co-authored with Andrew S. Fullerton.

2016. Honorable Mention for Outstanding Publication Award, Southwestern Sociological Association, for “Legalizing LGBT Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood.”
2010. Distinguished Paper Award, Southwestern Sociological Association, for “Legislating the Family,” coauthored with D’Lane R. Compton.
2007. Public Policy Fellowship, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law.

2019. Teaching Excellence Award for Instructional or Clinical Faculty, University of Houston.

2023. Best Paper Award Shortlist, Journal of Professions and Organization Conference, for “What drives organizational missions in the nonprofit sector? An Institutional logic dependence perspective,” co-authored with Young-joo Lee.
2022. Best Paper Award, Midwest Academy of Management Annual Conference, for “The Antecedents of Institutional Conformity: The Case of the Local United Way Affiliates and their Response to Field Change Efforts,” co-authored with Laurie E. Paarlberg, Megan LePere-Schloop, and Wenpei You.
2021. Emerging Scholar Award, ARNOVA.
2019. The Ruth C. Schaffer Award, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, for “How does community philanthropy function: Direct effects of social problems and the moderating role of community racial diversity,” co-authored with Tiffany Amorette Young.
2019. Doctoral Fellowship Award, ARNOVA.
2016. STARS Award, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University.

2014. Brown Foundation Fellow, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France.
2007. Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence Award, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston.
2006. Finalist, Teaching Excellence Award in Tenure/Tenure Track, University of Houston.
2006. Finalist, Teaching Excellence Award in Innovative Teaching, University of Houston.
2004. Research Fellowship, Friends of Women Studies, University of Houston.

2020. Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston.
2012. Summer Writing Fellowship, Research Committee on Academic Personnel, Sonoma State University.
2009. Summer Writing Fellowship, Research Committee on Academic Personnel, Sonoma State University.

2017. Outstanding Women Honoree, Education, Houston YWCA (May 4, 2017)
2013. University Commission on Women, Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award (Pre-Tenure Category)
2012. University of Houston Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award
2012. College of Liberal Arts and Social Science’s Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence Award
2011. Best Publication Award, American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on the Body and Embodiment

2010. Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Health of Older Minorities, Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch.
2008. Postdoctoral Fellowship on Aging and the Life Course, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2008. Gordon D. and Izola P. Morgan Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Washington State University.
2006. Gordon D. and Izola P. Morgan Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Washington State University.
2005. James F. Short Jr. Award, Department of Sociology, Washington State University.

2019. Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship, Rice University.
2014. Research Fellowship, The Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Houston.

2014. Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside
2012. ASA Section for Mathematical Sociology Best Graduate Student Paper Award for “Predicting Social Influence: A Model at the Intersection of Sociology and Psychology” (with David Melamed)