Two Sociologists Honored
April 2006
At the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, sociologists Hans-Peter Kohler and Samuel Preston were presented with awards for achievements in the field of population.
Kohler, an associate professor of sociology, was honored with the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement. The award recognizes early career achievement in population studies and demography. It honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievements of population professionals who have attained their highest professional degree within the previous 20 years.
Preston, the Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and professor of sociology, received the Mindel C. Sheps Award. The award, jointly sponsored by the PAA and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, is given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology. Individuals are nominated on the basis of important contributions to knowledge either in the form of a single piece of work or a continuing record of high accomplishment.
The Population Association of America is a scientific organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population. Membership includes demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals and others interested in research and education in the population field.