John Anderson
- 2017 John J. Hill Award, Association of Lifelong Learners
- 2018 Outstanding Professor, Student Government Association
Sara Collas
- 2018 Faculty Academy Participant
Fang Gong
- 2011 Excellence in Research Award, Center for Disease Control and Transmission Behavioral and Social Science Working Group (with Fujishiro and Xu).
- 2011 Alice Hamilton Award, Honorable Mention for health and safety intervention materials, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (With Sherry Baron et al.).
Kim Hennessee
2018 Nominee, National Residence Hall Honorary Outstanding Professor
Mellisa Holtzman
Honors and Awards
- 2022 Aida Tomeh Distinguished Service Award, North Central Sociological Association
- 2021 Freshman Convocation Speaker, Ball State University
- 2019 Outstanding Teaching Award, Ball State University
- 2018 Ball State Softball Most Valuable Professor Honoree, Ball State University
- 2017 Professor of the Month Award, Alpha Gamma Delta, Ball State University
- 2017 National Residence Hall Honorary Award, Ball State University
- 2014 John F. Schnabel Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, North Central Sociological Association
- 2007 Lawhead Teaching Award in the University Core Curriculum, Ball State University
- 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award, Ball State University
- 2000 Edwin Ford Piper Memorial Scholarship Award Recipient, University of Iowa
Research Grants and Fellowships
- 2023 Banerjee, Aashna, Larry Gerstein, and Mellisa Holtzman. “Sexual Violence Prevention Program for College Women in India.” Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Fellowship, $50,000
- 2009 National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences Division, Law and Social Sciences and Sociology Programs (joint funding), “Precipitating Legal Change: Children’s Rights, Family Definitions, and Judicial Decision-Making,” $81,671
- 2008 General Faculty Research Grant, Ball State University, “Children’s Rights, Family Definitions, and the Maintenance of Attachment Relationships in Custody Decision Making,” $12,895
- 2005 John W. Fisher Faculty Research Fellowship in American Business or Politics, Ball State University, “Theorizing Legal Change,” $2000
- 2005 Lumina Foundation for Education Fellowship, Ball State University, “The ‘Problem’ of Application Questions: Determining What They Really Mean,” $3000
- 2004 New Faculty Research Grant, Ball State University, “Definitions of the Family among College Students: Biology, Social Attachment, or Ambivalence,” $4464
Melinda Messineo
- 2016 Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, American Sociological Association, Section on Teaching and Learning
- 2016 Outstanding faculty Service Award, Ball State University
- 2011 Accessible Teacher of the Year Award, Disabled Student Services, Ball State University
- 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award, Ball State University
- 2009 John H Schnabel Award- Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award from North Central Sociological Association
- 2008 “Whitinger Scholar Lecture” – selected by fourth year Whitinger Scholars
- 2004 “Vivian Conley Award” – for Outstanding Achievement in Community Service
- 2004, 2009 “Green Initiative Award” – for integration of environmental issues and sustainability into the First Year Experience program, BSU Council on the Environment
- 2003 “Lawhead Award” – For excellence in the Core Curriculum, 2003
Lisa Pellerin
2015 Academic Excellence Grant “Social Science Departmental Advising Initiative,” $300,000 (with Professors Messineo, Hogue, Morrison, Mittleman, and Reagan).
Richard Petts
Honors and Awards
- 2020 Outstanding Research Award, Ball State University
Research Grants and Fellowships
- 2023-2024 grant from Russell Sage Foundation (Grant Award Number 2205-38532), Attitudes about Parental Leave-Taking for Single and Same-Gender Parents, $114,806 (co-PIs Trenton D. Mize and Gayle Kaufman)
- 2022-2025 grant from National Science Foundation (Grant Award Numbers 2148610 and 2148501), Collaborative Research – Parenting, Housework, Well-Being, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, $330,000 (co-PI Daniel L. Carlson)
- 2020 grant from American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, The Long-Term Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Household Gender Equality, $8,000 (co-PIs Daniel L. Carlson and Joanna R. Pepin)
- 2017-2019 grant from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant Award Number R03HD087875), Paternity Leave and Family Health and Well-Being, $162,032 (co-investigator Chris Knoester)
- 2018 Faculty Fellow Lead, Skills Infusion Program, Ball State University
- 2018 Faculty Fellow Participant, Skills Infusion Program, Ball State University
- 2012 Sponsored Programs Office Summer Fellow, Ball State University
Jun Xu
- 2017 Diversity Research Award, the Office of Inclusive Excellence, Ball State University
- 2015 Research Article Award, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, for the paper titled “Marginalized Model Minority? An Empirical Examination of the Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” published at Social Forces with Jennifer Lee (award given to the best article published on Asia and Asian Americans in 2013-2015).
- 2011 Excellence in Research Award, Center for Disease Control and Transmission Behavioral and Social Science Working Group (with Fujishiro and Gong).
Ellen Whitehead
- 2022-2026 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, United States Department of Agriculture (joint funding), “Rural Informal Work in Economically, Socially, Culturally, and Technologically Changing Contexts”
- 2023 Center for Middletown Studies Research Fellowship, Ball State University (joint funding), “Residential Decision-Making of College Students in an Era of Increasing Political Bifurcation and Devolution of Individual Rights”
- 2022 Aspire Junior Faculty Research Grant, Ball State University, “Online Crowdfunding as an Emerging Safety Net for American Families”
- 2020-2022 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant (joint funding), “How Rental Property Management Shapes Social and Economic Inequality”