November Faculty Awards

2016 Alfred and Betty McClung Outstanding Book Award

“Children of Katrina,” written by CU-Boulder Sociology alums Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek, was selected as the 2016 co-recipient of the Alfred and Betty McClung Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Humanist Sociologists (AHS). Peek, who will become a faculty member in Sociology at CU-Boulder and director of the Natural Hazards Center in January 2017, represented the author team at the AHS award ceremony. She was joined by the Professor Aldon Morris, whose book “The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. DuBois and the Birth of Modern Sociology” was named the other 2016 co-winner.