Sociology and Criminology Student Awards
Each spring the Department of Sociology and Criminology honors its outstanding students with departmental awards. We invite others to join us in celebrating their achievements.
Presented to a graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement in the major.
- 2023: Lauren Moreland
- 2022: Caitlin Segraves, Vanessa Wilson
Honors the student who has best demonstrated the relationship between sociological thought and service.
- 2022: Allison Browning
Presented to the student who has best demonstrated the application of the sociological imagination to the analysis of social issues.
- 2023: Laura Vandermeulen
- 2022: Miriam Berne
Recognizes the student who best demonstrates an aptitude for criminology.
- 2023: Sydney Green
- 2022: William Gigerich
Honors the student who best demonstrates the link between social theory and empirical research.
- 2023: Emma Bergquist
- 2022: Grace Johnson
Recognizes the student who best displays an aptitude for sociological theory.
- 2023: Ash McIntosh
- 2022: Abiodun (Abey) Akinseye
Presented to the student who best demonstrates the application of sociology to further cultural understanding and social justice.
- 2023: Andre Hardy
- 2022: Emily Leonard
Recognizes a student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology for outstanding work in criminology and deviance.
- 2023: Hannah Ballard
- 2022: Olivia Ryder
Recognizes a student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology for outstanding work in transnational sociology.
- 2023: Molly Freeman
- 2022: Ian Carroll
Awarded based upon academic achievement and service to Butler University and the larger community in memory of Dr. Richard E. Martin, a sociologist, professor, and administrator at Butler for 31 years. Students awarded this scholarship also demonstrate a strong interest in pursuing graduate studies or a career in the social sciences.
- 2023: Anna Overman
- 2022: Molly Freeman, Lauren Moreland
Recognizes a student’s effort to embody the spirit of Weidner, a Dutch citizen who helped more than 1,000 people escape from the Nazis during World War II. This award is chosen each year by the Student Sociology and Criminology Association, which, in 2006, founded the first collegiate chapter of the National John Henry Weidner Foundation for Altruism.
- 2023: Kenya Bustos Diaz
- 2022: Gianna Bucaro
Recognizes a student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology for outstanding work in transnational sociology.
2023: Molly Freeman
Student who has best demonstrated the relationship between sociological thought and service.
2023: Abby Lane
2023: Meghan Beckmann