Awards & Grants

Awards

2023   Theory Prize, ASA Section on Theory, “Inequality without Groups: Contemporary Theories of Categories, Intersectional Typicality, and the Disaggregation of Difference” Sociological Theory.

2023  Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class, “Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the U.S.A.” American Journal of Sociology.

2023   Best Article Award, ASA Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, “Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the U.S.A.” American Journal of Sociology.

2022   Devah Pager Article Award, Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, “Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the U.S.A.” American Journal of Sociology.

2019   George Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

2018   Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities “The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African Americans” American Journal of Sociology.

2016   Outstanding Recent Contribution to Social Psychology Award, ASA Social Psychology Section, “The Cost of Color: Skin Color, Discrimination, and Health among African Americans” American Journal of Sociology.

2013    Herbert Blumer Prize, Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, “The Cost of Color in the United States: Skin Color, Social Distance, Discrimination and Health among Black Americans.”

2012   James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, “Skin Tone Stratification among Black Americans, 2001-2003.”

2010    Herbert Blumer Prize, Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, “Towards a Regional Model of ‘Race’ in Brazil.”

2009   Herbert Blumer Prize, Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, “Race, Campaign Contributions, and the Road to Electoral Success.”

Grants

2022-2027   “The Optics of Health: Race, Skin Tone, Minority Health, and Health Disparities in the U.S.” NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH) ($2,535,000).

2021-2022    “Race, Skin Tone, and Health.” The Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHESS), University of Chicago ($30,000).

2021  Clark Research Award, Harvard University ($6,000).

2020-2022  “Skin Tone and Police Killings in the U.S.A.: Evidence from the Fatal Encounters Database.” Foundations of Human Behavior, Harvard University ($23,475) [PI: Monk; with Michael Esposito, Hedwig Lee, and Frank Edwards].

2019-2022   “Skin Tone, Discrimination, and Health in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP).” National Institutes of Health & National Institute of Aging (NIH and NIA) ($167,300).