American Sociological Association honors Annenberg’s Elihu Katz
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Elihu Katz, Ph.D., Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, has been named the 2009 winner of the “William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award,” which is presented by The American Sociological Association’s section on Communication and Information Technologies.
The award recognizes a sustained body of research that has provided an outstanding contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the area of sociology of communications and/or the sociology of information technology. It is named for the late William F. Ogburn, former president of the ASA.
Professor Katz was a unanimous choice of the awards committee, which includes Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication at Annenberg.
Past winners of the Ogburn Award include:
2008 - William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation
2007 - David Lyon, Queen's University
2006 - Manuel Castells, University of Southern California
2004 - Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
2003 - Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University
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