Harvard Sociology & Social Policy graduate student Deirdre Bloome and Harvard Sociology graduate student Christopher Muller (pictured) received honorable mention for the 2013 ASA Section on Population Student Paper Award for their co-authored paper, “Slavery and African-American Marriage in the Postbellum South, 1860-1880.”

Harvard Sociology alumnus Lincoln Quillian is this year’s winner of the award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population for his article, “Segregation and Poverty Concentration: The Role of Three Segregations,” published in the American Sociological Review. Dennis Hogan is this year’s winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award for his book, Family Consequences of Children’s Disabilities, and Abigail Weitzman is this year’s winner of the Section on Population Student Paper Award, for her article, “The Daughter Tax: The Effects of Daughters on Maternal Outcomes in the Developing World.” These authors will be recognized at the ASA Population section’s reception (co-sponsored with the Family section) on Monday, August 12th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Croton Reservoir Tavern in New York City.