William G. Roy - UCLA's Department of Sociology

William G. Roy. Page 2
Honors and Awards:
2005 UCLA Graduate Student Association James LuValle Distinguished
Service Award for representing the interests and concerns of graduate and
professional students at UCLA.
2004 UCLA Academic Senate Certificate of Achievement
1999 American Sociological Association, Distinguished Contribution to
Teaching Award.
1997 Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in
America named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997.
1989 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
1987-89 National Science Foundation Research Grant: AThe Rise of American
Industrial Corporations, 1880-1913.@
1980-82 University of California Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship
1978-present UCLA Academic Senate Research Grants
1978 University of California Summer Junior Faculty Fellowship
1974-77 National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant
1974 International Studies Association, Summer Dissertation Fellowship
1968-69 National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship
1973-76
1968 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
1968 Phi Beta Kappa
Research Interests:
1. The social construction of society, especially the relationship of culture and social
inequality. Large scale political transformations, especially the relationship
between economic change and national state formation.
2. Comparative-Historical Methods.
3. Sociology of music
4. Social Movements