Ranita Ray (Sociology) received multiple scholarship awards. Her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2018), was awarded the 2020 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, and it was also selected as a finalist for the 2020 American Sociological Association's Sociology of Education Bourdieu Best Book Award. These awards are in addition to the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) that Ray received for her book in August 2019. She also received an honorable mention of the Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award from SSSP for her article, "Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals.”