Dr. Thomas Calhoun, associate vice president for academic affairs at Jackson State University, is the recipient of the 2015 James E. Blackwell Founders Award from the Association of Black Sociologists.
The award recognizes Calhoun’s “lifetime achievements and his sustained contributions of more than 20 years to scholarship, teaching and professional service.”
He was recently honored at the 2015 Association of Black Sociologists Annual Conference in Chicago. Calhoun was an educator for many years at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Following his stint at SIU, he joined the faculty of JSU, retiring as a professor of sociology and interim associate dean.
Calhoun’s primary areas of research and teaching included deviance, qualitative methods and race and ethics relations.