Dr. Thomas Calhoun, associate vice president for Academic Affairs and professor of sociology at Jackson State University, is the recipient of the 2016 Marguerite Rogers Howie Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, Inc. (ASBS). The honor was announced during the ASBS annual meeting in March.
Calhoun was an educator for many years at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Following his stint at SIU, he joined the faculty of JSU and has also served as interim associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts. His primary areas of research and teaching include deviance, qualitative methods and race and ethics relations.
The Marguerite Rogers Howie Distinguished Service Award was initiated to commemorate the lengthy and outstanding service given to ASBS by Professor Marguerite Rogers Howie. The award is presented annually to an ASBS member whose service models that of Professor Howie.
ASBS was founded by Theophilus E. McKinney in 1935 at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. Annually, social and behavioral scientists and other scholars from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) host the conference as a forum to continue the work of ASGS and to address issues that impact communities, nation and world.