Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, both associate professors of sociology, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology for the book they co-authored, On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy.
The awards committee unanimously selected their book out of 70 submissions for its comprehensive methodology, humanist perspective and demonstration of the relationships between, gender, power, race and class on outcomes for teen moms.
The committee also noted that the book is rigorously written and offers a compelling argument for social activists.