Cheryl Miller Lecturer Award on Women and Social Change (1989), alumnus awards from both California State University, Long Beach (1990) and the University of New Mexico (1993), the Meyers Center Book Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America (1997) and two prestige awards from the American Sociological Association in 2000. References External links Profile page: Maxine Baca Zinn Sociology Department, Michigan State University American sociologists American women sociologists 1942 births Living people University of Michigan faculty 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American scientists 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women scientists