the Social Science Research Council 1965–1966: Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 1968–1969: Guggenheim Fellowship 1978–present: Appointment as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1987: The Lester F. Ward Distinguished Contributions Award in Applied Sociology 1991: The Ninth Annual Jeffrey Pressman Award (Policy Studies Association) 2001: John P. McGovern Award in Behavioral Sciences 2001: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipient of the Seventh James Wilbur Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Appreciation and Advancement of Human Values by the Conference on Value Inquiry Recipient of the Sociological Practice Association's Outstanding Contribution Award 2016: Officially became a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Honorary degrees from Rider College (1980); Governors State University (1987); the University of Utah (1991); Colorado College (1994); Connecticut College (1994); Walden University (1997); Franklin Pierce College (2004); and the University of Cologne (2009). Personal life After graduating with his PhD, Etzioni then remained in the United States to pursue a career as an academic and public intellectual. He became an American citizen in 1963, shortly after he was elected to the board of Americans for Democratic Action. Etzioni met a fellow student named Chava while studying sociology in Israel. They married in 1953. Etzioni and Chava relocated to the United States in 1957. They had two sons together: Ethan (born 1958) and Oren (born 1962). In 1964, Chava and Etzioni divorced and she returned to Israel. In his autobiography, Etzioni wrote that the divorce was one of his "gravest personal failures. We should have found a way." In 1966, Etzioni married Mexican scholar Minerva Morales. They had three sons: Michael, David, and Benjamin. Morales was raised Catholic, but converted to Judaism, Etzioni's religion. On 20 December 1985, Minerva was killed in a car crash. Etzioni has written of his considerable grief over her death and that of his son Michael, who died of a heart attack in 2006, leaving behind a pregnant wife and a son. On 6 November 1992, Etzioni married Patricia Kellogg. Etzioni provided a personal account of his work and life in a memoir called My Brother's Keeper. He has augmented this account with an essay about losing his voice called "My Kingdom for a Wave." He revealed his early childhood experiences to be the source of his feelings against war and aggression in a