Fernando Tormos-Aponte won an early career award from the American Sociological Association

Fernando Tormos-Aponte, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, has won an Distinguished Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA).

He was honored in the ASA’s Collective Behavior and Social Movement section, which focuses on the study of emergent social forms and behaviors — including crowds, social movements, disasters, riots and fads.

Along with his role in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Tormos-Aponte is a Kendall Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He earned his PhD in political science from Purdue University and a BA from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He has been at Pitt since 2022. Tormos-Aponte’s research focuses on how social movements cope with internal divisions and gain political influence.