Assistant professor of sociology and public policy receives the award. Roy C. Buck

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sarah Brothers, assistant professor of sociology and public policy and co-funded faculty member of the Institute for Social Research, has been named the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts’ 2024 Roy C Buck Award.

This award is given to the best paper accepted or published by a non-tenure track faculty member at the university within the past year. Brothers received the award for her article “Perceptions of HCV Treatment with Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs): A Qualitative Analysis with HIV/HCV Co-Infected Individuals Who Delay or Refuse Treatment,” published in the journal AIDS and Behavior in 2023

Award named after The Roy C. Buck Award is given to non-tenure-track university faculty members whose research spans the social sciences and humanities. The award was established by Roy C. Buck, a professor of rural sociology who retired from Penn State in 1981.