Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow Sean Mitchell (2008-09) published the book Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil with the University of Chicago Press in 2017, which was awarded the Sergio Buarque Holanda Prize for best book in the social sciences by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association in 2018.
His co-authored article (with Charles H. Klein and Benjamin Junge), "Naming Brazil’s Previously Poor: ‘New Middle Class’ as an Economic, Political, and Experiential Category” (Economic Anthropology, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 83–95), was also awarded the Sergio Buarque Holanda Prize – for best article in the social sciences – in 2019.
Mitchell was promoted to associate professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark in 2017.