When Anne Taylor stepped into her first sociology class as an undergraduate history major, she didn’t know she was about to find a new academic home. “I had an incredible mentor, Lawrence Holcomb, who was a sociologist. I took as many classes with him as I could,” she said. “He presented what, to me, felt like a radical view of social life at the time, given the bubble I was raised in. Sociology opened my mind up to the beauty and diversity of the world.