Fienberg was a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,[4] an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[5] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[6] a fellow of the American Statistical Association[7] and a winner of its Wilks Award, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[8] He was one of the foremost social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data, the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation. He authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis,[9] US census adjustment,[10] and forensic science.[11] He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[12] Fienberg was the winner of the 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research,[13] and he was selected to be the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2015.[14]