Student Awards And Recognition

April 24, 2014
Graduate student Jonathan Endelman has been awarded a Fox Fellowship from Yale’s MacMillan Center. He will spend the next year in Istanbul, Turkey, where he will be...
April 24, 2014
Graduate student Jensen Sass has been awarded a 2014-2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowship. This prestigious award is intended to support a year of research and...
April 8, 2014
Graduate student Luke Wagner has been selected for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Nepal. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange...
September 9, 2013
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. The grants, which are intended to...
Craig Holloway
June 26, 2013
PhD student Craig Holloway is one of the thirteen fellows selected as an ISPS Policy Fellow for the 2013–14 academic year. See below for the links to Craig’s profile and to...
June 4, 2013
Graduate student Mira Debs has won a Research Mini-Grant from the American Montessori Society Research Committee. Her dissertation, an ethnography, examines parental...
May 29, 2013
We are proud to announce that Jenny Shelby has been awarded the Department’s Mildred Priest Frank Award for her senior thesis, “Prescribing Power and The Pill: Medical...
Xiaohong Xu
May 10, 2013
Xiaohong Xu has received honorable mention for the Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper in the ASA Sociology of Culture section, for his paper “Belonging Before...
Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award
May 8, 2013
Rui Gao has won this year’s Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award for her 2011 thesis Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist...
Michael Sierra-Arevalo
May 6, 2013
  Michael Sierra-Arévalo is accompanying Professor Andy Papachristos, the featured presenter at the Safe Oakland Speaker Series on May 22, on a joint research tour in...