Previous Winners of the Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender Awards
Ileana Sansano
Ileana Sansano received the Senior Thesis Award for “HIV Test Counselors in California: An Investigation of Class, Race, Gender, Emotional Labor and Family Life” with faculty advisor Pamela Roby.
Brooke Baxter
Brooke Baxter received the Senior Thesis Award for “Harry Potter and the Sociologist’s Stone” with faculty advisor Andrew Szasz.
Shealeya Miller
Shaeleya Miller received the Senior Thesis Award for “Beyond Pole-arity: Negotiations and Accountability Among Feminists” with faculty advisor Melanie DuPuis.
Dmitry Kogan
Dmitry Kogan received the Senior Thesis Award for “How to Delete the Word ‘Street’ from Street Children” with faculty advisor Paul Lubeck.
Vicki Preciado
Vicki Preciado received the Senior Thesis Award for “On a Pathway of Missed Opportunities and Compromised Futures: Latino Continuation High School Students and their Chances of Dropping Out” with faculty advisor Gabriela Sandoval.
Wendy Ng
Wendy Ng received the Senior Thesis Award for “Weight as a Pre-requisite to Marriage: A Sociological Study of First Generation Chinese-American Women and their Parents” with faculty advisor Pamela Roby.
Susy Zepeda
Susy Zepeda received the Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2012 for her dissertation prospectus plus a chapter for "Gloria Anzaldua: Altars, Archives, and Opening up the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Her dissertation co-chairs were Herman Gray and Patricia Zavella.
Carson Watts
Carson Watts received the Senior Thesis Award for “Sanitation Services and Perceptions of Possibilities: A Case Study of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana” with faculty advisor Ben Crow.
Abuaoli “Arash” Mohajerinejad
Abuaoli “Arash” Mohajerinejad received the Senior Thesis Award for “An Evaluation of Women's Rights in a Post Islamic Republic Iran with a Look at the Role of Culture and Politics” with faculty advisor Hiroshi Fukurai.Kimberly Pistilli
Kimberly Pistilli received the Senior Thesis Award for “The Effects of Poverty on Expectations and Aspirations of Youth in Ejido Ruben Jaramillo, Mexico” with faculty advisors Ben Crow and Jonathan Fox.
Sandy Alvarado
Sandy Alvarado received the Senior Thesis Award for “Domestic Violence Services in the Midwest” with faculty advisor Herman Gray.
Zoe Barlett
Zoe Bartlett received the Senior Thesis Award for “The Unintended Consequences of Homeless Shelter Policies: Excluding the Homeless from Essential Services” with faculty advisor Miriam Greenberg.
Ksenya Kryliouk
Ksenya Kryliouk received the Senior Thesis Award for “Sexual Violence on College Campuses” with faculty advisor Hiroshi Fukurai.
Darshani Alahan
Darshani Alahan received the Senior Thesis Award for “Growing up as a Second-Generation White American Hindu: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to an Ethnographic Study” with faculty advisor Ben Crow.
Andres Arais
Andres Arias received the Senior Thesis Award for “The Invisible Army of Informal Labor: An Urban Ethnography of Latino Informality” with faculty advisor Steve McKay.
Claudia Lopez
Claudia Lopez received the Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2017 for her dissertation "The Life-Cycle of Forced Migration: The Lives and Politics of Internally Displaced Peasants in Medellin, Colombia." Her dissertation chair was Steve McKay.
Keelyanne Hyland
Keelyanne Hyland received the Senior Thesis Award for “An Approach to Service and Support Through a Trauma Informed Lens for Vulnerable Populations of Women Within Santa Cruz County” with faculty advisor Rebecca London.
Natalie Keller
Natalie Keller received the Senior Thesis Award for “The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Stockton” with faculty advisor Herman Gray.
Alyssa Garcia
Alyssa Garcia received the Senior Thesis Award for “The Political Economy of Legal Marijuana in California” with faculty advisor James Doucet-Battle.
John Kenney
John Kenney received the Senior Thesis Award for “Unsettling California: Understanding Empire through El Camino Real” with faculty advisor Lindsey Dillon.
Priyanka Kulkarni
Priyanka Kulkarni received the Senior Thesis Award for “Incarceration and Healthcare in Santa Cruz County Jails” with faculty advisor James Doucet-Battle.
Giselle Ortiz
Giselle Ortiz received the Senior Thesis Award for “Primera Generación: Experiences of Latinx Womxn Students at UCSC with Campus Resources” with faculty advisor Rebecca London.
Nadia Roche
Nadia Roche, Ph.D., received the Dissertation Award in 2020 for her dissertation, "Unruly Labia: Female Cosmetic Surgery and the Production of Normality." Her dissertation chair was Julie Bettie.
Nivie Oron
Nivie Oron received the Senior Thesis Award for “Fat as Flawless or Fatal? Weight Stigma and its Effect on Perceptions of Fat, Health, and Eating Disorders” with faculty advisor Rebecca London.
Michelle Gomez Parra
Michelle Gomez-Parra received the Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2021 for her dissertation proposal titled “Examining (Upwardly) Mobile Latinas’ Relationship to Heteronormativity.” Her dissertation co-chairs are Julie Bettie and Jessica Taft.
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