Student Profiles

Student award and scholarship recipients across the Division of Social Sciences share what UC Santa Cruz means to them, advice for fellow students, and plans for the future.

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2021-2022 Award Winners

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  Benjamin Ahlvik-Garrison

  Benjamin Ahlvik-Garrison received the 2021/2022 Kathryn Cheney Merriam Scholarship. 
  
  
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  Gypsy Alvarado Covarrubias

  Gypsy Alvarado Covarrubias is a recipient the 2021-2022 Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
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  Natalie Barnett

  Natalie Barnett is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Gabriel Zimmerman Scholarship.
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  Hannah Biven

  Hannah Biven is a recipient of the Jeremy Demian Marx Award for Cultural Anthropology.
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  Gillian Bogart

  Gillian Bogart is the recipient of a 2022 Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship in Anthropology.
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  Rojina Bozorgnia

  Rojina Bozorgnia is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Benjamin Quaye Memorial Scholarship.
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  Grace Brieger

  Grace Brieger is a recipient of a 2021-2022 Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research.
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  Nicole Britton

  Nicole Britton is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Weiss Family Scholarship.
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  Heather Collins

  Heather Collins is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Valerie Fuette Scholarship.
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  Sanya Cowal

  Sanya Cowal is a recipient of the Jessica Roy Memorial Award from the Environmental Studies Department.
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  Julian Crown

  Julian Crown is a recipient of the 2022 Fanny Carruthers Award in Sociology.
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  Caitlin Daly

  Caitlin Daly is the recipient of a 2022 Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship in Anthropology.
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  Fiona DeBernardi

  Fiona DeBernardi is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research..

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  Norberto Garcia

  Norberto Garcia received the Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender Senior Thesis Award.
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  Nona Golan

  Nona Golan is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research.
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  Rachel Heath

  Rachel Heath is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Sabrina Greenfield Memorial Scholarship.

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  Guneet Hora

  Guneet Hora is the recipient of a 2022 Dr. Aaronette White Scholarship.
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  John Jezek

  John Jezek is the recipient a 2021-2022 Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research.

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  Tina Lam

  Tina Lam is a recipient of the Richard and Cindy Morley Award in Education.
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  Tiffany Lockett

  Tiffany Lockett is a recipient the 2021-2022 Milam-McGinty-Kaun Award for Teaching Excellence (Psychology).

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  Elena Losada

  Elena Losada is a recipient of the Jessica Roy Memorial Award from the Sociology Department.
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  Chloe Alysse Magidoff

  Chloe Alysse Magidoff is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Award and a Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research.

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  Marisol Ornelas

  Marisol Ornelas is a recipient the 2021-2022 Valerie Fuette Scholarship.
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  Andy Rae

  Andy Rae is a recipient the 2021-2022 Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
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  Leigh Rodi

  Leigh Rodi is a recipient the 2021-2022 Deans' Award for Undergraduate Research.
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  Tamar Sasson

  Tamar Sasson is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Walsh Family Scholarship
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  Uriel Serrano

  Uriel Serrano is the recipient of the Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender Graduate Award.
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  Mary Shamon

  Mary Shamon is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Rick Hooper Scholarship.
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  Harrison Shieh

  Harrison Shieh is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Milam-McGinty Kaun Award for Outstanding Teaching.

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  Josie Smith

  Josie Smith is a recipient of the Dr. Aaronette White Award.
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  McKenna Smith

  McKenna Smith is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Keeley Coastal Scholars Award.

   

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  Zahirah Suhaimi

  Zahirah Suhaimi is a recipient of the 2021-22 Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship in Anthropology.
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  Dana Tam

  Dana Tam is a recipient the 2021-2022 Walsh Family Scholarship.
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  Claudia Torres

  Claudia Torres is a recipient the 2021-2022 Dean's Undergraduate Award from Social Sciences and the 2021-22 Sociology of Race, Class, and Gender Senior Thesis Award from Sociology.
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  Cearra Upton

  Cearra Upton is a recipient the 2021-2022 Robert J. Shepherd Economics Accounting Path Scholarship.
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  Annabelle Venegas

  Annabelle Venegas is a recipient of the Dr. Aaronette White Award.
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  Roxanna Villalobos

  Roxanna Villalobos is the recipient of the Sociology of Race, Class and Gender Graduate Award.
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  Gabriel Ephraim Kaplan Wall

  Gabriel Ephraim Kaplan Wall is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Jeremy Demian Marx Award for Cultural Anthropology.
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  Yehan Weerasuriya

  Yehan Weerasuriya is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Robert J. Shepherd Economics Accounting Path Scholarship.