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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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2022-2023 Award Winners

  • Celia Alcantara

    Celia Alcantara

    Celia Alcantara is the recipient of the Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship in Anthropology.
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    Joy Anderson

    Joy Anderson received the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
  • Edith Avalos-Rodriguez

    Edith Avalos-Rodriguez

    Edith Avalos-Rodriguez is the recipient of the Kathryn Cheney Merriam Scholarship.
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    Brianna Barrientos

    Brianna Barrientos received the 2022-23 Chancellor's Award and the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Emmy Boe

    Emmy Boe received the 2022-23 Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Award.
  • Annabel Bouwer

    Annabel Bouwer

    Annabel Bouwer received the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
  • Eliana Bower

    Eliana Bower

    Eliana Bower received the 2022-2023 Keeley Coastal Scholars Award.
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    Serena Campbell

    Serena Campbell received the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Maria Luisa Carmona

    Maria Luisa Carmona received the 2022-23 Benjamin Quaye Award for Social Justice.
  • Amani Chowdhury

    Amani Chowdhury

    Amani Chowdhury is the recipient of a Fanny Carruthers Award in Sociology.
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    Chris DeMarinis-Gutierrez

    Chris DeMarinis-Gutierrez received the 2022-23 Valerie Fuette Scholarship.
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    Gepeng Ding

    Gepeng Ding received a 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Lauren Fritz

    Lauren Fritz received the 2022-2023 Keeley Coastal Scholars Award.
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    Olivia Uribe Garcia

    Olivia Uribe Garcia received the 2022-2023 Delta Kappa Gamma Education Award.
  • Suzie Gonzalez

    Suzie Gonzalez

    Suzie Gonzalez received the 2022-2023 Walsh Family Scholarship Award.
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    William Guerrero

    William Guerrero, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, received the 2023 Milam-McGinty-Kaun award.
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    Brent Horning

    Brent Horning received the Jeremy Demian Marx Award for Cultural Anthropology, and a 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Guneet Hora

    Guneet Hora received the 2022-23 Weiss Family Scholarship.
  • Jaden Huerta

    Jaden Huerta

    Jaden Huerta received the 2022-23 Benjamin Quaye Award Memorial Endowment for Social Justice.
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    Brooke Ashley Johnson

    Brooke Johnson received the 2022-23 Chancellor's Award and the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Elina Juvonen

    Elina Juvonen received the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Amanda LaPore

    Amanda LaPore received the 2022-23 Fanny Carruthers Award in Sociology.
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    John Matter

    John Matter received the 2023 Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship in Anthropology.
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    Samanta Meza

    Samanta Meza received the 2022-23 Walsh Family Scholarship Award.
  • Serena Mueller

    Serena Mueller

    Serena Mueller is a recipient of the Dr. Midori Arima Scholarship.
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    Oluwanifemi Ogundeko

    Oluwanifemi Ogundeko received the 2023 Robert J. Shepherd Economics Accounting Path Scholarship.
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    Simón Lincoln Pierce

    Simón Lincoln Pierce received the 2022-2023 Valerie Fuette Scholarship.
  • Ando Rabearisoa

    Ando Rabearisoa

    Ando Rabearisoa received the 2022-2023 Keeley Coastal Scholars Award.
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    Amanda Safi

    Amanda Safi received the 2022-23 Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Award.
  • Veronica Salazar

    Veronica Salazar

    Veronica Salazar received the 2022-2023 Walsh Family Scholarship Award.
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    Lilyana Sanchez

    Lilyana Sanchez received the 2022-2023 Sabrina Greenfield Award.
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    Bhavyaa Sharma

    Bhavyaa Sharma received the 2022-23 Milam-McGinty-Kaun Award.
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    Zoe Shmidt

    Zoe Shmidt received the 2022-2023 Ryan Heumann Award.
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    Wictoria Silvestre

    Wictoria Silvestre is a recipient of the 2023 Blanche McKenzie Scholarship.
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    Jiayue Sun

    Jiayue Sun received the 2022 Nancy Pascal Scholarship Award and the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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    Meghan Ueland

    Meghan Ueland received the 2022-2023 Richard and Cindy Morley Award in Education.
  • Salma Valladares

    Salma Valladares

    Salma Valladares received the 2022-2023 Keeley Coastal Scholars Award.
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    Elyse Venerable

    Elyse Venerable received the 2022-2023 Ryan Heumann Anthropology Undergraduate Award.
  • Elsie Vizcarra

    Elsie Vizcarra

    Elsie Vizcarra received the 2022-2023 Walsh Family Scholarship Award.
  • Sofia Wageman

    Sofia Carolina Wageman

    Sofia Carolina Wageman is the recipient of the Fanny Carruthurs Award in Sociology.
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    Morgan Yates

    Morgan Yates received the 2022-23 Social Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award.

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