Sociology@UCSantaCruz is proud to announce the following graduate student scholarship, awards, publications and other scholarly achievements in the 2017-2018 academic year.
MILESTONES
3 PhD Recipients
Christie McCullen completed the PhD program with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies (Summer 2017); Dissertation title: “Felt Understandings: Talking About Race in College Classrooms”; Committee: Dan Takagi (Chair), Herman Gray, Julie Bettie.
Darren Willett completed the PhD program (Summer 2017); Dissertation title: “All that is Solid Melts into Sound: Music, Interculturality and the (Trans)formation of the Self in Desegregation Era Los Angeles”; Committee: Eric Porter (Chair), Herman Gray, Julie Bettie.
Bernie Zaleha completed the PhD program with a Designated Emphasis in Environmental Studies (Spring 2018); Dissertation title: “A Tale of Two Christianities: The Religiopolitical Clash Over Climate Change Within America’s Dominant Religion”; Committee: Andrew Szasz (Chair), Miriam Greenberg, Nathaniel Deutsch, Bron Taylor.
5 MA Recipients
Kyle Galindez MA paper title: “Defend Mother Earth! And Sign My Petition? Metaphors, Tactics, and Environmental Movement Organizations”
Aida Mukharesh MA paper title: “Organizing Anarchy: The limits and possibilities of radical place-making in West Oakland”
Saugher Nojan MA paper title: “Afghan-Americans Negotiating the Paradox of Visibility”
Uriel Serrano MA paper title: “Campus Racial Microclimates: The Complex Experiences of Black and Latino Men with Compositional Diversity”
James Sirigotis MA paper title: pending.
4 Qualifying Exams
Fall 2017: Kristin Miller, Stephen Sepaniak
Spring 2018: Aida Mukharesh with Honors, Julian Rodriguez
PUBLICATIONS
Andy Murray’s master’s thesis on "Meat cultures: Lab-grown meat and the politics of contamination" was published as an article in BioSocieties.
Uriel Serrano published two research reports with Professor Veronica Terriquez titled “A Beloved Community: Promoting The Healing, Well-Being, and Leadership Capacities of Boys and Young Men of Color” and “Youth and Community Well-Being in Mid-City Community Advocacy Network” for the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE); and a book review of “Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions” for the Journal of Negro Education.
Yvonne Sherwood published a book review of “Prairie Rising” for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, OTHER RECOGNITIONS
Kati Barahona-López recipient of a 2017 PIMSA Award; serving on the ASA’s Student Forum Advisory Board.
Laura Harrison recipient of a Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship for the Fall 2018 quarter.
Theresa Johnson recipient of a GSA Research & Travel Grant.
Aki Kurosawa recipient of a GSA Research & Travel Grant.
Yi-Chen Liu recipient of a Certificate in Guitar Craft from the Musicians Institute.
Sarah Mason recipient of a GSA Research & Travel Grant.
Marcelo Mendez recipient of a UC HRI Humanists at Work Conference Travel Grant.
Kristin Miller completed her second year as a HASTAC Scholar (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory); Participant of the HKW’s Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia.
Aida Mukharesh recipient of a UCSC-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program grant.
Saugher Nojan recipient of a Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant for the Muslim Students Capture Campus Climate Photovoice Exhibit; a GSA grant for research development; Graduate Student Fellowship from the UC California Immigration Research Initiative; and was elected to serve on the ASA’s Student Forum Advisory Board for a 2-year term.
Justin Obcena recipient of a distinguished service award as a PyeongChang 2018 Olympic/Paralympic Volunteer.
Michelle Parra recipient of the Lionel Cantú Memorial Award.
Julian Rodriguez recipient of a Lionel Cantú Memorial Award and was a 2018 CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellow.
Toni Rouhana recipient of a Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.
Uriel Serrano received Honorable Mention and Alternate for the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, a UCSC-Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program grant, recipient of the Lionel Cantú Memorial Award, elected as Graduate Student Representative for the ASA Latino/a Sociology Section, elected as the Graduate Student Representative for the PSA Board of Directors while finishing a 3-year term with the PSA’s Student Affairs Committee.
Yvonne Sherwood recipient of a President's Dissertation Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year; a GSA Research & Travel Grant; an ASA Travel Grant Award; and is one of three recipients of the 2018 Jessica L. Roy Memorial Award.
Roxanna Villalobos recipient of a UCSC Blum Scholars Research Grant and a Koret Graduate Student Mentor Scholarship.
Erica Zurawski recipient of an ASFS Conference Travel Grant; an ASA Student Travel Grant and a GSA Research & Travel Grant.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... GRAD STUDENTS IN THE NEWS
Sociology graduate student Julian Rodriguez selected for the 2018 Graduate Pedagogy Fellows Program
