Sociology@UCSantaCruz is proud to announce the following undergraduate student scholarship and award recipients, along with those receiving honors in the major.
Sociology of Race, Class and Gender Senior Thesis Award
Keelyanne Hyland
Senior Thesis: An Approach to Service and Support Through a Trauma Informed Lens for Vulnerable Populations of Women Within Santa Cruz County
Faculty Advisor Rebecca London: "In this project, Keelyanne sought to better understand ‘trauma-informed care’ and how it is used in our local context, the challenges that services providers face in implementing this service approach, and how it affects the vulnerable populations it is meant to support. Keelyanne demonstrates through her research the institutional, cultural, and societal barriers facing vulnerable women and how a trauma-informed approach can help to mitigate the injustices that vulnerable women have faced due to their race, class and gender. It has been a heroic undertaking on a scale beyond what I think is expected for an undergraduate thesis and she has done a tremendous job."
Natalie Keller
Senior Thesis: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Stockton
Faculty Advisor Herman Gray: "This is a pressing and daunting topic with implications and consequences that reverberate across the country. Natalie effectively has carved out a modest but no less impressive way into this large issue.Indeed, she has taken on an issue about which she cares deeply and she has used her research to show how social, racial, and economic inequality operates in the policies, rules, practices and funding of public education which as her case study suggests has far reaching implications for our understanding of the relationship between schools and prisons. That she has taken on this issue with passion, courage, and purpose and that she has used her research skills and intellectual curiosity is an achievement deserving of celebration and recognition."
Fanny Carruthers Sociology Scholarship
Kylee Gonzalez
Recommended by Sarah Rapp: "Kylee is incredibly smart, a fine writer who is also eager to continue her own learning. Beyond that, Kylee has a deep understanding of the multiple and complex challenges that students face, as well as a commitment to social justice issues. Kylee has served in educational roles, such as interning in a continuation school Social Studies classroom, being a peer advisor for marginalized college students, and working as a course assistant for her undergraduate peers. Her major in Sociology and double-minor in Education and History have given Kylee knowledge that she can share with her future students, though what impresses me the most about Kylee is her desire to continue to learn about issues related to teaching and social justice at a much deeper level than the usual norm."
Deans’ and Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award
Natalie Keller
Senior Thesis: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Stockton
Division of Social Sciences Walsh Family Scholarship
Laura Wishart
Division of Social Sciences Weiss Family Scholarship
Ilene Le
Ruby Diaz De Leon Sanchez
Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship
John Kenney
Asante Nkosi (admitted to UC Hastings School of Law for Fall 2018)
Gold Service Award & the Community Service Project Grant
Krista Lum
Colleges 9 and 10 Leadership Award
Kylee Gonzalez
College 9 Service Award
Huzaifa Shahbaz
Blum Summer Scholar Awards
Aria Critchfield
Project: Initiating Justice During the New Jim Crow
Ines Galmiche
Project: Abuja Summer Institute
Koret Scholar Awards
Aleya “Lola” Caballero
Project: Brown Girl Pissed
Crystal Gomez
Project: Understanding the Role School Systems Play in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Socorro Ramirez-Gamino
Project: (Re)membering Citizenship: Memories of Political Membership from ‘Anchor Babies’ & ‘Derivative Citizens’
Invited to Phi Beta Kappa Membership
Students whose academic records reflect both excellence and breadth are invited to join this oldest academic honor society in the United States.
Carol Amaya
Kyra Da Cunha
Kylee Gonzalez
Keelyanne Hyland
John Kenney
Mari Evelin Moreno Velasco
Gabriela Oliveira
UC Education Abroad Program Promise Award
Carol Amaya
SUPERDAR Fellowship (Supporting Undergraduates by Promoting Education, Research, Diversity, and Agricultural Resilience)
Tina Milz
Smithsonian National Museum of American History Fellowship
Rose Rodgers
UCLA's Public Health Scholars Training Program
Kimberly Balmorez
NCAA Scholar Athlete
Zoë Brook
Highest Honors in the Sociology Major
Ginger Guerra
Amber Holguin
Keelyanne Hyland*
Christina Liu*
Mari Evelin Moreno Velasco
Leah Perlin
Erin Ray
Rose Rodgers
Kelsey Schroder
Sara Shahbazi
Laura Wishart
*Candidate
Honors in the Sociology Major
Sara Alhanich
Carol Amaya
Felicie Bajet
Andrea Baldrias
Lauren Bowler
Zoë Brook
Yadira Chavez
Theodore Cheung
Kyra Da Cunha
Teresa Del Toro Gallegos*
Brianna Farasat*
Sonia Fernandez Peña
Pearl Figueroa-Ocampo
Aneke Gleeson
Kylee Gonzalez
Robyn Hatch
Selena Hernandez
Savannah “Hana” King*
Krista Lum*
Alexandra Mandel*
Tiffany Martins
Ana Mendroza Hernandez
Jordan Midyette
Ryann Miguel*
Tina Milz
Cassidy Morris
Kenia Najar Miranda
Omar Paz
Kaylee Roberts
Corinna Anne Sales
Huzaifa Shahbaz
Nisha Sharma
Nikki Stokman-Fuentes
Melanie Waechtler
Katherine Wethington*
Elisa Willes
Courtney Williams
Shannon Wong
Courtney Zuniga*
*Candidate
