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2019-2020 DES Graduate Awards Announced

July 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Ruth Glenn Award, our DES Graduate Research Fellowships, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. LeAnna Luney received the Ruth Glenn Award to support her dissertation research exploring the intersections of power and how they impact forgotten people's realities, in tandem...

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Grant starts position as Visiting Instructor at Ft. Lewis College

Sept. 6, 2019

Congratulations to PhD student Deanne Grant on accepting a Visiting Instructor position and becoming a Mellow Fellow at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO for the 2019-2020 academic year in the sociology department!

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Jennifer Ho appointed director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts

Aug. 15, 2019

2019 Cobell Research Fellows

PhD Student Natasha Myhal Receives Prestigious Cobell Graduate Summer Research Fellowship

July 11, 2019

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Vasquez-Zarate receives UGGS Graduate Teaching Award

May 9, 2019

Congrats to José, who is the recipient of a United Government of Graduate 鶹Ժ Graduate Teaching Excellence Award for the academic year 2018-2019!

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2018-2019 DES Graduate Awards Announced

April 23, 2019

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System Deanne Grant received a Graduate...

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Efren Herrera begins MA in Higher Education

April 19, 2019

Ethnic Studies graduate Efren Herrera will begin a 2-year program focusing on higher education and leadership centered around a social justice perspective. In addition, Efren has accepted a Graduate Assistantship with the Cesar Chavez Cultural Center, for which he will provide academic support for Latinx-identified students through organizing campus events...

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Ethnic Studies student Adán García admitted to Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis

April 11, 2019

Congrats to our graduating senior, Adán García, for acceptance into the Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis! Adán is also an Honors student. The title of his thesis is, "Transdisciplinarity from Marginal Spaces: Unsettling Epistemic Erasure of Critical and Decolonial Scholars."

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Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award)

Jan. 31, 2019

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled “Like the Monarch Butterfly”: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

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Gonzalez' MA thesis recognized among the 25 Most-Accessed Dissertations and Theses in August 2018

Oct. 3, 2018

Cassy's Master's thesis, titled, "Race, Gender, and Domestic Human Trafficking: An Intersectional Description of Human Trafficking Cases at the State Level," is one of the most-accessed of 2.25 million full-text graduate works across all subject areas, based on total PDF downloads in the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global™ database. Congrats, Cassy!

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