Accomplishments

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

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...

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...

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."

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!

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!

Dr. Rabaka has been appointed Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at UNISA, Nelson Mandela's alma mater. Congrats, Dr. Rabaka!

Congratulations to Professor Aldama, winner of the Excellence in Service award from the Boulder Faculty Assembly!

Awon Atuire has received the 2017-2018 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award! Congrats, Awon!