Students

Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019! For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogotá,...

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!

Our own Professor Joanne Belknap and PhD student Deanne Grant will present at congressional briefing in Washington, D.C.

Congrats to Natasha Myhal received a Research Experience for Graduate students (REG) award from the National Science Foundation! The award will allow her to carry out preliminary field research with Anishinaabe tribal governments and communities in Michigan and Minnesota this summer regarding their approaches to natural resource management.

Congrats to our PhD student, Natasha Myhal, on receiving the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Competition!

Congrats to PhD student Raúl Melgoza, who received the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship!

Ethnic Studies PhD student Natasha Myhal will present at the 2018 Native American Literature Symposium in Spirit Lake, MN on her Master's research. She draws from the mixed methods of Indigenous Studies and botany fieldwork to look comparatively at the field of ethnobotany and federal policy, focusing on the importance...

We would like to recognize the great work by our graduate student Shawn O'Neal. Shawn gave a talk at the Inclusive Sport Summit today, February 15, 2018, in the Touchdown Club. His talk, "Discussing Dissent: Social Justice and Sport," generated a stimulating conversation about social justice and sport.