Melissa Villarreal

The Racial/Ethnic Inequalities Research Awards support graduate students of color as well as graduate student research on race/ethnicity.  For summer 2021, we are able to fund seven exciting research projects. The award winners and their

Melissa received the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her dissertation project, “Documenting the Undocumented: How Mexican Immigrants Navigate Long-Term Post-Disaster Recovery.” She was selected to receive 

Lori Peek and the Natural Hazards Center received a $30,000 gift from an anonymous donor to establish a new Disability and Disasters Award for the hazards and disaster research and practice community. This award will bring those who

Dan Simon received a Graduate Student Award ($1,000) from CARTSS in support of his dissertation research. Cograts Dan! Melissa Villarreal and Bertha Bermudez Tapia received 2021 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant awards!

Melissa Villarreal is author of a recent blogpost for Emerald Publishing entitled “The Impact of the Bill Anderson Fund for Students of Colour and Marginalised Communities.” Melissa is a Sociology Ph.D. student, research assistant at the