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Justice for Black women drives PhD student’s research: Cassy Gonzalez featured in A&S Magazine

Oct. 23, 2020

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PhD Student Cassy Gonzalez Wins Prestigious Ford Fellowship and Other Awards

July 2, 2020

Ethnic Studies PhD student Cassy Gonzalez is one of 132 outstanding scholars nationwide who have been awarded fellowships in the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs competition administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Gonzalez won in the Dissertation Competition, for her dissertation project,...

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PhD Student, Cassy Gonzalez, speaks on Prison Labor and CU

April 30, 2019

Join us this Wednesday to discuss the carceral state, the prison system, and its relationship to CU. The conversation will be led by Cassy Gonzalez, a CU PhD student in Ethnic Studies. Light snacks will be provided. Women & Gender Studies Senior Colloquium presents Prison Labor and CU Wednesday, May...

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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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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!