Awards

Department of Ethnic Studies Program Manager Virginia Kester-Meyer won the Social Sciences Division Staff of the Month Award for the month of March. This award recognizes exceptional staff members making valuable contributions to their departments. Virginia received multiple award nominations and was described as “ . . . dedicated, compassionate,...

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...

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!

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,...

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!

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.

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Villanueva, whose book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, recently won the 2017 Southwestern Studies Book Prize though the University of Texas and the Border Regional Library Association, and the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award from the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS)!