Here are the awards, accomplishments, and funding our current graduate students have received.
Awards/Accomplishments
- Hannah Andrews was awarded the Spring 2021 SBS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate Award. This award acknowledges the teaching contributions of our under-recognized GTAs and serves to inform the larger community about GTAs’ invaluable contributions to the School of Sociology’s instructional mission.
- Kelsey Gonzalez was selected to participate in the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at Duke University in June 2020. She then served as a TA for the Tucson Winter SICSS site in January 2021.
- Kelsey Gonzalez spent the summer, 2021 at IBM, interning as a Senior Data Scientist in their Chief Analytics Office.
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PhD. Candidate Sione Lister Selected for RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars.
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PhD. Candidate Kelsey Gonzalez Wins First Place in 2020 Data Visualization Challenge.
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Youngjun (Josh) Zhang and PhD. Candidate Alexander Kinney Winners of Bowers Award May, 2020.
Funding
- Sam Scovill received an SBSRI research grant to fund research for their dissertation, titled "Defining Politics and Political Identity: Young People's Social Positionality and Political Imaginations."
- Eunsung Yoon received research and travel funds from UA’s GPSC as well as the ASA.
- Kelsey Gonzalez and co-PI Nicolas Legewie (UPenn & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) received a Russell Sage Foundation SICSS Research Grant for $7,193 for research on network activation.
- Two graduate students working with Joe Galaskiewicz (PI) received Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants from the National Science Foundation. Beksahn Jang is studying the Political Incorporation of Asian Americans, and Alexander Kinney is studying Relational Pragmatics and Institution Work in Transitioning Industry.
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PhD Candidate Peter Ore Wins The Mellon Graduate Fellowship.
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Ph.D. Candidate Alex Kinney Awarded SBS Summer Dissertation Fellowship.