Graduate Student Honors/Awards/Grants                                                                                                                 last updated: 4/29/2009

Leisy Abrego.  Haynes Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her project, "Thriving, Living Day by Day, or Barely Subsisting: The Effects of Long-Term Separation on Salvadoran Immigrants and their Children," 2007-08

--Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA Sociology of Law Section for "Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law: The Effects of Assembly Bill 540 on Undocumented Students in California," Sociology of Law section, 2007

--UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009

Rene Almeling.  Roberta G. Simmons outstanding dissertation award from ASA's medical sociology section, 2008

--UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08
--ASA Economic Sociology section's Ronald Burt Outstanding Student Paper Award and UCLA Center for the Study of Women's Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. Award for "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material" (published in the June 2007 issue of ASR), which was mentioned in the New York Times Magazine article "Your Gamete, Myself" available at
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/magazine/15egg-t.html. 2007

--UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, Graduate Fellow, 2005-2008

--National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project, Medical Markets in Genetic Material: A Comparison of Egg and Sperm Donation, 2006-07

--UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Jean Stone Dissertation Fellowship, 2006

Amada Armenta.  UCLA Institute of American Cultures Grant, 2006-2007
--ASA Minority Fellowship, 2005-2008

Nurullah Ardic.  Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007

--UCLA CEES Dissertation Award, Summer 2007

Laura Bekes. UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

--UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences (UC DIGSSS) Award, Summer 2006

Kathryn Coursolle.  CCPR NICHD Predoctoral Training Fellowship (2008-2009)

--UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, Summer 2006

--NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program Trainee, 2006-7, 2007-08

--Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award (declined), 2006-2007

Andrew Deener.  Recipient of the 2006 Gold Shield Alumnae Oral History Graduate Research Grant.  The Gold Shield Oral History Grant is awarded to graduate students at UCLA whose dissertation research projects document significant social and historical developments through oral history interviews.  May 2006

-- John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007

Meera Deo.  Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the UCLA Alumni Association for scholarly achievements and university/community service, 2007

--Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 2005-2006

--National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2006–09

Faustina DuCros.  UCLA Gold Shield Alumnae Oral History Graduate Research Grant, 2007-2008
--UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, University, 2007-2008

Philippe Duhart.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

Kjerstin Elmen-Gruys.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

-- UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Esther Friedman.  NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program Trainee, 2006-7, 2007-08

--First Prize, Population Association of America (PAA) Poster Competition, 2006

Alisa Garni.  UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Kurtulus Gemici.  UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Nazgol Ghandnoosh. UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

--UCOP Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) mini-grant, 2007

-- UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

 Noah Grand. UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

--UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

Andrea Grant-Friedman.   UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Wesley Hiers.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

Amy Hsin Outstanding graduate student paper award from the ASA Family Section and Dorothy S. Thomas Award from the Population Association of America for the best graduate student paper in demography for "Mother's Time With Children and the Social Reproduction of Cognitive Skills," 2007  

--UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Angie Jamison  McQuail Award for the Best Article Advancing Communication Theory, International Communication Association, 2007
--University of California Labor Education Research Fund, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Robert Jansen UCLA Latin American Center, Research Grant (for archival research in Lima, Peru), summer 2006

--UCLA Graduate Division, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-2008

Elizabeth Joniak  John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009

Jaeeun Kim. SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009

--Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2008-2009

--Quality of Graduate Education Summer Stipend, 2008

--Sasakawa Japanese Language Fellowship, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA, 2008

Bongoh Kye.  RC28 Travel Grant to attend RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility conference, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2007

Jooyoung Lee. 

2009-2011 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars, University of Pennsylvania
2009-2010 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)

Honorable mention for the ASA's Social Psychology Section Graduate Student Paper Award, 2008

--Winner of ASA's Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) graduate student paper award competition, SSSP's Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Section graduate student paper award competition, and second place in ASA's Crime, Law, and Deviance (CLD) award for his paper, "Rappin' on the Corner: The Social Organization of Street 'Disorder'" 2007 

--American Sociological Association Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program, 2006-09

Philip Lu.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

Yao Lu.  UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (declined), 2007-08

--American Association of University Women International Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008

--Asia Institute Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 2007-2008

Gwen McEvoy.  Dissertation Fellowship, UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2007-08
--Alternate, American Fellowship, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 2007-08
--Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-07
--International Research and Exchange Board IARO Fellowship (declined), 2006-07

Tara McKay.  2008 APHA Meeting Winner "Excellence in Abstract Submission among Student APHA Members"

-- 2008 Rosenstein Student Scholarship for HIV/AIDS

--UCLA CCHARC-NARLA Fellow (UCLA AIDS Institute and the UCLA California Collaborative HIV/AIDS Research Center-Network for AIDS Research in Los Angeles). 2007-08

--UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

David Medina.  UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Noriko Milman.  American Educational Research Association Minority Fellowship, 2007-08

Sarah Morando. UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Graduate Student Mini-Grant (2009 – 2010)

UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2008

Erika Morales.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

Luke Moreland.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

Misako Nukaga.  UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

--Dissertation Research Grant, UCLA Pacific Rim Research Program, 2007
--Dissertation Grant, UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2007
--The George and Sakaye Aratani Fellowship, UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, 2007
--Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (declined), 2006 -2007
--Distinguished Paper Award, Japan Society of Educational Sociology (2006)

John O’Brien.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

Anthony Ocampo  Paper, "Making Masculinity:  Negotiations of Gender Presentation Among Latino Men" was selected as one of two runners-up for the Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award for 2009, from the Sex and Gender section of the ASA.

UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

-- UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

Chinyere Osuji.  UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award (declined), 2007-08

-- NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program Trainee, 2007-8, 2008-09

--Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), UCLA Latin American Center (declined), 2006-2007

Zeynep Ozgen. Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Summer 2007

Caitlin Patler. awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Ford Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship.

Danielle Pillet-Shore. UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007

Marisa Pineau.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

-- UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2006

Sarah Press.  NSF IGERT Training Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Interpersonal Relationships, 2005-2007

Renee Reichl.  CEES UCLA Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2006
--CGES Berkeley Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2006
--LERF Graduate Student Grant, 2006
--German-American committee of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Fellowship, 2008

Anne (Daisy) Rooks.  Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007

Rocio Rosales.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

--Research Enhancement Grant, UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences, June 2007
--Labor and Employment Research Fund Grant, UC Office of the President, Institute of Industrial Relations, December 2006
--Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant, Social Science Research Council Mellon Mays Foundation, October 2006
--Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences, Summer 2006

Yaqiang Qi.  UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Sarah Schlabach.  UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Shabnam Shenasi-Azari.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

--UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Claudia Solari.  RC28 Travel Grant to attend RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility conference, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2008

--UCLA Research Mentorship Award, 2006-07

Charles Strohm.  Co-PI (with Judith Seltzer and Susan Cochran) of grant from the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies for project on demography of heterosexual and same-sex couple relationships in California, April 2006

--Grant from the American Psychological Foundation for research related to his M.A. paper, "Couple Relationships Among Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Heterosexuals in California," March 2006

--National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005 – 2008

Christina Sue.  Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007

Kristin Surak.  Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2007
--Japan Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2006-07

--Graduate fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2008

Veronica Terriquez. Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network Fellowship, University of Michigan 2007

--Labor Employment Research Dissertation Fellowship, UCOP, 2007

Hongbo Wang.  Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2006-2007

Jennifer Winther.  UCLA Graduate Division, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-08

Yang Sao Xiong.  UCLA Institute of American Cultures, Asian American Studies Center, Ethnic Studies Research Grant, 2007-08

--UCLA Graduate Division, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2007

--UCLA Union Bank Graduate Fellowship, Asian American Studies Center, 2007

--UCLA Graduate Division, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2006

--National Research Council, Honorable Mention for the 2006 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2006

Jenjira Yahirun.  Award recipient, Population Association of America, annual meeting 2008

--UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007

-- UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship Award, 2007-08

Sylvia Zamora.  UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, Summer 2007