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Dr. Jocelyn Bell Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Jocelyn Bell for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Reimagining Within-Movement Conflict: Ideology and the Anti-Sex Trafficking Movement.”
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Congratulations to Jonathan Tollefson, who has been selected as the winner of S4's 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize for a paper entitled, "Racial environmental inequality in US cities, 1880-1930."
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Dr. Syeda Masood Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Syeda Masood for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Empire and Identity: Racialization of the Afghan Middle Class Under U.S. Occupation.”
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Dr. Amanda Ball Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Amanda Ball for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, "Securitized By Design: Security, Space, and Race in Colonial Nairobi."
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Lisa Di Carlo Selected as ELI Fellow

Congratulations to Lisa Di Carlo for being selected to be an Equitable Learning Inquiry (ELI) Fellow through the Sheridan Center for 2024-25.
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Dr. López Portillo Alcocer Successfully Defends

Congratulations to María Fernanda López Portillo Alcocer for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Indigeneity in Mexico.”
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Dr. Natividad Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Bryan Natividad for successfully defending his dissertation entitled, “Invisible or Invincible? An Empirical Analysis of University Disability Support Services & Academic Success.”
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Kevin Mwenda Recognized with National Science Foundation Award

Congratulations to Kevin Mwenda, who, in collaboration with his research colleagues, has received an award from the National Science Foundation Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program for their project entitled, "Household adaptation amongst hot spots of land degradation vulnerability and bright spots of resilience."
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Dr. Wan Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Clare Wan for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “From Streets to Screens: Unfolding Market Dynamics through a Marketplace Development in China.”
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Laura López-Sanders Publishes New Book

Congratulations to Laura López-Sanders for her newly published book, The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market (NYU Press, January 2024).
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Dr. Rauscher Recieves Spencer Foundation Grant

Congratulations to Emily Rauscher for being a recipient of a Spencer Foundation Grant (“Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Rising Inequality”).
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