Help us congratulate our first-year undergraduate student Yousra Mahmoud for being selected as a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow for the 2023 summer and 2023-2024 academic year. This award provides her with $15,000 of funding for tuition and fees and a $7,500 stipend.
Below are her words about the opportunity:
"I am honored to announce that I have been awarded the FLAS...
Jack is currently a senior at UIUC studying Sociology. He recently finished his minors in Business and Informatics. Jack was a research assistant for Prof. Reuben May last fall. He assisted in data collection and field research in Prof. May’s ongoing Urban Nightlife research. During his field research, Jack was able to gain more insights into what research in sociology looks like. He pointed out...
Alexandria Stratton is currently a junior at UIUC triple majoring in Political Science, Sociology, and World Literature! Under Prof. Cynthia Buckley’s supervision, Alexandria is now conducting research on Ukrainian migration patterns (the movement of Internally Displaced Persons, IDP in short) since the start of the war. In her research, she specifically looks at male and female comparisons by...
Hello everyone! My name is India Lockhart, I am a senior majoring in Sociology with a double minor in Psychology and Criminology, Law, and Society. I recently became a research assistant and the journey so far has been demanding but amazing. It truly reminds me of why I chose this field of study in the first place. I’m currently working as a research assistant under the Head of the Sociology...
Mona Khneisser is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Mona won the Middle East Studies Association graduate student paper on her paper titled "Cracks & Leaks of Water Infrastructure in Lebanon: The 'Making & Unmaking' of Hydrogeologies, Historical Subjectivities & Political Imaginaries". Please join us in...
Graduate student, Nehal Elmeligy's, paper "Airing Egypt's Dirty Laundry: BuSSy's Storytelling as Feminist Social Change," has been selected for this year's Graduate Student Paper Award for the Section on the Sociology of Emotions. To read the full paper, click here. Abstract: "In this paper, I examine...
Please join us in congratulating Jessennya Hernandez, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was elected to serve on the council of the Sexualities section of ASA as the student representative for the upcoming year. She will also continue to serve on her elected role as the graduate student representative on the Race, Class, Gender...- Miguel Avalos-Beslow Graduate Paper Award The Beslow Graduate Paper Award is for a relevant paper on any sociological subject/area. Hany Zayed-Douglas F. Barnes Scholarship A Scholarship for student whose research relates to development issues, with preference given to development in underdeveloped countries—to which Barnes...
- Cassidy Marcum-Best Undergraduate Award Student Paper Award The Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes outstanding achievement in a Sociology student’s research and writing abilities. Stephania Izaguirre-Highest GPA Award This award acknowledges the Senior in Sociology who has attained the Highest Overall Grade Point Average....
Jessennya has been awarded the Sociologists for Women in Society's (SWS), the Social Actions Initiative Awards for her proposal and work titled: “Feed the Block: Political Education and Community Empowerment." Jessennya is a co-founder of the grassroots mutual aid collective "Feed the Block," based in Southern California, that have created spaces and networks for BIPOC communities who are...