Recent Student Awards - Sociocultural

We commend these Sociocultural Wing graduate students for their recent academic achievements.

Degree Accomplishments

• Ph.D. Completion

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)	Dissertation Title
  2019	Maya Costa-Pinto	Srinivas, S.	The City in Flux: Navigating Urbanism(s) through Waterways in Goa, India
  2019	Christian Doll	Smith, J. H.	he Post-State State: Sovereignity, Futurity and Urban Life in Independent South Sudan
  2019	Laura Meek	Smith, J. H. & Giordano, C.	Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Embodied Experiments and World-Making Tastes in Tanzania
  2019	Jane Saffitz	Smith, J. H.	Lightness and Visibility: Violence, the Unseen and Albinism Rights in Tanzania
  2018	Meghan Donnelly	de la Cadena, M. & Dumit, J.	Practices of Perserverance: Violence, Impossible Information, and Critical Journalism in Mexico
  2018	Adam Liebman	Zhang, L.	Turning Trash into Treasure: Shadow Economies and Toxic Ecologies in Kunming, China

• Advancement to Doctoral Candidacy

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2019	Benjamin Bean	Klima, A. M.
  2019	Adam Kersch	de la Cadena, M. & Giordano, C.
  2019	Eveleen Sidana	Srinivas, S.
  2019	Mercedes Villalba	Choy, T.
  2019	Nathan Lane	Sawyer, S.
  2019	Alexander Robins	Donham, D. & Smith, J. H.

External Fellowship, Grants, and Awards

• 2019

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)	Fellowship/Grant/Award
  2019	Taylor Bell	Giordano, C.	NSF - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG)
  2019	Justin Malachowski	Joseph, S.	US Embassy Tunis Cultural Affairs Office – Project: SEE DJERBA: Media Arts Project
  2019		Joseph, S.	European Mediterranean Foundation for Human Rights – Project: EL Warcha: Collaborative Design Studio
  2019		Joseph, S.	Blum Center Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Development (PASS) Research Grant

• 2018

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)	Fellowship/Grant/Award
  2018	Justin Haruyama	Smith, J. H.	Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
  2018	Meichun Lee	Zhang, L.	Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
  2018	Justin Malachowski	Joseph, S.	Countering Violent Extremism Fund – Project: El Warcha: Collaborative Design Studio AND US Embassy Tunis Cultural Affairs Office  - Project: INTERFERENCE: International Light Art Project AND UNESCO Networks of Mediterranean Youth Grant – Project: INTERFERENCE: International Light Art Project
  2018	Sofia Rivera	de la Cadena, M.	Miguel Velez Fellowship
  2018	Muneeza Rizvi	Joseph, S.	Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Department and Campus Awards

• Crook Research Award

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2018	Morganne Blais-McPherson	Giordano, C.
  2018	Kristi Onzik	Sawyer, S.

• Kautz Family Award

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2019	Ayanda Manqoyi	Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H.
  2019	Yuting Yin	Zhang, L. & de la Cadena, M.

• Sociocultural Wing Summer Fellowship

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2019	Onur Arslan	de la Cadena, M.
  2019	Morganne Blais-McPherson	Giordano, C.
  2019	Thiago de Oliveira Braga	Zhang, L.
  2019	Rebecca Jones	Choy, T. K.
  2019	Ayanda Manqoyi	Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H.
  2019	Ivan Montenegro Perini	de la Cadena, M.
  2019	Yuting Yin	Zhang, L. & de la Cadena, M.

• UC Davis Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2018	Meichun Lee	Zhang, L.

• UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Award

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)
  2019	Sofia Rivera	de la Cadena, M.

• UC Davis Other Campus Award

• Year	Student Name	Advisor(s)	Fellowship/Grant/Award
  2019	Ivan Montenegro Perini	de la Cadena, M.	Racial Capitalism Grant (Mellon Research Initiative)
  2019	Onur Arslan	de la Cadena, M.	Suad Joseph Graduate Student Research Award for Middle East and/or South Asia Studies
  2019	Tory Brykalski	Joseph, S.	Feminist Research Institute (FRI) Graduate Collaboratory Fellowship
  2019	Ayanda Manqoyi	Donham, D. L. & Smith, J. H.	Racial Capitalism Grant (Mellon Research Initiative)
  2019	Anne O'Connor	de la Cadena, M. & Biagioli, M.	Graduate Fellowship: Cornell Summer School of Criticism and Theory
  2019	Eveleen Sidana	Srinivas, S.	Indian Ocean Worlds Grant (Mellon Research Initiative)
  2019	Mercedes Villalba	Choy, T.	HATCH Summer Research Grant
  2018	Rebecca Jones	Choy, T. K.	2018-19 DHI Reading & Writing Group Award