Fall 2024

Rachel Klein was awarded a USC PhD Achievement Award.

Aurelien Davennes was awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Rachel Klein published an article, “Surviving Domestic and State Violence: Women’s Prison Organising and the Gendered Politics of Solidarity” in a special issue of Gender & History titled, Engendering Carcerality.

 

Spring 2024

Neud’s Saint-Cyr was awarded the Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship from the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority National Education Foundation.

Layla Zbinden was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.

Ann Tran was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.

Rachel Klein was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.

Adrienne Adams published an article, “Frottage of Ephemera: Gregory D. Victorianne’s Buti Voxx and the Conscription of the Black Vernacular” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

Ann Tran was awarded a Teresa Wilson Endowed Fellowship from USC Dornsife.

Adrienne Adams was awarded a Gold Family Graduate Fellowship from USC Dornsife.

 

Fall 2023

Rachel Leah Klein was awarded the 2023 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the ASA Annual Meeting for “Double Violence and Insurgent Kinship: Women’s Prison Care Networks and Gendered Politics of Solidarity in California.”

Kathy Pulupa published an article, “Nos Vemos en la Cancha: Latinx Women Athletes Making Place in Los Angeles” in a special issue of American Quarterly titled, The Body Issue: Sports and the Politics of Embodiment.

Neud’s Saint-Cyr received the Emerging Scholar Award at the Haitian Studies Association Conference for her commitment to the field of Haitian Studies and her presentation at the conference titled: “Performing Diaspora: Examining the Sociopolitical Stakes of Performing Diaspora in the Haitian Compas Festival.”

Dillon Sung was awarded California Arts Council 2023-2024 Individual Artist Fellowship for Los Angeles County by Los Angeles Performance Practice. https://performancepractice.la/cac-iaf/press-media/

Ann Ngoc Tran published an article, “Imperial Gift: Soap, Humanitarianism, and Black Markets in the Vietnam War” in an issue of Radical History Review dedicated to The Political Lives of Infrastructure.

Jason Tuấn Vũ published an article, “Bound Passages: Aviation, Deportation, and the Settler Carceral Transpacific” in an issue Radical History Review dedicated to The Political Lives of Infrastructure.