Spring 2024
Neud’s Saint-Cyr was awarded the Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship from the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority National Education Foundation.
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Layla Zbinden was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.
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Ann Tran was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.
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Rachel Klein was awarded an AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship.
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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.
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Ann Tran was awarded a Teresa Wilson Endowed Fellowship from USC Dornsife.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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/
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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.
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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.