{"id":733,"date":"2023-01-17T22:51:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/?page_id=733"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:32:23","slug":"the-annual-ninfa-sanchez-memorial-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/the-annual-ninfa-sanchez-memorial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Ninfa Sanchez Memorial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Although she never attended a university, Ninfa Sanchez fought hard throughout her life for the education of her children and for access to higher education for children of all backgrounds. Like many parents in immigrant families and families of color, Mrs. Sanchez exemplified the commitments to academic excellence, racial\/ethnic equity, and social justice embodied in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. Having insured that all three of her children receive undergraduate degrees, this Memorial Fund has been established to support students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in American Studies and Ethnicity that also embody these commitments she held so dear. The following awards are from this Memorial Fund set up by her family and friends to commemorate her life of dedication and those of other families who have had similar struggles for educational access and equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ninfa Sanchez Memorial Undergraduate Prize ($500)
\nNinfa Sanchez Memorial Graduate Prize ($500)<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be eligible, an undergraduate must be enrolled as a major or minor in the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, and a graduate student must be enrolled in the Ph.D. program in American Studies & Ethnicity.<\/p>\n

This year, nominations will\u00a0only\u00a0be accepted by core or affiliate faculty members in American Studies & Ethnicity.\u00a0 Please only submit one nomination in each category per faculty member.\u00a0 A copy of the paper (electronic preferred) must be submitted to aseinfo@usc.edu.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Papers due 5\/1\/2025; Prize Awarded 5\/8\/25 at the 2025 ASE Commencement Reception.<\/p>\n

Graduate Papers due 5\/15\/2025; Prize Awarded at the Fall 2025 ASE Welcome Back Party in September.<\/p>\n

Final decisions for the prizes will be made by the respective graduate and undergraduate committees of ASE.<\/p>\n

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2025 Eighteenth<\/strong>\u00a0Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evi Alonzo (Undergraduate) \u2013 \u201cAy Dolores: Exploring Mexican Health and Healing Beyond Western Healthcare\u201d<\/p>\n

Paulina Isabel Flores (Undergraduate) \u2013 \u201cDance Teachers and Dance Learners:\u00a0 Bodies of Knowledge Unveiling L.A. Folklorico\u201d<\/p>\n

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PAST AWARDEES<\/h1>\n

2008 First Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adriana Resendez (Undergraduate) — \u201c\u2019Here we are all the same?\u2019: Pre and Post-migration Intra-Ethnic Relations Among Guatemalan Women,\u201d<\/p>\n

Divinity Barkley (Undergraduate) — \u201cKaya Hip-Hop in Coastal Kenya: The Urban Poetry of Ukoo Flani.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrion Williamson(Graduate) — \u201cBlackness, Death and the Pleasure Principle: Of \u201cNappy-Headed Hos\u201d and the Serial Murder of African American Women.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2009 Second Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauren DeLilly (Undergraduate)– “Illustrating Race: African American and Chicano Art Shaping Interethnic Diversity”<\/p>\n

Max Felker-Kantor (Graduate)– ” ‘A Pledge is not Self-enforcing’: Struggles for Equal Employment Opportunity in Los Angeles 1964-1981″<\/p>\n

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2010 Third Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicole Perez (Undergraduate) – “Disney’s Princess and the Frog: A Spin Off of a Classic Tale and a new Direction for Disney”<\/p>\n

Jessica Quizar (Graduate)– “Transnational Campesinos: Food Sovereignty in South Central Los Angeles”<\/p>\n

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2011 Fourth Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Micah Scheidlin (Undergraduate)– “Latino Interests and Congressional Redistricting in Los Angeles County”<\/p>\n

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2013 Sixth Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charnan Williams (Undergraduate) — “Lost in the City of Angels: A Comparative Analysis of Central Avenue and Leimert Park as Black Cultural Spaces”<\/p>\n

Umayyah Cable (Graduate) — ” ‘I’ve been here all my life:’ Diasporic Identity Politics in the Transnational Landscapes of Palestinian Cinema”<\/p>\n

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2014 Seventh Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrie Moore (Undergraduate) – “Somewhere We Call Home”<\/p>\n

Joshua A. Mitchell (Graduate) – “The\u00a0Scandal<\/em>\u00a0in ‘We the People’: Touching the U.S. Constitution”<\/p>\n

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2015 Eighth Annual Ninfa Sanchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breanna Betts(Undergraduate) — “Remembering & Forgetting Psychiatric Survivors:\u00a0 Restoration & Restitution in Asylum Cemeteries”<\/p>\n

Rosanne Sia(Graduate) — “The Harmonies of Ranchera Song and the Dissonance of Race:\u00a0The Many Faces of Janet Cortez”<\/p>\n

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2016 Ninth Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irene Martinez (Undergraduate) \u2013 The Voice of Community: Resilency of Latina Immigrant Women<\/p>\n

Khadeejah Avvirin Gray (Graduate) — God\u2019s Other Face: Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Black Ontology as Black Love<\/p>\n

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2017 Tenth Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenny Villegas (Undergraduate) \u2013 “Virgen, Soldadera, y Chicana: La Virgen de Guadalupe and Transborder Social Movements”<\/p>\n

Emmett Harsin Drager (Graduate) — “Looking After Mrs. G: Approaches and Methods for Reading, Transsexual Clinical Case Files”<\/p>\n

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2018 Eleventh Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Martin Rubio\u00a0(Undergraduate) \u2013\u00a0“A New Kind Of Narrative: Why Storytelling Is Crucial To Writing Successful Protest Songs in the Contemporary Music Scene”<\/p>\n

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2020 Thirteenth<\/strong>\u00a0Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ivonne Rodriguez (Undergraduate) — “A Challenged Coexistence: An Examination of the Spatial Imaginary of Survivors of Interracial Gang Violence”<\/p>\n

Rachel Klein (Graduate) \u2013 \u201cIncarcerating Motherhood: Kinship in California Prisons\u201d<\/p>\n

2024 Seventeeth<\/strong>\u00a0Annual Ninfa S\u00e1nchez Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel \u201cBo\u201d Chongmin Kim (Undergraduate) \u2013 \u201cIn Making Korea: Godfathers of the Korean Aesthetic\u201d<\/p>\n

Zaina Ujayli (Graduate) \u2013 \u201cThe Eskimo and the Terrible Turk: Performing Race on American Lecture Circuits\u201d<\/p>\n

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