2023
- Gwen Berumen – UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Matthew Blanton – Dr. George Joseph Shia Memorial Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Liberal Arts; Religion and Forced Migration Initiative Graduate Fellowship
- Alison Coffey – UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Maria Davila – Tinker Research Grant
- Faith Deckard – AAUW Austin Branch Fellowship for 2023-2024; Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship, American Society of Criminology
- Alexander Diamond – UT Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Ilana Friedman – Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Award; UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Upasana Garnaik – AAUW Austin Branch Fellowship; UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Allison Lang – The Carl J. and Tamara M. Tricoli Endowed Fellowship; Argentine Studies Program Grant
- Eldad Levy – The International Journal for Urban and Regional Research Foundation Studentship; UT Graduate School Continuing Fellowship
- Max Lubell – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Annie Murphy – Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Memorial Fellowship; UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Águeda Ortega – Argentine Studies Program Grant
- Syed Raza – UT Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship
- Daniela Sanchez Lopez – ConTex Fellowship; Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship
- Patrick Sheehan – Ronald Burt Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section on Economic Sociology
- Bradley Silberzahn – IRIS Research Recovery Award
- Erika Slaymaker – UCLA Williams Institute Grant
- Jackson Walker – Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
2022
- Alison Coffey –Billy Bob Draeger Graduate Research Fellowship in the Humanities
- Faith Deckard – Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Alexander Diamond – Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Fellowship; United States Institute of Peace: Peace Scholar Fellow
- Ilana Friedman – National Science Foundation Law and Science Dissertation Grant; Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant
- Upasana Garnaik – National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant; P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
- Eldad Levy – International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Foundation Studentship Award
- Chen Liang – College of Liberal Arts Thematic Continuing Fellowship; Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants for PhD Candidates
- Katie Rogers – National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
- Patrick Sheehan – Richard A. Peterson Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section of Sociology of Culture; James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA section on Organizations, Occupations and Work
2021
- Caitlin Carroll – Graduate Student Paper Award, SSSP Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency; International Education Fee Scholarship; Swedish Excellence Endowment Scholarship
- Upasana Garnaik – NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
- Jess Goldstein-Kral – Graduate Student Paper Award, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (with Jamie O’Quinn)
- Annie Murphy – John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship
- Águeda Ortega – Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Jamie O’Quinn – Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship; Graduate Student Paper Award, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (with Jess Goldstein-Kral)
- Rui Jie Peng – Graduate Paper Award, Community & Development division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
2020
- Alison Coffey – Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Summer Fieldwork Grant
- Faith Deckard – National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Fellow
- Upasana Garnaik – P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, 2020-21 and Rapoport fieldwork grant.
- Águeda Ortega – Tinker Field Research Grant, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies; Argentina Studies Program Summer Field Grant, Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
- Jamie O’Quinn – Honorable Mention, Martin P. Levine Dissertation Award, Section on Sexualities, American Sociological Association
- Shannon Malone Gonzalez -American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program; AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship; Co-Winner, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, Section on Race, Gender, and Class, American Sociological Association; Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Race, Gender, and Class, American Sociological Association; Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Dissertation Grant; Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Ruijie Peng – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship; Graduate school dissertation writing fellowship; Student Paper Award of the Gender section of SSSP.
- Katie Kaufman Rogers – Cheryl Allyn Miller Award (Sociologists for Women in Society)
2019
- Riad Azar – International Journal for Urban and Regional Research Foundation Studentship; University of Texas at Austin Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Caitlin Carroll – P.E.O. Scholar Award; Swedish Excellence Endowment Scholarship
- Alex Diamond – National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program; Field Research Grant from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
- Shannon Malone Gonzalez – Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender, Department of Women and Gender Studies; Continuing Fellowship, The Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin; Summer Graduate Fieldwork Fellowship, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice; Devon T. Wade Graduate Student Paper Award, Association of Black Sociologists; Honorable Mention, James E. Blackwell Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
- Ruijie Peng – Graduate Student Paper award (2019) for the Youth, Aging, and Life Course section of the SSSP (Society for the Study of Social Problems), for her article “Staying and Aging in Rural Hinterland: Women’s Care Work and Emotional Labor in Supporting Two Generations of Urban Migrant Workers”
- Katie Kaufman Rogers – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; University of Texas at Austin Semester Fellowship; Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Summer Fieldwork Fellowship; Honorable Mention, James E. Blackwell Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
- Samantha Simon – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; American Association of University Women (AAUW) Austin Branch Doctoral Fellowship; Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship Nominee for UT Austin; UT Austin Fall Fellowship; Honorable Mention, James E. Blackwell Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association
- Maro Youssef – P.E.O. Scholar Award; United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellowship
2018
- Caitlin Carroll – Graduate Research Fellowship, American-Scandinavian Foundation
- Maricarmen Hernandez – University of Texas at Austin Continuing Fellowship; American Association of University Women (AAUW) Austin Branch Fellowship
- Katie Jensen – Best Social Sciences Award, Honorable Mention from the Brazil Section of Latin American Studies Association for her forthcoming article in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Katherine Jensen. Forthcoming. “The Epistemic Logic of Asylum Screening: (Dis)embodiment and the Production of Asylum Knowledge in Brazil.” Ethnic and Racial Studies:1-19.
- Shannon Malone Gonzalez – 2018 ASA Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Race, Gender, and Class, for her paper, “Black Girls and the Talk: Policing, Parenting, and the (Re)Production of Social Class
- Jamie O’Quinn – Graduate Research Award, ASA LGBTQ Caucus.
- Emily Paine – Graduate Student Paper Award from the Health, Health Policy, & Health Services Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, as well as an Honorable Mention in the Graduate Student Paper Award Competition from the Sociology of Body and Embodiment section of ASA for her paper, “Embodied Disruption: ‘Sorting out’ Gender and Nonconformity in the Doctor’s Office”.
- Ruijie Peng – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; IJURR (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research) Foundation Studentship for 2018-2019; Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Laura W.R Appell Fellowship (in collaboration with Nathaniel Sims), 2018-2019
- Beth Prosnitz – Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for research in Nepal (2018-2019)
- Katie Kaufman Rogers – 2018 ASA Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Alcohol, Drugs & Tobacco, for her paper “Only Real Criminals Rape: Race, Sexuality, and Morality Discourse in the U.S. Legal Cannabis Industry.”
- Samantha Simon – UT Austin Fall Fellowship; UT Austin NOVA Award for Research in Diversity
- Mary Ellen Stitt – American Bar Foundation / National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Law and Inequality (2018-2020); P.E.O. Scholar Award (2018-2019); National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant; Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Graduate Research Award
- Maro Youssef – Joseph H. Fitcher Research Grant: The Association for the Sociology of Religion (2018), The Kisco Spirit Scholarship Fund (2018); Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2017
- Riad Azar – Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative Proposal Development Grant, International Institute of Social Studies
- Caitlin Carroll – Swedish Excellence Endowment Scholarship; Foreign Language and Area Studies Award (Swedish), 2017-18
- Maricarmen Hernandez – Fulbright U.S. Student Award for research in Ecuador (2017-2018); International Research Scholarship (and Education Fee Scholarship); E.D. Farmer International Fellowship; Pan American Round Tables of Texas Terry Griswold Scholarship
- Katie Jensen – University of Texas at Austin Continuing Fellowship
- Emily Payne – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant; CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Scholar in Residence
- Ruijie Peng – Winner of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Labor Studies Division Student Paper Award for her article,”One Transnational Project, Two Labor Regimes: The Workers’ Experience with Labor Process and Racialization on a Chinese Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador.”; Research for Social Change Fellowship, MAXQDA, 2017-2018; Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research, Eastern Himalayan Studies Fellowship (in collaboration with Nathaniel Sims), 2017-2018
2016
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Caitlin Carroll – Foreign Language and Area Studies Award (Danish)
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Katie Jensen – P.E.O. Scholar Award; Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida Field Research Grant, LLILAS
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Katie Sobering – University of Texas at Austin Continuing Fellowship
- Kara Takasaki – External grant for Time Use Surveys training workshop University of Maryland
2015
- Caitlyn Collins – American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) national fellowship; DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grant; Center for European Studies PhD Research Grant on EU Public Policy (2015)
- Katie Jensen – Fulbright U.S. Student Award for research in Brazil (2015-2016)
- Shannon Malone Gonzalez – National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (2015-2017)
- Pamela Neumann – Winner of SSSP’s Conflict, Social Action, and Change Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper “‘We are not retarded’: Explaining Collective Inaction in a Company Town”
- Jen Scott – Doctoral Fellows Award from the Society for Social Work & Research (2015)
- Vivian Shaw – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship through the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2015-2016); National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2015-2016)
- Katie Sobering – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2015)
2014
- Kate Averett – Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Award for her work in the sociology of sexuality (2014-2015)
- Caitlyn Collins – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2014-2015), Center for European Studies PhD Research Grant on EU Public Policy (2014)
- Jacinto Cuvi – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2014-2015)
- Jorge Derpic – Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, Oxford University and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) Fellowship (2014-2016)
- Jessica Dunning Lozano – National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015)
- Kristine Kilanski – 2014 WGS Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015)
- Marcos Perez – National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (2014)
- Jen Scott – National Association of Social Workers Eileen Blackey Doctoral Fellowship, P.E.O. International Graduate Scholar Award (2014), and the American Association of University Women Austin Branch Doctoral Fellowship (2014). Jen was also selected to be a Visiting Graduate Student Scholar Fellowship at the Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis in the fall of 2014.
- Katie Sobering – Fulbright U.S. Student Award for research in Argentina (2014-2015)
- Esther Sullivan – American Fellowships from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) (2014).