Awards

*Cancelled/Postponed due to COVID19

2025 – Minority Recruitment and Retention Grant, for Tenure-Track Women of Color in Connecticut’s Colleges and Universities (June 23 – 26, 2025), $2,000

  • Received $1,500 from the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
  • Received ~$300 from the Office of Career and Professional Development

2024 – Grant, Research and Creative Activity Reassigned Time (RCART) for Spring 2025

2020 Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar from the American Sociological Association, International Migration section

2020-2021 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women ($20,000)

*2020 Travel grant from the University of Utah: Asia Center and Department of Sociology, ($600)

*2020 Travel grant from the Eastern Sociological Society ($200)

2017-2019 Lee Student Support Fund for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) conference ($100)

2017 Travel grant from the Mellon Faculty Diversity Project ($400)

2017 Honorable Mention for the Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship, co-sponsored by Sociologists for Women in Society and the Society for the Study of Social Problems ($600)

2017 The Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund, Initiatives for Women, University at Albany ($600)

2011 – 2014 Graduate Assistant Fellowship, University at Albany ($15,400)

2015 Grant from the University Auxiliary Services Program Fund to screen the “Documented” movie on campus, University at Albany, Albany, NY ($350)

2010 Barbara M. Byrne Internship Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College ($2,500)

2009 Renaissance Scholars Program, Montgomery College, ($1,000)

2009 Pharmaceutical Product Development Scholarship, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Rockville, MD ($2,000)

2009 Rockville Foundation Scholarship, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD ($2,000)

2009 All-Maryland Academic First Team by Phi Theta Kappa in the Washington metropolitan area competition ($1,250)

  • Coca-Cola Silver Scholar and a member of the All-Maryland First-Team out of the 1,450 students from 800 colleges nationwide

2008 Internship stipend from Paul Peck Humanities Institute, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD ($1,100)

  • Awarded stipend to participate in the Library of Congress summer internship

2008 Danielle Ezrin Creative Writing Scholarship, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, ($1,000)

2008 Robert Torrey Scholarship from the Montgomery College Foundation, Rockville, MD ($2,000)