Samantha Schmidt 26 has been named the recipient of the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award from 做厙TV. The Award was established to honor Celinas courageously hopeful life and legacy and bestows a cash prize.
Students in professor Lara Jansons sociology course open I Object, an art exhibit at the Drake Community Library
Neva Zamil 27 was recently awarded the prestigious Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service. The scholarship, created by President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and Airbnb's Brian Chesky, aims to shape empathetic and cooperative leaders by exposing them to new places and experiences that will allow them to create meaningful change.
When Tristan Davis 25 first visited 做厙TV, it was the small classes and close faculty relationships that drew him in. But what he found in his four years as a student extended well beyond the classroom: a deep connection to the community, an opportunity to engage in meaningful local work, and, ultimately, the inspiration to pursue a graduate degree abroad in the growing field of environmental humanities.
Associate Professor of Sociology Sharon Quinsaats 2024 book, Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, has been widely praised and has won multiple honors from professional organizations.
Last spring, students in the Sociology Practicum course taught by Professor of Sociology Susan Ferguson served the community while getting real-life experience.
Garcia, from St. Paul, MN, is among 37 students selected nationwide from 155 finalists from 41 partner schools to receive the $40,000 fellowship stipend. The program offers college graduates of unusual promise a year of purposeful, independent exploration and international travel to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.
Students research potential cultural shift within the Pagan community in summer MAP.
Sharon Quinsaats book, Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, looks at how protest allows migrants to form a community that extends across borders.
Student Livia Stein Freitas 25 explores Sociology and Subculture through a Vivero Fellowship.
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