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Prizes and Awards
The Chicano and Latino community at Stanford offer a number of prizes and awards to both graduate and undergraduate students. These honors are presented at the Annual Ernesto Galarza Commemorative Lecture.
Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize
Chicana and Chicano Studies Achievement Award
Galarza Price for Excellence in Research
Jerry I. Porras Award for Visionary Leadership
Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Award
The Arturo Islas Award was created to honor the legacy of this Stanford professor. Born in El Paso, Texas, on May 24, 1938, Dr. Arturo Islas entered Stanford in 1956 as an undergraduate. He earned his A.B. degree in 1960, an A.M. in 1965, and a Ph.D. in 1971, becoming the first Chicano in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in English.
Professor Islas taught at Stanford for 20 years until his death on February 15, 1991. His contributions to undergraduates, the Chicano/Latino community, intellectual discourse, and society in general are vast. In 1976, he became Stanford’s first tenured Chicano faculty member. This same year, he was honored with the Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education, an award he earned many more times. Professor Islas was an active member of the Chicano/Latino community and advocate for students. He helped shape many of the support systems that were fundamental to students, such as the Chicano Fellows Program and the Stanford Center for Chicano Research of which he was Co-Director. He also taught courses that addressed the needs and interests of Chicano students, such as Chicano Literature and Creative Writing for Bilingual Students. His courses on American Literature were very popular as well. His course on Hemingway and Fitzgerald enrolled over 300 students.
Through his prize-winning novels, The Rain God (1984) and Migrant Souls (1990), and La Mollie and the King of Tears (1996, published posthumously), Professor Arturo Islas continues to share with us the uniqueness of the Mexican-American border culture and the richness of life.
Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize
The Islas Prize is awarded to a senior whose accomplishments at Stanford best exemplify the intellectual interest, background, and values of Arturo Islas, Jr. Preference for this prize is given to students in the humanities and social sciences. The selection of the prize recipient is based on outstanding academic achievement, a demonstrated intellectual interest in Chicana/o Studies (broadly defined), a commitment to advancing opportunities for Chicanas/os in higher education, and an interest in pursuing graduate studies. All or most of these criteria are used to select the prize recipient.
The Islas Prize was established eight years ago by the parents of Arturo Islas in memory of their son. Professor Islas was a part of the Stanford community as an undergraduate, a graduate student, and from 1970-1991, an honored member of the faculty in the Department of English.
The Prize carries a $1,000 cash award and will be announced at the annual Ernesto Galarza Lecture in May. Please submit a letter of nomination to Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) (yyb@stanford; MC: 2152) by April 30, 2003.
Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize 2003 Recipient
Gabriella Rico, Comparative Studies
The award is presented annually at the CSRE Commencement/Diploma Award Ceremony to an outstanding senior majoring in Chicana and Chicano Studies. This award is based on academic performance in Chicana and Chicano Studies related courses as well as service to the community and leadership.
Chicana and Chicano Studies Achievement Award 2003 Recipient
Orlando Lara, Chicana and Chicano Studies
These annual prizes were initiated in 1986 to pay tribute to the pioneering scholarly work published by Dr. Ernesto Galarza, a Stanford alumnus who is generally regarded as the “Dean of Chicano Studies.” Through his research and activism on behalf of Chicanas/os that spanned five decades, Dr. Galarza inspired others to write about the condition of Latina/o people in the U.S. and his example inspired others to follow in his footsteps to promote social justice and equality. The Galarza Prizes are awarded to Stanford undergraduates and graduate students whose research reflects the spirit of Dr. Galarza.
A $250 prize for an undergraduate research paper (approximately 10 to 20 pages in length) and a $500 prize will be awarded for a graduate student paper (20 to 40 pages in length). Papers should focus on some specific aspect of the Chicana/o experience. Faculty are encouraged to nominate student papers for consideration and/or students may submit papers directly to the Chicana/o Studies Program’s Galarza Prize Selection Committee no later April 20, 2003. The Selection Committee will follow up on any faculty nomination by requesting those nominated to submit their papers. All papers submitted should include a brief cover letter and should be submitted to:
Galarza Prize Selection Committee
Chicana/o Studies Program
c/o Margarita Ibarra
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Bldg. 240, Room 110
MC: 2152
The recipients of the prizes will be announced at the Annual Ernesto Galarza Commemorative Lecture.
Highest Academic Honors Yearly Award 2003 Recipients
Kristin Marie Ferrales, Senior, Comparative Studies
Prisilla Juarez, Junior, Comparative Studies
Veronica Juarez, Junior, Comparative Studies
Paloma Rosenbaum, Junior, Comparative Studies
Senior Awards – Academic Excellence 2003 Recipients
Kristin Ferrales, Senior, Comparative Studies
Orlando Lara, Senior, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Gabriela Rico, Senior, Comparative Studies
Honors Theses 2003 Recipients
Orlando Lara, Senior, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Ximena Martinez, Senior, Political Science; Minor–Comparative
Studies
Gabriela Rico, Senior, Comparative Studies
This award, named in honor of Jerry Porras, Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business, recognizes students for visionary leadership within a voluntary student organization or Stanford program serving the Chicano/Latino community.
Jerry I. Porras, Lane Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus, taught courses in leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational development and change. He is co-author of the best selling book, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Professor Porras played a critical role in the establishment of the Guiding Concilio and he also instituted the Burciaga Award Foundation in 1996. Professor Porras continues to teach in the Graduate School of Business executive programs.
Jerry I. Porras Award for Visionary Leadership 2003 Recipients
Michelle Zamora, Graduate Student, Modern Thought and Literature
Maria Elena Gonzalez, Graduate Student, Sociology
Saskias Casanova, Undergraduate, Comparative Studies
Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr.
Since 1970, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, has taught courses in Chicano Life and Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural Citizenship, history, society, and Island Southeast Asia. He has served as Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research and Chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program. Professor Rosaldo’s books include Culture and Truth (1989) and The Anthropology of Globalization (2001’ co-editor). Professor Rosaldo is also an award-wining poet. In its 2000 contest for literary excellence, the Latino Literary Magazine El Andar awarded Renato Rosaldo the first prize for poetry. In the fall of 2003 Renato will join his wife, Professor Mary Pratt, at New York University.
Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Award
This newly established award honors Professor Renato Rosaldo and recognizes an undergraduate or graduate student who best exemplifies the intellectual interests, creative work and values exhibited by Professor Rosaldo.
Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Award 2003 Recipient
Gabriela Rico, Undergraduate, Comparative Studies
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