Undergraduate Awards

Kevin Thor is one of the recipients selected for the 2024 Albert M. Camarillo Senior Paper Prize for his project entitled, "Txoj Kev Hlub: A Hmoob Collection of Short Love Stories." Kevin's project explores the relationships between Hmong communities and family members, particularly looking at love and how it morphs intergenerationally into different forms that alludes to looming histories and systems. 

We encourage you to check out Kevin's project here.

tuesday utz is one of the recipients selected for the 2024 Albert M. Camarillo Senor Paper Prize for their project entitled, "Herbal Allies for Reproductive Justice and Womb Sovereignty: A Garden, Zine, and Teach-in Series." tuesday's research paper and zine is on traditional herbal reproductive care and an archive of gardening and medicinal knowledge around herbal abortion, herbal contraception, and herbal womb sovereignty. 

We encourage you to check out tuesday's project here.

Jackeline May Can is the winner of this year's Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize. Jackeline has served as CCSRE's Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Program Liaison and contributed immensely to the program as she organized campus lectures featuring leading Latinx Studies scholars, facilitated dialogue among students and faculty, and contributed to the national search for an Associate Director of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. In addition to her liaison role at CCSRE, she is committed to marginalized communities, particularly (im)migrant communities through her work as a Released Youth Program Intern in Esperanza Immigrants' Rights Project in Los Angeles and her participation in collaboration with minoritized high school students through the Stanford Education Partnership Summer Fellowship. Jackeline has excelled in her academics by being enrolled in a PhD seminar focused on racial, ethnic, and linguistic formations in Autumn 2023 and completed an honors thesis through the CCSRE Honors Program where she focused on the political struggles of Mayan Indigenous populations throughout the Americas. Jackeline's nominator writes, "Jackie May's outstanding undergraduate career has created a powerful foundation for her to become a deeply impactful contributor to systemic social change in her life after Stanford." 

Mahina Kaomea has been selected for the 2024 George M. Fredrickson Award for Excellence in Honors Research for her honors thesis, "Weaving Fine Baskets of Resistance: A Genealogy of Native American Student Activism at Stanford University." Her honors thesis applies the Hawaiian concept of moʻokūʻauhau, or genealogy, to the archival study of the history of Native student activism at Stanford University from 1894 to the present. Mahina combines archival research with autoethnography and oral history interviews, the resulting narrative history portraits weave together various movement-building histories across space and time to create an expansive intellectual genealogy of Native student activism and resistance. 

We encourage you to check out Mahina's honors thesis here.

Emily Rodriguez is the recipient for the 2024 Margarita Ibarra CSRE Community Building Award. She served as CCSRE's Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity Program Liaison and has played an instrumental role in strengthening the program. She was the lead for the CCSRE Undergraduate Newsletter and used this platform not only as a way to disseminate important information regarding course offerings, CCSRE and other community events, and academic and professional opportunities to keep our undergraduate students informed and engaged but also as a platform to highlight student contributions and accomplishments. Along with her leadership at CCSRE, Emily also served as a Program Coordinator at Stanford's First Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center and worked to support and uplift students coming from FLI backgrounds. She has led in planning and executing CCSRE undergraduate events, including an event in collaboration with FLI to connect the Undergraduate Council with FLI students who are interested in the various academic programs at CCSRE and how to navigate their educational experiences with the identities they hold. Additionally, Emily has collaborated with another CSRE student, Hannah Cha, to design this year's new undergraduate merchandise. Emily's nominator writes, "In her role, Emily exemplifies the qualities of dedication, empathy, and effective communication that are integral to effective community leadership."