Gilbert G. Gonzalez Graduate Student Paper Prize
The Gilbert G. Gonzalez Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded every spring to the best research paper written by a graduate student who is enrolled in the Graduate Emphasis or has taken the CHC/LAT 200A graduate seminar or is recommended by a Chic Lat faculty adviser. Read more about Gilbert G. Gonzalez’s importance to Chicano/Latino Studies and to view the documentary “Harvest of Empire”(opens in new tab).
Award Winners by Year
2023
Maria Carina Saiidi Padilla,
“El español importa: Pedagogical Practices to Make Spanish Language Programs Meaningful
and Practical for Heritage Speakers”
(Discipline: Spanish)
Giovanna Alcantar Rebollar,
“Where is the love? Towards a Pedagogy of Remembrance”
(Discipline: Political Science)
2022
Jessica Lynn Torres Baker,
“Victimized-Crimminalized Subjectivity: Exploring Legal Consciousness Through the
Lens of the U-Visa”
(Discipline: Urban Planning and Policy)
2021
Linda Esmeralda Sanchez Ovalle,
“Facing COVID-19 as an Undocumented Essential Worker”
(Discipline: Anthropology)
2020
Brian Flores,
“Y Nosotros Vivimos Aquí en la Frontera: Modes of Framing Latina/o Identity in the
Autobiographies of José Policarpo Rodriguez and Santiago Tafolla”
(Discipline: English)
2019
Deyanira Martinez Nevárez and Maria Rendón,
“Los Olvidados/The Forgotten: Reconceptualizing Colonias as Viable Communities”
(Discipline: Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy)
Martha Arhemi Morales,
“I Try not to Things About it: Gender and Illegality in the Coping Process of Unodocumented
College Students”
(Discipline: Sociology)
2018
Vanessa Delgado,
“Legal Brokers: Navigating Illegality through Undocumented Resource Networks”
(Discipline: Sociology)
Daniel Millán,
“Undocumented and Distracted: How Immigration Laws Shape the Academic Experiences
of Undocumented College Students”
(Discipline: Sociology)