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. To read more about Gilbert
G. Gonzalez’s importance to Chicano/Latino Studies, and if you want to view the documentary
Harvest of Empire please click here.
2020 Award Winner(s)
- 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”
2019 Award Winner(s)
- Deyanira Martinez Nevárez and Maria Rendón, “Los Olvidados/The Forgotten: Reconceptualizing Colonias as Viable Communities”
- Martha Arhemi Morales, “I Try not to Things About it: Gender and Illegality in the Coping Process of Unodocumented
College Students”
2018 Award Winner(s)
- Vanessa Delgado, “Legal Brokers: Navigating Illegality through Undocumented Resource Networks”
- Daniel Millán, “Undocumented and Distracted: How Immigration Laws Shape the Academic Experiences
of Undocumented College Students”