Recent Awards and Honors

•  2019. Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Graduate Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, $250. 
• 2019. Dissertation of the Year Award. Social Sciences Division, LUC Council of Graduate School Programs, $300. 
• 2018. Graduating Student Commencement Speaker. “Social Justice and Social Responsibility.” The Graduate School & Institute of Pastoral Studies, LUC, May 8.
• 2018. Women of Color Caucus-Frontiers Student Essay Award for “Restorative Kinship: Mothers of Color Transforming Family Relationships through Collective Action,” The National Women’s Studies Association, $500. 
• 2018. Wittner-Whalley Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Department of Sociology, LUC, $150.
• 2017. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017, Department of Sociology, LUC, $150.
• 2017. Best Paper Award from the American Sociological Association, Student Forum, $350
• 2012. Alpha Sigma Nu, Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. LUC.
• 2012. Richard Block Prize for Best Thesis in Urban Sociology or Public Policy for “Family in Context: (Re)Entry Narratives of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals,” Department of Sociology, LUC, $100.
• 2010. Helen Way Klinger College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Senior Nominee and Criminology and Law Studies Outstanding Senior Award, Marquette University.
• 2008-2009. Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Research Mentors: Heather Hlavka, Ph.D., and Mary Ann Farkas, Ph.D., Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University.