I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Merced and a National Science Foundation AGEP California HSI Alliance Fellow.
I graduated from the University of South Florida in 2015 with a Masters of Arts in Sociology. In 2010, I graduated from New College of Florida, the public honors college of Florida, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.
My research focuses on race and ethnicity, immigration, family, and Latinx Sociology. I study racialization, racial and ethnic discourses, and racial and ethnic identity formation for Latinxs. My dissertation research examines how Latinx families in Florida and California talk about racial and cultural identity and racism and how these conversations about and experiences with racial and ethnic inclusion and exclusion are gendered and vary by class. For this project, I am conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with U.S. born Latinx children of immigrants.
I have published in the American Behavioral Scientist, Ethnicity and Disease, TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, the Student Sociologist, and others. I was the First Place Winner of Alpha Kappa Delta's 2020 Graduate Student Paper Competition and won the University of California, Merced Sociology Department's 2020 Graduate Student Research Award. I received 2021 Honorable Mention in the Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division’s Student Paper Competition.
In addition to receiving the National Science Foundation AGEP California HSI Alliance Fellowship, I won the 2019-2020 and Spring 2022 UC Merced Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. I won the 2021 UC Merced Sociology Department Graduate Student Teaching Award and the 2020-2021 Will Shadish Fellowship from UC Merced Graduate Division. I received an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. I received the UC Merced's 2017-2018 Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship. Further, in 2019, I won the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellowship. In 2018, I received SSHA Dean’s Summer Research Award. Lastly, I am the recipient of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Sociology Summer Support Award, the 2016-2017 Sociology Graduate Student Support Award, and the 2018 Sociology Graduate Department Conference Paper Award.
I have presented my research at the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, the National Association for Ethnic Studies, the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class conference, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. I have co-organized sessions and round tables for the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
I served on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems from 2017-2019. I was a Student Advisory Editor for the journal Social Problems from 2018-2019. Formerly, I was a Student Representative for the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section (2017-2019) and the Latina/o Sociology section (2017-2018). From 2014-2016, I served as a Graduate Student Representative and Treasurer and Secretary for ASA's Student Forum Advisory Board.
Website last updated: February 2022
All portraits by Veronica Adrover
I graduated from the University of South Florida in 2015 with a Masters of Arts in Sociology. In 2010, I graduated from New College of Florida, the public honors college of Florida, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.
My research focuses on race and ethnicity, immigration, family, and Latinx Sociology. I study racialization, racial and ethnic discourses, and racial and ethnic identity formation for Latinxs. My dissertation research examines how Latinx families in Florida and California talk about racial and cultural identity and racism and how these conversations about and experiences with racial and ethnic inclusion and exclusion are gendered and vary by class. For this project, I am conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with U.S. born Latinx children of immigrants.
I have published in the American Behavioral Scientist, Ethnicity and Disease, TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, the Student Sociologist, and others. I was the First Place Winner of Alpha Kappa Delta's 2020 Graduate Student Paper Competition and won the University of California, Merced Sociology Department's 2020 Graduate Student Research Award. I received 2021 Honorable Mention in the Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division’s Student Paper Competition.
In addition to receiving the National Science Foundation AGEP California HSI Alliance Fellowship, I won the 2019-2020 and Spring 2022 UC Merced Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. I won the 2021 UC Merced Sociology Department Graduate Student Teaching Award and the 2020-2021 Will Shadish Fellowship from UC Merced Graduate Division. I received an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. I received the UC Merced's 2017-2018 Fred and Mitzie Ruiz Fellowship. Further, in 2019, I won the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning Fellowship. In 2018, I received SSHA Dean’s Summer Research Award. Lastly, I am the recipient of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Sociology Summer Support Award, the 2016-2017 Sociology Graduate Student Support Award, and the 2018 Sociology Graduate Department Conference Paper Award.
I have presented my research at the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, the National Association for Ethnic Studies, the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class conference, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. I have co-organized sessions and round tables for the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
I served on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems from 2017-2019. I was a Student Advisory Editor for the journal Social Problems from 2018-2019. Formerly, I was a Student Representative for the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section (2017-2019) and the Latina/o Sociology section (2017-2018). From 2014-2016, I served as a Graduate Student Representative and Treasurer and Secretary for ASA's Student Forum Advisory Board.
Website last updated: February 2022
All portraits by Veronica Adrover
