Melissa Villarreal
The Racial/Ethnic Inequalities Research Awards聽support graduate students of color as well as graduate student research on race/ethnicity.聽 For summer 2021, we are able to fund seven exciting research projects. The award winners and their
Melissa received the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her dissertation project, 鈥淒ocumenting the Undocumented: How Mexican Immigrants Navigate Long-Term Post-Disaster Recovery.鈥 She was selected to receive聽
Lori Peek聽and the Natural Hazards Center received a $30,000 gift from an anonymous donor to establish a new聽Disability and Disasters Award聽for the hazards and disaster research and practice community. This award will bring those who
Dan Simon聽received a Graduate Student Award ($1,000) from CARTSS in support of his dissertation research. Cograts Dan! Melissa Villarreal聽and聽Bertha Bermudez Tapia聽received聽2021 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant awards!
Melissa Villarreal聽is author of a recent blogpost for Emerald Publishing entitled 鈥淭he Impact of the Bill Anderson Fund for Students of Colour and Marginalised Communities.鈥 Melissa is a Sociology Ph.D. student, research assistant at the