Department of Sociology

Congratulations Award Recipients

Award Recipients

Angely Alamilla

Honors in General Education Sociology Student Ana Castillo

"Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” -Steven Pressfield

Layla Beyrouti

W.E.B. duBois Award

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." Booker Washington

Victoria Chin

Exceptional Academic Achievement Award

"My life has been harsh and bittersweet, but without the worse I am incomplete.”

Jennifer Evangelista

Magna Cum Laude

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”― Maya Angelou

Erin Fisher

Cum Laude

"Thank you to my family and friends for supporting and encouraging me to follow my dreams of going to college!"

Sarah Gamaza

Summa Cum Laude

"Thank you to my friends, family, and all my amazing professors!"

Carlos Guerrero

Summa Cum Laude

Bethany Hammons

Summa Cum Laude

Elizabeth Henry

Exceptional Academic Achievement Award
Walt Schafer Outstanding Research Paper
Magna Cum Laude and Honors in the Major

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” – Paulo Coelho

Delaney Jones

Cum Laude

"Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage"-Paulo Freire
"Thank you to all my loved ones."

Alexis Juravic

Cum Laude

"I couldn't have done this without my amazing family. Congratulations Class of 2020!"

Claire Kennedy

Summa Cum Laude

"Thank you to my friends and family for supporting me and pushing me to achieve my goal of Summa Cum Laude!"

Jennifer Lenches

W.E.B. duBois Award

"My journey has just begun! Thank you to everyone who made this possible. My heart feels so big and I am just so grateful."

Adriana Macias

Robert P. Rankin Award

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

Janet McCue

Educational Enhancement Award

"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything…" - Dave Matthews Band

Jessica Ramirez

Sociology Outstanding Student Award of 2020

"My background, my story, brings diversity to the table. I have learned to use my hardships and experiences as bridges to connect with others in the hope of better serving the most marginalized within our communities."