2026 Awardees

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Sara Alcay

Ph.D. student

Sociology

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Yeji Bak

Ph.D. Student

Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Valerie J. Fike

PhD Student

History

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Julissa Felix Gallegos

Graduate Student 

Spanish

 

Aino Kangas

PhD Student

History

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Luisa Rangel

Graduate Student

 Spanish

 

Rebecca Twine

PhD Student

Psycology

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Paula Andrea Vivas Vaca

Graduate Student 

Spanish Linguistics