Awards & Honors
Jessica Taft wins Fulbright award
LALS Professor Jessica Taft has a 2021-22 Fulbright Global Scholar Award to support a project in London, England, and Lima, Peru, researching the relationship between international children's rights institutions and child-led social movements.Lily Balloffet book award
LALS Associate Professor Lily Balloffet's book, Argentina in the Global Middle East, wins Honorable Mention, Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.Jeffrey Erbig book award
LALS Associate Professor Jeffrey Erbig's book, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met, wins Honorable Mention, Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.Jeffrey Erbig wins 2020-21 fellowships and grants
LALS Associate Professor Jeffrey Erbig wins ACLS Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies); Sprout Grant (Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation); Faculty Research Grant (Committee on Research); and Hellman Fellowship (Declined).Sylvanna Falcón wins outstanding teaching award
Sylvanna M. Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, is the recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching Award, established by the Division of Social Sciences to recognize outstanding teaching in the division. A faculty committee reviews all nominations submitted by department chairs and makes the award recommendation to the Dean of Social Sciences.Catherine Ramírez wins Stanford fellowship
LALS Associate Professor Catherine Ramírez wins 2019-20 fellowship at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.Lily Balloffet wins article award
Associate Professor of LALS Lily Balloffet wins 2018 Sturgis Leavitt Article Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, for her article, “Argentine & Egyptian History Entangled: From Perón to Nasser.”Patricia Zavella wins anthropology association distinguished career award
Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been named winner of the 2016 Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.Professor's book wins National Women's Studies Association book award
A book by Sylvanna M. Falcón, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named winner of the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize given by the National Women’s Studies Association.
Patricia Zavella wins anthropology association gender equity award
Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been named winner of the 2016 American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award.American Studies Association honors UCSC Professor Rosa-Linda Fregoso
Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Professor and former Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies, is the 2014 recipient of the Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship.Gabriela Arredondo named to historians lectureship program
Gabriela F. Arredondo, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lectureship Program for the 2014-2017 term.Sylvanna Falcón wins career enhancement fellowship
Sylvanna Falcón, assistant professor of LALS at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a yearlong Career Enhancement Fellowship for junior faculty administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.Patricia Zavella awarded career achievement prize
Patricia Zavella, chair of the Latin American and Latino studies department at UC Santa Cruz, has been named co-winner of the 2010 Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. North America.Four social scientists honored for teaching and research
Four social scientists were honored for teaching and research today (Tuesday, October 7) during the annual fall convocation hosted by the dean of the Division of Social Sciences.