LALS Wally Goldfrank Outstanding Paper Award for Undergraduates
The LALS department is pleased to offer an Outstanding Paper Award for undergraduates in honor of Professor Wally Goldfrank.
Professor Walter “Wally” Goldfrank joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in 1968. He was a founding fellow of Merrill College in 1971. He supported the founding of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program in 1997 and later helped secure its departmental status in 2000. His research explored the causes of the Mexican Revolution and he played an important role in debates in political economy, ecology, and world system theory. His commitment to justice and peace was part of his life’s work. He was active in the anti-war and civil rights movements and treasurer of the Santa Cruz chapter of the ACLU. The award honors Professor Goldfrank’s legacy in the field of LALS.
This award is an opportunity to showcase outstanding written work produced by LALS undergraduates. Award nominations are submitted by LALS instructors only. This is a quarterly award.
Eligibility
- Any declared LALS major, combined major, and minor is eligible to receive the award. Priority will be given to LALS majors and combined majors who are Juniors and Seniors.
- The paper must have been composed when the student was an undergraduate.
- The undergraduate must be in good academic standing.
- An undergraduate is only eligible to receive this award one time.
Paper Requirements
- Papers may be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
- Submissions should be 8-10 double-spaced pages, but no more than 25 double-spaced pages, in 12-point font, including bibliography, notes, and images/figures.
- The paper’s formatting (e.g., citations, bibliography, etc.) should be consistent.
LALS Faculty Award Nomination Process
- PDF of papers are submitted by LALS instructors via email to lalsadvising@ucsc.edu. The email should include a brief description of the paper assignment and include the email subject “LALS Outstanding Paper Nomination.”
Please note students are not eligible to submit on their own behalf. Nominations and submissions are only accepted from LALS faculty.
The awardee will receive a $100 gift card. If schedule permits, the winner will be honored at the LALS End of Year Celebration in June. In general, spring quarter awardees would be honored at the following spring/June (for example, Spring 2025 awardee would be honored at the 2026 End of Year Celebration).
