Published: July 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Ruth Glenn Award, our DES Graduate Research Fellowships, and the Best Graduate Student PaperAward.

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  • LeAnna Luney received theRuth Glenn Award to support her dissertation research exploring the intersections of power and how they impact forgotten people's realities, in tandem with Ruth M. Glenn’s mission to bring attention to domestic violence and how networks of power exacerbate such violence at various intersections.
  • Shawn O’Neal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support his dissertation project,Audio Intersectionality: Disrupting Hegemonic Structures Against Marginalized Communities.
  • LeAnna Luney received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation study,How African American College Students Copeat the 鶹Ƶ.
  • Natasha Myhal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation research,Returning to Our Stories: Healing from the Land Within Ottawa Natural Resource Management.
  • LeAnna Luney received the Best Graduate Student PaperAward for her work: “The Decoloniality in Black Psychology: 鶹Ƶing Implications of Decolonial Options in Black or African AmericanPsychology Discourse.”
  • Jenean McGee received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paperfor her paper, “The Unscripted Script of Black YouTube (BYT): African American Women Family Vloggers Performance of WhitenessThrough Property.”
  • Lau Malaveralso received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paperfor theirpaper,“Performing a Commons of Pain ThroughRecovecos: Excess, Silence, Endurance, and Coloniality.”

Congratulations to all!