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Ethnic Studies PhD student Cassy Gonzalez is one of 132 outstanding scholars nationwide who have been awarded fellowships in the 2020 competition administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Gonzalez won in the Dissertation Competition, for her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System. Cassy is the first person from the CU Boulder College of Arts & Sciences to ever win the prestigious Ford Fellowship, an enormous honor.

Cassy also won the Graduate School's Helen Christy Summer Fellowship and the Beverly Sears Research Award. The Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grants are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School that support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all departments at CU Boulder. The highest-ranked proposals are considered for a Named Graduate Student Grant; Cassy won the Eloise Timmons Award.

Cassy's research examines the phenomenon of domestic human trafficking utilizing an intersectional criminological framework. Within this research, she focuses on the experiences of Black individuals as both victims and perpetrators of trafficking and how their intersecting identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality may interact with their experiences of exploitation and navigating the criminal legal system. Her research methods include interviewing Black women survivors of trafficking, field observations of anti-trafficking events, and a historical analysis of the evolution of slavery, sexuality, and race. She loves dogs, getting coffee with friends, and reading anything she can get her hands on. Cassy hopes to be employed as a tenure-track professor at a historically Black college/university (HBCU) or at a criminology/criminal justice department where she can mentor undergrads and graduate students. 

Congratulations, Cassy, on these distinguished and much-deserved honors!

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Join us this Wednesday to discuss the carceral state, the prison system, and its relationship to CU. The conversation will be led by Cassy Gonzalez, a CU PhD student in Ethnic Studies. Light snacks will be provided.

 

Women & Gender Studies Senior Colloquium presents

Prison Labor and CU
Wednesday, May 1^st

3:00pm

Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage

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We are pleased to announce the recipients of our DES Graduate Research Fellowships and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• Cassandra Gonzalez received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation project, Remnants of Chattel: Black Women, Sex Trafficking, and the Criminal Justice System
• Deanne Grant received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support the completion of her dissertation over the summer, titled, Indigenous Women at the Heart: Decolonial Feminisms to Imagine Sexual Realities.
• Lau Malaver received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: "A Critical Theory of Decolonization Through Recovecos: From the Perspective of the Colonized, Towards the Liberation of All"
• Alejandra Portillos received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, "Breaking the ICE: Understanding Latinx Experiences with Immigration Detention and Deportation."
• Shawn O’Neal also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for his paper, "Eunice Kathleen Waymon: Content Analysis of Nina Simone and the Essential Positioning of Critical Africana Womanism Theory." 

Congratulations to all!

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Cassy's Master's thesis, titled, "Race, Gender, and Domestic Human Trafficking: An Intersectional Description of Human Trafficking Cases at the State Level," is one of the most-accessed of 2.25 million full-text graduate works across all subject areas, based on total PDF downloads in the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global™ database.

Congrats, Cassy! 

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