2019-20 Graduate student awards and accomplishments

Student awards

Caitlin Halligan, Ph.D.

• Passed religion area exam
• Publication of "Making Meaning without a Maker: Secular Consciousness through Narrative and Cultural Practice,” Sociology of Religion, by Drs. Halligan and Jesse Smith

Katherine Brown, Ph.D.

• Presentation on “Safe House Policy and Survivor Communications: Best Practices for Building a Trauma-Informed Vocabulary," North Central Sociological Association; Cincinnati, Ohio
• Presentation on “Meta-Analysis of Qualitative State/State-Corporate Case Studies: Description of Methods” American Society of Criminology; San Francisco, California
• Publication of “Mastery Learning in the Social Science Curriculum,”Teaching Sociology. Co-Authors: Patrick Cundiff (PhD), Olivia McLaughlin (MA) and Keiondra Grace (MA)
• Passed criminology area exam
• Passed research methods area exam

Marina Geider, M.A.

• Department-level Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award

Olivia McLaughlin '20, Ph.D.

• All-University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award
• Department-level Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award
• Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater

Randy La Prairie, Ph.D.

• Passed methods area exam
• Doctoral candidacy

Rhoda Marshall '20, M.A.

• Department-level Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award

Ronnie Miller, Ph.D.

• Doctoral candidacy
• Fulbright Research Award
• American Center for Mongolian Studies Field Research Fellowship

Other awards

Sociology Graduate Student Association:

• Golden Broncos Award for the RSO most committed to diversity and inclusion with over 20 members for 2020