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Awards, Grants & Fellowships

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships at the University of Connecticut

UConn Awards


2024 Arnold and Sandra Dashefsky Student Award for Excellence, Department of Sociology, UConn

2023 Outstanding Graduate Student in Research, Department of Sociology, UConn

2022 Michael A. Dunphy Graduate Student Award ($250)

2021 The Democracy Lab’s ‘Meanings of America’ Contest, honorable mention ($100)


UConn Grants and Fellowships


2023 CLAS Fellows Fund Scholarship ($3000)

2023 CLAS Summer Grant Writing Fellowship ($3072.50)

2023 Graduate School Summer Dissertation Fellowship ($2000)

2023 Department of Sociology, Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant ($250).

2022 Human Rights Institute Graduate Student Research Grant ($2,500)

2022 CLAS Graduate PhD Fellowship ($500)

2022 Department of Sociology, Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant ($1000)

2021 Conference Participation Fellowship ($1,000)

2021 Policy Exception Grant ($1,000)

2021 Department of Sociology Predoctoral Fellowship (ongoing)

2020 Global Affairs Award during COVID-19 ($500)

2019 Department of Sociology, Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant ($250).

Other Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Awards


2024 Laura Bassi Award (partial editorial support)

2022 Honorable mention, Graduate student conference on the Global South, George Mason University

2017 Best Conference Paper Award for “Reading Memes as Social Texts: The Scope of Digital Ephemera and Mass Empowerment,” Department of English and the Department of Computer Science, St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur, India

2016 Best Published Paper Award for “Information for All and Privacy for None: The Dominance of Surveillance and the Status of Privacy on Social Networking Sites” (Contemporary Discourses)


Grants and Fellowships

  

2023 British Sociological Association (BSA) Bursary for the Work, Employment Society Conference, Glasgow, UK (~$350 for registration)

2022 American Sociological Association (ASA) Student Forum Travel Award, Los Angeles ($250 and complimentary registration)

2022 Wood/Raith Summer Research Fellowship ($4,000)

2019 College and University Teachers’ Conference Travel Grant, University Grant Commission, Government of India (approx. $2,000)

2019 Graduate Student Travel Grant ($400), Modern Language Association 

2019 Publication award, Researchers@Work blog, The Centre for Internet & Society, India



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