Student Research and Awards
Departmental Awards
Since 1984, the Sociology and Anthropology Department has awarded our most outstanding sociology students with the Frank E. Luksa award. Beginning in 2002, the department has also honored our most outstanding anthropology students with an award. Initially, the anthropology award was also named in honor of Frank E. Luksa. In 2006, the award in anthropology was renamed the Gwen Kennedy Neville award.
Students are chosen on the basis of their GPA and their overall embodiment of the department’s core priorities. These priorities include participating in faculty-student research opportunities, contributing to campus organizations that connect with the department’s focus, partaking in inter-cultural learning experiences, presenting papers at campus-based, regional and national conferences, and working towards social justice.
Gwen Kennedy Neville Award in Anthropology
(Called the Frank E. Luksa Award in Anthropology from 2002-2005)
2022 Paresa Mosavi
2019 Dakota Cortez
2016 Emily Grover, Drew Kotlarczyk, and Caroline Young
2014 Sarah Puffer
2013 Kristi Lenderman
2012 Alexis Kropf and Zoe Martin
2011 Ursula James
2009 Noah Bickford
2008 Rachael Die
2007 Nathan Turner
2006 Robyn Bridges-Castro
2005 Ana Luz Villalobos
2004 Leslie Ellen Narin
2003 Emily Hope Williams
2002 Adam Ornelas Aguirre
Frank E. Luksa Award in Sociology
2023 ThuyMi Phung
2022 Luisa Rivera
2021 Megan Piel
2020 Molly McConnell
2019 Madeline Carrola
2018 Deidra McCall
2017 Sarah Surgeoner
2016 Marta Selby
2015 Jessica Jones
2014 Brianna Billingsley
2013 Anna Fetchick
2012 Kristen McCollum
2011 Kate Roberts
2010 Lauren Hamlett
2009 Nicole Powell
2008 Lauren Anne Cox
2007 Meagan M. Elliott
2006 Alexandra O. Hendley
2005 Ariel Catherine Reynolds
2004 Katherine Marie Kroll; Emily Claire Stewart
2003 Michelle Kristin Belt
2002 Victoria Porcel Edwards
2001 Tricia Colleen Mein
2000 Madeline Louise Pizzo; Rachel Erin Williams
1999 Emily Nicole Berger
1998 Kathleen Carew Rice
1997 Amy Kathleen Smith
1996 Cheryl Ann Wilson
1995 R. Lynn Costlow; Jonathan Robert Wivagg
1994 Robin J. Neas
1993 Randall G. Cauley; Michael Hammes
1992 Pamela J. Ford; Stephen G. Perz; Joseph R. Sanchez
1991 Leslie L. Armsworth; Craig J. McKinney
1990 Shelly A. Immel; Shannon J. Hart
1989 Kimberly A. Haney; Piper E. Purcell; Jodie M. Steger
1988 Karen J. Johnson
1987 Katherine A. Dunn; Kristi L. Wright
1986 Tammy K. Graham
1984 Patricia Eason