MPSA LATINA/O CAUCUS AWARDS

Award Winners

​The MPSA Latina/o Caucus is pleased to present the following individuals with awards for 2022: 
 
Early Career Award 
Sergio Garcia-Rios, Cornell University (2022)
This award recognizes a Latino/a or Latino Politics (pre-tenure) scholar based upon her research accomplishments and contributions to the discipline. 
 
Graduate Student Paper Award
Marcel Roman, University of Texas - Austin (2022)
Paper Title: “Living in the Shadow of Deportation: How Deportation Threat Forestalls Attitudinal Assimilation Among Immigrants and Their Co-Ethnics.”
The Graduate Student Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on Latino politics presented at the 2021 MPSA Annual Meeting.
​The Best Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes the best, sole-authored, conference paper presented by a graduate student. 
 

Previous Award Winners


2021 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: David Leal, University of Texas at Austin (2021)

2020 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: Jessica Lavariega-Monforti, California Lutheran University (2020)
Early Career Award: Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan (2020)

2019 Award Winners
Distinguished Career Award: Melissa Michelson, Menlo College and Gary Segura, University of California-Los Angeles
Early Career Award: Health Silber Mohamed, Clark University
Best Graduate Paper(s):  Chinbo Chong, University of Michigan

2018 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: Christine Sierra, University of New Mexico and Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania
Early Career Award: Bernard Fraga, Indiana University
Best Graduate Paper(s):  Roberto Carlos, University of Chicago

2017 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: Luis Fraga, University of Notre Dame
Early Career Award: Chris Zepeda Millan, UC Berkeley
Best Graduate Paper(s):  Apolonia Calderon, Texas A & M

2016 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: Val Martinez, University of North Texas
Early Career Award: Efren Perez, Vanderbilt University
Best Graduate Paper(s):  Angela Ocampo, UCLA and Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta, UCLA

2015 Award Winners

Distinguished Career Award: John A. Garcia, University of Michigan
Early Career Award: Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University
Best Graduate Paper(s): Lisa Sanchez and Julia Marin Hellwege, University of New Mexico