Student updates
Undergraduate students
Sociology majors Audrey Fife and Hannah Garza received Dean's Distinguished Graduates Honorable Mentions.
Health & Society majors Juslyn Dhingra and Ellie Monday were named Dean’s Distinguished Graduates.
Sociology Honors Graduates: Delilah Acres, Caleb Crist, Krystal Lemus, Rachel Schnakenberg, Leah Tharakan
Health & Society Honors Graduates: Heba Dalu, Lily Deitelzweig, Juslyn Dhingra, Nina Eckhart, Gacinda Gallegos, Alex Gutierrez, Maryjo Harb, Krystyanna Melson, Ellie Monday, Bhuvana Mukkamala, Stephanie Ornelas, Anika Patel, Marit Peterson, August Ragland, Kathryn Tong, Geevana Uribe, Samantha Warden
Graduate students
Aigné Taylor was selected as a Health Policy Research Scholar for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Alejandro Soto Camacho received a fellowship from UT's Office of the Dean of Students, specifically their Alternative Breaks program.
Alexander Holt was selected as one of the American Sociological Association's 2025-2026 Minority Fellowship Recipiants. He also recieved the HeartMind Research Fellowship through the Center for Educational Improvement, the Dean's Prestigious Fellowship Award, the RKG Nonprofit Scholarship through both the RKG Center for Philanthropy & Community Service and the LBJ School, and was recognized alongside Dr. Christy Erving, Aigné Taylor, and Dr. Tiffany R. Williams for their article, "Anticipatory Race-Related Stress and Depressive Symptoms Among U.S. Black Women: Are Psychosocial Resources Stress Buffers?", being a top cited article in Sociological Inquiry.
Amanda Nagle was awarded the Graduate Deans Prestigious Fellowship Supplement. Her research was featured by the Population Reference Bureau, the Dallas Morning News, and the American Public Health Association. She was selected for the 2026 cohort of the University of Utah’s ASCENT Research Training Program in Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Binda Khatri was granted the Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. Fellowship.
Carly Young received the Graduate Archer Fellowship for this summer in Washington D.C. and was awarded the AAUW Doctoral Fellowship.
Charlotte Perez was selected as a 2025 Social Impact Challenge Award winner by the Moritz Center for Societal Impact at UT Austin.
Daniela Sánchez was awarded the Dr. George Shia Memorial Endowed Fellowship and was accepted to the 2026 Cosmos Summer School.
Dorothy Rau and Claire Migliore were selected for the Institutions & Inequality Project’s Summer Incubator at Duke University.
Elan Tulberg was allocated the 2026 Disability and Disasters Award by the Natural Hazards Center.
Garam Yang was selected as a recipient of the 2025-2026 Health Communication Scholars Program, awarded by the Center for Health Communication at UT Austin
Gwendolyn Berumen received the 2026 WGSS Doctoral Excellence Award.
Iani Sam’s paper was awarded the 2026 Norval Glenn Prize; Asya Saydam’s was awarded an honorable mention.
Jasmyne Nelson and Annie Flanagan were selected as a T32 NICHD fellow.
Krittika Kashyap was appointed to the Vice President of UT's Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium (TALC) Graduate Student Council from 2026-2027.
Kylie Yim received an Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship from the Graduate School, and a Dean's Office Academic Excellence in Research Fellowship from the College of Liberal Arts. Yim has also been selected as a top‑12 finalist in the Empower Your Research Pitch Competition.
Kyungmo Chun was selected as a Graduate Student Editorial Intern, Socio-Economic Review. He received the POSCO Graduate Research Fellowship from the Department of Asian Studies, UT Austin. He won the James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention) from the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, American Sociological Association.
María Ximena Davila received a COLA Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship; was selected as part of the 2026 cohort for the NYU Arts & Sciences Faculty First Look Program; was awarded the FORD-LASA Special Projects 2026 Grant to co-develop the first book-length study about reproductive justice in Latin America; and received a grant from the Center on Global Poverty to develop a research project on gender, poverty and displacement in Colombia. She was also awarded the Brent K. Marshall Graduate Student Paper Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems - Environment and Technology Division).
Shania Montufar was selected for the 2026 Latino Social Science Pipeline Initiative (LSSPI) Junior Scholars Symposium at UC Berkeley.
Victoria Dominguez-Edington was featured as a 2026 SXSW Mentor for startups.