2023 AAHHE & ETS Outstanding Dissertations Competition (ODC) Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipients
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Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award, First Place Winner
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Rosalinda Godinez, PhD Sociology Lecturer Hartnell College
Dissertation Title: Mexicana/Latina Campesinas Cultivating Knowledge: A Collective Agricultural Land-Based Education in Central Washington State in the Homelands of Yakama Nation
Degree Discipline: Education
Degree Granting Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Please see Dr. Godinez's bio here.
Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award, Second Place Winner
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Second Place Winner
Roberto C. Orozco, PhD Presidential Postdoctoral Associate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dissertation Title: Aquí entre nos: Identity and socio-political consciousness development of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists through the Muxerista activist consciousness development framework
Degree Discipline: Higher Education
Degree Granting Institution: Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Please see Dr. Orozco's bio here.
Kurt M. Landgraf Outstanding Dissertation Award, Third Place Winner
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Third Place Winner
Beatriz Maldonado, PhD Researcher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Ordinary Salviness and the Exceptional Everyday
Degree Discipline: Sociocultural Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Please see Dr. Maldonado's bio here.
For award recipients from other years from 2022 to 2008, please click here.
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