I am so grateful and pleased to announced that I have been selected as the 2015-16 recipient of the Graduate Student Research Excellence Award by the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. In addition to acknowledging my academic publications and research on Nonhuman Animal rights activism and diversity in anti-speciesism spaces, the awards committee notes, “your ability to convey your scholarship through more public outlets is the epitome of the best of public sociology.” I am very touched that my online scholar-activist work (this blog included) has been recognized as sociologically important! Having defended my PhD in January, I will be graduating and sadly parting ways with CSU this May after eight years of studies and service.
