Jocher Graduate Student Paper Award
About the Award
The Katharine Jocher Graduate Student Paper Award annually recognizes the most outstanding scholarly article-length manuscript produced by a graduate student in our department. The award is named after Katharine Jocher, a long-time UNC faculty member, coauthor of An Introduction to Social Research (1929) and former editor at Social Forces.
Recipients
2021 – Rebecca Bielamowicz
Assessing the Correlates of the Neighborhood-School Relationship Among Whites: The Influence of School Racial Composition and Proximate School Choice Options
Meng-Jung Lin
Women, Genes, and STEM: The Effects of Biology and Gendered Environments on High School Course-Taking
2020 – Reed DeAngelis
Striving While Black: Race and the Psychophysiology of Goal Pursuit
2019 – Didem Türkoğlu
As Tuition Rises: Opposition to the Neoliberalization of Higher Education
2018 – Janelle Viera & Josh Wassink
Bringing Back Opportunity: Paternal Return Migration, Wealth Accumulation, and Intergenerational Mobility in Mexico
2017 – Daniel Auguste
Exclusive Religious Beliefs and Social Capital: Unpacking Nuances in the Relationship between Religion and Social Capital Formation