Scholarship Recipients & Award Winners
- David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
- Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship
- Earl James Weaver Graduate Essay Prize
- Academic Achievement Award
- Outstanding Reentry Student Award
- Susan Flinkingshelt Student Association Service Award
Vaca Award winners (above): Top row: Roseanne Garcia; Jennifer Sasai; Melissa Chavez; Kristin Miyagishima; Kim Martin. Karen Alonzo; Row 2: Adriana Ruvalcaba; Samuel Sousa; Maria Cortes; Kira Banos; Andy Diaz; Steven Ngo; Row 3: Tony Joseph Ingoglio; Raisa Orleans; Heather Brown; Greg Moore; Row 4: Narine Mehrabian; Aissa Canchola; Michael Perales; Austin Krie; Daisy Gutierrez; Vanessa Mendoza; Row 5: Elizabeth Plett; Yamillet Brizuela; Michelle Viorato; Ashely Ongalibang.
David Jon Vaca Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Fall 2016 | Ashely Ongalibang |
| Spring 2016 | Michelle Viorato |
| Fall 2015 | Yamillet Brizuela |
| Spring 2015 | Elizabeth Plett |
| Fall 2014 | Victoria MacDonald |
| Spring 2014 | Vanessa Mendoza |
| Fall 2013 | Paulina Torres |
| Spring 2013 | Nicole Rehnberg |
| Fall 2012 | Judson Barber |
| Spring 2012 | Daisy Gutierrez |
| Fall 2011 | Austin Krie |
| Spring 2011 | Michael Perales |
| Fall 2010 | Aissa Canchola |
| Spring 2010 | Narine Nehrabian |
| Fall 2009 | Greg Moore |
| Spring 2009 | Eduardo Garcia |
| Fall 2008 | Heather Brown |
| Spring 2008 | Tony Joseph Ingoglio and Raisa Orleans |
| Fall 2007 | Kira Banos, Andy Diaz, and Steven Ngo |
| Spring 2007 | Maria Cortes |
| Fall 2006 | Samuel Sousa |
| Spring 2006 | Adriana Ruvalcaba |
| Fall 2005 | Karen Alonzo |
| Spring 2005 | Kim Martin |
| Fall 2004 | Kristin Miyagishima |
| Spring 2004 | Timothy Peter Schneider |
| Fall 2003 | Susan Lee |
| Spring 2003 | Melissa Leigh Chavez |
| Fall 2002 | Jennifer Sasai |
| Fall 2001 | Mary Jo Cooke |
| Spring 2001 | Roseanne Garcia |
| Fall 2000 | Dakota Cornell |
| Spring 2000 | Laura Barrios |
| Fall 1999 | John McCarthy |
| Spring 1999 | Laurie Dieppa |
| Fall 1998 | Jonathan Menjivar |
| Spring 1998 | Monique Soltani |
| Fall 1997 | Justine Pas |
| Spring 1997 | Gregg Schlappy |
| Fall 1996 | Jeff Savage |
| Spring 1996 | Lisa D. McFarland |
| Fall 1995 | Ann M. Campbell |
| Spring 1995 | Heather Yarnell |
| Fall 1994 | Wendy Barker |
| Spring 1994 | Andrea L. Schwartz |
| Fall 1993 | Carolyn Thomas and Melana Abramowicz |
| Fall 1992 | Laura K. Vaughn |
| Spring 1992 | Christopher Ramsey |
| Fall 1991 | Julia M. Cheung |
| Spring 1991 | Noelle Lee Dickenson |
| Fall 1990 | Shannon Philipp |
| Spring 1990 | Sandra V. Smith |
| Fall 1989 | Lisa Cleveland |
| Spring 1989 | Susan Flinkingshelt |
| Fall 1988 | Tracy A. Smith |
| Spring 1988 | Eric Taylor |
| Fall 1987 | Sandi Patton |
| Spring 1987 | David L. Crawford |
| Spring 1986 | Kelly R. Jennings |
| Fall 1985 | Shannon Pohlhammer |
| Spring 1985 | Anne-Marie Scholz |
| Spring 1984 | Enrico Gnaulati |
Mike & Lucy Steiner Study Abroad Scholarship recipient: Alexandra Reyna
MIKE & LUCY STEINER STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP Recipients
|
Year
|
Recipient
|
| 2016 | Alexandra Reyna |
Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship recipients: Melissa Anderson; Kimball Maw; Matt Nelson; John DeCarlo
Margarete Liebe Sekhon Graduate Scholarship Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Clayton Finn |
| 2015-16 | Darcy Mahoney |
| 2014-15 | Jasmin Gomez |
| 2013-14 | Kacie Hoppe |
| 2012-13 | Tatiana Pedroza |
| 2011-12 | Jose Zamora |
| 2010-11 | Steven Estrada |
| 2009-10 | Rahima Schwenkbeck |
| 2008-09 | John DeCarlo |
| 2007-08 | Jennifer Moore |
| 2006-07 | Matt Nelson |
| 2005-06 | Kimball Maw |
| 2002-03 | Carla Melissa Anderson |
Weaver Prize recipients: Top row: Melissa Anderson; Kristiane R. Joy; Jill Somers; Kimball Maw; Patrick Covert. Row 2: Jason Ward
| Year | Recipient | Essay Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Judson Barber | “Silent Ruins: The Politics, Distribution, and Confinement of Memory Surrounding Alcatraz Island” |
| 2015 | Kacie Hoppe | "The Cultural Work of Steampunk Literature in Cherie Priest's Boneshaker" |
| 2014 | Mike West | "The Birth of the Pin-Up Girl: How Footlocker Art Swept the Nation and Influenced Gender Roles" |
| 2013 | Greg Rozsa | "The Little Economic Engine that Could: Las Vegas' Search for Water Security Under the Shadow of Owens Valley" |
| 2012 | Jason Ward | "The Privatized City: Finding Space for the Working Poor in Orange County" |
| 2011 | Patrick Covert | "Politicizing your Mailbox: Extracting Motivation from Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial" |
| 2010 | Heather Andrews Emily Starr | “Landed Masculinity and the Landless Native Other: Raced and Gendered Discourse and the Dawes Act of 1887” “The American Prince and His Third World Cinderella: Mail-Order Brides and Global Hierarchies of Gender and Race" |
| 2009 | Jennifer Moore | "The Mythopoetic Men's Movement on Television: A Gathering Place for the '90s Male" |
| 2008 | Jaclyn Mahoney Kimball Maw | "Pushing Processed Over Process: How Mother's Milk Alternatives Dismiss Natural Processes of Female Health" "YouTube, Harry Potter Fans, and the Dissemination of Textual Authority" |
| 2007 | Jill Somers | "Practiced Place and Negotiated Race: The Co-Production of Race and Space in Pankey, Arkansas" |
| 2006 | Kristiane R. Joy | "Visualizing the 'Struggle for Fun:' ZZ Top's Eliminator Videos and the Narrative of Transformation |
| 2005 | Stephanie Kolberg | "Attacking the 'American Cinderella:'Philip Wylie's 'Momism' and the Scapegoating of Women in 1940s-50s America" |
| 2004 | Kristin Ann Hargrove | "The Peel and What Lies Beneath It: The Underside of Orange County's Public Memory" |
| 2003 | Carla Melissa Anderson | "Studying Visual Media: Putting Fish, Baudrillard, and Geertz to the Test" |
| 2002 | Nicole Elise Peeples | "Life Outside the Borg Cube: American Studies and the Collapse of the Culture Concept" |
| 2001 | Justine Pas | "Translating Identities: The Rhetoric of Self in Multiple Cultural Contexts" |
| 2000 | Trista O'Connell | "White Slave or New Woman: Competing Images of Prostitution and Womanhood in Reformist Tracts and The Masses, 1910-1917" |
| 1998 | Shauna Butler | "From Public Whipping to Self Immolation: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Construction of the Self" |
| 1997 | Eric Olson | "William Burroughs and Naked Lunch: Running Down the United States Drag" |
| 1996 | Timothy Yates | "Misery & Restoration: A History of Antidepressant Advertising" |
| 1995 | Sharon Sekhon | "Americans in Paris: Josephine Baker and James Baldwin" |
| 1994 | Paul Amiel Stewart | "Welcome to America(nization)" |
Academic Achievement Award winners: Top Row: Jennifer Sasai; Patti Thomas; Brittany Franck; Lori Burrows; Row 2: Heather Brown; David Donley; Alexandria Attanasio; Hilda Anguiano
Academic Achievement Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2015-16 | Hilda Anguiano |
| 2014-15 | Brianna Flores |
| 2013-14 | Brandon Goco |
| 2012-13 | Paula Beckman |
| 2011-12 | Alexandria Attanasio |
| 2010-11 | David Donley |
| 2009-10 | Heather Brown |
| 2008-09 | Anita Rice |
| 2007-08 | Cailin White |
| 2006-07 | Lori Burrows |
| 2005-06 | Brittany Franck |
| 2004-05 | Patti Thomas |
| 2003-04 | Karen Ann Amos |
| 2002-03 | Jennifer Sasai |
| 2001-02 | Laura Alexander |
| 2000-01 | John McCarthy |
| 1999-00 | Lori Ann Madsen |
| 1998-99 | Laurie Dieppa |
| 1997-98 | Justine Pas and Linda Vandenbroeke |
| 1996-97 | Leigh Logan and Lisa Thompson |
| 1995-96 | Shauna M. Butler |
| 1994-95 | Wendy Barker |
| 1993-94 | Denise Flynn |
| 1992-93 | Robert Morey |
| 1991-92 | Jason Lacomb |
| 1990-91 | Noelle Dickenson |
| 1989-90 | Yvette Lane |
| 1988-89 | Tracy A. Smith |
| 1987-88 | Helen Sims |
| 1986-87 | Dorothy Thompson |
| 1985-86 | Mary L. Williams |
| 1984-85 | April Schwenneker |
Outanding Reentry Student Award winners (left to right): Top Row: Kim Martin; Carin Arrigo-Zimmer; Lori Burrows; Lora Clawson; Elizabeth Buchanan; Tim Harper; Sandy Kim; Kathy Workman; Row 2: Pam Newton; Esther Villa; Darcy Anderson
Outstanding Reentry Student Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Scott Cleveland |
| 2014 | Darcy Anderson |
| 2013 | Pam Newton and Esther Villa |
| 2012 | Kathy Workman |
| 2011 | Sandy Kim |
| 2010 | Tim Harper |
| 2009 | John Dominguez |
| 2007-2008 | Elizabeth Buchanan and Lora Clawson |
| 2006-07 | Lori Burrows |
| 2005-06 | Carin Arrigo-Zimmer |
| 2004-05 | Kim Martin |
Flinkingshelt Award winners: Row 1: Melissa Anderson; Kristiane R. Joy; Megan Jensen; Melanie Pyles. Row 2: Jimmy Stroup and Sara Rogers; Steven Ngo; Stacey Moultry; Darcy Anderson, Drew Bahna
Susan Flinkingshelt Student Association Service Award Recipients
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2015-16 | Darcy Anderson and Drew Bahna |
| 2014-15 | Tramanh Hoang and Kacie Hoppe |
| 2013-14 | Mariella Garcia and Tatiana Pedroza |
| 2012-13 | Monica Duboski and Greg Rozsa |
| 2011-12 | Nicole Rehnberg and Anna Marie McPride |
| 2010-11 | Stacey Moultry |
| 2009-10 | Steven Ngo and Julianna Barone |
| 2008-09 | Megan Wagner and Sara Rogers |
| 2007-08 | Sara Rogers and Jimmy Stroup |
| 2006-07 | Megan Wagner |
| 2005-06 | Megan Jensen and Melanie Pyles |
| 2004-05 | Kristiane R. Joy and Megan Jensen |
| 2003-04 | Carla Melissa Anderson |
| 2002-03 | Matthew A. Knowlton and Traci Turner |
| 2001-02 | Lily Estes-Eichert and Jeremy Hill |
| 2000-01 | Chris Gunther and Jennifer Jefferson |
| 1999-00 | Amy Lefkowitz and Jonathan Menjivar |
| 1998-99 | Dana Maples and John McCarthy |
| 1997-98 | Debbie Girkin |
| 1996-97 | Barbara Campbell |
| 1995-96 | Barbara Campbell |
| 1994-95 | Barbara Campbell and Richard Dennison |
| 1993-94 | Carolyn de la Pena and Debra DeRuyver |
| 1992-93 | Barbara Sheahan |
| 1991-92 | Ronald Dobley and Sandra Finestone |
| 1990-91 | Dorothy Reina |
| 1989-90 | Cynthia Adams and Laurel Carpenter |
| 1988-89 | Cynthia Adams |
| 1987-88 | Priscilla Mayfield |
| 1986-87 | Ann Uyeda |
| 1985-86 | Holly Carpenter |
| 1984-85 | Beth Harnick |
| 1983-84 | April Schwenneker |
