Northern Illinois University

Department of Sociology

2009 Annual Student Awards and Recognition

Dean's Award: Leah Koch

James L. Massey Social Justice Award: Ulysses Diaz

Frances Rowe Katz Awards: Kathryn Chiplis and Jan Reynolds

David P. Street Awards: Whitney Rodriguez and Courtney Matayka

Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Division of Research and Graduate Studies: Han (John) Woo

2009 Student Paper Contest Winners

Undergraduate 100-200 Level:

FIRST: Cindy Wolfe "Racial Discrimination in the Workplace"

SECOND: Michael Hickman "Race"

THIRD: Josh Becvar "Fictional Serial Killers and Rational Choice Theory"

Undergraduate 300-400 Level:

FIRST: Leah Koch "The Weight of Dancing"

SECOND: Jessica Petersen "Perceptions and Ramifications of Racism in America Using Universities as a Sample"

THIRD: Andrew Rifkin "Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women"

Graduate Level

FIRST: Matt Cousineau "Security Theater: Managing the Stigma of Incompetence in the TSA"

SECOND: Lucy Sosa "Sexual Harassment and Female-Inhabited Spaces"

THIRD: Heather Salazar "Can Prayer Make you Healthy? The Relationship Between Frequency of Prayer, General Happiness and Condition of Health"