Undergraduate Achievements

By Year

Treasure Well and Carolina Orduno: Both were recipients of the Pellom McDaniels Research Award. The Pellom McDaniels Research Award supports students, faculty, staff, and visiting professors who utilize the Rose Library's collections in their research celebrating and documenting African Americans' history, lives, and culture.

Treasure Wells-“It Takes a Village: Images of Black Kinship and Perseverance”
written for AAS 325: Black Love with Dr. Dianne Stewart.

Carolina Orduno-"More Than an Elder: Gwendolyn Brooks"

written for AAS 262: Survey of African American Literature Since 1900 with Dr. Michelle Gordon

McKayla Morrison and Jordan Watson: Both were winners of the Rudolph P. Byrd Scholarship Award. The Rudolph P. Byrd Memorial Scholarship recognizes a senior at Emory College who demonstrates leadership in activities that address social, political, cultural, and professional issues in the African American community at Emory.

Eddy Cabrera, Jr. and Joy Emenyonu: Both were recipients of the Rudolph P. Byrd Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes a student in Emory College who demonstrates leadership in activities that address social, political, cultural, and professional issues in the African American community at Emory.

Niara Foster: Awarded the Fox Center Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship for her senior honors thesis, "Second Sight: Granny Midwives as Insurgent Proponents of Black Health in the Progressive Era," for which Dr. Carol Anderson was the advisor.

Kassie Sarkar: Recipient of the Rudolph P. Byrd Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes a student in Emory College who demonstrates leadership in activities that address social, political, cultural, and professional issues in the African American community at Emory.

Aiyanna Sanders: Recipient of the Rudolph P. Byrd Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes a student in Emory College who demonstrates leadership in activities that address social, political, cultural, and professional issues in the African American community at Emory.

Chelsea Jackson: Rhodes Scholar, the prestigious scholarship that provides all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. Scholars are chosen for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others and to the common good, and potential for leadership in whatever domains their careers may lead.

Paula Quezada: Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Presenter

Monet Timmons: Recipient of the inaugural Rudolph P. Byrd Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes a student in Emory College who demonstrates leadership in activities that address social, political, cultural, and professional issues in the African American community at Emory.

Justin Moore: Summer Research Opportunity Program, Northwestern University. SROP is a competitive research experience with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented students who pursue graduate study and research careers. SROP helps prepare undergraduates for graduate study through intensive research experiences with faculty mentors and enrichment activities.

Chelsea Jackson: Harry S. Truman Scholar, a national honor awarded to students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, academic excellence, and a commitment to a life of public service

Samantha Perlman: Alan Rackoff Prize Winner, awarded for the best honors thesis based on primary source material

Andrew Sullins: Atwood Undergraduate Research Award Winner for "Covert Killings: Civilian Casualties and the Use of Covert Drone Strikes in the War on Terror," completed in AAS 412W: War Crimes and Genocide

River Bunkley: Humanity-in-Action Fellowship

Hannah Conway: Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, "Behind the Lens of the Civil Rights Movement," completed in AAS 267: The Civil Rights Movement

Samantha Keng: Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, "Model Minority Awakenings," completed in AAS 267: The Civil Rights Movement

Kaushik Ravipati: "Justice Exposed" published in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal, completed in AAS 410W: American Human Rights Policy, click here to read the article

Ami Fields-Meyer: Emory College class orator, click here to read the story

Bryan Natividad: Emory University Commencement marshal

Jovonna Jones: Lucius Lamar McMullan Award Winner

Casidy Campbell: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Summer Research Fellowship, New York

Jomo Wilson: MMUF Summer Research Program, University of Chicago

Bryan Natividad: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Summer Research Fellowship, New York

Dominique Hayward: Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, "Innocents' Death," completed in AAS 410: American Human Rights Policy

Alyssa Weinstein: Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, "Forgetting our History: American Failure to Protect Human Rights in Rwanda and Syria," completed in AAS 412: War Crimes and Genocide

Jacob Teich: Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Honorable Mention, "Overcoming the Ghost of Leo Frank: Atlanta Jews and the Civil Rights Movement," completed in AAS 267: The Civil Rights Movement

Outstanding group papers written by students enrolled in Spring 2015 class, "Race and Health in the US," now being revised for submission to professional journals:

"The Instability of the Black Middle Class: Relationship to Wealth, Education and Health"
"At the Expense of Mental Health: An Analysis of Social Determinants of Mental Health and the Pursuit of the Model Minority's American Dream in Asian American Populations"