The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is offered yearly by the APSA Committee on Standing of Latinos y Latinas within the career to acknowledge the exemplary mentoring of Latino y Latina college students and junior school every year. The award is called in honor of Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, the primary Latina to earn a Ph.D. in political science. APSA was deeply saddened to listen to about Dr. Sosa-Riddell’s passing in August 2023. The Committee on the Standing of Latinos y Latinas intends to honor her legacy and contributions to each the Latino/a group and the self-discipline as an entire on the 2024 APSA Annual Assembly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Angela X. Ocampo is Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Research on the College of Texas at Austin. She specializes within the examine of race, ethnicity, and politics, with a particular concentrate on the Latina/o/x group. Her analysis examines the political incorporation of racial, ethnic, and non secular minorities each as on a regular basis political individuals and as leaders in American establishments. Her present ebook challenge Actually Dwelling?: The Politics of Inclusion and Latino Political Incorporation, which obtained APSA’s Finest Dissertation Award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, examines the notion of perceived belonging to American society and its affect on political engagement amongst Latinas/os/xs. She has revealed quite a few articles and chapters on Latina/o/x political habits and illustration. She is the recipient of a number of awards, together with the MPSA Latina/o Caucus Early Profession Award and APSA’s Political Psychology Distinguished Junior Scholar Award. Her analysis has been supported by grants from the Ford Basis, UC-MEXUS, and the APSA Warren E. Miller Fund. She holds a BA with honors from Brown College and a PhD in Political Science from UCLA.
“Angela is the sort of one that goes above and past in not solely her mentorship and steering of graduate college students, but in addition the important and vital aspect of cultivating a heat and welcoming house for newer students within the discipline. I first met Angela at UT Austin’s PRIEC in November 2022… I used to be lucky sufficient to have her assigned as my poster discussant and from there her mentorship has blossomed and nurtured me into the scholar I’m turning into.How enjoyable that her analysis focuses on the politics of belonging and the way completely in concord together with her worth set of constructing others really feel welcome and belonging throughout the discipline,” writes Laura Uribe, a graduate scholar on the College of California, San Diego.
Uribe continues, “I keep in mind calling my mother and father and explaining to them about this second that I knew could be completely pivotal in my educational profession. Solely Angela did not cease there. She stored checking in on me to see how I had, academically and in any other case. She remembered that I discussed an curiosity in learning Colombians within the US, given our shared heritage, and she or he invited me to hitch her and her sister (one other fabulous and beneficiant mentor) on a ebook chapter. And to this present day, she has been a information for me.”
The APSA Committee on the Standing of Latinos and Latinas within the Occupation as soon as once more thanks Dr. Ocampo for her tireless dedication to graduate college students and thanks for her dedication to enhancing the self-discipline of political science.