Our Alumni Zhao Ding (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2019) receives the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award. The dissertation title is Resisting the Victimization: Examining Ideological Tensions of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Transnationality Among First-Generation Chinese Migrant Women in U.S. Academia. The dissertation committee members are Drs. Shinsuke Eguchi (chair/advisor), Ilia Rodríguez, Myra Washington, and Yea-Wen Chan (External Member, San Diego State University). Dr. Zhao is now an Assistant Professor of Interpersonal/Intercultural Communication at Dixie State University in Utah.

Our Faculty Shinsuke Eguchi also receives the 2020 Outstanding Article Award. The article title is Sticky rice politics: Impossible possibilities of queerness in and acrossYellow Fever and Front Cover published in Women’s Studies in Communication, 43(1), 67-84. DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2019.1696435