Awards & Honors

Viviana C. S. Wu, public policy, has been recognized for her research on community foundations and leadership. 

The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies Graduate Fellow cohort will undertake mentorship and leadership roles in the CJLS community.

Jonathan Corpus Ong, communication, is featured as a Spotlight Scholar for September 2023. He is one of the country's leading scholars on online disinformation.

Isabella Weber, economics, has been named to the 2023 "TIME100 Next" list of emerging leaders from around the world.

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, sociology and UMass Center for Employment Equity, has received the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award. 

Nilesh Shinde, resource economics, has received the second-place MapBiomas Award in the 2023 General Category for a recent paper. 

Deepankar Basu, economics, has received the 2022 Annual Best Paper Award from the Review of Radical Political Economics. 

Isabella Weber, economics, has been named a co-recipient of the Kurt Rothschild Prize, for her efforts to dampen inflation via a gas price cap. 

Venus Green, a doctoral candidate in sociology, has been selected as a Dissertation Fellow through the Center for Engaged Scholarship. 

Jonathan Corpus Ong, communication, was named one of the 15 most noted disinformation researchers by a survey of fact-checking researcher and experts. 

Lucy Xiaolu Wang, resource economics, has been awarded the 2023 IHEA Adam Wagstaff Prize for her research on drug supplies in low and middle income countries.

Dhiroj Koirala, a PhD candidate in resource economics, has won the 2023 NAREA Outstanding Poster Award.