2019 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship, formerly known as the Women of Color Dissertation Scholarship. The primary purposes of the scholarship are to offer support to women of color scholars who are from underrepresented groups and are studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or internationally. Also to increase the network and participation of students and professionals of color in SWS and beyond.

Chriss Sneed is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Connecticut. In the dissertation tentatively named “Queer Passages and the Assemblages of Blackness,” Chriss examines how Black identity is constructed, negotiated, and utilized by Black/Afro-descendant activists in the United States and Brazil. This multi-sited, qualitative research focuses on activists who are also gender and sexual minorities– those identifying as women or LGBTQ – involved in transnational, racial justice organizing across the Western Hemisphere and the two aforementioned nations specifically.

We would also like to congratulate Chandra Waring (Ph.D. '13), who won this award in 2011.