Early Career Award

Her book, titled Making Hispanics, was published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press and provides a socio-historical account of the rise of Hispanic, Latino, pan-ethnic category in the United States.

This work, along with related articles, has received wide recognition, including the Best Dissertation Award and the 2018 Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association.

Her work has also been the subject of a lot of national media segments and venues like The Atlantic, New Yorker, NPR, Latino USA, and others.

At UC Berkeley, her long-term efforts towards diversity and inclusion have recently been formally acknowledged.