Past ASA DDRIG Recipients

Last Updated: May 27, 2026

Below is the list of past ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) Research Scholars. Click below to view a specific cohort year.

2025 ASA DDRIG Recipients

Audrey Augenbraum, University of California-Berkeley
Alexander Borsa, Columbia University
Adriana Cerón, Yale University
Zhaodi Chen, Indiana University-Bloomington
Davis Daumler, University of Michigan
María Ximena Dávila, University of Texas at Austin
AJ Golio, Tulane University
Braulio Güémez , Duke University
Baylee Hudgens, Purdue University
Isaiah G. Jeong, University of Illinois Chicago
Min Ji Kim, University of California-San Diego
Jee Sun (Jasmin) Lee, Rice University
Jenny Leigh, New York University
Judanne Lennox-Morrison, Texas A&M University
Yao Lu, University of California-Davis
Sam Lutzker, University of California-Los Angeles
Kourtney Nham, University of California-San Francisco
So Yun Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tara Kane Prendergast, University of Arizona
Mari Sanchez, Harvard University
Carolina P. Seigler, Princeton University
Katherine Smock, University of California-Los Angeles
Rafferty Thompson, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Yinan Wang, Harvard University
Sukie Xiuqi Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Hakan Yilmaz, CUNY Graduate Center

2024 ASA DDRIG Recipients

Elif Birced, Boston University
Caroline V. Brooks, Indiana University-Bloomington
Jason Azriel Campos, Texas A&M University
Eunchong Cho, University of California-San Diego
Alejandra Cueto, Brown University
Irene Del Mastro N., University of California-Los Angeles
Julia Dessauer, University of Virginia
Alexandra Eleazar, University of California-Santa Barbara
Madison Garcia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courtney Marciá Gardner, University of Central Florida
Hana Gebremariam, Temple University
Erin Ice, University of Michigan
Kayla M. Kemp, Pennsylvania State University
Kristina E. Lee, Northwestern University
Catharina O’Donnell, Harvard University
Keitaro Okura, Yale University
Kritika Pandey, University of Southern California
Guangquan Shen, Indiana University-Bloomington
Tyler Smith, University of Washington
Summer Sullivan, University of California-Santa Cruz
Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Hazel Velasco Palacios, Pennsylvania State University
Karyn Vilbig, New York University
Benny Witkovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Xinyi Zhang, New York University
Shira Zilberstein, Harvard University

2023 ASA DDRIG Recipients

Jonathon Acosta, Brown University
Nafeesi Andrabi, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Loren Beard, University of Chicago
Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California
Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Emily Ekl, Indiana University-Bloomington
Jenny Enos, Rutgers University
Sara-Laure Faraji, University of Maryland-College Park
Luis Rubén González Márquez, University of California-Merced
Bowei Hu, University of California-Los Angeles
Michaela McMillian Jenkins, Emory University
Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zhuofan Li, University of Arizona
Katherine Maldonado Fabela, University of California-Santa Barbara
Estéfani Marín, University of California-Irvine
Daniel A. Nolan IV, University of Washington
Chiara Packard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Devon Reynolds, University of Colorado-Boulder
Shannon M. Rieger, New York University
Giovanni Román-Torres, University of Michigan
Randi Saunders, University of Texas-Austin
Brittany Suh, City University of New York-Graduate Center
Hannah Tessler, Yale University
Thalia Tom, University of Southern California
Meghan Olivia Warner, Stanford University

2022 ASA DDRIG Recipients

Enrique Alvear, University of Illinois-Chicago
Matt Brooke, Harvard University
Katie Donnelly, Princeton University
Katie M. Duarte, Brown University
Jennifer S.K. Dudley, University of Notre Dame
Dilan Eren, Boston University
Miriam Gleckman-Krut, University of Michigan
Laura Halcomb, University of California-Santa Barbara
Emily Hillenbrand, Cornell University
Peter Kent-Stoll, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Austin Colby Guy Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Todd Lu, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jules Madzia, University of Cincinnati
Erin McAuliffe, University of Michigan
Nisarg Mehta, University of Chicago
Andrew Messamore, University of Texas-Austin
Christina Nelson, New York University
Ke Nie, University of California-San Diego
Shay O’Brien, Princeton University
Ewa Protasiuk, Temple University
Iman Said, Pennsylvania State University
Channing Spencer, Harvard University
Luis Edward Tenorio, University of California-Berkeley
Mireia Triguero Roura, Columbia University
Jose Eos Trinidad, University of Chicago
Mira Vale, University of Michigan

2021 ASA DDRIG Recipients

Aaron Arredondo, University of Missouri
Daniel Bolger, Rice University
Karolina Dos Santos, Brown University
Natalia Duarte-Mayorga, University of Pittsburgh
Dylan Farrell-Bryan, University of Pennsylvania
Elly Field, University of Michigan
Sarah Garcia, University of Minnesota
Upasana Garnaik, University of Texas-Austin
Annaliese Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sam Hobson, University of Michigan
Jared Joseph, University of California-Davis
Jillian LaBranche, University of Minnesota
Christopher Levesque, University of Minnesota
Chuncheng Liu, University of California-San Diego
Maretta McDonald, Louisiana State University
Tessa Nápoles, University of California-San Francisco
Davon Norris, The Ohio State University
Ian Peacock, University of California-Los Angeles
Alicia Sheares, University of California-Berkeley
Derek Siegel, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Adam Storer, University of California-Berkeley
Melissa Villarreal, University of Colorado-Boulder
Haley Volpintesta, University of Illinois-Chicago
Jinpu Wang, Syracuse University