We are pleased to share the news that our recent graduate Amadea Lehoczky Escobar was awarded the Campbell Prize for undergraduate research. Her paper, Networks of Influence: How Media, Identity, and Relationships Shaped College Students’ Behavior in the 2024 Presidential Election, was originally presented as her senior thesis. Amadea graduated with a BA in Sociology and Journalism and earned departmental honors for this paper, Congratulatons, Amadea!
The Campbell Prize, named in honor of Donald T. Campbell, the first department chair for Social Relations (now Sociology & Anthropology), offers $1000 prizes to one undergraduate and one graduate student each year for a paper in the social sciences that is rated as "of the highest quality, methodological originality and societal significant, as embodied int eh work of the late Dr. Campbell. (as described on the Campbell Prize webpage)