Dr. Cruz Nichols was named the Emerging Scholar in April of 2023 through IU’s Latino Faculty and Staff Council. She was also recognized as the Distinguished Alumni Award through DePaul University’s Political Science department in May of 2023.
Dr. Cruz Nichols will be on leave for the 2023-2024 school year as she was recently awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship for 2023-2024. Her Fellowship position will be in-residence at Purdue University.
This fellowship will allow her to work on her upcoming book Catalyzing Political Action Beyond Threats: Latinxs Rising to the Challenge with Messages of Peril and Promise. This fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Ford postdoctoral fellowships are highly competitive and awarded to early career assistant professors—only 24 postdoctoral fellowship were awarded this year. This upcoming year is the final year the Ford Foundation is receiving applications for their predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships.
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