Minority Fellowship Program
About the ASA Minority Fellowship Program
Through
its Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), the American Sociological
Association (ASA) supports the development and training of sociologists
of color in any sub-area or specialty in the discipline. Funded by
generous annual contributions from organizations such as Alpha Kappa
Delta, Sociologists for Women in Society, Association for Black
Sociologists, Southwestern Sociological Association, as well as
membership donations, MFP seeks to attract talented doctoral students
to ensure a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume
leadership roles in research that is relevant to today’s global
society (courtesy of ASA website 2010).
Congratulations to
Sean Arayasirikul, 2011-2012
Recipient of the 2011-2012 Alpha Kappa Delta MFP
Jean Shin and Sean Arayasirikul
Undergraduate Institution: University of California - Los Angeles
Graduate Institution: University of California-San Francisco
Sean is an early-stage Ph.D. student whose research roots lie in social justice; LGBT activism; and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and research. He recently completed a Health Policy Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where he authored and championed national Healthy People 2020 objectives, emphasizing the integral role of social support in making healthy decisions. Sean is investigating the role and impact of social structures on health and illness.
Eugenia Conde
Recipient of the 2010-2011 Alpha Kappa Delta MFP
Undergraduate Institution: Clark University
Graduate Institution: Texas A & M University
Eugenia grew up in Actopan Hidalgo, Mexico. When she was 16 years
old, she immigrated to the United States. She received her bachelor’s
degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Clark University in
Massachusetts and holds two master’s degrees, one in Vocational
Rehabilitation from the University of Texas at Austin and the other in
Epidemiology from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center.
She is currently a doctoral candidate in demography and sociology at
Texas A&M University and is now writing her dissertation. Her main
areas of interest are demography, medical sociology, and statistics and
research methods. She is especially interested in the application of
these research areas to health disparities and the fertility of
minorities in the United States. In her dissertation, she is
investigating the factors that contribute to high rates of teen
pregnancy among minorities, with a special focus on Latinas. Eugenia is
specifically addressing the relationship between access to education
and teen pregnancy. Additionally, among her other ongoing research
projects is an analysis of the impacts of missing data on hypothesis
testing.
