2022-2023

• Yesemia Evaristo: Distinction in the Major
• Marissa Gorospe: Distinction in the Major
• Sharlyen Lopez: Distinction in the Major
• Tara Mandrekar: Distinction in the Major
• Anne Moskowitz: Distinction in the Major

2021-2022

• Julia Barrera: Distinction in the Major
• Jenny Cai: Distinction in the Major
• Joana Gutierrez: Distinction in the Major
• Lola Leuterio: Distinction in the Major
• Brenda Moreno-Ortega: Distinction in the Major
• Emma Schaefer-Whittall: Distinction in the Major

2020-2021

• Timura Berry: Distinction in the Major
• Priscilla Dueñas-Lopez: Distinction in the Major
• Ariana Gonzalez: Distinction in the Major
• Daniela Gutierrez: Distinction in the Major
• Lizzy iconomopulos: Distinction in the Major
• Ginger Lamb: Distinction in the Major
• Marissa Scofield: Distinction in the Major
• Georgia Steinheimer: Distinction in the Major

2019-2020

• Casey Glasser: Distinction in the Major
• Hannah Kiefer: University Award of Distinction
• Mikayla Knight: Distinction in Major
• Lisette Lerma: Distinction in the Major
• Jeike Meijer: Thomas More Storke Award, Distinction in Major
• Sam Vega: University Service Award, Distinction in the Major

2018-2019

• Delaney Foerster: Distinction in the Major
• Danae Griffin: Distinction in the Major
• Samantha Johnson : Distinction in the Major
• Rae Norton: Distinction in the Major
• Sabreena Sukhram: Distinction in the Major
• Odalys Beltran: Undergraduate Research Group
• Gabriela Ochoa-Estrada: Undergraduate Research Group
• Brianna Robinson: Undergraduate Research Group

2017-2018

• Gabriela Ochoa-Estrada: Paulette Poujol Oriol Undergraduate Global Feminist Research Award
• Hannah O’Connor: Distinction in the Major
• River Pember: Distinction in the Major

2016-2017

• Marina Quintanilla: Paulette Poujol Oriol Undergraduate Global Feminist Research Award
• Marina Quintanilla: Luis Leal Social Sciences Undergraduate Award
• Kimberly Coffman: Distinction in the Major
• Riane Torres: Distinction in the Major

2014-2015

• Marina Quintanilla: Paulette Poujol Oriol Undergraduate Global Feminist Research Award
• Sally Baker: Paulette Poujol Oriol Undergraduate Global Feminist Research Award
• Olivia Honowitz: Distinction in the Major
• Michelle Parra: Distinction in the Major
• Stephanie Vasquez: Distinction in the Major
• Ruiqi (Angel) Ye: Distinction in the Major

This new UCSB undergraduate student award is generously established by Claudine Michel, Professor of Black Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at UC Santa Barbara, in memory of her mother, Paulette Poujol Oriol. An award-winning author, actress, playwright, and activist, Poujol Oriol was a feminist leader who advocated for Haitian women’s rights in all of her work. She was a renaissance woman, having lived in France as a young child, later studying in Port-au-Prince and Jamaica and having fluency in French, Kreyòl, and Spanish with advanced knowledge of English, Italian and German. Poujol Oriol was a member and president of the Ligue Feminine D’Action Sociale (Women’s League for Social Action) and a founding member of the umbrella organization for over 50 groups, L’Alliance des Femmes Haïtiennes (The Alliance of Haitian Women).

The purpose of this research award is to support undergraduate student travel funding to conduct research on topics related to feminism and social justice with a global framing. Each Spring, eligible students may apply: Feminist Studies majors/minors and LGBTQ minors.