Major: Communication and Gender Studies | Faculty Mentor: Alice Echols, Ph.D. | Department: Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism LAS- Social Science & Communications | McNair Project: “Marginalized Beauty: Aesthetic Values in Second Wave Feminism 1960-1975”
Paul F. Young
Major: Sociology | Faculty Mentor: Stanley Huey, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Black until Proven Innocent. Examining the Racial Disparities in Campus Crime Alert Messages”
Shamoiya Washington
Major: Political Science | Faculty Mentor: Ange-Marie Hancock, Ph.D | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Ethnic Homogeneity or Birthright Citizenship: The ideology of Citizenship in Japan, the U.S., and France”
Baotran Ngoc Vo
Major: Biomedical Engineering (Biochemical Engineering) | Faculty Mentor: Wange Lu, Ph.D. | Department: Viterbi School of Engineering | McNair Project: “Pitx2 Transcription Factor Inhibits Reprogramming of Human Dermal Fibroblast Cells”
Salvador Vieyra Malagón
Major: Anthropology and History | Faculty Mentor: George Sánchez, PhD., Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Pax Porfiriana: Porfirio Díaz in Mexican Politics and Society, 1876-1910”
Monica Valencia
Major: Sociology | Faculty Mentor: C. Brady Potts, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “The Effects of Transnational Prejudice on Incorporation and Identity Formation of Oxacans in the U.S.”
Marco A. Valadez
Major: American Studies & Ethnicity (Chicano Studies) and Economics | Faculty Mentor: Manuel Pastor, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “How Social Normative Behaviors in the Day Labor Population of Los Angeles CHALLENGE Neoclassical Economic Theory”
Michael A. Sadler
Major: International Relations (Global Business) | Faculty Mentor: Steven Lamy, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Social Media as a Political Change Agent: An Institutional Voids Analysis of the Arab Spring Revolution”
Debbie Rumbo
Major: Political Science and Spanish | Faculty Mentor: George Sánchez, PhD., Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Why Cant We Get Along? A Study on Black and Latino Ethnocentrism in Los Angeles”
Angela M. Ross
Major: Sociology and Social Sciences (Economics)| Faculty Mentor: Veronica Terriquez, Ph.D. | Department: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | McNair Project: “Undocu-Queer: Coming Out of the Shadows and the Closet”